The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 193 Pandora's Box
It was very noisy outside the hall, and there were merchants queuing up, and everyone recommended their products to the staff in the hall.

The other party is equivalent to the director of the Imperial Palace Purchasing Office of the Ming Dynasty.

Being able to recommend goods to him is something every businessman wants to do urgently.

Ding Yi was led by Matsudaira Uno, and after communicating with a Japanese, he said that he could jump in the line.

After a while, someone came out from the inside, it was a wise man, shaking his head as he walked.

When people outside saw it, they gathered around one after another: "What did Takato Tomita say?"

"Two hundred and eighty for raw silk, it can't be higher."

"Ai." The bright people in the audience shook their heads, the price is too low, and there is no profit.

"what about others?"

But this person didn't want to talk about it, so he shook his head and went out, probably not satisfied, so he looked for other places to sell it.

If the shogunate does not buy it, it can be sold to local daimyos.

Soon the opposite side called Ding Yi and Matsudaira Uno to go in, and many people behind shouted, isn't this a queue jump?

As soon as Ding Yi entered, Ruan Siqing and Shen Shikui came to the foreigner.

Foreigners always come here with translators, and they are still smart when they ask, and everyone communicates happily.

When you come here, you don't have to worry about bad foreign languages. There are translators everywhere, and every foreign businessman will bring them.

As soon as Ding Yi and Matsudaira Uno entered, Tomita Takawa laughed and got up quickly.

The Matsudaira family is one of the few big families in Japan today, Tokugawa Iemitsu's six most trusted confidants, he naturally dare not neglect.

He quickly made tea and asked the two to sit down.

Hearing Ming Ding Yi's purpose, he said a few words to the translator beside him.

The translator quickly said: "There are more than 30 Ming merchants who have come here in the past two days. The quality is the best. We sell 280 taels of catties."

"In the Ming Dynasty, you only need to spend five or sixty taels, several times the profit, you should be satisfied. Be a human being, don't be too greedy."

Ding Yi thought for a while, got up and went out, and called Ruan Wenyan in.

The status of Japanese women is relatively low, and the two of them looked unhappy when they saw the woman coming in.

Matsudaira Uno thought he was going to use a beauty trick.

Ding Yi said: "You let your translator go out, and I let my translator talk to you."

Tomita Takawa immediately said: "This is my younger brother, one of my own."

Ding Yi glanced at it, and said slowly: "In the past, the raw silk from the Ming Dynasty to Japan had ten times the profit, and occasionally twenty times."

Tomita Taka and Matsudaira Unno laughed, who made so many businessmen come this time?Of course we have to lower the price?

"You have collected it at a low price, and most of the time you are hoarding it, and selling it after a month or two can double or even triple or quadruple it."

The two of them nodded, that's the reason.

"But like this, the shogunate makes money." Ding Yi laughed.

"..." The two were inexplicable, and the translation was also inexplicable.

"Well, let's sell it to the shogunate at the original market price of 500 taels."

The three Japanese at the scene had black lines on their faces.

You idiot?Others are two hundred and eighty, and I still earn more money?
Matsudaira Unino just wanted to persuade Ding Yi.

"I actually take 400 taels a catty, Mr. Tomita Takawa, you take 80 taels a hundred catties, and Mr. Matsudaira, as an introducer, you get 20 taels a hundred catties."

"Isn't it good for us all to earn money from the shogunate together?"

"..." There was a dead silence in the room.

After Ruan Wenyan finished translating, there was a dead silence.

It's the first time I've heard of Brother Ding's way of doing business. It seems very reasonable?

Not to mention the Japanese at that time, even now that the Japanese are doing business in their country, very few people dare to do this, and they will do it.

So the three Japanese were dumbfounded after hearing this.

The three of them looked at each other, thinking about what Ding Yi said, it seemed reasonable, but they always felt something was wrong.

"500 taels of raw silk is the usual market price. Of course the shogunate will not know, and if they sell it to the daimyo in the mainland, it will only be more expensive, not less."

For feudal lords who are far from the sea, the raw silk they buy must be more expensive, otherwise there would not be twenty times the profit in history.

"It looks like I got 400 taels, but in fact it costs 300 or [-] taels to buy the goods. Including transportation, sailors' wages, and the time consumption of going back and forth, in reality, it is about [-] taels."

"Of course, if you feel unreasonable, we can still discuss it."

"For business, everyone should make money, and everyone should be happy."

"It's okay for me to suffer a little bit. I can't make Mr. Tomita and Mr. Matsudaira unhappy."

After Ding Yi finished speaking, he looked at them quietly.

The room was quite quiet except for the heavy breathing of the three Japanese.

Matsudaira Unino is quite a quality person. At this time, he clearly feels that money is in front of him, but he still endures it. He admires this bright person in his heart, who can come up with such a way to make money.

I don't know how long it took, but Tomita Takawa seemed to have made a big decision.

He asked tremblingly, "How much raw silk do you have?"

"Not much, not much, only [-] catties, and another [-] catties of silk fabrics, [-] bolts of cotton cloth, a little pottery, tea, and medicinal materials." Ding Yi reported all the things he brought and wanted to sell, and he could sell them all. sold.

"No, [-] catties of raw silk, [-] catties of silk fabrics, [-] bolts of cotton cloth, and [-] catties of sugar." Ding Yi remembered that there were also goods that Shen Shikui bought later.

"So many?" Tomita Takawa stared.

"Not much, not much, the shogunate will be consumed in less than half a year." Ding Yi said.

He was talking nonsense, but Takashi Tomita and Unino Matsudaira looked at each other, and it was obvious that the shogunate would be consumed within half a year.

The whole of Japan is now under the rule of the shogunate, and such a little thing is not enough for them to sell.

At this time, the two of them were already a little excited.

But I have never done this kind of thing before, and my strong self-esteem and face are still supporting me.

Seeing that the two seemed to have a heartbeat, Ding Yima counted.

"For 100 raw silk, I will give you 7 taels per hundred catties, which is [-] taels."

Hey, Takashi Tomita and Uno Matsudaira usually take dozens or even hundreds of taels of favors from others at most, meeting gifts, when did they think that they could earn this and so much with just one transaction?

The two gasped, and their breathing became heavy.

The interpreter's eyes were blackened and he almost fainted.

"Sixty thousand silk fabrics are the same, 6 taels."

"The selling price of each piece of cotton cloth is one tael, and the profit is 3 cents, Mr. Tomita is two cents, and Mr. Matsudaira is one cent." The total profit was 15000 taels.

"These three items add up to a profit of 14.5 taels."

"I sell tea--"

Every time Ding Yi counted the same, the corners of the three Japanese's mouths would twitch.

In the end, all the goods that Ding Yi brought, except those that had already been sold to Songping.

125.6 million taels of silver.

The total profit was 24.2, Ding Yi conveniently said, round up the whole number, I will take 100 million, and the two will share 25.6.

Let's work together to earn money from the shogunate.

"Plop" Tomita Kazuki didn't know why he didn't sit still, and when he heard this, he sat down on the ground with a face full of shock.

He never expected that Ding Yi opened the Pandora's box of the shogunate's procurement department in front of him.

This also opened the door to a new world for him.

It turns out that purchasing can be so lucrative?

Thinking about it now, those merchants from the Ming Dynasty in the past gave tens of hundreds of taels of silver to each other, which was like sending beggars.

(End of this chapter)