Chapter 272 Driven by Capital
The master and apprentice met for the first time. The first lesson Feng Yong taught Fu Qian was human nature, which was actually considered.
This little guy now seems to be too straightforward and trusting of others, so he was tricked by Jiang Shu later.
Feng Yong felt that it was necessary to let him know the evil of human nature.
After finishing speaking, he gave Fu Qian a meeting gift, and then asked him and Wei Rong to go down.
After handling Fu Qian's matter, Feng Yong began to listen to Li Qiu's talk about Nanxiang's past days, pastures, workshops, mines in the mountains, etc. At this time, a servant came in and said that someone had given him a name. Post it here.
Feng Yong took the name card handed over by his servant. As soon as Feng Yong opened the name card, the wind from the fan hit his nostrils with a faint fragrance. It seemed that the owner of the name card had sprinkled some kind of precious powder on it.
The font that comes into view is very graceful, euphemistic and subtle. You can tell it is a woman's handwriting at a glance.
The name below the post is Li Mu.
Li Mu was the name of the girl who lived in the sixth room of the Li family next to the textile workshop. Feng Yong had checked her background and naturally knew her name.
It seems that she saw it when she came back. As soon as she turned around and went back, she immediately sent someone to deliver the post.
Feng Yong pondered for a moment and said to the servant, "If you reply to my post with me, it means that I will be free tomorrow."
Feng Yong has not officially met with the girl from the Li family for so long. Ultimately, it is because of his psychological shadow on the old demon Zhuge.
Before you understand the purpose of the other person's visit, if you can avoid meeting the other person, you should naturally try not to meet him.
However, this time Zhuge Laoyao is willing to negotiate a new agreement on his own, so it seems that he will not cheat himself again.
Meeting this chess piece at this time should not be a big deal.
Thinking of the new agreement, Feng Yong looked at Huang Chong again and asked, "Yizhi, how is the harvest going?"
Feng Yong could risk the taboo to favor Huang Chong. In addition to being optimistic about Huang Chong, the Huang family was willing to subsidize Nanxiang's grain and was also willing to come forward to collect grain. This was also an important aspect.
“Brother, our Huang family has received the first batch of grain in Badi, and according to the news from Jincheng, many big households are also willing to sell grain to us.”
"Brother, the road to Shu is difficult. If we transport grain from Shu, we will suffer a lot of losses."
“Why don’t I know?”
Feng Yong sighed.
At this time, the roads were too difficult to walk, the transportation tools were too crude, and the transportation efficiency was extremely low.
The road from Jincheng to Jianshan is not bad. When Deng Ai sneaked into Yinping, he once said that it "travels on a square track", which means that vehicles can run parallel to each other.
But the section from Jianshan to Hanzhong can only be said to be barely passable.
“I’ve thought about this a long time ago, so I recently thought of a way to share it with everyone and see if it works.”
Feng Yong looked around at everyone and said, "What I mean is that we don't care about transporting food, we only collect food here in Nanxiang. Over in Jincheng, we send out the news that no matter who sends food, we will collect it."
“But if this is the case, the price of food will be much higher, and no one may be willing to deliver it.”
Huang Chong felt that Feng Yong’s idea was a bit too taken for granted.
"As long as the price is right, no one will be unwilling. Don't forget, we are the only ones in the country who have wool cloth. I plan to sell these wool cloths only in Nanxiang, and we can only exchange them with grain."
As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at each other.
Brother, it seems that no one has ever heard of this approach, and I don’t know if it is feasible?
“I know that this approach has never been done before, so it’s normal for everyone to have doubts. But now we don’t have enough manpower to transport grain, so we can only give it a try.”
Although he said this, Feng Yong still felt certain in his heart.
Don’t underestimate the greed of capital. The salt introduction method of the Ming Dynasty shows that even in ancient times, as long as there was enough profit, there would still be enough motivation.
Even later, in order to obtain greater profits, Shanxi merchants did not hesitate to commit treason and secretly deliver grain, salt and iron to the enemy.
So Feng Tibi is still looking forward to whether he will eventually develop an interest group that betrays the Shuzhong family.
The core of the salt introduction method was initially to use the huge profits generated by the monopoly of salt to attract businessmen.
And the felt cloth in Feng Yong's hands at this time can be regarded as a monopoly.
Although Old Demon Zhuge took away most of the woolen cloth and it is very likely that it will be circulated in Jincheng, things like woolen cloth can be regarded as bulk trading goods.
The so-called bulk transaction goods mean that the demand is very huge.
As long as the wool cloth market is not saturated, there is no need to worry about problems that no one wants.
Will the felt market be saturated?
Just with Feng Yong’s hundreds of spinning looms?
Are you kidding me?
It is impossible to do it hundreds of times again.
When will the territory of Han Dynasty be saturated? Where is Wu? Where is Wei? Where are the barbarians?
Which aristocratic family does not have its own business name? Are they just trading within the Han Dynasty?
Zhuge Lao Yao even traded Shu brocade with Wu and Wei in exchange for military supplies for the Northern Expedition!
More importantly, even if there are more spinning looms, where are the raw materials?
Wool can only be obtained from barbarians, which makes wool cloth even more difficult to obtain.
“What should be the specific regulations?”
What Feng Yong can think of, others can think of as well.
As a son who was cheated by his father, Huang Chong is the most sensitive in terms of reviving the family business. After all, wasn't it because he took refuge in Feng Yong that he could support the Huang family again?
Huang Chong thought about the possibility carefully and was the first to react.
He suddenly became excited. Brother, are you going to give the Huang family a chance to get back on track?
"I haven't thought about it yet, I just have a preliminary idea. The reason why I said it is to ask everyone, can this method work? If it works, then what kind of rules should we set. After all, One person's wisdom is short, but everyone's wisdom is long!"
Li Qiu and Huang Chong can both be regarded as sons of aristocratic families. They are better at this aspect and can better understand the bottom line accepted by aristocratic families.
“Brother, although this matter seems very different from the usual grain trading, it may not be impossible to give it a try.”
After Huang Chong expressed his agreement, Li Qiu thought for a while and agreed to the idea.
“It’s just the price of the grain and woolen cloth, I’m afraid we need to think more about it.”
"Yes." Feng Yong nodded, "So what I mean is to find a way to ask Jincheng more to see if anyone is willing to take over this job. If so, how much will they ask for, so that we can finalize the charter. "
“Brother, don’t worry, I’ll leave this matter to my younger brother.”
Huang Chong said enthusiastically, "I will write a letter to my family tomorrow and ask the elders in the clan to ask more questions and find out."
Feng Yong smiled and said, "The more we ask about this matter, the easier it will be to finalize the regulations. I'm afraid it won't be enough to express my gratitude to one person."
Li Qiu understood and nodded in agreement, "I will also write a letter back to Nanzhong tomorrow."
As for Zhao Guang and others, compared to this kind of thing, it is obviously more suitable for them to chop people with a knife.
Because compared to the aristocratic families in Central Shu, most of the powerful people in Jincheng are poor!
“Okay, now that the business has been said and everyone is tired from the journey, it’s better to leave here.”
Li Qiu stood up and said, "Brother, it's been a hard journey. Mrs. Mei has already led people to prepare a feast for the wind. After brother has finished eating and drinking, please rest for two days."
(End of this chapter)