In recent days, the number of merchants who have transported supplies to Zhaojiabao has begun to increase.

Two days ago, a Shandong businessman drove more than a thousand horses from Xuandama City, which scared Zhao Yan. He drove so many horses at once. It also made Tang Zhengze a little busy and quickly made people expand the horse shed.

In the Ming Dynasty, Liaodong was the most important horse market, but at this time the situation in Liaodong was deteriorating, and Liaodong horse market disappeared, leaving only Shanxi merchants who could get horses in Liaodong.

The horse market in Gansu is also trading at a large number, and those peasant soldiers often run to the ethnic minorities in the west to replenish their horses.

Among the horses, there are more than 300 horses on the group. Most of these horses were bought from ethnic minorities. The current price is four stones of rice and three pieces of cloth and silk, and the price is less than ten taels.

If sold to Zhaojiabao, a horse can be worth 24 taels. If sold to other places, the highest price will be 15 taels, provided that you meet a fool.

Even if Zhao Yan's mirror is the largest, the price is less than ten taels. The most expensive one is not the mirror, but the frame.

How to make the frame more gorgeous, heavy and noble? If you inlaid some gems, the cost will increase a lot, and of course the price will increase exponentially.

By selling Zhao's materials to Zhao's fort, you can make a profit. The silver is delivered in a mirror. The purchase price of the largest mirror is 1,200 taels, which can save a portion of it and then sell it, at least 2,000 taels.

At the beginning, only a few large merchants with strong capital from Shandong were dared to buy glass mirrors, while other merchants with weaker capital were waiting and watching.

The well-informed businessman has learned that the Zhao family’s glass mirror is selling well in Yangzhou, and the trend of comparing salt merchants in Lianghuai has risen again. If you marry a daughter and welcome a bride, you must have this glass mirror.

Yangzhou can be said to be the richest place in the Ming Dynasty, and the financial resources of the salt merchants in Lianghuai were definitely the best in the world.

Therefore, Yangzhou has become the most fiercely contested area for those qualified Shandong merchants, but they maintain a tacit understanding between each other and will never reduce the price of mirrors to below 2,000 taels. They will compete more on publicity and packaging.

Some big businessmen have a flexible mind and see that the essence of glass mirrors is the same, but the different grades of the frames will affect the different prices.

Therefore, some big merchants removed the frames made by the Zhao family and then made higher-grade frames by themselves.

Meaning, inscriptions, and portrayals.

Mirrors are turned into exquisite crafts.

As for breaking the mirror, they were not worried. The Zhao family made numeric marks on the side of the glass. If it was damaged during transportation within three months, they could take the broken mirror back and change it.

This made the merchants always think that the Zhao family could repair the broken mirror, because in their impression, the cost of this glass mirror should be very high, and no one would do a loss-making business. The only explanation is that it can repair the broken mirror intact for very little money.

Zhao Yan also knew the actions of these merchants, so he simply took out the mirror and sold them. But when he was selling glass products, he would never sell flat glass.

At any moment, Zhao Yan did not underestimate the intelligence and imitation ability of the Ming Dynasty. If he sold flat glass himself, he would probably have a copycat glass mirror in less than a year.

Not only in Yangzhou, but also in the capital, the big guys in the court generally do not buy these mirrors, but they like to collect these glass mirrors when receiving gifts. They are placed in the hall, and they are used for washing themselves and for X-faced concubines.

If no one gives gifts, buy it yourself!

For those high-ranking officials, more than 2,000 taels of silver is not much, not to mention that there is a mirror with a lower price, so you have to buy one after another.

The ones who demand the greatest mirror are undoubtedly the royal relatives, especially those vassal kings.

The vassal kings had no personal freedom and could only stay in the city for the rest of their lives. Although they were rich and frugal, they felt like they were in jail.

It would be even more uncomfortable if it was sealed into a small place.

If you have no ideals, no goals, no freedom, you can only be extravagant and desireless. If you are bored while being extravagant and desireless, then enjoy the people!

Mirrors are definitely new to those vassal kings, and for those vassal kings who pursue a luxurious life, they are undoubtedly buying them when they see them.

I heard that a businessman made a glass mirror with ten gems inlaid and sold 50,000 taels of silver from King Lu. Even Zhao Yan didn't know whether it was true or false.

These successful cases show that glass mirrors have a bright future.

At the same time, these news also stimulated more Shandong businessmen, and those who were still waiting and watching took action. In order to obtain the glass mirror with lower prices, they began to use the capital in their hands to purchase the materials needed by the Zhao family to sell them to Zhaojiabao.

But at the same time, Zhao Yan caught two Yebusheng from Ninghaizhou. Just like last time, these two Yebusheng were still lying outside the military camp, but they were caught.

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Ninghaizhou, General Office.

"Sir, I wonder how you thought about what you discussed with you last time?" asked a round and round businessman wearing silk with a smile on his face.

"What's the matter?" A middle-aged man who looked about forty years old was sitting opposite the merchant. He looked strong, wearing a general uniform and a loyal and quiet crown on his head. He glanced at the fat man and said carelessly.

The fat man was stunned, then immediately showed a flattering smile, lowered his voice and said, "That's the matter of Liulijing! As long as you send the troops in your hands to get the Zhao family... to Liulijing's secret recipe. If you help the adults sell it, you will be the only one in our Ming Dynasty."

The fat man said as he made a neck cut position.

"Then don't mention it. I sent two groups of people to stop taking them at night, but they all got arrested! The Zhao family is not easy to mess with! Unless..." The middle-aged man picked up the teacup and took a sip, stopping his talk.

This person is Wu Anbang, the general stationed in Haizhou, Ningbo.

"Sir General is really good at joking." The fat man smiled embarrassedly on his face, but he secretly scolded Wu Anbang for being greedy. According to the last discussion, both sides divided the money.

Now it seems that people are not satisfied.

The fat man cursed in his heart and said nothing. Wu Anbang also sat there without saying anything.

After a while, the fat man couldn't hold back and gritted his teeth and said, "After the matter is done, the sold silver will be divided into four or six points with the general. You are six and I am four. What do you think?"

As he said that, the fat man snorted in his heart. Since this vulgar warrior is so greedy, I can do anything in operation? See if you are powerful or if you are smart.

"Haha! OK." Wu Anbang suddenly laughed, and a cold light flashed in his eyes, "I want to see how much the Zhao family has. If you dare to catch me, you will be tired of living."

"Haha! Lord, I am invincible. The Zhao family is so scared that they are so scared when they see your army! Lord, it is natural to be able to take action." The fat man said with a smile.

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