Chapter 18 The Merchant Sits Down

Wang Yue said that it is a problem encountered by Huangzhou businessmen today: if they want to expand the market, the resistance is getting bigger and bigger, and there are no wealthy businessmen in Huangzhou. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

According to the different ways of doing business, merchants are divided into "merchants" and "sitting on Jia", according to the original saying, they are called merchants who sell and set up merchants to sit and sell.

Therefore, when going out, a businessman who often travels to do business is a businessman, and a businessman who opens a house or a shop to do business in a fixed place is a businessman, and the pros and cons of the two are different.

Merchants come and go, all kinds of difficulties and obstacles are countless, the strongmen who cut the path, the local officials with bad intentions, and the villagers along the way who are also farmers and bandits, will let the merchants lose their goods at any time, the so-called high risk and high returns, and the merchants can be described as huge profits if they do a good job.

The risk of sitting on Jia is relatively small, after all, you are doing business in a place you are familiar with, but in most cases, you have to rely on the vendors to bring the goods, once you have a mistake and lose money, it will be smashed in your hands.

It's good that the goods sell well, but once the market falls and leads to unsalable, there is no way to solve it, so there is a saying that it is better to sit than a businessman.

Merchants in Huangzhou, with high-quality and inexpensive cloth in their hands, a complete range of books, as well as soap, ham and daily necessities, are naturally unwilling to be a sitting, hoping to go out to do business and maximize profits.

However, the ability is limited, many people were originally just Huangzhou turtles, and the local tyrants may not be counted, leaving their own one-third of an acre, which is called a black eye, just the passes along the way, the government's dots, can make the cost skyrocket.

Fortunately, Yu Wenwen took the lead and organized everyone to hold together, and intentionally or unintentionally played his own name to help everyone get through the initial difficulties.

But with the increase in the scope of activities, the old problem has surfaced again, in Shannan, you can rely on the name of Yuwenwen as a talisman, but from the beginning of crossing the Dabie Mountain to the boundary of Henan, the farther the distance, the more difficult it is.

The county officials are not as good as the current management, no matter how powerful Yuwenwen is in Shannan, he can't manage Henan Prefecture, let alone the Hebei boundary, Huangzhou businessmen dare not make profits, and those local heroes have ways to make people cry without tears.

Horse bandits and thieves are everywhere, and if they are not careful, they will be killed and robbed, these people may be Haoqiang's thugs or accomplices, or even Haoqiang's own other identity, as for bribing Xu officials to deliberately make things difficult, it is not uncommon.

This is still one of the problems, the caravan goes out with a large number of goods, and when it reaches the pass, if the time is not suitable for the retreat, then it has to go from one night to the next day, what will happen to the goods at this time?

Easy to do, there will be a store next to the pass, you can let you stay by the way to store the goods, of course, this service is charged, as for how much, it depends on how much you "fat sheep" has.

If you don't live, then camp in the wilderness, once a thief comes in the middle of the night and sets fire to the dark arrows, the goods are burned and people die, and they are responsible.

Even if the night is safe, but if it rains heavily one day, people are gonorrhea, and goods are wet, should this business be done?

This is all a problem, so you have to make profits, it is essential to make points along the way, the size of the caravan was small before, and the snakes on the ground did not scrape so hard, but now the reputation of Huangzhou cloth and books has risen, and the scale of the Huangzhou caravan is getting bigger and bigger, so the "road money" has also begun to skyrocket.

It's good to say that the distance is short, but now the merchants of Huangzhou have done the business in Yecheng, a distance of 14500 miles, and the bloodsucking insects along the way make people miserable, so there must be countermeasures.

"Wang, everyone has been thinking about this for an afternoon, just for this matter, now it's time to arrange the mansion along the way, that is, to provide convenience for their own people, but also to inquire about local news by the way, as soon as there is a stir, I can finally report a letter."

"Open a shop? robbed the business of the local people's mansion, so you are not afraid that they will set the house on fire? ”

"The Di store doesn't need to be too big, the main thing is to have a reliable place to stay for your own people." Wang Yue further explained, "These people are responsible for taking care of the local heroes, and it is not good to always live in the post station. ”

"Dots? No matter how clever your tongue is, how much can people want to reduce the money they want to buy roads? ”

"As the king said, if there is money, everyone earns it together, and the powerful may not have the energy to organize caravans to be merchants, so what does it matter if the caravans in Huangzhou help by the way? The specific details can be discussed. ”

"There are people who are stationed and can coordinate in time, and there is a Di shop opened by their own people, and Huangzhou businessmen can rest assured that they will stay in the Di shop next door, and they are not afraid of being cut their throats in the middle of the night and the meat will be sold as beef."

Yu Wenwen put one hand on the case, and tapped the desk with his fingers rhythmically, he could understand what Wang Yue said, the key is in what name this layout is carried out.

"Of course, it is carried out in the name of the Huangzhou Chamber of Commerce, just like today's 'consignment' business, Shannan's consignment business is very good, and the line to Guanzhong Chang'an is even more busy."

When Wang Yue said this, he didn't forget to praise Yuwenwen: "Thanks to the king, the Huangzhou Chamber of Commerce has been able to pass unhindered in Shannan and open up a trade route to Guanzhong." ”

"It's thanks to Yongzhou Mu, the gate valve in Guanzhong is right, and there are countless industries under his name, and it is effortless for any one to pinch the Huangzhou businessman to death."

Yu Wenwen added a few words, of course, this does not mean that he has any negative emotions, he must see the reality clearly, Huangzhou businessmen want to go to other places to make money, relying on his name Yu Wenwen, and he relies on the name of his father Yu Wenliang.

Without these, the merchants of Huangzhou are turtles, and he is just an idle clan that is in danger.

To be a person and do things, you must know who gave the bowl of rice in your hand, don't pick up the bowl to eat meat, put down the bowl and scold your mother, if you don't have a correct mentality, something big will happen sooner or later.

"What the king said is that now the prospects of the Huangzhou Chamber of Commerce are getting brighter and brighter, the caravan stalls are getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more places that need to employ people.

"Yes, what's not to do? Everyone has cooperated for so long, knows the roots, and has more opportunities to make a lot of money, so let's make a fortune together. ”

"That being the case, I know below."

"But armor can't be had, at least it can't be equipped on a large scale, and crossbows are too, after all, these two things are taboo, and the private soldiers of the family and the gate lords and magnates have it, that's a special case, don't think that if the monk can touch it, you can touch it."

The "people" mentioned by Yuwenwen and Wang Yue are some cottagers in the Dabie Mountains and other mountains, and the owners of these villages know the current affairs, stand on the side of the government, and organize "volunteers" to go into the mountains to crusade against the rebellious mountain barbarians.

In fact, it is a slave hunting team, and among the hot-selling goods in Huangzhou, there is a category that cannot be explicitly stated, called slaves.

From slave hunting to transportation to sales, the chain of this industry has been very perfect, not only in the Dabie Mountains, but also in the mountains in the south of Ezhou, Jiangnan, there are active slave catchers.

Let's not talk about the benefits, skip the morality or anything, Yuwenwen also adopts the attitude of "getting rich together" to these village owners.

The slave hunting team naturally relies on force to carry out "business", if those soldiers are pulled into the battlefield to play with their lives, it may not work, but it is very suitable to be incorporated into the caravan as a guard, and it is necessary to prevent sneak attacks and secret calculations in the mountains, so why is it difficult to protect the caravan in the plains?

The only problem is identity.

Do they disobey the king's mountain barbarians and intercept and kill good people on official roads, or are they incorporated into the people's jurisdiction and hired to guard caravans to repel bandits?

There must be a name to be justified, these soldiers basically do not understand the official language, if they are slandered as wandering mountain barbarians in the field, it is really killed and killed in vain.

You say you are a good citizen? Then you have to go to Huangzhou to verify it, and when it is verified that it is indeed a good citizen, people will turn into white bones.

Wang Yue already had an idea in his heart about this question, and since Yuwen Wen had set the tone, then he could speak: "King, it is better to set up an overseas Chinese county and let these people have an official identity." ”

"Don't be that troublesome." Yu Wenwen laughed, this kind of problem is not a problem for him at all.

"To do business, there must be a house, a shop, a shopkeeper and a man, so naturally there must be a store to be a guard, and their shop is called a dart board, and the members are the dart head and the dart master." (To be continued.) )