The trade between two states and counties at one time can bring thousands of gold benefits to the Mi family.

In the past, it was once or twice a month, but now it has become three times.

Although the profits will be divided by Liu Zheng in half, in fact, the Mi family is more profitable than the previous trade between the two places.

And after there is no risk, the Mi family's trade in these two places is much more assured, and there is no need to worry about the goods being robbed.

When the first month's income, Mi Fang brought people to Mingyue Cottage to send more than 700 gold as the first month of cooperation, Liu Zheng looked at the money in front of him, and his heart also smiled.

More than 700 gold is not a small amount, although Liu Zheng now has tens of thousands of people under his control, and there is a huge cottage, but this is also not a small amount for Liu Zheng and them.

It can even be seen from Cai Mao, Huang Zu and others that even if they are a big family like them, Cai Mao and Huang Zu and others will be in pain if they want to take out one or two thousand gold.

But Liu Zheng has transferred more than 700 gold in a month now, and he only needs to give him three months, and he will be able to earn the resources that he has robbed for a long time before.

No wonder, these businessmen are making a lot of money. At this time, doing business is really profitable.

However, after getting the money, Liu Zheng did not take all of it, but took out some of it and returned it to Mi Fang.

Liu Zheng returned the two hundred gold to Mi Fang, and when he handed it to Mi Fang, Mi Fang was stunned.

"Qu Shuai, this is ......"

Mi Fang didn't understand what Liu Zheng's intentions were. 、

Liu Zheng didn't say much, but directly said his request to Mi Fang.

"Brother Mi Fang, what do you think of my cottage?"

"The mountains and rivers are beautiful, and it is a good place to recuperate."

Mi Fang replied.

"Indeed, it's a pity that there is a lack of some necessary items for soldiers and horses, iron, pig iron, I lack a lot of pig iron here, not only the men and horses under my command, the weapons and tools in my hands cannot be forged by themselves, but also many agricultural tools used by the people are not available."

In the past few months, Liu Zheng has been busy with things in the army, in fact, the soldiers and horses under his command and the army equipment are quite good, compared with the previous Yellow Turban Army, it has been greatly improved.

But it is still not enough, firstly, the equipment cast by the imperial court is not wear-resistant, and the number of times it can be used is limited, especially after several battles, the blade of the sword is completely notched.

can only go back to the furnace to rebuild, fortunately, Liu Zheng has the blacksmiths he brought from Wancheng at the beginning, although there is only one old blacksmith, but the dozens of helpers he newly trained can also help.

Therefore, after returning to the furnace and rebuilding, the weapons and agricultural tools re-forged by Liu Zheng's people were much better than those bought by the imperial court.

In fact, there is no way, Liu Zheng's weapons are all smuggled goods bought from the hands of the imperial court through merchants, weapons and other things are not allowed to be bought and sold, and those that can be sold to Liu Zheng are all defective products.

That kind of thing is naturally not suitable for use, so you can only forge it yourself, rather than spending a lot of money to buy the defective products eliminated by the official army, it is better to forge it yourself.

And the most embarrassing part of forging by yourself is the lack of pig iron, and it is a lack of a large amount of pig iron.

Because the high-quality weapon pursued by Liu Zheng is a hundred refined iron, it will consume a large amount of pig iron before it can be forged into a weapon.

This made Liu Zheng's lack of pig iron even more scarce. 、

In the past, Liu Zheng could find Cai Mao to buy some pig iron, but now he is too far away from Cai Mao's Xiangyang, and even if he goes to Cai Mao, he may not be able to buy it from Cai Mao.

A few days ago, Liu Zheng bought some from Lu Jun.

But after all, Lu Jun is only a small county order, and there is not much pig iron in Yichun County, and he can't sell it all to Liu Zheng.

can relieve Liu Zheng's urgent need for a while, but it can't fully satisfy Liu Zheng.

So Liu Zheng set his goal on Mi Fang.

The Mi family is also a big family in Xuzhou, and the business spreads all over Xuzhou and Yangzhou, so it is okay for the Mi family to collect pig iron or discarded ironware in these two prefectures and counties, and then Liu Zheng to return to the furnace to rebuild.

When the time comes, the weapons produced will inevitably be ten times more powerful than the weapons at this stage.

Generals have stronger generals and can win battles, while minions with stronger weapons can also quickly defeat opponents in battle.

"It turns out that Qu Shuai just needs pig iron."

"This matter is easy to do, our Mi family is originally in the salt and iron business, and there are still a lot of survival in iron, if Qu Shuai needs it, I can mobilize three thousand catties of pig iron to come over."

"Three thousand pounds?"

When Liu Zheng heard this, he was dumbfounded.

Mi Fang underestimated what he meant by a large amount of pig iron.

The amount of pig iron consumed by the hundred steels he studied in Wancheng before was not a small amount, ten catties of pig iron, repeatedly tempered, and finally less than two catties of steel that could be used by Liu Zheng.

And forging a weapon requires at least two catties of such steel.

And the soldiers under Liu Zheng's command are 10,000 people, if all of them are equipped with this kind of equipment, the pig iron that may be needed will need at least 200,000!

This does not include the pig iron that Liu Zheng needs for farm tools.

"What, isn't three thousand enough?"

Mi Fang looked at Liu Zheng, and when she saw Liu Zheng's contemptuous smile, she immediately asked.

"It's not that it's not enough, it's just a drop in the ocean, it's far from enough."

"Huh? How much pig iron does Qu Shuai need? ”

"Let's take 100,000 catties first."

Liu Zheng didn't say 200,000 anymore, but compressed his expectations.

In fact, 100,000 catties is not much, and if you convert it, it is actually only 50 tons of iron.

But for Mi Fang now, 100,000 catties is also a terrible number.

After hearing Liu Zheng speak, Mi Fang was immediately surprised.

"100,000 catties !!"

"Qu Shuai, you ...... What do you need so much pig iron for? ”

"What else can you do, naturally it is forging weapons and farm tools."

"That's too much, 100,000 catties can equip an army of 50,000 people."

"100,000 is too little, otherwise why would I ask your Mi family for help, I guess only you can help me get so much pig iron."

Liu Zheng put his hope on Mi Fang's body.

Mi Fang was not easy to reply to Liu Zheng for a while because of the huge amount.

"This, Qu Shuai, this matter is too big, I can't be the master, can you allow me to report to my brother."

"No problem, you didn't come this time, I originally wanted to go to Xuzhou to talk to your brother in person, since you went back and told your brother, it also saved me a long journey."