Chapter Twenty-Eight: Monopoly Ambition

Six large containers of goods were all laid out, just enough to fill the shelves of the six showrooms.

The merchants who arrived one after another gradually became numb after a burst of shouting at the beginning--- no numbness, there are too many good things, no one can eat any small category alone, except for joining forces for a certain category, no one has ever thought of making a round, they don't have so much money!

Not to mention anything else, just stainless steel products, this kind of good things that are designated as "silver steel" by unscrupulous businessman Yang Haixin, have a weight of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver at any time.

In her pricing rules, any product that gets into this time and space must be at least five times more profitable to be worthy of her busy work. Therefore, for stainless steel products, it is often not added to the purchase price behind a zero, or a front to add one, a handful of supermarket sales of 2 pieces of spoons, here dare to sell a small ocean, a complete set of five pieces of an ocean!

The most cheating is those complete sets of gift boxed Western food knives, 49 soft girl coins into the asking price of 49 oceans, 99 into 99 oceans, more expensive complete sets of stainless steel tableware, starting at 998, arrange a kitchen and dining room, including a complete set of cloth cups, plates, bowls, etc., 9998 oceans! Don't be too expensive, let's not negotiate the price, limited supply, love to buy or not!

No businessman thinks it's expensive, but it thinks it's too cheap! Such a luxurious good thing is at least more expensive than the same weight of silver!

In this year, after the west wind faded eastward, the Chinese in the coastal cities began to learn the Western way of life, but whether it was them or those foreign devils who came to China to pan for gold, almost no one could put together a set of silver cutlery. After all, it was a symbol of nobility, and it has always been a scarce resource.

Chinese have also had the habit of using silver tableware since ancient times, but most of them are concentrated in royal and luxury portals, and it is good for ordinary rich people to have double silver chopsticks and a silver bowl, but it is really difficult to process this thing and it is difficult to own.

Today, it has brought a great impact to Yang Hao's foreign goods, such a "low and close to the people" price, it must not be long before it can be popular everywhere, and the profits are greatly reduced!

Not to mention hundreds of cloths. There are four major types of clothing, food, housing and transportation, and dressing is the first place. The Chinese have called it "Huaxia" since ancient times, and the beauty of the costume is to say that it is exquisite in wearing. But the problem is that the production of good fabrics in the world is extremely low, and the mass production of rayon has just been successfully studied, which is far from replacing the low-output Tencel, so the price has been high.

Now, they can choose all kinds of colors, all kinds of quality, free to match, only you don't have enough money, you can't buy nothing. The most intimate thing is that for each fabric color, people are equipped with a bunch of clothing samples and sewing processes, including ribbon-cutting, sewing, shaping machine equipment, thousands of kinds of silk threads, and countless related tools, without effort, you can start a garment factory at the moment!

People have done this, what else do you have to say?

There are more types of hardware and building materials products that come out at the back! Very few businessmen know about the common types, such as nails, wire, the price of which makes them dizzy! The most amazing thing is that 90% of them come from steel products! Steel! That's not iron, China has not yet had a formal mass production of steel factory, per capita consumption of steel is estimated to be able to make a nail, not that you don't want to buy, but you can't afford it!

It all depends on imports, and the foreign devils can't wait to sell everything for a profit, and the price can be imagined.

However, hundreds of nails and dozens of specifications of steel and iron wires are just piled up in a corner, and more knives, measuring tools, locks, general hardware, as well as doors and windows, carpentry, marine, furniture, clothing, molds, bags, belts, decorations, ...... There are so many of them!

Bright, cold, bright, dark, all kinds of color metal products, reflected through the eyes of the merchants, are all golden and silver. In their eyes, this is untold silver!

After reading the six houses, no one had the doubts and initial greed when they came, and one by one they mechanically swept their eyes across the dazzling shelves, and their minds were chaotic, thinking over and over again how much profit they would bring by the goods in their own business categories, several times and several times, so that their arithmetic skills regressed.

None of the people who do business are fools, after looking at it all over the place, they all understood what Yang Hao meant, sued each other, greeted each other, and in the business negotiation room next to it, each occupied a table, and discussed quietly with their heads, to see how to make up a part to underwrite part of it.

There's no way around it. It's not that there is no money here because the transportation is not developed, but the business plate is too big. You must know that in northern China at the end of the Qing Dynasty, except for those in Shanxi who traded abroad and accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars of wealth in the "Silver Valley" after accumulating more than 200 years, most of the merchants had a profit of several hundred oceans a year, which was quite good.

For example, the Li family, who is now opening a gold mine in Zhaoyuan, is a big cow registered in the whole country, and when it is the most prosperous, it mines 7,000 taels of gold a year, and supports 3,000 migrant workers under his hands. 1300 taels of silver! And how much capital do they invest? 300,000 taels of silver!

Zhoucun, one of the four famous dry wharves in Shandong, is famous for its dyeing and weaving industry, and its largest business is Donglaisheng Silk Village (the prototype of the TV series "Big Dyeing Workshop"), and its capital is only 30,000 taels. One can imagine how limited the financial resources of local merchants were in those years.

It can be said that those who can come up with a thousand taels of capital are all big merchants in Rizhao County, but the amount of goods on the list put out by Yang Hao may reach a million taels! Personally, they can't even eat one percent, but they are worried that after the news spreads, the merchants in Jiaozhou, Qingzhou, Yantai and even Tianjin in the north, Yizhou and Yanzhou in the west, Haizhou and Shanghai in the south will know about it.

In this, the Cai family, who was covered by someone above, became the core, and Steward Li, who also dispelled the idea of taking care of everything, calmly let them discuss it first, and he sent someone back to the village to invite Song Yunsheng, a businessman from Pingyao, Shanxi.

Song Yunsheng has been very uneasy in the past two days. Cai Qu didn't hide it from him, the top priority was how to get rich together with the Yang family, and the only one or two thousand taels of goods that were robbed became secondary. Although Master Wang was dissatisfied with this, he was helpless--- without the cooperation of the locals, his injured eyes were blackened.

However, when Song Yunsheng saw a large box of samples brought back by Cai Qu, his mind became lively. With the vision of several generations of businessmen, he has just made a trip to Shanghai, and he knows best how much benefit there are in so many novelty foreign goods!

Therefore, when Steward Li ordered someone to invite him, without saying a word, he got on the carriage and trotted all the way, regardless of his own intestines turned over, and slipped to the mountain. ”

This breath is not ordinary! The local businessmen listened to it clearly, and all looked sideways, and when they heard that this person was actually from Pingyao, Shanxi, they immediately became indifferent, as if they should have been.

Yang Hao knows that the Shanxi people in this year are rich! Pingyao is only one of the several major business gangs, but they have initially realized the "convergence of the world", ticket numbers and dart business all over the country, which is randomly pulled out, and there is no million taels of wealth are embarrassed to see people.

In the past two years, it is their heyday of development, Pingyao ticket number even assumed part of the functions of the Qing government's finance and banking, blocking military salaries, accounts, tax and bank remittance and other businesses, more than 20 ticket numbers, dozens of foreign banks, hundreds of warehouses and shops, almost monopolizing the northern trade, is the country's premier commercial logistics center, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is Jinshan Yinhai.

Their business reputation is naturally not said, it can be said that they must do what they say, and they do what they say.

Yang Hao didn't answer immediately, he smiled and invited him to sit down to serve tea, and specially brewed a pot of brick tea, although the taste and raw materials are too much worse than in this year, so there is a look.

However, Song Yunsheng, who is used to drinking good tea, can't help frowning just by smelling it, this thing is a Mongolian herdsman who fools outside his mouth, I'm afraid he can't drink it if he has a little identity, and the surname Yang makes this to entertain himself, what does it mean!

Without waiting for him to ask, Yang Hao uncovered the mystery himself: "Does Brother Song think this tea is too rough?" To tell you the truth, I also think so, but there is no way, who let the foreign countries get it, is such cheap things? If you want to talk about good tea, it has to be an authentic Chinese specialty, but as far as I know, it is difficult to sell such a good thing outside the mouth. Isn't it? ”

Song Yunsheng suddenly understood, and nodded calmly: "Mr. Yang is right, now the tea produced in the south is directly transported through Shanghai by water, and the ancient tea horse road in Shanxi is becoming more and more decayed, which is really ...... It's hard to put into words. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Hao felt that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was incomprehensible.

For hundreds of years, the Central Plains Empire relied on the export of salt and tea iron tools to the northwest. Brick tea, in particular, was a necessity for the carnivorous nomads, and later became an indispensable drink for Russians in cold lands.

Shanxi merchants relied on their geographical advantages, and the successive dynasties controlled the transshipment and sale of tea, and the profits were unknown. Taking this year as an example, nearly 4,000 tons of brick tea were exported from Shanghai alone, and more than ninety percent were exported to the north. But the problem is that the vast majority of these goods, which should have passed through the hands of the Shanxi people, were pulled away by the Russian ships!

Shanxi people do not see the convenience of shipping, they also want to take the waterway directly from the south to Tianjin, and then transfer to the land export, which is directly convenient and efficient and cost-saving. But I didn't expect that the Qing government would not allow it!

Not only did they not be allowed to ship tea by sea, but more than ten years ago, they were not even allowed to operate the shipping business by locals, forcing the Ningbo businessmen in Shanghai to pool money and secretly operate in the name of foreigners, and it was only slightly opened up in the past two years. But the tea road will never be let go.

At this moment, Shanxi tea merchants are hard. They take the land route, and the cost of eating and chewing is huge, and a camel can only pull two loads, but the foreign devils are pulling hundreds of tons or thousands of tons, and there are foreign guns to guard them outside the mouth, which is much better than the knives, guns and clubs of their dart masters!

In addition, in recent years, Russia's deliberate infiltration and control have gradually turned Outer Mongolia to them, and the trade that has always been monopolized by Shanxi merchants has also been excluded, and the losses are so great that they are calculated in millions of taels!

Yang Hao smiled mysteriously: "If we join forces to monopolize the tea in the north, and then transport it to Tianjin by sea ship, and write off the tea bricks of this quality at a low price, can we beat the Russian Maozi back?" ”

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