Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 103
Chapter 108 The Oiran Competition

"Actually, I can't explain these things clearly in a few words. What I mean is that we establish a business alliance. Here is a cooperation contract. You can take a look!"

Ran Ming looked at the bewildered merchant below, and then smiled softly, revealing a maturity and wisdom that did not match his age.Ran Ming waved his hand, and Chen Ying, the ancestral hall of the Prince of Chu, entered the banquet together with twenty or thirty maids. Everyone in the twenty or thirty palaces was well-dressed, and each of them had an exquisite tray in their hands, but the trays were not filled with drinks and dishes. , but stacks of good Zuo Bo papers!
In addition to Cai Lun in Chinese history, there have been many paper-making experts, among which Zuo Bo is the most famous.The paper he made is uniform in thickness, fine in texture, and bright in color, but the price is very expensive, and most people can't afford it.

The Zuo Bo paper on this tray is full of words, and all the people present are businessmen, and everyone has more than ten years or even decades of business experience.They all knew that Ran Ming wanted to cut off a piece of meat from them, and Ran Ming wanted to slaughter them as fat sheep, but they all had reasons that they couldn't refuse.

Because they opened the paper and said "Wei State Business Alliance Cooperation Contract."

Of course, the contract stated justice and light, and the beginning was to prosper the market and promote business activities, and now the establishment of the Great Wei Business Alliance is being drafted.

Chu Wang Ranming is Party A in the agreement, while the business alliance is Party B.

Zhang Xun opened the agreement, and saw the first clause in the agreement, Party A is responsible for delivering the goods to Party B, providing a full escort to ensure that the goods reach their destination safely!
In case of loss of goods other than weather and environment losses on the way, Party B shall be responsible for the loss of goods.Other losses, such as losses caused by robbery and looting on the way, will be compensated by Party A at three times the market value!
Zhang Xun pondered. ,

In ordinary times, the transportation of commercial goods was mainly used for the food of men and civilian husbands on the road, which is actually not too much.From Jinyang to Jiankang, in this way, it takes about 4000 days for a truckload of goods, and the freight price is more than [-] yuan. That is to say, a sheepskin worth a thousand yuan is shipped from Jinyang to Jiangnan. Five thousand dollars is nothing.

Surprising shipping costs are not the most unbearable for merchants. Now bandits are everywhere, and there are countless robbers who occupy the mountain as kings. They cannot be safely transported to their destinations.Now the losses caused by robbers and robbers are unbearable for merchants.Last year alone, Zhang Xun lost about [-] gold in goods.

For merchants, nothing is more important than safety.Road transportation has almost become a knife hanging on them. Many merchants with poor financial resources lost all their money because their goods were robbed, and lost countless properties.

Pointing to the first terms of cooperation, Wang Cheng asked Zhang, "Brother Zhang, look at this!"

Wang Chengcheng was moved by the fact that his safety could be guaranteed.

Zhang Xun said: "This time is very beneficial to us. I lost sixteen shipments last year, and the direct loss was more than 2 gold. Wan Jin, I agree with both hands!"

Losing the goods is a huge loss. The key is that giant merchants like them buy and export the goods in bulk. The key is that if the goods are lost, they also pay liquidated damages to the next home. After all, the next home is due. There will also be huge losses if the goods are not available.

At the same time, the two looked at the second article. The second article is "Party A is responsible for communicating with the governments at all levels, and avoiding the difficulties of the governments at all levels when the alliance's goods are on the way."

This point is also miserable for those merchants.It is also a very large expense to make things difficult for officials and small officials and the cost of management up and down.In this era, merchants are very low, even city gate guards and patrolmen will squeeze a little value from them.Compared with the business tax of later generations, the way of transporting goods is managed up and down. It is a world of difference, and this trouble can be eliminated.

Zhang Xun silently calculated the accounts in his heart. If Ran Ming could guarantee these two points, even if he gave [-] gold a year, it would not be too much.

Wang Cheng also nodded in satisfaction. This kind of cooperation will bring them nothing but benefits.

Then I looked at the third clause, "Party A is responsible for business intelligence, urgently needed commodities, types, prices, etc. in various places. Party A promises that within ten days at most, the value of the goods in all countries and places in the world will be truthfully used by Kuaima Pass it on."

Obtaining this information in ten days is undoubtedly like a snail crawling for future generations.

However, in this era, such timely news is simply amazing.In addition to the theoretical eight hundred miles of fast riding, there is no way to do this.The so-called fast ride of eight hundred miles is actually a theoretical number.It's pretty good to be able to do five or six hundred miles, and you need to change horses along the way.

In fact, Ran Ming also had selfish thoughts on this point. When he planned to set up an intelligence network, he planned to use the commercial network of Liu's firm, but Liu's firm mainly deals in restaurants, inns and food, and not many other industries.Ran Ming intends to use the nature of this business alliance as a cover for his intelligence agency.In this way, wherever the business alliance's business routes go, his intelligence opportunities can spread all over the world!
The fourth service promised by Ran Ming is credit, which is the capital that Ran Ming started from scratch in later generations.Ran Ming not only dared to provide loan services to the merchants in the venue, but was also responsible for debt collection.Bad debts and dead debts that they cannot collect.Ran Ming was in charge of getting them back, taking [-]% to [-]% of the commission according to the degree of difficulty.Debt collection is the first underworld business that Ran Ming gets involved in later generations, and he is familiar with it.

In later generations, in order to run this business, Ran Ming spent a lot of effort, and the bulk of what he got in the end was given to him as an umbrella.But now, I'm afraid he doesn't need to pay protection fees to anyone.At most three of them can be sold to Ran Min!
You must know that doing business in this era is really risky. There are so many scams and fairy tricks emerging one after another.Let them be hard to guard against. For example, what we often say is multifarious, but it is actually a sect that specializes in fraud as its main business.Usually in commercial flow, bad debts and dead debts account for about [-]% due to various reasons. For merchants, it is a very big loss! There are also loans. Since there are no channels for borrowing, many times, They clearly saw business opportunities, but they were stillborn because they had no capital.

The last one is that Ran Ming promises to provide them with the most professional services. He can provide people who are proficient in the law to help them draft the contract, and he can also dispatch the most professional accounting office to help them calculate the accounts.

When Ran Ming explained these things in detail, all the merchants present were moved. You must know that every point of Ran Ming hit their vital points, and they had suffered a lot in this respect in the past.

Zhang asked: "His Royal Highness, business is talking about business, so how should we form an alliance and how to divide the benefits?"

"Brother Ming settle accounts!" Ran Ming got up and said: "Ming has two ideas, it depends on how you choose, the first is contractual service, the five main business scopes promised above are still valid, if you choose to let the lonely king If you are responsible for escorting the goods through, you need to pay the money for the escort, and if you want to collect debts, you need to pay special debt collection money, we can do it according to our daily behavior, everyone needs the business information of the lonely king, and you need to use money to buy it."

Wang Cheng said at this time: "Your Highness, Cheng thinks that this method is not appropriate!"

A one-for-one cooperation relationship seems to have no disadvantages for the merchants, but in this way, they have no super-profit relationship with Ran Ming.Ran Ming is willing to be their big backer, only with this backer can they earn the most money.

Ran Ming looked at Wang Cheng and gave him a friendly smile. It seemed that Wang Cheng understood what he meant.Ran Ming said again: "If we don't adopt this method of cooperation, we will adopt another one. Long-term cooperation contract!"

Then Ran Ming asked for a second cooperation agreement.This specifically stipulates the amount that the Shangmeng should pay Ran Ming.Ran Ming asked merchants to be classified according to family assets. Those with less than [-] gold were ordinary members of the chamber of commerce. Such members had to pay an annual fee of [-] gold per year, and the annual fee was [-]% of the transaction value.

The next level is merchants with more than [-] gold and less than [-] gold. They are bronze members. They need to pay an annual fee of [-] gold every year, and pay [-]% of the collection effect to the business alliance as a membership fee.The next level is a silver member with a family property of more than [-] gold and less than [-] gold. The annual fee needs to be [-] gold, and the membership fee ratio is [-]%.The next level is more than [-] gold and less than [-] gold. It is a gold member. The annual fee is [-] gold, and the membership fee is [-]% of the transaction amount!

The highest level is Platinum.

If you need a family property of more than [-] gold, you need to pay [-] gold as an annual fee.The transaction commission is [-]%.

Liu Yuan expressed his satisfaction, and decided that he would join Wei Guo Business Alliance and become the first diamond-level member.Then Chen Ying also said that the new club Qimen Chen Family joined the Great Wei Business Alliance and became the second platinum member.

Wang Cheng joined as a gold member, Guo Song, a famous merchant in Yecheng, also joined as a gold member, and Zhang Xun also joined the third platinum member! When the big merchants moved, needless to say, the small merchants naturally flocked to follow.
In just one meal, three diamond platinum members, more than ten gold members, and nearly a hundred silver members joined the business alliance.As for bronze members and ordinary members, there are nearly [-].Almost two-thirds of the merchants who attended the banquet applied for membership!

The matter of the business alliance present made Liu Qun very angry. A good wedding banquet, which was originally the most festive event, made Ran Ming full of money. What surprised Liu Qun the most was that he thought Ran Ming was a melancholy Concerned about the country and the people, the pillar of the country with both ability and political integrity, but now in his view, Ran Ming is not a pillar, but an out-and-out businessman.

Liu Qun looked at Ran Ming and murmured in his heart, "It's really not a family, if you don't enter a family! It's really a loss for Ran Ming not to do business."

Looking at the membership application in front of him, Liu Yuan was full of surprise. He didn't take this method proposed by Ran Ming seriously at first. Since Ran Ming was happy, he would cooperate, but he didn't expect such a reward.

Liu Yuan said unexpectedly: "Can this be done in business?"

Ran Ming smiled and said: "There is no need to be surprised, this is a matter of course. Since merchants communicate with each other, they have power alone, soldiers and generals, and security forces that can protect them. These are what they lack the most. Learn from each other and make up for each other. Take what you want, right!"

Liu Yuan said with emotion: "This old man is getting old, if His Highness enters into business, I'm afraid there will be no way for me to wait for merchants to survive."

"Business depends on brains. It's normal for some people to lose and others to gain!" Ran Ming said, "This is actually just the beginning, and the real empty-handed white wolf will come later..."

Liu Yuan wondered, "Your Highness, do you mean the oiran contest that is about to take place?"

Ran Ming nodded and said: "You need to pay more attention to the affairs of the chamber of commerce. I will find another house in Yecheng as soon as possible to serve as the headquarters of the chamber of commerce. For the time being, you will be the chairman of the chamber of commerce. Regarding matters, you can always communicate with Chen Ying and those merchants, and discuss how to deal with them together. Tomorrow, we will devote all our energy to organizing the Oiran Competition."

PS: I’m very sorry. I went home yesterday and met an old classmate whom I hadn’t seen for many years. I couldn’t help but drink a few more glasses. It’s almost like the beginning of this article. Lao Cheng drank a piece of wine. He slept all day today, but he’s still dizzy now!

(End of this chapter)