Chapter 57 Business Network
The fly in the ointment is that the Governor only gave the name to die, and all the food, weapons, and armor were gone, and there was only a blank check, which was the rhythm of fooling everyone to throw off their arms and work with the rogue without spending a penny. But it's no wonder that the imperial court itself is already embarrassed now, and it can't even get disaster relief food, not to mention the food for recruiting soldiers, otherwise it wouldn't be so generous when it was blank, and there are dozens of tickets at a time, which can be regarded as a kind of compensation. If you want any official to give you, fill it in as you like, and you won't pay the money anyway, maybe it will be disbanded directly when the chaos is over, and now it's just a matter of letting everyone get over it first.
However, Wu Wei didn't care about any food and weapons at all, these were not a problem for him at all. His antiques business has now become a regular business, and the energy source continues to bring him huge profits. Every once in a while, the "Rishengchang" trading house in Yan'an Prefecture would buy some antique jade and porcelain from all over the south, and then he would bring it to modern times. Although most of the porcelain is ordinary official kiln ware, it is also a well-known antique of the Ming Dynasty, and it is a fine product that can be on the treasure appreciation program. Wu Wei also specially explained to the firm, if you see treasures, like what Yuan blue and white, Wanli vat, Chenghua Doucai, etc., you must spend a lot of money to buy it at a cost, and he will definitely not hesitate to reward it! These things are all good things, the Yuan blue and white Guiguzi downhill picture jar is worth 230 million yuan, and the Chenghua Doucai chicken bowl cup is worth 280 million yuan! These things belonged to the more valuable porcelain in the Ming Dynasty, such as a pair of chicken bowl cups worth 100 taels of silver at the end of the Ming Dynasty, mostly used by the royal family, and there were very few private collections. But the so-called preciousness is relative, 100 taels in later generations, that is, 3,600 grams of silver, is only worth about 20,000 yuan, and a chicken bowl cup is worth 280 million, which is a standard book of ten thousand profits! Guangmen not only compressed the time of hundreds of years, but also generated a premium of more than 10,000 times!
However, if he received the chicken cup, Wu Wei was not ready to sell it. This is a cup of 280 million, let's use it to entertain guests to tea, what is this B-grid? No matter how upscale the clubhouse is, you have to kneel.
Although Yuan Qinghua and chicken bowl cups have not yet had a shadow for the time being, but other official kiln porcelain has really received a lot, during this time Bao Ju Zhai's reputation in the domestic antique market has become more and more resounding, and the profits are even more huge. However, what makes people lose their eyes is that the biggest winner is not Baoju Zhai, but Liu Lao's Qinbi Pavilion. During this time, "Rishengchang" collected all the jadeite on the market in Xi'an, the provincial capital of the late Ming Dynasty, and the selling price of local jadeite tripled. Because the amount was too large, even Liu Lao couldn't eat it in one bite, so the two sides decided to sell it by Qinbi Pavilion after negotiation, and 2% of the selling price was used as a commission. In this way, Qin Bige can decide the rhythm of shipments, so as not to impact the market too violently, and Wu Wei can also obtain higher returns, and the two sides have achieved a win-win situation. Because the income on both sides is directly transferred to Wu Wei's bank card, if he doesn't check it for a while, even he doesn't know what the balance is, anyway, the standard of a net worth of hundreds of millions has long been exceeded.
Wu Wei's abundant financial resources provided a solid foundation for his repeated largesse in the late Ming Dynasty, and he now found a trading company with a license to trade precious metals in large quantities through his connections in the guò circle, directly procuring high-purity industrial silver in the spot market, and shipping the purchased silver ingots to the late Ming Dynasty. With this as capital, "Rishengchang" has expanded rapidly, and semicolons have sprung up in various places.
Although Wu Wei generally directly buys existing commercial houses locally and uses the original manpower, the manpower gap is still very huge and cannot fully meet the demand. But this problem is easy to solve, and the last thing Ansai, which has 50,000 victims, lacks is human resources. Because the victims who were able to support Ansai were not the poorest, many of them were literate, and some even had business skills themselves. In order to recruit people from among these people, Wu first sent them to the "Rishengchang" headquarters in Yan'an Prefecture for unified training, and then sent those who passed the test to various places according to the situation. The employees of the commercial bank are very well paid, and the main employees also have dry stock dividends, so everyone rushes to them, but the various rules and regulations of the commercial bank are also extremely strict, and once the violators are found, they will be reprimanded for salary deduction and dismissal immediately. According to Wu Wei's rules, the entire "Rishengchang" was under militarized management, armed escorts were established in various localities, armed guards were carried out, and manpower was selected in the Ansai battalion. With the opening of the branch of "Rishengchang" more and more widely, a large-scale business network began to gradually take shape.
Wu Wei's positioning of "Rishengchang" is a group company that serves a series of ideas for himself in the late Ming Dynasty. On the one hand, it engaged in financial business, using the huge amount of silver capital it had raised from modern times to provide loans to other merchants, and on the other hand, it was also a traditional trading house, trafficking materials into Shaanxi from all parts of the country, such as cotton, cloth, tea, medicinal materials, saltpeter, charcoal, and sulfur needed to make gunpowder, which not only stabilized prices, but also earned high profits. Among them, there is a special cargo that has to be mentioned, and that is people.
The first year of Chongzhen was a year of many disasters, and the drought in Shaanxi, which lasted for eight years, was not slightly alleviated until the middle of the second year. Due to the large number of affected places, the most prosperous market in Shaanxi is actually the people's market! But in this year of great calamity, people are the least valuable, and when they die, they can still eat meat, and when they die, they can only throw them into the ditch by the roadside. In the people market in Shaanxi, a strong man is only worth 2 buckets of grain, a big girl only gets 5 liters of millet, the price of a child is even cheaper, and the old man has no one to ask for it at all, so he has to wait for death. It is true that there are many people who have survived to reach Ansai after a great deal of hardship, and many more people, who have no food for a day, and the journey to Ansai is difficult for them to climb to the sky, let alone the thieves along the way, which is full of dangers. The only way they have to survive is to beg, and the only way to survive is to sell themselves in the market.
Wu Wei had already heard many tragic situations from the victims, but he was so busy with the tens of thousands of victims in front of him that he had no spare time to take care of anything else. It wasn't until the potatoes were harvested and Ansai's food crisis was lifted that they were able to free up. He allocated a large amount of grain and funds, and instructed "Rishengchang" to buy people in various local markets and transport them back to Ansai by ship. Wu Wei specifically mentioned that it is necessary to ensure the integrity of the families of the victims and not to break them up, as long as they are alive, whether they are the elderly or children, he wants them all!
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