My life skills in Daming Liver

Seeing that Langbai'ao is getting closer, you can already see the Portuguese-style houses on the island with a telescope. There are many shops on Langbai'o Island, and there are lively scenes everywhere.

"Why do these Frangji people have to stay here?"

Langbai'ao is not a big island. From Lin Mojun's point of view, the island's environment is not good. She really doesn't understand Frangji's dedication to trade.

Su Ze said: "Do you know the profit of the complete Far East trade by the Franc Robot?"

Lin Mojun shook her head, and Su Ze stretched out two fingers.

Lin Mojun asked tentatively, "Twice?"

"Twenty times."

Lin Mojun also exclaimed.

Su Ze said: "If there is 10% profit, the merchants will rush in; if there is 20% profit, the merchants will rush in; if there is 50% profit, the merchants will take risks; for double the profit, the merchants will dare trample on all the laws of the world; with three times the profit, the businessman dares to commit any crime, even risking hanging his head"

"And the profit of the entire East Asian trade is twenty times. It's not just the Frangji businessmen who are crazy, but the whole Frangji will be crazy about it."

"Every year in April and May, Frangji's galleons are loaded with cloth, cotton, clocks, and bird guns from Goa to Langbai'ao, waiting to sell the goods at the market in Canton and buy silk from me, Daming. "

"Wait until the monsoon comes in July, and then transport the raw silk and weapons to Wa. Wait until the northeast monsoon blows again in October before returning to Macau."

"Because of the impact of the monsoon on the flight route, Francois needs a resting place like Langbai'ao to wait for the monsoon and prepare cargo."

Lin Mojun asked: "These are also from the book?"

Su Ze said with a smile: "Of course not, Captain Alfonso told me this."

"Entering the port!"

The watchman on the mast yelled, interrupting the conversation between Su Ze and Lin Mojun. Under the leadership of the pilot boat, the New World finally docked in the port.

The port condition of Langbaisha is not good. It was not until Lin Mojun and Su Ze landed on the island that they realized how crowded the island was.

All kinds of people can be seen on the port, the Flang robot wearing funny cylindrical trousers, the Tianzhu man with a turban on his head, the dark-skinned Kunlun slave, and all kinds of Lin Mojun. past races.

The entire port was a market, and when merchants saw a big ship like the New World approaching the port, they flocked like sharks.

Seeing Su Ze get off the boat, those merchants who can speak Chinese were overjoyed, while those who were not proficient in Chinese were sad. Doing business in the land of the Ming Dynasty was completely a seller’s market, and there were very few merchants in the Ming Dynasty. Willing to learn the languages ​​of other countries, many Ming merchants even made it clear that they would only do business with Chinese-speaking merchants.

But seeing a big ship like the New World, the merchants were still unwilling to give up, and they gathered around Su Ze one after another.

"Quiet!"

Su Ze yelled, and the surroundings were quiet. He raised his hand and said:

"I am Su, a merchant from Moon Harbor. The goods I brought are tea."

Su Ze had already inquired about Langbai'ao's trading method from the Yuegang merchants. If the owner of the cargo wanted to trade, he would directly sell his cargo at the port. Once the transaction was made, the cargo could be taken away.

Hearing that it was tea, these merchants became even more excited. You must know that tea from the Ming Dynasty was not easy to buy.

Since the discovery of the Eastern route, tea has grown in popularity in the West.

Not only the West, but the Wa country is also very eager for Ming's tea. This is a profitable business.

Su Ze asked people to take out the tea pot, and seeing the exquisite wooden casing and porcelain tea pot, these businessmen couldn't move their eyes even more.

But the tea leaves that Su Ze escaped from the teapot were surprising.

The dark tea leaves do not have the beauty of green tea at all. Could it be the spoiled tea?

Just when the businessmen thought that Su Ze had overturned his car, he took out a large bowl and brewed it with boiling water, poured the red tea soup from the bowl into delicate small teacups, and handed it to the surrounding businessmen to taste.

The aroma of black tea was wafting, and the red tea soup was clear. The expressions of the businessmen present were all different.

Western businessmen prefer black tea. They are not used to the bitter taste of green tea. They like the sweet and mellow black tea very much. Some people asked Su Ze for the price on the spot.

The merchants who traded between Ming Dynasty and Japan, as well as those engaged in trade between Ming Dynasty and Nanyang, frowned. They were not sure whether this kind of tea would be loved by the locals, and these Chinese merchants themselves did not like black tea very much.

But even if you don't like black tea, Su Ze's exquisite tea pots and wooden boxes can make a lot of money when transported to Japan or Europe.

There are more and more businessmen surrounding Su Ze, and the anxious businessmen have already started quoting.

Su Ze made a quiet gesture and said:

"If you want to buy my tea, you need additional commodity transactions."

"I need books from the West or Japan, any book will do!"

"I still need ambergris! If you have ambergris, you can trade first!"

Su Ze described it not only in Chinese, but also in the mother tongue of the merchants present. He repeated it in different languages ​​ten times, and the merchants present looked at him in astonishment.

The businessmen present are often proficient in several languages, but they have never seen a businessman like Su Ze who can speak ten different languages ​​at once.

Moreover, many languages ​​are very rare languages, and these businessmen can't speak them a few times a year after they go to sea.

[English skill +1, Lv5, 45/1000]

[Malay language skill +1, Lv2, 2/200]

Su Ze expressed his needs in these different languages, naturally not to pretend to be X.

In addition to improving language skills, it is more important to describe Ambergris to the merchants present.

Su Ze knew that another important reason why officials in Guangfu tolerated the Portuguese landing was ambergris.

The year before last, which was the 32nd year of Jiajing, the Emperor Jiajing, who loved to practice Taoism, did not know what to do, and began to buy ambergris in large quantities.

Almost all coastal areas have been mobilized to buy ambergris with huge sums of money.

The Guangdong Haidao Yamen contacted the Frangji people in order to buy from them this special spice produced in the sea.

This year it got even worse. The emperor forced the coastal areas to pay 100 catties of ambergris, and said: "Amberis is a common thing, you must look for it carefully."

They even sent imperial envoys to Fujian, Guangdong, to search for them, and offered a reward of one thousand two taels per catty to buy them at a high price!

Although Emperor Jiajing said in his will to buy ambergris that it was used for sacrifices in the Taimiao Temple, he asked his ancestors to bless and eliminate foreign enemies as soon as possible.

But Su Ze, who is familiar with medical science, knows that the value of ambergris as a love potion should be the truth that Emperor Jiajing collected throughout the country.

In fact, some people in Guangdong have sought ambergris from overseas businessmen for a long time, but they could not understand the language or describe it clearly, so they have not been able to buy it.

Su Ze described ambergris in their native language, and immediately a Malay businessman raised his hand and said, "I have it!"

The businessman immediately dispatched his men to board the ship, and soon took out a wooden box wrapped in silk, and brought it to Su Ze.

Su Ze opened the silk, and Lin Mojun came over to see what the legendary spice looked like.

I only saw a bunch of irregular pieces placed in a wooden box, and when I opened it, I could smell a faint fishy smell, but under the fishy smell, there was a strong mixed fragrance, like woody, sandalwood , and a touch of floral and fruity aromas.

Is this ambergris? Lin Mojun has also seen the treasure house of King Deer, so she has also seen good things. In terms of fragrance alone, ambergris is indeed very unique, far surpassing other spices.

After the Malay businessman took out the ambergris, two businessmen immediately understood what Su Ze described, and they also ordered their men to bring the ambergris.

[Successful identification of ambergris, valuation skill +50, Lv3, 20/300]

[Successful identification of ambergris, valuation skill +50, Lv3, 70/300]

[Successful identification of ambergris, valuation skill +50, Lv3, 120/300]

Three reminders popped up, Su Ze put away the ambergris, and asked the sailors to move the three-point black tea to the pier.

The three merchants immediately began to check, and immediately let their sailors board the ship after confirming that they were correct.

Su Ze said again in various languages ​​that he would stay in Langbai'ao for a few days. If these merchants bought ambergris, they could still come to him for a deal.

Everyone remembered the appearance of Ambergris, and they were going to ask the businessmen they knew.

After weighing three pieces of ambergris, which was close to five taels, Su Ze was quite happy.

Lin Mojun couldn't understand his appearance and said, "Even if it's worth a thousand gold, you are only five hundred taels of silver. I haven't seen you so happy before handling thousands of taels of silver?"

Su Ze shook his head and said, "It's not about money, this ambergris is something that can't be exchanged for money, and it is of great use to me!"

"Great use? What use?"

Su Ze shook his head and said, "Secret!"

Lin Mojun rolled her eyes.

Su Ze said again: "Do you know how this ambergris is formed?"

Lin Mojun also heard about this thing from a businessman, she recalled: "Dragon spit?"

Lin Mojun felt a little disgusted after speaking, dragon's saliva?

Su Ze shook his head and said, "Actually, it's not the dragon's saliva, but the stones formed in the intestine of the sperm whale."

Now Lin Mojun almost threw the brocade box in her hand, she asked, "You said it was whale feces?"

Su Ze shook his head and said: "That's not accurate. The main food of whales is giant squid. There are hard jaws in the squid's body. These will not be absorbed by the intestines and stomach of sperm whales. They will accumulate in the intestines and form stones. When they accumulate to a certain size will be ejected."

"Amberx is lighter than water, and when found by sea merchants or coastal fishermen, it is rumored that it is the saliva of Jackie Chan."

Lin Mojun said disgustedly: "That's not as good as the dragon's saliva!"

Su Ze laughed and said, "It takes hundreds of sperm whales to form one ambergris. And ambergris floats in the sea, so the chance of being found is not high, so it is so precious."

But no matter how precious it was, Su Ze didn't think it was worth much.

Emperor Jiajing took out hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to buy ambergris. You must know that in the 33rd year of Jiajing's year, the Ministry of War's Bibian silver was only 1.2 million taels.

That is to say, the emperor spent one-tenth of the country's military expenditure to buy the poop of sperm whales?

This was not uncommon in the Ming Dynasty. In addition to ambergris, the household department also purchased winter pearls, sandalwood, rare medicinal materials and alchemy materials, which cost more than two hundred thousand taels a year.

Even if they don't like spices, emperors can always develop other hobbies.

The good son of Emperor Jiajing, after King Yu ascended the throne, he spent 200,000 taels of silver at a time on the Aoshan Lantern Banquet, which is the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival.

Emperor Jiajing's great grandson Wanli even rewarded the harem and relatives, spending hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year, and the pearls and jewelry purchased by the harem were also close to this figure.

The yamen of the coastal and sea routes were exhausted in order to help the emperor collect ambergris, and even the fishermen on the seashore were mobilized to go out to sea to find ambergris. As a result, countless fishermen died in the sea. Fleeing is even more common.

Su Ze collected ambergris, of course, not to please the emperor, ambergris was just a part of his plan.

Su Ze checked his skills. The [Business] skill has been updated to Lv3, 17/300. He is going to make a large-scale purchase in Langbai'ao, and upgrade the [Business] and [Valuation] skills to Lv5.

After shutting down the system, Su Ze asked Father Pierre again:

"Your Society of Jesus has a church in Langbai'ao, right?"

But Father Pierre shook his head and said, "There is no church in Langbai'ao. There is only one in Shangchuan Island next door. It is the church left by His Excellency Xavier, the Pope's envoy to the Far East. Behind the church is the tombstone of this lord."

Xavier? Su Ze looked at Father Pierre in surprise and asked, "You mean the bishop who preached in Japan?"

Father Pierre was no stranger to Su Ze's erudition, he nodded and said: "Your Excellency Xavier is not a bishop, but according to your orientals, it is similar. He has been to the country of Japan many times to preach, and he has been to the country of Japan. In Hirado and Kyoto, I even paid homage to the King of Wa and the General of the Wa Kingdom.”

"Does your excellency have any manuscript left?"

Su Ze knew that Western missionaries, like the scholar-bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty, were very keen on recording diary manuscripts.

Before time travel, Su Ze often had to deal with these historical materials.

This Xavier was the first person from Portugal to preach in the country of Wa, and he has also been to many places. His manuscripts are of great value for Su Ze to study the country of Wa.

Father Pierre immediately said: "Your Excellency Xavier's relics are all in the church on Shangchuan Island."

"How far is Shangchuan Island from Langbai'ao?"

"It's not far, and it only takes an hour by boat, but I can't go now."

"Why?"

"Da Ming closed the pier of Shangchuan, and only at night can he go up secretly."

"Then go tonight!"