The white crane is fighting for the future living space, the Ming is fighting for face and status, and the businessmen are fighting for profit.

There are no official rules for the Salt Lake business, but the reputation of the white crane is not fake, and it will definitely not be wrong.

The top ten merchant gangs in the main hall of the household department fell behind for the first time in the business district of Daming. First of all, because the top ten merchant gangs themselves are not tied together, they have their own interests. This time, the small business gangs are tightly tied up, and they need a monopoly industry to support their development.

The word monopoly comes from the white-named crane, which in the words of the Ming Dynasty means the only one.

"White cloth and snow-white cloth are not the same kind of cloth at all. It's just a little bit of powder, even though it's poisonous. But the one in the dye is right, even the flowers and plants in the mountains dare to say that they are not poisonous. The red ones are more vibrant, and the blue ones are corrected. There are two kinds of cloth on the market together, and the advantages and disadvantages are different! ”

The people of the Two Lakes Merchant Gang are tied together, and they have not been able to compete with the rest of the provincial merchant gangs before.

But not necessarily at the moment.

With the help of the Yangtze River waterway, a large number of raw materials can be transported from the Yangtze River, and then processed into fine cloth and transported to Nanjing, where they are loaded onto large ships and go to sea. The merchants of the two lakes also made money in the linen cloth business, and they knew more clearly the benefits of high-quality goods, a good goods at a price.

This is the Liangjing wharf, Fujian wharf, Guangdong wharf in black and white.

"In this matter, you can use the component system, and then the raw material quota will be allocated according to the amount of mills built in each province. I'm afraid it's also very hard to dig in that bitter cold place, during which the rules of our Hebei Gang don't count, and the rest of them say that it works, even Xie Lao, you can't convince everyone, or please ask Lord Bai to be the master! ”

As for the white crane, he has already left the household. I've gone home a long time ago.

He still has a lot of business to do.

In particular, Hu Hui is coming to Nanjing with the nobles of the Li family, and this matter is the first major event at the moment.

Bai Minghe had to admire the Wenchen of the Ming Dynasty, although these people wanted to save face in foreign exchanges, they would rather lose some money than lose face. But they are definitely the kind of people who will not betray the core interests of the Ming Dynasty even if they are scraped alive. The core interest of the Ming Dynasty this time is to use the Li family's Goryeo to help the Ming Dynasty become rich and strong quickly.

Hu Hu scolded Bai Minghe shamelessly. But when I was doing things, I definitely didn't do anything against the white crane.

According to the news obtained by Yu Qian after leaving Tianjin Wei, if you calculate the time, there will be two more days at most for the people of the Li family to arrive in Nanjing City.

That night, Xie Yiyuan asked to see him in front of the White Horse Pavilion.

The white-named crane man was in the study, listening to Yu Qian comment on his strategy against Goryeo.

Bai Hong entered the study and stood aside: "Young master, Huishang Xie Yiyuan asked to see him, do you want to return him?" ”

"It's the first time he's asked to see him so late. I still have to give this little face, but I still don't see him anymore. I have something here. You go and give it to him. If he doesn't understand what I mean, then his request is a waste of time, and a waste of his is mine. ”

After Bai Minghe gave the order, he picked out two books from the bookshelf and put them on the table.

"Sue him, just two copies. Tell him to send someone to copy it and send it back to me, so that I don't lose it. Other than that. What did you put in the curry......" Shirana Crane patted his head and flipped through a booklet from the shelf. After finding the contents, he wrote the number to Bai Hong: "Lend him to see, don't lose it, these are not yet mass-produced, and the raw materials are also insufficient." ”

Bai Hong did as he was told.

Yu Qian asked, "What is it, you are so careful." ”

"Good stuff. But the investment is huge. It's so big that I'm scared, but no matter how big it is, I have to invest in it. I originally wanted to rebuild the ancient Silk Road in five years, but I had to advance this plan for Hami, which made me very difficult. There are three kinds of raw materials that are too few to describe. ”

"What's the biggest gap?" Yu Qianxin said, what is there to Ming. Don't forget that there are still 100 million people in the Ming Dynasty.

Bai Minghe smiled and stretched out a finger: "One word, steel!" ”

"Is the output of your steel mill still low?" Yu Qian asked rhetorically.

"Low, low is terrible. The appropriate amount in my mind is one billion stone steel per year. Of course, I can use up 10 billion stones, but at the moment, not to mention 100 million is a dream. ”

There is not much iron steel in one billion, and it is considered a small amount in the Republic of China, that is, 50 million tons of steel.

In the modern era of later generations, the annual output of stainless steel according to the calculation of the Ming Dynasty has more than 100 billion stones. That's six or seven billion tons of output.

However, Bai Minghe is telling the truth, and the output of 50 million tons of steel is not much.

By 1913, Britain's steel production had reached 8 million tons, or 160 million stones. How big is the UK, how big is the Ming Dynasty, and how many people are there. At that time, the population of Britain was not more than half of what it is now.

100 million stone steel!

Yu Qian didn't even want to say anything about the evaluation, because he couldn't evaluate. Steel is definitely a good thing and can be extremely useful. is that there is no industry in the Ming Dynasty at present, let alone steel, even iron is a material controlled by the government.

In the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, that is, before the Tumubao Change, the output of wrought iron in the Ming Dynasty was about 3 million stones, that is, 150,000 tons. After Bai Minghe spent a lot of money to improve the technology of fine steel and wrought iron in the steel mill in Guangdong, Daming's current steel output is about 20 million stone per year. That's a million tons!

a million tons, placed in the modern age of the posterity. Prefecture-level steel mills are able to exceed this output.

"Let's move on to Lee's Goryeo. In fact, what you did in white name is similar to those who went to Goryeo in the past, except that they oppressed the officials and the people and made a fortune. You bully in the shadows, even harder. But I can't blame you, I just hope that I can create some win-win situations, at least on face. ”

Bai Minghe laughed dryly: "Even if the inside is rotten, the face must be new." ”

Yu Qian smiled and didn't speak, so he didn't have to answer this.

"Lord Yu, in fact, what I want to do the most is. Let the people of the Li family learn to spend money, of course, it is better to spend our Ming money, and better yet, not to spend copper money, nor to spend silver, but to spend my silver tickets and silver coins. ”

"Is there a difference?" Yu Qian didn't realize it yet, the difference was there.

The white crane continued to laugh dryly, the difference was too great.

On the other side, Xie Yiyuan didn't see Bai Minghe, but he saw what Bai Minghe gave him. Bai Hong specially told him that these things should be kept safe, because these are all trial samples, and they must be returned in a few days.

After Xie Yiyuan thanked him, he went back with his things and two books.

The two books are the responsibilities, rights and interests of the joint development of the articles of association of joint-stock companies and the market!

Bai Minghe was also a businessman in later generations, economic law, contract law, articles of association, etc., although I dare not say that I have memorized it backwards, but the key parts can still be remembered, especially equity distribution and dividends. The product distribution plan and material distribution of the joint venture subsidiary of the multi-parent company are all written in detail.

That night, Xie Yiyuan lit a giant candle, cleaned his hands with a few other people who were good at calligraphy, and then copied them himself.

Since it's a unique thing, it's a little respectful.

And another advantage of copying by yourself is that you can be familiar with it while copying, and at the same time write down the difficult points that you don't understand.

"Lord Bai is talented, and looking at the handwriting should be his own handwriting. The issues we are arguing about can be found in them, and as the little scholar said, if such problems are still not solved, then it will be a waste of Lord Bai's time to ask for another meeting. Xie Yiyuan finished copying a page and said while the ink was cold.

Liu Zhi of the Shaanxi Merchant Gang kept looking at the contents of the box.

After all the copies were made, he was still there watching.

The contents of the box are absolutely impossible to mass-produce with the current technology, and it is impossible to dream of it. It's handmade, and it's not only labor-intensive, but also takes a lot of time. Unless there is a genius craftsman who researches a suitable machine, if it is purely handmade, the cost of this thing is too high.

The first thing is a wheel.

According to his own design, Shirana Crane made a bicycle rim with stainless steel, plus the kind of car strip.

Just playing this circle is two very good blacksmiths who have worked hard for two days. Plus drilling, sleeve outer filament. The steel was drawn and then hardened, and it took a week to complete such a wheel.

The production of zuò is also to give the craftsmen one more inspiration.

Whoever can come up with a way to mass-produce this thing, reward ten stones of gold.

This thing similar to a bicycle rim cannot be compared with the bicycle rim of later generations, which is hollow and layered, lightweight aluminum. This is the stupidest steel rim, and it relies on the pull of the spokes to adjust whether it is round enough. In the terminology of automobiles, it is dynamic balancing.

But there are two things that can be considered for mass production.

The same is the ring column oil-injected bearing, which can be done with a hydraulic lathe. In Datang, there were already lathes for processing wood, and there were already lathes and drilling machines for processing gun barrels here in Daming, so this roller type can still be done.

Another material is costly, but the cost of production is paper.

The other is graphite copper bearing, which uses graphite as the lubricant and wrought copper as the bearing.

The tires on the outer layer of the rim wheels, Bai Minghe found two rubber trees, but what was available was the glue taken from the Eucommia ulmoides tree that the Ming Dynasty had, plus the Byzantine alchemist and the Daming Dan warlock, after the vulcanization test. It's barely possible to make solid tires that can be used outside the wheels.

Of course, elasticity and wear resistance are certainly not very optimistic.

Liu Zhi finally figured out what these things were, and then he spoke: "If the ancient Silk Road from Xi'an Mansion to Hami is all built into artificial stone roads, plus such wheels. The capacity will be increased tenfold, at least tenfold. (To be continued......)