Tian Jian still doesn't understand the situation of the entire Taoyi, although the Qi State has the plaster of Taojun, but all he has is the population and land of Taojun, and the business of Taojun is firmly in the hands of Taojun's original family.

It was only a private mine, Tian Jian knew Cai Ze's wrongs, and with Cai Ze's alone, it was unlikely that Taoyi's business would collapse, unless Taoyi wanted to collapse himself, so as to transfer this burden to Cai Ze.

And Cai Ze's death is what those people want to see. And Cai Ze and them have no new hatred and old grudges, so only one thing is clear, their target is Tian Jian.

Thinking of this, Tian Jian's back was a little cold, and he couldn't help but be afraid of the methods of these families, if he hadn't been well-informed, relying only on superficial speculation, it would really be possible to lose his face, so that these people would become more and more unscrupulous.

"Could it be... They also knew that the alliance forces of Qin, Wei, and Korea would soon arrive in Tao County. Tian Jian guessed coldly.

Then this is really the punishment of his heart!

With these merchants doing business in the world, it is not impossible to hear some news, and the most profitable thing to do business is undoubtedly war!

As soon as the cannon sounded, there were ten thousand taels of gold. In Britain, the Rothschild family relied on the British king's continuous foreign wars to purchase a large number of public bonds like securities companies, especially the Battle of Waterloo, when Britain defeated the invincible First French Emperor Napoleon, at that time, through the public's disfavor of Britain, the Rothschilds acquired a large number of British bonds, so until now, Britain has not repaid the money.

Tian Jian glanced at the entire corner of the city in Taoyi again, and he didn't know what dangers were hidden under the calm Taoyi on the surface, but this time it was really anxious for Tian Jian. For these merchants, killing is not possible.

Otherwise, it will make the merchants of all countries afraid of Tian Jian, and in this way, the commerce of Taoyi and even Qi will plummet, and the monarchs of all countries understand this very well.

As early as when Wei and the Six Kingdoms conspired to divide the Qin land, because a large number of merchants of Wei were in Qin, King Hui of Wei had to delay the date of attacking Qin, and these dates were the critical period for the success of the Shang Dynasty reform. Qin Guoyan can retake Hexi!

Of course, it is impossible to indulge these merchants, not to mention others, the Taoyi War is together, these merchants are behind the ghosts, and the army of Qi has no supplies, but it is not as good as the Three Kingdoms from afar.

Then there's only one way!

"Wei Qing, send people to various markets to investigate the prices of all commercial goods, and try to find out who sells them, and how much they are hoarding, so as to be faster." Tian Jianyi frowned and said urgently to Wei Qing.

Wei Qing was stunned, although he didn't know why he did this, he immediately agreed and led a team of Qi troops away.

"General Meng, send a messenger to the Qi State to tell my father that I will gather Linzi merchants and that there is a big deal to be done in this palace." Tian Jian smiled indifferently.

"Big deal?" Meng Ao was a little puzzled, but still agreed.

But just as Meng Ao turned around to do something, Tian Jian stopped him.

"General Meng, send someone to find the Bai family, Bai Gui and Bai Jia, and then Bai Jin." Tian Jiandao.

"After Shang Zu Baigui, I don't know what His Highness's intentions are?" Meng Ao was puzzled.

The corners of Tian Jian's mouth raised slightly, and he said with a smile: "This world can be used to do business, the capitals of the countries are the most prosperous, and the Bai family's power is in the Great Liang of the Wei State, and the Great Liang is not far from the Qi State. ”

Daliang is not far from Taojun, and Daliang and Taoyi are frequently close to the tributaries of the Yellow River.

"I understand." Meng Ao said.

All behaviors in the world are inseparable from the three stages of "differentiation, co-optation, and various breakthroughs", whether it is a war or a business war, there is no strength that can destroy the withering and decaying, and if you want to succeed in victory, you must do so.

The power of these families in Taoyi is deep-rooted, and it is not easy to break down, first of all, they need to be softened silently by the drizzle, and their hostility will be disintegrated.

......

The night was deep, the nightingale outside the window cooed, the verdant young leaves broke through the hard branches, and from time to time the breeze blew, causing the leaves to rattle, and the nightingale also stopped singing because of the breeze.

The dim yellow light outside the window sprinkled faintly to the outside through the white cloth, and the cool moonlight, but the opposite of such a quiet environment was the wrestling in the window.

Tian Jian sat at the head of the position, constantly playing with the white jade pendant on his waist, the hollow jade pendant has a vivid phoenix pattern on it, this is when he traveled far away, Qi Ya personally handed it to him, as a token of their love, and his own good jade pendant also increased Qi Ya.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, it's not that I can't wait for the profit, this castor is expensive for three dollars and seven cents, and Qi Wei is expensive for twenty big dollars, which you don't know." Hua Sheng touched the "rat whiskers" at the corner of his mouth, and his eyes flashed with a burst of fine light.

Tian Jian sneered and said: "The value of the goods is originally more and less, the 30,000 armor required by the palace, the cloth, iron ingots, copper ingots, furs, and the value of the above, you should be clear." ”

Fan Si said to Tian Jianyi: "This armor requires twenty-three iron nails, half a piece of silk, thirteen copper ingots, less than one-third of cowhide or rhinoceros skin, and half a gold. ”

One gold is exchanged for knife coins in Linzi, Qi State, and one gold is exchanged for one thousand knife coins. And half gold is 500 Wen, in the Warring States Period, generally speaking, the armor is brought by the soldiers, but occasionally, as those elites, or personal guards, of course, their armor can not be worn in tatters, there must be customized armor.

As a department specializing in the production of weapons and armor in other countries, it is difficult to make such a huge amount of things, so they will generally gather merchants to give them these "orders" and let them operate, so that they can only pay money.

So when Tian Jianchu said that he wanted them to make armor, the three of them didn't show much surprise, but the 30,000 pairs of armor were still unexpected, and it was such a new type of armor.

On the chest, abdomen, thighs, attached to the iron plate, in the back of the back there is a huge iron shell, and the helmet is made of copper, which really scares them, how much does it cost!

Unlike the wooden armor and helmets used in other countries, these are all metal products, and in the Warring States Period, although they had been bartered from primitive society, iron nails, copper ingots, and furs were all hard currency, and sometimes they could be counted as money.

The well-known Wuyang doctor Baili Xi is exchanged for five sheepskins, Meng Ke said in the article "Born in Sorrow and Died in Peace" that "Baili Xi is lifted in the city", as the son of the Chu State Baili Xi had a bumpy fate, was arrested as a slave by a businessman, and was rescued by a passing Yingren, that is, Qin Mugong was rescued and became a pivotal minister at that time, I have to say that Baili Xi's fate is still very worried.

Five sheepskins can be exchanged for a living person, which shows that sheepskins are sometimes goods.

Not to mention the copper ingots, iron ingots that can be used to build weapons of strategic reserve items, although the current iron ingots can not be used as weapons, but agricultural supplies are can, in the Han Dynasty, there was a historical reform, that is, iron cattle farming, although the current cattle farming has not been mentioned, iron tools have been widely used.

At the right time, Tian Jian also wants to "invent" the Quyuan plow, a national weapon, as long as there is a Quyuan plow, the "Zhenguan Prosperous Age" will not be far away.

Tian Jian bent the middle finger of his right hand into a bow, and kept tapping the table in front of him, and the rhythmic sound of the bang scared the three of them into a cold sweat.

"That means that the three of you really don't want to lower the price anymore, you must know that 30,000 armor costs 15,000 gold, can you eat this money?" Tian Jian said coldly.

Vance took a hard breath and shouted, "No, no!" Your Highness, fifteen thousand gold is a lot, but for a country, it is not much, especially the Qi country. ”

He knew that the big war was coming, and the Qi country was also difficult to protect itself at this time, and the meaning of building armor was already very clear, that is, it was to be applied in the big war, and there was a demand in order to have bargaining chips.

In normal times, he wouldn't dare to set the price so high.

The merchant has a black heart since ancient times, and he can risk his life to do it only if it is profitable, as can be seen from the trade of the Hu people and the invasion between the nations.

Therefore, even if it is Tian Jian's coercion, he can ignore it.

"Good! Good! Good! Tian Jian sneered. Aren't the three of you afraid of being headed? ”

As soon as the words fell, the hearts of the three of them were suddenly relieved, and now they can speak out about threats, it seems that Taizijian is already "at the end of the road", there is no way out, and their hope or opportunity has come.

As for the head? But they are not too worried, there is no direct evidence of the crime, and Prince Jian must also be careful of the pressure of public opinion, he can't get this head.

In this world, there are many people who like to kill people without saying a word, but those people often end up badly, because people who can really achieve great things know one thing, "forbearance".

What seems simple is often not easy to do.

"What His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said, we don't quite understand. We are honest businessmen, guests see things, we give a conscience price, but if the guests are not satisfied with our goods, we will admit it, after all, do business is pay attention to a harmonious and wealthy, but if we give the value of the goods is too high, and angry. We're not angry either, don't you think that's the case? Hua Sheng laughed.

Tian Jian's spread palms slowly clenched into a fist in their gaze, and his trembling body proved that he was furious at the moment, only frowning brows, twitching corners of his mouth.

Everything is under their watchful eye!

Tian Jian opened his mouth and smiled, the palm he was holding was scattered, the corners of his mouth were smiling, and his brows were also dispersed, and he said: "Everyone take a step back, how good, why bother to break up unhappily." You must know that this 30,000 armor is not a small business, I remember Tao Zhugong said: Small profits and quick sales are the right way, and now the price is too high, where does the palace have so much money on hand! ”

The three of them were silent for a moment, looked at each other, and then nodded secretly, this time it is time to release the line, otherwise the fish that is tightly hooked, if you are not careful, the fish may grab the bait and leave.

"What did His Royal Highness the Crown Prince say, now Taoyi is under the rule of the Qi State, and we are also the people of the Qi State, and it is also appropriate to serve the country." Cao Yi, who had not spoken, opened his mouth and said, as today's white face, he was going to bring the words of Huasheng and Fan Si to life, which is why he didn't speak just now.

"It's not right, it's not right!" Hua Sheng shook his head and sighed, he kept pacing back and forth in the spacious lobby, his slender body pulling out a long shadow under the yellow light.

"Definitely! Definitely! Fan Si shook his head and said: "Your Royal Highness, I can appropriately reduce the price of this product, just 14,000 gold, and 1,000 gold is a gift from the Fan family to His Royal Highness." ”

"Fourteen thousand gold is too much, the main palace will pay a maximum of ten thousand gold, and there will be no more!" Tian Jian lowered his head and kept playing with the jade pendant.

"Ten thousand gold? 10,000 gold? The three of them kept shaking their heads and sighing, this price is too little. At this price, they can make some money, but the money they make is too little and too little.

The fur thing is easy to say, transport some salt from the Central Plains, or some silk, and those Hu people will be stupid to ask for a price far more than ten times, and there will be ten times the profit if they come and go, to say the least.

But this is not the case with the ingots of brass and iron, which are scarce among the nations.

Tian Jian groaned for a while, and then said: "Although 10,000 gold is too much, but the palace pays 3,000 gold first, and the palace can also help you get through the salt pass, the Huai salt of Qi is all over the world, and the benefits of fish and salt are also well known..."

"What salt!" Huasheng's mouth couldn't close.

In this era, the price of salt is not inferior to grain, but few people can profit from it, because salt is monopolized by the Qi State.

It's as simple as that, if you want to eat salt, you have to transport it from Qi Guoyun.

Needless to say, if anyone can tear a hole in the merchants of Qi State, then the money in it is worth making a lot of money, but whoever has the ability!

The crown prince of the Qi Kingdom!

As the second person with the most important voice in the Qi State, the future King of Qi, his words are the Jinke Law Order in the Qi State.

"Your Highness isn't joking!" Fan Si stared at Tian Jian tightly, his feet trembled a little, and he even forgot the verbal "Fei Ye, Fei Ye".

Tian Jian held the jade pendant tightly, and a smile rose at the corner of his mouth: "When does this palace talk doesn't count?" A gentleman's words are difficult to chase, let alone for this palace! ”

"That's... 30,000 armor... We are willing to accept only 8,000 gold, and the other 2,000 gold should be given to His Highness. Huasheng shuddered.

As soon as this sentence was said, the three of them did not even oppose it, but took it for granted.

(End of chapter)