The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 488 The So-Called Luxury (seeking a monthly pass)
When Wang Kai spoke, he blinked quietly at Li Weiliang.

It seems to be saying, the money of a fool is not for nothing!
Li Weiliang thought for a while, nodded slightly and said.

"Haha, Brother Wang has a great idea!"

In fact, it can't be regarded as a pit.

The brand dedicated to the Ming royal family is more valuable than imagined.

Those sea merchants from the West bought the goods at three to five times the price in Daming, and when they returned to the mainland of Europe, they could easily sell them with a little extra at the end.

Today's Europe is setting off a wave of China craze.

China, a mysterious empire that has dominated the East for thousands of years, is shrouded in a halo of mystery in the eyes of European aristocrats.

Silk, tea, porcelain, mysterious oriental philosophy, religion...

All of them fascinated them deeply.

Anything from the East, as long as it can reach the West, the value can be added to zero in an instant.

This is not an exaggeration!
This is just an ordinary commodity. If you add a signboard dedicated to the royal family, adding two zeros is not a big problem.

The nobles and monarchs in Europe are quite envious of the kings of the East, who have the same kind of power.

Comparing with my poor real power, envy can easily turn into yearning!

And this kind of yearning can easily be expanded into a yearning for all oriental things!

Especially those things with the signboard of royal tribute, it is estimated that those European nobles and monarchs will be very interested.

Who can refuse to use the same thing as the emperor of the East?

……

After the two discussed these matters, Wang Kai took Li Weida to the warehouse of Hengtongji to check the inventory.

The stock in the warehouse is mostly black tea and black tea, but not much green tea.

The reason is simple, black tea and black tea are easier to preserve, and after being made into tea bricks, they can be transported overseas.

The storage conditions of green tea are more stringent!
If it is to be transported by ocean, as long as the transportation conditions are slightly unsuitable, it will easily rot and deteriorate.

This is why the most popular tea in Europe is black tea, rather than green tea which is more popular in the East.

Li Weiliang personally picked up a tea brick to examine, and snapped a fragment from it with his nails.

Almost the dryness inside the tea brick and the appearance of the tea.

Crush the broken pieces of the tea brick with your fingers, put the tea powder in front of your nose and sniff it lightly, Li Weiliang's eyes lit up, he clapped his hands and said.

“Tea is good!”

"This quality is definitely no problem after passing the audit!"

Wang Kai nodded with a smile, then ordered someone to bring a pot of hot water, and explained to Li Weiliang.

"Whether the tea is good or not, you have to brew it to know!"

After a while, the tea was ready.

Li Weiliang glanced at the appearance of the tea soup, the soup was bright and red.

He took a sip of the brewed tea soup, feeling the completely different mellow aroma of black tea and green tea, and said with a rather enjoyable expression on his face.

“Good tea!”

Wang Kai said as a matter of course.

"That's natural, this is the best Yunnan Shupu."

"In the past, Lord Qianguo would send a batch of cooked pork to Beijing as a tribute every year!"

"Although the tributes sent to the capital by my Shupu and Duke Qian are not from the same tree, they are from the same tea mountain."

"It's not too much to say that this is also a tribute, right?"

Li Weiliang stroked his beard on his chest and said with a smile.

"Indeed! Indeed!"

What is luxury?
It's not a bad product, hang a good brand, and make up a story that makes sense.

The three elements are complete, it is a luxury!

What is really valuable is not the value of the product itself, but the good brand and the story that makes sense.

It's like the business that Wang Kai and Li Weiliang are going to do.

The tea quality of Hengtongji is really good!
But what is really valuable is not the tea itself, but the royal tribute brand in Li Weiliang's hand, and the story Wang Kai made up casually.

But then again, their target customers are also rich and upstarts who have money and no place to spend, and want to pursue style!

Well, that's right, in the eyes of Chinese people in this era, no matter how rich foreigners are, they are just a group of nouveau riche.

So what if you have money?
I should look down on you, or look down on you!

Blonde hair, blue eyes, high nose and deep eyes, it doesn't look like a human being!

Wang Kai and Li Weiliang looked at each other and laughed heartily.

……

Because Zhu Hongyu did not deliberately block the news of Bumbutai's assassination and death.

Therefore, this news spread very quickly in the city of Guangzhou.

In the streets and alleys, countless people are discussing this matter.

Regarding Bumbutai's death, it is not an exaggeration for the people of Daming to say that they are celebrating each other.

"Bumbutai, the old witch, has been punished!"

"That's right, the Qing Lu dared to assassinate His Highness Jian Guo, and now it can be said that it will be retaliated!"

"Haha, a good death, a good death for the old hag Bumbutai!"

"..."

Many families even started to set off cannons to celebrate.

The sound of crackling firecrackers rang out one after another.

In the city of Guangzhou, many wine shops and butcher shops are even sold out.

Many people can imagine and predict the impact of Bumbutai's death on the Qing court and the benefits to Daming.

No wonder so many people celebrate it!
Especially after the battle of Ningdu Prefecture came to an end, the news came that Daming had won a complete victory and that the Jiangxi strategy of Ming had made a good start.

The city of Guangzhou is even busier than New Year's Eve.

During this period of time, first came the news that Ming had won the Guangxi Battle.

Then came the good news that Bumbutai was assassinated and killed.

In the end, the battle of Ningduzhou ended, and the Ming army almost wiped out the main force of the Qing army in Jiangxi.

The army advances towards Nanchang Mansion and Jiujiang Mansion, and everything it passes depends on the rumors...

The continuous good news has excited people inside and outside Guangzhou!

The military victories of the Ming army made the people under the Ming Dynasty full of confidence in the restoration of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Hongyu's personal prestige is also constantly improving.

Countless people felt that the revival of the Ming Dynasty, the expulsion of the Tartars, and the restoration of China would no longer be like a moon in a well or a flower in water.

Rather, it is something tangible, something that will become a reality.

The Ming Dynasty started in Guangdong and regained Guangdong and Guangxi. The lesser half of Fujian and the greater part of Jiangxi have already shown signs of revival.

Wu Sangui was in chaos in the southwest, the three provinces changed flags, and troops entered Hunan, shaking the world!

Geng Jingzhong fought in Jiangnan, Fujian, and the Qing army in Jiangnan had no one who dared to stand in his way.

The Qing court almost lost the wealth, population, and taxes of the entire southern country. It is no exaggeration to say that the country is in decline!
It's like at the end of the Ming Dynasty, watching the changes in the world, almost everyone has a tacit understanding that the dynasty is about to change.

It is the same now, people all over the world will lose the Southern Kingdom with the Qing court, and the future situation in the world will be a tacit understanding of confrontation between the North and the South.

Although they don't think that the future Ming Dynasty will succeed in the Northern Expedition and regain their homeland.

But everyone felt that if Zhu Hongyu, Geng Jingzhong, and Wu Sangui could join hands to win the entire Southern Kingdom and confront the Qing court from north to south, there would be no problem.

Of course, almost everyone thinks that in the flat and vast North China, the Huaibei Great Plain.

The large-scale cavalry cavalry of the Qing court, in this era, is almost incomprehensible.

But what about this?

Compared with the previous whole world that fell into Hu Chenli, now that the Southern Kingdom can return to the rule of the Han family, what is there to be dissatisfied with?

(End of this chapter)