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Chapter 216 Zheng Zhilong

Although the goods brought by Li Guodong are of high quality, and they are items that no one has seen before, the packaging and appearance are really ugly. After all, his craftsmanship in the sand-back ditch workshop is limited, the knitted wool sweaters do not look good, and the wool fabric does not look very attractive. There is also the small coal stove, which is very earthy at first glance. Compared with the dazzling array of jewelry, spices, silk, and official kiln porcelain, it looks very cheap.

Looking at the dazzling array of goods and bustling heads in other people's colorful sheds, Zhao Xiancheng was anxious, but he was afraid of this big boss, so he didn't dare to say it, so he could only be anxious in his heart.

Han Dashan was very thick and detailed, and saw this problem, so he asked worriedly: "Brother, our goods look too ugly. There is also the small coal stove, which is the vulgar Mongolians, who would buy it? Not to mention the Jiangnan people."

However, Li Guodong, wearing a black silk suit and a black Mark Six hat (melon-skin hat), dressed in a northern businessman, was casually shaking the fan with confidence.

Naturally, Li Guodong's outfit discouraged many merchants and people who wanted to come in the Dadewang Store coloring shed to take a look. Seeing the boss's appearance is a northern nouveau riche, the things he sells cannot be good things of taste. When he looked at the goods placed in the coloring shed, he even sneered: Compared with the products from other coloring sheds, this place is simply sold in junk.

Li Guodong knew that the goods purchased by Zheng Zhilong at this trading event only accounted for a small part of the goods purchased by the Zheng family's merchants. The main location for the Zheng family to purchase and sell goods was in Yuegang, Zhangzhou. Almost every day, caravans from all over Yuegang traveled thousands of miles to bring goods to Yuegang. They sold their goods to Zheng Zhilong and bought goods from Zheng Zhilong. The prosperity of Yuegang was something that most people in this era could not have imagined. Not only did the Zheng family's own fleet dock, the Red-Fei, the Big and Small Folang Ji people, the Japanese, the Koreans, the Persians, the Lumi people, the Annans, the Siamese, and the Sultans of the South Ocean all came to Yuegang, sold their goods to Zheng Zhilong, and bought goods from Zheng Zhilong.

However, Liu Xiang had not been destroyed in this era, and Zheng Zhilong had a powerful opponent on the sea. It was not until the Battle of Liaoluo Bay three years later that Zheng Zhilong defeated the Dutch and killed Liu Xiang, and that he truly became the overlord of the Eastern Sea in the 17th century.

"The boss of the Zheng family is out!"

"Zheng Junmen is here!"

"If we can establish a relationship with General Zheng, we will be extremely rich in the future."

People shouted, and the momentum was a bit like the feeling of crazy fans chasing stars in later generations. Zheng Zhilong walked out of the colorful shed surrounded by a group of people and walked towards the colorful shed built by other businesses, just like a big star who had just ended the concert. Li Guodong observed Zheng Zhilong from a distance and found that he wore a black square scarf and a blue Confucian outfit, looking like a scholar, but his face was full of sharpness.

"Zheng Zhilong is so rich?" Han Dashan asked.

Li Guodong smiled and said, "Even if he doesn't go out and sits in Yuegang, he can make five or six times the profit every day. If his fleet travels to Japan or Nanyang, he can make more than ten times the profit; even if he does nothing, there will be no Thai people's ships coming to Yuegang. As long as Thai ships pass by Fujian and Japan and North Korea, he can make money."

"The Teesy is so generous to give him money? Are you not afraid of losing money?"

"How could it be a loss? The Thais transported a ship of cargo from the East to the Thais, and the profit was dozens of times. Our ceramics were shipped to the Thais, and they were all luxury goods that only nobles could afford, and their value was comparable to silverware."

"The sea trade can make so much money, why doesn't the court organize its own fleet to go to sea?"

"Aren't those scholars saying to His Majesty the Emperor: Don't compete with the people for profit?"

I don’t know how much money I earn from such a chamber of commerce held in Hangzhou, but Emperor Chongzhen could not even get a copper coin, and it was all divided between merchants and local officials.

Surrounded by a group of people, Zheng Zhilong walked into other business sheds to pick things up. In most cases, he shook his head in disappointment and walked out. He only stayed in a very small number of sheds for a long time, as if he had ordered the goods.

Seeing this, Li Guodong sneered in his heart: Zheng Zhilong can buy the goods here today even when sitting in Yuegang! The reason why he came to Hangzhou was to lower the price to do long-term business, or to buy some goods that could not be bought by Yuegang. Some merchants who came today may not be able to negotiate the price, while some goods were not favored by Zheng Zhilong at all.

However, for those businesses, Zheng Zhilong's business will not suffer much loss even if he has not been negotiated. Most of the businesses that can come here have the background of the government and bring goods from Hangzhou. Zheng Zhilong does not buy them, but buys them by others. All the goods can be guaranteed to be sold out.

Han Dashan suddenly saw Zheng Zhilong walking towards his coloring shed with his people. He was happy, but he was worried that Zheng Zhilong would take a turn after halfway.

Thank God, the God of Wealth is here! Han Dashan was ecstatic because Zheng Zhilong finally walked into the coloring shed with Dadewang Business Name.

Seeing that the God of Wealth was coming, Li Guodong and others immediately stood up to meet him. However, Zhao Xiancheng wanted to say something, but Li Guodong stopped him with his eyes. A group of people just stood respectfully on both sides. Li Guodong didn't say anything, and no one dared to speak.

Han Dashan secretly blamed in his heart: Brother is really good, so why don’t we introduce ourselves? How can we know if we don’t introduce God of Wealth?

Zheng Zhilong walked to the door of the Dadewang Trading House coloring shed, stood at the door and looked around with a rough look, and his eyes suddenly shone brightly.

"Brother, this place is like a vanilla store. Let's go to another house." Zheng Zhihu, who was standing behind, said loudly.

"What do you know!" Zheng Zhilong rebuked.

Zheng Zhihu was very afraid of this elder brother, so he shrank his head and did not dare to speak anymore. He really didn't understand why his elder brother was standing in this colorful shed with old goods? He said that these goods were old goods and were simply scattered goods!

"What is this?" Zheng Zhilong asked curiously, touching the bundles of wool placed beside several wool sweaters.

Li Guodong gave Zhao Xiancheng a wink.

Zhao Xiancheng hurriedly walked forward and introduced to Zheng Zhilong: "Zheng Junmen, this is wool. The clothes on the edge are woven from wool, called sweaters."

"Sweater? This is quite strange." Zheng Zhilong picked up a sweater and gestured in his hand. He found that in addition to being rougher in his workmanship, the sweater felt good in his hand, and it was obvious that this thing was very warm if worn on his body in winter.
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