Now Russia, one poor and two white, much poorer than the Ming Dynasty, this group of merchants are bent on making money in the Far East, where are the silver coins to bring over. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"In that case, we are all equal to each other." Zhang Han stood up, looked at the Russians, and said quite seriously: "Don't think about who will press whom, the trade process and price can be discussed slowly in a cooperative mentality, as for the commercial tax, the stall tax, the transaction tax, this can be discussed, we must adopt a low tax rate at the beginning, don't worry about this." In terms of trade, since you have no silver reserves, then you should adopt the method of bartering, and how to operate it is mainly by Mr. Sun and Mr. Mo, and our military department will send officials and merchant representatives, and everyone will sit together and have a good talk. ”

Zhang Han got up and walked out as he spoke, and Petrin spread his hands and said, "Lord Zhang is not continuing to participate in the meeting?" ”

Zhang Han smiled: "I have more important things, military and political affairs. ”

Petrin and Madoff were silent, and then they remembered that the man opposite them was not only a merchant leader, but also a great lord with a powerful army and territory.

Petrin said a little anxiously: "Lord Zhang, no matter what, we hope to strengthen cooperation, and you want to expand shipments." ”

Zhang Han thought for a while and said: "I'm afraid it will be difficult in the short term, we have to weigh all aspects, the mainland market, the overseas trade in the south, it is impossible to put all the goods in the north." And after all, you are bartering, and it will take time for us to get the goods and ship them. ”

Petrin said helplessly: "Lord Zhang, we are very sincere, I admit that we have a strong demand for trade, we have brought merchants from dozens of cities and hundreds of settlements, which is the power of the whole Russian trade with Asia, furs, wool, beeswax, and even ginseng, pearls, ......"

A group of Russians looked at Zhang Han nervously, they really gave everything they had, sincerity has been laid out, today's goods have indeed accumulated for a long time, but these Russians also saw the strength of Chinese merchants and the attractiveness of goods, those silks as smooth as milk, sold to Europe is sky-high, those exquisite porcelain is beautiful, Europeans now even the nobles rarely use it, most of them use crystal or glass products, and the commoners use poor pottery.

Porcelain began to enter Europe in the 16th century, compared to the huge market, the whole ship of porcelain docked in an instant was robbed, there is no price at all, there is no place to buy it, the European part of Russia is in great demand, not to mention that the Russians have been trading with the Netherlands and Britain and other Western European powers.

If Zhang Han and others can always provide sufficient goods, then of course the Russians will also strengthen the supply of goods, it is early summer, and before the beginning of winter, it should not be a problem for goods of this size to come twice, and the annual trade volume will definitely exceed the scale of eight million rubles.

This is also a very large figure for the total economy of Russia at this time.

If the total amount can exceed 10 million next year, then the settlements in the north will attract more adventurers, will get more furs and beeswax, and will have more goods to trade with the Chinese, which is a pretty good virtuous circle.

"I'll think about it." Zhang Han smiled bitterly and said: "We still have a problem in the near future, I hope it will be solved as soon as possible, in one or two years, we will strive to increase the supply of ironware, cloth, silk, porcelain and tea, and within two years, we hope to exceed the scale of 10 million a year." ”

Once the Daming horse market, a month or half a month to open the market, each time the transaction volume of horses has more than 100,000 or 200,000 taels, plus the trade between ordinary merchants and Mongolians, just a Zhangjiakou a year of trading volume must be more than one million, this is still the Jin merchants-based Han merchants and Mongolians bilateral transactions, in the trading city, it is the Russians, Hutchison, the Ming Han merchants, the three parts of Mobei, the northwestern parts of the desert, as well as the Gilbut Mongols and the left-wing Mongolian tribes may also hear the wind.

During the decades from Kangxi to Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, the Russians fed hundreds of thousands of people at one Kyakhta port, and the net profit was 7 million a year, and in one year, the tariffs alone collected 710,000 rubles, accounting for 20 percent of Russia's overall tariffs, and also the total financial revenue of Russia's three provinces.

Of course, Russia's population and economic aggregate in Siberia are not as good as a hundred years later, but in general, Russia and Hutchison both belong to a prosperous rising period, as long as you are willing to invest in this thing well, it is not difficult to reach more than 10 million trade volume and reach more than 1 million profits a year.

What Petrin and others couldn't understand was the change in Zhang Han's attitude, and trade continued, but he lost his previous eagerness and determination to expand the trade quota at all costs.

Hutchison built the road from Angulinao to Kulun, this is great determination, great perseverance, and great investment!

A million silver and 100,000 manpower took less than a year to build a road, without which nothing would be in vain.

The Russians, on the other hand, spent decades building settlements in Siberia, using rudimentary roads and shoddy four-wheeled vehicles, as well as several important rivers that God had given them to communicate roads and transport supplies.

Their conditions are poorer than those of Hutchison, but these bearish Russians, with their strong physique and fanatical enterprising spirit, came here from Europe, not to enjoy the natural beauty of Siberia, but to acquire wealth.

If they could not obtain wealth by plundering, then they assumed the posture of civilized people and talked about trade with people politely.

"Okay," Mo Zongtong said to the Russians: "No matter what, we now have millions of goods, how to exchange, how to declare records and files, how to trade, transfer, file, transport, contract formation, these details, we can start talking now, or we can wait for tomorrow to start." ”

"Let's start now." Seeing Zhang Han turn around and leave, Petrin said helplessly: "Our businessman is from thousands of miles away at most, and two thousand miles away recently, everyone is as anxious as a spark, even if you can't take your goods away now, it's good to finalize it a day earlier." ”

"We'll try to supply you with as much as we can." Sun Jingting said: "As much as possible, everyone will not go home empty-handed. ”

Petrin was overjoyed and said, "It would be great if that were the case! ”

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By dawn, the negotiations were almost over, and everyone was happy, but people were tired and relaxed.

Under Sun Jingting's auspices, Hutchison raised the supply of cloth to 300,000 pieces and iron to 500,000 pieces, both within two months.

The Russians promised to bring all the goods over within a month, and Hutchison handed over the rest of the goods to the Han merchants in exchange for their own share, and it is estimated that within two or three months, a large number of merchants from Zhangjiakou and Jingshi will flock to them.

However, the main big businessmen also came this time, and the cost of small and medium-sized businessmen going north is too high, and it is estimated that even if it is profitable, it will only be organized to go north, and the time will not be too early, and it will be good to catch up with it before autumn.

The tax rate is also very low, Hutchison promises that at this stage to within three years, Hutchison will only draw five percent of the commercial tax, this tax rate, and the earliest salt tax and ordinary commercial tax rate of the Ming Dynasty is the same, in this era is a very low standard, of course, the Ming Dynasty has a lot of hidden taxes, such as a lot of miscellaneous expenses and tooth taxes and door taxes, descendants do not know that the commercial tax is very low, in fact, it is just the privilege of the big gentry and wealthy businessmen so that they can allocate more resources to avoid oppression and persecution, Whether it is commercial tax or land endowment, they are the most beneficial group, and it has nothing to do with the level of commercial tax.

The rest of the details were almost discussed, everyone was tired, and there was a hint of excitement in the exhaustion.

Either way, it's a pretty good Karry, and it looks like it's really going to be built.

Sun Jingting did not rest, he went directly to the official residence to see Zhang Han.

Of course, there is no need to report as Sun Jingting, Zhang Han also got up at this time, and was rinsing his teeth with tooth powder.

Sun Jingting knew his habits, he should have run a few laps, punched a lot, scrubbed and changed clothes after exercising, and then washed his teeth and face.

He couldn't help but say, "I slept very late last night, Wen Lan, you really got up so early again." ”

Zhang Han spit out a mouthful of toothpaste with a medicinal fragrance, and said with a smile: "You didn't sleep all night, and you came to me again." ”

Sun Jingting smiled slightly and did not make a sound.

Zhang Han rinsed his mouth, wiped his face, and said to Sun Jingting: "Brother Xiaozheng, please tell me directly." ”

"I raised the quota for trade with Russians quite a ......"

"How many?"

"It's nearly doubled."

Zhang Han looked at Sun Jingting and said: "Brother Xiaozheng should understand that doubling the quota means that our funds and manpower have to be tilted towards this matter, but we have already discussed it, and we will hardly do anything else this year, that is, we will fully support the Taiwan side......"

Sun Jingting hesitated, but gritted his teeth and said: "I also know that Taiwan is important, and it is indeed quite important to involve the safety of future security and overseas trade, including the income from maritime insurance." But you can also see that the Russians are also quite sincere, I have calculated, if it really reaches more than 10 million trade volume, we sit and do nothing, just collecting taxes a year is hundreds of thousands of profits, not to mention bartering, we can exchange all we can get back are the best good furs, the Russians are in a bitter cold place, their fur is much better than that of the Dongyu, so many skins are collected in a year, whether it is made into robes or only sold skins, it is necessary to make a lot of money......"

Zhang Han's face remained unchanged, and his heart was also a little painful.

The enthusiasm of the Russians is really unexpected, it is indeed as Sun Jingting said, as long as this trade route continues normally, two years later, at least two million a year, this is a huge income, more than the previous Dongyu route, more than the current overseas trade, although not as good as the income in the Ming mainland, but if the business is good, it is almost the same.

Sun Jingting said anxiously: "This one is well managed, we will have no problem earning seven million a year, and at that time, we can recruit a few more regiments of cavalry, destroy the left flank of the northern captives, and unify the entire grassland is just around the corner......

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