Cheng Li and they are not the first batch of tourists to come, and of course they cannot be the last, in addition to the rich sons who are idle and bored and come out to play in the name of study tours, there are naturally businessmen who are running around for life. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Young Master, why did we come so far to trade this time?" Lao Pu looked at the young man beside him.

The young man looked to be only sixteen years old, but he was clearly already the leader of a caravan. It's just that he doesn't know what happened at home, so that he has to take on the family business at a young age.

"Because of the shortage of food here, our Mi family happens to run the grain industry. The key is the technique of the papyrus, which I am very interested in! "Maybe it's because of the youth, or maybe it's too much, this teenager doesn't have the liveliness of a young man at all, and the calm and wise of an adult.

Mi Zhu, the word Zizhong, is a native of Donghaiqu County, Xuzhou. Since my grandfather's generation, he began to do business and purchased fertile land, which has occupied a pivotal position in the business community of Xuzhou and is also the most important money bag in the history of Xuzhou in the past dynasties.

It's just that it doesn't make sense to be important, Mi Zhu's ambition is even greater, he wants to monopolize all the grain trade in Xuzhou. He is not the first existence to have such an idea, just like Zhang Ji's wife Zou, who has a large chamber of commerce in Liangzhou and Yongzhou; Zhen Mi's father, Zhen Yi, and his wife Zhang are the largest grain merchants in Jizhou.

Although food is the main business, it will naturally involve other fields. For example, Mi Zhu, he fell in love with the technique of straw paper.

"It's just to clean up the filth, why does the young master value it so much?" The old servant couldn't figure it out, this thing was expensive and of little use. Besides, the rich people who will buy this thing, besides, the rich people can't afford it all the time.

"So I want technology, not here!" Mi Zhu smiled faintly, if it weren't for the old man left by his father, he would have been dismissed from his post a long time ago for such an unsober guy.

He has already sent someone to investigate, straw paper is still cheap here, ordinary people can occasionally buy it and use it, in the final analysis, it is still a matter of production. If production increases, the price will fall even further, and it is something that ordinary people can buy regularly.

It doesn't take much, you only need a penny to buy fifty tickets, or even just ten tickets! At that time, it may become that the vast majority of people in the world can afford to use things! What kind of concept is this, like salt and iron, which has become a common commodity in the homes of the people! A penny may not be much, but even if it is just an internal operation in Xuzhou, even if millions of people can only provide a profit of 50,000 wen a day, that month is 1,500 yuan!

Don't think it's too little, this is 1.5 million five-baht coins, which is equivalent to 1.5 million RMB according to the monetary value at the time. In the sparsely populated Eastern Han Dynasty, where economic activity was not active, what a concept of 1.5 million a month!

In layman's terms, a month's income is calculated at a cost of only two dollars per year for each family of three, which is enough for 750 families to live for a year! The savings are even enough for 800 families to live for a year! This money can be earned in a month! At that time, it was definitely a huge profit, not to mention that this was only within the scope of Xuzhou, what about the whole country?!

50 million people, even if only 20 million people are the main force of consumption, especially those families, I am afraid that the consumption will be much more bold than the ordinary people. There is no need to calculate, knowing that this will be an astronomical amount. Not to mention the other products that have been derived, if there is an opportunity to make cheap, really suitable paper for writing...... Mi Zhu can't imagine it!

Li Yu can't eat it, so he must give out some shares, and the key is what price to pay.

If you really can't do it...... If you steal, you have to steal the technology! Mi Zhu is still a sixteen-year-old child after all, so it is inevitable that he will be a little unstable, which is reasonable.

Unlike Cheng Li, he didn't stay directly after coming here, but asked his subordinates to find a good inn to stay, but he went directly to the open-air market to check. He had already learned in advance that this was a temporary trading area set up by the Autonomous Region for the purpose of trading and selling goods by passing vendors. In other words, most of the people gathered here were merchants from other places.

Of course, it is said that the autonomous regions will also take out the goods that can be traded and sell them in a special area. There is even a list of the various goods they need and the purchase price, and the merchant can take on a certain share of the goods.

After the businessman agrees on the time and pays the deposit, he will purchase the goods, and the autonomous region promises that as long as there is no problem with the quality, it will definitely be purchased at this price, and if the price fluctuates, mainly because it has risen, it will also make up for this part of the difference.

At present, the main goods purchased are timber, masonry, grain, wine, salt and iron. This is a bulk cargo, which can be contracted in batches or directly in full. In addition, there are other miscellaneous items such as soy sauce, vinegar, sugar cane, books, etc., among which books are the most expensive, although only one copy of each type is purchased, but the price of each copy is three times the market price!

However, it is said that Mozi, the Book of Songs, Erya and the Analects have been denied, apparently by the autonomous region. It's a race for time, and the later you do, the fewer books you can sell.

There are many rules here that are not available in other places, especially outsourcing, which Mi Zhu has never heard of before, which shows that there are also very proficient in doing business in this autonomous region.

In other words, if you want to trade papermaking technology this time, I'm afraid that you can get it not so cheap! The Mi family may still have a little influence in Xuzhou, but if it weren't for the fact that he didn't plan to use the favor of the assassin history, it would be too difficult to return! The Xuzhou Thorn Shi can't manage the autonomous region here, it is said that this place is only responsible to His Majesty!

Here, too, he saw many valuable items, such as rhino horn and ivory, which fetched good prices in the north. There are even some rhinoceros skins and elephant skins, which are very thick and good materials for leather armor, and even worse knives and long swords will not be able to cause damage to them.

It's a pity that these materials are often purchased by the government of the autonomous region just after they are taken out, and the price is very fair.

Mi Zhu is very strange, this leather can also be used as armor, but what are they doing with this rhino horn ivory? The autonomous region has just been established, and most of the residents here are mountain people, so they don't need rhino horn and ivory.

After spending some money, he finally found out the truth: the county government buys rhino horn and ivory, and at the same time, there will be a special carving workshop to carve and make various crafts such as exquisite rhino horn cups, ivory carvings, and ivory chopsticks. This superb carving technique even involves some miniature carving fields, and if you want to carve so exquisitely, there is no other place to do it except the autonomous region.

Packing these things in boxes and then shipping them out for sale in large boxes stuffed with hay more than tripled the price, which was the favorite of the rich and noble families in the county and even in some big cities in the north. The key is that the output is small, and many good words are priceless, but no one can imitate them for the time being, so this huge profit can only be swallowed by the autonomous region.

There was also a purchase of grain, mainly wheat and rice, and the south was not very suitable for growing corn, plus there was a lot of water, so Li Yu planned to develop rice cultivation. The rice experimental field planted at the beginning of this year grows much faster than the corn field, but I don't know what the yield is, and once the accurate yield is known, it is very likely that the rice will be fully replanted in the future! Grow corn in small quantities!

Needless to say, the purchase of sorghum or wheat, sorghum can be used to brew wine, wheat can also be brewed beer, technology Li Yu can buy, hops is not a foreign exclusive thing, Xinjiang has distribution, it is really not possible to buy seeds directly in the system!

The key is that the wheat can be ground into flour, and after fermentation, more steamed buns and steamed buns can be made, which can be a big consumer!

In addition, there are all kinds of pastry production, and the production process Li Yu has been imprinted in the minds of several pastry chefs through the system, at the cost of a ten-year employment contract and a five-year confidentiality contract!

Not to mention that he did not do the right thing, did not develop industry and specialized in these messy things, the big brother in the north was dedicated to the development of heavy industry, ignoring agriculture and light industry was dragged down, at that time people could enjoy the most advanced household appliances and vehicles, but the price of a piece of black bread was to death.

The key is not to let the people not go hungry and not to freeze to death in winter. If you can't do this, no matter how good the industrial foundation is, it's just making wedding dresses for others.

At present, Xuzhou's main export is corn, but the price of corn purchased here can only be regarded as average, which makes Mi Zhu a little depressed, after all, the main goods he brought are corn, accounting for more than seventy percent of the goods in this transaction.

The rest was wheat and sorghum, which were originally used to feed livestock, but it turned out that the price was slightly higher than corn, and it was better to sell it more cost-effectively, and it was a big deal to keep a small amount of corn for the return trip!

The open-air market is very simple, but looking at the bustling crowds, the shops constantly shouting for sale and buying, and the merchants who keep signing contracts with the government, Mi Zhu feels that it is very vibrant.

Unlike the lifeless commercial situation elsewhere, commerce here is more fluid, and the concentration and distribution of various goods is very rapid. This is still an open-air shop, in fact, there are still many old shops in the old city, which can really reflect the economic situation of the autonomous region, and he would like to go there to see it.

It's a pity that it's getting late, and the servant said that the inn has been found, but there are some things that need him to decide, so he has no choice but to follow him. Of course, I was also complaining in my heart, how could there be so many things to decide in the inn.

As a result, on the way, I realized that this inn is different from ordinary inns, and there are many services that are completely different from inns in other places. The key is also immutable, mainly the ID card system, without which many services cannot be carried out at all! Simply imitating is just an imitation of Dong Shi, and in the end, it will definitely lose money and die!

Mi Zhu is also a very good existence for his subordinates, so although the old servant is not flexible, he will continue to use it by his side. He will not be allowed to do business matters, and he will be responsible for handling logistics, and what is important is his experience and experience.

This time, he himself stayed in a single room, and the old servant also arranged a single room for him. The rest of the people will arrange double and triple rooms according to their status. There are classes and different treatments, so that these subordinates can work harder, of course, the lack of double rooms, and cost savings are also one of the reasons.

After careful consideration, he chose the food that he thought was the most suitable for him, as well as the food that could carry the most hunger, but he still asked for a large jar of wine and distributed it to everyone.

He was more interested in the tables and chairs than the food, and thought that they would definitely change the habits of the world!

He was full of wine and food, but he didn't lie directly on the bed like Cheng Li and them, but carefully studied the layout of the single room.

I have to say that although this space is slightly narrow, it is also very chic and elegant, and it is not a problem to study and bedroom as an ordinary poor door. The key to this mattress is not known what material it is, it is very soft and full of elasticity!

The water temperature of the bath water is very good, and there are even gadgets called bath towels and soap, but unfortunately each piece is very small.

When he arrived, Xiao Er outside asked if he wanted to provide supper, Mi Zhu thought about it and refused, he wanted to rest. However, he was really satisfied with the service of this inn, and he couldn't help but sigh, this autonomous region government is really capable!