Chapter 1933: Old Leather Makes Leather Armor
",,......" Marin couldn't help but burst into foul language. He really didn't expect that the deer skin in the Northeast was so cheap at this time, it was simply the real price of jumping off the building and letting blood! This kind of cheapness is a hundred times lower than the price of the leather bag in the Jiangnan Leather Factory after Huang He ran away......
Suddenly, Marin had an urge to go to the Northeast to sell iron pots. Ma's time-honored iron pot shop, one pot for 10 deerskins. The cost of the iron pot is less than 200 Wen, and the price of ten deer skins back to the Central Plains is 4800 Wen. Excluding various costs, there are more than ten times the profit......
Ma Lin even made up the picture of himself selling iron pots in the Northeast - he held a loudspeaker and shouted in the market of the fishing and hunting tribes in the Northeast, "Look at it, take a look, don't miss it when you pass by!" The authentic time-honored horse beard iron pot is as famous as Wang Mazi kitchen knife! Only 10 deerskins in one pot! You can't buy a loss, you can't buy a fool......"
After drinking the saliva, he changed another way of shouting - "The Great Khan of the Yellow Crane ran away with his sister-in-law, the tribe owes 350 million, we have no choice but to take the iron pot to pay the salary, the iron pot with the original price of more than 200 or 300 deer skins is only sold for 10 deer skins, and all 10 deer skins are ......"
Marin touched a mustache on the side of his mouth, and said in his heart, I don't seem to dare to call myself a beard with this beard length. However, a photo of a bearded face is very suitable for the image endorsement of "Horse Beard Iron Pot". But as soon as he thought about it, he felt that 100,000 river crab beasts were pressing towards him and wanted to devour him, so he quickly gave up his thoughts...... Just kidding, let the tutor sell iron pots? Want to die, don't you?
Realizing his mistake, Marin immediately stood up and bowed in the direction of the cemetery in the northern suburbs of London to the southwest, but he quickly reacted - no, Master Ma was not born yet, why should I bow to his grave......
Moreover, Marin felt that with his own history of influencing Germany, that Matsushi could still be born smoothly. You know, with even a 0.001 second error, the child born may become another. Because, when you give birth to a child, it is 200 million to compete for a chance to be born, which is much more exciting than finding a job and grabbing a job.
Marin changed the history of Germany so much, and even changed the history of the Ming Dynasty, that many historical celebrities would definitely not be born. Of course, whether there is someone to take their place, it is difficult to say.
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Anyway, there are so many leathers in the Great Northeast, and Marin doesn't want to give up. According to the five people of Bai Geri, as a fishing and hunting people, they also focus on hunting, and there are 20,000 or 30,000 households of the Sauron people, and almost every family has dozens of deer skins as daily necessities. Moreover, every time I move, for the sake of convenience, I will discard a lot of worn-out deerskin, suede and other leather. There was no way, they didn't have a big car, so they could only take a few skins to relocate. The rest of the worn-out leather can only be thrown away on the spot, or even burned.
If you are collecting deer skins, each family will get hundreds of deer skins every year. However, neither the Saurons nor the people of any other tribe would exterminate the deer. Because they understand that if they kill too much, it will be difficult to hunt deer in the future. When the time comes, their whole family will go hungry. After all, the people of Sauron lived on venison, roe deer, hare, and wild boar. If they don't control it, they can hunt a few deer a day in one household. But in order not to run out of food in the future, often at this time in the northeast, the family only hunts a deer for a few days. And a deer is indeed enough for a family to eat for several days. Even, in the summer, most of the meat is spoiled. In winter, a deer can feed the whole family for many days.
In this way, every day a family of Sauron collects at least dozens of deer skins. There are also other small animal skins such as rabbit skins, squirrel skins, etc., and there are so many of them that no one buys them. Among all the leather, only mink is bought because it is more expensive, and then sold to Daming to make huge profits. The rest of the leather can basically only be used for personal use. For example, the Sauronians lived in a tent-like thing, which required a lot of skins.
In addition to the 20,000 or 30,000 households of the Saurons, in addition, there are tens of thousands of Jurchen households, as well as thousands of Xibe people, thousands of beggar charming households, Hezhe people and other ethnic groups, and there are many deer skins. After all, in later generations, there is a saying in the Great Northeast that "the roe deer is beaten and the fish is scooped". It can be seen how rich the deer resources are in the Greater Northeast region.
In the Beishan Savage area from the northeast to the north, people directly raise reindeer and have more deer skins. At that time, Maozi relied on the control of Siberia, but he reaped enough windfall profits from the leather trade. Of course, mink is the first choice. Deerskin or something, it's just an addition. Moreover, transporting deerskins from the Far East to Moscow by land is estimated to not even bear the cost. After all, the cost of land transportation is simply too high. So, the Cossacks, they could only put a few bundles of mink on horseback and return to Europe. Deerskin or something is generally sewn into a bag. Or, make clothes and boots or something.
But Marin didn't have such a problem, he set up acquisition points in Nuergan City, and then scattered several acquisition points. Or, work with a few good tribes and let them buy it on your behalf. In the summer, you can directly send a galley to the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River to receive the goods, and you can definitely get a lot of leather every day.
Even, the black-hearted Marin felt that those Saurons and Jurchens could buy the old tattered leather.
Those tattered old leathers may not be able to sell them for a price when they are sold by Daming. However, it is possible to process it and sell it to Japanese people......
Japan's village chief, Sengoku, needed a lot of armor. If they are all processed with intact deerskin, they will certainly make a lot of money, but they will not be able to maximize the profits.
However, if you buy the tattered leather that Northeast people want to discard at a low price, and then process and sew it into low-end leather armor, it is still very marketable......
As long as the cutting technique is skillful, it is completely possible to cover up the damaged part of the deerskin. Then, from the cut deerskin sheets, sewn into a double layer of leather armor. For some places that are difficult to cover, you can nail a few pieces of iron to it. The first is to strengthen protection, and the second is to cover up the damage......
In this way, the tattered leather that the Sauronians wanted to discard when they moved was sold. As long as it is close to the Heilongjiang River, or the Songhua River, it is a convenient place for transportation. In the summer, when Marin's galleys come to collect their skins, they can be collected by the way.
Then, those intact deer skins were sold to Daming. Or, make it into a high-end thing and sell it to the Japanese aristocracy. And those tattered old leathers that are damaged are sent to the Jiangnan Tannery...... Ahh
In any case, leather armor is still relatively lightweight. The double layer of leather armor, and then nailed iron pieces to the vital parts, absolutely meet the needs of the Japanese village chief to fight.
Moreover, the unscrupulous Marin felt that in order to cover the tattered parts of the worn deerskin, the original plan to sew leather armor from the whole deerskin had been changed to cutting the deerskin into small pieces first, and then sewing them together to make a double ...... The smaller the leather armor piece, it is natural to avoid the tattered parts on the worn leather, and it is easier to fool the Japanese daimyos.
As long as the refurbishment technology is good, and some paint is imported from Daming to refresh it, it can still be sold to the Japanese village chief at a high price. Or, trade them for valuable ploughing cattle.
In addition to being sold to the Ming Dynasty and to the Japanese aristocracy, some of the intact deerskins could also be shipped back to Europe to sell. After all, the price of leather in Europe is also very high, and the market is also very large. Because there were no cloth shoes, the shoes in Europe at this time, before the introduction of straw shoes in Marin, were dominated by leather shoes. Leather shoes, on the other hand, are made of leather scraps. And the leather coat made of the main part of the leather can only be worn by the wealthy. So, in Europe, deerskin is also very marketable.
And the Japanese village chief was bothered by their grievances and used leather armor made from tattered leather that the Saurons wanted to discard. The purchase cost of this leather armor is very low, in Muren's words, it can be exchanged for 10 pieces of new deer skins in one pot, and hundreds of pieces of that worn leather. Moreover, it is only a little worn, and it is barely usable...... A little refurbishment, fooling the Japanese, absolutely no problem...... As for the deerskin that is too broken, people in Sauron are embarrassed to take it out and exchange it with you......
As for the number of purchases, Muren estimates that at least 100,000 new skins can be purchased every year. If you are willing to accept those old deer skins, it is not a problem to collect 100,000 pieces of old skins every year, and the purchase price is super low...... If you collect old skins in the first year, you can collect hundreds of thousands of old deer skins......