Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

Military Master Zhuge also came up to him at this time and said: "Chief Qiu, you guys are really in a hurry to come this time, and the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is not here yet!"

Can you be in a hurry?Qiu Rongxin said: "Da Boling is so anxious, why don't we be more anxious, and Da Boling will give birth to a son later, so that he won't be able to ride on my sister's head in the future?"

"Brother Arong, can you smell the fragrance of my slave's body?" Seeing Qiu Rong's face was indifferent, Da Boling went up to talk to Qiu Rong cheekily, and talked about her own fragrance as soon as she opened her mouth.

Qiu Rong doesn't know how to answer now, this question seems a bit sensitive!

This Da Boling is thick-skinned, and she took out a small jug and handed it to Qiu Rong, "Brother Arong, this is the fragrant wine that the son of the world blended when he was free, and he sprayed it on it an hour ago I'm a slave, and the smell is still there. This bottle is given to Shuzhen's sister, it's a little bit of my sister's kindness from this slave."

What?elder sister?When Qiu Rong heard this, he became a little unhappy, and said in his heart: "This is not the way of life, my sister is the main wife and the mistress! How can I call you sister? Also, my sister can't drink. Forget it Alright, let me drink this bottle of fragrant wine!"

Thinking of this, Dao Scarong accepted the wine bottle, and then went up to talk to Zhu Tianwang and Military Master Zhuge—he had to tell them where to arrange for his sister Qiu Shuzhen to live. This matter had to be discussed with the "elders" Say, you can't talk to the groom's official, especially not to the groom's official who doesn't follow the rules like Zhu Heqi, and is also particularly lecherous!

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When Dao Scarong met and talked with Zhu Tianwang, Zhu Heqi and others, Charlie Gough, who arrived on another bird boat, also arrived at Beixi Wharf in Jieyang County.

After observing these "rich and ruthless people" at close range, he felt that it would be difficult for him to achieve his goal this time.Would it work to talk about "rules based on strength" to Puritan lunatics?

Doesn't seem to work?If it worked, their King Charles I of England would not have been hacked to death by the Puritan madman Cromwell.

Just thinking about how he should communicate with this group of unreasonable Confucian Puritans and convince them that the free trade monopolized by the British East India Trading Company is the most in line with Ming's interests.

Zhu and Qi had already taken advantage of the opportunity of Tian Wang Zhu and Dao Scarong to talk, and brought Da Boling together towards Charlie Gough and Ji Dabao.

Charlie Gough and Ji Dabao had already known each other under Chen Yonghua's introduction before Zhu Heqi broke through Jieyang County, so now there is no need for Qiu Rong to introduce them again, and they exchanged pleasantries when they met.

And when Zhu Heqi, Da Boling, Charlie Gough, and Ji Dabao were exchanging greetings, the two had already smelled the fragrance of the perfume.

Ji Dabao didn't have much feeling for this fragrance...he had a feeling for Da Boling, but seeing Zhu Heqi's ruthless appearance, he should do nothing wrong!

But Charlie Gough was immediately interested, not only in Boling, but also in perfume.

Westerners have a lot of body odor, and Westerners in this era generally don't like to take a bath, most of them are smelly. In order to make their own smell less like stinky meat and garbage, they usually use face powder or the effect is very poor. of Hungarian water to cover up.

And no matter whether it is face powder or Hungarian water, the smell is not as good and strong as that of Da Bo Ling!

What kind of spice is this?If sold to Europe, it will be worth a lot of money!

If the fragrance can last for a longer period of time, it will be more valuable, and this is a unique good deal!

Thinking of this, he didn't care about any oriental etiquette, and directly said to Da Boling in his unproficient Chinese: "Madam, you smell really good today!"

Chapter 098 We Don't Want Foreign Guns

Does it smell good?Dabo Lingxin said: "You smelly ghost, you think I'm a braised goose or a roast duck? Do you still want to take a bite?"

Goff's words were a bit disrespectful, but his voice was not loud, and the pier was noisy, so few people heard it.And Zhu Heqi didn't seem too angry. He sprayed Da Bo Ling with perfume to sell Chaozhou perfume at a good price. Da Bo Ling is a perfume model.

So he just glared at Goff, and started to sell the "Made in East Factory" perfume that he made himself.

"Of course it smells good," Zhu Heqi said with a displeased face, "She's sprinkled with the imperial perfume of the Ming Dynasty secretly made by Dongchang, can it not smell good?"

"The secret system of the East Factory? It turns out that the East Factory is a factory that produces perfume!" Charlie Goff looked very interested—he had heard of the East Factory, although he didn't know what it produced?But he knew it was a big factory.

"Well, at first it was producing perfume, and later it was doing other things." Zhu Hechi said nonsense seriously, "When my Ming Dynasty was not in trouble, this Dongchang perfume was not something that anyone could use. Yes... only concubines and eunuchs in the palace can use it. Sister Ling is using the imperial concubine incense for concubines. In addition, there is gentleman incense to cover the eunuch's odor, which is a must-have for eunuchs. Otherwise, the smell of urine would be so disgusting?

Mr. Goff, you smell quite strong. I will give you a jar of Junzi incense later on. After you sprinkle it on your body, it smells very comfortable. "

Ji Dabao who was standing on the side originally wanted to use the "old English" of the [-]th century to expose the lie of the third grandson of Zhu, but after hearing Zhu Heqi's explanation, he thought it was very reasonable!

He had heard people say that the eunuch was inconvenient to go to the toilet because of the knife, and many people had a strange smell on their bodies.Just think about it, the emperor, the queen mother, the noble concubine, etc. are sitting around delicacies, eating and drinking, and the father-in-law who is serving them all smells like a toilet.Isn't this the same as setting two tables in the royal toilet?So you have to sprinkle some perfume and powder to cover it up.

Therefore, it seems reasonable for Dongchang to produce perfume and face powder.

At this time, Heavenly King Zhu and Dao Barong had finished talking, and they were calling everyone to go to Jian Guo Mansion in Jieyang County to have a drink together!

In Jian Guo Mansion, Heavenly King Zhu had to apologize for his son taking Da Bo Ling as his concubine and Dao Scarrong!

However, Zhu and Qi did not go to admit their mistakes together, but took Charlie Gough and Ji Dabao together with Da Boling, and returned to their Shizi Mansion, which was the original Jieyang County Government Office.He still has perfume to give to Charlie Gough, and by the way, he would like to talk about the European general agent of "Dongchang Perfume".

Charlie Goff also knows a lot about perfume and face powder.He is so smelly and doesn't like to take a bath, so he can go out to meet people by sprinkling Hungarian water and incense powder on himself. How could he not understand?So all the way he came from the pier outside the city, he leaned next to Da Boling and tried to smell it with his big nose—he had to determine how long the perfume would last.

Whether the perfume is good or not depends not only on how fragrant the perfume is, but also on how long it lasts.If the fragrance oils used in this perfume are not good enough or not enough, it will lose its smell in a while.

And the perfume made by Zhu Hexi is of course a high-quality imitation that is both fragrant and long-lasting. No, it is not a high-quality imitation anymore, but the most authentic Dongchang perfume used by the royal family of the Ming Dynasty!

This is the No. [-] perfume brand in the world in the future!

When Charlie Goff sat down to drink tea in the second hall of Zhu Hesheng's prince's mansion, he was very sure that this Dongchang perfume would become popular in Europe in the future.

So now he has to obtain the exclusive agency right for the British East India Company... But the third grandson of Zhu in front of him, wearing a robe, a turban, a beard, and a sword, doesn't look very good at talking, how should he get the agent? The right to cheat?

When he was thinking about how to deceive others, Ji Dabao who came with him had already started to probe.

"Master, Mr. Consul has noticed that you have transformed Jieyang County into a bastion that requires a large number of artillery and guns for effective defense. I think you must be in great need of the most advanced artillery, guns and gunpowder in Britain now. ?”

Charlie Gough also smiled and said: "Your Highness, our British East India Trading Company happens to have a batch of the most advanced red barbarian cannons, turtledove foot muskets and black powder... and they are in stock!"

Hearing what Ji Dabao and Charlie Gough said, Zhu Heqi remained calm, but he was thinking in his heart: "You imperialists and compradors, why are you so fond of fooling people with outdated foreign guns and cannons? The most advanced foreign guns and cannons... How old is the Hongyi cannon? And it is a naval gun, which is useless on land. It can only be placed on the city wall to scare people. As for the turtledove gun , It's just a matchlock gun that sinks to death, what a fart!

However, this son-in-law cannot let you imperialists and compradors sell the guns and gunpowder in your hands to Qing dogs to slaughter the working people..."

Thinking of this, Zhu Heqi frowned and said, "We, the original Confucians, have the ways of Confucius and Mencius and Zhuge's legacy to defeat the enemy. Why do we need to rely on the guns of the Westerners?"

He is playing hard to get, in order to lower the price!

At first glance, these words sound like the kind of decadent Confucian scholars who don't like Western miracles and ingenuity are talking nonsense, but Charlie Gough and Ji Dabao don't think so.Because they knew that there was "Zhuge Shenlei", and also knew that the Nei Gunpowder Factory in the hands of the third grandson of Zhu could produce granulated black powder of excellent quality.

Although Grandson Zhu San doesn't have a gun factory or a cannon factory for the time being, but if the Zhuge Shenlei thrown by hand or with a catapult machine is used well, its power is no less than that of foreign guns and cannons!

Just when the two of them were frowning, Zhu Heqi said again: "If you can get some gums, gums with excellent elasticity, such as some gums from the New World, or gums that are easier to dissolve, such as Gum Arabic, I can give you a very good price."

He paused, and then said, "In addition, I also want some fierce fire oil produced in Nanyang, the price is also negotiable."

Fire oil and gum?

Charlie Gough thought about it and said, "We haven't heard of gum from the New World, but I can inquire about it for you. Gum Arabic can be obtained very quickly. As for kerosene...of course there is, but it's not easy to transport. !"

Ji Dabao hurriedly chimed in, "Yes, yes, fire oil is a very dangerous item, and the transportation cost is extremely high, unless..."

His words stopped here, unless he meant it, everyone knows that he needs to pay more!

At this time, Da Boling walked into the second hall holding a plate with three small wine jugs and three small wine glasses. Behind her were three servant girls, each holding a plate of Chaozhou brine and a plate of very white of white sugar.

Da Boling smiled and said to Charlie Gough and Ji Dabao: "Mr. Gao, Mr. Ji, here are some fine Chaozhou wines, you two have a taste."

Teochew wine?

Charlie Gough and Ji Dabao were taken aback, what famous wine does this Chaozhou have?Never heard of it.

While the two were thinking, Da Boling had already placed two jugs of wine and two wine glasses on the tea table between them, and put the remaining wine jugs and wine glasses on the table in front of Zhu Heqi. Then he turned and left with a pleasant smell.

And the three servant girls who followed her placed three brine platters and three sets of bowls and chopsticks in front of the three of them, and then followed Da Boling away.

Zhu Hechi picked up the jug, pulled out the cork, and poured some golden liquid from it into the wine glass.

Seeing Zhu and Qi pour the wine, Charlie Goff also picked up a wine jug on the coffee table, uncorked the same, and before pouring the wine, he smelled a very familiar fragrance of wine.He was taken aback for a moment, then quickly poured some into his wine glass, looked at it, and took a sip of it.After drinking the wine, he blurted out: "My God, it's rum... This is the best rum I've ever had! You Chaozhou actually produce rum?"

More than just rum!

Zhu Hexin said: "We in Chaozhou also produce Chivas Regal whiskey, Martell Cognac, and in the future there will be 1682 Lafite! But if you want to drink Chivas Regal in Chaozhou, you have to wait until I get barley. As for Martel Li and Lafite... There are no grapes in Guangdong now! So now I can only drink some rum made from sugarcane."

Chapter 099 Daming Chun, Dongchangxiang, need more money!

"This is not rum." Of course, Zhu Heqi would not admit that what he brewed was rum. "This is a tribute wine produced in Chaozhou. It is called Daming Spring Wine. It is made from sugarcane. During the boom, this tribute wine is not sold out..."

Rum is made from bagasse, water and yeast, fermented for a day or two, and then repeatedly distilled, toned, seasoned, blended and stored.It is also divided into two categories: strong fragrance and light fragrance.Among them, good rum, no matter whether it is strong or light, must be stored for several years or even ten years.

However, the rum that Zhu and Qi gave Charlie Gough was artificially aged rum, and if they met a real expert, they would definitely be able to taste it.

Of course, even if it was tasted, the rum he gave Charlie Gough was still the top grade of this era.

In the [-]th century, even Louis XIV could not drink Martell and Lafite. Ordinary rich people would be very happy if they could have a sip of artificially aged wine that did not turn sour or deteriorate.

Moreover, this rum is also a necessity for Western sailors at sea-fresh water is easy to deteriorate, and wine with too low purity is difficult to preserve for a long time at sea, so [-]-[-]% rum is very suitable for sailors to drink.

And because Zhu Heqi has mastered the pasteurization method, he can even blend "marine rum" with a lower concentration.

Since this rum is a necessity, it is natural that it will not be sold.This year is not an era of oversupply of commodities, most commodities are a seller's market!

For example, although the sucrose produced in Chaozhou is very popular, the bagasse after squeezing the juice is not of much value and can only be used to feed cattle.In addition, the dark scraps left over from the soup are not very useful.

If you can turn these worthless things into rum or other alcohol, then you will make a lot of money.

However, Zhu Hexi added some spices and essential oils to the highly distilled original wine for many times, and the value of the perfume prepared is incomparable to that of rum.

Later generations of high-end foreign wines are all in large bottles, but perfumes are all in small bottles, and they are so expensive...

In addition, the "special white" sugar served with the brine is the only "good sugar" in the world, and it is no problem that it is [-] to [-]% more expensive than ordinary white sugar.

As for the value of the sweet gunpowder produced by mixing sucrose and fire nitrate, it is incomparable to wine, sugar and perfume... Of course, sweet gunpowder is not for sale and cannot be sold.This thing is prone to moisture, and it cannot be shipped to Europe by sea.

But it is precisely because of the existence of sweet gunpowder that the sugar, wine and perfume in Zhu Heqi's hands can be sold at a good price, and there will be free trade rules based on strength!

Charlie Gough was also thinking repeatedly in his heart. He originally wanted to get the right to "monopoly free trade" from the third prince and grandson of Zhu third.But now he finds out that this group of Confucian Puritans who wear turbans, robes, beards, and mysterious bombs are not easy to get along with.Don't let the "monopoly free trade" not be obtained, and let people blow it up with a bomb... Why don't you give in first, build a good relationship with these Confucian Puritans, and then try to find out the secret of Zhuge Shenlei!

After finding out the secret of Shenlei, are you afraid of free trade without monopoly?

Thinking of this, Charlie Goff was already smiling, "Your Highness, we, the British East India Company, hope to become the general agent of Chaozhou Daming Spring Wine and Dongchang Perfume sold overseas!"

Zhu Hechi did not agree directly, but instead asked: "Mr. Gough, what price do you plan to offer from the East India Company?

The production of Damingchun wine is still relatively large, and the production of perfume is limited... at most a few hundred catties per year.And there is demand in Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Yangzhou, and Nanjing, so you don't have to worry about selling them at all! "

Charlie Goff thought for a while, and said: "If the Mingchun wine you provide can have the quality of the Mingchun wine I drink now, I can give you a catty and a half ounce of silver.

If it's just Mingchun wine equivalent to the level of ordinary rum, I can give you two hundred coins per catty at most. "

Zhu Hechi shook his head and said: "I don't know what ordinary rum is like, but I know that there is no ordinary Mingchun wine in Chaozhou... All the Damingchun wines can reach the level of the Damingchun wine you are drinking now. But it’s impossible to buy a catty and a half ounce! If you don’t believe me, you can go to Dahao to see if there is such a cheap Mingchun?”

Charlie Goff looked back at Ji Dabao, Ji Dabao shook his head and said to him in old English: "No, I have never seen Da Mingchun in Dahao."

Charlie Goff frowned, as if he was making a difficult decision, "At most, it can be [-] ounces of silver per catty...but you can underwrite [-] catties of Mingchun wine every year."

"The minimum is eight dollars." Zhu Heqi also had a very embarrassed expression, "but you are responsible for providing the oak barrels, and you have to pay half of the payment in advance... The original wine of this old Mingchun wine must be made with real money. If you can collect it, if you don't pay in advance, this business can't be done.

In addition, the amount of [-] catties is a little too much, so I don't know if I can receive it.Let's do this... Next year, sign a five-thousand-jin contract first. "

Of course there are [-] catties!

How can there be no wine that can be brewed from bagasse?But Zhu and Qi still know the trick of hunger marketing.

"Okay..." Charlie Goff also seemed to have made up his mind, hesitated for a long time, and then nodded, "Your Highness, I can meet your conditions. But I also have two conditions. There are a batch of advanced Hongyi cannons, turtledove foot muskets, and a lot of gunpowder! I want to use these things as an advance payment. These things are worth about 5000 taels. I don’t think you want me to give these things to the Qing Dynasty to cash out Bar?"

Zhu Hechi nodded, "Okay...Mr. Goff, you are very good at business! I really can't let Qinggou buy your artillery, muskets and gunpowder!"

Charlie Goff smiled, and said again: "Before the second condition, I want to take a look at Dongchang Perfume. If it is really as good as I thought, I hope to get its exclusive agency right for export!"

Perfume is the big head!

Toilet water has not yet been invented these days, and the stinky European nobles can only make do with the unsatisfactory Hungarian water powder that can be powdered at any time.

So this Dongchang perfume produced in Daming is the only one in the world!

Those European emperors, kings, queens, grand dukes, popes and the like, who want to smell good, can only buy Dongchang perfume at a high price.And you have to buy it... Otherwise, the king of France smells sweet, the emperor of Germany, the king of Britain, the pope of Rome, and the tsar of Russia smell so shameless?They are all powerful masters, and no one wants to save this money and make them "notorious"!

Zhu Heqi shouted: "Sister Ling, bring a bottle of the imperial concubine incense from Dongchang to Mr. Gao Fu."

Da Boling had long been guarding outside with a bottle of perfume, and when she heard Zhu Heqi's call, she immediately entered the door with the perfume.A small bottle, plus a feather from a Chaozhou lion head goose, was carefully handed over to Charlie Gough.

Charlie Goff also carefully took the perfume bottle with both hands, unplugged the stopper and took a sniff—it smells so good!This will take it back to Europe and donate a few pounds to His Majesty the King, maybe it will be replaced by a lord.

Now Gao Fu couldn't restrain the joy in his heart anymore, his face was full of smiles!It's not that his city mansion is not deep enough, it's that the things Zhu Hechi produced are so good!

Seeing his happy face, Zhu Heqi knew that he was going to post!

Thinking of this, he smiled and said to Charlie Gough: "Mr. Gough, you can use this bottle of perfume first, and we will discuss the price and agency rights tomorrow, how about it?"

Zhu Hexi asked Goff to use it first, in order to let Goff fully understand the durability of the perfume, and then talk about the price after Goff has figured it out...it will be expensive, at least one tael of silver and two taels of water.And the price will increase every year in the future!

"Okay! I'll try it first..." Goff nodded repeatedly, dipped a feather in some perfume, sprinkled some on himself, then carefully plugged the stopper, and put away the perfume bottle.

Zhu Heqi smiled and said again: "Mr. Gaofu, Mr. Ji, look at the white sugar that was served with the brine, isn't it particularly white? This is the famous Chaozhou tribute sugar, the best in the world sugar!"

Chapter 100 Third grandson of Zhu, you made a mistake!

"Heavenly King Zhu, how did you teach you, Azi, to shoot Zhu? How dare he confiscate Mrs. Dadu? That's Mrs. Dadu! You have to call her sister-in-law, and now your sister-in-law is His woman is gone, what should you call him? Big boss?"

"That's right! Heavenly King Zhu, my Qizi, your dear son is too disgraceful. There are so many women in Chaozhou, who is not good for him to accept, but he just gave up the big belly sister-in-law! I should Should you call him Big Brother or Qizai?"

"That's right! The boss's woman is accepted as soon as he says, and I have to spend all my time explaining it to ordinary brothers. It's really troublesome!"