Chapter 918: Returning the Favor

readx; Wuzhou Trading Company entered the antique world in a big way, and achieved great success with novel marketing methods, which naturally attracted the attention of several major merchant gangs in Beijing. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Especially the Luliang merchants of the Jin merchants, in the past, they could account for sixty percent of the antique industry in Beijing; Now as soon as the antique shop of Wuzhou Trading Company opened, many old customers have left, which can make the Jin merchants very angry.

However, for the upcoming large-scale auction held by Wuzhou Trading Company, the major merchant gangs have different attitudes. Zhejiang businessmen advocated boycotting this auction, and no one should participate in any member of the major merchant gangs; Jin Shang planned to "kick the field" and try to make Wuzhou Trading Company ugly at the auction. However, Fujian merchants, Cantonese merchants and other merchants who are less involved in the antique world want to take the opportunity to promote their antiques through the platform of the auction, because this auction conference must be an unprecedented event in Beijing, and whoever misses it is a fool.

After receiving Li Zicheng's secret report, Zhu Youzhen told Zhu Cunqi: "Several major business gangs are acting separately and have not united to deal with us, so this is a good opportunity for us to further expand our influence." But be prepared to prevent anyone from causing trouble. If I had expected it to be right, these profiteers would not have let us run the auction smoothly. ”

Sure enough, before the day of the auction, there were many troublemakers in the antique shops of the Wuzhou Trading Company. Of course, these people are not ruffians and hooligans, because after the ruffians of the Beijing Division made Zhu Youzhen kill hundreds of people in anger, they have already reined in a lot, and almost no one dares to do such things as finding fault and collecting protection money.

As the saying goes, singles don't suffer immediate losses, ruffians and hooligans are typical singles, they are quite capable of bullying the common people when no one cares, but they don't dare to fight against the court and commit crimes under the nose of Jinyiwei, even if they borrow a few of their courage.

And this group of troublemakers is mainly from the Longyou merchant gang of Zhejiang merchants. They don't make trouble stupidly, but pretend to be buyers, and as soon as they enter the store, they pestered the guys to ask this and that, and seem to be interested in many antiques.

When the guys saw the customer, they were naturally hospitable. The internal management system of Wuzhou Trading Company is in the same vein as that of the Huanghai Business Gang, and it implements strict performance appraisal. The guys' income is directly linked to the profit, and the more they sell, the more expensive they are, and the higher their achievements. There are many guys who earn a few hundred taels of silver in just seven or eight days, so the enthusiasm for sales is also particularly high.

But these fake customers don't want to buy anything at all, their purpose is to entangle the guys of the Gosu trading company, so that they have no time to greet real customers. These people are indeed experts in the world of antiques, no matter what it is, they can always find fault, either say that this is fake, or say that it is not in good condition, or pick and choose between many antiques, and finally buy any of them.

Not to mention, although this trick is similar to a scoundrel, the effect is really good, and the business of various antique shops in Wuzhou Trading Company has been affected to a certain extent. After the guys were fooled a few times, they hated these people so much that they itched their teeth, but they couldn't do anything to them. After all, people don't steal or rob, they just look at it and don't buy it, and they don't break the law; If you ignore them, it will look like a big bully, and they will talk nonsense to real customers; If you want to deal with them specifically, you have to spend a lot of energy.

Zhu Cunqi worriedly reported this matter to Zhu Youzhen, but Zhu Youzhen smiled after hearing it: "This is nothing. I also know that someone opened a restaurant, and in order to disrupt his business, my colleagues hired people to eat in the restaurant. Ten big men sat around a table, ordered a plate of peanuts in total, and sat from morning to night, making the shopkeeper at a loss. ”

"How can there be such a despicable and shameless person!" Zhu Cunqi said angrily.

"My good county lord, you grew up in the palace since you were a child, and you haven't had much contact with this society." Zhu Youzhen sneered and said, "There is a saying that there is no businessman and no adultery, no adultery is not business, if there is no legal constraint, some businessmen will make any means in order to make money!" ”

"So what are we going to do?" Zhu Cunqi asked helplessly.

"It's simple." Zhu Youzhen said, "With the other way, give back to the other person!" If everyone competes openly and honestly, I will never make trouble for the merchants, they can make money, that is the ability of others, and I will never be blushing; But if you want to play yin, then we have to return it tenfold, a hundred times, and see who dies in the end! ”

Early the next morning, the shopkeepers of dozens of antique shops under the Longyou Merchant Gang were surprised to find that there were a large number of customers waiting in line outside the store to open the door!

Of course, it is a good thing that there are many customers, and the shopkeeper does not think much about opening the door to welcome customers. But when I opened the door, I found that these people were dressed quite shabby, and some of them were not as good as ordinary people, and they didn't look like they could afford to buy antiques.

But the door of the store was open, and the shopkeeper couldn't stop him no matter how much he tried to stop him, and these customers immediately rushed in.

The general antique storefront, three rooms wide and two deep, is considered a big store, and there are few people who can afford to buy antiques, so there are generally a few people in the store. Now there are dozens of people pouring in at once, let alone saying hello, and there is not even a place to put your feet in the store. And there are more than a dozen "customers" outside the door blocking the door and squeezing in, and those real buyers can't squeeze in when they see so many people today, so they don't go in.

And these "customers" followed the cat's example, and returned the tricks that Longyou Merchants had helped Wuzhou Trading Company to make trouble to these antique shops. The difference is that the quality of these customers is too low, they almost don't understand anything, and they are asking questions blindly, and the shopkeeper is about to collapse. And these people don't even eat lunch, from the opening to closing, they just spend it in the store. At the end of the day, dozens of antique shops in the Longyou Merchant Gang didn't sell a single thing!

In just two days, the Longyou Merchant Gang couldn't bear it. The total number of troublemakers they found was only a few dozen, but there were thousands of troublemakers who came to them. Although the Wuzhou trading company was disturbed, it was still able to do a little business every day; But the shops of the Longyou Merchant Gang have no revenue.

In the end, Zhou Shaoning, the leader of the Longyou Shang Gang, had to give in and withdraw those troublemakers. As soon as they withdrew, the "mischievous army" of the Wuzhou Trading Company also withdrew, and the two sides returned to a normal competitive situation.

At another gathering of several major merchant gangs, Zhou Shaoning said with palpitations: "I didn't expect the Wuzhou Trading Company to be so ruthless!" Where did they find so many people? ”

"That's why I'll say you're not going to do anything." Qiao Yuliang, the leader of the Luliang Merchant Gang, said disdainfully, "Isn't he going to hold an auction conference?" Let's see, we Jin merchants are going to overshadow them in the assembly hall! ”