The shopkeeper of Su Ji Zhen's store was overjoyed when he heard this, but he looked at Ma Tongju's face, and said carefully: "Master, the goods can enter at any time, but these things are very popular, and the small ones are all taken from the upper house in cash, and this is ...... to pay."

Ma Tong gave him a blank look, and said coldly: "Less nonsense!" When the goods arrive in the warehouse, the silver will be settled immediately, and you will not be short of a tael of silver. ”

The shopkeeper immediately smiled, "Okay, with your old words, it's down-to-earth!" I'll go buy it tonight, and 30,000 taels will arrive the day after tomorrow. ”

"Well, hurry up."

"Okay, okay, don't worry."

Two days later.

Outside the warehouse of the yamen of the Yangzhou prefect, several men were carefully moving the goods in the carriage into the house. The Nama Tong sentence seemed to be extremely nervous about these "luxuries", and he personally led people to supervise the inventory.

He can't do it if he doesn't care! These things were ordered to be purchased by the Nine Princes, and they were personally supervised by Lord Cai Shiying, the imperial history of the Imperial Palace, and it is said that they are all military funds, and there is no room for sloppiness.

After repeated verification, Ma Tong was also happy, and handed over a note signed by him to the shopkeeper of Su Ji Zhenpin, "Lao Liu, go to the account to get the money." There's a lot of stuff to buy later, so you've got to hurry. ”

Shopkeeper Liu nodded hurriedly and said, "Master Xie Ma!" "It's just that this purchase is ......."

"What? Out of stock? ”

"Oh, no, no, there's still the goods." Shopkeeper Liu said, "It's just that because these things have been selling too well recently, the upper family said that the price would increase, and I am afraid that the next batch of goods will be more expensive." ”

"Expensive?" Ma Tong frowned, "How much can it go up?" ”

Shopkeeper Liu hurriedly handed over a bill of goods, and said with a smile: "This is the purchase price given to me by the previous family, please take a look." ”

Ma Tongju took the manifest and glanced at it, and immediately said angrily: "The surname is Liu, you dare to fool me?!" And he saw that it was listed on the paper: clockwork fan, fifty taels. Music box, twenty-two taels. Rotating lampstand, twenty-eight taels......

Almost everything has risen in price by as much as two to three percent. You must know that these things are already ridiculously expensive, and if they rise by two or three percent, the imperial court will spend tens of thousands of taels of silver!

Shopkeeper Liu was so frightened that he knelt on the ground, kowtowing like pounding garlic, "My lord Mingjian!" Adults! Even if you don't dare to borrow a small ten guts, it's really a price increase! ”

"No! At the original price, the next batch of goods will be shipped in three days! ”

Shopkeeper Liu's head slammed, and he said hurriedly: "Don't be embarrassed by adults!" The small amount of money, even if it is all filled in, is not enough for the price difference of this half of the goods.

"Shangjia has already said that his goods are empty all over the country, and he does not worry about selling them at all. Don't say the price on this list, there are still people in Guizhou, Yunnan and other places who increase the price to grab the goods......"

Ma Tong was about to say more, when he saw a person turn out of the second hall, and the probe stopped him. The former hurriedly said, "Master Sun, why are you here?" ”

This person is Cai Shiying's confidant Sun Pin, and the current military department is in the matter, but Cai Shiying was sent by Cai Shiying to focus on the purchase of "stainless steel".

Sun Pin helped up the shopkeeper Liu, and said with a smile: "Old Liu, you say I don't know where your goods come from?" colluded with the southerners, and now they dare to sit on the ground and raise the price? ”

Shopkeeper Liu was so frightened that he knelt on the ground again, but he didn't seem to be too scared between his words, "My lord, the small one is just buying some goods from the villagers, how can we talk about colluding with the southerners." As for the starting price of this sitting...... If you send someone to your house and ask, you will find out that the small one is really a penny and you don't dare to ask for more! ”

Sun Pin was stunned, he had already let the shopkeeper follow, only to see that he didn't know what road he had taken, and went across the Qiantang River to pick up the goods, but the eyeliner he sent was stopped on the north bank by the Ming army's sailors. If he could connect with the upper family, he would have purchased the goods himself.

He had to threaten for a long time, and finally the shopkeeper Liu simply knelt on the ground and couldn't get up, crying: "The small net worth is meager, at most he doesn't make money for adult traffickers, but the price on this list is really indispensable......"

Sun Pin and Ma Tongju glanced at each other, but there was nothing they could do, they didn't even dare to look like they were surnamed Liu for a few days - Beijing was still urging for goods, and now they couldn't afford to delay just tossing the line of Liu's shopkeeper.

"Let's ......," Sun Pin shook his hand and sighed, "You go to buy the goods quickly, if you let me know that you charge half a tael of silver more, I will chop you to feed the dog!" ”

"Don't dare! Can't! ”

……

North of Xiaoshan, the camp of the Dragon Guard.

"Your Highness, the first two batches of goods were sold for a total of 50,000 taels of silver, and they have all been transported to Shaoxing City."

"Oh? Jianyu is generous, but he hasn't paid back the price of a tael of silver? Zhu Linmiao smiled with satisfaction, "It seems that it will go up again next time." ”

In fact, Jianyu only bought 14,500 pieces of "luxury goods" in total, and he had already paid so many silver taels. Zhu Linmiao calculated that if he wanted to remove the springs to make about 20,000 flintlock guns, he would be able to earn at least 400,000 taels!

Xie Hong arched his hand and said: "Your Highness, according to what Liu Baihu said, the thieves are very urgent need for these things, or it doesn't hurt to be more expensive. ”

"Well, you're doing a good job this time. But be careful, don't deliver too much at once, so that you can always hang the building. ”

"Yes! Subordinates keep in mind. ”

As soon as Xie Hong turned to leave, Shi Lin said, "My lord, that Serio sent someone." ”

"Clockmaker? Let him in. ”

Zhu Linmiao heard broken Chinese coming from outside the tent, "Your Highness, you have to punish these people well......

With the shouting, the apprentice who had been following Serio before walked into the military tent, saluted first, and said angrily: "They are too disrespectful, this will ruin our reputation!" ”

"Parker Mo is in a hurry, say slowly," Zhu Linmiao said, "What happened?" ”

"It's the people of Su Ji Iron Field!" Parker said indignantly, "You know what? The recently shipped spring wheel is simply terrible!

"It doesn't look like much at the rough, but after four or five hundred uses, seven out of ten cracks and breaks!

"If it weren't for the teacher who inadvertently listened to the music box a few more times, I'm afraid no one would have discovered this problem until now......"

"Oh, this one." Zhu Linmiao waved his hand and smiled, "I've been busy deploying to attack the north bank of Qiantang recently, so I forgot to tell you about this, so I asked you to come all the way here."

"I instructed the ironworks to use high-carbon steel and add a small amount of sulphur to make the spring wheel. You tell the steward that these goods are not sold to the people, and the prices are not the same, so let him just continue to make them.

"But he still needs to be praised for his careful and responsible attitude."

Parker was stunned, then nodded, "Oh, it turned out to be a special bargain." I'll go back and explain it to the teacher. ”

Zhu Linmian said that although this is a special product, it is definitely not a bargain, and it is more than four or five percent more expensive than before.

This batch of goods was to be sold to Jianyu, so he would let people "make it".