Chapter 112 Big Business
Before the Song army reoccupied Tanglong Town, it was already an empty city with no households. With the stability of the rule, it attracted the people, and there were not many households in the city. In addition to repairing houses, arranging soldiers and renting them to merchants, the newly built buildings in Tanglong Town were mainly a huge market.
The market is not far from the yamen, surrounded by earthen walls on all sides, each with doors. The land inside is flat and the lines are drawn with white ash. Following the white line, one is a shop stall and the other is a pedestrian road. It is divided into areas, one is a food area such as wine, sugar, tea, and other is a food area, one is a pearl, jade area, and one is a silk and felt carpet. Each is clearly divided. A white wall erects in front of each area, indicating the goods sold inside.
There are sheds on the shops and stalls for shade. There is not much rain here, and the sheds are simple, but they are enough.
After discussing with Ren Ze, the little prince decided to look around in the past two days, understand the situation, and then start selling horses. He thought about it all night and finally understood what kind of goods he had sold the horses and had another question of what kind of goods he had exchanged for. He followed Ren Ze into the city.
Asked people all the way, when I arrived at the market, I saw them all surprised. After thousands of miles from the Western Regions, I have never seen Ren Ze before? This is the first time I have seen such a fine market. The market was originally messy, and everything here was well organized. Not to mention the little prince, everything on the grassland was simple and everything was fresh.
Seeing a few soldiers guarding the door, Ren Ze saluted and said, "Tixia, the merchants from the north who came downstairs and upstairs have to sell some jade, spices, etc., so I don't know how to make it?"
The soldier looked up and down at Ren Ze, pointed to Baibi beside him and said, "There is a list of reports there, everything is clear, you can go and see it yourself."
Ren Ze said embarrassedly: "I don't hide it from the secret, I only know a few words in a rough way, but I can't understand the list."
While saying that, he took a few copper coins from his sleeve and handed them to the soldier, whispering: "Tixia will buy wine."
The soldier had a stern face: "The boss told me not to accept money and belongings from guests. How can this be done?" While calmly speaking, he took the money over.
After collecting the money, the soldier said, "There are areas for different goods, and all kinds of goods are not allowed to be sold in mixed manner. Your treasure jade and seasoning are not in the same area. You should rent a stall separately and sell it separately. See if there are no officials under the shed there? Take the public account and rent a stall at him. The prices in each area vary, ranging from ten cents to hundreds of cents. You should estimate the days yourself, and it is best to rent a few more days to avoid daily exchange."
Ren Ze thanked him, went back to talk to the little prince and his companions, and went to the official to complete the procedures together. The seasonings were easy to sell, but the jade was hard to sell. They rented a stall to sell seasonings, and then sold precious goods such as jade together after selling them.
After walking a few steps, the little prince suddenly said, "Since you are selling separately, why don't you find a stall to consign to jade? It's just to give the owner some taps after selling it. It's like you're going to live here."
Ren Ze was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that the little prince was quite careful and explained to him: "We are all the first time we have come here, so we have to stay for a few more days to see the situation. Treasures like jade are not trustworthy and are difficult to consign. You can only wait until you have been staying for a long time and get to know each other."
The little prince nodded, learned something again, stopped talking, and followed Ren Ze.
When he arrived at the place, Ren Ze and others were surprised. Unexpectedly, there were large places for selling jade, and there were nearly a hundred stalls of large and small. However, he did not know that the Khitan Northern Zhu was a large number of valuable goods exported to the Song Dynasty. Almost everyone of the Khitan merchants came here to sell them. Dangxiang and the Western Regions had exquisite jade produced, and they have always been loved by merchants. Free trade here is mixed with gold, silver and bronze ware, and there are many traffickers. Not to mention that the Khotan Kingdom, where Ren Ze and others came, was originally a transit station for East-West trade, and had always trafficked pearls, jade, jade, ivory and other treasures into the Central Plains. It even caused misunderstandings to some people in the Central Plains that they produced these things.
When they arrived at their stall, Ren Ze and several merchants unloaded the goods from the pack horses, laid a felt blanket on the brick platform, and took some beautiful jade, coral and ivory. They were people who had been doing business for many years and were extremely skilled in doing this kind of thing.
The little prince watched coldly, and wanted to learn business from these people. What's the use of learning? He didn't think that there was nothing to do with him, and it was always good to learn something. There was actually not much that their tribe could sell, so just take it as a strange thing.
Everything was ready, and seeing that the market was very quiet, there was no ordinary hawking sound in the market. Ren Ze saw that there was a Khitan in the stall next to him, and put some pearls and silverware on the stall. He walked up and asked with a smile: "This brother is rich. I don't know where he came from?"
The Khitan looked at Ren Ze and said with a dark face: "If you do business, just do business. What do you do so much? Even the yamen don't ask where you come from!"
Ren Ze nodded with a smile: "What brother said is, what he said. - I'm new to you, ask, why are there no hawking here?"
The Khitan said with a stern face: "This market opens today, which one has just arrived! If you came earlier, you would have known that there were still hawking sales half an hour ago! However, there are patrol soldiers, and merchants are not allowed to hawk, just waiting for people to come and buy, that's it."
Ren Ze thanked him, turned around and returned to his stall, and whispered to his companions: "No hawking here, don't break the ban. There is another way, there are not many people here, and the government does not care about the transaction. It is different from the court, I am afraid that I will stay longer."
The protagonist of the transaction in the tent is Yaren. What goods do you have and how many other goods you want to exchange for? After telling Yaren, they will go to the transaction. The merchant only needs to take the goods they exchanged after the transaction is completed and leaves. Since the merchant does not participate in the transaction, a large amount of profits are seized by Yaren. The transaction here does not rely on Yaren, and it must be another business model.
At this moment, a man in Han dress was wandering on the road, looking around, looking around, looking like a buyer. When he arrived at Ren Ze's stall, his eyes lit up, he came forward and reached out to pick up a coral branch.
Ren Ze was overjoyed and hurried forward and said, "This guest official, do you want to buy coral? This is transported from the Kingdom of Khotan and is extremely precious."
The man didn't raise his head and said, "I think I don't want you to talk too much!"
After saying that, he looked at a few more things, weighed the coral in his hand, and asked, "How much does this branch cost?"
Ren Ze laughed and said, "I will not hide it from the customer, and the actual price is 40 yuan."
The man shook his head, put down the coral, and said, "Forty stakes are too expensive. If it is thirty stake, I will buy it. I am a pearl and jade merchant. If you are willing to sell it, then buy more, and the six hundred stakes will be yours."
Ren Ze was surprised. Unexpectedly, he met such a large customer at once. He hurriedly invited him to discuss with them. The price of 30 guan, and they still earn more than 20 guan. This transaction was done. I just didn't know the market conditions here and I was a little hesitant.
After thinking for a while, Ren Ze said, "I'll sell it! We first came here, but I don't know the market conditions. As long as you have money to make money, don't delay it. It's just selling it as soon as possible and doing other businesses. If you have a clear idea in the future, you can go a few more trips."
Several people agreed, and Ren Ze stepped forward and said to the man: "I will follow you, thirty stakes will be thirty stakes, and I will sell them to you in total 600 stakes! I don't know how the nobles want to receive goods and how to pay? A few of us can follow the nobles."
The man rolled his eyes and looked at Ren Ze, and said, "Spot cash, delivery on-site. It is the most enjoyable to do business here."
Ren Ze smiled and said, "The noble man is joking. It takes a big cart to get 600 guan. You are the only one, where do you get the cash?"
The man took a few pieces of paper from his arms and handed it to Ren Ze, saying, "This is opened by the yamen, and it is like a fake refund. I have used a seal and a seal here, and you can go to the hall over there to get the money."
Ren Ze took the paper in his hand and touched it. It was extremely thick mulberry paper. One side of the paper was printed with a businessman-like man, with a spirit in his hand, and the other side was a Zhou Yunwen, with "One hundred jin of copper coins" written in the middle. The red ink on the paper appeared and the secret marks appeared, and the printing was extremely exquisite.
After touching the paper again and again, Ren Ze said, "Brother, what is this? I heard that there is Jiaozi in Sichuan and Shu areas, but I have never seen it before. Even if it is that thing, Tanglong Town cannot use it."
The man was a little impatient and pointed to the words on the bottom of the paper and said, "That's not the seal of the Tanglong Town Yamen? You are so troubled that the place to withdraw money is less than one mile away. If even the Yamen can't believe it, I'll send someone to withdraw cash with me!"
After hearing this, Ren Ze's face improved, and a smile appeared on his face: "It turns out that he was withdrawing money in the city, but he blamed the nobles for this. Why don't I do this? How about a few people here, who took corals and went to withdraw money?"
The man smiled and shook his head: "Of course, as long as you can move 600 guan."
Ren Ze was stunned for a moment, and nodded with a smile: "It's okay, let's go outside to hire a donkey cart and just pull it."
While speaking, he helped the man pick up a few coral branches and gathered up 600 stagnant of goods. After confirming with the customer, Ren Ze and his two companions rolled the coral in a bag, held it in their arms, and went to withdraw the money. The little prince watched the excitement and followed them.
Walking on the road, the man kept looking at the goods around him, and sometimes stopped to take a closer look. But he thought he had no money on his body and did not take any action. Ren Ze saw it and felt strange, not knowing what kind of way this person was.
After walking for a while, Ren Ze couldn't help it, and said to the man: "See that noble man is an expert, I don't know what business it does?"
The man said: "I do some precious jade coral activities in the capital, known as Cui Dizhao, and come here to buy some raw materials for use."
Ren Ze was surprised: "It turned out to be a noble man from Tokyo City. The young man didn't know Mount Tai. I'm sorry! Why are there Tokyo merchants here?"
The man smiled and said, "Just, without Tokyo merchants, who do you sell these treasures to?"
Chapter completed!