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The Xihai Trading Company that Zuo Chengsheng accepted was actually incomplete. First of all, the two ships were gone.
Then most of the employees disappeared, because these employees were subordinates of other shareholders, and they would follow the shareholders when they ran away.
As for the cash on the books, there is actually not much. They, the shareholders, are also guarding against others. Let alone a month, they actually pay dividends every half month.
Therefore, the accounts of Xihai Trading Company are now empty.
The shares that Zuo Chengsheng directly contributed to purchase were actually an empty shell, so he didn’t spend much money.
But even if it is an empty shell, the current Xihai Trading Company is completely owned by Zuo Chengsheng.
However, even though it has become his own company, it is not easy to get this empty shell up and running again.
The first is the transportation problem, because before he acquired Xihai Trading Company, all two ships had been sold, and now the new Xihai Trading Company has no cargo ships.
So he still had to find a ship, but this time he didn't buy a ship directly, but directly cooperated with Xihai Shipping Company.
The governor's finance department of Haidong Province invested in the establishment of Xihai Shipping Company three months ago. This shipping company has an official background, has ships and people, and the freight is not expensive, so Zuo Chengsheng found them to cooperate.
In fact, the two ships of Xihai Trading Company were also sold to this shipping company.
The main route currently operated by this shipping company is the route from Kuri to Baku. It occasionally goes to several small ports in the Safi Dynasty. Their main business is still transporting various materials for the Datang Royal Petroleum Company, followed by
It is used to transport materials to various traders.
After finalizing the transportation contract, Zuo Chengsheng was busy continuing to purchase goods.
As for sales channels, there is no need to worry about this, because Zuo Chengsheng was previously in charge of the Baku branch, and he established the sales channels of Xihai Trading Company in the Baku area.
Whether it was the Ottomans or the Tang Dynasty Royal Petroleum Company, Zuo Chengsheng could enjoy it.
What is lacking now is the supply of goods.
But it’s easy to purchase goods. There are so many factories these days, and the goods he buys are all ordinary commodities, not special commodities. As long as you have money on hand, you don’t have to look for them yourself. The sales staff of those factories will do it yourself.
You can come to your door.
Zuo Chengsheng stayed directly in the library, without even returning to the central provinces, and had already made initial contacts with the source of goods.
However, the price of passively waiting for contact with the source of goods is not low. It is always cheaper than going directly to several central provinces to purchase goods directly.
As for the goods from the eastern provinces, they are more complete and cheaper there, but the freight is also more expensive. After all, it is better to purchase goods directly from Shaanxi and other provinces.
After initially stabilizing the purchase channels and solving the transportation problem, his Xihai Trading Company was back on track.
Although the business volume has inevitably been affected by the departure of shareholders, with only 60-70% left. At the same time, a large number of manpower was taken away, and he had to temporarily recruit many employees, but at least it is stable.
This made Zuo Chengsheng relieved.
Even if there is only six or seven levels of business left, the profit is not high, but it is better than stability.
The most important thing is that the money will belong to him alone from now on, and no other shareholders will share it with him!
After all this calculation, I earned more than before!
After Xihai Trading Company stabilized, he did not lie still, but continued to look for expansion plans!
Although he had previously opposed directly entering the Ottoman and other indigenous-controlled areas to do business, and also opposed the textile industry that seemed to have a bright future, it did not mean that he did not want to expand his business.
But he felt that for a trading company based on the West China Sea to move its headquarters to Shanghai to engage in Indian trade and build factories, it was just out of mind.
When you are in the West China Sea, you must make full use of local resources.
For example, Baku's oil is very promising in his opinion!
As the kerosene produced by Royal Petroleum Company was sold all over the country, it occupied a large amount of market share that originally belonged to traditional lighting oils such as whale oil, candles, and vegetable oils.
And most importantly, because kerosene is cheap and affordable to ordinary people, it has indirectly opened up many lighting markets that did not exist before.
Many people are very optimistic and estimate that according to the current market conditions, even millions of tons of oil can be easily consumed a year.
However, today's Datang Royal Petroleum Company's annual output is only two to three million tons, which is far from being able to meet the huge market demand.
It is an open secret that oil makes money.
But oil is not something that ordinary people can do.
Because this industry has been officially included in the national defense and people's livelihood industries, this also means that the government will directly intervene and impose restrictions in the form of licenses.
Just like the weapons industry.
Theoretically, private enterprises can also apply for corresponding licenses and then get involved in the ordnance industry, but now they will not be approved even if they apply.
The same is true for the oil industry. Currently, Datang Royal Petroleum Company is the only oil company that has obtained relevant licenses for oil exploration, mining, and refining.
In other words, they are the only ones in the empire who can explore and extract oil now.
Even refining is something only they can do.
Without relevant licenses, other companies cannot enter the oil industry.
Judging from the strict official control situation, even if a new oil company emerges in the future, it is estimated that it will be an enterprise with official capital, not private capital.
And this is indeed true. With the capture of Baku, Royal Petroleum Company predicts that oil production will be greatly increased, and may even exceed the one million tons mark in the next few years.
With the huge profits and the fact that this industry is related to people's livelihood, the government will naturally not sit back and let the Royal Assets Department do it on its own.
The Ministry of State-owned Enterprises is already promoting the establishment of a petroleum company wholly owned by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises to compete with Royal Petroleum and to prevent Royal Petroleum from becoming dominant.
Zuo Chengsheng naturally did not know the layout of these upper levels and could not interfere.
He felt that the oil here in Baku was being developed, and he did not mean to prepare for exploration and extraction of oil. He did not have such a license at all, and now all the oil exploration and extraction rights in Baku belonged to the Royal Petroleum Company and Haidong Province.
of the Baku Petroleum Company established as an official joint venture.
Even if he wants to explore and mine, it won't work.
Not to mention oil refining, which requires technical improvements, the investment in the refinery is too high, and there is no crude oil. The most important thing is that it still does not have the corresponding license.
What he wants to do is still his old profession, which is trade!
Although the Royal Petroleum Company's kerosene is now sold locally, no one says it is not allowed to buy Ottoman oil.
He had a meal with several managers from Royal Petroleum and asked them if they had any plans to sell kerosene to the Ottoman region.
This was exactly what the Royal Petroleum Company wanted.
They originally planned to export kerosene to the Ottoman and Safi regions. To this end, they had already started construction of a small refinery in Baku, with a production capacity of only about 20,000 tons.
However, the refinery has not yet been completed, and most of the crude oil produced in Baku is currently transported to the Kuri refinery for refining, and then transported by rail to other provinces for sale.
However, developing the Ottoman and Safi markets is their stated goal!
This is especially true when they conducted oil surveys in Baku and discovered that the oil reserves here are beyond imagination. If fully developed, an annual output of one million tons is possible.
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After all, oil production will become larger and larger in the future. Although the local market is large enough, no one will dislike the small market.
It would also be a good thing if kerosene could be sold from the West Sea to the Ottoman and Safi regions.
Even if the output is not high now, the market cannot be too big, but after slowly cultivating the market for a few years, their output will catch up, and by then they will be able to launch large-scale sales to seize the lighting oil market.
Zuo Chengsheng had mature sales channels in the Ottomans, and Royal Oil Company wanted to cultivate the market. The two parties hit it off.
Immediately, Zuo Chengsheng signed a relevant agency sales agreement with Royal Petroleum Company.
Looking at this agency agreement, Zuo Chengsheng felt very happy!
This is the kerosene sales agency right for the entire Ottoman Empire.
Of course, this agency right also has restrictions. For example, it needs to achieve a certain sales volume in the past few years. However, considering that the current production capacity of Datang Royal Petroleum Company is limited, it is impossible to supply too much kerosene to the Ottoman Empire, so
It just limits a relatively small number.
However, the Royal Petroleum Company has set a shipping price, and this shipping price is not cheap. It is near Baku, but the supply price of the Royal Petroleum Company is the same as in other parts of the empire.
The supply prices are about the same.
How to put it, their kerosene is already in short supply, so it’s impossible to say that buying it locally is more expensive than buying it in Ottoman is cheaper.
However, Zuo Chengsheng was confident that the purchase price would be as high as elsewhere, but the key point was that he was shipping it directly to the Ottoman Empire for sale!
If it is transported to Osman for sale, even if the transportation cost is higher, the final retail price of kerosene will still be lower than that of vegetable oil and animal oil, and it will be much lower.
Money must be earned, but as for how much he can earn, that depends on him.
The Royal Petroleum Company has already revealed to him that as long as he can open up the market in the Ottoman region and the momentum is good, then the subsequent market in the Safi region will also be left to him.