Chapter 50 Grass Valley

Everyone looked at each other, and no one knew what to say. If you want to agree with the Governor's point of view, you all felt that your face was so hot. You wanted to refute a few words and ask Governor to do business, but the Governor's starting point was to make food for everyone, which was so pure that it was beyond words. If anyone refuted, it would be a shame to all the soldiers of the Left Army. For a moment, except for Ivanov, everyone had their faces held back like a red persimmon, and they could shed blood with just a pinch!

"It's so wise, it's so wise. If I had known the Governor for a few years, I would have become the richest person in Europe!" There was no "gentle, kind, respectful and humble" in the gorilla dictionary. He waved his arms alone and cheered loudly. "Governor, even if you don't lead troops in the future, you will definitely become a rich man. Ivanov is willing to follow you and will always guard you for your life."

"Okay, stop taking pictures!" Zhu Bashiyi glared at the veteran Pi and interrupted in a low voice. While everyone was still shocked, he simply poured all the concepts of equipment sales in the game in Zhu Dapeng's memory into the ears of the brothers, like a flood.

"When this customer comes to the door, don't urge them to buy it, and don't bargain with them easily. You should show off a picture that you like to buy or not. After passing this village, you will not have the attitude of this store! But after buying our armor, you must give them some sweetness. For example, the second set is to give him some discounts, and the third set is to give him more sweetness based on the second set. And so on, but not too much. You should let him continue to see the temptation and continue to invest. If he buys it himself, he can introduce other customers.

When someone comes to the door, he returns the amount of the introduced customers to him. For those customers who really don’t have money but want to buy them, don’t show them his face. He should encourage him to think of other ways, such as using pig iron, cooked iron and grain to exchange, or constantly introducing other customers to the door to exchange for commissions. Of course, the exchange rate between iron and grain must not be much worse than that of copper coins. It can be a little cheaper. After all, after getting the copper coins, we have to buy grain and iron, so it’s better to just take the goods and save trouble."

This marketing concept, which was not outdated in the 21st century, was how could a group of ancient people from the 14th century understand? I just felt that the more the governor spoke, the more profound the more he spoke, the more mysterious the more he spoke. In the end, all the admiration and surprise turned into two words in his heart, "The unscrupulous businessman!", which could never be erased.

No matter how much he accepted the concept instilled by Zhu Bashiyi, no one said to dissuade him from his "whimsical" behavior. Anyway, this kind of plate armor, in terms of quality and appearance, far exceeds any armor that everyone has ever seen. Even if it cannot be sold at an astonishing price as the governor said, it will not fall to the point where no one cares. At worst, even if it asks for a price all over the sky and pays off the ground, it will not be less than thirty cents in the end, and it will still make a fortune.

And one of the benefits of this plate armor is that it saves materials. The large leaves and iron armor that were peeled off from the Rakshasa people turned into iron and made into plate armor can save at least five or six kilograms of iron. The Rakshasa people in this era were far bigger than the red scarf soldiers. The big leaves and armor that they peeled off from their bodies were not in line with each other. Since they had to be remade sooner or later, it would be better to take the opportunity to refine them all so that the left army's soldiers could also ride on the ride!

So with a try-and-see attitude, everyone agreed with the proposal to open a weapon shop in the city. On the first day of the weapon shop opening, the facts were just as they judged. After seeing the set of armor placed outside, they praised it for being a magical one. However, from the shopkeeper Xu hired by Mr. Su, he heard the strange selling method and amazing price of plate armor. They all curled their lips and walked away without looking back.

The next day, the situation was still the same. People who saw and touched were endless, but none of them were willing to spend money to buy it. "I knew that the governor had never done business, and the methods were all randomly thought of!!" When Si Cang joined the army, Yu Changlin, and could not help but shake his head secretly, he became increasingly disdainful of Zhu Bashiyi's business philosophy.

However, on the third day after the weapons shop opened, his eyes fell to the ground. First, a guest who came to Xuzhou to sell horses, tried the defense of the plate armor against the sabre, spear and bows, and ordered people to take two large ingots of gold and buy two sets of three sets of armor in the shop. The remaining change was not used to find, but instead bought a lot of swords and spearheads in the shop, which were obviously at least 20% higher than in other places, and put them on the carriage.

Now, Su Ji Weapons Shop became lively. Those who came to test the protection of armor, those who came to ask the shopkeeper for the source of goods, and those who tried to bargain, were constantly changing. When it was about to close, the third set of armor was also replaced by a man dressed in a friend. He hurriedly exchanged it with silver ingots. As well as various weapons in the store, a large number of individual customers were bought by various customers, and he really made a fortune.

On the fourth day, the market became more and more popular. Before noon had passed, all three sets of armor had been found. The customers who came a little later could only stand in the shop and sigh. It was not until the shopkeeper said that there would be three sets of armor every day and custom-made energy, so they threw down the deposit of their usual money and left happily.

Yu Zengjun read several carts of sage books, but never saw such a situation in the book. After closing the door at night, he couldn't help but be curious, so he secretly asked Manager Xu. For that reason, some people were so dissatisfied and bought armor as children's bamboo horses. When the old manager Xu heard this, he shook his head in anger. After a long time of regret, he sighed and said, "I really don't know what Mr. Su is so stubborn. How could he recommend you to take the account of the Governor? Don't you know, in this chaotic year, who dares to go to Xuzhou to make huge profits?! Which of these grandpas has never been blood on their hands? Who has never had thirty or fifty enemies in his life? If you buy such a set of armor and wear it on your body, you don't have to worry about getting cold arrows. You can feel at ease when you ride a boat and ride a horse."

"Then, that armor is rare, but what about the knife and spearhead, what's the use of buying that thing?!" Yu Changlin woke up and stammered.

"Think about it, since the armor can be so strong, can the swords and spearheads we made by the governor be inferior? I bought them from Xuzhou and went to Yingzhou, and it would be double the price. Not only did I make money back with capital and profit, but I wouldn't have lost the carriage on the way back, and it would be a good business again?!"

"That's it, that's it!" Yu Changlin finally got his head out. When he returned home in the evening, he recorded the business scriptures he had learned in the past few days in his notebook and repeatedly pondered them. In his later years, he eventually became a new generation of Tao Zhugong. This is a later story, so I won't mention it here for now.

Just talking about those who bought armor and weapons, not everyone is going to defend themselves or take action. Among them, five or six vendors immediately noticed that the profit of this item might be a bit amazing after weighing the iron material of the new armor.

You should know that the local iron produced in Xuzhou, but the price soared again and again because of the war and the excessive demand for the Red Turban Army. However, as soon as this area came out, the price of iron materials immediately fell straight as the distance was farther away. When it came to some small iron ores, the price of iron materials per kilogram was only more than twenty cents, and sometimes even less than twenty cents, which was only six or sevenths of that in Xuzhou City. Based on this price, the total material used for the plate armor was only more than thirty kilograms, plus leather strings, linings and other items, and the total cost was definitely less than one-month. It was sold in Xuzhou City at a sky-high price of more than seventy cents, with a profit of up to a hundred times. How can people not be moved?

As Xu Jiangui of Xuzhou City said, at this critical moment, no one who dared to go to Xuzhou to sell goods would be honest and honest merchants. After seeing more than 100 times the profit, some vendors immediately found the city closest to Xuzhou, quietly split the armor and asked the craftsmen to flatten it with a hammer, and began to imitate it. However, no matter how much they spent, they hired Gaoming craftsmen to help, after trying for a few days, the blacksmiths were ashamed to refund their wages and begged to go on their own. No one could make the same armor with the hammer and iron scissors and diamonds in their hands. Even if they were imitating it for eight points, it would take four or five months for a master and four apprentices. Even if there was still profit to make, it would be meaningless to make two or three sets a year.

The profiteer who dared to secretly imitate the plate armor was not stupid. He immediately thought that the Red Turban Left Army must have some amazing new tools. However, when he sent someone to steal the army in Xuzhou City, he was surprised to find that the damn Mr. Su had long used earthen walls and wooden fences to circle the dozens of acres of river beaches near the Left Army's weapons workshop, along with the river. There were soldiers around him patrolling back and forth with bright swords and guns, and those who dared to secretly climb over the wall or forcefully broke into the middle of the night. As a result, they trespassed on the spot like other secret workshops that made grenades by Xuzhou Army, they killed them on the spot and would never tolerate them.

"The unscrupulous businessman!" He could not imitate it, nor could he steal the stolen army. After some of the guys who were so wise and cursed a few times, he had to find another way, trying to get a relationship with the commander of the Left Army by rewarding the army, and then slowly planned to do so. He finally found an acquaintance to recommend it on his behalf, but he got unexpected news that the governor of the Left Army Zhu Bashiyi was not in the city, and five days ago he took five hundred soldiers and several auxiliary soldiers under his command to go out to fight. As for which direction he went and who was the target of the conquest, he didn't know.

"Who else? There are only a few places near Xuzhou that have hindered sesame and plum eyes!" After a little thought, the big and small profiteering merchants speculated the destination of the Left Army. Then they quickly sent people to inquire. As expected, Zhu Bashiyi, the governor of the Left Army under the jurisdiction of Xuzhou, actually led his troops across the Yellow River, rushed straight to the north bank of the Yellow River, and left Wujiazhuang, backed by Shanyang Lake, and vowed to turn Wujiazhuang into a flat ground.

"Five hundred armors, I just want to beat Wujiazhuang? His sesame plum is too rude!" Everyone who learned the news immediately widened their eyes.

Although Wujiazhuang is just a farm, its self-protection ability is not as weak as that of Tengzhou and Danzhou. The ancestor of the owner Wu Youcai was also a tiger general. He once stationed in Yangzhou with General Li Tingzhi. The Yuan army that fought was unable to advance for several years. Later, Boyan took the road to break through Lin'an, and Empress Dowager Xie surrendered with all the civil and military officials of the court. Li Tingzhi had no food or assistance, and went to the water to commit suicide. The ancestor of the Wu family followed the deputy general Sun Gui and Hu Wei and the two of them to vote for the Mongol Yuan, and were promoted to the next level and became a new ten thousand households. Soon after, when Kublai Khan issued an order to abolish the new army, he took his direct troops to the shore of Shanyang Lake to open up land and farm. The top and the bottom worked together, and soon built a farm and lived a free and easy life.

There were no specialties in Shanyang Lake, so Wujiazhuang was like Lijiazhuang and Zhujiazhuang around. They could only be regarded as a local tyrant who lived in a village. They were everywhere in this era. But when Wu Youcai was in his generation, he was lucky. One day, when he was sheltering from a small island in the lake, he actually picked up a large piece of copper on the beach. Then he went home and took his sons to the island to dig, and found that there was a small chalcopyrite on the island. Although it took a lot of effort to mine, he also made a fortune from heaven.

Wu Youcai was a heroic man and had a vast outing. After returning home, he immediately spent money to manage the government and bought the entire island in the middle of the lake. Then he colluded with the government, obtained a license, and mined and smelted copper. While summoning people to serve as servants, he recruited heroes from all over the country and the five mountains to be thugs in the village. Over the past few decades, he managed a Wujiazhuang well and became one of the top big fort villages in hundreds of miles around. Not only did the government buy some thin noodles, but the green forest heroes in the rivers and lakes would only stop far away to ask for a cup of water and wine outside the village, and then continue to rob the houses elsewhere. However, he would never dare to make any idea about the industries of Wujiazhuang and Wujia.

It’s not that the heroes in the martial arts world give Mr. Wu more face, but that this farmer is too hard and they can’t even chew. With the output of copper mines, the Wu family now has two or three hundred servants and coaches who don’t want to work in farming. Including the farmer, tenants, long-term workers and slaves, there are probably four or five thousand adult men. And they are all first-class strong men who can dance the hammer of iron to the fullest.

If the village is attacked, everyone will take weapons to guard the village wall. Then ignite the alarm and ask other villages around to come and help. At that time, the green forest heroes who come to Wujiazhuang to hunt grass valley will not only not get any advantage, but may even escape without any loss!

Note 1: The early plate armor appeared in Europe in the early 14th century. The reason why it was not very popular was because of the two bottlenecks of blast furnace iron smelting and water calcination. Small iron smelting blast furnaces have appeared in China for almost a thousand years. Hydraulic forging hammers also took shape in Italian city-states. By the mid-to-late 14th century, that is, after 1352 in the book, plate armor began to equip troops in Europe. It gradually became a nightmare for the longbowmen in the Hundred Years War between Britain and France.
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