As soon as Yang Fu's ship docked at the port, they were welcomed by all parties.
In just a few days, the entire ship was sold.
Yang Fu listened to Huo Xi's words and exchanged the goods he brought with the Japanese for a large amount of silver. He also exchanged the gold he brought with him for Japanese silver and exchanged the goods with the Japanese for their goods.
The six hundred stones of white sugar and rock sugar that I brought with me were sold to Fan merchants in the Wei Dynasty. One stone was sold for only a few dozen taels. It took three months to transport it to the Japanese country, and it was sold for two taels of silver per pound. It was also robbed by others.
want.
Only 600 stones of sugar can be exchanged for 150,000 taels of Japanese silver.
The hundred pieces of cloud brocade obtained from Wu Youcai were tribute brocades. In the Wei Dynasty, they were all valuable but not marketable. In Japan, they sold 200 pieces of cloud brocade for 20,000 taels. The ship's official porcelain also got 20,000 taels.
Got eighty thousand taels.
The various fans, mother-of-pearl boxes, mother-of-pearl handicrafts, and velvet flowers that I brought were also sold for thirty thousand taels.
A piece of silk, gauze, and silk can be exchanged for thirty to fifty taels, and a pound of raw silk can be exchanged for five taels. The price is almost ten times higher.
Last year, the raw silk produced in the mulberry field at home and harvested outside, Guangfengshui harvested nearly one thousand dan of raw silk, and all was sent to Songjiang's own weaving mill to be woven into silk. This time it was all shipped. In this way, another 60,000 yuan was obtained
Two silver coins.
I didn't bring much tea, so I got 20,000 taels.
In this way, Yang Fu received 360,000 taels of silver for the goods he brought on this trip.
Things were sold out, so Yang Fu continued to buy goods and shipped them back to China. Five loads of red copper were worth 5 taels of silver, one load was 270 jins, and one jin was worth 19 fen. When it was shipped back to the country, it could be sold for 300 taels per jin.
There are many volcanoes in Japan, and sulfur, flame, and saltpeter are plentiful and cheap. A pound of sulfur is six cents, and two pounds of flame and saltpeter is three cents. These are in short supply when shipped back to the country, and the profit is almost twenty times. Yang Fu bought a lot.
Kagoshima's black cane sugar costs fifteen kilograms per pound, but Yang Fu directly wrapped the two hundred koku of other people's cane sugar into rounds.
I also bought some tin utensils, tortoiseshell, Japanese knives, scissors, cooking utensils and the like. I heard that Japanese knives are a technique of wrapping steel on soft iron. Yang Fu didn’t understand what it was, but he bought it after watching Langguang Pavilion.
Quite a few, so I bought them too.
I also bought some furs, fox skins, leopard skins, mountain otter skins, thick paper, ginseng, yellow and white wax and other items from North Korea.
The thousand gold coins brought by Yang Fu were exchanged for fifteen thousand taels of silver in the Japanese country. Naturally, the silver and goods brought by Wanjia Timber Store in Longxing were more useful.
Taking advantage of the different exchange ratios of gold and silver between the two countries, half of the goods were exchanged.
Several families called him a thief. Who brought so much gold out of the sea? If he fell into the sea, there wouldn't even be a sound. Who doesn't barter?
Only this guy secretly brought a lot of gold over.
But Yang Fu said that he wanted to bring more gold, but one family could only carry one thousand dan, so he couldn't carry more.
After the transaction was completed, Yang Fu took Zhufeng, the four of them, and Ma Xiang and others on a tour around Hirado and the surrounding areas. They saw all the customs and customs of the Japanese country and felt that it was a great eye-opener.
Ma Xiang also asked Yang Fu secretly: "Will you come next year?"
Yang Fu glanced at him: "You still want to come out?"
Ma Xiang nodded repeatedly: "Although it was dangerous and encountered a storm when I came here, I am willing to die for this trip. It is better than staying in one place for the rest of my life. I have opened my eyes this time. This time I have opened my eyes.
How much more talk can be gained after this? This trip is worth it."
Yang Fu also felt it was worth it.
If there is a chance to come out, he will naturally think of it.
The four people of Zhufeng Taoyue also feel the same way. In the past, they were all hidden people. They couldn't even show their faces, and they didn't even have names. They only had code names. Now the master not only gave them names, but also gave them the opportunity to travel.
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It's worth the trip.
When they go back this time, they can appear upright in front of others. From now on, the master's life will be theirs.
Yang Fu glanced at Zhufeng and the four of them, and was very grateful to have them there.
On this trip ashore, he exchanged goods with the Japanese. Naturally, there were many people who wanted to take advantage of him, and many who wanted to kidnap him.
I heard that Japan has a lot of mineral deposits. The island country is small and there is a shortage of people everywhere. I heard that those rogues snatched many slaves from various countries and sold them to mine owners for mining.
If you come over alive from the sea, if you are robbed and mined here, it will be a disaster.
Fortunately, Zhufeng and the others are here.
Seeing that he was from outside, those people secretly stared at him and wanted to kidnap him secretly. Zhufeng and the others secretly took care of them. These people were not even beaten by Zhufeng and the others.
It was defeated.
Otherwise, the Eastern Kingdom has a rich history. Kung Fu and skills have naturally been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. These ronin cannot compare.
After being parked in Hirado Port for nearly a month, the goods were exchanged and what needed to be bought was purchased, and everyone was ready to return.
Before leaving, Yang Fu bought some seafood from the Japanese country, eels, bonito, mullet roe, black beef and black pork, etc. He also bought a lot of citrus and grapefruit, many fruits, vegetables, various live livestock, chickens, ducks and sheep, and prepared to raise them.
They killed them on the boat and ate them.
There are also various beans, ready to be eaten raw and sprouted on board.
Xi'er said that if you stay at sea for a long time, you will get various diseases, so you should eat more vegetables. In the end, everyone came to grab the few sacks of dried vegetables and fruits he brought.
In this way, they set off from Ningbo at the end of April, arrived at Hirado Port in early August, stopped for nearly a month, and returned from Hirado in early September.
It's the end of another year, and Guangfeng Water does its accounting as usual.
This year, the shop bought five more large ships and opened five shops in the North Canal section, Xuzhou, Jining, Linqing, Cangzhou, and Tianjin. In this way, the layout of the important cities of the North and South Canal has been completed.
Although we spent a lot of money to buy boats and open shops this year, at the end of the year, the total profit of each shop in the account books was 50,000 taels more than last year's 350,000 taels.
It seems that the sea trade business is booming, and the water and sea trade is also booming.
Although this year's results did not allow Huo Xi to jump up a level and were still at Xiao Jia's level, Huo Xi was very satisfied.
This year, stores were opened in the north and goods were delivered in a timely manner. The profits of the two stores in Peiping doubled compared to last year. The business of the stores in the North Canal section also doubled.
Although the Ningbo store opened late, it caught up later and took advantage of the convenience of the sea trade port to become the most profitable among all the stores.
In order to reward the Ningbo shop, Huo Xi directly promoted Zhu Zhongquan to be the shopkeeper, and allowed him to come to the capital to report on his work at the end of the year, so that he could meet Xia He.
When the two father and daughter met, their eyes filled with tears. They expressed their longing for each other.
"Stay well with your boss, be obedient, learn more from your boss, and don't do anything that betrays your master." Zhu Zhongquan warned him earnestly.
Xia He held her father's hand and wiped away her tears while nodding: "I know. Now I am learning to read and keep accounts from my boss. In the future, I will also look after the shop and check the accounts for my boss... Dad, I miss you so much."
Zhu Zhongquan touched his daughter's head. The child was only ten years old. He left them at such a young age. How could he not miss her?
But seeing that she was doing well and had grown taller, she felt relieved and said, "If you miss us, just write to us. Dad will come to the capital often in the future, and our father and daughter will often have the opportunity to meet."
As he spoke, he took out a purse and offered it to Xia He, but Xia He refused.
"Dad, I have money. Now I have five taels of silver a month. In my spare time, I still work in the workshop and earn a lot of silver. Now I have saved more than ten taels of silver!"
"So much? Then save it carefully and buy whatever you want. Don't be reluctant to spend it."
Xia He nodded and handed another package to her father: "This is the gift I bought for my parents and Dongsheng Qiu Shuang."
Zhu Zhongquan accepted it happily: "Okay, my daughter has already earned money to buy gifts for her parents and siblings, so dad will accept it. You have to listen to the lady carefully, understand?"
Xia He sent her father away with a package of clothes and shoes that her mother had made for her. There were her clothes and the lady's in them.
After finishing the accounts and sending all the shopkeepers away, the first month is approaching.
At this time, Huo Xi heard a news that a ship returning from Japan capsized in the sea less than a hundred miles away from Ningbo Port.