Chapter 10: Undercurrents
When Ye Chen was committed to solving the problem of spring ploughing, a force in eastern Liaodong began to be restless and attacked the Ye family.
When the Ye family was busy, the Ye family suddenly ran into trouble. There are two troubles.
First, rumors suddenly spread that the Ye family was about to collapse, and even the basic livelihood of the tenant farmers could not be guaranteed.
The second is that the various gates in Xiangping City made it difficult for the Ye family's convoy in every way, especially the convoy transporting the materials of the restaurant was overturned, and some of the materials were overturned.
The Ye family doesn't need to think about it to know what's going on, it must be the conspiracy of the Chen family.
In Old Man Ye's study, Manager Wu and Ye Chen are there, and the new housekeeper has not yet taken office, so Manager Wu still has to take the position of head manager.
"The head of the family, the head of the young family, although the current situation is troublesome, it is not serious."
Old Man Ye didn't speak, but was pondering, and Ye Chen was also thinking.
"Chen'er, what do you think?" Old Man Ye thought to himself that Steward Wu was indeed not suitable for the position of housekeeper now, the pattern was too small, and he was already old.
"Grandpa, although the rumors are fierce now, they are very easy to solve, and now the spring ploughing may not be completed in time, as long as we give enough food to maintain, the rumors will be self-defeating."
Ye Chen paused slightly when he said this, took a sip of tea and continued: "Although it is easy to solve, we have to know why the other party is doing this? ”
"Oh, isn't it just as simple as making trouble for my Ye family?" Old Man Ye stared at him and said in a deep voice.
"Chen'er guessed that there were two purposes, one was to make trouble for us and consume the strength of my Ye family: I am afraid that these two were to divert the attention of my Ye family, and then there were other conspiracies."
Ye Chen's words were like a stone falling into the Jinghu Lake, causing a circle of waves, Old Man Ye had been up and down in the sea all his life, and he had naturally seen the seriousness of the problem, and there was a cold light in his deep eyes.
"The head of the family, the young head of the house, if this is the case, then how do we deal with it, whether to distribute food to the tenants first and calm the people's hearts." Although Steward Wu knew that the enemy had a conspiracy, he did not know the essentials.
"Chen'er, what do you think". Since Old Man Ye knew that Ye Chen had no vision for himself, and intended to let him take over the Ye family, he threw the question to Ye Chen.
"It's certain to break the rumors and calm people's hearts, but I have a plan to kill two birds with one stone."
"Oh, Chen'er, tell me how to make a plan."
Old Man Ye's eyes were full of surprise, he didn't expect Ye Chen to think of countermeasures so quickly, and he could still fight back after listening to his tone.
"Give money to the tenants and let them go to Chen's house to buy food to survive."
Ye Chen's words made Old Man Ye and Manager Wu feel stunned, and Manager Wu even said directly: "Young Master, my Ye family has not sold a single grain for nearly a month, and the grain is piling up, why don't you send my Ye family's grain to the tenants, why do you still pay the tenants to buy grain from the Chen family."
Old Man Ye was also puzzled, but he expected that Ye Chen would not make a faint move if he could see the conspiracy.
"Chen'er, there is a deep meaning in doing this."
"Of course, the Chen family's rumors should have been calculated as my Ye family's way to deal with it, and the best way is for my Ye family to open a warehouse and release grain to solve the livelihood problems of the tenants, so that they will fall into the other party's calculations."
"Oh, what do you say?"
"My Ye family has tens of thousands of tenant farmers, if you want to provide grain to help them through the difficulties of the green and yellow shortage, the consumption must be not small, once my Ye family allocates grain, many grain stores will inevitably have no food to maintain, so they can only close the store, so that the Chen family will greatly reduce the pressure."
Old Man Ye and Manager Wu both nodded when they heard this, the Chen family's grain store was selling at a loss in order to defeat the Ye family, and the more they sold, the greater the loss, if the Ye family closed the grain store on a large scale, they would be able to reduce the pressure.
"They also want to kill two birds with one stone, that is, to make trouble for my Ye family, and to reduce their own pressure."
"Well, Chen'er's plan is good, now the restaurant business can generate a lot of cash, and our Ye family also consumes energy, tens of thousands of tenant farmers go to the Chen family to buy grain, this will make the Chen family lose money, but you said kill two birds with one stone, where is this second bird?"
"Lead the snake out of the hole and find out the accomplices behind the scenes". Ye Chen's words were shocking again.
"Young family master, you mean that it is not only the Chen family that is dealing with us, but also other people."
"Of course, the Chen family doesn't have that courage, let alone the strength." Ye Chen's words were deep and powerful, as if he didn't take the Chen family in his eyes, and he had enough confidence to deal with the people behind the scenes.
Old Man Ye suddenly felt that the hero was in the twilight, this world was still the world of young people, he didn't have Ye Chen's thoroughness, let alone Ye Chen's courage.
"Young family master, there is already a way to deal with the rumors of the tenants, and I don't know if there is a way to make things difficult for my Ye family's convoy."
"The matter of the convoy is easy to do, as long as you hire the convoy of other families to help transport it, the Chen family is targeting my Ye family, and I will definitely not dare to offend too many families, and I dare not directly target my Ye family restaurant, which can be seen."
Old Man Ye and Manager Wu both nodded, they didn't expect that the other party was just a few small actions but hid such a deep conspiracy, and they were even more glad that Ye Chen could quickly gain insight into their conspiracy and come up with a lethal counterattack.
Old Man Ye groaned and said: "Manager Wu, you immediately organize capable forces to do the tenants' thoughts, and immediately prepare the money and distribute it to the tenants, this rumor will be very harmful if you don't pay attention to it."
"It's the head of the family, I can do it, and I will definitely take care of it."
"Chen'er, this is to find out who is behind the scenes, I and Manager Wu are not good, you see if you can deal with it." Old Man Ye loves this beloved grandson very much, and his tone is soft, as if he is discussing.
"Grandpa, don't worry, Chen'er will definitely take care of it."
Ye Chen actually already has a draft, and he already has a general range, and he can make the city gate guards difficult for the Ye family at the same time, and there are not many in Liaodong.
While the Ye family was having a meeting, the Chen family was also discussing things with his henchmen and son Chen Qi.
"Dad, everything you ordered has been explained, and the tenants of the Ye family are now unstable, and we may collapse as long as we guide us a little." It turned out that the rumors against the Ye family were planned by Chen Ming and implemented by Chen Qi, and Chen Qi was showing his merit at this time.
"It's not that simple, the Ye family is not bad to the tenants, they are a good person, and the Ye family will not sit idly by, this matter will be suppressed soon."
"Daddy, aren't we working in vain?" Chen Qi was very depressed, he and Ye Chen were originally two big friends, and he had been thinking about how to make trouble for Ye Chen, so as soon as he heard that he was going to spread rumors and make trouble for the Ye family, he took the initiative to ask for help.
"No, in addition to causing trouble for the Ye family, we also need to consume their strength to reduce our pressure, and we also want to confuse the public."
Chen Ming smiled with a gloomy smile as he spoke, and the two fingers of his right hand stroked the small mustache.
The fighting between the Ye family and the Chen family can be regarded as the struggle between the old and new families in Liaodong, the Ye family is a century-old commercial family, and the Chen family is a family that has emerged in recent years.
For a while, there was an undercurrent surging in Liaodong, and the unrelated families were watching, and the relevant families were loose on the outside and tight on the inside, tense their nerves, staring at the opponent, expecting to find weaknesses and kill with one blow.
Ye Chen called the tiger head and asked him to choose some shrewd and exciting people in the caravan, he must know who are involved in dealing with the Ye family, and if he is not clear, he can't start.
Hutou found a total of more than 20 people, these people have been following the caravan all year round, and they can be said to be experienced, and it is expected that just tracking and finding out the news should not be difficult for them.
Ye Chen called a group of people to the study, explained the matter, and ordered him to be responsible for Ye Chen alone, with Hutou as the contact.
After the matter was arranged, Ye Chen could only wait for the news, believing that there would be news in less than two days.
At this time, Ye Chen was a little looking forward to what the Chen family's plan would look like if he saw through it and lifted a stone to hit his own feet.
The next day, a group of shabby-dressed peasants poured into the Chen family's grain stores to buy grain.
But today is different from the past, on weekdays, these mud legs come to buy grain to buy five catties and ten catties, but now they are bought one bag at a time.
Shops are open for business, and when business comes, it is natural to do it. Many shops even lined up, and they should be happy that business is so good.
However, most of the shopkeepers of the Chen family's grain store were worried, because they knew that the Chen family was selling at a loss, and the more they sold, the more they would lose.
Without receiving orders from the Chen family, the shopkeepers could only sell grain, and with their experience, most of the people who came to buy grain were city residents, and these tenants rarely came to buy grain.
In this way, the Chen family did not know what happened in the store, and the grain in each store was sold out in half a day, and at this time, the shopkeepers of each store knew the seriousness of the problem and hurriedly reported to the head of the Chen family.
Chen Ming was already mature, but this sudden news caught him off guard, and he didn't even understand what was going on.
After Chen Ming lost his temper in the study, he sent someone to find out the situation immediately, and only found out what happened two hours later.
Almost all the grain stores of the Chen family, the grain was sold out, and at this time he already knew that it was the Ye family who made a move, and this move was directly above seven inches.
The Chen family is facing a dilemma, if they continue to sell grain and consume it with the Ye family, I don't know how much money the Ye family still has, and whether it has been consumed.
If the Chen family chooses to close the store, then it will lose to the Ye family for a while, once the store is closed, it will have a great impact on the reputation of the Chen family, and there will even be a catastrophe, and if the store is closed, the Ye family's grain store will be able to operate normally, and the Chen family's previous efforts will be in vain.
The Chen family invested hundreds of millions of funds in order to defeat the Ye family, of course, they couldn't admit defeat, closing the store meant that hundreds of millions of funds were lost.
The Chen family urgently transferred a batch of grain to continue the business, while he hurriedly left the house to seek support.
As everyone knows, these reactions of the Chen family were all within Ye Chen's expectations.