Lord of Industrialization

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?"

There have been a lot of foreigners coming recently, and many businessmen from the Ghazi Empire have come, so there is a serious shortage of translators.

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.

The relative on the other side of the family, Ozkan, 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 what he heard when he went home last time. I once had a distant relative selling barbecue here, so I asked her for help.

Olive was not willing to help as a translator at first, as she wanted to open a store herself, but the compensation offered by the other party was too much.

The owner of the nail factory said to Olive 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."

Olive once again translated the quotation to Ozkan. Ozkan suddenly hugged the boss excitedly and started chattering a lot. Olive didn't even have time to translate.

In this era, it was very troublesome to make iron nails using traditional techniques. First, the red-hot wrought iron blanks were beaten into iron bars, cut into sections, and then beaten into iron nails.

Now in other places, a gold florin coin weighing 3.5 grams 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.

Here the steel factory directly draws the wrought iron and low carbon steel rods sent from the smelting plant step by step into iron wire and steel wire of different specifications. After the wire rod is bought back by the nail factory, it is first cleaned and rusted, and then put into the nail machine. Iron nails are cut out one by one at the 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 Wessen is 1 florin and about 300 kilograms, so the cost of nails is also very low. Wrought iron horseshoe nails are even cheaper. After long-distance transportation, the price can still beat traditional nails.

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, as well as some medicinal materials. The most precious one was a batch of special products from the grasslands. Tapestry of the Great Stone Empire of the 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 equivalent weight of gold.

He did the math and immediately placed an order for two hundred tons of horseshoe nails. He then went to the nearby shop to buy various nails and hammers. Adding the six hundred tons of horseshoes he had purchased earlier, he made up a thousand tons, which was exactly one ship.

After talking about this, Olive took the exhibition map and took Ozcan 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.

Change has brought about the collision of 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.

Under 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 the legs still need to be paired with stockings or long tubes. boots.

Thanks to Wesson's concept of "knowledge is wealth", clothing designers design clothes with commissions or buyouts. Naturally, you will not miss the opportunity to showcase your designs at the expo. Concepts such as fashion exhibitions and fashion models also started 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 on display 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 grassland, but the underwear, pullovers, long johns, sweaters, woolen pants, socks, etc. are all very marketable, and various buttons are also good.

Ozcan 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 traditional rough cloth has an unstable structure due to hand-weaving, and the threads vary in thickness and are somewhat 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 machine-finished from the beginning of spinning. Compared with the rough cloth, it is dense and solid. When you touch it, you can tell that this material can only be worn by the knight.

Not to mention that the stitches on the clothes were all sewn by a sewing machine. They were fine, even, and very strong.

Ozkan thought that this sample was an exception and that the quality of the off-the-shelf products would be much worse. He had been fooled by this many times 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."

"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, Ozkan 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 can't 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.

After walking here, Ozkan bought three boatloads of textiles.

At this time, Olive asked him: "When you buy clothes, you should buy washing powder."

Ozkan asked her confusedly: "What is laundry detergent?"

Olive endorsed it and said: "Clothes must be changed and washed frequently, otherwise you will suffer from skin diseases and fleas."

"A few years ago, Professors Geisler and Professor Bauer of Weisenberg University first invented soap powder, which was very convenient for washing clothes. Then they added insecticidal and bactericidal herbs to it. Experiments proved that the villagers who wash clothes every day have skin diseases. There are many fewer patients than in other villages.”

These are all contents in the newspaper, and she has memorized them all.

Ozkan thought about it and said, "It sounds like it could be used to wash people."

He thought about how those people on the grassland rarely bathed. The key was that there were many mosquitoes and leeches near the water. After taking a bath, he would be stung all over his body and would have to burn 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."

Just when Ozcan 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. It seems to be in the military area."

The outdoor bathing supplies she was talking about was a portable shower made by Wei Senjun. It was shaped like a round water bag. It contained a magic circle for sterilization and heating with necromantic magic. There were water pipes and showers underneath, which could be folded up and stored when not in use. Baoli has been widely praised by caravans since its launch.

The two of them passed the furniture area on their way to the military area, and Ozkan's eyes widened when they passed a stall.

"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...what are you laughing at?"

Olive smiled and said: "This is the furniture section. What you are holding is the knife used for cutting vegetables at home. I have two such knives in the store."

Ozkan's face twitched, and he stared in disbelief and asked: "Is such a good knife used for cutting vegetables?"

Olive didn't reply, but pointed to the table next to her, where there were cutting boards and shredded radishes.

Ozkan asked the price and it was indeed 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 is easy to handle and won't break when it slips on the ground. I want to make it strong and strong, and there are stainless steel tableware over there."

Another half of the boat was full, and Ozkan braked in time, otherwise he would not have enough money to buy weapons.