Chapter 461: Fujiwara Money Village
Mu Zhimeng gives people a bold feeling, not like a businessman at all, but Wang Guanqi is a shrewd businessman to the bone, Zhen Qian really can't figure out how these two people can do business together without incident.
Mu Zhimeng did not have much demand for glaze, and mainly bought a large number of perfumes and soaps, and provided Zhen Qian with five hundred prisoners of war at the same time, but also provided Zhen Qian with an important piece of information, there are many such prisoners of war and slaves in the Bohai Kingdom, if Zhen Qian is willing, he can trade in the Bohai Kingdom, and the price will be half lower.
Wang Guanqi's family itself started in the glass business, and the two are still competitors, so they have no intention of buying glass from Zhen Qian, and they also want perfume and soap, but both of them promise not to sell perfume and soap in the Wa Kingdom, which is the market opened up by Zhen Qian, and the three of them finalized the division of the market, Mu Zhimeng sells in Bohai Kingdom, and Wang Guanqi sells in Silla and Jiangnan, this sales model is not uncommon in the Tang Dynasty, and it is the prototype of regional agents!
"Do you still have jade porcelain in your hand?" Wang Guanqi rolled his eyes.
Mu Zhimeng laughed and said, "Brother Wang, where do you want to sell jade porcelain?" ”
"Of course it's Silla!" Wang Guanqi did not shy away from saying.
From Wang Guanqi's words, he knew that his power in Silla should be not small, and this speculation was also confirmed through the conversation with Mu Zhimeng, these merchants who did transnational trade had a lot of influence abroad, and like many Hu people who bought officials in the Tang Dynasty, they would use money to buy an idle official in a foreign country as their own talisman, and they had a very close relationship with the senior officials of these countries, and their influence was very great.
"The two of you have helped me a lot this time, I can sell you two jade porcelain at eighty percent, if the two can provide me with the slaves I want, the price can be reduced by one percent, what do you think?"
"Does the lord want a peerless beauty, or a talented singer?"
Zhen Qian shook his head and said: "Strong men, young women, young children and skilled craftsmen, the more these people, the better, if it is an excellent craftsman, the price can be higher, and even I can go to the designated place to pick up the goods, this condition is good!" ”
Wang Guanqi and Mu Zhimeng nodded, Zhen Qian's conditions are not high, only excellent craftsmen are not easy to find, and both sides are profitable.
"Then it's a deal!"
"Happy working together! Cheers! ”
A scorching white sun hung high in the air, roasting the whole earth like a furnace, the leaves drooping in the scorching sun, and there was not a trace of wind in the air, except for the annoying screams, the whole earth was immersed in a dead silence.
On the road, you can only see a few figures, even the dead dogs barking in the shade of the trees on the side of the road crawl on the ground and spit out their long tongues, the whole Matsuura Castle seems to have lost its life, it has not rained for a month, the water in the pond has disappeared, revealing the dry and cracked bottom of the pond, and a few small fish are making their last struggle in a puddle of mud.
Walking into the largest restaurant in Songpu City, the drunken fairy building is cool and pleasant, making every pore of the body feel very comfortable.
"It's such a great place to escape the heat! It's more comfortable than my guardian's house", Fujiwara Shuxiong lazily lay on a rattan chair, holding a glass of grape wine in his hand, gently shaking it with his hand, the ice fish inside made a crisp sound of impact, above his head is a large sunshade spire made of green bamboo, the clear water pumped up from the ground is led everywhere by a conduit, and finally flows down along the tiny hole "tick, tick", as if in a cool water curtain hole.
"With such a blazing sun, aren't you in a hurry at all?" Zhen Qian was also lazily lying on a rocking chair, wearing calf nose pants without an image, and there was a large basin of steaming ice cubes next to him, so that he didn't even have the idea of moving his fingers, and cursed in his heart for this ghost weather, the temperature was at least thirty-five degrees or more, and there was no wind at all, and everyone was almost cooked.
"Is it useful to be in a hurry?" Fujiwara brushed his eyelids, the whole person was already languishing, and his body shook a little, so that a widow next to him who was only wearing a layer of green yarn wiped his body with a towel dipped in water to cool down, and the other was fanning the wind with a fan.
Zhen Qian irritably drove a "buzzing" fly away and said: "I just came back from Nagasaki Town a few days ago, and I found that the river began to stop flowing, and this year's summer grain harvest will definitely fail in such weather, at this time, we should send more people to find water sources, or dig wells in the fields to store water, maybe we can alleviate the drought?" ”
"I've already arranged these things, it's up to God whether they can produce results, do you think I can go against the sky?"
Fujiwara Shuxiong has indeed done a lot of things, but in Zhen Qian's eyes, these are far from enough, and the drought is likely to be followed by famine, but these Fujiwara Shuxiong don't seem to be in their eyes, thinking that this is not getting along with God and affecting heaven and heavenly principles.
This is a drought that covers the entire Saikaido, and not only Hizen Province, but all other Seikaido provinces have not had rain for a long time, which also makes Fujiwara lose confidence in disaster relief.
"Although some things cannot be violated, they still have to be done, and if you reduce the loss of one percent, you can save hundreds of thousands of people, which is a great merit!"
"Isn't it now that Fujiwara Money Village has been built? The seedling method you said is already being prepared, this drought is the best opportunity to promote the seedling method, I should be grateful for this drought", Fujiwara Shuxiong smiled proudly, poured the chilled grape brew in his hand into his mouth, and wantonly pinched the chest of the widow next to him and said: "Fujiwara Money Village has been open for more than ten days, but a deposit and loan business has not been received, and the money in the hands of those merchants is hidden in the cellar of the family and is reluctant to take it out, and the people who need money are willing to starve rather than take out loans, Do you think Fujiwara Money House can survive if this continues? ”
Zhen Qian smiled coldly, he overestimated Fujiwara Shuxiong's temperament, and the monthly loan interest of four cents was not high, and he didn't want to think about whether the living standards of the people of the Japanese country could pay such a high interest?
Compared with the prefectures and counties of the Tang Dynasty, Feiqian can only be regarded as a small agricultural state and county at most, more than seventy percent of the wealth is gathered in Songpu City, Zhen Qian saw those Japanese people on the way to and from Nagasaki Town, the richer families are all houses built with adobe, the family's property is outrageously small, children run around the world with bare buttocks, men cover their lower bodies with a piece of linen, women don't dare to go out easily wrapped in an old cloth, the only thing that can be regarded as wealth is only a few acres of land, such a family does not even have the ability to resist disasters.