I believe the answer to this should be gold.
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It should be noted that Chinese merchants does not export gold.
Chinese merchants can be described as
those who transported valuable articles and sold commodities .
They were been reffered to as shang (merchants) and they do export rice and porcelain.
In ancient China, they were been referred to as the lowermost class in the social hierarchy, and they were been viewed as greedy with little respect.
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