Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 113 High-end Luxury

"Mr. Tang, my father likes to drink red wine." Claudia smiled at Tangning and said.

Tangning was not interested in drinking or smoking. No matter how good the wine and the best cigarettes were, they all tasted the same in his mouth.

So he just drank a little of this bottle of 42-year-old Lafite, while Song Yunshu didn't drink at all, and most of it was killed by the two foreign devils, Claudia and Wannu Bugarao.

Hearing what Claudia said, Tangning pointed at the wine bottle angrily and said, "There's still more to drink, Miss Claudia can take it away."

Claudia froze for a moment, did she look like a beggar?She said angrily, "I'm not full yet, and the rest of the wine is not enough for me to drink. Is there any more for Mr. Tang?"

Tangning hesitated and said, "Yes, but I don't dare to buy Miss Claudia again, it will make me poor."

Claudia frowned, and asked casually, "How much is a bottle?"

Tangning held out a hand and said, "5000 taels of silver."

Hearing this number, Claudia almost bit off her tongue.

She was born in a noble family, and she was not new to the world. 5000 taels of silver were almost worth the value of two cannons weighing more than [-] pounds.

In other words, just a moment ago, I drank a cannon by myself.

"Mr. Tang is not joking with me, is he?"

Tangning asked seriously, "Miss Claudia thinks I'm joking?"

"My father has traveled all over the world, and he has never encountered wine worth 3000 taels. Your bottle of red wine costs 5000 taels?"

Tangning chuckled, "Dear Miss Claudia, then you can show him this bottle and ask your father if he has seen it?"

Claudia was immediately speechless.

Tangning continued, "I believe Miss Claudia understands wine. How does this wine taste? Is it better than all the wines you've had before? I believe you can tell the difference."

"But 5000 taels is too expensive."

Tangning waved her hand and said, "Well, I don't think it's expensive at all. The value of this bottle of wine is not measured by money. Let alone 5000 taels, even 1 taels are often not available for money. "

"2000 taels, I can have a bottle." Claudia didn't know where she learned the bargaining skills, so she cut off more than half of it.

Tangning immediately shook her head and said, "Miss Claudia may have misunderstood me. I haven't decided to sell it yet, so even if you give me 5000 taels now, I won't be able to sell it to you."

Claudia just stopped talking, and her original mood of encountering delicious red wine was ruined by more than half.

The next day, Claudia searched for all kinds of red wine in Fucheng through her own channels.

We have found a lot of red wine, no matter whether it is drunk by wealthy households or ordinary people, no matter in terms of equipment or taste, they are all incomparable.

After searching for several days in a row, Claudia had no clue. Instead, she missed the bottle of red wine more and more, and even drank other red wines.

The supplies looted by the new army from the Dutch have been sorted out. There are many items that have no market in Ming Dynasty, but they are good items in the eyes of Westerners, so selling these items to the Portuguese is a good choice.

Now Claudia is in charge of the trade with the Chaozhou Chamber of Commerce. Taking advantage of this opportunity, she once again proposed to Tang Ning that she would like to buy red wine.

Seeing that she had received all of her own goods, Tangning sold her a bottle at a price of 3000 taels.

Although she felt that it was a loss, Claudia still found it as a treasure, carefully packed it, and planned to go back with the merchant ship this time and give it to her father as a gift.

3000 taels a bottle, for Tangning, it was not a loss at all, and it was a huge profit, after all, he was basically buying and selling without money.

The price of this bottle of 42-year-old Lafite is many times more expensive than that of 82-year-old Lafite.

This price was actually set by Tangning arbitrarily, because he mainly went to the European market, and he didn't know the situation in the European market, so he had to try it out first.

Since it is built as a high-end luxury product, the quantity must be well controlled, and then the price will be adjusted step by step.

Anyway, a bottle of taels of silver is not a loss, and the price of a bottle of 1 taels of silver is not impossible, it depends on how it works.

However, this matter has to be done slowly, not in a hurry.

Tangning still has some high-end cigarettes that she hasn't brought out yet, and she plans to recreate her own brand, which will work with alcohol. After all, tobacco and alcohol are not separate.

The things looted from the Dutch have been processed completely, and some of them are kept by themselves, and some are transported to the introspection through the chamber of commerce to be sold, and the rest are taken away by Claudia.

These are the products that the Portuguese need, so Claudia is also willing to accept them, with a total transaction volume of more than 50 taels.

That is to say, the attack of the new army's navy probably made more than 100 million taels. No wonder pirates like Zheng Zhilong are so rich, this is simply a huge profit.

It's just that Zheng Zhilong has risen to a higher stage now, no longer focusing on robbery, but doing business with foreigners while collecting protection fees.

Not only has he washed himself clean step by step, but he can also make money openly, killing two birds with one stone.

Tangning hadn't reached that level yet, but he knew that he had already threatened Zheng Zhilong's status.

After all, the powers of the two sides are close to each other, and the land is only connected, so everyone can barely make the well water not violate the river water.

However, the sea forces will inevitably be intertwined. The merchant ships escorted by the Shunfeng Escort often pass through the traditional sea area controlled by the Zheng family, and there is no need to pay any fees.

This directly threatened Zheng Zhilong's maritime interests.

However, the new army did not violate the original agreement, which stipulated that the caravan escorted by the Shunfeng Escort could do business within the sphere of influence of the Zheng army.

Seeing that the new army's business volume was too small, and there were not even ships at sea, Zheng Zhilong instinctively thought that there was no threat, and wanted to end the peace talks as soon as possible, so he agreed.

But no one thought that the development of the new army's maritime strength far exceeded Zheng Zhilong's expectations, and it could be described as rapid.

How long is this?It can severely damage the Dutch, whose strength has been several times stronger.

It was also because of this that Zheng Zhilong did not dare to act rashly, because sea power was his greatest reliance and source of income, and he did not dare to take such a big risk to directly start a war with the new army.

It was really a brilliant battle between the new army and the Dutch.

Zheng Zhilong asked himself, even if he used all his strength, let alone almost wiped out the Dutch, it would be difficult to say whether he could win or not.

If there is enough strength, the agreement is nothing.

If the strength is not enough, the fart has to be held back and cannot be released easily, otherwise the consequences are not something everyone can afford.

(End of this chapter)