A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

The persimmons required for persimmon lacquer are wild persimmons that are too green to be eaten, or are of poor variety, and these are even less valuable.

Many of you may have seen persimmon trees. They bear many fruits, which are large and plump. The fruits are also very sweet and soft. But in this era, persimmons are the same as all crops. Without large-scale artificial selection and cultivation of improved varieties, not many edible persimmons could grow on one tree.

Although this is good news, Xiao Pingtai will not be happy about it. At most, this means that there are sufficient raw materials and we are not afraid of insufficient upstream supply.

What is the biggest problem with persimmon paint? The problem is that it takes too long to paint!

How long does it grow? Crush the persimmons, place them in a sealed wooden barrel, dig a deep pit or build a warehouse to store them in a cool place. The initial use time after opening is twelve months. However, the quality of the 12-month-old persimmon paint is very average and not very useful. It can only be used on floors. For normal all-round use, it requires more than thirty-six months of cellaring, and for perfectly mature persimmon lacquer, it requires sixty months of cellaring.

After Xiaoheita finished speaking, everyone present knew that persimmon lacquer was indeed a difficult thing to get rid of.

If calculated based on a three-year production period, the first three years are all about subsidies and there is no profit at all. It also requires a lot of materials and equipment, as well as a lot of storage space. To use a modern saying, the investment is huge, the return cycle is extremely long, and the risk is uncontrollable.

Everyone’s interest in this thing has been greatly reduced. A pound of persimmon paint worth 100 yuan is indeed very expensive, but including the preparation period and pre-sales promotion period, it will take at least four years before it starts to make profits. Before this, money had to be paid. Now Heita Xiaoping has invested more than a thousand guan and nearly 2,000 guans. Uncle Tsunaliang's coffin has been emptied out, and Heitai Xiaoping's wife has also been emptied out. clean.

Yamauchi Yoshikatsu wondered why North Korean businessmen could produce persimmon lacquer? Do they have some secret to ripening or some other unknown method?

Koheita knew that Japan in this era seemed to be in an era of intense collision and exchange with the world, but in fact it still had very little understanding of the outside world. So much so that later Toyotomi Hideyoshi did not even understand the existence of Europe and America, and believed that India was the end of the world.

Although North Korea is a very close country, in fact these samurai groups who belong to the reading class still know very little about North Korea. Even if I have some understanding, I can only get it through old books such as "Kojiki" and "Jona Senki".

What Xiaoping Tai can do is to popularize geographical knowledge to these big guys who have no knowledge.

Everyone knows about North Korea’s biggest specialty, Korean ginseng! But is Korean ginseng wild? of course not! Wild ginseng is found in the deep mountains and old forests of Northeast China and Russia. Most Korean ginseng is grown in the same fields as radishes.

In the early days, it was called Korean white ginseng. Because the steaming technology was not good enough and it was easy to spoil, the sales were not good at the beginning. However, later on, Korean red ginseng was developed by improving the steaming technology and cultivating improved varieties. This stuff is amazing, it’s very effective and durable.

Subsequently, North Korea's Xuanhui Office, which is in charge of commercial quota allocation, began to allocate the external sales quota of Korean ginseng and various North Korean specialties. Longwan merchants, who were powerful through trade with China, first emerged, followed by Donglai merchants who engaged in smuggling trade, official trade, and even armed robbery with Japan.

These business groups have accumulated huge amounts of wealth through foreign trade. At the same time, the time it takes to grow Korean ginseng can be as short as eight years or as long as thirty years. Are you more patient than them in growing ginseng? Isn't this a joke? Therefore, only when North Korean businessmen have both patience and funds can they prepare persimmon lacquer on a large scale, and if they cannot sell it in Japan, they can still sell it in China.

There are always people who know the goods and are not afraid of not selling. There are even businessmen from Jiangnan who sail directly from the Yangtze River to North Korea to purchase persimmon paint. If any of the readers are from Wenzhou, you can ask the elders in your hometown carefully. Wenzhou once produced fans and umbrellas made of persimmon patent leather. I still remember the price very clearly. The official purchase price in the 1950s was RMB 20.4 cents for a persimmon patent leather fan. They earn much more than farmers who work with their backs to the earth and the world behind them. They are very famous and have even been exported.

Now that the problem is clear, Persimmon Lacquer is a good business, there are no sales problems at all, and the quality is not much worse than raw lacquer. The sales price is very gratifying and the profit is huge.

But the cycle is long!

Hosokawa Harugong has been listening carefully to Xiaopingta's various narratives in the previous chapter, and now the pros and cons have been put in front of everyone.

Yamauchi Yoshiharu was also in a state of confusion after hearing this. He had always felt that it was a matter of selling things after they were made, and making more or less. He has never done a business like this that would have no return for at least four years, and possibly even six years. It’s been so long since I gave birth to a baby that I could go out and do soy sauce.

It doesn't matter if you only have one hundred or two hundred guan. There is no one here who is too poor. Although my body hurts, I won't live or die. However, nearly 2,000 guan has been spent before the stall is fully opened. Such a huge sum of money is enough to bring in thousands of reinforcements for a battle.

"Don't you have little money in your hands, Koheita?" Hosokawa Harumiya finally spoke.

"Is it enough to continue running Shiqi Paint?" "Barely enough, after all, candles and Yongle money can bring in a lot of money every month." Xiao Pingtai made a mental calculation.

"Let's see. I still have a thousand guan in my coffin, how about I buy some stocks?" Hosokawa Chungong's words were not surprising, and she wanted to give Xiaodaita a thousand guan on the spot.

Hosokawa Zaimei, who was sitting below, was so shocked that she almost jumped up. How could he not know what level their family was at. Regardless of the fact that Hosokawa's family tree is as old as the family, the father and son have nearly 3,000 yuan of knowledge and practice, but the expenses are also high. His father's thousand fingers may really be all the coffin books. In addition, Hosokawa Harugong is sixty. How many years can he live in this age? Maybe you can't wait for dividends at all.

"Xiaoheita is so smart, how has he ever made a mistake?" Hosokawa Harugong looked at his son and said with a smile.

Yes, when did Xiao Pingtai make a mistake? To put it bluntly, Goudian alone has 9.6 million writers on the entire Internet. There are many people who have traveled back to Japan's Warring States Period. Koheita is the only one who has investigated so many local specialties from the Warring States Period to the Edo Period. detailed.

What is developed and purchased is not something that is very profitable and has a bright future. It has been proven by history and the facts are in front of us and it will definitely make money.

Now that he has become a mature man and has eaten tens of thousands of bowls of rice, Hosokawa Harugong has placed his bets.

Still hesitating?