Chapter 24 Deep Cultivation of Fuling County (2)
"Hahahaha, Brother Boyao came from afar, but I have never welcomed him. I wish you guilty and forgive me. My brother and his party went smoothly, right?"
"It's okay. I'm going to take a boat to come right after receiving my brother's letter. However, because there were batches of goods on the CD that have not been delivered for a long time, it was too late. It should be the foolish brother who begged for mercy. However, this Wujiang waterway."
"Hmm? What's wrong?"
"My brother, Fuling County has produced fewer production before, and I have never been here before. This is the first time I have walked on the Wujiang River. Although this river is much narrower than the Yangtze River, it is almost the same as the Minjiang River, Jialing River and other things. But there are a little more reefs in this water."
"Oh, so that's the case. Why? My brother came here and a boat broke into the reef?"
"Of course, but fortunately, there is only a large ship worth 500 stone. Brother Yu has already let all the large ships worth more than 500 stone exit the Wujiang River Channel and go to the Zhixian Wharf to wait."
"Well, I'm not thinking well about this. That hundred stone ship should be fine, right?"
"Following the advice of my old boatman, as long as you drive near the center of the channel, the Hundred Stone Boat is fine. Forget it, don't you tell me about these things. Didn't my brother say in the letter that there are good things for Brother Yu to show me? Take it out quickly and give Brother Yu a long eye."
"It's all some local products that our mountain people have made. Please, brother."
"please."
The first thing to take care of Mi is the labor results of the hunting team in the past two months. Various fur goods such as tiger skin, bear skin, wolf skin, deer skin, etc., tiger bones, bear bile, deer antler and other medicinal materials, as well as high-end ingredients such as bear paw, as well as various animal whips.
"These things are of good quality and the price is easy to negotiate. However, the amount is too small, and you can load it in three ships at most."
Brother, are you playing tricks on me? Brother, I'm about hundreds of thousands of dollars a minute. You called me to such a remote place to sell these things? I can handle it by a small department manager of my Mi Family Commercial Group.
"How dare you use these things to waste your brother's time? These are just a big deal. Please read this brother."
After Guan Yi showed Mi Zhao the various effects of tung oil in detail, Mi Zhao couldn't calm down: "How much does this product cost? How much can it be shipped in a month?"
Guan Yi's eyes turned: "I dare to ask my brother, how much is the best paint for a big man now worth?"
Sulu and tung trees were both important economic crops in ancient China. The difference is that the ancients understood and applied it earlier. One of the biggest reasons for this difference is that the seeds of tung trees can be edible. It was an important edible vegetable oil before rape flowers were introduced to China. The seeds (fruits) of tung trees were inedible. Modern research generally believes that the widespread use of tung oil did not begin until the Song Dynasty.
However, lacquer is like a rubber tree cutting rubber, which requires a lot of manpower. Moreover, the tree is slower than tung titanium, and the amount of paint produced by a single tree is much smaller than that of a single oil titanium.
Therefore, the price of paint is very expensive. It has always been a special item for the nobles and cannot be popularized on a large scale. However, it will not take long to make furniture made of wood, pots, pans, etc. without a layer of paint. Therefore, at least in this era, Guan Yi saw that there were very few wooden furniture in the homes of ordinary people in Shu Han, and most of the cooking utensils were pottery.
"Well, my brother, something as expensive as lacquer has never been measured by 'stone'. There are a lot of lacquer trees planted in my Dahan and the Eastern Wu, and the price is relatively cheap. The current market price of CD is 3,000 yuan per dot. There are fewer places where lacquer trees can be planted in the Pseudo Wei, but the amount is larger than that of my Dahan and the Eastern Wu, so the price is expensive. It is usually 5,000 yuan per dot."
After listening to Mi Zhao's introduction, Guan Yi was trembling all over! The Han system, the merging is the merging, ten merging is the liter, ten liters is the dou, ten merging is the hu, and hutongshi. In other words, if tung oil is also sold at this price, the output of the simple oil mill in one month is worth 300,000 to 500,000 yuan! This alone crushes the annual taxes of Fuling County! After deducting a little labor cost, the profit...
Huge profits! Huge profits that can make people crazy!
Fortunately, before traveling through time, he was in an era of information explosion, and he had seen all kinds of exaggerated things. This stimulus could still be withstood. So Guan Yi quickly calmed down. He also knew very well that the tung oil business had subsequent business transfers, landing transaction tax, processing, sales and other costs. Moreover, if this new paint had to replace paint, it would have to fight price wars. If it was expensive, it would not be able to enter the homes of ordinary people. If it could not be produced, it would be useless. Therefore, the actual profit could not be that large.
"My brother, haven't told me yet, how much does this tung oil cost and how much does it produce?"
"Brother, before talking about this, please look at something first."
"You guy...well, what's the matter? Come and take it to me quickly. Um~~~Fuxing Co., Ltd. Articles of Association..."
As the most outstanding businessman of this era, when Mi Zhao looked through this charter, he was undoubtedly shocked by the time traveler that contained a large number of concepts related to modern joint-stock companies. This was a farmer who had never had the chance to control a large company and made it his own trick.
"Excellent! It's wonderful!" Mi Zhao immediately threw away the idea of asking the cost of tung oil just now: "Where is the great sage who made this charter for my brother? Brother Yu wants to ask him to be the shopkeeper of my Mi family business! No, you can also give it to the stakes!"
Looking at Guan Yi who was smiling and silent, Mi Zhao was stunned: "Brother, it's not you, right?"
"It's my foolish brother's clumsy work."
“…you…you…”
"I understand why, my brother can understand. There are 10% shares in this Fuxing Society. To be honest, it is reserved for my brother."
"Serious! Brother Yu recognized this stock. Tell me, how much money do you want Brother Yu to invest in?"
"I don't have money, but I want my brother to exchange for 30% of the shares of the Mi Family Store."
"This... my brother is a little bit big."
"Is it big? Not big."
It has been more than half a year since he traveled to this era, and Guan Yi has already understood the background of the Mi family very well.
Although this Shu Han’s largest official businessman has been involved in all aspects of its hotels, Qinlou Chu Pavilion, and grocery stores, its main business is very simple, which is to sell Shu brocade to Wei and Wu. Then buy back a large amount of grain from Wei and Wu.
It's that simple.
Although it is simple, the existence of the Mi family is extremely important for the Shu Han regime. It is related to the life and death of the country.
Shu brocade is just woven by sericulture. But because of its exquisite style, it is loved by the world. Therefore, the price is extremely high. When Zhuge Liang was alive, he said: "The only way to determine the enemy is to raise the brocade." In other words, military expenditure is all based on Shu brocade!
The Shu Han officially controlled a small population. Except for the CD plain, most of the country's territory were mountainous, so the grain output was not high. In order to maintain a very high proportion of standing troops and a huge bureaucratic system (the number of officials in Shu Han was more than that of Cao Wei and Eastern Wu), a large amount of grain was needed to purchase from Wei and Wu. In this era, grain was an absolute strategic material. Therefore, to purchase a large amount of grain, it was necessary to bring out something that the other party's powerful people could not refuse. The only thing that could be taken from Shu Han was Shu Jin.
As an official and businessman in Shu Han, the Mi family has always been responsible for selling Shu brocade and earning money and grain to support the country and the army. So, although the Mi family’s business has a single item of Shu brocade of hundreds of millions every year, it is actually only 10 or 20 million to the Mi family’s own hands: if you make too much, the country will get less. If you make a fuss, you will cancel the monopoly of Shu brocade in your Mi family and change it to another official and businessman.
Moreover, as the aristocratic families within Shu Han began to grow and make efforts in recent years, the country could control less and less self-cultivated farmers. This led to the increasingly tightening of the oppression of the Mi family by the Shu Han government, and the profits of the Mi family became thinner and thinner. According to Guan Yi's estimate, the current Mi family's net profit is about 10 million yuan per year. 30% of the shares will only be three million yuan a year. He doesn't even look down on this small amount of money.
What he likes is the logistics channel that the Mi family has been operating for many years. In the commercial society, logistics is the king! There is also the semicolons set up everywhere in Mi family businesses: this is the largest intelligence network in Dahan. Finally, he wants to completely tie up with the Mi family through equity exchange.
Chapter completed!