Yang Fan said: "General Qin is still too small. How about we cooperate to set up a trading company. I call this kind of trading company a company. Why not call it Chongqing Trading Company. Both parties will hold half of the shares. I will provide channels and products, and you will be responsible for the local area."
sales, and purchasing local specialties.”
"You can open up sales channels in the three southwest provinces by opening shops, caravans, peddlers, and floating cargo ships. Anyway, there are many poor people in Shizhu who have nothing to do. Why not organize yourself, set up shops, caravans, and use Sichuan horses to carry supplies to various places
Sale."
"You can also buy the specialties from the Southwest and sell them through the channels of Xinghe Supermarket. In this way, the good things from the Southwest can be sold to the entire eighteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, and the good things from outside can also be sold to all parts of the Southwest. People can make the best use of it.
Wouldn't it be better if the goods flow smoothly? If you do this business, General Qin, you will not be short of money."
Qin Liangyu's eyes lit up. If it really works like this, this is indeed a good idea.
We are a force in the southwest, so we have the conditions and basis for cooperation.
To develop the southwest, Yang Fan must find people like himself to cooperate. Because he has soldiers and horses, he can still intimidate the elite soldiers of the chieftains in the southwest.
No one dares to cause trouble for his own business, and no one dares to default on his own account.
A big boss like Yang Fan will naturally not worry about this. He only needs to manage from the top, and the grassroots level does not need forces like himself to help him develop.
Yang Fan continued: "Your place in Chongqing is very good and has great leaders. There are many iron mines. There are iron mines in the nearest Qijiang. There are also coal mines nearby. There are also many rare metals and non-ferrous metal mines in the southwest. Salt.
There are also a lot of mines. If General Qin is interested in this area, I can provide technology, equipment, and management personnel. You can provide people here and provide military protection. I think you are also aware of the huge profits from salt and iron."
Qin Liangyu said excitedly: "It would be great if Chongqing could also make iron. There is a shortage of iron in Sichuan, and there is also a shortage of salt. Not to mention the high shipping costs, the price is also very expensive. If it can be done, the price of salt and the price of iron
If the fight continues, it will benefit thousands of people."
Chongqing is not only a central city in southwest China, it is also rich in resources and has convenient transportation. It is really worth developing.
Yang Fan said with a smile: "There are too many businesses that can be done in Chongqing. Once the business is well run, the wealth will be rolling in. By then, General Qin will probably have too much money to spend."
Qin Liangyu smiled and said: "I live a simple life, and I don't care about personal enjoyment. But the people in Shizhu are too poor. If I can find a way out for them and make money to support their families, it will be considered that my job as chieftain has not been in vain, and my tenure as an official will benefit the whole party."
It’s worthy of them.”
Yang Fan then asked Zhang Geda to call several big shopkeepers from Xinghe Supermarket.
After all, we are talking about business. Let professionals take a look at the quality of Qin Liangyu's Shu Brocade.
Several old shopkeepers were full of praise after reading it.
They all said: "They are all first-class products. They are as bright as clouds and are ingenious. Shu Brocade is the first among all brocades. And these are first-class products."
Yang Fan smiled with satisfaction. It seemed that Qin Liangyu had selected all the products and sold them.
The women of Shizhu grow mulberry, raise silkworms and weave brocade. Although they have little cultural and artistic accomplishments, the Sichuan brocade they make is so exquisite that it is hard to put it down.
Yang Fan returned the Shu brocade to Qin Liangyu and said, "Then the Shu brocade matter has been settled. Later I will arrange for a shopkeeper to contact you, and you will arrange a person to connect with you. Let's start this matter first."
Qin Liangyu did not accept the Shu brocade handed over by Yang Fan. She said: "These fifty pieces of Shu brocade of various colors were originally intended to be given to Mrs. Dingyuan as a gift. We live in a poor and remote area and don't have any gifts that we can afford. Uncle Dingyuan doesn't want it."
It’s better to dislike it.”
Yang Fan was stunned for a moment. Fifty pieces of Shu brocade was not a small sum of money. This gift was a bit heavy.
Besides, Yang Fan already knew that Shizhu was in financial difficulty and the people were poor. To be honest, he really couldn't bear to accept such an expensive gift.
But then I thought about it, if she didn't accept it, Qin Liangyu wouldn't feel at ease. After all, he gave her such a big discount. So Yang Fan happily accepted it.
Seeing that Yang Fan accepted her gift, Qin Liangyu felt relieved. It was actually Yang Fan who drew a huge cake for her. She couldn't believe it.
Yang Fan said: "I have some better steel here, which I got from far away. Xinghe Iron Factory can't make it. It's especially suitable for making weapons. I didn't bring any good gifts when we met today. These steels, Qin
General, just take it back and use it to make some handy weapons."
Yang Fan waved his hand, and Zhang Geda and others carried in a large wooden box. Eight strong men carried it in using wooden poles. It looked very heavy.
Qin Liangyu is a martial artist and likes good weapon materials, and his interest was immediately aroused.
After the large wooden box was opened, we saw that it was filled with rusty, tile-like metal.
This is the gun barrel steel of abandoned tanks that Yang Fan asked Er Lengzi to purchase from the Middle East and North Africa.
These tanks were destroyed in previous wars. They were left in the desert and wilderness and slowly rusted. No one cared about them for a long time.
Er Lunzi paid a high price, so naturally some locals used hacksaws to cut off the barrels, calculated the price by the pound, and sold them to Er Lunzi.
These abandoned and destroyed tanks are made of the best steel.
Especially the gun barrel steel is much better than ordinary gun steel. These are electroslag remelted steels. In terms of toughness, purity and strength, they are the pinnacle of modern metal materials.
Cold weapons made of these steel materials can reach the highest level of this era.
These gun barrels were sawed into four pieces. They looked like the tiles on Ming Dynasty houses.
Yang Fan mainly considered that blacksmiths in this era could not open these gun barrels without high-strength metal tools. So after Yang Fan received the goods, he used a special alloy saw to cut them into metal tiles.
In this case, the blacksmith can directly heat and build it.
Qin Liangyu picked up a metal tile. It looked ordinary, but it was rusty.
But standing up and looking at the section cut by the saw, the metal section shines and looks very pure.
"It's really good steel. I have been leading troops for so many years and I have never seen such good steel. What is this steel used for? It seems to me that it was cut from damaged utensils." Qin Liangyu asked curiously.
These metal objects were obviously cut from something, and it can be seen that the original thing has been damaged.
"This is a type of gun steel, specially used to make artillery. Some of the original artillery had their chambers exploded, and some were damaged, but it was a pity to throw away the material, so I used it to make weapons." Yang Fan
introduced.
"The box here contains a total of three hundred kilograms. It is enough to build several sets of weapons for General Qin."
