After leaving the gate of Jubaozhai, the anger in Yang Feng's heart still did not subside. It seems that there will be such a thing as a big bully in any era, although the service attitude of this Jubao Zhai on the surface is not bad, but in his bones he still divides the guests into three, six, nine and so on, this kind of guy who dares to sneer at the guests would have been fired by the boss in the 21st century

It's just that after the anger gradually subsided, Yang Feng was a little worried, he was not familiar with the people in this place, who was he going to sell these goods to. You must know that in order to buy this batch of goods, he has smashed all his savings over the years, and if he really smashes his hands, he will have to drink the northwest wind after he returns.

Some worries Yang Feng slowly strolled on the street, while walking while looking at the dazzling array of shops around, although the shopkeeper of his inn told him that Jubao Zhai is the largest jewelry store in Nanjing, but Yang Feng thinks that no matter when, there will be no real monopoly oligopoly in any industry, although Jubao Zhai is big, but to say that it has no competitors Yang Feng is not believed to die, after all, from ancient times to the present, the jewelry industry has always been a profiteering industry, how can there be a monopoly situation.

Sure enough, after walking less than 500 meters along the street paved with bluestone slabs, Yang Feng found a jewelry store called Donglai Yinlou, which was different from the Treasure Pavilion, in which Yang Feng's request to see the shopkeeper was finally met.

The treasurer of Donglai Yinlou surnamed Shi, looks like most treasurers, white and fat, with a kind smile, as if he can say Wishing you prosperity at any time, he carefully looked at this young man who suddenly came to the door and was dressed very ordinarily for a while before slowly saying: "This guest officer, I don't know what you are doing when you come to the store?" ”

At the same time as the shopkeeper looked at Yang Feng, Yang Feng was also secretly looking at the shopkeeper and the surrounding environment, and after hearing the other party's question, Yang Feng introduced himself: "Shopkeeper Shi, in the lower ancestor is a Han Chinese, the family moved to Nanyang during the Tang Dynasty, and often travels back and forth between Nanyang and Obaro to do business. Some time ago, I planned to come to Daming to do business, but because of the pirates, the whole ship was gone, so I had to escape and was forced to live in Jinling, so that I had no food and clothing. Now I am forced to sell some of the goods I carry with me to your store, but I don't know if the shopkeeper will accept it? ”

"Oh......"

Shopkeeper Shi has been in business for so many years, so he naturally won't believe other people's words as easily as the hairy boy who has never seen the market, he nodded quietly: "The person who comes is a guest, since you have arrived at our Donglai Silver Building, you are our guest, if there is anything, please show it and let the contemptible people open their eyes." ”

"Absolutely!"

Yang Feng took out a palm-sized mirror from his leather bag and handed it to the stone shopkeeper opposite.

"Huh...... This...... It turned out to be a mirror? ”

The stone shopkeeper on the opposite side immediately showed a look of surprise on his face when he saw the mirror that Yang Feng had escaped, he took the mirror and looked at it carefully, and the more he looked at it, the more surprised his face appeared.

To tell the truth, glass is not a rare thing for the Han people, the main raw materials of glass mirrors are quartz, feldspar and limestone, which become soda-lime glass after heating and cold treatment: a refractive smear, the main ingredient of which is mercury, which is called cinnabar by alchemists, and these things appeared as early as the Warring States period. However, due to the fact that the inorganic chemistry in ancient China was not developed, it was difficult to refine cinnabar into pure mercury, which is also the reason why people in ancient China used copper mirrors.

The earliest glass mirrors in China appeared in the Ming Dynasty, and they were brought from Europe by missionaries who came to China. This kind of European-style glass mirror has to go through tens of thousands of miles of sea and bumps all the way, considering that it is fragile and difficult to make, the mirror surface is generally relatively narrow and easy to carry; Its mirror is mostly used for shaving the face, and the mirror is only enough to take a picture of a part of the beard, and it is expensive, so it can be said to be a very rare commodity in Daming.

After the stone shopkeeper turned over the mirror in his hand and observed it over and over, he found that this mirror was quite exquisitely made, its perimeter was wrapped by something that could not be named (in fact, it was plastic), and the back of the mirror was depicted with lifelike flower and grass paintings, the mirror surface was unusually smooth, and it was not an exaggeration to describe it with no hair, and the stone shopkeeper could even clearly see every trace of the slightest expression of his face. Shopkeeper Shi quickly came to the conclusion that the quality of this mirror was much better than the mirrors he had seen before, and the second reflection was that these mirrors would definitely set off a trend in Nanjing.

He took a deep breath and suppressed the surprise in his heart. A smile appeared on the shopkeeper Shi's face again: "The guest officer, please forgive me for being unreasonable, and I haven't asked the guest officer how to call him." ”

Yang Feng also had some emotion in his heart about the stone shopkeeper's actions, it seems that whatever the society values is strength, if you don't have the strength, people are not even interested in knowing your name, although people have been smiling since they entered the store, but they have not asked their names until now, if the things they take out cannot arouse the interest of the other party, I am afraid that the shopkeeper who always looks like he is always smiling will not ask for his name at most.

"My surname is Yang, and my single name is a peak character, the peak of the mountain." Yang Feng glanced at the hand of the stone shopkeeper who was holding the mirror, and then took out several mirrors from his satchel and placed them on the table one by one, and said: "The stone shopkeeper, this kind of glass mirror was obtained from Obaro thousands of miles away, and the number is about hundred, I wonder if the stone shopkeeper is interested in taking over this batch of goods?" ”

"Hundreds?"

Looking at the seven or eight mirrors of different styles on the table, the stone shopkeeper's face finally couldn't maintain that formulaic smile, and the hand holding the mirror trembled a little.

Although the Ming Dynasty already has mirrors, because the Ming Dynasty is not yet able to make them themselves, they all have to rely on those missionaries to bring them from the West. You must know that in the era when the navigation conditions were still very simple, every voyage can be said to be a ghost gate, and the mirror is fragile, so every mirror to the Ming Dynasty is expensive, those ladies and magnates in Nanjing City have a great demand for mirrors, if you can get this batch of goods for the benefit of Donglai Yinlou is great.

The shopkeeper suppressed his excitement, tried his best to make himself show a calm expression, and pretended to be calm and said: "Young Master Yang, these mirrors of yours are in good condition, I like them very much, I don't know what you plan to do with them?" ”

"Of course it's for you?" Yang Feng smiled: "Isn't it to sell things to Daming after thousands of miles of transportation, but the things are taken out for you to see, I don't know what price the stone shopkeeper plans to offer?" ”

Shopkeeper Shi thought for a while, and said tentatively: "Young Master Yang, I think we can have two ways to cooperate. One is that you sell out this batch of goods to the shop, and from now on this batch of goods will be returned to the store, and it has nothing to do with you. The second is that you can consign this batch of goods in the store, and we can sell five or five cents of the silver, depending on how you choose. ”

Yang Feng said without thinking: "It's better to choose the first way of cooperation, as long as the shopkeeper gives a suitable price, this batch of goods will belong to your store, and how to sell it next is your business." ”

What are you kidding, the second method seems to be able to make more money at first glance. But Yang Feng is not stupid, this is the Ming Dynasty, he is alone and powerless, entrusting things to them to sell, it is not that the price of how much is sold is up to others, even if he knows that he has no place to reason if he is cheated by others, it is still the first way that is most suitable for him.

"That's fine." The stone shopkeeper seemed to know Yang Feng's concerns, he didn't say anything, but looked at the mirrors on the table in detail, these mirrors have three styles, the smallest is only the size of a palm, at best it can only be used to shave a face and something like that. The slightly larger one is about the size of a textbook, and the largest one is the size of a pillow, and only after looking at it did he ask: "Young Master Yang, are all the styles of your goods here?" ”

"Yes, for the time being, there are only those three." Yang Feng nodded.

"That's right." The stone shopkeeper pondered for a moment and said, "Do you think this will be done?" I will give you ten taels of silver for the smallest of these three kinds of mirrors, I will give you fifteen taels of silver for the larger one, and I will give you twenty taels of silver for the largest one. ”

"Damn, it's fucking black!"

Yang Feng secretly complained in his heart, it was not that Yang Feng had not done any homework before he came, and he had also asked several shops about the price of mirrors. In view of the fact that the Ming Dynasty was not able to produce qualified high-purity mercury today, all the mirrors were transmitted from the West, and the quantity was very scarce, and it was priceless. A palm-sized mirror is priced at least fifty taels of silver on the market, and as for those basketball-sized ones, they can't be taken without a hundred taels of silver, and there is no supply, and now this guy only gives one-fifth of the price, which is really worthy of a profiteer.

Yang Feng didn't speak, silently put the mirror on the table back into his satchel, stood up and was about to leave.

Shopkeeper Shi was in a hurry, and quickly grabbed him: "Young Master Yang, what are you doing?" The sale and purchase are all negotiated, if you are not satisfied with this price, we can discuss it again, how can you just leave? ”

Yang Feng turned his head and said bluntly: "Shopkeeper Shi, the reason why I came to your store is because I heard that your store is the most honest in doing business, and Tong Su is not bullied, it seems that it is all a rumor, even you will bully me, a foreigner." ”

"I ......"

Rao is shopkeeper's face was very thick-skinned and he couldn't help but blush, and he said helplessly: "Okay, Yang Gongzi, what kind of price do you think is more appropriate?" ”

"The smallest side is twenty-five taels of silver, the larger one is thirty-five taels, and the largest one is fifty taels of silver!" Yang Feng quickly said the price in his heart......