Chapter 293 One Small Step
When everyone calmed down, Zhang Hao first thanked everyone for coming, expressed welcome, and made it clear that we are also here for business. Then, Zhang Hao briefly introduced the Qixia Kingdom and so on.
After the introduction, everyone suddenly became excited. Everyone draws such an image in their minds:
A country trapped on the edge of the known world, a country that has struggled unyieldingly for thousands of years, resolutely decided in desperation: open a lifeline from the green sea of death! Dock with the huge business network of the pan-civilized world and integrate into the civilized world.
After countless arduous attempts, they finally built a steel battleship, broke through the dangerous sea, and ushered in their own light.
This light also belongs to all mankind. Because the appearance of the steel giant ship means that human beings can finally sail in the open sea, which is of great significance-it can be regarded as Armstrong's first step on the moon,
This small progress is the height of civilization.
"Let's go, I'll show you the battleship Zhiyuan.
Yes, this is a battleship, not a battleship. It is a brand new ship. Compared with warships, warships themselves have powerful combat effectiveness. "Zhang Hao didn't talk about business, but first led everyone to visit.
Compared with those ocean-going merchant ships, the Zhiyuan is not very big, and of course more than two hundred people cannot travel together; Zhang Hao leads thirty or forty people to visit each time.
It took half a day to visit, but when we returned to the restaurant, everyone was whispering. Shocked? Yes, it was shocking.
Although this ship is a huge ocean-going merchant ship, the whole body is made of higher-grade steel than black iron; not to mention the excellent performance of steel, just based on the price of black iron, this ship... is a mountain of wealth!
Even the purity of the railing is as high as 99%! And the barrel of the artillery is as high as 99.5% pure. As far as the eye could see, it was all a world of black iron.
"Such a steel battleship, even at the stage of transformation into a god, can't beat it?" Leng Qingsong, the young master of Seven Stars Trading Company, was communicating with the people next to him. We often meet at sea, sometimes to compete, sometimes to cooperate, even if we cannot be said to be acquaintances, we still know each other basically.
But now we're working together again -- we're all together, we're in shock.
In the past, they had also heard of the name of the Qixia Kingdom, but whenever they mentioned this country, they were associated with the six western countries, and were exploited and blocked by the Canglan Kingdom. In everyone's impression, Qixia Country is a world outside the circle of civilization.
In the words of the people of the Land of Langya, they envy and envy the geographical location of the Land of Canglan, envy that the Land of Canglan can unscrupulously exploit the six western countries.
I can remember the words "Nation of Qixia" because it is said that this is the end of the known world and the home of sunset. Because of this, everyone knows the names of the Six Western Countries and the Country of Qixia—but they don’t know much about the other five countries.
But on the whole, in everyone's impression, the country of Qixia = the edge of the world, where the ends of the earth, where the light of civilization cannot shine.
But today, the Kingdom of Qixia suddenly appeared powerfully. In just a few hours, it buried the first navy of the Kingdom of Langya and bombarded the most prosperous port of Sishui in the Kingdom of Langya.
This is seriously inconsistent with the legend!
Zhang Hao finally walked into the restaurant and clapped his palms, "Thank you for coming, the Qixia Kingdom is also here for business this time. Please take a look below, we will use the auction method for the products from the Qixia Kingdom.
We use spirit stones to price stones, and finally trade with various elixir. "
Then Zhang Hao took out a note and said with a smile: "During the visit just now, I also asked everyone about the price of the elixir.
Peiyuan pill, the price of ordinary Peiyuan pill, 0.6 spirit stone, 1 spirit stone for the best, and 2 spirit stones for the best and perfect Peiyuan pill.
Foundation Establishment Pill, ordinary Foundation Establishment Pill, 50 spirit stones, superior 70 spirit stones, excellent 100 spirit stones.
The price of Xiaoling Yuandan...
The price of True Yuan Pill..."
Zhang Hao read it for more than ten minutes, involving hundreds of commonly used elixirs, and they were also the most needed elixirs in the Qixia Kingdom. These elixirs are common and their prices are relatively stable, but they are very important to the foundation of a practice society.
In this transaction, Zhang Hao, the Dayang Group, and even the entire Qixia Country came here for these basic pills. For those special, top-notch pills, there is not much demand for them for the time being.
Youdao means you know etiquette in real life, and it is the same in the world of practice. Only after you have satisfied the basic elixirs can you pursue those advanced elixirs.
The price announced by Zhang Hao is generally reasonable. It's just that when everyone looked at Zhang Hao, they became a little wary-a little fox!
It turns out that you took us to visit separately just now, there is a purpose, can you be more treacherous?
But everyone has no problem with the price. Merchant ships from the east mainly use their elixirs, magic weapons, talismans, etc. to trade high-grade raw materials such as spirit stones, precious spirit materials, and medicinal materials from the Fertile Land Continent.
There were not many decorations, and Zhang Hao started an auction in this simple cafeteria.
The bids are all treasures from the royal family of Qixia Kingdom. Precious medicinal materials, rare spiritual materials, etc. Trading is intense.
Although only a part of the treasure accumulated by a country for thousands of years has been taken out, it is enough to make people crazy.
An auction lasted until the evening, with a total transaction volume of tens of millions of high-grade spirit stones, which would be exchanged for a large number of commonly used elixir. Just more than 60 boxes of top-level medicinal materials and spiritual materials were exchanged for more than 200 tons of elixirs.
Pills can be big or small, with light or heavy densities. Peiyuan Pills have a relatively low density, and some pills are even as dense as lead pills; but the average weight of a pill is about two cents, which is 10 grams—— This is the weight of Jidan. Generally speaking, the higher the elixir, the denser it is.
Of course, the size of the pill is uncertain. After all, elixir is hand-refined, and there is no production line these days, so a slight gap is inevitable. But because of this, large-scale pill transactions are all weighed by the catty.
Take Zhuji Dan as an example, 50 pieces per catty; when large-scale transactions are made, this standard should be followed. As for how many Foundation Establishment Pills there are, no one will count them.
More than two hundred tons of elixirs, even if only based on the average weight, is 20 million foundation building elixirs! Enough for all Qixia Kingdom's Qi refining period, just one for everyone!
Just one transaction is enough to change the practice environment of the entire Qixia Kingdom.
And that's just the beginning.
In the evening, Feng Zhiling cut out more than 200 catties of octopus slices with great pain, and every representative who came to trade could get a catty of grilled octopus slices. The atmosphere is very warm. After dinner, enter the next stage of the transaction:
Dark iron, steel.
According to the information Zhang Hao got during the day, although the eastern countries can refine black iron for alchemy, their black iron is all forged, which is time-consuming, laborious, expensive, and the quality of the finished product is uneven.
Dongfang’s special black iron for alchemy, the landed price is: 40 high-grade spirit stones per catty, starting at 99.3% purity, every increase in purity, 5 high-grade spirit stones will be added. If the purity is below 99.5%, for every point of purity added, 10 high-grade spirit stones will be added. When it's above 99.6%, the price will... follow fate.
As for the highest purity in the east, there is only a very small amount of black iron that can reach 99.7% purity, and it needs to be refined in the transformation stage. Whether it can be successful... depends on fate.
The list is:
99.0%, 40 top-grade spirit stones.
99.1%, 45 top-grade spirit stones.
99.2%, 50 top-grade spirit stones
99.3%, 55 top-grade spirit stones.
99.4%, 65 top-grade spirit stones.
99.5%, 75 top-grade spirit stones.
99.6%, it is starting to be rare, and it needs to be auctioned, so the price is naturally uncertain; but there is no problem at all if it exceeds 100 top-grade spirit stones.
As for the 99.7%, it is hard to come by.
You know, according to what Feng Zhiling said, the head teacher of Xuanzhen Sect was overjoyed when he got a catty of 99.7% Xuantie. The elder let go.
In terms of material purification, when the purity exceeds 99%, the cost price may double for every increase.
And the above price is still the "landing" price. Adding tariffs, welcoming and sending, bidding, etc., it is too easy to add five or six spirit stones to all prices.
But what Zhang Hao wants to sell now is... 99.7% pure black iron ingots, each piece is one ton!
Seeing a full 60 tons of black iron being laid out, and these black iron piles were built into a two-meter-high and seven-meter-long 'wall', everyone was a little dazed.
These dark irons have all been finely polished, and under the light of the light, they are shining with a light blue light. The lights tonight are also specially adjusted, adding a little more imperceptible blue. This kind of light will appear extraordinarily bright, but it also makes Xuantie show a more brilliant brilliance.
"That's right, this is Xuantie!" Looking at everyone's puzzled eyes, Zhang Hao said with a faint smile, "Seeing the battleship Zhiyuan, I believe that everyone should have a clearer understanding of the smelting technology of Qixia Kingdom .
These are all black iron with a purity of... 99.7%. Specifically, it could be around 99.75%.
High-purity black iron will bring exceptional performance. According to our repeated verification, the spirit weapon made of 99.7% black iron has more than 10% higher performance than the one made of 99.6%.
A difference of 10% is enough to separate life and death!
Compared with the traditional forged black iron, the black iron smelted by our new method has fewer impurities and fewer types of impurities. We removed some corrosive components in the impurities, such as phosphorus, sulfur, etc., so these dark irons are more durable.
Moreover, compared to the forged black iron, the texture of these black irons is more uniform, and there is no need to re-melt and adjust it later, and it can be used as it is.
Technology... keep it secret for the time being. But you can check it out. "
99.7% black iron, so much more! Everyone hesitated for a moment, and finally swarmed up and began to use their own means to identify. Compared with Qixia Country, the identification methods of these people in the East are more mature and efficient. There were many surprises in a short while.
As Zhang Hao said, the black iron in Qixia Kingdom is even in texture, and some corrosive impurities in the black iron are almost impossible to identify.
Especially the uniform texture is the most precious.
In the past, if one wanted to refine magic weapons, especially the complete sets of magic weapons, the purchased black iron had to be re-melted and stirred evenly before being used. Otherwise, if the texture of the set of magic weapons is uneven, it will cause many small problems. At critical times, these small problems might be fatal.
But right now, these dark irons don't need to consider the uneven texture. The sixty tons of black irons are all the same, with only slight differences that can be ignored!
Even Feng Liye, the treasurer of the Seven Stars Commercial Firm, was surprised to find that the purity of the black iron he identified was as high as 99.76%!
After a while, everyone gradually returned to their seats, and they all looked at Zhang Hao without saying a word—wonder how much is the price of these black irons? Such black iron, if the price is right, they are ready to buy in bulk.
As an ultra-long-distance ocean trade, the time they go back and forth may be a year or even longer, which requires them to purchase items with sufficient value and as small a size as possible.
And the current Xuantie made them see such potential. 99.7% black iron is extremely rare even in the Kunlun Continent, and there is no pressure to sell three to five hundred high-grade spirit stones per catty.
Now the only question is: at what price! Looking at the giant steel ship, the smelting technology of Qixia Kingdom should be very mature, and the cost should not be high. But everyone is a businessman, and of course they understand that the relationship between cost and selling price is really small, especially for high-end products.
Zhang Hao saw everyone's expressions in his eyes, and smiled lightly: "What do you think of these black irons?"
Everyone didn't speak, but looked at Zhang Hao with their eyes. In the past half a day, everyone has a completely different understanding of this young man who seems to be only at the peak of the Foundation Establishment Stage.
Disciple of the Holy Land, deputy prime minister of the Qixia Kingdom, president of Dayang Group... a series of titles are really eye-catching.
This is a standard little fox! So if you can't speak, don't speak.
Zhang Hao paused for a moment, then continued: "Buy it now: 80 top-grade spirit stones per catty. Get as much as you want!"
"How much do you want?" Everyone was shocked by Zhang Hao's tone, and then attracted by the price of 80 top-grade spirit stones.
Calculated according to the landed price of black iron from the east, their 99.5% pure black iron can reach 75 top-grade spirit stones, plus customs duties, etc., it is well over 80. So Zhang Hao's quotation is really low.
In fact, considering transportation costs, long-term development, etc., Zhang Hao set the price at 80 top-grade spirit stones.
And if the merchants from the east trade with pills, their cost price may be reduced even more, or even halved!
After discussing for a while, everyone raised questions: Of course high-purity black iron was very valuable in the past, but if it appeared in large quantities, it would inevitably depreciate. Everyone is in business, so please give me a real price, Young Master Zhang.
Of course, Zhang Hao also argued hard, the world is so big, and there are so many practitioners, how much black iron can be produced in Qixia Country? Still in short supply.
Everyone was at war with each other, not giving in to each other. After intense discussions, the price of black iron was finally stabilized at 70 top-grade spirit stones.
Zhang Hao wiped off his cold sweat. It is not easy to reason with so many people.
But it doesn't matter, anyway, except for 99.9% of Zhang family's high-purity black iron, which needs to be refined separately, the cost and price of the rest are similar, just a few low-grade spirit stones. As Feng Zhiling said, in order to smelt black iron with a purity lower than 99.7%, the Zhang family deliberately added impurities to the molten iron—the true nature of a profiteer.
And as the Zhang family became more proficient in using oil, the cost was still falling precipitously.
Finally, the negotiation was over, and Feng Yeli, the shopkeeper of the Seven Stars Trading Company, came to attend. He brought a lot of good wine and spiritual fruits from his own ship, and everyone celebrated on the deck of the Zhiyuan battleship.
By the way, everyone also experienced a cannon.
On the second day, everyone began to discuss a new topic: whether the artillery and steel can be sold.
Needless to say, this was another heated discussion.
Steel is on board. The price is more than three times that of the same black iron, no bargaining - this is a real exclusive product. For example, for steel with a purity of 99.7%, the quotation is directly 250 high-grade spirit stones per catty, whether you want it or not.
But even so, the crowd still rushed up.
Until the evening of this day, more than 60 boxes of medicinal materials and spiritual materials belonging to the royal family transported on the Zhiyuan battleship, as well as black iron ingots and steel ingots belonging to the Dayang Group, a total of almost 500 tons of materials were sold. In exchange, it was more than 600 tons of pills.
Most of these elixirs are common elixirs; there are only a few precious and special elixirs. For example, there are life-saving Eternal Elixirs, such as the 'Sheng Sheng Hua Dan' which can regenerate limbs and repair internal injuries.
These pills are rare even in the east, and the price is very expensive. One ton of black iron can only be exchanged for a dozen of them. But such elixir is also a life-saving medicine that must be stockpiled, the more the better. If the Zhang family wants to develop in the future, such a reserve of medicine pills is indispensable.
In addition, there is the 'Infant Transformation Pill' that must be used at the peak of the golden core stage. This kind of elixir is also a conventional elixir, but the price is very expensive. The Nascent Soul Stage is the main pillar of a country. Therefore, Huaying Pill is also a special kind of elixir, which is expensive.
After another transaction ended, more than 70 business representatives from the East were dissatisfied—they still had a lot of goods. And after seeing the Zhang family's black iron and steel, their vision has improved a lot, and they don't want to cooperate with the country of Langya anymore.
They, want more.
No, Leng Qingsong, the young master of Seven Stars Commercial Bank, said, "Zhang Hao, are you going back to the voyage?"
Zhang Hao nodded, all the cargo has been emptied, and he must return.
But Leng Qingsong asked: "Look, can we follow the boat and go to Qixia Country?"
In an instant, many eyes were fixed on Zhang Hao.
Facing everyone's eyes, Zhang Hao smiled: "Welcome, very welcome! But now, if we want to cross the green sea of death, that is, the outer sea, only our warship Zhiyuan can do it.
Therefore, if you want to go to Qixia Country, you can only go with our boat for the time being.
You have so many goods..."
Leng Qingsong was overjoyed: "Haha, it's okay. Our boat can be parked on the sea and handed over to the relevant deacon to be in charge of the transaction."
Zhang Hao smiled: "Then, on behalf of Qixia Country, I welcome everyone to go. I would like to tell you a piece of good news quietly. The Qixia Country has just completed a transformation, and we take the development of industry and commerce as our national policy!"
(I roll every day and ask for a ticket, so I am in good health and in a good mood~)