"No, if you really do this, the price of sandalwood will hit the floor, and you won't be able to sell it at a high price!" Zhen said anxiously after hearing this.
He was really worried that Chen Baoguo would do this. Just like Chen Baoguo said, sandalwood is precious in Daqian, but it is nothing in Nanzhong! Not to mention that it is everywhere in the mountains and plains, but the quantity is enough to satisfy everyone in Daqian. They all come with a set of furniture.
"You vulgar warriors don't understand business at all. Back then, Hetian jade was famous all over the world and its price was comparable to gold. There is a saying that it is easy to get a lot of gold but jade is hard to find. It has been a symbol of a gentleman for thousands of years.
But Wang Dang was such a reckless man, and the government asked him to properly defend the Western Regions. As a result, he brought thousands of carts of jade to Jidu every year, directly driving the price of jade to the floor price, and now even the children of Jidu can buy it. Wearing expensive Hetian jade, the rich in Jidu can only wear Nanzhong jade to show their status!"
"If Wang Dang had the ability to govern, he wouldn't be unable to make money by guarding such a vast territory in the Western Regions. There is also Bao Xin's sugar cane plantation in Yizhou, which is constantly expanding its output! There is so much brown sugar now. The price has dropped by more than ten times, and we have to keep selling brown sugar to Tianzhu and Tianfang to maintain this price. Now he needs to plant more than ten times more fields to keep the price the same as before!"
Zhen Xing felt very sad when he said this. Daqian originally had many luxury goods, but due to the expansion of production by Daqian officials, the prices were reduced by dozens or hundreds of times, turning good high-end luxury goods into ordinary commodities! Like Brown sugar, whale oil, precious spices, jade, cotton, Shu brocade, etc. Shu brocade is obviously a high-end luxury product that can only be worn by princes and nobles. Now craftsmen in Daqian can wear it on holidays. It can be said that every luxury item Being beaten to floor prices was a huge blow to businessmen like them.
So now Zhen Xing and the others can only find a way to sell Daqian's products by sea to places outside Daqian, because only in these places can they pay high prices.
Chen Baoguo shook his head and said: "This is different. If the price of brown sugar hadn't dropped, ordinary people would have been able to eat brown sugar! The government has said that this is a great thing to benefit the people, and the same goes for whale oil. The court cannot just think about profits. , but also think about the people. If we are all like you profiteers who only care about profits, the people of the world will not know how much suffering they will suffer. Therefore, the government has been telling us that we should not only use you to benefit the people, but also prevent you from causing harm. People!"
When Zhen Xing heard this, he smiled awkwardly and said: "We merchants are not capable of harming the world. The only ones who can really harm the world are the noble families. We are just making a little money under the protection of the ruling party!"
Chen Baoguo smiled and said: "You have a fleet of hundreds of transport ships, which is just a small amount of money. With the profits from shipping, I'm afraid you will make hundreds of millions of dollars on this trip!"
Zhen Xing did not answer, but smiled and said: "Earn some hard-earned money. We lost a lot when we went to Tianzhu. Now we can only say that we are still in the stage of recovering our losses!"
Chen Baoguo asked: "What is Liu Bei's situation in Tianzhu? The news comes that Liu Bei is invincible in all battles in Tianzhu?"
Zhen Xing thought for a moment and said, "That's because the Tianzhu people didn't fight, so Liu Bei easily defeated them."
Thinking of Daqian sending people to occupy the Sinhalese Kingdom, Zhen Xing asked in a low voice: "What does the court think? Is it trying to drive away Liu Bei now so that it can monopolize Tianzhu?"
Chen Baoguo said: "I don't know what the court thinks, but it definitely doesn't want to see Liu Bei dominate Tianzhu! So you don't just sell goods, you also have to find ways to find out about Liu Bei's movements so that the court can understand the situation in Tianzhu! "
Zhen Xing said: "Liu Bei is still far from dominating Tianzhu. Although Tianzhu's strength is poor, it still has powerful countries. The only thing Liu Bei can rely on is the hundreds of thousands of Han people who have taken refuge in him! It will be difficult for Liu Bei to conquer tens of millions of Tianzhu people!"
After Zhen Xing told Chen Baoguo about the situation in Tianzhu, he bought a large amount of red sandalwood and other local specialty products in Xihai City, and a lot of the Tianzhu beauties he brought with him were also purchased by Xihai City.
After the caravan rested in Xihai City for three days, Zhen Xing left with the fleet.
After entering the South China Sea, the safety of the fleet has increased by more than ten times. Everyone does not need to gather together to ensure their own safety. In addition, their goods cannot be swallowed by one family. Everyone has their own buyers. Therefore, after the fleet traveled for a few days, the fleet continued to separate, and soon it was divided into dozens of groups, each continuing to move towards its own goal!
Zhen Xing came to Luzon Island with his five ships.
Because there are copper mines on the island, Luzon Island is the richest among the islands in the South China Sea, and Li Aimin's ability to pay is also the strongest. Moreover, Zhen Xing and Li Aimin are friends, so other caravans did not compete with Zhen Xing for territory. .
After the fleet entered Luzon Pier, Zhen Xing asked to see Li Aimin!
Zhen Xing saw Li Aimin and smiled and said: "Luzon City is developing so fast. It has completely changed in just over half a year."
Half a year ago Zhen Xing came to Luzon City to buy goods. Luzon City still only had docks and mining areas that were somewhat civilized. But this time when Zhen Xing came to Luzon, he found that the area of the fields outside the city had more than doubled, and the number of residents in the city was The area has also expanded a lot.
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Li Aimin smiled and said: "The more people come to travel, the more prosperous it will be. We have opened up the mining area and attracted other businessmen to invest and build factories. In just over half a year, there have been 30,000 more people. The more people there are, the busier it will be." !”
Zhen Xing said loudly: "Why don't you leave a share of such a good thing for me? This is a good business of printing money!"
Li Aimin smiled and said: "As long as you are willing to bring people over, I can also leave a mine for you, but have you thought about it? It is impossible for ordinary craftsmen to come to Luzon without 5,000 money, especially craftsmen who know how to cast cannons. With a salary of tens of thousands of dollars, if we hadn’t been able to support it, we wouldn’t have been able to open such a profitable business to you!”
"Then we have agreed that I will recruit craftsmen when we return to Jidu!" Zhen Xing said excitedly.
"How are the sales of those artillery pieces going?" After talking about the copper mine, Li Aimin became concerned about the issue of artillery sales. This is their pillar industry in Luzon. From now on, will they eat hot and spicy food, or eat dry food? Almost everything depends on artillery.
After Li Aimin's artillery factory was established, it could only produce some 4-pound small cannons. This kind of artillery has been completely eliminated by Daqian. There is no market at all in Daqian, so now Li Aimin's only market is Liu Bei of Tianzhu. Zhen Xing was in When purchasing goods, Li Aimin gave 10 artillery pieces, hoping to open up the market with Liu Bei. So now he is anxious to know the result.