Chapter 475: Cage Tactics
Huang Han just ran the West Liaoning Corridor, and he didn't want to look too ugly, and he didn't want to make enemies publicly.
Therefore, the smuggler Jia Man was allowed to contact his family after two years of re-education through labor, and at that time it was already the seventh year of Chongzhen, and the "Red Flag Army," which had been greatly developed for two years, would be raised several levels.
The businessman who was caught red-handed and had all the stolen goods was freed may contact the backstage, which is nothing more than a resentment and hatred, ready to find trouble for Huang Han to retaliate.
However, there are no fools who can be high-ranking officials, and they have to weigh whether they can shake the "Red Flag Army" that has already gained a foothold outside the Guan, and are they not afraid of backlash? After all, it was the businessmen who broke the law first.
The third smuggling route is the favorite of merchants from all walks of life, directly from Tianjin Wei to the sea to Gaizhou Wei landing, this trade route is the fastest, the most provincial, and originally the most profitable.
Now it belongs to the most money-losing point of no return, how expensive the sea ship is! After loading the goods and going to sea, there was no news, no one was seen in life, no one was seen in death, no ghost was seen, not only the goods were lost, but the No. 2 lucky ship worth more than 15,000 taels of silver also disappeared.
The merchant had to accompany the merchant to taste the value of the goods, and he also had to pay for the missing men, the bookkeeper, the sailors and gunners on the ship, and the loss of silver for a No. 2 lucky ship was no less than thirty or forty thousand taels, and the merchant with less strength would go bankrupt overnight.
Two of the three trade routes were cut off, leaving only the long road out of Zhangjiakou, and just when the merchants felt that life was not good, the new "Sun and Moon Shipping" released the news.
Because the border trade market is too large, it seeks the cooperation of strong merchants, and the "Sun and Moon Shipping" can unblock the Liaohai Sea.
This temptation is huge, and suddenly dozens of merchants with considerable strength gather in Tiger's Den City, and unblocking the Liaohai Sea means taking the trade routes to the north and east, and it is difficult to get rich without getting this condition.
After fierce competition, nine merchants, including the Wu family, won, of course, there will be no Manchu Eight Imperial Merchants, Fan family, Wang family, Jin family and other Shanxi rich people actually came, but their official and business background was not enough to be looked down upon by the "Sun and Moon Shipping".
The Eight Great Imperial Merchants have been infiltrated by the Qiwei for two or three years, and now they are cooperating happily with the "Sifang Express", Huang Han basically mastered the connections of these merchants in the imperial court, and found that these people were not the existence of the big man who was willing to fight for them shirtless.
Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, etc. are all from the grassroots, and have no official background, and the so-called people in the DPRK and China are just a network of relationships established through bribery after their careers, and they belong to the relationship of interests that can be broken at the slightest touch.
Huang Han deliberately did not alarm them, and allowed them to lead a huge caravan and even hired "Sifang Express" chariots and horses, and the dart master went out of Zhangjiakou to send food and materials to Houjin.
These Jin merchants are especially good at accumulating wealth, and if they are given an extra year, their total assets will increase by at least 30%, and they will be raised as pigs, and then they will be killed for the New Year.
The nine selected businessmen are all spokespersons of bureaucratic capital without exception, the Gao family, the Li family, the Li family, who have been a cabinet elder for more than ten generations, and the Zhang family, who have been honored by the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, etc., all of them are red-top businessmen.
However, they were all willing to accept the bottom line of "shipping by the sun and the moon" given by the "Red Flag Army," and they all signed a letter of guarantee promising to resolutely not smuggle grain, iron tools, and medicines.
As a result, the nine merchants of Liaohai were born, and they all got the right to hire sea ships to deliver goods anywhere.
It's just that a No. 2 lucky ship must pay the protection fee of 3,000 taels of silver for the "Sun and Moon Shipping", and the merchant ships who directly hire the "Sun and Moon Shipping" to transport goods will get a fair price.
If a merchant ship that has paid the protection fee suffers from the loss of goods, the "Sun Moon Shipping" will compensate ten times the protection fee, which means that now it has lost a No. 2 lucky ship, and has received 30,000 taels of silver from the "Sun and Moon Shipping", and all the compensation is basically the same.
Now that the trade routes are cut off, liquor, tea, silk, cloth, porcelain, and other goods that are allowed to be operated can be delivered to Gaizhou, and they can immediately get double or even several times the profits.
The gross profit margin calculated at the cost of 15,000 taels of silver for a shipment is about 20,000 taels of silver, which does not include the profits that can be obtained from mountain delicacies, deer antlers, deer skins, mink skins, Dongzhu, Korean ginseng, etc.
The businessmen are all shrewd and capable, and they all know that there are huge profits here, and the nine big businessmen who have obtained the right to operate are really overjoyed.
In fact, the inspection and selection of businessmen is just a formality, just to avoid exposing the purpose of firmly grasping the smuggling quota and profits of these businessmen.
The nine spokespersons were decided after consultation with Huang Sifang, and basically did not consider their business strength, but fully considered the power of the master behind the scenes.
Giving the court officials the convenience of smuggling silver is also equivalent to holding their charges of slavery in the palm of their hands, and in the future, they dare to target the "Red Flag Army" in the court, and Huang Han is not afraid to send people to these powerful families who want to be bitches and erect archways to give warnings.
Thinking that the intelligence value of high-ranking officials and nobles should not be too low, they also expect Huang Han to make a lot of money from the management rights of Liaohai, and the remarks against Huang Han in public should be swallowed in their stomachs.
The Wu family, who got the right to operate, was the most active, and the Wu family's business was not exclusive to Wu Xiang, and the three bigwigs of the imperial court also had a part, and the big shopkeeper of his family paid 15,000 taels of silver on the spot to the protection fee for five ships of goods.
And immediately negotiated the price of entrusting the "Sun Moon Shipping" sea ship transportation, and the Wu family's shopkeeper patted his chest to ensure that the merchant ship Jiannu who arrived in Gaizhou would not rob him, and would give help within his ability.
Indeed, the Red Gang is far-sighted, and he is indeed a rare hero, and it is because of him that he replaces the murderous madman Nurhachi, which can make Houjin stronger and stronger.
Daming has been blockading Jiannu, in order to get rid of the shackles imposed by Daming and break Daming's cage tactics, the Red Gangster has taken too many methods.
One of the important ones is to encourage any merchant to trade goods in Dajinguo, the rights and safety of the merchant will be guaranteed, and the cattle, horses, and ships transported will not be lost.
If a merchant is robbed by someone in the territory of Daejin, and it is found that it is the robber of his own country, he will be sentenced to a felony of beheading, and if he is found to be a bandit, the Daejin Congress will send troops to retrieve the goods for the merchant.
As a result, there were nine merchants on the sea, and the trade with Jiannu gradually increased in the autumn of the fifth year of Chongzhen, and the drunken immortal liquor series became the best-seller.
The reason why spirits sell well is because of the shortage of food in Jiannu, how can there be surplus grain to make wine? A small amount of liquor is brewed from ridiculously expensive grains, and the price is so high that ordinary people simply cannot afford it.
The "Red Banner Army" system, a highly drunk immortal series brewed with sweet potatoes and potatoes, is cheap and good, and it is not a headache to drink, of course, it is sought after by the Tunguska savages.
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