A big man rested his head on one chair, his legs rested on another, his waist hung straight but he snored loudly, his big belly rose and fell with his breathing, it turned out that this person was sleeping. Another man who was not tall but also had some belly, and was richly dressed walked in the door, tiptoed to a stop beside the sleeping man, grabbed the chair where the big man was holding his feet, and then showed a wicked smile at the corner of his mouth.

Just as the man wanted to pull the chair away and throw the sleeping big man for a moment, the big man suddenly shrank his legs, and the weight of his whole body fell on his shoulders, and his shoulders pressed against the chair where his head was, and the chair rattled. In the blink of an eye, the kung fu man slammed the chair next to him, then rolled over and stood up. The person pulling the chair was caught off guard, and he was already pulling the chair out with all his might, coupled with the force of the kick just now, his center of gravity suddenly became out of balance, and his butt fell to the ground.

The big-bellied strong man who was sleeping just now laughed and said, "Diao Shanshe, why are you getting worse and worse, you are really wealthy." The man who fell to the ground wanted a carp to roll over, but his stomach trembled a few times and he couldn't get up, so he could only slowly get up with his hands on the ground and said: "I said Fang Qingze, you are getting more and more unruly, and I don't know how to call Brother Snake when I see me." But you also blame yourself for working hard, and you are even practicing when you sleep. ”

Fang Qingze smiled and said: "If you don't practice, you can't do it, I felt that my skills have regressed significantly before, and I have recovered a little more diligently recently." It's not nice for me to call you Brother Snake, don't you need me to call you the owner, you are now a big boss on the surface. Diao Shanshe also smiled and said: "Come on, I don't have to listen to you for everything, you are the big boss behind the scenes." I'll discuss something with you, can you take me with you when you return to the capital, I also want to avenge our Zhongzheng lineage. "I can understand your feelings, but you said that you used to be poor, but at least you are still thin and flexible, but now why are you as fat as me, your strength has not risen and you are not sensitive, isn't it harmful to bring you?" Rest while it's too late. Fang Qingze said.

Diao Shanshe threw the chair out abruptly and said angrily: "I know that I have no success in the Zhongzheng First Line, and you all look down on me, but I am also a member of the Zhongzheng First Line." Even if everyone in the world looks down on me, you Fang Qingze shouldn't look down on me, how have you said I have done in the past few years! Fang Qingze slammed Diao Shanshe and said, "Brother Snake, why are you still in a hurry, when did you and my brothers pour bitter water on each other, I was joking with you just now." I think so, I am good at both of us, and this group of hired soldiers has always been suitable for me to train me to be a commander. We can also go at the same time, but no one can control the overall situation in business, and we can't put pressure on the economy of the Ming Dynasty, and the rulers look down on businessmen, so let's let them know how powerful businessmen are. ”

Fang Qingze said that he walked back and forth for two steps, and continued: "Maybe when we will have to meet with the four parties to jointly exterminate Yu Qian, the traitor, I really don't feel at ease if I hand over the business network of the whole country to others." You and I have worked together for many years and co-founded this miracle in the business world, and it has only taken less than three years to think that it is not easy to let all this be wasted. In addition to my two sworn brothers and Zhu Jianwen, only those who are in the same vein can be trusted. Brother Snake, don't worry, when we call back to the capital, we can be like when we were children, joking around you all day long and calling you Brother Snake. Saying that, Fang Qingze stepped forward and patted Diao Shanshe's shoulder vigorously, Diao Shanshe also punched Fang Qingze back, the shopping mall is like a battlefield, the two have fought so far, and they have also experienced countless bloody storms.

Diao Shanshe laughed twice, then took out a ledger from his arms and said, "Let's not be numb, what do you say we should do next to corrupt Daming's economy." ”

"First of all, food is a major matter, whether it is for the survival of the people or for marching and fighting, food and grass are necessary, even if we have an incident in the future, we need to prepare more food and grass. Therefore, grain stores throughout the country were notified to buy grain on a large scale, and they still bought and sold grain at a parity price and purchased tribute grain at a high price, gradually reducing the amount of grain reserves in the government's grain depots, and losing money must continue to do so. We must not be in a hurry, gradually increase the amount of purchases, and then sell them to the common people for inventory, and then continue to store new grain, remember to pay attention to the preservation of grain, do not become moldy and teeth, and do not put it in the warehouse of the grain store. Move to other businesses and store them, so that when the time comes, we can cause civil unrest with food, and we can do it cheaply. Fang Qingze said while thinking.

Diao Shanshe nodded, took notes and said, "I wrote this down, and I'll let Kuaima pass it on to the shops in Daming after a while." And I made a decision when you were busy with military affairs a while ago, you can see it. I think we would rather bribe officials and make them make a lot of money than let the treasury pile up. But I have always smuggled salt at a low price, you once said that the people are our food and clothing, and if the price of salt is too expensive, it will be the people, what do you think? ”

Fang Qingze nodded and praised: "This is a good job, by the way, we must step up the supervision of private coins to print more Ming treasure banknotes, so that this kind of paper money invented by Ming Taizu quickly depreciates, and now it is very worthless, many merchants only recognize cash silver and do not recognize treasure money, only in this way can a large amount of real money and silver in our hands be of greater use, otherwise once the war starts, the imperial court will print treasure money, then the wealth we have accumulated will be useless." We must completely destroy the treasure money, so as to crush the treasury of the Ming Dynasty. But then again, treasure banknotes are really a good idea, but Zhu Yuanzhang is not a businessman, he doesn't know that the issuance of any banknotes must be balanced with the reserves of gold and silver in order to be permanently popular, and uncontrolled printing can only make these banknotes end up as waste paper. ”

"That's okay, let's do this first, and then run other actions when we turn around, don't be greedy and chew too much, and when the time comes, the gain will outweigh the loss." Diao Shanshe said, and then asked, "By the way, does Lu Yunzhi have any news?" Did you find him? Fang Qingze laughed and said, "Of course I found it, thanks to Zhu Jianwen, this kid." However, my third brother also knows the role of money, and asked Zhu Jianwen for a thousand taels of gold, Zhu Jianwen was afraid that he would not be enough to let our Jiujiang branch send another ten thousand taels over, I also got the news ten days ago, I think my third brother has been away from Nanjing for more than a month. A few days ago, I didn't discuss with you when you weren't there, so I directly approved 100,000 taels to be shipped to Jiujiang, one is to supplement their money, and the other is to reward them for finding my third brother. They took out 10,000 taels of gold and jewelry, and it is estimated that this group of shopkeepers are heartbroken, and if we don't send some money to the past, they will have to wear pants for the winter. Ha ha! Diao Shanshe also laughed, 10,000 taels of gold is indeed not a small amount, and the seventy-four shops in Jiujiang Mansion have exhausted their savings for a year.

Fang Qingze stopped laughing, suddenly turned pale, walked out of the door and shouted to the east: "Yu Qian, let you taste the power of our merchants, the business war has begun!" ”