The first exchange business was handled by Wang Shilang of the household department, who allocated 1 million silver from the internal money he had just obtained to Sun Yuanhua, the sailor of Denglai, Shandong, and deposited it in a bank in Beijing, and after paying a handling fee of 5 percent, he sent an official to take this piece of paper with this fluttering piece of paper, and under the protection of 30 guards, he went south in makeup, and after half a month, handed over the piece of paper to Governor Sun, who then took the cash in batches at the Dengzhou branch with a suspicious attitude. After this move was infinitely amplified by Daming news from all over the world, more and more businessmen deposited silver in the bank, exchanged it for silver tickets, and walked to every place in Daming, not only safely along the way, but also saved a huge cost of escorting bodyguards, which is really a pence for both sides. Ethereal.2.

The first loan was not actually a loan secured by Emperor Chongzhen's maritime trade concession, but by Tongzhou Iron Works, because Tongzhou Iron Works received an order from a major customer, giving the factory on the verge of collapse a chance to make a profit.

This big customer is the order of Lu Hanqiang, the newly baked governor of Liaoxi, who wants to purchase at least 100,000 stone of iron within a year, (12,000 tons, which was already the largest iron purchase at that time) of which 30,000 stone is fine iron, that is, steel, and the rest is rough iron, that is, pig iron slag.

Not to mention the contract of the governor of Liaoxi, even Lu Hanqiang's reputation can completely trust the owner of this iron factory, because the current Lu Hanqiang is a boy who scatters money, and he will definitely not be short of money.

As a result, under the guidance of Lu Hanqiang, this iron factory made the tightest loan contract in later generations, and obtained 100,000 taels of recovery funds, thus bringing the iron factory back to life.

The reason why Lu Hanqiang's order seemed to be a huge amount of steel at that time was due to the education that human life is greater than heaven in later generations.

Now the habit is that soldiers are just consumables, and it is best to die in battle, and they can also get a burning fee and a pension, and the conscientious generals will give half of this cost, while the unconscientious generals simply directly greed for ink, so it is inevitable that the soldiers are not fully clothed, the swords and guns are not neat, and the lack of equipment has become an inevitable phenomenon.

For this point, of course, the little fat man from Jiangmen expressed his habitual habits, so he expressed his incomprehension of Lu Hanqiang's spending a large amount of silver to purchase iron materials to equip soldiers.

At that time, Lu Hanqiang said to the little fat man: "A qualified soldier, not only has to be supported by his parents for 20 years, but in my place, at least three months of training, and then after three months to go to each team to run in with other troops, not to mention anything else, just for the cost of military salaries and clothing and food for these six months, we will spend at least more than 20 taels of silver, and at the same time, for every brother we die in battle, we will have to pay 20 taels of silver, and if we don't die a brother, it means that I have to train a soldier from scratch, so that in terms of economy, How much do we invest? ”

"The minimum is eighty taels." The little fat man rubbed Ruyun's shoulders and replied quickly, this is a simple addition and subtraction algorithm, and he is not stupid.

"In fact, you only counted our silver contributions, and forgot that a veteran is much more effective than a new soldier, and excessive casualties will lower our morale, so the negative effect of killing a brother in battle is simply infinitely harmful."

As a little fat man from Jiangmen, this is understandable.

"However, we have sharp longbows, powerful explosive packs, things are different, let's talk about the giant arrows of our longbows, you see, the normal arrow cluster is half a tael of fine iron, a pound of fine iron costs a penny and three cents of silver, that is to say, an arrow cluster costs more than four cents less than five cents, plus other arrow shafts or something, about an arrow costs twenty cents, but what about our giant arrows, the arrow cluster only needs rough iron, I talked with the shopkeeper of the iron factory, that is, nine cents of silver, but our arrow cluster needs two taels, Therefore, our arrow cluster is one for every ten yuan, plus our arrow shaft, because we don't need feather glue paint, so the production and process requirements are simple, therefore, our giant arrow is twenty yuan, if the ordinary arrow cluster needs twenty to kill an enemy, (more than) and my giant arrow only needs ten to become, then, what is the price of killing an enemy and we exchanging the lives of two brothers for an enemy, that is, to fill with human lives, we need close to two hundred taels of silver for the life of a Jiannu, And how much do I need now? Erbaiwen, do you think this conversion is appropriate? ”

The little fat man held up the hand that kneaded Ruyun's shoulder, he really didn't expect that the war could be calculated by price, so calculated, it would be too amazing.

"It doesn't matter, if ten doesn't work, I'll have twenty, and if I can't do twenty, I'll have fifty, for example, the 50,000 catties of rough iron I ordered this time can completely build 400,000 giant arrows, according to the probability, at least 100,000 Jiannu can be killed, if I invest another 400,000, I can drown Jiannu with countless 400,000 pieces, do you think this situation is impossible to achieve?" Although he secretly changed a little concept, it was indeed the truth, and then Lu Han forced Shi Ran to sit down, looking at the little fat man who had been shocked by the scene of countless 400,000 giant arrows roaring into the sky, "Remember, from now on, war will play with firearms and steel, and it will no longer be a crowd tactic, as long as I have enough steel, I will be invincible in the world." ”

For a long time, the little fat man who was in a cold sweat stumbled and said: "Brother-in-law, then why don't you use fine iron instead of rough iron, is this also a price consideration?" ”

"Wrong." Lu Hanqiang firmly judged the little fat man's mistake tomorrow: "Because the last time I played against Qi Fei, I now, after our giant arrow was shot, it was picked up by Qi Fei, and then shot back, although the number is not much, but it is still a harm to us, now, we still need to face the Jiannu, and Jiannu must have also gone through the last battle, understand the power of our giant arrows, Jiannu does not know how to produce, they are even more short of iron, so they will be desperate to pick up our arrow clusters, therefore, as long as my rough iron arrow clusters land, It's almost crumbling, I only need one-time, it's good for us, and definitely don't want to add strength to the enemy's arrow clusters, you must remember this later. ’

"Brother-in-law, I'm convinced, the emotional war can be calculated in silver." The little fat man was completely convinced of Lu Hanqiang's calculations this time.

"Brother-in-law is right, I must remember it next time." Ruyun proudly commented: 'Why don't you hurry up and hand me an apple.' The little fat man immediately ran over to get the apple, and after Lu Hanqiang glanced at the little couple with relief, Shi Shiran walked out of the door, the world of two people does not need a third party.