Chapter 93： Overseas trade

In the Suzhou-Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce, several wealthy businessmen sat together.

Sitting across from them was Wu Zhiyue. Wu Zhiyue was here to ask them for raw materials such as cotton and silk.

"Thirty essays, is shopkeeper Wu telling a joke? We spent forty-five essays to buy these cottons. You want to buy 30 essays from us now. Could it be that Wu Guogong is going to rob in this broad daylight? "

Xu Baoxin, who took the lead, snorted coldly, if Wu Changqing really wants to use force to grab it, he can't help it.

However, Xu Baoxin believed that now Wu Changqing was the imperial court commander and would never dare to mess around like this.

"Treasurer Xu is joking. My nephew always encourages business and attaches importance to business. How can it be possible for me to take over. My nephew has been in charge of Suzhou in the past few months, but has he done anything about it?"

Wu Zhiyue smiled.

The other businessmen were speechless, because they really couldn't fault Wu Changqing. Although Wu Changqing had copied the homes of several merchants before, it was because those merchants did their own work and tried to collude with the Manchu army to cause chaos.

No one in power can tolerate this kind of thing, and it deserves to be ransacked.

Except for these few households, Wu Changqing has no behavior to suppress merchants. Even if the commercial tax is formulated, it is within the acceptable range of everyone.

Wu Zhiyue continued: "The reason why I offered 30 renminbi is because they are only worth 30 renminbi."

"Treasurer Wu's words are very different. There is not much cotton, silk and linen on the market today, and things are rare and expensive. Naturally, the price can't be 30 yuan."

Xu Baoxin retorted.

"Oh, haven't you heard that six Dutch thousand-ton ships came from Songjiang? Three of them are loaded with cotton. Moreover, they will continue to transport cotton."

Wu Zhiyue smiled. If Wu Changqing hadn't told him that the Dutch fleet had arrived in Songjiang, he would not have such confidence, because the raw materials in the factory were indeed running out.

what? Three thousand-ton ships filled with cotton?

Xu Baoxin and others were immediately dumbfounded when they heard this.

They thought that Wu Zhiyue might go to the north or south to buy raw materials, but then the freight would be greatly increased and time would be too late.

Unexpectedly, Wu Changqing still had such a hand, allowing overseas businessmen to transport raw materials from overseas a long time ago.

"You guys, let's deal with the goods as early as possible and exchange some cash for other business. The longer you are, the more you will lose. Now the Governor supports encouraging business with overseas. There are many ways to make money. There is no need to hang yourself in the cloth business. dead.

If you have to do a cloth business, then it is better to help me purchase raw materials, and then buy the goods from me in wholesale at low prices and sell them elsewhere to make a difference. "

Wu Zhiyue kindly persuades him. Wu Changqing said that his purpose is not to kill these cloth merchants, but to improve efficiency. Therefore, after they ate meat, they would leave a mouthful of soup for other merchants.

They are allowed to buy from Wu's cloth at a price below the market, and then sell it elsewhere. It doesn’t make much money, but it’s more or less profitable.

If you want to create competition in this area, you are going to die.

Xu Baoxin and others are all heartbroken when they hear that they really want to deal with the goods hoarded on their hands at a low price. It hurts to think about how much money you have to lose.

But, what can we do if we don't deal with it at a low price?

Wu's cloth has a stable and low-cost raw material channel, and the price of cloth will not drop at all. It doesn't make any sense to keep hoarding their cloth.

Everyone's psychological defense has been breached, but they did not immediately agree to Wu Zhiyue selling the cotton in his hands.

After all, the news of the arrival of the Dutch fleet is only what Wu Zhiyue said, and they have not confirmed whether it is true or not.

The next day, they set off for Songjiang in person.

Coincidentally, Wu Changqing also went to Songjiang in person on this day.

After arriving in Songjiang, Wu Changqing found that the place had become a lot more prosperous, with many vendors coming and going.

Songjiang Trade Zone has now become a distribution center for goods, as well as a manufacturing place.

A large number of vendors gather here because the variety of goods here is complete, and it is easy to buy the goods you need. At the same time, sellers also like to concentrate their goods here for sale, because there are all kinds of buyers here, so you don't have to worry about not being able to sell your goods.

Before the commercial district was formed, businessmen everywhere actually had a lot of inconveniences in doing business.

For example, if you transport a batch of food to another place, you have to worry about whether it can be sold in time, and after it is sold out, you have to worry about whether you can buy the goods you need in that place.

The business district has solved this problem, and because a large number of merchants gather in the business district, the prices of goods here are also more transparent.

In addition to the transfer of goods, Songjiang currently has four large factories, one for soap and toilet soap, one for mirrors, and the other two for spinning and weaving.

Nowadays, Wu's cloth has completely monopolized the cloth business in the Jiangnan area with low prices. Other cloth dealers cannot sell cloth, and can't afford yarn, and they went bankrupt.

Some non-local fabric dealers have given up their own manufacturing and turned to distributors, taking the goods directly from Wu's factory at low prices, and then transporting them to other places for sale.

While selling cloth, they also purchased raw materials such as cotton, silk, hemp, and then sold them to the Wu factory, forming a new industrial chain.

In this industry chain, everyone else is eating soup, and only Wu's factory is eating meat.

However, some people want to imitate multi-wheel looms and shuttle looms. Unfortunately, this thing looks simple, but it is not easy to imitate them.

In addition, Wu Zhiyue attaches great importance to preventing the leakage of secrets, and it is difficult for outsiders to obtain a textile machine to study.

"Dear General, we have brought the goods you want."

Hurd said with a smile that he even taught himself some Chinese during this time.

This time Hurd has a total of six thousand-ton ships, three for cotton, two for high-quality iron ore, and one for spices, gold and silver.

Because cotton and iron ore are relatively cheap raw materials, and without gold and silver, they can't buy goods that can fill six sea ships.

Wu Changqing is also very helpless about this. Who makes China's porcelain and silk worthy? Foreign trade has always been in surplus, and the inflow of silver is inevitable.

The influx of silver really has no benefit at all, and will only cause domestic silver to depreciate.

It seems that silver has increased, but actual wealth has not increased.

Gold is a little better. The production of this thing is scarce, and the global reserves are also low. It will still maintain its value in future generations. There are actually a lot of silver things. In Japan, South America and other places, you can kick out a silver nugget if you kick it while walking.

What Wu Changqing will pursue in the future is a gold-based paper currency currency system, which requires a large amount of gold as a reserve, while silver is useless.

"You give me the list of the goods you want first, and I'll help you fix it."

Wu Changqing said that there are a lot of troubles in allowing Hurd to deal directly with other businessmen. Translation alone is not enough. At present, Lu Shan speaks Dutch well, and there are several others who can barely communicate.

Moreover, because many of the goods that Hurd brings are strategic materials, local merchants don't want it either.

As a result, Wu Changqing acted as a middleman. He first used silver to buy the goods Hurd needed from local merchants, and then exchanged these goods with Hurd.

Finally, Wu Changqing put the exchanged raw materials into the factory and processed them into cloth to sell to local merchants.

As long as his middleman slightly adjusts the prices of various commodities, he can make a lot of money in this transaction.

For example, he bought a merchant’s porcelain for three taels of silver, and when he transferred it to Hurd, the valuation was 50 taels of silver, and he made a difference of two taels.

For another example, he bought Hurd's spices for one or two silver per catty, and sold to local merchants for two or two per catty.

Just this, the local businessmen are still rushing to ask for it.

There were also smart businessmen who saw Wu Changqing making money in it, but they had no way, unless they had their own translator and at the same time they could eat Hart’s goods.

This requires a lot of capital and translators.

In the face of huge profits, some businessmen are already preparing to unite and form a chamber of commerce, specifically to do business with overseas businessmen, and not to give Wu Changqing the opportunity to be a middleman to make a difference.

Wu Changqing actually doesn't care about this kind of thing, and even encourages it.

What he wants is this country, not the wealth of this country, otherwise he would not pour money back into the army.

Businessmen in this country have made money and become rich, which is also a good thing for Wu Changqing.

The more a businessman earns, the more he collects taxes.

Only by letting some people get rich first and completing the accumulation of capital can we successfully enter the industrial age.

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