"It's really a model of asking for money and not dying, don't go to remind her when you write to your queen again, anyone can owe her account, don't owe Wang Zuotou. It was not easy for him to make some money, and he even risked his life. ”

At the end of the letter, Wang Xiong finally explained the situation of the return voyage, which was also what Hong Tao was most concerned about. Jiang Erlang, Wang Xiong, and Wang Dun all left with their respective boats, leaving only Wang Hao and Wang Bin in Nara.

It's not that the Japanese monk won't let Wang Hao go, but that he is reluctant to go. It's too easy to make money, for fear that other big Song merchants will come to grab the market when they walk on the front foot and back foot, and they would rather eat white rice and pickles every day than stick to their posts.

In addition, this stop at Owatamari is not legal in Japan, and even if there is a temple to protect it, it has a bad reputation. Wang Hao was using the monks of Zhaoti Temple to contact Japanese officials in an effort to bribe them to obtain legal status. It is better to have a relationship with the Japanese imperial family and pave the way for future trade.

The reason why Wang Xiong did not come to Yangzi Town with the boat was that he was afraid that his uncle Zhensu would die in Nara, and after sending Jiang Erlang back to Jeju Island, he rushed all the way to his hometown in Zhangzhou, racing against time to organize the supply of goods to prepare for the next eastward crossing.

What kind of goods are going to be loaded next time, Wang Xiong wrote this part in the most detail, and also listed a table to indicate the selling price and sales prospects of each kind of goods he brought, and he didn't need to give a conclusion Hong Tao himself could see it.

In addition to the scriptures and various classics of history are priceless treasures, there is no market, and there is as much as you can transport, porcelain and silk are the most expensive.

Japan is especially fond of the black porcelain produced in the Jishu kiln, which they call Tang porcelain. There are also Shujiang Nishiki and Wujun Aya, which are sold at a much higher price in Japan than their locally produced Hejin and Aya Aya, called Tang Nishiki and Aya Tang.

The twelve orders mentioned before, as well as the court clothes worn by Japanese officials, are all sewn with Tang Jin and Tang Aya, and wearing a Hejin and Aya costumes belong to the turtle.

However, these two goods are not easy to bring too much, and the local nobles and monks in Nara have limited spending power, and the price of the whole ship will fall after a few times. It is necessary to wait for the relationship with the aristocracy and the imperial family of Heiankyo to increase shipments.

The second type of commodity that sells well is spices, or incense medicines. It was not produced in Japan at all, and no other country came to trade here except Korean merchants, and spices were in great demand for temples, nobles, and the imperial family.

However, this thing was forbidden in the Great Song Dynasty and could only be purchased from the government, and it was relatively expensive and not easy to preserve, and it was not suitable for large-scale long-distance trafficking.

Whale oil was the best thing to sell, and it was cheap and abundant, and temples, nobles, and royalty needed light, and wealthy samurai and small landowners were happy to buy some back.

The other is paper, which is called Tang paper in Japanese, but after seeing whale skin paper, they forgot about Tang paper and renamed it Song paper.

This people seems to be inextricably linked with whales, and even if they don't know that whale oil and whale skin paper are produced by whales, they still hit it off at first sight and repeatedly asked for more and more of the better.

It doesn't matter if other goods are available, in fact, most of the goods from the Great Song Yun used to make money, but the difference between earning more and earning less. The Japanese collectively referred to the goods from the mainland as Tang goods, and their attitude towards Tang goods was the same as that of later generations of Chinese people towards European and American goods, even if they were more expensive, they had to buy them.

It's not enough to just have goods shipped over, you can't come back empty, so what goods can be shipped back to the Song Dynasty in Japan to sell? Jiang Erlang and Wang Hao have different opinions on this point, Jiang Erlang likes thick and big...... of wood, Wang Hao prefers placer gold and pearls.

Giant trees made in ancient Japan, Hong Tao didn't know this, but it was true. The local temple used a lot of huge wooden pillars, Wang Xiong asked casually, but he didn't expect an unexpected gain, and quickly notified Jiang Erlang.

After receiving the news, Jiang Erlang immediately rode from the dock with two craftsmen, and after careful investigation, he came to the conclusion that the cedar and fragrant wood produced near Nara were not only suitable for the material, but also large enough, and were the best materials for shipbuilding.

The Japanese monks were very happy to exchange timber with the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty, and in their opinion, the southern hillside was full of big trees.

As for the issue of environmental protection and greening, the Japanese at this time really did not pay attention to those, and there was not so much population pressure, too many trees would affect farming, even if there were no Great Song Dynasty merchants, they themselves had to try their best to cut down trees and open up wasteland.

There is no need to talk about gold sand, not only Wang Hao likes Hong Tao but also likes it, who doesn't like gold. Japan happens to be rich in this thing, and I didn't see that people on the dock took two bags, dozens of pounds!

Japan itself did not issue a currency that was in circulation, and there were a small number of shoddy gold and silver coins, but the value was too high for the common people to spend, so they simply used Chinese copper coins as currency, and there were all kinds of dynasties, mixed use.

But this thing can't settle with the merchants of the Song Dynasty, and it can't always take a bunch of copper coins from the Tang Dynasty to the merchants of the Song Dynasty, so they generally use placer gold as the currency for foreign trade settlement. Of course, there's silver, but who wants silver when you have gold, it's not as valuable as gold.

Sulfur and mercury are also Japanese specialties, Wang Hao doesn't need them, and Jiang Erlang doesn't have to do it. All the sulfur was left on Jeju Island to make gunpowder, and the mercury was given to Hong Tao in several large jars. It doesn't matter what it's for, he's just seen Gao Yu fiddling with this thing in Mawei City.

In addition, there are pearls, corals, fans, swords and other gadgets, Jiang Erlang doesn't look down on Wang Hao and thinks the profit is low, no one buys much, and brings it back as a small gift for others.

There is another thing that Wang Xiong deliberately wrote, that is, people. There are too many poor people in Japan, both men and women, and they are willing to follow you if you give some money. I don't ask where I'm going, I work quite seriously and responsibly, and I'm a good laborer.

Jiang Erlang and Wang Hao didn't dare to make a claim, and even grabbing and deceiving so many dozens of people was considered a stepping stone, and it was useless to want the horse to give a charter.

"In my eyes, there's no waste, it's done, don't rely on it, pick and choose the contents of those boxes, take whatever you like, but don't forget the rules."

At present, there are only more than a dozen special forces in the house, and there are three families: the groom, the cook, and the tailor Granny Liu, and it is really not easy to take care of such a large house. Even the eldest princess only had Wang Qiu's mother-in-law to serve her, and she didn't dare to look for someone randomly, for fear of luring the people of the Imperial City Division in again.

These more than 40 Japanese people happen to be all used as family members, presumably the sphere of influence of the Imperial City Division has not yet expanded to Japan, and they should have nothing to do with the Great Song Dynasty. As for whether it is a spy of the Japanese government, Hong Tao does not consider it at all, whether it can be done.

"The slave family knows, let the eldest princess pick first, and then set aside a share for each of the four ladies...... Does Mrs. Terry have to have a copy too? ”

Sidi lazily got up from Hong Tao and walked outside the house, she had seen all the things in the box, nothing too special, and she couldn't hook the ** who possessed it.

I think that when she first arrived in Liangzhou, she couldn't wait to hold every copper plate in her hand, it has only been a few years, and she has no interest in most of the goods, even if Huang Cancan's gold sand is in front of her, as long as she thinks about the tens of millions of assets in her hands, she has no willingness to fight for her life, and she can't even mention the idea of competing for favor with several other women.

The lover I found was too rich and too generous, and he didn't take a second look at any possessions. On weekdays, there are always people who quietly send some local specialties to the house, and most of them are noble. Except for a few coral shells, none of them could enter the study, and a part was given to the wife and concubine, and the rest was given to the eldest princess to be stored in the inner treasury.

Under his influence, his wives and concubines also followed suit, and even Lian'er, who was the most obsessed with money, was rarely anxious about money, and she couldn't spend her monthly profits at all. Sometimes Sidi feels that being too rich is boring, and that having everything loses a lot of fun.

"You can have a copy and take it with you when you return to Jeju Island in five years......" Hong Tao didn't raise his head.

“…… Devil! Sidi immediately stopped saying strange things, every time he wanted to provoke, he was either suppressed by ** or this kind of mental blow, or he was killed with one blow, which was boring.

"Remember to put away the fox's tail when you go out, and invite Mr. Xu by the way!" Raising his eyelids and glancing at Sidi's back, Hong Tao quickly took his eyes back.

This woman's posture of walking around in a cheongsam is too tempting, and every time she sees it, she wants to pounce on it and ravage it fiercely. Lian'er's evaluation does make sense, a vixen who eats men and doesn't spit out bones!