MTL - Emperor Zhengde of Ming Dynasty-Chapter 169 enlighten

Chapter 169 Enlightenment

Loaded with ceramics, jades, and silks from the Ming Dynasty, Shen Wanqian took a caravan of more than a dozen people across the Strait of Malacca and arrived directly in India.

He knew the situation of Zheng He's seven voyages to the West like the back of his hand. If Zheng He, the **** of the Three Treasures, could earn gold and silver treasures from those foreigners, couldn't he?

Leaving Daming's homeland, he is no longer bound by others.

In a foreign country, he fully displayed his commercial talents. He replaced all the ceramics, jade and silk of Ming Dynasty with other countries' products, and then sold them in other countries.

After only one round, they all fell to the top two in silver.

However, when traveling, it was not all smooth sailing, especially when it just passed through the Strait of Malacca, it encountered a large number of pirates.

Fortunately, these Daming battleships were equipped with god-level artillery. When Shen Wanqian learned about the pirates, he made preparations in advance to avoid losses.

However, the conditions on these warships were not as good as when Zheng He went to the West.

On a warship, Shen Wanqian stood on the bow with confidence and looked up at the sky. He used to be so rich and extravagant, but he did not expect that today he would be suppressed by the imperial power, so that he wandered in other countries.

Is this his own life?

Shen Wanqian clenched his fists tightly. He didn't believe it was fate. He wanted to return to Daming and establish his own business empire.

"The shopkeeper, after passing the island in front, you will arrive at the place of the Indians. It is said that the people there are relatively backward. We should not do business with them, lest things be robbed..." A businessman-like person faced Shen Wanqian clasped his fists and said.

Shen Wanqian turned to look at the person beside him. In fact, his real identity was Jin Yiwei, who was responsible for taking care of Shen Wanqian here.

However, on the premise that Shen Wanqian did nothing wrong, he could not reveal his identity and just play the role of the caravan merchant butler. This was arranged by Qi Jingtong according to Zhu Houzhao's instructions.

"Butler Liang, you are overthinking it. Have you ever heard of the story of selling combs to monks?"

Shen Wanqian put his hands behind his back, looking casual.

When Shen Wanqian finished saying those words, the man called Butler Liang's eyes widened, as if he could not believe his ears.

"Master, what did you say? Selling combs to monks? Isn't that nonsense?"

"Hahaha, do monks have money? Even if there are them, they don't need a comb at the root. This is a skill issue, you have to think about it."

Not only did Shen Wanqian fail to answer Liang's question directly, but he also posed a problem for him, how could this comb be sold to a monk? It still requires him to think carefully.

Shen Wanqian was amused when he saw that Shopkeeper Liang was a little confused. Originally, after he went to sea, his mood suddenly improved a lot, and many of the previous unpleasantness had been swept away.

The task of 50 million taels of silver that Zhu Houzhao assigned him was not a problem in his eyes. For a person like him, if he gave him a fulcrum, he would be able to move the earth.

After Shen Wanqian laughed out loud, he turned to Steward Liang and said, "Butler Liang, questions that you think are inconceivable often need to be considered from a different angle. Once you consider them from a different angle, the results are often different."

"You think, of course a bunch of monks don't need a comb, but each of them is curious!"

"If there is a group of monks right now, they have nothing to do after their homework, so naturally they can't take out their combs to comb their hair, but shut themselves in the room, carefully take out their combs, and comb a few times on their bare hair. Come down, feel the thrill of combing your hair!"

"That's human curiosity.

Everyone has. "

"So, if all the people in the country we went to this time were monks, then we would be rich."

"Do you understand what I mean?" Shen Wanqian continued to ask Steward Liang with his hands behind his back.

After listening to the two housekeepers, they thought about it carefully, and their eyes seemed to emit two lights immediately, and then nodded heavily and said: "The head of the house is really smart, why didn't you figure this out earlier?"

"We were going to this country for the first time and we brought things they didn't, so they were curious about what we had."

"That alone is enough to make our products sell well in their countries..."

Shen Wanqian squinted slightly, enjoying the sea breeze blowing the Buddha, listening to Steward Liang's remarks, in fact, such simple principles abound in the wisdom of ancient Chinese people. Later, after these principles were passed on to Europe, they Start organizing it into a book.

Later, many people in China lost the wisdom of their ancestors, and only began to look for them in books when it was time to use them, and they happened to come across these things sorted out by Europeans.

In fact, these so-called marketing theories were summed up by our ancestors in China thousands of years ago...

Standing on the deck, Shen Wanqian thought for a while. Do these things need to be passed down from generation to generation?

When this thought appeared, he was suddenly shocked, and he seemed to realize a very serious problem.

"Treasurer, I dare to ask, according to the records of the official Zheng He's literature and history, the people here are sturdy, if they really have no money, just rely on our hundreds of people, if..."

Butler Liang didn't finish speaking, but he had already said this, meaning that if you don't want to sell the goods, if you can't go back then, it will be troublesome.

Of course Shen Wanqian could hear the meaning of his words~www.novelbuddy.com~ But this is indeed a possibility, and it is also a place of stubbornness. The less the population, the lower the degree of enlightenment.

Just like the present Yunnan and Guizhou areas of the Ming Dynasty, the folk customs here can't help but be fierce. Even most of the people here are gathered in tribes, which are often difficult to deal with.

However, Shen Wanqian thought about it, didn't Zheng He come before? Well, let’s pretend to be Zheng He and say that I’m not here to be a voice. First, establish a friendly relationship with the locals, and then start the business. Isn’t it the best of both worlds?

Because when Zheng He went to the West, Daming's national prestige was still very strong, unlike now, although the Zhengde Emperor's father, Hongzhi Emperor, made great efforts to rejuvenate Daming a little, but on the whole, Daming still tends to go downhill. of.

Shen Wanqian is also a businessman. The so-called bystanders are clear and the authorities are obsessed. The current Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao does not know about it, but to outsiders, Daming is no longer as good as it was in the first few years of the founding of the country.

"You don't have to worry about this. When you get there, you can just do business with the locals, and you don't have to worry about the rest, there is me!"

Butler Liang looked confidently at the business genius in front of him, and thoughts came to his mind...