Pig iron or fine iron, after all, it is just raw materials, the price of a pound of refined iron and the price of a pound of pork is about the same, a business wants to sell tens of millions of pounds of pork a year, of course, it is impossible, but it is a very easy thing for fine iron, the shortage of fine iron in the Ming Dynasty is huge, the specific number will not be known, but in the north to sell 30 million or even 50 million good fine iron a year I believe it is very simple.

It's just that even if it's a business of 50 million catties, that is, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, you have to deduct the cost and logistics, and it's really not worth it.

Of course Li Shenming will not say these words, Fang Yi and the others are all elated, and he is responsible for opening up the way to the imperial court, or he can ask the imperial court to raise the purchase price by one liter, if there is a name for the Ministry of Industry to purchase, those ordinary tax cards may also be exempted from some extortion, as long as it is saved, it is profit.

Everyone went all the way, the road of Jingshi was not very wide, it may have been very straight and wide when it was first built, but now a lot of shops have been built along the street, and many streets have been occupied by the eaves built by themselves, and only when they walk to the main road do they feel much wider.

In fact, it is not uncommon for so many vehicles to transport iron, except for some curious people who stare at the appearance of the carriage, four-wheeled cars are still rare after all, especially the design of the Yusheng car is very exquisite, the streamlined body and wheels are very firm and exquisite, and people can't help but look at it twice.

There will often be caravans in Beijing, those camel passengers come to dozens of hundreds of camel caravans, dozens of carts of caravans are not surprising, from Tongzhou to the Jingshi Dongbianmen area on the road is almost an endless stream of convoys to come, transporting grain, transporting southern goods, transporting cotton cloth, silk cloth, leather goods...... Some leather shops on Zhengyangmen East and West Street, a year together sell hundreds of thousands of leather goods, transport to Beijing of pigs and sheep a year there are hundreds of thousands of heads, the palace alone uses five or six million catties of coal a year, this is a population of more than 1.5 million super city, in this era is the most majestic and vast huge city in the whole world, the goods consumed by throughput are also astronomical, there are many dynamic commercial cities in the south, or maritime trade cities, or central cities such as Nanjing, but in the north of Nuoda, There is only one city in Beijing, and it is the most prosperous city in the world.

Passing through five or six large markets, all the way to Zhengyangmen, the vitality of the entire East and West Street came to the face at once.

In Li Shenming's experience, almost all the people walking by are merchants or guys from various shops, many cars and horses are walking back and forth on the wide streets, or full of unloading, or empty cars and loading, the consumption and purchasing power of more than one million people in Beijing are very amazing, and the cities around Beijing will come to Beijing to buy some goods that cannot be bought locally...... For example, the goods of the southern goods, the goods of the Japanese people, the dynasty, fresh goods, all kinds of Mongolian or Huizi specialties transported from Zhangjiakou, in Beijing, almost all the goods that people can imagine, there are dozens of kinds of spices alone, or in the Yongle years, there are a large number of special products in the Nanyang tribute, including Sumu and various spices, in recent years, the sea trade has flourished, there are more Taixi goods and Nanyang goods into the Ming Dynasty, but most of them are some luxury goods, and the market share occupied is very limited.

He Yusheng's branch is on West Street, where Zhang Han asked someone to buy a very large storefront, behind which is not a small yard, and after a slight transformation, it is a warehouse.

The business names of Jingshi are basically like this, with the front store and the back warehouse, or the front store and the back factory, and the place is basically not small.

When he arrived at the semicolon, Fang Yi and the people here did the account handover, and then came over to carry dozens of coolies to unload the goods, Li Shenming had nothing to do for a while, and asked the attaché to take the luggage to be settled, and he watched the unloading in the store, and waited for Li Guobin to come by the way.

Hundreds of thousands of catties of iron, said to be a lot, in fact, are large pieces of iron ingots, these coolies are like ants flowing endlessly, if it is not too many iron ingots, I am afraid that it will take a while to move it empty.

"Aha, Mr. Li is here."

Li Guobin walked over wearing a gray squirrel jacket, and saw Li Shenming from a distance, bowed his body low, greeted him in his mouth, and looked very polite.

Li Shenming himself is also from an economic background, but he is a high-level broker with the identity of the chief soldier, he has no ill feelings towards Li Guobin's style, and immediately stepped forward with a smile to return the salute, and then the two sat down together.

"How is the sales of Jingshi going on?"

The two said a few kind words about the hard work on the road, and Li Shenming asked with a smile: "I'm afraid it's not bad before the year, but what about after the year?" ”

Li Guobin said: "Now there is a lot of iron shortage in various places, and it will still be a booming market by the middle of next year, but it is estimated that it will sell slowly, and the iron storage in various places will be consumed for a period of time, and the iron will be converted into various utensils, and then replenished to the localities." It also depends on whether the people have money in hand, and I know that there are some places that cannot afford to use iron ploughs, and now they use stones, which is not a good thing...... The people have no money, that is, we have no money. ”

The market of Jintie is still dominated by the north, and there is no plan to seize the southern territory...... Grab can not be grabbed, the south produces more iron than the north, in fact, it is not more iron ore, but the traditional area of mining and ironmaking is much more than the north, not only Jiangsu and Fujian, Jiangxi is also the traditional iron-producing area, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, a famous miners' uprising of more than 10,000 people was launched from Jiangxi, and then the imperial court took a lot of effort to exterminate them. There is a lot of iron production in the south, and the shortage of iron is not large, even if there is a cost in transportation and logistics, it is too high, and there is no competitiveness in the south.

The current Lingqiu iron, to put it bluntly, is to grab the previous shortage, the iron shortage in the north is very strong, Zunhua iron field from the official to the bankruptcy is a general trend, now the court is buying Fujian iron, not to mention the people.

The process of grabbing this share, after filling the vacancy, is the competition in the market, and then slowly Lingqiu iron occupies the market, and then produces according to the annual amount of iron...... Li Shenming can't figure it out now, including Li Guobin and those big proprietors, as well as Lingqiu, they can't figure out how much the specific amount is.

"I'm here this time," Li Shenming said: "It is to seize the market purchased by the imperial court, this piece is at least a few million catties a year, and the price is much higher than that of the people, and the profit is of course not small, this brother wants to help me." ”

Li Guobin said: "I have received a letter before, I went to Tianjin once a month ago, and I will start to do this now. ”

"How was the trip to Tianjin?"

Li Shenming didn't have much interest in the matter of sea ships, but he still had to ask when he heard about it.

"Zhang Dongzhu just asked me to go and see first, and found a thousand chief military attachés named Duan Shiming in Tianjin, he is the owner of the ship, and there is a captain who is used to the sea, this ship is 1,200 material size, the ship is very large, even the captain and sailors are ready-made, Duan Shiming asked for 70,000 taels to sell to us, this price is a bit of a lion's mouth, I asked Zhang Dongzhu, he said wait and see, don't worry. According to what was said before, it was also to rent a boat first and hang that period of Shiming. ”

"Seventy thousand!" Li Shenming let out a cold snort from his nose and said: "We bought a ship to sell goods to the Japanese country, and we bought a ship for 70,000 yuan, and I don't know how many years we can earn it back." ”

Li Guobin knows that if the ship runs well, he will earn back most of it in one trip, but Duan Shiming's price is indeed a little inflated, this is also a normal thing, the ship is not a trivial matter, if the ship is in the south of the Yangtze River, I am afraid it is also worth this price, it is still higher in the north, it is estimated that about 60,000 yuan should be bought, plus the cost of hiring captains and sailors is not much higher, a ship of about 100,000 goods can be put down, and a good trip can be returned, of course, it may be a trip a year, if it is a typhoon shipwreck, or a pirate is a loss, Although Li Guobin himself is very good at these things, and he is willing to help He Yusheng manage this matter, but in front of Li Shenming, who does not agree with this matter, Li Guobin is not easy to say too much, and if something happens, he will be blamed.

"Mr. has settled ...... here first" Li Guobin got up and said: "I know that it is much more comfortable to live here with Yusheng than in the guild hall, Mr. just rest first, wait for me to inquire about the way, and then invite Mr. to go with me." ”

"Dude is hard." Li Guobin's fee was given by Zhang Han a long time ago, and Li Shenming was not polite, he responded with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and watched Li Guobin, the head snake, leave in a hurry.

"You take my post to the General Administration Department to see Master Huang, and then to the Household Department to meet Liu Yuanwai." After Li Guobin left, Li Shenming took out his own worship sticker and instructed the chief to go with one to submit a post to ask for a meeting, of course he would not wait stupidly for Li Guobin to arrange, but first use his relationship in Beijing, at least to inquire about the actual situation first.

As for the relationship with Yusheng in Beijing, Li Shenming has no intention of using it, after all, he Yusheng is just an ordinary business, and it is not the first in Datong, and the Fan family and other big businessmen are still stronger than Yusheng, not to mention in Beijing, and Yusheng is not ranked.

Zhang Han has sources and reliable manpower in Beijing, but Li Shenming feels that most of these people are inquiring about news in the market, and the other is to copy the Di Bao, which is not a great skill, and it is more appropriate to rely on his own relationship and Li Guobin to do everything.

Two days later, Li Shenming visited more than a dozen officials in Beijing, most of them were fellow villagers in Shanxi, and the Jin Party now has no backbone, and there is no talent to take a shot, and it is already like scattered sand, but the rich people in Shanxi have the habit of asking their children to study and make progress, and they have always been willing to spend money on studying, so there are still many officials from Shanxi, and Li Shenming usually manages the relationship between these officials, and at this time he should use it.

After a round of inquiring about the news, the prospects are not very good.

Today, I will change a chapter first, bye to the ticket, and then in the afternoon.