Chapter 1336 This is just the beginning, caster sugar, no
Chapter 1336 This is just the beginning, fine sugar will be on the market soon (please subscribe)
Shopkeeper Du looked at the proud shopkeeper Liu Da with a confused look on his face, and he didn't quite understand.
"Shopkeeper Liu Da, what do you mean by this?"
"It seems you really don't know that my son happens to be working in Guangzhou right now."
"I met a Hu businessman who has been dealing with our Liu family all year round. From him, my elder brother learned something."
"A merchant caravan coming from the Western Regions encountered a storm there. Out of ten merchant ships, only three came to Guangzhou."
"This fleet has brought a large amount of pepper, cumin and other spices."
"However, this time, all the ships transporting pepper sank into the endless ocean..."
"I'm afraid this news has just spread in Guangzhou, and all the Hu businessmen have already started covering the pepper in their hands."
"Shopkeeper Liu Da, you, is the news you said true?!" Shopkeeper Du's eyes bulged.
"We have known each other for many years, and Liu always puts integrity first. If you are not sure about this kind of thing, how can I dare to talk nonsense?"
Shopkeeper Du took a breath and looked straight at shopkeeper Liu Da, who was patting his chest to confirm.
When I think of the 29,600 kilograms of pepper in the kilns of the Han and Tang Dynasties trading houses... I really want to sell them twice as much.
Shopkeeper Liu Da probably didn't even realize how much pepper the Han and Tang Dynasty trading houses he faced had in stock.
However, Shopkeeper Du had just seen off Shopkeeper Liu Da when he once again welcomed a messenger from the Han and Tang Dynasty Trading Firms who came overland.
After entering the Han and Tang Dynasty trading houses, this dusty messenger took a drink of water and then took out a letter from the letter on his back.
Shopkeeper Du couldn't help but feel a little sad after reading this letter. Come on, although you can't double the profit, it would be good to increase it to ten guans for sale.
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In just over ten days, there was news that the merchant ships carrying spices by Hu merchants from the Western Regions encountered a big storm and almost all were destroyed.
Immediately, the price of spices in the spice market along the coast of Datang suddenly increased a lot. Especially among all spices, pepper, the most valuable, was directly regarded as a rare commodity by Hu merchants from all over the world.
After all, we don’t all have a lot of inventory on hand, so naturally we can sell it as expensive as it can.
But soon, Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Yangzhou, Mingzhou, these large trading centers where Hu merchants gathered, began to sell pepper.
The price was raised, except in the first few days, when some wealthy and well-informed people bought it aggressively.
Even those customers who wanted to stock up and enjoy their goods slowly came to ask for returns.
Some people even threatened these bad businessmen, saying that they were spreading false news just to maliciously increase the price of pepper.
They will definitely go to the government and demand an explanation, so this bunch of Hu businessmen can only hold their noses in frustration and return the goods to those who are quite wealthy and very powerful in the local area.
Everyone decided to bite the bullet and wait until the stocks in these Tang people's homes were used up to see if they would still object to the price.
But the result was that after five days and ten days passed, Hu Shang, who could no longer wait any longer, finally received the news.
The Han and Tang Dynasty trading houses with extremely deep backgrounds were actually selling pepper, and their pepper prices also increased a bit.
But the most expensive one only sells for ten guan per catty, which is far inferior to Hu Shang’s sixteen guan per catty.
All the Hu merchants couldn't help but be a little confused, and they were all asking where the Han and Tang merchants got the pepper.
But it is really impossible to find out that most of the products associated with Han and Tang trading houses came from Jiannan Road or Chang'an.
It is possible that he purchased a batch of pepper from overland merchants and used it to make money.
In this case, just keep waiting, their pepper will always be sold out.
Another month has passed since then, and people from all over Guangzhou and even people from further afield came to buy large quantities of pepper.
The pepper from Hantang Trading Company in Guangzhou seems to be available anytime and anywhere. The number of customers selling it every day ranges from dozens of kilograms to three to four hundred kilograms.
There are still goods, but now, it’s those Hu merchants who can’t hold on anymore.
After all, compared to other spices, pepper, a spice that can also be used as medicine, is the most popular.
The proportion of other spices in the spice market is really not very high, which is why pepper can be worth as much as gold.
As a result, they could only reluctantly lower the price of pepper to the same level as that of Han and Tang merchants.
Jiaozhou, Cheng An and other stewards carefully read over and over again the letters from the Han and Tang Commercial Bank branches in Jiangnan and Lingnan areas.
"Okay, that's really great. Based on our estimates before, we originally thought that this year's pepper garden would be lucky if it could be sold out before the next harvest."
"Now it seems that our peppers will have to be sold out by the end of the year at least."
"Seven hundred and twenty thousand catties...how much does that cost?"
"It's really a girl's hair, it's a big hair."
"It seems that growing pepper is indeed very promising."
"Based on the money we made from selling this year, after deducting our investment in Jiaozhou in the past two years, we can still make this amount..."
"Brothers, this is just the beginning. Don't forget, our fine sugar will be available on the market in a month or two."
Seeing these stewards being so excited that they couldn't help themselves, Cheng An also let out a sigh of relief.
The pepper harvested this time not only paid off all the previous expenses, but also made a lot of money.
This is a huge sum of money that is enough to make the hearts of top nobles flutter.
However, of course, this money cannot be used entirely for dividends.
According to the articles of association of Han and Tang Commercial Banks, after deducting all operating costs, 10% of the net profits earned must be used to expand operations.
It is also necessary to use 10% for charity, which naturally includes building bridges, building roads, opening elementary schools, etc.
This is not the beginning of the Han, Shang and Tang Dynasties, but the inheritance of the Chinese nation from top to bottom.
During the pre-Qin period, the "interest-guaranteed" policy in "Zhou Li * Local Officials and Situ" may be China's earliest social welfare policy.
To support the people in six ways: the first is Salesian care, the second is providing care for the elderly, the third is promoting the poor, the fourth is caring for the poor, the fifth is tolerating the sick, and the sixth is providing security and wealth.
The first two policies are for the state to provide support for the elderly and young children, the third is for the state to provide assistance to widows and widowers (these four are called poor), the fourth is for the state to help the poor and the needy, and the fifth is for the disabled...
The "Book of Rites" also contains descriptions of Zhou's welfare system.
When the Han Dynasty arrived, the court would also make regulations on the welfare of the elderly and provide relief to widowers and widowers.
From the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, this system still continued.
This is not just a human issue, but an excellent tradition of respecting the elderly and loving the young that is deeply rooted in the Chinese nation.