Chapter 19 Selection of Trade Goods
After seven or eight days in Yangzhou City, the unfamiliar city became familiar little by little in Yang Guang's eyes, and he basically collected what he needed. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Looking at the dense pile of data in his hand, Yang Guang stayed in the rented yard and began to think about how to operate those materials, and it was impossible for plane trade to simply consider profits, but also to calculate the risks.
Taking iron as an example, in ancient times, any dynasty that wanted to touch this thing was linked to the crime of rebellion, each party, etc., and being caught was basically a "death" word, even the princes and ministers who were most favored by the emperor.
There are also materials like salt, which have huge profits but are controlled by a fixed group, and they are not something that Yang Guang can touch now, and those Huaiyang salt merchants who keep a large group of illegal salt dealers in captivity will do whatever it takes to prevent others from taking their own cakes.
As for oil or something, it is estimated that few people in the Ming Dynasty know what this thing is for, but Yang Guang is alone, and it is impossible to carry out large-scale exploitation, even if he gets modern equipment, it will be used by craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, there are many things whose profits are too low, and they have also been crossed out by Yang Guang. In this way, there are only two types of things that Yang Guang can operate, one is the industry with a large proportion of materials, and the other is the industry with high labor costs.
Yang Guang decided to choose the former first, and he finalized wood as his dimensional trade commodity.
Yang Guang remembers reading a news item not long ago that Binhai City's timber trading volume last year seemed to be 15 million cubic meters. With such a huge market, Yang Guang got thousands of square meters back from the Ming Dynasty, and basically couldn't even bubble up, and no one would pay attention to it.
The trees of the Ming Dynasty were all naturally grown, even if the quality of wood in this era could only be regarded as average, it was relatively high-quality wood in modern time and space, and it was not worried that it could not be sold at a good price.
With the goal in mind, Yang Guang shouted to Fang Shan again and began to inspect in detail the most famous timber trading houses in Yangzhou City. Fang Shan's first choice for Yang Guang is Ding Ji Wood Company, which is a time-honored brand that has been in business for hundreds of years, and when the business is at its most prosperous, many shipyards buy goods from here.
After Emperor Jiajing issued a ban on the sea, the business of Ding Ji Wood Company plummeted, but the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and the scale was still much stronger than that of ordinary wood shops.
The reason why Fang Shan recommended it was that Ding Ji Wood Store had a large amount of wood used for shipbuilding in the warehouse, and since there were no big buyers, it could only be shipped little by little over the years, so if Yang Guang could see it, the price would naturally be more favorable.
Standing in the warehouse of Ding Ji Wood Store, Yang Guang couldn't help but gasp, there were all piles of wood that were more than 100 years old. Looking at those thick tree trunks, Yang Guang somewhat understood what Fang Shan meant, it would be a pity if these timbers used for shipbuilding were broken to do other things, no wonder there were so many left.
Because of indiscriminate felling and other reasons, such timber is rare in modern time and space, Yang Guang will definitely make a fortune if he gets them back, but now Huaguo is closing mountains and cultivating forests, and he must find a reasonable source, otherwise he can only marry people.
Coming out of the No. A warehouse, Yang Guang and Fang Shan followed Ding Ji's second shopkeeper to the No. C warehouse, where the quality of the wood stored here is relatively poor, and the age, diameter and length of the trees are not so exaggerated, which is exactly what Yang Guang wants. After asking about the price, he directly took out the silver ticket and ordered a batch of sour branches and teak, and bought a few pineapple trees with a crooked appearance and cracked dates.
The Ming Dynasty scholars advocate rosewood furniture, but Yang Guangxuan's those are really not material, and no one cares about them in the warehouse of Ding Ji Wood for many years, and it took money to acquire them after all, and it is a pity to throw them away directly, and they occupy space in the warehouse, which is really chicken ribs, and now I see that Yang Guang actually wants to buy it, and the second shopkeeper who accompanied him was secretly happy, but he still persuaded a few words of professional ethics.
Of course, Yang Guang knew what kind of goods he was picking, but he also had to do it as a last resort, and through chatting with Fang Shan and Ding Ji Er's shopkeeper, he knew that Ding Ji Trading House had fine pineapple wood with a diameter of more than 100 centimeters. It takes at least 300 years to grow to such a big tree, and this thing is only a few dozen taels of silver, and Yang Guang's silver ticket can directly buy twenty trees.
Such an extremely rare 300-year-old pineapple wood log, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a rare treasure in modern time and space, a tree of 10 million is considered the price of Chinese cabbage, and it can be sold for at least 200 million yuan, and 800 times the profit directly kills arms, drugs and any other imaginable profiteering business, but does Yang Guang dare to do it?
Any profiteering business has a circle of interest that controls it, just like a salt merchant controls the salt trade, there may not be a smuggler in modern time and space, but there are also millions of ebony as a lesson from the past, so what Yang Guang can do is to forcibly suppress his greed, and then try to pick goods that are easy to sell in modern time and space and will not cause trouble.
Yang Guang bought a small amount of wood, and Ding Ji Wood Company could directly transport the goods to him, but considering that the charging of the time and space gate has not yet ended, the wood is placed in his rented warehouse but has to be guarded with great effort, Yang Guang and Ding Ji Wood Company's second shopkeeper agreed to deliver the goods after seven days, and he himself took advantage of this time to turn around in Yangzhou City and outside the city.
During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, many Yangzhou scenic spots in later generations have not yet appeared, but there are also many monuments destroyed in the war still exist, so that Yang Guang can feast his eyes. A vague idea popped up in his mind, if he had the opportunity in the future, he might be able to take pictures of the scenery of this plane and bring it back to modern time and space for use, but there was no detailed concept of how to operate it.
When Ding Ji Wood Company delivered the timber as agreed, Yang Guang put aside all distractions and began to count the goods with Fang Shan's cooperation.
The sour branch log was 6 taels of silver, Yang Guang bought 150 in one go, and simply estimated it according to the cylindrical volume formula, which was almost 40 square meters, and cost 900 taels of silver.
Teak logs are much cheaper, the price of six or seven trees is similar to that of a sour branch log, Yang Guang directly asked for 450 trees, spent 400 taels of silver, this 120 square meters of wood is estimated to be slightly larger furniture factories can be digested internally.
Finally, there are five Huanghuali trees that look miserable, because these are all leftovers picked by others, and the size is much worse, Ding Ji Wood Store did not sell according to the normal price, and directly shouted a price of 20 taels, which is half sold and half sent.