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Outside a small silk shop at the riverside wharf in the south of Jiangling City, Jingzhou Prefecture, Li Shuigen tightened the silk robe on his body, and a gust of autumn wind blew from the riverside, he felt a chill in his back, but his heart was hot!

Although the silk robe could not warm his body, it could warm his heart.

Half a year ago, he was an inconspicuous silk merchant in Shunqing Province, a land of Sichuan and Shu, but now, in just a few months, he has become the largest raw silk buyer in Shunqing Province.

And Shunqing Mansion, is the Sichuan Shu Province of the raw silk trading center, the entire Sichuan and Shu silk fabric trade, more than 90% of the raw silk business, and the entire Sichuan and Shu raw silk business, Shunqing Mansion accounted for more than sixty percent, even Mianzhou, Chengdu Mansion, Tongchuan, Jiading Mansion, Zizhou and Lingqing Mansion of raw silk are concentrated in Shunqing Mansion to trade.

It can be said that he Li Shuigen is already a character who can make the silk industry in Shu land tremble three times by stomping his feet.

Therefore, in order to match his identity, he originally only wore linen clothes, but he also learned from those officials and wore silk satin robes, although he himself felt that he was not as comfortable as linen clothes, but he was never tired of it.

On the way from Shunqing Mansion to Jingzhou Mansion in Mubei, all the people in the channel who are engaged in the silk business see themselves, and those who don't know each other, which one should not flatter themselves with a smile?

However, seeing that the façade outside the dock was a little shabby and shabby, Li Shuigen, who had straightened his waist and was arrogant all the way, subconsciously bowed his waist, and his originally proud face quickly changed to a loyal and honest appearance, and became cautious.

There is no other reason. The reason why he was able to become the largest local raw silk buyer in Thuan Khanh Province was because of the blessing of this humble silk shop.

Half a year ago, he heard that the raw silk business was profitable, so he mortgaged his ancestral home, borrowed a large amount of silver from relatives and friends, purchased 80 quintals of silk from Shunqing Mansion, and hired a ship to sell it in Shanghi.

But unexpectedly, when I arrived in Jingzhou Mansion, I heard that the long-haired thief army captured Wuchang City, set up checkpoints on the Yangtze River to seize ships, and cut off water transportation.

The boatman who drove the ship was frightened, and all of them were knocked off the ship, and went back to the Qingfu Mansion.

Leaving him with a guy and eighty loads of raw silk, in Jingzhou City, where he is not familiar with life, what can he do? In a hurry, I didn't expect to get sick, and when I got better, more than half a month has passed.

The price of staying in the hotel is not expensive, and he didn't bring much trays in the first place, and the silver taels on his body are almost running out.

Li Shuigen still didn't give up, and inquired around, only to know that not only Wuchang was occupied by long-haired thieves, but even Jiujiang was soon occupied by long-haired thieves.

It is possible to get through by land, but the cost is not to be calculated, and it will be a loss. What's more, he couldn't even come up with the money to rent a carriage. But if you don't sell it, you will lose money if you have a backlog in your hands.

Helpless, he could only look for a silk shop or pawnshop in Jingzhou City nearby, and wanted to make up a few loads at a reasonable price to make up for the freight of land transportation.

However, Jingzhou Mansion is also a place where silk is produced, although there are not as many as Shudi, but the price is not much different. He asked several silk shops, and when he heard how many loads of raw silk he wanted to sell, he shook his head: I still want to sell raw silk myself, and you still sell it to me? Besides, everyone knows that the Yangtze River waterway is cut off, and it can't be transported to Shanghi, so who will it sell to?

In the end, a silk shop saw his pleading and begging for pity, and promised to accept 5 taels of raw silk, but the price of 67 taels per load was only 10% higher than that of the pawnshop, and less than half of the price of his purchase.

He and his nephews circled around Jingzhou City for three whole days, but they couldn't find a suitable buyer for raw silk.

On the fourth day, when he was desperate, with tears in his eyes, he and his buddies each carried a load of silk, and wanted to turn around 6 loads of silk to the "kind" silk shop, when they were stopped by a passing young scholar.

This young scholar, who claimed to be surnamed Nan, was about to open a silk shop by the wharf in Jingzhou City, and when he saw the two of them carrying a load of raw silk, he casually inquired.

Unexpectedly, this inquiry made Li Shuigen come to work!

The scholar surnamed Nan immediately said that at a price of 180 taels of silver per load, he would buy all his raw silk. Moreover, after signing a long-term purchase and sales agreement, Li Shuigen regularly transported raw silk to Jingzhou, and went to his newly opened silk shop to find him.

Li Shuigen is overjoyed! I just had to kneel and kowtow to the scholar surnamed Nan.

Speaking of which, it is not wrong to say that this South boss saved his life Li Shuigen.

Moreover, the most important thing is that Boss Nan can obviously lower the price, even if he is allowed to sell it at a loss at a price of one hundred taels per load, he Li Shuigen will sell it to him with gratitude. What I didn't expect was that Boss Nan had such a bearing, and he didn't take advantage of the danger at all, and still bought it at a price twenty percent higher than his cost price.

In this way, not only does he not have to lose his money, but he can also earn 20%. Don't underestimate these twenty percent, eighty quintals of raw silk, but he scraped together and mortgaged the ancestral house to make it up, and the cost alone cost tens of thousands of taels. The profit of these two percent is more than his original net worth!

Moreover, as far as he knows, even if it is shipped to Shanghi and sold to those big compradors who buy raw silk, they are not customers with large sales and the best quality of raw silk, and they will not have this price.

So, he hurriedly agreed to come down and deliver goods once every two months.

This is already his fourth delivery.

For the first time, he sold 80 quintals of raw silk to Boss Nan, and after deducting freight and expenses along the way, he Li Shuigen earned 1,900 taels of silver.

The second time, he took the 14,000 taels of silver he received from the payment, mobilized the advantages of his locals, and soon organized a batch of 300 quintals of raw silk in Shunqing Mansion, hired a 20-material ship to come to Jiangling, and in less than two months, he sold it to the boss of Nan again, earning 9,000 taels of silver.

The third time, he asked the boss of the south, and the other party said that he had collected as much as he could, and he was ruthless, not only borrowed a huge amount of usury to make up 50,000 taels of silver, but also said that he took the goods from the big raw silk households in the way of paying 30% of the payment in advance, and directly organized five large ships of raw silk, totaling more than 800 loads, and directly made a net profit of more than 22,000 taels of silver.

Three trips to business, more than four months, made him a net profit of 33,000 taels of silver!

He never dreamed that he would have this good life in this life!

However, Li Shuigen knew that all this was brought to him by this inconspicuous little silk shop.

"It's finally here, and I'm at the silk shop of Master Nan's house. You all put away your frizzy temperament, give me some peace, if anyone causes trouble for me and collides with Master Wu, don't think about mixing! Li Shuigen loudly reminded the more than 30 guys who followed him behind him, thinking about it, he still didn't feel at ease, so he only let a well-behaved little guy follow, and jumped a load of gifts he had carefully prepared for Master Nan. The other men let them look at the twelve ships laden with silk on the docks.

After making proper arrangements, he patted the silk on his body and sorted out his clothes, and then led the little girl into the "Nanji Silk Shop".

As soon as he entered the door, a young man in the shop greeted him, saw that it was Li Shuigen, and greeted him with a smile: "Oh, isn't this Boss Li, why did it take so long to deliver the goods this time?" Is raw silk not easy to harvest? ”

"Boss Nan, I trust you Hongfu, the raw silk is very easy to harvest. This time, it was because the contemptible people took advantage of the low price to charge two more boats, so it took a little more effort. Li Shuigen explained with a smile on his face.

"Haha, Boss Li has a good means, in less than two months, he can get five big boats of raw silk! This time, I'm afraid I'm going to make a lot of money! However, the whole raw silk market has declined recently, and the purchase price of raw silk in Huguang, Liangjiang and Zhejiang, as well as in Liangguang, is declining...... Boss Nan reminded.

"Understand and understand, Boss Nan, you are the most fair, you have one thing to say, and you will never cheat Lao Li! This time, the price is really a lot lower, only 130 taels per load. Originally, I thought that we had too much silk in Shudi, but it turned out that it was like this all over the country! Boss Nan, look, if you don't give me 150 taels per load. Li Shuigen said cautiously, for fear that his request would be too much and anger the other party.

"Boss Li, we in Nanji want long-term cooperation, and the price can't be disadvantaged to you old customers. Or according to the profit point of 20%, according to the price of 155 taels per quintal. Now that large-scale wars have begun to occur in the south of the Yangtze River, and locust plagues have occurred in the Central Plains and Guangxi in the north, business is not doing well, and there are fewer traders buying raw silk, and the price of raw silk will have to fall. ”

Li Shuigen listened to Boss Nan talk eloquently, but he didn't care about the big things in the world, what he cared about was that Boss Nan would buy his raw silk next year.

"Thank you Boss Nan for such a high price! Li specially asked someone to bring a gift from western Sichuan to the boss of the south! I also hope that Boss Nan will continue to give Lao Li the opportunity to make a fortune next year and take care of the business! Li Shuigen said what he meant.

The more he made money every day, the more he was afraid of losing this opportunity. Obviously, Boss Nan can make a fortune by choosing a raw silk merchant in Shu to deliver goods, and he can replace his position as Li Shuigen.

Therefore, he felt more and more that he had to do something for Boss Nan to stabilize his position. (To be continued.) )