Huang Jue, after three marriages

Chapter 35 is not a good person
Li Xiang bought a lot of goods in Baghdad, and has already sent them back twice, and is going to deliver them for the third time today.

So he asked his subordinates to take the check and go directly to Basra to exchange money.

Xie Jue also handed over the things that he and Su Yue bought in the past few days to Li Xiang's subordinates to take them back together.

Early in the morning of the second day, the caliph's people came to the post house and brought the gold.

There are three ways of gold in Baghdad, one is forged into two-two or five-two gold coins, one is forged into various jewelry and utensils, and the third is gold bars.

Most of what Mo Sen and the others gave were gold coins, the two giants gave a mixture of three kinds, and what the Caliph gave were three boxes full of gold nuggets weighing a full five catties.

The purity is higher than jewelry and gold coins.

Not long after Xie Jue handed over the tea to the caliph's men at the pier, the boat carrying the tea cakes that Rong Shan was carrying also arrived, so he asked Rong Shan to just change the boat and bring some black-clothed Omans to press the boat Send the gold back.

(Rong Shan: It’s so hard, I didn’t see exactly what Baghdad looks like when I came here twice)
Li Xiang didn't know the Seri nobles, so he went early the next morning to deliver the tea promised to the caliph's cousin, and asked someone he knew to see if he could introduce him.

Xie Jue then took Su Yue to the big market next to the library.

As soon as he reached the entrance of the market, he was blocked by Xie Guang.

"Yo, Mr. Xie." Xie Guang smiled all over his face, and he greeted him affectionately.

Xie Jue also returned the gift.

"Young Master Xie, I heard that the Caliph bought your tea at a high price." Xie Guang didn't bother, and said directly: "I have to remind you, it's a bit dangerous for you to do this."

He searched for a few days but couldn't find the residence of Xie Jue and Li Xiang. Thanks to the caliph who sent gold so much, he finally found them.

Xie Jue frowned lightly, and said, "What does Captain Xie mean by that?"

Xie Guang smiled and said: "You are Xie Qing's nephew, and I will not harm you. You must know that the caliph is not the leader in this city now. Now, the caliph is just taking the title."

Looking around, Xie Guang lowered his voice and said, "Now this city is dominated by Seri people, but you only gave the caliphate the precious golden water that only the emperors of the Song Dynasty could drink. Do you think the caliphate So what does it mean to give you gold with great fanfare? It was deliberately done to show the Seri people, just to show off, so that the Seri people have no money and are just barbarians. At this time, the Seri people are not good to him Do it, is it not easy to do it for you, a Song Dynasty?"

Xie Jue frowned unconsciously, did not speak, and only looked at Xie Guang with a smile.

Since Xie Guang said this, there must be something later.

"It's useless for you to follow Li Xiang. Li Xiang doesn't know Seri nobles at all." Xie Guang continued: "However, I do know a few. If you still have tea in your hand, hurry up and give them some tea." Go, and this will settle down."

"Send?" Xie Jue said softly.

Li Xiang said that the people of Baghdad are proud of doing business, and the nobles are basically equivalent to big businessmen, while the Seri people are known for their force and are poor.

But being poor does not mean that you will rob your things.

After all, after the establishment of Baghdad, it relied on the extensive trade to form such a scale. Unless it was plunder caused by wars between tribes, normal merchant transactions were well protected.

Of course, if you take the initiative to send it yourself, it does not belong to this category.

But now everyone knows how precious his tea is (it is said to be golden water), Xie Guang is lucky, he will give away whatever he has.

"Hey, Mr. Xie, money is something outside of the body, is life more important than money?" Xie Guang sighed.

Xie Jue smiled slightly, and said, "Thank you, Captain, for your kindness. I'll take it. If it's just a gift like the Khalifa, it's no problem. But if you give it all away, I'm afraid the Seri people will be happy and the Caliph will not be happy." Bar?"

Li Xiang also said that if you don’t sell to the Seri people at all, you will definitely offend people. Everyone’s business is to make money through harmony, so if you offend those in power, there will be no good fruit.

It's not because of safety. In Baghdad, Seri nobles are not so shameless, openly robbing money and killing people.

(Aman in black please beware of thieves and villains)
Xie Guang said it was serious on purpose when he didn't know anything, I'm afraid that those who sent out would naturally benefit from him.

Xie Guang was stunned for a moment, and said: "Could it be that Mr. Xie, you still have a lot of tea?"

Mosen's 20 taels, Khalifa's 50 taels...

God!

Moreover, the price of tribute tea is not low. Even at the price of 20 taels per cake, 60 cakes would be [-] taels!
If there are any more, it will cost a million taels!
Generally, a sea merchant can ship more than [-] taels of goods. Not only do they not have that much money to buy goods, but they also don’t have the courage. The risks in the ocean are too great.

How dare this guy take such a gamble!

And Xie Qing said that his family is in the middle of nowhere, where did he get so much money from his family?
Seeing Xie Qing's face, Xie Jue knew what he was thinking.

In fact, Li Xiang asked this question directly.

With a slight smile, Xie Jue said: "There are still a few thousand cakes left on the boat. I have already had someone bring them over. These teas belong to a friend of my father. I only paid the down payment. After we agreed to go back, The profit is divided in half."

Thank you for your understanding.

This kind of practice also exists in maritime merchants. Some wealthy merchants want to gamble big, but they don’t want to risk their own lives, so they find a ship partner and pay for the goods.

My heart is even more angry.

This means that the risk of paying the money is someone else's, and Xie Jue will become a rich businessman if he changes hands.

The poisonous snake coiled in his heart spit out the red letter, but the smile on his face said more sincerely: "I see, I thought you only had one point."

After thinking for a while, Xie Guang said again: "Well, I know a leader, he is quite strong, and he can eat a few thousand cakes of tea, so hurry back and bring some tea, and I will take you to his place right away." , the price is according to the caliph’s order, when the time comes, you should be more discreet, give him two loaves out of ten loaves, and everyone will be happy.”

Xie Jue thought for a while and said, "That's fine, but I want to buy something today, how about going tomorrow?"

He didn't have a good impression of Xie Guang, so he had to go back and ask Li Xiang about it.

"Sure, I'll mention it to him first. They won't be so annoyed if they know that you have reserved a share for them. Hey, you don't know that they are collecting the taxes in Baghdad now." It seemed like a sudden memory , Xie Guang said again: "By the way, have you paid your taxes yet?"

Xie Jue nodded.

Dashi started out with trade, and it treats trade very preferentially. The port management is relatively loose, and it is not as strict as the port of Song State.

But although the tax is not high, it still has to pay tax.

Li Xiang is a veteran, except for the three transactions that were concealed (that is, the tax was directly deducted as a discount for the other party to handle), the rest was left in the tax during the transaction, and then directly handed over to the government.

A trace of ignorance flashed in Xie Guang's eyes, and he said with a smile, "That's very good, we can't let anyone get caught."

In my heart, I secretly hated Li Xianglai.

"Then, I'll go first, you guys go shopping first." Fearing that he would lose his face, Xie Guang hurriedly left.

"Third Master?" Seeing Xie Jue staring at Xie Guang's back, Xie Qi called softly.

"I don't think this person is a good person." Su Yue also said in a low voice.

Although it was said that the situation at sea was critical at that time and everyone was too busy to take care of themselves, no matter how critical it was, they didn't say hello to them at all, and ran away on their own.

There is a problem with this personality.

Xie Jue nodded slightly: "Let's go shopping first, and see what Master Li has to say when we get back."

(End of this chapter)