Seeing that Bai Minghe was a little hesitant, Mao Sheng said again: "The warship in his hand is not a big deal at all... So you have to give these silver, otherwise you can help me get two gold mines."

"Give the money, there are some things you can't hurry up now."

Mao Sheng also knew that it was too ruthless to squeeze Little Luzon at the moment, and once there was a change, there would be huge losses.

The fleet of Baiminghe continued to move forward, and after another day, less than fifty miles from the Taiwan Strait, they encountered twenty ships coming from Manila from the outer sea route.

When I entered the Yellow Sea in later generations, I happened to meet by chance and did not agree to travel with me. I just delivered the goods to Tianjin Wei Blue Sea Fleet, with a total of forty large ships coming from the Japanese island. I started to whistle up the flags and demanded a gathering.

The Baiminghe's lucky ship was much larger than the Blue Ocean flagship. However, the Blue Ocean did not wait for the two ships to approach and swung over with a cable, but it still did not reach the height of the deck. A short knife was helping him hang it on the boat, so naturally a sailor pulled the person up with a rope.

Bai Minghe and others were already greeted on the deck. Mao Sheng came out at Fuzhou Port to prepare to return to Little Luzon. Naturally, he came and went in a hurry. The blue sea was different. It took more than half an hour for the two fleets to meet from seeing the flags and then getting closer. Yu Qian and others naturally knew it.

No matter what, Lan Hai said, he was a second-rank official and the person in charge of the route on the Japanese island. It is necessary to come out to greet him.

When Lan Hai saw everyone, his face was filled with undepressed excitement and he clasped his fists: "Sir, okay!" The word "good" was full of momentum. Obviously, the excitement in his heart had been suppressed for a long time, and someone needed to share it with him.

After everyone finished their salute, Lan Hai pointed at the ship in the center of his fleet, and even the elite soldiers in the battle could not suppress the excitement in their hearts.

The boat was so weird that there seemed to be no problem. However, it was dragged by three boats. The boat's draft had reached its limit. There were obviously fewer seamen on the boat than the rest of the boat. All the gun doors surrounding the boat were open, and all the crossbows were moved to the deck.

Obviously, Blue Ocean is afraid that someone will rob his ship.

"Dear sirs, there is only one cargo on the ship?"

Bai Minghe smiled, smiling happily. He had already guessed what kind of goods it was, but he took two steps back. Obviously he was not going to give this answer. All of this is the glory of the blue ocean, and the blue ocean is filled with a boat.

"Gold, two thousand materials sea ships are filled with gold. A whole ship of gold." Lan Hai almost roared: "Two thousand materials of gold and silver, a whole of ten thousand stones of gold and silver. Ten thousand stones of silver and one thousand stones of gold." Lan Hai was almost crazy and roared wildly. As he was with his fleet, there were suddenly cheers.

They have lived a hard life these days, fearing that they will be attacked by the rest of the Japanese, so they have not had a good rest for several days and nights.

The white-famous crane threw out a cigar: "Thank you for your hard work, so I ask a few inappropriate words. How good is this batch of gold? Is there six or seven?" In the Ming Dynasty, gold had the saying that seven green, eight yellow, nine purple and ten red. The treasury of the Ming Dynasty was fifty taels and one ingot. According to the Ming Dynasty gold ingots discovered in museums later, it was less than ninety-five percent.

It's also real gold.

There are also gold of this level on Wadao, but it is not easy to refine pure gold. Therefore, according to the current saying, most of the gold bars are 18k gold, which is about 75%.

Yu Qian waved his hand: "Famous He, even if it is six, it is more than 100 million taels of gold."

"Sir Yu, please let me finish asking. I want to know how much gold is still available on the Wadao Island, and prepare for the next plan in the future." Hearing Bai Minghe say this, everyone became serious. Even Lan Hai's look at Bai Minghe has raised the height of the view. With such a huge profit, he can calmly think about his strategy. It's really extraordinary.

"There are all second-blue gold. I let those who know gold on the ship carefully distinguish it, and barely reach seven!"

Bai Minghe understood that this was between 69% and 72% and that was almost the same in the information. The official gold circulated should be this kind of color, with silver mixed in it and about 10% of impurities. The exchange rate of such gold ingots on the Japanese island is one to three to one to four.

"In other words, what the Japanese island has now obtained is only gold circulating on the market, and the private savings of the major names have not been used."

Lan Hai didn't understand this level and had no answer.

Bai Minghe continued to ask, "Mr. Lan, how much do you owe them?"

"I owed 100,000 stones of fine steel ingots. When I arrived, not only a few companies signed with the adults, but also a few people who were close to them. They would rather pay first than make an appointment for the next batch of fine steel ingots. Even if I said it might not be until February next year, they still pulled the gold first. Even if I had already increased the price of fine steel ingots to 41,000 stones for the Ming Dynasty, they were rushing to ask for it."

Five taels and four cents of gold per stone, which can be converted into about four hundred cents per kilogram of fine steel. (The gold in the Japanese island is low in purity).

The cheapest 120 stone rice of a sword in Da Nang is actually calculated based on the rice price in Da Nang, which means it is worth less than ten taels of silver, but a sword is purely worth four kilograms of steel. The price of a kilogram of steel is reduced to about two taels of steel after removing the sheath and other steel.

This is also the casting process that is not included.

This is mainly because there is no iron training or knife casting technique in the Nanyang area.

The Japanese soldier had 400 ounces of fine steel. Bai Minghe remembered that there was information that the Japanese soldier had about twenty jin of pig iron, and only half a tael of silver was (the Japanese soldier had a difference of four jin of coins, and four jin of coins were only one liang of silver). However, the Japanese soldier had systematic iron-making and knife casting techniques. They had to pay such a high price to get ready-made steel, if there was a huge amount.

"The Japanese are going to fight?" Bai Minghe asked Yu Qian after he figured it out.

Yu Qian was also thinking: "Maybe as you analyzed at the beginning, the Japanese will enter the Warring States Period. But now it should be about to enter the Spring and Autumn Period. The forces are already very powerful, and only one fire is left. Your unlimited supply of stainless steel will stimulate this change. At most, the Japanese will enter the Spring and Autumn Period in one year."

"By the way, another thing may be that the information is wrong. The current price of gold on the Japanese island is one tael of gold for 2,800 Ming Dynasty money. So forty jin is more than ten taels of gold, which is also the reason why I shipped back a large amount of gold this time. Su Muyun, who went with me, made great contributions, and he insisted on using copper coins as the pricing standard."

"I want to reward!" Bai Minghe only said this.

Yu Qian and others also thought to themselves that the difference between gold and copper coins can really make a big deal.

"Your Majesty, please approve the handwritten order. Bailian Sect will definitely move to the vicinity of the capital in the future. Now, Lord Lan will be granted 300,000 stones of fine steel and 20 million jin of copper coins to squeeze as much gold as possible from the Japanese."

Historically, Westerners have taken away a large amount of gold in Japan with the price difference between gold and silver.

In this era, the Japanese had the lowest gold ratio, the Ming Dynasty was almost one to ten, and the West reached one to sixteen or even seventeen. The exchange difference was huge.

300,000 stones of fine steel are not a small number, but it costs 15,000 tons to be converted into tons. With Daming's current productivity, this can almost be said to be the output of Guangdong Steel Floor's full efforts in one year. Without Yu Qian's special approval, even the white-famous crane would not dare to take action.

Yu Qian also thought seriously: "It's not impossible to have 300,000 stones. But there must be a way. Just tell them that they will provide 300,000 stones of fine steel in the next year or a year and a half. However, in order to show sincerity, it is necessary to make the Japanese pay at least 100,000 stones with raw silk."

After Yu Qian said that, he said to Bai Minghe: "The development of new gunpowder is all in the capital, and this one cannot be sold."

"Sir Yu, even if all the Japanese islands are piled up with steel, the key is who has the final say on the sea. They can't get out of the sea, and they can still make a comeback. Therefore, I think it is more important to increase investment in the navy. However, the navy is invincible, and the Ming Dynasty will be invincible in the world."

No one believes that the world is invincible.

Because there are still thorns.

But Bai Minghe immediately said: "Tashi is not a little sesame official who is worried about, it is the business of all civil and military officials. So I, Bai Minghe, is young and has a small official position. It is enough to take care of what I have to give to you."

"Baizhubo, are you still a little shameless?" Hu Yi stood by and couldn't close his mouth.

Although it is a joke, it is a big truth.

Bai Minghe touched his face: "What is the hardest in the world? It's naturally a beard. I, Bai Minghe, is so thick-skinned that I can't even grow a beard, so I'm not afraid of people talking about it. But..."

Bai Minghe said that, the smiles on everyone's faces disappeared, and Bai Minghe should tell the truth when it comes to this point.

Bai Minghe did not disappoint these officials: "My dear masters. To put it bluntly, it is to strive for logistics, and to say it is to strive for national strength. I think it is best to endure a few years and solve the number of horses first. If there is something else, I think the three guards of Duoyan are not considered to be my people of the Ming Dynasty, at least they are not in their hearts."

"Forget it, don't talk nonsense about Watana."

Yu Qian stopped Bai Minghe and continued to talk because Bai Minghe's words had already touched the taboos.

It was Duoyan's Three Guards. They were not trustworthy ministers to the Ming Dynasty, so Yu Qian was also thinking about this. If Bai Minghe's words were spread, it would definitely not be a good thing if Duoyan's Three Guards had any ideas.

Therefore, Yu Qian stopped Bai Minghe from talking about it.

Bai Minghe just smiled. This time he thought he had done nothing wrong. He didn't want to rush to deal with Washu. His idea was that once a war on Washu would be full, there would be only one result, that is, to make Washu people desperate. Otherwise, once it became a war of attrition, what's the point?

It has truly become a war of attrition, which will make the surrounding small countries despise the Ming Dynasty.

The ship entered Tianjin Guard three days later, and a fleet of hundreds of ships returned to Beijing from a sixth-rank official to report his work.

Is this a joke?

It was the white-famous crane that was back. In just one year, it took just one year from the first time I entered the capital to the present.

Standing on the Tianjin Marine Wharf, Bai Minghe looked at the snowflakes falling in the sky and slowly bit a cigar. He was about to light the matches and put them on a cool one, but the matches were shot by Yu Qian: "Be careful of the candle at the Navy Wharf." After that, Yu Qian walked forward, took a few steps and turned around: "This time I go back to Beijing and keep a low profile!"
Chapter completed!