Chapter 47: Unease

Probably appreciating the tip of the iceberg of the world's wealthy businessmen, Yu Wenwen felt quite interesting, since the other party dared to transport grain from the Sui State, then he dared to buy it, but it may be a grain ship from the upstream, of course, it may also be the Sui army.

His side room, Yang Lihua, was the empress dowager of Zhou back then, and now the princess of Sui State, Yuwenwen's cheap father-in-law Yang Jian is the emperor of Sui State, and he also knows that his daughter Yang Lihua is in the hands of 'this fang'.

Most of the groups of people sent by Yang Jian were solved by Yu Wenwen, but there were fish that slipped through the net lurking in the Bazhou territory, which was not to be feared by the disease of scabies, but was worried about by his cheap father-in-law all day long, and Yu Wenwen also felt a little upset.

He was on guard against the incoming boats all day long, for fear that there would be some elite of the Sui army above, all of whom were invulnerable muscular men, rushing into Xiyang City to kill, God blocking and killing God, and Buddha blocking and killing Buddha.

Title: "Saving the Great Sui Princess Yang Lihua", Director: Yang Jian, Actor: Guan Longmen Valve Langjun, Heroine: Yang Lihua, Villain: Yu Wenwen. Ending: The male protagonist saves the heroine, returns with beauty and becomes a colt, and the villain and his minions are on the streets.

Yuwenwen will never allow this kind of plot to be staged, so he is very sensitive to the ships coming from the Yangtze River, but Anturo's suggestion is also very tempting, worthy of being a business family, and can tickle his itch.

In war, if there is no horse, you can still use a rabbit to kick an eagle like 'riding on foot', but if there is no food, you can only die, and compared with the horse, food is more important to him.

There is a shortage of horses in Shannan, but the imperial court will be able to allocate some every year in the future, there are many horses in the north, and it is not a problem to allocate more than 10,000 horses a year, and the wealthy merchants in Yecheng also have the means to sell horses.

But the grain is a little difficult to do, the land long-distance transportation and sales of grain, the carrying capacity of the carriage is limited, and it is much more convenient to transport grain by ship, the large ship with a cargo capacity of 10,000 stone (Dendrobium) is not uncommon, and the grain ship does not take much time from the upstream Shu to the middle of Bazhou.

The local wealthy merchants in Yecheng may not be so powerful and can reach out to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, but the Sogdians of Anturo may not, his family has been working in Guanzhong for several generations, and it is very convenient to do business with the Shu land adjacent to Guanzhong.

Grain merchants can even do without an empty ship, they can change to a small boat to return, according to the more expensive refined grain sold at the price of one stone, a large grain ship loaded with 10,000 stone of grain, it is worth 10,000 yuan.

10,000 stone of grain, according to the monthly ration of 2 stone per soldier, is the ration of 5,000 people in January, if 12 ships come at the same time, the ration of the Hulin Army for a year will be solved.

These grains are equivalent to 120,000 yuan, which is equivalent to the 'wholesale price' of 5,000 yuan and 24 glass mirrors.

The current output of mirrors in the Yuwenwen Glass Workshop is about thirty per month, that is to say, if Anturo can send out 120,000 stone of grain at a time, after completing this order, he can ensure the rations of the Hulin Army in the next year.

From the perspective of trading, it is really better to buy!

It's not that he didn't think about buying grain, and he also asked Chen Guo's businessmen for a price by selling mirrors, but the other party didn't know whether he couldn't get over it with his conscience, or if he felt that the cost was too high, he said that he could only sell a small amount, and he couldn't do anything about it.

If the purchased grain comes true, then Yu Wenwen's heart will be much more determined: what is the war? Logistics!

But solving the problem of military rations through buying and selling seems to be a bit idealistic, so Yu Wenwen will not be too optimistic, he is not clear about the real strength of An Tuluo's side, so he has to get to the bottom of it: "Shopkeeper An, the grain is not bad, but I don't know how many stones can be sold?" ”

"County Prince, how much grain can be trafficked, An still has to contact his family, but please rest assured that this year's autumn grain will be ready."

"Shopkeeper An's grasp seems to be very great, but the autumn grain is harvested every year, isn't it that Shopkeeper An only sells grain once a year?"

"Don't worry, An promises that if you need it, there will be enough food for every sale."

"Corn, wheat, flour, rice, the period of storage is not too long, my father wants a lot of grain, but it can't be the kind of stale grain that rats will have diarrhea when they eat it."

"An will never make up the numbers, as for gold, why doesn't the county prince consider gold jewelry, these things are also selling well in the Southern Dynasties." Anturo suggested that the price of the same weight of gold could rise sharply when made into gold jewelry.

"The beauty of jewelry, the audience has their own judgment, the shopkeeper thinks that the gold hairpin worth 500 yuan, the father may think that it is only worth 400 yuan, 350 yuan after buying it and reselling it, maybe the buyer thinks it is only worth 300 yuan, and he has to wait until he meets the person who buys the gold hairpin at 400 yuan, and he does not know the year of the monkey."

"An Mou knows, what he just said, and ask the county prince to consider it." After Anturo finished speaking, he got up and retired, he caught a glimpse of Yuwenwen being a little tired, so he left with interest, anyway, it is impossible to settle down today, he has already shown his advantages, and he feels that he is still very sure.

After the shopkeeper Liu sent Anturo away, he turned back, and today's meeting was finally over, Yuwenwen rubbed his temples and began to discuss with the shopkeeper Liu how to deal with the purchases of these wealthy businessmen next.

Each family is strong, which is embodied in the fact that there is no need for Yuwenwen to worry about it: what he wants, the other party can transport it to Bazhou by himself, and he will leave by himself after buying the glass mirror, and he does not need any help.

In short, as long as Yuwenwen sits in Xiyang City, Bazhou, prepares the glass mirror, the other party comes over with the goods at the price, the two sides are handed over, and the other party leaves on his own, he only needs to count the money happily at home.

Convenient, really convenient, so convenient that it made Yuwenwen a little uneasy.

The wealthy businessmen are bound to get the glass mirror, and the meaning of each family is to be all-inclusive, and their mood is so urgent, and the backers who want to come behind are even more urgent.

These wealthy merchants have their own connections, networks, they can get horses, grain, they can take care of the state and county officials along the way, keep the road safe, and they have their own caravans, they can go north and south, go to the place they want to do business.

Bulk goods from the north, it is inconvenient to go to Bazhou on the north bank of the Yangtze River by land, no problem, we ship goods from Qingzhou by sea, enter the Yangtze River estuary and trace the river, the border generals of Chen Guo are old friends, you don't have to worry.

Want food? No problem, there is a lot of grain in the Sui Kingdom upstream, and the fleet will pass all the way south, you only need to prepare a warehouse in Xiyang.

Wealthy businessmen have such a strong channel, will they be willing to let go of big fortune and not make a small fortune? Yu Wenwen doesn't believe it, people come out to do business to get rich, not to do charity.

Where the benefits are, they go everywhere, for the sake of killing the head, they can come thousands of miles away, for the glass mirror, now they are doing business, but if there is no father Yu Wenliang to protect him, Yu Wenwen is afraid that it will be over.

Glass mirror, is the beautification of the glass mirror, and in this world, so far the world has only Yuwen Wen can make it, in normal history, it is the Venice of Europe that took the lead in exploring the production process of glass mirror, using the tin foil method.

Glass mirrors became the hottest luxury goods as soon as they came out, and the Venetian government moved craftsmen to an island to produce glass mirrors in order to preserve the craftsmanship, and other countries racked their brains to find out the secrets of the craftsmanship but still returned in vain.

It was also a loss that Venice was a hegemon at that time, and many countries that wanted to use force to rob secrets did not dare to put the idea into practice, and then France finally gathered a few Venetian craftsmen and quietly brought back to China, and the production process of glass mirrors was revealed to the world, when it was already the seventeenth century, and the Venetians kept the secret for hundreds of years.

Now, a glass mirror can be bought at a "wholesale price" of 5,000 guan, and a small mirror can earn 4,000 guan, which is more cost-effective than any trading, and if you follow the Silk Road and reach Persia and Fula in the west, the price at that time may be in gold.

Such a highly profitable commodity, like a chicken that lays golden eggs, if you hold it in your hand, a steady stream of wealth will come, Yuwenwen relied on the glass mirror, and fed five thousand recruits in Bazhou, which is sparsely populated, and there will only be more and more people who are red-eyed.

Previously, he could rely on his father's shadow to dispel the delusions of the local tyrants in Shannan, and the merchants in Jiangnan had no way to forcibly take away his treasure, but now the situation has changed, the borders of the Zhou State are connected, and the wealthy businessmen and giants in Yecheng have heard the wind, and the next thing around him is no longer a bald-tailed lame wolf, but a man-eating tiger.

Yu Wenwen doesn't care about outsiders sending detailed spying on secrets, the people who master the glass mirror making process, except for him, are still three, all of them are firmly controlled, although there is no island, but it is also at home, and it is absolutely impossible for the outside world to come into contact with it.

But if the wealthy businessmen change their way to secret, it will be a lot of trouble, before Shannan Prefecture County was self-contained, and the Yecheng court was orthodox, and the actual family was Daxing Taiyu Wenliang, so no one dared to play the idea of glass mirror, but now it is different.

Now the courtiers in the court who are obviously more powerful than Yuwen Xingtai are only Prime Minister Yu Chi, if Prime Minister Wei Chi Yuan is interested in the golden egg chicken of the glass mirror for some reason, then the matter will be a little tricky.

The wealthy businessmen who came to the door today, there are few backers behind the court magnates, most of these magnates are cadres under the prime minister's lieutenant Chi Yuan, if these people fan the yin wind in the prime minister's ears all day long, then all kinds of situations will emerge in endlessly.

Either exchange the production process of the glass mirror on "reasonable" terms, or beat openly and secretly to force Yu Wenliang and his son to comply, Prime Minister Yu Chi has a lot of resources in his hands, and the pressure caused by this is not small.

Yu Wenwen has the confidence to persuade his father to carry it down, after all, he sells mirrors and makes his father and brother 'benefit equal', so if he can't do it, he will wholesale mirrors at a 'preferential price', so that the court magnates can make money happily, but the production process must not be leaked.

If the prime minister is pandered, he must make the process if he does not follow it, and in the face of endless coercion, how long can Yu Wenliang carry it?

The followers around Yu Wenliang also have their own interests, which involves power games, once Wei Chi uses various means to exert pressure, then Yu Wenliang's pressure will be so great that he has to choose one of the two.

Is it to sacrifice the rights and interests of the followers to protect the financial path of the second son, or to sacrifice the financial path of the second son in exchange for the upward space of the followers? Is the collective interest of the Shannan Group important, or is the personal interest of the second son important?

Yu Wenwen's initial judgment was that even if Prime Minister Wei Chi Yu had to take care of his appearance, he could also back down and ship at a preferential price, but in case the old prime minister couldn't stand the purging around him and used all means to "ask", it was really to cut the meat.

The production process still can't be given, it's nothing more than vomiting blood at the cost price and shipping!

Bringing the glass mirror to Yecheng to sell it and exchange it for a large purchase of money, Yu Wenwen didn't think that it would attract a group of wolves to surround him, but now that he saw a group of tigers surrounding him, it was impossible to say that he was not worried.

He can open up and sell mirrors, but there are more monks and less porridge, and instead of rushing to Bazhou in a hurry to grab the pitiful share, it is really better to master the production process and sell as much as he produces.

Fish is not as good as "fishing", if you want fish to buy in Bazhou, you can catch fish by yourself if you have "fishing", Yu Wenwen is the only person who has "fishing", he wants to sell fish, but the tigers who surround him are not good at "fishing".

The tiger can barely cope with it, if the time comes, the little emperor lives up to his name, in case the supreme dragon opens his mouth to make the process, Yuwen Wen will give it or not, that is a problem. (To be continued.) )