Chapter 318 Business Opportunities
Feng Shishi had an uneasy expression, and sat there, pretending not to understand.
But he is from the Wei Dynasty, can he not understand what Wu Youcai said? Hearing what he said, his face remained calm, but his eyes flickered, and he felt that he should settle things with the master when he went back.
Just as he was thinking, seeing Huo Xi pretending to discuss with him, he shook his head and frowned.
Huo Xi nodded, and passed the message back and forth between him and Wu Youcai.
Finally, the two parties agreed on five hundred catties of sugar, saying that Fanshang only brought five hundred catties. Give Ambergris another ten catties, no more will be exchanged.
He only brought five hundred catties. There are not many such rare things in the country.
The two parties agreed that on the day of delivery, Wu Youcai would give Huo Xi the timber purchase documents.
Huo Xi and Feng left Wanxiang Building at twenty.
It was still the maid Yaoqin who sent them out, came up and whispered: "The girl said, just use the young master of Zhuangzi you bought for business, and don't worry about giving the girl a dividend. As long as the girl has a place to live in the future, she can bury her bones." The girl will be very grateful."
"Don't worry. I will promise her what I promise, and I will do what I say. Her money will not be less than a cent if it is handed over to me."
Yaoqin nodded, took a look at Huo Xi, then turned and went back to Wanxiang Tower.
Feng Shi sent Huo Xi back, and then went back to return to Mu Yan.
In the study, Mu Yan frowned after listening to Feng Shishi's words.
Li Yidao: "Miss Huo is not involved in the timber business, so if this quota is given to her, she may only transfer it."
Kan Er glanced at the young master: "Master, can we take over this business?"
Li Yi gave him a blank look: "This business seems to be profitable, but we still don't want to show up."
"Then we can't do this business?"
Both Kan Er and Feng Twenty are a pity.
Mu Yan didn't think about purchasing wood for Ci'en Temple, but thought about logging for the construction of Beiping City.
There are many kinds of wood in the deep mountains in the southwest. Song Li, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, personally went to the front line of logging to watch. In order to please the imperial court, the chieftains in the southwest will definitely donate wood to the officials.
In order to compete for rare woods such as nanmu in the deep mountains, they will definitely kill each other, and the disputes will continue. At that time, the situation in the southwest will be unstable.
As for his own father, he still doesn't have the ability to unite the various ethnic minorities and chieftains in the Southwest.
Once the situation changes at that time, it will definitely affect the Xipinghou Mansion. At that time, if the Southwest Marquis Mansion is unable to mediate and balance all parties, His Majesty will surely be held accountable, and then take advantage of the situation to send people to take over Yunnan, and the Xiping Marquis Mansion will be emptied.
"Send a letter to Xunwu and Zhenliu, let them start a timber shop immediately, and make sure to expand the timber procurement business in Yunnan. Instead of letting various forces compete for points, let's do this business first. Let the two of them send us The people who go into the mountains to survey the timber should be circled first. Keep an eye on all parts of Yunnan, and if there are seedlings that are in trouble among the chieftains, they will be suppressed in time."
"yes."
Li Yi was a little worried: "Young master, this timber business will cost us a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, and the cost of money is estimated to be a lot. I'm afraid it will be a loss-making business."
Mu Yan looked up at them lightly.
"Do as I said, even if you lose money. My grandfather spent his whole life pacifying Yunnan and governing Yunnan. This is the current situation. Although the chieftains from all over Yunnan are attached to our court, they are unpredictable, and there are people around them. For small countries like Hongsawady, Siam, and Chenla, Yunnan cannot be chaotic."
If there is a chaos, the foundation of grandfather and uncle's life will be destroyed.
As for Huo Xi, 500 catties of sugar is easy to get, but what to do with the quota of wood purchased in exchange?
Today's wood mining is done by the wood merchants who first receive a certain amount of funds from the government, and then recruit manpower and civilians to go to the mountains to pick wood, and then the wood merchants deliver the wood to the place designated by the government, and the government checks and accepts it. payment.
This matter is not difficult to say, easy but not easy to say.
First, the prospecting stage is not easy.
Experienced people have to go into the mountains to choose materials. Although the wood of the Ci'en Temple is not as strict as the materials used in the palace and imperial city, it must use some expensive nanmu wood, but wood such as camphor, fir, cypress, pine, and cypress It is not easy to find good materials.
The next step is logging. Today’s tools are only axes and saws. If you cut down a huge tree, you may not be able to cut down the next tree in half a day.
Even if it is cut down, it is not easy to get out of the deep mountain.
In the deep mountains and old forests, it is difficult to walk, and it is necessary to carry such a large log to open the mountain and build a road. How much manpower and material resources will it take?
The process of operation is to drag the wood from the felled land, drag it to the stream, and then release the wood through the stream, raft it to the big river, and then drag it from the river to the capital through the waterway.
The process of operation and solution in the middle is so difficult and dangerous that it cannot be described.
It consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, and takes a long time. Huo Xi feels that besides being a bit unbearable, the most important thing is that he has no background.
The lumber merchants have been doing this lumber business for many years. In addition to their hands, they probably also have a lot of stock in their warehouses.
Huo Xi thought about it all night, but he didn't think about it. The next day, he went to the shop, found Shen Qianzhong, and pulled Yang Fu, and the three discussed it deeply.
"Whether we do it ourselves or transfer it out, it's a good thing." Shen Qianzhong didn't want his boss to win such a big business for the shop again.
Yang Fu was a little excited: "Now Guangfengshui is also capable of doing this. Let's just take care of the work and invite people to go to the mountains to investigate. We don't have to do the logging ourselves. As long as the money is sufficient, there will naturally be carpenters and migrant workers competing for it." To do this business, we just follow behind and pay for labor and materials.”
Huo Xi didn't speak.
Shen Qianzhong thought about it for a while: "We don't have the manpower in this area yet. Moreover, the temples built by His Majesty himself cannot make any mistakes. Let's get the quota down and then release the news. We have our own Timber Chamber of Commerce and Let's get in touch. We just need to take a chance and make a difference."
Huo Xi thought for a long time, and asked Shen Qianzhong: "Are you familiar with the wood merchants in the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce?"
Shen Qianzhong thought for a while, then nodded: "There are a few that we can still talk about."
"Then why don't you just let the news out quietly and let someone else do the business, and we'll just make the difference."
Shen Qian nodded his head, and hurriedly went out to find a good timber dealer.
After the goods were delivered the next day, Huo Xi got the timber procurement documents from Wu Youcai. And Shen Qianzhong only visited outside for a day, and someone found Huo Xi.
There is another update in the afternoon
(end of this chapter)