Chapter 228: Celadon for Grain
No one is perfect, and Gu Yi is not a perfect superman, although he also knows his own strength, which is very important in the Great Wilderness, a world where strength is respected, but personal force is also fragile in the face of the general situation, and a sufficiently stable and powerful force is the foundation that can really make him, an "outsider", gain a firm foothold in the Great Wilderness.
However, there will be gains and losses, and there will be gains and losses, although Gu Yi has abandoned the forging body and entered the realm, which has caused his own strength to decline, but this period of busyness, and the overload of his brain, have made his brain seem to have been redeveloped and evolved to a very wonderful level.
Whether it is memory, analysis, and calculation ability, it has been improved to a very amazing level, as long as Gu Yi has seen something, even if it is a casual thing, he can quickly memorize it, and can turn it out of his mind at any time.
And Gu Yi's computing power has also reached a speed almost like a computer, no matter how big the data is, as long as he glances at it, he can calculate the answer in an instant.
In order to cope with a large number of complicated affairs and research in various industries, the knowledge that had long been dormant in Gu Yi's mind was re-excavated, and the knowledge that he had learned in school before, but did not really understand, was regurgitated by him like a cow, systematically sorted and classified, and truly digested into his own things.
This incident made Gu Yi very depressed for a while, if he had this ability when he was in school before, maybe he could also become a bullish and coaxed scholar, what kind of university in Shuimu Fudan is not like playing?
For the first time in his life, Gu Yi felt the true meaning of this sentence, and he could only be regarded as half-aware of the content in the "Goldfinger User Guide", to be honest, he only knew what it was, and he didn't know why, and there was no way to really understand the principle of many things.
This led to the "Tiangong Technology" under his auspices falling into a very embarrassing bottleneck state with no foundation and no future, with a large number of mistakes and omissions and technical skill levels, resulting in many things being stuck in the middle of the mountainside, and they could not be copied in this great wilderness world.
If this problem is not solved, it is very likely that his Tiangong technology will come to an abrupt end, and for a long time in the future, he will stay in this semi-embarrassing retro-style steam industry era, and his "Civilization Invasion Plan" will also die abruptly.
Unless he can cultivate a large number of technical talents who have completely inherited his knowledge system, it is possible to carry out reverse research and progress research on the basis of existing science and technology, and slowly complete the entire science and technology tree, but that is obviously unrealistic in a short period of time.
He had never been so depressed that he was not a big scientist for Mao, or the all-round skill house in the novel.
Fortunately, speaking of a thousand ways and ten thousand, the "Tiangong Technology" he mastered was already a very amazing "advanced technology" in this primitive Great Wilderness World, and was even classified as "Occult Secret Technique", and rumors began to appear to deify him, which seems to be very common.
Not to mention the previous "reincarnation of heaven and man, good at refining Xuantie Star Gold" and the like, the steam locomotives that have recently come out have been regarded as "swallowing fire and driving smoke and gold spirit beasts" by the new subordinates, saying that they feed on black stones, can swallow clouds and spit fire, can carry thousands of jun, and travel thousands of miles a day, which is a mount under the seat of Tiangong.
Isn't that?
The steam engine train that he and the blacksmiths worked together to build was not even a real train at all, but actually a single-cylinder steam piston lever device.
Due to the lack of power, running slowly, but also "ten thousand miles a day", can run out of 10 kilometers of speed, he can be moved to tears, in the case of full load, the average is 5 kilometers of speed, slower than the animal tractor run, the only advantage is that it is not limited by road conditions, than the original animal tractor in terms of endurance much stronger.
There is a long way to go in scientific research, this thing needs to be further developed, and it is hoped that a more powerful steam engine can be copied in the short term, so that the carrying capacity and speed have been improved.
Anyway, in a short period of stable development, with his ability, this is what he can do.
The influx of a large number of subordinate people has brought enough labor to Gu Yi's territory, but also brought great logistical pressure.
Although the grain ships of Zhenning's "Zhenshi Sales Company" hardly stopped, they could barely keep up with the growth rate of the population, and it was difficult to ensure that there would be no food shortage, and there was no surplus or stock at all.
Gu Yi refused to accept the suggestion of the subordinates, according to the practice of the subordinate column, give some barnyard porridge to eat, just don't let these subordinates starve to death, and insisted on letting the subordinates eat enough, which almost drove the Lianning, who was responsible for grain procurement, crazy.
The territory under Gu Yi's name has been upgraded from bluestone mine all the way to bluestone city and bluestone city, and then to bluestone territory, the development speed is too fast, the population growth is too fast, so that there are problems in all aspects, Gu Yi, the leader of the rather dictatorial character, is unwilling to slow down the development rate, so he can only force the "subordinates" to jump.
After the last, after Zhen Ning ran to threaten Gu Yi with red eyes, if the population increased again, he would go to jump the blast furnace chimney of the ironmaking factory (currently丨bluestone collar丨tallest building), Gu Yi had to put down the other things at hand and take time to think about how to solve the food problem.
Due to the fact that all parts of the country were hoarding grain to prepare for war, Zhongrong County really couldn't find more food, Gu Yi had to remind Zhenning to see if he could ask for help from other Shang clans in Nanwan.
Although Zhen Ning was very reluctant, considering the development of the bluestone collar, it was obvious that his family alone could not supply it, so he could only reluctantly agree to contact other merchants in Nanwan.
After some negotiations, Zhenning contacted several branches of the same Shang clan as him, and began to take advantage of the huge potential of the Nanwan Shang clan throughout the nine to import grain at a high price from the grain-producing resort of Nanyue, through sea ship transportation, through Zhongrong County, which extends in all directions.
Because of the long distance, the price of grain that originally only needed eight small gold cakes for a single piece of grain skyrocketed to two large gold cakes after it was transported from a distance, which was almost the same as that of Zhongrong County, which had skyrocketed in grain prices recently.
Fortunately, at present, the bluestone collar is not bad for money, and the profits of various industries in their hands are euphemistic to say that they are "profiteering", and they have to be called "cruel profiteering"
In fact, for those Nanwan merchants who came from afar, Gu Yi didn't need to pay cash at all, and people didn't want to, so what's the point of dragging a boatload of copper cakes back from afar?
In the business concept of the Nanwan Shang clan, it is the king to not empty the ship, and it is called a big profit to transport a boat of worthless grain from afar, and then drag a boat full of jasper jade and jade containers back.
In Gu Yi's view, a shoddy celadon plate with poor craftsmanship has become a jasper jade plate worth tens of thousands of gold in the mouths of those Nanwan merchants.
Therefore, even if Gu Yi pressed the price of celadon to 10,000 gold a piece, people would have to find him 8,000 gold when they brought a boatload of grain, and a piece of celadon was just a little mud to burn, and the porcelain kiln under his name could burn hundreds or thousands of pieces in one kiln
Although it is said that this thing, after being transported back to Nanwan丨 by them, it is not too easy to sell it for 50,000 gold.
In this way, the original skyrocketing grain prices don't matter to Gu Yi, if you dare to sell me two taels of gold, Lao Tzu will dare to sell you a broken porcelain plate for 20,000 gold
In this case, in addition to being pitted by those Nanwan grain merchants at the beginning, later it was a fleet of hundreds of large ships, and Baba desperately dragged grain from Nanyue to the bluestone collar, no money, and gave it to the bluestone collar for nothing, just to sell more jasper jade to them.
The Nanwan Shang clan's thirst for jasper jade丨, that is, celadon, made Gu Yi's profiteer instinct attack again
Originally, the porcelain shop that was planned to be opened in JF in Zhongrong County was directly discontinued, and the celadon ware that was originally fired in large quantities was also limited, freeing up manpower for other purposes, and the export was even more hungry for sales, rubbing it out little by little like buckle nose.
Large quantities of goods, how can there be luxury goods to make money
For the sake of people sending grain to the bluestone collar in batches, Gu Yi set the price of jasper jade at 10,000 gold, which is of course the most basic price, with the maturity of Gu Yi's porcelain kiln, more exquisite celadon varieties are constantly being fired out, and it is still planned by Gu Yi according to the quality, size, shape and other specifications.
The cheapest celadon plate, 10,000 gold, do you want a set of 12 different patterns? for 100,000 gold, that is, 50 boats of 50,000 grains in exchange, note: grain is given for free, in the case of ensuring that the grain is delivered in place, you are eligible to spend 100,000 gold to buy a set of celadon plates
The celadon plate is there, do you want a celadon bowl? Do you want a celadon teacup? Six celadon teacups with a celadon teapot only cost 50,000 gold
There are utensils for eating and drinking, do you want a beautiful celadon vase?
Do you want celadon ding?
Do you want all kinds of ritual and sacrificial vessels?
Not expensive
100,000 jumps
If you are willing to pay millions of dollars, Lao Tzu will make you a one-meter-high three-legged imitation cloisonne Simu Wu Dafang Ding
Add a million to make a four-legged one
Add to 5 million to make you one tall, add to 10 million to make you two tall