200,000 ...... Catty!

Bai Minghe really suspected that he had heard it wrong, and immediately asked, "You said it was 200,000...... Catty? The white crane bit the pound with an accent.

In fact, 200,000 catties of stainless steel is already a lot for Duoyan Sanwei and Jurchen Sibu, they will exchange it for some iron, and use iron inlaid with steel in the shape of shì, which can create 200,000 or even 300,000 knives, and the soldiers in the entire Liaodong are not 300,000, of course, this is only the transaction value they are looking forward to for a year.

Bai Minghe stood up: "Go out of the door of my house, go to the right, after two street entrances, turn north, and enter the next street from the left side, where there are some iron shops." If nothing else, the officer is busy. After speaking, Bai Minghe picked up the teacup, which meant to send off the guests.

The tone of the tone made these half-savages a little confused.

Not happy? Or is that a mistake in that statement? But no matter what, Bai Minghe has already said that he is sending off guests, and they don't dare to stay any longer, after all, the assassination has just happened, and they are exhausted these days in order to clear their suspicions.

Drop-off, out of the house. Still confused.

"Let's go to that place. I haven't been around in Daming Capital these days, patronizing to solve that trouble. Check it out, and you might see why! The leader of the Yehenala clan said.

The rest of the leaders also thought it was not wrong to go and see.

They have been living in Yingbin Garden, because of the assassination of the white crane, their troops were surrounded by the Ming army, and they did not dare to come out, this is the first time they have walked on the streets of the capital after the assassination.

According to the place that Shirana Crane said, you can see it without asking.

But here is different from their impression of the blacksmith shop, in their impression of the blacksmith shop in the Ming capital generally has an iron-striking platform at the door, although this small blacksmith platform is just to do some small repairing work, but it is also a signboard.

On the street that Shirakawa was talking about, they walked around twice. I finally believed that I was not mistaken, and that this shop, which was as beautiful as a jewelry store, was a blacksmith shop.

Just as they were about to enter the store, several big men rushed in from their side.

Looking at the fierce appearance of those big men, it felt like they had encountered robbers on the street, and the leader of the Horqin tribe signaled the people around him not to be impulsive, and to observe them first. Even if these are bad guys. There are also Daming's street guards who are responsible for handling it.

"Lao Zhangtou, ten more sets of small boards, two hundred more nine-inch crossbow arrows, is there still the dog-legged knife from last time, twenty more, and ......" The strong man led by him yelled when he entered the store.

A partner greeted him: "Don't shout, don't you like you can discount it if you are loud and loud." ”

"You little boy!" The leader of the big man smiled heartily, and the partner had already written down the content of the big man's shouting and handed it over: "Master Leopard, take a look." Quantity is right. ”

"Let's get the whole stock!"

"There is a new batch of old goods refurbished, military steel, things must be bad, but they are better than your current use."

"Look!"

The two sides were talking, and when they saw the guests of Duoyan Sanwei entering the store, they naturally had other partners come up to greet them: "What do the guests want, the small shop is mainly engaged in iron tools, as well as some weapons allowed by the government." ”

"I want to buy ......," the Horqin leader hesitated. But he still said it: "200,000 catties of steel, the kind of steel that can make swords!" ”

Can you make a sword with steel? In addition to the technique of steelmaking. Casting knives is also a separate technique. Or why did the partner just now use damaged and repaired weapons in the sales army, and this repaired weapon is no longer as strong as the original one.

Even if these damaged weapons are returned to the furnace, the molten steel that comes out is not necessarily better than the raw molten steel that is directly smelted.

In the era of the Ming Dynasty, the impurities will increase a lot if the furnace is not handled well, according to the current situation, especially military weapons. The cost of returning to the furnace is higher than the cost of producing steel from ore directly in the workshop, and the quality is not as good as that of one-time molding.

200,000 catties is really not much, which is not a big business for this shop.

The partner snapped: "One pound of high-quality stainless steel is seven cents of silver, and two hundred thousand catties is fourteen thousand taels of silver." We deliver within thirty miles. After this journey, please bring it yourself! Do you settle the bill in cash or by banknote? ”

Fourteen thousand taels of silver is not a small business for the various businesses of the Ming Dynasty.

Those who are qualified to operate special industries are all the top firms in the Ming Dynasty, and even a few, a dozen or so joint ventures, can get the military to damage the sword firm, how can they not have enough strength. Therefore, the business of 14,000 taels of silver is not a big business.

By modern standards, 200,000 catties of steel is 100 tons.

In modern times, a hundred tons of steel is not a business, just a small business.

Of course, according to the actual productivity of the Ming Dynasty, this is not a business that ordinary people can do.

"Is it available now?" The leader of Horqin asked suspiciously.

"What you want is 200,000 catties, and I can ship it to you in this warehouse. It's just that the warehouse is not in the city, if you pick it up yourself, it's definitely no problem, if you arrange someone to send it, then you can send it to you. This delivery carriage was fully booked yesterday, so please forgive me! ”

At this time, the Haixi Jurchen Yehenala chief asked: "Our tribe also wants to buy some, I don't know how much stock you have?" ”

"At first glance, the guest officer is a distinguished guest from Liaodong, so it is better to go into the inner room and ask the shopkeeper to come. If it is not a cash transaction, there are some things that you still have to explain to the guest officer, and after making it clear, it is not too late for you to choose. There are a total of four steel shops in Beijing, but have you been to the other three? ”

The half-savages shook their heads.

When I entered the inner room, there was a shopkeeper of the store, who was the store supervisor of the sales department or the store manager in modern terms.

After sitting down, the chief of Yehrana asked about the four shops.

"These four stores deal in four different types of steel. The steel materials of the Tangshan Steel Mill in Hebei Province that we operate are mainly used to make steel materials such as swords, starting from 10,000 catties. Below 10,000 catties, there are still some small shops in the capital that do small business. The other three are soft steel (wrought iron), cheap steel (used for kitchen knives and the like), and industrial steel (construction steel). It is also 10,000 catties to receive orders, if it is less than 10,000 catties, it is not that we wait for the store to bully customers and do not do business, but the number plate (license) that I wait for the store to receive in the government is the number of the number! ”

"However, 30,000 stones need to be filed in the government, 100,000 stones need to be filed with the Yamen of the Political Division, 300,000 stones need the approval of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Crime, and 500,000 stones of this level need the approval of the Cabinet.

The shopkeeper made it clear that reaching 100,000 stone of steel is a strategic material.

A level of one million stones is definitely not something that Da Ming can buy at the current level of a business, this is a national-level strategic material. The emperor's imperial approval is not too much at all, and there is no case of steel trading at the level of one million stones in the Ming Dynasty, and the highest case is the Takeda family of Wajima, which has only exceeded one million stones in ten years.

As soon as the shopkeeper explained, it made these half-savages seem to have arrived in a new country, which was fundamentally different from the Ming they knew before. You must know that all the iron materials were embargoed materials before, and it was impossible to sell them to the north.

These rules are not all set by Bai Minghe, this is the result of the joint discussion between the ten major business gangs and the household department, the Ministry of Industry, and the criminal department.

If you are engaged in the wholesale business of raw materials, you should not occupy the work of a small shop.

After chatting for a long time, it still didn't happen.

It wasn't because the shop didn't sell it to them, but because they heard the complicated calculations, and that they didn't have any cash in their hands. There is no need to sign a contract in advance for such a small business, you can buy it at any time.

If you want to make swords and the like, there is only one company in the steel capital, and the rest of the swords are not suitable in terms of materials.

Out of the firm that sells steel, they went to find the merchant who collects medicinal materials and leather goods, which was negotiated with one family in the Ming Dynasty before, but now they need to find two merchants, medicinal materials and leather goods are two unrelated commodities at all, and the store that specializes in receiving goods has long been operated separately.

When I arrived at the leather goods store first, I was surprised to meet those sturdy men who bought weapons.

Because it was the second time they met, the leader of Horqin stepped forward to say hello and took the initiative to chat.

After asking, I realized that these people were called mercenaries in Daming, and they were all retired soldiers of the army, the youngest was thirty-five years old, and they were basically veterans over forty years old. And they didn't belong to the elite level veterans, so they retired and started the business of escorting, escorting, and bounty hunters.

What is a small board, the leader of Horqin can be regarded as insightful.

This is basically the armor of their tribal leader, one at the front and one on the front and one on the front and back chest, and then the shoulder pads and hand guards are added. This is the Daming plate armor of the simple plate, and the side armor can also be added to the ribs on both sides, and the position of the buckle is reserved, but these people will not encounter a vicious battle, so they only need the front and rear chests, and there is no side plate armor.

In order to facilitate their protection, the local guard posts have sent troops with all their strength to kill the bandits within the range of each army.

Therefore, even if their guards encounter battles, they are still small bandits who do not enter the stream, and there is no big bandit group worth fighting at all.

"It's really a long time to see, I'm waiting to visit the noble Lord Bai's mansion, and it's Lord Bai who asked me to come here to buy some high-grade steel."

"Koh!" The bearded strong man laughed: "200,000 catties of steel, you are embarrassed to open your mouth to our Lord Bai." That's because our Lord Bai has a good temper and didn't beat you out. Such a toothpick-sized thing, and still bother Lord Bai. If I want you, I will open my mouth for 200,000 stones. ”

"Our tribe is poor, and we don't have money to buy." The Horqin chief was telling the truth.

The sturdy man was originally just an ordinary hundred-household, but now his son has taken over the position of one hundred households, and the white crane is also a high-ranking figure for him. (To be continued......)