Qian Song

Chapter 119 Li Cun: I Eat Melons (Ask for a Monthly Ticket!)
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For the sea merchants in Quanzhou Port, during this period of time, it can be said that some are happy and some are sad.

Although the Wang family and other large merchants who joined the Huben army took the lead in bidding, the first phase of duty-free cards only sold for less than 30 yuan each, and a total of only twenty yuan.

As for this, it may have been bought by the Wang family and other big merchants who joined the Huben army.

Just when many people were about to see the jokes of those who bought duty-free cards, Huben Junshi Shipping Division immediately auctioned off two ships of seafood.

These two ships of sea goods, one is "treasures" such as ivory, rhino horn, real pearls, corals, etc., and the other is "incense goods" such as agarwood, instant incense, and sandalwood. Goods, absolutely free goods.

As a result, the Huben Military Shipbuilding Division actually held the auction at almost half the reserve price.

What is even more dumbfounding is that due to the large amount of goods and too few people holding duty-free licenses, almost all of the first seafood auctions were sold at the reserve price.

Let's do the math, well, this batch of best-selling "treasures" and "spicy goods" has a discount of less than [-]%. What is the difference between this and picking up money?
There was a group of small maritime merchants with only one or two small boats each. After the goods were confiscated by the Huben army, they were all in mourning.

Later, a small sea merchant named "Li Daming" found other small sea merchants and told them that we would definitely not be able to get the goods back. But I have studied the policies of the Huben Army, and I can see that they are very ambitious in maritime trade, so they should not back down on their promises. I want to take a gamble. If they win, they will not only make money, but also Make a lot of money, who of you wants to be with me?
After repeated lobbying by Li Daming, a dozen or so small maritime merchants finally pooled up 30 yuan and bought a duty-free card.

Then Li Daming and his group bought a "treasure" worth 100 million with this duty-free card worth 200 million.

Next, Li Daming and the others played a trick, that is, resold these "treasures" to Wang Yuan at [-]% of the price.

Li Daming and the others immediately made a profit of 130 million yuan, not to mention the cost they lost, the profit has returned more than ten times, it is definitely a profit.

After Wang Yuan bought these "treasures", they were directly shipped to Japan.

Moreover, Wang Yuan also said that he would buy all the cargo at a [-]% discount, as much as the Wang family wanted.

Everyone is involved in maritime trade, and they all understand a simple truth, that is, goods are limited, especially these luxury goods shipped from Nanyang.

If all these luxury goods are monopolized by the Wang family, then the prices of these luxury goods are set by the Wang family.

Not to mention anything else, just say that the batch of "treasures" bought by the Wang family from Li Daming and the others for 160 million yuan, after arriving in Japan, they might be able to earn back 600 million yuan in gold and silver, or even more .

Profiteering!

Absolute profiteering!
But the question is, the Wang family is relative to the governor of the Huben Army. If his family's ships can leave the port, can other people's ships also leave the port?

Some daring man who was jealous of the Wang family's fortune also took a risk and bought a boatload of ivory.

As a result, that person left the port directly.

Afterwards, the seafood that no one cared about before was immediately looted.

——This is no longer goods, but money.

Soon, some smart people concluded that as long as they abide by the various rules and regulations formulated by the Huben Military and Shipping Department, they are very free in Quanzhou Port, even freer than Quanzhou Port controlled by Zhao Song.

Because the Huben Army eliminated all kinds of miscellaneous taxes, apportionments, and rules brought out by the Zhao and Song courts, and all kinds of rascals who stole money in Hong Kong before were all dealt with by the Huben Army Lost.

And the rules of the Huben Army are clearly posted on the wall of the Huben Army Shipbuilding Department, no addition, no subtraction, as long as you abide by it, you can buy and sell at Quanzhou Port with confidence.

Soon, the first batch of seafood sold by Huben Army were all traded normally.

At this time, Huben Military Shipbuilding Division released the second batch of duty-free cards.

Since there was a big bargain for the first time, as soon as the duty-free card came out this time, it was snapped up, and the final price reached 80 yuan.

Then the base price of the seafood released by the Huben Army was still half of the market price.

But this time, due to many people vying for it, the price can no longer be as low as the first time, but there is still a lot of profit.

After a few times, these maritime merchants were shocked to find that the profit margins were gone, and the key point was that the cargo seized by the Huben army was sold out, but the problem was that they still had a lot of duty-free cards in their hands.

What should I do?
At this time, someone suddenly bought a duty-free license at a price of [-]%.

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How come someone still accepts this thing?
Someone looked over with curiosity, and saw that the person who received the tax-free card was Li Daming, who had made a lot of money in the process of this tax-free card transaction.

Li Daming said proudly that he would accept as much as others had.

Many people are curious, where did Li Daming get so much money?
You know, a duty-free card that has not been used at all is worth 30 coins, and the total amount of duty-free cards circulating in Quanzhou Port may not be hundreds of millions of coins.

In this way, if you eat all of them, you need at least 3000 million coins.

This is no small sum of money.

There was a man with great powers who quickly found out that the money behind Li Daming was Wang Yuan.

Then, some people began to wonder, what did Wang Yuan do with so much money for Li Daming?
While wondering, many people who thought the duty-free card was useless sold the tax-free card to Li Daming.

Of course, some people think that Wang Yuan is Li Cun's uncle, so he must know some inside information, and Li Daming is as shrewd as a ghost, and the two of them must be profitable to receive this tax-free card, so they are holding on to the tax-free card.

It didn't take long for the mystery to be revealed.

After the limelight passed and another fleet came to Quanzhou Port, Li Daming led a group of enthusiastic people to help those maritime merchants avoid customs duties for free.

During this process, Li Daming received the money from the maritime merchants, and directly cashed out the original amount in exchange for tax exemption.

Once in and out, Li Daming and Wang Yuan made a lot of money, and they hadn't left Quanzhou Port yet.

Now, many people were convinced, saying it's no wonder Wang Yuan and Li Daming can make money!
At the same time, these big merchants also saw that although the Huben army was brutal when they conquered the world, after they were conquered, they followed their own rules and had clever policies.

——A duty-free card allows the Huben Army to cash out all the cargo that the Huben Army is difficult to sell, and also sells a large amount of tariffs, so there is no need to worry about money in a short time.

In this regard, Li Cun smiled slightly, and asked about the VIP stored value card for later generations.

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Quanzhou City, government office.

Li Daming stood in front of Li Cun, who was reading a small note, somewhat cautiously.

After reading the letter sent by Feige from Shezhou, Li Cun burned the secret letter with a torch and said, "Wang Yuanyan, are you good at business?"

Li Daming quickly answered the wrong question: "Villains all act in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Huben Army."

Li Cun smiled and said: "There is no need to panic. I will abide by the rules I set. If you can find a way to make a profit, it is your ability. I will not pursue it, let alone spy on your wealth."

Hearing what Li Cun said, Li Daming felt relieved.

Li Daming immediately complimented Li Cun and said, "The governor is a true believer."

Li Cun, who manages a lot of things every day, has no time to greet Li Daming, a businessman, so he went straight to the point and said: "I am short of some goods, I wonder if you can buy them for me?"

Li Daming's eyes lit up immediately!
Although Li Daming doesn't know the term "red top businessman", he is very business-minded and knows that the most profitable businessmen have always been government businessmen. Confused, he said, "I don't know what the governor wants to buy?"

Li Cundao: "Sulphur, flame nitrate, charcoal."

Li Daming hesitated for a moment and asked, "The governor wants to make... gunpowder?"

Li Cun asked noncommittally, "Do you know how to make gunpowder?"

Li Daming shook his head: "The villain only knows superficially." Then Li Daming took the initiative to say: "The villain has a brother who loves gunpowder very much. He puts gunpowder in a bamboo tube, puts stones in it, and can shoot several gunpowder. Ten paces away."

After hearing this, Li Cun was not only a little surprised, but secretly said: "Didn't the tuhuo gun be invented in the Southern Song Dynasty? How could someone make something similar more than 100 years earlier?"

Li Cun felt that Li Daming's younger brother might be a research-oriented talent, so he said: "Bring him to see me some other day. If he is useful to me, I will reward him generously."

Li Daming couldn't help being overjoyed, and hurriedly responded: "No!"

Then without waiting for Li Cun to ask again, Li Daming took the initiative to say: "You can get the brimstone, nitrate, and charcoal."

Li Cun said calmly, "I want a lot, so I'm in a hurry."

Speaking of this, Li Cun took out some sulfur and saltpeter that he had been purified by others, and then said: "The quality should be about the same as this."

After speaking, Li Cun asked someone to show the sample to Li Daming.

After Li Daming read it, he became more confident: "I will not miss the important task of the governor."

Seeing that Li Daming was so confident, Li Cun couldn't help being curious, so he asked Li Daming: "Can you tell me clearly, where did you get these two things?"

Li Daming felt that he had to take a long-term view and not care about every detail, so he replied bluntly: "There is an island in the East, and it is full of sulfur."

As soon as Li Cun heard it, he knew that what Li Daming was talking about was Iwo Jima, which is not far from Fujian.

Since Li Daming can find Iwo Jima, then it is really easy for Sulfur.

Li Daming also said: "My family used to pay tribute to fireworks and firecrackers for the imperial palace. There were several nitrate caves on the left and right. Many nitrate sellers and alchemists also went to my house to buy nitrate."

Li Cun secretly said: "Okay, this time I hit someone's gun, no wonder he is so confident."

At the same time, Li Cun couldn't help sighing that he was lucky to have a pillow when he was dozing off.

In fact, Li Cun had already guessed that the Song army would bypass Jingzhou and enter the Liangzhe area.

But what if Li Cun guessed it, Zhexi is the territory of that idiot Fang La, the key point is that idiot is still full of thoughts that there are always troublesome people who want to harm me, without any logic.

There is no way, Li Cun can only follow Fang La to kill himself.

However, Li Cun also knew that after Fang La died, it would be his turn.

As for the combat effectiveness of the Western Army, Li Cun still paid more attention to it. He felt that the Huben Army's chances of winning should not be too great if they used cold weapons to attack the Western Army.

But it doesn't matter, because after half a year of preparation, Li Cun's gunpowder weapons must be enough to fight two or three battles.

Therefore, although Li Cun attached great importance to the Western Army, he was not afraid of the Western Army.

After all, the Huben army built by Li Cun is absolutely impossible to just fight the five scum, not to mention that everyone's weapons at the bottom of the box are not of the same rank at all.

Therefore, when it came to the decisive battle between the Huben army and the Song army, it may not be known who will win the battle.

As for now, Fang La has watched Li Cun's excitement for a long time, and it's Li Cun's turn to find a seat in the front row and have a good time...

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