With the continuous expansion of Zhu Youxiao's factories including iron factories, soap factories, glass factories, cement factories, etc., more and more goods are produced, and the quality is getting better and better, and the sales volume is getting bigger and bigger, plus Niu Jinxing is indeed a talent, from August to early November, Zhu Youxiao has earned nearly one million silver, and at the same time, Yang Lian also paid nearly two million salt taxes in Yangzhou, and the merchants who distributed the goods of the "Daming Royal Trading Company" also paid nearly 500,000 taxes. In this way, Zhu Youxiao earned one million silver for himself in only three months, and 2.5 million silver for the household, which was equivalent to the original half year of the Ming Dynasty's income.

Some people are happy and some people are worried, just when Zhu Youxiao is happy to count the silver, the heads of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce are worried, since the opening of the "Daming Royal Trading Firm" in Suzhou, with high-quality goods, strict distribution channels, forced them helpless. From it, I am unwilling, I don't obey, and now I am forced to be almost overwhelmed.

Niu Jinxing's tricks are very damaged, and they are also very effective, under normal circumstances, the "Daming Royal Trading Firm" opened in Suzhou will not crush those old merchants if they only operate their own goods, but Niu Jinxing takes abnormal measures, that is, the modern version of the order contract acquisition method, he relied on Zhu Youxiao's abundant funds to him, and began to buy all the items on the market in Suzhou, and he placed orders in the production process. For example, a silk workshop can produce 500 horses of silk every year, he will sign an agreement with the other party, asking the other party if he can provide a thousand horses of goods, greed is the nature of a businessman, the other party in order to meet the volume of goods to make more money, will definitely say that it can be provided, so Niu Jinxing asked the other party if the price can be lower by half percent, the other party in order not to be robbed by others will definitely drop, maybe in order to squeeze the peer merchants may also be reduced by one percent, so that Niu Jinxing from the source into the low-priced goods, and then part of the " The Daming Royal Trading Company "shipped it to the north for sale, and some of it was sold wholesale to the shops in the city that had signed an agreement with themselves. At the beginning, the people who signed the agreement with Niu Jinxing were all small commercial banks, not only because of the small purchase volume and high purchase price, but also because of the squeeze of large shops, the selling price did not dare to be too high, and they could only maintain low profits, which was only enough to survive. After the signing of the agreement with Niu Jinxing, there was a reversal, not only the price of imported goods was lower, but also the new, high-quality, and advanced goods produced by the Ming Royal Trading House themselves, so that although they needed to pay taxes to the government, they were still much better than before. The cost of large commercial banks is high, just by virtue of the purchase volume and lower the purchase price, and then sell to small merchants or their own retail, but now the purchase is not as low as the small shops, and the wholesale channel has been snatched away, which will naturally occupy a large amount of inventory, the purchase volume will also shrink, the price will rise, and the operation will naturally shrink.

In fact, Niu Jinxing is just a modern version of the "Wal-Mart" chain store model, with strong capital advantages, the use of sweeping the means to support their own contracted enterprises, squeeze out competitive peers, and then obtain high profits from the scale effect, this is the power of capital, the upright conspiracy, so that the opponent is self-bound, helpless.

The large merchants of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce have repeatedly tried to join hands to integrate the supply market, but they are selfish, and no one is afraid that they will suffer losses, and they are all in vain. Niu Jinxing is rich in funds, not afraid of any means of the other party, but is constantly expanding the scale of the chain, Niu Jinxing thinks not only to control the production stage, the next step he also plans to buy raw materials from farmers, of course, it is higher than the market price, and then sell it to the merchants in the production stage at a low price, with a strong production, supply, marketing one-stop scale advantage, forcing the people of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce to bow their heads now and pay taxes to the Ming Dynasty household department.

In fact, the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce does not know Zhu Youxiao's more powerful means, the steam engine is still in the experimental stage, once it begins to be practical, start machine reeling, machine production, its cost will be lower, its output will increase exponentially, the demand for raw materials will be unlimited, will be crowded to the complete bankruptcy of merchants who do not participate in the chain, who let them be insatiable, they eat one by one fat heads and big ears, but the treasury is poor and full of mice.

In terms of the supply of loom machinery, Niu Jinxing takes the same approach, and the merchants who have signed the agreement can obtain the looms purchased in large quantities by Niu Jinxing at a lower price, and can continuously update the advanced looms. With the efforts of Xu Guangqi and Song Yingxing, the new loom is not only efficient, but also produces better finished products, and the merchants have higher benefits, forcing more merchants to join the ranks of suppliers of "Daming Royal Trading Company", and sending it over has also squeezed the purchase channels of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce.

The members of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce are now almost at the end of the mountain, they have jointly put pressure on the Suzhou prefect, asking the Suzhou prefect to intervene in this matter, the Suzhou prefect has seen the "Ming Imperial Trade Company" is powerful, Yangzhou affairs have long been reported, he can not know what to do, he has to deal with it, he does not dare to go to Niu Jinxing's trouble, maybe the people of Jinyiwei are staring at him.

The people of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce discussed and discussed, and finally came up with an idea that they would regret for the rest of their lives - a strike. The key is that you have to have citizens who will help you boycott, and you have to have people at the top to support you in order to succeed.

The leaders of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce decided to strike the market, in the early morning of November 15, the first year of the Apocalypse, nearly 100 commercial houses in Suzhou City were closed, and the sign hanging at the door read, "Swear not to stand with the official business, resolutely expel the cow splash", and sent their subordinates everywhere to block the shops that have signed an agreement with the "Daming Royal Trading Company", either messing around at the door, or scattering the dark coins at the door, in short, is to do everything possible to disgust you, the purpose is not to open your business. These smaller shops simply did not have the strength to compete with them, so they had to close their doors, and for a while, only the main store of the "Daming Royal Trading Company" was still open in the entire Suzhou City.

Luo Sigong secretly sent people to protect the "Daming Royal Trading Company", and always paid attention to all the movements of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce. Since this morning, I found out that the situation was abnormal, so I quickly notified Niu Jinxing, and strengthened the protection of the "Daming Royal Trading Company", so when those troublemakers didn't have time to act, they were caught by Jinyiwei's secret agents and pressed into the secret interrogation room in the firm, although these people are just minions and don't know much, but can there be unspeakable secrets in the hands of Jinyiwei? In less than a quarter of an hour, everything he knew was poured out. Niu Venus has been waiting for this day for a long time, only if they make trouble, the emperor can have the opportunity to clean up these things that are not long-sighted, just want the country to protect you, and you don't want to pay taxes, and smuggle to damage the interests of the country, if I don't break you, I won't be Niu Jinxing!

In addition to the strike, the next move of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce is to seek backers in the imperial court. The first thing they thought of was Zhou Shunchang, who was begging to go home on leave, Zhou Shunchang begged for recuperation because he opposed the levy of mining taxes, and these people sought Zhou Shunchang's support because he had been a squire and was more familiar, and Zhou Shunchang was also a member of the Donglin Party, and they expected to contact the Donglin Party members in the court through Zhou Shunchang, and then let the emperor transfer back Niu Jin. Although Zhou Shunchang opposed the imposition of mining taxes, this time he felt that these businessmen were making a bit of a fuss. People Niu Venus do business and pay taxes, gather wealth for the country, you don't pay taxes but want to squeeze other people's taxes, don't you don't pay taxes and compete but can't pay taxes, and I haven't heard that this Niu Venus enjoys any preferential conditions from the government, so what are you making a fuss! Zhou Shunchang couldn't figure it out, but he still did a wrong thing out of the idea of the Donglin Party. He repaired two letters, one was to hope that the Donglin Party members in the DPRK could help the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce solve the current business dilemma, and proposed to let them think of the emperor to transfer Niu Jinxing back, and the other letter explained the ins and outs of the development of the matter, so that Ye Xianggao, the leader of the Donglin Party, could judge and decide how to deal with this matter.