Chapter 74: Shang Shengbai Gui's way of doing business
The caravan returned with a serious shortage of manpower. There was no choice but to recruit a large number of "migrant workers" on the side of the Deer Park tribe to help transport the goods to the side of the grove.
The normal journey from the Deer Park Tribe to the grove is three days. If you march in a hurry, it will take more than two days. It is said that it is three days, but in fact it is more than that. Because! From the grove to the deer park tribal settlement, three days. And it will take more than half a day to arrive at the house of the sheep girl, the father-in-law's house. This is still a normal and smooth walk, no detours. If you take a detour, it's not enough.
Walking on the prairie, there is no road, it is completely dependent on the sense of direction. So! It's easy to take a detour.
When Bai Gui's caravan came, it reached the edge of the Deer Park tribe, but it was stopped by the Deer Park people, and it did not reach the center of the Deer Park tribe.
In order to prevent the Yiqu people from coming to retaliate, the three brothers-in-law did not follow and stayed in the tribe to protect their families and defend the country. The old man didn't worry about his daughter, and he didn't believe that there was still the place Bai Gui said, so he followed.
The recruitment of migrant workers is very smooth, do not give cash, just give them some living utensils made in the Zhou Dynasty, such as bronze, fine pottery, or women's jewelry, home decorations or something, they are willing to give you as labor.
And also! If you don't need to pay them, promise to help them sell horses in Zhongshan Country, and guarantee how much money a horse sells, and these deer park people will be willing to follow you. Such! You can also use their horses to carry you some goods to Nakayama. Not only do you not want to be paid, but people are also grateful to you.
Nature! Generally, when you go to Zhongshan to sell horses, you won't sell just one horse. It's not cost-effective to sell a horse and go on a trip to Zhongshan Kingdom. Generally, I plan to go to Zhongshan to sell horses, at least more than ten, or so dozens. And also! Not only to sell horses, but also to sell some grassland specialties. For example, horse hides, cowhides, wool, cheese, etc.
On the prairie, there are also their own specialties. For example, the fur to protect against the cold was very easy to sell in the Zhou Dynasty.
The key problem is that no one guarantees the safety of their transactions, let alone their personal safety and the safety of their goods along the way, so no one dares to sell them on the territory of the Zhou Dynasty.
Right now! Shang Sheng Bai Gui gave them this opportunity and was willing to take them to Zhongshan Kingdom to sell their goods. Moreover! The safety of their persons and goods is also guaranteed.
In fact! These people don't know at all! All of this is indirectly exploited. Shang Shengbai Gui is not a good person to take them to Zhongshan Country to sell goods, but! Indirectly, let them transport the goods to Zhongshan country.
Once the goods arrived in Zhongshan Kingdom, let these people sell them in the bazaar themselves. When these people touched the ashes and were pinched by the Zhongshan people or the businessmen who came to Zhongshan to do business, and they were about to lose their money, he came forward to take back the goods of these people.
The merchants of Zhongshan and the merchants who came to Zhongshan were not so honest. They know that you are from the grassland, and you will not stay in Zhongshan Country for too long, so you must be in a hurry to sell the goods. So! They deliberately don't buy your goods, and then buy them at a lower price, forcing you to sell them cheaply.
Bai Gui is not the kind of businessman who harms people, he has no way to transport the goods from the grassland back to Zhongshan Kingdom, so he came up with this method and encourages the grassland people to personally transport the goods to Zhongshan Country to sell. It is fake to let these people go to Zhongshan to sell their goods, but it is real to let these people help him transport the goods.
If you ask these people to transport the goods to Zhongshan, the cost is conceivable. If someone else gives you a part-time job, not only is it not honest, but it may also take advantage of you. If you let them transport the goods to Zhongshan by themselves, their mentality will not be like this, and they will be honest and very frugal. Such! The cost is not a little! But! A lot.
And also! When the grassland people are deceived in Zhongshan Kingdom, you help out, and people will be grateful to you.
This is Shang Shengbai Gui!
After Bai Gui crossed over and was reborn into Shang Sheng Bai Gui, although he felt that Shang Sheng Bai Gui's approach was a little shameless and unfair. But! In addition to this approach, how can you reduce shipping costs?
So! Businessmen, sometimes very treacherous. No treachery, no business! That's really what happened. If they tell you the truth, there is no way to do this business.
But! It's different! Shang Shengbai Gui does not cheat people. Deception is a must, and businessmen have trade secrets. But! Definitely not to cheat people. Shang Sheng Bai Gui deceived the people of Luyuan to go to Zhongshan to sell horses and sell native products of the grassland, not to pit those people, but! I want to use these people to transport goods to Zhongshan country. And then! When these people are in trouble, he comes forward to recover them.
If you have that ability, you are very lucky, and you can sell your goods at a good price in Zhongshan Kingdom, that is also what he wants. Someone did business under his guidance, and it was also to put gold on his face, earn him face, and improve his reputation.
And also! Let these people drive horses and pull goods to Zhongshan Country to sell, and he does not need to compensate for personal safety problems. And more! If you encounter robbers on the way, as long as someone organizes them, everyone will work together more than with the caravan.
Because! If the goods are lost, who wants their goods to be robbed? Isn't it? So! Once they encounter robbers, they play with their lives in order to protect their goods.
This! Bai Gui didn't dare to take many people from the deer park to leave their homes and go to Zhongshan to sell horses or anything. He hired only a hundred men to help him deliver the goods to the grove. Ostensibly, he said he was returning to Zhongshan Kingdom. In fact! It's just for outsiders. Specifically, it is for the people of Yiqu. Or! It was addressed to the spies and spies of the righteous canal people.
The purpose is obvious! It's to confuse the people of Yiqu: he's Baigui! Bai Gui's caravan has returned to Zhongshan Province. If you want revenge, you go to Zhongshan to take revenge.
It is unrealistic for Yiqu people to go to Zhongshan to take revenge. Yiqu is far away from Zhongshan Kingdom, and it is inconvenient to travel long distances to take revenge. Because! The Yiqu Kingdom was formed after unifying the surrounding tribes. Once the king of Yiqu pulled the defense forces away, it was easy for civil strife to occur. Those small tribes that are ruled, including the Deer Park tribe, are likely to come out and rebel.
Bai Gui was organizing the people of Luyuan to go to Zhongshan Country to sell horses and other places, and at the same time hired migrant workers to transport goods to him to the grove. For the time being, it is not possible to take the people of Luyuan to Zhongshan to sell horses, and the people of Luyuan cannot leave their hometown for the time being, so as to prevent the Yiqu people from coming to retaliate.
Only when the situation was settled, and when his goods were traded, did the caravan return. Then! Then take the people of the deer park to Zhongshan Kingdom, and you can achieve the goal. So many caravanserais, someone will take care of them.