Chapter 29: Foreign Trade (II)

Three days later, Li Yuanwai went to the Nanyu prefect's mansion with 500,000 taels and a quilt.

"Lord Prefect, don't come unharmed!"

Seeing the arrival of Li Yuanwai, the God of Wealth, the prefect hurriedly got up to greet him, "Oh, Li County Order is coming, I just got a batch of good tea, let's taste it together." ”

The two exchanged pleasantries for a while, and Li Yuanwai ordered someone to bring the quilt up.

The prefect of Nanyu was puzzled and asked, "What is this?" It looks like a quilt but is heavy. ”

"I have heard for a long time that the prefect is susceptible to wind and cold in winter, and the lower official specially dedicated this quilt to the adult. Li Yuanwai didn't care when he saw the prefect, and then added, "I don't hide it, the lower officials came to ask for something this time, and I hope that the adults will approve it." ”

The prefect of Nanyu is greedy for officials, and what he likes to hear most is that others have a request for him, and he sat up straight when he saw that Li Yuan came here and had other things to do.

"Xiaguan has been helped by adults since he served as the county magistrate of Tangting, and the people in the county live and work in peace and contentment, and through the sale of water jade, the family has lived a rich life, and at the same time attracted a large number of foreign merchants to settle down, but the Tangting landscape jade is limited and cannot be over-mined, so Xiaguan wants to establish Jianbaotang as the first place in the Cangyue Empire to concentrate on high-quality commodity trading, and rich merchants from all over the empire can come here to trade, and we only charge a meager management fee. ”

"But what effect does the establishment of the Jianbao Hall have in reducing the mining of water jade?" asked the prefect of Nanyu suspiciously.

"Xia Guan just mentioned that this Jianbaotang can attract a large number of wealthy merchants to come to Tangting City, these rich merchants need to bring a large amount of cash to Jianbaotang to trade, as long as the silver remains in Tangting City, the silver used by the people will no longer be nervous, and at the same time, we will reduce the mining of water jade, only make high-quality water jade, so as to increase the price of water jade, after all, scarce is expensive. In addition, the transaction method of Jianbaotang is not sincere, we only need to set a minimum price for the goods, and everyone on the scene can buy it by increasing the price, and finally the one with the highest price will get it. ”

"Oh, this is kind of interesting!" Hearing this, the Nanyu prefect seemed to understand a little. "It's okay for Liu County to make his own decisions about this matter, and this official approves it. ”

"My lord, although Xia Guan is a businessman and has some rich merchant resources, he is far inferior to the Fourteen Prefectures of the Empire. Then he asked someone to bring the gold up, and continued, "Therefore, the lower officials have prepared some travel expenses, and I implore you to spread the news of Jianbaotang to the rich merchants in various places through the prefects of other prefectures." ”

Seeing the gold, Nanyu Prefect's eyes lit up, and he agreed without thinking about it.

Li Yuanwai was overjoyed and greeted for a while, leaving on the grounds that the county government was busy with trivial matters.

At the same time that Li Yuanwai visited the prefect of Nanyu, Mu Yuze, Rama and others demolished all the old mansions of the Li family in Tangting City, and the efficiency of demolishing the house with spiritual power was very high.

With strong financial resources and the help of the Ape God Clan, a huge three-story building was built in a month. The center of the building is a circular booth, around the booth on the first floor is the civilian exhibition area, the continuous shooting of the seat only needs one or two silver to enter, and the second floor is the rich businessman exhibition area to enter the conditions must pay 100,000 taels of silver as a deposit, each area is an independent room, around a circle of a total of ten rooms, the third floor is the supreme exhibition area, a total of three large suites, which are equipped with exclusive maids and people to provide services. Wealthy merchants entering the third floor must have a document stamped with the prefect's seal before entering.

This Jianbaotang Mu Yuze served as the shopkeeper, after all, the amount of capital circulation was huge, and it was bound to attract lawless people to make trouble, so it was most suitable for Mu Yuze to take charge.

The prefect of Nanyu, who received the gold, did do things properly, and a large number of wealthy businessmen came to congratulate Jianbaotang on the opening day, and all the Tangtingcheng inns were full for a while.

The goods on display on the opening day are all treasures that Li Yuanwai has collected for many years, although the Taiyin Soul Stone and Taiji Soul Stone made of ten thousand years of water jade were sold for two million taels of silver, so that Li Yuanwai made a lot of money, but most of the other treasures were sold at a loss, after all, these rich businessmen need to feel the bargain first, and they will come again in the future.

After a few months, Li Yuanwai spent a total of nearly two million taels of gold to open up a foreign trade layout for the quilt business.

Winter has arrived in the blink of an eye, and the Cangyue Empire has ushered in a cold winter. Mu Yuze and Li Yuanwai discussed and decided to hold a special treasure appreciation meeting in winter.

With this period of operation, Jianbaotang has become a household name in the Cangyue Empire, and as long as there are treasures, they want to sell them for a good price through Jianbaotang.

At the beginning of the treasure appreciation meeting, the host directly said, "There is only one kind of treasure today, which can help everyone resist the wind and cold." The quantity is limited, only a thousand pieces. Selling in units of 10 starts at a minimum, so let's start buying them. ”

At first, no one cared at all, only one person bought it, and after getting the quilt and covering it on the body for a while, he felt the warmth of the quilt, knowing that this thing must be a hot commodity when he went back to resell, and then bought the second and third copies, and the others saw that he was itching to buy and began to ask for the price, at first it was just the guests on the second floor scrambling, and when the seventeenth copy was grabbed, the price had risen from one hundred taels of silver to one thousand four hundred taels of silver. The guests sitting on the third floor couldn't sit still at this time and began to bargain.

As long as everyone on the scene gets the quilt, they will be conquered by the effect of warmth, and the guests on the second floor saw that the third floor also began to bid for the price, knowing that they couldn't grab them, so they began to raise the price indiscriminately, after all, the remaining quilt as long as the guests on the third floor buy the high cost, and the price of reselling it in the future will only be higher to raise the market price, and the quilt they grabbed first can earn more.

This treasure appraisal meeting did not end until the end of the night, and a rough calculation showed that these quilts were sold at an average price of 800,000 taels, and the auction for the whole day totaled 800,000 taels of silver, and the total cost of the house built for the old man of the Ziwei Empire was only 30,000 taels. And the production of these 1,000 quilts only used ten acres of cotton. At this time, there were still 300 acres of cotton stored in Tangting Mountain.

As long as these wealthy merchants return to their own cities to sell the quilts, so that the quilts are known to everyone in the Cangyue Empire, then in the future, they will go to other prefectures and cities to open cloth workshops to sell quilts, and they will definitely make a lot of money.

In fact, after this treasure appreciation meeting, the rich merchants who grabbed the quilts returned home and began to sell them in addition to their own use, and soon the quilts became the quilts that the entire empire, including the imperial family, wanted. This also attracted more people to come to Tangting City to collect a batch of quilts and go back to make a lot of money.

At present, the time and place are favorable, Mu Yuze recalled that half a year ago when he wanted to buy a candy man for Fengluan and had no money, he felt sad for a while, and now he doesn't want to talk about a sugar man, even if he buys a hundred sugar man stalls, it is no problem. Then he followed Feng Luan through the spiritual world and said, "Silly bird, we have money!

Although Feng Luan doesn't understand the world, she has sensed everything in Mu Yuze's body through this time and understands it a little, and she now knows that money is the best thing in human society.

Mu Yuze saw that there were many foreign merchants who came to Tangting City to seek quilts during this time, so he simply changed the courtyard that Li Yuanwai bought around Jianbaotang when he was haunted by the spirits into inns and a cloth workshop, on the one hand, he provided accommodation for the merchants, and on the other hand, he could learn about the quilt market in various parts of the empire through the conversations of these people.

Knowing that Rama and the others were busy with trivial chores in the mountain all day long, after all, they had to guard against the destruction of the ladder at any time, so Feng Luan would turn into a human form to help in the cloth workshop during this time.

Everything was ready, Mu Yuze's cloth workshop began to wholesale quilts, all of which were sold wholesale at a unit price of 1,200 taels, because he was worried that the goods would be snatched by gangsters on the road, Mu Yuze called Lu Yuchen to arrange for an apprentice from the Spiritual Cultivation Academy to be a little cultivated as an escort, and Li Yuanwai also went to the Nanyu Prefect, and through the relationship between the prefect, a quilt passage road was formed in the Cangyue Empire.

In just one week, all the quilts stored in the mountain were sold out at a price of 1,200 taels. During this period of time, he made a full 35 million taels of silver through the quilt business alone, and 3.5 million taels of gold were exchanged for gold. After removing all the costs, he also earned 150,000 taels of gold, which was also Mu Yuze's admiration for Li Yuanwai's businessman nature. Not only did it make money, but it also attracted a large number of merchants and prefects from all over the country, making Tangting City a well-known city in the Cangyue Empire.