Gu Xuanfei looted several specific medicinal materials from Guide Mansion at a price one percent higher than the market price, and then took the medicinal materials and people all the way south to continue to loot other places.

For this, neither Wang Minde, the shopkeeper of Renxintang, nor Qiu San cared too much about this.

Businessmen are profit-seeking, and they don't know what to do, anyway, as long as it's profitable.

This transaction directly brought Qiu San a pure profit of nearly three hundred taels of silver, and the joy brought by the windfall did not last for a few days, life returned to peace, and Gu Xuanfei gradually drifted away.

When Mrs. Qiu San sighed when this kind of good thing would come again a few times, another wave of medicinal herb merchants came to Guide Mansion from the north and started a new round of competition for medicinal materials.

Naturally, as the largest supplier of medicinal materials in Guide Province, Qiu San was the first person to be found.

This time, the medicinal herb dealer is still from the capital, called Niu Xinsheng.

A very rustic name, but the owner of the name looks like a chic and dignified character.

In his twenties, a noble and unassuming silk satin, holding an ivory fan, he almost made no sound when he walked, and his speech was gentle and elegant, giving people the style of a Confucian merchant.

After Mrs. Qiu saw this man, there was a rare red tide on her fat face.

"Why don't I go to the king's shopkeeper to discuss?" Qiu San did not have the first contact with Niu Xinsheng upstairs.

His mother-in-law scolded: "Discuss a fart, big things have to be discussed, I said you Qiu San, you won't eat alone." Think about it, I earned a deposit of thirty taels last time, and half of it was divided by this old thing.

Why are you so solid that you won't turn a corner? ”

Qiu San was taught a lesson by his mother-in-law, nodded very sincerely, and said, "No way, daughter-in-law, I was born with this, but I am too sincere!" ”

"Okay, you, go up and have a look first!"

Qiu San carried a pot of fragrant tea alone, went upstairs with a pout, and when he entered the room and saw the gentle scholar with a folding fan, the smile on his face suddenly appeared out of thin air, and he hunched his waist and said, "Mr. Niu, I've kept you waiting." ”

"Hehe, it's okay, it's okay!"

Niu Xinsheng was very generous, and arched his hand towards Qiu San, "Mr. Qiu's business is big, it is said that ninety percent of the medicinal materials in Defu are sold by you!" ”

"Where, where!"

Being flattered, Qiu San felt so comfortable in his heart.

"Someone from Niu came here, hoping that Mr. Qiu could do a little favor!" Niu Xinsheng took out a piece of rice paper that was also yellowed from his arms, gently handed it to Qiu San, and said in a low voice: "Mr. Qiu, look at it, Niu needs these medicinal materials, the more the better." ”

Qiu San took the rice paper with apprehension, looked at the list carefully, and suddenly sweated in his head.

"Codonopsis,

radix astragali

licorice

Rehmannia,

forsythia

Schisandra

……

Honeysuckle! ”

This list is exactly the same as the list that Gu Xuan gave when he came here before, and the medicinal materials in it are not the slightest bit off.

your uncle and grandmother, Lao Tzu surnamed Gu is not finished with you!

Qiu San scolded fiercely in his heart, his face showed a painful look, the sweat on the tip of his nose kept gushing out, and he was so close that Niu Xinsheng could even hear him gritting his teeth.

Not for anything else, just because Niu Xinsheng's list, he clearly listed the unit price.

Why did Qiu San grit his teeth?

Because the unit price given by this Niu Xinsheng is fully twice as high as Gu Xuanfei.

Double, what is the concept?

At the beginning, the batch of medicinal materials was sold to Gu Xuanfei, and he earned a net profit of three hundred taels, if he sold it to the Niu Xinsheng in front of him at the price on the list, the gross profit could definitely reach two or three thousand taels.

"Gu Xuanfei of the dog day, Lao Tzu and you don't share the sky!"

Qiu San didn't think about how much money he made from Gu Xuanfei, he was thinking about how much money Gu Xuanfei himself lost!

"What's the matter, Gu Xuanfei has been here?"

Niu Xinsheng's brow furrowed, and then his face was covered with frost.

"I've been here, not only have I come, but I've lied to me!" Qiu San pointed to the list and said, "I have lost a lot of money on these medicinal materials."

Two thousand taels of silver, he worked hard to run medicinal materials from Bozhou to Guide Mansion, starting from the age of fifteen, and only accumulated five thousand taels of silver in twenty years, but he was cheated by Gu Xuanfei for two or three thousand taels at once, how can he not hate?

"Hehe...... Niu Xinsheng sneered twice: "The surname Gu's movements are fast, but I don't believe that you can still scavenge the entire Guide Mansion?" ”

Suddenly turned his head and said to Qiu San: "In this way, the shopkeeper Qiu should have no medicinal materials in his hands." ”

"It's gone!" Qiu San drooped his head: "I was deceived by the surname Qiu." ”

"Then ......" Niu Xinsheng still didn't give up, and after thinking for a while, he gave a plan: "Can you collect it from retail investors?" I'll set up a point in your Guide Mansion, how much you collect, how much I want! ”

"This ......"

Qiu San hesitated slightly, and originally wanted to open his mouth to agree, but he was also an old man who had been on the road for twenty years, and he had never seen strong winds and waves, but he had experienced a lot of small winds and small waves, and it was impossible to promise Niu Xinsheng as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Mr. Niu, none of the medicinal materials you want are produced locally, where are there any retail investors, even if there are some stocks in those big shops, they must be kept for backup, even if there is more silver, they can't be redeemed!"

"Forget it!" Niu Xinsheng did not have any difficulties for a strong man, reached out and took the list on the table back in his hand, stuffed it into his sleeve and bowed his hand politely to Qiu San, and said in a low voice: "Buying and selling is not benevolent, today's matter is out of my mouth and into your ears, and I hope that the help of the shopkeeper Qiu will keep it secret, don't let outsiders know." ”

"Yes, yes!" Although Qiu San was puzzled, he could only pretend to be a good expression on the surface.

After the Niu freshman left the big car shop, he waved his dog-legged Xiao Qi over, "Follow that guy just now, see where he will go next, I always feel that something happened to Jingshi!" ”

After Xiao Qi left, Qiu San didn't dare to stop, and went out in the scolding of his mother-in-law as a "wreck" and a "coward" on the right, and went straight to the territory of the shopkeeper of Renxintang Wang.

……

"What?" Wang Minde couldn't believe his ears: "More than twice the price? ”

He has been in the industry for so many years, and he has seen a lot of ups and downs in the medicinal material market, but the price has tripled in an instant, which is definitely abnormal.

In the past few decades, the price of that kind of medicinal herb has not more than doubled.

Except, of course, for those precious and scarce medicinal herbs.

"It's not normal, it's not normal!" Wang Minde arched his fingers, gently knocked on the table with the back of his hand, and frowned slightly in the rhythm of "Dangdang": "Look at it this way, something should happen to the medicinal herb market in Jingshi!" ”

"Something's wrong?" Qiu San didn't understand, and was stunned for a moment and said: "What can happen to the medicinal materials market, can't all the warehouses of medicinal materials merchants catch fire together and burn down?" ”

"What do you think?" Wang Minde glanced at Qiu San and fell into thought again.

After a long time, he took a deep breath and said, "Xu is that several medicinal herb merchants have a dispute, and they are currently stocking up on goods, otherwise the price will definitely not rise so high." ”

"Isn't it!"

Qiu San opened his mouth widely, "This medicinal herb is not food, and someone else has to store it?" ”

Compared with grain, the price of medicinal materials of the same weight is dozens or even hundreds of times that of grain, and hoarding requires a huge amount of money, not to mention that there is another disadvantage.

Many medicinal herbs are not air-dried, not as easy to preserve as grain, and medicinal herbs are not like grains that people have to eat all day long, so there are very few businessmen who hoard medicinal herbs to make profits!

It could almost be said that there was none.

"This is received from Jingshi to Bozhou, how much is it enough to receive?"

"Cut!" Wang Minde glanced at Qiu San with disdain, snorted and said: "What kind of knowledge do you have, how can you imagine the background of those big families in Jingshi, in that kind of place, millions of silver are just waiting for leisure!" ”

"Ah......h

Qiu San has worked hard for half his life, but he has only saved half a million silver, and he was scared to hear that people are making millions at every turn.

"Like us to Guide Mansion!" Wang Minde pointed to it with his finger and said in a low voice: "Don't say anything else, let's just say that we are a small household warden in the Defu Mansion, after several generations of accumulation, the family assets of hundreds of thousands are only average, not to mention the kind of realm of Jingshi......"

Looking at Qiu San's eyes stunned for a moment, and the appearance of swallowing saliva, Wang Minde felt a little disgusted.

"Okay, it's better if you know less about these big families. I guess that this increase in the price of medicinal materials is almost caused by a few super-rich people in Jingshi who are doing the business of dominating the market, and the money you should earn has already been earned, so don't pay attention to it. ”

"It's not...... Brother Wang, this is a huge profit, if we do it, we won't have to worry about it in this life! Qiu San was really reluctant to give up this piece of fat.

"Do you have any herbs?" Wang Minde asked rhetorically.

"Yes, I can go to Bozhou, and I should be able to transfer some!"

"Cut!" Wang Minde glanced at him with disdain: "You can go to Bozhou, but people can't go, besides, Gu Xuanfei has already gone there a few days ago, will he keep it for you to earn this money?" ”

"That, this, such a fat piece of meat, just like this......" Qiu San looked unwilling.

"What if the meat is fat, do you have any medicinal herbs?"

"Nope!" Qiu San's voice suddenly lowered, but it broke out in an instant: "It's all because of that dog's surname Gu, if it weren't for him, how much more money would I earn?" ”

"None of us are Zhuge Liang, you and I are willing to do this kind of thing, don't blame others. Besides, I'm really unconvinced, you chased him to Bozhou to beat him and ask him to return the medicinal materials to you? ”

Qiu San instantly softened.

People like him usually bully and bully honest people, but if they encounter hard stubble, they don't dare to put a fart.

At this time, Xiao Qi, who was sent out, suddenly broke in from the outside, and shouted in his mouth: "It's not good, boss, it's not good." ”

"What's wrong?" Qiu San looked at Xiao Qi and asked, "Didn't you let Niu Xinsheng follow, where did he go later?" ”

"I was about to tell my boss about it." Xiao Qi panted and said, "He, he, he went...... Tongjitang. ”