Chapter 49: Koizumi Brand Arms
Li Dewan's camp has been bustling lately, with merchants of all sizes coming and going, judging the kobolds. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Although everyone said that they were picky, they were still very honest when they paid for it, and the first batch of products, a hundred three-eyed guns and two small cannons, were sold out in three days.
Speaking of which, this batch of kobolds is not cheap at all:
A three-eyed gun costs 300 grams of silver, which is the local equivalent of a high-end craftsman spending two months to make a Seiko flintlock pistol, and the barrel length is at least 70 centimeters, and the whole body is carved.
The reason why it can be sold so expensive, in fact, there are other reasons: although it is a three-eyed gun with a grassroots bloodline, it has been plastic surgery by modern people, and it looks all kinds of tall, even no less than AK47!
Three flintlock devices are installed on the barrel at the same time, and there are supporting tools such as oil cans and gunpowder jugs in the butt; the butts are designed according to the shape of the shotguns of later generations, and they look very similar to that; the center of gravity is also carefully adjusted, and the calfskin adjustable gun strap is also very convenient to use and carry.
Therefore, everyone has a high evaluation of the comfort of these 'dog head brand three-eyed guns', and they have said that they will find a craftsman to carve them when they go back.
The asking price of artillery was even more terrifying, a short-barreled 8-pounder gun, with a gun cart, ammunition truck, a full set of tools, about 20 pounds of silver, or ten kilograms of silver, or 800 grams of gold, the same price.
The cannonball was sent as a sample, with the intention of letting the buyer take it back and copy it himself.
Because in these years, iron ore and coal mines all relied on imports, and the shells of the 8-pound guns, whether solid or grape, were one or two pieces of silver. In fact, I didn't plan to make money from this at all, and with this iron material, wouldn't it be more profitable to use it to make guns.
Liu Jingtian had to go out in person and replenish the goods with the dimensional bag.
Seeing the second batch of goods coming so soon, the 'business representatives' smiled one by one: "Now you don't have to worry about going back to move bricks!"
But they also smell business opportunities - this place looks backward, but its purchasing power is surprisingly strong!
Captain Perez: "The next batch must be limited to purchases! Each person is limited to two samples, so that more people can know about our products! Also, how much production capacity can the factory reach? Is it a small profit but a quick turnover, or is it a high-quality weapon? We need enough information!"
Garcia, a veteran ocean-going captain disguised as a carpenter: "These weapons are still too low-end, and the profits are too meager. How could those distinguished guests like these humble weapons? I have a suggestion for special products: a finely crafted handcuff with an engraved ivory handle, a patterned steel knife with a jeweled scabbard, a tailor-made full-body plate armor......"
Camacho, a former Portuguese livestock and wool trader: "I also have a question, do you only accept gold and silver? Do you collect good horses and livestock, do you accept them in Agadir? Also, if you don't have enough capacity, can you sign a contract with a local blacksmith for a few years and bring them back to Agadir to work?"
Antonio, a European luxury jewelry merchant: "Since our products have good performance and uniform specifications, why don't we have a trademark? And as a high-end supplier, we must have a training institution? We must provide maintenance services, and this store is too shabby, let's build a beautiful business hall first! Squatting in the grass with distinguished guests to negotiate prices, I don't want to go through it a second time!"
Several other people, fearing that they would be left behind, also put forward their opinions.
This group of business representatives has a lot of capable people, and reading and writing are the most basic, otherwise they will not stand out from tens of thousands of hard workers. The questions raised were much more professional, and they were all things that a few Earth Turtles hadn't thought of before.
Fearing panic, Liu Jingtian did not go out himself, but brought a few little secretaries, orphans picked up by Guan Renxiu on the street, who now knew a lot of Latin.
These internal exchanges were all run by these half-grown children, and in the end, what fell into their hands was a thick stack of reports.
Rao is a bulletproof face like Liu Jingtian, and he is also hot: "You barbarians! Can't you speak more subtlely! How can there be so many problems with the weapon products I designed with my own hands? Do you know that being a boss is the most incapable person, and a boss like me is already very rare to get you primitive people!"
Don't say anything more, go back and improve the process.
Liu Jingtian was a little reluctant to formalize the product, add trademarks and after-sales services, but he also knew the severity, so he summoned a few kobold leaders and traversers and held a simple meeting.
I never thought that Xu Ping'an's attitude could be described as fanatical:
"Why didn't you say something so important earlier?! Oh, I think something was negligent, it turned out that I forgot to build a brand image!"
Everyone hadn't seen him so excited for a long time, and their hearts said: As for it?
The development after the incident is not something that Liu Jingtian and others can imagine.
The name 'Doug White North India Joint Stock Company' was actually given casually, and the first few words mean dog's head in English.
Xu Ping'an took this as inspiration and created a company logo: a cartoon version of the dog, quite a bit of Snoopy's painting style, but in a different style: it wears a Zorro mask, an oversized nose that occupies one-fifth of the face, and a tongue that seems to be paralyzed, hanging out from the side of the mouth, obviously a husky.
This stupid dog, carrying countless kinds of arms in his pocket and holding a box around his stupid face, has become the company's LOGO.
Not only will every product be indispensable in the future to make this product LOGO, such as cannons, muskets and other large products, and even use it as a pig's foot, like a comic, to create a set of simple teaching materials for weapon operation, engraved in obvious places.
By the way, this dog's name is Koizumi.
For example, the new eight-pounder short-barreled cannon depicts a group of Koizumi operating the cannon in a serious manner, and then knocks another group of Koizumi to the ground, and a ghost in the image of Koizumi floats in the sky.
Of course, not all décor is so out of tune.
"People have already spent a pound of silver on their purchases, so let's carve some patterns to comfort their injured wallets. ”
A group of local craftsmen were gathered and began to do their old jobs.
But things didn't go so well, everyone is an ancestral craft, the style is varied, no one agrees with others, what to carve?
In the end, Brother Long was reliable: he calmly took out a Grandpa Mao ...... Everybody stopped.
The use of training is also very simple, find the one who can fight the most, and then let him bring out some apprentices as instructors.
The candidates are all ready-made, and Ali Baba even wrote a poem: Hassan! When you arrive, the entire date palm grove of Oluz is whispering the same name, Hassan!