Hong Ping looked complicated: "Young master Liu, you mean escort? But this is the business of the escort agency. Besides, what kind of escort agency can use 1,500 good horses to escort escorts?"
"It's not used as a escort, but it's used to haul goods, people and animals."
"Young master, you must not do it. Pulling goods is what old horses do. Our Liujia Horse Farm has a thousand fine horses. I don't know how much effort it took to raise them. How can they be used to pull carts and deliver goods?"
Where is the goods?"
"Let me ask you, what should ordinary people do when they go out? What should they do when they go to a distant place?"
Ma Biao hesitated for a moment and said: "When you are near, you mostly walk, and when you are far away, you also walk."
Aren’t you fucking talking nonsense?
Hong Ping also echoed: "Brother Ma is right. Ordinary people travel on two legs when they go out. They can't afford riding animals such as horses, and they can't bear to part with cattle. They are more precious than people."
"Let me ask you, how long does it take to walk from the south to the north of the city?"
"Half an hour or less than half an hour."
"Where to take the carriage? How long will it take?"
"About two quarters of an hour will be enough."
"Where is the carriage rushing quickly?"
"You can walk from the south of the city to the north in less than a quarter of an hour."
"Uncle Ma, it will take me a day and two nights to take a carriage from Jinling to Yangzhou. If I go there on foot, how long will it take?"
Ma Biao muttered for a while: "Master, it will probably take about seven days."
"What if it's a traveling merchant carrying goods?"
"It takes ten days and a half to get there, and you have to be a young and strong guy."
Liu Mingzhi clapped his hands: "Isn't this enough? Isn't business coming? And it's big business."
"Master, I am confused and still don't understand."
"Mr. Liu, what do the things you just asked about have anything to do with business?"
Liu Mingzhi sighed, limitations, this is the limitation: "If you are a traveling businessman, you can only earn five taels of silver if you go from Yangzhou to Suzhou for ten days and a half.
You have to spend all your hard money. There is an opportunity for you to go from Yangzhou to Suzhou in just three days, and you can earn five taels of silver. But you have to spend one tael of silver on the bus, so you can only earn four taels of silver, but in ten days you can
But I was able to make three or four trips, and now I earned more than ten taels of silver. Which one do you choose?"
"Of course I choose someone who earns more than ten taels of silver. No one is a fool."
"Then how can we make three or four trips from Yangzhou to Suzhou in ten days?"
Hong Ping thought about it for a while, with a look of surprise on his face: "To take a carriage, you won't be able to make three or four trips even if you are too tired to walk. You can only ride a horse or a carriage."
"Nowadays, if the carriage is full of people, how many people can fit in one carriage?"
"Now it's no problem to seat seven or eight people."
"Then make the carriage bigger, longer and wider, and seat as many people as possible. If one horse can't pull it, then use two horses to pull it. It takes less than half an hour to walk from the south of the city to the north of the city, and it costs five cents and a quarter of an hour.
That’s it, people can’t afford a horse or a five-penny carriage?”
"It takes half an hour to pull ten people in a cart from the south of the city to the north of the city, which is fifty coins?"
"The delivery man takes longer to leave. If the goods are small, he will pay an additional penny. If the goods are large, he will pay three pence. This is silver again."
"Master, how much money do you get from this day?"
"This depends on the flow of people. For another example, a rich boy wants to eat a fruit that is not available in Yangzhou and Jinling. He has to go to Jinling to buy it. How much money will it cost? A rich girl wants to use rouge from Suzhou.
Gouache, you still have to spend money to buy gouache. Alas, business is here again. They spend ten taels of silver to buy gouache. We only charge five taels of silver and deliver it to your door for free. The driver from Yangzhou to Jinling who delivers the goods needs to walk a few more steps.
We can buy fruits from Suzhou and rouge from Jinling. On the contrary, we can also bring what Jinling wants, which is called purchasing on behalf of others."
Hong Ping's eyes were already like copper coins, and he was obviously attracted by Liu Mingzhi's blueprint: "Young master Liu, you want us to use these more than a thousand good horses for transportation?"
"That's right, short-distance buses, medium- and long-distance buses, ultra-long-distance freight. You can't even think about it. Fifteen hundred horses, five hundred horses at a time, taking turns to rest, Suzhou, Yangzhou, Hangzhou, Jinling, Shaozhou,
There are more than thirty prefectures in Yongzhou and Jiangnan. As long as you pay money, you can travel as far as you want. You don’t have to worry about horse hoof damage. You just need to spend some money to prepare good fodder for the horses. Isn’t it all money in vain?”
Ma Biao was still a little hesitant: "Master, if you use a good horse-drawn carriage to deliver goods, I still think..."
"Uncle Ma, I don't want these good horses from Bingzhou that have spent countless efforts to raise to deliver goods. Isn't there no way? You can't sell them. They eat and drink at the racecourse every day and then let the horse master care for them. No
Is there still no way? Making the best use of everything is the right way."
"Brother Ma, I just did a rough calculation by Hong. Just like Liu Gongzi said just now, the profit for this year is about 500,000 silver. This is a big income."
Ma Biao was also shocked and said: "Five hundred thousand? If the young master takes 70%, doesn't that mean more than 300,000 silver a year?"
"Master Liu, you provide the horses, and the Hong family provides the carriage driver, isn't this 30-70 split a bit?" Hong Ping was horrified by the profit Liu Mingzhi said, and naturally he was a little reluctant to 30-70 split.
"My Liu family wants wood to build a cart. It's easy. It only takes a while. Your Hong family wants horses, and only my Liu family has them. I have the mentality of not bothering the two masters. The Hong family will always be content."
Only then did Hong Ping react. He secretly cursed himself for being obsessed with interests. He was the one who asked for help from others. When discussing business with the Liu family, their status must be equal.
"Master Liu, Hong is not respectful. Please take your leave first. Hong will go immediately to prepare wood and build a large number of carriages."
"Master Hong, please go slowly without seeing me off."
After Ma Biao sent Hong Ping and his son away, he looked at Liu Mingzhi unwillingly: "Master, our Liu family can completely handle this transportation business by ourselves. As the master said, it is just a trivial matter for our Liu family to get some wood.
Why give 30% of the profit to the Hong family? It’s more than a hundred thousand taels of silver, isn’t it, young master?”
Liu Mingzhi raised his eyebrows: "Too hasty?"
Although Ma Biao said nothing, his expression clearly meant this.
"Uncle Ma, if the old man handles this matter, what will he do?"
"Even if the Liu family won't be ruined, it will still be broken. There will definitely be no cooperation with my Liu family, and the profit will be hundreds of thousands of taels a year."
Liu Mingzhi's tone was cold: "Jiangnan Willow, Northwest Cloud, the old man is too ruthless in doing things, and it is impossible to try to dominate the family. The Jiangnan Willow tree attracts wind, and the businessman's status is low. Sooner or later, something will happen. The Liu family needs allies, allies from all over the world.
You can’t make enough money, so just try to accumulate some virtue for the old man.”
Ma Biao subconsciously looked at the front hall and the back hall, lowered his brows and said nothing.