Chapter 1223 The moon in Daqin is round
In a spacious but somewhat dilapidated mansion in the south of the city, a young man with fair and handsome appearance but a black birthmark on his eyebrows stood with another young man with a slightly fat but slightly heroic temperament. It was Ma Teng and Yang Zhen.
"Haha, this is a reward for you!"
Looking at the soap and gold placed in the middle of the main hall, Ma Teng was excited to throw a bag of gold to Hu Shang.
"Thank you, thank you Mr. Ma, but I...I can't ask Mr. Ma for his money!" Hu Shang quickly put the money bag that he had fallen back to the desk.
"Why, if you hadn't helped this time, my batch of enamels would not have taken such a smooth move. Although we didn't know each other before, as long as you have such a business in the future, you can do it as you want. I will definitely benefit you!" Ma Teng spoke in surprise.
Although this bag of gold is not much, it is more than 20 taels, worth tens of thousands of yuan. It is a wealth that ordinary people cannot make in ten or even a hundred years.
"Since you don't want money, you must have something to ask for?" Yang Zhen, who was standing next to him, spoke.
"Oh, yes, do you ask me for help if you have something to do?" Ma Teng came back to his senses and asked.
"The villain dares not, I just want to serve the young master in the future!" Hu Shang quickly bowed and his voice trembled.
"Follow me..." Ma Teng pinched a cluster of short beards on his chin and pondered. Yang Zhen said with his ears, "Brother Ma, this enamel is so popular in the West. If you accept this Hu merchant, many things will be much easier and more convenient in the future!"
"Brother Yang said, okay, you can follow me in the future and help sell this enamel between Hu Shang and Western caravans. You can use this money first. As long as the enamel is sold well, I will naturally reward you. Go!" Ma Teng threw the wallet into Hu Shang's arms again.
"Yes, thank you Mr. Ma. I will leave first!" Hu Shang was excited and hurriedly carried his money bag and led the horse away from the yard.
"These are rewards for you!" Ma Teng took out a few pieces of soap and a few small golden cakes from the wooden box and threw them to the two men next to him who were doing a deal with Dayuan people. He waved his hand and drove them away, then squatted down and grabbed a handful of golden golden cakes from the money box. His face was excited and he beat him several times in excitement.
A total of 400 taels of gold, 150 pieces of soap and fifty bottles of snow cream, worth more than 200,000 yuan, which was definitely a huge sum of money for him. Since his uncle Ma Boyuan was killed by Zhao Gao, their Ma family has become a dilapidated overnight. I don’t know how much money I have seen in countless years.
Looking back on the story of having formed a bond with Chen Xu in Wancheng, and then returning to Xianyang, Chen Xu chased him to Liuxiang Garden and slapped in the face, Ma Teng couldn't help but shivered and then sighed again.
If it weren't for that beating, maybe the marquis might not look down on him.
But I am indeed a playboy who only knows how to eat, drink, give birth to gamble. Although I have helped the Marquis train and manage the Cuju team over the years, I have only a salary of 20,000 yuan a year, so I still have difficulty maintaining this family.
"Congratulations to Brother Ma for earning a huge sum of money!" Faced with the gold, Yang Zhen's face was calm, but he still bowed his hand to express his congratulations from the bottom of his heart.
"I have to thank the Marquis of this matter, and thank Brother Yang for some advice, otherwise the money would not fall into Teng's hands!" Ma Teng stood up and bowed to Yang Zhen sincerely.
"Haha, Brother Ma is not good at doing business. I just want to mention it. The main thing is Marquis. Although this batch of enamels is a slightly flawed defective product, it is the same as that of genuine products. However, if it weren't for Marquis' opening, you wouldn't be able to get it at such a small price. Brother Ma still has to send some of these money and soap and flake creams. In the future, you can just hold this way of making money in your hands!" Yang Zhen reminded with a smile.
"Of course, of course, thank you Brother Yang for reminding me. Later, someone arranged someone to send some thanks to Director Tang of the enamel factory and the officials of the Quality Supervision Office of the Ministry of Works!" Ma Teng nodded repeatedly.
"It seems that Brother Ma still has a good business talent, which is good. As long as you win over the good relationship between Director Tang and the Quality Supervision Office, and the good relationship between Brother Ma and the Marquis, this military enamel will be Brother Ma's unique business in the future, and the wealth will naturally come!" Yang Zhen began to flatter.
"Haha, I borrowed the Jiyan of Brother Yang. I didn't expect that these fools in Dayuan would be willing to exchange a piece of soap and two taels of gold for two defective enamel products. This is a thirty-fold profit..."
Ma Teng laughed happily, picked up a piece of soap and opened it. He looked at the square and bright red and transparent soap. He put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed it hard. After a while, he closed his eyes with intoxication and said, "Mr. Marquis is indeed a disciple of the immortal family. He can make such exquisite and fragrant things, and the price is so low. Brother Yang probably doesn't like these money, but this soap and snow cream have money and are scarce and intimate things that have no place to buy. Brother Yang, how about half of you and me?"
"Thank you, Brother Ma, I really won't refuse. I have been here in Xianyang for half a year and haven't been back to you. I just happened to bring some local local buns back to Taiyuan to see the scenery of Xianyang and give it to my wives, concubines and relatives. It will definitely be awesome!" Yang Zhen bowed and thanked him repeatedly.
"Don't thank me, this is something Brother Yang deserves. Because Teng has no money, he is too embarrassed to drink and play with Master Meng on weekdays. Last time, Teng was even more ashamed of his sweat and blood. If Brother Yang hadn't mentioned me to find the Marquis to get these defective products discarded in the enamel factory warehouse, the money would not have fallen into my hands!" Ma Teng shook his head with a wry smile.
"Brother Ma Xiu wants to belittle himself. You are now an eighth-rank official. Although your salary is not high, you are the confidant of the Marquis. You also have good friends with Mr. Meng and others. You have many ways to make money. Brother Ma is now well aware of it and win over these four barbarians and Hu merchants who have no way to make friends with the powerful. It will definitely be a natural thing to make a lot of profits in the future!"
"Haha, then I'll borrow the words of Brother Yang. Let's go, I'll go to Quyuan to drink and enjoy the music. I'll invite you today and go to the enamel factory tomorrow to get all the rest back!"
Ma Teng stood up with a smile, called his servants and wives to pack up the gold and soap first, then clean up and take Yang Zhen out to drink and pick up girls.
It is said that money is a man's waist, and making money easily makes Ma Teng suddenly feels that his waist has expanded several times.
Since the failure to claim the Sweat-Blooded BMW that day, Ma Teng sighed and frowned for several days after returning home. He wanted to truly integrate into Chen Xu's camp and not do big things. Even money would soon be out of touch with the group. Raising Sweat-Blooded BMW is one of them. He cannot share the worries of the Marquis. In the mind of the Marquis, he will soon lose favor, so he will not even go to the garden he liked in the past.
Yang Zhen saw it, just for this playboy who was so sad.
Damn, relying on Qinghehou, the Grand Master of the dynasty, who was so big that he was so poor. He really couldn't blame others for being poor. So he gave a small reminder and asked him to get out the defective products piled in the enamel factory in the warehouse and then find a way to sell them. This will definitely be a way to make money.
Ma Teng originally didn't want to because these are defective military supplies and cannot be sold in Daqin according to the laws and should be destroyed. However, enamels, swords, bows and crossbows are different. They are one-time production and consumption items, and they are not possible to rebuild them. Therefore, the enamel factory cannot dispose of them and throw them away, so they have been stacked in the warehouse. Now, two years have passed, and more and more are piled up. People from the enamel factory occasionally secretly bring a few pieces home for use, but they dare not sell them blatantly.
Although Yang Zhen was also a playboy, he was born in a merchant family after all. He had been influenced by him since childhood and knew a lot of business skills. So after repeatedly persuading and ensuring that these defective enamel products could be sold, Ma Teng was finally moved, so he bit the bullet and went to find Chen Xu. Chen Xu wrote him a warrant without saying a word, asking him to find Tang Ting in the enamel factory. Tang Ting had long disliked this pile of junk goods, and was quite familiar with Ma Teng. He generously agreed to sell it to Ma Teng at a package price of twenty yuan per person.
So Ma Teng searched around at home to collect more than 10,000 yuan, and got more than 600 items from the enamel factory to test and sell them first. According to Yang Zhen's instructions, he specially arranged people to secretly disclose in some foot houses and chambers of commerce and other places where merchants gathered, and there was a way to get military enamel. However, the interested merchant saw that the words "reduced" were covered with the words "reduced" and then put the price at all. Otherwise, they would not dare to take it. After all, it was military supplies, and the censor found that they would be displaced or even beheaded.
However, just when I was repeatedly hitting a wall, a subordinate who had been in the Quyuan house all day brought a Hu Shang. Then, with a plan, the two sides decided to trick the people of Dayuan who had just come to Xianyang and had not yet awakened from the prosperous times of the Qin Dynasty.
This Hu Shang is also a well-informed person. He has long known that some people often sneak in and secretly sell military enamels in crowded places, but because they don’t have this need, they have no contact. But today he is really moved when facing these three boxes of soap and snow cream from Dayuan people.
He wanted to take root in Xianyang and never return to the Western Regions where the wind and sand are storms and ghosts do not shit in the cold winter for half a year. He wanted to be a native of the Qin Dynasty and become a native of Xianyang. Every mouthful of water here is sweet, every mouthful of air is fresh, and the moon is many times rounder than the Western Regions...
But if you want to get Daqin’s green card, it’s never possible without any problems.
The current chain of contempt for the Qin Dynasty is Xianyang City →_→ Guanzhong →_→ Central Plains →_→ remote towns in the old places of the six countries →_→ Four barbarians in the southeast, southwest and northwest →_→ Western Regions →_→ West... Of course, we will despise them further in the future.
As the group at the top of the chain of contempt, all Hu people consciously maintain enough humility and humility, and pursued the principle of being a human being in Daqin, not fighting back, not scolding, and not saying anything.
But even though the people of Daqin rolled their eyes and scolded and despised them, all the Hu people still cried and shouted to stay in Daqin, because this is the paradise in their dreams and there is no place to replace them.
So all the Hu people who wanted to stay tried every possible way to find opportunities to join the powerful and powerful, hoping to find a way to settle down.
But the powerful and powerful gentry are not so easy to contact. The people of the Qin Dynasty are arrogant, especially those powerful princes and princes. When they heard that the Hu people were visiting, they immediately turned against each other and asked their servants to drive them away. Even if they gave gifts, they would only say a few more words before driving them away.
It was too expensive to chat with these powerful people in the Qin Dynasty. Many Hu people slowly spent all their money and could not find a way after staying there. So they became a series of people who were mingled between the foot house and the Hu people's chamber of commerce in the office. When they were translators as guides to serve the Hu merchant team, one of them brought business to Ma Teng. He has been in Xianyang for almost three years. He not only speaks fluent Central Plains dialect, but also proficient in the language of the Western Regions and Dayuan countries. He is considered a more intelligent and handsome guy.
This successful task also made him finally relied on Ma Teng, an inconspicuous Qin nobleman.
Although Ma Teng is inconspicuous, Hu Shang, the great god behind Ma Teng, is very clear, that is, Chen Xu, the Grand Tutor and Left Prime Minister of the dynasty, and the Marquis of Qinghe.
Chapter completed!