Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 315, sought-after goods
Twenty taels of silver was a prisoner, and he calculated silently. In the past two days, more than [-] prisoners had been captured, and the total was thirty thousand taels of silver.

Thirty thousand silver is definitely a huge sum of money in this era. You must know that when he visits Liu Jian, a fellow villager, he usually asks Liu Jian to keep some ink treasures, and a few hundred taels of silver is a huge sum of money. For the family, a few taels of silver a year is enough for living expenses.

Before there is a large-scale inflow of silver from the Americas, the purchasing power of silver is on the leverage.

Originally, he only thought about transporting these captives to the capital to present to Emperor Hongzhi, but he didn't expect to bring himself a windfall.

Qiao Yong very smoothly spent [-] taels of silver to buy more than [-] captives from Liu Yu, and Liu Yu gave him a small change.

As for Liu Yu, the head of the trilateral system, having tasted the sweetness, he immediately ordered to capture as many live prisoners as possible. This prisoner was worth twenty taels of silver, which was almost the price of a bad horse.

At this time, he even hoped that the little prince would come to attack Datong a few more times. In this way, he might be able to capture thousands of prisoners and sell them for tens of thousands of taels of silver. The money came quickly, and it was still an extra windfall.

Here, Qiao Yong sold more than [-] captives, and immediately organized people to put anklets and bracelets on these captives. The wounded captives were healed, and then he kept pressing his slaves towards the capital. side walk.

He was still a little uneasy in his heart. It is still unknown whether a prisoner can make money after spending twenty taels of silver. These people are grassland people after all. It is still unknown whether the owners of factories and workshops dare to use them .

If these captives can't be sold, then he will lose a lot in this deal. Thirty thousand taels of silver is a huge sum of money. Although his Qiao family has a big business, it is also a loss for a one-time transaction of tens of thousands of taels of silver. I can't afford it a few times, after all, it is still not as good as the Huizhou merchants in the south.

After a journey of about ten days, Qiao Yong came to the capital very smoothly with more than [-] captives under his pressure. The journey was very smooth. The Qiao family had a wide network of contacts, and there were often arrangements along the way without any twists and turns.

As soon as he came to the capital, Qiao Yong, as a businessman, had many business contacts in the capital. He had a wide network of contacts and knew many owners of cement factories and coal factories, so he quickly invited some of them. people come over.

In a private room in the Wangyue Building in Beijing, Qiao Yong was entertaining the guests with a smile on his face. The people in the private room were all owners of powerful cement and coal factories in the capital that Qiao Yong had invited. The people in the background will not come forward in person, but they have also sent trusted people over.

"Old Qiao, you called the big guy over this time, surely it's not as simple as inviting everyone to dinner?"

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, someone asked with a smile.

"Old Zhang, you know me well. This time, I brought a batch of goods that everyone urgently needs. You will definitely like it."

Qiao Yong smiled and said, the old Li he was talking about was named Zhang Rui. Zhang Rui was a member of the Zhang brothers of Boshou Ninghou of Jianchang, who was in charge of helping the Zhang brothers run the Zhang cement factory. , so they also have a lot of contact with Zhang Rui, and they are very familiar with each other.

"The goods we need urgently?"

As soon as everyone heard it, they immediately regained their spirits.

"Old Qiao, don't play tricks on me. What good things did you bring? Show it quickly."

Zhang Rui smiled and said, at the same time, he was also puzzled, is there anything that everyone needs urgently?
"That's right, Old Joe, hurry up and show it, what we can have is urgently needed."

Others followed suit and nodded.

"This time I brought more than a thousand two-legged sheep here~ I think you must need this thing very much."

Qiao Yong smiled, and then said in a very cryptic manner. He didn't say it directly, but used two-legged sheep instead. Everyone's eyes widened slightly when they heard it. They are all understanding people, and they know what it is.

"Where did they all come from?"

Zhang Rui asked quickly.

"Ten days ago, the prairie wolves from the north invaded Datong. They suffered a big defeat at the gate of Datong. Ten thousand people died, and more than a thousand wounded were captured. The goods in my hand came from here. , please rest assured on this point, even if I have a hundred guts, I will never dare to arrest our own people."

Qiao Yong revealed the source of the slaves in his hands.

Everyone nodded immediately when they heard this. The great victory here in Datong had already spread to the capital, and Emperor Hongzhi's Joy had already ordered it to be announced to the world in the form of a report.

After the change of Tumu Fortress, the Ming Dynasty has never had such a big victory in the external field. After beating the enemy in one go, the little prince was severely injured, and the embarrassing situation of the Ming Dynasty when it faced the invasion of northern nomads was reversed in one fell swoop. .

"How are these two-legged sheep? Are they not seriously injured?"

Hearing this, Zhang Rui thought for a while and asked.

As the steward of Zhang's Cement Plant, he certainly knows the importance of manpower. Now all cement plants, workshops, etc. are in short supply of manpower. However, these people who come to work will go back to farm when the farming season is busy. It's no use raising wages.

Now that the demand for cement is getting stronger and stronger, because the imperial court has seen the important role of cement in defending against the attacks of the northern nomads, it has once again placed more orders with major cement factories, and is preparing to send all kinds of cement along the long border. Passes, the Great Wall, cities, etc. have all been repaired again.

The cement factory of the Zhang brothers has always had a share in the big orders of the imperial court. Coupled with the huge demand from the people, the orders poured in like snowflakes.

On the one hand, there is a strong demand for orders, and on the other hand, there is a serious shortage of manpower. The wages of workers in the capital are rising again and again. In order to recruit manpower, major factories and workshops even send people to various places to recruit people. , the population of the capital has now increased by millions.

However, the major factories are still short of manpower. Everyone is in the same situation. They are desperately expanding their production capacity and scale, and they all urgently need more manpower.

Hearing that Qiao Yong had a two-legged sheep in his hand, it was the kind that didn't need to be paid, and the kind that didn't have to worry about leaving things behind because of busy farming, everyone's eyes lit up.

"Don't worry about it. They are all slightly injured. Everyone knows that the sheep from the grasslands are all grown up eating meat. They are strong and strong. If you are worried, you can send someone first. Let’s go check the goods and talk about it later.”

Qiao Yong smiled and said that he saw something in everyone's eyes, and he knew that his batch of goods was definitely what they needed urgently.

"Old Qiao, these goods are all from the grasslands, but it's not safe. If someone above the court talks about it, it will be a big trouble."

Zhang Rui rolled his eyes, thought for a while and said.

"Old Zhang, you are just kidding, who dares to say the noble person behind you?"

"What's more, I have already chained these two-legged sheep, including that nothing will happen."

Qiao Yong laughed even happier when he heard this. The other party was obviously looking for an excuse to lower the price later.

"Old Joe, make an offer, I'll take it all."

At this time, someone said very grandly, the person who spoke was Zhu Ping, and he was the director of Jingcheng Cement Factory, the largest cement factory in Beijing. Liu Jin, the minority shareholder.

"Old Zhu, this is not kind. How can you eat alone? Whoever sees has a share, and whoever sees has a share."

"Yes, everyone who sees it has a share, and it's more or less distributed to everyone."

"Old Zhu, this is not acceptable, how can we enjoy good things to ourselves."

As soon as the others heard this, they said again and again, this way, they only need to eat, and don’t need to pay wages, and they are not afraid of the two-legged sheep that are burdened by the busy farming. Everyone needs it, and everyone’s orders can’t be finished. , are expanding production and continue to manpower.

"Buy it now, one hundred and twenty silvers each, you can pick whatever you want~"

Qiao Yong looked at the faces of the crowd, smiled and quoted a price. Originally, he was thinking of selling a few dozen taels of silver. When everyone was rushing to ask for it, he opened his mouth directly.

"Old Qiao, your price is too expensive. It's too expensive. One hundred and twenty-one dollars. It takes years and months to get back the money. When I recruit workers, a worker is less than two taels of silver a month at most, and it takes less than a year." It's twenty taels of silver."

When Zhang Rui heard this, he shook his head repeatedly.

"It's really too expensive~"

Zhu Ping also nodded and said.

"Price is negotiable, price is negotiable~"

Seeing everyone shaking their heads again and again, Qiao Yong smiled and said.

Soon everyone bargained, you fought over each other, and at the price of eighty taels of silver each, all the [-] slaves in Qiao Yong's hands were divided up. Forgot to tell Qiao Yong, if there is such a good product in the future, he must take care of his brother first, and the price is negotiable.

"A slave made a net profit of sixty taels of silver, and this transaction made almost one hundred thousand taels of silver~"

It's not that he didn't know, but he was taken aback, Qiao Yong himself didn't expect that these slaves were so sought-after, they were sold so smoothly, and they were sold at a sky-high price of eighty taels of silver. This transaction made almost ten dollars. Ten thousand taels of silver.

　As soon as the wicked slave hole is opened, a new industry appears~slave trade!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)