The situation in front of him is really ordinary for a noble person of Zhang Han's status, even quite frugal, for Russians, Petrin and Madoff have seen the world after all, the so-called have eaten and seen, from the border town all the way to the Great China Town, that is, the Daming Jingshi, how many similar scenes have been seen, and it is also considered to be well-informed, and most of the remaining more than ten Russians are dealing with the Chinese for the first time, and the lights in front of them are bright, dozens of servants wear butterflies around, and the flowers arranged in the hall are clustered, Dozens of official lamps are hung in the hall, the lamps and lanterns are quite exquisite, the lamps are made of silk materials, and there are embroidered flowers, birds, and landscapes on it, these lamps and lanterns alone make the Russians stunned, at this time Russia has just got rid of the Mongol rule for more than 100 years, the level of civilization is still a relatively low-end grade, its material civilization will not be developed until a hundred years later, and its science and technology, culture, and military will also catch up after a hundred years. Pen ~ fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info at this time, Russia was at most a nouveau riche, grabbing a large area of land from Central Asia to Siberia, which can be regarded as their unique geographical advantage, and they also have an incomparably greedy psychology for land, otherwise they would not have achieved a super empire across Europe and Asia.

Not only the lights, but also the furniture because Zhang Han himself wants to use, but also in Qingcheng to move some high-quality, are the best hardwood, streamlined shape is quite beautiful, in later generations a Ming Dynasty circle chair is at least hundreds of thousands of millions of prices, at this time also has a considerable aesthetic symbol, materials and carpentry are quite elegant, the lines are simple and smooth, full of beauty. In addition, the antique utensils on the Duobao shelf, which one is carefully selected, at a glance you know that it is not ordinary, as for the wall calligraphy and painting, then I am afraid that the Russians can't understand it, but there is no doubt that they are all valuable products.

These things in front of them are actually unintentional, but for this group of newly civilized semi-barbarians, everything in front of them is quite shocking, especially in terms of the merchant attributes of Russians, everything in front of them is quite confusing and respectful.

"Tea, everyone."

Zhang Han drank brewed green tea, but for Russians, it was black tea boiled in a silver kettle, and some sugar cubes and goat's milk were added, and boiled in a silver kettle, exuding a fragrance of milk tea.

The Russians present were quite sensational.

Since someone got a few poods from the Mongols ten years ago that is, more than 100 pounds of black tea and brought it back to Russia, this magical drink quickly became popular in the upper classes of Moscow, and it is said that the current Tsar His Majesty is quite fond of drinking tea, and later the Russians began to buy black tea from the Dutch, and this time the main goal of trade with the Chinese was to buy tea.

Of course, Russians do not want to buy green tea when buying tea, Chinese like to taste tea is not only the taste of drinking tea, but also the situation and atmosphere, from which to get philosophical satisfaction, green tea is slightly bitter, but there is an aftertaste, and the taste is more suitable. Black tea is relatively inferior, and whether it is Mongolians or Europeans, or Russians who are regarded as European barbarians, the same characteristic is that they like to drink black tea, and do not brew it like the Chinese, but use unique tea utensils to make tea.

The tea culture of Russians is the same as that of the British, it is boiled red food with sugar and milk, plus a variety of small snacks, which is considered a supplement between lunch and dinner, and the Russians are just not as rigid as the British, but the method of drinking tea is basically the same, and there is no obvious difference.

Zhang Han also made it the same way, and it was really popular with the Russians, and in the sigh of admiration, the whole pot of black tea was quickly consumed.

"Sugar is such a good thing." Madoff licked his lips with a grin and smiled at Zhang Han: "If possible, we also want to import a large amount of white sugar." ”

"Don't you have a lot of honey?" Zhang Hanqi said: "In fact, with honey, the effect is also very good." ”

"There's not enough honey." "Compared to sugar, honey is limited. ”

"My Daming's sugar production is not rich enough." Zhang Han shook his head and said: "A small amount of exports, the scale of a few thousand quintals a year is okay, and it is impossible to do more." ”

White sugar can also be regarded as a strategic resource at this time, although it is not as indispensable as salt to be controlled by the government, but the amount of white sugar is quite scarce, and later generations can not imagine that ordinary Chinese people in the Ming and Qing dynasties can not afford to eat much sweets, after all, salt must be eaten, and people can not die without eating sugar, and the price is expensive and there are few people who eat, and the price is high. In addition, the production of sugar is different from that of salt, and there is no way to increase production even if the price is high.

Seeing the disappointed appearance of a group of Russians, Zhang Han thought about it and said: "Maybe in a few years, we can increase the supply of white sugar to tens of thousands of quintals a year, or even more." ”

Ordinary Russian businessmen didn't know, but Petrin knew that the man in front of him was the master who did what he said, and immediately answered in a finalized tone: "Since this is the case, we will ask Master Zhang." ”

Zhang Han smiled slightly, but he didn't mind.

After a few more pleasantries, the Russians got down to business.

Sun Jingting, Liu Peng and others began to report the goods prepared by Hutchison this time, as well as the goods of the Han merchants in the north.

This time, Hutchison prepared a large number of iron tools, there are nearly 100 kinds alone, and the number is nearly 200,000 pieces, and the Far East of the Russians is quite lacking in iron tools, which is inevitable, so many settlements, more than 10,000 people, and as few as 1,000 people, hundreds of people, to open up settlements in the ice and snow and dense forests and grasslands, is it not an easy thing? In addition to the most lacking living utensils, all kinds of iron tools used for development must be quite lacking, such as axes, saws, shovels, etc., which must be used. In the past, of course, these artifacts were brought from Europe, and after the settlements were developed, blacksmiths would make them, but to make iron tools, pig iron was also required, and iron ore could not be mined in every settlement, and even if there were mines, there might not be people to mine them. At the end of the day, it had to be shipped all the way from Europe.

Of course, the distance from Hutchison's ironworks is not close, but two small iron mines have been found in the grassland, and blast furnaces are also set up in the grassland to make iron, so that the logistics cost will be cut in half.

In addition to ironware, there are also quite a lot of cloth styles, and there is not much inventory now, but it can accept orders in advance, and the amount cannot exceed 200,000 horses.

It is estimated that Hutchison will harvest about 6 million catties of seed cotton this year, which can produce 1.8 million catties of lint, and 3 catties of lint can produce 600,000 pieces of cotton.

This number is already quite large, but it is simply not worth mentioning compared to the huge market in the north of the Ming Dynasty.

Songjiang alone, the land for planting cotton is about 1.4 million mu, and the number of acres seems to be less than the cotton fields opened up by the grassland, but the land in Songjiang is far above the cotton fields of the Hutchison grassland from fertility to sun exposure to planting experience, Kong Minxing is an expert but not a monster, what he can do is to gradually increase the yield of cotton fields, but this will take a long time, and now the wasteland opened up by Hutchison is grassland before this, and there is a rather long process from water conservancy to fertility, and the cotton fields are even more delicate and need to be inherited by historyThe cotton yield, yield and total output of Songjiang Prefecture are far above the grassland, and it is impossible to catch up with it within a few years, so it can only take advantage of manpower and acres of land to pile up on the quantity, even so, if you want to threaten the status of Songjiang cloth and Jiangnan cloth industry, it will take at least more than five years to consider.

To put it simply, the quality is better than Songjiang cloth, and in terms of quantity, the annual output of lint is more than 10 million catties, and millions of spinning fabrics can be regarded as the opponent of Songjiang cloth at that time.

Hutchison cloth will grab the domestic market in the future, and it is destined not to be exported in bulk in the near future, but the share of 200,000 horses is also quite sincere, and Zhang Han values trade with Russia, so he would rather slow down the pace of opening up the northern market of the Ming Dynasty and make sacrifices.

Ironware and cloth are the two fist products of Yusheng, and the other is the same as other trading houses, which have a large number of porcelain, all kinds of tea, and nearly 20 kinds of silk.

The other is medicinal materials, mainly rhubarb, and the Russians have a great demand for rhubarb, so big that it exceeds the imagination of the Ming Dynasty.

There was a long list of Hutchison's goods, because it was a small-scale meeting, there were no scribes in the room, and Liu Peng, the deputy director of the Quartermaster Department, personally handed the list to the Russians.

Petrin and Madoff watched together, their heads almost huddled together, both of them light-haired blonde, shining in the light.

The rest of the Russian merchants were anxious to jump to their feet, and a few bold ones also came over and looked at the list of goods in the hands of Petrin and Madov.

Zhang Han waited for them to look at it for a while, and then gestured to Liu Peng, and Liu Peng handed over the general list of goods of all the Han merchants.

For Hutchison, giving priority to his own goods is the proper meaning of the question, followed by the goods of the Han merchants, there is no situation where they only sell their own goods, otherwise the trade will not be prosperous, and the Hutchison family alone will not be able to support such a large plate.

Judging from the reaction of the Russians in front of them, at least they are quite satisfied with the goods prepared by Hutchison, although they are trying to keep their composure, afraid of being seen through by Zhang Han and others, but in front of the huge amount of goods, in front of the two lists of goods, these Russians have long been "smashed" and dizzy, the so-called calmness is just barely to make themselves exclaim, from the expression and various details, it has long been exposed.

Sun Jingting's face was obviously bright, and he and Zhang Han kept looking at each other, expressing the joy in their hearts.