When Shen Mingwen came to Tingzhou Mansion, he naturally couldn't live in Shen Mingjun's house.

Zhou's special Zhang Luo rented him a separate courtyard, saying that he would let him have a quiet place to study, but in the past few days in Fucheng, Shen Mingwen did not stay at home for a day, and went to the printing workshop early in the morning, saying that he was going to learn how to print color comic books from Shen Mingjun.

On the fourth day of the ninth lunar month, Zhou secretly entrusted Shen Mingwen to inform his mother-in-law in Ninghua County of the news that Shen Mingwen had come to Fucheng, and it was expected that within a few days, the old lady Li would rush over from Ninghua.

On the sixth day of September, Shen Xi came home from school and learned that Su Shaqi had come that day.

Since mid-August, Su Shaqi has interrupted the order for color comics, mainly because he used the appearance of pirated color comics on the market last time to lower the price, and was categorically rejected by Hui Niang, so he held a grudge.

Su Shaqi thought that as long as he broke the order, Hui Niang's side would definitely give in, but it didn't take long for him to learn that there were two batches of color comic books in Tingzhou Mansion that flowed into Nanchang, Hangzhou and other places at the end of August, and the retail price was about ten Wen lower than the 120 Wen he had set before, which made Su Shaqi angry and ashamed, and deliberately asked Hui Niang to "discuss the law".

Freedom of business, you and I will, originally Hui Niang promised to hand over the sale of Jiangnan comic books to Su Shaqi, but Su Shaqi broke off the cooperation himself, and Hui Niang shipped the comic books to various places for sale through the door of the Chamber of Commerce.

Hui Niang did not break her previous promise, but Su Shaqi had a background behind him, and he came this time without fear.

“…… Shopkeeper Su is very familiar with many big businessmen in the Jiangnan generation, and they are ready to fight a price war with us this time, with the scale of the current Chamber of Commerce, I am afraid that they will not be able to compete with them. ”

Hui Niang's face was full of worry.

In the land of one house, even if all the businesses are integrated, it is still not as competitive as Su Shaqi, who has been running for several generations.

Su Shaqi has a steady stream of financial resources behind him as support, and there are many business partners, who have been operating for decades, and the wealth and contacts accumulated in his hands are far beyond imagination.

Shen Xi asked, "Auntie, what did the surname Su say?" ”

"Unless we sell him the color comic strips for thirty dollars, he said. After that, the business of color New Year paintings must also be handed over to him, otherwise not only will we not be able to operate, but will also raise the price for us in the supply of rice grain, wine, official salt, medicinal materials, etc...... They will cut off all supplies destined for the state capital. At the same time, we will block the water transportation, and then we will end up even worse. ”

Hui Niang wanted to compromise a little, "I think about it, I can't delay the interests of all the merchants in the Chamber of Commerce for our family's business." ”

Shen Xi shook his head again and again: "It's a pity that the procurement channels we suggested are not perfect. In fact, in terms of cargo transportation, what we lack is mainly a fleet of ships and carriages. With the current financial resources of the Chamber of Commerce, it may not be able to compete with them, but if you take out the money saved in the silver trumpet, it should be almost the same......"

Hui Niang was shocked: "Xiaolang, how can this be?" The money of the silver number is used for lending, and now it has received a deposit of about 10,000 taels of silver. ”

Shen Xi sighed: "Auntie." Don't you see? Now the surname Su wants to take advantage of the fact that our business is not bigger and stronger, and unite those foreign merchants who have opinions on the Chamber of Commerce to encircle and suppress us. With the first threat, there will be a second time, if we don't beat their arrogance, then what is the point of the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce? ”

Hui Niang was speechless.

In fact, she also understands that the printing workshop can be regarded as the foundation of all businesses, after all, it is better than profit. At present, it can't even compare to the silver number.

If this is the case, it means that most of the profits of the printing workshop will fall into the hands of Su Shaqi, and the printing workshop will be completely reduced to a cheap plus workshop. Later, Su Shaqi will be even more presumptuous and steal the technology to seal himself. even made a comeback to force the Chamber of Commerce again to give him more benefits.

"Auntie, you should convene a general meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to explain the current situation. The shopkeepers of the Chamber of Commerce, now they may feel that the business of the printing workshop has nothing to do with them, and it is better to let us make a profit. In order to ensure their interests, but my aunt might as well tell them that with this compromise, the Chamber of Commerce will exist in name only, and it will definitely be suppressed by those big merchants in the future. Aunt can promise to take out part of the profits of the printing workshop as the basis for this battle, so that everyone in the Chamber of Commerce knows Auntie's determination to break the kettle. ”

Hui Niang clenched her fists, looked at Zhou's gloomy face, and said, "In the end of the printing workshop, my sister is the big shopkeeper, what does my sister think?" ”

Zhou didn't have any opinions, nodded and said, "My sister is in charge." ”

With the support of Shen Xi and Zhou, Hui Niang finally regained her confidence and decided to make a big move.

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According to Shen Xi's proposal, Hui Niang held a general meeting of the Chamber of Commerce the next day, and proposed to take out the profits of the printing workshop for a quarter as compensation for the price war with the Jiangnan merchants, and obtained the support of the Elders' Hall and the shopkeepers of the merchants below.

Since Su Shaqi wants to cut off all the materials shipped to Tingzhou Mansion, he has to buy them at a high price, and the Tingzhou Mansion Chamber of Commerce will receive the goods at a higher price from the surrounding prefectures and counties.

In the past two years, Hui Niang has accumulated six or seven thousand taels of silver in hand through the operation of printing workshops, pharmacies, pharmaceutical factories and silver horns, half of which are Zhou's, plus the deposits in the silver horns, as well as the funds that can be provided by each shop, and made up 40,000 taels of silver before and after, and fought a price war with Su Shaqi and other Jiangnan merchants.

This-for-tat business war mainly involved the goods of official salt and medicinal materials, because relatively speaking, there are many supply channels for tea, wine and rice grain, which makes it impossible for Jiangnan merchants to achieve "out of stock" to Tingzhou Mansion. Although the two commodities of official salt and medicinal materials are the daily needs of the people, the supply channels are relatively single, and it is easy for Jiangnan merchants such as Su Shaqi to monopolize the source of goods.

Since mid-September, the supply of official salt and medicinal herbs in Tingzhou has been greatly reduced, and the prices of these two commodities in the city have begun to rise. At the beginning of the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce, the government strictly ordered that the price stability of the eight counties of the province must be guaranteed, and Hui Niang's requirements for the Chamber of Commerce are also that no matter how high the purchase price is, the cost cannot be passed on to the people.

At the same time as this business war broke out, a major event also happened on the Shen family's side.

The old lady of the Shen family, Li, entered Fucheng for the first time in her life, and took her third son Shen Mingtang and fourth son Shen Mingxin to find Shen Mingwen to "settle accounts".

The letter was written by Zhou, but she had discussed it with Shen Mingjun before.

Although Shen Mingjun didn't want to betray his eldest brother, he also agreed with Zhou's proposal that the family "be harmonious first", and Shen Mingjun didn't want to watch Shen Mingwen continue to "degenerate", so he acquiesced to Zhou's letter to inform Li about it.

Shen Mingwen was blocked at the door of the house by the Li family with his two sons without knowing it.

In the evening of this day, Shen Mingwen had just come back from the printing workshop, and as soon as he opened the courtyard door, he saw the figure of the old lady and his two younger brothers, he was stunned for a moment, turned around and ran away, but was stopped by Shen Mingjun, who was traveling with him.

“…… Boss, you mistook me, you misunderstood me......"

Shen Mingwen looks strong, but in fact, he has empty skin, and he looks obese because of lack of exercise, where can his strength match the young and strong Shen Mingjun?

The old lady didn't want to be embarrassed, so she asked her three sons to pull Shen Mingwen into the courtyard. Li sat on the chair brought by Zhou and shouted: "Say, are you going back with me, or stay?" ”

Shen Mingwen was pressed to kneel on the ground, his hands were tied by ropes, but he desperately raised his head with an unyielding posture: "My son would rather die than return." ”

"Then you will die...... Alas, I didn't give birth to your son...... Come on, throw this obstacle into the well! ”

In the middle of the yard is a well, the mouth of which is narrow but the inside is wide. With Li's order, Shen Mingxin and Shen Mingtang immediately dragged Shen Mingwen to the wellhead.

Shen Mingwen was shocked: "The third, the fourth, are you crazy?" ”

The third Shen Mingtang is not good at words, but the fourth Shen Mingxin has already discussed it with the Li family, and at this time he spoke: "Big brother, forgive me, my mother said that you killed the second brother, so you didn't dare to go home...... Instead of sending you to the government to be beheaded, it is better to cut it off yourself, so as not to tarnish the reputation of the Shen family. ”

Shen Mingwen was dragged to the mouth of the well, he pressed the edge of the well with both hands, and pleaded loudly: "Second brother, he ran away with the silver, and left me alone in the provincial capital without a landing, how do I know if he is dead or alive?" ”

Li said angrily: "You two brothers went together, and now you come back alone, and you still refuse to return home." This is not clear, have you hurt the second child? ”

"I'm not harmful, I'm harmless......" Shen Mingwen could not take care of his integrity at this time, his head was pressed by the two younger brothers and stuffed into the well, although he was not enough to rush into it, but his momentum had already weakened, and he explained vigorously, and he didn't know what he was shouting when he got to the back.

Li waved his hand, looking like he was in pain: "Forget it if you're dead, what's the use of keeping such a wicked son?" Son, don't complain about your mother when you die, your mother will take good care of your children for you...... As for your wife, my mother will let her remarry, and she can't lose it. You can go with peace of mind and strive to be reincarnated as a good person in the next life! ”

Shen Mingwen was so frightened that his soul flew away.

In these years, the old lady thinks that her son is unfilial, and she doesn't have to go to court if she kills her son. Shen Mingwen has no master of the six gods, and there is no way to tell that this is actually a ploy against him from the beginning.

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