Chapter 34: The Fake Smoke Scandal
Li Yu left the palace, and before leaving, she promised Li Fangyi to take her to fly a kite, which can be regarded as getting rid of the entanglement of the little girl.
Just came to the outside of the palace, but I saw a foreman on the mountain rushing over, and said in a hurry, "Your Highness Six, it's not good, I don't know when the city is going to be in the city, and a lot of tobacco competing with us suddenly appeared." ”
"What?" Li Yu felt as if he had misheard, and looked at the foreman in front of him in a daze.
"It's true, it was Lord Tang who asked me to inform you." The foreman was sweating profusely, wiping the sweat from his head with his hands and said.
"Have you checked out, are those cigarettes produced by us? Where is it produced? Li Yu asked with a frown.
"The origin is unknown, but a large number of cigarettes have rushed into the market this morning, and the price is 30% lower than ours." The foreman shook his head helplessly and sighed.
"Thirty percent lower?" Li Yu was a little shocked in his heart,
The cigarette roll was imitated, which was something he had expected for a long time, but he didn't expect it to be imitated so quickly, and someone imitated it in less than a month, and it was mass-produced.
This is clearly aimed at himself, and it seems that he is menacing, wanting to collapse his cigarette business, so that he can't earn the first pot of gold.
A sneer appeared on his lips, and Li Yu waved his hand, "Let's go, take me to see those fakes." ”
The foreman understood, immediately turned around, and walked towards the market with Li Yu.
Jinling City, the historical capital, with Li Yu's historical knowledge, he has long been familiar with the history of each generation of Jinling City.
The Qinhuai River, which is famous, and in the Southern Tang Dynasty, the commercial prosperity area here was also built here.
When you come to the Qinhuai River, you can see the bazaar extending from one end to the other from a distance, and the scale of the overall bazaar is staggering.
Entering the bazaar, the foreman pointed to the merchants not far away with his hand, "Your Highness Six, almost every house in the entire street now has cigarette rolls for sale. ”
Li Yu frowned, nodded, and then walked towards the merchant. The first shop on the right-hand side, the plaque reads: Tongji Oil and Grain.
This is clearly a store that sells whole grains, but at the moment at the entrance of the store, there is a long table with packs of cigarette rolls on it.
The packaging of the cigarette rolls is very beautiful, almost the same as what Li Yu and the others made, but if you look closely, there are very slight differences.
Li Yu looked at it carefully, and then looked at the price tag behind the cigarette roll. The price is indeed thirty percent lower than that of Li Yu and what they produce.
"Boss, bring me a pack of cigarettes." Li Yu pointed to a pack of loose cigarettes and said.
"Gentlemen, this cigarette is much cheaper than other places, let's have one." The boss was chubby, and at this time he came out of the store, with a very flattering smile on his face.
"Don't, I don't know if it's good to smoke, I'll talk about it after I smoke it." Li Yu took out the loose silver from his waist and put it on the long table and said.
The boss is very shrewd, seeing that Li Yu is well-dressed, he must be a rich master, so he smiled silently, took a pack of cigarettes, handed it to Li Yu, and said with a smile, "You smoke a lot, make sure you like it." ”
"Okay, I'll smoke one." Li Yu was not polite, opened the package, took out one, looked at the production process of the cigarette, put it under his nose and smelled it, and then put the cigarette on his mouth and took it in his mouth.
The boss was very shrewd, and when he saw Li Yu smoking, he immediately brought the flint over and lit it for Li Yu.
After taking a slight breath, Li Yu narrowed his eyes slightly, and after tasting it, he opened his eyes and threw the cigarette directly on the ground, "This is a fake cigarette, which is very different from the smoke of the previous two days." ”
"Gentlemen, this cigarette is a new variety, it has just been put on the market, you are not used to smoking, take your time." The boss will say that he will directly say that fake cigarettes are a new variety.
What kind of person Li Yu is, he has been smoking cigarettes for many years, not to mention cigarettes like him, even in his previous life, if there is a fake cigarette entrance, he can still taste it.
"I said that it was a fake cigarette, and I asked you, where did this cigarette come from?" The sentence Li Yu asked was his ultimate goal.
Hearing Li Yu ask like this, the boss's face changed, his eyes suddenly became sharp, and he said coldly on one end of his fat cheeks, "If you want to buy it, buy it, if you don't buy it, please invite it, I'm not the place to answer questions here." ”
Hearing that the boss was so strong, Li Yu laughed, patted the dust on his body, and said with a smile: "Boss, you must know that fake cigarettes have completely different effects from real cigarettes, just this kind of cigarette, let alone smoking, I'm afraid that if you smoke it for a long time, it will kill people." ”
Li Yu said this, in fact, to scare the boss, this kind of smoke is not too toxic, even if there is, it is accumulated for a long time.
However, people in this era do not know the true content of the cigarette rolls, so they don't know whether they are poisonous or not.
"Bastard, where did the wild boy come from, he dared to stir up trouble here?" At this moment, a scolding voice came from behind Li Yu.
Hearing this voice, Li Yu slowly turned his head and looked behind him. At this moment, behind Li Yu, there were more than a dozen people standing, all of whom looked like ruffians.
One of the first was wearing a vest, with his arms exposed, and his muscles throbbing on his upper arms, as if he was a good fighter.
"Did you say I'm a wild boy?" Li Yu looked at each other with a smile, with no ferocity on his face.
"It's you, dare to make trouble here, don't you want to mess around?" The man didn't take Li Yu in his eyes, in his mind, the person in front of him was at most a rich businessman's son, and he cleaned him up by himself, isn't it easy to catch him. Even if something happens, there will be a big boss in the back.
Li Yu smiled and nodded, he had already turned his body around at this moment, facing more than ten people behind him, and smiled indifferently, "You are not small, you dare to call me a wild boy, then I want to ask, who are you relying on to be so arrogant here?" ”
"This is our Lei Ye, Jinling City, you inquire about it, our Lei Ye still relies on whose power and strength, even the tolerance at the yamen has to be a little respectful to Lei Ye, you kid quickly kneel down and kowtow." Behind the man, a thug who was angry opened his mouth and yelled at Li Yu.
"It's really majestic, do you know who I am?" Li Yu said with a smile, but at this moment, his footsteps had already moved forward.
"Aren't you just a wild boy?" Another thug behind Lei Ye laughed at Li Yudao.
As soon as the thug's words came out, the others also laughed, in their opinion, they had already gained the upper hand, and the young man in front of them either ran away with his tail between his legs, or was beaten half to death by them.