Nanming: I can build wonders

Mustafa Pasha took out his small notebook, took out a pen, and began to record the prices of every commodity here in detail.

Salt costs eight cents a catty, and Yuyao Saltworks produces high-quality white salt.

Sugar, 66 Wen per catty, is the best sucrose produced in Nanyang, very sweet and very white. If this kind of sugar is in Europe, only the nobles and the really rich can enjoy it.

Conservatively, it costs at least a few silver dollars per catty, and you can't buy it.

The only problem is that the purchase of white sugar in Daming is limited, and each person can only buy five catties a month.

This made Mustafa Pasha puzzled, isn't sugar a kind of spice?

Of course not, sugar is a strategic material in Daming!
The kitchen knife is a high-quality fine steel knife produced by Yingtian Steel Works. It is definitely a good steel with a sound of flicking it!
In the Ottoman Empire, this is definitely used to forge swords, and it is impossible to use it to make kitchen knives.

If the blacksmiths of the Ottoman Empire saw it, they would definitely call it a waste.

Because of the flood of Daming steel, kitchen knives are getting better and better, making it difficult for private knives to do business.

According to textual research, the earliest "credit knife man" appeared in the Song Dynasty. At that time, it was called Bumai. Some vendors did not take any money when they sold goods, but they would leave a prophecy. When the prophecy came true, they would come to collect money. Come to collect the money when the text is a catty.

Most of the selling is some daily necessities such as pots, pans and ladles. Since then, it has gradually evolved into selling knives, and then there is the saying of "knife on credit".

Many people have doubts. The vendors can just sell things well. Why do they have to give credit to strangers?
If people don't admit it in the future, wouldn't it be a loss?

In fact, there is a set of logic here.

First of all, since the knives sold by credit knives people do not need to pay at the moment, it will give people a feeling of taking advantage of it and stimulate the desire to buy.

Moreover, there is a big gap between the prophecies made by people on credit and the current prices or reality. Therefore, many people don’t believe that one day, they always feel that it will definitely not appear. With the mentality of taking advantage, the willingness to buy is greatly improved. In modern terms , called "anticipation psychology".

In this way, some people who didn't plan to buy it will buy one by accident. After all, many people only care about immediate benefits and don't think too long-term. They just think that earning now is enough.

So will credit knife people lose money by doing this?

In the short term, you can only get out but not make a loss, but in the long run, it is still beneficial.

The prophecy left by creditors is usually closely related to life. For example, the prices of some agricultural products fluctuate greatly. There is a high probability that prices will rise or fall sharply in a few years or even more than ten years.

Another example is the description of the future society. As long as there are no major changes, it can generally be realized. After all, society is moving forward.

For creditors, this is more like a long-term investment behavior.

So, what if someone else reneges on a debt after a few years, or ten years later, and refuses to admit it?
There is no need to worry too much about this. Most people will not renege on their debts. After all, they are daily necessities, not sky-high prices.

If you renege on your debts, not to mention damaging your reputation, you will also have a psychological shadow, because the credit knife person has long been rumored to be miraculous, and is packaged as a person who has insight into the secrets. Facing a person who can accurately predict a few years or ten years ago If you ask me if you are afraid, do you still dare to renege?
They are probably the earliest futures traders!
Of course, there is another way of saying it, that is, "blaming the blame".

Sharp objects like knives generally indicate bleeding. Could it be said that people with a knife on credit predict that they will suffer bloody disasters, so is it true that the knife on credit is fake and the misfortune is transferred?
This is just a guess with no basis, and divination of disasters is also a statement that cannot be trusted.

Mustafa Pasha continued to look, eggs, two cents each.

Authentic grassland air-dried beef comes from Monan and Mobei Mongolia, and a catty of beef jerky costs only [-] cents.

It is a pity that the cost of transporting cattle and sheep from the grassland is too high, and there is very little fresh beef, which leads to high prices of fresh beef. Therefore, supermarkets generally do not sell fresh beef and are prone to lose money, unless there is a railway connecting the grassland and Jiangnan in the future.

Porcelain bowls, plates, plates, etc. produced in Jingdezhen are sold according to size. A porcelain bowl that can be sold for a few taels of silver in Europe costs only ten yuan here.

Tea, a piece of Fujian Wuyi rock tea brick, costs only [-] Wen per catty, which is considered a relatively expensive commodity.

Of course, this price is not expensive for Wuyi rock tea. In the Song and Yuan Dynasties, it was a tribute!

But such a piece of Wuyi rock tea brick would cost at least five taels of silver in the Ottoman Empire, which is more than ten times that here.

A piece of high-quality woolen cloth is only sold here for 99 yuan, but if this cloth is in the Ottoman Empire, the same important and high-quality cloth would cost at least two taels of silver, and it is not as good as the Ming Dynasty. Many, bright and beautiful colors.

Mustafa Pasha kept recording each supermarket product, the more he recorded, the more surprised he was.

"Too cheap, too cheap!"

The Jewish Minister Schein, who had seen the big world next to him, was also shocked.

As the leader of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire, he knew everything about commodities, prices, production, etc. around the world.

Now that he came to Daming, he also found it incredible to see the prices of various commodities.

"The prices of goods in the Ming Empire are so cheap, no wonder people who have been to Daming say that the people of Ming Dynasty live in heaven."

Mustafa Pasha also nodded, his eyes were dazzled.

At this time, Mustafa Pasha was thinking in his heart, the Qing Dynasty must be on guard!

According to what he learned from attending classes in Daming Elementary School, the Great Qing had once defeated Daming, and now that Great Qing was getting closer and closer to Ottoman.

Xin Daming did not lie in his history class. He frankly admitted that he had been defeated by the Qing Dynasty, but he also fought back, so there is no shame in it.

The first thing Mustafa Pasha did when he returned to Ottoman was to cut off the arms business with the Qing Dynasty.

He remembered that Osman seemed to have traded with the Qing Dynasty, and had sold a lot of guns to the Qing Dynasty. At least Osman succeeded in conquering Tianzhu.

Originally, it was hoped that after the Qing Dynasty became stronger, it would flank the Persian Empire with Osman, but now it would become a lure?

As Ottoman's first savvy member, Mustafa Pasha believed that Ottoman and Ming had a common enemy now, and it could be used as a common topic with the Emperor of Ming, thus attracting more military assistance from Ming.

After writing this point in his diary, Mustafa Pasha discovered that a diary can also strengthen a country!