Sure enough, Chen Shubao and Zhang Dai, who regained their confidence from the monk Baoliang and got inspiration, immediately discussed and adjusted their countermeasures, and decided not to fight with the General Firm, but to deal with the General Firm according to their own strength and family background.

For example, at that time, General Motors Commercial Bank launched new products such as white sugar, fireworks and firecrackers, and Yinhai Commercial Bank immediately arranged a lot of manpower and material resources to conduct research, wanting to imitate these novelties, but the result has not yet come up with a rough idea.

Then the General Merchant Bank launched the paper armor again, because there was no technical monopoly on this thing, but the Yinhai Firm quickly launched the imitation, but the problem came again: the first batch of paper armor orders of Chen Guo's army were handed over to the General Merchant Bank, but because of the suspension of the Northern Expedition, the second batch of paper armor orders have not come out, which makes the Yinhai Commercial Bank, which wants to compete with the General Merchant Bank for orders, and has accumulated a large number of paper armor products, a happy white one.

Recently, General Firm has launched a woman's product called perfume, which made Uncle Chen scold, why does General Firm always make these strange things, and now even women's business is done, which is simply unguardable!

But after smelling these perfumes, he himself fell in love with them, and immediately asked Yinhai Trading Company to study and imitate these perfumes, and as a result, he spent a lot of money and purchased a large number of flowers, but until now he still only squeezes the petals out of the juice, and then he doesn't know anything else, not even alcohol!

Therefore, in the past six months, Yinhai has been following the tail of General Firm, and has invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the new products of imitating General Firm, but there has been no progress!

So now when I hear Bao Liang say this, sure enough, everyone pats their heads and says that the authorities are fascinated, and the bystanders are clear!

Wasting money on these things that can't be imitated, forgetting about their own advantages! And now that the General Commercial Bank has completely gained a foothold and become the second largest commercial bank in the Chen Kingdom, Yinhai Commercial Bank can no longer use all kinds of means to attack comprehensively like it did against those small commercial banks before, so it is time to change its strategy.

Zhang Dai took out a stack of data analysis and said: "Salt and iron are our foundation, although it has now been intervened by the General Firm, but we still have the majority: in terms of salt, there is only one place in Haiyan County that provides sea salt to the General Firm, but the other salt production bases in Chen Guo are still the territory of our Yinhai Firm, I have sent additional people to strengthen the control over these places, and they will never provide a grain of salt for the General Firm!" ”

"As for the iron aspect, according to the information we have inquired about, the output of iron products of the General Commercial Bank has always been very small, and they say that it is because of our blockade of raw materials that they can only put manpower and material resources in the mining of the mine, and the iron workshop can only produce all kinds of iron tools on a small scale, but these iron tools are very sought-after, and the quality is much better than the iron produced by our Yinhai Commercial Bank!"

"Therefore, in these two businesses, we still maintain the advantage of GM Commercial Bank! As for sugar, and now their new perfumes, Your Highness, I don't think we can blindly follow the tail of the General Firm, those products that have never been heard of before, we can't imitate them at all! Zhang Dai said cowardly.

"Is there really no way to imitate it? These are hot goods, not to mention that white sugar is already a best-selling product in various countries, the perfume that has only been launched for a few days, and now it is even used in the palace, and the father is ready to include it in the tribute! I believe that it will soon spread to various countries, and it will definitely bring a lot of silver to the general trading house at that time! Chen Shubao said very disappointed.

"Your Highness, please forgive your subordinates for their incompetence! But these products really can't be imitated, we have invested a lot of manpower and material resources, but there is still no result, we can't waste this money anymore! Zhang Dai had wanted to say this for a long time, but he had been losing power before, and if he said these things that made Chen Shubao angry, he would definitely not be able to eat and walk around, so today he took advantage of Baoliang to take the lead in suggesting, and he dared to say what was in his heart.

"Before, Hongu was really in a bit of a hurry! So where do we start now? If there are only two businesses left, salt and iron, it shouldn't be able to beat the General Firm, right? Chen Shubao, who calmed down, was no longer stubborn and said loosely.

"Let's start with the grain!" Zhang Dai said confidently: "I analyzed the industries under the General Commercial Bank and found that although they have been involved in many industries now, except for salt and iron, the others are some auxiliary industries, such as cloth mills, paper mills, wine mills, etc., but they have not yet involved the grain sector!" ”

"Grain? Are we going to open a grain farm? The crowd asked.

"That's right! Because of the Northern Expedition, the emperor ordered the whole country to requisition grain, and the grain collected was managed by the government, so those original grain merchants could not buy grain from grain farmers, and many people couldn't do business! Therefore, if His Royal Highness suggests that the emperor should open a franchised grain farm by our Yinhai Commercial Bank, and let these grain merchants come to us to get the goods, then the grain can be firmly controlled by us! Zhang Dai said with a little excitement.

"Although the Northern Expedition is suspended now, it should continue after the year! Moreover, this time the warehouse has been opened for disaster relief before, and it is impossible for my father to take out too much grain from the official warehouse and sell it to those grain merchants, and our grain farm will not be able to operate at that time! Chen Shubao said worriedly.

"Your Highness can rest assured, the Northern Expedition is a major event of the country, and grain and grass are the top priority, of course I won't fight the idea of grain in those official warehouses, I just want the emperor to authorize us to buy grain!" Zhang Dai said with a smile.

"Buying grain? Where do the current grain farmers still have grain stocks, they have all been forcibly requisitioned and transferred! Those who have surplus food in their hands are the only ones ... Do you want to buy food from them? Shen Keqing asked in surprise.

"Lord Shen guessed right! I'm just going to buy grain from these powerful and aristocratic landlords! Now most of the land in the Chen Kingdom is in their hands, and their annual harvest is, to put it bluntly, more than that of the official warehouse! Moreover, the grain requisitioned in the Northern Expedition was all requisitioned from those small landlords and small grain farmers who had no background, and these big landlords only took out a little bit, but they still had a lot of grain in their hands! Therefore, with the good relationship between our Yinhai Commercial Bank and them, and the support of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince behind us, coupled with the emperor's authorization, we can use both soft and hard, and we will definitely be able to buy a lot of grain! Zhang Dai said confidently.

"Well, these landlords do have a lot of grain in their hands, and the emperor also thought about requisitioning grain from them when he was requisitioning grain, but it was opposed by many people, and the involvement was too great, so he finally gave up!" Shen Ke said lightly.

"We are using our relationship to acquire, which is different from the emperor's forced requisition, and I have already discussed it with them, and they have also expressed their support for my idea! That's why I dared to make this suggestion to Your Highness. Zhang Dai said with a smile.

"Will the general trading house also be like us, build a grain farm, and also intervene? King Xing should also have a lot of landlords to support him, right? Chen Shubao asked worriedly.

"Don't worry about this! The General Trading House has only been established for a year, and he has no foundation in the land at all, and King Xing has now been transferred to Jiangzhou, but those gate valve landlords are basically in Jinling, so they are more inclined to Your Highness! At that time, we will firmly control the grain in our hands, and the general commercial bank will not be able to intervene at all! Zhang Dai comforted.

"Good! Then the palace will propose to my father tomorrow! Just like the teacher said, we can't wait for the general firm to make a move before we take the call, this time it's our turn to take the initiative, control the food in our hands, and see how the general firm copies, haha! Chen Shubao said with a smile.