But Lu Bu didn't know that the 100 bags of spices from the Daqian shopkeeper only cost ten pieces of linen cloth. The spices were naturally worth gold in the Han Dynasty, but they were just like weeds on the Spice Island. Savages usually used them for burning. The caravans who came to the Spice Island only needed to take out a piece of linen and hire the savages on the island to pick it up, and they could pick up several bags in one day.
Coming to Jiaozhou in exchange for hundreds of savages is already a huge profit. As long as he transports these 100 savages to Yizhou, he can not only sell them to the local government at a high price, but also get a share of 100 stones of brown sugar. This is considered a huge profit.
After his team filled Yizhou with brown sugar, camphor and deerskin, the island's specialties, they could earn millions by selling them in Daqian. They then transported some grain and ironware from Daqian. , linen and other materials can be sold to Yizhou for millions of dollars. It can be said that Yizhou is an indispensable transfer station. He has formed a closed triangular trade circle along the way. Every stop can Earn millions. You can earn tens of millions with just one shipment.
It can be said that this is the most profitable trade route in Daqian territory now. And the goods in it are also the most valuable. There are savages, brown sugar, and spices. Each of them can be said to be priceless and indispensable. It is these luxury specialties that are the most valuable. Produced such a profitable golden waterway.
The only people with many people on this waterway are probably merchants. Such high prices made the entire Daqian merchants crazy. If it weren't for the ocean trade, there are certain restrictions. There is no merchant ship that can sail the ocean, and there is no way to join. I'm just afraid that now there will be ships blocking the sky along the coast of Han Dynasty.
Therefore, the shopkeeper is also secretly regretting that they cannot monopolize this business. Otherwise, he can make not only tens of millions but even hundreds of millions on this trip. The spices in Jiaozhou originally cost tens of thousands per pound, but Now he only has a thousand dollars, because many merchant ships have come to Jiaozhou before him, and they have traded more than 100,000 dan of spices. The massive influx of spices has directly reduced the price of Jiaozhou spices by 90%, so the shopkeeper It's a pity that Daqian's caravans all know this place. He can only earn some hard-earned money like this.
Li Lan lost 90%, and the shopkeeper felt as if he had lost 100 million, and his heart suddenly felt extremely distressed!
After half a day, the shopkeeper recovered and shouted: "You can put any precious goods on the table. I will exchange them all for spices. I am not afraid to tell you. This time I have brought tens of thousands of stones of spices. It's up to you." Do you have the ability to trade everything away?"
Jiaozhou's specialties are also extremely valuable in Daqian. Whether they are bought to Yizhou or from the mainland of Daqian, they can earn 10 times the Lilan. He can only use Jiaozhou's specialties to find a way to make up for the Lilan he has lost.
As soon as the shopkeeper finished speaking, other big businessmen also put their goods on the table. Some of them were the same as the shopkeeper just now, and they were also savages. There were so many savages in Jiaozhou. The development of Jiangnan even made these savages a specialty of Jiaozhou, and the locals Most of Haoqiang are engaged in this business. Others bring precious medicines, wood, ivory, rhino horns, and even rice and brown sugar from Jiaozhou.
Especially brown sugar, because this is a specialty of Jiaozhou. However, under the feudal system, the scale of brown sugar in Jiaozhou has always been very small. The noble gentry in this family regard it as the most precious luxury product, but now they are selling it in large quantities, almost killing them. Under the pressure of Da Gan Brown Sugar, the wealthy nobles who mastered these technologies had to spread their technologies and rely on scale to resist Da Gan Brown Sugar, otherwise they would not be able to survive at all!
The shopkeepers of these things also accept all comers, even brown sugar. Although it cannot be sold in Yizhou, it can be brought to Daqian. With the low cost of sea transportation, the cost of the journey here will not increase much.
As for other low-priced goods, although theoretically they are not as valuable as the savages, Yizhou can make money by sending them to the island if he lacks anything. It is much better than traveling in vain, and the most important thing is that his spices cost almost nothing. .In other words, even if it is exchanged for food, he will still make money.
In this way, Daqian's fleet stopped here for three days. These three days were a joyous festival for Long Bian. Businessmen from all around flocked in and poured into the dock here to sell their goods for big money. merchants, and at the same time they bought various spices from Daqian merchants. Through their caravans, they spread to all parts of Jiaozhou and even all over the south of the Yangtze River. This created an unprecedentedly prosperous commercial system in Jiaozhou. It can be said that Daqian gained the most from the Spice Island. , the second is Jiaozhou’s local noble families and big businessmen!
Lu Bu stayed here for three days. After watching the transaction, he said with emotion: "No wonder no one here prevents Daqian merchants from entering. The prosperity of such a market is more than a hundred times that of the grassland, and the money circulating is even greater than that of Daqian merchants." It can be said that apart from being unfriendly to the Han Dynasty, this trade has benefited everyone. With the greed of the Han clan, it is impossible for them to stop such trade!"
Gao Shun said helplessly: "That's why businessmen can't be trusted. They only care about interests, not family and country. As long as they have money, they can sell anything. Don't these businessmen know that these savages will be in the hands of the Dagan people?" To increase the power of Da Qian and endanger the safety of my big man, but they still directly did such a thing for the sake of profit."
Gao Shun could tell at a glance that the reason why the Dagan people bought so many savages was obviously to develop the islands they occupied. And these islands were all along the Dahan Sea. When they really developed these islands, these islands would be He became the target of Da Qian's army to attack Da Han.
However, Zhang Liao knew a little bit about the inside story and said: "To use Lei Gong's words, these businessmen are the black gloves of the powerful nobles. Behind them are not officials and nobles of the Han Dynasty. To say that they don't respect etiquette, justice and integrity is a bit too much. They really don't respect etiquette, justice and integrity." Instead, it’s those who are officials.”
Lu Bu stopped the conversation and said: "Forget it, these things have nothing to do with us, but we didn't expect that the business here in Jiaozhou is so prosperous, especially with precious commodities like spices. Looking at the happy faces of these merchants, we can tell that they are It’s not worth the money.”
"It is also a good thing for us. The more prosperous the business in Jiaozhou is, the more advantageous it will be when we open a stronghold. Even the early development funds can be solved, instead of just catching some savages in the wild. Those businessmen can do It can still stump us! Then we can also trade with savages and Daqian merchants. It doesn’t have to be spices, grains, iron tools, and various tools that we need. Maybe we can also let Daqian merchants help us. Handle the logistics.”