Yuanjia Manor, the prince visited but Yuan Shan was not there, so the prince and others went to the economic development zone again.
When I arrived at the medical school, I found Yuan Shan, and I saw a group of female nurses around Yuan Shan, who seemed to be explaining something, Li Chengqian walked over curiously and shouted, "Yuan Shan, what are you doing." ” "It turned out to be His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."
Yuan Shan turned his head and said immediately.
"Yuanshan, it's really not easy to find you, I just came up from your Zhuangzi, I have something to tell you."
Li Chengqian said.
"Let's go to the conference room of the infirmary."
Won-sun said to Li Chengqian, and then called the female nurses to work.
As soon as he entered the small conference room of the medical hall, Li Chengqian said: "The Yuanshan Imperial Court is ready to buy corn, I will handle this matter, you can help me figure out how to do the best." ” "His Royal Highness the Prince, this transaction is naturally to be discussed with the merchants, so it is better to gather several big merchants who grow corn together to talk about this matter."
Yuan Shan said.
"How to negotiate this price, the imperial court is offering two cents per stone."
Li Chengqian said.
Two yuan per stone is less than 17 yuan per catty, which is half cheaper than the current wheat, and the price of the imperial court seems to know that the bottom price of corn in Chengdu is ten cents per catty, plus the price of transportation costs is about the same.
"There is a shortage of grain in Hanzhong, and a large number of grain merchants are waiting to transport grain to Hanzhong to make money, and the price of corn at this time may be slightly higher, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince must be mentally prepared."
Yuan Shan said casually.
The imperial court's grain collection was discussed at the time of the corn plan, and this part of the grain rich merchants could come out in any way, and the purpose was to expand the influence of the merchants themselves for the sake of the merchants themselves, and Li Chengqian asked about the matter, Yuan Shan just dealt with it casually, after all, he was not Li Chengqian's staff, and there was no need to give advice to him, which involved the issue of standing in line.
Yuan Shan is not going to participate in the royal affairs, but if Li Chengqian talks to him about business, it will be a different matter.
Now there are many businessmen who have rented centralized warehouses to store corn, and in just half a month, they have stored no less than 10 million catties of grain, not counting the 4 million catties of grain that the Yuan family bought and transported by themselves.
And this number will increase every ten days, and the centralized warehouse has now become a transit station, which is very lively, in addition to being a warehouse leasing company, Yuan Jing also plays the role of a cargo transporter.
After chatting with the prince about corn, the next day Li Chengqian on the first floor of Chang'an summoned the wealthy businessmen who participated in the corn plan.
Yuan Shan also came today, the corn planting area he participated in is not much, but the Yuan family fleet is now a lot of capacity, but this capacity is not the only one, the last time I bought horses, other big families also bought a lot of horses, plus the horses purchased in other channels, it is really not less than the Yuan family team, the difference is that many big families' carriages are distributed in various places, rather than being used in a centralized manner like the Yuan family.
Li Chengqian was not the only one present today, but the imperial court sent several officials to participate in the negotiations.
Soon the officials and the wealthy merchants began a war of words, and in the end the merchants sold the corn absolutely at a price of two cents per stone, but were not responsible for transporting it.
The imperial court only issued two cents per stone after considering the transportation expenses, but this transportation was not centralized transportation, but had to be directly distributed to various state capitals, so that the cost would be greatly increased, because the road conditions and transportation distances were different, and the delay time was also different, and the merchants decided to give up the responsibility for transportation after careful discussion.
In this way, the two parties had a disagreement, and then they began to bargain too much on this issue, but the attitude of the merchants was very clear, although the amount purchased by the imperial court was very large, but it was actually not much compared to their own sales.
Li Chengqian was a little confused at this time, he didn't expect the merchants' attitude to be so tough, and as a result, the price in charge of transportation was set at four hundred yuan per stone by the merchants, and it was the turn of the court officials to be embarrassed.
As a result, the first procurement negotiation was not successful, in fact, the imperial court purchased this part of the grain is actually not much, after reporting to the imperial court, the second price is purchased at the price of two per stone, no merchant is responsible for transportation, statistics The imperial court purchased a total of 300,000 stone grain, a total of 600,000 yuan.
This grain is enough for 200,000 people to eat for half a year, and the grain and grass collected by the imperial court from the people are enough for the normal consumption of the imperial court.
The price of the mixture is 20 wen per catty, and the merchants still earn it, and when the imperial court purchases grain, the grain in Chengdu has been sold to the nearby state capitals, and the purchase price is still 20 wen per catty.
Yuan Shan didn't expect that the price of this grain would fluctuate so much, at the beginning, the Yuan family collected only ten yuan of grain, and after the imperial court purchased, the price immediately rose to twenty yuan.
Grain merchants from all over Datang rushed to Chengdu to buy goods, and there are many grain merchants in the south, but the place where they sell is indeed in the north, more than 30 rich merchants also quickly transport corn to various family industries, and in just one month, almost one-third of the people in Datang bought cheap corn.
As a transit station in Zhang'an, the centralized warehouse has also ushered in major grain merchants from Luoyang and other places, and the economic development zone has ushered in a large number of convoys every day, and the business of inns and restaurants in Lantian County is also unusually hot, and even the business of renting farmhouses has begun to rise.
By the end of November, the Yuan family has 3,000 carriages put into use, and at the same time received an order for a part of the bearings of the imperial court, and now the price of bearings has dropped to a set of 100,000, the imperial court immediately ordered 2,000 sets of bearings, and it took less than a month to produce these bearings.
At the beginning of December, the first steam flour mill of the Yuanjia Workshop was built, the flywheel drove the long iron sheet in the flour mill box to break the corn and adjust the thickness of the corn flour through the strainer, this machine seems simple, but the production of the strainer takes a lot of effort.
The grinding speed of the steam flour mill is very fast, but the disadvantage is that the cornmeal is not as fine as the stone grinding, but it is enough to feed the chickens and pigs.
Judging from the current price of corn, it is not stable, so Yuanshan will not buy grain now, but only transport the corn grown by the Yuan family in Chengdu back first, hoping that the price of corn will come down before making another plan.
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