Once the market is saturated, it will be difficult to guarantee the price of commodities, and the profits of businessmen will be infinitely depressed, or even unprofitable, and this is a situation that no businessman wants to see. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the era of planned economy in later generations, people who are bold and secretly do a business may earn more than others who work hard for half a year, and sell goods abroad may earn more than others in a lifetime.

This is because ordinary people are not allowed to do business, no one can compete with these daring people, and the profits are naturally very high, and once a large number of ordinary people pour into the ranks of doing business, business will become very difficult to do.

When China just began to open up the market, any business could earn a lot of money, and everyone who did business made a fortune, and after a few decades, there were more and more businessmen doing business, and business had long been saturated, and many new businessmen were basically unprofitable, and eventually they could only go bankrupt.

The saturation of commerce, the most injured is naturally the businessmen, the common people can take the opportunity to buy enough cheap goods, in line with their interests, but the businessmen are more concerned about their own interests, how can they consider the interests of the people.

As businessmen, they are afraid that the market will be saturated and their income will be weakened, so they will do everything possible to prevent this from happening.

At this moment, what Zhang Batian is doing is to artificially control the saturation of commerce, so that the overseas trade he is engaged in can make a lot of money forever, and his children and grandchildren are endless.

And this is the business prosperity pursued by Ang Lee, are completely two concepts, Ang Lee knows that the current business in Datang is still a little underdeveloped, and many people should have the necessities of life can not be supplied normally, which shows that business still has great potential, far from reaching the level of saturation, and business saturation is not terrible, the market will take the initiative to adjust everything, after business saturation, there will naturally be many people who choose to give up, so that business can reach a balanced state.

"This official understands that President Zhang hopes that his children and grandchildren can easily eat the bowl of rice of overseas trade, but this official is mainly to exterminate the pirates, and after the pirates are completely exterminated, it is estimated that President Zhang will not have much advantage in the future,"

Li An said coldly.

As long as he led the army to exterminate the pirates along the way, all the merchants could do trade smoothly, so that the competitive pressure would be greater, the price of goods would naturally be greatly reduced, and the lucrative overseas trade would return to rationality.

Zhang Batian didn't seem to be nervous, and said calmly: "Li Shilang can personally lead the troops to exterminate the pirates, which is enough to show that the imperial court still cares about us merchants, but, in the old foolish opinion, the imperial court sends troops to exterminate the pirates, the cost is bound to be huge, and the pirates are home all over the world, and a temporary defeat may be scattered, but as long as the soldiers and horses of the imperial court leave, he will gather again, rob the passing merchant ships, and even in order to retaliate, the robbery is more ferocious, so, the court's kindness will harm us merchants!" ”

Of course Li An will not believe Zhang Batian's nonsense, this kind of person will only consider his own interests, how can he think so far, and he also misunderstood Li An's intentions, Li An wants to maintain troops and horses on the Maritime Silk Road for a long time, rather than scattering pirates and evacuating.

"President Zhang is too worried, the determination of the imperial court is very great, not only to completely eliminate the pirates, but also, to maintain a strong army and horses in the places where the pirates once haunted, and to keep the waterway safe forever, therefore, the situation that President Zhang said will not appear, in the future, all merchants can rest assured and boldly go to overseas trade, and the Tang Navy will protect your safety."

Ang Lee expressed his attitude.

Zhang Batian's face was slightly cold, and he felt that Li An in front of him was really difficult to deal with, so he pondered for a moment and said: "Li Shilang, if you maintain soldiers and horses overseas all the year round, a small number of soldiers and horses is not enough to deter pirates, and a large number of soldiers and horses will cost a lot, which will inevitably bring huge financial pressure to the imperial court!" The financial resources of the imperial court may far exceed the toll paid by us merchants to the pirates, and it seems that the gains outweigh the losses. ”

A persuasion failed, and Zhang Batian came up with another set of persuasion opinions, but Li An was unmoved, which made Zhang Batian seem a little helpless.

"The court is in charge of our businessmen at any cost, and the old man is very moved, although the old man knows the pirates, but the old man is also very dissatisfied with the pirates' tricks and robbers, if Li Shilang can put down the pirates in one fell swoop, the old man is also happy to see it."

Zhang Batian had no choice but to say so.

"Haha! Chairman Zhang was deeply pleased to understand the painstaking efforts of the imperial court, but this time the official not only wanted to exterminate the pirates, but also to exterminate those who had colluded with the pirates and done bad things, and hoped that after Chairman Zhang returned, he would tell other businessmen that if anyone colluded with the pirates, they should immediately come to ask for the guilt, and tell the situation of the pirates, and the officials would give them a light punishment, otherwise, when the officials found out, they would never be spared. ”

Li An said loudly, and checked Zhang Batian's expression.

Zhang Batian was not nervous at all, and bent down and said: "The old man will definitely convey Li Shilang's words, but the merchants of the old decay chamber of commerce are honest business people, and they do not collude with pirates, but when they pay the toll, they will just say a few words to the pirates, and there is no deeper communication." ”

Li An smiled slightly, nodded and said, "That's good, this official also hopes so." ”

"Old decay farewell."

Zhang Batian returned with a feather, his expression a little displeased.

"Big brother, I always feel that this Zhang Batian is not a good person."

Li Feiyu suddenly walked out from behind the screen and looked at Zhang Batian's back.

"I can also see that this guy is very scheming, and he looks like a good person on the surface, but in fact, he is just a disguise."

Li An commented a few words and ordered: "Fei Yu, find a few reliable people, keep an eye on this Zhang Batian, as well as the businessmen of his chamber of commerce, if they really collude with pirates, they will definitely take action." ”

"Yes, big brother, I know what to do."

Li An nodded, led a team of guards, and went to visit the training of the soldiers, the southward is imminent, the better the training of the soldiers, the easier it will be to open up the Maritime Silk Road.

After Zhang Batian returned to the mansion, his face became quite gloomy, and he casually knocked over the tea sent by the servant.

"Aaron, the Chamber of Secrets."

A servant reminded.

Zhang Batian understood what it meant, and walked towards the secret room.

"Zhang Weng, what's the situation? What is Li Shilang's attitude? ”

A young businessman asked eagerly.

Zhang Batian sighed and said: "The situation is even worse than we imagined, this Li Shilang is a king who eats scales, and he is determined to exterminate all the pirates along the way, and he also wants to station Tang soldiers and horses in all important places along the way, so that the pirates will never turn over." ”

"What, it's so ruthless, so, if he really lets him achieve this goal, then we won't have a good time in the future."

"Yes! Maritime trade is almost our own business, and we can't let anyone else share it. ”

"If all the merchants can get on the sea, it will be difficult for us to do business in the future."

"What nonsense are you guys talking about, are these the key questions? Money is a piece of, we have something in the pirates, in case it is found, we are charged with fornicating with pirates, this is the deadliest. ”

"Yes! If it is confirmed that we are fornicating with pirates and framing our peers, even ten heads will not be enough to cut off? ”

The merchants suddenly became nervous.

Zhang Batian shook his head helplessly, and said: "I originally planned to persuade Li Shilang to give up opening up the Maritime Silk Road, even if the persuasion failed, I could let the black and white kings hide for a while, but I didn't expect that this Li Shilang was too ruthless, and he actually wanted to garrison the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses along the way, completely breaking the idea of pirates, this move is really too ruthless, too ruthless!" ”

Thinking of Li An's confident expression, Zhang Batian had a feeling of despair, Li An's plan was to completely cut off his unique business and force him to compete with other businessmen, so that his unique advantage would be gone.

"Zhang Weng, what should I do now? Should we notify the Black and White Kings immediately, so that they can be prepared? ”

A young businessman said hurriedly.

"Inform the fart, no brain."

Zhang Batian glared at the young businessman and reprimanded: "The Black King and the White King are very shrewd, do you think they don't have a secret post in Guangzhou?" You think that those fishermen who go to the sea to fish are pure and honest people, but you are wrong, there are at least dozens of fishing boats moored in the harbor that are all people from the black king and the white king. ”

"What, according to that, our bottom line, the black and white kings know everything clearly, and they can't deceive him if they want to."

"I see, last time I concealed the goods and wanted to pay a little less toll, but I was almost robbed by the whole ship."

"It's worthy of being a pirate, but what about a thief in your heart?"

It dawned on several young businessmen.

"Zhang Weng, what should we do now? Just wait and see? ”

A businessman asked.

The corners of Zhang Batian's mouth twitched, and he said: "If what I expected is right, the people of the imperial court are already eyeing us, we can't act rashly, lest they be discovered, and static braking is the only thing we can do at the moment." ”

"Is our business still in business? Whether it needs to be stopped for a while. ”

A businessman asked.

"No, you can make money how you want, you have to behave as usual, just like Li Shilang and they have never been here, you all go back! When I need you, I'll let someone go to you. ”

Zhang Batian said coldly.

"Brother Zhang, you don't have any plans?"

After most people left, an old man stayed, he and Zhang Batian are the same age, when they used to fish, they were already together, Zhang Batian is relatively strong, has always been in a leadership position, this old man has always been very obedient, obeyed Zhang Batian's words, and thus won the honor of working together to do business, saying that it is a business partner, but outsiders look more like subordinates.

"Sun Liu, we are all fish on the board now, one wrong step will be lost, now we can only wait and see what happens, and we don't need to do anything."

Zhang Batian said helplessly.

"Just waiting?"

Sun Liu said.

"Don't worry! King Bai will get the news soon, with his irritable nature, he will definitely not sit still, he will send someone to Guangzhou to do something, we just need to watch the excitement. ”

Zhang Batian planned to watch from the wall.

"Brother Zhang, with the strength of King Bai, how can it be Li Shilang's opponent, I'm just worried that once the soldiers and horses of the imperial court capture King Bai's lair, our letter will fall into the hands of Li Shilang, and in this way, we will be completely finished."

Zhang Batian sneered at the corner of his mouth, and said coldly: "It's a blessing or a curse, it's a disaster that can't be avoided, King Bai They have installed their own people under our noses, so I, Zhang Batian, am not stupid, won't I install eyeliner in his lair?" ”

"Brother Zhang, you have eyeliner in their lair, when did it happen, why did you hide it from me?"

Sun Liu was a little shocked, he had followed Zhang Batian for so many years, and he was almost inseparable, but he didn't know that Zhang Batian had eyeliner in the pirate's lair.

"This kind of confidential matter, the fewer people who know about it, the better, I don't know that I deliberately want to hide it from you, because I am afraid that you will be drunk and say it, so that the eyeliner I arranged will be in danger."

Zhang Batian patted Sun Liu's shoulder, and continued: "Once the pirate's lair is attacked, it is bound to fall into chaos, my Neiying will immediately find the letter and burn it all, I believe that in that chaotic situation, no one will be in the mood to care about this." ”

"Brother Zhang, what should we do if the eyeliner doesn't find the secret letter and let the secret letter fall into the hands of the imperial court?"

Sun Liu was still a little worried.

"Then there is only the last plan of the thirty-six plans, and we have so many ships to carry our families and soft to the South Seas for development, maybe we can come back in the future? In the Equestrian and Mountain Kingdoms of the South Seas, I have some industries in order to prepare for the future. ”

Zhang Batian said cunningly.

"The three caves of the cunning rabbit, Brother Zhang, my grandson Liu has been completely convinced, over the years, we have earned enough, it's really not good, let's pat our butts and go to Nanyang, with the property we have now, how many lifetimes will a family not be able to spend it?"

Sun Liu's face was excited, and he threw himself to the ground for the five bodies that Zhang Batian admired.

Since he decided to collude with pirates and seek wealth for himself, he has been ready to take precautions at any time, and has prepared a number of industries overseas in advance, so that he can evacuate Guangzhou at any time and take refuge overseas.

Therefore, at this moment, Zhang Batian is not nervous at all, he feels that he is sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai and can sit and watch the performance of Ang Lee and the pirates, and once the situation develops in a direction that is not in his favor, he will immediately evacuate Datang.