Huang Jue, after three marriages

Chapter 10
It was supposed to be transported over a long distance, and the time for over-fire could be shortened, but the packaging took some time.

It was already May when all the [-] catties of tea were ready and Su Yue and Xie Jue left for Quanzhou.

When we arrived at the border of Quanzhou, it was the last time to set off for the South China Sea. After this time, the time to start the voyage would increase a lot.

Su Yue has been staying in the capital all her life. She has seen enough of the prosperity of the capital, but she has never been to other places. This time, she is thinking of experiencing the scenery and prosperity of Quanzhou.

Take a look at the world's largest port, which is known as the world's largest port.

Xie Jue did not enter Quanzhou City, but turned a few dozen miles away from Quanzhou, and boarded a boat from a small fishing village by the sea.

Then after rowing for two hours, boarded the big boat parked at sea.

According to Xie Qi modestly, this ship is not the largest sea ship, it can only be regarded as a relatively large sea ship, but Su Yue was already shocked.

Who said that the Age of Discovery belonged to Europeans and Japanese!

Who said that China's navigation technology is worse than that of the West!

Go through and see!
It is 35 meters long, 14 meters wide, seven meters deep, and can carry eighteen thousand stones!

It's like a moving sea fortress!

After picking up the people, the sea boat sailed downwind, and half a day later, it merged into a fleet of ten merchant ships in total.

The leading ship was bigger.

Standing on the deck, Su Yue couldn't care less about the dizziness caused by the shaking of the ship, she just kept sighing.

The middle-aged man who looked stupid, let the ship enter the fleet, took a board and came over from the largest ship, and glanced sideways.

Xie Qi quickly teleported, blocked Su Yue's small body, and stabbed Su Yue at the same time.

Su Yue turned her head in a daze, her face became even more dull.

The corners of Xie Jue's eyes twitched, thinking that one is already stupid enough, here comes another one!
Xie Qi, you pig, if you don't go there, you just take a look, you go...

"This is my newly bought boy, a countryman, who has never been out of the house." Xie Jue turned his head indifferently, and said to the middle-aged man as if he didn't care at all.

"Oh." The middle-aged man nodded and stopped asking.

Those who run ships, especially those who run sea ships, generally do not bring such young children. On the ship, even the captain has to do things at any time, and there is no space for idlers to stay on the ship.

(A little more cargo is money, and a little more water and food can save lives)
However, Xie Jue's situation is a bit special, bringing such a servant who is dedicated to serving him...

Anyway, the boat is his, and he is responsible for wasting the space. There is no need for others to meddle in such nosy matters.

"Thank you, Captain." After leading the middle-aged man into the cabin, Xie Jue said in a deep voice, "Is there anything unusual?"

The ocean is far away, not only there are storms at sea, but also pirates. It is too risky for a single ship to go to sea, so they usually sail together in groups.

Xie Guang is the owner of the largest ship and also the captain of the fleet.

As soon as he boarded the boat, Xie Guang rushed over, maybe something happened.

"Nothing." Xie Guang shook his head, looked at his serious face and patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Don't worry, since you are Xie Qing's nephew, you are also my nephew, follow my boat and you will be fine. of."

Besides, you didn't board the ship at Quanzhou Port, so what could happen?

"Then?" Xie Jue was puzzled.

"Ah, let me ask, what's the matter with the cargo on your ship? Why did you put so much tea?" Xie Guang sat down on the chair and asked with some concern.

Today's Song Dynasty is rich in products and handicrafts are developed. Many daily-use things are overseas luxury goods, and the profit is five to ten times higher when shipped overseas.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, as long as you can go back and forth safely, you can sell anything, and the profits will be extremely considerable.

However, how to distribute the goods is also particular.

There are strong winds and waves at sea, no matter how good the airtightness is, there is still a lot of moisture, and considering the weight of the hull, porcelain will be placed in the largest bottom warehouse.

The upper cabins will be equipped with some silk and tea.

Compared with silk and tea, the selling value of silk is much higher than that of tea. Even if there is water seepage, all of them will not be unusable, while tea is rotten or a whole pile of rot, and all of them will change their taste. No matter how they are sold, they are only sold for a few taels of silver a catty. In addition to the loss, the profit cannot be compared with that of porcelain and silk.

Therefore, although the weight of tea is the most cost-effective compared to its volume (the volume on board is limited, and the load is also limited), maritime merchants will not bring too much.

As for Xie Jue's ship, it was heard that most of the ballast was made of tea leaves.

It's just that he can't intervene if it's someone else's boat, but considering Xie Qing's entrustment, he still has to come and ask.

If it doesn't work, let Xie Jue go around Sanfo Qi, the tea should not be too rotten at that time, and it can be sold at a certain price, and it can also bring some good things back.

In this way, although there is no big profit in following him, he can still make a lot of money.

Xie Jue smiled slightly.

He heard Xie Guang's kindness, but he didn't want to say the reason.

Ever since he decided not to follow what his mother told him to do, but to go into business, he has done a lot of research, especially on maritime merchants.

He took over Xie Qing's boat and people, but he didn't intend to follow Xie Qing's old rules.

Although porcelain is not affected by water vapor, once encountering strong winds and waves, the damage caused by the bumps will not be small, and it still takes up a lot of space.

Moreover, everyone brought porcelain, resulting in a very large supply of porcelain, so the price could not go up, at least in places such as Annan Sanfoqi, where the route is relatively close, the price cannot be sold at a high price.

What's more, the money he brought out was not much (it was a lot for others), and after raising those subordinates for more than half a year, and then buying that small tea garden, there was really not much money left.

He originally planned to increase the amount of tea that did not take up so much space and was cheap, and then used the saved money to buy more silk, medicine, needlework, paper and other things.

And after Su Yue made the tea, she also said that it was tuan tea, as long as she used it properly, she could make the most of it.

He decided to take a total of 40 catties of tea away.

The ones made by Su Yue are sold at the end. Along the way, some tuancha can be sold and exchanged for some goods that Dashi Dashi needs.

And because of the relationship between Su Yue and Luo Chasi, the cost of the 40 catties of tea is really...

(It's not worth a hundred pounds, of course he will never tell Su Yue)
The specificity of tea leaves is huge, not to mention the vacant cabin volume, and he also has more money to buy silk and other things.

If nothing else happened, the cargo on his ship would probably make several times more money than Xie Guang's.

"Hey, no wonder, you are a novice." Looking at Xie Jue's decent smile, Xie Guang shook his head.

Xie Qing's letter to him said that Xie Jue was born in a family of officials, but his family was in decline and had no money, so he rented the boat to him and asked him to travel across the sea to earn some money.

Maritime merchants are no different than merchants on land, and all the documents are Xie Qing's, and Xie Jue did not board the ship at the port, so it will not be affected at all if he wants to take the imperial examination to become an official in the future.

(Although the current dynasty is open and the status of merchants is not low, it is still not good for the children of officials to be merchants)
Seeing Xie Jue like this now, I'm afraid I still feel that I did the right thing.

Anyway, do your best.

"Okay, just call me if you have anything to do, you should rest first." Xie Guang stood up, said goodbye and left.

(End of this chapter)