Chapter 481 The dock became a hot commodity, and the whole family went to sea to rob sea creatures.
Even wealthy families in the capital and the managers behind high-ranking officials came to Meihuajiang to start buying properties.
The Meihua River ferry crossing, once known as a desolate, remote place, has surprisingly become a place where everyone wants a piece of the pie.
Lin Luoxi's shop was the first to be built at the mouth of the Meihua River. Lin Luoxi did not intend to rent it out, but instead put all of it on display to sell her own local specialties.
At first, business wasn't very good, but Lin Luoxi wasn't in a hurry.
When Lin Luoxi returned from her voyage to the West in more than twenty large ships, she brought back many people from the West, and all the items in Lin Luoxi's shop were sold out.
As a result, the goods of the merchants who had already set up stalls even though the shops were not yet built were all sold out.
The merchants of the Crimson Flame Dynasty were astonished to see the Westerners so interested in things they took for granted, as if a swarm of locusts had swept through their territory.
Not only that, but Westerners can be seen every day in the inns and restaurants at the mouth of the Meihua River, and Lin Luoxi's inn and restaurant have a daily turnover of over ten thousand.
Such a fast transaction speed and high consumption made them realize that Meihuajiang Wharf was indeed a good place to develop business.
They quickly mobilized funds to continue expanding their business territory.
Seeing the blond Westerners spending lavishly, the people of the Crimson Flame Dynasty also wanted to go to the West to see the local customs and culture, and also take some of their own goods to sell there.
They all came to Lin Luoxi to ask if she could let them take a ship overseas to broaden their horizons, and they were willing to pay for it.
Lin Luoxi sensed the scent of money again. She pretended to be deep in thought, but in reality, she was wondering how much money she should charge to make a profit.
When Lin Luoxi carefully calculated the cost of building the dock, she was astonished.
If building this dock cost her five million taels of silver, it's really not in her nature to not earn that money back.
After everyone had been eagerly waiting for several days, Lin Luoxi finally replied to those people.
One thousand two hundred taels per person, plus a foreign language translator.
If you also bring cargo, the price will depend on the size and quantity of the cargo.
Lin Luoxi was quite busy that year, realizing the benefits and importance of foreign languages.
When Lin Luoxi was building the dock, she entrusted the construction of the dock and the building to Xie Hanchuan.
She then returned to Wutong Village and made a point of teaching foreign languages to all the men, women, and children in the village.
Within a year, navigation technology matured, and the villagers learned to speak, and everything was on track.
Now that these businessmen are proposing to do business abroad, she naturally wants to promote the people of Wutong Village and take them along to broaden their horizons.
Lin Luoxi's conditions were not harsh; in fact, they were within the acceptable range for businessmen.
This was also the first time Lin Luoxi's fleet had carried passengers out to sea, and she was worried, so her whole family came along again.
For this voyage, Lin Luoxi plans to split into two ships and, once they reach the Western Ocean, continue to explore other countries.
For three months, we drifted at sea, and even those who had never been on a ship before got seasick.
Fortunately, Lin Luoxi provided excellent service and had seasickness medicine on board. Each seasickness pill could be purchased for just one or two taels of silver.
Yes, in the Crimson Flame Dynasty, a small bottle of motion sickness pills could be bought for one tael of silver, but on the ship, they were sold in units of one pill.
Those who can afford to travel by ship are naturally wealthy and don't care about a few taels of silver.
But if there are tens of thousands of people, and a few thousand of them buy, that's several thousand taels of silver. So Lin Luoxi won't lose out on this trip.
Merchants from the Crimson Flame Dynasty believed that coming to the West would allow them to effectively market their goods.
But Westerners only recognize Lin Luoxi's products and are only willing to buy things from Lin Luoxi's stall.
Those merchants who sell goods can only rent Lin Luoxi's stall to sell their own products.
Thanks to Lin Luoxi, the tea, teacups, jade, and calligraphy they brought did indeed sell very quickly and at very high prices.
Therefore, the merchants no longer complained about Lin Luoxi's high rent.
Lin Luoxi saw that the merchants of the Crimson Flame Dynasty were crowding around her stall to sell their wares, and she felt that this was not a good thing. So, she took the large pearls she had caught in the sea and used the token given to her by Queen Naying to enter the palace without any hindrance.
He presented two large pearls, one pink and one white, to Queen Na-young.
Empress Na Ying had seen many fine things, but this was the first time she had seen such a large pearl. Overjoyed, she immediately decided to give Lin Luoxi all the stalls at the pier.
Seeing that Empress Na-young was so understanding, Lin Luoxi sent her a lot of feminine ointments.
A royal empress like Queen Na-young must have many male favorites. Lin Luoxi catered to her tastes and made Queen Na-young very happy.
When Lin Luoxi came out, she handed the free stall contract given to her by Queen Naying to her own people.
Plan out the stalls at the dock, then rent them out to merchants from the Crimson Flame Dynasty to earn some stall fees.
With everything arranged in the Western countries, Lin Luoxi and her family, along with Wu Kui, continued westward along the Western route.
As a result, after three months of searching, they hadn't found a single ghost and had no choice but to turn back.
It was another year later when Lin Luoxi returned to the Crimson Flame Dynasty.
Because the ointments she developed required so many pearls, she had used up almost all the pearls she had taken from the clam family during her last raid.
Taking advantage of the fact that only their family was on the ship and they stayed at sea for several months, Lin Luoxi and her family went to sea to rob the clam family.
With Xie Leyao around, Lin Luoxi could clearly know where the sea clams were.
In the three months that followed, the entire family of sea clams on the seabed was robbed by the ruthless Lin Luoxi and her family.
The clam family, unable to find the culprit who stole their pearls, could only hide in the deep sea abyss in fear.
Without the pearls from clams to rob, the creatures turned their attention to food from the sea.
She puts any fish she deems edible into her spatial storage.
Wherever she went, all the fish around her disappeared.
The fish that had been swimming leisurely in the sea, after watching their companions disappear time and time again, finally became alert.
That seven-second memory was stretched to a full minute by Lin Luoxi's fright.
Upon seeing Lin Luoxi appear, all the sea fish scattered like startled birds.
The fish have become more cunning, which has greatly reduced Lin Luoxi's chances of success.
With her indiscriminately catching fish, there really weren't many fish left in the sea that could catch her eye.
Just as she was about to stop, her eyes caught sight of the beautiful coral formations on the seabed.
Yes, we've lost all the fish, but we can still sell the coral trees!
She remembered that there was a pink coral stone in Xiao Jingchen's palace.
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