After Shen Gui thought of this question, he immediately pushed away the teacup in front of him; Shen Gui's small action fell in the eyes of others, and the four people who had already gained experience along the way all stopped in unison. As soon as Huang Jing saw that the scene had become deserted, he immediately stood up anxiously, and even when he spoke, he was no longer as smooth and comfortable as he was:

“…… You can rest assured!! These things were prepared in advance by Xiao Lao'er himself, and he also instructed his family to take care of them day and night, so there will be absolutely no problems...... This ...... Good...... Little Lao'er will take it in turn in front of all of you......"

As soon as Shen Gui saw that this leaky Huang Jing would reveal a flaw at this time, he immediately felt a trace of vigilance in his heart. Because according to common sense, with his Huang family's knowledge and strength in business for generations, coupled with his age and experience, even if he can't do it to the point where Mount Tai collapses and his color remains unchanged, if he mistakenly thinks that he suspects that his diet is poisonous, he will never be so out of shape!

This kind of thing that you can know at a try, if there is no ghost in your heart, what is there to be nervous about?

"Brother Huang doesn't need to panic, it's not that Shen can't believe in the golden sign of your "Medicinal Material Yellow"; It's that my brothers and I want to hear about this little favor of the Guibao first, and whether we have the ability to help. As the so-called reactive power is not punished, I think it is only right to explain the matter first and then talk about the wind and the moon! ”

After hearing this, Huang Jing carefully looked at the expressions of Shen Gui and the others, and finally sighed deeply. He casually picked up the brass rattle on the table, shook it slightly, and there was a faint sound of footsteps outside the door. After the subordinates who were waiting for the table had withdrawn, there was a light cough from the guards outside the window, and Huang Jing said to Shen Gui:

"Hey, since the prince has this meaning, then Huang simply said it directly. But there is one sentence, I also want to say in the head, no matter this troublesome matter of our Huang family, whether you are willing to intervene or not, it has nothing to do with the friendship between us! ”

With Huang Jing's seemingly heart-wrenching statement, Shen Gui finally figured out the real purpose of his actions.

Sure enough, as he expected, the Huang family's business was running, and there were very serious problems!

From the perspective of a medicinal herb merchant, the medicinal materials in the world can be broadly divided into three types: those that grow in the deep mountains and old forests, those that are planted in the land, and those that are hidden under the water. Among these three categories, the most expensive unit price is, of course, the first to recommend the "underwater hidden" medicinal materials; For example, rare things such as ambergris and water agarwood, which are all the best medicinal materials that are more valuable than gold; And these treasures are not only flocked to by medicinal herb merchants, but also have irreplaceable temptation for those spice and fat powder merchants!

Whether it is the golden prescription that hangs the soul and renews the soul, or the rouge gouache in front of the table of the noble lady and the celebrity, all of them are priceless and market-ready products! There is no need to say how profitable it is!

However, because the growth environment of this kind of thing is very harsh, if you want to get this kind of treasure, you can only rely on God to enjoy the food. As a result, not only the price of raw materials fluctuates greatly, but the replenishment cycle is also quite unstable; Therefore, from the perspective of the operator, this rare thing can only be regarded as an unexpected surprise of making a windfall, but it is not suitable as the main project of a business store.

The medicinal materials planted in the land, because the production cycle is extremely stable and the labor cost is quite low, so these medicinal materials that can be cultivated and cultivated by manpower are the most suitable business scope for long-term operation. However, whether it is planting, transportation, or trafficking, the strength of a certain old pharmaceutical merchant family alone is not enough to play a decisive role in the market environment of the entire Huayu Continent......

But if you let Di listen to such a behemoth to operate, it will be a different scene entirely......

Today, the most important way to make money is this kind of monopoly medicinal material business that integrates production, transportation, and sales! And after the people who listened to the truth intervened, they didn't even use a single trick for those indiscriminate methods, but just with the extremely low cost and very stable supply, and the large and small businesses led by "Medicinal Material Yellow", they fought a consumption price war for several years, and completely drove all the medicinal material merchants out of the low-end medicinal material market!

Although the Huayu continent is mountainous, it may be due to climate and soil reasons, resulting in those top mountain medicinal materials, all of which are produced in Youbei Third Road and the Holy Mountain of Western Xinjiang, and there is no other semicolon!

However, the medicinal materials produced every year in the sacred mountain of Western Xinjiang have always been monopolized by the Xin'an Hou Mansion in Chang'an City, and the industry is monopolized. Therefore, the price of being eaten by Zhou Changfeng and then spit out, even if it is transported back to Nankang for thousands of miles, there is not much profit at all; In other words, the profit of the Nankang Mountain medicinal materials business depends entirely on the attitude of Youbei Sanlu!

As the so-called ten robbers are not as good as one selling medicine, the huge profits of the medicinal material industry are enough to make those laymen envious and red-eyed! What's more, it has always been crazy to accumulate wealth......

When the Huang family was driven out of the low-end medicinal material market, Di Ting also planned to immediately take advantage of the victory to chase after and completely kill the signboard of "Medicinal Material Yellow", and then swallow the entire Nankang medicinal material market in one bite.

Although this move sounds a little cruel, it is the so-called business talk, at least in this operation, it still maintains the dignity and rules of a legitimate businessman; None of the tricks and tricks they played deviated from the rules formulated by the Nankang United Chamber of Commerce, and there was nothing to blame at all; Therefore, even if the entire Nankang Medicine Store is chewed and swallowed by Di Ting, even the belt bones are swallowed together, it can only be said that they are just ruthless, and there is no moral and legal problem.

The mall has always been as cruel as a battlefield, and it is a Shura field where people kill people without seeing blood! There were definitely not a few medicinal herb merchants who were squeezed and closed down by the Huang family by various means back then! And they were originally hunters, but now they have become the prey in the mouth of Di Ting, and they can't shout the word wronged at all.

However, when Di Ting, who was chasing after the victory, gradually extended his tentacles to the Youbei Sanlu, which is rich in expensive medicinal materials such as mountain ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum; was suddenly cut off by an inexplicable Shen Gui with a sword! This sudden and huge change also made the Nankang medicinal material market, which was gradually being eaten away by Diting, a mess again!

Diting's business is varied, and they are also seen in all corners of the Huayu Continent; Of course, if Di Ting chooses to monopolize all the mountain medicinal materials regardless of the cost and at a price significantly higher than the market, it is also an effective means of business warfare. However, this simple and crude way of competition is too long, and the cost of investment is too high......

The cost price of a hundred-year-old ginseng that has grown into a human shape at the foot of Taibai Mountain is about 1,000 taels to 1,500 taels of silver. According to such a standard, if Di Ting wants to contract the annual production of medicinal materials for the entire Youbei Third Road, the annual cost will be about 20 million taels.

At this astronomical figure, it is also on the basis that all Nankang medicinal material merchants will not jointly raise the market price......

Of course, it's not that Diting can't come up with such a large sum of money; It's that they think that this way, the return on investment ratio, is really a bit of a chicken rib......

Therefore, the method finally chosen by Di Ting was to contact the Li family, the big landlord of Dongyou Road, and contract all their land to cultivate the Elephant Valley; and then use the black-hearted silver earned from the sale of hibiscus paste to reverse purchase mountain medicinal materials. If things go well, we can also use the big tree of Li Deng to build some relations with the Youbei Imperial Court, and maybe even the necessary losses such as commercial taxes, road taxes, and customs duties can be reduced or reduced.

With this plan on the basis, they later wanted to build a port of their own in the north; In addition to the possibility of operating and dumping goods here; The main reason is that it can avoid the goose plucking of the Northern Yan Dynasty!

From this point of view, the principal of this Di Ting merchant group, even in that monopoly war, has the idea of a white wolf with empty gloves! Business skills can be said to be unintelligent, and the heart is not evil!

However, with the appearance of Shen Gui, a nosy young master, not only did the Dongyou Li family, which had ghosts and seek self-reliance, be reorganized into a monolith; It also swept away the chess pieces that had been worked hard and secretly arranged for a long time! What cultivates the consumer group of Hibiscus cream, what monopolizes the supply of medicinal materials on the three roads of Youbei, what is the exclusive port of goods like a wheel, and what is a smooth road without tax and no inspection; All these dreams have come to naught; Even the future monarch of Youbei, the crown prince Yan Day, who had been painstakingly cultivated for a long time and spent a lot of money to worship, had become a complete waste......

In other words, from the moment Yan Qinghong put on the dragon robe and ascended the throne and sat in the palace, it was also announced that Di Ting's overall plan for the three roads in Youbei was completely frustrated! Even the bright line and dark piles that were opened in advance with all their early investment were swept away by Shen Gui!

Now under the rule of Emperor Xingping, the third road in Youbei, at least for the Diting family, the door of the mutual market has been completely closed!

That is to say, because the dog before Shen Gui took a mouse and was nosy; Unexpectedly, the Nankang Huang family, who had already embarked on the road of slow death, suddenly got a little respite!

Although Di Ting lost the three roads in Youbei, the medicinal materials and mountain goods of Taibai Mountain are still waiting for buyers to come to the door! Moreover, with the reopening of the two northern mutual markets of the East Customs, there is an additional distribution center with a smoother and more convenient traffic environment for all kinds of goods on the entire Youbei Third Road!

Without the biggest buyer in previous years, Di Ting's crazy sweeping, and the honeymoon period between the two norths has also come, so the entire northern medicinal herb market last winter was unprecedentedly prosperous!