Chapter 594: The Caravan Is Coming
Li Jing returned to Ningzhou and told Li De about the situation, including the food that Tiele needed.
"Promise them and let them send cattle, sheep, horses," Li De said happily.
The grain used by Li De to trade is not the bargain price, it floats a little higher according to the market price. It is impossible for them to explain whether Tiele can explain it. Now it is time to reserve grain.
Even the people working in Ningzhou do not want money to settle the settlement but choose to distribute grain. Even though Ningzhou is not short of food, they live like this all year round. People are very worried about the issue of the new Ningzhou in winter.
Li De had no good way to worry about this kind of worry, so he could only wait for winter and the people had enough food to spend the winter. It was proved that the most effective was the case.
The grain from Bingcheng is still transporting here, and the workshops in Ningzhou have been producing them. Recently, a lot of money has been saved because the workers choose to pay for it with grain.
Li De felt that this was not a solution, so after the vanguard's baggage convoy returned with specialties, the news spread that he would open a trade market in Ningzhou.
Many businessmen did not hesitate after hearing this. The sphere of influence under the governor encouraged businessmen to trade with people, which was something they could not imagine.
For a moment, they thought of cattle, sheep, horses, and many merchants from the carriage and horse business came here because they heard that the price in Ningzhou was cheaper than in Youzhou. They could not only buy cattle, sheep, horses, but also do wood and fur business.
In contrast, they heard that what Ningzhou lacks the most is daily necessities, which are enough for them to make considerable profits. Merchants are doing this business by pursuing profits. How can they not seize such an opportunity now?
Taking advantage of the time now, a large number of merchants set out in Youzhou. Now Youzhou has become a commercial city in the north and south. Bingcheng is now a newly established commercial site. Soldiers and craftsmen living in Bingcheng also need a lot of supplies.
As a commercial city, Youzhou is just enough to meet their needs. Now that there are more Ningzhou businessmen, they are very happy. How can they be unhappy if they can make money?
So in this way, the merchants spontaneously formed a horse team to come to Ningzhou. After a large scale, they really shocked everyone, including Li De.
"Grandmaster, the caravan came with the baggage convoy, with a large number of people and thousands of merchants. The convoy was larger than the baggage convoy of the vanguard." The visitor reported.
Li De was a little curious, why did so many businessmen come back? Could it be that all the merchants in Youzhou have come?
He went out to see with doubt and curiosity. Ningzhou had no city walls, and the convoy could see clearly after coming over. The people of Ningzhou also saw it. In their eyes, the scene now was a lot of carriages.
What's inside is they want to know.
"Grandmaster, I have asked someone to use the land that is ready to be used as a market for trade with Tiel, and first let the merchants' carriages stop, and they will station there." Hebida came over and said.
The construction of Ningzhou is soon not so many spare houses, and the businessmen are best allowed to arrange that those who are rich and willing to enjoy can live in the inns in Ningzhou, or they can find a place in the market to build their own tents.
Not to mention being wronged, these businessmen have known the situation here for a long time, so they will carry necessary tents when traveling, and gather together to make their shops.
After He Bida arranged them here, these merchants started to build tents on their own. Some people showed all the goods first, without having to manage many curious people who went over to watch the fun.
In this way, the market was formed, and the formation of thousands of merchants was not shocking. When Li De saw this, he asked them to make arrangements by themselves. Anyway, the purpose of letting merchants come is to enrich the people's material life.
Li De knew that such transactions could not be interfered with. As long as they did not become profiteers, there would be nothing to do if they forced to buy and sell. The market was to satisfy both the demanders and the suppliers, and the transaction could naturally be completed.
The local people with some spare money were originally tribal people who were very curious about the various ancient things owned by the Sui State, especially the cloth was the most popular.
Li De saw that the transaction was so good, and the Pioneer Troop set up a stall to sell fine salt, which not only attracted the eyes of the people and businessmen.
They had never seen such snow-white salt, and they were all stunned.
"This is salt?"
The merchants were all curious and didn't know where these things were obtained, so they asked the escorts who were in charge of the sales of the vanguard soldiers.
These people had already thought of the arguments, and they definitely couldn't say that Li De used the new salt method to make them, so they found a fine salt produced in Ningzhou.
All the merchants believed it and came to ask for the price. Fine salt like this is not something that any merchant can afford. They are the first time they have seen such fine salt.
Li De still had strict control over fine salt. In the past, the sales of fine salt were sold through the Pioneer Bing Trading Company managed by Weili to conduct small-scale sales, and even small-scale revenue was quite abundant.
The Li family's salt mines have been secretly produced, and all the accumulated reserves have been controlled in Youzhou. The food used by the soldiers is fine salt.
This matter has always been a secret. The kitchen chefs have carefully selected it and will never leak the secrets.
The Pioneer Soldier is a very strict military discipline. There are many things that the soldiers do not need to know, and they will definitely not know.
Now taking out the fine salt is to shock these merchants. Only in this way can Ningzhou be developed. To put it bluntly, it is a scam, but courage will be very effective.
The merchants immediately wanted to buy these fine salts after seeing them. The price was very expensive, but they knew that as long as they could be transported back to Jiangling, Chang'an, Luoyang and other places, the profit would be several times that of now.
The local tribes are curious. They may not be able to afford fine salt for their entire lives and they are disappointed. However, when someone is feeling uneasy, someone suddenly said: "Have you heard that the year-end benefits of Ningzhou Workshop are fine salt. What kind of expression do you have? Now you start working hard to get double benefits."
Some people said this and more people soon found out, but the merchants' eyes lit up. They thought that they could buy fine salt from local people to cheaper prices.
The people actually think so, but salt is too precious to them. If everyone has fine salt in their hands, how can they be sold?
But it is true that they can improve their lives.
How the people deal with the benefits they are given is the benefits they are given, and Li De doesn't care about them.
Chapter completed!