149. Mirror and glass
The maritime merchants in Daqi are basically selling Daqi's things and then making money back into gold, silver and gems. After all, Daqi has abundant resources, but the small countries in the West and the East have nothing to produce.
In the past, the Wen family basically did business with several small Western countries. Wen Ming and Jiang Zhen did this at the beginning, but this time, at Jiang Zhen's suggestion, they went a little further and then met people from Europa.
The ships of these people broke down and stopped in a small Western country, without continuing to move forward, but the cargo on the ship was still there... In the end, all of these goods were exchanged for porcelain and silk.
Wenming took Zheng Yi to the boat and opened one of the rooms with the keys.
"Zheng Yi, is there really something strange here?"
"Zheng Yi, can you buy a clock here? My grandfather always wanted one."
"I didn't expect there was a dock hidden in this place, which was quite interesting."
Following Zheng Yi was a group of young men. They were talking and looking at the boat curiously.
The weathered ship was a bit old and not very good-looking. When the young men looked at it, they couldn't help but feel displeased. After seeing Wenming entering the house, they saw that there were several boxes in the house, they frowned: "What treasures are there here? They are actually hidden so tightly?"
Wenming didn't answer, but took out another key and opened one of the boxes: "Everyone, you can come and have a look."
The young people surrounded them curiously, and then someone exclaimed: "Ah!"
Wen Ming smiled and said, "It's darker here, I can't tell anything. You can take it and go outside to take a look."
These people looked at each other in a glance, and the last young man with the highest status picked up the things in the box and came outside.
The weather is clear today, and the sun is bright outside and the young man holding that thing can see himself so clearly for the first time.
What he was holding was a mirror, which was completely different from the bronze mirror he used to use, and it actually showed his tiny rays!
He always thought he was very beautiful, but now he realized that his nose looked a little dirty!
"What is this?"
"Is it a mirror? How many mirrors are there in total?"
"Can you sell me one?"
...
Even Zheng Yi looked at Wen Ming eagerly: "For such a mirror, you should give it to the Empress Dowager! I want to buy one, please take it out and show it to me."
"Mr. Zheng, we've prepared it for you." Wen Ming said: "Of course, this is also a rare thing outside, so the price is very high."
"Haha, the price is not a problem!" Zheng Yi immediately said that in the past three years, Jiang Zhen has made a lot of money, and he is the same, and he even makes more money.
The most maritime merchants make money, but they also need to invest a lot. What about it? As long as they give the salt merchants a full meal, the salt will be produced continuously, and the cost is very low.
Even if the official salt is only sold at seven or eight cents per pound, and if it is sold at Changhe Salt Farm, they are already making money every day.
In this world, no matter whoever wants to eat salt!
Most of the mirrors Wenming and Jiang Zhen brought back this time were only the size of a palm, and looked small and exquisite. In addition to the mirror, they also brought back some beautiful glass.
It is crystal clear, with green glass beads mixed in it, and each one is so beautiful that these people can't blink.
"You are brought by Mr. Zheng, so I'll just say the real price. One hundred taels of glass beads, and this glass bowl, two thousand taels of glass... If it were someone else, I wouldn't have sold it so cheap." Wen Ming said.
"Mr. Wen is indeed!" The young people said one after another. These people are basically the sons of officials, so they had a little dislike of Wenming before. Wenming was just a businessman, so why is it worth their attention?
But at this moment, they became very enthusiastic when they heard about it.
"Mr. Wen, don't sell these things, let's share them!" Someone said again. Such beautiful glass beads are only sold for 100 taels... They bought them and sold them, and they can make a difference!
"Everyone, we have a few shops, and you still have to leave some for me to support the scene." Wen Ming smiled, and finally took out half of the goods and sold them.
Even if it was only half of the goods, there were already a lot of them. Each of these people could buy some, and then left excitedly. Before leaving, they praised Wen Ming for a while.
Wen Ming couldn't help laughing when he saw them taking advantage of him.
When he saw those glass beads, he thought that they were some precious jewelry and thought that they would buy them no matter how expensive it was. As a result... Jiang Zhen actually said a few words about Europa, and then said that these glass beads were just failed products when burning glass and were not valuable, so...
After they changed the glass and mirror, the box of glass beads with thousands of glass beads were given to them by those people.
The masters given by those people can sell them for more than 100,000 taels... They made a lot of money this time.
Wen Ming was very happy. After getting off the boat, he found Wen Yingniang was still waiting for him on the dock, and he was even more happy.
However, Wen Yingniang was a little unhappy: "You still remember me!"
"Madam, I'm really sorry." Wen Ming apologized to Wen Yingniang with a smile, and then gave Wen Yingniang a small mirror: "Madam, look at this, do you like it?"
Wen Yingniang exclaimed immediately.
When Wenming gave the mirror, Jiang Zhen also took out the mirror and gave it to Brother Zhao: "Brother Jin, you look so beautiful now, look."
Brother Zhao took the mirror and saw his face full of love...
It had been an hour and a half when Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jin Ge finally left the room.
Both of them changed their clothes and just held hands when the two children rushed over.
"Dad!" Zhao Mingzhu hadn't seen Jiang Zhen for a long time. She was so excited when she saw Jiang Zhen. She hugged Jiang Zhen's legs and cried out with a "wow".
Zhao Chengyu is different. He is only over two years old and has a little impression of Jiang Zhen, but he is completely unfamiliar with him. He hugged Brother Zhao Jin's legs, opened his eyes wide and looked at Jiang Zhen, but pursed his lips and didn't speak.
"Chengyu, call me dad." Brother Zhao Jin picked up his son and said to him.
After Zhao Chengyu was born, many people were served and were taken care of by him. He was definitely more cared for than Zhao Mingzhu, but he was not taken care of by Jiang Zhen, so naturally he could not act coquettishly towards Jiang Zhen like Zhao Mingzhu.
He looked at Jiang Zhen and kept silent.
Jiang Zhen picked up Zhao Mingzhu with one hand, then hugged Zhao Chengyu from Zhao Jinge's arms with the other hand, then kissed Zhao Mingzhu and then kissed Zhao Chengyu: "Do you miss your father?"
"Think." Zhao Mingzhu said immediately.
"Dad." Zhao Chengyu called him dad now.
"So good." Jiang Zhen took out two kaleidoscopes for them: "Dad got it from outside, for you to play with."
Jiang Zhen accompanied the two children for a while, and the two children scrambled to call them father, which made him unable to help but kiss them several more.
My own children really like them the more I look at them!
Mingzhu is Jiang Zhen’s first child, and he also gave the most. He likes it very much. Zhao Chengyu, who looks very much like Jiang Zhen, and Jiang Zhen also likes him very much. He even wishes to play with his two children forever.
However, this is impossible.
There are still many things waiting for him to do outside...
But he can bring the kids with him, right?
Jiang Zhen held a child in one hand and walked out.
"You hug me the child, your leg is still injured!" Brother Zhao Jin hurriedly chased him out.
Zhao Liu also followed behind and walked out: "What's wrong with Jiang Zhen? Is his leg injured?"
When Jiang Zhen went outside, he heard that half of the mirror glass had been sold.
After touching his nose, Jiang Zhen asked Wen Ming to accompany Wen Yingniang to rest, while he was dealing with the next thing.
After moving the silver and the most expensive cargo off the ship, the rest could be taken by his subordinates, and Jiang Zhen could finally go home.
The house built by Brother Zhao Jin near Yabian Village was very big and beautiful. It was just a house at first, but later at Jiang Zhen’s suggestion, it surrounded another beach and entered.
The sea water at this time was much clearer than modern times. In this way, Jiang Zhen had a private beach.
Unfortunately, he was too busy to have no time to enjoy it on his beach...
"At the sea, you either eat fish or pickled vegetables and bacon every day. At most, there is a bean sprout to change the taste. I really want to die of the food at home." Jiang Zhen took Brother Zhao Jin's hand and returned to the Zhao family's house, and the first thing he did was to eat.
It's not a meal time now, but the Zhao family all accompanied Jiang Zhen to eat. Seeing that he had such a good appetite, he even ate a lot of food.
"I'm back this time, two boats are missing," Zhao Fugui asked when he saw that Jiang Zhen had almost eaten, "Are you okay?"
"Dad, I'm fine." Jiang Zhen said: "It's just that there are two boats that can't be found... I have sorted out the list of missing people and will pay the money tomorrow."
"Oh..." Zhao Fugui sighed.
Zhao Liu looked at Jiang Zhen worriedly: "Jiang Zhen, this is too dangerous to go out to sea..."
"Mom, I won't go out to sea from now on." Jiang Zhen looked at Zhao Liu with a smile: "I will accompany you well and rest for a few years." Everything is difficult at the beginning. Now that he has finished the beginning, things will be much simpler in the future.
"Okay, okay!" Zhao Liu was very happy and nodded repeatedly.
Chapter completed!