Chapter 52: Silk
Lin Feng, the leader of the pirates, opened his mouth to find the military master to ask for a knife, a spear and a gun, isn't this looking for a beating?
made Chen Mu laugh.
"You're so bold! I'm not afraid that Chen will arrest you, what do you want these knives for? β
Chen Mu said and pointed to the loot watch on the table and said to Li Dan: "Heifan is not for sale, you see what he wants for the rest, let him bid by himself, go out at night to find someone to ask for the price, and then tell him that he can barter or silver and gold, and sell it if it is suitable." β
After that, he turned his head to look at Lin Feng to see how he answered.
Chen Mu had mixed feelings about the Chinese pirates of this era, the conquest plan of the greedy Western colonizers to the East appeared in this era in which he lived, and the real hand-to-hand combat would not be until three hundred years later, so what stood in their way?
Half of the credit goes to Chinese pirates across the South China Sea.
Lin Feng smiled, not afraid of Chen Mu's threat, but his actions showed a rather defensive mentality, and he hugged his arms and said with some self-deprecation: "When you go to sea, you are a citizen, and you can't do it without some knives." Qianhu is followed by Li Dan, and he should disdain to arrest me. β
Chen Mu raised his head and laughed, raised his finger and pointed to the chair on the side, "As long as you don't attack your fellow brothers, Chen won't arrest you." On the contrary, Chen can give you the food, water, and weapons you need at sea. β
Chen Mu didn't know much about the pirates of this era, but he knew something about the Quanzhou man with a goatee in front of him.
He has done a lot of bad things along the coast of Fujian, and he has also killed corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and his fleet occupies Penghu, and he is a wanted big widow in Fujian.
A few years later, this man fled to Manila, colonized by the Spaniards, killed the commander, attacked the governor's palace, and briefly established a country of his own, after being defeated by the Ming army.
The pirates of the Western world were regarded as rebel heroes, as their empires were thriving on the sustenance that the pirates plundered and sold.
The pirates of the Eastern world are just some low-level residues, garbage that should be completely destroyed in both body and soul.
Chen Mu didn't think so, he spread his hands to Lin Feng, "If you want to be incognito one day, Chen's place may be a good choice for you." β
Lin Feng didn't know why Chen Mu would say such a thing, but he still clenched his fists and said: "Thank you for lifting thousands of households, the ancestors of the grass people have been adrift on the sea for three generations, and it doesn't matter where they go, and where they die." β
After a pause, Lin Feng continued: "The sea is going to be chaotic recently, I won't give the news of Haojing to Zeng Sanlao, I want to buy some spears, but I just take this opportunity to fight with another gang of pirates, if the thousand households don't sell it, forget it, I admit your love!" β
"The knife can't sell you, food and water, you can buy it from Li Dan." Chen Mu raised a finger, "If you have any gains at sea in the future, you can also find Li Dan, weapons, gunpowder, goods, ships, he all wants." β
Not long after Lin Feng said goodbye, the Spaniard Farricart also left after setting prices for all kinds of goods.
Li Dan looked at the aisle outside, and after confirming that there was no one, he clenched his fists to stop his displeasure, and said to Chen Mu in a suppressed voice: "Father-in-law, if what is written on this paper is correct, this batch of goods can be exchanged for at least eight hundred such Jintongbao!" β
The gold Tongbao that Li Dan said is the Kruzado gold coin.
The price startled Chen Mu, frowned and blurted out: "So much? β
"And that's not even counting the furniture and the house in Maiatu's house, just bits and pieces, raw silk, silk and a few tusks." Li Dan shook his head and said, "By the way, why don't you sell those black fans together?" The Francos are willing to pay one hundred and fifty gold treasures to buy one hundred and thirty of our captives and let them become sailors. β
"It's dirty to sell people, how did you get these things into my hands, you forgot?"
Chen Mu said angrily, took the book Li Dan was holding and said while reading: "Get a few knowledgeable traders around you to help you, those captives are given to you, you and Huayu are divided, if you are willing to be a sailor, let them follow you, if you are not a sailor, let Huayu arrange, someone in the port will move the goods, let them go." β
"And the four dhow clippers you captured this time, keep one, and the remaining three are yours." Chen Mu looked down and frowned, "So much worse?" β
100 catties of raw silk 30 kruzado, a dyed red silk 25 kruzado, in fact, raw silk to make a piece of silk only needs 10 catties and 20 catties is enough, there are five to ten times the profit.
"Go and ask, how much is a hundred catties of raw silk in Guangcheng, and how much is a piece of red silk."
Chen Mu raised his hand and said to Li Dan without raising his head, although he had a lot of kruzado in his hands, but he still didn't understand what the exchange rate of the gold coins of the Francois and the silver of the Ming Dynasty was, and he only knew that a kruza was worth more than one tael of silver.
"Did my father-in-law really give me those boats?"
The smile on Li Dan's face was eager and stiff, it was not that they did not have boats, but those boats were all very small fishing boats, and even the smallest sloop captured was larger than his.
More importantly, those are sea vessels.
"Don't forget to ask, copper and iron, what is the price of those foreign merchants who sold Burmese iron here, and what is the price of copper and iron in Guangcheng."
From the national level, it is very naΓ―ve to sell the products in exchange for useless precious metals, even if the Ming Dynasty gets 30% of the world's silver? The resources of one's own country have decreased, and the money has increased, but it has not increased, and it has not increased the production of useful things, which is nothing more than the transformation of sheep into pigs.
Chen Muke didn't have the heart to think about how happy Li Dan was now, the few gunboats he was concerned about, as for the small dhows, it was useless to keep them, he didn't have the opportunity to sail to other countries in a short time, Li Dan also needed a few boats to support the faΓ§ade, and the small boats were just right for him.
He was more concerned about the difference in purchasing power between Cruzado and silver, and the labor and material resources required to weave raw silk into silk, and if there was no problem with these things, he knew what to do when the hundreds of women in the thousands of households were idle.
Raw silk was purchased from Guangcheng, and the women of the Thousand Households would weave the raw silk into silk and sell it to the Yi merchants, who would then buy Burmese iron or better iron from the Yi merchants, and turn it into a durable and more advanced Guan Gong under the never-ending hydraulic hammer of the Xiangshan Institute.
Soon he will have a force with a fairly high rate of firearms.
What kind of nonsense is Yan Qingyao's little girl talking about, what is Yingying Yanyan There are hundreds of thousands of Chen Ye?
They are all Chen Ye's!
Go to bed?
Scold!
Only cowards like to sleep with their, and Chen Ye likes black and hard guns and cannons!
"Remember what I told you when I was drinking in Xiangshan? Maybe you don't know what it means for us to do these things in the future, but one day, the red sun flag will slowly rise on the sea level, and this is the beginning. β