Emperor Zhenguan

Chapter 564
Previously, woolen sweaters, woolen trousers and other weaving clothes produced by new looms transformed from the Tang Dynasty had already spread in a small range in a few tribes on the grasslands.This time Wan Xuandao came here to open up the market for woolen fabrics.

He is not afraid of being stubborn and not buying it, because this thing is much warmer than wearing sheepskin.

After experiencing the warmth of the woolen sweater, he lost his mind and hurriedly invited Wan Xuandao and the others into the king's tent to rest.

However, Zhang Mazi and other knights did not all let down their vigilance, but rode their horses into the Turkic gathering place very domineeringly, and guarded directly outside the king's tent.

Wearing plate armor and holding bows and arrows, they seemed to be entering and leaving their own camp.Although some Turkic people were very displeased with Tang Qi's actions, they did not dare to beep.

The winner is so arrogant!

The Tang army burned more than [-] Turkic people to death and destroyed Jieli in one fell swoop, bringing an extremely terrible nightmare to the grassland people.

No one dares to pretend to be an uncle in front of Tang Jun.

Seeing Zhishenli and the others looked at the light plate armor with incomparable enthusiasm.

Inside the tent, Wan Xuandao drank a bowl of goat's milk wine with sugar, and asked unhurriedly, "What does Khan think of this woolen sweater?"

"Very good." Without even thinking about it, he said directly.

After a pause, he lost his mind and said boldly: "How many of these things are there, and how many I will buy!"

He doesn't have to wear this thing, but if it can be worn by children and women in the tribe, then the vitality of the descendants of the tribe can be preserved to the maximum extent.An adult man has a strong physique and can withstand the severe cold of the grassland, but a child cannot.

Every year, children freeze to death in the winter blizzard.

If each tribe child has a woolen coat, the population under his command can continue to grow.

In the grasslands, population is the most important thing.If there are people, he has soldiers.If there are soldiers, then he can grab them!
You can rob a cow without a cow, you can rob a sheep without a sheep, and you can even rob a woman without a woman.

Here, population is fundamental.

Wan Xuandao hehe said: "Khan, this woolen sweater is not cheap."

"How much?" he asked.

A gleam flashed in Wan Xuandao's eyes, and he asked back, "Khan, how long do you think it will take to make this woolen sweater?"

Hearing this, Zhi lost his mind and pondered for a while, and said: "This thing is made of wool, and it must take no 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, Zhishenli would not be so foolish as to think that they could make such things by themselves.

Because, to turn wool into this kind of silk fabric, the delicate procedures involved are not something that grassland people can learn.

Since you can't learn it, why not buy it directly.

Furthermore, women in the grassland only need to herd sheep and cattle and raise children, and weaving?

forget it.

Wan Xuandao nodded and said: "That's right, I am a weaver and only make dozens of pieces in a month. All kinds of consumed wool and"

The next step is blowing, hard blowing, how many people, how many procedures, and even how much time it takes to make woolen sweaters.

There is only one purpose, to let Zhi Shili know that this thing is not cheap.

".Therefore, one woolen coat, twelve cows or twenty sheep, of course, five purebred war horses are also acceptable."

After finishing speaking, Wan Xuandao was actually a little nervous.

Because the selling price given to him by the emperor was ridiculously high, he was not from the prairie, so naturally he knew how much this woolen sweater cost.

To put it bluntly, labor costs + time + raw materials, all added together, will kill the value of a healthy cow.

But Your Majesty, let him start selling at ten times the cost.

You know, a fine-healthy ox is worth [-] Wen in the Central Plains, while a sub-healthy cattle is worth [-] Wen.

A healthy sheep is a little cheaper than a healthy cow, [-] Wen for a lean sheep, and [-] Wen for a less healthy sheep.

Not cheap at all!
In other words, for a woolen sweater, Your Majesty will sell forty guan!

You know, the price of food in Datang is only sixty cents per bucket of rice now.This is still due to the increase in food prices caused by successive years of natural disasters. Under normal circumstances, it is only [-] to [-] yuan per bucket of rice.

All in all, when a woolen sweater is made and sold to the grasslands, the price is more than ten times higher.

Such a terrifying profit made Wan Xuandao's heart skip a beat.

For example, the prices of emerging products of the Tang Dynasty such as white sugar and soap are barely equal to those of silk.

In the past, silk was the most valuable. It was sold on the grasslands for around [-] Wen per piece.But if the woolen sweater business is successful, Wan Xuandao dare not think about the money he will make.

Too big for him to count.

Zhishenli himself hadn't expected that woolen sweaters 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 is because of the warmth and the large amount of wool that it is so valuable.

"Okay, I agree." Zhi Shili said.Turkic people never bargain when they do business, they just get as much as they want.

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 themselves herd cattle and sheep, and there are many such things.Rather than being frozen to death while waiting to survive the winter, it might as well be used to buy woolen sweaters.

This wave is called Abandoned Cow Baoren!
As long as people survive, cattle and sheep can be raised slowly.If not enough, grab it!
Wan Xuandao's pupils shrank slightly, suppressing the excitement in his heart.Although he knew that grassland people were as proficient in herding cattle and sheep as Han people were in farming, he was still sincerely happy that he lost his mind and didn't bargain.

Not to mention sheep, but cattle, that is something that the imperial court is in short supply!

"Good talk, good talk."

The two sides finalized the price, and the host and guest enjoyed themselves and drank happily.

During the banquet, Zhishenli tentatively proposed to buy Tang Jun's light plate armor, but Wan Xuandao mercilessly rejected it directly and refused to give him a chance.

As a member of the Tang army, Wan Xuandao knew better than anyone else how much the court attached importance to 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, both the buyer and the seller, will be beheaded for public display.In addition, anyone who handles plate armor, no matter who they are, or their official positions, will be severely punished!

This is not over, the plate armor worn by every plate armor knight has a serial number branded by the imperial court on it, and the name of the knight wearing the plate armor is also registered in the register.If someone died in battle, the knight who inherited the plate armor had to report his name and place of origin to the imperial court for registration.

A small survey every month, a major survey every six months, and a total survey every year.

Once it is found that the plate armor is lost in the army, even sit on the third level.

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 the immediate superiors of the third level and be punished together.

In Datang, the importance of plate armor is second to none, surpassing all kinds of bows and crossbows.

Because of such strict control procedures, so far, no one has dared to make a decision on light and heavy plate armor.

Wan Xuandao had no doubt that if he dared to sell the Turkic plate armor privately, the emperor would directly deny him as his uncle.

Not to mention beheading him, but don't even think about returning to officialdom in this life, at most, for the empress dowager's sake, put him under house arrest in Chang'an.

He has a bright future now, and he only earns this kind of desperate money when his brain is crazy.

Furthermore, what he lacks most now is money.

Therefore, it is impossible for him to agree to Zhisha's request.

Even if the person begging him is a licking dog, it's impossible.

(End of this chapter)