HPDBC Chapter 1416: Golden White Fox Fur Coat and Golden White Sable Fur Coat
Chapter 1416: Golden White Fox Fur Coat and Golden White Sable Fur Coat
Chapter 1416: A White Fox Fur Coat Worth a Thousand Golds and a White Sable Fur Coat Worth a Million Golds
After looking at the squirrel skin, Wen Hongchang took the yellow leaf, unfolded it and took a look at it, then spread the skin on his legs and touched it against the fur with his hand.
After touching it, Wen Hongchang looked up and smiled, "They are all yellow fur, but the further north you go, the better the quality of the fur."
The squirrels in Changbai Mountain are different from those in Yanshan Mountain, and the sable is a species unique to Changbai Mountain. But weasels are the same everywhere.
It’s just that the further north you go, the colder it gets, and the thicker the fur of the weasels is, otherwise it wouldn’t be enough to keep out the cold.
After folding the yellow leaves and putting them aside, Wen Hongchang unfolded the big skin again.
Wen Hongchang only touched it and sighed: "It's expensive, but the fur is good!"
you get what you pay for.
The yellow leaves and gray skins are both bought for dozens of yuan, while the large skins cost thousands of yuan. There is naturally a reason why they are so expensive.
Just put the sable fur on your eyes, and even the needle hairs will not prick your eyes.
"Dad." Zhao Jinhui, who was sitting opposite and watching the fun, asked Zhao Weipeng curiously, "What kind of leather is this?"
"I don't know him either." Zhao Weipeng raised his hand and pointed at Zhao Jun, saying, "Ask your brother."
Zhao Jinhui looked at Zhao Jun, who pointed at them one by one and said to Zhao Jinhui: "The yellow one is the skin of a weasel, we call it yellow leaves; the gray one is the skin of a squirrel, we call it gray skin; the one of Wen Shushou is the skin of a sable, we call it big skin."
"Sable fur?" Zhao Jinhui asked in confusion, "Why isn't it purple?"
When Zhao Jinhui asked this question, even Wen Hongchang, a fur merchant, was stunned.
Yes, the mink fur in front of you now is black and brown, with some white needle hairs mixed in with purple.
It has nothing to do with purple.
The mink fur from Changbai Mountain is like this, unlike those foreign minks which come in all kinds of colors.
What people see are black-brown and yellow-brown colors, with some white needle hairs in between, and these colors have nothing to do with purple.
Zhao Jun smiled when he heard this and picked up the big skin that Wen Hongchang had placed on the coffee table.
I have to say that the quality of Dapi's fur is really good. In the Northeastern dialect, it is called smooth and slippery.
Zhao Jun held up Da Pi with both hands, stood up and walked to the south window. In the sunlight shining through the south window, Da Pi's fur shone like water waves.
"The peeled skin won't have that effect." Zhao Jun smiled and said, "If it's alive, and the sun shines on it, you look at it from a distance, it will be purple."
"Ah..." Zhao Jinhui was skeptical, while Wen Hongchang on the side said with a smile: "The name passed down by the elders can't be wrong."
Zhao Jun smiled when he heard this and sat back on the sofa.
At this time, Wen Hongchang looked at Zhao Jun and asked, "Young man, how many of these mink skins did you bring?"
"Thirty-six." Zhao Jun said a number. Wen Hongchang nodded slightly and said, "I want all of them."
Zhao Jun was slightly startled, but he remembered that Zhao Jinhui said that this man was quite capable, and a big skin worth more than 30,000 yuan should not be a problem for him.
At this time, Wen Hongchang pointed to two other items on the coffee table and asked, "What about the yellow fur and squirrel fur?"
"There are 827 squirrel skins." Zhao Jun had done business in his previous life, and he was still young, so he would definitely not forget a few numbers.
He continued to count to Wen Hongchang, saying, "There are 1,485 weasel skins."
Hearing this number, Wen Hongchang frowned slightly. All these things added up to more than 100,000.
But Wen Hongchang thought for only two seconds before making a decision. He said to Zhao Jun, "I didn't expect you to bring so many furs. I didn't bring so much money today. Wait for me to go back today. I will give you the money tomorrow... or at the latest the morning after tomorrow."
After saying this, Wen Hongchang pointed to the three kinds of hides on the table and said, "As long as your hides are of this quality, I'll buy them all."
"Okay." Zhao Jun nodded and said with a smile: "Don't worry about that. When we collect the skins, we carefully select them."
Wen Hongchang nodded slightly, then took out two stacks of big unity banknotes from his pocket, pinched them in his hand and said to Zhao Jun: "I'll give you two thousand yuan as a deposit."
"No, no." Zhao Jun hurriedly pushed the money back and said, "Uncle Wen, we have my brother Jin Hui, so we don't need anything. When you come again, just give me the money."
Hearing what Zhao Jun said, a smile appeared on Zhao Jinhui's fat face, and the little fat boy felt proud.
"Okay then." Wen Hongchang didn't refuse Zhao Jun. He put the money in his pocket and said, "Then wait until I come again."
There are more than 2,000 pieces of skins, the cheapest ones are only 20 or 30 yuan, so we definitely can’t just accept them casually.
Next time Wen Hongchang comes, he will not only bring money, but also bring his men to inspect the goods. Today, he came just to finalize the deal first, so as to prevent this big business from being snatched away by other colleagues.
"Um... Uncle Wen." Zhao Jun smiled at Wen Hongchang and said, "What's the price for these leathers we're buying now?"
The old man Wen Hongchang kept whining and whining for a long time but didn't say how much money he would give to Zhao Jun.
He just said he wanted them all, but if the price was not right, Zhao Jun really would not sell them to him.
Hearing Zhao Jun talking about the price, Wen Hongchang took out a piece of paper from his pocket, opened it and handed it to Zhao Jun across the coffee table.
When Zhao Jun took it and looked at it, his eyes suddenly lit up.
上面写着：松46、47，黄31.5、41，貂1080—1250，白狐狸70。
Seeing the price list above, Zhao Jun was slightly excited. If they sold according to the above prices, then for every gray skin sold, the Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce could make a profit of four yuan. And for every yellow leaf sold, they could make a profit of three yuan.
As for the big hide, that thing is expensive to begin with. The Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce can earn eighty to one hundred yuan for every big hide sold.
More than thirty large skins, another three thousand dollars.
In other words, they can earn more than 10,000 yuan just by selling skins.
A huge profit!
No wonder Zheng Xuekun took his son to the Northeast time and time again, this is really a way to make money!
At this time, Li Baoyu leaned his head towards Zhao Jun. He was curious about what price Wen Hongchang could offer.
But noticing his action, Zhao Jun folded the paper and stretched out his arm to return it to Wen Hongchang.
Zhao Jun didn't want to hide it from Li Baoyu, but he was afraid that Li Baoyu would react too strongly after seeing the price. That would not be good for the deal.
When Wen Hongchang received the quotation, Zhao Jun asked, "Uncle Wen, did you set this price?"
Although at this price, the profit is already quite a lot. But in business, everyone wants to make more money. It's not a scam, so just talk it over.
"This is not set by me." Wen Hongchang smiled and said, "For squirrel skin, it is set according to the export price. It may not change every day, but it changes every three to five days. Sometimes it goes up, sometimes it goes down. For weasel skin and sable skin, it is also based on the market price."
Wen Hongchang raised the paper in his hand slightly and said, "Today, the price for the entire Xiji is this. No matter who it is, it can't be more or less. I won't fool you, you can ask around."
"Ah..." After hearing Hongchang's words, Zhao Jun realized what was going on.
"Uncle Wen, what's the matter with the fox fur?" Zhao Jun asked, "Why do you only accept white fox fur? Why not gray or red ones?"
Zhao Jun never expected that the fox furs that the supply and marketing cooperative and state-owned stores near his home refused to accept were already being accepted in Xiji, and at a fairly high price.
You know, the Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce buys fox skins from Xishantun, and a white fox skin is only ten yuan. If you bring it here, you can sell it for seventy yuan, which is almost as much as the big skin.
What Zhao Jun couldn't understand was why they only accepted the white ones, but not the gray, yellow, and red ones?
If he collects them all, he will be rich!
"Because white is classy." Wen Hongchang laughed and said, "Didn't you perform Dream of the Red Chamber in the first few years?"
Hearing Hongchang's words, Li Baoyu instantly became interested. Their Li family has a long history of "reading books", and everyone in their family has their favorite books.
For example, Li Baoyu likes to read "Water Margin". Li Dayong's favorite is "Dream of Red Mansions". He likes it so much that even the names of Li Baoyu's three brothers and sisters are from "Dream of Red Mansions".
At this time, Wen Hongchang continued, "I like reading that book very much. I remember it. What does it say that Lin Daiyu wears?"
Wen Hongchang was a good speaker. With just a few simple words, he attracted everyone's attention. Everyone listened to Wen Hongchang as if they were listening to a story. "It is said that Lin Daiyu wore a pair of red fragrant sheepskin boots with gold-embroidered clouds and a crane cloak with a bright red feather gauze and a white fox face."
After hearing what he said, everyone felt a sense of awe.
Wen Hongchang smiled, and then said: "This is equivalent to Mengchangjun's white fox fur."
"What is white fox fur?" Wen Hongchang suddenly asked a question, and then answered himself: "It is said in the Records of the Grand Historian that a white fox fur coat is worth a thousand gold and is unmatched in the world."
Wen Hongchang put the quotation sheet into his pocket and said, "We at Xiji have only started buying white fox furs in the past two days. I didn't expect that you could get such a high price right away."
"Fox fur is warm to make a coat." Zhao Weipeng said this, and Wen Hongchang smiled and said, "Of course it is warm, and the money is good too."
"Hey, Uncle Wen." At this time, Zhao Jun picked up the big leather on the coffee table and said to Wen Hongchang, "There are also white leathers."
"Ouch!" Wen Hongchang, who had just received the cigarette handed to him by Zhao Weipeng, exclaimed, "That's more valuable!"
As he spoke, Wen Hongchang slowly shook his head and said, "The mink fur outside doesn't count. The mink fur from your Changbai Mountain, if it's white, it's a treasure! Not to mention a thousand gold, it's worth ten thousand gold!"
"Oh..." Zhao Jun blinked his eyes and said, "One gram of gold is fifty or sixty, how much is ten thousand gold? Let's assume it's ten thousand grams, that's fifty or sixty thousand."
"Fifty or sixty thousand?" Wen Hongchang smiled and said, "You can't even see fifty or sixty thousand!"
Wen Hongchang didn't take Zhao Jun's words to heart. He thought they were just idle chat and idle talk.
Since we're just chatting, let's just have fun.
But at this moment, Zhao Jun asked Wen Hongchang again: "Uncle Wen, if I had two white mink skins, how much could I sell them for?"
"How can that be possible?" Wen Hongchang said with a smile, "People say that a white fox fur coat is worth a thousand gold, and a white mink fur coat is worth ten thousand gold. If you have a fur coat made of a white mink, you can sell it for one hundred and twenty thousand without any problem. You only have two pieces, so you can't sell them."
At the end, Wen Hongchang shook his head repeatedly, indicating that it was impossible.
"Uncle Wen, then..." Zhao Jun asked again: "If there are two, how much can they be sold for?"
Wen Hongchang was stunned, stared into Zhao Jun's eyes and asked, "Do you have it?"
Zhao Jun smiled and turned to look at Li Baoyu. Zhao Jun raised his chin and Li Baoyu quickly got up and walked towards the room where they slept yesterday.
Soon, Li Baoyu came back with three cloth bags, two short and one long.
Li Baoyu came back and handed the three cloth bags to Zhao Jun.
Zhao Jun first took the longest cloth bag, placed it on the coffee table and slowly unfolded it.
Seeing Zhao Jun's actions, everyone hurriedly moved teacups and fruit plates to make room for Zhao Jun.
When Zhao Jun opened the cloth bag, Wen Hongchang looked disappointed and said, "Isn't this lynx skin?"
"Yes!" Zhao Jun said, "We call this a tiger cub."
"The price of lynx skin has dropped in the past half month." Wen Hongchang said this first, then picked up the lynx skin. After checking it carefully again and again, Wen Hongchang put the lynx skin down and said to Zhao Jun, "Three thousand."
"Ah?" Zhao Jun was shocked and said, "We sold it to the supply and marketing cooperative for 3,700 yuan before."
"It's not for sale now." Wen Hongchang said, "If you don't believe me, take it back and ask."
"Oh, okay then." Zhao Jun didn't say whether to sell it or not. He waved his hand, and Li Baoyu and Jie Chen beside him stood up and put the lynx skin away.
At this time, Zhao Jun was a little disappointed. He was thinking that he could make a fortune from the lynx skin, but who knew that he almost lost everything.
He bought this lynx skin from Xu Changlin for 3,000 yuan. If he sold it for 3,000 yuan, he would not make a penny.
Wen Hongchang didn't seem to be interested in the lynx skin either. He looked at the two cloth bags in Zhao Jun's arms and asked, "What are those two bags of yours?"
Zhao Jun picked up a cloth bag and opened it, revealing a roll of albino sable fur inside.
Wen Hongchang's face changed drastically, and he watched Zhao Jun unfold the leather nervously.
At this moment, everyone's eyes were focused on that special leather.
"Can I start?" Wen Hongchang asked. Zhao Jun nodded in agreement, and then he started to make the second cloth bag.
Lifting up the albino sable skin, Wen Hongchang carefully touched the fur.
Then, he carefully, patiently and cautiously checked it. When he saw the second piece of leather, Wen Hongchang was not as surprised as before, but just asked Zhao Jun: "You really have two?"
"Yes." Zhao Jun smiled and asked, "Uncle Wen, what price can you give for these two big skins?"
"Two!" Wen Hongchang emphasized the number, then thought about it in his mind and said, "Ten thousand."
When he said this, Wen Hongchang stared at Zhao Jun's eyes. Eyes are the windows to the soul. Some cunning people can hide their emotions, but few can deceive others with their eyes.
Before seeing the white sable fur, although Wen Hongchang was also negotiating business with Zhao Jun, he behaved very calmly and did not use these tricks.
But at this time, Wen Hongchang unknowingly brought out his usual business tactics when negotiating business with others.
If Wen Hongchang observed Li Baoyu and Jie Chen at this time, he would see the surprise that could not be hidden on their faces.
But Wen Hongchang was looking at Zhao Jun, and all he saw in Zhao Jun's eyes at this moment was disappointment.
"No, Uncle Wen?" Zhao Jun said, "Don't you say that making a piece of clothing costs hundreds of thousands? Then these two pieces of leather must also cost thirty or forty thousand?"
Wen Hongchang: “…”
(End of this chapter)