Chapter 244 Between the Advantages and the Harms
Now in Quanzhou, she can only cooperate with Lin Zhaoqing and Li Yongxing.
But with Li Yongxing's strength, he may not take her in his eyes. Even if he got up and sold Li Yongxing, first, Li Yongxing has reached this step today, and he has his own news channels, and he may have already known that Quanzhou is going to set up a city department. If this is the case, his news will have no meaning to Li Yongxing. It is impossible for Li Yongxing to promise her any benefits for a piece of news that has no value to him.
However, Lin Zhaoqing is different.
He is not like Li Yongxing, who has operated his own network for many years, even if Lin Zhaoqing has his own news network, it is impossible to know this news. If it weren't for the fact that the matter was still in the initial stage, the stepfather would not have implicitly mentioned such a thing to himself in the letter. And the reason why my father-in-law knew about this matter as a Taiwanese advisor must be because he was a former Fujian Road transfer envoy and had a better understanding of the economic situation of the entire Fujian prefectures.
Even Banniang felt that his father-in-law had served as a transshipment envoy on Fujian Road for several years, and he attached great importance to the development of the port, which can be seen just by looking at his contribution to Quanzhou's water and land transportation. Therefore, perhaps this matter of setting up a city department in Quanzhou may not be a suggestion made by the father-in-law to the court.
And, even if she was given such a letter, she must have been very sure. Otherwise, now Banniang's mind is hot, and she has made an investment in Quanzhou, if it doesn't work, and don't hurt her to lose all her money?
Therefore, if the father-in-law can vaguely mention it in the letter, not only will it be proved that the matter will eventually be implemented, but I am afraid that it will soon be put on the agenda. There's no way it's going to drag on for long.
In other words, there is not much time left for the merchants of Quanzhou to seize the opportunity.
Although the price of overseas commodities has been raised a lot, but no matter how high the price is, it is also rare and expensive, before the end of next year, it is these high-level treasures of Fanbang, which are also in short supply, so the price will only be higher and higher, if this time to find a way to hoard a large number of goods, to next spring, as long as the court releases the news that the city will be set up in Quanzhou, then the port of Quanzhou will rise, the demand for commodities will be large, and the price will rise sharply.
In addition, there is no need to worry about how much cargo will be brought back by the fleet that will go to sea at the end of next year, which will bring about a drop in prices.
After this loss, the maritime merchants of Quanzhou, at least nearly half of the ships, and some caravans need to rest and recuperate, to the next spring, may not be able to go to sea, then, the heyday of Quanzhou's maritime exchanges are in short supply of overseas goods, in the case of a sharp reduction in supply, how can the price be lowered, unless the maritime merchants of Quanzhou are thinking of the sea. Perhaps due to the lack of supply and the establishment of the market, the price of overseas commodities will only increase in three or two years.
If you talk about price reduction, I am afraid that it is also the time for the management to be fully mature after the establishment of the city.
As soon as the Municipal Department was established, the officials wanted to reflect the value of the Municipal Department through taxes, and when the time came, perhaps these sub-officials would not only not control prices, but even secretly signaled that the merchants would take the opportunity to raise prices in order to extract more taxes from them.
In this case, there is no need to do anything else, just three things.
First, as much as possible at this time at a low price, rent some good shops, in the future Quanzhou North and South Street shops, I am afraid that the rent is amazing, even if it rises ten times the current level, it is not impossible. It would be better if you could buy some, buy at a low price, and only collect rent at that time, I am afraid that it will be a lot of income. And with these shops, why not worry about not being able to do business in the future?
Second, it is a large number of hoarding goods. Buy at a low price and sell at a high price, and in the next year or two, the profit will be at least two or three times higher than usual.
Third, if you have the strength, take advantage of the vitality of many caravans in Quanzhou to carry out mergers and acquisitions. With the lowest cost, complete the fastest expansion, and become the most powerful existence in Quanzhou maritime business.
Lin Zhaoqing can do these things.
Even if he may not be able to do the third point and become the most powerful person, but being able to become a powerful and balanced existence with the most powerful person is of absolute significance to Lin Zhaoqing's future development.
After analyzing these, Banniang already has a bottom in her heart.
Of these three points, what profit does she have?
First of all, this news is her benefit. Previously, she also felt that Lin Zhaoqing's cooperation with her own wood raw materials was a favor she owed him, and a favor was the most unreliable thing, and she could turn her back on it at any time, but in the contract between her and Lin Zhaoqing, there was no limit on the wholesale life of wood raw materials, so she was helpless. Although Lin Zhaoqing promised that he would continue to cooperate with her. But this is a difficult thing for Lin Zhaoqing after all. Now she has the capital to negotiate. With this news, Demu Zhaoqing has a ten-year contract. Thinking about it, Lin Zhaoqing would not refuse.
Second, she has the news in her hands, and she doesn't do anything herself, so she always feels that she has suffered a loss. So what can she do in the three points just now?
Hoarding goods for her, first, she doesn't have so much money, and second, she doesn't have mature channels, which is not suitable for her, unless her woodcraft business doesn't plan to develop, she may withdraw all the funds, as far as Banniang is concerned, she won't do this kind of thing.
The third point is even more meaningless to her. You don't even have to think about it.
But the first thing she can do is what she can do. Even if she can't buy much, at least she can rent it. But renting a shop is just to earn some rent for subletting. What she wanted was to buy. The development of Quanzhou is not short-term, but long-term, not only because of the establishment of the city, but because of her understanding of this famous oriental first port in history, as well as confidence. The establishment of the city department is just a time when I didn't know how the city developed by leaps and bounds overnight.
When she talked to Liu Erlang about the city of Quanzhou before, she also rejected Liu Erlang's suggestion with a smile, because she couldn't afford to wait. But now she doesn't have to wait, of course she can invest.
As long as there are no problems with Lin Zhaoqing's wood raw material business, she does not need to overstock inventory, and in the current situation, her capital chain will not be broken.
Not to mention the current income of the restaurant and the carpentry shop, just say that in the spring, Lin Zhaoqing's Qingrui Commercial Bank will pay her 20,000 yuan in cash. And she now has enough inventory of timber and other raw materials, at least within a year, by the end of next year to pay Yongxing for the second year's timber, she does not need much working capital at all, so when she calculates the account, the future available funds in her hands are very considerable.
Even, Banniang thinks that even if you can't buy a few shops on North and South Streets, the wharf enclosure at the port at this time is definitely worth investing in.
When you think about it this way, there's a lot to be done.
Time, what she needs most now is time.
The new shop of the restaurant still has to be planned, and in Quanzhou, in the shortest possible time, she must also go again. These things, she must talk to Lin Zhaoqing face-to-face. And not only did she talk to Lin Zhaoqing, but she also had to find a way to buy some of the land on the dock as soon as possible. It's just that the matter of buying land should borrow Lin Zhaoqing's cage, many businessmen know that she is the righteous son of Lord Cai, and suddenly buy a large number of those lands that were not worth much money, not to mention others, only Li Yongxing will see the clue from it. If he knew the news, what if he didn't?
So when it comes to buying land, she still needs Lin Zhaoqing to come forward for her. Since you buy land, you can only stay in Quanzhou for a few days.
But the restaurant can't let go.
Banniang thought about it again and again, so she was ruthless, not only did she use Lu Changan, but she simply used it to the end.
She used the time of the past few days to draw all the flat design drawings of the entire shop, and let Lu Changan construct according to the drawings, not necessarily she herself followed every day. Sometimes learning to let go, handing over the right to hand over to subordinates, and giving them plenty of space to train themselves is also the way to use people. Only in this way can the people below grow up at the fastest speed. No one can guarantee that they will not make any mistakes on the road of growth.
It's not that she can't afford to pay such a price. It's a big deal to decorate unsatisfactory places, and she will change it when she comes back. As for the decoration in the shop, there are still details of the problem, and when she finishes the affairs of Quanzhou, she should also be able to take care of it, after all, it is only September now.
The restaurant still has three months to prepare
Thinking about it like this, Banniang calmed down.
Once you've made up your mind, there's no need to waste any more time. A good memory is not as good as a bad pen, and the things you just thought about are written down on the paper one by one, so that when you look at it again, you can better improve it.
After the record, Banniang began to compose the pattern of the new restaurant.
Seeing that she was doing things quietly, she sent tea in July, and she didn't dare to disturb it, so she went to the West Chamber's house for Xiao Shi as a student with the two girls in September and May.
Waiting for Ah Lan to come back, Banniang also drew a sketch of the shop facing the street in front, said a few words to Ah Lan, and sent her out, this painting, is the fourth watch, because the lights in the house have been on, Ah Lan is living outside her, so Ah Lan did not dare to sleep, and urged several times, only waiting for the sky to be bright, Banniang stretched her waist and lay on the bed.
When she woke up the next day, it was already dark. Fortunately, I haven't gone to the shop in July and September, because I thought that July said that someone's new house needs to be furnished and she needs to communicate in person, so I asked July to send someone to send a post, because she was in filial piety, and it was not good to kick the door of others, so she made an appointment in the afternoon to talk in the wood shop.
So there was nothing to do in the morning. Although she thought that she should talk to Wu Sanniang about her plan, she was not in a hurry, she believed that she had enough reasons to convince Wu Sanniang, but it was more important to implement the work of the new restaurant at hand now.
So after breakfast, I went back to the hospital and continued to draw her designs.
This painting is noon again. I put down my pen and planned to rest for a while, so I heard a report from May, saying that the fourth lady of the Lu family had something to do and wanted to invite Banniang to go to Lu Fushang.