This mountainous area is right next to the river, so the traffic is very convenient, and although there are trees growing, the trees are very sparse.

This place is deserted because there is only a thin layer of soil on the ground, and the bottom layer is full of large rocks, and there is no way to cultivate it, it is basically a wasteland.

But Ma Xian bought it not to farm, but to establish a trading market here as a commercial base for the Ma family to trade with the barbarians.

Take the Xiangjiang River waterway here, not too far from Shajiazhai, only less than 100 miles of waterway. And it is convenient to go down the river from here, pass through Dongting Lake, and get to Majia River.

Rich and easy to do, Ma Xian's efficiency is very high, and in less than half a year, Ma Xian built a large number of houses on this wasteland.

Ma Xian was very thoughtful, and these houses were divided into three major blocks: the first was housing, which was mainly for the staff of the Ma family to live in; the second is inns and shops; The third piece is the storeroom, which is mainly used for the storage of items.

As for the naming of this place, Ma Xian has long had a plan in his heart, and he will continue to use the name of the location of the Ma family, or it will be called Majiahe!

Ma Xian chose this name, mainly to make a name for the Ma family, and at the same time to show credit for himself, after all, he Ma Xian laid a foundation for the Ma family.

Now Ma Xian has a place and has brought a large number of goods from Shajiazhai, but he still needs a businessman to come and do business.

These things did not stump Ma Shuchang, he personally took people on a trip to Changsha County, and purchased a large number of food and daily necessities needed by the barbarians.

And placed orders in major shops, at a high price of one percent higher than the market price, let them send the goods to the Majiahe on the south bank of the Xiangjiang River.

Because he was about to open up the situation at the beginning, Ma Xian didn't think about making money when he bought goods for the barbarians.

He asked the merchants to deliver goods to their doors, on the one hand, he wanted to attract the merchants first, and on the other hand, he also gave profits to the barbarians, and also to give Shamoko a face, and firmly control the barbarian trade in his own hands.

Therefore, the items that Ma Xian sold to the barbarians were sold to the barbarians at whatever price, and the interests of the Majiahe market were completely tied to the barbarians.

The barbarians' special products, cloth and mountain goods, will not work if they are operated in this way, after all, many commodities are to be sold in Jingzhou and even the whole country.

Ma Xian treats these goods as strange goods, and is ready to sell them slowly, and he will not sell them out immediately. If you continue to operate like this, the barbarians will not be able to get paid for the goods in time.

Shamoko had to use the funds to buy the tribe's property, as well as to buy food and other goods, and he didn't have that much money to turn around.

If the current business is mainly the operation of capital, this is not a matter at all, keep accounts with each other, and then calculate the general ledger.

At that time, it was not possible, Ma Xian went to buy grain, and he used real money, and he couldn't accumulate too much money.

At that time, people's arithmetic was also very simple, it was difficult to perform complex calculations, and business things could only be one yard to one yard, otherwise they would be entangled!

Therefore, Ma Xian proposed to buy it at a price 20% higher than the purchase price of the outside merchants, and then sell it from the Ma family's shop.

Of course, the barbarians themselves can also set up shops in Majiahe and wholesale their own goods.

But Shamoko and the major tribes didn't want the tribesmen to waste their time here, so they had to sell all the output to Ma Xian.

The whole process of Ma Xian's purchase of goods for the barbarians, under his arrangement, from beginning to end, there were people in charge of business in the Barbarian Palace's participation, knowing that the Ma family did not make money.

Shamoke was very moved when he heard this, and thought that Ma Xian had helped the barbarians a lot, and the Ma family had suffered a lot of losses.

As a barbarian king, Shamoke naturally did not have the reason to take advantage of the Ma family, so he insisted on reducing the price of cloth and mountain goods by one percent.

This is a ten% price higher than the merchant, and Shamoko himself did not make this difference, but paid all the major tribes to buy people's hearts.

In this way, Ma Xian is equivalent to a windfall, and the profit margin of these precious mountain goods is much larger!

You must know that those merchants go from house to house to buy goods, although the purchase price is less than 50% of the market price, but because it takes a long time, the risk is not small, so they can earn some hard money.

Ma Xian bought those grain and other goods for the barbarians, because he invested a lot of manpower and material resources, but he didn't make a little difference, it seems that he is doing a loss-making business, but in fact, the Ma family is still making money!

Because after those merchants delivered the goods, they still had to rest and live in Majiahe, so they had to spend a lot of money, and this money was earned back by the Ma family's restaurants and inns.

Although Majiahe's food and accommodation are cheaper than those in Changsha County, because the cost is lower, the profit is higher.

After the merchants delivered the goods to their homes, the actual profits returned to Changsha County were not much different from the local transactions in Changsha County, but it sounded like they were sold at a high price, and the merchants felt more comfortable.

In fact, they are equivalent to a free trip to Majiahe, which is also very worthwhile.

These merchants are accustomed to careful calculations, and since they hired ships to deliver the goods to the Majiahe wharf, they don't want to go back, so they have to take a look at the shops in this Majiahe.

There are many mountain goods purchased from the barbarians in the shops here, although the price is expensive, but compared with the prices of the major shops in Changsha County, there is still a large profit margin.

So, those businessmen bought some rare mountain goods to bring with them, and by the way, they did another business, so that they could earn the expenses on the road, but this was exactly the effect that Ma Xian wanted!

Because Ma Xian's shop controlled the number of mountain goods sold, there were not many rare mountain goods sold to them, so their ships could not eat the goods.

If they didn't buy anything, according to the initial budget, they would still have a profit when the ship was empty, and the merchants would not feel sorry.

Now that some of the cargo has been loaded, and there are other goods to be loaded, they are looking everywhere to fill the ship with cargo and make more money.

After this careful search, they really found that there are really a lot of goods in Majiahe that are in demand in Changsha City, and the prices are not expensive and profitable, so that the merchants are full of goods.

They bought goods from the Ma family's shop, they were profitable, but the bulk of it was the Ma family's shop that made money.

What's more, after a period of operation, Majiahe has become very lively, becoming the largest commodity distribution center on both sides of the Xiangjiang River.

In less than two years, Ma Xian turned this remote wasteland on the south bank of the Xiangjiang River into a prosperous commodity market, meeting the needs of commodity trading with the barbarians.

I have to say that Ma Xian is really a business genius, the income of the barbarians has been greatly improved, the interests of the Ma family and the barbarians are tied together, the relationship is also closer, and closer cooperation has been carried out in many aspects.

In less than two years, Ma Xian has earned more money for the Ma family than in the past few decades, and the Ma patriarch is like a dream.