What kind of goods do you want to buy? Purchase what the Liao Kingdom needs. Whatever the Wanda Chamber of Commerce can sell, it is what the people of the Song Dynasty need. The Song Dynasty needs it, but the Liao Kingdom doesn’t need it?
Absolutely impossible. The productivity of the Liao Kingdom is seriously out of proportion to demand. The people's demand for basic living necessities is much greater than that of the Song Dynasty in the south.
But the cost is very important. It is impossible to make a few pennies by transporting bamboo weaving from the south. The cost has been completely consumed. The best thing is to transport some small and high-profit items, such as iron needles and iron hooks. , there are women's products, gold, silver, jade and other things, as well as handicrafts with extremely high artistic value. These latter things are not affordable for ordinary people, only the rich and powerful with a very small audience can afford them!
There is also one of the best commodities, which is arms.
The various swords produced by Zhaodi's blacksmith workshop every day are now piled up in the warehouse, and how to digest them has become a problem.
Although swords are illegal, no dynasty will explicitly ban swords. After all, they are still used for self-defense. The rulers will only ban crossbows and armor!
Knives are not only long knives for slashing on the battlefield, but also have many types.
The Mandarin Duck Formation of the Chengguan Brigade must have both long knives and short knives to complement it. Seeing this demand, Zhaodi later expanded the standard of knives into many categories!
Ring heads, straight blades, daggers, straight backs, willow leaves, Miao knives, horse-cutting swords, all kinds of styles are considered together with the apprentices and Fang Tianding. The craftsmen such as Gu Tianle brought by Xixia are not just cold-blooded. They are senior craftsmen who are proficient in all kinds of weapons. Under their selfless dedication, the craftsmanship of the master craftsmen under Zhaodi has improved rapidly.
Guys like Louis Koo are not evil-minded. They are all Dangxiang people, and Dangxiang people also have the bold and generous characteristics of ethnic minorities, unlike those inherited from Han family masters.
There is an old saying among the Han people that the apprentice will hate the master after teaching. Sometimes the apprentice is closer than his own daughter and son, because the craftsmanship is a lifetime of hard work, and if you use it, you may lose your job, and the apprentice must bear the burden. It is the responsibility of the master to provide for the elderly, so the relationship between master and apprentice is no ordinary.
The inheritance of the nomadic people is more difficult than that of the Han people, and the generation may be cut off if they are not careful, so they are also afraid of losing their good craftsmanship. The more people there are in the church, the more their lives will improve and get better and better!
The hand-made weapons of this era are far inferior to the era of large-scale mass production by machines. Each weapon is a unique item, so different people feel different when using it.
Later, whenever anyone in the Liang Jiajun wanted a weapon, they would directly come to recruit their brothers and then order it. You could get your favorite style without spending any money. It can be said that every weapon was tailor-made for the Liang Jiajun!
When Liang Chuan arrived on the island, he focused on inspecting these two places. One was the blacksmith shop where he recruited his brother. After all, cold forged armor was produced here, and the other was the Shenji Camp. Needless to say, the things in the Shenji Camp were all It’s not for sale, but all the goods here at Zhaodi can be wholesaled at any time!
Xiao Zhang himself was in the smuggling business. The Khitan was very corrupt in the later period. They had a large amount of weapons and equipment, but the soldiers below could not get the equipment. They used scrap copper and iron. The people were not interested in high-quality weapons. Weapons are also very urgent. If we can send them over, they will be very popular!
The folk customs of the Liao Kingdom are not like those of the Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, people played poetry, brothel singers, lit tea lamps, played Cuju, and various calligraphy and paintings. People in the north used prancing horses and whips. Although the amount of grass was less, it was still there when there was one. In my free time, I still go hunting in the mountains, which is all about being good at bow and horse.
Poor Yelu Hongji didn't like to fight and kill. He devoted himself to Buddhism and became more and more weak. He also wanted to learn from the Song Dynasty. The atmosphere of the Khitan's senior officials was completely different from that of the people below.
The craftsmanship of the swords produced by Zhaodi is nearly a hundred years ahead of this era. They use the steel clamping method and use a small amount of high-quality materials to forge ultra-high-performance weapons. This is their advantage!
It can be said that even the kitchen knife from Zhaodi's blacksmith shop can be called a magic weapon. In a battle, he will not be inferior at all!
If it were those standard sabers, the quality would be even better!
With such weapons and equipment, Liang Chuan is not worried that they will not be able to open a market in Khitan!
If Liang Chuan does business as an ordinary person, that's it. He only dares to do serious business honestly, but now he has the token that Xiao Zhang gave him, which is the identity of a royal merchant. Only the government can play with arms. Now that there is an official identity, selling some knives and guns is not considered smuggling, but a formal business!
Liang Chuan and He Chunsheng sat in silence. They didn't interact much and couldn't find any good topics to talk about. He Chunsheng saw that Liang Chuan was deep in thought and didn't dare to disturb him.
He himself was also full of worries. He went out to Bianjing once to let him know the dangers outside. This time he was going to the Liao Kingdom, which was farther away. He didn't know what dangers there were in the future.
He was also thinking that what Liang Chuan said was right, precisely because he didn't know what to do ahead. He was the only male in the He family, and he had to leave a child to give the old man something to think about. .
I don’t know what Miss Yang is like.
If the Huns are not destroyed, why should they be home?
When the general sighed like this, he had to get married early. Although he had accomplished nothing, the task of carrying on the family line was even more important. Whether he was recruiting a younger brother or Brother Pu, he was the matchmaker given by Brother Liang, and several people also To live a peaceful life, you should listen to your elder brother.
He saw that Liang Chuan had married so many wives, and the whole family was enjoying themselves happily, and none of them would jump out to cause trouble. To have this ability, not only was the boss capable enough, but he also had to have enough discernment in recognizing people, otherwise he would find someone to look for. When the two tigresses come back, the house won’t be demolished?
The rain outside has not stopped yet, but Liang Chuan is still thinking about how to open the Khitan people's trade routes.
The Khitan people may seem a bit arrogant, but when they are extravagant, they are even more unreasonable than the Song people. They probably have a nouveau riche mentality at work. Their nomadic life makes them only care about the present and not the future. No one cares about the future. We know whether there will be natural disasters in the future, and we have no fixed location, so we can only take things as they come.
It seems that the only option is to bring out the big killer.
When I was in Bianjing, the most popular thing in the Forbidden City was not the girls singing songs or the steaming hot pot, but cigarettes!
But because Liang Chuan doesn't want to grow tobacco in Bianjing, and doesn't want this kind of thing to be promoted too early, only if it is on hand can it exert its greatest power!
Liang Chuan's stay in Bianjing was too short, and he left Bianjing before everyone could smoke.
I tried it a little bit, and the power is really amazing.
The first time I took a sip of a small cigarette, the smell was dry and choking and difficult to enter my throat. However, after trying it a few times, I became familiar with the smell of cigarettes. Smelling it again is the greatest enjoyment in life!
The smoke is lingering, exuding a mysterious charm, as if it is poetry rising from the depths of the soul. The smoke rings blowing out from the lips are like agile cranes, dancing in the air, leisurely and contentedly. When the smoke slowly rises between the lips, it seems like a picture is slowly unfolding in front of the eyes, bringing a warm and intoxicating feeling.
Why should you smoke a cigarette when you are under greater pressure? It is like a dialogue with time. It can make your thoughts drift away like smoke and release the shackles of the mind.
The largest group of smokers in Bianjing City is not the ordinary people, but the senior ministers carrying books and bags.
These people have to carry pens all year round. Whenever their thoughts are stagnant, they will have a feeling that life is worse than death. They cannot write articles. The feeling is not ordinary pain. At this time, smoking a cigarette is really wonderful. Unforgettable, the tense thoughts immediately relaxed, and as soon as I regained consciousness, many problems were immediately solved!
In order to make his husband fall in love with smoking, Liang Chuan asked skilled craftsmen to design many good pipes in Bianjing City. These pipes were made of mahogany, jade, or tortoiseshell and other precious treasures. Even if he did not smoke, he would still smoke. Just playing with these things is a great pleasure!
Facts have proved that once you get addicted to smoking, it will be painful to quit, and at present, you should be the only one in the world.
The Khitans and the Song Dynasty do not know each other. If I make tobacco in the south and send it to the Khitans to sell it, specifically to bring trouble to these Khitans, even if they want the formula of tobacco, there is nothing they can do!
When the time comes, all the people will smoke. They only think that this magical herb from the south can refresh themselves, but they don't know the harm of this kind of tobacco. They are not wronging the people and the country. After all, they are cheating the Khitan people, not their own Han people.
As soon as tobacco is promoted, the arms business can be put on hold.
In future generations, the tobacco family will be able to support the entire national defense, let alone now. Liang Chuan's current military expenditure is not large, but tobacco is a monopoly and huge profits. To raise a Liang family army, it should be a killing of chickens with a knife!
It’s really a perfect road!
Liang Chuan's eyes became lively, and a road to wealth seemed to appear in front of him!
Khitan, Khitan, when all their people lie in bed and smoke cigarettes, their combat effectiveness will probably drop a few notches!
Although he doesn't know if doing this will shorten his life, Liang Chuan can't care about so much anymore. Even eating is now a problem. If he doesn't think of a way, so many of his people will starve to death, that's what he really needs to do. Lose your life!
Besides, I have never seen so many people in a state-owned enterprise lose their lifespan. They are all fat and fat and live longer than anyone else.
The problem now is how to plant tobacco first, and it needs to be planted in a large area so that the yield can be increased.
Now we don’t sell cigarettes one by one, but we sell them by the boatload!
'It's getting late, why don't you stay here? '
He Chunsheng said to Liang Chuan.
'No need, I'll walk around the streets and stay wherever I can! '
