After leaving East Street, Liang Chuan realized something that was on his mind. Although the matter of earning Liang Zao was in progress, the results would have to wait until the next year at the earliest.
Listening to Yelu Chongguang's report, it seems that the problem is not big.
Naturally, Yu Gang would not lie to him. Hai Yijing had caused heavy losses to Yu Gang, and the entire Weiyuan Building was turned into Qingshui Yamen.
What he wants to deal with is not just Yu Gang, there are many people from top to bottom who are counting on a port to eat.
Some people are in charge of wine, some are in charge of iron, some are in charge of salt, and some are in charge of mines. If you want to open up business relationships, you can't stay in one place.
The cooperation between Liang Chuan and Khitan has been confirmed. No matter what, the two shady people will open up this underground smuggling business route. Xiao Zhang seems to be short of money, and Liang Chuan is also short of money. Both of them are There is an urgent need to build this route to make money.
Liang Chuan's plan is not trivial. Even if Xiao Zhang cuts off trade with him in the future, he will expand other routes. The demand for trade in the north is very huge. Because of the Japanese rebellion, even if he has not been to the north in these years Even without personally inspecting it, I know that they are already on the verge of extreme hunger and are full of desire for the mutual market!
The more troubled the times, the greater the demand. Prices are extremely high and supplies are extremely tight!
History has proven that the Qingyuan sea ban can never be completely banned. There are still many smugglers and smugglers. Now these people are Liang Chuan’s lifeline. As long as this hidden line remains, goods can continue to arrive on Liang Chuan’s ship. !
People in the South do not identify with their home country as much as those in the North. The North has a sense of identity with their homeland. There have been very few wars in the South over the past century, and their homes have rarely been damaged, so their focus is on business.
This is also the source of confidence that Liang Chuan can continue smuggling.
The common people will support it, and other businessmen will continue to see profits!
The next step is to buy some useful new year goods for the brothers on the island.
The most important thing for everyone is to wear new clothes.
Many cloth shops in Qingyuan closed down today.
In the past, cloth and silk, even the lowest-grade coarse cloth, were in short supply for export. As long as they were shipped on ships, when they arrived in Nanyang and the North, a lot of people were rushing to get them, and the price was much higher than in Qingyuan. .
These are not sold directly, but continue to be redistributed. Some of them are transferred several times, allowing several groups of people to make money together!
Not a single piece of cloth can be sold this year. There is not much locally produced cloth in Qingyuan. Most of the cloth is shipped from the mainland of Jiangxi. By the time we get to Qingyuan, the price has risen a lot. If it weren't for the low shipping freight, the cost would be even higher. rise.
However, if the cloth cannot be sold and is transported back by land by carriage, horse or manpower, it will be a waste of blood and sweat.
Cloth merchants can only put the cloth in the warehouse and wait for the market in the coming year. However, the cloth also pays attention to the new and old styles of the same material. Once it is placed in the warehouse, it may not be sold next year, and then it can only be sold at a discount. , the loss is even greater.
There are many people on the island, including those with nearly 10,000 dependents, and more people will come to the island one after another. Liang Chuan has made calculations. As long as the children of Guanzhong still have family members in Xinghua, they will all be brought to the island and arranged for houses and fields. , as long as they want!
Not only can it enrich the population of the island, but it can also bring a lot of new forces. Many men on the island have reached age, but there is no place to find girls. Liang Chuan also has to find a way to recruit a group of girls to the island!
This year's gift is for everyone to make new clothes, which requires a lot of fabric.
Although it costs a lot of money, it makes everyone happy and it’s well worth the money!
Many fabrication companies have also received news. They heard that Qingyuan Shipyard has arranged work in the past few days until the end of the year. It has to rush to build sea-going ships. A big customer has already bought all the remaining sea-going ships!
The cloth merchants were all excited when they heard the news. What they wanted was very simple. The lively market in the past meant that the sea would definitely open in the coming year, and it was a government factory. Without government gossip, they would engage in this business at a loss. ?
Definitely impossible!
But it's not just their cloth shop, all the shops in Qingyuan opened for business at the same time when the Chinese New Year is approaching and should be closed. Not to mention, the market is really bad!
That's what business people do, they follow the trend.
For the sake of business in the coming year, no matter how bad the market is, they still have to prop up their clothes and let others see their foundation. If they can't start business at this time, then there is no hope for next year!
Everyone is afraid that the business will be gone while the store is still open.
For many businesses in Qingyuan, the goods are on the way. You must pay the deposit first before the goods can be received. This is all about integrity!
Everyone puts up a front to get the business going. Even if it's not easy, they still have to buy two lanterns to hang up at the door, or post some Spring Festival couplets to liven up the atmosphere. One line will prosper and the other will prosper, and businesses are closely related to each other.
While other people's homes are busy, your own home can't be left dry. Even if adults are willing to do so, children are not willing either!
The lifeless Qingyuan suddenly became noisy.
New Year's goods, natural department stores.
Liang Chuan bought a lot of everything he could, including gifts for children, toys such as rattles and bamboo windmills, and toys for the elderly. There were not many elderly people on the island, but Liang Chuan paid more attention to them and prepared some silver jewelry for them. There are hairpins and other small items. If you buy them in the market, they will cost a lot of money.
You can buy food, clothes, clothes, toys, gifts, gifts, dried, fresh, raw, and cooked things. The money is not expensive, and you can go to the pier together. Move up.
Holidays are for children. Only children will think that today is a happy day, especially for the common people. Although I have been resting this year, it should get better after these few days!
Everyone has the same idea. No matter how poor you are, you can't poor your children and you can't wrong yourself.
Every year is a node, and every year is a new beginning. The Han family is more diligent than anyone else in the world. They can endure hard work day after day, endure never getting ahead, and endure extreme extremes. Although we are poor, no matter how poor we are, we still have one thing to look forward to, which is the Chinese New Year.
Cows and horses also have a moment to breathe and eat grass. The New Year is the meaning of this.
This is a memory and inheritance that has been deeply ingrained in our bones since we were children.
There are a lot of goods in the warehouse at the dock. These goods are piled up in a variety of ways, many of which are priceless, and many of which are also very valuable.
He Chunsheng is right, if we put these goods down, we may have to lose a lot more.
It would be difficult to wait for the imperial court to open the sea and sell the goods through formal means and channels.
Many people are also giving up on the current market policies of the imperial court.
But Liang Chuan happened to take a fancy to this.
Others don’t want it, but he wants it.
As long as the goods piled on the dock are goods that the public needs, if they are willing to sell them at a low price, then Liang Chuan is willing to eat as much as he wants. The price must satisfy Liang Chuan!
A high-quality vase that originally cost eight hundred cents was paid for two hundred cents, less than 30% of the original price. .
A foot of cloth used to cost fifteen cents, but now it costs five cents. Otherwise, the price would have dropped so much in another two years.
There are also those silks, lacquerware, copperware, ironware, wine, dyes, gold, silver, jade, and some handmade products. Liangchuan will buy whatever is available on the dock! The premise is that the price is low enough!
He Chunsheng reported the debt to him, and now Liang Chuan decided to use all the savings in the Wanda Chamber of Commerce to start this battle!
Many people in Qingyuan have noticed that the sea will definitely open next year!
Wanda Chamber of Commerce is their benchmark!
It is said that behind this chamber of commerce there is the shadow of the Qingyuan Sun family. This Sun family is not the Sun family that sells tea, but the Sun family that has established its own business and is the son-in-law of Xia Xianggong!
They know best what the court will do next, because the policy is set by their family. The Wanda Chamber of Commerce has already started to buy at low prices, so why don't they take action immediately!
This creates a very troublesome situation.
The market is divided into two groups.
A group of people are pessimistic about the market. They don’t think the imperial court will open the sea in the short term. Isn’t that a slap in the face? The other group is the opportunists. They have no accurate information, but they are interested in the trends of the shipyard and the chamber of commerce, and decide to take a chance and gain wealth through danger!
Because of the recent strange developments, several big guys from the Qingyuan Civilian Chamber of Commerce held meetings to share the information they knew with each other, but without exception, they did not have accurate and reliable information.
Qingyuan Market is now filled with gloom.
Liang Chuan was not in a hurry. He directed He Chunsheng to collect a large amount of goods at a very low price. Liang Chuan planned to transport these goods to Penghu in batches first, and then transport them to the north in batches when the time comes tomorrow.
This is not a sale, this is robbery!
He Chunsheng discovered that the amount of goods accumulated on Qingyuan was far more than he imagined!
Many people were already on the verge of collapse. If Liang Chuan hadn't taken action in time to help them out, they wouldn't even be able to raise the money to travel back!
In fact, the cost of silk, porcelain and other handmade products of this era is not that high. It is just that the added value in the production process is high. The falling prices will only reduce their profits. If they even lose money, it will only be It's just a part. If they can take action, they will have a way to get back the funds and fight next year.
At the end of this year, Qingyuan went completely crazy. Some people sold goods to the Wanda Chamber of Commerce regardless of the cost. They knew that the chamber of commerce had great power. Maybe the chamber of commerce sold the goods through other channels, but it was not a problem for them.
There are also a large number of businessmen who firmly believe that there will be a turnaround next year, so they are waiting, betting, and waiting for this game to start! They have been waiting for so long, and they are not short of time!
An excellent businessman is also a qualified gambler!
The workers were surprised to find that they had work to do again.
The merchants piled all the goods on the dock. The workers knew that it must be a smuggling business. Sure enough, at night, Liang Chuan had to rely on these workers to carry the goods he bought during the day onto the ship.
The workers were still the same workers, waiting for many days for the first order of business.
They don't care where these goods go, they can't and don't dare to ask, they just do their own thing and take their own reward!
