Valley Emperor

After all, risk is directly proportional to profit. Many merchants dare to take the risk of feeding fish to go out to sea in small fishing boats for profit.

As a result, the next day, a daring businessman hired a small sampan boat with only five or six tons at a high price to carry the goods to sea!

And it's the kind that is loaded with cargo!

God knows if this ship will make it to Baku...

With the first daring one, the second daring one came, and then the third...

Within a few days, more than ten small boats set sail for Baku, and at present, all the civilian boats in Curry that can barely carry goods and sail to sea are now available.

Naturally, this situation was noticed by General Manager Chen, who stayed behind in Curry, of the West Sea Trading Company, and made him extremely anxious.

With so many people swarming over, it will definitely increase local competition and reduce profits. The only thing that reassures him is that they won the Shengyuan ship ahead of schedule and almost monopolized half of the tonnage of freight.

After all, these ten small boats, not to mention the risk of sailing, even if they are fully loaded with cargo, the cargo they carry is at most about 100 tons, which is not half of the cargo carried by Shengyuan.

At that time, even if the profit is less, it should still be able to maintain several waves of high-profit trade. In this case, let’s say it will wait until other new ships are built at the Curry Shipyard, and the ships that are put into the West Sea will be transported. get changed.

Of course, if the ships on the navy side also join directly, then there is nothing to say.

Although the total tonnage of the Navy's West Sea Fleet is only a few hundred tons, it is not too small.

All this is not known to Zuo Chengsheng and the others. Now they are sailing on the West Sea.

According to the speed of Shengyuan, it will take about three days from Curry to Baku if the wind is smooth.

If there is no tailwind and only rely on the steam engine, then this time will be extended to more than four days.

But in any case, a voyage of just a few days is already a very short time compared to the ocean trade that takes more than half a month or even a few months.

After Zuo Chengsheng and the others went to sea, they did not encounter any danger on the road. Although sometimes the wind was not favorable, they could continue to move forward by relying on the steam engine.

Three days later, they appeared again in Baku.

At this time, Baku still seemed to be empty. Only a hundred or so marines of the Navy were stationed on the shore. In addition, there was also a Navy's more than 80-ton C-class gunboat stationed here.

However, in addition to the Tang people, there are also hundreds of native laborers. These natives were provided by the Ottomans to help the Tang Dynasty build wharfs and port facilities. As for the city, they can't care about it for a while.

The Shengyuan arrived in Baku, not only with the goods of the West Sea Trading Company, but also with officials from Datang and some official supplies.

Although the official sold the ship to the Xihai Trading Company, they also made an agreement at that time. When the official had a demand, the Xihai Trading Company needed to provide transportation services for the official, and the charges must be cheap.

Otherwise, the official will not sell the ship.

After the arrival of the officially appointed officials, it was announced that Baku was officially included in the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and it still belonged to the local area.

Datang established the town of Baku here, which is under the jurisdiction of the Kuri Prefecture Yamen. According to the rules, there is a mayor, and other institutions should have some, but there are few personnel, and most institutions are fake.

Therefore, the administrative officials here now add up to only a dozen people.

As for ordinary people, they are only the employees of the West Sea Trading Company, and the rest are gone.

And those indigenous workers, those are not the Tang people, and they are not even hired by the people of the Tang Dynasty. The people of the Tang Dynasty just signed a labor service agreement with the Ottomans and let the Ottomans organize the construction.

When construction is complete, these people will leave.

The arrival of the Shengyuan number brought officials and turned this place from a state of military control to an ordinary administrative rule. Although few people let them rule, the framework has already been established.

What excites the local Ottomans is that this time, the arrival of the Datang people's ships brought a large amount of goods.

There are nearly 200 tons of goods in all kinds, from small embroidery needles to large plate armor, and then cloth, woolen, perfume, soap, porcelain, and silk are basically the goods exported by Datang to the outside world. , both.

Just a small amount of each.

These Ottomans are also willing to come. These Ottoman businessmen also seized this precious opportunity to make a fortune. The last time the goods were transported to Baku, they made a huge profit, and this time will also be the same. in this way.

As soon as these goods were unloaded from the ship, they were immediately bought by the Ottomans who were rich or blinded by profits, and then they would organize their own manual transportation to sell them.

Once again, these goods were directly bought out, making Zuo Chengsheng, who was planning to stay here for a long time, sigh: the money of the indigenous people is so good!

300% profiteering!

Just after making these two trips, his net worth has skyrocketed from a few hundred yuan to a few thousand yuan.

This lucrative scene made Captain Xu unable to sit still. He used to trade in Nanyang, and it was also a **** profit. When he went to trade in the South China Sea, he still used sailboats. For overseas trade, it depends on the weather. It is good to go back and forth this year. If you miss the monsoon, it sometimes takes two years to go back and forth.

But now, if you keep the limit, you can go back and forth in half a month.

The profit tripled in half a month, and even if it decreased in the future, it would be doubled and doubled. How much should I earn this year?

Even if there is competition in the future, it must be at least a dozen times more!

Earn over, earn over!

So Captain Xu couldn't bear it any longer. As soon as the unloading operation was completed, he sailed back to the warehouse and prepared for the next cargo transportation.

As for Zuo Chengsheng, he stayed in Baku with two followers, found the newly established Baku Town Yamen to set up an office, and then continued to keep in touch with the Ottoman businessmen and accept their orders.

This is to open up and stabilize sales channels in the Baku area. After the goods are transported, they must be sold.

Establish a sales channel first, and when your competitors come to Baku, you can be invincible.

But his good mood didn't last for a few days, it just went bad.

Because a ship came to Baku!

That tattered little sampan was loaded with four or five tons of cargo at most. This kind of ship made people wonder how it came to Baku across the West Sea.

But it's here!

And although the goods are small, this does not hinder the hugely profitable trade that the West Sea Trading Company has just started.

The most immediate effect was that fewer Ottoman merchants consulted and placed orders.

However, in the next few days, more and more bad news came. It turned out that more than a dozen small boats ran to Baku one after another and disappeared the goods. The Ottomans are not stupid. They saw more goods and more choices. , began to lower prices.

The result is good, it is impossible to have the profit of 300% before, and it has dropped directly to about 200%, and some commodities have even dropped to 100%.

This can’t go on like this. Zuo Chengsheng started looking for people to try to establish a price unification alliance or something, but in the face of the Ottomans’ low prices, there will always be people who want to lower the price and sell it, take the money and leave, and strive for more. Run a few times.

Of course, in fact, everyone is afraid of the West Sea Trading Company. After all, the West Sea Trading Company is placed in the entire empire, so it is very inconspicuous, but in such a small place as the West Sea, it belongs to the largest trading company, and they also It has the only large-tonnage civilian ship that can sail in the Western Sea.

What if it fooled them first, and then slowly pushed them out?

As the saying goes, the intention of harming others is indispensable, and the intention to guard against others is indispensable. These businessmen who thought they were smart and superior, decisively chose to let Zuo Chengsheng get out.

The price alliance could not be established, and Zuo Chengsheng could only collect orders from the Ottomans as much as possible and establish a stable sales channel.

Anyway, the current profiteering is abnormal, and it will return to normal levels in a few months at most, and then it is time for everyone to fight for their strength.

The success of the West Sea Trading Company in Baku~www.wuxiaspot.com~ For the small and medium-sized businessmen in Curry, it is a typical example of getting rich overnight. I don’t know how many people envy them.

But this amount of trade is nothing in the eyes of real big companies.

At least Datang Oil Company has no interest in the so-called West Sea trade. They are not trading in the first place, and to be honest, the trade volume here is not large. For Datang Oil Company, when it was established, the capital was There are millions of large enterprises to count, it is drizzle.

The only thing they value is the oil in Baku!

In fact, Datang Oil can be even more than the action of the West Sea Trading Company.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs had just signed the Baku Agreement with the Ottomans. The representative of Datang Oil Company turned around and signed a cooperation agreement with the Kuri Prefecture Yamen to develop Baku's oil resources.

According to the traditional mineral development agreement plan, the finance of Kuri Prefecture invested in the oil exploration and exploitation rights of the entire Baku area, and Datang Oil Company invested in capital and technology, and jointly established the Baku Oil Company to survey and develop the Baku area. of oil resources.

At the same time, there is a subsidiary agreement, that is, Datang Oil will also set up a refinery in Curry.

After the signing of the cooperation agreement between the two parties, the report was soon reported to the headquarters of Datang Oil Company. Now Datang Oil Company is preparing to transfer technical backbones from other parts of the country and order equipment to be shipped to Baku.

Of course, these things are not something that a small businessman like Zuo Chengsheng can know.

Even more do not know, the reason why Datang won Baku, and directly as a local operation in this process, Datang Oil Company played a role in the end.

The only thing he knew was that Datang Oil was ready to drill for oil in Baku!

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