Chapter 758： Super profitable tea brick trade

Contrary to the lively trade scene of Skanda over there, the commodities that Kong Tai is responsible for are less in variety and less in quantity. However, they are very important.

However, Guangzhou is a trading port, and is located in the lower plains of the Pearl River Delta. Therefore, more rice is grown in the surrounding areas. Most of the oil tung tree and lacquer tree are produced in hilly mountains and plains, and most of them are reclaimed into rice fields.

Therefore, despite the high prices, Kong Tai's gains are not great. For example, he only bought 500 kilograms of tung seeds, which basically wiped out the stock of tung seeds in Guangzhou city. And the seeds of lacquer tree are even less. He only bought 300 jin. He also bought all the seeds of lacquer tree in Guangzhou city. As for the bamboo seeds, it is even worse, only the 5 kg seeds obtained from the bamboo forest in Chengbei ...

This is not to say that these seeds are scarce in the world, but that in plain areas like Guangzhou, these seeds are relatively few. Because even if these seeds are bought, it is impossible to plant them in the lower reaches of the Pearl River Delta. Since no one is planting, there is less natural supply. Kong Tai was able to buy 500 pounds of oil tung tree seeds and 300 pounds of sumac seeds, but it was because he paid a high price and collected a lot of bulk goods.

Of course, if Kong Tai can stay in Guangzhou for a year and a half, a long-term acquisition will definitely be able to acquire more. However, because he did not qualify for the tribute trade, Kong Tai certainly cannot stay here for long. Therefore, such a hurried acquisition has naturally not gained much.

But these are not too few. A pound of tung tree seeds can reach thousands of seeds, which is due to the relatively large tung tree seeds. According to a safe point method of two or three seeds in a pit (seeds may not germinate after sowing, so two more neutron insurance. If all three seeds germinate, then the one with the best growth will be left in the end and unplug Two other plants. Of course, if the land area is enough, the other two plants (which may not germinate) can also be transplanted elsewhere, but the growth is definitely better than the one that is retained). Even if the conservative calculation is based on a low germination rate of half, one pound of seeds can grow four or five hundred tung trees. The sumac seeds are much smaller, and it is estimated that a pound of seeds can grow more than 1,000 sumac trees. Therefore, as long as good health is taken care of, the 500-pound oil tree seeds and 300-pound paulownia seeds purchased by Kong Tai can still grow at least 20,000 paulownia seeds and 30,000 lacquer trees.

As for the 5 catty seeds of Phyllostachys pubescens, the Phyllostachys pubescens seeds are very light, and the thousand seeds weigh only 24 grams. There are more than 20,000 1 bamboo seeds. At 5 pounds, there are more than 100,000 seeds ... even if only half of them survive, 50,000 bamboos can be grown. Moreover, this thing grows fast, and it is fast, and the vitality is stubborn ...

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Seeing that these three seeds could not be acquired, and the acquisition of Skonda was still in progress, Kong Tai did not want to be idle, so he opened up another acquisition business-tea acquisition ...

You know, because Europe and Daming have not yet opened a sea trade route, and the Earl milk tea invented by Marin is all over Europe. As a result, the price of European tea is extremely high. It takes a war horse to change to a four-pound tea brick. The price of a horse is about 100 gold coins. Therefore, the current price of tea in Western Europe is as high as 25 gold coins a catty, which is simply ridiculously high.

Marin also forgot to tell Kong Tai to buy tea, but Kong Tai knew that tea was popular in Europe. Not to mention, now European nobles entertain guests, like Earl milk tea for drinks. Of course, this is for entertaining guests, ordinary guests, or drinking red wine is more economical ... The real reason is-tea is too expensive ...

It should be known that the tea bricks obtained by the Europeans were still obtained by the Ming Dynasty at the northern border and the Mongol tea-horse market. With a Mongolian warhorse, the Mongols can get 120 pounds of brick tea, which is 30 tea bricks. However, when it was transported to Europe via land-based commercial roads, a tea brick was replaced by a war horse, and the price was 30 times higher.

In fact, the Daming tea-horse exchange market is already a kind of killing Mongolian businessmen. In the Ming Dynasty, tea was even cheaper. On the Guangzhou market, the price of good bud tea per catty is 80 yuan, which is 0.08 silver. And ordinary leaf tea, only 20 liters per catty, which is 0.02 two silver. As for brick tea, the grade is lower, which is the existence of low grade among leaf tea. The most expensive leaf tea is about 40 jin a catty or so, also called fine tea. The low-end leaf tea, which is brick tea, is only 15 yuan a catty. Of course, black tea and tea bricks produced in Anhua, Funan are more famous, and the price is 20 jin a catty.

However, even if Anhua black tea is as expensive as 20 jin a catty, a 4 jin tea brick in Daming only costs 80 liters, which is 0.08 silver. However, the black-hearted Daming official used 30 tea bricks in exchange for a first-class Mongolian warhorse. In terms of cost, even if Anhua black tea is used, it is only 2.4 silver. With other unknown tea bricks, the cost is lower ... However, in Daming, the price of a warhorse is a dozen or two silver ... So, the Daming tea-horse exchange market actually pitted the herdsman ’s uncle and raised it several times s price. However, the grassland people have no way to deal with this. Because this business is completely owned by Daming, don't buy it if you have the ability ...

Kong Tai also heard that Marin had said Anhua Black Tea, so after those three seeds could not be acquired, he began to inquire about the source of Anhua Black Tea.

In fact, Marin does not like to drink black tea, he prefers green tea like Longjing. The problem is that green tea, including later black tea (which has not yet appeared in this era), has a shorter shelf life. Generally speaking, the shelf life of green tea is only about one year, while black tea is 18 months, which is one and a half years.

However, at the speed of the current ship, it takes 10 months to sail back to Europe from Guangzhou-Nimade, and the tea will be out of shelf life when it is shipped back to Europe.

Therefore, the black tea with the longest shelf life has become Marin's first choice. Be aware that black tea, even loose tea, has a shelf life of 5 10 years. The shelf life of black tea brick tea is more than 10 years ...

That is to say, the black tea tea bricks are transported back without worrying that the tea leaves will deteriorate. Unless, you are too hungry, you ca n’t sell at all ...

However, due to the promotion of Marin, drinking earl milk tea is very popular in Europe (mainly, coffee has not yet risen, everyone can only drink milk tea). Therefore, as long as you do not buy too much, you can still sell out within the shelf life. The shelf life of more than 10 years allows businesses to store their goods with confidence ...

And what is the profit of black tea tea bricks? Kong Tai calculated an account. In Guangzhou, buying a tea brick for Anhua Black Tea was only 0.08 silver. In the European market, the price of black tea bricks is 25 gold coins. According to the gold to silver exchange ratio of 1 to 12, it is worth 28.6 two silver. If you don't count the cost of freight, the price has been turned over 357.5 times ... This is so special, it makes more money than silk, porcelain, etc ...

Of course, if large quantities of black tea bricks are shipped back, the price of European tea will definitely be reduced. But even if it is reduced by three times, and then the transportation cost is erased, there will always be a profit of 100 times ...

Thinking of this, Kong Tai's heart was extremely hot. He halted the acquisition of Skanda to buy porcelain and other goods that occupy space and weight, and wait for him to buy tea ...

After inquiring from all directions, Kong Tai contacted all the tea merchants of Funan nationality in Guangzhou City and purchased 10,000 Anhua black tea bricks from these merchants for a high price of 100 liters (the original price was 80). That is 40,000 pounds of Anhua black tea.

After that, he bought 2,000 other types of tea bricks of a lower grade and collected 48,000 jin of brick tea. If Guangzhou tea bricks are out of stock, Kong Tai would like to buy more. If these tea bricks are pulled back to Europe, they can be exchanged for 12,000 horses ...

Of course, this is when the price of tea has not decreased. But pulling back so many tea bricks will definitely cause the price of tea to plummet. However, no matter how it falls, there are more than a hundred times the profit.

The silks and porcelains purchased by Skonda are owned by Silk Europe itself, but of poor quality. Daming silk is of better quality, but sell it at most ten times the price (compared to Daming's low price), and the profit will be several times. The profit of porcelain is slightly higher, because Europeans do not know how to fire porcelain, so this sale is unique. A common porcelain bowl can also be sold for one gold coin. The purchase price of the ordinary porcelain bowl Daming is only 5 renminbi ... This seems to have more than 200 times the profit ...

However, the market for those ordinary porcelain bowls is limited, and the purchase prices of those gorgeous porcelain jars are also relatively high. Calculated, the profit will be dozens of times. This margin is higher than silk, but lower than brick tea.

However, although the profit of porcelain is high, transportation is a big problem. Because porcelain is fragile. If it is piled up in the cabin, the porcelain can easily be broken if it encounters heavy waves. Therefore, when transporting porcelain, special wooden racks and boxes are needed, and cushions such as cotton are also needed to fix the porcelain. Therefore, the transportation of porcelain is a big problem, and it takes up a lot of space. Unlike raw silk and tea bricks, they can be densely stacked ...

Therefore, in the end, the profit of porcelain was 20 to 30 times higher than that of brick tea, only a little higher than that of raw silk.

Therefore, when loading the ship, Kong Tai requested-limited loading of tea bricks, followed by raw silk. Finally, load porcelain and drink other goods ...

Sure enough, because the wooden boxes and wooden racks needed for porcelain are very space-consuming and they take up weight. In the end, Kong Tai decided to retain only those exquisite porcelains, such as blue and white porcelain and other high-grade porcelain with patterns. As for the low-end porcelain with bare appearance, such as ordinary celadon bowls from the small porcelain shop, all were discarded. Of course, I did n’t lose it, but gave it to Ding Haishan, the Guangzhou shipping company. Although these porcelains resisted, they were of a great quantity, and they were worth more than a hundred dollars. Kong Tai nominally said that it was "hosted" in the Guangzhou shipping company, but before leaving, he secretly told Ding Haishan "what to do with love", that is, to let him exchange money ...

In addition, ~ www.novelhall.com ~ In order to make room for high-end profitable products such as tea bricks, porcelain, silk, etc., most of the rice seeds purchased by Sconda were also discarded by Contai, and only a few sacks were kept for seeding. The rest was directly thrown on the pier, and the person who notified the Chief Secretary was brought to give to those hungry people ...

After filling the cabins of the three ships, Kong Tai called Columbus, who had been fooling around in Qinglou in Guangzhou for a few days, and urged him to leave ...

Because Columbus did not understand Chinese, he could only let Kong Tai and Sconda handle matters in contact with Daming. As for himself, he is guilty of an old illness and can't control his lower body ...

Kong Tai also knew that the goods were defective. Fortunately, the silver brought in this time was very sufficient. So, Kong Tai found the largest Qinglou in Guangzhou, and stuffed the old bustard with several large silver ingots, and let Columbus live in the Qinglou directly ... until the matter was busy, he called back this fellow ...

And when Columbus came out of Qinglou, although he was not drunk, his steps were three steps-obviously collapsed ...

In desperation, in order to prevent Columbus, the big navigator, from dying on the voyage, Kong Tai had to spend a lot of money to find the famous doctors in Guangzhou city, and prescribed several precious tonics. Otherwise, this fellow must insist that he will hang up until he returns home ...