Chapter 381: Cattle and Horse Auction
The original Weizhou Cattle and Horse Conference was based on the traditional model of the Cattle and Horse Conference, which required the livestock to arrive before it could be sold, and after the sale was completed, the buyer determined the livestock and bought it before he could get the money.
This kind of transaction process is the fairest, and it is also a relatively normal mode of cattle and horse trading, but for the northwest, not to mention the speed of the money in place, after the money is in place, it is also necessary to go to these prosperous places in Jingzhao Mansion to buy materials, and once you come and go, it will delay time.
However, there are many things that need to be changed in the cattle and horse trade to become an auction model, and these orders announced by Han Qi are also related to this aspect.
The state of the transaction has to be changed dramatically, but according to the standard of the auction, it is no longer bought with a cow and a horse, but in batches.
After Han Qi weighed it, each batch could not be too much, 20 horses as a batch, 100 cattle as a batch, to ensure that the basic price of each batch is more than 1000 yuan, in this way, it is more appropriate. However, this kind of transaction method is not so beautiful for ordinary waiters, and they will almost be rejected outside.
Even if they can use more than 1,000 yuan, they can't buy 100 cattle with more than 1,000 yuan at once.
For these rich households, a maximum of ten cows can be used by them, and the rest may only have the value of food.
Perhaps, after the Lingzhou Peace Conference, after a large number of cattle and sheep entered the Northern Song Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty would adjust the issue of slaughtering cattle, and before that, slaughtering ploughing cattle was a very troublesome thing.
At the same time, most of the work of these landlords is self-sufficient, and they really get 90 cows to kill and eat meat, which is also a bit wasteful, and they can't sell it at all.
This is the difference between landlords and businessmen, as long as businessmen have profits, even if they go south and north, across most of China, they are willing, but for landlords, they consider more of an acre and three points of land.
A large amount of news came definitely, not vaguely, and this was also done by Han Qi on purpose.
If he vaguely speaks, there will definitely be a large number of landlords who go to Weizhou, but he sees that most of them are auctioned, and the overall transaction is smart, and there may be a way to buy it together, but there will not be too many, and most of them are running in vain.
For the current travel costs of the Northern Song Dynasty, especially in the west, if the wishes are not met, there will be a huge burden, especially those third-class households, which will dampen their confidence, it is better to inform them in advance.
Eight hundred miles is urgent, as long as it is publicized to Jingzhao Mansion, it will spread on a large scale, which is also quite beneficial to establish prestige and save costs.
At the same time, Han Qi thought of the method of group buying that Zhao Xin had mentioned, a group of 20 horses and 100 cows, and also took great care of them.
In the middle, in the process of gradual publicity, the Chamber of Commerce was also inspired, and began to take the initiative to absorb these first, second and third class households, by paying a deposit, of course, not the deposit of the Weizhou Fair, but according to their own purchase quantity, a certain amount of money in advance, represented by the Chamber of Commerce and Qian Zhuang, joined this auction.
The whole auction did not lose a large number of customers due to the change to an auction as Han Qi expected, except for the scattered ones, most of the rest joined the group buying through various means, but the number of people who came to Weizhou was greatly reduced.
In this era, there is no later generation, the so-called trade economy, as well as the tourism economy, although Weizhou is also a central city, but it has never had the ability to undertake tens of thousands of people, or even hundreds of thousands of people, and it is not suitable to forcibly build various venues.
Being able to reduce the number of people coming to Weizhou is not an unacceptable option for Weizhou.
As for the margin, it is also determined according to the different targets of the distribution.
Han Qi will not completely eliminate scattered transactions, in the formulation of rules, there are fewer scattered transactions of horses, ordinary households, in the choice between cattle and horses, more will be inclined to cattle.
Oxen are more powerful and more suitable for ploughing, and they cannot be compared with oxen unless they are replaced with a special plough that is more suitable for Malay ploughing.
In addition, there is a very crucial factor, that is, the price, the price of cattle is much lower than that of horses, almost seven or eight times the difference, a horse can buy seven or eight cows, in this case, for the budget-conscious landlord, there is no need to buy a horse.
In the scattered trading of livestock, mainly cattle, some scattered landlords, their purchasing power is also quite high, when tens of thousands of landlords, their strength, all together, is also very terrible.
Maybe it's tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands.
However, scattered users, there is not so much convenience as margin users, as long as the advance payment, but at any time to check the condition of the livestock, at the same time, relatively speaking, the prepaid livestock is a little higher than the scattered, and worry-free.
For big businessmen, this is nothing, in itself, if they want to buy these livestock, they don't want to buy them one by one, even if they are a million-level chamber of commerce, it is impossible for all the funds and manpower to get here.
Large-scale, auction, is their best choice, they can put a large number of livestock, together, it is easier to carry out testing, advance payment or something, nothing, anyway, these money, is to operate in the bank, to be deposited in advance in the bank, there is not much difference.
Scattered users, they can also have a place to trade, but later, when the Weizhou Conference ended, Han Qi found that his actions were useless, no way, under his publicity, under the efforts of the money village and the Chamber of Commerce, with the method of margin, absorbed nearly eighty or ninety percent of the first, second and third class households, only near Weizhou, the distance is closer, will choose scattered transactions, to the Weizhou market to buy, these people are probably one or two thousand people.
At the Weizhou Conference, under the attention of Han Qi, the rules were gradually improved, according to 20 horses and 100 cattle as a group, in the experienced herdsmen, as evenly distributed as possible, each group was numbered separately, when the time came, all the people participating in the auction could be inspected, competed, naturally, need to pay a deposit, this deposit, the amount varies.
Han Qi uses the most basic price, according to a batch of about 1000 yuan, there are many people who can afford this money, and even many people are willing to pay a little more, in just a few days, here in Xi'an, 2500 deposits have been paid, as high as 2.5 million yuan.
Sure enough, this is the fastest way to get money, and when the system of advance payment is promulgated and Han Qi contacts the money bank, this rationality will not be questioned.
Because before the closing of the Weizhou Conference, when these advances were withdrawn, the money belonged to the government.
There is still a little problem with this, that is, if there is too much misappropriation, when the time comes, when the Weizhou Conference is over, how to return the deposit to them.
For other products, these money banks will have such worries, but now, what is sold by the Weizhou Conference, is cattle and horses, and the margin, is only a very insignificant fraction, take 200,000 horses as an example, the price is as high as 20 million, and the funds mobilized by these chambers of commerce, no longer in the number of deposits, there are as many as 10 million, a large-scale auction, can not sell 2.5 million cattle and horses, this is impossible.
As long as the goal can be achieved in the end, and there is rationality as the premise, this fund can of course be used by Lingzhou at will.
It's just a simple violation, and there is not even a large-scale mobilization of funds, but the funds are exchanged for goods, and the goods are transferred from Xi'an, during this time, those chambers of commerce in order to raise funds, open the goods to sell, and under the premise of competing with each other, the overall price of goods has been reduced by one or two percent.
If they directly take the money in exchange for the goods, the profits brought by the goods themselves alone will already allow them to get enough profits, not to mention, Han Qi also strictly follows the regulations and gives 3 points of profit.
2.5 million, if all transferred, is 75,000 handling fees, this number, for any money bank, is for nothing, not to mention the gap between materials and freight, conservative estimates, this time, all the money bank, together, can earn a profit of about 250,000 yuan.
Of course, Han Qi knew that in the middle, Qian Zhuang could make a lot of money, but for him, these were all acceptable, his primary purpose was to solve the problem of Lingzhou, and to exchange money for time, which was acceptable, for such a position of tens of thousands of guan, if all these animals delivered by Liao Guo died because of the blizzard, the loss would be even greater
Dead cattle can be sold for meat, what to do with horses, a live horse, worth 100 yuan, this is rare and expensive, but also has practical use value, but dead horses are different.
Horse meat has always been not very suitable for use, it is too sour, even if it is a nomadic people, they will kill horses and eat meat unless it is a last resort, and they will not make this choice in the slightest possibility, and the taste is really too bad.
If 5 million horses could not withstand the blizzard and all of them died, the loss would be too great to bear.
After solving this problem of reasonableness, there is a margin of 2.5 million in the margin account, which has exceeded the maximum amount expected before, but how much money to call is a problem.
Although the head of Qianzhuang has rushed to Weizhou, specifically for this matter, the funds are still placed in Xi'an, and they must wait until the quantity is determined here, and then mobilize them for the purchase of various materials, and all this can only be determined by Han Qi.