Chapter 87 The Profiteer
?At the beginning of the new year, two news came to Anlu: first, the Great Zhou changed the Yuan Dynasty to Dading, so now it is not the third year of Daxiang, but the first year of Dading; second, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty court supported by Duke Yuchi Jiong of Shu Kingdom also established the Yuan Dynasty, and the year name is very cool and called Zheng orthodox.
Yuwen Wen had no time to complain about this kind of year-end dispute because just after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, a big business came to his door. This business was so big that even Liu Caiyun and Liu shopkeeper Liu could not make a decision, so he had to let his boss decide.
In a tavern in Anlu City, Yuwen Wen set up a case to invite one person to dinner Liu Caiyun poured wine to accompany him. Outside the door was Yuwen Shiwu, who was so murderous, guarding the door with two minions.
Yuwen Wen looked at the man in front of him with a expressionless face. As the supplier of the Western Region’s treasure ‘Glass Mirror’, he was having a business talk with the buyer who came to negotiate business.’
The person who came with the surname Wang Mingyue was twenty-six years old and was a businessman from Chen State in Jiangnan. He had a strong background. He bought all the six-sided "Glass Mirror" he sold. In other words, 80% of the money or equivalents earned through the Glass Mirror were paid by Wang Yue.
Yuwen Wen was very happy to train troops and pay the rewards thanks to the financial path opened by the glass mirror. His wife Yuchi Chifan also relied on the continuous profits to be able to easily face the various expenses in the mansion.
"Is it because Manager Wang is so angry that he is talking nonsense and wants to pack all the glass mirrors. He really thinks that I can't find a sales route?" Yuwen Wen looked at the other party with a smile.
Wang Yue came this time for a very important thing: monopoly, that is, he wanted to take over all the treasures of the Western Regions that had emerged inexplicably from this Anlu City.
Specifically, it is the Western Regions’ strange treasure ‘glass mirror’ that emerged from the hands of the Xiyang County Duke.
Since the Duke of Xiyang County came to Anlu in May last year, "Western Region Glass Jewelry" has appeared intermittently on the market. As a Chen native, Wang Yue was naturally not in Anlu but in Yingzhou south of the Yangtze River.
This Yingzhou and Yingzhou under the jurisdiction of Anzhou are just two places. Yingzhou in the south of the Yangtze River is Xiakou (now Wuhan, Hubei), and Yingzhou under the jurisdiction of Anzhou is Changshou (now Zhongxiang, Hubei).
As the boss who was arranged by Wang Yue to do business in Xiakou, Wang Yue did not pay much attention to the glazed jewelry that appeared in Anlu, but as time went on, he realized something was wrong: the supply of goods was too sufficient.
It’s so sufficient that it seems that it was not bought from the Western Regions merchants and sold it, but made it locally in Anlu!
In this way, Wang Yue smelled the business opportunities. If he could go online directly with the merchants selling glass jewelry in Anluli, then ship it to Jiangnan for sale, then it would be a considerable profit.
Zhou and Chen are enemies, and there is a natural barrier between the Yangtze River, but this is no big deal for merchants who have no profit or early profit. Which of the border generals of the two countries does not have their own industries, and who would think that there is too much money?
So Wang Yue was able to eat from both sides of the river and traveled north and south as long as he didn't ask anyone to provoke anyone, no one would make things difficult for him. So the shopkeeper Wang came to Anlu in person to get in touch with the shopkeeper Liu Caiyun, who had endless "Western Region Glass Jewelry" in his hand and got in touch.
After this, he felt that he was right. After paying back the money from a high price, Wang Yue and Manager Liu reached an agreement: Manager Liu provided him with a stable source of goods at the agreed price.
As of December last year, Wang Yue, who had a newly opened financial path with "excellent performance", was favored by his boss. He thought that financial path was like this, but he never thought that there was another shocking thing: the mirror.
At the end of last year, he was urgently called by Anlu under Anlu and said that Manager Liu had "major good news". He was skeptical about meeting Manager Liu and was shocked by the glass mirror she took out after he almost passed away.
It was a magical round mirror, the size of the mirror fist could make a person look like he could see. Seeing this strange treasure, he had an unprecedented desire to purchase: I bought it!
The mirror was sold for 3,000 guan. It was not suitable to carry copper coins. He used the funds from the Anludi store and the equivalents of high-quality silk and silk cloth.
The place where the accommodation stores are houses, and the place where the property is for sale is shops. The place where the property is sold is common in the industry that emerged from the Southern and Northern Dynasties from the capital to local prefectures and counties. It is a house that integrates warehouses, accommodation and wholesale functions.
The war between the north and the south still needs to be done. In order to facilitate business in the Yangtze River, the north and the north have their own residences on each other's territory. Local snakes guarantee each other that the funds and goods in the other's residences have become unspoken rules.
Wang Yue crossed the river empty-handedly and relied on the large amount of goods and funds stored in the Anludi store to buy this rare treasure glass mirror.
In line with the purpose of serving customers, Manager Liu carefully prepared a wooden box lined with brocade to store the mirror for Wang Yue to take it away. After he passed the river, he immediately summoned all the guards of the shop to accompany him on a boat south to the capital Jiankang overnight to present it to the owner.
Although Wang Yue repeatedly told him to take it firmly before opening the wooden box, which made the boss a little angry, but when the boss opened the wooden box and saw the mirror, he was so shocked that he was at a loss that he almost fell to the ground.
"Hurry, prepare the car quickly and enter the palace!" The boss said so, and he was impatient to leave immediately to rush into the palace.
Wang Yue was unknown when the emperor saw this treasure, but the value of the things given to the boss afterwards was less than 10,000 yuan, and the holy followers that came were even more immeasurable.
So, after that year, the shopkeeper Liu informed him that the glass mirror was "in stock again". After Wang Yue immediately crossed the river and rushed north to Anlu. Although the price had risen to 3500 kilns, he still swept away the treasures on three sides.
The money reserved by the di store in Anlu is also empty and cannot do business for the time being, but this is no longer important. The profit of a glass mirror is much greater.
After personally escorting back to Jiankang, the boss struggled for a day and gritted his teeth and left one side to use it himself, and then he took the remaining two sides, dedicated one side to the prince, and sold the other side to 11,000 guan. Of course, the items were fine.
Although I only made 500 guan on the books, I bought three sides and made one profit. The net profit of a mirror is no less than 7,000 guan. This is faster than making money for any business.
Because he learned that the boss had a treasure mirror in his hand, the powerful and powerful people of the dynasty were all tangled around the bush, especially the unscrupulous King Chen Shuling, who even brought ten beauties and a few cars of money and jewelry to the boss's mansion to change the mirror.
He spoke to the mirror. I must get the money, jewelry and beauty today. If I let me return empty-handed, I will not want the beauty or your head.
The boss could not afford to provoke this prince who was not inferior to the emperor and was eyeing the vassal king, so he could only grit his teeth and take out the side he had treasured and left ten thousand dan and the jewelry that was worth the price to send the plague god away.
Seeing that the profits of Liu Jiangui’s glass mirrors were extremely high and priceless, Wang Yue became active: Could this thing be made by Manager Liu or her boss?
The boss couldn't wait to ask him to seize the opportunity to contact the other party's "don't understand the market" boss, and authorized him to negotiate with him with full authority as long as he could monopolize the supply of goods.
So Wang Yue rushed to Anzhou without stopping to the seventh day of the first lunar month, and arrived in Anlu and Liu and asked for "all inclusive".
Manager Liu said that only the boss can make the decision, so Wang Yue had the opportunity to meet the boss behind this scenes - Xiyang County Gong Yuwen Wen.
"Monday, the people of the country are very sincere in their appointment by their boss. As long as the county government can agree, they will never default on the payment for the goods." Wang Yue knew that this was the last opportunity. The wealthy families and powerful families in Jiangnan were eager to find the source of goods, and it would not take long to find Anlu.
Even if they can't find this place, the Xiyang County Duke will probably release the news, and then the group of wolves will be less divided by their own family.
"What Manager Wang said is taking charge of the supply of goods south of the Yangtze River?" Yuwen Wen smiled slightly.
"That's what Caomin means."
“This is impossible.”
"The county government is clear about it, and the people are willing to receive the goods at a high price."
"Drinking." Yu Wenwen changed the topic.
Wang Yue's anxiety was not revealed in his heart, but he knew that the other party was working on him, so he had to pretend to be calm and drink and eat with him.
"I didn't come back from Chang'an at the end of last year." Yuwen Wen said something unimportant, but Wang Yue knew that there was something in his words and sat upright and listened.
"I have been away from home for several months and there is no room for the family in the house. All the people in the house are hungry like children." Yuwen Wen took a sip of wine and continued, "When I see that the end of the year is approaching, I ask Manager Liu to sell a mirror to Manager Wang at a low price."
Although Wang Yue complained inwardly when he heard this, he still showed sympathy.
"I finally managed to survive the New Year but it was not enough to spend it, so I sold it to Manager Wang three times a few days ago. Now I have recovered and will not put on this mirror again." Yuwen Wen changed his mind and started talking nonsense. "Before the New Year, I asked someone to send a mirror to Chang'an to present it to the Queen Mother. Do you know how the Queen Mother was happy?"
Wang Yue thought to himself that you, Empress Dowager of the Great Zhou, was so sick that he could not see anyone? But he still kept saying that I was a small minor in Jiangnan, how could I know how Feng Yan of the Great Zhou was at that time? I wonder if the county magistrate could tell me one or two?
"Of course I didn't know if I was not there, but later I learned two things: First, the Empress Dowager couldn't see enough with the mirror every day, and the Empress Dowager rewarded something worth ten thousand guan." Yu Wen's face was lying and his heart was not beating.
'Ten thousand coins are fake, but the first thing is real. The Queen Mother of the Great Zhou, my wife, Yang Lihua, really couldn't see enough with a mirror yesterday, so I didn't even look at it anymore!' He complained in his heart.
Wang Yue didn't know that the Empress Dowager of the Great Zhou has been dealt with by the Xiyang County Duke and is waiting for birth, but he knew that his affairs were still possible: the County Duke was offering a price, and he finally knew that the mirror was worth ten thousand yuan and felt that it was a loss to sell it for ten thousand yuan.
So he gritted his teeth and reported Yuwen Wen the buyout price of 4,000 guan. The mirror was charged as much as the mirror was. Yuwen Wen was dizzy for a cup of tea and directly reported 7,000 guan. The two profiteers began to conduct "friendly consultations".
Yuwen Wen gave her a mirror to his wife Yang Lihua on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Seeing that the other party was just looking at the mirror and ignored him, he found a way to start a topic and chat. As he chatted, he wanted to give her a surprise to show off his wealth.
Yang Lihua has seen countless rare treasures in the world in the palace, so Yuwen Wen asked the knowledgeable "treasure appraisal expert" to estimate the price and ask her how much money the mirror can be sold in Chang'an City. Yang Lihua pondered for a moment and stretched out a finger and said that it must be no less than 10,000 yuan.
She said that the price sounds sensational and unbelievable, but you should know that this magical mirror is unique in the world. Of course, if there are many, the price will be slightly lower but not much lower.
Yang Lihua often had a wife in the palace who came to the palace to chat and pass the time. She listened to various "the most popular topics for ladies". For example, some wives fought against mistresses or added expensive jewelry topics.
The wealthy family pays attention to the grand show. A pair of top-quality hairpins for the ladies is worth at least two or three hundred guan. It is no problem to buy thousands of guan in a suit. If there are so many wives and concubines in the family, they will have to spend more money.
Yuwen Wen became messy after hearing this. The mirror now includes the cost of the previous "R&D" expenses and will be lower and lower after the cost per face does not exceed twenty cents. As a result, he asked Liu Caiyun to sell it at the end of last year and a few days ago, so that the middlemen could make a profit of more than six thousand cents per face for no reason.
If he had known this, he wouldn't have waited until yesterday to give gifts and have any surprises. He should have asked his knowledgeable wife before selling the mirror.
He felt that the profit of only more than 3,000 guan of things he worked hard to make was difficult for a person who could easily make 6,000 guan of money.
Yuwen Wen had no idea about the currency of this era. He thought that 3,000 guan was just three million yuan, and it seemed like a lot. Soon after hearing Yang Lihua's words, he was crying without tears.
The so-called wealth of a family means having tens of thousands of coins. Nowadays, the silver circulating on the market is not as large as the total amount in the Ming Dynasty, so the currency circulating is copper coins, or Wuzhu coins, and a string of one thousand words is Yishen.
When Yang Lihua saw that her husband had no idea about money, she couldn't help but feel a little strange. She gave an example that there was a period of time when the Southern Dynasty levyed a wealthy family of more than 50 million yuan, that is, property tax. 50 million yuan means 50 million yuan. This is just the standard for ordinary wealthy families. Even if they can't afford a treasure of 10,000 yuan, they are worthy of being called aristocratic families, wealthy families, and royal families?
After hearing this, Yuwen Wen was speechless and thought to himself: When big dogs fight for wealth, they are nothing more than the most face-to-face money!
In his original era, he was an ordinary young man who had never seen any big scenes. He seemed out of reach for a car worth tens of millions of yuan and could not understand what the rich people who drove a car worth tens of millions of yuan were thinking.
He felt that he was the old farmer in a story. He thought that the emperor was holding a golden hoe and ploughing the land while the empress was feeding pigs with an emerald spoon.
Liu Caiyun can’t blame her for selling it before. She also said that the other party’s profits of reselling will double, but neither of them has seen a truly luxurious scene, no wonder they were cheated.
So Yuwen Wen decided to make Wang Yue anal in front of him... No, it's a pitfall!
Chapter completed!