Start with the humble bridegroom

Chapter 343 Purchase paper coupons, 200 profit!

Jiangling Gufu.

According to the custom of previous years, at the beginning of spring, the inner courtyards of each family will gather some daughters who have made good friends with each other for a party.

In previous years, the Jiangling Spring Festival was the most eye-catching place in the Jiangling old county prince's mansion.

But this year, almost everyone turned their attention to the previously unknown Gu Mansion.

After entering February, the Gu Mansion's spring meeting has been held three times.

It's not that Gu Shuyi and the old lady don't know the importance, but that there are too many posts that can't be dismissed, and they can only deal with them one by one.

"Okay, let's go to work!" Hanyi wiped the fine sweat from her forehead, dismissed the servant who had come to trouble, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.The families of the third party were much lower than the previous two spring parties, but fortunately they were all familiar families, so the old lady decided to let Han Yi, who was about to turn fifteen, take care of it.

She is introverted, in Qin Yi's words: Fourth sister is a person who can't speak after kicking her a few times.Now that the family has left such a big scene to herself, Hanyi hasn't slept well these days.

But she has reached her age, and she is about to talk about others, and she must let people see her ability.Under the advice of the old lady, the third sister also taught her hand in hand, and the planning form taught by her cousin before, Han Yi finally welcomed all the guests into the door tremblingly.

After walking around the room for a few times, Han Yi suddenly remembered something, it seemed that the Fifth Sister had not sent someone to watch her, that girl was not easy to get along with.

When Hanyi rushed to the west side of the backyard, she saw Gu Qinyi playing with several girls of similar age from a distance.

Well, it seems to be very friendly!

Gu Qinyi kept staring at the fourth sister out of the corner of her eyes, and after vaguely seeing her slapping her chest and leaving, she laughed wantonly.Today, her playmates are the second girl from the Ding family and the fourth girl from the Zhao family, both of whom are of the same age as her, and they were able to play with her in the past.

"I said you two, are you bewitched by a demon today? Just promise, you're having a good time!"

When Miss Ding saw Gu Qinyi getting angry, she became even more frightened. After all, it was a 12-year-old child raised in a deep boudoir, and there was a crying sound in her words.

"It's not that your house is too scary!"

Gu Shuyi became angry, and grabbed the other party's sleeve.

"How do you say that? Be careful, this girl tore your hair!"

"Wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" who was like a quail, but she didn't dare to resist. !Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo our house~~!”

These words made Gu Qinyi blush with anger, how could her cousin copy Fang's house because of her marriage? ! ! !
"Nonsense! The Wu family and the Liu family are also on the ground in Zhaoyang, and they also proposed marriage. Why did my cousin use their family members?"

When Miss Zhao heard this, she hurriedly asked her in a low voice: "Really? I copied them all! But I heard that your cousin sent his men to Jiangling to arrest the fourth master of the Fang family. If he offends you, he will really Copy it, no matter how much I love you, I can't be stubborn with you."

After hearing this, Gu Qinyi felt sullen and stomped her feet vigorously.

Seeing that she was still angry, Miss Ding became frightened again, and her tears began to roll again.

"If you cry again, I'll ask my cousin to raid your house too!"

It was a joke, but it really frightened the two little girls, and they hurriedly covered their mouths.Behind the crabapple tree, Gu Shuyi was helping the old lady here. The old lady stopped Gu Shuyi just now, otherwise Gu Qinyi would be grounded again today.

"Shuyi, don't hold her back," the old lady was walking slowly with Gu Shuyi's support, and at the same time was discussing with her, "Without a decent male elder to take care of her, my daughter's family will naturally become aggressive." Some, this is also to avoid being bullied."

"But look at what she said, the official voice of don't spoil your cousin!"

The old lady smiled and said nothing, then turned around.

"Speaking of your cousin, I just have an idea, just listen."

"Grandmother just obeys orders, granddaughter listens!"

"After the Spring Festival is over, our family should take a rest. Doesn't your cousin have a mansion granted by the emperor in Xiushan? In a few days, we will cross the river together to find him."

"Grandmother is missing her grandson!" Gu Shuyi didn't object, but she also wanted to go out for a walk.

"It's one thing to think about him, and grandma is also doing it for you!" The old lady slowly sat down on a wooden chair and took Gu Shuyi's hand, "Your marriage is too ostentatious, and the average natal family will be so ostentatious." I can't hold back, only your cousin can say a few words. There are so many places these days, don't let the brother-sister relationship fade away."

The old lady lowered her voice: "Come again, the girls in the family, except you and Mu Yi, Han Yi and Qin Yi are concubines after all. I'm thinking that the glory of the royal family should be less rubbed, it's better to let them follow you Cousin is full of Wenquxing's literary spirit. The name of Shizifei's younger sister sounds noble, but it is actually a hypocrisy. People recognize you as the one, but people don't recognize them. But the cousin of Zhuangyuan Lang and the sister of Zhang Xinzhi, this title But it cannot be taken away by others, but it just sounds like a family heirloom of poetry and books. A decent family will recognize your cousin's literary name even more."

"Grandmother said that although my younger sisters respect me, they are sometimes perfunctory. My cousin is the one who can calm them down. The cold spring is over, we all go to the south of the Yangtze River to worship and read books under my cousin's door for a few days, and we are happy. It can also avoid this person in Jiangling City."

"Since you agreed, let's make arrangements and send a letter across the river first. You might as well mention in the letter that if there is a Spring Festival in Zhaoyang, you might as well wait for us and see the excitement."

Gu Shuyi laughed: "I'm afraid grandma wants to take a look at the talented scholars in Zhaoyang for my sisters, such as those from the Liu family and the Wu family?"

In a blink of an eye, it was February 26. For the third time, Zhang Zhe invited Shi Qiao, Shaoqing of Wu Guohongyu Temple, and his party to the county government office for a banquet.This time, it was a formal invitation of an official nature.

It is precisely to discuss the use of the 400 million coins and the price of the goods.

During these days, Zhang Zhe has prepared 400 catties of snow paper and stored it in the warehouse of the government office.The paper mill, which has expanded to more than [-] people, has been running non-stop.

After going through the polite and necessary etiquette process, Zhang Zhe got a list handed over by Shi Qiao.This is the supply price list of Wu Guohuang merchants.

Zhang Zhe only saw the price tag of the first coarse grain, and his heart became confused.The price of Wu people's coarse grains has changed from the previous fifty guan to one stone (one stone is calculated as a hundred catties) to 72 guan to one stone, which is equivalent to 720 Wen per catty.

Zhang Zhe is not the kind of official who is not down-to-earth. After the beginning of spring, the price of rice has risen slightly. Now the price of coarse grains in Zhaoyang market is only twelve yuan a catty, and in summer and autumn, it is only ten yuan a catty. This price has increased by six seventy times.

Not angry, Zhang Zhe knew very well that this was the way the Wu people planned to pass the time.Zheng Guo's spies and relations in Wu State had already passed back the actual purchasing power of the 400 million "money tickets", which was around 40 guan.

In fact, both parties are very clear that the final negotiated price should be at most nine to ten times higher than the market price.The value of the goods finally provided by the eleven Wu Kingdom imperial merchants was about 40 guan, each of which "promised" [-] to [-] guan this time, and the Wu royal family would deduct it from the future repayment quota of the imperial merchants.

Zhang Zhe smiled and put down the list in his hand.His majesty gave him the bottom line is to get 50 pieces of goods, the imperial concubine just smiled and asked him to do his best.

But Zhang Zhe wanted to get more.

He didn't mind Wu Guoren's delay at all, because his plan also needed time.However, as an acquaintance of the county, he knew that the purchase of grain from the state of Wu must start immediately, and everything must be done before the signs of poor harvest in Zhaoyang County in summer and autumn become a reality.

Seeing that Zhang Xinzhi just glanced at it, Shi Qiao and Tang Bo smiled and put down the list.

The two secretly looked at each other, and then prepared to listen to what Zhang Xinzhi had to say.They had discussed it long before they came, and the rest of the imperial merchants were not allowed to speak at will.If Zhang Xinzhi was angry, Mr. Shi would come forward to deal with it; if he had a sincere talk, Tang Bo would talk about his pain.Anyway, we will definitely not be able to talk about it today!

But who knew that when Zhang Zhe opened his mouth, Shi Qiao was taken aback, and Tang Bo muttered inwardly.

"Everyone communicates between the north and the south, benefiting tens of millions of people in the north and south of the Yangtze River, and earning hard money. Now you are trying your best to support this collegiate meeting with your family business. At this time, you need to pay the goods in time for the bills that cannot be redeemed at this time. It is said to be 400 million guan , but each family actually has to pay tens of thousands of guan in advance. The goods are entrusted to Zhaoyang, and I would like to thank you all on behalf of the county king!"

Zhang Zhe said with a smile what the imperial merchants of the Wu Kingdom wanted to say the most, as if he, Zhang Xinzhi, was actually an official of the Wu Kingdom.

Although Shi Qiao was startled, she was about to continue to complain along Zhang Zhe's pole, but Tang Bo secretly pulled her away.

Zhang Zhe sat in the first place, quietly saw Tang Bo's movements, and secretly thought it was a pity.At the same time, he secretly paid attention to Tang Bo.

There was a trap in Zhang Zhe's words just now, as long as Shi Qiao followed up and complained, Zhang Zhe would be able to grasp the point that "the bill is worthless and cannot be exchanged immediately", and let Shi Qiao and others suffer first!

But never mind!
Zhang Zhe's trump card was already ready.

"Everyone who supplies this county with all their strength is the honored guests of this county. It's just that the king of the county returns to the court for a short time, and he has nothing to thank." Zhang Zhe took a deep look at Tang Bo, smiling undiminished, "But Fortunately, the Qin and Jin dynasties were formed between our two countries, and the king of the county has a stepdaughter. The princess of Wuling is also full of praise for you all, so I would like to give you a family of benefits on behalf of my father. Come~!"

As Zhang Zhe's voice fell, a group of servants came out with trays, and put a stack of snow-white papers on the desks of every Wu citizen.

"Such white paper!?"

Although these people have seen or even used this kind of paper before, they all expressed surprise and admiration.Who is not an actor?
Zhang Zhe did not expose them, and letting "Zhaoyang Snow Paper" flow into the hands of these people was originally one of his plans.

"This is Zhaoyang snow paper," Zhang Zhe politely pointed to the half-jin white paper on each table, "I would like to invite you to taste it a little bit. Compared with celadon white paper, what do you think of this paper?"

Many Wu emperor merchants looked at each other and smiled. A little paper as a gift can only be regarded as a novelty.

Of course, everyone did enough to save face, and a lot of applause followed.

Shi Qiao and Tang Bo had discussed this paper a long time ago, and concluded that its output was not high, and it would not be helpful to solve Zheng Guo's problem in terms of commodity prices.There was a big price increase at this meeting, and there was an attempt to conspire for such a formula.

Someone has been obsessed with this attempt, so they are very sensitive to a problem.

"My lord Zhang, this paper is excellent, especially celadon white paper, but according to my lord, it seems that the method of making this paper came from the princess?"

Zhang Zhe secretly said, good question!
"This paper making method is indeed unique to the princess."

The imperial merchants of Wu Kingdom immediately showed disappointment and apprehension.The Princess of Wuling is the Crown Princess of Wu, and her secret recipe is equivalent to something that will belong to the royal family of Wu in the future.Zhang Zhe moved the princess of Wuling out in this name, and they, the half-servants of the royal family, naturally couldn't reveal any coveting attempts.

Hearing that Zhang Zhe had moved out of Wuling Princess, Shi Qiao and Tang Bo just shared it secretly, what about Yang Mingyan?I'm afraid it's nonsense, even without the temptation of Zhaoyang Xuezhi Fangzi, the price on today's list will not come down.

At this moment, Zhang Zhe said another sentence with a smile.

"The princess is grateful for the urgent needs of the county, so I asked the official to make a gift!" Zhang Zhe took out a colorful palm-shaped strip of paper from his sleeve, "This thing is called a shopping coupon. , with this ticket, you can buy fifty catties of Zhaoyang snow paper from the palace."

Shi Qiao laughed: "My lord's fifty catties of snow paper is really good, but it's just that there are so many people, I'm afraid it's hard to tell?"

"Could it be that the Lord wants to give this thing to one of us? This account has to be settled carefully," Tang Bo nodded politely at Zhang Zhe, and then took the conversation, "Xuan paper for ordinary people, okay It requires five coins for a piece, and the best fifteen coins are calculated on the basis of fifty pieces per catty, which is about 750 yuan per catty. The profit of this catty is 350 to [-] yuan, and the excellent one catty is sold in vain. The price is five pennies, and the profit is about seven hundred coins. The best celadon white paper is five pennies per catty, which is a profit of three pens. The snow paper, my lord, is even better, it is probably the most expensive paper in the world. Fifteen strings per catty can also be sold! I just don’t know how much the adult sells for?”

Tang Bo settled accounts casually, but he was not building Zhang Zhe's stairs, but pulling his ladder.Everyone is a businessman, after his calculation, everyone immediately figured out that the profit represented by a mere paper coupon is only a few hundred guan.

Wanting them to give in for such a small piece of paper, the number one scholar was a little naive.

Seeing that the faces of the imperial merchants gradually became calm, Zhang Zhe pretended not to see it.He stretched out a slap and said: "This paper is extremely white, and it is too expensive to make. The princess asked people to buy good white rice from the counties along the south of the Yangtze River at a high price, soak it in the pool, and use rare and rare paper to soak it. This snow paper can only be obtained after the color is removed from the material. In order to repay you, I only charge a cost price, five strings per catty! The county does not ask how much you sell it for yourself."

"Hehe," Shi Qiao smiled faintly, "In this way, if it is really sold for [-] guan for a catty, this piece of paper is worth [-] guan of profit. Well, it's so good! I don't know who here is willing to seek this thing ?”

After Shi Qiao finished speaking, Tang Bo took the lead and began to sigh, causing the eleven imperial merchants to shake their heads lightly. Shi Qiao made it clear that he was threatening to offend the Shi family for five hundred guan. Who would be so stupid?
Zhang Zhe watched Shi and Tang sing together, but he didn't feel angry at all. The smile on his face was the same as before, and he couldn't see the slightest bit of reluctance.

"Why do you all come to fight?" Zhang Zhe beckoned, and Xiao Zhaoping came up with a tray on which hundreds of "paper coupons" were piled high, and the audience immediately fell silent, "The princess has exhausted all his resources , Collect white Xuan from the north and south of the Yangtze River. About a thousand catties of snow paper are produced every day, and now they have sold tens of thousands of catties. It’s just that it’s really hard to find the colorless ones. The county estimates that it can only accept four thousand paper coupons for you at most. Ashamed, Ashamed!"

The expressions of Shi Tang and the two of them suddenly changed, while the eyes of all the royal merchants widened.

One paper coupon can bring five hundred guan in profit, four thousand!That is 20 catties of snow paper, with a profit of nearly 200 million!The high-end luxury items such as snow paper may not be able to be sold in the Dazheng Kingdoms, but in the territory of Southern Wu where aristocratic families gather together, 20 catties of snow paper can be sold out in half a year at most!
There are three thousand aristocratic families in the state of Wu, and their literary affairs are extremely prosperous. They are known as the mountains of literature and the sea of ​​literature.The celadon white paper consumed by the royal family, nobles, temples and children of various families is as large as [-] catties every year, and the amount of celadon white paper stored in the warehouses of various aristocratic families is even more numerous.Who wouldn't be willing to spend money when it comes to the family's face?
This kind of world's top snow paper, no one would try their best to store it. 20 catties of snow paper may seem like a lot, but it’s actually not enough to sell!
The heads of Wu Guohuang's merchants began to calculate quickly. Even if the 20 paper coupons were divided equally between ten companies (the Tang family was automatically eliminated by them), each company's profit for this wave would be [-] guan!

Tang Bo reacted very quickly: "My lord, maybe let me take a look at this ten thousand catties of snow paper?"

I bet you don't have that ten thousand catties of snow paper!

Of the Royal Shang family, which one does not have a papermaking workshop, and which one has not imitated celadon white paper, they are most aware of the extravagance and technical difficulties involved.Zhang Xinzhi has been in Zhaoyang for less than two months, where did he get the ten thousand catties of snow paper?Even if the Baixuan from both sides of the Zheng Guo River is collected and stained into pulp, the process of removing the color is the most labor-intensive, mental and financial effort.There is a thousand catties at sunrise and thousands of catties in stock, it is absolutely impossible!
Tang Bo's words awakened the royal merchants.That's right, they had already inquired how many days had passed since the ship that transported paper from other places arrived at Xiushan Wharf?Thousands of catties of snow paper, I'm afraid it's really a picture cake.

At this moment, several maidservants stepped forward and pulled up the six bamboo curtains hanging behind Zhang Zhe one by one, and a vast expanse of white immediately occupied everyone's eye sockets.

Thousands of catties of snow paper!There really are!
"My lord! Dare to ask how to get a paper coupon!" Someone couldn't help asking.

Zhang Zhe smiled embarrassedly: "It's all the intention of the princess. There are only two things in the county. One is coarse grains, and the other is brown sugar. In this transaction of money between the two countries, every sale of a hundred stones of coarse grains in the county will be a coupon One piece, counting two thousand; or selling every stone black (red) sugar in this county, there is also a coupon, counting another two thousand.”

Tang Bo's expression turned pale immediately. This ticket transaction was only in the name of 400 million coins. If these people want to win all [-] paper coupons, they have to suppress the price of a hundred grains or a stone of sugar at [-] coins. Inside.In other words, a catty of coarse grains can only be quoted at one hundred coins, and a catty of sugar can only be quoted at ten guan.

The 400 million Guan is in name, and Wu Guo only admits that it has a purchasing power of 40.In this way, the imperial merchants of the state of Wu actually supplied the state of Zheng at the market price of ten cents a catty of coarse grains and the usual market price of a catty of sugar.Every time the imperial merchants provide Zhaoyang County with [-] guan of cheap goods, they will be eligible to earn [-] guan!

2000 million catties of coarse grains and 20 catties of sugar!It may be difficult for other countries to take it out, but for Southern Wu, which has three thousand aristocratic families, which aristocratic family does not have hundreds of thousands of catties of grain in its grain storage?
Shi Qiao wanted to speak, but Tang Bo stopped him.

You can't stop it, blocking people's money is like killing your parents, and you can't stop it!

These imperial merchants will still give Shi Qiao face for small achievements, but it involves a real profit of 200 million yuan, and it is not easy for Empress Shi to come in person. Who is not behind a large group of people?
But the reason why Tang Bo recognized Shi Qiao was because of Shi Qiao's character.Shi Qiao broke free from Tang Bo's obstruction and let out a loud drink.

"There is no mutual market in Zhaoyang County, so how can goods other than money and invoices enter Dawu?"

As soon as these words fell, Shi Qiao found sadly that her side was filled with sullen eyes and sneering voices.

Someone said coldly: "Master Shi, according to this joint agreement between the two countries, Master Zhang also has the right to sell the same amount of goods to his own country!"

"Then he can only sell grain and sugar! Everyone, there are three mutual markets between the two countries, and none of them are in Zhaoyang!"

Immediately there was a silent silence, allowing Shi Qiao to see clearly the true colors of the imperial merchants for the first time.Among the ten gazes that fell on him, some were disdainful, some were hatred, and some were cold killing intent.

At this moment, Zhang Xinzhi's surprised laughter broke everything.

"Your country's betrothal gift has been given. A few days ago, even the three matchmakers and six beneficiaries have been arranged. The two countries have just made an appointment on February [-], and the names of the prince of your country and the princess of your country have been recorded in the ancestral temples of each family. The concubine's gold book has been sent to Chang'an. It is just a matter of welcoming the relatives and marrying the last part. It is said that our princess is also a royal of your country. According to the laws of your country, it is still open to question if her things may be sold directly into your country. But it shouldn’t be a problem to sell it to your own imperial merchant, right?”

The cold look on Wu Guohuangshang's face was immediately swept away, and everyone agreed with joy.

"Naturally, naturally, the Crown Princess bestows the opportunity to make a fortune to her slaves, who dares to block it? Can the royal family's own business be questioned by outsiders?!"

"That's not the case! The business of the Crown Princess will also be His Highness's own dowry in the future. This prescription and business are originally the property of our Great Wu family. Now it is only our imperial merchants who deal with it. How can it hinder the mutual market?"

"Hey, everyone be careful! Master Shi also kindly reminded us that this product can only be bought and sold by us. If people other than us get involved, wouldn't it be a smuggler? Hahahaha~~."

"Everyone!" Zhang Zhe said with a smile at the end, "For the money to buy paper, please use Dazheng's official ticket. The prince and princess want to sell the collected sugar to Jiangbei, and open shops along the road , the money needed is not a small amount, and it is most convenient to use the official ticket of the country."

"It's easy to say, easy to say!" There was a polite voice from below.

(End of this chapter)