Chapter 88 Profitable Merchants
?Yuwen Wen, as a time traveler, actually sold the glass mirror at a low price because he had never seen the "big scene". Blood dripped in his heart and wanted to recover the loss from Wang Yue opposite him.
So I started to question: I skip the transaction price of this "package" and don't mention it. Anyway, if I want cash, it's just copper coins, you can do it yourself!
Now is not the Ming Dynasty where a large amount of silver poured in. The only currency on the market is copper coins - Wuzhu coins were minted and circulated since the Han Dynasty. Over the past few hundred years, Wuzhu coins have been minted in different dynasties.
The weight of a Wuzhu coins cast in different eras floats between about three to five grams in modern units of weight.
Based on the weight of one monday five zhu coins, the weight of four grams (modern weight unit), the total weight of one thousand jin is 4 kilograms, that is, four kilograms. If a glass mirror is 3,500 jin, it is all paid with copper coins, 14,000 kilograms are equal to fourteen tons.
If the ten mirrors are shipped at one time, it will be worth 140 tons of copper coins, Yuwen Wen is just trying to make it difficult for the other party to see how he transports the money to pay the bill.
It is not suitable to carry copper coins heavily, once it is done in bulk goods business, it is inconvenient. Today, in various parts of the world, Yizhou, the Yangtze River Basin, and the main states of Chen State in the south of the Yangtze River are mainly used as currency because of their commercial development. Most other places, such as the Yellow River Basin, use silk, silk and other physical objects as the main products to exchange.
To the north of Jizhou, there is basically no copper coins but a grain and silk transaction. Lingnan and Jiaozhi all use gold and silver as the main currencies.
In order to solve the problem of "using money", each dynasty and generation have come up with many tricks, one for five, ten or even thousands of dollars.
In the Dazhou period, in the first year of Baoding (twenty years ago), the new coin "Buquan" was minted with one to five and five to join the five zhu coins.
In the third year of Jiande (seven years ago), the "Five Elements Big Cloth" coins were used in parallel with Buquan coins. As a result, only a year later, the Great Zhou court had to prohibit the use of big cloth coins because there were too many stolen large cloth coins. Then, because Buquan coins continued to depreciate, it was abolished until the fifth year of Jiande (six years ago).
Two years ago, Emperor Tianyuan Yuwen Yun "abdicated" to his son - the current little emperor Yuwen Chan changed the first year of the elephant, and cast the Yongtong 10,000 yuan coins for one thousand. After the money was launched, the market reaction was strong: Do you think you should be a thousand, just be a fool?
Then, the three types of Buquan, the "Northern Zhou Sanyi" which were called "the Three-Prince of Northern Zhou" by later collectors, the Five Elements Bu and Yongtong Wanguo have now been swept into the "trash pile of history". Yuwen Wenke recognized the Wuzhu coins. As for the six-zhu coins in Chen State who were worth ten, it was even more hilarious.
Previously, Wang Yue bought four mirrors twice, relying on copper coins, silk, silk cloth and several jewelry and other equivalents prepared in Anlu’s residence. It would be impossible to transport so many copper coins from across the river.
The north and south sides of the Yangtze River are in a state of hostility. Who would have let this fat fish go so blatantly? Yuwen Wen would have a boat that would have been in trouble on the river.
Knowing that the other party was making things difficult for him, Wang Yue coughed a few times and said that it was difficult to transport copper coins, could it be used to offset the price with equivalents? If the county magistrate needs something strange to the south, there will be more rare goods here.
These days, money is often short of money, so when people trade, most of them use bartering, silk, cotton, and silk, which are common equivalents. Most of the salaries paid to officials in various dynasties were physical goods and corn.
Farmers pay taxes, and the land rent is mainly physical and corn. According to the current situation in the Great Zhou Dynasty, the equal-field system is implemented. Each household pays one piece of silk cloth, eight taels of cotton, and five hu of millet are all physical, and the bachelor who has no wives is half.
So if you really want to reach an agreement to allow Wang Yue to take over the goods, there must be a large part of the price with real items. What he means is to use high-value but convenient to carry things such as jewelry as part of the payment.
Liu Caiyun, who had been pouring wine, began to sing with Yuwen Wen and acted like a red and white face. According to the "price appraisal expert", Yang Lihua, they determined that the final price of the glass mirror was at least 10,000 yuan, and believed that the shipment price should not be lower than 5,000 yuan at present.
In this way, the profits of the producer and the profits of the middlemen are closer to each other. Besides, this mirror cannot be sold, and the consumption capacity in Chang'an is not low.
The production technology of glass mirrors was spread before, but it was only rare to be expensive. Now it is a luxury rather than a daily necessity. Therefore, Yuwen Wen wanted to make a big profit while it was fresh. Some people were willing to buy it and speed up the return of money. Naturally, everyone was happy.
Although Yuwen Wen was unhappy, he had to admit that Wang Yue, the "prodigal businessman", had seized his key points: he had no business path and could only sell the mirror to the middlemen.
If you can directly invest in the market at a price of 10,000 yuan, the profit will be amazing, but Yuwen Wen’s team and business path in business are equal to no other.
To the south of the Yangtze River, I was completely blind and unable to touch the way. To the north of the Yangtze River, I had to rely on local merchants from Anlu to sell mirrors to other places. Fortunately, my father, who was the general manager, would be covered by the red-eyed wealthy merchants. I was afraid that they would be sent to a place to send private soldiers to the house.
So even if you don’t want to build your own business path, you have to pinch your nose and let the middlemen make a lot of money. However, Yuwen Wen also accurately grasped Wang Yue’s weakness: time.
There are so many businessmen in Jiangnan who are very developed and capable. Anyone is willing to ship goods like "Liuli Mirror" that are obviously stable and profitable. As long as he is slower and he is contacted by other merchants and he has packed the source of goods, then this large pot of meat will be gone.
As for how Wang Yue can keep this money tree from being killed by other people, it doesn’t matter to him. He will pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other hand and get out of his own territory and board the ship and leave the north bank of the Yangtze River. He will bear the risk at his own risk.
So after a full discussion of "warm and friendly" between the two sides finally settled:
First of all, if the mirrors that Yuwen Wen "gets from the Western Regions merchants" were sold to Wang Yue this year, most of them would be sold to Wang Yue. Each mirror was shipped at 5,400 guan. How much cash (or equivalent) would be charged? No credit would be accepted if it was paid.
Secondly, for the other buyers south of the Yangtze River, except for Wang Yue, they will sell this year and only sell three mirrors on the same style for them. The shipment price is no less than 6,000 guan. This agreement is valid for one year and how to wait until the end of this year.
Third, the king crossed the Yangtze River and arrived at the border of Anzhou, Jiangbei, and there was Xiyang County Duke... No, it was the General Administration to ensure that you are safe all the way.
Wang Yue was excited when he saw the initial negotiations on the business, but then asked: "I wonder what kind of goods the county magistrate needs to pay for?"
He hoped that Yuwen Wen would like to have jewelry, which is small in size and easy to carry and has high value. For example, a pair of exquisitely crafted amber hairpins can be worth at least 500,000 yuan, or 500 jin, and twenty pairs are almost worth the price of two mirrors.
And this is just a small package that can be carried on you without any traces, and there are also ivory, pearls, gems, night pearls, strange fragrances, etc.
"Extraordinary fragrance?" Yuwen Wen couldn't help but think of the strange fragrance in the Zen Room of Chang'an Royal Temple that made him and Yang Lihua feel so happy and then "attacked the target". Of course, that thing should be an alien. The strange fragrance from the southeast coast these days is probably a rare thing such as ambergris.
But he didn't need any ivory. His goal was to raise cash. What he trained was to rely on military pay to maintain it, so copper coins were required.
I don’t know when there will be a war. In order to maintain morale, the reward will be paid and the soldiers will be paid for the pensions after they are killed. He also decided to pay a settlement fee for those soldiers who lost their ability to work due to disability.
In the future, the construction of workshops and water trucks outside Xiyang City in Bazhou Prefecture will also pay wages to craftsmen. After taking office, the renovation of the mansions in Xiyang City will also pay wages.
When doing business with the enemy country, you have to buy money for your father who is the chief executive. If the father and son eat alone, the business will not last long.
There are many places to use money this year, so although there is no need to worry about selling glass mirrors, since someone is willing to take stock of the goods, he will admit it as long as the money comes quickly.
"Trades should be mainly based on copper coins, gold, and how much silver is needed." Yuwen Wen thought for a while and said, "I won't talk about gold these days, and silver is hard to maintain its value wherever it gets.
High-quality silk and brocade are also fine, but if you want to use it too much, you have to resell it. Although you won’t lose money, you don’t want to be so troublesome. Where did the Xiyang County Gong, who had just arrived in Anlu, didn’t have a foundation without a caravan? If the incident is spreading like this, it will always be too ugly.
Well, although I did forget to do business with Chen Guo merchants colluded with him to do business and make a fortune...
Yuwen Wen also needs a lot of sulfur for ulterior motives, which is to use it to make "black technology" items to make a certain medicine. Anyway, there are many mosquitoes, snakes and ants in the Jiangnan area to purchase goods in the name of preventing insects. No one will think too much about it.
As for another raw material - nitrate, he has the ability to make nitrate by law, so forget it. Although he is not able to equip the muskets to train the British Empire lobster soldiers, making "thunder" to deal with Chen Guoshui is one of his plans.
In the past few days, the water battles are all about playing sticks, but whoever wants to play sticks with you and play bumper boats? I will eat my close-up thunder first!
Salt is also needed. The source of salt in the world is nothing more than three types: well salt, sea salt, and pond salt. Xiang and Huangsan General Administrations do not have these salt-producing areas. Sea salt should not be considered and do not rely on the sea. Well salt and pond salt are not available, so they have to come from other places.
In daily life, a dou of salt can only be between dozens and one hundred people, but it cannot withstand the amount. Everyone has to eat salt every day, otherwise they will have no strength. Especially Yuwen Wen is preparing to train the recruits desperately, not only will they eat a lot but also sweat a lot and don’t add salt. Sooner or later, the big guys who sniff their feet are "soft" sooner or later.
Take advantage of the fact that there is no war between the north and the south, and you should quickly store more food. You can produce the salt locally and lose the stock, but you will really eat it.
"The county magistrate doesn't need jewelry?" Wang Yue was a little disappointed and surprised. Sulfur and salt are not high-value and cheap things to carry. It's better to bring copper coins.
Yuwen Wen said that it would be enough to just need some jewelry, but he didn't plan to sell jewelry. As for other rare goods such as ambergris, it's not impossible. Anyway, the future is long and I really want to talk about what I really want.
Wang Yue was a little depressed that his boss had a lot of jewelry, but the sulfur might not be able to make up a lot of it for a while, and the value was low. If the salt could be obtained, the value was not high.
Yuwen Wen was not deliberately making things difficult for Wang Yue, but he was really not interested in jewelry. If he had other business talents under his command, he could consider becoming a middleman. The key was that he was not enough manpower.
Judging the value of jewelry depends entirely on your vision. Your little wife Yang Lihua is very knowledgeable, but now she is not convenient to have a big belly. Besides, if you show up in business too much, if you recognize someone, "It's the Queen Mother of the Great Zhou!", it will be much more trouble.
Liu Caiyun is a good dealer, but she knows the secret of making glass mirrors, so she can't let her run outside all day long. If she catches her, she will finish her life. Her biggest and only source of wealth is cut off, so why should she train?
How can you raise two fairy-looking wives without money? This golden house has to pay for money to buy a suit, and it will cost a lot of money to have a group of children.
"It would be great if Manager Wang could sell Shimi."
Shimi is sugar sugar. In today's era, sugar cane juice is widely planted in the Lingnan area of Chenguo to make high-profit specialty such as stone honey.
Wang Yue finally felt relieved that the Xiyang County Duke had asked for normal goods at least. He judged that the other party had insufficient businessmen and had no business opportunities, and he had no interest in reselling goods to make a difference.
But the other party was not interested in jewelry, which was portable and valuable, such as jewelry, so if the shipment volume was large, where would he get so many copper coins in a short time, so he tried his best to encourage the other party to consider using equivalents to offset the price.
"Shopkeeper Wang's boss is very powerful and has enough goods to be full of hands and eyes?" Yu Wen's eyebrows raised.
"That's right, I wonder what the county magistrate wants?" Wang Yue became energetic.
"What kind of thing? Hehe, of course it's a prohibited item..." Yuwen Wen smiled like a fox.
Chapter completed!