Ashun Luo's eyes lit up instantly, selling iron? ! Although they are not selling weapons and equipment directly, they can make them by themselves if they sell iron. Soon Ashunluo understood in his heart that the Tang Dynasty should not allow the sale of weapons and armor to outsiders, but as for iron, as His Highness the King of Qin It doesn’t matter that status should be sold.
"I don't know...what's the price?" Ashunluo hesitated for a moment, then asked.
"One pound of iron and one tael of silver." Li Ke directly gave the price. Because Tianzhu has always had trade relations with the Central Plains, they have an idea of how much a pound is.
"I have a set of standard measurement units here. Most of the Tang caravans will use this weight and measure in the future." Li Ke added that he was ready to start unifying weights and measures.
In Li Ke's warehouse, there is a complete set of standard weights for weights and measures, ranging from one gram to one kilogram. And they are all made of corrosion-resistant materials, which gave Li Ke a basis for promoting weights and measures. As for length units such as millimeters, centimeters, decimeters, meters, etc., the materials in Li Ke's warehouse are made of Several sets are made of materials with zero expansion coefficient within the natural temperature range.
It seems to be some kind of single crystal glass, which Li Ke doesn't understand, but within normal natural temperatures, it is basically a zero-expansion material, and is naturally the most accurate.
The volume unit is also made of this kind of monocrystalline silicon. In fact, the volume unit can be converted to the length unit, so it doesn't matter whether it is available or not.
These weights and measures gave Li Ke the conditions for promotion. The reason why there was no reform within Datang for the time being was because education had not yet been popularized. As the construction of the schools was completed and the first batch of schools began to be built, Li Ke was ready to teach them all. Weights and measures were popularized.
A batch of standard weights and measures were built according to this set of units and sent to various places in the Tang Dynasty to serve as standard units. Then Li Ke took the lead in carrying out reforms based on his own industry.
When you are in a seller's market and have an absolute advantage, there will naturally be plenty of people to adapt to you.
For example, now, when Li Ke said how much a pound of iron was, Tianzhu had to calculate it according to how much a pound of iron was, and one tael naturally became the standard 50 grams.
Ashunluo said that he wanted to take a look, and Li Ke naturally asked someone to show him a set of standard steel-refined weights that he was going to carry.
Ashunluo weighed the 500-gram weight, then took a deep breath and said, "Your Highness, this price..."
"I didn't overcharge you. A pound of iron in Datang costs more than 300 Wen. Although I overcharged you about three times the price, how far is Datang from here?" Li Ke waved his hand and directly picked the price. Clearly.
"You can settle the settlement with grain and silver. 3,000 kilograms of grain can be exchanged for one kilogram of iron and one tael of silver. I only accept silver, not gold."
Of course Li Ke didn't tell him that the one tael in his mouth was more than the one tael in Datang's mouth. One liang in modern times is 50 grams, and one liang in Tang Dynasty is about 37 grams.
Ashun Luo was stunned for a moment. Don’t most people like gold? Why is there another one that only wants silver? But it was a good thing to ask for silver, so he naturally agreed. He could accept this price. The Harsha Dynasty inherited most of the wealth of the previous dynasties of Tianzhu. After all, the Ganges River Basin has always been the richest and most populous place on the continent.
"I wonder how much we can buy?" Ashun Luo asked tentatively.
"I have as much as you buy, and we can deliver the goods in a month and a half at most." Li Ke said calmly.
The joy on Ashun Luo's face could not be concealed. The Harsha Dynasty's iron-making technology was average and would definitely not be enough if used in large-scale wars. Although they have the long-lasting Damascus iron-making technology, which is what later European scholars called wootz steel.
But what about the Damascus sword? Li Ke had heard of it a long time ago. In fact, during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, he had been exposed to this miraculous sword that was passed down from later generations. It was called "Bin Iron" in the Tang Dynasty.
Originally it was "Bin Iron", which means ironware donated by guests.
Bintie is indeed quite famous in history, but Li Ke's interest in it... is actually just like that.
The Damascus knife is a special and excellent weapon with patterns. It is called Damascus knife because it was sold in Damascus. It was lost around the seventeenth century. European scholars said that it was because of the iron ore "wootz steel" used to forge it. "It was mined and lost, but there is no historical evidence for this.
After coming to history and integrating into history, Li Ke understood more clearly that history can be "falsified", and he, Li Ke, is doing this now.
Of course, it is certain that the Damascus knife is an alloy steel. As for its performance in the historical events that are rumored to be miraculous, Li Ke does not believe it. If that thing was not exaggerated, Li Ke would twist his head off.
According to its legendary performance, it can be said to be stronger than all modern special alloy steels. Is it possible? At least this thing is not out of stock in modern times. There are a lot of stocks in various museums. If its performance is really far beyond all modern special alloy steels, do you think those stocks will not be studied?
It has long been classified as a confidential research by the governments of various countries. How can it be possible that some companies specializing in the production of cold weapons continue to advocate it.
It is too easy to falsify modern information in later generations. Most people only obtain information from search engines, and search engines use crawler technology to intercept information from various website pages. It is very simple to be searched by search engines. Just make a few simple websites. Then it was reprinted by various forums through technical means, and then searched through search engines, and there were a lot of people who took it seriously.
Of course, being able to forge alloy steel in this era is considered very powerful, but this kind of thing can never be called a strategic weapon because it cannot be manufactured in large quantities.
Otherwise Ashun Luo would not have gone to Li Ke to ask if he could buy ironware.
The Harsha Dynasty had enough craftsmen, but the output of iron smelting was not satisfactory. The output was the standard that checked and balanced everything.
Although the price given by Li Ke is high, it is nothing to a country that is in a state of life and death.
After all, money has meaning in life.
"Buy one hundred thousand catties first. Does your Highness have it?" Ashunluo proposed a number that he thought was huge.
Li Ke was a little speechless. After thinking for a long time, five tons of silver?
"It's too little. Let's put together 200,000 jins." Li Ke waved his hand. After all, 200,000 jins is only 100 tons of iron, which can't be loaded on a single ship.
"Okay! Thank you, Your Highness." Ashunluo immediately said with a smile.
After negotiating the strategic materials, the remaining negotiations on silk, porcelain, etc. will be simpler. Just follow the price of real wax.
After the conversation, Ashun Luo left decisively and went back to report to King Harsha.
