Chapter 430: Profiteers
As soon as Wang Shi heard this, he immediately knew that he was tempted, and said with a smile: "The Tang Dynasty merchant is on the hillside ten miles to the east. ”
Aoki Shinbei said: "Okay, you bring the Tang merchants here, and we can have a good talk." ”
"This ...... I'm afraid not. Wang Shi hesitated.
Aoki Xinbei just wanted to ask the reason, but Wang Lei on the side said: "Your Excellency Aoki, you are a rebel who kills people without blinking, how can the merchants of the Tang Dynasty dare to come to your camp." ”
Aoki Shinbei frowned suddenly, it was not that he was dissatisfied with Wang Lei's words, but that he didn't dare to go to the Tang Dynasty merchants, who knew if this was the trick of the Emperor Huangji, after all, the Emperor Huangji had already bowed his head to the Tang Dynasty, and this matter was also the most important reason for their rebellion.
Wang Shi saw his hesitant appearance, and knew what he was worried about, and hurriedly said, "Your Excellency Aoki, you can send a trustworthy person to talk to the Tang people." ”
Aoki's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he almost forgot about it, and hurriedly said to the guard standing aside, "Go, call the new bird over." ”
"Hay!" The guard bowed his head and retreated.
It didn't take long for a young samurai of twenty-five or sixteen years old to walk in, it was none other than Aoki Shingoria, the younger brother of Aoki Shinbei.
"Brother." Aoki Shintori saluted and asked, "Brother, are you looking for me?" ”
Aoki Shinbei smiled and nodded, handed a sword to the new bird, and said, "New bird, look at this knife." ”
Aoki Shintori took the knife and slowly pulled out a little, when he saw the bright blade and the wavy quenching pattern, his heart was suddenly shocked, and his right hand slowly pulled out the scabbard, and the blade of the knife was all presented in front of him.
"Yo Xi!" Aoki Shintori's appearance was even more excited than that of Shinbei, because he was a complete samurai, and he was amazed to see his left hand constantly caressing the cold blade.
Suddenly, I saw Aoki Shintori pull out the saber on his waist and throw it into the air, and then held the sword in both hands, slashing violently, only to hear a crisp sound of "dang" on the ground, and the saber was suddenly cut into two, and the blade of the sword did not have the slightest curl.
"Good knives!" Aoki Shintori turned his head to look at Aoki Shinbei and asked excitedly, "Brother, which craftsman can actually forge such a sword?" ”
Aoki Xinbei just smiled and didn't speak, but Wang Lei answered: "Your Excellency Aoki Xinniao, there are many such treasure knives in the Tang Dynasty, as long as you can afford the silver, they will sell it to you." ”
"Tang Merchant?" Aoki Xinniao was stunned when he heard this, and when he saw the other swords in their arms, he was immediately shocked and asked, "You mean, these treasure knives were sold by Datang merchants?" ”
Wang Lei smiled and nodded: "Yes, the Datang businessman is willing to sell knives to you." ”
"Don ...... What an amazing country. Aoki Xinniao couldn't help but sigh at the magic of Datang, in his eyes it was like a treasure-like sword, and the merchants of Datang actually sold it wholesale, can this not be magical.
Aoki Shinbei spoke at this time: "Xinniao, the merchants of the Tang Dynasty dare not come to us, so I want to send you to talk to the Tang people about the business of buying knives, how about it?" ”
Aoki Shintori was not as suspicious as Aoki Shinbei, and even nodded excitedly: "Okay, I'll talk to the Tang people!" ”
Wang Shi said very interestingly at this time: "Two, let's go out and wait first and say goodbye." After speaking, he glanced at Wang Lei, then exited the room and closed the door with his hand.
After Wang Shi and Wang Lei walked out of the room, Aoki Xinbing said: "Xinniao, you bring more people over, be careful, once you find that the situation is wrong, flee immediately." ”
"Hay!" Aoki Shintori nodded vigorously.
Aoki Shinbei thought for a while, and then said: "If they are really Tang Dynasty merchants, you first inquire about how many of these swords they have, and what other things they have, and what is the price, and then come back and tell me, don't make claims." ”
"Hay!"
After a while, Aoki Shinniao came out, ordered more than fifty people, and walked towards the small hill to the east with Wang Shi and Wang Lei.
Li Hao stood in the grove on the hillside, and when he saw them coming, he grinned, and Lu Yun on the side said with a smile: "Here, these rebels of the Japanese Kingdom are really tempted." ”
Li Hao also smiled: "They don't have our Datang's forging technology in China, and the Taidao is simply a divine weapon in their eyes, can they not be tempted." ”
Lu Yun asked, "Then will you talk to them in person later?" ”
Li Hao shook his head: "It's inconvenient for me to show up, you talk to them." ”
"Okay." Lu Yun smiled lightly and nodded.
Soon, Aoki Shintori took a group of people up the hillside and woods to meet with Li Hao, who was afraid of scaring this group of Japanese thieves, so he only brought more than a hundred people over this time.
After the two sides met, Lu Yun came forward to meet Aoki New Bird, Li Hao stood in the crowd wearing a cloth shirt, just behind Lu Yun, after the two sides greeted each other, Aoki New Bird raised the Tai Knife in his hand and asked, "How many such knives do you have?" ”
Wang Shi helped him translate to Lu Yun.
After hearing this, Lu Yun raised five fingers and said with a light smile on his face: "Five thousand handles." ”
Wang Lei translated Lu Yun's words to Aoki Shintori.
As soon as he heard that they actually had five thousand treasure swords, Aoki Shintori was shocked, because the number of anti-thieves was only more than two thousand, and he didn't expect that this group of merchants from the Tang Dynasty was so powerful that they could sell so many treasure swords in one go.
Aoki Shintori was not convinced and asked, "Can I see your inventory?" ”
Lu Yun smiled and nodded: "Of course you can." He raised his hand as he spoke.
Everyone behind him separated, only to see hundreds of wooden boxes neatly placed behind him, Lu Yun said: "Your Excellency can send someone to check." ”
Aoki Xinniao glanced at a few people around him, and then seven or eight people crossed Li Hao and them, walked towards those wooden boxes, opened the wooden boxes, and saw that each wooden box was stuffed with straw, which was for shock absorption and friction prevention, and among the straws, there were many knives, and some people took out a few to check, and found that there was no problem with the knife.
After the group of people checked, they returned to the new bird and reported it truthfully, the new bird felt a lot more settled, Lu Yun smiled when he saw this: "Your Excellency doesn't have to be so suspicious, I came to do business sincerely, for fear of shocking you, I specially let my hundreds of guards not follow, otherwise these hundreds of wooden boxes, just our group of people can't take them." ”
After Wang Shi translated Lu Yun's words, Aoki Shintori nodded slowly, he could feel that Lu Yun didn't seem to have any hostility, so he asked, "Then...... How are you going to sell these knives? ”
Lu Yun said: "Each sword is fifty taels of silver." ”
When Wang Lei translated this sentence, Aoki Shintori nodded and said, "Well, this price is okay, after all, it is a treasure knife." ”
After Li Hao and Lu Yun heard this, they couldn't help but be a little surprised, this product is really rich, such a high price and said that it is okay, how rich is he, a knife sells for fifty taels, and five thousand knives are two hundred and fifty thousand taels, this is not a small amount.
Lu Yun asked, "Do you want five thousand knives?" ”
Aoki Shintori shook his head: "I don't know yet, I have to go back and ask my eldest brother." ”
"Oh." Lu Yun nodded, "We have a lot of other good things here, I don't know if you need them?" ”
"Oh? What's in it? "The new bird was very curious when he heard this, and he was also a little expectant, and the person who could sell this treasure knife must have other good things.
Lu Yun clapped his hands, and the guards in the back immediately carried two wooden boards, on which all kinds of things were displayed, all of which were the materials they brought out this time, and these were just samples.
Aoki Shintori stepped forward to take a look, there were a lot of things, some of which he didn't even recognize, but he didn't plan to ask, because that would make him look very uninformed.
Aoki Shintori looked at it for a long time, but the ceramics aroused his interest, and he couldn't look at anything else, after all, although he had a lot of silver, he was an upstart and his knowledge was too low.
Aoki Xinniao picked up the ceramics and asked the price, Lu Yun replied: "This blue and white porcelain vase is three thousand taels of silver, this is something from the palace, the Tang Emperor used it, for this blue and white porcelain vase, more than a dozen people died!" When he said this, he couldn't help but want to laugh, because this blue and white porcelain vase is a defective product, with a little flaw, he spent more than 20 yuan from the porcelain dealer to buy, the same batch of porcelain is basically this kind of defective products, about 30 more, he is now actually asking for 3,000 taels of silver, it is simply a big wrong.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Aoki Xinniao heard that it was something used by the Tang Emperor, his eyes lit up, and he was amazed by gently stroking it, Lu Yun saw this and hurriedly hit the railway while it was hot: "There are ten porcelains stolen together with this blue and white porcelain vase, all of which have been used by the emperor, if Your Excellency Aoki buys it back and puts it at home, it will definitely improve your identity a hundred times!" ”
Thinking of the porcelain used by the Tang Emperor in his home, Aoki Shintori was secretly excited, licked his lips and asked, "Is there really so much?" ”
Lu Yun nodded: "Yes, there are nine more, but they are all on the ship, after all, they are all fragile things, and they are too valuable, I am afraid that they will all be broken at one time." ”
"Yes, you did the right thing!" Aoki Shintori stroked the porcelain vase and nodded, "This kind of precious thing can't be broken, your caution is very good!" ”
Lu Yun knew that the porcelain business was probably negotiated, so he asked with a smile: "Does Your Excellency Aoki still need anything else?" I also brought some food, don't know what you need? ”
"Food!" Aoki was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "How many do you have?" ”
Li Hao hurriedly whispered behind Lu Yun: "Just tell him that there are 10,000 stones." ”
Lu Yun replied to Aoki Shintori: "There are 10,000 stones!" ”
"So much!" After Aoki heard Wang Lei's translation, he was taken aback, 10,000 stone of grain, that's not a small amount, enough for them to eat until next year.
"How do you sell your grain?"
Lu Yun said: "Ten taels of silver and one stone of grain." ”
"So expensive!" Aoki frowned when he heard this, although there was a shortage of grain in the Wa Country and the price of grain was extremely high, but the price of Lu Yun's grain was more than twice as high as the price of grain in their Wa Country.
Lu Yun raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "We sell pure rice, have you heard of rice, this is extremely rare in your Fusang." As he spoke, he grabbed a pile of rice from the plank, held it in the palm of his hand, and showed it to Aoki.
Only then did Aoki realize that these things were the legendary rice.
Lu Yun said with a smile on his face: "Although this rice is much more expensive than your grain, its nutrition is more than twice as high, and it is precisely because of this that our Tang people have grown tall and strong." ”
There is a way to beat people without slapping their faces, scolding people without revealing their shortcomings, Lu Yun's words are simply turning around and scolding them for being short, but Aoki is not angry, but his eyes are shining, and he can grow taller food, which is simply great, he thought to himself, no wonder the Tang people will grow taller and stronger than their Japanese people, it turns out that they have eaten these rice! Be sure to buy it, even if you don't have a chance to grow taller because you missed the age of growing your body, it's good to let your offspring grow taller.
The more Aoki thought about it, the more excited he became, and hurriedly said, "You wait, I'll go back and ask my eldest brother." After saying that, he turned around and left.
When Wang Shi translated this sentence to Lu Yun, Lu Yun hurriedly said, "Wait a minute, leave something behind!" ”
Wang Lei translated this sentence, and Aoki stopped, awkwardly put the knife and blue and white porcelain vase on the ground, and then turned to leave.
Watching Aoki leave, Lu Yun grinned, turned his head to look at Li Hao, and was about to speak, but saw Li Hao looking at him with a cheap smile, and said, "Can you grow taller after eating rice?" I find that your ability to talk serious nonsense has surpassed me, you profiteer. ”