Chapter 119: The Secret of 20 Tons of Tea
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Fifth Master Long smiled gloomily, "Li Yibai, let me tell you, I can do anything in Liangzhejiang, let alone in the southern city of Lin'an." The pacification of the two Zhejiang envoys will be respectful when they see me. If you want to die, don't blame my men for being ruthless. ’
Long Wuye then turned to Wednesday and said, "Starting tomorrow, the price of our tea will be reduced by two percent, and we will dump it and let Li Yibai's tea rot." ’
In ancient times, it was difficult to preserve tea, because there was no good sealing means, it was all fried and sold, and a large number of tea leaves would rot after being stored for a long time, and they would be worthless.
Long Wuye asked the price to be lowered on Wednesday and used dumping to hit Li Yibai, this strategy is right. At present, Long Wuye's supply is sufficient, and he is not afraid of the tea being sold out.
Hearing what Long Wuye said, Li Yibai also shouted, "Notify it, our tea will also drop by two percent, and we will drop as much as the Dragon Five Chamber of Commerce drops." ’
Long Wuye was shocked in his heart, wasn't he afraid of losing money? He's trying to fight me to the end. Good. I'll accompany him to see how long he can last, and will 500,000 taels of silver still last? I'm 20 million taels.
'Good. I'll see how long you can hold out. Black Dragon, let's go. ’
Looking at the back of Long Wuye's departure, Li Yibai laughed secretly, he thought, he was going to the United States to buy goods, and this time he was buying tea. He had to get his hands on large quantities of tea before the merchants of Western Xia and Jin arrived a month later.
When Li Yibai returned home, he summoned two tea merchants to inquire about the approximate amount of goods needed.
Two tea merchants. 'Normally, the shop sells 2,000 koku a month. The Jin State Tea Merchants and the Western Xia Tea Merchants each needed 20,000 stones. ’
Li Yibai said lightly. In other words, a minimum of 42,000 stone is currently required. ’
The two tea merchants nodded.
Li Yibai said with a smile. 'No problem. After three days, you go to the base warehouse to pick it up. ’
After the two tea merchants left, Li Yibai came to an empty room alone, and he flew to the United States using the secondary transmission capability.
He first landed at the villa in the Bay Area and met with the wives who had been thinking about him for a long time. Then he drove alone to the market where tea was sold.
He asked the largest merchants, 'Do you have 10 tons of tea here?' ’
When the market merchants heard him ask, they were all startled, 'No. That's too much. We are all dealing in high-grade tea. Only 1 ton at most. ’
Li Yibai felt depressed for a while, "It turns out that the tea production in the United States is not so high. Think about the origin of tea should be India and China, where there is a lot of tea. Looks like I'm going to China. But my space-time teleportation system has never landed in China, is that okay? ’
If it doesn't work, you have to try it, Li Yibai thought, so he thought silently in his heart, the second-level space-time transmission ability returned
There was a blank slate
When he opened his eyes again, he had landed at his home in the Northern Song Dynasty.
He continued to use his consciousness to turn on the space-time transmission system, and used satellite maps to find where China had landed, and every inch of the United States was clear and unambiguous on Google Maps.
When he turned the 3D map to the Chinese side. Found all dark parts of the map, nothing showing. There is no way to choose where to land.
What's going on? Can't you really land in China?
He awakens the assistant of the space-time teleportation system.
'Master. What's the matter? ’
'Why can't the space-time transmission system land in China?' I want to fly to China. ’
The space-time teleportation system assistant said,
'Master, I'm sorry because China doesn't support Google. So I can't show you where to land. ’
Li Yibai's heart was dark, alas, he was in trouble this time.
But he flew back to the United States, where he could only collect tea for retail sale at a loss of money. But this solution is always not working, because it is still not enough.
Eventually, he learned from a retailer that there was a big ship in the United States that imported 20 tons of tea from China every year, but the tea was eventually distributed, and if he could buy it all before it was distributed, there was still a chance.
Retailers never know why Li Yibai wants to buy so much tea, even if he wants to do a tea business, there is no need to buy so much in one go, so much can't be sold at all.
After Li Yibai thanked the retailer, he went to find the shipping company of the big ship and contacted the manager of the import company according to the dock that the retailer said.
Li Yibai was very busy making an appointment with them and discussed together, but he was helpless, no matter how much the price was raised, the two managers could not agree to the deal.
The import and export manager said, 'I'm sorry Mr. Li, we can't promise you. We've been working with those tea distributors for decades. We can't lose faith in them for your sake. And we have a contract with them, and we want to think about the reputation of our company. ’
Li Yibai knew that what they said made sense, but during this meeting, he learned the ship's number and the time of its arrival.
The ship will arrive on the 15th of this month. Moored at the dock for three days, the first two days are inspected by customs, and the third day is unloaded.
Li Yibai knew that it was impossible to negotiate, so he flew back to the Northern Song Dynasty, but at this time he already had a way in his heart.
The tea merchants went to the base to pick up the goods at the time Li Yibai said, but Tie Dan told them that there was no tea.
The desperate faces of the tea merchants were revealed.
Alas, Li Yibai is talking big. It's made us miserable. ’
'yes. Our tea has been sold out, and now the goods are not available, what should we do, we can only sit and eat empty? ’
'I think he's going to lose to Fifth Master Long this time. Let's get out of him sooner. ’
Some of the tea merchants have been shaken, they are originally grass on the wall, and it is not good to see Li Yibai's side. There is a heart of rebellion.
Sure enough, two days passed. There were three or two tea merchants who took the initiative to find Long Wuye. Request to join the Dragon Five Chamber of Commerce.
'Not bad. I'm glad you can go back. As long as you come back, I am not to blame for what happened before, and you can also help me notify the rest of the merchants to come back. ’
Two or three tea merchants nodded in resignation.
Li Yibai heard that two or three tea merchants had already taken refuge in Long Wuye. He was disappointed, and though he expected it, they must have changed too quickly. Maybe this is the state of the world.
But I blame myself for saying it, and I didn't do it. Losing faith in them, it's normal for them to react this way.
What I can do now is to comfort the remaining merchants.
Li Yibai personally turned on the radio propaganda.
'The vast tea merchants of the southern city. Hello. I'm Li Yibai. Please don't worry, the supply of tea will be available on the 15th of this month. Please be patient.
I, Li Yibai, do what I say. Please rest assured. ’
Long Wuye also heard the radio propaganda, and he felt very angry.
This Li Yibai obviously has no ability, and he dares to talk nonsense and deceive people's hearts, which is really hateful. Let's go, we'll meet him. ’
Saying that, Long Wuye took the black dragon and some tea merchants and more than 20 black dragon soldiers to find Li Yibai.
However, the Black Dragon Army is just putting up a position. Long Wuye didn't want to fight with Li Yibai, because he thought that he had defeated Li Yibai by relying on the business war this time. There is no need to use force at all.
They came to the door of Li Yibai's house.
Li Yibai knew that they were coming, and he also brought people to the door, and the personnel of the two sides faced each other, and the atmosphere of the scene was tense.
At the same time, there were many tea merchants at the scene, all of whom did not pick up the goods and came to Li Yibai to explain.
Long Wuye pointed at Li Yibai arrogantly and said, "Li Yibai, you have no supply at all, now the stock of tea in the entire Nancheng is sold out, and the merchants who follow you can't buy the goods at all, haha, now only the tea of our Chamber of Commerce is still on sale, do you want to say anything?" This is your arrogant capital the other day, this is your ability? ’
Those tea merchants also said to Li Yibai one after another, "Yes. Li Jieyuan, you said that you could ship the goods for us in three days, but when we went to buy the goods, you didn't have the goods, how can you tell us to mess with you. ’
Li Yibai reassured, "Everyone, I made a mistake last time, but don't worry, as long as it takes another 10 days, I will definitely bring 50,000 stone tea leaves to you." ’
The tea merchants continued to say, "Li Jieyuan, you must do what you say." Fifteen days from now will be the day when the Xixia tea merchants and the Jinguo tea merchants will come to receive the goods. It's a very important deal for us, once a year. If you don't have the goods by then, you'll be in for a bad time. ’
'yes. Oh, yes. By then, there will be no goods left, and we will have to work for nothing this year. ’
Li Yibai continued to comfort, "Don't worry. Everyone, if there is no goods by then, I will pay for everyone's losses. I'll pay in full. ’
Fifth Master Long smiled darkly, "Li Yibai, you are really capable of big words." The loss of the tea merchant you pay. Do you know how much money it would be if they all lost?
It's a total of 500,000 taels, if you really accompany you, it is estimated that the underwear will also be lost, will you pay for it?
Don't believe him. If he has spoken to you once, why do you believe him? He has no strength at all, he can only brag.
You have to believe me, I, Fifth Master Long, will definitely bring you to make a fortune. Now the tea farmers in the whole two Zhejiang provinces listen to me and want to do the tea business, if they don't cooperate with me, who else can they cooperate with? ’
As soon as Long Wuye said this, many tea merchants began to waver,
'yes. Long Wuye controls all the tea farmers, what can we do. We haven't heard of the tea in the distance, and the tea in the distance is tiring, and the freight is also a lot of money. Li Jieyuan, I'm sorry, I want to join the Long Wuye Chamber of Commerce. A tea merchant said directly.
Li Yibai sighed, he knew that this person acted like a villain, but he couldn't be blamed for it. They are all eaten together, and no one stipulates who must be loyal to whom.
Seeing Li Yibai sighing, Long Wuye continued to laugh and said, "Li Yibai, what do you say you are suffering. If you worship at my door, I will do you a good deal. But you will fight me to the death. Isn't this self-inflicted? ’
Li Yibai said sharply, "Shut up." Ryugo, I'll tell you. You're just a hairy boy. The three major landlords in Nancheng, such old fritters have to be obedient to me, you are the oldest. If you know your mistake now and change it, maybe I can let you live. ’
Then Li Yibai said to the tea merchants, "Everyone, please rest assured, I said that the goods will be delivered on the fifteenth of this month, and if I can't do it, I am willing to go bankrupt to accompany your losses." (The novel "Moving the United States to the Northern Song Dynasty" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and updated faster!)