"You can really make five hundred thousand taels"
Liang Binbin's Adam's apple squirmed and he licked his lips with the tip of his tongue.
With an income of five hundred thousand taels a year, Shanxi merchants like them have not accumulated so much silver in several generations. Among them, only the Fan family has more than five hundred thousand taels.
However, even if the Fan family has more than 500,000 taels of wealth, it still needs to be combined with the family land deeds and shops.
"Yes." Fan Yongdou nodded, picked up the tureen beside him and took a sip of tea.
"How come there is so much money?" Huang Yunfa exclaimed.
Fan Yongdou removed the tureen from his mouth and said, "If you don't believe it, you can send the accountants from each family to the chamber of commerce to do a calculation. I believe you can estimate the approximate amount of money and see if there is the amount I mentioned."
Several people in the room were speechless for a moment.
If things really go as Fan Yongdou said, taking over the business roads on the grassland will bring benefits of 500,000 taels of silver to Fanji Chamber of Commerce every year. Even if more than one family shares this silver, each family will get at least tens of thousands. Two silver coins.
With such a large amount of money, they and their family together could not earn this amount in a year.
Fan Yongdou closed the lid of the tureen, held it in his hand, and said, "Of course, if you want to make this money, you can't just rely on the Fanji Chamber of Commerce. You also need to bribe powerful Taijis on the grassland to open up business channels, just like the Tiger Flag." , naturally we have to allocate part of the profits to those Taijis, and to manage various things along the way. In the end, only about half of the money that fell into the pockets of Fanji Chamber of Commerce was left."
Half of the five hundred thousand taels is still 250,000 taels, which is definitely not a small sum. Many Shanxi merchants don't even have that much even if their family wealth is included.
Wang Dayu said, "President Fan, you mean that as long as we take down the business roads on the grassland, we can earn this money."
Fan Yongdou nodded slightly and said, "The Tiger-Character Banner has opened up relations with various ministries and agencies. As long as we squeeze the Tiger-Character Banner out of the grassland and replace it, our Fanji Chamber of Commerce can open up new business routes in the future, and the future income will be far more than five One hundred thousand taels.”
Several people in the room were silent and lost in thought.
After a while, Guest Liang said, "This matter is of great importance. Please allow me, President Fan, for a while and let me go back to the Liang family to discuss it with my clan members."
Wang Dayu also said, "My Wang family is the same, please don't blame President Fan."
With hundreds of thousands of taels of silver at stake, they couldn't help but be careless.
Fan Yongdou said, "Now that the Tiger Character Banner has officially begun to take in the goods sent to the grassland by the Chamber of Commerce, I can give you some time to think about it at this time, but the Tiger Character Banner may not give you this time, and the Mongolians on the grassland may not give you this either." time."
Liang Binbin frowned and said, "The Chamber of Commerce doesn't always have a fleet of trucks to transport goods to the grassland. It's okay for the Chamber of Commerce to remain as before."
"In the past, the goods transported by the Chamber of Commerce to Bansheng City will be enough. Now there is an extra tiger flag to buy our goods. If it continues like before, the goods on the grassland will not be enough, so the Chamber of Commerce should increase the number of goods shipped to the grassland. The amount of goods transported, and the more the better, completely defeating the Tiger Flag from the grassland."
After speaking, Fan Yongdou looked at Liang Jiabin and Wang Dayu.
As for Huang Yunfa on the side, he didn't care. He knew that this person had no independent opinions and usually just followed the crowd. He would do whatever others did.
Wang Dayu and Liang Jiabin looked at each other.
Liang Binbin said, "Otherwise, the goods sent to Bansheng City will be doubled."
Fan Yongdou frowned when he heard this.
He regretted setting up the Fanji Chamber of Commerce. If it was just his Fan family, there would be no need for such trouble. The Fan family could completely overwhelm the Tiger Flag. But now that they have this chamber of commerce, they are tied up.
Wang Dayu on the side said, "I agree with Dongzhu Liang's method. First, double the cargo volume. If it is not enough, we can continue to increase the fleet to the grassland. There is no need to send too many goods to the grassland at once. You know. Every time the Chamber of Commerce sends a truckload of goods to the grassland, we have to pay for the money of the truckload."
"Okay." Fan Yongdou agreed.
However, the fact that he agreed so readily made Liang Jiabin and Wang Dalong suspicious.
According to the two people's inner thoughts, Fan Yongdou should continue to persuade them, but now he agreed so happily, but they were somewhat unable to understand Fan Yongdou's thoughts.
"Then it's decided." Wang Dayu asked tentatively.
Fan Yongdou said, "It's okay to make a decision, but I have a request."
Several people in the room, including Huang Yunfa, looked at Fan Yongdou.
Just listen to Fan Yongdou continue to say, "Since you are not willing to pay this money, then our Fan family can pay it ourselves. However, how much money our Fan family pays will determine how much profit our Fan family will take after we take over the business roads on the grassland in the future. Don’t you have any opinions?”
"This" Wang Dayu frowned.
They were reluctant to spend more money to fight with the Tiger Flag, but they also didn't want to see the Fan family spend more money and then occupy most of the business profits on the grassland.
There were hundreds of thousands of taels of silver at stake, and they were unwilling to give up just like that.
Seeing their hesitation, Fan Yongdou said, "You guys, either work with Fan to provide the money to bring down the Tiger Flag, or the Fan family will come up with the money. The Fan family will take the majority of the benefits of the trade in the future. You guys should make up your mind as soon as possible. We can wait on the grassland." Can’t afford it for too long.”
After saying that, he picked up the bowl and took a sip, then opened his mouth and spit it out.
He turned his head and said to the servants waiting on the side, "The tea is cold, please change it with hot tea for the proprietors."
"Yes." The servant agreed and left the room.
"President Fan, why bother? Although your Fan family has money, there is no need to waste it like this. Why don't we all pool the money together, and my Liang family can contribute five thousand taels." Guest Liang extended a slap.
Wang Dayu followed up and said, "My Wang family can also contribute five thousand taels."
Fan Yongdou shook his head slightly and said, "You two, do you think Tiger Character Flag will not be able to get even 10,000 taels of silver?"
Neither Liang Jiabin nor Wang Dayu said a word.
Fan Yongdou continued, "Now it is a life-and-death battle between the Fanji Chamber of Commerce and the Tiger Flag. Only one family can stay on the grassland. Su Nang Taiji of Bansheng City even said that this time the conflict between us and the Tiger Flag If we lose the fight, Fanji Chamber of Commerce will no longer have to stay on the grassland."
Liang Jiabin and Wang Dayu were both stunned.
Immediately, Wang Dayu hesitated and said, "When did Su Nang Taiji say such a thing? Why haven't we heard anyone talk about it?"
Fan Yongdou sneered and said, "It seems that the two cronies sent to Bansheng City really neglected their duties. Such an important matter was not written in the letter."
A look of embarrassment appeared on the faces of Liang Jiabin and Wang Dayu.
The person originally sent to the grassland to take charge was the steward next to Fan Yongdou, but Liang Jiabin and Wang Dayu were worried, so they sent their trusted people to go with Butler Fan to the grassland, saying that they were to assist Butler Fan in his work, but in fact they were to monitor Butler Fan. move.
Although this matter was not stated explicitly, everyone knew that Fan Yongdou had a grudge against this matter.
"The Huang family supports President Fan's decision." Huang Yunfa suddenly spoke.
His words made Liang Jiabin and Wang Dayu stunned.
Even Fan Yongdou did not expect Huang Yunfahu to stand up and support him at this time.
