After Shen Yourong's sudden visit, Li Tianyang's mind has been unsettled, panicked all day long, every day always feels that there is not enough time, and hopes that the progress of the entire chicken coop port can be accelerated, even the recruitment of Qi San's side was also urged by Li Tianyang desperately, and groups of displaced people from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Shandong and other places were transported back by the big ships of Qixintang and placed in Bengang and Jilong Port.

It wasn't until He Yong and his merchant ships that went to sea to trade successfully returned that Li Tianyang's anxious state of mind was a little relaxed.

Although the fleet was not separated by the storm, one of the cargo ships ran into a reef and leaked because of the ignorance of the route, and most of the cargo was soaked in seawater and reduced to defective products. But even so, their goods worth 50,000 or 60,000 taels of silver, after deducting all expenses, still exchanged for them a full income of more than 100,000 taels of silver.

Of course, in order to buy iron tools and other materials in the Wa Kingdom, coupled with Li Tianyang's ignorance, what kind of gold standard was touted by later generations, made him exchange most of the remaining silver for gold. In the end, they made a mistake, but Li Tianyang and them made an extra amount of money invisibly.

According to the ratio of gold and silver exchange in the Ming Dynasty, the ratio of 10:1 between the general money bank and the business is 10:1, that is to say, ten taels of silver for one tael of gold, but the Ming Dynasty also implemented the economic system of the silver standard, and the use of gold in daily life is not as extensive as silver, so it is relatively troublesome to exchange.

However, it is different on the Wa side, because of the abundance of silver, and the output of gold from affiliated minerals is not low, so the gold and silver exchange ratio on the Wa side has reached 6:1, 7:1, and even 5:1 if you are lucky. This also means that the same tael of gold can only be exchanged for five to seven taels of silver in the Wa Kingdom, which can be transported to the Ming Dynasty, but can be exchanged for about ten taels of silver.

"On the way out to sea, it was common to encounter wind and rain, and the most worrying thing was that the Ryukyu Sea was full of pirates, and along the way, our fleet was not less stalking and harassing their warships. Fortunately, our fleet is large enough and there are enough people, not ordinary pirates can get their hands on it, so we returned safely. After coming back, He Yong was called over by Li Tianyang and told what he had seen and heard along the way.

"The Japanese people are indeed quite rare in our Ming Dynasty porcelain, silk and other things, and they are rich enough, but they are only unfamiliar with our fleet in their country, and they have no network. In addition, the port we docked at in the Wa Kingdom was open to Nagasaki for them, which happened to be controlled by our Daming maritime merchant Li Dan, and our goods had to be sold to the Wa State through his hands, so the price was lower than the normal transaction, at least let us earn more than 10,000 taels of silver. ”

"Oh, I didn't expect that until now, our Ming merchants still exist like Wang Zhi and Xu Hai back then?" Li Tianyang didn't care about the loss of property, as a team that set foot in ocean trade for the first time, it was already good to have to earn and accumulate ocean experience. On the contrary, Li Tianyang was more interested in this Daming maritime businessman Li Dan: "Then have you ever inquired about some news about this maritime businessman?" ”

"That's natural, even if I don't want to ask, my young master!" He Yong recalled with a look of longing: "When we first arrived in Hong Kong and were looking for someone to sell our goods, a mixed team of Ming and Japanese people came to the door, and after asking us about our origins, they explained to us and asked us to hand over the goods to them for sale. ”

"Originally, I didn't agree with this matter, and it took a lot of hardships to traffic this batch of goods to the Wa Kingdom, so I naturally can't give up the goods to people, otherwise wouldn't I have failed the young master's cultivation of me?"

But after I inquired in private, I had to make my own decision and pinch my nose to admit it. Because the team that came to inform us was the subordinate of this maritime merchant Li Dan. It is said that the actual leader of the Wa Kingdom, the Tokugawa Shogunate, has the support of Li Dan, and he also has a lot of dealings with the Dutch foreigners, and he is the foreign speaker of the people in the Wa Kingdom, not to mention his command, tens of thousands of warriors worked for him, and his team and ships were thousands of ships throughout Southeast Asia! ”

"It is indeed a group of powerful maritime merchants!" Li Tianyang said in admiration.

It is said that it is a maritime businessman, in this era, anyone who does maritime trading, and those who have a little strength cannot get rid of the relationship with the pirates, since this Li Dan's strength is so strong, presumably in the future, Li Tianyang and their team want to develop eastward, and they will inevitably deal with Li Dan.

This is also because Li Tianyang's team is lonely and unheard, perhaps because they have seen and heard too many evil deeds of pirates, so that Li Tianyang's team has not been very friendly to pirates since the beginning of its establishment. As for this Li Dan force that is far away in the Japanese country, although Li Tianyang has heard of it, but because the distance is too far, there are many exaggerated rumors among the people, so Li Tianyang has never faced this character.

And this is also something that he has not been able to understand with his shallow historical knowledge from later generations, otherwise he would definitely not think that after Wang Zhi and Xu Hai, there would be no powerful people in the Ming Dynasty.

Now that He Yong beside him has seen Li Dan's strength and territory, this has given Li Tianyang one more target and opponent to catch up with.

"Then have you seen this Li Dan in person?"

"People don't live in Nagasaki Port for a long time, they spend more time in Hirado Castle, where can we see characters like us, young master, you can really laugh!" He Yong smiled.

"What is the best of the Wa country's production, apart from gold and silver?"

“………”

It's another earth-shaking chat commentary, I don't know the world's major events without leaving home, although Li Tianyang lived in an era of information explosion in his previous life, as long as he has the heart, he can naturally get the information he wants to know. However, since coming to the Ming Dynasty, the backward information dissemination system of this era has made the Chinese people's access to foreign information channels and cognition still in their infancy.

Li Tianyang, who wanted to change all this, was limited to the lack of his own strength, and he had not even built a complete intelligence system in Quanzhou Yuegang, let alone a foreign country thousands of miles away. Now, after finally visiting the field through the people under him, he showed him the news between the countries that the Chinese most hated in the past and present lives, how could he not be happy to face each other, just like the conversation with Father Franco, and stop for a long time until all the news that He Yong knew was cleared.

(End of chapter)