When Alva sent envoys from various plantations to the border to discuss with the owners to buy and sell food from the Ming Dynasty, these new nobles had long sold all the food they could sell.

Hundreds of plantations with white cloth bags hanging on the east side of the western border of Ming Dynasty have become the most beautiful scenery here.

There are also big words printed on the bag: half a stone of flour.

People say this is a symbol of border friendship, and a monk recorded this scene of trade prosperity in his autobiography.

If you don’t deeply explore the prosperity behind it, border trade is indeed very prosperous. Planters and merchants are keen to exchange goods for Wanli Yazhou Tongbao, and then go to the other side of the official road to buy silk and porcelain.

There are not many goods in Zhangjiagou, and it is said that more goods are still on the way to transport, but the prices of porcelain and silk are relatively cheap. Although this is indeed more expensive than in Macau or the Philippines in the early years, it can be relatively cheaper than the purchase price of Seville or the Netherlands, even if the shipping fee is added to Shanghai, it is still profitable.

They drove a few carriages to exchange for thousands of Tongbao in Wangjiabao, or simply bought Tongbao with silver because the silver coins were not cast well, and a silver coin of one or two could be exchanged for eight hundred Tongbao.

Then in Wangjiagou opposite, Siqiantongbaon bought a piece of silk of various colors with excellent craftsmanship. If five thousand Tongbao was produced, you could buy a piece of silk of various colors with dark ribs and dark vertical patterns. As for dark cloud patterns, silk with dark Ruyi patterns was more exquisitely made, ranging from 7,000 to 8,000.

Of course, the most expensive ones are not the ones sold in the Ming Dynasty, but black silk or colorful silk. In the Ming Dynasty, no one wears patterns, like local buns, but people here like them, and even Spanish nobles and merchants place orders on the border.

Of course, they also want bright red satin, but the merchants don’t sell it, not even a single piece.

Big red, crow green, and bright yellow are not sold. In the words of the merchant, "You are not worthy of wearing it!"

As for the Western merchants who wanted to buy porcelain, they were anxious for a long time. They stayed in several Western plantations east of Wangjiabao and Zhangjiagou. They sent people to the border line every day to stare at them, waiting for Ming Dynasty to ship goods, but they kept saying that porcelain was on the road, porcelain was on the road, porcelain was on the road, porcelain was on the road...

Porcelain is really on the road.

In the Ming Dynasty, porcelain was a luxury in daily use, divided into coarse porcelain and fine porcelain. Coarse porcelain and fine porcelain were divided into three grades, upper, middle and lower, but even high-quality fine porcelain was not very expensive.

If there is no historical significance or careful crafting, the price of a high-quality fine porcelain bowl, plate, cup and bottle is three to five cents of silver, while the lower-quality fine porcelain is even cheaper. You can buy ten pieces of silver from three to five cents of silver.

Therefore, in the early years, overseas Southeast Asia, such as Borneo, even if there is a premium for maritime trade, ordinary people can still buy one as a treasure at home.

However, in the Mingxi trade in Asia, as porcelain flowing into Europe, Chen Mu did not intend to sell them at such a "low price".

The supplies transported by the Beiyang Phase II were transported by ships, those celadon plates and white porcelain bowls were tied with straw ropes to avoid shock absorption and stuffed into the cabins, which was much more than the people transported. More than 150,000 porcelain pieces were put down on the ship, which was a major project.

More than 150,000 were just removed and the number of broken down. Almost every group of porcelain was damaged due to external forces during shipping. During the process of Lifu in Changsheng County, he was ordered to load and unload the ship, and some mistakes were made in the assembly, resulting in a loss of more than 20%.

But if porcelain was shipped with silk, it would have arrived long ago, but they did not. These batches of porcelain were slowly packaged under the command of the Asian Strategies. The sawing yard made every effort to make exquisite lacquer boxes, and according to the patterns of the porcelain, the firing patterns were divided into sets and placed in a tightly-sewn lacquer box.

The cost of lacquered wooden boxes is even greater than that of a set of porcelain.

Each set of lacquer boxes or painted with mud gold lacquer, the same decorative painting as the inner porcelain is painted, and the copper locks are inserted and buckles are placed, and several dishes, wooden chopsticks, plates, and porcelain bottles are placed together as sets, and the lower upper, middle and lower levels are set.

Only after these processes are completed can the flag army be escorted and sent to the border.

Lower lacquer box porcelain 50,000 to 100,000 Tongbao, medium lacquer box porcelain 100,000 to 150,000 Tongbao, high-quality lacquer box porcelain 150,000 to 300,000 Tongbao.

And on the inside of the upper lid of each set of high-end lacquer boxes, there are handwritten and handwritten messages written by Chen Mu.

Since Zhao Shizhen entered the shogunate, Sailu Gong's attainment in calligraphy has not made any progress in the past few years, but he has completely let himself go. After realizing that he does not have to rely on external objects to increase his value, he has lived a very easy life. He wrote gifts for more than 4,700 sets of high-quality lacquer boxes, which is easy to write.

Although Zou Yuanbiao, Zhao Shizhen, Xu Wei and others from Changsheng County thought that Chen Mu's inscriptions on the lacquer box was indeed a good idea, everyone found that Chen Mu's inscriptions seemed to be different from others.

The key to other people’s inscriptions is words, leaving a name is just one of them, but what about their Marshal Chen? The key is name, and it doesn’t matter what words to mention, even chanting the goose.

A set of lacquer box porcelain can divide his name into seven or eight places to write, for example, the word Jinghai is left on the wooden box, the bottom of the plate is sealed by his own house, the bottom of the bowl is kept on the date, the cup handle is written by the important officials of Beiyang, and the bottle body is even written by Chen Mu, the Asian Staff of Beiyang, the important officials of Beiyang, the Ming Empire.

To be honest, just like Chen Mu's showing off his strength, Zhao Shizhen planned to deduct part of his salary and buy a set for the Duke of Alva. He would put it at home to eat and sleep wherever he could eat and sleep. How annoying is Chen Mu?

Of course, all porcelains are not sold at such high prices. There are many pieces that cannot be collected in sets, which are relatively cheap. However, even if they are cheap, these porcelains are taken to the border into cars, and no merchant on the border can be transported away by cars.

By the way, Alva can.

Because Chen Mu still paid for the 60 tons of grain sent by the Western Army earlier, he was not as petty as a petty man and didn't give the money to others. He really didn't have that much money on the border line at the beginning, and all the money had to be printed from Changsheng County.

Of course, it is another matter whether the Duke of Alva is happy to collect the money or not.

Two hundred and seventy-eight thousand and four hundred Tongbao, totaling 278 paper notes with one thousand and one thousand and four Tongbaos with one hundred and one hundred denominations.

The purchase price of grain given by Chen Mu was already low. Except for the planters who were frightened by the "green cloak" on the border line who were eager to pay the protection fee, the closer the other planters were to the east coast, the less willing they were to sell grain. Not only did they have to buy cotton bags, they also had to waste their way to transport the grain.

Not to mention that the rice and noodles are all transported. The rice here is planted when the nobles came from Valencia in southern Spain. The yield is not high, just for the aristocrats and mercenaries to eat and use. Now, under the order of the Governor's Office of the New Spain, some of them have to be transported to the border line.

The slave workers who were transported had never eaten anything, and it was easy to get accidents on the way. For example, the slave workers who were transported secretly carried a bag of Spanish rice while the guard was sleeping. This was still good. In order to transport food near the border, groups of slave workers attacked the guards many times, carrying grain bags and crossing the border to surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

Free westward!

The slave workers spread. The Ming army was similar to theirs. They treated them as brothers of the same clan. They paid for their work for the Ming people. They could rent their own land if they saved money. They had no money to pay for their own taxes and labor to serve the emperor. They could own their own property. The Ming people did not sleep with their wives casually.

Although planters are not very willing to sell food, they are happy to buy goods from the other side of the border. If they exchange food for it, they exchange silver coins. Which of these planters does not have a net worth of thousands of silver coins? Twenty-two silver coins are exchanged for three or four pieces of silk. It is very suitable to go back and make a piece of clothing.

After all, the silk weaving factory in Mexico City has not produced these things for a long time because it has not been imported from the Nanyang raw silk and the subsequent uprising.
Chapter completed!