"I didn't expect the Wufeng Islands to have such strength, we really underestimated the people of the world, today's incident almost caused a catastrophe, what are your plans?"

Lu Ming, who has always been the leader, was a little frustrated, it was his decision that almost caused an irreparable mistake, and it could be seen that the Wufeng Islands were not murderous and barbaric, otherwise his own provocation was enough for the other party to find an excuse to kill his own people.

But Lu Ming was a little unwilling, this trip to the Wa Kingdom was extremely unsmooth, and seventy percent of the goods could not be sold, let alone buy goods to bring back to Datang.

The crowd is silent!

This kind of thing has not happened before, but the worst thing is only two or three percent of the backlog of goods in hand, but this time the loss is too miserable, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as having lost all its money.

"Ahem!"

At this time, Gu Liang's light knock voice attracted the attention of the three people, and their eyes focused on Gu Liang's body, knowing that he was resourceful, what must have been thought of when he spoke out at this time?

"Everyone! Have we fallen into a misunderstanding? ”

"What does Gu Lang mean, if you have anything to say, you might as well say it and listen to it!" Zhang Heng said a little anxiously.

Gu Liang took a moment's time, and said with a mocking arc on the corner of his mouth: "We want to trade with the Wa Kingdom and the Silla Kingdom, why can't we trade with the Wufeng Islands?" Even if the small Wufeng Islands can't eat all the goods in our hands, aren't we also interested in the goods on the Wufeng Islands? Wouldn't bartering be done either? ”

"This ......!"

The other three suddenly understood, they were not human spirits, they had been in the shopping mall for many years, and they had long been familiar with various trading methods, but they had never regarded the Wufeng Islands as a trade object this time, and Gu Liang's words were just piercing a layer of window paper.

"That's right! We can go to that manager to discuss, exchange the goods in our hands for the goods of the Wufeng Islands, and bring them back to Datang can also make a lot of money! ”

"That's it! The goods on the Wufeng Islands are indeed good, just soap, perfume, crystal tablets and other things can make me and others make a lot of money, even the quality of tables, chairs and benches is also good, as well as books, ironware, etc., you and I might as well go out and go around, draw up a list and then discuss this matter with Steward He? ”

Everyone has no opinion, and if there is an opinion, it is the biggest fool in the world.

These people have long discovered the many differences between the Wufeng Islands, and the last time they wandered around the island, they found that the goods on the island were very different from those of Datang.

This is not surprising, overseas things are originally different from Datang, otherwise there would be no trade.

Several people immediately took their servants to the streets, since Zhen Qian was ready to build the southern main island into an economic and trade zone, he naturally would not restrict these people from wandering around, but would be happy to let them see the economic strength of the Wufeng Islands.

The south main island is divided into four parts: the wharf area, the commercial area, the workshop area and the living area, which are not independent and closed, but a kind of division of the functional area in later generations, such as shops and workshops in the wharf area, and shops in the living area, which are only separated from each other by roads, and there is no high wall of the fang market in the Tang Dynasty.

Gu Liang took his servants out of the dock area and came directly to the largest commercial area on the island, and last time he also took a look at the shops in the dock area, and was amazed by the goods in the dock shops.

"This is the business district of the island?"

Gu Liang is a scheming person, usually moody, the first time he went to the island, he quietly inquired about the situation on the island from the waiter of the restaurant, and knew that the most interesting place on the island was the business district.

In his mind, the business district should be similar to the east and west markets of Chang'an, and there are also special commercial places in various cities in Datang, as for what the name is, it doesn't matter, but through the commercial places of a city, you can see the prosperity of the city, and you can also understand the economic strength of a place, and even the comprehensive strength of the whole place.

But the commercial area in front of me seems to be different from what I imagined, the first feeling is clean, clean is a little crazy, the smooth streets are spotless, you can't see a piece of debris, people are a little afraid to step forward.

This kind of thing that was turned into cement by the island was the best material for building roads, Gu Liang thought that only the wharf used such materials, but he didn't expect that even the commercial area was built with this material.

Of course, Gu Liang didn't know that cement, a cheap material, was most suitable for use in buildings, roads and other places.

Zhen Qian is not superstitious about the buildings of later generations, but likes those architectural styles in ancient times, giving people a very strong humanistic atmosphere.

However, Zhen Qian did not agree with the use of wood as a building material, because in ancient times, wood was very cheap, and it can be said that it was readily available and inexhaustible. But wood has a fatal disadvantage, that is, flammable, maybe the wealthy family does not have this hidden danger, but the environment where ordinary people live is very crowded, once a house is on fire, it is easy to cause a series of fires, the fire spreads quickly, often watching the fire burn down the entire residence, and the use of cement as the exterior wall of the building, even if the fire is easy to extinguish.

There have been several major fires in history, all of which were related to building materials.

In February 534 AD, the Yongning Temple in Luoyang caught fire, and the fire was not extinguished for 3 months, and the temple was completely destroyed.

In 1201 A.D., the fire in Hangzhou burned 58,097 houses in and out of the city for more than 10 miles, and the dead were countable.

……

There are also several fires in the Forbidden City Hall in modern times, that time was not because of a small spark caused huge losses, if you use a material like cement, you dare not say, at least there is time to rescue!

Gu Liang was just curious about cement, a building material, and didn't think about it deeply, in his opinion, whether it was cement or wood, even if it was made of stone, it was all related to habits, and Zhen Qian could think of these things.

The cement road is smoother than the bluestone road, and there are not many pedestrians in the commercial area, which is not very prosperous and lively, which makes Gu Liang slightly disappointed, and thinks how prosperous the commercial area here is?

However, the shops here made Gu Liang's eyes shine.

Atmospheric, majestic, gorgeous, each shop is three stories high, the side of the store facing the street is actually made of crystal pieces, standing at the door of the shop can clearly see the various goods sold inside.

"The merchants here are really rich!" Gu Liang slandered in his stomach: "I just don't know if the businessmen here are as knowledgeable as the Tang people......." ”

The servant behind Gu Liang was a little dumbfounded, "My God, the shops here are so big!" It should be worth a lot of money, right? Look...... The fabric in that shop seems to be all silk, well! There are also maidservants serving in it, it won't be a green building! ”

"And voila! That is a porcelain shop, and there is even glass for sale in it, so beautiful! ”

"Tsk! What does this shop sell, it's a strange name, huh! Yang's cake shop, it smells so good, it won't be a rouge gouache shop! ”

(End of chapter)