Chapter 30 The Business Network of the Sea Dragon Gang
Cai Yan was unwilling to enter the city, and even wanted to make the scholars make trouble. He made this matter known to everyone and made it uncontrollable. He then tidied them up. After that, he still couldn't make up his mind.
Walking in the bustling streets, there is no real feeling of going shopping in later generations. I feel that everything around me is so false, as if everything has nothing to do with me.
I had two more candied haws in my hand, for fear that Green Peach would ruin my business, so I didn't take her with me for the first time. If I didn't buy her a candied haw when I went back, I don't know how long it would take to face my tearful eyes.
"Young Master."
Meng Fei spoke, and Cai Hua followed his eyes and saw a small flag-shaped carriage hanging on the character "Sea" coming towards him, and his footsteps couldn't help but stop.
"Well~"
The groom boss Su strangled the horse and was about to jump off the shaft, but Cai Yan smiled and said, "Old Su doesn't have to be so polite. In front of you, Yan'er is just a junior."
As he said that, Cai Wei didn't bother me to be dirty, so he climbed onto the shaft of the car and sat next to Boss Su. He was surprised when he saw the mark on the buttocks of the jujube horse.
"War Horse?"
"Young Master has a good vision. He was originally a war horse in the Liao Kingdom, but he was a little older and could only drag the carriage." Boss Su said, waving the whip.
Cai Yan was silent for a moment and said, "Old Su, are the war horses of the Liao Kingdom easy to buy? Yan Er wanted to open a school by himself. There were rituals, music, archery, imperialism, books, and counting six arts. Yan Er also wanted to learn riding and shooting."
Old Su sighed in his heart and said, "It is difficult to get good war horses in Liao Kingdom. Even if you can get some, there are very few. However, this kind of old horse is not very difficult. If the young master likes it, the old slave will send a letter to Xiaoqi after he goes back and ask him to get some to deliver it."
As he said that, Boss Su grinned at Cai Yan again and said, "Young Master, I just got the news. Prefect Xue asked someone to find Cai Jiu. I guess the prefect is afraid."
Cai Yan thought for a moment and smiled and said, "I'm afraid or not, but Huang Er knew that the result would not change at all. My mother held most of the Cai family's industries, and the food and drink of the whole family were all supplied by her. How can Lao Cai do it without caring about it? Our family did not violate the laws of the Song Dynasty. We will give the tax that should be given. If Lao Cai dares to turn his elbow out in this way, then let him drink the northwest wind by himself!"
Cai Yan rolled his eyes very much, and said with a wry smile: "Old Cai is not a fool. He can make money for the official family. Naturally, he knows the reason for making money for himself. His mother originally said that she wanted the Yanba in Yancheng, Chuzhou, but she thought she had been angry with Lao Cai for a long time. But that was before, now Bai Er was very unhappy and wanted to ask him for the entire Huainan salt. Just see if he gave it?"
Boss Su was silent for a moment and said worriedly: "Have you ever thought about it? The court will not agree to us to use salt money to buy Huainan salt bas."
"Su always wants to talk about Grand Master Cai, right?"
Cai Yan smiled undeniably and said, "The salt banknotes were issued by the court itself. All the salt banknotes on the market were exchanged for real money and silver. The court was planning to buy the pounce with '30% banknotes, 30% silk, 40% of coins'. That was someone else, but Jae didn't care about this. Jae only knew that the salt banknotes were exchanged for real money and silver, and Cai Jing had to recognize him!"
"If he doesn't recognize him, no one can get a penny of silver, a foot of brocade, or a grain of grain from his mother in the future, and when will he spend hundreds of thousands of stagnants of salt banknotes, and when will he have silver, brocade, and grain!"
Boss Su opened his mouth slightly and looked at him in disbelief...
"Don't look at Yan'er like this. Yan'er just sent a letter to Lao Cai. What he loves to do is his own business. We can't control it, but he has implicated his mother and inexplicably made Yan'er bear the bad reputation of "fetishizing women"!"
"Yes, he is alive for one day. The government needs him to cheat the people's money, so his power will not fall. But Mr. Su doesn't see how old he is? An old man who is older than Mr. Su, what if he has his braids and kicks his legs? What should we do? Follow him to bury him?"
Cai Jing was very dissatisfied and made him unfamiliar with him because of him. When he thought that Cai Jing was only allowed to use 30% of the salt banknotes to buy a salt field, he felt inexplicably angry. Although he knew that Cai Jing had some methods to follow him, he also had obvious dissatisfaction and resentment in his words.
Boss Su was silent. Cai Yan knew what the old man around him was worried about. This was a man's world. Su family controlled 80% of the Cai family's industries, but if Cai Jing was not happy, he would probably lose everything in one day.
Cai Yan is not worried. If he loses it, he will lose it. It is not Cai Jing's authority that truly supports these industries. With his broken reputation of being untrustworthy, how could a merchant be willing to do business with him? He also relies on his grandfather's Hairui business ship to transport goods and travel to merchants?
Power is a good thing. Cai Jing wanted to get money and only said one thing. There were even countless merchants and officials who gave money, but giving money was giving money, and business was doing anything privately. Once they cooperated in business, it meant offending ordinary consumers. Not to mention anything else, only the shops around Cai’s Mansion in Hangzhou were named Cai, and even the shops close to the Cai family could not be managed, so they were forced to sell them to the Cai family, let alone cooperate in business.
The main business of Hairui Business is transportation, helping the government transport grain and conducting sea trade business. There are few customers in the Cai family store coming to the door all day long, so it can be managed all the time, relying on Hairui Business Business to absorb goods from the store through sea.
For several months, Cai Hua has long known the special features of Hairui Business and the Hailong Gang. All the shops, cars and horses of the Cai Mansion are all hung with small flags with the word "Cai", and only Hairui Business only hangs small flags with small flags with the word "Sea".
This is how people are. If there is a way out, there is nothing to be afraid or worried. If Cai Jing is really angry and takes over the industrial rights of the mother and the mother, then it will be divided. You walk on your road to the sky and I walk on my single-wood bridge. He is not the original Cai Huang, and he will not care about the love of "father and son" at all, but his words are indeed a bit ruthless.
Boss Su sighed in his heart, and Cai Hua didn't say anything. Anyway, the dog crawling letter he wrote had been sent out. Since he wanted to buy a salt stadium, let's play bigger.
The carriage was running, and Cai Yan raised his whip to scare the old horse, while Su Boss pulled the reins from time to time and directed the old horse to turn and move forward...
The sun was gradually slanting, and Cai Yan would not care where Boss Su sent him. He had an instinctive trust in the disabled old man with scarred faces beside him. Dozens of people followed him on both sides of the carriage, and the sound of the jingling of the waist and the impact of the knife made people feel at ease.
"Well~"
Boss Su grabbed Lao Ma, and Cai Yan seemed to wake up from his own world. He saw that it was an ordinary courtyard wall and was stunned.
"The Hailong Gang has a larger population, so you still have to save more. Please, the young master."
Cai Yan didn't say much, jumped off the shaft, stood outside the mottled wooden door and looked around, and found that the courtyard wall was a little simpler, but it was just a pile of adobe made of soil, which occupied a considerable area. It was roughly estimated that there should be a hundred acres.
Seeing many iron or wooden rings on the earthen wall, Cai Hua said in confusion: "This is not our warehouse courtyard, right?"
Boss Su nodded and smiled, "What the young master guessed is right, it is the store of the business, please help me!"
Boss Su lost one leg in the naval battle and limped, and he was unwilling to be helped. While walking, he said, "From Jingdi along the river to transport grain eastward to Jiangning, we transport salt to Jiangning. The two are exchanged. Jingdi ships transport salt back to sell, while our ships loaded with grain head north along the canal to Bianjing to earn some money."
Cai Yan nodded slightly, knowing that the court would never let the canal ships make much money. If the canal merchants make too much money, it means that the court has paid more, and the big turbans are naturally unwilling to do so.
Seeing Cai Yan looking up at him, Boss Su stroked his beard and said, "Assisting in the canal transportation can only barely wrap the belly of his brothers. If the government is a little stricter, the ship will lose some money. Logically speaking, we should not participate in this loss-making transaction, Cai Mansion..."
"Some people are willing to have business dealings with the Cai Mansion, but the Liao Kingdom in the north is different. They only recognize brocade, money, and the care of their elder brother-in-law, so the profit is still good."
Speaking of this, Cai Yan knew what was going on. As for who the "son-in-law" was in the old man's mouth, he didn't understand it for a while. He could only be clearer when he went back to ask Lu Tao.
Knowing what was going on, Cai Yan was a little confused and asked in confusion: "Old Su, the Hailong Gang has a sea boat. Isn't it okay to lead from the sea to the Liao Kingdom? This saves a lot more than land?"
Boss Su couldn't help but smile and said, "Really speaking, as the young master said, there is no government to go on the sea, and the green forest should be blocked. It should be more profitable. In the early days, the old Dragon King took us on the sea, selling brocade from Song to Liao. Later... Later, the lady married into the Cai Mansion, and her business with Liao was mainly in the Heyun."
"Walking on the sea road is different from the canal water road. The sea road is at most two or three times a year. It is easy to get into trouble when the wind direction is wrong. Once something happens, it will be a waste of work in a year. In addition, once you go to sea, you will have to pay double the tax. The Hailong Gang is not really doing business without a capital, and most of it still has to deal with the court."
"Walking through the river transportation, we helped the court carry out grain transportation. From Jiangnan to Bianjing, we transported grain transportation from Jiangnan to Bianjing, and then went north to Daming Prefecture, and sent silver money from various prefectures and counties in Hebei back to Bianjing. There was no obstruction from the government to transport Gangchen. In order to make up for and encourage merchants to participate in Gangchen transportation, the Song Dynasty always turned a blind eye to the tea silk, salt and other goods sold by merchants to the Liao Kingdom. In addition, the Cai Mansion's connections, we earned more, and then it became like this."
Chapter completed!