Liu Mingxuan's question, Bai Minghe has no way to give a very positive answer, some things are not empty words.

can only say: "Please believe me, the general is a white crane, after the New Year, if you get the Banzai secret decree, and after the secret order of the military department." At that time, the general will naturally believe it 100%. Now everything is false. According to the general, until the end of the year, it should be kept as secret as possible. ”

"I'll give you 3,000 troops here?" Liu Mingxuan asked again.

"No, let a large number of military women come over, the number of 35,000 will do, and build a workshop here. My matchmaker is far from manpowered, and I need some people. Invite some veterans to come over, and you always have to carry goods up and down the dock. Let the workshop surround the seashore, set up a card outside the workshop, and even block the Qinzhou side, leaving only one port. ”

Bai Minghe's opinion was still good, Liu Mingxuan thought about it and agreed.

sent Bai Minghe out of the camp gate, and when he was at the door, Bai Minghe said: "Jinyiwei's side, let's release some profits." Half of them are easy to say, and besides, there are some things they are better at than us. ”

"Don't worry, we are coarse, but we don't eat alone. But on the side of the Chief Executive, unless they say something, there is nothing to do with them. You have to agree to this matter. ”

"Definitely!" Bai Minghe will naturally agree, he has nothing to do with the political secretary yamen.

Watching Bai Minghe go towards Jinyiwei's camp, several generals of the fourth rank appeared behind Liu Mingxuan.

"Lao Liu, do you say this Xiaobai is reliable?" Thunder asked.

"Reliable, according to what he said, if you really transport a million stone of rice to the capital, anything can be solved. If there is more food in Jingying, people in the north will be reassured. After all, at the moment, the north is restless. The taxes in Jiangnan do not charge half a penny, nor do they need a foot of cloth, but all the grain. But in this way, it is not enough for the north. Two years ago, north of the capital, there was no five years to recover. ”

The change of the civil fort, coupled with the battle to defend the capital.

It's not as simple as how many people die, large fields are barren, and there is no one to cultivate them at all. It is to give good policies to let the people in Shandong and other places move over, but they are not willing to fight at any time.

Forced immigrants and fear of instability of the people, so the northern defense line is very hard.

"Go back and work out the details. Give an explanation to the governor's side, and each guard must send some people. Those of us who have to fight for profit within each guard. You Chaozhou and Leizhou guards must be bloodletting. You can't just fat you! ”

Lei smiled heartily, this is the matter of the Yamen of the Guangdong Dusi, not the business of his Leizhou Wei family.

Bai Minghe went to Jinyiwei to say hello, just to say hello. Over there, I had a good conversation with the people in the military, and I could fight for about 30,000 taels of silver a year for Jinyiwei. Coupled with the profits of Jinyiwei's match business, Jinyiwei's side can not only give an extra one or two pieces of silver to the bottom every month, but also buy some more materials.

The spies sent abroad have also been funded.

Guangdong Jinyiwei does not suspect Bai Minghe, Hang Yubao is the same thing, Wu Bin is here, so he is naturally relieved.

Instead of walking, Shira-naka had people carry him back to the city.

It's not to put on a score, but that the white crane needs to take a break in the sedan chair to recover enough for himself. The sedan chair went around the city, did not enter the house, and secretly went out of the west gate and headed towards the sea.

At the three checkpoints, regardless of whether the white crane is on the sedan chair or not, the person carrying the sedan chair will only let him continue to go inside after verifying his body.

"Your Excellency!" After the white-named crane got off the sedan chair, and knelt on the ground.

"Don't kneel when it's cold, hard work tonight. Whether you succeed or not is related to the life and death of you and your own officials. Everyone has to be in good spirits for this matter. Bai Minghe got off the sedan chair and helped the old man Tao.

Entered the thick tent, and the thick tent enveloped the light in the tent.

"Guys, you've been practicing for days. To do it on a live mussel, let's talk about the first rule first. That is, everyone's hands must be washed with medicinal solution, and if there is a little unclean work, it will be done in vain. Then all the tools should be steamed over high heat, at least three hundred pieces. ”

After the white crane finished speaking, everyone went out to wash their hands.

According to Bai Minghe's request, all those who have washed their hands should hold their hands flat and no longer touch any affairs.

The division of labor here is very clear, and the people who work are highly trained.

The steamed tools were put up, and one person had four hands. This is something that the white crane strongly demands, because in ancient times there was no level of disinfection as in modern times.

The main knife sits on a chair, and the one who takes the mussel puts a mussel in front of the main knife, and the one who hands the core is also washed, and the core cannot be directly touched with his hands, and a very fine bamboo clip is used. This side was picked up with a clip, and then another assistant opened the clam to the first line.

There is no way to unify the mussels, so there are many varieties of mussels selected.

Some mussels can be planted in more nucleus locations, while others can only be planted in two or three locations. For example, in this mussel shell, Hepu endemic shellfish, as long as the left pocket, right pocket, and lower foot three parts, can have a limited number of seed cores.

"Start steady, don't seek speed first, even if it's a few less. Left and right according to the size of this bead nucleus, four-inch shells of all kinds of twenty-five, to distribute well, do not let the beads beads. The white crane confessed beside him.

These people have practiced with dead mussels, and when they actually do it, half of their hands are shaking.

A mussel, according to the algorithm of the white-named crane, is as little as thirty and as much as forty beads. According to modern calculations, the size of this core is only about 2.5 millimeters, and the bead will be more than 3 millimeters. This is the smallest one, and it is also used by the white crane to practice the hands of these people alive.

Grow one, and the fourth one is laid, and put the mussels in the disinfectant water of traditional Chinese medicine at a temperature of about ten degrees. It is then put in specially prepared fertilizer and put into the sea after three days.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were nine classifications of pearls.

Directly about three milli hairs, it is about eight hundred beads and one or two. This is already an excellent bead and is known as the "Eight Hundred Sons"

Among the levels of high-grade beads, the lower level is "Zhengqian"

Further down, it's medium, and it's inferior. Naturally, the price is much lower.

These bead workers will tremble because they will also settle accounts. Twenty shellfish are planted here, and there are one or two beads. In the past, how long did it take to pick these two 'eight hundred seeds', and sometimes there were not necessarily these two beads in thousands of mussels.

Eight hundred sons, one tael of pearls is worth ten taels of gold. When you arrive in the capital, it is much more than that.

There are twenty bead workers here, and the work in their hands is worth at least one hundred taels of silver, and whoever shakes his hand will have five taels of silver left.

The white crane has its own way of calculating, and he calls this the number three bead. Next are the No. 4 and No. 5 beads. Then there is the No. 6 medium bead, and the No. 7 medium bead. The white crane method is actually calculated by millimeters.

Twenty bead workers, plus four of each of them, a total of one hundred. In an hour, there were almost 400 mussels. The mussels have been carried out by another special worker and placed in a small pool.

"Next, the number eight bead nucleus!" The white crane doesn't expect all of these to survive, and half of the survival rate will steal the fun.

Of course, it is possible that all of them will survive.

As soon as the white crane ordered, a bead worker knelt down with his hands raised. "My lord, please let the little one rest for a while."

Generally speaking, how dare someone who works like this casually say that he is resting. The others also quickly knelt down: "My lord, although the No. 8 bead core is simpler, only five beads per mussel, but we are very afraid." ”

Tao Li Zheng came over and explained: "My lord, two years ago in Nanjing Mansion, someone bought one hundred and eight four-point beads. The price of 4,000 taels was not bought, and in the end it took 4,800 taels to buy the one hundred and eight beads, one bead is the high price of forty taels, and after the four-point beads are formed, dare to be the size of the No. 8 bead nucleus! ”

The four points that Da Ming said are one or two cents for ten dollars, and one dollar for ten cents. Daming's sixteen taels and one catty is 496.8 grams. One or two is thirty-seven .34 grams. This point is about 1.5 grams.

Shira-naka has calculated these before. The eight-millimeter pearl is almost 3.5 carats, and the weight is 0.7 grams, which is far less than what the old man Tao said. Four points is about 1.5 grams.

"Old Tao, this is also two points of weight, don't be so nervous. But since everyone is tired, drink saliva and eat some hot food. Dry again after a quarter of an hour. Tonight, we must make a thousand beads of the No. 10 bead core, which is the four-point bead that Lao Tao said. Go and rest! ”

"Thank you, sir!" Everyone thanked each other in unison.

What is the concept of five thousand taels of silver? Jin Jie told the white crane that the eunuch of the Three Treasures went to the West that year. The part of the wages of the 2,000-material warship in the Nanjing Treasure Shipyard was 430 taels of silver. The price of wood varies, but Ginger doesn't know.

In other words, 5,000 taels of silver is the wages of 12 warships of 2,000 materials.

Later studies of the 2,000-grain battleship showed that the displacement was about 1,000 to 1,100 tons. In the case of wooden boats, it is already super huge. Of course, Zheng He's treasure ship is bigger, and this is not something that Jin Jie can understand.

Guangdong shipyard, 1,500 warships, that is, 300 taels of silver.

Finally, we arrived at the No. 10 bead core, which is also the largest pearl core that Shiramei Crane can make at the moment. No matter how big it is, it is not a shell mill, but a synthetic manufacturing method that uses shells as raw materials.

Tao Lao put an incense table, lit incense and kowtowed three times before standing up: "Tonight, the last thousand." The selected are all three-and-a-half-inch golden flower mussels, each mussel breeds a nucleus, the hand should be fast, light, and the mussel injury should be small. Think about it, a mussel is ten taels of silver, your reward will not be less, this year's mussels will be recorded by everyone, next year's live mussel rate, related to the livelihood of your family, let's start work! ”

Almost at the same time, everyone took a deep breath, this is the highest end, but also the most valuable pearl.

"Don't make a mistake, live mussels we have. But after that, you can't die. So everyone feels that they have made a mistake or hurt too deeply. Change the mussels immediately, don't force it! ”

Shirana Crane was also beside him.

Today is just the first test, and there will be a greater workload tomorrow, and the dead mussel rate given by the white crane is 30%, and the old man Tao gives 10%.

Half a year later, you will know how much silver these mussels can be worth.

It's not just the white-named crane, but in everyone's eyes, these are not mussels, but silver nuggets.