When Alva sent envoys to the various plantations to the border to negotiate with the planters about buying and selling grain to the Ming Dynasty, the new nobles had already sold everything they could.

Hundreds of plantations with white cloth bags on the east side of the Mingxi border have become the most beautiful scenery here.

The bag is also printed in large letters: Flour and half stone.

It was said to be a symbol of border friendliness, and one monk recorded in his autobiography a scene that signaled a flourishing trade on the Mingxi border.

Without delving into the prosperity, the border trade was indeed very prosperous, and plantation owners and merchants were keen to exchange their goods for Wanli Prefecture Tongbao and then go to the other side of the official road to buy silk and porcelain.

There are not many goods in Zhangjiagou, and it is said that more goods are still on the way, but the price of porcelain and silk is relatively cheap, although it is indeed more expensive than in Macau or the Philippines in the early years, but it is still profitable to buy it relative to the purchase price of Seville or the Netherlands, even with the addition of sea freight.

They drove a few wagons of grain to exchange for several thousand tongbao in Wangjiabao, or simply bought Tongbao with silver, because the minting process of silver coins was not good, and a silver coin of one or two weights could be exchanged for eight hundred tongbao.

Then in the opposite Wangjiagou, 4,000 Tongbao can buy a well-made silk of various colors, if you come out of 5,000 Tongbao, you can buy a horse with dark ribs, dark vertical lines of various colors of silk, as for the dark cloud pattern, dark Ruyi pattern of silk is more sophisticated, to 7,000 to 8,000 range.

Of course, the most expensive ones are not these good ones sold in Daming, but black silk or variegated bright silk, which is basically not worn by anyone in Daming, like a bun, but people here like it, and even Spanish nobles and merchants also place orders on the border side.

Of course, they also wanted the big red silk, but the merchants didn't sell it, and they didn't sell a thousand horses.

The red, crow, and yellow are not sold, and in the words of the merchant, "You are not worthy of it!" ”

As for the Western merchants who wanted to buy porcelain, they were in a hurry for a long time, they stayed overnight in several westerner plantations east of Wangjiabao and Zhangjiagou, and sent people to the border line every day to keep an eye on it, waiting for the Ming Dynasty to load the goods, but this side kept saying that the porcelain was on the road, the porcelain was on the road, and the porcelain was on the road......

Porcelain is really on the way.

In the Ming Dynasty, porcelain is a kind of luxury in daily use, divided into coarse porcelain and fine porcelain, coarse porcelain and fine porcelain are divided into upper, middle and lower three grades, but even if it is high-grade fine porcelain, the price is not very expensive.

If there is no historical significance or elaborate carving, the price of a fine porcelain bowl, plate, cup and bottle is three to five cents of silver, and the price of a fine porcelain of inferior porcelain is even cheaper, three to five cents of silver can be bought for ten.

Therefore, in the early years of overseas Nanyang, such as Borneo and other places, even if there was a premium for maritime trade, ordinary people could still buy one as a family treasure in their homes.

But in the Mingxi trade in Asia, as porcelain flowing into Europe, Chen Mu did not intend to sell them at such a 'cheap price'.

The baggage transported with the ship in the second phase of Beiyang, those celadon plates and white porcelain bowls were bundled with straw ropes and stuffed into the cabin, which was much more than the people transported, and more than 150,000 pieces of porcelain were put down on the ship alone.

More than 150,000 is just the number of broken after removing the fall, almost every group of porcelain has been damaged by external forces on the way to shipping, and there is some damage in the process of loading and unloading the ship in Changsheng County, and there are some mistakes in the sub-loading, resulting in a loss of more than two percent.

But the porcelain would have arrived long ago if it had been shipped with the silk, but they did not, and the batches of porcelain were slowly repacked under the orders of the Asian Governor, and the sawmill made all its efforts to make exquisite lacquer boxes, which were packed into sets according to the pattern and firing of the porcelain, and placed in the lacquer boxes that fit the seamlessly.

The cost of lacquered wooden boxes even exceeds that of a set of porcelain.

Each set of lacquer boxes or lacquered lacquer process painted with the same decorative painting as the porcelain inside, combined with copper lock buckles, containing several dishes, wooden chopsticks, plates, porcelain bottles, together as a set, set the upper, middle and lower three.

After completing these processes, they will be escorted by the flag army and transported to the border.

50,000 to 100,000 Tongbao for inferior lacquer box porcelain, 100,000 to 150,000 Tongbao for medium lacquer box porcelain, and 150,000 to 300,000 Tongbao for fine lacquer box porcelain.

And on the inside of the lid of each set of high-quality lacquer boxes, there are handwritten gifts from Chen Mu.

Since Zhao Shizhen entered the shogunate, in the past few years, Sai Donkey's attainments in the way of calligraphy have not made any progress, but he has completely let go of himself, and after realizing that he does not have to rely on foreign objects to raise his value, he has lived a very easy life, and writing gifts for more than 4,700 sets of high-quality lacquer boxes is handy.

Although Zou Yuanbiao, Zhao Shizhen, Xu Wei and others in Changsheng County felt that Chen Mu's inscription on the lacquer box was indeed a good idea, everyone found that the starting point of Chen Mu's inscription seemed to be different from others.

The key to other people's inscriptions is the words, and leaving a name is only one of them, but what about their Chen Dashuai? The key is the name, it doesn't matter what words you mention, even the goose.

A set of lacquer box porcelain, he can divide his name into seven or eight places to write, for example, the wooden box is left with the word Jinghai, the bottom of the plate is privately sealed, the bottom of the bowl is left with the date, the cup handle is handwritten Beiyang important ministers, and the bottle body is written on the Ming Empire Beiyang important ministers Asian Jinghai Bo Chen Mu.

To tell the truth, as far as Chen Mu is showing his strength, Zhao Shizhen plans to deduct a part of his money to buy a set for Duke Alva, and put it at home to eat and sleep, Chen Mu is everywhere - how troubled?

Of course, all porcelain is not sold at such a high price, and there are many pieces that cannot be made up, and those are relatively cheaper, but even if they are cheap, these porcelains are pulled to the border in carts, and no one on the other side of the border can transport them away in carts.

That's right, Alvar Non.

Because Chen Mu still paid for the sixty tons of grain sent by the Western Army earlier, he didn't have a small family, and he didn't give anyone this grain money, but there was not so much money on the border line at the beginning, and the money had to be printed from Changsheng County.

Of course, whether the Duke of Alva received the money happily or not is another matter.

278,400 Tongbao, 278 banknotes with a denomination of 1,000 Tongbao and 4 Tongbao with a denomination of 400.

The purchase price of grain given by Chen Mu was already low, except for the plantation owners who were frightened by the 'green cloak' on the border line and had to pay protection fees, the closer other plantation owners got to the east coast, the more unwilling they were to sell their grain.

Not to mention that the luck is good rice and good noodles, the rice itself was planted from the nobles near Valencia in southern Spain, and the yield was not high, that is, the nobles and mercenaries ate it, and now it has to be transported to the border under the order of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.

For example, the escorted slave workers secretly picked up a bag of Spanish rice while the guards were sleeping and ran away - this is still good, in order to transport food near the border, there have been many groups of slaves attacking the guards, carrying grain bags across the border to join the Ming Dynasty.

Freedom in the West!

The slave workers have spread, the Ming army looks similar to them, they regard them as brothers of the same clan, work for the Ming people is to give money, save money can rent their own land, except for serving the emperor's taxes and forced labor, they don't have to do anything, they can have their own property, and the Ming Dynasty people don't sleep with their wives casually.

Although the plantation owners were not very willing to sell grain, they were happy to buy goods from the other side of the border, and if it was not appropriate to exchange grain for it, they exchanged it for silver coins, which of these plantation owners did not have a net worth of several thousand silver coins, and twenty-two silver coins for three or four pieces of silk, and it was very suitable to go back and make a dress.

After all, the weaving mills in Mexico City had not produced these things for a long time because there was no Nanyang raw silk import, and the subsequent rebellion caused trouble.

Trade on the border was already booming before the official arms trade between the two countries began.