"Is he trying to raise the price of food by buying grain, but what good is it for him?"

"Ah Tao, do you mean that Dong Shaoqing wants to buy all the excess grain near Chang'an, and then he will send people around to spread the news that the price of grain has risen, so that the grain in his hand can be sold at a high price? Don't you know, but the roads between Chang'an and the states extend in all directions, and even if he collects all the grain in Chang'an, the grain from other states will continue to be transported here. ”

"I don't think so, Dong Shaoqing will definitely not be so stupid!" Speaking of this, Li Tao smiled and said: "Jiulang, let's not guess, don't you know if you ask Dong Shaoqing?" If it's not convenient for you to ask, I'll just ask him! ”

……

At night, the moonlight is like a sprinkle, and in a private room in Yonghe Building, the two figures are exchanging glasses.

"Shopkeeper Dong, has business been going well recently?" Li Tao asked with a smile.

"Thank you Lantian King, business is going according to plan, it's just ......"

"It's just that the idea of setting up semicolons in various parts of Datang will be delayed further!"

"Is there any difficulty?" Li Tao frowned and asked.

"The main thing is that there is still a stumbling block in Chang'an City, if even Chang'an can't be cleaned up, how can the unstable rear penetrate into other states?"

"Stumbling blocks?" Li Tao asked puzzled.

"Has King Lantian heard of Wang Hufeng?"

"I only heard that this person is the richest man in Chang'an, but I don't know the specifics!"

"I know a lot about this person, is King Lantian interested in hearing about it?"

"That's nature!"

Wang Hufeng is a Fufeng man who began to do business at the age of thirteen. Self-made, he became a wealthy party before the age of thirty.

When he was thirteen years old, his uncle brought back more than a dozen truckloads of local silk shoes from Anzhou. Distribute it to the children. The children all scrambled to choose the right shoes, but Wang Hufeng picked a cart of leftover large shoes and sold them at the market for 500 yuan. This was his first income in business.

At the beginning of May, the elm trees in Chang'an City were ripe and fell all over the city. The natural change of scenery is in the eyes of Wang Hufeng. But I saw unlimited business opportunities. The ancestral hall of my uncle's family is in the south of Xishi, and there is a large vacant land in it, which is just borrowing land to make money. Wang Hufeng swept more than ten buckets of elm money. took out the 500 yuan he earned from selling shoes, built two shovels, and began his road to gold nuggets. He visited his uncle, hoping to study his homework in his ancestral hall. Naturally, permission is granted. Wang Hufeng used those two shovels to reclaim the vacant land every day. Sow elm money, hard irrigation. This teenage boy has perseverance and diligence that is difficult for adults to reach, and he has really cultivated thousands of elm saplings.

In the first year, he cut more than a dozen bundles of elms and sold them for more than ten yuan to make firewood, and in the second year, he sold more than 200 bundles, and his profit increased several times. After having income. Wang Hufeng calmed down and patiently planted elm trees.

Five years later. At that time, the saplings had grown into more than 1,000 rafters for building houses, and countless pieces of wood could be used to build cars. This year, he was just twenty years old.

After having the funds, Wang Hufeng purchased raw materials and equipment, and hired people to make candles. It is a highly efficient fuel used to start a fire, and the firepower is twice that of ordinary firewood. Workers are paid daily, with a simple division of labor and assembly operations, and more than 10,000 candles have been made. In the middle of summer, Chang'an was rainy, and the heavy rain for several days caused the price of firewood to skyrocket and seriously run out of stock. The magic candles suddenly became a hot commodity, all of them were sold out, and Wang Hufeng made a lot of money.

Wang Hufeng extended his tentacles to the business of reselling tea and silk, and in Chang'an, Luoyang and other places, he purchased a large amount of land and property, hired people to farm, opened a rice and grain store, and engaged in grain trading. Over the years, he has gradually accumulated an astonishing fortune, and his business has spread all over the north, including silk shops, rice grain farms, tea estates, and his real estate in Luoyang and other places in the upper and lower reaches of the Yellow River and the provinces of Jianghuai. At the fundraising meeting held by the imperial court, Wang Hufeng took out 300,000 yuan at one time, which can be described as rich and rich.

Wang Hufeng is bold and bold, good at making friends with people, and has many friends. He knew that if he wanted his business to be prosperous for a long time, he must be taken care of by the powerful figures in the imperial court. So, he successively opened up the door of Queen Wei, Princess Anle and Princess Taiping, and took the initiative to seek an official and a half-position for the children of wealthy businessmen in the east and west cities of Chang'an City.

Money rolls in so easily, and Wang Hufeng has also developed the habit of spending money like dirt, indulging in wealth and gentleness all day long, and living an extremely extravagant and wasteful life.

Wang Hufeng bought a large mansion in the capital city of Chang'anxi, like a king, living in the capital and remotely directing his stores across the country to ensure the high-speed operation of his commercial kingdom.

The people call Wang Hufeng's house "Wang's rich cave", extremely luxurious, it is said that his house is stacked with gold and silver as the wall, the Lixian room in the house is to Shen Tan as the threshold, to the ground with the stone, to the brocade stone as the pillar base, and the copper coin is paved on the path of the back garden, saying that this can be anti-slip. In front of his bed, there are two boys carved of sandalwood, holding the Qibao Boshan furnace, and burning incense from dusk to dawn. The utensils and treasures in Wang Hufeng's house are much better than those of the princes and ministers, and the people of the Quartet admire him and are proud to know him, and he is also very hospitable, often receiving guests from all over the world, to meet the preferences and needs of the guests to the greatest extent, and the guests are all at home.

"This stumbling block is really not small!" Li Tao listened to it and smiled: "But in my opinion, Wang Hufeng is just a paper tiger!" ”

Dong Shaoqing's eyes flashed: "What did King Lantian say?" ”

"First, Datang has always had a policy of suppressing business, but Wang Hufeng, as a businessman, does not know how to keep a low profile, even if we don't make a move, he won't be able to grow long."

Dong Shaoqing nodded.

"Second, it is easy to go from simplicity to luxury, and it is difficult to enter simplicity from luxury, Wang Hufeng has forgotten the difficulty of starting a business so much, a person who is used to enjoyment, how much fighting spirit do you expect him to have?"

Dong Shaoqing's eyes looking at Li Tao were different.

Third, since ancient times, there has been a saying that officials and businessmen collude that businessmen must cooperate with officials if they want to gain a foothold, but Wang Hufeng has not forgotten this. But look at the people he befriended, whether it is Queen Wei, Princess Anle or Princess Taiping, which one can become a big climate? Isn't this self-digging grave? Besides, even if he is now beautiful, he doesn't want to think about it, Queen Wei, Princess Anle and Princess Taiping are already like fire and water, Wang Hufeng wanders between the three of them, thinking that the relationship is good in all aspects, but he doesn't know that when the disaster comes, these people will not help him. (To be continued......)