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Chapter 7 Can't buy and sell? (Ask for votes!)
When the court heard the words, he said respectfully: "Your honored guest, please follow me to the quiet room to serve tea, and I will invite the shopkeeper over immediately."

He led his staff to guide Wang Hua through the lobby to a quiet room in the courtyard, and it could be seen that this was a room used to receive guests on a daily basis.

There are several elegant calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall facing the door in the room. There is a long coffee table in the middle of the room, and four grand master chairs facing each other. It seems that it should be a place for serious discussions.

After a quick glance at the calligraphy and painting, Wang Hua didn't have the background and interest to appreciate it, so he found a chair and sat down.

The clerk took a brocade cloth and carefully placed the mechanical watch on the coffee table in front of Wang Hua, then bowed his hands to Wang Hua, took a few steps back and said, "Please take me with you." Then he turned and went out.

After waiting for about 3 minutes, a young man in Tsing Yi brought a cup of tea and a small plate of pastries, and said: "Please take your time."

Then he bowed to Wang Hua and left.

After a while, hurried footsteps sounded again, and the guy ushered in a shopkeeper who was nearly fifty years old.

The shopkeeper arched his hands all the way: "The distinguished guest is here, Zhang is late to greet you, forgive me for my sin."

Shopkeeper Zhang walked over to the chair opposite Wang Hua and sat down while talking. After nodding again, he stared at the mechanical watch on the brocade cloth with piercing eyes.

Wang Hua also stood up and imitated him, cupping his hands and saying, "Don't dare, shopkeeper Zhang is too polite."

Then the two sat down together. Wang Hua couldn't help smiling when he saw his expression, and stretched out his hand to push the mechanical watch and the brocade cloth on it to the opposite side.

"Please!"

"Thank you!"

Shopkeeper Zhang carefully picked up the mechanical watch with both hands, and carefully played with it for a while. He is an old fox in the mall.

After figuring out how to use the mechanical watch under the guidance of Wang Hua, shopkeeper Zhang said with a smile, "It doesn't sound like a Quanzhou person from the accent of the distinguished guest?"

This is to find out the origin.

Wang Hua smiled from the bottom of his heart, trying to find out about me.But this also shows that he values ​​this mechanical watch, otherwise he would not go around in circles.

"Wang was not born in Daming. The family migrated overseas around the Battle of Yamen in the former Song Dynasty. I grew up overseas. This time I returned to China from Nanyang with the elders in my family to pay my respects to the clothes of my ancestors."

"Unexpectedly, unexpected events caused my Wang family's fleet to encounter Japanese pirates and storms one after another at sea. It is a stroke of luck that I survived this time, and I have lingering fears! Now Wang wants to pawn one or two of his belongings, so that he can wait for the next wave of his family's fleet here in Hangzhou! I am ashamed~"

This is the identity that Wang Hua arranged for himself after consideration. After all, the Ming Dynasty banned the sea during this period, and the origin of being able to do maritime trade business at this time is not simple.

"So that's how it is. The prince is a lucky man, and if he survives a catastrophe, he will have a future blessing. But please forgive Zhang for his poor eyesight. I don't know where this treasure came from. I have seen goods from places like Dashi, Daqin, Persia, Baida, Majia, and Gulin. It's just that this is the first time I've seen such a delicate and practical treasure."

Shopkeeper Zhang has also seen the world, but he became more and more puzzled about the origin of this mechanical watch.

"Shopkeeper Zhang is really well-informed. I wonder if you have heard of the Gongshu class? The descendants of the Gongshu family have avoided disasters overseas as early as the pre-Qin period. They spread the family skills on a continent far away in the East China Sea. The people of the Gongshu family have been studying various skills for hundreds of years. They can make wooden birds that can fly in the sky, wooden oxen and horses that can move on their own. It is said that they are still developing iron-clad ships that can sail across the ocean!"

Shopkeeper Zhang was dumbfounded, and after a while he said in surprise: "It is said in the book that Gongshuban can be a wooden bird, which can fly in the sky for three days without falling to the ground. Is this true?"

"Of course it's true. I saw with my own eyes a child of the public loser sitting on a wooden bird and flying above the white clouds."

This is not for me to fool you, we really met children on the plane.

Shopkeeper Zhang was speechless, and it took a long time before he could say, "Flying above the white clouds, it's very close to the heaven, isn't it true that the public losers are not afraid of disturbing the gods and causing disasters?"

Wang Hua couldn't laugh or cry, and he really felt how deep the 500-year generation gap between himself and the Ming Dynasty turtle in front of him was.

He brought the topic back and said, "Shopkeeper Zhang, look at how much this watch can be worth in your store. Let's just ask, you can give the number directly, and if it suits you, I'll leave it to you. If it doesn't suit you, you'd better go elsewhere and ask."

Shopkeeper Zhang is the person in charge of the pawn shop, according to the rules, he should estimate the price first, he mused:
"My lord, tell me quickly, this shop is willing to offer you 100 taels of silver, what do you think?"

Wang Hua quickly calculated in his heart, silver is about seven or eight yuan a gram in modern time and space, even if there is no 50 grams of a tael of silver in the Ming Dynasty, there will always be 35 grams with a 100% discount.The price of silver in modern time and space is about seven or eight yuan per gram, and this [-] taels is equivalent to about [-] soft sister coins.

A mechanical watch with a cost of no more than 100 RMB can sell for 25000 RMB. This foreign trade business is really profitable!

This is still based on the price of silver. The gold-silver exchange ratio in the Ming Dynasty was ten to one. What is the gold-silver ratio in modern time and space?

Unfortunately, I can't go back...

Sweeping away the complicated thoughts in his heart, Wang Hua smiled lightly and said:

"100 taels of silver? Isn't shopkeeper Zhang joking?

This mechanical watch was made by the descendants of Gongshu Ban with three years of painstaking efforts!Not to mention how rare the production process is, you know that the steel used to make the strap is thousand-forged steel, not to mention the crystal glass with such high purity and the fine gemstones inlaid inside.My watch is a rare treasure even in overseas countries!
Except for mine, there is no second one in the entire Ming Dynasty. "

"How much money do you want to be, sir?"

Wang Hua smiled lightly and said, "One price, 2 taels!"

Shopkeeper Zhang laughed and said, "Hey, you're really a lion, Mr. Wang, don't you think how many acres of good paddy fields you can buy outside the city for 2 taels? These are just timing objects. How can they be worth so much?"

"There are tens of thousands of acres of fertile land in the world, but this ingenious mechanical watch is the only one in my hand!"

Wang Hua is not in a hurry, anyway, there is more than one pawn shop, so if you can't negotiate here, you can go elsewhere.

"Up to 800 taels. This is a timekeeping device. No one can afford it except high-ranking officials. But the real high-ranking officials don't watch the time by the servants around them. Who would personally time the time. In the final analysis, this is just a plaything!"

The two chattered a few more words, Wang Hua saw that the shopkeeper was really unwilling to give in, so he didn't continue to argue with him, but simply got up and left.

Under the warm farewell of the shopkeeper Zhang, Wang Hua walked out of the first shop he visited today, and at the same time, he couldn't help feeling a little curious about the enthusiasm of this product.

(End of this chapter)