"Damn, I don't know what's going on these days, there are more silk sellers all of a sudden." A Chu State merchant ship docked near Mengla Bay. A Chu State businessman on the top cursed loudly. I don't know how the news came out. Anyway, it suddenly attracted a large number of merchant ships carrying silk, tea, sugar, glass mirrors, and all kinds of daily necessities.

Not only these, the pirate ships also came to join in the fun. They sold their weapons to the country of Bangla. For a time, the ships of Chu country swam back and forth near Bangla Bay. Chu people, people of Bangla, nobles, Chu country. Businessman, it's so lively.

"Don't be angry. This business is like this. As long as you can make money, you can sell everything. Fortunately, our goods are never seen by the people in Bangla. They buy a lot of things, and we sell a lot of things. Now as long as things keep docking, there is no money that can’t be made. Sooner or later, this news will leak out.” Another middle-aged businessman said rather openly.

"Yeah." The most humbling businessman nodded helplessly and admitted. For this, he also has to admit.

"This silk is still consumed by nobles, and this folk power has not yet been opened up." The middle-aged businessman sat down to drink tea and said.

"And this tea. The nobles of Bangladesh seem not interested in tea, they are not interested in this kind of bitter things," said the middle-aged businessman.

"But with this white sugar, it's almost the same as the people of Qin country. Add this white sugar, and they will drink it, it's really **** enjoyable." The middle-aged businessman scolded.

At first, the nobles refused to drink tea, because the tea sold by merchants in Chu was not sugar-added, and the cooking technology and the tea itself were not good teas. For long-distance transportation, some teas were civilians. The tea tastes bitter and tastes bitter. The Mengla nobles are naturally unwilling to accept such things. Although Chu merchants have repeatedly emphasized that drinking tea is good for health, the Mengla nobles do not buy it.

Therefore, the turnaround of tea was not very good at the beginning, and it can be said to be one of the most serious unsalable goods. But the turning point of tea comes from another collocation. The advent of sugar has greatly increased the sales of tea, or sugar alone has become the most successful product.

India also has sugar cane, but their sugar extraction technology is very limited. They can only squeeze brown sugar, or brown sugar, which they call themselves, but Qin’s white sugar is far beyond their imagination. They never I think that sugar can be as white as the snow on the top of a distant snowy mountain. This kind of snow-white thing immediately attracted the attention of the nobles of Bangla, because this color is inherently difficult to see. With the combination of tea, the tea with sugar is added. The way regained the favor of the nobility of Mengla, and the tea leaves were opened.

But such a combination can only meet the needs of the nobles, because the price of sugar is very expensive. The price of a pound of sugar can be exchanged for twenty times the same weight of gold. Sugar has become the noble's biggest luxury.

For a time, the Mengla nobles began to make a big change, wearing silk clothes, drinking tea water with sugar, and using various daily necessities, such as glass mirrors and glasses. A glass mirror became a symbol of the status of aristocratic women. The price is not cheap. There are also glasses, the combination of glasses and tea water becomes the most beautiful thing.

These luxury items are the most consumed items in India and Bangladesh, and the other consumption seems a little insignificant. These are mainly weapons, pirates, and crew members, although they tried their best to demonstrate the sharpness and powerful effects of their weapons, But the Mengla people seem to have no interest in this. Even after reading it, they just looked at it curiously and didn't accept it much.

The country of Bangla has a special location. The terrain here is flat, coupled with the role of the Himalayas, and the southwest monsoon brings abundant precipitation. This makes it very humid and humid. It is unbearable because of the rainfall and the gunpowder guns used by the Chu people. In this environment, the failure rate is very high. If you don’t take care of it, it’s easy to catch fire. Such an unreliable weapon is naturally equivalent to a waste in the Mengla people.

Although his killing effect is amazing, their javelins, bows and arrows are not inferior to each other, especially in terms of range, as long as they occupy an absolute number of advantages, the effect of muskets is not great.

The troublesome thing is that the musket usually needs maintenance. It is very cumbersome, and for the Mengla soldiers who generally have low combat effectiveness, giving them a firearm is equivalent to sending them to death, because they simply do not know how to operate such weapons.

The loading of the musket is also very troublesome. If one step is wrong, it will bring a blood lesson. This is the case with the Mengla people who operate it. Therefore, they are not very interested in muskets, because the gap between flintlocks and their huge number of advantages, as well as the killing effect, is not that big. The sales of the flintlock rifle encountered a certain degree of resistance. Fewer people bought it. Many military units just bought it and looked at it, and then there was no more information.

As for the artillery weapon, the Mengla people believe that this is the best defense weapon, coupled with a huge sound, can deal with elephant soldiers, and the effect of killing elephants is very obvious, therefore, the enthusiasm of the Mengla people to buy artillery is more. Their main target of combat is elephant soldiers. The jungle is densely covered with elephants. The elephant soldiers have become the most important unit, and their killing effect is very obvious. Artillery is the best weapon for them.

Regarding the use of artillery, the Mengla people bought more generously and aggressively, but the number of artillery was small, and the pirates did not have many artillery to sell. In desperation, the price of artillery also soared rapidly, and the price was close to sugar.

"Our things are very popular, but the products here have no advantage. Their clothes look good and absorb sweat. There is no market for such things. Who wears this kind of fabric?" The merchant from Chu State before. Distressed. The Chu people brought a lot of goods for sale, but the next question made them very distressed.

They can exchange for gold and ship it back, but there is still a part of the space left, and they can't go back empty, because the loss would be too great.

"Slaves, slaves. You don’t need slaves, but there are many Chu people’s farms along the way. They need a lot of slaves. We can ask for these things. Elephants can be taken away, as well as ivory. This thing is fine. Right." The middle-aged businessman said after taking a sip of tea.

"Yes, ivory is also a treasure. If it is made, it is worth a lot of money, and there are these slaves, I think those women are fine. Get it back and sell it to the farms of Chu people along the way. They all need women. Women are more valuable than men. Too many. There seem to be too many women here. This is also a resource." The businessman said with a smile.

"Okay. Hurry up, run two more trips and have everything." The middle-aged businessmen drank the last sip of tea and then excitedly let the ship dock. It was time for them to show off. As long as they do this a few times, they will have everything. And wealth will not be much worse than those nobles. The power of the merchant is great.

The port business district of Bangla State.

"Hey, you Mengla, stop." A Chu businessman called a Mengla, and the Mengla came over and took the goods of the Chu merchant and left. Not all Chu merchants can sell things to the upper-class nobles. Most merchants can only sell their goods to ordinary Menglais. This is also helpless.

The Mengla turned around, looked at the other party with extremely fierce eyes, and made a provocative move. Not only that, but the other party didn't seem to be afraid of the other party. He also held the Chu State merchant’s in his hand. commodity. Two pieces of silk clothes, this thing is most popular among the people of Menggla, many people are willing to spend most of their wealth to buy, because this is a symbol of wealth. Many people are willing to do the same.

"Damn Mengla, return it to me." The Chu man took out his pistol, which was an old-fashioned flintlock. He had knocked on the door of the fire, and as long as he fired a shot, he could hit the opponent, and the surrounding Mengla people didn't seem to be afraid. They surrounded it very nicely and watched the duel between the people of Qin and their own people.

The other party seemed to understand what to do, and didn't know where to pull out a short knife. And two taller Menglas stood behind, who looked very disgusted with the Chu people. And looked at each other with contempt.

"Damn it, bring it back to me, otherwise I will shoot." Chu countryman shouted loudly.

But the other party didn't do anything. Instead, he turned around and left. It seemed that the other party didn't care about the things that Chu people did.

"Damn, I shot." The Chu countryman was a little excited, because two pieces of silk clothes were worth several golds, so it was worth the risk for him to do so.

"Click." The Chu man shot. But because of the weather, his gun failed. But the Mengla turned his head and saw the Chu countryman operating his musket, laughed at the other party, and then left. The Mengla people shook their heads and prepared to disperse, because they thought that these Chu people weren't really good characters at all, so they waited for a long time in vain.

"Damn it. Give it back to me." At this moment, the merchant of Chu State was anxious and rushed up with a pistol. He couldn't see that his loss expanded like this. He wanted to come back. Otherwise, he would be caught. Those Menggla people look down on it.

But the accident appeared at this time. The Mengla people suddenly turned around. Then it hit the opponent's chest with a knife.

"Puff." With a sound of broken flesh, the Chu countryman was hit by the knife and hit the key with one knife. He slowly fell down, while the Mengla people were a little surprised, but then left. Others watched.