After suffering a dumb loss in Yanshi, Cheng Hong returned to the county government in a hurry. But when I sat down and thought about it, I couldn't help but feel that today's matter might have been discussed by Wei Ze and Wu Tong a long time ago, and he was a fool in vain.

At this time, Meng Yiyu outside the door reported that the five family heads had been summoned, and Cheng Hong calmed down his anger and called the five people in.

To tell the truth, it was the first time for several people here to see Cheng Hong so angry, and his face was as cold and scary as Sanjiu.

Meng Chao, who was an in-law, saw that no one dared to speak, so he had to ask first: "My lord, you can dissipate your anger first." Today's matter must have been discussed in advance by Wu Tong and Wei Zexiao'er, and we were just unprepared for a while. Now the top priority is how to deal with that Wu Tong, how to do this business in the future after being so troubled by him today? Those merchants who came from afar didn't say anything on their faces, but there were already a lot of discussions behind them, and if they delayed any longer, they were afraid that they would all run to Wu Tong's side. ”

Dai Le roared angrily: "They dare! ”

Meng Chao said: "What don't they dare, they are eighty yuan cheaper per bucket of the same goods." You have also seen the situation in the salt market today, and they are all of the best goods. No one is a fool, will those salt merchants still ask for our high salt? ”

Dai Le was dumbfounded by Meng Chao's robbery, but he still muttered unwillingly: "I don't believe that he Wu Tong can still be an immortal, just rely on how much salt can be produced in Shewei Port?" He said he had as much as we had, and I didn't believe his boasting. ”

As soon as this remark came out, a few people present agreed very much, Wu Tong still knew how many catties and taels he had, and it was really hard to believe it when he said so.

Cheng Hong glanced at a few people and said coldly: "I don't want to listen to your speculation over there, what I want is a way." Zhuang Xian, Shui Ming, do you two have a way? Let's hear it. ”

At this time, Cheng Hong was still relatively sober, he knew that these bullies were strong and brave, and they were good at fighting, but they had to be these two real businessmen to start a business.

Shui Ming heard Cheng Hong call him and said: "The little one thinks that now he has to find out how much inventory that Wu Tong has, and then he can ......." ”

Dai Le laughed: "If I can find out how many goods Wu Tong has, I still use it here to listen to your noise?" ”

Dai Le has always looked down on Zhuang Xianshuiming, and the two of them have long been used to it. Shui Ming was bored and said: "If this is the case, then there are two possibilities: one is that Wu Tong did not brag that they really have stock, and the other is that he is slapping a swollen face and becoming fat." If it's the second case, then there's no need to worry, we just have to wait until we can do our best. ”

After listening to Shui Ming's analysis, Cheng Hong couldn't help but nodded: "What do you mean to wait?" ”

Shui Ming said: "Back to my lord, that's right." If Wu Tong is bluffing, it will cause two results, one is to end hastily and lose his reputation, and the other is to continue to maintain. If you want to maintain, you must have salt, there are three places where I produce salt in Dachu, and South Xuzhou and Yangzhou are far away from Jin'an, and it is too late to come and go, so there is only the coast of Jiaozhou. Even if he, Wu Tong, got the help of the King of Linchuan and the Wu family, the cost of this was not something they could afford. What's more, Yuezhou is eventful, a few days ago the flood in Fuzhou, I don't believe that the king of Linchuan will abandon Fuzhou, regardless of the desperate gamble in Jin'an. ”

Cheng Hong pondered for a moment and sneered and ordered: "Okay, just wait for him according to your method." If they make any moves, they will inevitably show their feet, and it will not be too late for us to deal with them. However, it is impossible for a few of you to be careless, and when you go back, you will have to do your best to find out the reality of Shewei Port, and there is also the movement in the direction of Linchuan, and you must find out if there is anyone else behind Wutong this time. Remember not to do anything out of the ordinary, at least not until you tear your face. ”

Speaking of Wei Ze's side, after walking around the salt market, a few people came to Shewei Port with their people. Zhang Jian revisited the old place, looked at the salt field that he hadn't seen for more than half a month, and couldn't help but be a little surprised by Wu Tong's speed, the rapid expansion of this salt field and the high quality were really breathtaking.

Wu Tong saw Zhang Jian smile and said proudly: "How?" I, Wu Si, am doing things quite safely. ”

Zhang Jian immediately nodded and said: "Fourth Brother Wu is not only doing things safely, this is only half a month's effort, and it is really admirable that there is such a scale." ”

Wu Tong said with a smile: "As long as God doesn't add to the chaos, I, Wu Si, dare to guarantee that it will not be a problem to drag down the five of them." ”

Zhang Jian said: "Fourth Brother Wu is relieved to do things, but he still needs to guard against this group of people jumping off the wall in a hurry." ”

At this time, Wu Yue on the side said leisurely: "Don't worry, although my Wu family is not a big family, it has been inherited in Yuezhou for a hundred years." If it is not as good as that, the Wu Juncheng clan has nothing to say, but these five small fish and shrimp are still more than enough. ”

The next thing is to seize the trade route and wipe out the five surnames, which is easy to seize the trade route, needless to say, the difficult thing is to sweep away the five surnames and Cheng Hong, who has the support of the Cheng clan of Wu County behind it. In Zhang Jian's eyes, it is not difficult to defeat him Cheng Hong with the advantage of completely crushing him, Cheng Hong's family arrogance in his bones and the arrogance that he has been accustomed to over the years have made him full of mistakes and omissions in his actions, and it has made him deviate from morality internally. So this is actually a matter after the victory, if the tricks are exhausted but just let them lose a little skin, then I am too sorry for the few golden fingers in my hands.

Not enough! Far from enough!

On a few sunny days in a row, the five families stopped all their overt actions according to Cheng Hong's orders, but in private, they were secret agents who had already found out the news.

"From the direction of Quan'an to the South China Sea, the people secretly sent by Wutong are all buying salt."

"The report in the direction of Linchuan has not seen any major moves from the Linchuan Royal Mansion and the Wu family."

"All the salt merchants who went to Shewei Port to ask for salt were blocked outside the port, and they were very angry."

Cheng Hong waved his hand: "Okay, you all go down." ”

After retreating left and right, Cheng Hong said with a smile: "The situation is very clear now, then Wu Tong must have been assigned by Wei Ze to fight against us, in the end, this little man is too reckless, hahaha." ”

Meng Chaoqi said: "Collect salt at a high price and sell it at a low price, what do they want?" ”

Dai Le also laughed and said, "Who knows? I'm afraid you're going to stone us to death with money, hahaha. ”

Shui Ming said: "My lord, now that this matter is clear, we don't need to use force, just wait for them to collapse themselves." ”

Just when everyone hesitated, Zhuang Xian, who had never spoken, stood up and said, "My lord, if we treat it to collapse by ourselves, I am afraid it will not be beneficial to us." ”

Cheng Hong: 'Oh? Puzzled and asked, Zhuang Xian explained: "This Wu Tong is so difficult to protect that there is no reliance behind it, if he is hard-hearted to carry it to the end, wouldn't our salt exist in our hands, and if we miss the salt market this year, I am afraid that it will be difficult to have such a large-scale salt transportation transaction, and it is the next policy not to move." ”

Zhuang Xian said a word, and the people in the room all frowned, what he said was right, although this salt will never be sold, but such a large-scale one will have to wait until this time next year. What's more, it's not just the six people in the house who are staring at the money, the real big head is in Wu County in the north, and this matter is really too big for a few people.

Cheng Hong asked, "In that case, do you have any other foolproof solutions?" ”

Shui Ming's eyes rolled and he hurriedly said: "There is a plan to sell the salt and make Wu Tong suffer a huge loss." Wu Tong has now received the trade of all salt merchants and is collecting salt everywhere, why don't we secretly send someone to sell our salt to Wu Tong, so that we can kill two birds with one stone, wouldn't it be happy. ”

Several people nodded and applauded after hearing Shui Ming's strategy, this method is indeed a double win, which is not bad.

Zhuang Xian also nodded and praised: "Brother Shui's clever tricks, I admire them." In this way, the salt was sold and Wu Tong lost money, so it was good. ”

Shui Ming was very proud, but he turned his head to look at Cheng Hong, but saw Cheng Hong frowning and didn't know what he was thinking.

Cheng Hong groaned: "Although this method is good, I don't think it's enough, far from enough. Nawei humiliated me, but put up with it. But what kind of thing is Wu Tong! Even if Wu Yun didn't dare to talk to me like this in front of me, just losing some money is really hard to eliminate the hatred in my heart, I want him to be unable to gain a foothold in Jin'an, life is better than death. ”

When Zhuang Xian heard this, the smile on the corner of his mouth flashed: "If your lord wants to be like this, there is another way to draw salary from the bottom of the kettle."

Cheng Hong was immediately interested when he heard this, and Zhuang Xian continued: "Wu Tong took over all the business, but there was no goods in his hands, he pinned his hopes on collecting salt, so why don't we let him have no salt to collect." We only need to send people to collect salt with Wu Tong, and when Wu Tong has no salt to hand over to those merchants, how can he be spared, and the Wu family's statement will be swept away, so how can Wu Tong have the face to stay in this Feng County again? ”

Cheng Hong said: "What about the salt in our hands? ”

Zhuang Xian smiled and said: "Wu Tong has no salt in his hands, those businessmen will come to us to buy salt, are you afraid that there will be no market for salt at that time?" ”

"Wonderful!" Cheng Hong said in his heart: If you don't move, then the strategy of Shui Ming is the middle policy, which is safe but difficult to cut the grass and eradicate the roots. Zhuang Xian's strategy is to kill three birds with one stone, and it should be the best policy.

Below, Meng Chao, Luo Jing, and Dai Le all agreed with Zhuang Xian's strategy, especially Dai Le hated Wu Tong to the bone and wanted to pinch him to death immediately. The rest of the water saw that several people were occupied, and Zhuang Xian's side only had to agree.

Cheng Hong waited for a few people to have no objections, so he patted the case and said excitedly: "Since everyone has no objections, then act according to Zhuang Xian's policy." Then you will each go back and prepare money, and when you are defeated, Wu Tong will be rewarded. ”

Several people said in unison: "Obey!" ”