After all, he is one of the top businessmen in the world. Wu Shiluo was not surprised by the "big business worth tens of millions" mentioned by Heifu. He just smiled lightly and without comment, invited him home for a banquet after the cattle and horse competition. It was obvious that
Wu Shiluo didn't want to talk about this outside.
Heifu just gave an introduction. If he continued impatiently at this time, it would appear that he was asking for help.
So the two of them avoided talking in a tacit understanding, and instead chatted all the way, and drove in the same car to the foot of Jitou Mountain.
Wu Shiluo enthusiastically introduced it to Heifu: "Because the rocks here are dark red, like clusters of burning flames, it is called flint. It also looks like the crest on the top of a chicken's head, so it is called Jitoushan."
His home is located in the wilderness at the foot of Jitou Mountain. It is a fortress made of flaming red stone. The high brick walls are covered with vines. There are heavily armed cavalry patrolling around. He must be a disciple of Wushi Luo.
After returning to his residence, Wu Shiluo did not have to follow the law that "no merchants are allowed to embroider silk and silk" as he did outside. He went into the inner room and when he came out, he had changed into a set of loose red silk clothes.
, appearing more bloated, in sharp contrast to his capable and lean brother.
Moreover, Heifu discovered that every finger of Wu Shiluo had precious stones shining, and even the servants at home were all wearing silver collars on their necks that were rumored to be made of gold.
Wu Shiluo noticed Hei Fu's gaze and said with a smile: "The border areas are not as rich as those in the Central Plains, and wealth is not exposed. In Wushi, if you don't show your wealth to the visiting guests, you may be looked down upon."
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Hei Fu nodded: "Before I left, my colleagues in the county advised me to bring as many people as possible to serve as ceremonial guards. If I bring fewer people, the Rong people will think that I, the county captain, have no power, and may be looked down upon."
The banquet began soon. In the magnificent hall, the air was filled with the fragrant aroma of pepper, ginger, dogwood, fuliu vine, cinnamon twigs and other spices. The lamp oil was burning endlessly, and all kinds of delicious meats were flowing in.
The Jedi was carried up, and the most exaggerated thing was that there was a whole roasted little camel..." This tuo (tuo) camel is also found in the Xiongnu, Yuezhi land, and is often found in places near the desert." The crow sitting beside him
Shiyan was afraid that Heifu and Chen Ping didn't know about it, so he specially introduced them.
Chen Ping looked strange, but Hei Fu didn't feel anything strange. He just took a closer look and wondered whether this was a dromedary camel or a bimodal camel.
After talking about food and Heifu's recent experiences in the North, the topic froze again. Heifu glanced at Chen Ping and signaled that he could start.
So Chen Ping stood up solemnly and said to Wushi Luo, who was slowly cutting meat with a knife: "Ping is from Dangjun. He is the land of Dangjun, Sanchuan and Yingchuan. Its customs govern industry, focus on industry and commerce, and have many Jia people. Ping has been urinating since he was a kid.
I have heard about the names of various powerful merchants in the Central Plains over the past three hundred years, such as Zigong, Tao Zhu, and Bai Gui, but the one I remember most is Yidun. It is said that he, like Wujun, made his fortune through animal husbandry...
…""oh?"
Hearing that someone like him had made a fortune from livestock raising, Wu Shiluo became interested.
Their brothers were Nairong people. Although they had traveled a lot in foreign lands, they did not know much about the culture of Zhongxia. Although Yidun was very wealthy for a while more than two hundred years ago, his wealth and fame had long since passed away.
The Wushi brothers didn't know, so they asked Chen Ping to explain. "Na Yidun was originally from the state of Lu, which is today's Xue County. He was very poor. He was always hungry when he was farming, and he was always cold when he was growing mulberry trees."
Wu Shiluo nodded while touching the bright gemstone ring on his finger, which looked very similar to when their brothers were young." But Yidun was unwilling to be poor and lowly. He heard that Tao Zhugong was doing business in Dingtao, managing property and accumulating settlements, and competing with the times.
Zhu, in nineteen years, he had acquired three daughters. He was so envious that he took advantage of the opportunity given by Tao Zhugong to recruit followers and went to ask for advice. "
Tao Zhugong and Fan Li were so famous that Wu Shiluo had heard of him, but the most enviable thing was that the Tao and Zhu family enjoyed a fortune of tens of millions, but they were able to maintain their wealth for hundreds of years.
For businessmen, it is not difficult to get rich suddenly, but it is rare to get rich in a long time.
Chen Ping continued: "After Tao Zhugong had a conversation with Yidun, he thought about the prices at that time and taught him a shortcut, saying, 'If you want to get rich quickly, be a female (pin)'!"
Wu Shiluo couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "This method is exactly the same as my brother's method of raising animals in the early years!"
Males are male and females are female. Domesticate cows and mares and let them mate with breeding cattle and stallions. The babies they give birth to will gradually multiply and grow stronger. Over time, they can become rich. This is Wu Shiluo's accumulated experience in his early years. Suddenly,
I heard that Tao Zhugong thought the same way, and I felt like a confidant.
Hei Fu held up his palm and praised: "All the wise men in the world have the same idea." "However, it is a pity that I could not have been born three hundred years earlier to meet Tao Zhugong."
Wu Shiluo was quite regretful: "I really envy Na Yidun. He has the guidance of famous teachers, but I have to figure out everything by myself. I wonder how his business will do in the future?"
Chen Pingdao: "Yidun listened to Tao Zhugong's words and traveled all the way to Jin. He settled in Yishi County with rich water and grass. He raised cattle and sheep. After ten years, he had become rich. Because he started his family in Yishi,
So he was named Yidun, and Lu was famous in Jin Dynasty. However..."
Wu Shiluo was still sighing at the wonders of the world. It turned out that before him, there was a wealthy businessman who was engaged in animal husbandry. However, because he was in the land of Birongdi, he didn't know about it. Hearing that Chen Ping had something to say, he asked
:"But what?"
Chen Ping stretched out his hand, picked up the salt shaker on the table, and sprinkled the white green salt on the camel meat in front of him: "But after ten years of animal husbandry, Yidun said that merchants cannot become rich by just one business.
So in addition to animal husbandry, he started trading gu salt. When selling cattle and sheep, he used the livestock to transport some pond salt and sold it together with the livestock..." Sure enough, Yidun's worries were not unnecessary.
A few years ago, Zhao Wuxie, the head of the Zhao family, planned to destroy the Dai Kingdom and open up the Hu land. The Zhao family had many cattle and horses, and Yidun's livestock became difficult to sell. "
Wu Shiluo remained silent, but secretly said in her heart: "Yidun and I are so similar..."
Wushi also made their fortune from livestock, and Ushiyan was satisfied with being rich with a hundred gold. But Wushiluo believed that the market was as fickle as the weather. Business was good now, but might not be good tomorrow, so he started to do transit business in the mainland and other places.
The silk horse trade was carried out among the military officials, and later grain, brown sugar, salt and other products were gradually added. In the words of later generations, only by increasing the diversity of commodities can risks be avoided.
But even so, as the emperor was determined to implement the strategy of westward expansion, targeting Wuzhiluo's trading partners, the Xiongnu and Yuezhi, he also understood that his business was about to enter a cold winter.
Qin's capture of Hexi, Henan, and Hetao will create three more large pastures, and a large number of cattle, sheep, and horses will flow into the interior. The price of his Wushi's livestock will definitely plummet. Furthermore, after the Qin Dynasty took it all and eliminated all independent independent regimes in the surrounding areas, they
The transit trade run by both families has also come to an end...
Wu Shiluo himself was thinking hard. He also wanted to know how Yidun, who was in a similar situation to himself, solved this problem.
For the first time, Wu Shiluo took the initiative to ask a question. After Chen Ping and Heifu looked at each other, they coughed lightly and said:
"Yidun took advantage of the separation of the four ministers, the decline of the imperial family, and the owner of Jiechi. He spent a lot of money to bribe the ruling magistrate of the Jin State and obtained the right to manage the salt in Hedong Chi..."
Dunzhen (zi) became a prince and became famous all over the world. It was not until his death that the Wei State took back the salt pond. ""Get rich by operating the salt pond?"
Wu Shiluo's eyes dimmed, because he couldn't learn Yidun's method. Without him, the national conditions would be different.
The government does not directly manage the development of Sanjin's mountains, forests, rivers and swamps. Instead, it allows "rich citizens" like Yidun to manage and develop the land, and collect certain heavy taxes.
But Qin was different from the six countries that engaged in market economy. It followed the route of a big country, a big government, and a planned economy. Not to mention the great national benefits of salt and iron, even wine, meat, and cloth were eager to be monopolized by the government. Guan Zhong proposed the "official mountains and seas"
, but it was completely executed by Qin, who was the farthest away from him.
Therefore, although Wu Shiluo was in a higher position than a feudal lord, he was just a dog of the government and had no qualifications to interfere in the salt industry in the mainland.
If it doesn't work in the mainland, what about the salt outside the Great Wall? Wushiluo is actually operating secretly.
The salt in Beidi County mainly relies on the "Huamachi" located two hundred miles outside the Great Wall (now between Yanchi County, Ningxia and Dingbian County, Shaanxi). Huamachi is rich in salt brine, the water tastes bitter, and the lake surface is as crystal clear as a mirror.
The pool is vast and white, and can produce a lot of salt every year. The local Yan Yanrong established their clan based on this.
Every year, Wuzhi's caravan will take two routes. The western route is to Yuezhi Huangzhong. The eastern route is to the Huns' pastureland at the eastern foot of Helan Mountain. They exchange goods from the Central Plains for cattle and horses, and then drive the cattle and horses.
, walked east to Huamachi. The horses and oxbacks were filled with local green salt, and then went east to Shangjun, and then south to Xianyang. Xianyang was not short of salt. After the cattle and horses were processed, the remaining horses pulled the salt back
Northland is very profitable.
This is also one of the reasons why Wu Shiluo does not want Qin to use troops against the Huns. He has been Qin Shihuang's dog for so many years, and he still doesn't know the nature of the Qin Dynasty's government? He will definitely send officials directly to Huamachi.
, engage in the imperial court's exclusive business style.
Wushi Luo secretly said: "The Bashu Qing family originally had the right to develop Bashu well salt, but since Widow Qing was moved to Xianyang, this right was also taken back by Your Majesty. The salt in Bashu will be exclusively mined by counties and counties."
Wushi Luo was not only gloating about the misfortune of his fellow travelers, but also felt sad that the rabbit had died and the fox had died.
What he could feel was that unlike when the Wushi and Ba's had to rely on the help of the Wushi and Ba's to defeat the six kingdoms, after unifying the world, Qin Shihuang was wealthy and no longer needed wealthy merchants like them.
The policy is tightening, but the government has not yet intervened, leaving little profit for the two families. After the salt industry is gone, Ba Zhong, the son of Ba Guiqing, can only increase the human trafficking of Botong, using Congdian,
The slaves bought by Bo planted sugar cane in Jiangyang, Fuguan and other places in central Sichuan, trying to imitate Anlu in Nanjun in producing and selling brown sugar.
"But where is the way out for my family?"
Thinking of this, Wu Shiluo glanced at Heifu. Brown sugar was created by this family. The name "Mrs. Sugar" was already known in Xianyang in the south. In addition, he supervised the creation of "Heifu Paper".
It has also spread in many counties and counties and has become a new source of revenue for the government.
"No wonder my brother said that if Heifu comes to do business, his wealth will be no less than that of Wushi."
He also understood that Chen Ping's talk about Yidun today was just a brick wall. In the final analysis, he still wanted to make him understand his situation and then bring out the "jade" in Heifu's hand.
At this point, Wu Shiluo can't wait to know what the "big deal worth tens of millions of dollars" that Heifu mentioned is! Maybe there really is some novel idea that can bring his family back to life!
Wu Shiluo didn't want to lose face anymore, stood up abruptly, moved to the table in front of Hei Fu, and bowed to him.
"I am stupid, I hope the county captain can give me some advice!"
Heifu knew that when Chen Ping's performance was over, it was his turn to play the finale.
He swallowed the roasted meat and said with a smile: "The big-profit business I talked about has one far and one near. I wonder which one Wu Jun wants to hear first?"
"Yuan." Wu Shiluo didn't play according to the routine.
In this case, Heifu will start from afar:
"There is a saying in the Central Plains: a leaf blinds one's eyes and one cannot see Mount Tai. Wu Jun, over the years, haven't you been curious about whether the Yuezhi and the Xiongnu kept the silks they sold to themselves and wore them? Or should they continue to go west and use ten
At twice the price, sell it to a foreign country on the other side of the quicksand?"
On the 28th of the Yin month (the first month of the lunar calendar) in the 28th year of Qin Shihuang, in Heifu's murmuring narrative, a trade route that later generations called the "Silk Sugar Road" appeared in Wu Shiluo's mind...