Chapter 390: The Merchant's View of Time

The long river of time, as always, flows forward, which is fair to anyone, but the effect of time is different depending on the profession they are engaged in, and this is true for businessmen.

Under certain circumstances, time plays an extraordinary role.

There are many similar things, and the chamber of commerce's emphasis on horses has also been raised to a new height, and the chamber of commerce has limited channels to get good horses.

Of course, as a money-making Xinyi number, it is not so glamorous.

I earned 10,000 guan in 4 days, which is definitely a terrible number in the Northern Song Dynasty, in the consistent money, it is enough for four or five people to save money, and 15,000 guan under the premise of a month, which is a terrible number.

Xinyi has gained huge benefits, but it has also been unlucky. He turned over the anger of the public, also because it was too high-profile, and those who followed the trend lost all fixed this pot on him and began to look for his fault.

Xinyi itself has a rich fortune, with a history of more than 15 years, and it is also deeply rooted in Bianliang, with more than 100 grain stores and other various stores, it stands to reason that there is really nothing wrong with it.

But in this grain deal, he made a mistake.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, before the Weizhou Conference, the Chamber of Commerce was not easy to obtain even dozens of horses, and among the local horses, the quality was poor, 200 horses, which was an almost unsolvable problem for the Chamber of Commerce.

At that time, when the flood had not completely receded, although the entire Bianliang area was not a Ze country, it was even more terrible than the Ze country, there was silt everywhere, and even some swamps would be formed, and ordinary horses could not stand at all, let alone leave.

In fact, the Xinyi did not drive the carriage away, but simply sent a coachman to Caizhou, which bought the carriage, and even paid a lot of cost for it, but because of this, they obtained a huge profit.

It's hard to get even ordinary horses, how can it be possible to get 200 horses, and even the first-class big chambers of commerce, and even those with a background of relatives, are a little difficult to do, let alone the Xinyi.

The Xinyi also relied on the power of the people behind it, and these horses did not belong to the Chamber of Commerce, but were transferred from elsewhere.

In Bianliang, where 200 horses can be mobilized at one time, there is only one, the military, and it is the most elite unit.

The Northern Song Dynasty lacked horses, but it depends on where it is, this is Bianliang, a place where officials of all sizes are not as good as dogs, and a brick may be thrown down from the upper floor, and it is possible to hit an official.

At the same time, the Great Song Forbidden Army, the most elite force, is also the key to being stationed in the Quartet, but because of the military deployment of the Northern Song Dynasty, at least most of the army is placed in Bianliang.

The most elite and most of them are stationed in Bianliang, Tokyo, and have not formed a formed cavalry, but it is still okay to equip a battalion with a single army.

However, the forbidden army, even the most elite forbidden army, it is impossible to take 200 horses to form a cavalry unit, which is tantamount to saying that it is a waste, and it is generally according to the ordinary configuration, with good horses to form a whole, and then the officers, or generals, ride some slightly better horses.

This is the norm, and it does not mean, that it has not changed, because in Tokyo Bianliang, there are special places, for example, the Privy Council.

This is the highest command body of the Northern Song Dynasty military, the characteristics of the Northern Song Dynasty Wenchen in charge of the army, those Wenchen go out to take charge of the army, they can't not ride a horse, it must be good, in the Privy Council, there is a special place, where all are horses, and even thousands of miles of horses are available.

And there are quite a few of them, with a total of 1,500 horses and at least 20 or so horses.

This department of the Privy Council is under the jurisdiction of the superiors, which is managed by a subordinate officer of the Privy Council.

When Bianliang was plagued by floods and food prices rose wildly, the shopkeeper of the Xinyi came to the door and said that the official was moved.

With 200 horses, you can create at least 8,000 or more profits, or in five or six days.

I have to say that the huge profit made this promising official finally agree and lend the horse.

In itself, there is nothing to do, but it is a pity that at the critical moment of the flood, he relied on the private use of weapons to make profits for himself, coupled with the trend he led, which pitted many people.

These people, one or two, can't affect this official, and if there are more people, the power formed in the end will be very high, maybe these people together can't punish the officials.

Merchants and officials are two distinct parallel lines, but they don't need to be punished, as long as the news is passed to Renzong.

Businessmen, they just because of the relationship of class, there is no way to become officials, in fact, the merchants of all dynasties and dynasties are the smartest, and they know the most about the upper and lower classes, they know very well how angry Renzong was in this flood, and even because of the poor disaster relief, he removed four or five senior officials of the third grade or more.

A priest with only 4 grades, perhaps in front of ordinary businessmen, he is a very high existence, and he can even become one of the big backers of the Chamber of Commerce with a total asset of 1.2 million yuan, but in front of the emperor, he is really weak and pitiful.

The emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty will be subject to many restrictions, and he will not be able to exert his authority without scruples like the Yuan and Qing dynasties, and he can even kill people for no reason, but after all, he is the emperor and the supreme leader of a country in name.

In fact, this information was transmitted to Renzong, and the fate of this official was decided, and the private use of weapons was a very serious matter, or during the flood, for the sake of interests, public weapons were used for private purposes, which was a big problem, and with Renzong's cognition, this was a great crime.

Even if the master of the Xinyi is a secretary of the Privy Council, only in his 30s, and has achieved the level of an officer, it cannot be said that he must be at the level of Zaifu, but he can become a powerful official of the six ministries.

But because he was greedy for such money, he used so many military horses, especially under the guidance of everyone, to make things bigger, and such a promising young official fell because of this, and was directly sentenced to death.

The fall of the Xinyi is just a special case, but where are the real benefits, a good horse is still very important to a chamber of commerce, and in such a situation, those who can get better horses, they can pay a lot.

The price of horses is much more than that of ordinary horses, but in the Chamber of Commerce, there is a set of evaluation methods, those rare transactions, not as the evaluation criteria, from the efficiency and functionality, as well as the long-term, as long as it does not exceed 150, are quite cost-effective.

Now, a batch of 20 horses, under the premise of having at least two horses, the average price does not exceed 115 guan, which is simply a good thing for pie in the sky, thinking that the horses other than the horses are also above the level, very good horses, their own price, between 110 and 120.

Time passed day by day, 3 days of data also passed back, quite outstanding, animals and people in high latitudes, because of the cold and harsher natural conditions, according to natural selection, with time to produce changes, these are reflected in the horse breed, is even more outstanding.

Although there were so-called Western Xia horses and Liao horses in the Northern Song Dynasty, these horses basically did not come from formal channels, and they were never even so-called good horses.

Now, the real good horses, even the horses, the characteristics they show are definitely the most important thing about these horse breeds in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the most important thing is their number.

That's right, one or two, or even one or two hundred horses, are not attractive to them, but when there are 200,000, of which they can get hundreds or thousands, this attraction is very terrifying, when the caravan with a huge amount of money in hand completely improves the state of the carriage convoy, and travels on the entire Northern Song Dynasty continent, I feel excited when I think about it.

It's just that this is a matter of the future, and it will take a certain amount of time to mobilize funds, even if it is a bill of exchange, it is not two or three days, and it takes a certain level of money to be opened, and then the bill of exchange is sent to Weizhou, but the funds in their hands have not been spent.

They are in a hurry to find the bank, not because they have run out of money, but because they need to mobilize funds in advance in case they run out of money by then.

The excellence of these horses has made the Chamber of Commerce form a unified understanding, that is, to increase the number of horses to buy, after getting a positive answer from the bank, the purchase strategy can be adjusted, and the previous plan that may have to be evenly distributed to more than 20 days of purchase can now be advanced to the first ten days, and the way of purchase can also be more radical.

In the following days, the Weizhou conference was held as usual, and the number of cattle increased a little, but the number of horses decreased a little, but in the end, all the transactions were completed ahead of schedule.

The businessmen also understand very well that this auction, on the first day, is 800 times, they have enough chances, they don't have to compete once or twice, there is a very tacit understanding, as long as they hit about 115 times, they will stop

The effect of the second day was very good, 5000 horses, and finally all the transactions were completed, and the average transaction price of the final horse was 112 times, a little less than the beginning, because of the relationship between the continuous transactions, their enthusiasm was not so high, the price of the horse began to gradually return, and returned to the average price of the comparison, it is expected that tomorrow, the price of the horse, will still be quite reduced, and in the end, the price of the whole horse will be reduced to a little more than 100 runs.

This is a normal thing, but after the second day, someone proposed to increase the intensity of the horse and reduce the cattle delivery, because on the third day, the trading volume of cattle shrank on a large scale, and the previous trading volume concentrated exploded, and now, when this trading volume decreased, it was natural that it reached a trough.