Chapter One Thousand Four Hundred and Twenty-Four: Keep both cargoes! Take away the two bags of gold!
"Sen! It's getting dark, and it's too much trouble to unload and load bags of rice! And the boat I brought this time is limited, and I can't hold so much..."
"Witness the Lord God! So, since there are still two ships of cargo that have not been delivered, you might as well sell these two ships to me together with the goods on board! Just calculate how much gold a ship costs, absolutely.
Let you make a lot of money!”
Zuwaro smiled, stretched out his strong hand, and grabbed Morinoqing's wrist. Hu Nu and Xiong Da also took a step forward to block Morinoqing's monk soldiers.
At this moment, seeing the look on the face of the "Golden Chief", Morino Kiyoshi felt a chill in his heart. He quickly looked around, sweat dripping down his forehead.
"Ah! Dear Golden Chief... These five big ships of mine are all the best cargo ships in the merchant house! I can't find many good ships like this even if I search all around Lake Biwa. They transport goods from north to south, but
My hen that laid the golden eggs…ugh!…”
Morinoqing's wrist tightened, and the corners of his mouth twitched in pain. He secretly cursed "savage Mongolian barbarians", but he was still hesitant in his heart whether to leave the big ship or not.
This is not a question of "money". But right now, before "Wufeng Shipowner" Wang Zhi packs up Guangdong's sea-going ship technology and brings it all to Kyushu, the shipbuilding industry in China is really not doing well!
Such a light and good cargo-carrying ship, which can sail in the near sea or even the ocean, must be built by rare and experienced shipwrights, and it will take several months to a year to build it.
The wood used to build large ships has always been extremely rare and hard to come by. Therefore, in order to reduce costs, shipwrights usually use the complicated "keel splicing" method, which further increases the shipbuilding process and time!
In other words, after handing over these two good ships, new ships will not be built for at least a year and a half! And those ordinary Guan Ship Xiaozao can't keep up with the speed of such a big ship. It has to reach the same speed.
To transport more cargo, we need to put on many more ships and many more paddlers!
In fact, in the entire country, there are only three merchant groups that have such shipbuilding capabilities and can conduct offshore or even ocean trade: "Omi Merchant Group", "Sakai Port Merchant Group", and "Hakata Merchant Group"! Even
The long-established "Ise Merchant Group" does not have the ability to enter the venue at this time.
Among them, behind the "Omi Merchant Group" are Kyoto nobles and monastic forces, and their shipbuilding skills can only be said to be average. They control the coast of Lake Biwa and are better at offshore ships such as the "Bensai Ship". As the shogunate's strength weakened, they began to gradually
Go downhill.
And behind the "Sakai Port Merchant Group", there is no doubt that the Hosokawa family is in charge! They control the majority of the "expansion trade", own large-scale ocean-going ships, and regularly conduct extremely profitable trade with the Ming Dynasty.
Tribute trade, the level of shipbuilding at this time was the highest in the country.
For example, the "ocean-covering ship" that Morino Kiyoshi finally obtained was bought from Sakai Port with a lot of money through the nobles' talk, and even got a Korean shipbuilder! Unfortunately, in the end, even the ship and its people were lost.
Disappeared in the vast north...
As for the "Hakata Merchant Group", behind it is the Ouchi clan, the overlord of the Western Kingdom. The Ouchi clan is behind the scenes, controlling the profits from North Korea's trade, and forcing North Korea to set up a Japanese museum. The "Hakata Merchant Group" is also constantly trading
During the plundering and plundering, he has grown rapidly and gradually has a tendency to catch up from behind! For example, if he opens up the North Korean trade route next, he will definitely have to deal with Hakata merchants...
"Buddha! Ah! Golden Chief, please let go, let go!... I promise you! I promise you!... I will sell the boat to you!!..."
Morino Qing screamed twice in pain, and then under Zuvaro's "power", he had to nod in agreement. He shook his head and sighed, looking at the "savage and generous golden chief", with a wry smile on his face, and a cruel heart in his heart.
This time I must make a killing!
"Zu! I can cut the flesh of these two ships for you! But each Benzai ship costs twenty kilograms of gold!..."
Morino Kiyoshi's asking price is astonishing! You must know that this kind of 400-stone single-masted merchant ship has a carrying capacity of about 50 tons. It is obviously less loaded than the previous 200-stone ocean-going ocean-covering ship with a carrying capacity of 70 tons.
The technology is also simpler and much easier to build!
The construction cost of a two-hundred-liang ocean-covering ship in the "Longjiang Treasure Ship Chronicle" is two hundred taels of ship material. As for the official craftsmen recruited, they had almost no wages, and they only took care of the food and accounting for more than ten days.
Two, that is, the cost of two hundred and twenty taels.
Therefore, even if this 400-koku ship is built in Japan, the technology is insufficient, the cost of ship materials is higher, and the shipwright's labor cost must be paid... Even if all miscellaneous expenses are taken into account, such a 400-koku ship will be full.
The merchant ship reached the sky, that is, three hundred taels!
According to the exchange ratio of one gold and ten silver, this is almost 30 taels of gold, less than two kilograms of gold! As soon as Morino Kiyoshi opened his mouth, the price increased tenfold, asking for twenty kilograms of gold!
"Haha! Okay! It's so refreshing, it's a deal! A big ship with twenty kilograms of gold, I want these two ships! As for the other three ships, if you sell them, they will all be at this price! ... Hu Nu,
Get the money!”
"Pa!..."
"Ah! Buddha!!... How much gold do these golden clans have?!..."
Another forty gold talisman was thrown in front of his eyes. Morino Kiyoshi was dizzy and almost groaned. He didn't know what to say. His dissatisfaction with being forced to sell the boat just now was like foam on the sea under the dazzling golden light.
, disappeared in an instant. His heart was beating "bang bang", and he couldn't help but want to sell other ships...
"No, no! These three ships have to go back to transport goods. I can't sell them! ... Buddha! Stop and watch, stop and watch! ... When we return to Lake Bipa, we will immediately ask the shipbuilders to build big ships, and start building ten ships at once.
!…”
"Xiang Erlang! Collect this gold quickly and send it to the ship! Let the sailors and monk soldiers from the other two ships come down, and let the warriors of the Shantao tribe board the ship to take over...Quickly! Take the gold away and don't let them take care of it again.
My eyes! Quick!!…”
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Morino Qing covered his eyes with his hands, not daring to look at the shining gold. He was afraid that his shaky Dharma would be completely destroyed by bottomless greed.
.But Matsushita Shojiro has long since fallen. He is like a hard-working bee, carrying forty pounds of gold in ecstasy. Even if he is too tired to straighten up, he must deliver it to the flagship in person!
"Ahem! Dear Golden Chief, the crew members of those two ships have all disembarked... You can send people to board the ships and count the supplies inside..."
"Four hundred kilograms of rice, plus freight, 2 guan per stone, 80 guan per kilogram of gold, a total of ten kilograms of gold... Two hundred pairs of samurai pills, all good goods from Nara and Kyoto, 18 guan each, forty
Five kilograms of gold... 800 spears, 400 tachi, and 100 heavy vine bows... What, you said that our bows are not very good and the tachi is not easy to use. Bring more guns and axes next time?...Okay! Then this
I won’t count the swords and bows as yours, they will be given away for free! Just give me the price of the spears, two for each, and five kilograms of gold!…Total fifty kilograms of gold!”
Morino Kiyoshi's mental arithmetic was very fast. In just a moment, with tears in his eyes, he tripled the price of all the military supplies and sold them to Zuvarro. And Zuvarro didn't say much. Regarding these food and military supplies
, no matter how many villages there are, it is worth it! These good goods that can supply the tribes and arm warriors are not only in short supply in the strongholds of the kingdom, but also in the Maha tribe far away in the dense forest and river!
"Tiger slave! Go back to the ship and get another box of gold! What, the box is finished? Then use a leather bag!..."
"Yes! Great Chief!"
The tiger slave strode into the boat and got off again, with a leather bag on his shoulders. He didn't quite understand why these southern tribes could produce so much of the food and weapons that the northern tribes valued most in one go?
No tribe members, no furs, just shiny "golden stones"! If these golden stones were placed in the cold deep forests of the Far North, no Jurchen tribe would take a second look!
"Ding ding! Bang!..."
The heavy leather bag was smashed in front of my eyes, and another fifty kilograms of gold flashed with golden light. The sweet sound of the collision of gold was like the most beautiful Buddhist music, which made Morino Qing's heart beat loudly, and his legs almost felt numb.
Weakened.
"O Buddha! Zhi-Kuan, Zhi-Kuan! Zu, I won't charge you any more for these last few hundred boxes of rice wine, tea, salt! That's enough, that's enough, don't pay for any more gold! If you keep paying for it, it's mine.
The Dharma is broken!…”
"To be honest, this salt is very cheap, even if it's a few hundred kilograms, it doesn't cost much. If you didn't want it, I wouldn't have bothered to transport it... This wine and tea, on the other hand, are more expensive. Especially the tea!... What? You have never
Have you ever had tea? You can try it later, I invite you to try some good tea! Not this old tea that is too bulky, but the best kind!…”
Speaking of this, Morino Kiyoshi also felt unbearably thirsty and urgently wanted to drink some refreshing tea to calm down the violent emotions aroused by the gold. He turned his head and saw that he had already picked up the "gold leather bag" and ran back.
Shojiro Matsushita was staggering... He sighed softly and finally said to the young monk next to him.
"Rongdong, go to the boat and get that jar of the best Echizen 'Gyokuro Tea'! The Golden Chief is so generous, we have to bring out real good tea to treat him well!"
"Echizen is your hometown. You are a descendant of the famous Shiba family, and you are also very familiar with this tea... Now, here comes the last tea drink, it's up to you to order some tea!..."
"The cup connects heaven and earth, and the sweet fragrance enters the throat and warms the mind... Use this cup of Gyokuro tea to bid farewell to the magnificent mountains and rivers of Ezo land and the generous and heroic gold tribe! ... Then, more than two hundred and twenty kilograms of gold came on
After getting off the boat, only 'pure mind meditation' and the profound Buddhist teachings that are immutable can barely control it! ... And this huge amount of gold was brought back to Gyeonggi, and the subsequent changes in wind and rain, and the subsequent magnificent waves, this flow
The destination of the golden road..."
"Namo Amitabha! May the Buddha be merciful and protect us!..."
