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The first day of the trade conference was the opening ceremony. Zhao Yao, His Royal Highness the King of Han, opened the ceremony and announced the start of the first trade conference of Marsh Mansion.

At the opening ceremony, His Royal Highness Zhao Yao, the King of Han Dynasty, first delivered a speech. The content of the speech will not be repeated here. In summary, people from all over the world are welcome to come to Marsh Mansion to do business.

After delivering his speech, Zhao Yao sounded the gong to officially start the trade conference. Then, a lot of firecrackers were set off, which was very lively. Finally, the people of Marsh Mansion performed dragon dance and lion dance, which was very festive.

After the performance, His Highness the King of Han will lead the distinguished guests who came to attend the trade conference to visit the product exhibition.

At the pier of Marsh Mansion, each place will have its own "exhibition hall" to display the goods they bring. The "exhibition hall" is actually a simply built room with many shelves placed on them to attract customers.

The exhibition halls are distinguished by place, not by individual. For example, Lingnan Exhibition Hall, Beijing Exhibition Hall, Yangzhou Exhibition Hall, Annan Exhibition Hall, Johor Exhibition Hall, etc.

Marsh Mansion is the host of the trade conference, so the Lingnan Exhibition Hall is the largest. In the Lingnan Exhibition Hall, not only things from Marsh Prefecture are displayed, but also specialties from other Lingnan prefectures are displayed.

Zhao Yao first led the distinguished guests to visit the Lingnan Exhibition Hall. The first thing I saw was the specialties of Lingnan, such as fruits, medicinal materials, food, etc.

Before the trade conference, the common people had set up stalls to display these Lingnan-specific things, and guests from far away had already eaten them.

Foreign royal guests were not very interested in these specialties. In their eyes, these things are food for common people and are not in line with their noble status.

Things that interest them are things like glass, soap, salt, and sugar.

When they saw all kinds of exquisite glass things on the shelves, they were all stunned.

These exquisite glass products are newly fired and not yet for sale. The faces of the Gentile royals lit up when they heard that these very beautiful glasses were not yet available for sale.

As the noble King of Han, Zhao Yao had lowered his profile when he led these people to visit the exhibition hall. It would be too disrespectful to ask him to explain it, so others should introduce these things to the foreigners.

The people responsible for explaining to foreigners are the "talents" who came to Marsh Mansion before and failed.

The glass products specially fired for the trade conference this time are all very high-end products, suitable for the status of foreign distinguished guests.

There are glass tableware, such as bowls, plates, basins, jars, cups, chopsticks, etc. The colors of these tableware are very bright and very rich. These foreign dignitaries like luxurious and rich colors, unlike the Zhou people who like simplicity and elegance.

There are glass jewelry, such as earrings, necklaces, rings, bracelets, hairpins, hairpins, etc. These glass jewelry are very exquisitely made and sparkle under the sunlight. They are even more shining than jewelry made of gold and silver. They are very popular with foreign guests, especially princesses who cannot move away after seeing them. look.

There are glass vases, such as long-neck vases, round vases, square vases, etc. There are also vases in various animal shapes. These glass vases also come in various colors, such as red, orange, yellow, green, green, blue, purple, etc.

There are glass furniture, such as coffee tables, tables, chairs, beds, etc. These glass furniture also come in many colors, and are also carved with exquisite patterns, representing auspicious animal patterns, etc.

There are glass lanterns, such as lanterns from the Zhou Dynasty, lanterns from foreign countries, and lanterns from various countries in the Western Regions.

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There are many glass products, so I won’t introduce them in detail one by one.

The foreign guests were dazzled by the exquisite glass products in front of them. They didn't know which one to buy for a while, and they wanted to buy them all.

Not to mention the foreign guests who were shocked by these glass products, even the officials in Zhao Yao's small court were also amazed. Although they had seen a lot of glass things before, none of them were as beautiful as the glass in front of them.

Zhao Yao was very satisfied when he saw the foreign guests looking greedily at the glass products on the shelves. Many people have begun to inquire about his prices and want to re-contract glass products business with him.

After viewing the glass products, Zhao Yao then showed the foreign guests salt, sugar, chili, pepper and other items.

Before the trade meeting, these foreign guests had already seen salt, sugar, chili pepper and other things. However, the salt and sugar displayed this time are more "high-end".

As soon as these foreign royal members heard the word "high-level", their expressions became excited. They have high status and feel that only high-end things are worthy of them. How can the salt, sugar, and chili in the Marsh Mansion Restaurant be worthy of them, because these things are eaten by ordinary people.

Not only the members of foreign royal families like to put on airs and are unwilling to eat the same food and wear the same cloth as the common people, but also the officials and wealthy people of the Zhou Dynasty. They feel that their status is noble, and the things they eat, use, wear, and live in should be nobler than those of the common people.

The salt and sugar displayed in the exhibition hall are not high-end, they are just more refined in production.

As Zhao Yao expected, the foreign royal guests liked the salt and sugar displayed in the exhibition hall very much. After arriving at Marsh Mansion and eating fine salt, they discovered that the salt they had eaten before was just like pebbles. As for white sugar, they had never eaten it before. After eating white sugar in Marsh Mansion, they fell deeply in love with the sweetness of white sugar. Ever since Zhao Yao made white sugar and promoted many foods made with white sugar, the people of Marsh Mansion, businessmen from the mainland, and distinguished guests from foreign countries all like to eat these foods.

Seeing that guests like to eat sugar so much, the chefs at the Marsh Mansion restaurant put a lot of sugar in every dish.

During this period, the guests from other places and foreign countries all gained weight because they ate all kinds of things made with sugar every day.

Zhao Yao felt that if they stayed in Marsh Mansion for a month, they would all gain at least two pounds. Eating too much sugar is bad for your health. He put up a warning notice, but it had no effect. I don’t know if life was too hard in the past, but now everyone likes to eat sweets to sweeten their lives.

In addition to white sugar, rock sugar, brown sugar, and candies are also on display. These were not available before. Zhao Yao specially asked Nanshan Farm to make them.

I learned that brown sugar is good for women’s health and can also beautify their skin. The foreign princesses did not hesitate for a moment and immediately ordered brown sugar from Zhao Yao. For princesses, a moment of hesitation is disrespectful to themselves.

There are two types of rock sugar, one is crystal clear white rock sugar, and the other is yellow rock sugar. No matter which one it is, it is very sweet and very popular among foreign guests.

There are also two types of candy, one is fructose and the other is lactose. Fructose has many flavors, such as lychee, apple, banana, longan, etc. There are many flavors of nougat, one is simple milk flavor, one is nougat, and the other is milk fruit flavor.

After the foreign guests tasted the candies, they ordered without hesitation, and ordered a lot of them.

Next is a tour of fabrics and embroidery.

The unique embroidery of Lingnan is different from those in the interior and different from foreign countries. It is very unique. The foreign guests, who had never seen it before, were very surprised and ordered a lot of them.

At present, the fabrics used in Dazhou include cloth, gauze, damask, Luo, silk and satin. Last year, Zhao Yao asked the embroiderers to make the brocade, but they never succeeded until two months ago. Zhao Yao originally named it "Lingnan Brocade", but he thought it was too awkward to pronounce, so he just called it "Yun Brocade", borrowing the Yun Brocade from Zhao Yao's world in his dream.

Zhao Yao originally wanted the embroidery girls to make tapestry, but it was difficult to weave, and so far he has not succeeded.

Yun brocade is very precious, every inch of brocade is gold, which is in line with the status of foreign royal guests. Knowing that Yun brocade was very rare and that the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty did not have it yet, the distinguished guests from foreign royal families did not hesitate and hurriedly ordered it from Zhao Yao.

Then, Zhao Yao led the foreign dignitaries to visit the display of farm tools.

The agricultural tools of these foreign countries are very backward, with no curved shaft plows or waterwheels. After listening to the introduction and realizing that Dazhou's farm tools were so easy to use, they also ordered a batch from Zhao Yao.

Although farm tools do not qualify as members of foreign royal families, they also want more and more food in their country.

Zhao Yao originally wanted to show fertilizer, but then he thought about it and decided against it. If the grain production in foreign countries increases due to fertilizers, they may have thoughts that they shouldn't have. Furthermore, whether people in other countries can have enough to eat has nothing to do with him.

Next is the weapons. Of course, the weapons on display are all old weapons. They are not new weapons made by Zhao Yao. It is impossible to display black fire, fire blunderbuss, and pistols. On display are bows, arrows, knives, swords, spears and other weapons that were eliminated a few years ago.

The weapons eliminated by the Zhou Dynasty were very advanced for foreign countries. Their iron smelting and forging technology was much behind that of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Seeing that His Highness the King of Han was selling weapons, the foreign royal guests were very shocked. They felt that Zhao Yao was too bold and dared to sell weapons to them. They tried out the weapons on display and found that they were very sharp and easy to use. They were afraid that Zhao Yao would regret it, so they quickly ordered these weapons from His Highness the King of Han.

Zhao Yao felt happy when he saw that these old weapons could make a lot of money. In the future, we can continue to recycle waste and sell the waste that Great Zhou does not want to these foreign countries.

After browsing the weapons shelves, Zhao Yao led the foreign dignitaries to the last row of shelves. There are several boxes on the shelves. The boxes contain porcelain, but they are not ordinary porcelain, but blue and white porcelain.

At the beginning of this year, Zhao Yao asked the craftsmen of the porcelain factory to find a way to make blue and white porcelain. It wasn't until a month ago that craftsmen finally succeeded in making blue and white porcelain.

When Zhao Yao opened the box and revealed the exquisite and elegant blue and white porcelain inside, everyone present gasped in shock.

No introduction is needed, just look at the glaze color of blue and white porcelain. Foreign royal guests all know how precious it is. Even before Zhao Yao opened his mouth to sell, these people wanted to buy it and offered a very high price.

Zhao Yao told them that these blue and white porcelain could not be sold to them for the time being because he wanted to pay tribute to the imperial court in the capital. After obtaining permission from the imperial court in the capital, he could make blue and white porcelain and sell it to them.

After the Yun brocade was made, it was not immediately presented to the imperial court in the capital. Blue and white porcelain cannot stop paying tribute, otherwise it will definitely be scolded by the stinky father.

Guests of foreign royal families knew that blue and white porcelain was definitely not for ordinary people to use, it must be reserved for the royal family. Although they were eager to get it, they also knew that the tributes from the Zhou royal family could not be sold to them casually. They could only buy blue and white porcelain with the consent of the Zhou emperor.

Zhao Yao appeased these foreign guests, saying that they were friends of Zhou Dynasty, and the court would definitely allow him to sell blue and white porcelain to them, and asked them to wait for the time being.

Hearing what His Royal Highness the King of Han said, the foreign dignitaries expressed that they would always be Zhou's friends and that they were willing to wait for as long as they wanted.

After everything in the Lingnan Exhibition Hall was on display, the foreign guests praised it and said it was an eye-opener for them. They also wanted to see what was in the Lingnan Exhibition Hall and did not want to go to other exhibition halls for the time being. (End of chapter)