The First Family of Tang Dynasty

Shopkeeper Du looked at the smug shopkeeper Liu Da with a dazed expression, but he didn't quite understand him.

"Treasurer Liu, what do you mean by this?"

"It seems that you really don't know that the old man's son happens to be working in Guangzhou right now."

"I met a husky businessman who had dealt with our Liu family all the time. From him, my Dalang learned something."

"A sea-going caravan from the Western Regions encountered a storm over there, ten merchant ships, and only three came to Guangzhou."

"This fleet brought a lot of spices such as pepper and cumin."

"However, this time, all the ships carrying pepper have sunk into the endless ocean..."

"I'm afraid this news has just spread in Guangzhou, and all the Hu businessmen have already begun to cover the pepper in their hands."

"Shopkeeper Liu, you, the news you said is true?!" Shopkeeper Du's eyes popped up directly.

"Our brothers have known each other for many years. Liu always puts faith first. If we are not sure about these things, how can the old man dare to talk nonsense?"

Shopkeeper Du took a cold breath and looked straight at the shopkeeper Liu who was patting his chest to pack the ticket.

When I think of the 29,600 catties of pepper in the kiln of the Hantang Commercial Bank... I really want to double the sale.

This treasurer Liu didn't even realize how many peppers were in the hands of the Han and Tang firms he was facing.

However, shopkeeper Du had just sent away shopkeeper Liu Da, and once again ushered in a messenger from the Han and Tang Commercial Banks who had arrived by land.

After the dusty messenger stepped into the Hantang Commercial Bank, he took up the water and filled it with a breath, and then took out a letter from the letter he was carrying.

After reading this letter, Shopkeeper Du couldn't help but sigh, let it go. Although it can't be doubled, it's good to sell it to ten points anyway.

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In just over ten days, the merchant ships carrying spices from the Western Regions Husbands encountered a big storm, almost completely wiped out.

Suddenly, the price of the spice market along the coast of Datang suddenly increased a lot, especially among all the spice, the most precious pepper, was directly regarded as a rare commodity by the merchants everywhere.

After all, everyone doesn't have a lot of inventory on hand. Naturally, it will sell as expensive as it can be.

But soon, Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Yangzhou, Mingzhou, these large trading distribution centers where the Hu businessmen gathered, pepper.

The price has been raised, except for the first few days, after a few well-informed powerful people bought it.

Even those customers who want to buy the goods and enjoy them slowly, have come to ask for the return of the goods.

There are even people who threaten these Husband merchants, saying that they are spreading false news in order to maliciously speculate on high pepper prices.

They would definitely tell the government for an explanation. This gang of Husbands can only pinch their noses angrily and return the goods to those who are quite wealthy and powerful in the area.

Everyone decided to gritted their teeth and waited until the inventory in these Tang people's homes was used up, to see if they would be too expensive.

But the result was that after five days and ten days passed, the Hu Shang, who could not wait any longer, finally received the news.

The Hantang Commercial Bank, which has a very deep background, is actually selling pepper, and their pepper prices have also risen a little.

But the most expensive one is only ten quins per catty, which is far less than Hu Shang’s sixteen quins per catty.

All the Husband merchants couldn't help being a little confused, and they were all inquiring about where the Han and Tang firms got the pepper.

But I really can’t find out that most of the products linked to Han and Tang Commercial Banks come from Jiannan Road or Chang’an.

It is possible that they bought a batch of peppers to make money by talking to the land-based businessmen.

If this is the case, just continue to wait, their peppers will always be sold out.

This time, another month has passed, and people from all over Guangzhou, and even people from farther away, came to buy a large amount of pepper.

The peppers of Guangzhou Hantang Commercial Bank seem to be available anytime and anywhere, and the daily sales customers are tens of jins when they are small, and even 300 to 400 jins when they are large.

Actually there are still stocks, but now, the husky businessmen themselves can't hold it anymore.

After all, compared to other spices, pepper, which can also be used as a medicine, is the most popular.

The proportion of other spices in the spice market is really not very high, which is why pepper is more expensive than gold.

As a result, they could only reluctantly reduce the price of pepper to the same level as Hantang Commercial Bank.

Jiaozhou, Cheng An waited to be in charge, carefully read the letters from the branches of Han and Tang Commercial Banks in Jiangnan and Lingnan areas over and over again.

"Well, UU reading www.uukanshu.com is really great, how we estimated it before, originally thought that this year's output of pepper plantation can be sold out before the next harvest, even if it is lucky."

"Now it seems that at the end of the year, our peppers must be sold out."

"Seven hundred twenty thousand catties...how much is that?"

"It's really motherly, it's a big deal."

"It seems that planting pepper is really good."

"Only the money earned from selling this year, deducting our investment in Jiaozhou for the past two years, can still earn this amount..."

"Brothers, this is just the beginning, don't forget, our fine sugar will be available on the market in one or two months."

Seeing the excitement of these managers, Cheng An also exhaled in relief.

The pepper collected this time not only paid off all the previous expenses, but also made a lot of money.

This is a huge sum of money that is enough to make the top nobles fascinate.

However, of course the money cannot be fully used for dividends.

According to the articles of association of Hantang Commercial Bank, after deducting all operating costs. The net profit earned requires 10% to expand operations.

It also needs to spend 10% to carry out charitable undertakings, which naturally include, repairing bridges, building roads, and opening Mongolian schools.

This is not the beginning of Han Shang Tang Xing, but the inheritance of the Chinese nation from top to bottom.

In the pre-Qin period, the "interest-guarantee" policy in "Zhou Li * Di Guan Situ" may be China's earliest social welfare policy.

To support the people by protecting their interest: one is to be kind to the young, the second is to provide for the elderly, the third is to revitalize the poor, the fourth is to give relief to the poor, the fifth is to be lenient, and the sixth is to be rich.

This is not just a matter of person design, but an excellent tradition of respecting the old and loving the young deeply in the backbone of China.