Chapter 481: The Fish Is Hooked
"That's nature."
After hearing Cheng Xiangfei's words, Li Yuanba nodded very affirmatively and said:
"This king is not going to the Jiangzhou granary these days, I'm afraid that the second shopkeeper and the third shopkeeper will go crazy if they want to find this king! If you release the news that you have come to Jiangzhou, once the people of the 'Jiangzhou Granary' know, I am afraid that you will have to take the initiative to come forward immediately? When the time comes, Mr. only needs to pay attention to the unity of voice with this king. For other things, you can go with the flow, after all, the gentleman is a pure businessman, far more than this king! ”
"Hahaha, hearing what the prince said, I think this matter is getting more and more interesting." Cheng Xiangfei had a very happy smile on her face and said:
"Lord Wang, since I was born, I have never lived like this even once. After all, our businessmen are different from the nine deaths and lives of soldiers, and what we pay attention to is a stable word. Yes, I believe that this experience is enough to make me remember it for a lifetime! ”
"I don't think I'll let you down!" Li Yuanba laughed when he heard this.
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After discussing the details with Cheng Xiangfei, Cheng Xiangfei directly said goodbye to Li Yuanba and left the Jiangzhou Pavilion.
Cheng Xiangfei took the fifty Shenwu guards specially arranged for him by Li Yuanba, and after letting them change their clothes, they followed him as servants.
Sent to the door, Cheng Xiangfei said goodbye to Li Yuanba again and left.
"Lord Wang, what are we going to do next?" Seeing his cousin go away, Cheng Chubi touched the back of his head, looked at Li Yuanba and said.
"We? Where are we going, let's go back and have a good rest! Li Yuanba stretched his waist very lazily, and said to himself: "This day and night, I am really tired enough, it seems that this king really has to make up for a good night's sleep!" ”
It's all about time. The Lord can still sleep, and he really obeys this prince!
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Since he didn't say anything all night, it wasn't until noon on the second day that Li Yuanba finally woke up.
However, it was not that he slept until he woke up naturally, but was woken up by Cheng Chubi knocking on the door.
"You guy, why do you always come at such unfortunate times!" After Li Yuanba finished washing and putting on his clothes, he looked at the goods with dissatisfaction.
"Hehe, Lord Wang, my cousin is here. I'm waiting for you in the study! Cheng Chubi also knew that he was a little embarrassed, this should be called a bed bird, plus the prince is angry to get up, he is really dead doing this!
"Huh? It's only been a day, and he's back? Li Yuanba hurriedly grabbed the tea cup on the table, rinsed his mouth, and said, "Then let's hurry up!" ”
After tea time, the pavilion study.
"Lord Wang, come here uninvited. Please don't blame the prince! As soon as Li Yuanba appeared at the door of the study, Cheng Xiangfei, who was sitting quietly on a high chair, stood up and saluted Li Yuanba.
"You're welcome, sir!" Li Yuanba hurriedly returned the salute and said, "This king wishes you came over early." This also shows that our plan is about to be successfully implemented! ”
"Yes, I have important news to inform you of this next time."
Cheng Xiangfei said, "After being sent by the prince yesterday, I didn't dare to slack off. Immediately start taking action. Sure enough, as the prince expected, the people in the Jiangzhou granary quickly found Zai Xia and wanted to contact me about selling grain. ”
"Looks like they're doing a good job of intelligence, huh?" An expression that seemed to be a smile appeared on Li Yuanba's face. continued: "I came to find Mr., but Xiao Shiyilang? ”
"No, he said that his surname is Han, his name is Han Zhiqiang, and he is the owner of the granary in Jiangzhou!" Cheng Xiangfei shook her head and said.
"Heh, directly past the big boss, the owner is dispatched!" Li Yuanba nodded a little abruptly and said, "That's right!" If you want to see a big person like you, and still go with a mission, then you naturally need someone with more status. A small second shopkeeper is naturally not qualified! ”
Cheng Xiangfei smiled and nodded, and said, "That's true, there is another person walking with Han Zhiqiang, and the appearance of this person is a bit too unexpected for me." ”
Speaking of this, Cheng Xiangfei said: "The prince may guess who this other person is?" ”
"Oh, sir, you're still going around in circles with me?" Li Yuanba paused for a moment, and then chuckled, "The one who can walk with the owner of the Jiangzhou granary, if he is not the big shopkeeper of the granary, he is the owner of the 'Jiangzhou Salt Warehouse'!" ”
"Bang Bang!"
Cheng Xiangfei clapped her hands exaggeratedly and said, "The prince is worthy of being the prince, and he can guess it!" ”
"Oh? Looks like I guessed right! Li Yuanba said with some surprise: "Who is it?" ”
"This person's surname is a single name Jun, and he is the owner of the Jiangzhou Salt Warehouse!" Cheng Xiangfei thought for a while and said, "At first, I was a little puzzled, but after thinking about it, there is really nothing!" ”
"Yes, since ancient times, there has been no separation between food and salt. Mr. is the representative of the Cheng family and the helmsman of the dignified Yonghe Grain. Li Yuanba said, "With such a big name, if they don't know that they have joined forces to visit you, I'm afraid this will be a big deal." ”
"Not bad." Cheng Xiangfei said: "They also saw that I had a relatively large harvest this time, and thought that the financial resources should not be lost, so they were impatient to start, right?" However, they were also very cautious, and repeatedly asked me about the specific delivery method, where the food went, how to pay for the money, etc...... The details of all aspects were also asked, and it was obvious that I was prepared. ”
"That's really troublesome sir, and you have to spend time dealing with these two difficult guys!" Li Yuanba laughed.
Cheng Xiangfei shook her head indifferently and said, "I'm a businessman, so this business is naturally not in a hurry!" I patiently tried to mediate with them, but in the end, they said that they would not be able to get a million stone of grain. Counting what they hoarded, they could barely scrape together 300,000 stone of grain and 150,000 stone of fine salt! ”
"I really don't see a rabbit and don't scatter an eagle!"
Li Yuanba scolded and said, "But even if these things are added together, they are not normal for an official grain number and salt number in Shangzhou. For this little thing, even if these two guys are arrested, the crime will not be much. ”
"yes!"
Cheng Xiangfei sighed and said, "Over the years, the grain and salt that have been imported and exported from Fengling Ferry or transferred, not to mention tens of millions of stones, must have five or six million stones!" Most of these salt grains were handed over to the granaries and salt barns of Jiangzhou. If you want to say that they only dare to sell this meagre grain and salt for only a few tens of thousands of stones, I don't believe it. ”
"But that doesn't make sense!" Li Yuan said domineeringly, "Since the grain number and salt number sent by the grain price official don't have so much grain and salt, why do you take the initiative to come to you, could it be that you are crazy?" ”
"It seems that the prince has also thought of this!" Cheng Xiangfei clapped his palms and smiled, "According to my business experience over the years, the purpose of their trip is to demonstrate to me, if I want to do business in Jiangzhou, I can only cooperate with them; As for the two, they do have such a huge amount of stock, but he is not sure if I have such a big appetite to eat this batch of goods! ”
"Ahh
"I feel that the probability of the latter is much higher!"
Li Yuanba and Wang Jun said almost in unison.
"If it's really the latter, then what we need to worry about next is how to make these two families, I believe that Mr. has enough appetite, to swallow this batch of goods?" Li Yuanba touched his smooth chin and said.
"Hehe......"
Cheng Xiangfei smiled confidently and said, "The reason why those two guys are currently confused is that they don't know why I want such a large amount of grain and salt, and how I want to transport such a large amount of grain, whether by land or by water!" ”
"Why do you need such a large amount of salt grain?"
Li Yuanba thought about it, suddenly stroked his palm, and said, "I thought of it!" It is the so-called upper government. There are countermeasures, anyway, before coming to Jiangzhou, His Majesty has already secretly ordered this king to act expediently! In this way, I will draft a holy decree later, and tomorrow I will summon a number of officials in the Assassin's Mansion and order them to raise grain and grass and transport it to the granary in Guanzhong for emergencies. ”
"If that's the case, it's wonderful."
Cheng Xiangfei helped the people in the room to begin to analyze, "The imperial court wants to collect a large amount of grain, which is nothing more than to prepare for war. When the prince reads such a holy decree, they will have to guess! ”
"But, Uncle Four Emperors! In this case, wouldn't they let these two slaughter us severely? Li Su, the most businessman-minded, immediately raised objections.
"What's this?" Li Ke took over the conversation and said, "Little Liu, are you stupid?" He wants to kill us, so we have to be willing? Since he dares to sell us the goods, then we are qualified to choose the payment method! After all, the price of a million potential grains is quite expensive! Not to mention the refined salt ......"
"That's right! We can deliver with one hand and pay with the other, and get them all the money the moment they deliver it! Li Su suddenly slapped his palm, and suddenly felt that his brother seemed to be far more insidious than he imagined.
"How do you ship the goods? By land or by water? Wang Jun asked the second reason at this moment.
"Uncle Cousin, let me answer this question!" Cheng Chubi finally found an opportunity to speak, he rushed before Cheng Xiangfei and said: "In order to facilitate the purchase and transportation of goods, our Cheng family has prepared several transport ships by ourselves, after all, it is much more convenient to use our own ship!" ”
"Chu Bi, how big is your transport ship?" Li Su blinked his eyes and asked.
"It's not that big!" Cheng Chubi raised his head and thought carefully for a long time, and while stretching out his hand to gestify, he said, "Probably, it's probably twice as big as Jiangzhou Wei's Shenxing ship, right?" (To be continued......)