Dorgon and others frowned as soon as they got off their horses.
This place is too dilapidated. Beicheng was originally destroyed in the war and has never recovered. Now the place is overgrown with thorns and foxes and rabbits are rampant. Apart from being enclosed within the city wall, there is no difference between it and the outside.
This camel team is obviously trying to make it cheap by living here. It can be seen that the strength of this camel team is not very good.
Do they have enough capacity?
Dorgon then thought about it. The key was not the transportation capacity and scale. The key was that they had the connections and channels to get Ming things out from various ports on the Great Wall.
If they don't have the strength, it's actually easier to control.
Dorgon was even willing to lend them gold and silver as long as they had the ability to pass the customs.
Doing business in Mongolia and Liaodong mainly depends on whether your network is strong or not. As long as you can access this business route, it will develop sooner or later.
Zhu Zhu went out and saw three young people coming outside. One was in his twenties, one was seventeen or eighteen years old, and the other looked to be only fourteen or fifteen years old. Behind them were a dozen strong men in casual clothes.
The corners of Zhuzi's eyes twitched slightly. Even though they were wearing casual clothes, it was still clear at a glance that these men were soldiers with white teeth.
"A few distinguished guests are coming to visit us. I apologize for the delay in welcoming them." Zhuzhu said with cupped hands.
The three people were even more disappointed when they saw that the shopkeeper was actually a fifteen-year-old boy who looked about the same age as Duduo. Disaster
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No wonder I live in such a bad car shop. It is estimated that the original owner of this camel team had an accident on the road. The minor children in the family had to take over the burden and go out to do business.
After all, walking on the camel trail can be very dangerous. High profits also mean high risks.
"I am Mergen Dai Qing, and these two are my brothers. What do you call the shopkeeper?" Dorgon said with his hands raised.
"My Excellency, Chen Qingyun, is the proprietor of the camel team. Please invite some distinguished guests inside, please come inside." Zhu Zhu said with a smile on his face and bowed.
"No hurry, no hurry, can I see your camel team?" Dorgon said with a smile.
Zhuzi did not expect that the other party was not anxious to see the goods, but wanted to see the camel team. He smiled and said, "Of course, I will take a few noble people to the east courtyard. The camels are all in the east courtyard."
After several people came to the east courtyard, the owner and the clerk of the big car shop in the east courtyard obviously recognized the identity of the people. Dorgon had a distinguished background, and many people in the city knew the three brothers.
Dorgon's cold eyes swept away, and these people immediately lowered their heads, not daring to look anymore. Those who open the door to do business are all well-rounded people, and they welcome customers from all over the world with a smile, just by opening their mouths. If I didn't have the ability to observe people's emotions, I wouldn't be able to continue doing it.
They knew immediately that Dorgon did not want to reveal his identity.
Zhuzi was amused in his heart. He remained calm and could see clearly from the corner of his eyes. This game was just for Dorgon, so he pretended not to know and went along with it.
"My lord, please look, these are the camels we drove from Zunhua." Zhuzi asked his men to lead the camels out.
"Hey, this camel only has one hump. It's strange." Duduo said in surprise.
Dromedary camels are mainly found in the Arabian Peninsula. There were no dromedary camels in ancient China.
However, these dromedary camels were all transported by Yang Fan from the Horn of Africa. It is a breed improved through later generations of breeding, and it looks larger than the Bactrian camels of this era.
The fur is fiery red and the limbs are slender, which makes it look very visually impactful.
Although it was the first time for the Dorgon brothers to see this kind of camel, they could intuitively see that these camels were much stronger than Bactrian camels and should have more transport capacity.
Dorgon touched the thick red hair on the camel's neck with his hands, feeling the camel's gentleness, and said: "The camel in the hands of Boss Chen is really good. With such a good camel, the desert and Gobi can also turn the natural chasm into a thoroughfare." Yes. Boss Chen has opened up the business route from Guan Nei to Guandong, and will make a fortune in the future. Boss Chen is really a young talent, young and promising."
"I'm borrowing your noble words, and I'll tell you the truth. This is the first time for me to bring my family's camels out. Something happened to the elders on the camel trail, so I had to come out to support them." Zhu Zhu said with a red face. .
Dorgon and the other three were convinced, and thought that this was indeed the case.
Only in this way can we explain why the owner is so young. Ordinarily, at his age, he should be trained by his elders. Instead of going out on your own.
Dorgon felt relieved when he saw the camels in the camel team. As long as we have the strength, we can talk about cooperation. The camels in this camel team are very outstanding, and the number is not small. It is estimated that there are 70 or 80 camels. If you transport iron ingots, you can transport a lot at one time.
One camel can transport 200 kilograms of refined iron, and eighty camels can transport 16,000 kilograms of refined iron. In this era, so much iron material is quite large. After all, a set of Eight Banners cloth armor only uses twenty pounds of iron, because in addition to iron, leather, pressed cotton sheets, coarse cloth and other materials are also used.
The copper nails that fix the nail plates also have a certain weight.
Bai Bai Ya La soldiers wearing triple armor weigh less than forty pounds. No matter how heavy the armor is, it will affect your movement. For the sake of protection, excessive sacrifice of mobility is not worth the gain. After all, the slaves were mainly heavy infantry.
The road conditions in this era were very poor. Although the Jiannu army had many more horses than the Ming army, most of the infantry marched on foot.
Looking at the transportation volume in this way, it is enough to make 800 sets of armor stomachs, or to arm 500 people with a full set of armors and weapons.
This is very impressive. After all, during this period, the Eight Banners' armor coverage rate was not as abnormal as it was later. This year, in the original history, a large number of Jiannu entered the customs, Zunhua fell, and a large number of people working in the steel industry were kidnapped. In addition, Benxi, Anshan, was originally an iron mining area. This led to the rapid development of Jiannu's iron smelting strength.
According to Ming history records, at that time, both sides of the Hun River were connected for hundreds of miles and were filled with iron-making furnaces, producing day and night. Starting from the third year of Chongzhen, the equipment level and armor coverage rate of Jiannu began to surpass that of the Ming army.
Moreover, after these steel productions reached scale, Kong Youde's surrender later brought artillery technology, which also laid the foundation for the casting of red cannons.
Dorgon glanced over, and when he saw these young men holding camels, he inadvertently took a second look.
"I heard that Shopkeeper Chen has fine planes for sale here. Can you show them to us? We have a carpentry workshop at home and we need to buy some high-quality tools."
Zhu Zhu said with some embarrassment: "To be honest with you, the main thing we brought this time was steel ingots. In order to show the excellent performance of our steel, we made a small amount of tools. They are all for customers to compare and try. Our tools are better than Generally, the ones on the market are much better. If you want to buy more, we don’t have much quantity here, only three or five of each kind."
Zhuzhu waved his hand, and two young men carried a wooden box. Use a crowbar to open the pillars.
Suddenly, a box of sharp steel tools appeared in front of Dorgon and others.
