Liu Mu asked about the workshop over there, and Lu Chengqing replied: "I know, and Xie Jiunian has a few officials working over there." ”

Liu Mu said to the people around him: "Arrange it, I'll go over tomorrow to take a look." ”

Lu Chengqing didn't know about the Iwamiyama silver ingots, and it was not his responsibility for anyone to invest here, Xie Jiunian used to inspect the newly built workshop, and affirmed the various rules for building the workshop here, using Goguryeo slave labor, and so on.

That night, Liu Mu asked his entourage to go to the dock to ask where Baoqin was.

Baoqin said that she had arrived at Xinjin Port, and she didn't know where the person would be.

The next morning, when Willow woke up and went to the workshop, an attendant came and told Willow that he didn't know where the piano was, and that the people on the dock didn't know. The last news was that he had gone to sea with a fishing boat three days earlier.

When Liu Mu was about to arrive at the workshop, he saw Baoqin and people waiting on the side of the road.

Liu Mu did not take the carriage again, but walked to the workshop with Baoqin.

"I heard that this workshop was invested by the princess of Changsha?"

Baoqin stuck out her tongue: "I don't blame me for this, I don't have much money in my hands, and my sisters can't make up that much money." So I originally wanted the princess to take some money from the family and invest it, but the princess thought it was not good, which was easy for some unfriendly people in the court to use the topic to say bad things about Lang Jun. ”

"Do you know about the Iwamiyama silver ingot?"

"Yes, the silver ingot is here. Two stacks have been used, and the various items purchased are still on board. ”

Without waiting for Liu Mu to ask why he had to be a silver ingot, Baoqin explained, "This is what the princess meant. ”

There will always be only one princess in the mouth of the qin, Princess Dugu Lanruo of Changping.

Baoqin explained to Liu Mu: "The princess said that the color of the silver ingots in Ishimiyama is similar to the color of the silver ingots when Goguryeo first traded cloth with us, and this kind of low-quality miscellaneous silver is almost invisible to our Tang Dynasty, whether it is the government or the wealthy family's silver, at least it is also ninety-five silver, like this kind of miscellaneous silver that is only about sixty percent, no one will believe that this is the silver of the Tang Dynasty." ”

"Yes."

Liu Mu is very aware of the fineness of Datang's silver.

Datang's silver deposits are mostly ninety-five silver. This ninety-five percent silver is not 99.5 percent of the later generations, but 95 percent. This is the standard purity of silver, which can be pure but mostly for making some kind of craft, jewelry, utensils, etc.

The cost of repurification is too high, and the inventory silver is ninety-five silver.

Baoqin continued: "We claim that the silver was melted and recast after it was exchanged from the Goguryeo people. ”

"Clever." Yanagi reacted.

If Dugu Lan wants to let the investment businessmen of the Tang Dynasty see with their own eyes, there are already people who have made money in Goguryeo, and they have made a lot of money. Then whether it is to attract investment or to attract cooperation, it will get twice the result with half the effort.

Baoqin immediately gave an explanation, exactly the same as Liu Mu's guess.

Baoqin said: "Our business is actually very simple, which is to build three workshops. The first workshop was a pottery workshop, which processed only one product, the jar. And there is only one size, a jar for pickles. ”

Liu Mu smiled and didn't speak, if you burn the jar here and transport it back and then load the pickles, the cost is too high and it is not cost-effective at all.

Baoqin said: "The second workshop is the pickled fish workshop, which makes all kinds of fish in the sea into pickled fish, puts them into jars and sells them to the whole Tang Dynasty. Then those jars can start pickling vegetables again, and the vegetables will be pickled along the way. ”

"This, can it be pickled on the road?" Liu Mu thought about this dangling, and there was not enough sunshine and so on, can it be pickled?

"It's been tried, and there is no problem. At present, there are many businesses that have cooperated, and the standards for the jars have been set, and the size and size of the jars of all the firms are exactly the same, didn't Lang Jun see the boats on the dock. ”

Liu Mu said with a smile: "I saw it, and I heard that tens of thousands of jars are shipped over every month. ”

Baoqin also laughed: "Lang Jun probably doesn't know how many pickles Goguryeo slave workers eat every day, and the business of pickles seems to be profitable but can't hold up the volume." ”

"Yes, a large amount will definitely be good. So what is the third workshop? ”

"Garment shop."

There is no need to explain that Liu Mu also understands that there are more than 200,000 Goguryeo slave laborers, and the clothes that these people have to wear, as well as mining work clothes or something, and the garment workshop is a business with massive demand.

Baoqin still explained: "The garment shop is not here, we all think that it will be better in Fukuoka, and we have recruited 3,000 skilled Japanese women to work, and our goal is to make 150,000 workwear, 500,000 shoes, and 20,000 women's clothing by the end of this year." ”

Liu Mu nodded, he could understand the reason why Dugu Lan didn't want to get involved in this business.

The Maoshan mining area belongs to the general shipping department, and the work clothes for slave workers here are all distributed, which means that the products of the garment workshop are purchased by the Maoshan mining area.

It is indeed inconvenient for Liu Mu to participate in this matter.

Liu Mu asked again: "Huqin, is there any investigation into the final flow of silver ingots?" ”

"Yes, I arranged for someone. The flow of silver ingots for several large transactions has been determined, and they have all transported the silver to Qizhou without exception, and asked the subordinates of the Yijun King to exchange it for silver coins, and even if a few silver ingots are taken home, it does not matter. ”

Baoqin's explanation is correct, and it really doesn't matter if the flow of individual silver ingots is unknown.

Liu Mu thought for a moment and then asked, "Why did they think of going to Qizhou to exchange for silver coins." Why don't I wait until you're exchanged for silver before I trade with you? ”

"I don't explain it, but the piles of silver ingots are for the merchants to see. Then tell them that the contract is signed first, and the payment is back. Our Datang Law strictly prohibits gold and silver on behalf of money transactions. These people said that they would immediately ask for silver ingots, and they would go to the official mint to exchange them for coins. Then I will arrange for someone to sternly warn them, don't look at Goguryeo here, our Tang law will also work here. ”

Liu Mu said that he understood, to put it bluntly, it was the first time for small businessmen to cooperate, and he was afraid that he would not be able to receive money for such a large transaction volume. So I transported the silver ingots to the government-run mint to exchange for silver coins.

Or leave silver ingots and wait for those ingots to be minted into silver coins.

The process went very smoothly.

The people at the Qizhou Mint could see at a glance that this was Ishimiyama's silver ingot, so they accepted it very smoothly.

Ordinary people can't tell the difference between Goguryeo's silver ingots and Iwamiyama's silver ingots. As for the professionals at the Silver Mint, they can tell very clearly.

Liu Mu asked again: "Huqin, where is the princess now?" ”

Holding her chin and thinking for a while, she replied, "It's possible that a clothing shop will be built over there in Fukuoka." But most likely, Kagoshima. ”