When night fell, the entire city of Luoyang was soaked in darkness, and the long night was stormy.

At this moment, Yipinju is brightly lit, and the shopkeeper and all the guys are not resting because the door is closed, and they are all busy nervously.

Although the rainy night in spring makes the climate extremely cool, and there is even a hint of warm and cold taste, but the foreheads of these shopkeepers are covered with dense beads of sweat.

From time to time, they wiped the sweat from their foreheads with their sleeves, and the abacus in their right hand never dared to stop, while their left hand kept turning over the folds of the accounts, carefully checking the numbers on the accounts one by one.

In the Three Kingdoms era, there was no thread-bound book, and those bookkeeping books naturally would not be books, but folded account folds like folds.

In fact, the bookkeeping was originally used in bamboo slips, recorded on the bamboo slips, called the account scroll, Cai Lun of the Eastern Han Dynasty improved the papermaking, the application of paper gradually became widespread, to the middle of the Three Kingdoms, paper has basically replaced bamboo slips, become the most important writing material.

However, after the paper was produced, the use method has been the same as the use of bamboo slips, which are extremely bulky, unfolded when used, and rolled up when stored.

Although the paper is very light, under people's habitual thinking, it is still customary to cut the paper into a long form and roll the paper up when storing.

But when the paper roll is too long, it is not easy to open, so people invented the origami method in practice, folding the roll paper every other section, and recording the text on the origami, so as to save the trouble of opening the whole roll of paper.

Yipinju's business is complicated, all the accounts are piled up here, piled up like a hill, and the shopkeeper has been fighting for several hours in order to calculate the specific accounts.

This is the third time they have reviewed it, but the result is still chilling, and it is strange that several shopkeepers do not sweat.

"Madame has arrived!" With a high-pitched shout, several shopkeepers immediately jumped up as if they were sitting on pins and needles, and they all wanted to get up and go to the door to greet them.

But before they could go out, a lady in purple had already stepped into the hall, her high bun was still stained with a little raindrops, her expression was indifferent, although it was a beautiful thing, but the noble and compelling aura made these shopkeepers of Yipinju not dare to think about half a point, they all knelt on the ground, and said: "Slaves and maids see Mrs." ”

The purple-clothed lady waved her hand gently, her lips opened lightly, and said, "Get up, how are this month's accounts going?" ”

Several shopkeepers glanced at each other, and finally the big shopkeeper said: "Mrs. Qiyu, this month's accounts have been clearly calculated, and after the income and expenditure are offset, the balance is 2,454,863 yuan." ”

The lady in purple was surprised: "What's the matter, in the past, Yipinju's monthly net profit was at least 10 million yuan, and it was seven or eight million yuan at the worst time, why is this month so bleak?" ”

The big shopkeeper had a bitter face, and said: "Mrs. Yu, Wushisan has always been the main product of the store, accounting for at least seventy percent of sales, since this month, Wushisan has been unsalable in large quantities, and the sales volume has plummeted by more than eighty percent compared to before. ”

The purple-clothed lady frowned and said, "Our Wushisan is the best Wushisan in Luoyang City, and its sales have been good, why is it so plummeting this month?" ”

"Mrs. Hui, it is because there is now a kind of goods called Xiaoyao Wushi Loose on the market, which has been popular in Luoyang in a very short period of time, and there are many buyers, so our Wushi Scatter, sales will plummet."

"Five stones?" The lady in purple muttered to herself, in her opinion, this is a completely unfamiliar brand, an unknown brand, how can it fully occupy the Luoyang market in less than a month, undoubtedly made her feel inexplicable, puzzled, "How can this be possible, anything is difficult to move forward when it first comes out, how difficult it is to monopolize the market?" Tell me where this shop is, I'd like to see it for myself! ”

The big shopkeeper smiled bitterly and said, "Madam, this kind of Wushisan is not a store, but is sold privately. ”

"Privately selling?" The lady in purple was even more puzzled, such a big façade as their Yipinju, could they compete with a small merchant who didn't even have a store?

"Yes, ma'am, they raised the price of the five stone san to double our five stone san and then returned fifty percent of the money to the hands of those who sold it, and those who naturally spared no effort to sell that kind of five stone san in order to make a profit."

The purple-clothed lady's eyes became cold, and she said faintly: "The price is doubled, and then fifty percent of the profit is returned, so calculated, their five stones are scattered, and the profit is exactly the same as ours, it seems that this distributor is really ill-intentioned and profound." If not, who is behind the scenes? ”

The chief butler hesitated for a moment and said: "Since they are privately sold, it is difficult to know who is the source, but as far as the slave maid knows, the concubine He Yan is suspected of being the mastermind, and many Wushi San are flowing from He Fu?" ”

The purple-clothed lady looked cold, and snorted coldly: "This He Yan, he actually dares to eat inside and outside, for so many years, he has eaten how many five stones of our Yipinju, and he is not grateful, and secretly goes against us." This month's five stones are scattered, have they been sent to Hefu? ”

"I sent it over, but He Fu confiscated it and returned it, isn't it a thief?"

"To be a thief?" The purple-clothed lady shook her head lightly, and said: "He Yan, I still know a lot about this person, flashy and extravagant, like face, businessmen are cheap business, how can a person like him who regards himself as high as he take the initiative to sell things, there must be someone behind the scenes, have you ever investigated it carefully?" ”

The big shopkeeper didn't dare to raise his head at all, and stood tremblingly with his head bowed, for fear that if he said something wrong, he would cause his wife to be angry.

Although Mrs. does not often come to Yipinju, she knows all the business activities of Yipinju, and the big shopkeeper does not dare to tell half a lie.

"Slave maid...... I haven't had time to send someone to check yet. ”

The lady in purple was not angry this time, but there was a hint of cruelty in her cold words: "Then send someone to investigate immediately, before tomorrow night, I want to clearly understand the truth of all this, even if I dig three feet into the ground, I must dig out this initiator!" ”