The Human Emperor

The Hyderabad ores were different from ordinary metal ores, so they could not sell it using the price of ordinary metal ores. Before coming to the Central Plains, they had traveled to many different locations and met many different people.

There were also quite a few of them who could speak fluent Sanskrit. When they heard the price, their reactions were just like Wang Chong’s.

If they were unable to comprehend the true value behind the Hyderabad ores, then there’s no point continuing on with this trade.

“Looks like the Central Plains isn’t a location suitable for the Hyderabad ores to be sold in!”

The two said coldly before turning around to leave.

In the past few months that they were in Great Tang, they had already determined that they would be unable to find a suitable buyer for the Hyderabad ores here, and they had intended to return back to Sindhu in the next few days.

When they met with Wang Chong, the both of them thought that the situation might be different with him. Yet, contrary to their expectations, the conclusion was still the same.

Wang Chong’s reactions had reaffirmed the initial judgement the two had made.

——It was impossible to deal with the Central Plains on the Hyderabad ores.

“Wait! Masters, you two are mistaken!”

Seeing the two foreign monks turning around to leave, Wang Chong didn’t know whether he should cry or laugh. He hurriedly waved his hands to stop them.

That’s right! Hyderabad ores were not just expensive, they were extremely expensive!

300 gold taels were probably sufficient to buy several carts of other metal ores. It was definitely much too extravagant to purchase ores at such a price.

However, based on the memories of his previous life, Wang Chong knew clearly that the price of the Hyderabad ores would inflate to several tens of thousand, even a hundred thousand gold taels.

Furthermore, it wasn’t a commodity that you could buy just because you had the money!

The two Sindhi monks did not know that Wang Chong wasn’t surprised by of how expensive it was. Rather, he was surprised by how cheap it was!

Compared to those sky-high prices in his previous life, the price of the current Hyderabad ores was simply too inexpensive!

Wang Chong did not expect that the prices of the ore would actually be so cheap at the very beginning.

Of course, Wang Chong wouldn’t be so foolish as to point that out.

“Masters, I am alright with the price of 300 gold taels per jun!”

Wang Chong said.

Upon hearing those words, the expressions of the two foreign monks cleared up slightly and they stopped:

“Even though 300 gold taels per jun isn’t cheap, the ‘jun‘ of us Sindhu is different from the ‘jun‘ of the Central Plains. In the Central Plains, your jun is only 30 jin, but the jun of our Sindhu is large ‘jun‘, weighing a whole 50 jin! This is much more than the jun of your Central Plains——What you held in your hands just now was a jun of the Hyderabad mine!”

1 large jun = 50 jin = 25 kilogram (Note: large jun isn’t an official term)

One of the foreign monks said, as though trying to console Wang Chong.

Wang Chong chuckled. Of course he knew about the difference between Sindhu and Central Plains, just that the monks were mistaken on a single point. The jun of the Central Plains didn’t weigh up to 30 jin. At most, it was only 25 or 26 jin.

On this point, the Sindhis were rather honest.

Furthermore, 50 jin of ores for 300 gold taels, doing a rough calculation, that was around 6 gold taels for each jin. Honestly speaking, that was truly dirt cheap.

He had really made it in for the opportune time for the investment in the Hyderabad ores!

“Price isn’t a problem. Let’s talk about the details then.”

Wang Chong said. After satisfying the several conditions listed by the Sindhi monks, it was his turn to list his.

“As long as you can accept our conditions, the rest isn’t a problem. How much jun of ores do you want?”

The two Sindhi monks asked.

“No! Masters, you both have mistaken my intentions!”

Wang Chong lifted a single finger up and shook it. With a smile, he said:

“I have come to negotiate with you with great sincerity on my part. However, there is something that you are mistaken about. What I want wasn’t the quantity of the ores… What I want to purchase is the rights to distribute your Hyderabad ores in the Central Plains and the entire Eastern world!”

Wang Chong spoke of his conditions!

What did a single trade count as? So what if he could buy a single jun, two jun, a hundred jun, or even a thousand jun of Hyderabad ores?