Chapter 158: The Inescapable Law of Economy
In the sixth year of Xianchun, the investor meeting of the Navigation Guild was a little depressed
After a few years of frenzied trading, buyers in the Indian Ocean region have begun to regain their rationality and say 'no' to those ultra-high asking prices. Because there are many representatives of investors in the fleet, investors do not think that Zhao Jiaren is alarmist or deliberately playing ghosts.
All investors related to embroidery and other deep processing are silent. Their business is doing well, and their profits are steadily rising. In the gloom, they don't want to be noticed.
Profits that once reached 1,000% plummeted to 60%, and investors obviously couldn't stand it. There are many people who borrowed loan sharks from the local area and switched to it. 60% of the profit is just the gross profit on the books, and they can only get 15% of the profit when they can get 30% of the profit. Those who borrow from loan sharks lose money.
But the gang couldn't say it, the nautical guild had a clear rule that it was not allowed to invest in the nautical guild by loan sharking. Everyone signed a self-discipline clause to ensure that they would not make such a mistake. Since they can't scold it publicly, these angry investors can't help but start spreading the word of 'nautical guild pills' everywhere.
Zhao Jiaren didn't bother to pay attention to them. There will be losers everywhere, and regardless of what others think, Zhao Jiaren feels that eradicating these people regularly helps society progress. The lumpenproletarians are a group of people with great destructive power, because they are not only without money, but also because they have completely lost hope, so they have a great hostility towards everything. They are hostile to almost the entire human society, and the reason why they have not done more bad things is simply because they are too weak to do it.
In a sense, these failed investors already have a certain part of this lumpenproletarian mentality, and it is not me who is wrong, but the world.
The rationalists in the investor conference were still in the majority, and everyone originally wanted to find out which types of products had problems, but after some summary and discussion, in the end, all kinds of products had this problem. More precisely, high-ticket items in each category suffer from this problem.
'Pills! ''Pills!'' ''Sea Trade Pills!'' There is a growing trend among those who spread such statements.
For these people who are obsessed with 1000% profit, this is also close to the truth. Since 1000% is what they think is the bottom line, 60% is of course the pill.
The embroidery representatives wiped their sweat and looked for Sima Kao, a famous investor in Gusu, "Sima Gong, can you let the guild stop talking about embroidery?" ”
No one likes to show their money, and no one likes to be maliciously looked at their hard-earned money. Tianzhu and the Great Food Merchants have begun to turn a blind eye to solid silk, and have shown a great interest in embroidery. There are complete sets of logo design ideas provided by Zhao Jiaren, and sketchers provided by cadre schools. The embroidery industry designed a complete set of logo designs for a Tianzhu Tu king, including his badge, and completed a complete set of embroidery for him. The profit from this sale is huge.
In addition, ordinary embroidery products in the style of Tianzhu and Dashi are sold in large quantities, and some embroidery products with cross-religious patterns are also selling very well.
Such a successful case was used by Zhao Jiaren as a case of 'product localization'. It's hard to say whether the lost investors understand the concept of 'product localization', but they think that the embroidery industry has stolen the limelight and made a profit from everyone's failures.
No one can accept such malice, and the embroidery representatives do not want to give up this hugely profitable deal, so they hope that Sima Kao can come out and speak for everyone.
Sima Kao lowered his head and pondered, of course he supported the embroidery representatives, thinking that those malicious scum were indeed too much, but Sima Kao did not want to provoke confrontation. He advised, "Ladies and gentlemen, bear with me. Those people are not aimed at you, don't you think the people who sell towels are also scolded very badly? ”
Towels are also a reprocessed industry, and this product is popular not only in Tianzhu and Daishoku, but also in all places. In addition, the price is not high, so it is particularly popular.
Listening to Sima Kao's words, the representatives of the embroidery industry shook their heads again and again, "It is Zhao Daguan's subordinates who produce towels, of course they are not afraid!" ”
Sima Kao can only say so much, and he himself can't change people's emotions with a few words. It's an emotion that comes from money.
In such a state of boiling negative emotions, the Nautical Guild finally came up with an annual summary report. The report clearly tells investors that the era of profiteering is over, and everyone must face reality.
Between March and April to September and October, each investor has to prepare the content of their own investment. Representatives of the embroidery industry in Suzhou and Hangzhou were treated very negatively at the investor meeting of the Navigation Guild, but when they returned to Suzhou and Hangzhou, the people who wanted to cooperate with them continued to come to the door, and they immediately became hot.
In the past two years, the embroidery industry has recovered from the monetary inflation caused by the war, and the workers have once again entered a state of full work, and the embroidery industry has begun to recruit new workers in large numbers, in addition to inviting back old workers as much as possible. However, embroidery is not a job that can be started overnight, and embroidery workers who have been working for two years are also novices.
There are so many people who ask for investment, and the owner and shopkeeper of the embroidery shop held a meeting in Gusu. The participants did not get carried away, and their attitude was quite conservative.
"In the past two years, too many spices have been shipped back, and the price has fallen by less than half of what it was a few years ago. Originally, you could only use copper coins to buy spices, but now some people are forced to buy them with money. ”
"There are no copper coins in Tianzhu and Dashi, and in order to buy our things, they themselves are probably running out of gold and silver. Tianzhu also has spices, and the big food merchants have begun to want to sell horses to us. What are we going to do with the horses? ”
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Obviously, the embroidery industry is also experiencing problems. Although these people do not have the concept of general equivalents, let alone the concept of universal currency in international trade. But these people felt that they seemed to be losing out in trade.
Based on the position of everyone, representatives of the embroidery industry said that under the current situation, they can no longer rashly expand production capacity. However, it was felt that the number of apprentices could be expanded for the time being. No matter how you feel at a loss, the number of profits you make on the whole has increased a lot. According to everyone in the meeting, 'it's okay to feed a few more mouths.'"
Jia Yidao, the high-ranking prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, did not know that the Great Song Dynasty embroidery industry actually held a meeting, and got a very interesting conclusion of the meeting. What he knew, or what he cared about, was the tax revenue from the grain and cotton of the public land from Gusu.
Just like Zhao Jiaren's past experience, these two have been completed with quality and quantity. Opposition to the reform of public land in other places is getting louder and louder, and there is no opposition in the three places where Zhao Jiaren intervened. So Jia Xianggong's attention returned to understanding the siege of Xiangyang.
The insistence of the Mongols, who had been besieging Xiangyang for more than five years, was surprising. After Zhao Jiaren left, Xia Gui and other generals launched an attack on Xiangyang again. The result was a loss of troops. They put forward a request to invite Zhao Jiaren to preside over the relief of the siege.