"Lord Yang, it's not that this humble one is being unreasonable. This humble one truly Cannot Do Anything About it. Our fleet is carrying a hundred thousand taels of silver's worth of goods. If they keep being held up like this, this humble one really won't be able to answer to the Earl!" Zhu Zhen, captain of the Anshun Earl Mansion's ships, said with a face full of misery.
"Sigh..." Yang Jide let out a long, faint sigh. This matter really was hard to handle.
"It's not that I don't want to let you pass. It's that even if you do, you may still be intercepted by Shenmu Island. When that time comes, your losses will be even greater!"
Zhu Zhen understood that reasoning too, but he truly Cannot Do Anything About it. A hundred thousand taels of silver's worth of goods was not something their Anshun Earl Mansion could afford to keep tied up.
"Then could we dispose of the goods nearby? Even losing some silver would do!"
Yang Jide Thought About It and asked, "What cargo do you have aboard?"
"Silk Cloth, Tea Leaves, porcelain, Xuan Paper, glass, and also some seal paste, Jade, and the like. These goods are all popular goods Over There in the Longdan Dynasty," Zhu Zhen said.
Da Rong truly had too many local specialties. Any one of them, if shipped overseas for Maritime Trade, could bring enormous profit.
Take this seal paste, for example. A tiny box of seal paste was very unremarkable. In Da Rong, even top-grade seal paste was only worth a few taels of silver a box. But as long as it was shipped to the Longdan Dynasty, their seal paste would become a luxury good, and one box could sell for over ten taels of silver.
Although the