The writers of various newspapers in Chang'an City have been very excited these days.

Wang Ji cotton cloth sent a wave of big advertisements to various newspapers, and then sent a wave of big news.

"The first day of sales of 10,000 yuan!"

"Wang Ji cotton cloth forced the Lu family's linen shop to drop the price!"

"Shocked! Wang Ji cotton cloth guy and Lu family linen shop guy are actually ...... on the street"

"Three years, from scratch, the rise of Wang Ji cotton!"

"A new generation of business wizards, it's actually him?"

……

In just a few days, newspaper sales of various newspaper agencies have risen by 10%.

"Zhu Langjun, Zhu Langjun, go to the West Market, there is big news there again!"

Early in the morning, before Zhu Zhishan's foot stepped into the door of the "Chang'an Evening News", a guy trotted over.

"What's wrong? Could it be that Wang Ji cotton cloth has a conflict with the Lu family's linen cloth shop again? Or was Wang Ji cotton directly smashed? ”

Zhu Zhishan's mood is very relaxed.

During this time, he had already come out of the shadow of Guiyifang's failed investment, and yesterday he also grabbed a house in Workshop City, and someone was willing to buy his house at a price of ten yuan on the same day.

Of course he's not selling!

But the mood is beautiful.

"No, neither! But it's even more exciting than that! ”

The guy's face was flushed with excitement, as if he had seen the "Chang'an Evening News" published this evening, and the whole process was once again hot.

"What's that?"

"Chu Wangfu! The cotton cloth of the Chu Wangfu is about to go on the market! ”

"Isn't that normal? Cotton planting is made by His Royal Highness the King of Chu, although the cotton planting area of the Chu Wangfu is not as good as that of the Taiyuan Wang, but the scale is not small, and it is normal to make cotton cloth for sale by yourself. This news is not exciting at all. ”

Zhu Zhishan glanced at the guy with a little disappointment, and felt that this guy was making a bit of a fuss.

"Zhu Langjun, the listing of cotton cloth in the Chu Wangfu is not a big news, but what if the price of the cotton cloth in the Chu Wangfu is only half of the cotton cloth of Wang Ji?"

"What did you say?"

Zhu Zhishan's other leg was about to step in, but after hearing the man's words, he stopped there alive.

Even if you don't understand business, you know how powerful this kind of "halving" price reduction is.

In addition, the two parties are the Taiyuan Wang clan and the Chu Wang Mansion, oh, and may have to add a Fan Yang Lu clan.

This matter is worth seeing!

"You see, this is the latest publication of "Datang Daily" today, and the cotton cloth advertisement of the Chu Wangfu is placed in the most conspicuous position! Lowest price, best quality! If someone else says this, it may just be an advertisement, but if someone from the Chu Wangfu says it, it's different. ”

"Show me!"

Zhu Zhishan turned around, snatched the newspaper from the man's hand, and then quickly skimmed through it.

"Let's go, you call the groom from the newspaper office, and come with us to the West Market!"

Zhu Zhishan waved the newspaper and said with excitement on his face.

Normally, the newspaper's special carriage did not allow him to ride.

However, the situation is different today.

Even if Changsun Chong stood in front of him, he dared to apply for this luxury four-wheeled carriage to become his exclusive mount today.

……

"Lang Jun, wake up, wake up!"

In the courtyard of the Wang family, a concubine with a good figure nudged Wang Jie who was asleep.

After fighting for so long last night, Wang Jie didn't look like he was going to wake up at all.

On the contrary, it was the concubine who was now full of red light and in good spirits.

"Shopkeeper Wang, Lang Jun is sleeping too soundly, why don't you wait a little longer?"

Seeing that Wang Jie couldn't wake up, the concubine re-walked out of the room and said to Wang Feng outside the room.

Wang Feng is the big shopkeeper of the Taiyuan Wang family, although his status is not as good as that of his descendants, but he is definitely much higher than one of Wang Jie's concubines.

In this era, the attitude of most of the noble sons towards women is really "women are like clothes, brothers are like siblings".

Therefore, Wang Jie's concubine did not dare to offend Wang Feng.

"Little lady, go and call Lang Jun again! I really have a big deal to look for him, and if I don't wake him up, you and I will be unlucky! ”

Wang Feng was very helpless!

I saw him holding a copy of "Datang Daily" in his hand, anxiously urging there.

"But ......"

"No, but! If you can't wake him up, I'll go in and call! ”

Wang Feng gritted his teeth and felt that he couldn't wait any longer.

Just now, he glanced at the table clock in the palace, and now the cotton cloth in the Chu Palace's mansion should have begun to be sold.

If Wang Ji cotton cloth still has no action, then it will definitely be unlucky.

"I ...... I'll call it again! ”

The concubine knew that if Wang Feng was allowed to go in and call, she would be even more unlucky in the end.

It's better to have a heart, and directly make some big moves to wake up Wang Jie.

"Lang Jun, someone is here from Taiyuan! Get up! ”

The concubine also has a trick, Wang Jie, who had not moved all the time, opened his eyes suddenly and sat up from the bed, "Who is coming?" Is it Aya? ”

Although Wang Jie is the eldest son of the Taiyuan Wang family, he is not without opponents.

If his performance is not supported by the clan elders, it will be difficult in the future.

"Lang Jun, it's me, Wang Feng, there's something big going on outside!"

Wang Feng heard the sound in the room and hurriedly said loudly.

You must know that when he saw the price of cotton cloth in the Chu Wangfu this morning, his heart was directly cold.

He couldn't be clearer about the cost of Wang Kee's cotton cloth.

Even if there is room for price reduction, it is impossible to reduce it by half.

If there is a price war with other families, Wang Feng can still have some confidence in quality, and if the cost is not enough, he will not be able to survive.

But compared with the Chu Palace, he has no confidence at all.

"What's wrong? It can't be that the warehouse has been burned, right? ”

Wang Jie chuckled in his heart, feeling that everyone should have forgotten what had passed so many years.

"No, it's more troublesome than a warehouse fire!"

As soon as Wang Feng's words were finished, Wang Jie had already appeared at the door of the room wearing a coat.

Wang Feng came over in such a hurry, something must have happened.

At this time, he didn't think about sleeping in again.

Although his feet were a little soft, he still came out quickly to see Wang Feng.

"The sky is falling, there is a tall man on top, don't worry, you tell me exactly what the situation is!"

As the eldest son of the Taiyuan Wang family, Wang Jie is very confident no matter who or what he faces.

"You take a look at this "Datang Daily" first, and then we will go directly to the cotton cloth shop in the Chu Wangfu to see if it is really the same as what the newspaper says. If so, then one of the cotton cloth shops in Chang'an City will be counted as one, and all of them will have to go out of business. ”

Wang Feng didn't feel comfortable because there were a lot of people on his back.

On the contrary, he was full of worries about the cotton industry of the Taiyuan Wang.

In the entire Tang Dynasty, there is not a single one that can beat the Chu Wangfu in business!

"This ...... At this price, is Li Kuan crazy? He didn't have any money to earn. Not only does he not make money, but he also loses money, what is he trying to do! ”

Wang Jie quickly glanced at "Datang Daily" and knew what Wang Feng was anxious about.

"Regardless of whether the Chu Wangfu makes money or not, if they do this, we will definitely have no way to make money. The most troublesome thing is that I am worried that many people will come to return the goods, and then we will be in big trouble. ”

"Let's go, let's go to the linen shop in the Chu Palace!"

Wang Jie's first reaction was that Li Kuan must have played some tricks this time, otherwise how could there be such a cheap cotton cloth?

……

"Kujo-kun, you must seize this opportunity, if you miss it, maybe there will be no more!"

In the middle of Diandu Dezhong, Wang Fugui talked to Jiujo Xinyi gracefully.

This morning, the cotton cloth shop in the Chu Wangfu was even more lively than expected.

However, for example, there is no need for Wang Fugui, the big shopkeeper, to worry about the specific sales business.

As long as it is certain that the plan formulated by Li Kuan is successful, it is enough.

"Shopkeeper Wang, don't worry, this time I will personally go back to the Wa Kingdom, and I will definitely sell this batch of cotton cloth to all parts of the Wa Kingdom. Although I don't know very well what the price of linen is now, it is definitely not as low as the cotton cloth in the Chu Palace, and even more than twice as high. After bringing back such a good quality cotton cloth, not to mention that it is sold several times more expensive than linen, as long as the price is the same as linen, it is enough to make all linen unsalable. ”

Although Kujou Shinichi hugged Li Kuan's thigh early, he never got involved in the overseas trade between the Wa Kingdom and the Tang Dynasty.

This time, Wang Fugui took the initiative to invite him and handed over the sale of cotton cloth in the Chu Wangfu to him.

There is already a very mature route from Chang'an City to the Wa Kingdom, and the cotton cloth is transported to Dengzhou by ship, and then replaced by sea ship, and the cost of transportation is not very high.

Once the fine cotton cloth of the Tang Dynasty landed in the Waguo market, those linen cloths basically would no longer have any room to survive.

As for whether doing so will lead to the loss of livelihood of a large number of Japanese people, this is not something that Kujo Shinichi cares about, let alone Li Kuan and Wang Fugui.

The more people of the Wa Kingdom had no livelihood, the easier it was for the Tang Dynasty to recruit all kinds of cheap helpers and even slaves from the Wa Kingdom.

Since the first batch of Japanese people who went to Datang to be slaves were allowed to return to China to visit relatives, there has been a trend of going to Datang to be slaves within the Wa Kingdom.

You must know that the slaves of the Tang Xungui family live more comfortably than the small landlords in the country.

"This time, you don't have to think about how much money you make, there will be more opportunities to earn money in the future. No matter how the linen cloth is sold in the country, our cotton cloth is the same price as them, and you don't need to spend more money, you can buy cotton cloth with better quality, more beautiful appearance, more sweat-absorbing and warm, presumably few Japanese people will refuse, right? ”

Wang Fugui is now well versed in doing business, and it is not important to make money in the first transaction.

As long as you monopolize the cloth market in the Wa Kingdom, you don't have the final say on what price you want to sell cotton cloth at that time?

Besides, his own prince did not intend to treat cotton cloth as a violent industry, but hoped to maintain reasonable profits and destroy the traditional linen industry in all countries.

At that time, the price of cotton cloth will be decided by Datang.

The most important thing is that in order to promote the healthy development of cotton cloth overseas, the Metropolitan Governor's Office has also issued a special regulation that all cotton cloth sold at sea must obtain the permission of the local municipal shipping department.

Otherwise, ships are not allowed to go to sea at all.

This puts an end to the behavior of competing for overseas markets and bargaining with each other.

Later generations of Chinese enterprises did not do such things less.

It is said that CSR and CNR, both brother companies, demanded a unified merger because they were bargaining too hard overseas, making a loss and making money.

Today, Li Kuan does not think that the consciousness of the nobles of the Tang Dynasty can be higher than that of later generations.

"Shopkeeper Wang, in fact, we set the price of cotton cloth at about twice the price of linen, which is attractive enough. It's a waste to be like sackcloth. ”

Although Kujo Shinichi does not know the specific price of linen cloth in China, there is still an impression of the general range.

According to Wang Fugui's practice, after this batch of cotton cloth is transported back, excluding the transportation cost, it is estimated that it will really not make any money.

"We're going to put a long line to catch big fish, and if we're just aiming at the pockets of the rich, then the price of cotton cloth is set at three or four times the price of linen, or even higher, someone buys it. But if we want all the people who buy cloth to buy cotton cloth, the price of cotton cloth cannot be more expensive than linen. Even if it's a penny, it's not enough. ”

Being able to monopolize the Japanese market without losing money, Wang Fugui was already very satisfied, and he didn't want to sell cotton cloth at a high price at the beginning.

Anyway, as long as the market of the Japanese country is won, will there be no chance to make money in the future?

"Okay, I see, I must sell cotton cloth according to this positioning. One year, no, just three months, I only need three months to make all the decent burlap shops in the country go out of business. As long as the Japanese people buy cloth, the first thing that comes to mind is the cotton cloth produced in our Chu Palace. ”

With Wang Fugui's pricing requirements, Jiujo Shinichi is full of confidence in promoting cotton cloth.

The reason why it took three months was that the traffic situation in our country was not very good, and it was impossible to spread all the cotton cloth everywhere in a short time.

"Baekje, if you still have extra energy, you can sell it there. Anyway, I want to see that within the next year, all the countries around Datang will use our Datang cotton cloth, so that they can enjoy the same high-quality and inexpensive cotton cloth as the people of Datang. ”

Wang Fugui suddenly felt that his image was taller.

Although there was a special purpose in doing this on their own, the result was that the people used better cotton cloth.

To some extent, this is also a kind of benefit to the people.

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Yan Liang is very busy today!

As the director of the Chang'an County Police Department, he received a contact from Wang Fugui yesterday, asking him to arrange more manpower to go to Xishi today to maintain order.

The cotton cloth shop in the Chu Wangfu is about to open, and it is also a matter of duty to go to the neighborhood to maintain order.

Yan Liang didn't think too much about it.

However, when he rode his bicycle to the vicinity of the cotton cloth shop of the Chu Wangfu, he found that the situation was completely different.

A sea of people!

Yan Liang could only use this word to describe the scene in front of him.

Although "Datang Daily" has only been on sale for less than two hours today, many people in Chang'an City have already developed the habit of reading "Datang Daily" in the morning.

Therefore, the price of cotton cloth in the Chu Wangfu was soon known to everyone.

Many people didn't have time to eat breakfast, so they immediately arranged for someone to go to the scene to buy a few low-priced cotton cloth and come back to see what the difference was between the quality of the cotton cloth and their own.

After all, there is a family in Chang'an City, as long as it is on the table, it has more or less to do with cotton.

After all, on Li Shimin's "list of meritorious heroes", the most important reward for all meritorious heroes is the vast land in the northern part of Hedong Province.

Under Li Kuan's promotion, all these lands were planted with cotton.

Although some families are very simple, they just grow cotton and sell it to others, and they don't even bother to do threshing.

But more nobles are accustomed to doing everything by themselves, from cotton threshing, cotton yarn weaving to cotton cloth production, all by themselves.

These people are actually the most sensitive to the price reduction of cotton cloth in the Chu Palace.

"Director, call for reinforcements ahead, you quickly bring some more brothers over to help!"

When Yan Liang tried his best to barely maintain order in front of the cotton cloth shop in the Chu Palace, a subordinate ran over out of breath.

The West City is crowded with people, and the more lively it is, the more there is no way to ride a horse or a bicycle.

So most of the time, you still have to rely on two legs.

"What's wrong? Why is it so unfortunate this morning, it hasn't been done here, and something happened elsewhere. ”

Yan Liang felt that his head was big for a while.

I didn't look at the yellow calendar when I went out today.

"Five hundred meters ahead is the shop of Wang Ji Cotton Cloth, where more than 300 customers have gathered to ask for returns, and the number of people asking for returns is still increasing rapidly; I'm worried that if I don't control the emotions of the people, something could happen. If someone throws a fire into it, the cotton cloth will be ignited, and the whole West Market will be unlucky. ”

Although green bricks and cement have been more and more widely used in construction.

However, most of the shops in the West Market are still built in the past, and they are all pure wooden houses.

If this is on fire, it will burn a large piece.

"Find a brother to ask the Wannian County Police Department to come and reinforce it, and send so many people to West City at once, I'm worried that there will be chaos in other places."

Yan Liang heard that many people had gathered in front of him asking for returns, and immediately realized that there was the most dangerous place.

Wang Fugui specifically mentioned yesterday that he should pay attention to the maintenance of order in the West Market, if the chain falls today, Yan Liang's future will be cold.

However, at this moment, it is not Yan Liang who really feels that he is going to be cold, but Wang Jie and Wang Feng.

"Lang Jun, are we going to return it or not?"

Wang Jie, who was hiding on the second floor of Wang Ji Cotton, looked at the more and more crowds outside, and his heart was extremely melancholy.

Return, that's all money!

If you don't retreat, the reputation of the Wang family ......

I wrote very clearly on the advertisement, free return within three days.

"Return! I want to return it! ”

"Unscrupulous businessmen, bullying the people!"

"The price is higher than others, the quality is lower than others, what is this!"

Seeing that the crowd below was getting more and more excited, Wang Jie gritted his teeth and finally made up his mind.

"Retreat, retreat! I don't believe that Li Kuan is doing this, other families can stand it. ”

Although the Wang family has the largest area of cotton cultivation, the Du family, the Fang family, the eldest grandson family, and the Wei family ......

Which one hasn't planted tens of thousands of acres?

The amount of cotton cloth added up by these people far exceeds that of the Wang family.

Wang Jie is now counting on the cotton cloth of the Chu Wangfu to engage in such a price war, which can arouse the public anger of others, and everyone will deal with him together when the time comes.

"That'...... Okay, I'll arrange it right away! ”

Wang Feng doesn't talk much nonsense.

As a businessman, he still has a certain bottom line.

He is still willing to do what he has promised.

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"Auntie, can you help bring a message to His Royal Highness the King of Chu, and leave a way for our other merchants to live."

In the house, Lu Xuan came to visit Mrs. Fang with a generous gift.

Although Mrs. Fang doesn't care much about the affairs of the Lu family anymore, she is the daughter of the Fan Yang Lu family after all, and this identity will never change.

The children of the family begged to come to the door, but she didn't care at all.

"Xuan'er, His Royal Highness the King of Chu doesn't steal or rob, and is willing to sell his cotton cloth cheaply, I have no reason to blame him. Not to mention that the Lu family's linen shop was affected, in fact, the cotton cloth of the house could not be sold either. I was thinking that I would start selling them in the past few days, but now they are all piled up in the warehouse. The cotton cloth workshop on the side of the workshop city, I directly asked them to stop work, and the production was a loss anyway. ”

Mrs. Fang naturally wouldn't be so easy to get along with the Chu Palace.

Although with the intimacy of the two families, the Chu Wangfu is likely to sell the face of the lady, but this is not what she wants to see.

Although she is very jealous, her vision is actually very good, and she can be regarded as Fang Xuanling's virtuous helper.

"But when he sells cotton cloth like that, it's completely disrupting the market. I specifically asked people to inquire about it, a cotton cloth, at that price, let alone making money, is 100% going to lose money. He himself lost money, and no one else could make money, which was not in line with the original intention of His Royal Highness the King of Chu to promote cotton planting in Hedong Province. If everyone can't make money, who will grow cotton next year? ”

Lu Xuan's words hit the point.

Encourage everyone to go to Hedong Road to plant cotton, it is your Chu Wangfu who did it.

Now everyone went to plant cotton, but it made the cotton cloth unsellable, and it was also done by the Chu Wangfu.

What does this mean?

"Hey, I know what you're saying! But His Royal Highness the King of Chu has always been very disciplined, even if we can't understand it now, we can see the law when we look back in the future. But since you're worried, I'm going to be cheeky enough to ask. ”

Mrs. Fang is also worried that if Li Kuan continues to do this, no one will plant cotton in Hedong Road next year, and it will become a lose-lose situation, which is not in the interests of the Chu Wangfu and the interests of the nobles.

"Auntie, don't ask! Just now, Wang Fugui has arranged for someone to send a batch of new machinery to our cotton workshop, and the cotton we have not yet processed is all processed by using new machinery, and the production cost can be greatly reduced. Even if it can't reach the level of the Chu Palace, it won't be too bad. When the time comes, we can also sell cotton at a low price. ”

At this time, Fang Yiai came out of the door.

"Erlang, do you mean that the cotton cloth in the Chu Wangfu is so cheap because of the use of new machinery?"

Mrs. Fang keenly grasped the key point in Fang Yu's love words.

"That's right, I went to visit the workshop of the Chu Wangfu today, and the production and sales volume is eight times higher than ours, no wonder people dare to sell so low. You may all think that the Chu Wangfu sells cotton cloth on this side, and you can't get along with everyone, but in fact, it's not, people sell cotton cloth on this side, and there is money to earn, how can this be regarded as not getting along with everyone? ”

"Is there money to be made at such a low price?"

When Lu Xuan heard this, his heart was cold.

Own linen shop, is this really going to be cold?