Two hundred thousand... kilograms!

Bai Minghe really suspected that he had heard it wrong, and asked immediately: "You said it was 200,000 kilograms?" Bai Minghe bit the kilogram and accented it.

In fact, 200,000 kilograms of fine steel are already a lot for the three guards of the Duoyan and the four Jurchens. They will exchange for some iron. With the situation of iron-intact steel, this can create 200,000 or even 300,000 swords. There are not 300,000 soldiers in the entire Liaodong. Of course, this is just the transaction value they are looking forward to for a year.

Bai Minghe stood up: "Leave the door of my mansion, walk to the right, then turn north after the two intersections, enter from the left side of the next intersection, and there are some ironware shops there. If there is nothing else, I am very busy." Bai Minghe picked up the teacup after saying that, which is to send guests off.

This tone made these half-savages confused.

Are you unhappy? Or is that sentence wrong? But no matter what, Bai Minghe has said that he has sent off the guests, and they dare not stay anymore. After all, the assassination just happened, and they are exhausted these days to clear the suspicion.

I was still confused when I saw off the guests and left the house.

"Why don't we go to that place to take a look. We haven't been around the capital of Daming these days, just to solve the problem. Go and take a look, and maybe you will understand why!" The leader of the Yehenara clan suggested.

The other leaders also thought it was wrong to go and see.

They have always lived in Yingbinyuan. Because of the assassination of Bai Minghe, their troops were surrounded by the Ming army and did not dare to come out. This is the first time they have walked on the streets of the capital after the assassination.

According to the place mentioned by Bai Minghe, you can see it without inquiring.

But this place is different from the blacksmith shops they remember. In their impression, the blacksmith shops in the capital of Daming usually have a blacksmith shop at the door. Although this kind of small blacksmith table is just a small repair work, it is also a signboard.

On the street that Bai Minghe mentioned, they walked twice. Finally, they believed that they were not wrong. This shop as beautiful as a jewelry store is the Blacksmith shop.

Just as they were about to enter the store, several big men rushed in from their side.

Looking at the fierce appearance of those big men, it felt like they had encountered robbers on the street. The leader of the Korqin tribe told the people around him not to be impulsive and observe them first. Even if these are bad people, there were also street guards in the Ming Dynasty who were responsible for handling them.

"Old Zhang, come with ten sets of small boards, and two hundred arrows with nine-inch crossbow arrows. Are there any dog-legged knifes from last time? Twenty more, and there are still..." The strong man in the lead yelled when he entered the store.

A partner came up and said, "Don't shout, maybe you can get a discount if you say loudly."

"You little boy!" The leader smiled heartily. The partner had already written down the content of the man's shouting and handed it over: "Master Bao, look at it. Are the quantity right?"

"Let's get the whole thing!"

"There is a new batch of old goods renovated, military steel, and the things are definitely bad, but they are better than what you use now."

"have a look!"

As the two sides were talking, when they saw the customers of Duoyan Sanwei entering the store, there were naturally other partners coming up: "What goods are several customers who want? The store mainly operates iron tools and some weapons allowed by the government."

"I want to buy..." The leader of Korqin hesitated for a moment, but he still said: "Twenty-hundred thousand kilograms of fine steel, the kind of fine steel that can be used to create swords!"

Can swords be built with fine steel? In addition to the technology of steelmaking, casting knives is also a separate technology. Or why did the partner just now use damaged and repaired weapons in the sales army? This repaired weapon is no longer as strong as that of native ones.

Even if these damaged weapons are returned to the furnace, the molten steel produced may not be better than directly refining the raw molten steel.

In the Ming Dynasty, impurities that cannot be processed well in one furnace will increase a lot. According to the current situation, especially military weapons, the cost of refrigeration is higher than the cost of directly forming knife blanks in the workshop using ore to produce fine steel, and the quality is not as good as that of forming in one-time.

Two hundred thousand pounds are not much, which is no longer a big business for this store.

The friend had a plan: "One pound of high-quality steel is seven cents of silver, and two hundred thousand pounds is ten thousand fourteen thousand taels of silver. We deliver the goods within thirty miles. After this journey, you can get your own transportation! Do you use cash silver or silver notes to settle the bill?"

Ten thousand taels of silver were not considered small business for the various businesses in the Ming Dynasty.

But those who are qualified to operate special industries are all top-level businesses in the Ming Dynasty, or even a few or a dozen businesses jointly operated. How could the military damage the sword business? How could it not have enough power? So a business of 14,000 taels of silver is not a big business.

By modern standards, 200,000 kilograms of steel are 100 tons.

One hundred tons of steel are not a business in modern times, but just a small business.

Of course, according to the actual productivity of the Ming Dynasty, this is not a business that ordinary people can do.

"Is there any goods now?" the leader of Korqin asked in confusion.

"Your servant, you want 200,000 kilograms, and you can ship the goods to you in the warehouse today. But the warehouse is not in the city. If you pick it up yourself, you will definitely have no problem. If you arrange someone to deliver it, you can deliver it to you clearly. The delivery carriage was fully arranged yesterday, so please forgive me!"

At this time, the leader of the Haixi Jurchen Yehenara asked, "Our tribe also wants to buy some, I wonder how much stock there is for the expensive number?"

"At first glance, the guest official is a distinguished guest from Liaodong. Why not go into the inner room and I will invite the storekeeper to come. If it is not a cash bank transaction, I still have to explain some things to the guest official. If it is clear, it is not too late for you to choose again. There are four steel stores in Beijing. I wonder if you have been to the other three?"

These half-savages shook their heads.

After entering the inner room, a shopkeeper came. According to modern terms, he was the store manager of the sales department or the store manager.

After sitting down, the leader Yeherana asked about the four stores.

"These four stores operate four different types of steel. The steel materials in Tangshan Steel Floor, Hebei, we operate mainly for making steel materials such as swords, starting from tens of thousands of jin. There are also some small shops in Beijing that do small orders. The other three are mild steel (cry iron), low steel materials (used as kitchen knives in civilian use), and industrial steel materials (construction steel). They also receive orders from tens of thousands of jin. If they are less than tens of jin, it is not that our shops are bullying customers and not doing business, but that the license plate (license) that our shops receive in the government is to issue numbers!"

"However, 30,000 shi need to be registered in the government office, 100,000 shi need to be registered in the yamen of the governor, 300,000 shi need to be approved by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Justice, and 500,000 shi need to be approved by the cabinet. One million shi needs to be approved by Wansui, or it needs to be specially approved by Lord Bai of Dongchang, and the approval from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Justice!"

The shopkeeper said it clearly that reaching 100,000 stones of fine steel is a strategic material.

A level of one million stone is definitely not something that Daming can buy at the current level of the business. This is a national strategic material. The emperor's imperial approval is not too much. There is no case in the Ming Dynasty that the steel trading at the level of one million stone is now traded. The highest case is the Takeda family in the Ushima, which only exceeded one million stone in ten years.

The shopkeeper explained that the half-savages seemed to have arrived in a new country, which was completely different from the Ming Dynasty they had known before. You should know that all iron materials were banned materials before, and it was impossible to sell them to the north.

These rules were not all decided by Bai Minghe. This was the result of the joint discussion between the top ten business groups, the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Justice.

If you are engaged in raw material wholesale business, don’t take up the work of a small shop.

After chatting for a long time, I still couldn't buy it.

It’s not because the store doesn’t sell it to them, but because they hear this complicated calculation method, and they don’t have cash in their hands at all. There is no need to sign a contract in advance for such a small business, you can buy it at any time.

If you want to make swords, there is only one company in the steel city, and the rest are not suitable for sword materials.

They went to find a company that bought medicinal materials and fur products. This was enough to be negotiated with one of the Ming Dynasty before, but now they need to find two companies. Medicinal materials and fur products are two products that are not related to them. The stores that specialize in receiving goods have long been operated separately.

I first arrived at the fur merchant, and unexpectedly I met those strong men who bought weapons.

Because it was a second encounter, the leader of Korqin came forward to say hello and started chatting.

After asking, I realized that these people were called mercenaries in the Ming Dynasty. They were all retired soldiers in the army. The youngest was thirty-five years old, and they were basically veterans over forty years old. And they were not elite veterans, so they retired and started the business of escorting, escorting, and bounty hunters.

The leader of Korqin has also seen what a small board is.

This is simply the armor of the leader of their tribe. Each front and back is fixed on the front and back chest with a belt, and then the shoulders and hand guards are added. This is the Ming-style plate armor with simple plates. Side armor can also be installed on both sides of the ribs, leaving a place for buckle, but these people will not encounter fierce battles, so they only need front and back chests, and there is no need to install plate armor on the side.

In order to facilitate their escort, the local garrisons have sent all their strength to kill the bandits within the range of each army.

Therefore, even if their guards encounter battles, they are still inequality bandits, and there is no big bandit group worthy of bloody battles.

"I've really gained my knowledge. I'll visit the noble Lord Bai's mansion. Lord Bai asked me to come here to buy some high-quality steel."

"Old technician!" The mature bearded man laughed: "Twenty hundred thousand kilograms of steel, you have the nerve to speak for us Lord Bai. That's because Lord Bai has a good temper and didn't beat you out. He is so big that he even disturbs Lord Bai. If I want you, I will speak for 200,000 shi."

"Our tribe is poor and has no money to buy." The leader of Korqin said the truth.
Chapter completed!