"Old Cui, I am..."
"what do you?"
"I'm a general!"
"I know, but I'm not under your control. Even if you are a general, you can't let me give you my weapons!"
"you……"
Li Yuanji was furious. If he had known better, he would not have said that he was a general.
"Okay, Lao Cui, stop teasing General Li San!" Lao Du is still a real person.
He took out a few steel bars from behind and threw them to Li Yuanji: "If you want, just grind them off yourself!"
This was what Tang Ping had explained in advance. If a general came to the house, he could give them two to inspect the goods.
Originally, these things had to be handed over to Datang somehow.
Although he now talks about being knighted and having a position, he has never met the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and secondly, he has never met his own superior. It can be said that his official title is quite childish.
So he could only send these things through the generals he knew.
No, it can't be given away for free. After all, in order to achieve sustainable development, he still has to get money from Datang. Otherwise, his little savings will not be able to support the entire Datang.
The worst thing you can do is not allow yourself to lose money.
Yesterday, he asked Cheng Chumo and others to bring the steel bars back, thinking that since their fathers were all human beings and most of them were in the military, they would naturally come to talk to him about this matter.
Unexpectedly, several melon cowards would hide it when they returned home, but Li Yuanji accidentally discovered the secret.
Li Yuanji took a few steel bars and swallowed. You will know the quality of this thing once you weigh it.
And just by looking at the luster, you can tell that it must be the same as what Lao Cui and the others have.
Now he was no longer in a hurry to find Tang Ping. A dignified prince simply rolled up his sleeves and started sharpening his knives with Lao Cui and the others at the entrance of Tang Pingyuan.
Even the guards couldn't come up to help.
When Tang Ping got up and saw this scene, he was not surprised at all. Men understand it!
When they were young, these naughty kids even used the saw blade of a small hacksaw to sharpen their knives and swords!
This kind of thing is definitely more delicious if you make it yourself.
"General Li San is here?" Tang Ping asked while brushing his teeth.
Come to think of it, when I first came here, I almost thought I was possessed by foaming at the mouth when I brushed my teeth outside.
"Hey, kid, where did you get such good steel?" Li Yuanji wiped the sweat from his forehead and raised his head and asked.
"Up above!" Tang Ping was now used to fooling around, so he came casually.
The key is that they really believe it. Li Yuanji doesn't find it strange when Tang Ping says this.
"How about it? This steel!"
"Nothing to say!" Li Yuanji had just watched Lao Cui and Lao Du test the knife nearby. The sharpness and leverage made him jealous, so he sharpened it even harder.
"I still have quite a few here, can you help me sell them to the boss?"
"Above?" Li Yuanji was stunned at first. Didn't you get it from above?
After thinking about it again, I understood that Tang Ping was talking about his superiors. He thought he was a general of the Tang Dynasty. Wasn't his superiors the Tang Dynasty's military headquarters or the imperial court?
"Yes, it's so powerful!" What else can I say? How could Datang not want such good steel?
These things can be considered contraband in the Tang Dynasty, but if you want to sell them to the Tang government, it is definitely not prohibited.
Tang Ping didn't expect Li Yuanji to agree immediately. After thinking about it, although he said that he was a miscellaneous general, his surname was Li after all, and he and Li Shimin were probably related, so it was normal for him to have connections.
Everyone is already familiar with each other, so this kind of good thing can give him more credit.
"How much do you think I can sell this for?" Tang Ping asked the question he was most concerned about. Although he was not greedy for money, he was a relatively salty person.
But why not make the money that should be made? And as I said, if you can't make money, how can you buy things in modern times and develop the Tang Dynasty?
If Datang doesn't develop quickly, when will it return to modern times?
So all this is a closed loop. He has to constantly trade good things to Datang in exchange for money, and then go back to modern times to buy good things. Such a virtuous cycle is the right way.
"If you sell...how much do you want to sell it for?" Li Yuanji is a price-insensitive user in the era of big data.
However, he thought that as long as Tang Ping dared to raise a price, he would dare to use this price to negotiate with his second brother. Anyway, he was his nephew. As long as it was not too much, it would mean that the money would not go to outsiders.
Tang Ping thought about it and held out four fingers: "I have almost 10,000 here. That's the number. What do you think?"
Li Yuanji also breathed a sigh of relief. Although he was not sensitive to price, he also knew that such good steel was definitely not cheap. Tang Ping only charged 4 thousand yuan, which was really the price for his family.
Historically, the tax revenue of the Tang Dynasty during the Zhenguan period was about 35 million yuan a year. Although the Tang Dynasty during this period was not as good as the prosperous Zhenguan period, it still had a tax revenue of 10 million yuan a year.
Li Yuanji wanted to spend 40,000 yuan to buy 10,000 sharp knives. It was absolutely cost-effective to equip an army of sharp knives.
In this era of cold weapons, the role of rushing is quite important, which is why cavalry is always the most expensive.
As long as you have a sharp enough weapon that can break through the enemy formation as quickly as possible, you can instantly gain an advantage in a battle.
Of course, such a large sum of money is not something he, King Zhao, can make the decision about.
He nodded and said: "Okay, I will try to help you tell the superiors. Hou Junji, who wants to come to the 40,000-gun military department, is still willing to come up with it."
"40,000 guan, what 40,000 guan?" Tang Ping was confused. 4 Wen a handful, 10,000 guan is 40,000 Wen, which is 40 Guan.
Then if you trade in gold, 10 strings is one tael of gold, and 40 strings is 40 taels of gold.
In the Tang Dynasty, one tael was 40 grams, and 40 taels of gold was 1,600 grams. Now the price of gold is more than 500 per gram, so it is calculated as 500, which is 800,000.
He bought a total of more than 100,000 steel bars this time, almost 10,000. On average, they cost more than 10 yuan each. When sold to Datang, they cost 80 yuan each.
After earning 800,000 yuan, I still have a profit of 600,000 yuan.
He had never thought about the significance of such steel in this era, which was why he was so generous. He gave one to Cheng Chumo and others.
If everyone knew that this thing was only worth 4 cents a piece in Tang Ping's heart, the old man Pei Min wouldn't try his best to blackmail him.
However, Li Yuanji still thought differently. Seeing Tang Ping's shocked face, he thought he had misunderstood. He frowned and said, "Tang Ping, it stands to reason that if it is a well-made sword, it costs 40 pierces per sword." It’s really not expensive!”
After all, he has a good knife at home that he spent hundreds of dollars to buy.
"But with such a large amount, it might be a bit troublesome for the Ministry of War to come up with so much money at once."
