Chapter 181. General Mao's shop
Ninety thousand marten furs cost at least more than one hundred thousand marten. After all, some are broken and some are inferior skins with big arrows. In fact, only 40,000 to 50,000 marten furs come to Jiangnan every year. As for ginseng and deer antlers, they are also rare goods for the deep mountains and forests, and they are already the most precious ones. It is already the best to have 20,000 to 30,000 pounds a year.
No wonder Luo Ning was amazed.
Even until I moved the goods, I saw myself unloading boxes after boxes from the big ship, prying open these mink boxes with my own hands, taking out the leather boards inside, and weighing the texture in my hand, so I finally dared to rest assured.
This was considered smuggling and went directly from the sea. Fortunately, there was no concept of customs anti-smuggling these days. I sprinkled some silver in Shanghang Guards, and even the soldiers of the guards rowed small boats to help unload the goods.
The prices of minks are different. Luo Ning is suppressing the minks with arrow flaws. The market price of the perfect high-quality minks with traps is still the original price. It costs more than one hundred taels. Ninety thousand marinks can be sold for 650,000 taels, and the same people as ginseng. There are also medicinal materials such as deer antlers. After the price is over, it will be about 200,000 taels. This trip is more than one million taels. Even if Luo Ning is suppressed by two-fifths of the price, it will earn 400,000 taels more than selling directly in Dongjiang. In the past two days, Mao Jue has written the account book while scolding Qian Zeng's mother.
However, on the third day of unloading, Luo Ning came to the door again.
"What? The money is not enough? Shopkeeper Luo, we agreed to deliver the goods before the transaction. You also said that you can eat all the money in the Luo family!"
Zheng Duo, the old guy, is revenge. His spits are almost flying to Luo Ning's little face. For so many days, it was the second time that Mao Jue saw the little fox's embarrassing appearance. His little face turned red and he explained quickly with his feather fan.
"It's not that our Luo family can't afford these goods, but the cash is insufficient. If you give me a few days, the Luo family will definitely be able to pay the silver! The Luo family has been doing business for decades and has never been in business to break the trust! In just a few days, even if you sell Shanghu Manor, you won't be able to get the silver from Manager Zheng!"
"How many days? My general is a Northeastern general. I don't have time to work with you, a merchant woman, in the south of the Yangtze River. Are there tens of thousands of troops waiting to pay military salaries? The military period has been delayed and the soldiers are making trouble. Are you responsible?"
He was really unforgivable! I don’t know why Zheng Duo suffered from this woman. He didn’t give Luo Ning any face, and even scolded her, a girl could hardly raise her head.
Although this girl cheated herself, these days, after all, she was in good condition and was very comfortable to entertain everywhere. Seeing her embarrassed appearance, Mao Jue couldn't help feeling compassion. He reached out to hold the aggressive Zheng Duo and hugged Luo Ning and clasped his fists.
"Miss Luo, has the Luo family reached the point where they want to sell real estate?"
"No! General Mao, believe me, as long as I deal with the stockpile in my hand, the Luo family can raise enough silver..."
"Stock stock? Silk!"
I don’t know how much it will cost to get Mao Jue. Today, Mr. Zheng really played the sarcastic Grandet face to the end. The old guy turned his head with disdain.
"The red-haired mandarin in the south only has a few ships a year. It has been several years since then. Last year, Nagasaki, Japan was burned. Whether it is silk or tea, shopkeeper Luo, how can you deal with it in a short time, right?"
“Silk? Tea?”
Zheng Duo was full of disdain, but Mao Jue's eyes lit up when he heard it.
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It has simply degenerated to the most primitive barter state. The mink fur on this end is moved down, and the silk on the other end is carried on the ship. In this day, it is really economic globalization. The Mao Jue burned Nagasaki, and this end immediately affected the market in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian. The two commodities of silk and tea were silted in the hands of merchants, leaving only Shanxi merchants to rush to the grassland and a northern trade route in the Western Regions.
It's really a retribution in this world. Luo Ning, the little vixen, has suppressed Mao Jue's price by 50%, but Mao Jue doesn't need to suppress silk. Last year's thirty taels of silk has dropped to 10 taels this year, and tea leaves cost 5 taels a large box of silver. When moving the goods, Mao Jue could even vaguely see a little tears in Luo Ning's eyes.
But even so, Zheng Duo was not satisfied. He sat in the shop in Hangzhou where Luoning took the bill, directing his men to decorate, while holding his fists at Mao Jue.
"Master Jiang, you are still anxious! If I ask me to squeeze her a few more words, the price will be three points cheaper."
"Okay, Mr. Zheng, if you come to manage this year, how much will it be for Jiangnan silk to lose?"
This is a sad thing about Zheng Duo. His tens of thousands of taels of property in Nagasaki were confiscated by Mao Jue. The hardware of the house shop turned into a fire. Thinking of it, the old guy's mouth twitched twice, and then he held his fists helplessly.
"If I go to Nagasaki's trade route, I can still make a profit this year, but Nagasaki is ruined. If I want to operate it in Jiangnan, I will probably have to lose 50% or 60%! After all, weavers have to raise mulberry gardens themselves, but if they can't sell silk, they can only make losses! Everyone in Jiangsu and Zhejiang raises silkworms and weaving cloths themselves. Along the way, General, have you seen how many people sell fields and gardens?"
"So this year I will save her Luo Ning's life. I replaced her unsold products with best-selling products. When most Zhejiang merchants are in losses, she can still develop a little. I will come back next year and can also sell the Beijing goods directly to her. It will be slower than the general, saving countless manpower, material resources and time. Mr. Zheng, are you right?"
Before Zheng Duo could speak, a pleasant voice came from the door.
"General Mao is so considerate, the little woman is so grateful!"
Not to mention, women's love for beauty is really direct. This year, I received an unprecedented northern product. In less than two days, Luo Ning made a fur coat for herself. The furry white coat and cloak wrapped her petite body firmly, but it did not affect her figure. The wealth and honor made people look very feminine, and the eyes lit up.
Fortunately, Su Yi didn't come today, and she was still at home preparing to go to Qiantang County with Mao Jue for two days. Mao Jue was stunned for two seconds before she quickly made a smile.
"Shopkeeper Luo today, the fox fairy descended to the earth and was so charming!"
"General Mao is really good at speaking. No wonder he was so enchanted by the girl in the plain clothes!"
With a smile and a joke, Luo Ning looked around again.
"Congratulations to General Mao for opening a new store. I have brought some gifts. Let's see what else does General Mao need my help!"
"Miss Luo is here to see what valuable things my generals have?"
Zheng Duo is almost sixty years old this year, but he looks like an old child, and he is straightforward. He has a holiday with Luo Ning, a little vixen. He said that the young lady's face turned red, but this person is the most reassuring person. Mao Jue didn't say anything about him, but just smiled helplessly and led the way in front.
"This thing is China, which contains tobacco and spices, refreshes the mind, improves temperament and reduces pressure. It is very popular in our north. In addition to training, the soldiers will suck one at the end of killing the enemy. If it is sold in Jiangnan, I believe it can also help many scholars and scholars to write more of the eternal generations!"
Although mink ginseng makes money, a piece of mink can be worn for ten or twenty years and can even be passed on to the next generation. Ginseng is not a fast-moving consumer goods. If you buy this one and give it to that one, many of them are used as gifts, and not much of them will be stewed in a year.
Moreover, Mao Jue, Linxia Shen, is still in the experimental stage, and is also exploring artificial martening. He relies on smuggling with the border market of the Later Jin Dynasty. Although he now controls 80% of Liaodong's specialty products, it depends on Huang Taiji's expression. One day the two companies fight and the goods are broken.
But cigarettes are different. The cigarettes he met in later generations were normal. Even if the control points were controlled, one pack of cigarettes a day would have to be available for ten packs a month. The price was cheap and even the poor could afford it. The market was still small. You can see the supermarkets and convenience stores that sold cigarettes everywhere in later generations. Mao Jue had thought about the advertisements. Those Jiangnan scholars who were responsible for showing off their handsomeness held a fragrant eye and were as beautiful as the poems in their mouths, so you would not worry about not paying money.
"I have heard of this thing in Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi, but they all use a big cigarette puddle pot. General Mao is skillful and able to make it so convenient. Can I try it?"
Unexpectedly, Luo Ning had the potential of a little smoker, and he pulled out one, but subconsciously, Mao Jue snatched the cigarette back and stuffed it in.
"Master General?"
If Luo Ning took the lead in smoking, Mao's soft China would not have to worry about sales in Jiangnan, so the first person to be surprised was not Luo Ning, but Zheng Duo. An awkward smile appeared on his face, and Mao Jue waved his hand at the woman's stunned eyes.
"This thing is not suitable for women. I will think it is more appropriate to give men a shot!"
"Longning is a strange man who is still a general, but he is so constrained by men and women! I am a weak woman, and I can drink wine and resist the family business! Luoning also wants to try what a man can do!"
This explanation actually angered the girl. She was stubborn and wanted to get the cigarette box again. Who knew that Mao Jue suddenly grabbed her little hand this time, pressed her shoulder with one hand and pushed her aside.
"I don't allow you to smoke!"
With an unquestionable pair of eyes, he stared at her eyes. From childhood to adulthood, he had never had such close contact with a man. Luo Ning himself was even stunned for a few seconds, and then his pretty face suddenly turned red, his little heart pounded wildly, and his head was underneath.
Mao Jue was also a little stunned. She was not my girlfriend, so why did she care about her? Why was she impulsive? According to the etiquette, he offended the girl and made her innocent! But he could not take it back even if he said anything. He retreated in embarrassment and scratched his head. Mao Jue made another call, leading the way forward as if nothing had happened.
"There are some things that should be considered rare, please Miss Luo."
"Please, General Mao!"
Fortunately, this girl is knowledgeable and adaptable, and she also changed the topic and followed her as if nothing had happened.
“Wow~”
In this era, anyone who sees such a huge crystal lamp will be amazed. The store in the three shops is the huge crystal lamp brought by Mao Jue to Jiangnan, even if the oil lamp is not lit, looking at the lotus-like headlight holder, Luo Ning was still in a daze and took a breath of air conditioning.
"Mao was ignorant, but he tinkered with something. Here are lamp holders, and the candles are lit inside. The light is much stronger than paper lanterns. The only disadvantage is that they need to be washed frequently, and inside are glass cups and bowls."
Compared to selling ginseng and natural products such as mink, Mao Jue is more willing to sell industrial products such as glass products and tobacco. If it weren't for the transportation of steel utensils, iron pots, iron plows and iron buckets produced in Tieshan, Mao Jue would have been willing to transport all the iron pots, iron pots, iron plows and iron buckets produced in Tieshan.
Women and dragons are said to be relatives. Those girls in later generations are just useless, but when they encounter beautiful head cards, beautiful bottles and other ornaments, they will buy a lot of them home. Here, Luo Ning has not gotten rid of the nature of women. There are colorful bottles and jars in the room, like stars, lotus, or bears. The girl looks beautiful and can't take any steps.
"What's this?"
After walking along, facing a white thing at the corner of the wall, the beautiful Jiangnan asked curiously again, and Mao Jue smiled again when he saw it.
"This thing..., uh..., this thing!"
Halfway through his words, he was stuck. Luo Ning asked him what was wrong and asked him about the toilet!
However, this girl is really a businessman, with a strong ability to accept Yishui. After Mao Jue explained hesitantly, the girl actually untied her clothes and went to the toilet in the sample room to try it. After she came out, her eyes were inseparable from this white and round thing.
"General Mao, you must install this toilet for the first time in our Luo Mansion!"
This is how the British people in later generations were said to not go to the toilet in places without toilets. Before traveling through time, Mao Jue also hated going to his grandmother's house when he was a child. He was not despised by the countryside, but he was used to using the toilet at home. He then used the open-air dry toilet in the countryside, tremblingly squatting on two wooden boards, and there was a lot of rice fields underneath, for fear that it would feel particularly uncomfortable if it fell.
Especially in summer, not to mention the smell, a lot of maggots arched around inside. People who saw it were all the same as they wanted to die, so it would be better to solve it in the open space!
Although the Luo Family Manor is beautiful, the Luo Ning family also has a dry toilet. At most, the owners have a wooden toilet and have to pour it out after using it. It is really not as convenient as this flush toilet. Seeing this girl's angry look, Mao Jue nodded quickly.
"This matter is easy to say!"
There are also ceramic tiles, cement, and some messy little things here, but they are all used by Mao Jue in later generations, and Luo Ning was also amazed at it.
Now, the store has not opened yet, and the two major businesses have been launched. Mao Jue’s soft China and Luoning sells stores in Jiangsu and Zhejiang for him. This transaction is free, and then he calls his family. Luoning took ten toilets and two glass bathtubs in one go, and wanted to modify the whole house.
What does it mean to have the opposite sex without human nature? Mao Jue threw Zheng Duo to Hangzhou City to manage the shop. In the afternoon, he ran away from work and followed Luo Ning home.
It is worthy of being a big family. Only an hour before sunset, this girl could call ten masons. With the cement brought by Mao Jue, she first covered a bathroom with tiles, cut holes down below, stretched out the toilet's drain pipe out of the room, and connected the pond water from the pool through the water truck to the water pipe on the other end. The first automatic flush toilet in Jiangnan was born.
Although in the backyard, the septic tank and sewage tank still have to be dug for a while.
Looking at the yellowish green and warm tiles all over the wall, the neat toilet and the clean washbasin, Luo Ning, this girl, seemed to have become a little girl, dancing and smiling happily. Mao Jue was frightened and quickly grabbed her and told her that the cement would take at least three days of cultivation to be strong to the hardest level. Otherwise, he really doubted whether this woman could wear a loose dress and untied her belt and soak it in.
Mao Jue is a manly man these days, and he has given a large part of this girl. Today, he has made great contributions to renovating the bathroom. During dinner, Luo Ning also asked the kitchen to make a few more dishes and drank a few more cups with Mao Jue. A small face was as red as an apple, and he personally sent Mao Jue back to the guest room in the West Courtyard.
"Miss Luo, thank you for the hospitality. Go back early to rest!"
On the window, Su Yi and Qin Niang were still packing their things and preparing to leave tomorrow. At the gate of the yard, Mao Jue hugged his fists and walked in with goodbye. However, without taking two steps, the girl suddenly called him behind her back.
"General Mao!"
"Oh! Miss Luo, is there anything else?"
I don’t know if it was drinking or something, Luo Ning’s face seemed to be much rosier than before. She paused for a full second. In Mao Jue’s surprise, she seemed to shout out, and the shells were exuding this sentence quickly.
"General Mao, you are such a unique man!"
After shouting this, Luo Ning ran away in a flash with her skirt. Looking at the white fox-like back, Mao Jue was confused and scratched his head in shock.
Chapter completed!