Liu Feng bowed his head slightly and walked through the moon gate. He was very tall, but not so tall that he could touch the lintel, just because he had stayed in the north for a long time, and when he returned to the delicate Jiangnan, there was always a cramped feeling of a bull entering the porcelain shop, for fear that he would break something if he turned around. But the things in the south of the Yangtze River are so soft, no matter how you look at it, they are not as thick and durable as those produced in the north.

Qi Miao was waiting for him behind the moon gate, and after the two met, they didn't say hello, and went to Xu Yuanzuo's study tacitly. At the time of the report, Qi Miao didn't say the name, only said that the sixth child was coming.

Xu Yuanzuo put down the report in his hand and motioned for Liu Feng to sit opposite him.

This way of sitting and talking across a bookcase is not common elsewhere, but compared to Xu Jinglian's other strange behaviors, this is nothing.

Liu Feng waited for Qi Miao to bring tea and went out again, before he said, "Brother Zuo, you are indeed fooled over there." With that, he took out a letter from the inner pocket of his clothes and handed it to Xu Yuanzuo.

Xu Yuanzuo unfolded it and took a look, and sure enough, it was the Weng family who instigated the Gusu merchants in Suzhou to jointly refuse to buy the cloth of the Songjiang Xu family. Weng Shaoshan believes that the Xu family will not survive this hurdle, and will definitely have to sell a large amount of cotton cloth to increase liquidity before they can go to Beijing to open up the joints. Suzhou, as an important customer of Songjiang, has their shops along the canal from Jiangnan to Beijing. If Suzhou businessmen boycott Xu Jiabu at this time, it will be tantamount to adding insult to injury. As long as the Xu family can be ineffective, maybe they can snatch back all the losses they lost before.

"How many people follow Weng Shaoshan?" Xu Yuanzuo asked.

"Not a few." Liu Feng said: "Do you want a directory for Zuo Ge'er?" I have a list of people who went to Weng's house for the banquet that day. However, it is a little unclear how many people will follow. ”

Xu Yuanzuo shook his head slightly, it didn't make sense for him to ask for this kind of list. There is a lot of grass on the walls in the mall. Are they all plucked out? Regardless of whether you have the ability to do so, this mentality alone is not the mentality of a businessman. He said: "These people trust Weng Shaoshan so much? ”

"They are all Dongshan businessmen, and Weng Shaoshan has some prestige." Liu Feng said: "Come on." Weng Shaoshan also sang a song of gold and silver on the spot, but the wooden shelf could not bear the gold and silver, which made people suspect that the gold and silver issued at our annual meeting were fakes. ”

"Huh." Xu Yuanzuo snorted coldly: "I use a wrought iron shelf." ”

Liu Feng smiled: "Anyway, Weng Shaoshan can be regarded as doing a good job." Now those merchants say that the Xu family has no money, and they will definitely not be able to survive the bluff. ”

"When are they going to buy the cloth from other houses?" Xu Yuanzuo asked.

Liu Feng said: "They said they wanted to buy it at a lower price." However, I inquired from Weng Hongji's concubine: In fact, they had already planned. Before the case of embezzlement of the treasury is finalized, Songjiang's cloth will never be bought, so as not to ship goods through other channels. ”

Xu Yuanzuo smiled lightly: "This is really a lot of money." ”

In this day and age, doing business is all about credit and connections. Whether it is procurement or supply, we are reluctant to change partners easily. Because in the absence of quantitative standards, the quality of goods varies too much, and if you change suppliers rashly, the quality of the goods sold is also very worrying.

In order to force the Xu family to death, the Dongshan businessmen in Suzhou were really willing to gamble with the connections they had accumulated.

Xu Yuanzuo can also understand. Once the Xu family fell and Songjiang lost its cotton spinning giants, the merchants of Suzhou would be able to receive cheaper goods from the more scattered small households—the equivalent of knocking out a circulation link, and perhaps gaining a certain degree of pricing power. The temptation is still great.

"Some of them also mentioned that Zuo Ge'er went south, and they were worried about whether Zuo Ge'er would sell their goods to the south." Liu Feng continued: "However, some people say that Zuo Ge'er only went to Fujian and Guangdong to visit teachers, and did not interact with local businessmen, let alone supply goods. I still have to ask Zo Ge'er to confirm this. ”

"It's true that I only visited the teacher, and I didn't have any contact with the local businessmen." Xu Yuanzuo said.

Liu Feng's eyes lit up: "Then that's it." We did have news leaking out. ”

Xu Yuanzuo nodded: "This matter is also in your charge." ”

Liu Feng said: "Yes! ”

"Wait," Xu Yuanzuo said in advance. "If you don't deliberately betray me, just educate me and send me to the island, don't be too harsh."

"The little one understands." Liu Feng agreed, and continued: "Zuo Ge'er, there is still an undercurrent in Suzhou. It's about the Liaohai side. They inquired about Zuo Ge'er's ginseng and deer antler velvet from Liaodong last year, and they all wanted to get a piece of the pie. Dongshan is also promoting this matter, and he doesn't want Zuo Ge'er to dominate Liaohai. ”

Xu Yuanzuo said with a smile: "Of course, they want to trap me to death in Jiangnan, if the Liao goods are coming in endlessly." What else is the use of what they do? ”

Liu Feng listened quietly and did not speak. His task is to gather information, not to make decisions.

Xu Yuanzuo didn't continue, but asked, "How is Su Song going these days?" ”

Liu Feng said: "I have already made friends with several families and climbed into a relationship, only saying that I am running a business in Hangzhou and buying goods from Susong Changhu, so I need them to take care of me." He snorted lightly: "Actually, there is nothing for them to take care of, just to ask for some news, and they are happy to benefit." ”

Xu Yuanzuo was a little uneasy: "Jin Yiwei is really so well-informed about the news on the market?" ”

Liu Feng said with a smile: "Brother Zuo'er, don't listen to the rumors in the market that are so evil. Jinyiwei is also divided into three, six, nine and so on, who has such a great ability to stare at that little thing on the earth all day long? It's nothing more than monitoring some things that are easy to make big trouble, such as local guard stations, or demons that have gathered. The reason why I was able to get the news from those family friends is that they eat this line of food. I don't know how much news I resold on weekdays. They also have a photo, and they can interrogate people, and they can get many secrets that outsiders don't know. ”

Xu Yuanzuo nodded slightly: "I see, I really have the ability to penetrate the world as a brocade guard." ”

Liu Feng smiled bitterly: "Brother Zuo is laughing. If Jinyiwei has this kind of ability, why do you need to go to great lengths to operate. ”

"In fact, doing business is more sensitive than others. If those people have the news, why don't they do business themselves? Xu Yuanzuo asked.

Liu Feng's face wrinkled: "The key is that you don't need to know if you have news." For example, the news that this Dongshan merchant did not buy Songjiang cloth was dug out of the mouths of those people, but even if they knew, what could they do? ”

Xu Yuanzuo smiled dumbly and said, "What I said is that there is a specialization in the art industry. Take the news, they are in line; It's up to us to do business. ”

A smile bloomed on Liu Feng's face: "Brother Zuo'er is right. ”

Xu Yuanzuo said: "Okay, you go down first." It is necessary to seize the time to set up a bureau in Jiangnan. The sources must be many, wide, and accurate. The directory should also be built, but all influential businesses must be independently filed. ”

"Yes, Brother Zuo, the little one understands."

Xu Yuanzuo took out another silver cake of fifty taels from the drawer and pushed it in front of Liu Feng: "The flower will be spent." ”

Liu Feng was not polite, took the silver, and thanked him. He was originally a Jinyi Wei Baihu from Jiangnan, and was transferred to Beijing with his father. Because I couldn't get along in Beijing, I happened to meet Xu Yuanzuo going north. Xu Yuanzuo found that although this person was a little suspicious of breaking the house, his family had been sitting on the spy for generations, and he was very honest about espionage news and intelligence analysis. His family still has a lot of good Jinyiwei families in Susong Zhejiang, and once they can be contacted, it will be a ready-made intelligence network.

Xu Yuanzuo doesn't need confidential information about military affairs, and he cares a lot about the movements in the mall. When I tried Liu Feng before, I found that his acting skills were good and his thinking was quite broad, which was indeed worthy of his worth. Later, Xu Yuanzuo went south to Fujian and Guangdong, and the task of arranging a business intelligence network in Jiangnan was handed over to Liu Feng.

Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one not be defeated.

Xu Yuanzuo leaned back in his chair and began to plan how to plan the plan, so that Suzhou people could have a longer memory. And Liaodong, how to open the door to welcome guests! Xu Yuanzuo felt a little happy, like an invincible lonely master in the world finally seeing an opponent of comparable strength.

To be precise, the strength of Suzhou must be stronger.

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*(To be continued.) )