"You mean, you're willing to trade swords for the rocks in our northeast?"
Ragashri, who was currently financially strapped, couldn't believe it when he heard Tang Ping's words.
"Of course it's not an ordinary stone." Tang Ping said, "I can give you the locations of several mines, and you can just use the stones there to trade with me."
Now the Tang Dynasty has gradually opened up the export of cold weapons, because cold weapons no longer pose the same threat as they did in the past under the increasingly mature fire guns and the powerful cannons of the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, Datang will begin to export cold weapons to some surrounding countries in small quantities at relatively high prices.
The excellent smelting technology of the Tang Dynasty made their cold weapons popular in various countries.
Some countries even went so far as to raise prices in order to purchase some cold weapons from the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, it is not easy for Tianzhu, who is not wealthy, to buy these cold weapons.
This is why Rajasiri wondered if he had heard wrongly when he heard that Tang Ping was willing to exchange cold weapons for stones.
Jade is really not a valuable commodity in this era.
The best jade in this era is called jade, and the origin of the word jade was actually to distinguish it from nephrite, so it was named "feicui".
It just didn’t mean jade, and then it slowly became the word jade.
"That's right." Tang Ping said, "We can build roads to those mines at our own expense. All you have to do is find someone to dig out the stones and load them into the car for me. The deal is complete."
"Those stones...are they valuable?" Ragashri asked hesitantly, but Zhen Yougan said that Tang Ping was a very smart person and would not be able to afford it without profit.
He wanted nothing but the stones in the pit.
"There is a kind of gemstone called jade inside." Tang Ping said honestly: "But you can also inquire about the current price of jade."
"You can dig out the jade yourself and use it to trade with me, or you can trade with me directly with those stones, it's up to you."
"Okay, Duke Ping, please let me think about it." Ragashri said this, and Tang Ping knew that she would definitely go investigate.
But he didn't care either.
Jade was indeed not very valuable until the Ming and Qing Dynasties. She would not be able to get such good conditions from others.
Even Tang Ping himself had no intention of promoting jade as a luxury item in the Tang Dynasty.
There are enough valuable things in this era, and I am not short of jade.
It's better to just resell it to the modern times, where you can earn many times more than you did in Datang.
Everyone was happy with this meal, and everyone who came basically got what they wanted.
After everyone left, Tang Ping breathed a sigh of relief.
Is this arranged by God? I only know a few beauties in the surrounding countries, but they all came here today.
Fortunately, nothing happened in the next few days, so Tang Ping could rest assured and prepare programs for the grand ceremony with Yun Zhuiyue and the others.
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"Your Majesty, it's still not possible." On the streets of Chang'an, a Tianzhu man shook his head at Ragasri.
After returning to Honglu Temple from Shanghe Village that day, she summoned the envoys she had brought.
Some of the jadeite produced in Myanmar are very beautiful, and some of their envoys also brought a few pieces with them.
So she wanted to know how much this thing was worth in Chang'an, and whether she had been deceived by Tang Ping.
As a result, they visited basically all the jewelry shops from the East Market to the West Market. They did accept this jadeite, but the price was not high.
"The clerk said that our jadeite is similar to glass, but glass is not as easy to handle. If we charge it, it will probably be about the same price as the glass produced by Tang's family." That day Zhuren looked at a piece of emerald green jadeite as big as his hand and said. : "For such a large piece of jade, the highest price they paid was only five hundred Tang Dynasty coins, and there was no price higher than that."
"Five hundred Tang Dynasty coins?" Ragashri thought for a while and thought that a high-quality cold weapon from the Tang Dynasty has been sold for nearly three thousand Tang Dynasty coins.
Such a piece of jade cannot even buy half a handful of high-quality cold weapons from the Tang Dynasty.
"Let's go to Shanghe Village again." Ragashri had no choice. To deal with the opposition forces in Tianzhu, weapons were indispensable.
The main purpose of her coming to the Tang Dynasty's 20th Anniversary Ceremony this time was to buy a batch of weapons. It would be better if she could find a channel to purchase weapons.
Now it seems that the only choice is to go to Tang Ping.
Tang Ping was not surprised at all when Ragashri came back. She even spoke to the guards at the entrance of Shanghe Village and was taken directly to Shanghe Village.
"Has Lord Ping decided that I will come back?" Ragashri asked with a smile.
Tang Ping also smiled, then nodded and said, "I told you, this kind of jade is cheap for most people. Only I can give you a satisfactory price."
"I think you must have decided this matter in the past few days, so you came back to me, right?"
"Yugan is right, you are really the shrewdest businessman." Ragashri asked someone to send the piece of jade they inquired about in Chang'an and asked Tang Ping: "If it is such a jade, can you sell it?" what kind of price?"
Tang Ping's breathing stagnated slightly and undetectably.
Although he could not say that he understood jade, the green thing in front of him, based on some identification methods he had heard from Gou Chengan, he was sure that it was definitely a kind of water A very good stone, even if it is not imperial green, it is close to imperial green.
The key is that no one in this era will make great efforts to deceive this, so if what you see is like this, it must be true.
But of course he couldn't let Ragashri and the others see this. He calmly took the jade and looked at it and said, "I guess this kind of jade can be sold for five or six hundred Tang Dynasty coins on Chang'an Street."
He had learned about the market price of Datang in the past few days, so he could tell it accurately with just one glance.
"If it were me..." Tang Ping thought for a moment and said, "Zhen Youqian and I can be considered friends in need."
He was talking about the time when the two of them lived on a desert island together.
"So based on your relationship with him, I won't cheat you. For a stone of your quality, I can exchange it with you for five exquisite swords from the Tang Dynasty."
After saying that, he whispered: "But this is our secret, you can't spread it out, otherwise..."
"Five!" Ragashri did not expect that Tang Ping could offer such a high price. The five fine swords were worth more than 10,000 Tang coins, but her jadeite could only be sold for 500.
"Thank you, Lord Ping. We are so lucky to have a friend like you, You Gan."
"Of course!" Tang Ping smiled sincerely: "Everyone knows that I, Tang Ping, never cheat my friends."
After all, the cost of making a sword for their Tang family still costs about one hundred Tang coins.
So if he exchanged five swords for such a piece of jade that was close to imperial green, how could he be considered a deceiver by Tang Ping?
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