Chapter 244: The Merchant Ship Has Docked
It's okay, even if it's not the kind of bird language you know, don't be afraid, if the translator dares to do something tricky, he will be dealt with in other ways.
The text is kind words to persuade him, and the business is negotiated, giving him a benefit.
If the text doesn't work, then you can only use extraordinary means! You don't need to make a move from Old Man Tao, you can just get some medicine by yourself, you can make him worse than dead, I don't believe that he will cooperate obediently.
After a while, caravans began to arrive in the direction of the docks.
The wagons full of goods did not stop at all as they passed.
After a while, there began to be merchants walking by.
Stop by a roadside stall from time to time to see what's on the stall.
Only then did Mu Yingbao know that the merchant ships that sailed on the shore were not only foreign merchants, but also merchants from Yanguo, but the proportion was very small.
"Hey, look, what's that?" The two middle-aged men who walked in front looked up and saw Mu Yingbao and their stall, and walked forward quickly in surprise.
"It's a strange thing, I've never seen it before." One of them picked up an ornament in one hand and looked at it with affection, while the other focused on the curtain through which the shell wore it.
"How do you sell this? What price? The older one asked.
The people behind the stall looked at Mu Yingbao together, and no one dared to speak.
Before, this lady quoted five taels of silver, but now I don't know what the price is!
Mu Yingbao smiled and stretched out her hand to make a gesture, although she didn't know the situation of the two, but it didn't look like she was helping someone.
Since you can make your business go abroad, it means that it is powerful enough.
"Eight pennies?" The older one looked at her gesture and asked tentatively, while the other looked at Mu Yingbao's expression from the sidelines.
Mu Yingbao smiled and shook her head; "Eighty wen a piece, a curtain but a price."
"What? Eighty wen a piece? It's too expensive, isn't it? The older man shook his head.
The younger ones thought about it; "What about the price? The two of us are in business. ”
"This is the price of the goods, the retail price has just set up a stall, and it has been sold for two or five taels of silver, if you don't believe it, you can go and inquire. Rest assured, it's definitely not our own arrangement. Mu Yingbao told with a smile.
"What, five taels of silver a piece?" The older ones couldn't believe it. This thing is good-looking, but it is a useless object made of shells and conchs, and it can be sold for five taels a piece? Which loser bought this!
"This little lady, that's not how to do business. This object of yours is indeed a rarity and ingenuity. However, this price is outrageously high. The two of us sincerely want to talk to you about business, and if you insist on doing so, we will have to forget it.
By the way, remind the little lady, although this object is a rare thing, but it is not difficult to imitate, you just said that someone is willing to spend five taels of silver to buy, I didn't think of anything? Perhaps, people just bought it back and made it look like.
Moreover, this material is all over the beach, and anyone who has seen these samples can make it with a little brain.
When the time comes, the price is set low, do you think your goods can be sold?
Little lady, why don't you call your heads and talk to us again. The two of us are going to Beijing this time, and if your price is more reliable, we will order some to sell in Beijing. If it's easy to sell at that time, it's not impossible to come back and add your price, how about it? "The younger ones have the patience to discuss with Mu Yingbao.
The boss said that the things needed for this object were indeed easy to find. However, if you make a finished product, you can't just pick it up on the beach. There are still a lot of indispensable processes in this, oh, this aspect involves the issue of interests, so I don't want to say it clearly.
But I can tell you that the necessary processes that I have mentioned play a very crucial role.
If you say that if someone buys it back, it doesn't take long for the object to fall apart and change color or something, what will people say?
It must be said that things are not good, as the saying goes, good words don't go out, and bad words spread thousands of miles. Once the bad news gets out, how many more people do you think will buy it? At that time, people will not say that the craftsmen who make these things are not good, but only that you merchants cheat people in order to make money.
In the eyes of most people, businessmen are profiteers, profiteers and profiteers, are they not businessmen!
However, a businessman with real long-term insight pays attention to reputation and good reputation. Who likes to make a one-shot deal, right?
The masters of our workshop are able to guarantee the quality of things, and, you see, we have marks on the base of this object. This was recorded at the Yamen Commerce and Trade Department for a hundred dollars.
The transaction orders of our merchants will also be reported to the Department of Commerce and Trade in a realistic manner, and a certain amount of tax will be paid to the Department of Commerce and Trade for each item sold.
Therefore, if someone wants to make this kind of object in Yanguo, without our permission, it will be regarded as an infringement.
The Department of Commerce and Trade will intervene to deal with them. Not to mention the confiscation of illegally obtained income, if the amount is huge, it will also be sentenced to prison.
So, the assumption that the boss just mentioned that others can imitate it and sell it at a low price is untenable.
Let me be clear, when we recorded the case at the Department of Commerce and Trade, it was clearly written in the paperwork.
Not only are no one outside our workshop allowed to copy and sell the same products as us, but they are also not allowed to make anything else out of these shells and conchs.
This instrument is not only binding on counterfeiters, but also on merchants who sell counterfeit goods.
Once verified, the light case will be fined, and the heavy sentence will be imprisonment.
Well, I said it in such detail, do you have any questions?
I still think that the price is too high, so we have to talk to the boss behind it. Mu Yingbao patiently analyzed the pros and cons to the other party.
"What, did you really report to the Department of Commerce and Trade?" The older ones asked in disbelief.
What Mu Yingbao said, they had heard about it five years ago.
I don't know which minister made such a suggestion to the emperor with a hot brain, and then the emperor agreed.
Subsequently, the yamen in various parts of Yanguo neutralized the Department of Commerce and Trade.
Unfortunately, because if you want to record the goods, you have to pay a high fee. And that's not all, the point is that for every item sold, you have to pay a certain tax in proportion to the price. This entry is to be turned over to the state treasury.
This matter has been implemented for several years, and because it is voluntary, not mandatory, no one has done it at all, so it is simply a fictitious company.
In fact, since the second year of implementation, the directors in charge of commerce and trade departments in various yamen have begun to do other chores in the yamen.
The matter of the record of the goods has been put on hold.
As a result, there were really people who took the initiative to handle it stupidly!
The two of them looked at Mu Yingbao and thought it was incredible, but now Mu Yingbao no longer looked at the two of them, but at the few foreign merchants who were about to come behind.
Hey, hi? Is it even the idea of a Gentiles?
How can it be so easy to trade with a foreigner, even if the foreign merchant is easy to talk to, but the translator can interfere with it......