"This is not rum," Zhu Heying certainly would not admit that he brewed rum. "This is a tribute wine produced in Chaozhou, called the Damingchun wine, and is brewed with sugarcane. If it is the time when the Ming Dynasty is still prosperous, this tribute wine will not be taken out."

Rum is made by fermenting bagasse, water, and yeast after fermentation for one or two days, and then repeatedly distilled, colored, seasoned, blended, and stored. It is also divided into two categories: strong fragrance and light fragrance. Among them, good rum, whether strong fragrance or light fragrance, must be stored for several years or even ten years.

However, the rum that Zhu Heyan gave Charlie Goff to him was all artificially aged rum. If you meet a real expert, you will definitely be able to taste it.

Of course, even if it was tasted, the rum he drank for Charlie Goff was still the best of this era.

In the seventeenth century, even Louis XIV could not drink Martell and Lafite now. It would be very happy that ordinary rich people could drink a mouthful of artificial aging and not sour and spoiled wine.

Moreover, this rum is a necessity for Western seafarers on the sea, fresh water is prone to deterioration, and wines with too low purity are difficult to preserve at sea for a long time, so rum of forty or fifty degrees is very suitable for seafarers to drink.

Because Zhu Heying mastered pasteurization, he could even blend "marine rum" with a lower degree.

Since this rum is a necessity, there is naturally no need to worry about not being able to sell it. This is not an era of oversupply of goods, and most of the goods are in the seller's market!

For example, although the sugar sugar produced in Chaozhou is very good to sell, the sugar cane bagasse after squeezing the juice is not very valuable and can only be used to feed cows. In addition, the dark scraps left in the soup are useless.

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

Zhu Hetian added certain spice essential oils to the high-altitude wine that was distilled many times, and the perfume prepared is of value that rum is incomparable.

Later generations of high-end foreign wines were all in large bottles, but the perfume was small, and it was so expensive.

In addition, the "specially white" white sugar served with brine is the only "good sugar" in the world. It is no problem to be more than 20% more expensive than ordinary white sugar.

As for the value of the sweet gunpowder produced by sugar and sulphur, it is wine and sugar cannot be compared with perfume. Of course, sweet gunpowder is not a product for sale and cannot be sold. This thing is prone to moisture and cannot be transported to Europe by sea.

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

Charlie Goff also repeatedly thought in his mind that he originally wanted to get the right to "monopolized free trade" from Prince Zhu San and Grandson Zhu San. But now he found that these Confucian Puritans wearing headscarves, long robes, beards, and mysterious bombs were not easy to get along with. Don't not get the "monopolized free trade". If you even use bombs to bomb, it's better to give in and make a good relationship with these Confucian Puritans, and then try to find out the secret of Zhuge Shenlei!

After you understand the secret of the divine thunder, are you still afraid of no monopoly free trade?

Thinking of this, Charlie Goff was already smiling, "Your Highness, our British East India Company hopes to become the general agent of Chaozhou Damingchun wine and Dongchang perfume overseas sales!"

Zhu Hezang did not agree at once, but asked back: "Mr. Goff, what price do you East India Company plan to give?

The production of Damingchun wine is quite large, and the production of perfume is limited. It can reach a maximum of several hundred kilograms per year. Moreover, there is demand in Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Yangzhou and Nanjing, so there is no need to sell it at all!”

Charlie Goff thought for a while and said, "If the Morning Spring wine you provide can be of the quality of the Morning Spring wine I drink now, I can give you a pound of silver and a half ounce.

If it is just a Damingchun wine equivalent to the level of ordinary rum, I will give it at most one pound of 200 cents."

Zhu Hezang shook his head and said, "I don't know what ordinary rum is like, but I know that Chaozhou does not have ordinary Damingchun wine. All Damingchun wine can reach the level of Damingchun wine you drink now. It is impossible to buy only one and a half ounces! If you don't believe it, you can go to Dahao to see if there is such a cheap Damingchun?"

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

Charlie Goff frowned, as if he was making a difficult decision, "At most, it will be sold at most 0.7 ounces of silver per pound, but 10,000 kilograms of Daqingchun wine can be underwritten every year."

"The minimum is eight cents," Zhu Heying also looked very embarrassed, "but you have to be responsible for providing oak barrels, and you also have to pay half of the payment for the goods in advance. This aged Damingchun wine must be collected with real money and silver. If you don't pay the payment for the goods in advance, you can't do this business.

In addition, the amount of 10,000 jin is a little more, and I don’t know if I can receive it. So let’s sign a contract of 5,000 jin next year.”

Of course there is ten thousand pounds!

How could there be no wine that can be made with sugarcane bagasse? But Zhu Hetong still knows the trick of hunger marketing.

"Okay." Charlie Goff seemed to have made a great determination. After hesitating for a long time, he nodded, "Your Highness, I can meet your conditions. But I also have two conditions. One is that I have a batch of advanced red barbarian cannons and turtledove-footed muskets, and many gunpowders! I want to use these things to pay for the advance payment, these things are about four or five thousand taels. I don't think you want me to put these things to the Qing Dynasty to cash out, right?"

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

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

Perfume is the big one!

The smelly European nobles have not yet been invented these days. Only the stinky Hungarian water with very poor effects can be used as a powder that can be used at any time.

So this Dongchang perfume produced by the Ming Dynasty is the only one in the world!

Those emperors, kings, queens, grand dukes, and popes in Europe who want to smell fragrant can only buy Dongchang perfume at a high price. And they must also buy it. Otherwise, the French kings smell fragrant. The German emperors, the British kings, the Roman popes, and the Russian Tsar smell bad and have no face. They are all powerful people, and no one wants to save these two money to make them "famous"!

Zhu Hezhang shouted: "Sister Ling, give a bottle of the incense of the imperial concubine from Dongchang to Mr. Goff."

Daboling had been guarding outside with a bottle of perfume. When she heard Zhu Heyan's call, she immediately entered the door with the perfume. A small bottle, plus a Chaozhou lion-headed goose feather, was carefully handed to Charlie Goff.

Charlie Goff also carefully took the perfume bottle with both hands, pulled out the stopper and smelled it so good! If you want to take it back to Europe and offer a few pounds to His Majesty the King, maybe you can change to a lord.

Now Goff could no longer suppress the joy in his heart, and his face was full of smiles! It’s not that he was not cunning enough, but that the things Zhu Heting took out were so good!

Zhu Heying knew that he was going to post when he looked at his happy appearance!

Thinking of this, he smiled and said to Charlie Goff: "Mr. Goff, you can use this bottle of perfume first. Let's talk about price and agency tomorrow. How about it?"

Zhu and Kao asked Goff to use it first, just to let Goff fully understand the durability of the perfume. After Goff has figured it out, it would be expensive to negotiate the price, at least one tael of silver and two taels of water. And the price will have to be increased year by year in the future!

"Okay! I'll try it first." Goff nodded repeatedly, dipped his feathers in some perfume, sprinkled some on himself, and then carefully stuffed the plug and put the perfume bottle away.
Chapter completed!