Previously, woolen sweaters, woolen trousers and other woven clothes produced from the new textile machines modified in the Tang Dynasty had begun to spread on a small scale among some tribes in the grasslands. This time Wan Xuandao came here to open up the market for woolen fabrics.
He is not afraid of losing his mind and not buying it, because this thing is much warmer than wearing sheepskin.
After Zhi lost his mind and realized the warmth of the woolen coat, he hurriedly invited Wan Xuandao and the others into the king's tent to rest.
However, Zhang Mazi and other knights did not all lower their guard. Instead, they rode very domineeringly into the gathering place of Turks and guarded directly outside the king's tent.
With plate armor on their bodies and bows and arrows in their hands, they seemed to be entering and leaving their own camp. Although some Turks were dissatisfied with Tang Qi's actions, they did not dare to beep.
The winner is so arrogant!
The Tang army burned more than 200,000 Turks alive, annihilating Jieli in one fell swoop and bringing an extremely terrifying nightmare to the grassland people.
No one dared to pretend to be an uncle in front of the Tang army.
Xi Zhi, Huan Si Li and others looked at the light plate armor with great enthusiasm.
Inside the tent, Wan Xuandao drank a bowl of goat's milk wine with sugar and asked slowly: "What does Khan think of this woolen sweater?"
"Very good." Zhi said directly without thinking about it.
After a pause, Zhi lost his mind and said boldly: "I will buy as many of these things as there are!"
He does not have to wear this thing, but if it can be worn by the children and women in the tribe, then the vitality of the descendants of the tribe can be preserved to the greatest extent. Adult men have strong physiques and can withstand the severe cold of the grassland, but children cannot.
Every year, children freeze to death in the winter snow.
If each tribal child has a woolen sweater, the population under his command can continue to grow.
In the grassland, population is the most important. If there are people, he will have soldiers. If there are soldiers, then he can rob!
If there are no cattle, you can rob cattle, if there are no sheep, you can rob sheep, and if there are no women, you can rob women.
Here, population is fundamental.
Wan Xuandao chuckled: "Khan, this woolen sweater is not cheap."
"How many?" he asked.
A glint flashed in Wan Xuandao's eyes, and he asked: "Khan, how long do you think it will take to make this woolen sweater?"
Hearing this, Zhi lost his mind and pondered for a moment, and said: "This thing is made of wool, and it must not take less time than silk fabrics."
In fact, the grassland people also know how silk comes from, but they just don't have the ability to make it. Moreover, the grassland is not suitable for raising silkworms.
Although woolen sweaters are made of wool, Zhibisi is not stupid enough to think that they can make such a thing by themselves.
Because the delicate procedures involved in turning wool into this kind of silk fabric are simply not something that the prairie people can learn.
Since you can't learn it, why not just buy it.
Furthermore, women on the grassland only need to herd sheep and cattle and raise children. How about weaving?
forget it.
Wan Xuandao nodded and said: "Yes, I, the weaver, can only make dozens of pieces of this thing in a month. All kinds of wool and..."
The next step is to blow, how many people, how many procedures, and even how much time is needed to make a woolen sweater.
There is only one purpose, to let Zhi lose Si Li know that this thing is not cheap.
"...So, a woolen coat, twelve cows or twenty sheep, of course, five purebred war horses will also work."
After saying that, Wan Xuandao actually felt a little nervous.
Because the selling price the emperor gave him was ridiculously high, he was not from the grassland, so he naturally knew how much this woolen sweater cost.
To put it harshly, labor cost + time + raw materials, all added together, will destroy the value of a healthy cow.
But His Majesty asked him to sell it directly at ten times the cost price.
You should know that a fine and healthy cow is worth four thousand coins in the Central Plains, while a sub-healthy cow is worth three thousand coins.
A healthy sheep is slightly cheaper than a healthy ox. A thin healthy sheep costs 2,500 francs, and a second healthy sheep costs 1,500 francs.
Not cheap at all!
In other words, your majesty will sell a woolen sweater for forty dollars!
You know, the current price of grain in Datang is only 60 cents per bucket of rice. This is because of the increase in food prices caused by natural disasters in consecutive years. Under normal circumstances, it is only 30 to 40 cents per bucket of rice.
All in all, when a woolen sweater is made and sold to the grassland, the price is more than tenfold.
Such a terrifying profit made Wan Xuandao himself excited.
The prices of emerging products of the Tang Dynasty, such as sugar and soap, were barely on par with those of silk and other products.
In the past, silk was the most valuable, and it was sold on the grassland for about 2,500 yuan per piece. But if the woolen clothing business was successful, Wan Xuandao would not dare to think about the money he would make.
It was too big for him to count.
Zhi lost Si Li himself was a bit surprised that a woolen sweater would be so expensive. However, after thinking about it, although this thing is not as exquisite as silk, it is warm to wear!
Perhaps it's just because it's warm and contains so much wool that it's so valuable.
"Okay, I agreed." Zhihusi said. Turks never negotiate the price when doing business, they just get the price.
What's more, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty didn't ask him for money, so he didn't think it was unacceptable.
Because they are herders of cattle and sheep, and they have a lot of these things. Instead of waiting to freeze to death during the winter, it is better to use them to buy woolen clothes.
This wave is called abandoning the cow to protect the people!
As long as people survive, cattle and sheep can be raised slowly. If there are not enough, then grab them!
Wan Xuandao's pupils narrowed slightly and he suppressed the excitement in his heart. Although he knew that the grassland people were as skilled in herding cattle and sheep as the Han people were in farming, he still felt sincerely happy for not bargaining for the price.
I won’t talk about sheep, but cattle are something the court is in short supply of!
"It's easy to talk about."
The two parties agreed on the price, and the guests and hosts enjoyed themselves and drank happily.
During the dinner, Zhi lost his mind and tentatively proposed to buy the Tang army's light plate armor, but Wan Xuandao refused without mercy without giving him a chance.
As a member of the Tang Army, Wan Xuandao knew better than anyone else how much the court valued light and heavy plate armor.
Anyone who steals light or heavy plate armor without the emperor's consent, or hides light or heavy plate armor, once caught, regardless of whether they are buyers or sellers, will be beheaded in public. In addition, all those who handle plate armor, no matter who they are, or their official positions, will be severely punished.
Punishment!
That's not all. The plate armor worn by every plate armor knight has the serial number of the imperial court's brand on it, and the name of the knight wearing the plate armor is also registered. If someone dies in battle, the knight who inherits the plate armor will also have to
Your name and place of birth should be reported to the court for registration.
A small inspection is conducted every month, a major inspection is conducted every six months, and a general inspection is conducted once a year.
Once it is discovered that the plate armor is lost in the army, the company will be promoted to level three.
To put it simply, if a plate armor knight loses a pair of light plate armor, except for non-human factors such as war accidents or damage to the plate armor, all other factors will involve all his direct superiors at the third level and be punished.
In the Tang Dynasty, plate armor was second to none in importance, surpassing all kinds of bows and crossbows.
Because of such strict control procedures, no one has dared to make any plans for light and heavy plate armor so far.
Wan Xuandao had no doubt that if he dared to sell the Turkic plate armor privately, the emperor would directly disown him as his uncle.
Not to mention beheading him, but don't think about returning to officialdom in this life. At most, for the sake of the Queen Mother, put him under house arrest in Chang'an.
He has a great future now, and he only has a crazy mind to earn such lifeless money.
Furthermore, what he needs most now is money.
Therefore, it is impossible for him to agree to the request of the person who has lost his thinking power.
Even if the person begging him is a licking dog, it is impossible.