Chapter Seventy-Six: The Iron Trade
Early the next morning, the people of Hengtong Merchant went to the major liquor shops to ask if there were any spirits for sale, but the strongest liquor they bought could not be ignited.
Under the premise of no distillation technology, the liquor brewery of Dayan Kingdom brewed the strongest liquor, which is only more than 20 degrees at most, while the spirits distilled by Zhao Hengyi are often more than 50 degrees, which cannot be compared at all.
Even the spirits that Zhang Daniu secretly used in the blacksmith shop are the products after many distillations, Zhao Hengyi estimates that there are always seventy or eighty degrees, and that thing can no longer be drunk, it is industrial alcohol!
Shopkeeper Liu and Steward Wang, who hadn't slept all night, were speechless in the face of the wine jar placed on the ground.
"None of it, it's useless to mix it with frosting, the root is still on the spirits brewed by Zhao Dong's family!"
Although he had already made a judgment in his heart last night, at this time, Steward Wang still couldn't help but feel a little depressed.
Shopkeeper Liu took the hot towel handed by the servant, applied it to his eyes, and said on a whim: "Send someone to get a bottle of Nine Flowers Jade Dew!" ”
Steward Wang stopped sleeping in an instant, he was shocked!
When the nine-flower jade dew of the chrysanthemum fragrance, which had been fried to ten taels of silver in Jiangling City and had been bottled to a bottle of silver, was really lit in front of Steward Wang, he was instantly left with admiration in his heart!
"What if you know what's going on?"
Shopkeeper Liu smiled helplessly, "Use the Nine Flowers Jade Dew to ignite the fire, our family's silver can't withstand such a bad abuse!" ”
That's right, how much can a thumb-thick porcelain vase hold? The cheapest chrysanthemum fragrance type also costs ten taels of silver on the market, not to mention that you can't buy it in stock......
Shopkeeper Liu could think of trying it with Jiuhua Yulu, or because of the two poems on the porcelain vase.
"Who pities the longest, spring dew to autumn wind" is now in Gangneung City, in the upper circles, it can be called familiar to everyone!
Even with it, Zhao Hengyi, the owner of the development of a new type of gouache, is also very well-known, and it is not a secret.
"The things that can be ignited by the Nine Flowers Jade Dew are not allowed to be said."
Although there is no recipe, it is useless to know that Jiuhua Yulu is made of high-grade wine, but Shopkeeper Liu is still extremely careful, "Wash up, let's go to the inn to visit that Zhao Dongjia." ”
Before Shopkeeper Liu went out, Zhao Hengyi took the initiative to come.
"I wanted to go to the door to invite Zhao Dongjia to visit Jiangling City, but before I went out, you came, is it a coincidence!"
Shopkeeper Liu, who was staring at a pair of rabbit eyes, was even more enthusiastic than last night, "Hurry up, please come in, the caravan just came back from the outside a few days ago, the good tea Zhao Dongjia must taste!" ”
Zhao Hengyi smiled and groaned, but he was not in a hurry, but he would not take a special shelf, after all, Hengtong was also very important to himself.
"Shopkeeper Liu, I also have a monthly surplus of the soil roast brewed at home, I wonder if Shopkeeper Liu can help find a way to sell it?"
Business is a coming-and-going, and in this Dayan country, business is often mixed with friendships that are unimaginable in modern society.
Just like cooperating with Song San, Zhao Hengyi can't build a mining and iron business that travels all over the world at the moment, and he doesn't even have the qualifications to get involved, so it is very important to be able to have a good relationship with Hengtong!
"But last night's spirits? Xiao Lao'er likes to be tight, in the future, we will wrap up the surplus spirits of Zhao Dong's family, and we will go to the door to get it ourselves, and never let Zhao Dong's family bother! ”
"Shopkeeper Liu is really thoughtful! It's just that the wine I'm going to sell is stronger than last night's, I can't drink it, I will be blind if I drink it, and Shopkeeper Liu will never remember to explain to his subordinates. ”
In order to provide raw materials for the perfume workshop, Zhao Hengyi specially built a wine-making workshop, because it needs to be distilled repeatedly, and it is not used for drinking, so there is no food at all during fermentation.
Such something similar to industrial alcohol must be explained clearly in advance, otherwise it will be embarrassing if you encounter a greedy mouth.
It is very easy for smart people to communicate, and the high wine, which is very important to Hengtong, reached a transaction intention like a joke.
It was Heng General to show the small warehouse of mineral products, which opened Zhao Hengyi's eyes!
He never imagined that the merchants of the Great Yan Kingdom would classify minerals in such detail and richly!
This is due to the alchemy hobby that is popular in the circles of some rich and noble people, those who vainly try to refine the elixir, all of them are comparable to chemical weirdos, they dare to add anything to it, and all kinds of needs are very weird!
Previously, Zhao Hengyi was able to buy suitable mineral powder in the county seat of Dangyang County, because there were also rich people in Dangyang County who liked the art of mercury.
Even the thieves in Cliff Mountain don't know where to go, and there are hundreds of bandits around Dangyang County, all of whom have been arrested by Song Ying'an to refine the elixir......
Zhao Hengyi ordered a batch of commonly used mineral powder, and ordered a lot of crude iron, and when he was about to leave, he accidentally found tungsten ore!
With this thing, even if the smelting technology of Dayan Kingdom is backward, Zhao Hengyi can try to make rough tungsten steel!
Tungsten steel is known for its hard and wear-resistant, and is usually used in modern society to manufacture drill bits, machine tools and other processing equipment.
Even if you can't make complex tools for the time being, using tungsten steel to forge swords is enough to sling all the weapons of the Great Yan Kingdom!
However, even if the tungsten ore and some ore powder are Hengtong Firm, the reserves are not large, and if they want to meet Zhao Hengyi's needs, they need to let the caravan be transported back from other places.
In this regard, Shopkeeper Liu patted his chest and said that it would be as short as one month or as long as forty days, and the goods required by Zhao Dongjia would be delivered in full!
This is already extremely efficient, not the leading big merchant in Gangneung City, and he doesn't dare to boast of such a Haikou!
Even if there is no entrustment from the county lord, just because Zhao Hengyi can provide high-quality wine, Shopkeeper Liu will treat Zhao Hengyi's order as the top priority.
However, Zhao Hengyi ordered a huge amount of crude iron, and the shopkeeper Liu specially explained that he should not sell iron tools in person at will, if there is a demand, Hengtong firm can do it for him.
The Great Yan Kingdom implemented a salt and iron monopoly system, and the Hengtong firm with Wei Linglan as the proprietor could sell iron and minerals, but Zhao Hengyi couldn't touch it.
As for selling salt, even Wei Linglan didn't dare to stick to it.
This is also the reason why Zhao Hengyi guarded the mineral salt of Daqingshan and did not dare to act rashly, there were too many profitable transactions, and he couldn't run wildly on the road of killing his head!
After completing the order for ore and iron, Zhao Hengyi did not rush to Yaxing to buy slaves, but put down his mind to play in Jinling City.
A slave is not a utensil, it is a living person, and once it is purchased, it needs to be properly placed, and Zhao Hengyi waited until he was about to leave before going to Yaxing.
However, with a local snake like Shopkeeper Liu, he can also use his relationship to let the blacksmith who is ready to sell in advance.
In the tooth shop of Gangneung City, even sturdy men are sought-after goods, not to mention blacksmiths who master a craft, and even Song San said that he couldn't help before.
In the next few days, Zhao Hengyi did not blindly play, about the Liang family, a cloth merchant who killed Miao Xiaoyu's family in the first place, Zhao Hengyi did not inquire less!