Seeing that Bai Minghe was a little hesitant, Mao Sheng said again: "The warship in my hand at the moment can't be a big deal at all. So you have to give it or help me get two more gold mines. ”

"Give the silver, there are some things that can't be rushed at the moment."

Mao Sheng also knew that the current squeezing of Little Luzon was too ruthless, and once there was a change, there would be huge losses.

The fleet of the white crane continued to advance, and after another day, less than fifty miles out of the Taiwan Strait, it encountered twenty ships coming from Manila from the outer sea route.

When he entered the Yellow Sea in later generations, he coincidentally did not agree to go with him, but only delivered to the Blue Sea Fleet of Tianjin Wei, a full forty large ships, from Wadao. From afar, flags were raised, asking for convergence.

The white crane is much larger than the flagship of the blue sea, but the blue sea did not wait for the two ships to approach, and swung over with a cable, but it still did not reach the height of the deck, and a short knife stabbed him to help him hang on the ship, and naturally a sailor pulled the person up with a rope.

Bai Minghe and the others were already on the deck to greet them, and Mao Sheng came out of Fuzhou Port at that time to prepare to return to Little Luzon. Nature comes and goes. The blue ocean is different, just the convergence of the two fleets takes more than half an hour from seeing the flag to approaching, Yu Qian and the others naturally already know.

No matter what you say, Blue Ocean is also from the second grade, and it is the person in charge of the route here on Wajima, so it is necessary to come out to greet it.

Lan Hai saw everyone, his face was irrepressible excitement, and he hugged his fists heavily: "Adults, good!" It was clear that the excitement in his heart had been suppressed for a long time, and someone needed to share it with him.

After everyone finished saluting, Lan Hai pointed to the ship in the center of his fleet, and the elite of the hundred battles couldn't suppress the excitement in their hearts.

Then the ship is weird and doesn't seem to have any problems. But it was towed by three boats, which had reached its limit in draft, and there were significantly fewer seamen on board than the rest of the ships, and all the gun doors that guarded the ship were open, and all the bed crossbows were moved to the deck.

Obviously, Blue Ocean is afraid that someone will rob his ship.

"Ladies and gentlemen. There's only one kind of cargo on board? ”

Bai Minghe smiled, laughing very happily, he had already guessed what the cargo was, but he took two steps back, obviously not ready for him to say this answer, this qiē is the glory of the blue sea, it is the blue sea that is full of a boat.

"Gold, two thousand ships full of gold. A whole shipload of gold. The blue ocean almost roared out: "Two thousand gold and silver, a full eleven thousand stones of gold and silver." 10,000 stones of silver and 1,000 stones of gold. "The blue ocean is almost crazy. Roaring. In the fleet with him, there were suddenly cheers.

They have had a very hard time these days, for fear of being attacked by the rest of the Japanese people, and they have not had a good rest for several days and nights.

Bai Minghe threw out a cigar: "Lord Lan has worked hard, ask a few words that are out of place." What is the quality of this batch of gold, is it six, or seven? "Gold in the Ming Dynasty has seven green, eight yellow, nine purple and ten red, and the Ming treasury gold is fifty taels and one ingots. According to the Ming gold ingot found in the museum of later generations. That is, it is above 95 percent, and it does not reach 96 percent.

It's also real gold.

Wajima also has such a level of gold, but it is not easy to refine pure gold. Therefore, according to the current version, most of the gold bars used to trade in Wajima are 18 karat gold, that is, about 75 percent.

Yu Qian waved his hand: "Minghe, even if it's six, this is more than 100 million taels of gold." ”

"Lord Yu, please let me finish. I would like to know how much gold there is in Wajima at the moment, and I will prepare my next plan in the future. Hearing Bai Minghe say this, everyone also became stern. It's that Blue Ocean's look at Bai Minghe has been raised to a higher level, and under such a huge profit, he can even calm down and think about strategy. It's extraordinary.

"It's all a sub-green gold. I asked the people on the ship to know how to distinguish it carefully, and it barely reached seven! ”

Bai Minghe understands that this is between 69 and 72 percent, which is about the same in the information, and the gold in official circulation should be of this color, which is mixed with silver, and there are about 10% impurities. The ratio of such gold ingots to huàn on Wajima is 1:3 to 1:4.

"In other words, what Wajima has now obtained is only the gold circulating in the market, and he has not used the private deposits of the major names."

Blue Ocean didn't understand this layer and didn't answer.

Bai Minghe continued to ask, "Lord Lan, how much do you owe them?" ”

"I owe 100,000 stone of steel ingots. When I arrived, there were not only a few who signed contracts with adults, but also a few who were close to them, and they would rather pay first than make an appointment for the next batch of steel ingots, even if I said that it might be February next year, but they still pulled the gold first, even if the steel ingots had risen to 40 Ming Dynasty money and 400 Wen a stone, they also rushed to ask for it. ”

Five taels or four coins of gold and one stone, which is converted into almost 400 wen per catty of stainless steel. (Wajima's gold purity is low).

Bai Minghe's 120 stone rice is cheap for a treasure knife in Da Nang, but in fact, according to the price of rice in Da Nang, it is worth less than ten taels of silver, but a treasure knife costs four catties of stainless steel on a pure blade. Excluding the price of steel such as scabbards, a pound of steel is also about two taels.

This and the knife casting process is not counted.

This is mainly due to the fact that there is no iron and knife casting technology in the Nanyang area.

A pound of steel will come out to 400 Wen, Bai Minghe remembers that there is information that a stone of pig iron is about 20 yuan, and the silver is only half a tael (the Japanese money is poor, four coins top Ming money is a penny, and four guan money is only one or two silver). However, the Japanese people have a systematic iron-making and knife-casting process, and they ask for ready-made steel at such a high price, which is a huge amount.

"The Japanese are going to war?" Bai Minghe asked Yu Qian after figuring it out.

Yu Qian was also thinking: "Perhaps, as you analyzed at the beginning, the Japanese will enter the Warring States Period." But now it should be about to enter the Spring and Autumn Period, the forces are already very strong, only a fire is missing, your unlimited supply of stainless steel, will stimulate this change, at most a year the Japanese will enter the Spring and Autumn Era. ”

"By the way, there is another thing that could be a mistake in the information. The current gold price of Wadao is one or two gold for 2,800 Ming coins. So forty taels of gold is a dozen taels of gold, which is why I brought back a large amount of gold this time. Su Muyun, who went with me, made a great contribution, and he insisted on using copper coins as the pricing standard. ”

"Reward!" That's all he said.

Yu Qian and others also said in their hearts that the difference between the price of gold and copper coins. It really can make a big fuss.

"Yu Gong, approve the warrant. The Hundred Refining Sect will definitely move to the vicinity of the capital in the future, and at present, it will give Lan Daren 300,000 stones of stainless steel, and then 20 million copper coins, to squeeze as much gold as possible. ”

Historically, there have been Westerners who used the price difference between gold and silver in the Wa Kingdom. Took away a lot of gold.

In this era, the gold ratio of the Japanese people was the lowest, the Ming Dynasty was almost 1:10, and the West reached 1:16 or even 17, which was a huge difference in the huàn.

300,000 stone of stainless steel is not a small number, and it is 15,000 tons when converted into tons. With the current productivity of Daming, this can almost be said to be the output of Guangdong Steel Mill working hard for a year, without Yu Qian's special approval, even Bai Minghe dare not be the master.

Yu Qian also thought about it seriously: "300,000 stones is not impossible. But there has to be a way. Just tell them that they will provide 300,000 stone steel in the next year or a year and a half. However, in order to show sincerity, it is necessary to let the Japanese people have at least 100,000 stone to pay the bill in raw silk. ”

Yu Qian said, and said to Bai Minghe: "The development of new gunpowder is all in the capital, and this must not be sold." ”

"Lord Yu, even if all the islands are piled up with stainless steel, who has the final say on the sea is the key. They can't go to sea, and they can't turn the sky upside down. So. I think it is more important to increase the investment in the water division, but the water division is invincible, and the Ming Dynasty will be invincible in the world. ”

No one believes that the world is invincible.

Because there's still a tile spur there.

But Bai Minghe followed up with another sentence: "The tile spur is not something that such a small sesame official cares about, it is a matter of civil and military officials." So I'm young and have a small official position, so it's enough to take care of the things that Banzai explains. ”

"Bai Zhubo, are you still a little more shameless?" Hu Hu stood aside and laughed uncontrollably.

Although it was a joke. But it's a big truth.

Bai Minghe touched his face: "What is the hardest thing in the world is naturally a beard." My white-named crane is so thick-skinned that I can't even grow a beard, so I'm naturally not afraid of what people say. But ......"

However, the smiles on everyone's faces disappeared, and Bai Minghe should have told the truth when he came to this.

The white crane did not disappoint these adults: "Ladies and gentlemen. To put it bluntly, it is to fight logistics, and to put it vigorously is to fight for national strength. I think it's best to be patient for a few more years and solve the number of horses first. If I need to do something, I don't think Duoyan Sanwei is not my Ming people, at least not in their hearts. ”

"That's it, don't talk nonsense about the Watts."

Yu Qian stopped Bai Minghe from talking further, because Bai Minghe's words had already touched the taboo.

It's Duoyan Sanwei, they are not trustworthy courtiers for Daming, so Yu Qian is also using this brain, if Bai Minghe's words are spread out, so that Duoyan Sanwei has any ideas, it will definitely not be a good thing.

Therefore, Yu Qian stopped Bai Minghe from talking further.

Bai Minghe just smiled, this time he thought that he had done nothing wrong, he didn't want to rush to deal with the Tile Thorn, his idea was that once there was a full-scale war against the Tile Thorn, there could only be one result, that is, to make the Tile Spur people desperate, otherwise once it became a war of attrition, what was the point.

It has really become a war of attrition, which will make the surrounding small countries despise the Ming Dynasty.

Three days later, the ship entered the Tianjin Wei, a fleet of hundreds of ships, and a small number of Liupin officials returned to Beijing to report on their work.

Is this a joke?

It's the white crane that is back, and in just one year, from the first time I walked into the capital to the present, it has been exactly one year.

Standing on the dock of Tianjin Wei, Bai Minghe looked at the snowflakes falling in the sky and slowly took a cigar. was about to light a match to install it cool, but the match was shot down by Yu Qian: "Be careful of the candle at the sailor pier." After speaking, Yu Qian walked forward, and after walking a few steps, he turned back: "This time I went back to Beijing to be low-key!" ”

"Does Lord Yu think this is possible?" Bai Minghe asked rhetorically. (To be continued......)