Dragon map of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 76
City East Market, Jingping Chamber of Commerce.

"Did they stop?" Mu Jing was reading a book, "The Doctrine of the Mean", he asked Zhang Heng while reading.

Although he is also a college student, he is only a college student of the business school, not the Chinese department. At most, he has only audited some courses of the Chinese department. If he wants to pretend to be a scholar in this era, he has to work hard.

The Four Books and Five Classics are must-reads.

It is not easy to read some Confucian classics, but to learn to understand them deeply, and to use the thinking of people of this era to understand the mysteries of these articles.

"Boss shopkeeper, since the day before yesterday, the price of the cloth in our hands has been reduced three times in a row, and they have also reduced the price three times. Finally, we stabilized the price at about 250 yuan, and they were ten yuan lower than us. We pretended not to lower the price. The price war is a win!"

Zhang Heng reported: "In this way, most of the customers have been robbed by them, but they are also afraid of our vain inventory, and they have been dragged to live in the cloth market. It is estimated that even Gongchang and those nobles will be afraid of it at this time. Focus on this!"

"it is good!"

Mu Jing closed the book with both hands, and the breath all over his body burst out, like a rising red sun, he said loudly: "You guys start to do it!"

He assigned the task in a deep voice: "Remember, start from the periphery. You must be cautious at the beginning. All purchases should not be in the name of caravans, but should be private, and the whole thing should be broken down. The action must be light. We can't buy too much at one time, and we can't attract attention, but we have to buy multiple times, and we can't take the initiative to reveal our intentions before they react!"

"understand!"

Everyone looked serious and nodded.

"Zhang Heng, Sun Hao, as the executive manager of Jingping Commercial Bank, your duty is to execute. This battle is the first battle after the establishment of Jingping Commercial Bank. You have to let people see your abilities clearly, otherwise Jingping Commercial Bank will not have it in the future. People will obey you!" Mu Jing looked at the two of them, his voice was calm but heavy, and the pressure of the two veterans was a little out of breath.

"Yes!"

The two nodded heavily, their eyes burning like fire, Mu Jing told them that the merchants can get ahead, and they are also moving in this direction.

"Xu Lin stay here, let the others do their jobs. This battle is related to the future development of Jingping Trading Company, and it is also related to your wealth and life, so you can't make mistakes in any step, and you must do the best, so you all have to keep an eye on it." Be careful!"

"Please don't worry, shopkeeper, we will not let you down!"

Everyone left with a united will.

Xu Lin stayed, and he looked at Mu Jing: "Boss, they all have things to do, why do I feel like I'm a bit redundant!"

"Your role is not here!"

Mu Jing said indifferently: "The Xu family is forged, you should know that in the war years, your Xu family was the most popular!"

He had an intention in mind.

It is intended to change Xu's workshop into a military factory that will provide weapons and equipment for the Mu family army in the future.

"The big treasurer wants Xu's workshop to make weapons for the soldiers and horses of Mu Shuai?" Xu Lin's eyes lit up.

Mushan is the only one of Nanyang Huangjin's commander-in-chief today. Although he is a small Qushuai, he is also a commander-in-chief. Therefore, most of the outsiders call Mushan as Mushuai, or the title of the bandit who fell from the grass on Mushroom Mountain in the past.

"How many workshops does the Xu family have?"

"Eight!"

"How many weapons can be produced every day?"

"What weapon does this depend on?"

"What if it's a long gun?"

"Long spears only need to forge the heads, which is not difficult. If there are enough ore materials, more than two hundred spear heads can be cast every day, but long spears need gun shafts, and gun shafts are not ordinary wood, but a special kind of wood. Gun barrels made of wood are tough enough, but Wuyin doesn’t have them, and Nanyang doesn’t even have them, so there aren’t many guns in Nanyang, and even if they do, they’re not good in quality!”

"Does Nanyang use a lot of knives?"

"It's not that I don't want to cast a big knife. One is because it is very laborious. In addition, our Xu family's craftsmanship is insufficient, so we can only cast the first knife. The first knife is the most commonly used weapon in our Han Dynasty. The casting of the first knife is the measure A weapon of the iron level!"

Xu Lin thought for a while, and said: "Our Xu family can do [-] exercises, and the level is above average in Nanyang!"

There is a term in ancient times, Bailian Baodao.

Twenty refinements is a standard, like a long knife weapon, at least fifty refinements are required, and if it is a real precious sword, at least a hundred refinements.

"What about the Xu family's Scarlet Fire Sword?"

"This is different!" Xu Lindao: "The forging method of the Xu family's Scarlet Fire Sword cannot be popularized. It will take at least one or two years to cast a sword, and the most precious materials are needed. Because of a clever breakthrough in the craft of casting the Scarlet Fire Sword!"

After Mujing asked a lot of questions, he began to fall into thoughts.

Xu Lin stood quietly by the side, not daring to disturb.

Mu Jing was actually recalling, recalling some things he had seen in books, or heard about, and was interested in finding out from the encyclopedia... Casting technology, anyway, he thought about it all.

"I heard that the method of frying steel appeared in the Western Han Dynasty, but it was not widely popularized!"

"There is another method, the method of pouring steel!
"This should be easier to use!"

"But I just don't know how restrictive these manufacturing techniques are to the casting conditions!"

The memory is still clear.

Soon he remembered several casting techniques.

He took a pen and wrote it down in detail. Although he majored in business management, his physics is definitely top-notch. With some techniques he remembered, and in line with his level of physics, he developed a steelmaking technique that was beyond the times. Unearthed.

"Take this method back and try it out, and see if you can refine a treasured sword with fifty refinements!"

Mujing Road.

"The shopkeeper can also cure iron?"

Xu Lin was surprised.

"You have forgotten that I come from the Taiping Dao. I have dabbled in countless Taiping Dao. I have also learned a little bit. There are quite a few in the Taiping Jing that were inherited from the Mohists back then. I just remembered some of the heretical skills." Mu Jing quickly thought Well an excuse.

"However, only some large workshops or Mohists inherit the knives for fifty years!" Xu Lin is still very confident in the Xu family's forging method. Seeing nothing unusual, he said with a frown.

"Try it!" Mu Jing shrugged.

"All right!"

Xu Lin took the forging method and walked away.

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Entering May, the early summer season, the weather starts to get hotter and hotter.

Gong Mansion.

Gong Chang, the Patriarch of the Gong family, knelt and sat on the upper seat. The merchants from Wuyin sat on both sides of him. Their expressions were not very serious, but they were not very happy, but a little dignified.

"How is the cloth recently?" Gong Chang asked.

"Brother Gong, we have stabilized the price now!" Lin Mu clasped his hands.

The Lin family and some silk merchants suffered heavy losses on this roller coaster ride.

But in the end, Zhang Heng didn't intend to hurt both sides.

So the market is pretty stable right now.

"What I want is Zhang Heng and the others going bankrupt!" Gong Zhang said coldly.

He was a little anxious, more than a month had passed, but Zhang Heng, Sun Hao and the others were still standing in Wuyin County. If this continued, the gentry would doubt his ability.

"Brother Gong, it's not that we don't try our best, we all try our best!"

Lin Mu said bitterly: "How can I lose a bit!"

"We are all losing money now!" Several silk and satin merchants also spoke one after another.

"Can you still lower the price?"

Gong Zhang frowned and asked.

"Brother Gong, Zhang Heng was prepared. He ordered more than 1 pieces of cloth from Xiangyang from the very beginning. If the price is really lowered, both sides will suffer!" Lin Mu shook his head: "It is impossible to defeat them!"

"What about other aspects?" Gong Zhang said coldly.

The market is not just cloth, but also other goods, grain, salt, timber, ore... Wait, they don't believe that Zhang Heng and the others can cover everything.

"What kind of Jingping Commercial Firm they established, and there are more than a dozen merchants in Jingping Commercial Firm, and these merchants are now closed except for Zhang's Silk and Satin Shop, and even the Chengnan Restaurant. If we don’t operate, we have no way to start!”

Someone said in a low voice.

"Damn!"

Gong Zhang became more and more irritable: "I don't believe it, so many of us can't handle a mere Jingping firm in their area, keep an eye on me, I want to see how long they can close, and in terms of silk and satin, you guys Let’s lower the price a little and suppress Zhang’s!"

"it is good!"

Lin Mu nodded, agreeing.

(End of this chapter)