Chapter 28 Monopoly Ambition
All six large containers of goods were placed open, just filling the shelves of the six showrooms.
After the early yelling of merchants, they gradually became numb - it's not numb, there are too many good things, and they can't eat any small category alone. Except for joining forces to target a certain category, no one thought about having to buy a lot of money, they don't have that much money!
Not to mention anything else, just stainless steel products, this kind of thing that was designated as "silver steel" by unscrupulous businessman Yang Haixin, can be calculated at random and have hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.
In her pricing rules, any product that gets this time and space is at least five times the profit is worthy of her work. Therefore, for stainless steel products, they often either add zeros after the purchase price or add one in the front, and sell 2 yuan spoons in a supermarket. Here, they dare to sell a small ocean and a complete set of five pieces and one ocean!
The most deceptive ones are those Western dishes in complete gift boxes. The 49 soft girl coins cost 49 oceans, the 99-yuan price is 99 oceans, and the more expensive whole set of stainless steel tableware starts at 998, a kitchen and restaurant is arranged, including a complete set of fabric cups, plates, bowls, cups, etc., starting at 9998 oceans! Don’t think it’s expensive, we don’t bargain, and we supply it in limited quantities. If you like to buy it, don’t buy it!
No businessman thinks it is expensive, but it is too cheap! Such a luxurious good thing is at least more expensive than the same weight of silver!
Nowadays, after the west wind spreads eastward, Chinese people in coastal cities began to learn Western lifestyles, but no one could get a set of silver tableware, whether they were them or the foreigners who came to China to explore gold. After all, it was a symbol of aristocracy and had always been a scarce resource.
Since ancient times, Chinese people have also had the habit of using silver tableware, but most of them are concentrated in royal and luxurious portals. It would be nice if ordinary rich people have double silver chopsticks and a silver bowl. In fact, this thing is difficult to process and difficult to own.
Today, it has brought a huge impact on Yang Hao's foreign goods. Such a "low and affordable" price will surely be popular everywhere in a short time and the profits will be huge!
Not to mention hundreds of cloths. The four major aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation are put first. The Chinese have been called "Huaxia" since ancient times. The beauty of clothing and seals is the key to wearing. But the problem is that the production of good fabrics in the world is extremely low, and the mass production of rayon has just been successfully studied. It is far from replacing the low-yield ten-silk, so the price has always remained high.
Now, they can choose various colors, various quality, and freely match. You don’t have enough money, but you can’t buy them. The most thoughtful thing is that every fabric color is equipped with a bunch of clothing patterns and sewing techniques, including ribbon cutting, sewing, shaping machinery and equipment, thousands of silk threads, and countless related tools. You can open a clothing factory now without any effort!
People have achieved this, what else do you have to say?
There are more types of hardware and building materials that are put out at the back! A very small number of commonly used types that merchants know, such as nails and wires, which make them dizzy! The most amazing thing is that 90% come from steel products! Steel! That's not iron. China has not yet a factory that officially produces fine steel. The per capita consumption of steel is probably something that can be made. It's not that I don't want to buy it, but that I can't afford it!
It all depends on imports, and the foreigners want to sell everything for a maximum profit. The price is a scam.
However, hundreds of nails and dozens of specifications of steel wire are just piled in a corner, and more knives, measuring tools, locks, general hardware, as well as doors and windows, carpenters, marines, furniture, clothing, molds, luggage, belts, decorations... thousands of doors, countless!
The metal products of various colors are reflected through the eyes of merchants, all of which are golden and silver. In their eyes, these are countless silver!
After watching the six houses, no one had the doubts or initial greed. They mechanically swept their eyes over the dazzling shelves, their minds were in chaos, and they were rummaging over and over again how much profit the goods in their own business would bring, which would seriously regress their arithmetic skills.
None of the people who do business are fools. After watching it, they all understand what Yang Hao means. They accuse each other and greet each other in the business negotiation room next to them. They each occupy a table, and discuss with each other in a low voice to see how to make up for part of it.
This is also impossible. It is not that the transportation here is not rich, but the business is too big. You should know that in the late Qing Dynasty, in northern China, except for those who traded foreign countries in Shanxi who accumulated more than two hundred years of accumulation to make up hundreds of millions of wealth in the "Silver Valley", most businessmen had a profit of hundreds of oceans in a year, which was quite good.
For example, the Li family, which is now opens a gold mine in Zhaoyuan, is a big bull in the country. At its peak, it mines 7,000 taels of gold a year, and supports 3,000 migrant workers. How much is the remaining net profit after working hard all year round? 1,300 taels of silver! And how much is their capital investment? 300 taels of silver!
Zhoucun, one of the four major drought wharfs in Shandong, has a well-known dyeing and weaving industry in the country and the largest business in Donglaisheng silk cloth shop (the prototype of the TV series "Da Dyeing Floor"), with only a mere 30,000 taels of capital. It can be imagined how limited the financial resources of local merchants have been these days.
It can be said that those who can take out 1,000 taels of capital are all large merchants in Rizhao County, but the amount of goods placed by Yang Hao may reach a huge amount of one million taels! They personally couldn't even eat one percent, but they were worried that after the news came out, the merchants in Jiaozhou, Qingzhou, Yantai and even Tianjin, Yizhou, Yanzhou, and Haizhou in the west, and Shanghai knew about it, and they came to fight to the tiger's mouth to grab food. Then they would have no place to cry.
Here, the Cai family, who was surrounded by someone, became the core of the core, and also gave up the idea of taking big plans. They asked them to discuss first, and they sent someone to go back to the village to invite Song Yunsheng, a businessman from Pingyao, Shanxi.
Song Yunsheng has been very uneasy these two days. Cai Qu did not hide it from him. The most urgent task is to establish a good relationship with the Yang family and make a fortune together. The only one or two thousand taels of goods that were robbed became the secondary. Although Master Wang was dissatisfied with this, he had no choice but to do anything about it - without the cooperation of the locals, he was injured and darkened.
However, when Song Yunsheng saw a large box of goods brought back by Cai Qu, his mind immediately became active. With the eyes of several generations of people working in business, he had just traveled to Shanghai again, and he knew best how much benefits so many novel foreign goods contained!
Therefore, when Butler Li ordered someone to invite him, he took the carriage without saying a word, trotting all the way, regardless of his being crushed, he went to the mountain. After watching it briefly, he solemnly greeted Yang Hao and said, "Mr. Yang, can I become your company's general underwriter in Shanxi and outside the mouth?"
This tone is not very big! The local merchants listened sincerely and looked at each other sideways. When they heard that this person was from Pingyao, Shanxi, they immediately became calm, as if they were supposed to.
Yang Hao knew that Shanxi people were rich these days! Pingyao was only one of the major business groups, but they had initially realized the "Huitong World". The business of the Piaohao and the escort agency were all over the country, and they just wanted to meet people without a wealth of one million taels.
In the past two years, it was their heyday that Pingyao Piaohao even assumed some of the functions of the Qing government's finances and banks, intercepting military pay, accounts, tax and silver remittance and other businesses, more than 20 Piaohaohao, dozens of foreign banks, hundreds of warehouses and shops, almost monopolizing northern trade and is the country's leading commercial logistics center. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a sea of gold and silver.
Their business reputation is naturally gone, and they can be said to be true and do what they say.
Yang Hao did not answer immediately, and asked him to sit down to serve tea with a smile, and also made a pot of brick tea. Although the taste and ingredients are much worse than these days, they are still very good at least.
However, Song Yunsheng, who was used to drinking good tea, couldn't help frowning just by smelling the smell. This broken thing is just a Mongolian herdsman who is fooling him. Those with a little bit of identity may not be able to drink it. What does the person surnamed Yang use to entertain himself?
Without waiting for him to ask, Yang Hao revealed the answer himself: "Does Brother Song think this tea is too rough? To be honest, I think it's the same, but there is no way. Who can get it from abroad is such a cheap thing? To say good tea must be authentic to our Chinese specialties, but as far as I know, it is difficult to sell such good things nowadays. Isn't it?"
Song Yunsheng immediately understood and nodded calmly: "Mr. Yang said it is right. Nowadays, tea produced in the south is transported directly through Shanghai, and the ancient tea-horse road in Shanxi is becoming more and more declining. It is really... hard to describe in one word."
Speaking of this, Yang Hao found the Qing Dynasty strange and puzzling.
For hundreds of years, the Central Plains Empire has been resilient to control the export of salt tea and iron tools to the northwest. Brick tea is especially necessary for the nomadic peoples who eat meat, and later became an indispensable and important drink for the Russians in the cold land.
With the advantage of geographical advantages, Shanxi merchants have controlled the transfer and trafficking of tea in all dynasties and made countless profits. Take this year as an example. In the past, nearly 4,000 tons of brick tea exported in Shanghai, and more than 90% of them were exported to the north. But the problem is that most of these goods that should have been handed over by Shanxi were taken away by Russian ships!
The people of Shanxi cannot see the convenience of sea transportation. They also want to go directly from the south to Tianjin and then transfer to the land exit, which is convenient and efficient and cost-effective. But unexpectedly, the Qing government did not allow it!
Not only were they not allowed to transport tea in sea, but they were not even allowed to operate shipping business more than ten years ago, and forced the Ningbo merchants in Shanghai to raise money and secretly operate it in the names of foreigners. They only opened up slightly in the past two years. But the tea route will never be let go.
Now, Shanxi tea merchants were in trouble. They took a lot of money to eat and eat horses, and a camel only took two loads, but foreign devils pulled hundreds of tons and thousands of tons. When they got outside the mouth, they even had foreign gun guards, which was much better than their bodyguards!
In addition, Russia's intentional infiltration and control has gradually led Outer Mongolia toward them. The transactions that have always been monopolized by Shanxi merchants have also been rejected. The huge losses are calculated in a million taels!
Yang Hao smiled mysteriously and said, "If we join forces to monopolize the tea from the north and then transport it to Tianjin by sea and make a low price for tea bricks of this quality, can we get the Russians back?"
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