Chapter 263 38. Borrowing Funds for Buyout

"Yes, the price of beans in Shinano seems to have risen by 30% or 40% this year, but it doesn't matter to me." Sukezaemon spoke with the grace of a big businessman.

It turns out that these big businessmen don't directly connect with farmers. They usually purchase large quantities directly from the lords. And because a large number of crops are on the market after the autumn harvest, they can also lower the price, or even take it for free.

After all, the lords of the daimyo are not doing well, and there are many who owe money to this big businessman. It would be even more worthless to use crops to repay the debt.

In other words, Sukezaemon's family's power in the Yamanouchi area is not very strong, and there is no way to directly connect with the lord, so he came in person to arrange manpower and purchase beans from various villages and towns to complete his necessary procurement plan.

"So Sukezaemon, how is the price of beans in Kinai and Saigoku this year?" Xiao Pingtai began to ask.

"Kyushu suffered a storm in late summer this year, and the beans and wheat in Toyotsuki and other countries were greatly affected. As for Satsuma and other countries, the harvest this year is very good. Shikoku's soybeans have a good harvest this year, and we can't get involved in Tamba's black beans. As for Nobi, there was still a civil war before coming here, and Ise Bay was full of ships waiting to receive the goods. On the contrary, the price is higher than that in Shinano."

Jozaemon drank a dish of wine, and did not hide the news on the surface. Anyway, Kobayata's main job is a samurai who cuts people, and his secondary job is to make money. He is not afraid that Kobayata will steal his business, it's very real.

"Does Jozaemon know about the miso business?" Kobayata finally got to the point.

"Hehe, Tansho originally meant miso." Jozaemon has a keen business mind and reacted immediately.

But soon what he said made Kobayata start to have a headache, and even began to hesitate about this decision.

It turns out that it is different from the common business model of the Warring States Period that we think of, which is that small farmers or small merchants produce and the daimyo lords directly sell, or the daimyo lords designate merchants to contract and sell.

Miso is neither produced independently by large merchants and monopolized by them, nor is it sold to the outside by the daimyo. Instead, it is operated by small merchants or even peddlers who carry loads as retail merchants. The big merchants seem to have given small merchants a way out.

In fact, the deeper reason lies in the insufficient development of the East Country and the inconvenience of water transportation!

The reason why Kyushu miso in the West Country can be monopolized on a large scale is the extremely convenient shipping in the Seto Inland Sea. Almost any country can directly receive goods by water transportation. And everyone should know more or less about the terrain of the East Country. Apart from the Kanto Plain, the mountain roads in other places are eighteen bends!

It is impossible to go!

It can only rely on small merchants and peddlers to carry and carry, pull and pull, open up trade routes in the mountains, and deliver miso to large and small settlements among the mountains and hills.

Therefore, the business of Shinshu miso, which seems to be a small profit but a large turnover, has not yet been intervened by any daimyo or big merchant. Because the hard-earned money in this business is not so easy to earn.

Of course, it is certain that these small merchants will be very sad next year, because if the soybean harvest in Shinano fails, their livelihoods may be ruined.

Kobayata suddenly stared at Sukezaemon. If he could integrate the purchase and sale of Shinshu miso, take control of the already opened trade routes, and absorb small merchants and peddlers who are familiar with the route. In this way, not only can the tentacles of the naiya be extended to the Kanto countries, but it is also possible to obtain a huge income of tens of thousands of kan every year.

Sukezaemon also stared at Kobayata. The two must have thought of the same thing.

"The heart is willing but the strength is not enough." Sukezaemon still sighed. Next year is indeed a good time for them to intervene in Shinshu miso, but once they want to intervene in the whole process, then for at least more than two years, tens of thousands of practitioners and their families on this sales line will need their naiya to support them.

Such a huge expense is very difficult to cope with even for a company as large as Nawu.

Moreover, if such a huge trade system is suddenly annexed, the local merchants in the Kanto countries will definitely rebound greatly and unite to oppose and exclude Nawu, which is even more unprofitable.

"Okay, okay, but this is a rare opportunity to make a profit! Isn't Zuoemon ready to do it?" Kobayata is not in business anyway, he just mentioned it, his goal is still to use Nawu's huge merchant fleet and the trade route of the West Country to purchase the soybean harvest in the West Country this year.

"Danzheng really has a plan. I don't have too much money to mobilize. Three thousand kan can be withdrawn immediately to go to the West Country to purchase soybeans." Zuoemon is indeed rich and powerful, and he opened his mouth and said a huge sum of three thousand kan.

"Okay, I have seven thousand kan!" "Danzheng, that seven thousand kan is! But!" Before Kobayata finished speaking, Heilong was shocked.

This 7,000 kan is the coffin money of most of the middle and high-level samurai in the mountain. It was lent to Kobayata for the long-term persimmon lacquer business. Kobayata actually dared to embezzle this money.

If I lose! I will really have to hang the city gate!

"It doesn't matter, this time it's a sure win!" Kobayata certainly knew that this 7,000 kan was the lifeblood of the middle and high-level samurai in the mountain, but this money was saved there to prepare for the five-year production period. If you don't move this money, the money will be dead.

If you move now, you may be able to make a fortune, why not move? It's not a risk at all.

Heiroku saw that Kobayata couldn't say anything more, and Sukezaemon was still very optimistic about Kobayata's analysis, so the two finally decided to do a big job.

The whole process was funded by Kobayata and the Naya Ejiri branch, who rented the transportation power of Naya and the shipping companies they were familiar with, and purchased soybeans from the west and Kinai on a large scale.

At the same time, they borrowed Naya's business resources to order a large number of wooden barrels, which also required a huge amount. It would be enough to find a cooper to make dozens of barrels, but now there are tens of thousands of barrels, so it is necessary to fully mobilize the energy of Sukezaemon who has extensive business relationships.

The last one is salt. For sea salt, Kobayata only needs a letter to Konishiharazaemon, the mayor of Ejiri Castle, to order enough. This does not require any trouble, as long as there is money.

The second is to organize porters and a large caravan to transport these soybeans to the mountains. This is the relationship of Kobayata. The candle merchants who cooperated with him in the past still organize people to pick up the goods in the mountains every month.

Kobayata only needs to pay some money to let these porters who come to the mountains empty-handed to carry soybeans to Ejiri first, and the transportation problem can be solved.

If there is really insufficient transportation capacity, then we can just hire laborers. Isn't it easy to hire a few farmers to do hard labor during the slack season?

Once the soybeans are in the mountains, we just need to wait and see.