Chapter 372: Commodity Storm
Commercial development is a natural law, under the premise that the total economic volume is not large, a wave, is enough to affect the trend of a certain product, not to mention, in the northwest where business is slightly weaker, at least in the market, all the most important chambers of commerce, at the same time large-scale collection of funds, the consequences of this is terrible.
In the past, the prosperous business activities actually produced huge fluctuations, some goods were sold, and some goods that should have been sold after a few months, or even half a year, appeared in the world in advance, opening sales regardless of cost, and a small number of products also fell off a cliff.
Such a decline is a good thing for the common people, who can buy cheaper goods, but for those who are engaged in commercial activities, it is not so good.
Large businesses can operate with capital protection, and even sometimes, a little loss is acceptable, but what about ordinary small businessmen?
They are not as well-informed as the big businessmen, and some of the businessmen below the level don't even know about this large-scale cattle and horse trade in Weizhou, or after hearing about it, they are not sure whether it is true or false.
Even some, who are qualified to know the news, they are not as decisive as the big businessmen, and when they are still hesitating whether to participate in such a cattle and horse transaction, everything has already settled.
That's right, when big businessmen start to open the gates to sell a large number of goods in order to collect as much money as possible, these small merchants, even if they want to sell, have nowhere to sell.
Big businessmen have a strong family foundation and can sell at any cost to buy a large number of horses, but small businessmen, they are more budget-conscious, to a certain extent, they also need to rely on sales to meet daily consumption, in this case, how can they get by without making a certain amount of money.
The sales of big businessmen at this time do not pay attention to conventions and objective laws at all, why, isn't it simple? Gather your money.
Everyone knows that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, 10,000 horses, or Xixia horses, even if they are horses, are stronger than the good horses of the Northern Song Dynasty, and when the caravan with an income of one million gets 1,000 or even more horses, what kind of benefits will erupt.
Any caravan leader knows this very well, and many times, because of the transportation capacity, he has to choose between many commodities.
Some higher-value, high-value-added products are prioritized over the widest coverage and easiest to sell.
Even if you take it back and sell it for a long time, one or two months, or even up to half a year, it is acceptable, and the rest of the time, you can put the limited capacity in other aspects to transport others, so as to ensure both profit margin and efficiency.
In this way, the only problem is that it needs to occupy a huge amount of capital, and the slow recovery rate of funds means that the pressure on funds is very high.
Take the big businessmen who sell 1 million yuan a year, their profits are really not too high, and they can have a good achievement, and the funds that have been suppressed for a long time are even as high as more than 3 million.
This is also the fundamental reason why they chose to sell goods for the first time after hearing the news, yes, such a businessman with goods in his hand, worth more than 3 million yuan, even tens of thousands of yuan, need to sell goods to raise.
What bothers these is not the problem of vision and direction, but the problem of capacity.
This is the same as in the early days of China's reform and opening up, when the transportation capacity was poor, what was lacking was the car, not the people who drove the car, let alone the business.
According to conservative estimates, when a large number of horses appeared on the northwest line, even if there were no railways or canals, it would be enough to reduce the loss of the entire transportation to a bearable level.
For example, what has not been involved before, or in other words, there is no large-scale involvement, can be involved on a large scale, what is more than food, daily necessities, and daily consumables, the reason why it was carried out sporadically before, is because of the constraints of freight.
When the freight is too large and exceeds the range that can be afforded, it can only reduce the consumption in this area and replace it with the output of the surrounding area and the shorter distance.
Now, they can travel long distances, and even go to the navy or the daimyo's mansion to buy those new products, and I believe that they will definitely have higher profits.
Businessmen have always been discerning, and without enough vision, they can't do so much business.
This point is proved by history, under the premise that the Guanzhong Plain is so barren, they can do business to this extent, and even create huge profits every year, they are all discerning, this is a golden opportunity, once the number of carriages doubles, or even several times the premise, their transportation speed is faster, and the income will be higher.
Of course, these businessmen would not have thought that after a large number of means of transportation flooded the market, with the intensification of competition, the profits brought by their transportation would continue to decline, which is the same as freight.
Under the premise of fewer cars and large cargo volumes, the profits of transportation are very high, but when the two sides gradually change, and even under the premise of flattening the wealth, the total amount and proportion of profits will gradually decline, but no matter which aspect, developed logistics will always bring strong support for business activities.
From this point of view, it is good for these caravans, and the lower freight costs seem to be a loss of enthusiasm for the transportation industry, but for business, it is a great benefit.
The relatively low freight will promote the birth of a large-scale centralized industrial system, reduce the cost of all aspects with larger-scale production, and promote the emergence of industrialization, and the direct benefit is the modern industry with the navy as the main body.
This is also the fundamental reason for Zhao Xin's promotion of the railway, and now, Zhao Xin is only connected by the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to this piece of water system, and the tentacles of commerce have penetrated into all the places where the water system can be connected.
Water transport has great benefits, but it is more limited, especially in the north, in some bad weather, such as winter, it will freeze, which directly limits the operation of water transport in winter.
Even if it is not frozen, south of the zero parallel, in winter, due to the influence of weather and temperature, the arrival of the dry season will greatly reduce the value of shipping.
This is in the usual Northern Song Dynasty, there is no problem, generally in winter, not only the caravan chooses to go home, but the commercial activities will also shrink to a certain extent, except for a big city like Bianliang, there will be such troubles, other cities, there are few troubles.
After the winter freeze, Bianliang will often have huge fluctuations due to the lack of materials or insufficient transportation capacity, and the price of some commodities will rise sharply, or in other words, the winter will be extended or come early.
But for the Dingjun, let alone a three-month winter, even if it is ten or twenty days, there will be problems.
Modern industry has brought terrible productivity, as long as things can be produced at full capacity, the daily output is very terrible, 10 times, 100 times, or even higher than the production of ordinary individuals.
With such production capacity and output, any slight stagnation of sales will bring huge losses, and for the weak Dingjun, any bit of twists and turns is unbearable.
What an emerging economy needs is to make great progress, and there can be no twists and turns, and any little twists and turns may lead to unpredictable consequences, which Zhao Xin will never allow.
Commercialization activities need to be explored slowly, even if it is Zhao Xin, a traverser, it is impossible to solve all the problems, and it is necessary to wait for the problems to arise and then deal with the problems, but some predictable problems must be avoided.
The business storm happened very suddenly, and even aroused the attention of the high-level of Jingzhao Mansion, especially the official in charge of business, but unfortunately, no one has less tax to pay, and the huge sales volume has brought a freezing point for a considerable period of time in the future.
If it was caused by someone else, it would have already triggered intervention, and the high-level officials of the Northern Song Dynasty, especially those who were mainly engaged in business, summed up some things in their past experience, and it was very clear that such a cliff-like price drop, resulting in a surge in sales, was not a good thing, which would affect the entire commercial activity.
For this reason, some officials in charge of commerce also specially found those large chambers of commerce and conducted an interview, but when they knew the initiator of everything, no one dared to say anything.
Han Qi himself, on the side of Jingzhao Mansion, is in full swing, even if it is Jingzhao Mansion Yin, compared to Han Qi, it is two or three levels worse, and the rank of a privy deputy envoy is enough to suppress him, not to mention that now, a battle in the northwest not only swept away Han Qi's hidden worries back then, destroyed Western Xia, signed the Lingzhou Peace Conference, and obtained a large number of gains, no matter which of these is taken out, it is a great achievement, at this time, it is really stupid to fight with him.
Since no one intervened, all this went smoothly, and when Han Qi knew everything that happened in Xi'an, he was completely relieved.
Han Qi's main purpose is to attract these big merchants, this time, because he led the Weizhou transaction, which is related to the reward for the three armies, as well as the early development of the entire Lingzhou, which requires a lot of resources and funds, if this cannon is not fired, the horse is passed in vain, and it is not sold, the joke will be big.
Take the 10 major chambers of commerce as an example, each of them can do it in a short period of time, take out more than 100,000 yuan, as long as these people guarantee it, 10,000 horses, there will be the master, this is the main body of this transaction, and the largest volume, as long as they complete the transaction, the rest, the remaining cattle, it is much simpler.