"Impulsive, too impulsive!"

Fang You walked back and forth in the room angrily, wanting to say a few words about Shen Lu, but he didn't know how to speak. I didn't say a few words, but I was so angry that I could only pace back and forth.

Shen Lu himself drank tea like no one else, as if he had nothing to do with him.

After a while, Bai Xin'er came in with the account book and said to Shen Lu: "The sundries we collected yesterday cost nine hundred and thirty-four taels of gold. According to rough statistics, the goods that can be sold can be returned to less than 400 taels. ”

Shen Lu nodded and said, "The loss is much smaller than I imagined. ”

Fang Yourong said angrily: "The loss of five hundred taels of gold is nothing, but this is only the first month, will you continue to receive their goods in the future?" Yesterday, many people didn't have time to bring the goods, and next month everyone will receive the news, and this loss will at least increase by more than five times!"

Shen Lu knew that what Fang Yourong said was not an exaggeration at all, but he still sighed lightly and said, "Then what should I do, I can't sit idly by and ignore the situation like yesterday." ”

Fang Yourong said patiently: "It's not wrong for you to teach that group of unreasonable people, but your mistake is that you shouldn't burn down the cargo ship! Those ships are not the members of these caravans, they are the ships of the Fujia Chamber of Commerce." Lesson caravans are not a big deal, everyone is in business, as long as the interests are in place, it is easy to say anything. But you directly ruined the guy who ate with others, even if the other party really wanted to continue to do business with you, he couldn't get off the stage. ”

Fang Yourong is well versed in the way of doing business and knows which bottom lines can be touched and which ones cannot be touched.

Shen Lu took out the blood of the Red Pupil Hanjiao, which was a very smart move. As a chamber of commerce, there is no way not to covet this batch of precious beast blood.

If Shen Lu only injured a few people, or even disabled a few people, the Fujia Chamber of Commerce might turn a blind eye and continue to cooperate with Shen Lu.

But the blatant provocation of burning the ship is tantamount to directly standing on the opposite side of the Fujia Guild. In this case, if the Fujia Chamber of Commerce still reconciles with Shen Lu, it will be really embarrassing.

Therefore, Shen Lu burned the ship yesterday, and today the news of the Fujia Chamber of Commerce spread all over Yong'an Country.

The Fujia Chamber of Commerce announced that it would no longer do business with anyone in Snowy City, and would sue Shen Lu in front of the royal family.

Fang Yourong and the Fujia Chamber of Commerce also have a very deep cooperation, and now they are forced to put it on hold for a period of time, and the losses are extremely serious.

"Uncle Fang, although I don't know how to do business, I know very well what it means to destroy those two merchant ships. Shen Lu took a deep breath and said, "Recently, I plan to go to Changge City in person, isn't there a branch of the Fujia Chamber of Commerce there? ”

"Impossible, but...... If it's you, maybe it really is. Since you still have to cooperate with them, why do you want to offend them once in advance, is there any other plan?" Fang Yourong asked puzzled.

Shen Lu told some details of the conversation with the group of caravans yesterday, and finally concluded: "Doing business is a win-win situation, not that the people of Syracuse City must be obedient to his Fujia Chamber of Commerce. If we don't give them the impression that I don't want to mess with, no matter how much goods I give them in the future, they will look down on us and the people of Syracuse from the bottom of their hearts. ”

Fang Yourong was stunned, he had never thought of this.

Due to the remote location of Snowy City, it is often at a disadvantage in business transactions, which Fang Yourong, the richest man in Snowy City, actually knows best.

There have been countless times when Fang Yourong betrayed his dignity and made false promises with the other party. Knowing that the other party looks down on him, he still has to constantly curry favor with the other party in order to promote the success of the business.

Shen Lu has a very good saying, since doing business is a win-win situation, why should I be obedient to you? My goods cannot be sold, and I will indeed suffer heavy losses. But if you don't have my goods, don't you have a loss?

Fang Yourong sighed: "Hey, maybe I've been a businessman for too long, and I don't know what dignity is. However, in business, there must be a strong side and a weak side. It's really hard to achieve what you call absolutely fair scenarios. ”

Shen Lu said, "Uncle Fang, I never thought about fairness or unfairness. If there has to be a strong side, why can't it be us?"

"Ah, this ...... Can you do it?"

Shen Lu lowered his voice and said, "Uncle Fang, don't be angry if I say something. You said that if you do business for a long time, you will lose your dignity, and I completely agree with that. You will not be dignified, is it true that the people of the Rich A Chamber of Commerce are very dignified? They are all businessmen, and what you have experienced, they must have also experienced it? As long as the things I take out are valuable enough to deter them all, they will also be undignified at that time, crying and shouting to cooperate with me. ”

Fang Yourong was shocked to realize that Shen Lu was planning to offend the Fujia Chamber of Commerce fiercely, and then use huge benefits to induce them to cooperate, so that the positions of the two sides would be completely reversed.

In the future, it will not be the people of Snowy City who will beg the Fujia Chamber of Commerce to buy the goods, but the people of the Fujia Chamber of Commerce who will not dare to offend Shen Lu, so they must take the initiative to come to Mansnow City to buy goods.

"It's a risky idea. However, if it can be done, it will indeed allow Syracuse to gain the initiative in commercial transactions. ”

Thinking of this, Fang Yourong, who had been straining his face, finally eased his expression a lot.

He had always thought that Shen Lu had destroyed those two ships on the spur of the moment, but now at least it showed that Shen Lu had thought about governing the city.

Although the idea is bold, it is not completely without opportunities.

"And that's not all. Xin'er, bring me the map I studied yesterday, the same map that the boy's father sent. ”

Xin'er got the order and went to the study to get the map.

Shen Lu explained to Fang Yourong by the way: "Yesterday at the dock, I bought a teenager's python skin, so that he had money to buy pills for his father. Last night, this young man sent me a picture, and passed on his father's words: As long as you follow the plan in the map, you can help Snowy City and even Yong'an Kingdom get rid of poverty. ”

Fang Yourong was surprised and said: "What picture is so powerful, I want to see this." ”

Not long after, Xin'er came back with the map, the two spread out on the table, and Shen Lu carefully explained the location on the map.

"This is Snowy City, and not far away is Qianpan Mountain. The reason why our Yong'an Kingdom is a small closed country is because these Qianpan Mountains stretch for hundreds of miles, and strange beasts are rampant, and there is no way to pass through directly, so we are isolated from the world. But what if we carved a road straight through this mountain?"

Shen Lu said, pointing to a dotted line on the map: "This place is the best place to build roads." First of all, it is short horizontally and vertically, and it can quickly cross the Qianpan Mountain. The second is that the surrounding beasts are not strong, and you only need to put a monster stone at intervals on the road to prevent them from getting close to the road. ”

After listening to Shen Lu's excited words, Fang Yourong poured a basin of cold water and said: "First of all, these roads are mountain roads, and we have to build them over mountains and mountains, and the length of the roads is much longer than in the map. This is not only time-consuming and laborious, but also requires the use of countless exorcism stones. In addition, the mountain road is steep, which is not suitable for transporting goods. Your idea is very good, but the idea of building a mountain road has been thought of by many people for a long time, but it has never been realized. ”

"Who said I was going to build a winding and rugged mountain road? The road I was going to build was a straight line! If there was a mountain in the way, just dig up the mountain and dig a passage to get out! In this way, the distance will be shorter, the road will not be steeper, and there will be fewer exorcism stones, wouldn't it be the best of all three worlds?"

Fang Yourong was stunned, stared at the trade route carefully for a long time, his brows gradually stretched, and he nodded: "Not bad, it seems to be really feasible! Miners have the ability to open mountains and gravel, if enough miners help, this road may be built within a year or two!"

Shen Lu smiled, took out a two-star cleric token, and said, "The father of the child I saved last night is a two-star miner. ”

Then, Shen Lu said everything that the young man had described last night.

It turned out that the boy's father used to belong to the priesthood guild in Changge City, and under the planning of the guild leader, he had this plan to open up the road.

However, this project requires the long-term support of a large number of clergy, and it requires a lot of money. Although the president has applied to the royal family of Changge City for road construction countless times, he has been rejected miserably.

The president resigned from his position in frustration and went to work as a teacher at the Changge Academy. And some of the miners under the president also quit the guild with him.

Although this plan has been shelved, these people have been waiting for an opportunity to help Yong'an Guo open up trade routes.

This time, Shen Lu recaptured Snowy City with a thunderbolt, and tried his best to help the people in the city rebuild their homes, all of which was seen by the young man's father.

Because of this, the young man's father felt that Shen Lu had the ability to build this road.

In the end, Shen Lu's eyes seemed to be shining with golden light, and he said with longing: "I originally wanted to form my own fleet to trade, but I didn't expect that now there is a better solution! For us, no matter how good the waterway is, it is not as efficient and stable as the land route." As long as this road can be built and controlled by our Snowy City, I am confident that Snowy City will surpass Changge City and become the most prosperous and rich city in Yong'an Country!

Fang Yourong was stunned and said, "Small goal, this is already an extremely ambitious pursuit! The lofty ambition that you told me at the beginning, Lord City Lord, actually really wanted to achieve it. This seems that I am a little angry, and if I offend a rich A Chamber of Commerce, I will come to ask you about the guilt. If this road can really be built, a second-rate chamber of commerce like the Fujia Chamber of Commerce will only grovel to us in the future!"

I don't know if he was affected by Shen Lu's grand ideals, Fang Yourong also felt as if he was dozens of years younger, and he was suddenly full of motivation to help Shen Lu complete his 'small goal'.

"So I went to Changge City not only for the matter of the Fujia Chamber of Commerce, but also to go to the Changge Academy to find this former elder. As long as he gives an order, he will definitely be able to recall his former subordinates and help us build roads. ”

Before Shen Lu's words fell, suddenly Zheng Tianbing rushed in in a hurry, holding several letters in his hand. As soon as he entered the door, he shouted loudly: "Oh no, my lord, something is wrong!"