Individual transactions from mid-June to early August, there is still no sign of closing, Bailiyan investigation found that the participation in the transaction of the wealthy businessmen, less than one-third of the total number of into the city, mainly due to the lack of trading flow during the window period of trading, resulting in a lag in trading, in the final analysis, is still the commodity economy is not developed enough, many rich people can only squeeze in a peak hour trading.

And Mooney in order not to lose too much precious metals, the goods carried this time are really amazing, Bailiyan never knows how much money Mooney carried for trading, but obviously there is a unicorn such as animal resources to change the output of trade, can not be measured by pure normal thinking.

During the transaction, Ji Feng once again "inspected" Yongxing City, and successively agreed on the transaction items and the total price. During the negotiation, it was not difficult to see that Ji Feng was still extremely shrewd, and the second investigation made him quickly realize that he was a complete layman, and he had no idea what was good and what was bad.

So after a fierce ideological struggle, Ji Feng finally decided to pay for small batch purchases by himself first, but at the same time, he also had to persuade the Son of Heaven to pay for subsidies, and wait for the first batch of machinery to arrive in Liangguo for test drive, and then purchase the second batch after figuring out the process.

Therefore, at the beginning of August, Ji Feng took most of the gold and silver coins that had already arrived, and under the protection of the Liang State guard, he passed through the Daochang Sun Kingdom and made a long detour back to the Liang Kingdom. The reason why I took a detour and crossed the road of Weiguo when I didn't come was still worried about an accident on the way.

Now the country has been completely crazy, in late June, the Wei Guo trade envoy evacuated from the tomb, in early August has been reported that the country is preparing for war, Ji Feng is worried that even if he does not dare to take his life, then a group of outlaws continue to attack, he can not bear this crime.

Of course, you can also take the North Sea Route by sea and land, but it is the typhoon season in the North Sea, and it may not be possible to encounter a typhoon that overturns the ship.

At the end of July, Yongxing City came to two major technical news one after another, one is two sets of gear gearbox prototypes off the assembly line, fifteen consecutive days of test run to the beginning of August, no major problems, the integration of existing machining machine tools, half a year to a year, will produce a variable speed processing machine.

The second news came a little late, the high-speed steel was officially finalized, and this time the composition was a little unexpected.

In order to save costs, the use of industrial high-temperature resistant, smaller capacity crucible smelting furnace for laboratory smelting, the composition and process are basically determined and then 500 jin furnace trial production.

The high-speed steel obtained this time came from a laboratory crucible, because the sunglasses used to protect the eyes during operation fell into molten iron, and after cooling out of the furnace, a steel with both toughness and hardness and yield strength was obtained, apparently silicon elements improved the properties of the steel.

After repeated tests and improved silicon element feeding, the high-speed steel with excellent performance was finally obtained, and Bailiyan even felt that it was better than the high-speed steel in the previous life.

Due to the difference in alloying elements, there are many varieties of high-speed steel, but they are roughly divided into high-speed steel for cutting, die forging and engineering.

However, the matter is not over, after the smelting of the 500 catties of smelting furnace found a fatal problem, with the current technology, high-speed steel can not be smelted in large quantities like other steel, the reason is that the element composition is unevenly smelted, forming a crystal with a large lattice, and the thermal insulation and cooling link of the casting process will make the element distribution change twice, resulting in the material can not meet the requirements of the laboratory, and can not produce a batch of stable quality on an industrial scale.

To solve this problem, powder metallurgy can only be used, but at present there is no technical conditions, at least twenty or thirty years are not available, so after the joy, we can only continue to increase the number of crucibles, with the number of dense production of high-speed steel, so the price is not generally high.

Bai Liyan finally understood that in the early years, especially in the first half of the twentieth century, why advanced cutting tools were so expensive, in the final analysis, the smelting of early high-speed steel could not be like industrial steelmaking, high-speed steel with stable quality and consistent quality in large quantities, and small-batch dry-pot smelting was the only way to ensure technical requirements.

The equivalent of each smelting is less, the resulting increase in energy consumption, labor costs, and the experience differences of technical personnel determine the final cost of each batch of steel, coupled with the low technical threshold in the early stage, the difficulty of high-speed steel processing, the later cutting and shaping, and the difficulty of tool processing is not general, which ultimately pushes up the cost.

Bailiyan also found that even the high-speed steel produced by the same group of smelting technicians had different material properties on different dates and shifts, and even did not meet the standard, which aggravated the cost.

In view of this, Bailiyan organized the Technology Department to formulate standardized operating procedures, quantify production technology processes, and reduce quality fluctuations caused by detail differences.

Although there are still many unsatisfactory problems, there is a problem solved.

August is the hottest season of the year, and people's hearts are also hot. The caravans of the Jin Xuedi mission arrived in Chenling one after another, and some of them took the boat a little earlier, and they waited for two months, and finally it was time to divide the money.

At the end of July, Mooney's first batch of gold and silver coins arrived in Shanling by ship, and the first to distribute the profits were Liang and the eldest grandson, and the Liang State needless to say, the lord of all nations did not distribute the profits first, and as for why the second one was distributed to the eldest grandson, not the host Xianguo, the stakes are self-evident. Of course, the high-sounding rhetoric still needs to be disguised.

From August to September, the caravans of Qianyue Mountain in the south arrived in Shanling one after another, and the goods transported to Xianguo from various countries poured into the vicinity of Shanling like a tide.

Thanks to adequate preparation and the convenience of road infrastructure, Bailiyan had formulated a scientific and detailed logistics plan earlier, and built a temporary warehouse in advance for merchants to transfer goods and rest.

The purpose of the temporary removal of tariffs is to finally facilitate trade exchanges, but it does not mean that other means cannot be used to make money. The temporary reduction and reduction of tariffs has dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of Jiangdong and Suidang counties in taking the opportunity to make a big profit.

The second phase of the hot trading began to weaken in mid-September, and Mooney did not intend to continue bidding, so he closed for 10 days and moved to the third stage of tail sales.

After the gold and silver coins were in hand in early August, preparations for the minting of gold and silver coins began, and most of the gold and silver coins would be minted in chemically blackened inches of gold and silver, or full gold and silver collars. By September, the first batch totaled more than 1 million inches of silver, and 30,000 inches of gold were used to pay the powerful relatives who participated in the integration transaction and the silk merchants, tea merchants, jade merchants and other wealthy merchants under their protection.

Since most of the silk transactions were settled in gold, the proportion of gold settlement cash received by the princes was actually much higher than that of the gold circulating in the market, and the government only sent them 30,000 inches of gold, which was obviously unreasonable. At least 70,000 or 80,000 inches of gold should be used to pay for the transaction amount, or discount silver.

In the end, Bailiyan took a step back and exchanged more than 700,000 inches of silver and 60,000 inches of gold for the compromise of the silk merchants. But the 60,000 inches of gold is not taken for nothing, half of it must be deposited in the money bank, the deposit period is at least five years, and the interest rate is also the lowest.

This further curbed the outflow of precious metals in the short term, and at the same time allowed more gold and silver to be minted from these gold and silver, so that the gold and silver of the treasury could be temporarily saved.

The transaction lasted until the middle of October, and the cash settlement was completed at the end of October, and the total price of gold and silver flowing into the Xianguo was finally only more than 3.7 million yuan per inch of silver, which was more than 2 million yuan less than the original one, of which more than 1.3 million yuan had to be paid to the powerful and merchants who depended on them, and finally only more than 2.4 million yuan entered the treasury and the three marquis, of which the Lu Hou and the salt lord were the least, and the goods they could provide were really not much except for chemical products.

The less than 2 million yuan was eventually replaced with jewelry, ivory, spices, leather goods, mountain goods, herbs, blankets, honey, food, dried fruits and other local products.

The total price of these goods was equivalent to more than 3.2 million inches of silver, and most of the excess was bartered. Bailiyan exchanged Xianguo's specialties for the goods in Mooney's hands, and even bought more than 200,000 toothbrushes produced in Xianguo, almost buying up all the inventory, and finally the extra 1 million came from this.

These goods will eventually be traded through future trade operations and transactions, and the final commercial and industrial value of the goods worth more than 3.2 million inches of silver, as well as the marginal economic effects generated thereby, will far exceed the economic benefits of more than 3.2 million yuan on the books.

The core of trade is to obtain additional value through logistics and trading goods, so the tighter the hot money in the hands of the princes, the more they do not want to pay for Mooney's goods, the greater the loss of profits in the future.

The trading window finally closed at the end of October, and Mooney transferred the remaining goods to Gudapa, who could not afford to take so much of the goods that had been put on hold, so he had to borrow money from Bailiyan and pledge it to Mooney.

These tail goods are some goods that are taken for granted, such as honey. Due to the constraints of the local climate and plant varieties, honey is the main source of sugar for the Jinxuedi people, unlike other large-scale harvested sugar sources such as cane sugar and melon sugar in the Central Plains, so beekeeping is a very prosperous industry in Jinxuedi. Moreover, their land policy is more open, so the cost of beekeeping is much lower than that of the Central Plains, and even if it is transported all the way to the Central Plains, the price is still high.

In the Central Plains, due to land policy and aristocratic monopoly and other reasons, beekeeping is a low-productivity and labor-intensive industry, and most of the honey in the Central Plains is still mainly collected in the wild, and there are very few artificial beekeeping.

Because of policy encouragement and the development of agricultural biotechnology, commodity demand and food production, and other factors have stimulated the artificial beekeeping industry, Xianguo is large-scale beekeeping, but the price is still several times higher than that of salty domestic cane sugar, and the quality is far less than that of Jinxuedi honey.

The honey of the Central Plains has high water content, poor gelatinous texture, more like thick vegetable oil, even in the hot summer of the North Sea, the honey of the Jin Xuedi people is still like a mass of solidified fat that is difficult to flow, the quality is extremely high, but the price is not much more expensive than the salty domestic honey, but it is a pity that the people of the Central Plains are difficult to get used to this kind of honey, and few people who know the goods are not interested, and finally they are swept away by Bailiyan and put into the bag for strategic reserves.

Due to the high concentration of fructose, sucrose, glucose, maltose and propolis and beeswax and other dense substances, honey is not easy to breed bacteria and spoil, and it is theoretically not a problem to store it properly for a thousand years.

Legend has it that at the end of the 19th century, hundreds of pieces of honey were found in the pyramids of the pharaohs, which were stored for more than 2,000 years, and were packed in clay pots that were still fragrant and inedible when opened.

Storing large quantities of honey, of course, it is impossible to bring it into a coffin. The amount of honey produced in the salty country each year is limited and the price is high, the quantity of official procurement is limited, most of it is used for market trading and consumption, and the amount of honey that can be stored is very limited.

This time, Mooney carried a lot of honey, and it didn't cost much gold and silver to purchase it all, on the contrary, he missed the opportunity and would not have it again next time.