Chapter 277 Chat at Sea
The south wind is blowing on the sea now. After leaving Wanjing City, the sailboat needs to take a "Z" route to the southwest, and the overall speed is a bit slow.
Everyone is not bored at all on the sea. Businessmen who travel all over the country gather under the cloth to block the sun and brag. Killing time is secondary. The key is to get news from various places.
The protagonist on the boat these days is a young businessman in his early twenties. He has just traveled to the Beihai area and has a newly grown mustache, so everyone calls him "Mustache".
Everyone met by chance, and the whereabouts of some people must be kept secret. Basically, they are not called by their names, but are called by nicknames. Several businessmen on the ship had watched Frederick's game, and Frederick liked to mention "250 "This nickname.
As soon as Mustache Hu finished talking about the Dawn Chamber of Commerce's "Every Ten Days Business News" which can be bought as long as there is a port in the Beihai area, which recorded the prices of commodities in many places, the big bald man asked Frederick: "Hey, two hundred and fifty, he said Is it true?"
Frederick smiled and replied: "Of course it is true. I heard that some people even bring it to the Inland Sea to sell it. Although the timeliness is a bit less, it can be used as a reference. . ”
The merchants sitting together on the deck were all envious. They could control the prices of goods in various places, and it was difficult to lose money.
The bald man sighed: "It would be great if there was one on the inland sea side."
Frederick sighed and said: "It's a bit difficult. Duke Wesson asked people from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs last year Negotiations were made in various places, but only the Kingdom of Kush and the southern Kingdom of Sardinia were willing to build remote radio towers along the coast. ”
Then he explained to the businessmen the role of the radio and how to collect and transmit commodity prices from various places through the radio.
He spoke in an easy-to-understand way, and everyone understood it as soon as they heard it.
“Ah?” A scar-faced man asked him in surprise, “If it’s so good, why are other countries unwilling to build it?”
Frederick shrugged and said helplessly: "It's not like the Governor of Venice and the others are afraid that if everyone knows the prices in various places, they won't be able to rely on others' uninformed information to rip off customers, so they are spreading rumors everywhere."
The big bald head said seriously: "That's true. One thing, I heard a Venetian businessman say that people in that city can only have daughters after building that tower.”
"I thought it was true at first. It turns out they are afraid that we can make money."
For businessmen, anyone who prevents them from making money is a bad person, and they won't say a word. It's true.
A bearded man said angrily: "So that's it, the Governor of Venice should be hanged!"
Everyone began to denounce the Governor of Venice.
Frederick just smiled helplessly.
Similar things have happened in the North Sea region, but that is the area where Wesson State has focused its investment. The large number of popular science books quickly made the rumor's survival space disappear quickly among those with real power.
Everyone chatted for a while, and soon noon arrived.
Today is the Sunday of the Flame Church. In addition to the crew who are steering the ship, including Olive, who is helping to mend clothes horizontally in the room, all come out to pray on the deck.
Frederick was a pagan, so he went back to his room to hide from the sun.
In the afternoon, everyone got together to chat again.
This time, a stove appeared in the middle, with tea boiling in it, and a lot of maltose and fruit. It tasted pretty good.
Now the recipe for maltose has been made public, but soon the sweeter "white crystal sugar" appeared in Wesson, and "Wesson sugar" also became the name of white sugar.
Nowadays, maltose is a relatively cheap sugar, while white sugar is a luxury product. The most expensive cargo on the ship this time is the small half-ship of white sugar that Mustache transported all the way back from Weisen.
While drinking tea, the bearded man asked Frederick tentatively: "Two hundred and five, how are those crystal-like Wesson candies made?"
Frederick took a sour sip. The tea was sweet with a hint of bitterness, and he said with a smile: "It's made by squeezing the juice from sweet radish."
Beet is grown everywhere, and people are no strangers to it. The bearded man asked in surprise: "Is it really a sweet radish?" Frederick took another sip of tea. It was hot and he sweated a lot, so he needed to drink more water, and then said: "That's for sure, everyone among us knows it."
The bearded man said thoughtfully: "Then I will try it too."
Philippia Te Lie shook his head and said: "Don't blame me for not reminding you. The difference between sweet radish and sweet radish is bigger than that between people and slimes."
"It's like killing pigs to make oil, some Pigs are only one finger thick in oil, and some pigs are three fingers thick. We now have oil that is as thick as a palm, you know what I mean.”
The bearded man understood immediately after hearing this, and his face looked a little ugly.
The big bald man next to him immediately laughed at him: "What are you thinking? Can you compare with Weisenzhou in terms of farming? What do you use for farming? They use iron oxen for farming."
The mustache also said: "That's right, the iron ox keeps the water to eat the magic crystal. It works very fast and well. It doesn't even have to rest when it's time to catch the farm. Can your cow do it?"
< br>"Also, Weisen State provides food to the dealers. If you feed it too little, you will not grow fast enough. If you feed it too much, you will die immediately. Do you know how to feed it?"
The bearded man was very angry. , said angrily: "Huh, I don't understand anything. Can't I let my sons learn? If they can't learn, I will break their legs!"
The big bald head continued to taunt: "You have a good idea. It is a secret passed down by others. If you go there, you will be a heretic. Can they teach you? They are afraid that your legs will be broken as soon as you open your mouth."
After this guy finished taunting him, he asked Frederick: "Two hundred and fifty, don't you think so?"
Frederick smiled and said "no" and immediately lost control of his bald head. , the people around laughed.
Frederick drank tea and said: "Learning can be learned, and don't talk about pagans. There is no one who doesn't teach at Weisenberg University now. Don't preach and don't fight, and it will be fine."
"Planting is a university course. Foreigners who enter the university must take a unified examination. If they don't get the score, even Duke Wesson will have trouble speaking."
"Also, Wesson State is in the north, and they teach plants from the north, which is different from those in the south."
"It doesn't matter if you go there to study, the basic principles of plant growth are the same. Come back Studying local crops should also yield good harvests."
Big Beard immediately said to him: "Hey, you are really open-minded, unlike some people."
One circle. The man laughed again, and the bald man was speechless.
The bearded man asked curiously: "Is that Iron Bull really that good?"
Frederick thought for a moment, held his chin and said: "I remember that many tractors were sold to the Kingdom of Kush. You can go and find out."
At this time, Scarface rushed to say: " I know this. I have bought a lot of them, but they are all used in the royal family’s farm.”
“I heard that His Majesty Yi Wen is going to reclaim the swamps in the Sun River Delta recently and is planning to buy more iron cattle. Come back."
Now Frederick became interested. He had never heard of it, so he asked Scarface to explain it in detail.
Scarface has relatives who are in charge of water conservancy in the Kingdom of Kush. I heard that the king felt that Duke Wesson had reclaimed so many swamps in the lowlands that he could do it, so he planned to reclaim the Sun River to flow into the inland sea. If successful, nearly 10,000 square kilometers of fertile land could be obtained from the swamps in the delta area.
Frederick nodded thoughtfully. After the gas explosion engine was mass-produced, there would be somewhere to sell those second-hand steam tractors.
Others also began to ask about Scarface. Behind the large-scale reclamation of farmland lies extremely high commercial interests. If you can't afford it yourself, you can still sell favors to big businessmen.
(End of this chapter)