The hall that was originally arguing was silent because of Han Qi's words, and Han Qi's words were like the finishing touch, which made everyone's eyes light up.

Yes, why bother with the price, the quality of the iron is the key, the price is cheap, but the quality is not good, it is tofu slag, and it can't enter the military.

On the contrary, if the quality is good, it doesn't matter if the price is a little higher, as long as it is not too outrageous.

The military has always considered quality, and when it was replaced by Taizu Taizong, he wished to use the best, that is, when it came to the Zhenzong Renzong Dynasty, he began to consider cost performance.

There is no other reason, in the period of Taizu Taizong, only the number of troops was only a few hundred thousand, relying on a strong army of hundreds of thousands, Taizu Taizong laid the foundation of the Northern Song Dynasty.

At that time, for the Jingsai Army, it can be said that everything is good, and how strong it is.

However, in the Zhenzong period, the number of forbidden troops skyrocketed, close to 500,000, at least double the previous increase, and there were a large number of box troops and ordinary border troops, and the number of troops skyrocketed, resulting in a surge in military spending.

In the Renzong Dynasty, it reached the extreme, with the Liao State, with the Western Xia, and even the war in the south, during the Renzong Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty forbidden army of 800,000, as well as four or five hundred thousand box troops and one million level of border troops, this number has exceeded the Northern Song Dynasty's accommodating degree.

It's not that Renzong doesn't want to disarm, it's that the surrounding environment is too bad, and it's easy for the Liao State to stop under the large-scale vigilance of the Northern Song Dynasty, and then a Western Xia pops up, and then there is Yi Zhigao, and this layer after layer of wars finally brought down the Northern Song Dynasty.

From the middle of Renzong, price is a very important evaluation method, from the foot armor, to the divine arm crossbow, to all kinds of armaments, the Privy Council must seek a balance in the face of money and quality.

Because of this, Cao Di's memorabilia is written in great detail, the price is only one of the aspects, and the more important thing is the quality.

But the preconceived relationship, everyone's attention, is actually on the price, they forget that in addition to the price, there is also quality, and the quality is what Cao Di emphasized.

The price is not easy to assess, because it may be shoddy, the Privy Council controls the world's armaments, and any slight mistake will cause huge influence, which is also part of the fundamental reason why even if you are not used to Jia Chaochang, you still let it go.

Jia Chaochang made a profit from the iron business, and he made a lot of profits, but because he collected the iron from the blacksmith shop and traded it collectively, the amount of energy was huge, saving a lot of effort, and at the same time, the quality was very good.

This saves a lot of energy and costs, for the national level, trading with a large businessman and countless ordinary businessmen, who will choose the former, give reasonable benefits, that is certain.

Now, Han Qi seems to have opened a new path for everyone, looking at the quality, if the price is determined and the quality is determined, the possibility of loopholes will be reduced to a very low level.

The smile on Jia Chaochang's face had not yet been put away, but he was hit such a hard time, he thought that under the premise of endless arguments, everyone would put it aside first, which was also his duty as a privy envoy, but he didn't expect that Han Qi would break all this with a word.

When everyone is united in their thinking, even the privy envoy cannot reverse black and white.

It's a pity that this sentence has already gone out, Han Qi's words made everyone feel something, Tian Qing was the most positive, and immediately said loudly: "Come on, check the quality!" ”

A privy deputy, in the Privy Council, no one will not listen to his opinion, except for that letter, 10 sets of foot armor have already been sent to the Privy Council, there is a special box sealed, and now, it is just open.

Several privy envoys and privy deputies, examined the chest, and opened it.

10 complete sets of step armor, appeared in front of their eyes, this is made of high-grade iron materials in the blacksmith's workshop, although these privy envoys do not know how to smelt iron, but they have seen a lot, the quality of things, there are still some differences, especially those made of fine iron, which look more powerful than the black iron, as if a beast of fierceness, lying there.

"Good equipment!" Tian Guo said, others don't have to try, just guess in their hearts, these sent by Cao Di must be the best.

The reason why it is still necessary to test, to put it bluntly, is to determine the standard, take this, or a little worse as the standard, if it is really as Jia Chaochang said, this blacksmith workshop is holding the idea of being blinded, just this standard will make him retreat, but what if the blacksmith workshop can really do it?

Cao Di is not a liar, the monthly consumption of millions of catties of iron in the Daimyo Mansion can be said to be the most consumed in the entire Northern Song Dynasty, except for the Central Privy Council, the blacksmith workshop still has the spare strength to deliver to the center after bearing such a huge amount, so what about replacing Jia Chaochang.

Among all of them, the most complicated mood is Jia Chaochang's, how much he hopes that this is an armor of tofu scum, but thinking about it with his heels, he knows that this is impossible, he can only look forward to it, the follow-up output and quality are not so large, maybe he still has a chance to plan a thing or two in the middle.

Han Qi has been paying attention to Jia Chaochang's expression, and he has guessed a thing or two about what he thinks, in all fairness, Jia Chaochang is a very smart and very strong political person, some of his ideas and practices will also make Han Qi have some understanding, but the only weakness is that he is too greedy for money.

Perhaps his poor background and embarrassed youth have changed his thinking, although he has not gone any further, he is falling more and more towards it.

If it were someone else, Han Qi might think that Jia Chaochang's approach was right, but they were facing Zhao Xin, a person who changed the situation in Baozhou with his own strength, and took out the combination of the longbow and the fortress, and was given the divine gift of heaven and man, and the things he took out, no matter how incredible they were, could exist.

It was precisely because of such confidence that Han Qi interjected to speak just now, he knew that after this sentence, he offended Jia Chaochang to death, and all those who are related to the military industry and many channels will get it, including those in the Privy Council, and even more in the entire government and the opposition, but he does not regret it.

The iron-clad fact will crush everything, higher quality, lower price, and save more than 3 million yuan a year, which is no less than a shot in the arm for the central finance of the Northern Song Dynasty that has dried up, Ye Qingchen, Renzong, and many Zai Fu who keep the entire Northern Song Dynasty in their hearts will definitely push this forcibly, even if it is blocked more.

The slaughterers opened the sealed box together, proving that the box had not been opened, and the rest was left to them.

As Zaifu, it is definitely impossible for them to go to Zizi's own experiments and hand them over to the people below, the Privy Council directly controls the army, including the manufacturing bureau above the army, which is the manufacturing bureau that manages the entire military manufacturing, and the entire Northern Song Dynasty, the top group of blacksmiths are here.

In the middle, Jia Chaochang still wanted to do something, but all the privy envoys were present, he only tendenciously determined a blacksmith, Tian Guo proposed one, and the other privy envoys also proposed separately, a total of 5 people jointly tested.

Jia Chaochang knew that the general trend had gone, that's right, Cao Di's personality was impossible to talk nonsense with his eyes open, at least, these armors were very good.

The speed of the blacksmiths is very fast, for the quality of iron, good is good, bad is poor, there are few places to get through the confusion, and even experienced excellent blacksmiths, a little touch, you can know the quality of these iron.

In the end, when the final result was brought up, even the blacksmith arranged by Jia Chaochang didn't dare to say much, because it wasn't about the same, it was much better.

Any blacksmith apprentice can see that the quality of these two things, the hardness, wear resistance, and many other properties, are simply perfect step armor.

In particular, the weight of 5 sets of fine iron step armor is one percent lighter than that of ordinary step armor, but in terms of quality, it is much higher than that of ordinary fine iron.

This is the special feature of the blacksmith, the good is good, the bad is the bad, especially under the premise of a huge difference, the circle can't be rounded, this blacksmith arranged by Jia Chaochang, except for the vague mention, may have to consider the price, and can't rashly use such an expensive thing.

As blacksmiths, these blacksmiths have a high status among craftsmen, just like Sun Ji's status among ordinary soldiers, compared to the real central ministers, it is really a joke, at most it is just a vulgar soldier.

The same is true of these blacksmiths, who only come into contact with this thing, not the price of this thing, the price of iron and the price of refined iron, of course, they can't let them know.

They just know that the price of refined iron is very high, which is judged by experience, but in fact, the price of refined iron is not high.

This is also very normal, for unknown things, empirical judgment plays a very important role, no one has made a fine iron step armor before, it's not that it can't, but it's useless, it's too expensive, almost more than ten times more expensive than ordinary step armor, such a price is no longer something that ordinary soldiers can afford.

The price of a set of 50 guan may be acceptable for those generals, but it is twice as heavy as ordinary iron, that is to say, the ordinary foot armor is about 28 catties, and the refined iron may be more than 50 catties. Not every general is as gifted as Sun Ji.

But the Daimyo's Mansion took this is obviously different, the quality is far above the ordinary fine iron, and it is almost one percent lighter, which is simply unimaginable, although they question the price, but one thing is certain, even if the price of this fine iron is high, for ordinary generals or low-level officers, gritting their teeth, buying a set, increasing the survivability on the battlefield, it is still completely okay.