Chapter 148: Su Shuang worships the Lord
In the following two days, Gao Shun and Li Qiang trained in the barracks; Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were sent to eliminate the Yellow Turban Thieves in Changshan Country, and along the way, they eliminated the scattered Yellow Turban Thieves in several counties in the southern part of Zhongshan Kingdom; It is hoped that after they are hit, they will concentrate on Xiaquyang and other places. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
With a strong army stationed there, the situation in Zhongshan was very stable, and the local commerce and trade were not only not affected, but because of the increase in the foreign population, the sales of goods increased significantly.
Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping not only opened grain stores in Zhuo County, but also opened a number of grain stores in Zhongshan Kingdom.
Due to the influence of the Yellow Turban thieves, they did not take over the wine business for the time being, and just used the money to buy wine as the principal to expand the grain store, and opened a large grain store in each county of Zhongshan Kingdom.
According to Gao Shun's arrangement, he was allowed to dump at a low price, which greatly increased the amount of grain sold.
The Zhen family in Wuji County, Zhongshan is the largest grain merchant in Jizhou, with a large amount of grain reserves, and they wanted to take advantage of the Yellow Turban thieves to raise grain prices and make a windfall, but they didn't expect Su Shuang to sell grain at a low price and break their money-making plan.
At the beginning, the Zhen family just thought that Zhang Shuang and others would sell grain at a low price just to open a business and attract popularity, and they would not insist on it for too long, but they didn't expect that in a month, the price was very stable and the sales volume was very large, which caused the Zhen family to not be able to sell a liter of grain in Zhongshan Country, and they were very annoyed.
The Zhen family has its own business intelligence system, and soon found out that Su Shuang and others have close ties with Gao Shun, these grains are all from Youzhou, and the grain from Youzhou comes from Shanggu County and Dai County, and in any case, it is inseparable from Gao Shun.
Now that Gao Shun has won the position of Taishou of Julu County, the price of grain in Julu County and the surrounding areas will definitely fall sharply in the future, so it will be difficult to sell the grain stored by his family, and he will suffer huge economic losses.
Other businessmen had long known that Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping had only developed rapidly after relying on Gao Shun, and now Gao Shun had arrived in Zhongshan Kingdom, which was an opportunity for all merchants to befriend Gao Shun.
There is no shortage of shrewd businessmen in any era.
After all the merchants of Zhongshan Kingdom summed up, they went to visit Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping to discuss the matter of sacrificing the army, which was the most reasonable opportunity for them to get close to and befriend Gao Shun.
Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping felt tremendous pressure, if these businessmen were good friends with Gao Shun, then his interests would be seriously damaged.
In order to stabilize everyone first, Su Shuang proposed to visit Gao Shun once to see his attitude and then negotiate with everyone, but everyone didn't know his plan, so they agreed to Su Shuang's opinion.
After everyone left, Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping discussed for a long time, if there was no support from Gao Shun, the strength of the two of them would not be able to confront so many businessmen, and they would even be eaten by them jointly; If Gao Shun is allowed to choose, for the sake of profit, he will definitely want to trade with more businessmen.
If you don't want to lose Gao Shun's support, there is only one way, which is to worship Gao Shun as the lord, closely tie their interests with Gao Shun's interests, and then manipulate these businessmen to make money for Gao Shun, and they will also earn stable income.
On the morning of the ninth day of the first month of April, Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping came to the Gaoshun military camp, and when they saw Gao Shun, they immediately bowed and said: "Meet the lord, please take him in." ”
Gao Shun was taken aback, in history, Su Shuang didn't worship Liu Da'er as the main father, and hurriedly asked: "Su Dongjia, Zhang Dongjia, please hurry up, are you encountering any difficulties?" ”
Su Shuang bowed again: "Please take it in!" ”
Gao Shun smiled: "Su Dongjia, wasn't our previous cooperation very good?" How can I decide without giving a reasonable reason? Otherwise, if it spreads, outsiders will still think that my high and virtuous character is dirty, and I will do things that fall into the well. Besides, if you worship me as Lord, it will have a great impact on your business. ”
Su Shuang saw that Gao Shun had a misunderstanding, and hurriedly explained: "Lord, the world is chaotic, and it is difficult for small businessmen like us to survive alone. ”
Gao Shun was not satisfied with his answer, and said: "Su Dongjia, I treat large and small merchants equally, I will not discriminate against anyone, if you have any difficulties, as long as it is within a reasonable range, I will try my best to help." ”
Seeing Gao Shun say this, if Gao Shun treats all merchants equally, then their future business opportunities will be very slim, which strengthens Su Shuang's decision to worship the Lord. said: "Shuang has not encountered difficulties, but no matter how much money a businessman makes, his status is still low, for the sake of future generations, it is better to devote himself to the lord, like Yide, and strive for a good future." ”
Seeing that the two of them are so persistent, and Gao Shun happens to lack excellent business talents, if the two of them join, it will be of great help to him at present, so he said: "Well, since the two of you are so persistent, Shun will accept your request, but there is one requirement, that is, I must not hide and betray." ”
Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping were overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "Meet the lord and never betray." ”
"Okay, get up, sit down."
"Yes, my lord." The two got up and sat down until Gao Shun started.
Gao Shun said: "No government will like businessmen to become bigger, the biggest deficiency of businessmen is not to produce, to see profit and forget righteousness, hoarding, short-sighted, which will seriously endanger social stability, so the government has been suppressing businessmen, and demeaning the social status of businessmen." Since you have worshiped me as Lord, you must cease all family business from now on, otherwise you will be unfair to other merchants. ”
The two were a little disappointed, but they had just worshiped Gao Shun as the master, so they couldn't refute it, so they had to endure it and said, "Obey the orders of the lord." ”
Gao Shun continued: "I have decided to appoint two as my commercial directors, Zhang Dongjia specializes in my trading in Youzhou, and Su Dongjia specializes in trading in Jizhou; In order to compensate for your losses, each person may receive half of the dividends in the transactions under their jurisdiction. ”
The two of them were overjoyed, even if they accounted for half of the dividends, it was much larger than their current income, and they hurriedly thanked them: "Thank you for your appreciation, and you will never live up to the trust of your lord." ”
"There's no rush now, I'll take office after the rebellion is quelled, and now I'll go back and take care of the housework."
Su Shuang decided: "Lord, we have no housework for the time being, and the few grain stores we have opened now are all dedicated to the lord and can operate normally." ”
Gao Shun thought for a while, and now he still focuses on stability, so he said: "Okay, continue to operate the grain store, continue to sell grain at low prices, so that more people can buy grain." ”
"Yes, my lord."
Subsequently, Su and Zhang put Gao Shun's interests first and actively organized various merchants to donate to the army.
Gao Shun received nearly 1,000 gold and held a grand banquet to entertain all the merchants; Gao Shun did not interfere in the affairs of the mountain country, and everything was as usual. Some businessmen were happy, while others were very angry, such as the Zhen family, who donated 200 gold, but did not achieve the expected goal of befriending Gao Shun.
And Gao Shun was also very dissatisfied with the Zhen family, other merchants came from the owner, or sent the most powerful descendants of the family to come, and although the Zhen family donated a lot, they only sent a steward to come, which made Gao Shun feel despised and the impulse to befriend the Zhen family was temporarily extinguished.