Chapter 150: Unlucky
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Syllable!
With a crisp sound, a teacup slammed into the middle of the living room, and the debris immediately splashed all around.
Huang Zhi sat in the first place, he was trembling all over, his face was gloomy as if he was about to drip water, and there was only a swaying teacup holder on the table next to him, obviously the teacup he had dropped just now.
"Why don't you speak? Don't you all have an idea? Now it's talking! β
Both sides of the living room were full of people, they were all shopkeepers in Huang Zhiyan's shop, but at this time they all shrunk their necks, sat with their heads bowed, and didn't dare to gasp in the air, letting the angry Huang Zhi scold.
"Raised you bunch of garbage for nothing!" Huang Zhi scolded hatefully, slammed the table and stopped talking.
When he saw the front page of the newspaper this morning, he was really shocked, he didn't expect Wu Zhi to succeed in finding out the evidence of his usury, but this was at most a damage to his reputation, he didn't take it too seriously, and even he was still laughing at Wu Zhi in his heart, finding out that these were just tickling himself, and it was not a clever means.
Huang Zhi even thought of a coping method in a blink of an eye, first closed the door and hid for a few days, and when the limelight passed, the people stopped and came out to apologize to everyone and admit their mistakes, and by the way, they paid for some good things to do to repair bridges and pave roads, which basically solved this little trouble.
Just as Huang Zhi opened the other side of the newspaper with a contemptuous smile, his face suddenly turned pale!
Official salt? Official salt! Why did the official salt be sold at a reduced price at this time?
Forcing himself to calm down a little, Huang Zhi immediately realized that Wu Zhi must be a ghost behind this official salt, making his reputation stink, and at the same time making the price of official salt the same as the price in his own salt shop, so that the angry people must have turned to buy official salt, and the quality of official salt is the same as that of their own salt, and they are afraid that their own salt shop will collapse in the long run.
Thinking of this, Huang Zhi only felt a chill on his back, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
What a plan!
However, after thinking about it carefully, Huang Zhi didn't believe that the price of official salt dared to be the same as that of people's salt, and after calling someone to investigate, Huang Zhi learned that the original official salt had been operated by people on a detour, and secretly praised this trick at the same time Huang Zhi was also desperate in his heart, it seems that the price of official salt and people's salt in the future is already a certainty.
If there is no usury incident, Huang Zhi may not have to worry, because the people have been buying their salt for a long time, and they have developed inertia, and he can still control most of the market, but now it is different, and it will be difficult to gather when people's hearts are lost, so when he summoned all his subordinates to discuss, everyone was helpless, and his anger completely exploded.
After the outburst of anger, there was a sense of powerlessness, and he felt that he seemed powerless this time.
"How much do the salt shops sell today?" After calming down for a while, Huang Zhi asked weakly.
"Old man......," replied the head of the salt shop, getting up, "the newspaper was published earlier than the opening time of our salt shop, so ...... Not a single tael of salt was sold in the shops today......"
"Don't talk to me about the newspaper!"
Throwing down the teacup holder on the table, Huang Zhi broke out again, if he can't sell salt, there will be no silver in the account, usually a large amount of silver is in the account every day in each of his salt shops, but today it fell to the freezing point in an instant, how can he not be angry?
After restraining his emotions a little, Huang Zhicai continued in a suppressed voice: "Have you tried to reduce the price?" β
"Back to the master, this has already been tried, we will reduce the price here, and the official salt will follow the price reduction, as long as it is not below the cost price, they will always consume it with us, but if we reduce it to below the cost price......" Glancing at Huang Zhi carefully, the manager continued: "This will outweigh the losses!" β
Huang Zhi didn't speak, he naturally understood this truth, even if the price was lowered in the business war, he would not dare to sell things below the cost price, unless it was temporarily reduced below the cost price to completely squeeze the opponent, but the official salt could not be squeezed, if it was below the cost price, the official salt would never be stupid enough to follow the price reduction, then Huang Zhi and their losses would be greater.
"Master, the plan for now is to save your reputation as soon as possible, as long as your reputation is restored, then our business will slowly improve."
"Yes, master, it's a big deal, we won't lend, the salt industry is our foundation!"
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After listening to everyone's persuasion, Huang Zhi also rubbed his temples with a heavy expression, and he said in a deep voice: "You still need you to teach me?" But now that the conclusive evidence of usury has been disclosed by the newspapers, how can it be recovered? Is it possible for me to deny it? β
After Huang Zhi finished speaking, there was silence below, and it would definitely not work to deny it, and it would make the people even more disgusted.
"Or ...... Sir, you go and apologize to the military official, as long as he is willing to wash it for you in the newspaper, you will definitely be fine......"
In fact, the reason why Huang Zhi got into such a big trouble, in addition to his own greed and lack of blame, the main thing was that he offended Wu Zhi, and anyone with a discerning eye in Qingzhou City could easily see that Huang Zhi was planted in Wu Zhi's hands this time.
Even Huang Zhi's subordinates admired Wu Zhi's methods from the bottom of their hearts, high, really high!
"That's a good idea......" Huang Zhi said in a calm tone after hearing this.
After the shopkeeper finished saying this suggestion, he looked at Huang Zhi in fear, and even the shopkeepers around him looked at him strangely, and said in his heart that this thing is funny, and begging Wu Zhi is certainly a way, but you dare to mention this to the master, isn't this looking for death?
But Huang Zhi didn't break out angry, which made everyone wonder, could it be that the old man really admitted defeat?
"Hey, hey! I just came up with the idea......" the shopkeeper laughed.
Huang Zhi also got up with a look of "joy" and walked slowly to the shopkeeper, patted him on the shoulder, as if encouraging: "Not bad! Not bad! The idea that just came to mind is so clever, it's really amazing! Saying that, Huang Zhi pointed to many other shopkeepers and shouted loudly: "Such a good way, why didn't you think of it!! β
Constantly, patting the shopkeeper's shoulder heavily, slapping the shopkeeper for a while, sweating profusely, Huang Zhi then asked, "Where did your good idea come from?" Is it an ass?! β
The shopkeeper, who had long realized that the situation was wrong, just wanted to open his mouth to explain and apologize, but suddenly "Bang! With a bang, he suddenly felt a burning pain on the left side of his face, and when he raised his head again, Huang Zhi had already turned into a fierce and angry jackal, and a thick palm was fanning his right cheek.
"Smack!"
After Q slapped the shopkeeper on the body, Huang Zhi immediately scolded him with punches and kicks.
"Bastard! He Wuzhi hurt me so badly, and you still asked me to apologize? Do you have a head on your ass? Bastard! β
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has been chasing the unlucky shopkeeper to the yard, and kicked out the door with the last kick, Huang Zhicai panted but walked into the living room with a comfortable face, and the other shopkeepers did not dare to sit and move, but they did not sympathize with the shopkeeper who was beaten out, Huang Zhi was already angry with Wu Zhi and had nowhere to vent, and the goods actually dared to take the initiative to mention Wu Zhi to poke the tiger chrysanthemum, and he deserved to be beaten.
I don't have the ...... to see
After sitting back in the chair, Huang Zhi's face was obviously much better, and after glancing at the people who looked like shrunken turtles, Huang Zhi knocked on the table.
"Butler, do you have any clues about the person you asked you to find?"
"There you have it! No one has been found, but there are clues! The butler hurriedly got up and replied.
"Well, hurry!" Huang Zhi glanced at the housekeeper coldly, and continued to say to everyone: "There is no business recently, don't be idle, go to Qingzhou and take a look around, if there is anything to build bridges and pave roads, and help the poor, it will be done in my name!" β
After speaking, Huang Zhi waved his sleeves, got up and left here.
He also understands that it is not useful to sit down with something good now, but this is also the only thing he can do at the moment to save a little bit of his reputation, for Huang Zhi, the most important thing is to steal Wu Zhi's printing technology as soon as possible, and when he also has a newspaper, then he will not be as powerless as now.
But it is difficult to recover the fact that the official salt robbed the market.
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There are a lot of people who come to visit Wuzhi today, all of them are businessmen in the Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce, they just came to visit Wuzhi "simply", and there is nothing to do.
The two news in today's newspaper not only made Huang Zhiru fall into the abyss, but also made other members of the Chamber of Commerce sweat on the soles of their feet and chills behind them...... Only then did they realize what a terrible thing it was to offend Wu Zhi!
Fortunately, fortunately, they sent the silver in time before, otherwise, maybe it would be even worse than Huang Zhi now! However, Wu Zhi didn't have a good attitude towards them on the day he sent the silver, and they were still a little uneasy, so they all rushed to visit Wu Zhi today, and while getting acquainted with him, he also showed his loyalty to Wu Zhi, and by the way, he drew a clear line with Huang Zhi.
They are not stupid, they can all see that this time Wu Zhi's blow to Huang Zhi, even if Huang Zhizhi washes his reputation, then half of the salt industry market will have to be returned to the official salt in the future!
For the people who visited, Wu Zhi did not show them the same face as on the day of receiving the gift, they all received it happily, the businessmen came to Wu Zhi here to say some flattering words, and they all knew about Huang Zhi's affairs, in this flattering visit, someone directly proposed that the Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce should let a virtuous person like Wu Zhi serve as the president!
Of course, Wu Zhi decisively shirked this kind of proposal, not that he didn't want to be the president, but that he had only been in the Chamber of Commerce for a long time, and he was directly the president, the foundation was unstable, and Wu Zhi was not in a hurry at this time; Besides, Huang Zhi has just been pitted, and his strength is still very strong, so he may come up with some kind of trick to fight back, and Wu Zhi has to guard against it.
However, no matter how Huang Zhi fought back, Wu Zhi had full confidence to catch it, whether it was personal safety or commercial strength, Wu Zhi was not afraid of Huang Zhi.
Today, there is an endless stream of people visiting Wu Zhi's gate, but there is one person who can never enter Wu Zhi's gate, and this person is Liu An.
Liu An finally came to Wu Zhi to confess and beg for mercy, but Wu Zhi didn't want to see him, and Wu Zhi felt disgusted when he saw his face, so he asked the family who came to report to stop him at the door, but Liu An was not discouraged, and kept wandering at Wu Zhi's door to beg, and even showed out a box of gold bars he brought, but Wu Zhi still didn't see him.
In the end, Liu An had no choice but to grit his teeth...... Knelt in front of the gate of Wuzhi.
Liu An was also scared, Huang Zhi had such a big industry, Wu Zhi just made his industry shrink by more than half by so lightly, not to mention him Liu An? He had insulted Wu Zhi before......
Liu's paper industry was built by the ancestors of Liu An's family, Liu Anke didn't want to be destroyed in his own hands, compared to the ancestral industry, face was nothing, so he knelt down.
When Wu Zhi heard that Liu An was actually kneeling in front of his door, his heart was also shocked, the Song people only knelt in heaven and earth, and this Liu An was out of the way......
Helpless, Wu Zhi planned to let him go, so he asked Lao Bao to tell him that he would not embarrass him in the future, so that he didn't have to worry, in addition, printing paper, the three largest paper shops in Qingzhou, including you Liu An.
β¦β¦ Wu Zhi also wanted to improve his prestige in the Chamber of Commerce.
These promises have made Liu An overjoyed, although Wu Zhi still did not see him in the end, but Liu An's box of gold, Wu Zhi naturally accepted it unceremoniously.
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