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Chapter 114 Become a Member

After reading the list, Ren Ze felt extremely regretful. In just a short while, the six-guan money disappeared. Don’t think that doing a 60-guan business casually is an amazing official, and don’t take the six-guan money into consideration. Ren Ze had more than 20 partners on this trip, buying goods from the Western Regions, some of them were on credit. Sold them smoothly, buying suitable goods, and transporting them back to the Western Regions to sell them, which was the real money you made. The amount of money you got in the end is still unknown, and the six-guan money is not a small amount for Ren Ze.

Seeing Manager Teng standing aside with a smile, Ren Ze said angrily: "No wonder Manager Gao didn't say it clearly just now, is he just going to make my six-cent money? How can you be greedy for me for such a big business!"

Manager Teng bowed: "The official is wronged, it is not for your six-cent money. The official is thinking, it took a lot of effort to move the money from the warehouse to the outside, so why bother? It is because of the different responsibilities of the supervisor Gao. He only found the money and couldn't ask the rest. The merchants here are all doing big business, and there are many secrets, so why are you asking about it?"

Ren Ze was a little unbelievable, but he had just suffered a secret loss and did not dare to be smart anymore. He told Manager Teng: "No need to say anything, Manager Gao just pays money, Manager Teng just collects money. I will pay six guan and then deposit the money in the warehouse, right?"

Manager Teng said: "It should be like this. However, I don't need to be a supervisor for this kind of small matter. Manager Gao felt that he was indebted to the official staff, so he called me out and explained the rules here to the official staff, which was considered to be a gift to the official staff."

Ren Ze said angrily: "Why, are there many rules for doing business here?"

Manager Teng nodded with a smile: "Yes, there are many rules in Tanglong Town. But don't worry, these rules are all set by the yamen to facilitate trade by merchants. They only benefit and have no harm to you. Just like when the money tickets were exchanged for cash, the owner of the money changed and should have taken out the money and deposited them. These six guans were originally spent. In order to facilitate trade, the yamen only allowed the money tickets to be delivered and there was no need to pay any more. There are still many rules in Tanglong Town. If you know, save a little bit of money everywhere, not a small amount."

Speaking of this, Director Teng smiled mysteriously: "The outsiders are all doing big business, they can easily lose a few thousand or hundreds of guan. They can just drop some residue, and they will get out a few guan. The more you know the rules, the more you save."

Ren Ze was shocked and thought about it and understood what Manager Teng meant. The storage fee of 10 cents for money for Yiguan is actually very low. Jiaoziwu in Yizhou still charges 30 cents. But the amount cannot be resisted. If you are not careful, a few cents of money will be gone. In Tanglong Town, he and his friends can live a happy life for a few days, but he will be thrown away in vain. It is a pity.

Everything in Tanglong Town uses cash as a measure of value, which facilitates trade. However, the transaction amount is too large and there is no cabinet shop, so it is impossible to trade normally. Manager Teng said it was for the convenience of merchants, which is indeed the truth.

Seeing Ren Ze's expression, Director Teng smiled and said, "Please ask for tea indoors for the outside."

Ren Ze thanked him and followed Manager Teng into the room next to him. The little prince seemed to understand and followed him in.

The guest and host took a seat, and the supervisor Teng said: "I think the rules on the white wall are clearly seen. These rules were actually set up for merchants in the Central Plains to attract them to do business here. They came thousands of miles away, so where could they bring cash? Many shops are not business merchants, and there are no goods to sell. They can deposit money in the cash counter in Tokyo Bianliang and Xijing Henan Prefecture, and take money tickets to Tanglong Town to buy goods. Especially jewelry and jade merchants, who go to the border to buy goods with a lot of goods and the price is cheap."

Ren Ze nodded. Cui Dizhao, who just bought his coral, thought that this was the case. They deposited the money in Bianliang into the counter shop, exchanged the money tickets here, and bought the goods directly. It was indeed convenient. Especially for these light goods, there were no shipping fees, so there were too many benefits to buy them here. Unfortunately, only the merchants from Central Plains have this convenience. Fanhu merchants from overseas cannot enjoy this convenience without the local counter shop.

Ren Ze did not expect that Cui Dizhao was not buying goods for his family. This time he was jointly commissioned by several shops, and the guild came forward and came with several partners. There were hundreds of staples of raw materials. No matter how rich Tokyo City was, there were not many such big families.

In order to make Tang Long Town amazing, Du Zhongxiao made a lot of preparations. With the help of the Ministry of Commerce and the three departments of the capital, and the governments of several major cities in the Central Plains, a whole commercial chain was created. Several cabinets for saving money were the core, and the entire chain was strung together with currency.

In this commercial chain, Hedong Road is equivalent to using homemade iron coins and directly exchanged for copper coins from the Central Plains, so the General Secretary is the most active. Money and grain along the border are a big problem. There is not much physical coins in this chain, but in the form of goods. The three officials lack cash, so they actively cooperate. It reduces the burden of money and grain, and the transportation department also benefits, and provides various conveniences. Only by joining forces with several systems and the central and local governments to cooperate with each other can this work be done.

The Volcanic Army had inconvenient transportation and remote places. Without these conveniences, how could the merchants from the Central Plains be willing to come? Without a large number of Central Plains merchants, who would sell the goods brought by these merchants to? It only depends on the Volcanic Army, which cost.

After realizing that he was exposed to the Central Plains merchants, Ren Ze's anger finally disappeared. Speaking of which, Tang Long Town was really nice, he actually gave the foreign merchants the same treatment as the Central Plains merchants, and he deserved to be a place of free trade.

After seeing Ren Ze's expression calmed down, Manager Teng said: "There are many conveniences to do business here, so I won't talk about it as the young ones. The days spent staying at the staff will naturally be clear. I will talk to the staff for a few big places."

Speaking of this, Mr. Teng invited Ren Ze to drink tea. After drinking it, he continued: "The merchants brought a lot of goods here thousands of miles away. Although there were many merchants in Tanglong Town, it was inevitable that they could not be sold for a while. The goods in the market were at different prices for a few days, which was inevitable. Merchants who could not sell goods were kept under capital and would not be able to take action when they saw a profitable business. Wouldn't they be anxious?"

Ren Ze said: "Thousand-mile business trips are always inevitable. What are the solutions?"

"There is a way. When encountering such a thing, you can go to our cabinet and use the goods as collateral and we will issue the certificate."

Ren Ze laughed when he heard this: "I thought you could borrow money by using goods as collateral."

Manager Teng shook his head repeatedly: "Our cabinet shop is full of money from the Song Dynasty, so what's the use of lending money to you? But you can take our vouchers and go out to issue bonds. We have a special place for merchants in the city to subscribe to your bonds. They either use gold and silver or treasures, in short, they can use money to buy your bonds in the place where you sell goods. You take their money to do business."

Ren Zeqi said: "There is still such a thing? What if I get the money and don't come back from now on?"

"Isn't there any sold-out goods? Then we can only pay the goods to those who buy bonds, whether to lose or make a profit, and everyone will be willing to do so. However, before the goods are returned, they must pass through our counters to avoid those who stay here taking away the money."

When Ren Ze heard this, his eyes shone. What people who traded merchants feared most was to sell goods to the local area. If the market was not good, the goods could not be sold. Ren Ze stayed in one place for more than two years before selling the goods. It would be much more convenient if he could use goods to mortgage bonds. When the market was not good, a few people would be left to guard them, and the rest would take gold and silver to sell other goods.

In this way, if you do business in Tanglong Town, aren’t you afraid that the goods will not be sold anymore? As long as the goods arrive at the place, you will take action directly and then do the next business, this kind of thing will be exciting. If you do business in this way, you can earn several times more money.

After careful consideration, Ren Ze asked carefully: "It is naturally excellent to do this in the cabinet shop, which makes many businessmen convenient. Supervisor, what you mean, Tang Long Town provides more than this conveniences for businessmen?"

"There are more, there are more." Manager Teng took a drink. "For example, what kind of goods in the city are the most popular, with high prices and low prices. We all have our own channels to provide them to customers. But this is not something that every customer can know."

Ren Ze smiled knowingly, and he knew that there was a reason why Manager Teng was so kind. He asked, "So, how should we know?"

"Get a membership." Manager Teng said. "There is a member of the cabinet shop. We all gathered together outside the wealthy and nobles to talk about how to do business and make money. As for what kind of business is easy to do in the city, it is included in our cabinet shop."

Huiheshe was the most common form of business at this time. It was popular in the Song Dynasty and the Western Regions, and they were all passed down from the Tang Dynasty. The most common ones were naturally guilds and various temporary chambers of commerce, which were varied. The most typical ones were the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang. Because of the risk of going overseas, most of them were villagers joining the association and each raised money. If they encountered a shipwreck, most of them could bear the losses. Once they successfully returned, everyone would make money together.

Ren Ze is familiar with this, but according to what Director Teng said, these things will be different. Asked Manager Teng: "I wonder what to do with this member?"

"Save 3,000 guan in our cabinet shop and members can receive it, which will bring you endless benefits."

Ren Ze shook his head after hearing this: "If you don't hide it from the supervisor, you will have no capital to do business if you deposit three thousand tanes of cash."

Manager Teng said: "It's okay. You can pay ten cents of money per month, or you can be a temporary member. Just renew the money every month."

Ren Ze calculated that if he could get the information that Manager Teng said, ten coins in a month were not much. He was not careful just now, and the six coins of money would be gone. There were thousands of coins everywhere in Tanglong Town, and it was worth dozens of coins whenever he heard it.
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