Chapter 387 It’s cheap, buy it (Part 1)
In Wesson, the profit margin of heavy industrial products is horribly high, but it is different for light industrial products, which focus on small profits but quick turnover.
In other words, it is dumping.
In front of a stall, Olive asked the boss: "This gentleman asked if nails are really so cheap?"
A lot of foreigners have come recently, and many businessmen from the Ghazi Empire have come. , the translation is extremely lacking.
After opening the Ghazi Barbeque Restaurant, Olive sent a letter to her relatives in Wanjing City, telling them that she had settled here and was living a good life.
Ozkan, the relative on the other side of the family, is a businessman doing business with the nomadic people on the east side of the Inland Sea. This time he came to Weisen state because he was not familiar with the place and the language barrier was a bit difficult. After he came, he remembered When I went home for the first time, I heard that a distant relative was selling barbecue here, so I asked her for help.
Oliver was not willing to help as a translator at first, as he wanted to open a store himself, but the reward given by the other party was too much.
The boss of the nail factory said to Olive very seriously: "Tell him that one florin gold coin can buy 200 kilograms of horseshoe nails, and if you buy more than 30 tons at a time, you can buy 220 kilograms."< br>
Oliver translated the quotation to Ozkan again. Ozcan suddenly hugged the boss excitedly and jabbered so much that Olive had no time to translate.
The traditional craftsmanship of this era was very troublesome to make iron nails. First, the red-hot wrought iron embryo was beaten into iron bars, and then cut into sections and then beaten into iron nails.
Now in other places, a 3.5-gram florin gold coin can buy about 150 kilograms of wrought iron or 70 kilograms of iron nails. In many places, iron bars and nails can also be used as currency.
Today, there are more than a dozen iron nail factories in Weisen, producing everything from finger-sized nails used in construction and shipbuilding to small iron nails less than two centimeters long. There is also this one that specializes in the production of horseshoe nails. of.
Here the steel factory directly draws the wrought iron and low carbon steel bars sent from the smelting plant step by step into iron wire and steel wire of different specifications. After the iron nail factory buys back the wire rods, it first cleans and removes rust, and then puts them into place. The iron nails are cut out one by one at a speed of five per second, and finally put into the drum together with sawdust and chaff for polishing. The output and quality instantly surpass the ancient craftsmanship.
The current internal ex-factory price of ordinary steel in Weisen is 1 florin and about 300 kilograms, so the cost of nails is also very low. Wrought iron horseshoe nails are cheaper. After long-distance transportation, the price can still be compared with traditional nails. Beat him down.
On the prairie east of the Inland Sea, horseshoes and horseshoe nails are just as necessary as swords and iron pots. Two tribes can fight for a box of nails.
Ozkan is now with several large tribes and more than a dozen small and medium-sized tribes. This time he came with several boatloads of specialties from the grassland, most of which were wool and fur, and some medicinal materials, the most precious ones. is a batch of tapestries from the Great Stone Empire further east.
Among them, the tapestries of the Dashi Empire were all sold when passing through Wien City, the imperial capital of the Osmaga Empire. The old nobles there knew the goods and sold them for more than the same weight of gold.
He did the math and immediately placed an order for two hundred tons of horseshoe nails. He then went to the side to buy various nails and hammers. Together with the six hundred tons of horseshoes he bought earlier, he made up for one thousand tons, which was just right. A boat.
After talking about these, Olive took the exhibition map and took Ozkan to the clothing, shoes and hats area.
Weisen is undergoing a transformation from an agricultural society to an industrial society. People's lifestyles have changed accordingly. The wealthy emerging classes and the economically better-off classes have begun to focus on food, clothing, housing and transportation. New requirements and markets have made Clothes that are easy to wear, simple and elegant have been further developed.
Changes have brought about the collision between the new and the old. Some people began to seek the harmonious coexistence of the new and the old. Some people absorbed traditional elements into the new system. Some people used new elements to improve traditional clothing. All of a sudden, a hundred flowers bloomed.
With Frederick's secret promotion, the clothing style that promotes individuality and shows one's own style has made great progress. The height of the skirt has finally risen to a slap distance from the knee, but it still needs to be matched on the legs. Wear long socks or boots.
Thanks to Wesson's concept of "knowledge is wealth", the clothes designed by fashion designers are commissioned or bought out. Naturally, you will not miss the opportunity to showcase your designs at the expo. Fashion exhibitions, fashion Concepts like models also began to appear.
Now there are two venues for men's and women's wear, held in two large tents respectively.
Olive took a look at the big tent. The clothes displayed inside were all high-quality clothes. The cheapest one was enough to feed her fried chicken for half a year, but she didn't have the money to buy it yet.
It’s just that the fashionable clothes here are not suitable for riding horses and grazing on the grasslands, but the underwear, pullovers, long johns, sweaters, trousers, socks, etc. are very marketable, and various buttons are also good. .
Ozkan first came to a booth selling pullovers and motioned to Olive to ask for a cheap cotton dress and come over to check the quality.
The structure of traditional rough cloth is not strong due to hand-weaving, the thread thickness is different, and it is a little loose.
The sewing skills of rough clothes also vary from person to person. The stitches of good tailors are even, while the stitches of poor tailors are of varying lengths. Sometimes you can see the opposite side when you lift it up.
Nowadays, the ordinary cloth produced in Weisen State is finished by machine from the beginning of spinning. Compared with the rough cloth, it is dense and solid. You can tell that this material can only be worn by the knight.
Not to mention that the stitches on the clothes are all sewn by sewing machines. They are fine, even and very strong.
Ozkan thought that this sample was an exception and that the quality of the off-the-shelf product would be much worse. He was often fooled by this when he first started doing business, so he asked Olive to ask the staff at the booth to bring out a few more pieces. "What did they lie to you about?" Olive said disdainfully to her distant relative, "You know, everything from cotton to clothes here in Wesson is made by machines, and the workmanship is definitely much better than those in the country."< br>
“Besides, there are quality standards for weaving and clothing here. If you don’t meet the standards and sell them in the market, you will be fined.”
Her barbecue restaurant is often visited by people from the textile factory, and she has heard a lot about work in the factory.
Seeing that she was so serious, Ozcan was a little convinced, but he still asked the staff to bring over several pieces of clothes of different specifications.
The quality of the cloth is the same, and the stitches are almost as if they were made from the same mold. Even the best tailors cannot do this.
When I asked about the price, it turned out to be horribly cheap.
This kind of ordinary clothes sells for about 80 copper coins in other places, but the wholesale price here is about 30 copper coins. Selling for 100 copper coins on the grassland is not a problem.
The same goes for other clothes. The price is more than half cheaper than elsewhere and the quality is better.
Not to mention cloth. The blacksmith cloth is very strong and coated with slime glue to make it waterproof. It is excellent for setting up tents.
Ozkan bought three boatloads of textiles after visiting this place.
At this time Olive asked him: "You should buy washing powder when buying clothes."
Ozkan asked her doubtfully: "What is washing powder?"
Olive endorsed it and said: "Clothes must be changed and washed frequently, otherwise you will suffer from skin diseases and fleas."
"In the past few years, Professors Geisler and Professor Bower of Weisenberg University first Soap powder was invented, which made washing clothes very convenient, and then insecticidal and bactericidal herbs were added to it. Experiments have shown that the number of skin diseases in the village that washes clothes every day is much less than that in other villages."
These are all. She memorized everything in the newspaper.
Ozkan thought about it and said: "It sounds like it can be used to wash people."
He thought about the people on the grassland who didn't take baths very often. The key is that there are many mosquitoes near the water. , there are also a lot of leeches and other insects. After taking a bath, I was stung all over my body and had to scald the leeches with charcoal.
The consequence is that he is a little afraid when the chief gives him a beautiful woman, so he can only hold his nose and do nothing.
Olive looked at him like a country bumpkin and said: "People use soap when bathing. Duke Wesson likes to use soap with sulfur the most."
Ozkan Just when he was about to ask her how she knew what kind of soap Duke Wesson liked to use, Olive continued: "There are products for bathing in the wild that are sold here. It seems to be in the military area."
The bathing in the wild she was talking about The product is a portable shower made by Wei Senjun. It is shaped like a round water bag. Inside it is a magic circle for sterilization and heating with necromantic magic. The water pipe and shower head are connected below. When not in use, fold it up and put it in your bag. Well received by caravans.
The two of them passed by the furniture area on their way to the military area. When they passed a stall, Ozkan's eyes widened.
"They are all good knives!" He was no stranger to the quality of weapons. "No wonder Weisen's army is invincible. With such good weapons... why are you laughing?"
Olive smiled and said: "This is the furniture section. "What you are holding is a knife used for cutting vegetables at home. I have two such knives in the shop."
Ozkan's face twitched, and he stared in disbelief and asked, "It's so good." The knife is used to cut vegetables?”
Oliver didn’t reply, but pointed to the table next to him, where there were cutting boards and shredded radishes.
Ozkan asked the price, and it turned out to be very cheap, so he bought half a boatload of knives, forks and spoons, and left the other half for the pressure cooker from the stall next door.
"Is this tableware made of slime?" His steps to the military area were delayed again, "It's so light and doesn't look very strong."
Olive said to him: "This kind of bowl With a light hand, it won’t break when it slips on the ground. I want to make sure there are stainless steel tableware over there.”
Another half of the boat is full. Ozcan brakes in time, otherwise he won’t have enough money to buy weapons. .
(End of this chapter)