open sea

Chapter 147 Silk
Lin Feng, a pirate leader, came to the military master asking for knives, spears, and guns. Isn't that just looking for a beating?
Made Chen Mu laugh.

"You are so courageous! You are not afraid that Mr. Chen will catch you. What do you want these knives for?"

Chen Mu pointed to the profit watch on the table and said to Li Dan: "Heifan doesn't sell it, but you can see what he wants, let him bid himself, go out at night to ask someone for the price, and then tell him, It can be bartered or silver or gold, if it suits you, sell it.”

After finishing speaking, he turned to look at Lin Feng to see how he would answer.

Chen Mu has mixed feelings about the Chinese pirates of this era. The greedy western colonists' plans to conquer the East appeared in this era, but the real hand-to-hand combat will have to wait 300 years later. So what is blocking their footsteps? ?
Half of the credit is due to the Chinese pirates criss-crossing the South China Sea.

Lin Feng smiled. He was not afraid of Chen Mu's threat, but his actions showed a rather defensive attitude. He folded his arms and said with some self-deprecation: "Going to sea is a change of people, and you can't do it without some swords and guns. Qianhu followed Li Dan, you should disdain to arrest me."

Chen Mu raised his head and laughed, and raised his finger to point to the chair on the side, "As long as you don't attack your brothers and sisters, Chen will not arrest you. On the contrary, Chen can give you the food, water, and weapons you need at sea." .”

Chen Mu didn't know much about pirates in this era, but he knew a little about the Quanzhou man with a goatee in front of him.

He did a lot of bad things along the coast of Fujian and killed corrupt officials. His fleet occupied Penghu, and he is a big Japanese pirate wanted in Fujian.

A few years later in another time and space, this man led his complex fleet including Ming people, Ryukyu people, Japanese, and Malays to be defeated by the Ming army and fled to Manila, a Spanish colony, where he killed the commander and attacked The Governor's Mansion briefly established a country of its own.

Pirates in the Western world are regarded as rebel heroes, because their empires were strong in this era on the supplies that those pirates plundered and sold.

The pirates in the eastern world are just some low-level residue, garbage that should be completely destroyed regardless of body or soul.

Chen Mu didn't think so, he spread his hands to Lin Feng, "If one day you want to remain anonymous, the place where Chen lives may be a good choice for you."

Lin Feng didn't know why Chen Mu said such words, but he clasped his fists together and said, "Thank you Qianhu for your kindness. The three generations of Caomin's ancestors have been wandering in the sea. Wherever they go, it counts where they die."

After a pause, Lin Feng continued: "The sea is going to be chaotic recently, I won't tell Zeng Sanlao about Haojing, I want to buy some spears, but I just want to take this opportunity to fight another group of pirates. , if Qianhu doesn’t sell it, forget it, I accept your love!”

"Knives and guns cannot be sold to you. You can buy food and water from Li Dan." Chen Mu raised a finger, "In the future, if you gain anything at sea, you can also find Li Dan. , he wants it all."

Not long after Lin Feng left, the Spaniard Faricat also left behind the prices of various goods and left.

Li Dan poked his head to look at the aisle outside, and after confirming that no one was there, he clenched his fists to stop his unhappiness, and said to Chen Mu in a suppressed voice: "Father, if the writing on this paper is correct, this batch of goods can be exchanged for at least Eight hundred gold tongbao like that!"

The Jin Tongbao mentioned by Li Dan is the Cruzado gold coin.

The price startled Chen Mu, frowned and blurted out: "So much?"

"That's not counting the furniture in Mai Yatu's house and the house, just odds and ends, raw silk, satin, and a few pieces of ivory." Li Dan shook his head and said, "By the way, why not even those black fans One sold? Franji is willing to offer 150 gold tongbao to buy 130 of our captives and make them sailors."

"Selling people is dirty, how did these things get into my hands, have you forgotten?"

Chen Mu said something in a bad mood, took the book Li Dan was holding and looked at it, saying: "In the future, get a few knowledgeable businessmen to help, and those captives will be given to you. You and Hua Yu will share, and you are willing to be a sailor." Yes, let them follow you, let Huayu arrange for those who don’t want to be sailors, let them go if the port needs someone to move the goods.”

"And the four clipper sloops you captured this time, keep one, and the remaining three belong to you." Chen Mu looked down and frowned, "It's so much worse?"

Thirty cruzados per hundred catties of raw silk, and 25 cruzados for a piece of dyed red silk. In fact, only ten or twenty catties of raw silk is enough to make a piece of satin, which is five to ten times profit.

"Go and ask, how much is a hundred catties of raw silk in Guangcheng, and how much is a bolt of red silk?"

Chen Mu said to Li Dan without raising his hand. Although he has a lot of cruzados in his hand, he still hasn't figured out how to exchange the Franji people's gold coins with the Ming Dynasty silver. Know that a Cruzado is worth more than a tael of silver.

"Father really gave me those boats?"

The smile on Li Dan's face was eager and stiff. They didn't have no boats, but those boats were all small fishing boats, and even the smallest sloop captured was bigger than his boat.

More importantly, those are sea ships.

"Don't forget to ask, copper and iron, how much are the prices that foreign merchants sell here for Burmese iron, and how much is the price of copper and iron in Guangcheng."

From a national level, it is very naive to sell products to exchange for useless precious metals, even if Daming gets 30.00% of the world's silver, so what?The resources of one's own country have decreased, and the money has increased but has not increased the production of useful things. It is nothing more than changing from sheep to pigs.

Chen Mu didn't have the time to think about how happy Li Dan was now. The few gunboats he paid attention to, as for the small sloops, it was useless. He had no chance to sail to other countries in a short time. Li Dan also needs a few boats to support his appearance, and the boat is just right for him.

He is more concerned about the difference in purchasing power between Cruzado and silver, and the manpower and material resources required to weave raw silk into satin. If there is no problem with these things, he will know that hundreds of thousands of women in thousands of households should do something when they have nothing to do. what.

Raw silk was purchased from Guangcheng, and the women of Qianhusuo wove the raw silk into silk and sold it to barbarian merchants, who then bought Myanmar iron or better iron from barbarian merchants. Next, it becomes a durable and more advanced Guangun.

Soon he will have an army with a fairly high rate of firearms.

What kind of bullshit is that little girl Yan Qingyao talking about?

They all belong to Master Chen!
go to bed?

Ah!
Only cowards like to sleep with women, Mr. Chen likes black and hard guns and cannons!
"Remember what I told you when I was drinking in Xiangshan? Maybe you don't know what we do for the future. One day, the flag with a dragon and a red sun will rise slowly on the sea level. This is the beginning .”

(End of this chapter)