Chapter 150: Prologue - Desperate Survival
Crazy! Utter madness!
"500,000 guan!" This is the price of a piece of sandy land by the river with a radius of less than two miles!
However, you must know that Xu Chen didn't spend a penny at all when he got this land that stretched for dozens of miles!
"600,000 times!"
"800,000 guan!"
……
After losing trust in each other, the merchants who participated in the auction were now in complete madness!
Originally, these people were all very shrewd businessmen, who had been in business for half their lives, and they had never seen anything difficult?
It's just that this time, in the face of the huge profits that may be obtained, everyone's hearts are already a little uneasy, plus they were provoked by Xu Chen's counter-intrigues, and the business gang and the alliance that usually rely on each other for survival have become so hateful at this moment, and when the trust disappears, the persistence in the heart will be broken.
Faith is the strongest, but it is also the most fragile, and when a long-held belief is shattered in an instant, even the strongest person will have a period of confusion.
And Xu Chen was in front of the temptation after crushing the persistence of these people, the wisdom of the past did not play any role at this moment, and this group of smart businessmen was finally defeated by a businessman who was even smarter than them!
There was no suspense in the rest of the auction, and a group of businessmen who had lost their minds, like a group of gamblers who had lost a qiē, did not hesitate to put down the chips in their hands.
The price of the remaining land is getting higher and higher, and everyone's cash is no longer enough to support such a high price, and soon, the rule that Xu Chen said in advance was remembered, like a straw caught by a drowning man.
Houses have been sold, shops have been transferred, and merchants have abandoned everything for the land in the square outside the city!
In fact, for today, such a high auction price has long exceeded the price of those land outside the city, but the businessmen who have invested so much heart and soul are no longer allowed to get nothing at this moment!
Of course, the more and more tourists attracted by the square outside the city have become the last obsession in the hearts of these people at this moment, as long as there are more and more tourists, then the high price paid today can be slowly earned back in the future.
"At least you won't lose!" is what these people are thinking now, and what is the difference between them and the gamblers in the casino?
The crazy people continue to go crazy, but the sober people still watch this farce with cold eyes.
At this moment, the leaders of these merchant gangs sat there quietly, anger, ridicule, loss, etc., all kinds of emotions filled their hearts, but there was no trace on their faces.
"Revenge! Revenge!" This was the first thought that involuntarily arose in the hearts of these business tycoons present, but the smiling face and the fate of the legendary water bandits on Changshan Island resurfaced in their minds, and these ordinary businessmen who did not have much force extinguished their thoughts of revenge.
This is also the sorrow of these ordinary merchants! No matter how rich they are, they are still lowly merchants! Those high-rollers with special skills would rather choose a family than consider them, and how can they really rest assured that they will recruit a master to accompany them?
In the final analysis, it is because of their shallow background! They can only unite with each other, and use the means on the surface to fight with those big families, even so, they will win more and lose less!
As a result, such a group will fall apart in a matter of moments after losing trust in each other!
Xu Chen's every step was openly hit at their weakest point, such an opponent, how can you make them have the belief of revenge?
When the last piece of land was sold for an unprecedented price, the auction was finally over!
Counting the hours, in fact, it was only more than half a day, but everyone present seemed to have integrated their lives into it.
There is no joy, no sadness, and no resentment! All of them seem to have vented their life's love on the auction just now.
Some of them were just ox carts slowly driving away from Qiushui Pavilion, and only the old cow in front of the cart was still moving forward without hurry.
The passion will subside, but the nightmare seems to have just begun!
After returning home, the merchant just casually calculated an account, and then came to the conclusion lightly: "This ordinary business, after being used by the opponent, took away all the savings of half of his life, in exchange for the only fantasy and vision for the future." ”
In such an era of backward communication and relying on their own reputation, "reputation" is the life of a businessman, and the "Yonghui Law" also states that once a businessman has made a contract, he needs to implement it without reservation, and under the double constraints of morality and law, no businessman will have the idea of breaking his promise.
Even if you are sad in your heart, you can only wait quietly at home for the shopkeeper of Qiushui Pavilion to come to hand over to you, as for going out to discuss with your friends...... What face will they have to see each other, whose faces have been torn apart?
It's just that a few days later, when Mu Chun came to these merchants' mansions with a new stack of contracts, those already desperate merchants came to life again!
Holding that stack of papers, gratitude, excitement, and a hint of ecstasy!
With such a rich expression, Mu Chun has seen it many times these days!
"Wang Dongjia, I don't know what our owner thinks?" Mu Chun put down the teacup and said with a smile to the middle-aged man surnamed Wang that day.
The severe wound on his face a few days ago has not yet healed, and now he is still wrapped in thick gauze on his forehead, which also wraps his left eye.
Now, the middle-aged man surnamed Wang stared at Mu Chun with his only remaining right eye, grabbed the stack of papers tightly with both hands, asked Mu Chun tremblingly, and said, "Mu ...... Shopkeeper Mu...... Is that true?"
"Hehe, is it possible that the shopkeeper of the king thinks that I, Mu someone, came here today to make a special trip to anger Your Excellency?" Mu Chun sneered, and the figure sitting there was faintly a bit of power.
"No, no, no, I didn't mean that......! It's just ......" The middle-aged surnamed Wang stammered, and he couldn't say a word.
"It's just that happiness came too suddenly, and it's a little uncomfortable to deal with, right?" Mu Chun changed a kind smile on his face in an instant, and said with a sentence he had learned from his owner.
"Well, yes, yes, right, Shopkeeper Mu is right!"
There are several brothers and sisters in the family, he is skinny, he can't do heavy work, and his parents don't want to raise such a mouth for eating in vain, so they sent him to the restaurant as a buddy early, not so much to give away, but to sell, an employment contract is signed a death deed, and the restaurant has been his home since then!
Later, in order to survive, he learned to be exquisite, and also stole the chef's craft, every time in the dead of night, he would run into the kitchen, feel out a radish and chew it in his mouth, and then use the chef's leftover leftovers, carefully recall the scene of the day, little by little.
Later, he replaced the chef, and Wang Slender slowly became Wang Fat.
In the end, Wang Fatzi married the daughter of the restaurant owner, became the boss himself, and then opened the restaurant all over Yuzhang City with his own hands.
It's just that this time the madness almost consumed half of his body's efforts, and just as he was about to start over again by relying on the piece of land in the square, the hateful Xu Chen, who had taken away a qiē from him, actually returned his things, although he was going to take a name, but these things were still in his hands.
How can he not be surprised, can he not suffer from gains and losses?
"Okay, if the Wang Dongjia agrees to this contract, then let's sign it! Old Mu, I still have several more families to run!" Mu Chun stood up and urged.
"Okay, okay, I'll sign it right away!" Wang Fatzi grabbed the brush on the desk casually, and hurriedly signed his name on the paper, for fear that the other party would regret it.
After Mu Chun saw the other party signing, he nodded with a smile, and after putting away the stack of papers, he went to the next line......
While Mu Chun was visiting these businessmen everywhere, Xu Chen also went to meet a few people.
The first is naturally Yuzhang who guards Wang Xian too much!
After all, these wastelands were all granted to them by the other party, which is almost equivalent to giving them away for nothing.
Now that he has sold these lands for a sky-high price of several millions, if he doesn't talk to Wang Xian, I'm afraid that Wang Xian will regret scolding Xu Chen for treacherous in his dreams at night!
After all, there is still a place for Wang Xian to be used in the rest of the plan, and besides, only those who know how to share benefits can get more benefits, and for this reason, Xu Chen must also go to the palace.
The disciples were all acquaintances, and they led Xu Chen in directly without reporting.
Wang Xian was in the study at the moment, painting quietly with a paintbrush in his hand, and when Xu Chen came, he met Wang Xian painting to the key point, and after the door retreated, Xu Chen waited quietly on the side.
After a long time, Wang Xian put away the pen, grabbed the wet wipes on the shelf on the side and applied it to his face, and then said to Xu Chen with a smile: "What's the matter?
"You old boy really can't pretend to be able to do it!" Xu Chen moved his legs, which were already numb, and sneered.
It's just that he still maintains a respectful smile on his face, and says humbly: "In fact, I came here a few days ago and accidentally got a pair of Wang Youjun's calligraphy, and the kid was only shallow and couldn't judge, so he thought about asking the adults to identify one or two." ”
Xu Chen didn't respond to Wang Xian's ridicule, and directly threw out the killer weapon in his hand, but he spent 800,000 yuan to buy this calligraphy and painting shop, which was a treasure kept by the other party, and he would never sell it!
It's just that Xu Chen has been a little busy recently, and he didn't have the heart to negotiate the price with him, so he directly threw out a sky-high price of 500,000 yuan, smashing the other party for a while.
Then when the other party was about to open his mouth again, he added another 100,000 guan, and so three times, and finally the opponent's defense line collapsed first!
So, Xu Chen, who had only been in the door for a quarter of an hour, didn't even drink a sip of tea, and walked out of the door of the calligraphy and painting shop with a wooden box in his arms, and then rushed to Wang Xian.