In the golden autumn of October, the weather suddenly began to get colder, and in the city of Luoyang, the streets and alleys were full of fallen leaves, and there was an autumn wind everywhere.

Jingping Commercial Bank.

This mansion was once broken down and burned into ruins, and later after renovation, it formed today's pattern, with three courtyards, including the front yard, the middle yard, and the back yard, covering an area of about ten acres.

The front yard is the gate courtyard, in which the guards of the trading house are stationed to defend the main entrance of the commercial house, the side compartments on the left and right sides are the residence of the servants in the house, and the middle courtyard is where the main courtyard is located, which is the office of the commercial house, and the back yard is a warehouse and cellar to hoard materials.

On this day, the main hall of the middle courtyard, an elegantly decorated council chamber.

The meeting hall is very large, there is a case of a few cases, two columns on the left and right, there are many people sitting, headed by the two executive shopkeepers of Jingping Commercial Bank, Zhang Heng and Sun Hao, and there are more than ten shopkeepers of the commercial bank in Luoyang.

Mu Jing wore a robe, sat cross-legged, and carefully flipped through the scroll in his hand, and kneeling behind him on his left was Tan Zong, the boss of Jing Wusi.

Mu Jing looked at these materials, and he said with some dissatisfaction: "Sun Hao, the salt merchant of Luoyang, is there only such a little information?" ”

"Big shopkeeper, all we can get is this information at the moment!"

When Sun Hao heard this, he said with some shame.

"Tan Zong!"

Mu Jing raised his head, looked at his henchman Tan Zong, and frowned slightly.

The people in the business house have some shortcomings in terms of news inquiry, so Mu Jing asked Tan Zong to send a lot of people to Sun Hao to use, the purpose is to get more detailed information.

"Shizi, Jing Wusi is currently focusing on the attention of the ministers of the DPRK and China, and is also preparing to establish a news network in various places, so it is a little weak in this regard, and in a hurry, I can only find these materials, give me a little more time, I will find more information!"

Tan Zong said in a panic.

"Forget it!"

Mu Jing waved his hand: "Jing Wusi's foundation in Luoyang is already unstable, if this matter causes the attention of all parties, the gains outweigh the losses, within the scope of your ability, you just do your best, as for the rest, don't care too much!" ”

Jing Wusi's existence itself is already a secret, and it is a preemptive move he plans for the future, and if he is exposed to the noses of all parties for this matter, he will be surrounded and suppressed.

Mu Jing would rather lose this battle than let Jing Wusi be damaged.

"No!"

When Tan Zong heard this, he breathed a long sigh of relief.

You must know that now Jingwusi itself is in a state of preparation, the foundation of the news network is in Nanyang, and it is basically starting from scratch in the land of Luoyang, and it is good to be able to stabilize it, and then put your energy here, then many projects will fall short.

"The five major salt merchants in Luoyang, I won't talk about their capital, but each of them has a relationship with the sky!"

Mu Jing continued to look at these documents, in fact, these documents also inquired very carefully, there are a salt merchant's shop situation, buying and selling situation, and some list the purchase channels behind it, he carefully read these materials before saying: "If we resist all of them, we will be very difficult, and even alarm the court, once we are on the court, we will definitely alarm countless people, and then our advantage will not exist, so let's score!" ”

The city is very large, as Kyoto, this is the first city in the world, there are hundreds of thousands of households in the city, nearly 2 million people, even if the population loss caused by the rebellion of Luoyang in these days, but there is at least more than 1.5 million people.

Salt is originally a necessity of life, and it is very important for such a big city to consume salt.

There are countless large and small salt merchants in a huge salt market, but there are only five major salt merchants who can dominate the market.

Yan's family in the west of the city.

Liu's family in the east of the city.

Home in the north of the city.

Yao's house in the south of the city.

Luoshui He family.

These are the five most famous salt merchants in Luoyang City.

In these years, selling salt itself needs official documents, and more or less those who can become salt merchants are inextricably linked to the government.

"Big shopkeeper, Luoyang Salt City has been quiet for many years, they will not easily provoke a war, how should we divide it?" Zhang Heng asked.

"It's true that the salt market in Ruoyang hasn't been touched for a long time!"

Mu Jing closed his dossier, and his eyes flashed a gleam: "But it doesn't mean that it is calm, if someone suddenly moves, their first conjecture may not necessarily think that it is an outsider to enter, but more of a suspicion between them, as the so-called peers are enemies, and they also operate salt, between them, they will not be so harmonious, who doesn't want to dominate this Ruyang salt market, if you want to provoke a little thing, it is not difficult, but they can become the boss of the Ruyang salt market, but they are all human spirits, they will not be so easily fooled, they will only guess in secret, And what we have to do is for them to turn the speculation into fact! ”

"What the big shopkeeper means is, let them fight among themselves, and then we are making a move!"

Zhang Heng's eyes flickered brightly.

"Hmm!"

The pastor nodded: "There is one more thing you have to do before you do it!" ”

"Big shopkeeper, what's the matter?" Sun Hao asked.

"Secretly buy the salt from the city near Luoyang!" Mu Jing said: "Cut off their back road and encircle the battlefield in Luoyang City, we don't know how extensive their connections are, but as long as the salt around Luoyang is taken down, even if they want to return from outside, it will take time!" “

"Got it!"

Sun Hao stood up and arched his hand and said, "I'll do this!" ”

"Hmm!"

The ranch nodded: "You can take as much as you can, but you can't do it too much, it's not good to startle the snake!" ”

"Yes!" Sun Hao nodded.

"Tong Qi, Lin Hong, Wang Bang!" Ranch will be.

"In!"

The three of them were all shopkeepers transferred from Nanyang, and they were also merchants in Nanyang, and later joined Jingping Commercial Bank, and now they are also the backbone of the commercial bank.

"You go with Sun Hao and handle this matter properly!"

"Yes!"

The three nodded.

After they left, Zhang Hengcai continued to report: "Big shopkeeper, I didn't find a salt merchant in the East China Sea, the local salt merchant is very grouped, and they have their own supply channels, as far as I know, most of the private salt, under the huge profits, act carefully, have their own fixed supply merchants, and rarely do business with strangers, but I have made a friend in Guangling, not a salt merchant, a local family, in charge of most local affairs, may provide us with about 3,000 stone of salt, the price is 5,000 yuan per stone!" ”

"What is the price of salt in Luoyang?"

"About eight thousand!"

Don't look at the unit price between 5,000 and 8,000 profits, but the distance from Ruoyang to Guangling is nearly 10,000 miles, and most of the salt merchants are reluctant to leave the danger in the middle, and there is not much money to be made here.

"Who are they from Guangling?" Mu Jing asked.

"Guangling Chen family, I heard that the reputation in Guangling is very good, and there is little business, and the only thing that is stained is the trade of grain and salt!"

"The Chen family?"

Mu Jing thought about it, but he thought of a Chen family in his mind, but he didn't know if it was or not, but now he couldn't care about it so much, he said in a deep voice: "Take it, let them transport it to the capital as soon as possible!" ”

"Yes!"

"But 3,000 stone of salt is not enough, the market in Luoyang is so big, if there is no inventory of more than 350,000 stones, it is impossible to knock on the market in Luoyang, is there no harvest in Xichuan!"

With such a large population and a large consumption power, 30 or 500,000 salt will be consumed, this is a huge market, and it can't be shaken without some capital.

"I sent a lot of people, but there was no response, I'm afraid I won't be able to find a salt merchant who can supply us with salt for a while!" Zhang Heng sighed: "I also thought this was a simple thing before, but in this line of business, they are doing acquaintance business, but I neglected this!" ”

"Since you can't find the source of goods, you can only grab food!"

Mu Jing said in a deep voice: "We must be ready to fight a tough battle!" ”

There are supplies in the mall that return to the side, and there are also those who buy for sale, but the latter one is better than the previous one.

"Or I'll transfer some more funds from Nanyang!"

"Not yet!" Mu Jing shook his head: "Although it is necessary to be based in Luoyang, but it cannot hurt the foundation of the firm in Nanyang, in the final analysis, we still need to rely on Nanyang, if Nanyang is unstable, open up the market in the capital, it is more than worth the loss!" ”

"Subordinates understood!"

"You're going to get in touch with this family these days!" Mu Jing spread out the scroll and pointed to one of them: "The purpose is not to find out first, it is to test them, as a supplier, to see how much they can eat, I want to know the salt supply channels behind them!" ”

"Luoshui He family?"

Zhang Heng's gaze was fixed on the title of this volume, and his pupils were slightly renewed.