"Master Xu!"

"The owner of the manor is fine."

"Long time no see Master Xu, I even miss you."

"Brother Xu, Brother Xu, I am Zeng Zhaoming, do you remember Zeng?"

Xu Yuan had just stepped into the main hall.

The sound of greetings, complimenting and pleasing sounds, and the sound of approaching them came one after another, and the merchants were very kind.

Xu Yuan stood on the small platform above the main hall, glanced around, pressed his hands at them, smiled, and said, "You guys came from afar, thank you for your hard work, the manor environment here is simple and there is some negligence. I hope you can understand..."

After a few polite greetings, I received a 'where' voice.

"I won't say much nonsense."

Xu Yuan got to the point and said loudly: "The rules for this year's agent bidding are the same as last year. The four prefectures and fourteen prefectures in Nanzhili are divided into 18 agency areas. The fourteen provincial government departments (provinces) except Nanzhili are divided into 14 agency areas, with a total of 32 agency areas. The secret bidding method is adopted. Each merchant can bid for one or more agency areas. Those with the higher price will be awarded. After taking the corresponding agency area, they will not be distributed across regions. Once there is any violation, the agency qualification will be disqualified and the supply will be stopped."

The rules have been introduced.

The butler Zhao Jinde clapped his palms and asked the servant to bring in a bidding board, as well as paper, ballpoint pen and bidding box, and allocate the corresponding materials to the hands of the merchants present.

Before making the final decision, it is a customary product display process.

There is white sugar as white as fine sand.

There are glass mirrors ranging from palm-sized to size, transparent and round glass beads, myopia glasses and reading glasses for myopia people.

There are soap, shampoo, and shower gel that leaves fragrance after bathing.

Mechanical watches and clocks with accurate timing.

There are lightweight and easy-to-use lighters and matches.

There are penicillin pills that can effectively treat a variety of terminal illnesses.

And the pressed oil, canned lunch meat, canned fruits, canned wine lees, fish and other non-staple foods produced in Xujiazhuang.

From daily necessities to food, there are nearly a hundred types, which are dazzling.

All the merchants were also extremely jealous and ready to move, showing an expression of incomparable desire.

Because these are all good things that customers are rushing to seek, and they are also high-profit commodities.

Take white sugar as an example. The wholesale price is two cents per kilogram, the terminal price is as little as one tael, and the most is as much as two or three taels of silver, and the gross profit is at least ten times.

Glass mirrors are even more luxurious among luxury goods. The wholesale price ranges from 5 taels to 500 taels, and the terminal price is also increased from 5 times or 10 times. Moreover, due to the limited supply, there is a fixed number every year, so it is always in a state of supply in short supply, so there is no need to worry about not being able to sell it.

The bidding process will soon officially begin.

All the merchants silently estimated the market size and profit prospects of the agency area, and then considered the situation of their competitors. They used ballpoint pens to write down the blocks and bid price codes they wanted to agent on white paper, then folded them and put them into the box.

Xu Yuan asked his servants to count it and then announced the winning results:

"Yingtianfu winning bid agent, Lin Hongzuo, bid 58,000 taels."

"Fengyang Mansion winning bid agent, Shen Junqi, bid 49,000 taels."

"Songjiang Mansion winning bid agent, Zhang Yan, bid 61,000 taels."

"Xu Chang, the winning agent of Nanjing Mansion, bid 36,000 taels."

"The winning agent of Yangzhou Prefecture, Qian Renyi, bid 210,000 taels."

"Beijing Zhili won the bid agent, Wang Chongli, bid 38,000 taels."

“…”

There are 32 agent areas in total, and the winning bid price ranges from thousands to hundreds of thousands of taels. Total, Xu Yuan's agency fee is charged millions of taels.

Of course, there are also tricks here. For example, in the agency area of ​​Nanjing Prefecture, the agency fee is at least 100,000 taels from the market size. However, behind the businessman Xu Chang is the Xu family of Xu Guogong. He has a strong background and no businessman dares to compete with him, so he can win the bid at a low price.

Wang Chongli, a businessman from Northern Zhili, was also in a similar situation, with a strong background in the court.

Faced with such businessmen, Xu Yuan had no choice but to offend him, and instead had to treat him carefully and regarded him as a guest of honor.

"Qian Renyi! How did you know my price? Why did your price just happen to be 10,000 taels more than me? How did you, a treacherous villain, guess my bid?"

There was a little commotion among the merchants. Luo Houping, a Yangzhou salt merchant who failed to bid, ran to Qian Renyi in a fierce manner, grabbed his collar, and questioned loudly.

"Brother Luo, the shopping mall is like a battlefield, and you are always fond of fraud. If you lose, you can't blame me for being treacherous. You can only blame yourself for not doing business. You should do your Haiyan business well. Don't come here to get involved."

Qian Renyi said in the attitude of a winner.

"you--"

Luo Houping waved his fist and wanted to beat someone, but was stopped by others.

Soon several strong men in the manor also entered the hall to pull out the conflicting personnel to avoid small matters.

As the owner, Xu Yuan had to take a treble speaker and advise them to make money with each other and not to quarrel. They did not win the bid this year and could come back next year. In addition to special commodities, pressed oil, canned products and high-yield crop seeds in Xujiazhuang. Merchants who do not win the bid can also buy a batch and go back without being restricted by agency qualifications.

also!

Xujiazhuang also provides the business of silver for gold. Any merchant can bring gold to them and exchange the gold in their hands with reasonable exchange ratios. The gold they have in their hands is sufficient in color and guaranteed to be free of losses. They can be exchanged at any time. In the future, ordinary goods produced by Xujiazhuang will only be purchased in silver dollars, and other silver will not be charged.

Hearing these words.

The merchants who did not win the bid were in a much better mood, and some said on the spot that they would buy some canned food and good varieties to go back.

Even those merchants who have already won the bid have made purchase requests for wheat, potatoes, corn and other good varieties that can significantly increase their yields.

As for the gold exchange silver dollar business, there are not many merchants who respond. Although they all like silver dollars that sound like blowing, gold is a high-value hard currency, convenient and easy to carry, and conducive to large-scale transactions. Unless they encounter economic difficulties or have high profits, they will not easily exchange them for other currencies.

Xu Yuan was very eager for gold, because the ratio of gold to silver in the late Ming Dynasty was about one to ten, while on Blue Star, the price of 925 industrial silver was 3.5 yuan/gram, but the price of gold soared to nearly 500 yuan/gram, with a price ratio of more than 1:100.

If the gold at the end of the Ming Dynasty was replaced with silver from the blue star, there would be more than ten times the profit margin in the middle.

However, gold was also a very scarce in ancient times. Rich people who really held a lot of gold did not want to make the little silver. Therefore, Xu Yuan's financial business has been in a lukewarm state for several years and has not obtained a lot of gold.

night.

Xu Yuan asked someone to prepare a grand dinner, and while drinking, he announced the successful end of this year's bidding meeting.

Whether it is the winner or the businessman who has not won the bid, he feels that he has gained a lot and can make a lot of money this year and is in a very good mood.

Sitting at the banquet, Xu Yuan, as the host, looked at these smart businessmen in a well-dressed manner, as if he had seen compradors, who were destined to be unable to escape their dependence on themselves in the future.

Although some of these businessmen had a very good background and were arrogant in private, they asked Xu Yuan to "take in" them and showed sincerity. After being rejected, they faintly threatened that Xu Yuan's business would not last long and would sooner or later be swallowed up by tigers, which was the way to perish.

Some people wanted to invest in cooperation and were willing to provide workshops and workers to expand production scale. However, the industrial products Xu Yuan took out were all finished products produced by modern factories. He did not provide technical information and the idea of ​​building a factory here. Because with the ancient technical confidentiality level and the intelligence of craftsmen, I was afraid that glass, white sugar, soap and other things had just been mass-produced, and the workshops all over the world had learned secretly, and there was no concept of patent protection at all.

If you want to continue these profitable businesses for a long time, the best way is to purchase goods from Blue Star and never build a factory here.

Of course, workshops such as oil pressing workshops, furniture factories, brick kiln factories, canning factories, and rice mills cans can still be built, and the product is not very scarce, so it doesn’t matter if you don’t seek huge profits, and it doesn’t matter if you are copied.

all in all.

It is unnecessary to go on the business by yourself. Xu Yuan’s current idea is to use modern society as a production base to import some industrial products that could not have been produced by ancient people to the Xujiazhuang base, and then act as a merchandiser to attract comprador merchants to purchase goods and become agents. Although the profit margin of this model has been reduced a lot, it is safer and stable, and can sell more goods, and actually makes more money than before.
Chapter completed!