"This is a merchant from Jiaozhou! It's called Sun Wen!" Mi Zhu who was beside him spoke to Liu Mang.
"Jiaozhou!" Liu Mang pondered for a moment, he was a little doubtful whether he was from a scholar's family in Jiaozhou.
"My lord, I have found someone to investigate. This person is just a small businessman in Jiaozhou. His family wealth is no more than a thousand gold. He came to Yangzhou because he couldn't continue to do business in Jiaozhou!" Mi Zhu explained to Liu Mang.
"En!" Liu Mang nodded, maybe he was worrying too much, but seeing the leasing of the ships above, Liu Mang couldn't help laughing, "This Sun Wen is a bit interesting, three merchant ships, his ship is full. Are you afraid that he will be swept away by the waves this trip?" Liu Mang said with a smile.
This Sun Wen’s family wealth is only a thousand gold, and I’m afraid he will have to pay half of it for renting a boat. In addition, these three ships are all over 100 tons, how can they be filled, and Liu Mang also said on this sea I don't know, the sea is immeasurable, and it is also unpredictable. If there is a big storm, it may really lose everything. By then, Sun Wen will probably be penniless.
"My lord, this person is already planning to travel with this merchant ship!" Mi Zhu said to Liu Mang.
Hearing this, Liu Mang found it even more interesting. Passing with merchant ships? This is going out to sea, and whether you can come back is another matter. Generally, those who lease merchant ships are all merchant clans, but don’t think about those merchant leaders and noble clan leaders, they will go out by themselves, they are all dispatched The shopkeepers under his command are still terrible above the sea.
But this Sun Wen was planning to go out in person, which saved Liu Mang from thinking about the trouble of losing money in a storm, so he would go. If there is a big storm. That sank with the ship. Why are you thinking so much.
"Pass it on, this person's charter fee will be waived for him, and then go and give him three thousand gold, no, five thousand gold!" Liu Mang has lost all his money this time, and a small businessman actually took out five thousand gold .
"Five thousand gold? My lord, this. This?" Even Mi Zhu couldn't understand, this Sun Wen was just a small businessman who couldn't get along in Jiaozhou. As for such preferential treatment
"Zifang, I don't understand commercial things, but you don't understand the things above people's hearts!" Liu Mang said with a smile, everyone knows that going to sea is risky, and those businessmen who go to sea, except for those like Sun Wen Those who are really adventurous, and the rest are inextricably related to Liu Mang, such as Liu Neng's Liu family. There is also Mi Zhu's Mi family, these emerging gentry, they go to sea not only because they know a little inside story, but also to show Liu Mang.
There are very few truly independent businessmen left.
Liu Mang needs to give Sun Wen an example to encourage these individuals to go to sea. The scale of going to sea will only become bigger and bigger. Funan and Linhu are just two small countries among them. The latter enter the Indian Ocean, and there is still a wider space. This is not counted, and there are other new continents to be discovered.
And the risk of going to sea is very high. One of the reasons why these businessmen can go to sea desperately is the high profit. This is true.
Liu Mang didn't really give the five thousand gold directly to Sun Wen over there, but leased it to him. At least let him fill the ship for him, and the rest will be rewarded to him. He, Liu Mang, just wants to set a good example, let everyone know that if you want to get rich, then go to sea, if you want to get rich, then go to sea, if you want to be famous, then go to sea.
"Zhang family?" Liu Mang frowned when he saw another list.
If Liu Mang did not guess wrong about this Zhang family, then this person should be Chen Liu's Zhang family? How did he come to Yangzhou.
"My lord, this Zhang family also has business relations with us!" Mi Zhu over there said to Liu Mang. Now the seaports are basically in Liu Mang's hands, so Liu Mang has sea salt, but Liu Mang's The Yangzhou generation does not have as much iron as in the north, so when they come to each other, you want salt, I want iron, they are equal, and the other is cloth. The weather in the south is hot and humid, so naturally less cloth is needed, and the clothes are all Single clothes, but the north is different. It is cold in the north, and of course there are many clothes.
The efficiency of cloth production is faster, the quantity of cloth will naturally increase, and the price will inevitably decrease. This is a good news for the north. In the past, only rich and noble families could wear warm clothes in winter, but now ordinary people can afford them. Such a big business opportunity, no matter how much hatred there is with Yangzhou, those officials and gentlemen in Yanzhou will not have their heads caught in the door and stop doing business.
Chen Liu's Zhang family, Zhang Miao's Zhang family.
"This Xun Yu knows how to play!" Liu Mang laughed twice. Purchasing belongs to logistics, so naturally it belongs to Xun Yu over there, but now Xun Yu has been transferred from Xudu to Liaodong.
This Zhang family is Zhang Miao's Zhang family. The Zhang family and Liu Mang's cheap father-in-law were still good friends. The cheap father-in-law, Lu Bu, was the one who opened the city gate when they entered Yanzhou. They wanted to rely on Lu Bu to stand up again. But I didn't expect that our father-in-law was not strong enough and was kicked out by Lao Cao again.
Lao Cao was also kind enough to kill the head of the Zhang family, leaving behind the blood of the Zhang family, which has developed fairly well over the years. Xun Yu also knows that if other families come to Yangzhou for business, they will more or less Suppressed by Yangzhou, but this Chenliu Zhang family will not, because Lu Bu has a debt to the Zhang family, and it will naturally be compensated to him in some places.
Over the years, the Zhang family has earned a fortune in Yangzhou. . Of course, Yangzhou itself will not lose money, this is a win-win situation, but what Liu Wei didn't expect was that the Zhang family of Chen Liu actually participated in this trip to sea.
"My lord, why don't I inform them that the merchant ship will not be leased to them?" Mi Zhu looked at Liu Mang's expression and asked Liu Mang tentatively.
"Rent? Why not rent?" Liu Mang smiled, "Not only rent, but you can tell the person in charge of the Zhang family that not only will we rent, but we will also waive their rent. We will also lend them five thousand gold. If they make money. If you pay the principal and the interest, if you lose money, it will be half of the person!"
Mi Zhu felt that his brain was completely useless today, and the appearance of a Sun Wen over there had already made Mi Zhu feel dizzy, so he wanted to lend it to Chen Liu's Zhang family? This lord has too much money and can't spend it.
"However, you have to make an agreement with the Zhang family over there. Whether it's paying the bill or repaying the principal, I want Jin Lu Bu. I don't want anything else, and what I give him is also Jin Lu Bu!" The corner of Liu Mang's mouth emerged. said with a smile.
"My lord, do you want to take Jin Lu Bu to Yanzhou?" Mi Zhu widened his eyes and seemed to understand immediately.
"Why not!" Liu Mang blinked.
The gold Lu Bu thing is completely based on Yangzhou, which is the gold standard system. In the past, the gold Lu Bu and gold in Yangzhou could be exchanged at the same value, but now it is not possible. In the past, I will give you back as much gold Lu Bu as you have. Now, less than ten cards is a thousand gold, so I may exchange them for you. But if it exceeds ten, it needs to be reviewed. Generally speaking, it takes ten days and half a month to review. If your amount is large, the time will be longer. For businessmen, time is money. Even if you lend gold, it is a waste of money to return. . If the gold is exchanged out of Yangzhou, such as Yanzhou, then the review period will be extended.
It is precisely because of the trouble of reviewing that a result of this is that many merchants are unwilling to change it, so I keep Jin Lubu, because Jin Lubu still has meaning in existence, it does not weave, and it is easy to carry, one hundred Gold is one hundred gold.
It was Jin Lu Bu instead of gold that slowly flooded the market, and the gold was naturally received into the treasury of Yangzhou.
It was Liu Mang's plan to ask Zhang to settle with Jin Lubu.
For going out to sea, Liu Mang doesn't say that he will earn 100% of the money, but there is still an 80% chance. The news that Liu Neng brought back there is that he used a kettle and a broken boat on the boat. The knife was exchanged for two pieces of gold from a small tribe in the small country of Lin Hu. That size was twice as big as Liu Mang's fist. These two things are still worthless. Those tribal lords will naturally like some new tea and porcelain. Once they like it, is it still short of money? So no matter how poor a country is, its rulers will be rich.
It is precisely because of this that Liu Mang is preparing to organize a large-scale trading activity to open up business routes. Eight thousand naval soldiers were also sent to protect the merchant ships.
After the first trip to sea, Liu Mang believed that there would be a second and a third time, when the time came, the scale of Yangzhou's sea caravans would only increase, and food would be brought back continuously.
No matter how well-sealed the grain warehouse is, it cannot be stored for a long time. If there is too much grain, Liu Mang will naturally need to sell all the grain that has lasted for a long time. Who is the person who sells it? Yanzhou Jingzhou these. After the deal came up, Yanzhou would only slowly integrate into Yangzhou's Jin Lu Bu system. When he found out that he could no longer do without Jin Lu Bu, Yanzhou was almost finished.
"Then Yanzhou will agree?" Mi Zhu still has concerns. Will the Yanzhou direction agree to the circulation of Jin Lubu? I have been sent back before.
"In the past, that was in the past, and now that Xun Yu is gone, I don't see who will stop it!" Liu Mang sneered, even if there are people who understand, what they understand more is that cutting someone's fortune is like killing their parents. Once you reject Jin Lu Bu The circulation is to prevent the gentry in Yanzhou from coming to make money, so that even if they don't want to, those gentry will put pressure on them.
After discussing with Mi Zhu for a while, some basic things were settled, and Mi Zhu went back.
Time always flies by.
In the courtyard of an inn in Yangzhou, several middle-aged men and several young people were in the courtyard. The middle-aged men seemed to be thinking about something as they walked around.
"Patriarch, don't you know how risky going to sea is, Patriarch?" One of the middle-aged men complained to the middle-aged man above the main seat over there.
"That is, third brother, my father asked you to inherit the position of the head of my Sun family. None of us brothers objected. That is because we know that you are capable, third brother. Only you can bring our Zhang family to glory. Fugui, but you are too reckless in this matter now!" Another middle-aged man spoke, also complaining.
"Second Uncle, Uncle, Father has no other choice!" The young man over there explained.
"I have no choice? Did someone force him to rent a boat with a knife? Did someone force him to write the application certificate with a knife?"
"Going to sea may not be a way out. Our Sun family was kicked out in Jiaozhou. Can we go back now? Although Yangzhou has a wide range of commercial routes, have you ever thought about it? Able to gain a firm foothold in Yangzhou without any power or power? Isn’t it all because of father?” The young man also became annoyed.
"Huh, Sun Wu, don't say good things about your father. If you want me to say it, you should take out the money and let our family's Cheng'er go to Yangzhou Academy to study and come back with a degree of merit. Only in this way can we give our Sun family a standing position." Stand firm!" the uncle spoke again.
In the final analysis, it was because of money that Yangzhou Academy, besides relying on his own ability to get in, also had to spend money, but the tuition fee of a hundred gold was not affordable by ordinary people. Wen asked for money, but Sun Wen didn't give it. It wasn't that Sun Wen was stingy, but that the son of his eldest brother's family was really not a material for studying. Isn't the money wasted for nothing.
Now Sun Wen came to charter a boat to go out to sea again, and the uncle suddenly exploded, you won’t give my son the money for studying, now you want to gamble with all your belongings
"Uncle, come on, Brother Cheng is the only one who is still studying. If he has the money, he has already given it to sister Yao!" The young man said rudely to the uncle.
"What are you talking about? You talk to the elders like that!" The uncle was also angry and shouted at the young man over there, "Your father is here today. He doesn't respect the elders. What should we do according to the law of my Sun family?" ?”
"Family law? Do you still have family law in your eyes? My father is the head of the Sun family. Does he need your uncle to guide him in making any decision?" The atmosphere became more and more tense, as if it could explode all of a sudden.
"Okay, that's enough!" Sun Wen yelled over there, his eyes were full of anger, his Sun family was the rich among the poor, but they were the poor among the rich. (to be continued..)