After wondering whether the silver coins could be worth a difference, the commander of the squad couldn't help but rant at the potential of the shopkeeper and profiteer.

When the shopkeeper received his silver coins, he deliberately did not say that the local circulation of silver coins was not allowed, and when it was necessary to find him money, the shopkeeper took out a small scale and scissors, trimmed and weighed the loose silver that had been given to him.

The commander thought about it for a while, but finally didn't ask why he could still make a profit after the silver coin was bought by the merchant once, because he knew that it must be someone else's trade secret, and even if he asked, it would be impossible to get an answer, so there was no need to be bored and embarrassed everyone.

When the shopkeeper was looking for money for him with all those tools, he glanced at the shop and found that the counter was full of cigarettes of unknown brands, cotton cloth of unfamiliar colors, and silk of different specifications.

There is no trace of any of the products produced in any of the kingdoms.

After thinking about it, he also wanted to try something new, so he bought a pack of locally produced cigarettes and lit them with the store's candles.

It's just that he only took two puffs, and he suddenly "······ He spat out a few puffs of tobacco.

Not only did this home-grown cigarette taste worse than the kingdom's cigarettes, but there was no cigarette filter, which caused him to take a puff of tobacco.

If you look closely, the tobacco is not evenly cut, with different thicknesses and lengths, which is simply a fake and shoddy product. If it were in the kingdom, the manufacturers who produced such products would definitely be seized.

casually threw the cigarette that had been lit to the ground and stepped on it, he muttered, "What the fuck is this broken cigarette, it's smoked by people, it's better than a smoke pot, do you have any cigarettes with filters produced in Huaxia?" ”

The shopkeeper looked vigilantly left and right for a moment, and then said in a low voice, "Guest, you want this cigarette with a filter, but don't publicize it loudly, in case it is heard by the tooth shop or the idlers on the street, I don't dare to sell it to you."

Didn't I tell you just now, near the boundary of our land, the lords and the adults of the government have set a rule that no Chinese things are allowed to be sold ashore, and all shops can only buy and sell local cigarettes. ”

After the shopkeeper finished speaking, he looked left and right again to make sure that there was no one, and then as if he was a thief, he took out a pack of cigarettes produced in China from a secret place.

Although he was just complaining just now, when the store really took out the cigarettes, he found that the pack of cigarettes he brought from China was indeed about to run out, so he immediately took it.

I took it in my hand and looked through it, and found that the cigarette pack was indeed longer than the pack of local cigarettes I bought before, with the words "Bosom Friend Xi" written on the front, and on the back, there was an image of a scribe singing loudly.

"Well, yes, it's true." As he spoke, he handed over a 5 dimes of Huaxia coin to the shopkeeper.

Who knew that the shopkeeper hurriedly shook his hand and said, "It's considerable, you still have a price difference, and you have to have such a big son again." ”

"What's that? How can it be so expensive? 1 dollar a pack of cigarettes? ”

As the commander of one of the action teams under the General Administration of Domestic Espionage, he gets a lot of money every month, but it is all earned by him desperately, and it is absolutely impossible for people to be wronged.

He clearly remembered that when he came to Daming in the past, as long as it was in those big cities, the price of cigarettes did not change much from that in China, not to mention that there was only one Bohai Sea from China, and it was not difficult to transport.

Anyway, he had never seen such an expensive cigarette sold, and this brand of cigarettes has always been sold for five dimes a pack. It doubled all at once, and it really made him a little unbearable.

"Guest officer, you can be quiet, don't let those green-skinned lamas outside hear it.

Several local lords have issued strict orders not to sell Chinese goods, if people know that we are buying and selling Chinese cigarettes, they will definitely rob us, and after that, there will be officials from the tooth shop, the state government, and the county government to come to fine the silver. ”

The shopkeeper walked out of the counter in fright, poked his head out of the doorway, looked left and right on the street, and saw that there was no one before returning.

"Guest officer, on this whole street, I can still sell a little Chinese goods here, but in the same way, there are many more people who sell Chinese goods than those who sell local goods, and naturally, the things sold are a little more expensive in price. You have to understand it all the time, don't you? We've got to eat. ”

The commander listened to this explanation, knowing that it was reasonable, but he didn't feel happy in his heart, Huaxia has been invincible for so many years, and no one can stop him from conquering the east and west, when has he ever suffered such a loss!

Soon after landing in Champa that year, he was doing business well, and was oppressed by the local government, and a warship drove directly to the capital of Champang, with a cannon barrel, and it took half an hour to bombard, and everything was solved, and since then no one in the kingdom has dared to come to find fault in Champa.

But now, facing a small city not far away, someone dares to brush their beards, no wonder Stationmaster Qin is angry like that.

However, if you have the air, you can't be angry with an ordinary person who does small business, he hasn't done that yet. He found a five-dime coin from his bag and threw it to the shopkeeper.

He finally made up his mind at this moment, it seems that this place can indeed only be ruthless, according to the estimation of the stationmaster Qin, there are at least 7 workshops in the local workshop group.

Among them, because of the cotton. The raw materials required by the silk industry are not easy to solve, and the product payback time is too long, but they only built one of their own, and the other five are all cigarette-making workshops.

These five cigarette workshops not only imitated the technology of Huaxia's cigarettes, but also monopolized and suppressed the market.

This year, cigarettes sold locally alone are worth 300,000 taels of silver. And that's not even counting the shipments of the more valuable silk industry and the emerging cotton cloth industry imitating the production of Chinese machines.

Moreover, not only that, but the local landlords are also very inferior in their means of doing business.

When they were talking about business, the cigarettes they used to test the customers were actually the Chinese cigarettes they bought and changed to a local packaging.

And those customers who come to buy, after being fooled once, of course, will not come to buy locally, and even the deceived customers are likely to stop doing cigarette business.

This kind of dishonest business behavior will make the cigarette market, which is gradually expanding, begin to shrink.