The Yamen of the Transit Division, Xu Ping looked Huang Jinbiao up and down, and saw that he was wearing a mink coat, and his body was full of various small objects, either gold or jade, full of nouveau riche dress. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Huang Jinbiao was a little embarrassed, scratched his head and said: "Ducao official, I have lived a good life for a few years, and I am richer than before." In fact, it hasn't changed much, why don't you know it anymore! ”

Xu Ping smiled: "I know you've made a lot of money over the years, but you don't have to hang so many bits and pieces on your body, right?" If you walk down the street like this, you are a gold and silver shop that can walk, and the robbers will save their eyeliner if they want to rob it! ”

"Who dares to rob me!" Huang Jinbiao raised his head, "I'm a good friend?" Besides, the entourage around me is all after a big battle, some little thieves, don't pay attention to it! ”

Since making his fortune in Yongzhou, Huang Jinbiao has been accompanied by a group of young people in the clan, who are more loyal than the hired slaves, and his combat effectiveness is also quite impressive, and ordinary robbers really can't move him. He was originally the patriarch, but now he has become a rich man, and the whole clan lives on him, and occasionally coughs twice and hundreds of mouthfuls are worried.

After giving up his seat, Xu Ping ordered tea to be served, and then said to Wang Wen beside Huang Jinbiao: "Wang Bin and my colleagues, you are his brother, and you are not an outsider, so you don't have to be restrained when you come to me." ”

Wang Wen arched his hand: "Although Xiao Ke is far away in Goryeo, he has also heard the name of the Ducao official, and when I see it today, I am really a young hero!" ”

When Huang Jinbiao heard this, he said impatiently: "You can also be more reliable if you say compliments!" Although Ducao Guanren is really a hero, you Goryeo is a small broken country, poor and remote, how can you have heard of his name? ”

Wang Wen was not annoyed, and said calmly: "Although Goryeo is remote, there are also maritime merchants. The Ducao officials were in Nanyang, breaking the country with a state, and capturing its king and dedicating it to the capital, such a big thing, of course, would be known to all the people. ”

Huang Jinbiao frowned, tapped the table with the jade wrench the size of a pigeon's egg on his finger, and said to Wang Wen: "I just can't get used to you, you say that you are obviously a barbarian of a small country, but you like to talk about it!" You can't talk well! ”

The so-called distant guest, Xu Ping didn't want to embarrass Wang Wen, diverted the topic, and asked him: "When you went to the Central Plains, have you ever met your brother Wang Bin?" He's now in Michigan, where he has a city office. ”

"Back to Ducao, we haven't heard any news there, so this time I went to Mingzhou by sea, and then I went straight to the capital. When you go back, you can go from Mizhou again, and you can see your brother. ”

"To see it, Wang Bin raised the city of Mizhou, and the trade route was Goryeo and Japan. I heard that your family is a famous family in Goryeo, and it is very powerful, and the trade routes are open, and there are many times when they are used. ”

Wang Wen hurriedly said: "It's not that it's powerful, it's just that it can speak in the Goryeo Kingdom." ”

After the ancestors of the royal family arrived in Goryeo, it took only a few decades for them to become a major family of the Goryeo Kingdom, and they have always served as high-ranking officials in the Goryeo court. Although he is not a powerful minister who controls the government, he is also one of the most powerful gatekeepers.

Because Japan has been closed off from the rest of the country since the Tang Dynasty, and has some contacts with Goryeo, it has no communication with the Chinese principle, and in principle, merchants from the Central Plains are not allowed to do business there. Of course, there are still a few maritime merchants there, but all of them have also started families on the Japanese islands and settled in both places, and they are pretending to be Japanese there. The only way to open a trade route to Northeast Asia was to start from Goryeo and use it as a breakthrough to enter Japan. Japan has a lot of gold and silver, and it is still very profitable to do business there.

Xu Ping attaches great importance to Wang Bin's family relationship in Goryeo, and it is also for this reason. If it's just doing business with Goryeo, it's a big fuss to open a special Mizhou City Bo Division. Korean products are poor, and you can't exchange silk for Korean ginseng from there, not to mention that you can't get much for that thing, Korean ginseng is just an ordinary medicinal material in this era, and it is not valuable. The myth of ginseng is at least not in this era, and it is not as valuable as the clams produced in Yongzhou. Compared with Goryeo, Japan had much more goods, and at least gold, silver, and sulfur had trade value in this era, which were lacking in the Central Plains.

With Wang Bin's relationship, his family was able to profit from the sea trade and improve their status in Goryeo, and it was originally the Hanmin of Fujian in the past, which was a matter of benefit for both parties.

After asking Wang Wen about the situation in Goryeo, Xu Ping said again: "What do you want to see when you come to Xijing City this time?" ”

Wang Wendao: "I heard Huang Yuanwai say that cotton cloth is sold here in Xijing, and there are cotton clothes, which are very warm to wear in winter." The winter in Goryeo is long and cold, and if you can do cotton cloth and cotton clothes, you can make a lot of profits. To be honest, silk is naturally a good thing, but the price is too high. In previous years, Goryeo was only a horse of ten taels of silver, and the price of Kaifeng has always gone up, ten times the profit, which is still a little low for maritime merchants. ”

Hearing this, Huang Jinbiao's eyes widened: "You barbarians are too greedy! Isn't ten times the seed too low?! ”

Xu Ping waved his hand to prevent Jin Jin from speaking indiscriminately: "The sea is not as good as the land, the risk is too great, if you accidentally encounter a strong wind, the ship will be destroyed and people will die, and the tenfold benefit is really just normal." However, this year, the price of silk has dropped, and in the future, from Mizhou, Jingdong Road is rich in silk, and the price there is cheaper. ”

Wang Wendao: "Ducao officials are reasonable, but the price of silk is too high after all, how many people can afford it in the small country of Goryeo?" It's not a big business. Xiao Ke went to the Central Plains this time in the hope of having a large number of goods trafficked and doing a long-term business. ”

"When you say that, it's true that cotton cloth is more reliable. But what are you going to ship cotton cloth from Goryeo to the Central Plains? Goryeo was barren, and there didn't seem to be much to sell to the Central Plains. ”

"Back to the capital Caoguan, what can be imagined is that one is Goryeo paper, which is still somewhat famous in the Central Plains, and then there are some local medicinal materials and the like. In addition, my family used to do maritime business, so I could stop by to Japan, where there was a lot of gold and silver, and I could trade it. ”

Huang Jinbiao couldn't help muttering when he heard this: "Why do I hear that you don't have anything in this Goryeo country, what kind of native medicinal materials, I have a lot of resources in the Central Plains, what is nothing?" I used to ask the Nanyang maritime merchants, they all sell spice jewelry from outside, and those things are valuable! You don't have such good things in Goryeo? It's so barren! ”

Wang Wendao: "Of course, there are also musks produced in Goryeo, and there are others. In short, the Central Plains has a large population, so if you bring something from Goryeo, are you afraid that you won't be able to sell it? It's just less interest. ”

This is also the reason why the maritime merchants in Northeast Asia are far less active than the maritime merchants in the South Seas, and the trade needs to be exchanged between the two sides in order to maximize the benefits. However, neither Goryeo nor Japan lacked large quantities of goods exported to China, whether it was gold, silver, or medicinal materials, the quantity was far from comparable to that of silk cloth and porcelain. When maritime merchants trade there, they can only do one-way business, and their profits are naturally much lower. Xu Ping wanted to open this trade route, but all he was worried about was the gold and silver there, and everything else was piggybacked.

Although China is big enough to complete the economic cycle, the commodity economy is ultimately to expand the global market.

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