Lu Fang did not think so much and nodded: "I plan to do this kind of business anyway. It is better to purchase goods from other merchants than from Marco Polo."
Marco Polo was relieved.
He nodded vigorously and said, "Don't worry, Mr. Lu, you are my benefactor. I will definitely give you the lowest price for these goods. But are you sure you want all of these?"
"All of them."
Lu Fangdao.
He could see that these goods from Marco Polo were good. Although most of them were luxury goods, they would definitely be marketable in Tanzhou.
Anyway, after some time, my own BESTORE store in Tanzhou will be able to open.
"All right!"
Marco Polo said: "Thank you very much, Mr. Lu, for your help. You are really my great benefactor. Next, I would like to invite you to see the thank you gift I have prepared for you."
"Isn't that the case?"
Lu Fang chuckled.
Marco Polo shook his head, "These are just ordinary commodities, how can they represent my gratitude to you! You must be very interested in the thank you gift I prepared for you."
Hearing what he said, Lu Fang actually felt a little curious.
What could give Marco Polo such confidence?
In this day and age, apart from treasures, spices, medicinal materials, fabrics, etc., how much else can be obtained overseas?
Marco Polo took him downstairs again.
But he went straight to the stables behind the inn.
Lu Fang followed him to the last row of the stable and was stunned on the spot.
dairy cow!
Marco Polo actually got him this thing.
Four big cows and eight smaller ones.
This gift is too heavy.
It is estimated that there is no such thing in Dayu now, right?
Marco Polo sighed softly and said: "I heard you talk about cows last time in Tanzhou. I think you should be very interested in them. Unfortunately, a few young ones died on the way here."
No.
I'm not interested in cows.
Lu Fangxin said.
But he couldn't help but smile, "Marco Polo, your gift is really too heavy."
Marco Polo didn't know what he meant and said: "Mr. Lu, in fact, this kind of livestock is not very valuable in our Makasi."
He was a little embarrassed.
If he hadn't been short of money, he would have wanted to give Lu Fang something more precious.
"No."
Lu Fangdao: "What I'm saying is that you are too serious. I just asked a casual question. I really didn't expect you to take it to heart."
These are polite words.
In fact, Lu Fang was confused.
His worship value system has not yet drawn a living creature, probably because there is no such option.
Although there is milk powder, there are no cows. In the end, you still have to exchange it with worship points.
Lu Fang has long wanted to set up a toffee processing factory to create a series of toffee products. But he struggled not to know where he would be in the future.
What if I set up a toffee processing factory in Ningyuan County, but then went to Shangjing City?
Do you often use your adoration points to exchange for milk powder and send it to Ningyuan?
It is much more convenient now that we have cows.
Get a livestock farm!
Let these cows give birth to babies, and let the father give birth to sons, and the sons to grandsons.
This can create a complete industrial chain. A dairy product industry chain with milk as the basic raw material.
The worship value system is no longer needed.
No!
Marco Polo would have to get more cows.
Marco Polo smiled shyly.
Lu Fang added: "But can you bring me more cows? I can buy them at a high price."
"Mr. Lu, what do you need so many cows for?"
Marco Polo was a little confused.
Cows are very common animals in Makasi. But their function is only to produce fresh milk.
It wasn't that he was unwilling to agree to Lu Fang, but he didn't know what value these cows could bring to Lu Fang.
Buying all the way from Makasi always feels like a waste of money. These cows cost a lot of money just for shipping.
Lu Fang smiled softly and said mysteriously: "You will know it later."
Marco Polo pursed his lips and said, "Then how many cows do you need?"
Lu Fang spread his five fingers.
"Five heads?"
Marco Polo said, then nodded slightly.
He thought that if Lu Fang only wanted five more cows, then it would be okay to give him five more cows.
But then, his eyes widened.
"Five thousand heads."
Lu Fang said.
This is undoubtedly a quite astonishing number.
In Makasi, even among dairy farmers, the number of dairy cows traded is only a few dozen at best.
Five thousand cows…
Marco Polo was stunned for a long time, "Is this... so many?"
Then he smiled bitterly and said: "Mr. Lu, I am happy to serve you. But with so many cows, I... I may not be able to buy them for you in a short time. And if you want to transport them to Dayu by sea, there is a lot of trouble in between.
There are too many expenses required. More importantly, you may not know how much it costs to raise these cows. Maybe you don’t care about the money, but please believe me, raising so many cows will definitely
It’s going to make you miserable.”
"It's fine."
Lu Fang chuckled and said: "Of course I have my own way. Marco Polo, I am very grateful that you can consider this for me. For the time being, I can't tell you why I bought so many cows, but what I can tell you is that this is of great significance to me.
It will be a profitable business. And I also hope that the two of us can become loyal business partners."
Marco Polo raised his eyebrows when he heard this, "I'm really getting more and more curious about what you plan to do with these cows. Are you selling fresh milk in Dayu?"
He is not optimistic about this kind of business.
Because the shelf life of fresh milk is too short and the taste is not good. Moreover, people in Dayu are not in the habit of drinking fresh milk.
But Lu Fang still didn't give him an answer, he just said: "How much does each cow cost?"
Talk to Marco Polo about milk candy? Milk powder?
And a range of dairy products?
Marco Polo probably didn't understand.
He didn't bother to talk.
Marco Polo thought for a while and said: "In our local area, the value of a cow's cub is about three to five taels of silver in your country of Chongqing. Slightly older cows are more expensive, and pregnant cows that can produce milk
, it only costs about ten taels of silver. But it will cost a lot of money to transport the cows to Dayu. We need enough ships and sailors, and we also need to bear the risk of the cows getting sick and dying on the way. When we arrive in Dayu
Coast, and then transporting these cows to Tanzhou will be a huge expense."
"I can't give you an accurate answer right now, but I estimate that even cheap baby cows, shipped to Dayu, will cost no less than ten taels of silver per head."
This is still a conservative estimate.
It may even cost twenty taels of silver per head.
The cost of shipping is too high in this era.
But Lu Fang nodded and said: "I think I need two thousand cows that can produce milk. The rest should preferably be cows that are close to the milk production period."
He really doesn't have that much time to breed cows. Spending time breeding cows in order to save costs is not worth the gain no matter how you think about it.