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Chapter 92 The Sheep of the North

Liuchengji, people from all over the world are doing business, and the dazzling array of specialty products in the Central Plains made the Marine, Khitan, Xi and Turkic people who came to trade with each other dazzled, while merchants from the Central Plains were also staring at the horses brought by these people.

In addition to horses, all kinds of fur, ginseng, and scattered gold and silver were also the targets of Central Plains merchants. They came to this bitter and cold place to do business, of course, they had to exchange valuable specialties and sell them elsewhere to get high profits.

Liucheng has a long history, and as a border city, it is also a long history. The tribes may not know who is the leader in the Central Plains now, but most of them know that horses and specialties can be exchanged for supplies needed for daily life here.

And now, they all knew one thing: as long as they come to Liucheng and find "Beiyang" to do business, they will definitely be able to return with a full load.

The word "Northern Sheep" does not mean "Northern Sheep". It is actually the abbreviation of Beiyang Trading Company. For tribes that do not understand the Central Plains, it is easier to remember this name.

Then I know that "Beiyang" sells all kinds of useful materials in the "semicon" of Liucheng, which is enough.

Beiyang Trading Company's semicolon in Liucheng covers a large area and is very strong. There are more than ten warehouses for storing goods alone, and there are hundreds of "bodyguards" serving as the hospital guard.

The semicolon sells a large amount of supplies almost all year round, all of which are very practical things and a variety. The most popular goods nowadays are not silk and satin, but heavy iron pots.

This kind of "luxury" cooking utensils makes tribes think of "strange goods" and you must buy them as long as you have the opportunity.

Their love for iron pots even surpasses gold and silver, because this kind of cooking utensil can indeed greatly improve life. It not only saves firewood, but also makes it very convenient to cook things and tastes good.

For many ministries, a good iron pot can be passed on to their descendants.

So even if the cold land is cold today, whenever there is a chance, many tribes will send people to Liucheng to buy iron pots. The Zhou Kingdom did not ban the sale of such iron products, so more and more Central Plains merchants started trading iron pots in Liucheng.

But even the most powerful businessman cannot compare with Beiyang Trading Company. Generally, people sell iron pots that are of great significance, while the iron pots sold by Beiyang Trading Company in Liucheng are no less than 2,000 consecutive times each time.

"Lian" is a quantifier. Iron pots can be stacked. Every five pots stacked together is "Lian". Two thousand iron pots are ten thousand pots.

According to the weight of an iron pot weighing five kilograms, ten thousand iron pots equal 50,000 kilograms of iron. Such an exaggerated number is hard to believe that this is true. However, the lively iron pot sales scene in front of the Liucheng semi-colon of Beiyang Trading Company could not help but make people stunned.

If Beiyang Trading Company had not been able to reach the sky, anyone who saw such a crazy sales scene would mutter "investment" because after these iron pots were bought back by the "barbarians", they might have been melted into armor, arrowheads, swords and spears, and in turn they would harass the people of the Central Plains.

The large-scale export of iron products is no different from the capital and the large-scale sale of iron pots by Beiyang Trading Company is uneasy.

In this regard, the Liucheng government said: Now the official army has thunder and is not afraid of it.

Since the government has said this, the people do not care whether they believe it or not, so they don’t have to be afraid. After all, life has to continue. Seeing that the iron pot trade has gathered more popularity for Liucheng, everyone can also benefit from it. How great is it.

Ordinary merchants were not squeezed out by the wealthy Beiyang Trading Company. On the contrary, the company became their most powerful "wholesaler" and sold a large number of goods of low-priced goods at "wholesale prices", allowing these small merchants to make a fortune by re-sale.

Those goods that are affordable and cheap include iron pots.

Beiyang Trading Company has many fleets, and each sea ship carries a large cargo capacity, so Beiyang Trading Company can transport a large amount of cargo by sea.

Every year when the southeast wind blows, the Beiyang Trading Company's sea ship arrives at the mouth of the Bailang Water in western Liaoning, unloads the goods at the docks of the stronghold, loads the goods by a small boat, goes upstream along the Bailang Water, and arrives at Liucheng.

"Wholesale" allows many small merchants to purchase goods from Beiyang Trading Company at a relatively cheap price in Liucheng without long-distance transportation of goods, and then resell them for profit.

For each arrival of two thousand iron pots, at least half of them are "wholesale" to merchants of all sizes in Liucheng, and most other goods are the same. Therefore, for other merchants, Beiyang Trading Company is a hated and loved by other merchants.

Beiyang Trading Company is rich and powerful, and it is also very powerful. There are no rich businessmen in the world who can fight against this giant. Fortunately, the other party has always emphasized "get rich together", so "cooperation" with it has become an inevitable choice for merchants.

Beiyang Trading Company, which has a mild temper, looks more and more like the "great sheep in the north".

The Beiyang Trading Company's methods of doing business are indeed amazing. Not only did it create iron pot trade out of nothing, but it also created tea trade, which led to new and huge profit points in border trade for hundreds of years.

For northerners, tea has always been something that people in southerners drink. I don’t know when it started, but the saying that “drinking tea can relieve greasiness” has spread. Not only is tea gradually popular in Guanzhong, but Hebei, but in this bitter and cold place, tea trading has also become popular.

Originally, the various foreign tribes were not interested in tea, but the guys from the Beiyang Trading Company tried to "tempt" the other party to drink tea, and even created a "promotion": if the customer buys a certain amount of tea when buying something, the price would be "discounted".

After all kinds of incredible "promotion" methods were used one after another, tea became popular in Liucheng.

Tea produced in Jiangnan is made into "tea bricks" for long-term storage and transportation. A large sea boat is loaded with tea bricks and ships it to the mouth of the Bailang Water in western Liaoning, and the small boat transports it to Liucheng again.

Hundreds of thousands of kilograms of tea bricks and heavy iron pots were sold out by the tribes that flocked to them.

Seeing that the "northern sheep" of Beiyang Trading Company was even more cruel than the "northern wolf", the wealthy merchants from the border chose to cooperate. Everyone really admired the other party's way of making money, but they were still puzzled by some of the other party's strange behaviors.

One of the strange behaviors of Beiyang Trading Company is to acquire high-quality breeding pigs from various tribes of Marin, who are good at raising pigs.

If it is acquiring a good stallion, this behavior is normal. Beiyang Trading Company does acquire stallion, but the acquisition of breeding pigs has puzzled many people.

Some of them vaguely heard some rumors, and it was said that the Supreme still liked to raise pigs when he was in the residence, so some people speculated that this might be the preference of the Beiyang Trading Company to invest in the Supreme, collecting high-quality breeding pigs from all over the place and transporting them back to Chang'an for the Supreme to raise them.

This is just a guess, no one dares to discuss it, so as not to cause any death.

The second strange behavior of Beiyang Trading Company is to sell sheep to Khitan, Xi and even Turkic tribes who are good at raising sheep, mobilize these tribes to raise "fine wool sheep". Then Beiyang Trading Company purchases the wool produced by this sheep, and it takes as much as possible.

A "company" with marine trade as its main business, and doing business, it can only make it to raise pigs and sheep. No one can understand this.

Everyone knows that wool can be used to make wool textiles, but they don’t understand why the herdsmen must raise unheard “fine wool sheep”?

Is it true that the joke "Beiyang, Beiyang, the sheep in the north" is true?
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