Huo Xi thought for a while and said, "You can exchange goods for goods instead of gold and silver."
The two people's eyes lit up and they exchanged the goods, which meant that they could save a lot of money.
Not only can they save a lot of business tax, but they have already increased the price several times by shipping goods from their own country. If they exchange them for goods, the cost of buying sugar can be diluted.
Nod in agreement.
Huo Xi asked them what goods they had.
The two people introduced each other. Huo Xi listened attentively. This group of people had only been here for a few days and they didn't sell many goods. They also had a lot of jewelry and jade left, including agate, tortoise shell, pearls, ivory, and rhinoceros horns.
There are also some spices and sesame oil...
Huo Xi thought about what she could exchange for it. Thirty taels a stone and eighty stones of white sugar, she could get two thousand four hundred taels of silver.
Two thousand four hundred taels can be exchanged for some precious things. So I told the other party that I wanted to exchange for some jewelry, spices, and some foreign cloth.
The two people were very happy. They took a box from the boat and opened it to Huo Xi.
Huo Xi was very surprised when he saw it.
It turned out to be a box of pearls, all as big as a thumb, round, and in several colors, including pure white, off-white, gold and pink, and black. I couldn't help but wonder, in this era, people have already raised pearls.
Artificial pearls?
"Raised?"
The two people's eyes widened: "It's natural, we have haenyeo, we fish them from the sea."
Ban people also have haenyeo?
Huo Xi nodded and argued for a while. Seeing that the quality of the pearls was very good, she asked them how they wanted to exchange them. The other party said that this box would be exchanged for ten stones of sugar.
Ten stones is three hundred taels. There are dozens of pearls in this box, which is equivalent to several taels of silver each. It is also an extremely expensive price. Huo Xi calculated it and nodded in agreement.
He picked out half of it and said that they only had five stones of cargo on board. They would bring the remaining seventy-five stones before dusk.
The two fans nodded in agreement.
Huo Xi's family is not the only one who deals in smuggled goods. They have seen many of these people and know that merchants from the Wei Dynasty will not bring a lot of goods with them and will only deliver them after negotiating a good price.
The two parties made an agreement, and the two foreigners jumped into their small boat and returned to the big ship.
Huo Xi looked towards the big ship. The archers on the deck were still pointing arrows at them. They did not withdraw until the small boat got close to the big ship.
Yang Fu and Huo Erhuai were dumbfounded: "If you are so well prepared, will you sell the goods, shoot people into hedgehogs, and rob all the money and goods?"
Huo Xi smiled: "No, dad. Businessmen are just looking for money, and generally they don't do things like killing people and getting goods. Only those water pirates who get goods for nothing will steal money, goods and kill people. Those two foreigners just now
They said they had been floating at sea for nearly a year before they came to us, and since they are in our territory, they would not do anything like killing people and stealing goods, they were just protecting themselves."
Huo Erhuai nodded and took another look at the ship. The last time he went to the dock with Xi'er had opened his eyes, but this time he had another strange look.
Bao Xia went out with me today and it was a great eye-opener.
After hearing what Huo Xi said, he said, "Then should we also prepare some weapons? In case we are targeted and someone wants to steal our money and goods, we can be on guard."
Yang Fu smiled and said, "We are well prepared. Xi'er has made some cannons on the ship. But there are no bows and arrows. Firstly, we cannot buy them, and secondly, we don't know how to use them."
"My slave knows how to use it! My slave has fought on the battlefield and knows how to use bows, arrows and weapons."
Huo Xi was stunned for a moment, then remembered his past experience of being drafted into the battlefield, and nodded: "Okay, then we will secretly prepare some when we go back this time. You take the money and go to the blacksmith shop to buy it."
"Xi'er, that's a weapon. I'm afraid the blacksmith's weapon won't be sold," Yang Fu reminded.
Huo Xi was stunned and was about to say buy some machetes.
But unexpectedly, he heard Bao Xia say: "I know a blacksmith and I can buy them. Moreover, the blacksmith shop also sells ordinary bows and arrows. Not only soldiers need them, hunters also need to buy bows and arrows, but the range is not far and the lethality is not great."
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"real?"
"Yeah." Bao Xia nodded. Bao Xia thought it shouldn't be difficult to find his master for a set of bows and arrows and weapons.
Huo Xi nodded: "Okay, when you get back to the capital, you take the money and prepare a pair."
Bao Xia nodded in agreement.
It took more than an hour for the boat to row back to the dock. Some distance away from the dock, we saw Guangfeng Shui's boat.
"Mom, didn't you go find the wet nurse?" Why are you still on the boat?
"Mom is guarding the boat."
Yang didn't dare to leave. There were a lot of valuables on the boat. The family was so tired that they almost fell down. It took several days to get it out. If something went wrong, would they regret it to death?
"Sister, I also help guard the boat."
Bao Kang didn't know why Huo Nian called his brother sister, so he also shouted: "Sister, Xiao Kang also helped guard the ship."
Huo Xi was really not used to such a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old calling him sister.
But the other party had a childish look on her face, and she imitated Huo Nian and raised her head to wait for her praise, so she smiled and praised him and Huo Nian: "Okay, you are both good children."
Huo Nian was very happy, and Bao Kang also laughed happily. Zuo Shi and Bao Xia also laughed when they saw their son happy.
"Mom, you stay and go find the wet nurse. We will take the boat and we will be back soon."
"Don't you want us to follow?"
"No, you stay."
Nothing happened when I went there just now, but I don't know if it will go smoothly this time. The whole family is here, where can I find some reason to be blamed?
Thinking of something, he ordered again: "By the way, Mom, Brother Nanny is here too, don't let it slip."
Yang knew what Huo Xi meant, but Xi'er didn't want her nanny to know her identity yet. She nodded hurriedly: "Don't worry, mother knows."
He took Huo Nian and others ashore and watched the two boats leave.
After rowing for more than an hour, they arrived near the big ship. Seeing that there were several small boats around the ship, Huo Xi didn't rush to get close to it, but just circled around the big ship, while taking in the surrounding environment.
I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw that there were no patrol boats from the Shipping Department.
Until the people on the big boat discovered them, the two foreigners took the people on the small boat and approached them again. This time there were a lot of things on the small boat, and there was another one following behind.
"You are here?"
Seeing that Huo Xi kept his promise, the two Fans were very happy. As soon as they got close, they boarded the boat on Guangfeng River.
After inspecting the goods, they were very satisfied and asked people to move their things to Huo Xi's boat.
Huo Xi and Yang Fu picked out a lot of agates, pearls, rhinoceros horns, ivory, tortoise shells and other items, as well as pepper, agarwood, instant incense, styrax oil, and rose dew. They also bought more than a hundred pieces of foreign cloth.
Not a single piece of gold or silver was needed, all were replaced by foreign goods.
One shipload of goods came, and another shipload came back.
The two foreigners were very happy to have concluded this exclusive business. It was rare that Huo Xi communicated with them smoothly, so they said that they would have to stop for a long time and what kind of goods they needed. If Huo Xi could buy them for them,
, and then sell it to them or exchange it, they will give you the best price.
Huo Xi nodded in agreement, and the journey back to Songjiang Pier was smooth.
On the pier, nanny Zhou took Yang's hand and stood on tiptoe to look into the waterway, stretching her neck.
