Dorgon and others frowned as soon as they got off their horses.
This place is too dilapidated. The North City was originally destroyed in the war and has never recovered. Now it is overgrown with thorns and foxes and rabbits are rampant. Apart from being enclosed within the city wall, it is no different from outside the city.
This camel team is obviously trying to get a cheap living here. This shows that the strength of this camel team is not very good.
Do they have enough shipping capacity?
Dorgon then thought about it, the key was not the transportation capacity and scale, the key was that they had the connections and channels to get Ming things out from various ports on the Great Wall.
If they don't have the strength, it's actually easier to control.
Dorgon was even willing to lend them gold and silver as long as they had the ability to pass the customs.
Doing business in Mongolia and Liaodong mainly depends on whether your network is strong or not. As long as you can access this business route, you will develop sooner or later.
Zhu Zhu went out and saw three young people coming outside. One was in his twenties, one was seventeen or eighteen years old, and the other looked to be only fourteen or fifteen years old. Behind them were a dozen strong men in casual clothes.
The corners of Zhuzi's eyes twitched slightly. Even though he was wearing casual clothes, he could still tell at a glance that these men were soldiers with white teeth.
"A few distinguished guests are coming to visit us. I apologize for not being able to welcome them from afar." Zhuzhu said with cupped hands.
The three people were even more disappointed when they saw that the shopkeeper was actually just a fifteen-year-old boy, who looked about the same age as Duduo.
No wonder they live in such a poor car shop. It is estimated that the original owner of this camel team had an accident on the road. The underage children in the family had to take over the burden and go out to do business.
After all, walking on the camel trail is very dangerous. High profits also mean high risks.
"I am Mergen Dai Qing, these two are my brothers. What do you call the shopkeeper?" Dorgon said with his hands raised.
"I'm Chen Qingyun, Tian is the proprietor of the camel team. Please invite some distinguished guests inside, please come inside." Zhu Zhu said with a smile on his face and bowed.
"No hurry, no hurry, can I see your camel team?" Dorgon said with a smile.
Zhuzi did not expect that the other party was not in a hurry to see the goods, but wanted to see the camel team. He smiled and said: "Of course, I will take a few nobles to the east courtyard. The camels are all in the east courtyard."
After several people came to the east courtyard, the owner and the clerk of the big car shop in the east courtyard obviously recognized the identity of the person. Dorgon had a prominent background, and many people in the city knew the three brothers.
Dorgon's cold eyes swept away, and these people immediately lowered their heads, not daring to look again. The people who opened the door to do business were all well-rounded people, and they welcomed guests from all over the world with a smile, all with their mouths. If they didn't have the ability to observe people's emotions, they would have been there long ago.
I can't do it anymore.
They knew immediately that Dorgon did not want his identity exposed.
Zhuzi was amused in his heart. He remained calm and could see clearly with the corner of his eyes. This game was just for Dorgon, so he pretended not to know and went on with it.
"My lord, please look, these are the camels we drove from Zunhua." Zhu Zhu asked his men to lead the camels out.
"Hey, this camel only has one hump. It's strange." Duduo said in surprise.
Dromedary camels are mainly distributed in the Arabian Peninsula. There were no dromedary camels in ancient China.
However, these dromedary camels were all brought over from the Horn of Africa by Yang Fan. They are a breed that has been improved through breeding in later generations, and they look larger than the Bactrian camels of this era.
With fiery red fur and slender limbs, it looks very visually impactful.
Although it was the first time for the Dorgon brothers to see this kind of camel, they could intuitively see that these camels were much stronger than Bactrian camels and should have more transport capacity.
Dorgon touched the thick red hair on the camel's neck with his hands, felt the camel's docility, and said: "The camel in the hands of Boss Chen is really good. With such a good camel, the desert and Gobi can also turn the natural chasm into a thoroughfare."
Now. Boss Chen has opened up the business route from Guanai to Guandong, and will make a fortune in the future. Boss Chen is really a young talent, young and promising."
"I'm borrowing your noble words, and I'll tell you the truth. This is the first time for me to bring my family's camels out. Something happened to the elders on the camel trail, so I had to come out to support them." Zhu Zhu said with a red face.
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Dorgon and the three of them were convinced that this was indeed the case.
Only in this way can we explain why the boss is so young. Ordinarily, at his age, he should have elders to guide him for training, instead of going out on his own.
Dorgon felt relieved when he saw the camels in the camel team. As long as he has the strength, he can talk about cooperation. The camels in this camel team are very good, and the number is not small. It is estimated that there are seventy or eighty heads. If luck
As for iron ingots, a lot can be transported at one time.
One camel can transport 200 kilograms of refined iron, and eighty camels are equivalent to 16,000 kilograms of refined iron. In this era, so much iron is a very large scale. After all, a set of cloth armor for the Eight Banners only requires two
Ten pounds of iron, because in addition to iron, leather, pressed cotton pieces, coarse cloth and other materials are also used.
The copper nails that fix the nail plates also have a certain weight.
The white pendulum warrior wearing triple armor weighs less than 40 pounds. No matter how heavy the armor is, it will affect his movement. Excessive sacrifice of mobility for the sake of protection is not worth the gain. After all, the slaves are mainly heavy infantry.
The road conditions in this era were very poor. Although the Jiannu army had many more horses than the Ming army, most of the infantry marched on foot.
Looking at the transportation volume in this way, it is enough to make 800 sets of armor, or a full set of armors and weapons to arm 500 people.
This is very impressive. After all, during this period, the armor rate of the Eight Banners was not as abnormal as it was later. This year, in the original history, a large number of Jiannu entered the customs, Zunhua fell, and a large number of people working in the steel industry were kidnapped.
In addition, Benxi, Anshan, was originally an iron ore area, which led to the rapid development of Jiannu's iron smelting strength.
According to Ming history records, at that time, both sides of the Hun River were connected for hundreds of miles, and there were iron-making furnaces, producing day and night. Starting from the third year of Chongzhen, the equipment level and armor rate of the Jiannu began to surpass the Ming army.
Moreover, after these steel productions reached scale, Kong Youde's surrender later brought artillery technology, which also laid the foundation for the casting of red cannons.
Dorgon glanced over, and when he saw these young men holding camels, he inadvertently took a second look.
"I heard that Shopkeeper Chen has fine planes for sale here. Can you show them to us? We have a carpentry workshop at home and we need to buy some high-quality tools."
Zhuzi said with some embarrassment: "To be honest with you, the main thing we brought this time was steel ingots. In order to show the excellent performance of our steel, we made a small amount of tools. They are all for customers to compare and try. Our tools are better than
Generally, the ones on the market are much better. If you want to buy more, we don’t have much quantity here, only three or five of each kind."
Zhuzi waved his hand, and two young men brought a wooden box. Zhuzi opened it with a crowbar.
Suddenly, a box of sharp steel tools appeared in front of Dorgon and others.
