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Sanhe Butterfly Chapter 155 Bargaining (Third update)

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    For a while, silence returned to the small living room, only the mechanical clock made a "click" sound. Old Frank put down his pipe and broke the silence first: "Joseph! I think we should talk about other issues, such as business matters.  I think you understand our situation. If we don't sell these cargoes, we can't return to Europe safely, and everything you said will become meaningless." "Understood! Then we won't say anything.  That's all!" Ji Liangyi thought for a while and said cheerfully: "I believe that the Agote Chamber of Commerce and your allies can get the goods I need. As long as the price is right, I am willing to trade with you in silver." "  No, no, no, this is too difficult! I can help you with muskets, but I can't do anything with artillery and sailboats, really!" Frank shook his head and rejected his proposal.  "Putting aside the problems of artillery and galleons for now, I might consider the muskets. I need some Holstein horses and Trachner horses as horse breeds, ten of each type, three of each breed and horse.  , the other seven are mares, I can bear the cost even if it is very expensive, how about this business?" Before he finished speaking, Frank Agot started to shake his head and said: "Oh! No, this is not possible!  These two types of horses are very expensive! Your request is too high! "Old Frank! Let's be honest! These two types of horses are not that expensive at all!  "A three-year-old excellent war horse with no history of injury is worth at most two thousand silver coins. I'm talking about silver coins, not a pound of silver!" Kira Yoshi said with a straight face.  "Okay! You win! It's indeed the price, but I need freight. I need to take a boat from distant Amsterdam for several months. I have to stop at the port to change water and feed. You know these guys are delicate and ruthless.  If there is a storm or plague at sea, it will be troublesome! Even if everything is smooth, we have to let them out to ride the horses on the deck. The cost of care and care is very high! One horse costs 20,000 silver coins!  " Frank Agote is right. Transporting horses over long distances is much more troublesome than transporting people and goods. These excellent horses eat concentrated feed mixed with beans, grains and alfalfa. These require special preparation, and the horses' salt  The amount of horses is ten times that of humans. Living across the ocean for several months puts a lot of logistical pressure on horses. It is necessary to free up a lot of space to take care of these horses.  The small probability of a ship capsizing in a storm can basically be ruled out. Experienced captains know which monsoons should blow in which seasons, and which months have more heavy rains. If you are careful, you will almost never encounter an exaggerated typhoon and you can go back and forth safely. The most terrible thing is  It was the plague and septicemia, which was as terrible as the plague.  "Let's not talk about the storm, you and I both know it! Let's talk about the plague! Pay attention to your drinking habits. When it rains, hang a wooden bucket on the mast to hold water. After it is clarified, you can quote it. And I am the septicemia you are worried about.  There is a way to solve it! I happen to have a batch of porcelain here, worth four thousand pounds of silver, and raw silk worth two thousand pounds of silver! Yes! It¡¯s the raw silk used to weave satin.  There are complete silk workshops in Sicily, Italy, and Regensburg in North Germany, right? The silk here is the best raw silk from the East, and it is definitely top-notch at your place! How about bartering?  How? " Ji Liangyi was so evil that he directly counted the porcelain and raw silk that Wang Dan traded with him as his own. The business with Wang Dan was worth 27,000 taels of silver, which converted to 1,687.5 kilograms of silver. He said this  Giving it to Frank Agot turned into six thousand pounds of silver, which is 5,400 pounds of silver. This was a one-time transaction. There was no need to transport the goods back and forth. You could make a net profit directly from one end of Sakai Town to the other.  Twice the profit.  "I can buy porcelain, and raw silk is no problem! But what does this have to do with sepsis?" Frank Agot didn't mind him promoting this kind of hard currency as merchandise, but he was more concerned about the issue of sepsis. During a sea trip, his crew  He would have to reduce his staff by 20%, and after returning to Amsterdam, he would have to pay a donation to the families of the victims. This kind of unplanned high expenditure was something that bothered him.  "Of course it does! What I'm going to say next is related to the treatment of sepsis! Sepsis is the lack of an element we need. This element is hidden in fresh vegetables and fruits. You lack vegetables and fruits while sailing at sea.  Supplements, the lack of elements in the body will make you sick, and the risk of sepsis is particularly high, so you must buy the following!" "Okay! I'm listening!" Frank Agot said with a shrug!  All ears were open, even the little blond girl listened carefully.  "You need to buy pickled vegetables, tea leaves, and the most important beans! Eating some pickled vegetables every day can recuperate the body and replenish lost elements. It can also stimulate the appetite and strengthen the spleen. The role of tea."?You must have heard of it!  The last thing to say is the beans that are the most important!  "Jiliang Yishi emphasized one sentence. "Why are beans the most important?  "The blond little loli asked strangely. "You purchased the porcelain in my hand. This is a prerequisite for ensuring that you make money and that you don't get scurvy!  All right!  Don't wait for me to see!  Let me say this when your fleet returns with a large amount of porcelain, the porcelain is easily broken when stacked on top of each other, so put fresh soybeans or mung beans between each piece of porcelain to fill the space between the porcelain.  the gap between.  Then you must remember to spray some water between the beans. The beans will sprout in the humid air. While protecting the porcelain from being broken, you can also get fresh bean sprouts. These bean sprouts are the fresh vegetables you need.  They are clean and harmless and can be stewed with bacon or fish. As long as you eat bean sprouts every day, you can effectively avoid the occurrence of sepsis!  " Frank Agot was silent for a moment, sat upright, and asked with a serious face: "Well!  Is that so?  What an ingenious idea!  Is this something you came up with or someone else told you?  " "Well, it was a businessman from the Ming Dynasty who told me!  Kira Yoshishi shifted the responsibility to the Ming Dynasty businessman with an innocent face, and then said: "There should be no doubt about the horse problem, right?"  As long as you follow the method I told you, there will be no problem!  "    "All right!  horses!  I'll do my best!  "Frank Agote shrugged and said no problem. He probably thought that Joseph was a young man pursuing his interests. For this kind of young man, Old Frank has a hundred ways to get him to buy his goods, so he said enthusiastically: "  Our fleet came from East India and brought many new things, including beautiful gems, intoxicating spices, exquisite clockwork clocks, beautiful mirrors, fashionable woolen blankets, new products from England, woolen cloth,  There are also best-selling products such as linen, ivory, sharkskin, tortoise shell and various plant seeds, including ornamental flowers and high-yielding seeds that can grow food. I have everything you can think of on my boat!  "    "oh?  And many seeds?  Got a matchlock?  " Kira Yoshi took a deep breath, trying to look as natural as possible, trying to pretend not to care about the temptation of high-yielding seeds. In this era, very few people have a clear understanding of high-yielding grain seeds. Both Japan and the Ming Dynasty are facing shortages.  The same problem often occurs in Europe. Famine is the root cause of infectious disease outbreaks, and famine is usually accompanied by drought or floods. The two together constitute the main cause of the demise of a dynasty. ¡°Of course the matchlock gun is indispensable!  I have a hundred Spanish Haquebusel matchlock guns here. If you buy them, they will also come with a support stand, gunpowder bag, and some bullets. The price is also very reasonable!  "Old Frank continued to sell. "I will help you eat this batch of goods at a reasonable price, and let you go back with silver and special products.  "After the business was settled, he didn't mind being generous to him and readily agreed to his request. As we all know, East India is actually the Nanyang region. Its name is also called the Spice Islands, and it has always been tightly controlled by the Portuguese.  Honey, trade in the entire Indian Ocean region is monopolized by the Portuguese. Except for Spanish merchant ships, no ships are allowed to enter this area. The Agote Chamber of Commerce from the Netherlands seems to have used some means to obtain it.  They entered here with the acquiescence of Spain, but their intrusion into Japan was unexpected. Perhaps the Spaniards thought that they would only turn back in the Spice Islands, but the Agote Chamber of Commerce did not do so, so they caused so many troubles.  Criticism. Of course, there must be a lot of moisture in what Frank Agote said. A fleet was hit by a storm and could sadly reach East Asia thousands of miles away. This shows that their damage was not serious.  There are several important stopping points from Europe to East Asia. They can replenish supplies, rest damaged ships, and most importantly, resell their goods in exchange for local specialties. For example, ivory, shark skin, tortoise shells and spices are obviously goods trafficked from Southeast Asia.  , and these goods are all very in demand. As long as they can safely dock, there will be chambers of commerce who will take the initiative to trade, and they are guaranteed to sell these items. Of course, Frank will not reveal it without knowing what he said, and both parties will take the initiative to trade.  After chatting happily for a long time, the agreement was finally finalized. Frank was secretly relieved that he could finally sell the goods on several ships. Kira Yoshitoki was also very satisfied. Frank is a kind-hearted and cunning businessman on the surface, but he still misjudged the current situation of Japan's trade.  In other words, he doesn¡¯t even know how popular the things he sells are. Luxury goods can be sold to ministers and samurai families in the name of Ashikaga Yoshitš­, the shogunate. When selling iron cannons, neither the Miyoshi family nor the Rokkaku family will be polite and use relative terms.  The cheap silver in exchange for these goods will definitely make a lot of money. Then the old man and the young man chatted about each other, and Kira Yoshiki didn't mind showing off in front of this new friend.Showing his rich knowledge, some new and unheard stories not only attracted Frank, but even Claudia, who had been in a daze, seemed to be listening carefully. It didn't take long for the unpleasantness to disappear.  Frank knocked out the tobacco from his pipe, carefully put the pipe away, then stood up and said: "Thank you for your warm hospitality and letting us spend a pleasant morning. I think we must go back. The crew are still hungry."  I have to buy lunch for them today, see you next time.¡±
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