Chapter 252 Southern State Bank with Super Ambitions
Most ordinary merchants do not have the ability to travel on the Luo River unimpeded like Nanzhou Bank. When they organize transportation, they have to worry about their merchant ships being sunk by the crazy feudal town.
Therefore, there are actually not many ordinary coal merchants who come to Pingdan County to purchase coal. Even if a few come, they will keep the price even lower.
Because it is extremely risky for these ordinary coal merchants to travel the Luohe route at this time. If they don't lower the price to try to make huge profits, they will not come at all.
In fact, it doesn't matter if you can't afford the price. The most important thing is that even if the price is very cheap, you still can't sell it.
Pingdan County's coal production capacity is quite large, but its current sales volume is far from enough, so that many coal mines are in a state of semi-stop operation.
So during this period, Li Kun was also looking for new sales channels. Qingshan Petroleum Company was very good, but the two sides were still at war before. How could they do business, so they kept putting it off.
But now things have changed. Although the price sold to Lin Ziran is lower than the current wholesale price of coal in Pingdan County, it is still better than having no one dig out the coal.
There is nothing we can do about the price drop of coal in Pingdan County. After all, this coal is not only available in Pingdan County. You must know that the entire Nanhai Prefecture is a major coal-producing state, and many counties and counties have coal resources.
Especially in Luohai County, there is a very large coal mine, which is easy to mine. In addition to ordinary coal, it also produces anthracite coal of excellent quality.
Compared with coal from other places, coal in Pingdan County actually has no special advantages.
If the price is not lowered, transportation will be risky and costly, and no one will come to Pingdan County to purchase.
As for the big commercial banks like Nanzhou Bank, they have the ability to keep transportation costs down, but the key point is that they have the ability but not the motivation.
Nanzhou Bank is engaged in the big business of lending money to feudal towns and selling ordnance to feudal towns.
If you let them engage in a large-scale business like coal with transparent market prices and limited profits, people will say that the ship's transportation tonnage is limited, and it is not enough to transport guns, ammunition, and gold coins. How can there be transportation tonnage to transport these cheap coals for you?
In Luoan County, the only physical business that Nanzhou Bank attaches great importance to is kerosene.
Because kerosene is a monopoly business for the time being, there is no other place in the world that produces kerosene except Qingshan Town. According to many agreements reached by Nanzhou Bank and Qingshan Petroleum Company, Nanzhou Bank currently
Its commercial banks have already obtained at least 80% of the oil company's production capacity share.
In terms of profit, just looking at the ratio, it is actually not high, but the supply cannot support the supply of this thing, and it is a business without capital.
Today's kerosene business, for Nanzhou Bank, is a business with very fast capital turnover, no cost, and at the same time, it can bring huge profits.
And more importantly, what Nanzhou Bank values is not just the current profit, but the future of the entire kerosene industry.
Zhou Li had already revealed to Lin Ziran that Nanzhou Bank has now launched the so-called "oil strategy" and is preparing to invest huge sums of money.
Zhou Li didn't disclose the specific details, and he probably didn't know it himself, but he also said that the initial investment in the oil industry within the bank would start at least one million. Note that this is only the initial investment, mainly using
Come to search for oil fields.
Nanzhou Bank now employs many people to search for oil all over the world. The money spent by so many oil survey teams every day is not a small amount.
When the time is right, for example, after they find other oil fields and build more refineries, Nanzhou Bank may acquire the entire Qingshan Oil Company, and then merge it with other oil fields and refineries to establish a huge oil company.
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From this we can see the ambition of Nanzhou Bank.
What they want is not just a certain oil company, they want the entire oil industry.
Their ambitions are even greater than Lin Ziran, the destined son!
Because the directors of Nanzhou Bank calculated it like this: With Daheng’s 200 million people, how big is the market potential? At least tens of millions of barrels of oil will be consumed in a year. If the promotion is better, it will even be more
many.
If people all over the world used kerosene for lighting, what would be the market potential? At least tens of millions of barrels of oil would be consumed a year.
Even if they take the initiative to lower prices in order to expand the market size, resulting in lower net profits, their internal staff calculated that even if the price is reduced, the initial profit is still estimated to be more than 10 constant yuan per barrel of oil.
At that time, let alone the global market, even if Dahengli sells 10 million barrels of petroleum products a year, it will be a big business with a net profit of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions a year!
Compared with the entire kerosene industry's annual net profit of hundreds of millions, a mere Qingshan Oil Company is nothing!
Nanzhou Bank is a bank that does big business and has great ambitions, or it is a group company with a bank as its core. The directors do not look down on Pingdan County, a small coal producing area.
Well, it would be about the same if it were the super coal mine in Luohai County. In addition to supplying coal to Nanhai Prefecture, this super coal mine also supplies coal to several surrounding states. Although the profit margin is low, it cannot support the large volume, and the overall profit is very
considerable.
However, the coal mine is officially owned by Luohai County. Even if Shao Bing is killed, it is impossible to obtain this coal mine, because the successor will still regard this coal mine as his lifeblood, because almost all the profits from this coal mine are turned over to support the army.
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Even though Nanzhou Bank is powerful, it is difficult for it to get involved in this coal mine.
Compared with the large coal mines in Luohai County, the coal in Pingdan County has no advantages. On the contrary, due to the war, the external transportation is difficult, so the price that can be sold is even lower, and there is still a lot that cannot be sold.
In many cases, Li Kun also has a headache. Although his coal does not cost much, it is heartbreaking to dig it out and pile it up there without being able to sell it.
Now it's better to take it out and exchange it with Lin Ziran for ammunition.
The exchange of goods for goods between the two parties is a clear sign of the easing of relations between the two parties.
Lin Ziran not only eased the relationship with Li Kun, but also actively contacted Li Dingjun and Zhao Song.
What's interesting is that Zhao Song also got wind of it. After learning that Li Kun had obtained a batch of cheap ammunition from Lin Ziran, he also took action and sent people to find Lin Ziran to get a batch of old ammunition.
Although they are all old-style cannonballs with black powder, the advantage is that they are cheap and can be supplied in large quantities.