Shopping malls are like battlefields!

I don't know when this sentence has been circulating in Chinese shopping malls. But when the business field is combined with the bloody battlefield, no one knows what kind of flowers will bloom, but one thing is certain - in the battlefield, there are also unexpected business opportunities.www.biquge.info

What is a Merchant?

A businessman can see all business opportunities, even in the most dangerous places, and there are also unexpected business opportunities.

As a businessman, Wang Chi can't remember exactly how he got into the business, and even now, a few months after coming to India, he still feels like a dream.

At this time last year, he was still just the leader of a small horse gang -- a few years ago, he had fled to Chongqing, Sichuan Province after killing his cousin Jiang Geng in a brawl, and then he used the 10 taels of silver that his mother sold the dowry jade bracelet as the capital to do business, and he cooperated with the merchants of Chongqing and Yunnan to run the "Tianshunxiang" business, and traded between Sichuan and Yunnan.

It stands to reason that even if he works hard, I'm afraid that if he wants to achieve a career, it is not something that can be achieved in three or five years, but sometimes, people's fate is really wonderful, just like he killed his cousin, which made him jump out of the mountain and become the leader of a pony gang.

And now, the outbreak of war is also changing his fate. After the outbreak of the war, in order to ensure the smooth transportation of materials to the Burmese side, in view of the special mountainous terrain of the southwest, the army requisitioned almost all the transportation forces that could be requisitioned, and all the caravans in the entire southwest were hired by the army. Wang Chi, who led a small horse gang at that time, was naturally no exception, he, like many horse gangs, was hired by the army, using mules and horses to transport supplies for the army, and before the troops reached Yangon, he earned a lot of commissions from all those hired horse gangs without exception.

However, unlike most of the gang leaders who had captured Rangoon and returned to China after settling commissions with the military, Wang Chi found a new opportunity there, and when he was settling commissions, he found a business opportunity for the army to auction off the materials seized at the port.

After discovering this opportunity, Wang Chi immediately sold all his horses without hesitation, and then added the commission he had just settled, and bought a batch of materials that had been withheld by the military at a very low price - most of them were British industrial products, that is, cotton yarn, and some daily necessities, in fact, he did not have so much money at that time, but auctioned off the goods worth tens of thousands of yuan with less than 2,000 yuan by paying a deposit, and then resold them wholesale to local merchants and other horse gangs in Yangon, and the auction deposit of 1,000 yuan, It was enough to discourage those horse gangs, and Wang Chi's courage made him decisively scrape together enough money by selling horses and borrowing money.

Wang Chi, who earned the first pot of gold through this loot auction, did not choose to leave Yangon because he earned a huge sum of tens of thousands of yuan, and when dealing with those goods, he found that Yangon was prosperous in commerce and lived in the key points of land and water transportation, considering that the southwest was not near the sea, and during the war, the officers he contacted talked about the future to build iron in Burma, so as to realize the nearby sea access to Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places, and Yangon, located at the mouth of the river, is undoubtedly the best outlet to the sea, and will only be more prosperous in the future. Therefore, he chose to set up a village there and began to engage in trade, so he rented a house on the street and officially listed the "Tianshunxiang" business. Started a business in Yangon.

The "Tian Shun Xiang" firm has a lot of business, from Yangon's rice to Chinese cotton cloth, enamel basins and other materials, as long as it is a commodity that is needed in the market, the "Tian Shun Xiang" business will sell, of course, his real business is in Yangon's military auction, the auction of the confiscated British, to be precise, an Indian founded three years ago spinning mill.

The military's auctions are different from ordinary auctions, the military often designates that only Chinese can participate in the auction, and Wang Chi's several businesses are thanks to this regulation - this directly excludes local Burmese merchants, and at that time the big domestic merchants did not enter Burma with the army, as for most of the small merchants who entered Burma, they did not have that capital, because of this, Wang Chi was able to auction a large amount of materials, and even only need to pay a deposit, and it was thanks to this that he was able to auction the newly built yarn factory. Since then, the mill has become a hen that lays golden eggs!

The outbreak of war changed everything, and more than at any other time, after the outbreak of war between China and Britain, there was a huge gap in the market throughout Asia, especially in Lower Burma, which had become accustomed to woven yarn and woven fabrics.

After the withdrawal of British capital, the demand for yarn and cotton cloth in Lower Burma and the whole of Southeast Asia was never satisfied, but they had few better sources other than China, and under the report of China's domestic production capacity and rising yarn prices, merchants naturally did not ship silk thread to Burma, and Wang Chi's Tianshunxiang yarn factory became the only yarn supplier in the whole of Myanmar, thus obtaining unimaginable huge profits.

It can be that it is the yarn factory that has become Tianshunxiang today, when it was only less than 100,000 yuan to buy the factory, and now the bank's valuation has exceeded 1.2 million, which is even far more than the value of its equipment, the reason is the monopoly position of Tianshunxiang yarn factory in Lower Myanmar, as well as the thriving market it faces.

However, this does not mean that Wang Chi can lie on the bed and count the silver, and the unavoidable shortage of raw materials in the domestic yarn mills also limits the production of the Tianshunxiang factory, and unlike the domestic factories that rely on cotton shipped from the south of the United States to maintain production, Wang Chi, who could not obtain a stable source of cotton under the control of the military on merchant shipping, finally set his sights on Myanmar's close neighbor - India.

At this time, India was in the midst of a war and chaos, when the British and Indian governors mobilized their forces to guard against an attack from Burma, they never dreamed that another country would cross Persia and launch an attack on India, and after Russia declared war on Britain, it mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops from Persia to India,

The reality of the emptiness in the rear and almost no defense made it impossible for the Anglo-Indian authorities to react at all in the first few months, and it was almost not until the Russian army advanced all the way to the vicinity of Delhi that the Anglo-Indian authorities reluctantly reorganized the defensive line around Delhi.

However, the hasty defense line did not stop the footsteps of the Russians, the British and Indian troops failed to hold Delhi in the face of the Russian attack, and what is more deadly is that compared with the traditional British territories such as Mumbai and Bengal, the area around Delhi is the princely states that have just been annexed during the Indian uprising a few years ago, and even the princely states of some nearby princely states also have anti-British sentiments. This allowed the Russians to easily control northern India.

It was at this time, faced with the reality of insufficient raw materials and the inability of factories to operate, Wang Chi did not flinch, although he knew that India was still at war, but he still took a merchant ship to India and came to Karachi.

The most important reason why the Russian army dared to cross Persia and launch an attack on India was China's full support, and in order to support the Russians' operations in India, a "Sino-Russian Indian Ocean Shipping Company" was even established to ensure that the materials shipped from China could be smoothly transported to India. It was the hundreds of thousands of tons of supplies shipped from China that ensured the operation of 300,000 Russian troops in India, and Wang Chi arrived in Karachi on these transport ships, and then followed the Russian offensive route all the way to the princely states that had just surrendered to Russia - India's cotton-producing fields are in the northwest of the Deccan Plateau, although cotton can be bought in Karachi to ensure the construction of factories, but Wang Chi is not satisfied with this, after coming to India, he saw a broader market, And this market has not even been noticed.

"Cotton!"

Wang Chi, who was riding on horseback, pointed to the cotton field like a white sea in front of him, and said to Li Dingyi beside him.

"This cotton is the fundamental purpose of my here! Now there is a shortage of everything in the country, but the most lacking is cotton, although the quality of cotton in India is far less than that of American cotton, but it is slightly better than the quality of domestic cotton, the most suitable for textile 16 yarns, of course, more importantly, India's cotton is cheaper than the United States, even if it is shipped back to China from India, it is more than 30% cheaper than American cotton, and the profit can be said to be extremely amazing......

As a businessman, Wang Chi never positioned himself as a factory owner or limited to a certain industry, in his opinion, as long as it was a profitable business, he would not let go, he found Indian cotton in Burma, and when he found that the cotton here was high in production and quality, he immediately thought of shipping the cotton here to China. He then sold it to the domestic factory owners, and of course, he had even thought about selling cheap cotton to the domestic factory owners, and then signing purchase contracts with them to transport part of the yarn and cotton cloth they produced to Nanyang.

Everyone has an opportunity, it's up to you to seize it, and for Wang Chi, he will never miss an opportunity, just as he now risks deep into the heart of the Deccan Plateau in India in order to seize this opportunity, after all, there are still supporters of the British. As a Chinese, in this part of India, his appearance is really too conspicuous, but despite this, he still came here to seize this opportunity.

“…… And now the freight back to China is not worth a row at all, the merchant ships of the Chinese and Russian shipping companies are basically full of ships, empty ships, and it is a waste to put the cabin like that, and because the merchant ships are nervous, they are all sailing engines and use both, and the empty ships can't save any coal, I have finalized with the company, and the freight is discounted by 3% at the regular price, for them, the 3% discount on freight is earned in vain......"

When mentioning the freight, Wang Chi's tone was calm, but his face looked extremely proud, in order to talk about the freight, he even went directly to the newly appointed Indian Governor General -- of course, the Russian appointed Viceroy of India, and then told him that China's demand for cotton is for India, to be precise, for Russia, that is a huge market of more than 50 million yuan per year, and if Indian cotton can be exported to China in large quantities, the Governor's Office will directly and indirectly obtain tens of millions of yuan of income every year.

And this is naturally extremely important for Russia, which paid a huge amount of military spending after the outbreak of the war, of course, more importantly, Wang Chi took out 50% of the shares and gave it to the governor and more than a dozen senior officials of the governor's palace and a few generals of the Russian army, which is the reason why he wholeheartedly supported Wang Chi, not that he made this suggestion, but because his suggestion can benefit everyone.

Wang Chi's audacity was rewarded, and with the direct intervention of the governor, the Sino-Russian shipping company agreed to give Tianshunxiang the most favorable freight rate, and as for the cotton caravan, it was also protected by the army, and just three days ago, the first batch of 200,000 bales of cotton worth 2 million yuan from the Deccan Plateau had been transported out of the production area by water.

Although he knew that after this batch of cotton was shipped to Guangzhou, Tian Shunxiang would be able to make millions of profits, but Wang Chi did not stop his steps, he still walked between the various princely states, lobbying the princes of the princely states - they were not only the "kings" of the princely states, but also the largest landlords of the princely states, most of whom owned more than half of the land in the princely states.

Because of this, Wang Chi brought Li Dingyi, a graduate of the English Department of the Kunming Tongwen School, as his translator to facilitate communication with the princes.

"Now, what we have to do is to persuade these people to plant as much cotton as possible, after all, the climate here is dry, the sun is sufficient, it is suitable for growing cotton, the more they plant, the more cotton we can get, and when the time comes, it can naturally replace the cotton ...... in the United States."

Wang Chi's words made Li Dingyi ask with some curiosity,

"Owner, this place will definitely be the territory of the Russians in the future, even if they plant more, this place will belong to the Russians in the future, what if the Russians don't let them sell the cotton to us?"

His worry made Wang Chi stunned for a moment, then smiled, and then he said proudly.

"Don't worry, the Russians won't do that, and now, the Russians may do that, but when all the princely states of the Deccan Plateau are planted with cotton, the Russians won't dare to do that even if they want to!"

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