Chapter 213 Profiteering (Part 2)
"It must be twice as good as it is." Zhebyzan is also a simple person, at least not lie. He said honestly: "If it is this kind of salt, we don't need to filter or screen it at all, and we can use it directly. One hundred and sixty... Oh, no, 120 kilograms of such fine salt, some people are willing to sell an adult horse!"
"So, are you willing to sell us horses?" I looked at him and asked faintly.
"Sell!"
Zhebyzhan looked at the salt in our hands and gritted his teeth suddenly, "Young Master Silver Star, we sell 100 pieces! Just give me 7,000 kilograms of high-quality salt! As long as it is this first-class salt, the price of mountain products is 120 kilograms of ginseng in ten years, and 1,200 kilograms of first-class salt in one hundred years. In addition, the complete white tiger skin is 300 kilograms of fine salt!"
Although selling a hundred horses is a large number, the group of Jurchen men behind him did not object at all. They looked at the huge wooden barrel intoxicatedly, and they wanted to hold it directly in their arms.
I said lightly: "A hundred horses are very good, and I like them very much, so I will give you eight thousand kilograms of fine salt."
Zhebyzhan's face was happy, rubbed his hands, subconsciously wanted to refuse, but he couldn't say anything. He held it in for a long time before nodding heavily and said, "Then...thank you, Master Yinxing!"
"Apart from that, I wonder if you are willing to sell some livestock to us, Chief of the Zhebyzhan?" I pointed to the terrain opposite the grassland, in groups of three or five.
"The cows should be used to farm with you, right?" Zhebyzan said slightly, "But here, it's just for us to eat meat... Since Master Silver Star is so happy, I don't feel shy. Eighty kilograms of salt are the first one, because it's not easy for a cow to grow up, we can give you a hundred."
"good!"
I nodded with satisfaction and continued to talk, "What about the price of the lamb?"
"sheep?"
Zhebyzan thought he had heard it wrong and said in confusion: "What are you doing with sheep? Do you eat it? It's not worth it! I'm so precious salt to buy sheep!"
No wonder he felt so. The most common livestock on the grasslands were not ubiquitous horses, but these lambs, which were also the largest source of food for the Jurchens. It could be said that they were about to vomit after eating.
Many people will have nausea when they eat mutton almost every day when they reach adulthood.
Of course. This is related to their insufficient salt. If there is enough salt, the mutton will still be very delicious. At least it will not have a strong fishy smell. The aroma of salt will naturally cover up many unpleasant flavors.
I shrugged and said, "It's okay, let's buy a few hundred sheep first and see if we can support it."
"Oh, sheep are easy to feed, as long as there is enough grass." Zhebyzan thought for a moment and said, "I will give you a thousand sheep. Each one charges you ten kilograms of fine salt. Master Silver Star, do you think it's okay?"
I just said that sheep are not valuable, but now I have to collect ten kilograms of fine salt. Zhe Byzhan's face is quite red.
I almost burst into laughter. I resisted my satisfaction and nodded in agreement with the price.
Thinking of the fact that he could get 26,000 kilograms of fine salt immediately, Zhe Byzan felt extremely happy. He glanced at the small jar there inadvertently.
"What is this?" Zhebyzan asked casually.
"Oh, nothing. Nothing." I shook my head quickly.
"Master Silver Star, this is also what you want to sell, right?" Zhe Byzan was not stupid either. He immediately knew. He was curious and said to me complainingly: "Since you have brought it, why don't you show it to us?"
"I……"
"Okay, OK, open it! If it's good, I might buy it too!" Zhebyzan became more and more interested and urged me.
I blinked dozens of times, showing that I had thought about it for a long time before I sighed, took the small jar from Jerokov, gently knocked the mud seal outside, and opened the lid.
A strong and special fragrance immediately drifted out in all directions once there was no restraint.
"This is……"
Looking at the clear water in the jar, Zhebyzan felt his throat roaring. This smell, this smell, makes people want to pick it up and pour it into his stomach.
I signaled Goro, Tang Ben Yoshihide and Tucker, and scooped out the liquor with a small spoon, scooped it into small cups, and handed it to Tseubazan and the Jurchen man behind him.
Although it was only such a small glass, which might be less than a dollar, they still had a brilliant light on their faces holding the wine glass in both hands.
Zhebyzhan first sniffed it with his nose, then licked the wine with his tongue, closed his mouth, and slowly let the wine savor it in his mouth for a while, then suddenly raised his head and poured all the wine into his mouth. The hot wine flowed down his mouth and into his stomach.
"Good wine!"
After a moment, Zhebyzan suddenly shouted: "It's great! This is his damn good wine! This is the wine that we men should drink..."
The group of men behind him roared out of their composure to the sky. The intense whistle almost made their tribesmen think that something was wrong and they wanted to ride a horse to prepare for the battle.
Many of the friends next to me couldn't help but want to laugh.
As for it, it's just a glass of strong wine.
Although the taste is good and manly, you don’t need to be so excited, right?
However, they did not understand Zhe Byzan's mentality.
Zhe Byzhan and others lived on this small grassland all their lives. They had no hope of returning to the super grassland in their hometown. They just barely had enough food and drink, and they had to face difficulties all day long. These Jurchens were filled with depression about the hardships of life, and they also had too much anxiety and confusion about the future.
Such people need something most to let them vent their mood.
The wine is always the supreme thing that makes people relieve depression. From the poet Li Taibai’s poems after drinking, the drinking and singing of the famous celebrities of the Wei and Jin dynasties... etc., the power of wine can be seen, which is definitely incomparable to anything else.
Especially the spirits we brew and extract, the spicy and spicy aroma, which is most suitable for people in cold environments to drink, which can better drive away the cold and relieve moisture. Take the example of people on our Hokkien Island. If you can drink a cup every night, it will definitely be a life that gods live.
After roaring, Zhe Byzan was silent for a while before clenching his fists, staring at me and said, "Master Silver Star, how many of these unparalleled wines do you have?"
I almost burst out laughing. You don’t ask me how much I sell it for now, but ask me how much I have. Isn’t this delivered to me to slaughter?
"This wine is called 'hero blood'. It is made by us using a secret method. It is buried underground for twenty years before it can be considered successful." I said with a heavy face: "Fortunately, our Hokkien Island is big enough, and every household is making hero blood, so over the past thousands of years, we can produce about 20,000 kilograms every year."
"Twenty thousand pounds?" Zhebyzan's throat moved again, obviously swallowing: "Did you all bring it?"
"Yes! They all brought it all." I said hesitantly: "But the price we bought this wine is not low. I'm afraid you can't buy much here... Otherwise, I'll give you 100 kilograms, so let's forget about this."
"No wonder you didn't want to open it just now. It turned out that you were afraid that we could not afford it?" Zhebyzan felt that he was insulted and shouted: "Young Master Silver Star, your jar of 'hero blood' is ten pounds, right? I will give you every five pounds... I will calculate a horse for you, or equivalent ginseng, Polygonum multiflorum, animal fur, how about it?"
The price he gave was definitely very high. In terms of conversion, a pound of wine is 24 pounds of high-quality salt. According to the fifty cents per pound we sold to Hatan and Tsuzuki family, it is almost twelve taels of gold per pound of "hero blood", which is 30% higher than the black heart price set by Lauren's father.
The power of delicious spirits is indeed irresistible!
Of course, this is also because they have the most horses and mountain goods. If they are asked to give gold directly, they will definitely not be able to give this price, at most one-third, because there is too little gold in this place.
So, bartering and reselling other people’s scarce goods everywhere is indeed the only way to get rich!
When I turned my head over, Dad Lauren and Master Ba nodded slightly to me, and expressed their approval of the price.
Looking back, I said skeptical: "Do you have that many things?"
"We don't have many horses, we can only sell another 200 horses at most." Zhebyzhan's mind was very fast at this time: "But in our lives, there are a lot of Polygonum multiflorum. Usually we are reluctant to sell good mountain goods to those unscrupulous merchants. Today, Master Yinxing, you are here, so I will take out the treasures of our clan! Apart from those worthless goods for decades, at least fifty Polygonum multiflorum multiflorum, seventy hundred-year-old ginseng, and eighty hundred-year-old Polygonum multiflorum, how about you?"
This time it was my turn to swallow, and I quickly stretched out my hands and clenched his hands: "What else do you have to say? Let's make a deal!"
"Hahaha……"
Zhebyzhan smiled with satisfaction, looking at the fine salt in the big wooden barrel and the "hero blood" in the small jar. Every hair on his body was in great excitement and pleasure.
The group of Jurchen men behind him couldn't help but turn their throats up and down when they saw the business was completed, and they wanted to pour out the "heroic blood" immediately and drink it.
However, they were just thinking about it. After all, "heroic blood" is so expensive, I am afraid it is not the patriarch, elder and the heads, which are rare to drink, or they can make great contributions to get the reward of "heroic blood"?
(I’m sorry to have some things to delay, but Xiaotu still sincerely asks for recommendations and subscriptions!).
Chapter completed!