Lord Moyu was forced to open

Chapter 270 Amazing Profits

It was getting dark, and after the officials left the palace,

As soon as he returned to the study, Zhao Jun asked Wang Huai'en to bring him the financial statements of the tea-horse trade.

After carefully reading the financial statements by candlelight, Zhao Jun was shocked!

He had only heard about it before, but he had never carefully understood the details of the tea-horse trade, but after listening to Fan Zheng's report today, he suddenly realized it and had some guesses.

Looking at the financial statement now, it is exactly as I guessed!
The profit of this tea horse trade is really astonishing!
He was so old that he couldn't believe it!
Some people may say, how big can it be?How big is the arms deal?
At most, it's just a few times the profit.

This is most people's speculation about the profit rate of the trade after reading about the amazing profits of border tea horse smuggling in history books, and Zhao Jun was originally one of them.

But when Yunzhou County actually participated in it, he realized how big the trade profit was!
Let's take food as an example.

In the territory of Song Dynasty, the price of grain is usually around ten Wen.

And three catties of the most common tea can be exchanged for 120 catties of rice, which is one thousand two hundred and three catties.

A catty of regular tea costs four hundred Wen.

And tea bricks are made of the worst quality tea residue, that is, the residue left over from making ordinary tea. The price of tea bricks is much cheaper than ordinary tea, at one hundred yuan per catty.

But as far as this tea is concerned, even roadside tea shops will not sell it, for fear of smashing the signboard.

but!

Note but!

If tea bricks of this quality are transported to the grasslands, they are deeply loved by herdsmen!
How much do you like it?

Drink it every day, every meal!
Due to the problem of eating habits of the herdsmen, a large amount of meat intake will cause abdominal distension and pain, which will pass if it is light, but it will be life-threatening if it is serious.

They don't know why, but they find that drinking tea can help them relieve this pain, so that they no longer have abdominal pain.

What they don't know is that this is because they eat too much greasy meat all year round and their bodies can't stand it, and tea can dissolve fat and supplement some vitamins that they can't get because they don't eat vegetables.

Although they don't know this, they know that it is a good thing, so whenever they have the opportunity, they will pay a huge price to obtain tea, even if it is just tea bricks made of tea dregs that are not even used by roadside stalls in the Central Plains.

And for this, they are willing to pay a hundred catties of tea bricks in exchange for a war horse!

And if a war horse is transported back to the Central Plains, it can be exchanged for a full 1000 taels of silver!

1000 two!

What is this concept?
If you buy grain, you can buy a whole [-] catties of grain.

But the merchants only paid ten catties of tea bricks on the grassland. How much money did they spend to buy these tea bricks in the pass?
The answer is [-] Wen, which is only ten taels of silver!

How much grain can ten taels of silver exchange for?

The answer is a thousand catties!

How much grain can 1000 taels be exchanged for?

One hundred thousand pounds!
One hundred catties of tea bricks is used to buy a horse, which is one thousand catties of grain.

One thousand catties of grain has become one hundred thousand catties!

A hundredfold profit!

A whole hundred times the profit!
Marx once said that once a capitalist has a proper profit capital, he will be bold, and if there is a [-]% profit, it is guaranteed to be used everywhere.

With a 20.00% profit, it becomes active.

If there is a 50.00% profit, it will take risks.

For [-]% profit, it dares to trample on all human laws.

If there is a [-]% profit, it dares to commit any crime, even risking hanging its head!
What if it is [-] percent?

Zhao Jun was horrified, and suddenly understood why those Shanxi merchants in the Ming Dynasty dared to do anything in his previous life.

What they do with outside the customs is not just tea horse trade, more other trade means more profits.

The astonishing profits are terrifying!
It is also enough for them to have unlimited courage to do anything, even to betray the country with captives inside and outside!

"Wang's companion!"

Zhao Jun's voice trembled a little!
Wang Huai'en, who had been waiting on the sidelines, hurriedly said, "My lord!"

After taking several deep breaths, Zhao Jun calmed down.

"Notify the secret guards to closely monitor all caravans in Yunzhou County, if anyone dares to conduct any trade with Tatar without the permission of the Yunzhou County yamen!
After the revenge investigation, kill!

Kill all kill!

Not one left! "

"My lord, what is this?"

Wang Huai'en was very puzzled, he didn't understand how the prince could suddenly be so murderous.

Zhao Jun shook his head and said, "Wang Banban, do you know how profitable border trade is?"

Wang Huai'en shook his head honestly.

Zhao Jun said coldly:
"One hundred times! Not one time! Not ten times! It's a whole hundred times!
If those businessmen get a taste of the sweetness, they will dare to do anything for this hundredfold profit!

It's not impossible to even shake out everything about my Yunzhou County! "

Wang Huai'en was also shocked, such a high profit!
Thinking about the virtues of those businessmen, he had to admit that what his prince said was right.

In the eyes of those businessmen, except for a few exceptions, most of them have no difference between countries. They only have interests in their eyes. As long as the interests are sufficient, there is nothing they dare not do!

Immediately, he agreed: "The servant understands!"

Zhao Jun nodded, and then said again: "After this war horse exchange, the trade activities in Yunzhou County can be suspended, and the Feiyun Chamber of Commerce will take over the whole thing!

We don't exchange war horses, we can exchange for ordinary horses and cattle and sheep. Although there is a shortage of supplies on the grassland, there are still many things that my Yunzhou County lacks.

Now the three counties of Shendu are planting grain on a large scale, and the number of cattle is in short supply. We can arrange the people from the chamber of commerce to make a deal with those tribes, and let them help us raise cattle. We can exchange salt, tea and wine with them.

It is not impossible to use grain when necessary, but a little iron is absolutely impossible!

A catty of iron is not allowed to trade with these Tatar tribes, understand? "

Wang Huai'en nodded to express his understanding, and went to inform soon.

When Wang Huai'en left, Zhao Jun sat alone in the study and looked up at a map on the wall, which was the map of the surrounding forces in Yunzhou County.

With the most detailed information on the distribution of forces around Yunzhou County, this map will be updated every once in a while, and the updated map will be a new map that has undergone changes in the various forces detected by the dark guards, so that Zhao Jun can always understand the situation. Changes in surrounding forces.

Now on this map, on the Tatar grassland, it is showing that a large number of Tatars are constantly converging from different directions of the Tatar grassland to the southern grassland.

They are starting to gather for the autumn offensive, and there is really not much time left for Yunzhou County!

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(End of this chapter)