He didn''t have much time, but it wasn''t that he didn''t even have time to talk business


    About 10 tons of wheat and rice, as well as dozens of kilograms of spices, were put down by Lorraine at a loading dock at the port, which almost caused the dutch and the spanish to break their heads


    In order to cool down the enthusiasm of both parties, and also to let other captains hear the news, Huang Xuan decided to start the official trade early the next morning, at a price of 30 rials or 10 Florin per 1000 pounds, and in exchange for seafood such as whales


    Florin is a gold coin, with 5500 currency units containing 110 ounces of gold


    At the current price of gold, each Florin is worth about $ 6


    Equivalent to rmb 0


    2 per kilogram of grain


    Huang Xuan seemed to have lost some money in this calculation


    However, if the inflation rate for 400 years was taken into account, the price would have been much higher


    If it weren''t for the desolate arctic circle, it would have been a huge profit for the grain at hand


    However, Huang Xuan was very grateful that he was not sent to a certain Indian jungle


    He hoped that the travelers in the era of the big plane would have less of this kind of perversion and less of this kind of plane data


    He carried a total of 1,500 tons of grain, equivalent to 3


    3 million pounds and worth 33 000 Florin


    This was a huge asset, enough to form a fleet


    In addition, he brought tons of spices and refined sugar, compared to the sugar used in europe today


    These exquisite candies have risen several levels in both taste and taste


    In the area near the warehouse in Green bay, huang xuan set up a small stall


    Behind him was a small warehouse with a capacity of several hundred cubic meters


    In front of him, there were rice, wheat, spices and sugar at one time


    Lord Governor general seemed to be very busy and did not come


    Juan stood behind Huang Xuan with interest


    The dutch of the East India Company seemed to be hiding at home


    Only the passing sailors looked at Huang Xuan''s stall and asked for the price, but when they heard that the sale started at 1000 pounds, they left one after another


    A sailor risked his life to stay in a dirty ocean-going ship for three months, only to get 20 Florin, and to buy 1000 pounds of wheat, he could not eat it himself


    Just like that, huang xuan sat in the warehouse area all morning


    However, he was not discouraged


    Yesterday afternoon, he had already understood that as long as the price was right, the captains in Green bay who were struggling for profits did not mind whether they brought back whale oil or food to europe, and for those ocean-going ships that caught whales, they could sell the oil at european prices


    Even other parts of the whale, which were treated as trash, and received a large amount of food, earned two bucks, so why not


    Hu An didn''t think so


    He advised huang xuan, "Mr


    Fei Lipu, I can take all your food at the price of 18 Florin per 1000 pounds


    Is that all


    You don''t have to think about it anymore


    " "But you have to postpone the payment


    " Huang Xuan shrugged helplessly, "I need cash


    " The delay in payment was a small gadget invented by the dutch, and it was this country of mercantilism that invented the financial foundation of delay in payment, letters of credit, and so on


    It also developed modern banking, which made the whole of europe willingly send wealth to Amsterdam, and then use the assets of the whole europe for commercial activities


    Now, the spaniards had learned the same trick, but Huang Xuan could only say no apologetically


    As a plane traveler, the most unbearable thing was to postpone


    Hu An was a little unhappy


    He spent two hours explaining why the delay didn''t affect his income, but Huang Xuan, who was used to Lorraine''s endless nagging, didn''t change his mind because of the spanish saliva


    He insisted on cash, but Hu An had little money on him


    "Then you won''t be able to sell it


    " Seeing another dirty sailor leave the stall, Hu An said angrily, "You don''t understand business, you don''t understand


    " "Whatever


    " Huang Xuan was not ready to eat


    He sat cross-legged with narrowed eyes, waiting for the next customer to come


    The sun in svalbard was very comfortable, bright but not hot, and the light was soft, especially in an environment of 3 or 4 degrees celsius, standing in the sun, his heart was exceptionally warm


    He was very quiet


    Compared to Hu An, the latter was more like a businessman who couldn''t sell anything


    He just sat in the afternoon and the first real customer came


    The dutch captain, goner, had an old four-masted sailing ship


    His main job every year was to catch whales and cod


    Occasionally, he did some transportation business, just like most businessmen in Holland


    Later this morning, his second mate told him that a spaniard was selling wheat and buying the whole or split whale at a price of 1 / 8 of whale oil


    He and the first mate laughed happily


    No one would do such a stupid thing


    But in the afternoon, he decided to take a look


    Goner''s ship encountered some ice when it entered the harbor


    Although the keel was fine, it still needed to be repaired


    The sailors had gone to longier to drink, and he wanted to stay at the port to watch the workers fix it


    Since the ridiculous spaniard had not left, he wanted to enjoy it


    This is probably the dumbest guy in the entire northern hemisphere


    "Where did you get the wheat from


    Paris


    " As he spoke, gonaher laughed, revealing half the missing front teeth


    Gunnar was dressed in a tight captain''s uniform, which was certainly not gorgeous, but it was still clean - in a boat without fresh water, cleanliness was a privilege


    It seemed like a guy who could afford wheat


    Huang Xuan picked up a handful of wheat and sprinkled it in front of him, "10 Florin or 30 rials per 1000 pounds


    " The captain rubbed the wheat grain indifferently, then threw one into his mouth and chewed it, "It''s just ripened wheat


    You didn''t really bring it from europe, did you


    " Gunnar spoke to Hu An


    Because of the inherent superiority of the white man, he assumed that the spanish was the seller, and Huang Xuan, perhaps a slave


    "I just need to sell it


    " The answer was "Slave


    " Gunnar became more and more curious


    He rubbed another grain of wheat and said, "These wheat are yours


    How much do you have


    " "Mine, of course


    " Huang xuan put down his hat, revealing a black inch on his head and said, "I can sell you 20,000 pounds now, if you want


    " Twenty thousand pounds weighed about ten tons, which was the capacity of the small warehouse behind him


    But he did not answer immediately


    Instead, he opened the valley in front of him and looked at it carefully before saying, "I heard that you are willing to buy whales at the price of whale oil


    Is that so


    " "If it''s any other part of the whale, trade it for wheat or rice


    I don''t have much cash on hand


    " "If all your wheat is like this, we''ll talk about the price


    " "Of course


    " Note 1: rials are often divided into 1 / 2, 1 / 4, or 1 / 8 for change


    This rule is derived from other units of measurement


    So to this day, the lowest unit on the london stock exchange is 1 / 8, not 1 / 10