Great Song Pirate

Chapter 260
Xu Yi politely got up and greeted the shopkeepers of these five houses one by one, and then everyone sat down and drank. Naturally, these people had to offer wine to Xu Yi during the banquet, and they also took the opportunity to inquire about Xu Yi's background. Xu Yi had already told him The county magistrate, so he must not reveal his identity at will, the county magistrate actually implemented it very thoroughly, he only told the county lieutenant, and no one else knew about it. In this way, it was of great benefit to Xu Yi, and everyone knew that the county magistrate She flatters him very much, but no one knows his details, so the more mysterious he is, the more people cannot underestimate him.

"You are very polite. I am just a businessman in the south. I have some friends in the court. I am very disturbed to let you be so concerned! But this time I came to Guzhen to purchase a lot of steel. I hope you can help me a lot! I would like to offer you a toast too!" He picked up the wine glass, but he didn't say who he knew, let them figure it out for themselves!

"That's natural, that's natural. We iron merchants make a living by selling iron. Why don't you say that you don't help when you come here? You should do your best to meet Mr. Xu's needs, but you don't know Mr. Xu. How much steel do you want to buy this time?" The treasurer Du spoke first, wanting to confirm how much steel Xu Yi wanted.

Xu Yi thought about it for a while and didn't answer directly, but asked first: "You are all big households in Guzhen, so I also want to know the current steel market in Guzhen first! Then I can confirm that I can buy this time." How much steel did you get!"

Finally came to the substantive question. This question made the five shopkeepers look at each other, and they all turned their attention to Cui Dianshi, but Cui Dianshi drooped his eyelids and pretended not to see it. Of course he knew the five shopkeepers. What is the shopkeeper thinking in his heart? The five family members want to use his mouth to raise the price of iron, so as to make more profits. He is not a fool, and he thought that it would be interesting enough for me to invite the five of you here , this Mr. Xu's identity is not simple, if I don't know his details, let me take the risk to speak for you, I will not do it!
But he is an official after all, and when he talked about the price, sitting here again made it a little uncomfortable for them to continue talking, so Cui Dianshi stood up and cupped his fists and said to Xu Yi: "I'm sorry, everyone, I'm sorry. It's convenient to go out, everyone sit down first, I'll come as soon as I go!" Then he immediately evaded people first by taking advantage of the urine escape, leaving Xu Yi and the five shopkeepers to talk about it by himself.

The county magistrate who accompanied Xu Yi was also a smart person. Seeing that Cui Dian had slipped away, he immediately stood up, said no, and followed him to escape from the house by urinating. He just came here with Xu Yi and talked about the price. But don't go to muddy water.

Seeing that Cui Dianshi refused to ask for a price for them, and the shopkeepers were even clueless. They felt that the price was very difficult to say, and they were afraid that they would report the wrong price and be complained by two foreign and four families. The question of the question became cold, and everyone was laughing, but no one offered an offer.

Seeing the situation, Xu Yi immediately understood their careful thinking, and laughed secretly. These five families can basically monopolize the iron price here in Guzhen. Quotation, good!If you don't want to quote, I'll ask again, so Xu Yi asked again: "You haven't explained the question I asked just now, but I just don't know what the current iron price is here?"

After a few people saw it, it was not an option to keep doing it like this. Since people asked the price, they always had to give a quotation before talking!So they looked at each other, and finally the shopkeeper Du had no choice but to harden his scalp and said: "As for our local iron price, it's easy to say, although there are some differences between each company, the general price will not vary too much. Depending on the quality of the iron, the price is also different. We have a complete range of steel here. The price of wrought iron and cast iron is roughly the same. They both cost about one hundred catties, and the difference is not much different. Crude steel is about the same and a half About two, fine steel is a little more expensive, about two guan!" Hearing his quotation, several family members nodded, saying that what shopkeeper Du said was indeed true.

Xu Yi was very depressed. After being here for so long, his biggest headache was converting silver coins into copper coins. The price comparison between copper coins and silver coins in the Song Dynasty was always changing. Copper coins were not uniform in different places, and there were iron coins in circulation. It's really troublesome, so after Dulong Island often gets copper coins and iron coins, they immediately exchange them for silver, so he is only used to using silver to settle accounts, and listens to the copper coins they quote for conversion, and immediately gets dizzy and bows his head to calculate. It took a long time before he came up with an approximate price. He calculated it based on one tael of silver or roughly two copper coins. Only one tael of silver could buy two hundred catties of pig iron and wrought iron, and only one hundred catties of steel. The price obtained by Lei Tong is quite different. Lei Tong told him that the price of iron here is currently reduced due to the riots of people everywhere, and the number of merchants who come here to buy goods has decreased a lot. At least one tael of silver can buy refined iron. The iron is more than three hundred catties, but the price quoted by the shopkeeper Du is the same as the previous price, which is equivalent to more than [-]% higher!Profiteer, damn it is definitely a profiteer!Even I dare to lie, let's see how I deal with you!

Xu Yi frowned after hearing the quotation from Shopkeeper Du, and bowed his head in silence. He tried his best to convert it there. As a result, his expression fell into the eyes of these iron merchants, and it added another layer of meaning. This is not an obvious quotation to them. Not satisfied?They also knew that there was a lot of water in the price quoted by shopkeeper Du. Now it seems that Mr. Xu is very dissatisfied!Otherwise why did he frown and bow his head in silence?As a result, several people immediately became anxious, fearing that they would offend the unknown Mr. Xu and bring trouble to their family.

The shopkeeper Du became even more uneasy, he had reported the price, if he offended Mr. Xu, then the Du family would bear the brunt of it!When I thought about Dianshi and the attitude of the Wu'an county official towards Mr. Xu, I felt that I had quoted the wrong price again this time.

Before Xu Yi raised his head and opened his mouth, the shopkeeper Du couldn't sit still, and said before Xu Yi could speak: "Mr. Xu is not satisfied with the quotation below? There is nothing to say about this price. If Mr. Xu is not satisfied, We can discuss it again!"

That's good, Xu Yi himself didn't speak, these people relaxed first, Xu Yi then continued his words, frowned and said: "To be honest, although this is the first time for me to come to this place, but for the local price I still have some understanding. The price quoted by shopkeeper Du is not close to what I know. If the price is so high, I am afraid that I will come here empty-handed this time! I am originally from the south. I went to Liguojian in Xuzhou to look far away and ran here. The figure is that the price of iron here is cheap. If I add the freight according to the price quoted by Shopkeeper Du, I am afraid that when the steel is shipped back to the south, the price will be higher than that from Xuzhou. For the purchase price, doing business is all about profit, if this is the case, I can't buy here!"

Xu Yi's words are clear, I am very dissatisfied with your quotation, if you offer this price, I will not buy it, you can figure it out for yourself!Damn, you bastards dare to play tricks on me, let's whet your appetite first!
Xu Yi's words immediately changed the faces of the five shopkeepers. Although they are an important place for iron production, they are not the only places in the Song Dynasty that produce iron. Although the small iron smelter produces much less iron than their side and the price is higher than theirs, Mr. Xu said that he is from the south, and the iron will be transported to the south. If the freight is added, it must be It is still more cost-effective to purchase in Xuzhou, so several people looked at the shopkeeper Du again, thinking that the price quoted by his surname Du was too high, and that the surname Du was wronged. Originally, he didn't want to report it, but these people just now Staring at him and asking him to quote, and now seeing that people are dissatisfied, they all blame him, isn't this just asking for trouble?
"What Mr. Xu said is true, what he said is true! We are all looking for profit in business, and naturally there is room for this business. Let's discuss it again. The quotation I gave you just now is only for the official. , if you buy it privately, the price is negotiable, and you know that the public price and the private price are different, haha!" Shopkeeper Du hurriedly said that he didn't want to be an outcropping rafter, who knows what's behind this Mr. Xu? Which big official backed him up, and if he offended him, he went back to his master to give him a slap in the face, wouldn't he be in bad luck?
Of course Xu Yi knows the tricks of doing business in general, let alone during the Song Dynasty, even after 800 years, it will never be cheaper to buy things from the public in later generations. Selling to private individuals is much more expensive, and the price may go up several times, which is the same reason here, because those officials who buy things can't spend the public money for nothing, they always try their best to get benefits from the middle , and this shopkeeper Du is dishonest, the price he quoted just now must be a personal price for him, not for the government, if he made a price for the government, it would probably be much higher!Saying this now is just making excuses for himself, Xu Yi despised him vigorously.

"Since shopkeeper Du said so, does that mean that the price is still negotiable?" Xu Yi asked him with a relaxed expression, showing a smile again.

"There is a discussion, of course there is a discussion, business is like this, there is room for everything, there is room for everything! Hehe!" Shopkeeper Du quickly replied with a smile.

Xu Yi picked up the wine glass and said: "In this case, I'm not in a hurry to leave. I just arrived here and haven't looked around yet. Let's not talk about this today. Let's talk about it after I get acquainted here. Well, we met for the first time today, talking about this matter is really spoiling the scenery, I think we might as well just drink and chat today, talk about romance, not about business? Come, I'm toasting you all!" He raised his hand wine glass.

Several shopkeepers looked at it and felt that Mr. Xu was really not simple. He wanted to delay it for a while, so he went to the local area to understand the market before talking about it!It seems that Mr. Xu really bought goods for himself this time!Then it will not be so easy for them to reap more benefits from it!
But they are not frustrated, because they don't necessarily like dealing with officials and businessmen, because the prices of the goods they sell to officials are higher, but this business is also troublesome, and they need to keep dealing with various channels. Even if the business transaction is over, after deducting the management fees, it is not necessarily possible to earn more money and do business with private individuals. Buying and selling has the advantage of doing business with private individuals, that is, everything is based on profit, as long as the two parties agree on the price, then there will be much less trouble in the future. Paying the money with one hand and delivering the goods with the other hand, there is not much trouble, and it is refreshing .

So several shopkeepers also quickly picked up their wine glasses, and echoed Xu Yi, saying that it was really not suitable to talk about this matter when they met for the first time today, and that drinking is more important, so several people drank and talked and laughed again.

After a while, Cui Dianshi and the county official thought that Xu Yi's business should be almost done, and they all returned to the house, and the crowd was lively again.

Seeing that after Xu Yi was full of wine and food, the shopkeepers were almost drunk, so they invited Xu Yi to a famous local Goulan place to have fun, and they all recommended the local Goulan. The girl is so beautiful and talented, she wanted to invite Xu Yi to go whoring there, but Xu Yi rejected them one by one, saying that she was really tired after driving for a day, and she wanted to rest, so she refused to go .

Xu Yi has always been unimpressed with prostitution, not because he thinks he is noble, but because he really feels that those prostitutes at this time are pitiful. They are different from those prostitutes in later generations. The reason why they live in the hooks and engage in this kind of butcher's career, and now there is no protection from condoms or the like, who knows if those prostitutes have hidden diseases, once they win the bid, it will be a big deal. That's why he is very resistant to this kind of thing. Besides, since he met the No. 1 prostitute Li Shishi in Bianliang, Tokyo, his vision has been too high. How can ordinary girls fall into his trap? Fayan?That's why he resolutely declined.

Cui Dianshi and the others saw that Xu Yi insisted on not going, so they couldn't hold back anymore, so they sent Xu Yi out of the restaurant and back to the inn to rest, and then they galloped to the fireworks place, after all, they wanted to Thank you for your help on this Cui Dian matter!

(Don’t be too long-winded. Regarding the metal smelting industry in the Song Dynasty, Geda has consulted a lot of information. Writing these things feels a bit thankless, but Geda still hopes that since he writes historical subjects, he still wants to write this book. Many links in the book are written as close to history as possible, so as not to be scolded by some brothers who are familiar with history for being ignorant. Geda has been scolded many times, and the name of an idiot really feels bad! So everyone needs to continue to support Pida. Let Pimple write it down!)
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