The white-famous crane competes for the future living space, the Ming Dynasty competes for face and status, and the merchants compete for profit.
There are no official rules for the business of this salt lake, but the reputation of turning stones into gold will not be fake, nor will it be wrong.
The top ten business groups in the Ministry of Revenue Zhengtang were at a disadvantage for the first time in the business district of Daming. First, it was because the top ten business groups were not tied together and had their own interests. This time, the small business groups were tied tightly, and they needed a monopoly industry to support their development.
The word monopoly comes from the white-known crane, which is unique in the words of the Ming Dynasty.
"White cloth and snow-white cloth are not the same cloth at all. The worst is just a little pink, although this thing is poisonous. But the dye is right, even the flowers and plants in the mountains dare to say that they are not poisonous. The red ones are brighter and the blue ones are corrected. The two types of cloth on the market are arranged together, and the advantages and disadvantages are distinguished!"
The people from the Lianghu Business Gang were tied together, and they had not been able to compete with the other provincial business gangs before.
But it may not be the case now.
With the benefit of the Yangtze River waterway, a large amount of raw materials can be transported from the Yangtze River, processed into fine cloth and transported to Nanjing, and loaded on a large ship to sea. The merchants in the two lakes also earned money in the linen business, and they know more clearly the benefits of high-quality goods, and the price of each good product.
This is something in black and white with Liangjing Wharf, Fujian Wharf, and Guangdong Wharf.
"This matter can be made of portions, and then the raw materials are allocated according to the amount of buildings built by each province. It is probably very hard to dig materials in the bitter and cold places. The rules we have made in the Hebei Gang don't count. The rest of the people say it works. Even Mr. Xie, you can't convince everyone. Please ask Lord Bai to take the initiative!"
Bai Minghe has left the Ministry of Revenue and has already gone home.
He still has a lot of important things to do.
Especially Hu Yi brought the Li Goryeo nobles to Nanjing, which is the most important thing at the moment.
Bai Minghe had to admire the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty. Although these people were desperate for face in foreign exchanges, they would rather lose some money than lose face. But they were definitely the kind of people who would not betray the core interests of the Ming Dynasty even if they were slaughtered alive. The core interests of the Ming Dynasty this time were to use everything from the Li family Goryeo to help the Ming Dynasty become prosperous and strong quickly.
Hu Yi scolded Bai Minghe for being shameless. But he never went against Bai Minghe when he was doing things.
According to the news that Yu Qian left Tianjin Wei, after calculating the time, at most, there will be two days for the Li family members to arrive in Nanjing.
That night, Xie Yiyuan asked for a meeting in front of the Baima Pavilion.
The white-famous crane man was in the study, listening to Yu Qian commenting on his strategy for Goryeo.
Bai Hong entered the study and stood aside: "Young master, Hui merchant Xie Yiyuan asked for a meeting. Do you want him back?"
"I'm older, this is the first time he's asking for a meeting so late. I still have to give this little face, but I still don't see him. I have something here. You go and give it to him. If he doesn't understand what I mean, then his asking for a meeting is a waste of time, and what is wasted him is mine."
After Bai Minghe gave the order, he picked out two books from the bookshelf and placed them on the table.
"Tell him, just two books. Ask him to send someone to copy and send them back to me, don't lose them. Also, you put them in Curry..." Bai Minghe patted his head and opened a booklet from the bookshelf. After finding the content, he wrote the number to Bai Hong: "Let him read it, don't lose them. These are not energy-producing, and they are also insufficient raw materials."
Bai Hong went to do his business as he said.
Yu Qian then asked, "What is it? You are so careful."
"Good thing. But the investment is huge. It's so huge that I'm afraid, but no matter how big I have to invest. I originally thought that I would rebuild the ancient Silk Road in five years, but for Hami's plan, it had to be advanced, which made me very embarrassed. There are three kinds of raw materials that are so small that I can't describe it."
"What is the biggest gap?" Yu Qian said in his heart, what is there in the Ming Dynasty? Don't forget that the Ming Dynasty still has 100 million people.
The white-named crane smiled and stretched out a finger: "One word, steel!"
"Is your steel mill production still low now?" Yu Qian asked back.
"Low, low, low. The right amount in my mind is that it produces one billion stones of fine steel per year. Of course, I can use up one hundred billion stones. Poor at present, let alone one billion or one hundred million, it's all about dreaming."
There is not much of one billion stone of fine steel, and it is considered a small amount in the Republic of China, which is only 50 million tons of steel.
In later modern times, the annual output of fine steel was more than 100 million stones according to the Ming Dynasty algorithm, which is 600 million tons.
However, Bai Minghe is talking about the truth, the output of 50 million tons of steel is not very large.
In 1913, Britain's steel production had reached 8 million tons, which was 160 million stones. How big is the UK, how big was the Ming Dynasty, and how big was the population. At that time, the population of Britain was not as high as half of the current Ming Dynasty.
One hundred million stone steel!
Yu Qian didn't even want to say the comments because he couldn't. Steel is definitely a good thing and has many uses. In the current situation where there is no industry in the Ming Dynasty, let alone steel, even iron is a material controlled by the government.
In the 14th year of Zhengtong, that is, before the Tumu Fort Incident, the Ming Dynasty's production of knitting iron was about three million stones, which is 150,000 tons. After Baiminghe built a steel workshop in Guangdong and spent a huge amount of money to improve the technology of fine steel and knitting iron, Daming's current steel production is about twenty million stones per year. That is one million tons!
One million tons can be placed in modern and municipal steel plants in later generations.
"We continue to talk about Li's Goryeo. In fact, what you did is similar to those who used to send a mission to Li's Goryeo, but they are bullying officials and the people and act as a blessing. You bullied in the dark, even more ruthless. But I can't blame you, just hope that you can create some win-win situations, at least to be able to live up to your face."
Bai Minghe laughed dryly: "Even if the inside is broken, the face will be new."
Yu Qian smiled and didn't say anything, so he didn't need to answer this.
"Mr. Yu, what I want to do most is to let the people of Li's Goryeo learn to spend money. Of course, it is best to spend our Ming Dynasty money, and it is better not to spend copper coins or silver, but to spend my silver notes and silver coins."
"Is there any difference?" Yu Qian didn't even realize that the difference lies there.
The white-known crane continued to laugh dryly, the difference was too big.
On the other hand, Xie Yiyuan did not see Bai Minghe, but saw what Bai Minghe gave him. Bai Hong specifically told him that these things should be kept well because these were all trial samples and they must be returned in a few days.
After Xie Yiyuan thanked him, he went back with his life with something and two books.
The two books are the responsibilities, rights and interests of the joint-stock trade charter and the market development!
Baiminghe was also a businessman in his later generations, economic law, contract law, company articles of association, etc. Although he dare not say it memorizes it, he can still remember the key parts, especially equity distribution, dividend distribution, and many parent company joint venture subsidiaries. Baiminghe wrote very detailedly.
That night, Xie Yiyuan lit a huge candle and cleaned his hands with several other merchants with good calligraphy, and then copied them personally.
Since it is a unique thing, you should be somewhat respectful.
And another advantage of copying yourself is that you can familiarize yourself while recording difficult points while copying.
"Mr. Bai is so talented that he should have written his handwriting. All the issues we argue about can be found. As the little Shutong said, if such a problem is still not solved, then asking for a meeting again is a waste of Master Bai's time." Xie Yiyuan finished copying a page and said while Liang Mo.
Liu Zhi from the Shaanxi Business Gang kept looking at the things in the box.
After copying all of it, he was still watching.
The current technology of the things in the box is absolutely not energy-producing, and it is impossible to dream. This is made by hand, and it not only consumes manpower, but also takes a lot of time. Unless a genius craftsman develops a suitable machine, if it is purely handmade, the cost of this thing is too high.
The first thing is a wheel.
According to his own design, Bai Minghe made a bicycle ring with fine steel, and added the kind of bicycle strip.
Just making this circle, two very excellent blacksmiths worked hard for two days. In addition, drilling, covering the outer wire, brushing the fine steel wire and hardening it. It took a full week to complete such a wheel.
The white-famous crane was also made to give the craftsmen more inspiration.
Who can come up with a way to mass produce this thing and reward ten stones of gold.
This thing similar to the bicycle ring is incomparable to the bicycle rings in later generations. The ones in later generations were hollow layered and lightweight aluminum. The white-name crane is the stupidest steel ring, which is adjusted by pulling the spokes to adjust whether it is round enough. In the term of a car, it is dynamic balance.
But there are two things that can be considered mass production.
It is also a ring column oil-filled bearing, which can be completed with a hydraulic lathe. In the Tang Dynasty, there were lathes for processing wood, and in the Ming Dynasty, there were lathes and drilling machines for processing gun barrels, so this roller type can still be done.
Another material is expensive but produces paper.
Another type is graphite copper bearings, which use graphite as lubricant and cooked copper as the bearing shaft.
The tires on the outer layer of the wheels of the car ring were found in two rubber trees. The ones that could be used were the rubbers obtained by the Ming Dynasty, which had a large number of Eucommia ulmoides. After the vulcanization tests of Byzantine alchemists and Ming Dynasty alchemists, they could barely make solid tires that could be used outside the wheels.
Of course, both elasticity and wear resistance are definitely not very optimistic.
Chapter completed!