Chapter 1020 Now Jinwu Zang Meijiao (II)

What is Zhao Xing busy with?

On a mountain peak by the Qiantang River in Hangzhou and Hangzhou, Zhao Xing held a half-human-high Tang knife with a gorgeous scabbard, pointed to the land at the foot of the mountain with high spirits, turned back to the people behind him and said: "Right here, I bought this land and will build a big manor here, what do you think?" ”

The person behind him is Jiao Touch, and behind Jiao Touch is Liu San, the shipmaster who drove him to Japan. Behind Liu San stood several Japanese, led by the Japanese Fusi, who is now called "Nagato Fusi". Halfway up the hill, stood Cheng Shuang, the only student who followed Zhao Xing.

Nagato is a place name located in western Japan, across the East China Sea. When Chinese came to Japan during the Song Dynasty, they all went ashore from the Tang ferry port in Nagato. Zhao Xing went to Japan this time and received a lot of rewards from the Japanese royal family, and he specially asked for a small piece of land in Nagato to establish a small manor, and the small manor was named "Nagato Song Garden".

Then, he asked Bu San and Bu Si to help him manage Nagato Song Yuan - to his surprise, among the two, Busan, who has always been astute, was very focused, and he insisted on continuing to work as a follower behind Su Shi, but Busi, who was not very smart, was willing to follow him. As a result, Busi was given the family name "Nagato" - from now on, he is the big housekeeper of Nagato Song Garden, and he can be regarded as a small "big name" in Japan.

Jiao Feng pursed his lips, and he replied unwillingly: "Big official, how can there be Mingzhou here...... Wild place, the tide of Qiantang has been famous since ancient times, build a warehouse here, there are several months of hard work a year can not do business at all, the tide together, the goods have to be involved in the bottom of the river, how to ......"

Zhao Xing raised his hand to stop him: "I know, it is very troublesome for us to transport the goods here from Mingzhou, and it will add a lot of costs invisibly." However, the development of Mingzhou has reached the end of its course, and the development of Hangzhou has just begun.

This time, we have the power to trade with the Japanese Imperial Family, and we have a connection with the Genji Kanto Samurai, and if we insist on establishing a foothold in Mingzhou, we will be suppressed by the merchants of Mingzhou. Rather than this, it is better to change the perspective, we will establish ourselves in Hangzhou instead, enter and exit the sea through the Qiantang River, and avoid the siege of Mingzhou merchants.

I have always liked the principle of 'win-win' in business, I will not let the person who works with me, I will not let him suffer, and the person who fights with me, I will try to avoid direct conflict. I'm here to do business, vicious competition will only increase operating costs, so I don't compete with them, I don't ship in Mingzhou, the warehouse is in Hangzhou, I would rather increase the transportation cost a little than spend money on vicious competition......

Forget it, it's useless to explain these business operation principles to you, you just have to follow me...... Look, Liu San is here, and in the future, the goods to and from Japan will be handed over by the two of you, and I will set up a housekeeper here...... It is even possible to move the family here. In the future, Nagato Fusi is in Japan, and I am in Hangzhou, and we are the supervisors and bookkeepers at both ends - that's it! ”

Jiao Touch, Liu San, and Nagato Busi responded with a "yes".

After Jiao touched himself and followed Zhao Xing, he made a few urgent trips (express delivery), which eliminated the worries when selling goods, and his income was fixed and guaranteed. Originally, he thought that he would be able to spend the rest of his life in stability and comfort like this, but he didn't expect that at the end of the year, he was ordered to hand over the familiar line to his son Jiaozuo, and he came to Hangzhou to obey orders.

When he arrived in Hangzhou, he learned that Zhao Xing had opened up a trade route to Japan, which was a new route, and others stopped going to Japan in winter, but he could go to sea in winter, take the fastest route, sail day and night, and the whole voyage was shortened by half compared to the original.

Jiao Touch was very happy with this news, he once heard someone say: a Song merchant in Hakata Bay, for 70 guan wen or 60 silk silk to buy a "Akuya jade (i.e., Japanese Owari mussel beads)", after returning to China, this pearl sold for 50,000 guan.

How much is 50,000 guan?

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, 200 yuan was very satisfying to the hard-working senior generals. For example, before Cao Bin led the army to pacify the Southern Tang Dynasty, Song Taizu made a wish: "Li Yu should be the envoy of Qing Ke." But Cao Bin didn't believe it, and he told the deputy marshal Pan Mei that the Northern Han Dynasty had not yet been pacified at this time, making it impossible to fulfill Xiangyi's statement.

After the triumph, Song Taizu really said: "This is the envoy of the Qing Dynasty, but Liu Jiyuan has not been released, so I will treat him less." Hearing this, Mei snickered and smiled. Shangjue, so the beauty does not dare to hide, so it is true. Shang also laughed, but gave Bin 200,000 dollars. Bin retired and said: 'Why should you be a prime minister in life, and a good official will not get too much money. ’”

The generation of this famous saying is nothing more than 200 yuan.

So, what can a Song person do with 50,000 guan?

In addition to the 50,000 kan pearls, Jiao Touch also knows that Japanese handicrafts are unique and the level of craftsmanship is very high. Such as gold and silver paintings, luodian utensils, crystals, Japanese jade, wooden prayer beads, screens, Japanese fans, Japanese knives, etc., are very popular with the Song people.

It is said that the Japanese lacquer-handled folding fan sold at the Sokokuji market in Tokyo is extremely exquisite, and the pale pastel painting on the fan surface is praised as "exquisite gestures". Raden utensils are also very popular, and are known as "all kinds of things, quite ingenious". Among them, Japanese swords are especially loved by the Song people, and Ouyang Xiu once wrote "Treasure Knife Song" to praise Japanese swords. A delicate Japanese sword, worth "100 gold" in the Song Dynasty......

The Japanese route was opened, and this Japanese route can be used all year round, which means that the day is making money - for example, this time Zhao Xing went to Japan and exchanged three hundred Japanese swords and two hundred pairs of armor from the Japanese royal family with a few plates with Su Dongpo's poems written on them; Exchanged 300 "Akuya Jade" from the Genji Kanto Samurai Order. This batch of goods alone, if sold in Mingzhou, is a huge fortune of tens of millions of yuan.

According to the prior agreement with Zhao Xing, the goods that Jiao Touch can take a commission of 3%, that is to say, if Zhao Xing's property is handed over to him to deal with, he can obtain a huge wealth of 300,000 yuan in the blink of an eye.

Under the huge profits, he naturally tried his best to fight for his wallet, if Zhao Xing's wealth increased, it meant that his commission also increased. However, Zhao Xing abandoned the prosperous Mingzhou and came to Hangzhou, a small remote place.

Hangzhou has not yet been developed, surrounded by mountains, cultivated land is scarce, rivers are overflowing, so far there are floods here, over the years Hangzhou is the same as Huangzhou, belongs to the place where criminal officials stay, send people to be officials here, that is a kind of punishment.

In this case, Jiao Touch naturally has to fight hard. Although Zhao Xing gave him a large sum of money, Japan's commerce was too rich, and as long as the disposal of a few assets was delayed, the loss of Jiao Touch's loss could be calculated as 100,000 yuan.

Zhao Xingcai is generous, and he doesn't care about the hundreds of thousands of inconsistencies, but the loss of Jiao Touch is in front of him, and he can see that this loss is several times more than his current family property, can he not be sad.

"This place, big officials, the river wind is so strong, is it appropriate to build a house here?" Jiao Touch continued to work hard.

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