Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 460

Early the next morning, the army marched out, and outside Shanyang City, there was another scene of a pair of civilians weeping and wishing the emperor to return early after victory, and Sun Xiangfu officially got the position of the prince's junior teacher. From now on, he will be justified A teacher who can discipline Li Chengqian.

Li Shimin was in a good mood when he set out for the expedition. With 2000 million yuan in income, his future war reserves will be more sufficient. Money can always generate a lot of supplies. With enough money, confidence is enough , Confidence naturally also increased.

On the second day of the army's expedition, the Anbei Metropolitan Government's Yamen released a message. Due to the multi-front war by the imperial court, the military expenditure was huge. , at a price of 2000 million guan, sold 500 million guan of land around Shangqi City to the Wang family.

As soon as the news came out, the young masters and managers of each family who stayed in Shanyang were in an uproar.

"The Wang family is not satisfied with Shanyang and Dingxiang, but also wants to make a move to Qicheng, 2000 million guan, what a big deal!"

After Lu Wenzhong received the news, he immediately summoned the other four families to come to discuss. Now, the Taiyuan Wang family and Qinghe Cui family have completely withdrawn from the previous family alliance circle, and put the focus of development on The other five companies in Shangqi City have actually started to compete with each other. However, since Shangqi City has not yet been built, their trade competition has not yet reached the white-hot stage.

Therefore, at present, they are only maintaining the harmony on the surface. In this situation where everyone's interests are jointly damaged, they will get together to discuss countermeasures.

Li Bin, Li Qi, Cui Yu, Zheng Song and other princes in charge of the Lu Manor's guests all looked worried. Before coming, they had discussed with the elders of each family, but there was no good countermeasure. However, there is one item that almost all of them agree on.

Although Shangqi City will be able to control the trade between the Tang Dynasty and the Western Regions in the future, if the five families share the income equally, it may not be able to catch up with the Cui family of Qinghe who has only one city, and the Wang family of Taiyuan who occupy two cities.

With the current strength of the Wang family and the Cui family, they already have the potential to surpass the others. They can no longer passively defend. They must unite and take the initiative to attack.

In fact, before that, they already had some plans. After Shangqi was developed, they would be nearby and monopolize all the export trade to the Western Regions, so that the distance from the countries of the Western Regions was thousands of miles away from them. If you can't sell it, you can only resell it to them at a low price, so that they can make a profit from it.

Therefore, since they replaced the land, they have been desperately building Shangqi City. With the joint efforts of five families, the construction of Shangqi City is even faster than Tai'an City, which started construction earlier. However, their city walls It has only just been established, and the Wang family took the lead in attacking them.

500 million mu of land!It is more than the sum of the existing lands of several of their families. It seems that their estimation of the strength of the Wang family was wrong. The Wang family can not only maintain Shanyang and the development of Dingxiang, but also have a lot of surplus money and manpower. For external expansion, they probably also considered that the business going east and west in the future may be strangled by others, so they wanted to open up their own trade channels!

"My lord, the person who went to the Yamen to inquire about the news has returned."

Soon, the steward of Lu Wenzhong's mansion came to the living room with a blueprint. After unfolding the blueprint, the faces of all the young masters turned dark when they saw it.

The drawings clearly indicate the locations of their existing lands, and the Wang family's land is just like braces, enclosing their fields in the center. It seems that the Wang family not only wants to open up their own westward Trade channels, but also limit the development space of several of them.

"Wang Xu is a hateful son. We must come up with a countermeasure, otherwise, not only will the interests of Shangqi City be divided by the Wang family, but also the room for development and expansion will be cut off by him."

"Yes, we can't let the Wang family play like this. How about we jointly invest and buy the land around Dingxiang, including the Wang family's fields?" Li Bin thought of a way , the way to treat the person's body.

However, everyone shook their heads when they heard the words. The price of the land around Dingxiang is probably higher than that of Shangqi City. After all, the price has already been set during the Shanyang auction. Now, Everyone has seen the output of these fields, as long as they are developed, they will be profitable, and the imperial court will not rush to sell them.If you want to pay a high price to win it, you may spend tens of millions of coins. However, even if you win it, the Wang family will not suffer any losses.

Because you can't attack the Wang family in terms of trade, and everything else is in vain. If you block the way to expand his fields, he doesn't need to pay attention to you at all. As far as their current fields are concerned, the hired workers under the Wang family may not be able to plant them all. Relying heavily on temporary workers too!

As long as the Wang family can develop land production in Shangqi, it will break their possible monopoly on Wang's business in the future, and it will greatly divide their profits. No matter how you look at it, they are all losing money.

"In my opinion, we still have to talk to Sun Zhengming. At the beginning, our family was willing to replace the fields in the pass to Shangqi City because of the business leading to the Western Regions. Now, he can't look at us. Your interests will be damaged in vain!"

After Li Bin, Li Qi also expressed his proposal. However, the big guy still shook his head, because the matter of replacing the fields was proposed by them themselves. You can go to Sun Zhengming, and he can handle you No wonder, now, everything has been changed, if you don't plant if you have the ability, the one who suffers is yourself.

"Right now, Sun Zhengming and that Wang Xu are already in collusion. To find him, it's better to talk to Wang Xu directly." After thinking for a long time, Cui Yu said.

"How to talk about it?" Everyone asked.

Cui Yu replied, "You said, if we exchange land with the Wang family, will they agree?"

"You mean to replace the land we took in Shanyang to the Wang family?" Lu Wenzhong seemed to have figured it out a bit after hearing this.

Zheng Song, the steward of the Zheng family in Xingyang, said, "I'm afraid this is the real plan of the Wang family. The output of these fields is quite rich, and they can make money immediately after receiving them. Even if one mu is exchanged for two mu, we will lose a lot. Yes. If the Wang family monopolizes all the land around the two cities of Shanyang and Dingxiang, then the Wang family has the right to speak here... tsk tsk tsk..."

Zheng Song didn't continue talking, but the other people had already imagined that scene, a super big family with tens of millions of acres of fertile land and two county-level cities with prosperous commerce, it really is not at the same level as them You know, after two rounds of returning farmland, the entire Guanzhong field is only more than 1000 million mu of land. The Wang family controls more than 1000 million mu of land in the Hetao area, and the output is even greater than the output of Guanzhong in one season. to what extent?
"Brother Zheng said so, I think there is something to talk about. Such a big benefit, Wang will definitely be tempted. They are deliberately forcing us to replace the land with him. Then, we also have our own bargaining chips in terms of price." Lu Wenzhong said. After thinking for a moment, he said.

In fact, in the auction that year, the land that his Lu family got was less than 100 million mu. If it was replaced with a piece of land of 300 million mu in Shangqi City, it would not be worthwhile in the short term, but in the long run Come, but it is beneficial.

As long as the Wang family is prevented from developing around Shangqi City, and they speed up the construction of Shangqi City, after a year or two, it will be time for them to counter the Wang family. No matter how much your agricultural output is, you have to sell it to the outside world!The five of them will have an output of more than 2000 million mu of land, which is enough to supply the countries in the Western Regions. Moreover, in terms of product output, they have an advantage of nearly six or seven thousand miles compared to the place where Wang's production is located. How big will the cost gap be?
Therefore, as long as one is added to the conditions for land replacement, the Wang family is not allowed to purchase land within three thousand miles around Shangqi City. In the future, they will be able to counterattack completely.

Soon, the five of them sent out invitations to interview Wang Xu. Sun Xiangfu didn't know how they would talk about it, and he didn't bother to know. He just had to wait to collect the money, and there was another There are things that require him to be busy.

The Hu merchant team from the Western Regions is here again.

Due to the war in Western Turks, they came nearly a month later than last year. However, this year's scale is more than double that of last year. The number of people alone is as high as more than 3. Among them, There are more than 1 people, who are the slaves and laborers that the merchants will import to Datang.

In addition, the volume of goods has also increased significantly. In order to obtain the reward of the full-length mirror, a Tianzhu businessman named Anatuo actually organized nearly 400 camels to transport Uzi steel ingots to Shanyang. You know, the weight of a camel , But about [-] catties, [-] camels, that is [-] million catties of Uzi steel ingots. These Uzi steel ingots are good materials for making weapons, which can greatly alleviate the shortage of raw materials in Shanyang Smelting Workshop.

Sun Xiangfu personally met Anatuo, and rewarded him with a large full-length mirror. After careful questioning, he found out that this person was not a private businessman, but came on behalf of the Tianzhu Jieri King. A high-ranking general under the king, and only the army, can have [-] camels and so many Uzi steel ingots.

It seems that Sun Xiangfu underestimated the popularity of dressing mirrors, perfumes, and other exotic goods in the Western Regions, as well as countries in Central Asia and West Asia. They can make a lot of money and get treasures. Even the kings of various countries have begun to be tempted. .

The price of 400 million catties of glassless steel ingots was too high, and Sun Xiangfu could only use the goods to make up for it. Therefore, he gave Anatuo dozens of glass mirrors of different sizes, and he also gave Ah Natuo the limited edition perfume. There are 70 sets of [-] sets, each with seven bottles, which is equivalent to [-] bottles, and the total price is about [-] guan. There are also countless other goods such as spirits, cotton cloth, silk, ceramics, etc. His family alone has put Shanyang Most of the various stocks have been emptied.

You must know that the price of 400 million jin of non-ZZ steel ingots is at least worth several million guan. If it is processed into a high-quality sword, the market price in Datang can definitely reach 2000 million guan. Chang He is willing to spend a thousand guan to buy a heavy Utz steel sword. It can be seen that after smelting and forging, its value can be increased by more than ten times.

Of course, this does not mean that other businessmen will have no business to do in Shanyang this year. Sun Xiangfu told them not to worry, they can place orders in advance, whether it is perfume, spirits, or other goods with strict export restrictions. Increase output, and this year, the goods in Guanzhong will be renewed and more abundant. Even if there are ten more big merchants like Anatuo, they will not be able to exchange them all.

He suggested that after completing the transaction in Shanyang, everyone must go to Weinan New Town in Guanzhong. There, they can not only buy all kinds of goods they want, but also find manufacturers on the spot to customize various exclusive products that are not available on the market. Goods, as long as they bring enough money, they can get the goods they want to the maximum extent.

(End of this chapter)