"Haha, I can't imagine that now the General Comptoir has been reduced to the point of looking for these lowly beggars as subordinates! Do they have no money to hire nursing home thugs? Chen Shubao sneered.

"Good and good, all living beings are equal, and God has the virtue of a good life, this young man named Jiang Shun was originally a beggar, but now he can unite other beggars to form a beggar gang, and also help those poor people, which makes the old man very admired! And now these beggars have food to eat, and they won't cause trouble, which is also a great help to our Chen rule! Bao Liang smiled.

"This beggar gang can really help us manage those poor people, as long as they don't make trouble, the world will be peaceful! Haha, using the poor to manage the poor, why didn't we think of this trick before? Chen Shubao also smiled.

"This beggar gang is a gang that has only recently emerged, a group of beggars formed less than a month to defeat the Cao gang on the other side of the dock, and now it is a great reputation, and I heard that this Jiang Shun is only the deputy leader of the beggar gang, but their gang leader is a mysterious person, which makes Jean even more curious! And the beggar gang is a gang, and now the wharf is their territory, so of course the general trading house has to have a good relationship with them when doing business there, but this general trading house really doesn't play cards according to the routine, and this time it turned out to be a gambling stall! Zhang Dai said puzzled.

"General Commercial Bank was suppressed by Boss Zhang, you are going to do these businesses that can't be put on the table, which means that they can't hold on, so many employees have to eat, it is estimated that they will do any lowly business!" Shen Ke chuckled.

"But I heard that the general business to open this gambling stall is just a pre-publicity role, they have bought a building in the city, ready to open a bigger, more luxurious casino, now in the renovation, it is estimated that it will be opened by the end of the year, but the gambling games they came up with, it is really fun, especially the card game called poker, now many people are playing! When the time comes, if this luxurious casino opens, I'm afraid there will be a lot of curious people to patronize it! Zhang Dai had a faint sense of crisis in his heart.

"Then we'll open a casino and fight against them!" Uncle Chen said domineeringly.

"Your Highness's words are wrong, although we have now regained the advantage in the competition with the General Firm, but we must not make random moves as before, we are not good at this kind of unpopular business, we still have to think carefully before making plans, now we should continue to focus on the business we are good at!" Zhang Dai immediately persuaded.

"Yes, yes, yes! Hongu almost made the same mistake as last time, always following them, nothing good! "Uncle Chen has grown wise, and he doesn't dare to be as radical as before.

"We have suppressed the General Comptoir to the greatest extent in the grain sector, plus they have King Xing behind them, and now the General Comptoir has also withstood our blows, so it should be our turn to be on the salt and iron this time!" Zhang Dai said with a smile.

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Zhang Dai relied on the salt and iron business to make the Yinhai Commercial Bank the largest commercial house in Chen Guo, so if he wanted to maintain the first position, he had to firmly control the two bulk businesses of salt and iron.

So, Zhang Dai made a move to the general firm, in the iron area, with the various means of the crown prince Chen Shubao, both soft and hard, so that the military department to give priority to the army's weapons and equipment, except for paper armor, all other iron weapons and tools, must be given priority to the use of Yinhai Commercial Bank Iron Workshop.

Then, regardless of the cost, a large number of cheap iron products were launched in the people, and the price advantage was used to further hit the market of the iron workshop of the general firm, because most of the living ironware did not have high requirements for quality, so the general firm with high product prices was robbed of most of its business in this price war!

With a number of salt production bases, a large amount of salt was mobilized for dumping, so that the price of salt plummeted, and the general firm only supplied sea salt in Haiyan County, if the salt price was lowered, it would inevitably affect the income of salt households, and if the salt price was not lowered, it would be robbed of customers by Yinhai Commercial Bank with low-priced salt.

"Young master, it seems that this Zhang Dai really wants to exterminate our general trading firm, and he actually used this trick to kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred!" Zu Yuan sneered.

"Does it affect us a lot?" Xiao Yao asked.

"Hmph, this time their wishful thinking is going to fail, we didn't have much share in the salt and iron business, and the order of the military department is only paper armor. In addition, the iron workshop has been in the mining stage, the output is not high, and the products are also positioned on high-quality Suzhou iron weapons, they can't use these cheap iron tools to snatch away those rich customers who value quality! So they just look menacing now, but in fact, our iron workshop is still like that, and the weapons produced by the iron are hard to find! Zu Yuan smiled.

"I didn't think about asking them to make weapons for the army, just concentrate on making all kinds of firearms for me! What about the salt? If the price of salt falls, will it have a big impact on Haiyan County? Xiao Yao asked.

"The impact is not very big, He County ordered a letter saying that now they are using the young bishop's salt drying method in Haiyan County, so the output of sea salt has increased greatly, so they have long been prepared for the price drop, but this time Yinhai Commercial Bank has joined other salt production bases to make a move, and the price of sea salt has dropped a little too much, and they are also doing loss-making business, they want to drag us to death!" Zu Yuan said a little angrily.

"Haiyan County has just been hit hard by the typhoon, and it needs a lot of money to rebuild, so we can't let them block the knife for us, since the Yinhai Merchants Bank has lowered the price of salt and taken out so much salt, why don't we use it to benefit other people and sell them to other places that need salt!" Xiao Yao said with a smile.

"What does the young lord mean that we buy all their salt and sell it to other countries? However, there is a decree in the law of the country, and salt, like grain, must be sold by the government, and cannot be easily sold to enemy countries! Zu Yuan said.

"Now that Chen's demand for salt is saturated, there is still so much salt, it will definitely flow to other countries, not only Zhou Qi and the two countries, but even Xiliang has a strong demand for these salts! If we let the salt dealers who smuggle salt make a profit, it is better for us to make it ourselves! Moreover, we have trade contacts with all countries, and there are many ways to sell salt, and with Chen Shuling, the king of Xing, as a cover, we should sell more and earn more than those salt dealers! Xiao Yao said with a smile.

"If you really want to be these salt dealers who smuggle salt, it's really a lucrative business! In addition, he made Chen Shuling spit out the silver before, which made him extremely painful, and now he told him that this profiteering business can earn back a lot of silver, he is definitely willing! Zu Yuan also pinched his beard and said with a wicked smile.

Soon, Zhang Dai, who made a move to the General Iron Firm, found that the output of weapons made by the Iron Workshop of the General Firm was lower, but the price of those high-quality Suzhou Iron Weapons was higher!

And because too many cheap and ordinary ironware were sold, the fame of the Yinhai Commercial Bank became ordinary, which made people have the illusion that the poor went to the Yinhai Commercial Bank, and the rich went to the General Commercial Bank!

Moreover, Zhang Dai also found that his salt sold quickly, and there were people waiting in long lines in the store every day to buy salt, which made him feel a little strange.

Because after the last time he passed through Haiyan County, he didn't feel that he was no longer involved in the headless business of smuggling salt, and he couldn't imagine that the General Merchant House would dare to be so bold and kill the salt gang on the charge of smuggling salt, and then he himself became a salt dealer, not only smuggling salt, but also smuggling to other countries!