Chapter 543 The Most Disgusting Jiangnan Gentleman Becomes a Beneficiary!
To say that Songjiang really deserves to be the location of the Magic City of later generations, this place has unique advantages in developing its economy. Only a few years ago? Now this place has a faint momentum of strong economic rise.
Although the manufacturing industry and population size have not yet caught up, in terms of the consumer market, it is really competitive with Beijing. The total annual consumption exceeds 10 million taels, which is not an ordinary city.
Comparable. If nothing else, how many stores are needed to achieve such data?
Anyway, people in Songjiang now either run factories or shops or work there. There are 500,000 people in the whole government, and at least half of them are engaged in work related to industry and commerce, and there are also many people who have climbed over the wall from other places in the south of the Yangtze River to come here.
Migrant workers. According to the concept of later generations, the floating population of Songjiang Prefecture also numbered nearly 100,000. The rapidly rising Songjiang City, with numerous shops and constant traffic of cars and boats, looked like a fertile commercial land.
"Several young gentlemen came to Songjiang. Fan was busy with worldly affairs and didn't greet him well. He still wanted to see Haihan." In a private room of a tea house near the river, Fan Yiwei, a big shipper and oil merchant in Songjiang Prefecture, was sitting on the main seat, talking with
Some scholars who were shopping before were talking about something.
"Fan Dadong's family is now a big businessman, and they must have a lot of business to deal with. Why should we bother you to come and accompany us? In fact, there are many interesting places in Songjiang Prefecture, and we can feel comfortable going around by ourselves."
Fan Yiwei was unfazed by the teasing polite words of these scholars. A few years ago, how could he, a flat-headed ship merchant, drink tea and talk at the same table with these scholars who considered themselves scholars?
?Now! Things have changed. Even if they may not be very happy in their hearts, at most they can secretly hide their thoughts and talk to themselves carefully.
There is no way, now everyone is in a symbiotic relationship with the same interests, and even Fan Yiwei is stronger than them.
"Let's talk about business. The kerosene I can transport this winter is about 30% more than last year. I wonder if the young owners can take this share?"
"Thirty percent more? It's not a big problem. Just give it to Fan Dongjia. Kerosene is a daily necessities, and every household uses it. Now there are even large families in Nanjing and Suzhou who specialize in using kerosene stoves for cooking. Besides, they can't be sold out for a while.
I can put it down."
"If a few of them can purchase the extra shares, Na Fan won't have to look for other buyers and can safely ship goods here."
"That's it for the oil thing. Fan Dong's family, we also want to ask you to bring in more water wheel spinning machines and cloth machines from the north, and at the same time, we also need to bring in more iron cars. I wonder if you can help?"
"Fan will find a way to bring in more yarn cars and cloth machines and send them to you! By the way, if you buy these machines, Fan may not be able to bring in much raw cotton in the future."
"Hey, are you making money? You can't let Fan Dong's family make all the money, can you? We can make more space for Fan Dong's family by weaving cotton yarn and cloth, and transport more goods to the north. We should have more cotton this year than last year
Quite a bit, Fan Dong’s family will make a lot of money.”
"That's right. Anyway, if you have money, everyone can make it! By the way, Songjiang Prefecture also has a factory for railway cars. It's a little cheaper for you to purchase goods directly from here. Why do you need to go through my hands and then transport goods from the north?
Where? What the hell, the whole truck takes up a lot of space when transported here and there."
"Of course we want to buy cars from the Songjiang depot, but their output is still a little small. The share we can buy is limited after all, so we have to trouble Fan Dong's family to buy more goods from the north. This way
We have more goods on hand. How many days can we sell a car with less than a thousand units? Now in Suzhou and Nanjing, there are people who go to Songjiang to buy an iron car.
of."
There is a shortage of horses in the south of the Yangtze River and the terrain is flat, so bicycles became a big hit as soon as they appeared. With the current production capacity of less than 10,000 units a year, the Songjiang Depot cannot meet the huge market demand. At the same time, the goods produced by the Songjiang Depot
, and a certain amount must be left to supply the local market, so the shortage is even more obvious.
"Okay! I'll think of some way to order more goods from the capital. Speaking of which, the capital is the capital after all, and the output of people's manufactured things is really not comparable to that of Songjiang. Before I came back from the capital, I heard that
People from the supply and marketing cooperative said that this year the Jingli depot will produce at least 30,000 bicycles, and next year the output of the depot is likely to exceed 50,000. Once the volume is large, the price will go down. Now the bicycles in Jingli
The ex-factory price will be two taels of silver dollars cheaper than at the beginning of the new year. Maybe next year the ex-factory price will be within twenty taels of silver dollars."
"Will the ex-factory price of bicycles in Beijing next year be less than 20 taels? That's a bit too cheap, right? At this price, ordinary people with poor legs can get it by just saving a little money and gritting their teeth!"
"Why not? There are even rumors from the Beijing Bicycle Factory that they will strive to make the ex-factory price of bicycles within 10 taels within five years, so that every household can afford a bicycle."
The technical reserves are almost there, production capacity is exploding, and production costs will definitely drop significantly. A large vehicle manufacturer can produce more than 50,000 vehicles and control costs to ten taels of silver dollars. Only then will this industry be able to
It truly achieves what Zhu Youjian hoped for and becomes an epoch-making product that benefits the people.
Even ordinary farmers in Beizhili and Shandong have the spending power to save ten taels of silver dollars. Under the current situation, a family can still save ten taels of silver dollars after working hard for a year. In this era, bicycles are large tools.
For consumer goods, the money spent should be valuable.
At present, except for the inability to solve the problem of rubber tires, the other performance of the bicycle can be said to be passable. As a mass consumer product, there is no problem at all.
"According to Fan Dongjia, it seems that we have to sell the iron cart as soon as possible after we get it, otherwise there is a risk of it being smashed into our hands."
After hearing what Fan Yiwei said, several scholars immediately thought about how to prevent their families from losing money. They looked like businessmen with Fan Yiwei, without any regard for their status as scholars.
In the past two years, due to the opening of Songjiang Prefecture to the port, Jiangnan's economy has slowed down like a miracle. The economic development of Songjiang Prefecture has Jiangnan as its hinterland, and this relationship is natural. The reason why the current situation is described as weird is that
It is because the gentry group that Zhu Youjian hates most is the one who enjoys this dividend to the greatest extent. With their political monopoly and capital monopoly, they have transformed into bureaucratic capital comprador groups one by one. They squeeze the people internally and let the people use cheap labor.
Produce as many raw materials as possible, monopolize import and export channels, and make huge profits, making a lot of money!