Chapter 659 People are stupid and have a lot of money
Looking at the quotation, several Japanese envoys immediately raised their fingers and began to convert it into gold and silver.
After making gestures for a long time, they were still surprised by the result. They thought their arithmetic was not good enough, so they took out their counting sticks and placed them on the floor for a long time, but the result was still the same.
"So expensive?"
Su Wo Cangma asked.
"These are all good things, the sharp weapons of the country. My Tang Dynasty was able to defeat one after another powerful opponents with the help of these magical armors. There are no good things that are cheap, and good things are not cheap." An Lushan smiled slightly.
"It's really expensive."
There were no coins before the Wa Kingdom. Before the Queen Tuigu, the Wa Kingdom had always been a slave system. Although the emperor passed down for dozens of generations, the legend began to be established in more than 600 BC. At that time, the Central Plains was only in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
But the Wa country did not have coins. The royal family and slave owners traded precious metals, gold and silver, or bartered things, and even used slaves as trading units.
Their use of gold and silver does not have any monetary units, it is purely used for weighing.
When Emperor Tuiko succeeded to the throne, Prince Shotoku became the regent, and the reformist Soga family took power, so the Wa country comprehensively reformed, actively learned foreign cultures, and even sent envoys to the Central Plains to study.
Reformed various systems, while advocating Buddhism, it also began to use currency. In addition to the use of gold and silver in the early days of Japan, there were also a small amount of Central Plains five baht coins used by nobles. At this time, the five baht of the Sui Dynasty began to be imitated.
Over the past few decades, the Japanese have indeed cast a lot of Sui five baht. At the same time, they also introduced government-made gold cakes and silver cakes, each weighing ten taels. One gold cake is equal to four silver cakes, and one silver cake is worth two yuan. One thousand five hundred five baht coins.
The Kaiyuan Tongbao copper coins of the Tang Dynasty are much heavier than the five baht coins of the Sui Dynasty, and the copper content is also high. One coin is almost two coins of the Sui Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, one gold was worth five silvers, and one tael of silver was only converted to about 1600 yuan.
A knife, 5,000 pieces of Kaiyuan Tongbao, and more than three taels of silver.
The two parties agreed to use the price of silver as the settlement. In fact, the Japanese bought a knife, which was equivalent to spending nearly 8,500 baht.
After such a conversion, the Japanese felt that the price was indeed very expensive.
The price of goods in Wa country at this time is actually quite stable. After all, Emperor Tuiko has been in power for thirty-six years and has been relatively stable, which can be regarded as a rare period of peace.
After the reform by Prince Shotoku, one stone of rice (about 150 kilograms) in the Wa Kingdom is now only five hundred wen, while in the first ten years of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, one stone of rice was basically about one to two thousand wen. In the years of good harvest, only three or four dollars for a bucket of rice appeared, and the price of rice was raised by the transshipment company.
The price of rice is actually about the same. In the past, the price of rice in the Tang Dynasty was a little more expensive, and in the year of great abundance, it was a little cheaper. In a normal year, the price of rice should be about 200 yuan for a piece of silk.
In other respects, two or three Japanese miscellaneous fish cost a penny, one piece of tofu costs a penny, and ten oranges cost a penny.
A sickle knife costs 20 Wen, a high-grade Japanese sword costs 1,500 Wen, and a general one costs 800 Wen.
But now Datang's Hengdao costs at least 8,000.
The wages of a Japanese person are only about 20 yuan a day.
I still wanted to buy a boat full of Tang swords and armor to go back, but my dream was shattered again.
"How much do you plan to buy, ambassadors? I asked Mr. Wei to approve this. Most people don't have a chance to buy it."
Several Japanese envoys got together to discuss it. They had indeed seen Datang's horizontal knife before, and it was indeed sharp. The knife is simply a magic weapon, it can cut and stab, especially the piercing ability, they like it very much.
Tang Hengdao can penetrate even ordinary armor, and its lethality is quite amazing for enemies without armor protection.
gritted his teeth.
"Ten thousand!"
An Lushan was astonished. He never thought that these Japanese people would be so proud that they would charge 10,000 for the first time.
"One piece is five thousand Wen, ten thousand pieces is fifty thousand guan, which is thirty-one thousand two hundred and fifty taels of silver! Do you want anything else?"
As soon as I heard that it was more than 30,000 taels of silver, the Japanese people hesitated again. After all, they wanted to buy other good things, "Change it, Tang Hengdao is three thousand."
An Lushan held an abacus in his hand and rattled and rattled, "You might as well buy 3,200 horizontal knives, which is exactly 10,000 taels of silver. I'll give you another thirty-two iron horizontal knives for every hundred bucks." one."
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An Lushan came back to see Qin Lang with a full military purchase list.
"These Japanese people are really rich. They actually bought 9,600 Hengdao."
At first they wanted to buy 10,000, but later they thought it was too expensive, so they changed to buy 3,000, but after An Lushan said that they would get one free for every 100 purchases, these people wanted to be greedy and wanted a gift of iron knives, so they ended up messing around. , It turned into 30,000 taels of silver to buy 9,600 Tang Hengdaos, plus 96 iron knives, and An Lushan gave four more, making a total of 100 gifts.
"Three hundred collars of bright light armor, two hundred collars of light armor, two hundred collars of thin scale armor, one hundred collars of black hammer armor, one hundred collars of chain mail, and one hundred collars of Shanwen armor. Good guy, the iron armor alone costs a thousand Leader, didn't you tell them the price?" Qin Lang asked.
"Of course I said it, but after seeing the samples, these guys were reluctant to part with this one, and wanted that one too. In the end, the order was changed and changed, and they still ordered a thousand sets."
"How much do you charge for three hundred sets of Mingguang Armor?" Qin Lang asked.
"Three hundred sets of Mingguang armor cost 15,000 taels of silver, and finally gave them several sets of general-level Mingguang armor."
"They also accepted this price?"
"Well, I wanted to bargain, but I ignored them, and said a one-stop price, and finally gritted my teeth and agreed."
A set sold for five hundred taels of silver, and Qin Lang felt that these Japanese people were really stupid with a lot of money. Mingguang armor was the most important one among the many types of iron armor equipped by Datang at this time. Although the manufacturing process was complicated, it was also graded. of. For example, the ones exported to the Japanese are relatively elementary, and are used by soldiers below the team officer. Although not every soldier in the Tang Dynasty is equipped with this kind of Mingguang armor, it is indeed a large amount of equipment.
There is no special shape, and the material is also very popular. It is named for its durable leather and strong defense, plus the iconic big circle guard.
Mingguang of this level, a set of A is only the wages of the craftsmen, and it needs to cost more than 30,000 yuan. In addition, the cost of fuel, iron, cowhide, etc. is calculated separately.
The discount is more than 31 taels of silver. An Lushan sold a set of 500 taels, which is a sixteen-fold increase. In fact, a set of 50 taels was still the manufacturing cost of a few years ago. In recent years, the military supervision has improved. The production process, iron materials, cowhide and other raw materials have also been greatly reduced due to sufficient supply, so that the actual cost of a set of ordinary Mingguang armor is only about 38,000 to 40,000 yuan, equivalent to 24 taels of silver. less than.
Anlu Mountain has grown more than twenty times.
Tang knives are about the same as him. Tang knives for 200 yuan sold for 5,000 yuan, and iron armor for more than 30,000 yuan sold for 800,000 yuan.
"Mr. Wei, these Japanese people are really rich and powerful. I can't tell. I'm worried that they won't have the money to pay the bills, or if they buy so many armors, will there be any bad effects?"
Qin Lang chuckled.
"You don't have to worry about this. They place so many orders. We don't mean to give them all at once. We will send a small part to them first, and after receiving the full payment, we will ship the rest. It is said that the custom-made ones need to be made." Qin Lang continued to look at the order, "As for whether these ordnance armors flow into the Japanese country, will they pose a threat to us, let alone worry, first of all, we are separated from the Japanese by the vast East China Sea, Let’s just say that one day the Japanese will really overpower themselves and want to find trouble, what do you think these thousand suits of armor and ten thousand horizontal knives can change?”
This little weapon can at most change the outcome of a village battle.
For wars between countries, this amount of weapons is really not enough for a battle. The Japanese paid 20 to 30 times the high price to buy these weapons back. Datang can use the money earned to build more weapons and equipment. Tang Jun.
Qin Lang is not worried about their imitation either. Weapons and armor generally represent the highest level of production technology in a country. How can there be such an easy imitation, and the imitation is two different things from mass production and supply.
With the current level and national strength of the Japanese, there is no need to worry at all.
In fact, Qin Lang very much hoped that the Japanese would come to buy Tang's weapons. First, it is profitable, and second, Datang’s dumping of dimension-reducing weapons can destroy the Japanese’s own weapon production. After all, Japanese-made weapons are far inferior to those they can buy. Of course, they are more willing to buy them, and if they take all the money If you come to buy it, then how can you research and improve your own weapons.
Although Datang's weapons are advanced, Datang can cut off supply at any time. No matter how good the weapons are, they cannot be replenished on a large scale, and they are just good-looking but not useful.
However, considering that the Wa Kingdom lives on an island, and often fights among themselves, and often crosses the sea to fight with Silla, Qin Lang feels that the arms market of the Wa Kingdom is not small.
Not to mention twenty or thirty times the profit, but two or three times the profit, which is completely profitable. Ordnance manufacturing was originally a financial transfusion expenditure of the imperial court, but now it can make a profit and make money. How wonderful.
"I actually bought so many leather and silk armor vests? The price is good, sell as much as you want."
Qin Lang believed that when he handed over the order to Weiwei Temple and the Military Weapons Supervision, they would laugh from ear to ear and grin to the back of their heads.
Now he really feels that Wa is really a fool with a lot of money.
"Don't they still want to buy horses? Sell them, regardless of whether they are Turkic horses or Khitan horses, or iron Lema horses, Dangxiang horses or Qinghai horses, we will sell them whatever horses they want."
"That Suga cangma couple wants to buy a hard-earned BMW, do you want to sell it?"
"Of course I sell it. Is there anything that can't be sold? When I was first established in the Tang Dynasty, the king of Kang in the Western Regions took the initiative to send 500 famous Dawan horses. With 500 horses, thousands of Dawan BMWs with **** bloodlines have been trained.
An Lushan smiled all over his face, "I understand."
(end of this chapter)