Chapter 22: The Merchant's Difficulties

Su Shuang is a businessman, and he is still a businessman who started as a widow, and there are only a handful of businessmen who can do this business well.

Since ancient times, intermediary is a very difficult business to do, the so-called mercy is not in charge of the army, righteousness is not in charge of wealth, too good people can not be intermediaries, but too evil and too powerful people, can not do it for a long time.

It has to be a person who is deep-minded, good at showing people with a smiling face, honest and approachable in appearance, and deep in heart, and will not be deceived by small profits.

And Su Shuang is tailor-made by God for this industry.

With a smile all the year round, his mind is calmer and more delicate than anyone else, and he is more sensitive to money than anyone else.

Liu Jian's words seemed unintentional, but it made him smell the smell of interests.

It stands to reason that although the Liu family is solid, these two brothers are not at home, and they will never be able to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a good horse of the Huns to play at home.

I don't know why, Su Shuang just felt that what Liu Jian said was true at the moment.

He thinks that he can not only get along, but also be good at getting along.

Thinking of this, Su Shuang said:

"Haha, Brother Xian, is there something in this word? You don't buy my horse, but you can find a buyer for it? I wonder when this buyer will come? ”

Liu Jian's expression was relaxed, and his tone was firm.

"At most one day, or only two days, someone will come to ask the price, if Brother Su is not short of these two days, he will wait."

Su Shuang's expression was quite playful: "How can Liu Langjun be sure that the person you are talking about will definitely make a deal?" ”

"This buying and selling horses is not a trivial matter, and it must be done with the satisfaction of both the buyer and the buyer, and it cannot be negotiated in one or two sentences."

When Liu Bei heard this, his face showed a little anger.

"Since you know that both parties need to be satisfied with the transaction, why do you still open your mouth to ask us for 400,000 yuan today? Is it that the indiscriminate asking price, the buyer and seller are satisfied? ”

Su Shuangdu is a smiling tiger, and he is not angry in the face of Liu Bei's accusation, but he can explain patiently.

"Buying and selling, you buy and I sell, I open my mouth to ask for a price, you can pay back, but you don't bargain, just annoy me, what's the reason?"

"If you really want to buy, naturally invite me to a secluded place to discuss, if you are not sincere and just idle to explore the price, if I quote low, if there is a sincere buyer next to me listening, how can I talk to people when I turn around?"

Liu Bei sighed when he heard this: "You don't bother you are really good for big business!" ”

Su Shuangyi stretched out his hand and said to the two brothers of the Liu family: "Today's biggest deal is your two brothers, there are good vegetables and fruits and boiled tea upstairs in the city. ”

Liu Jian secretly said in his heart that Su Shuang was really an understanding person, and in three or two sentences, he sniffed out the meaning of his words.

"Since Brother Su sincerely invited, then our brother will be disrespectful."

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The city building in the downtown area of a county was originally built for the residence of the city officials to facilitate the management of the market, and it is generally the highest built in the downtown area.

Because it is built high, it can be condescending and overlook the market.

But there is no city magistrate who will be idle, and will be on it for twelve hours a day.

In this way, the huge market building will be idle for a long time, and after a long time, the county office will vacate the market building at a specific time for the merchants in the market to rest and negotiate transactions.

But in this society, even the market in a county, there are also class divisions.

The merchants who are eligible to enter the market building are undoubtedly local or county-wide wealthy businessmen, with strong financial resources, and those ordinary small merchants and hawkers can't even touch the door panels.

As for who is a big merchant and who is a pawn of a peddler, it is naturally divided according to the lease fee paid by the city officials.

Today, Su Shuang invited Liu Jian to talk in the city building, one is because there are few quiet people here, and the other is to prove his strength to Liu Jian through the side, after all, those who can enter the market building to talk about business are not ordinary people.

The three of them sat in a relatively remote room, and there were already servants under Su's hands, who offered the prepared dates.

"Alas, the two young Langjun are in a hurry, if it is a good season, I use good persimmons and nai fruits when I entertain nobles, but now this month, not to mention the fruits, the flowering period has not yet arrived, so I have to make do with some winter dates that my family stored in the ice cellar at the end of the year."

He said this politely, but in fact, he showed his financial resources to Er Liu on the side.

After all, in this era, it is easy to build a cellar, but it is not a simple matter to take ice for storage and transportation, it has to consume a lot of manpower, even Liu Jian's family has not built an ice cellar, which is too luxurious.

Liu Bei reached out and took a date, put it in his mouth and chewed it.

This is not a fresh jujube, but a dried jujube that has been processed and dried, although it is not as brittle as fresh jujube, but it also has sweetness.

Liu Bei, who hadn't eaten fruit for several months, was very happy, and his dissatisfaction with Su Shuang was swept away.

"At this time, it is not easy to eat this, in our county, there are no more than 30 households that can have this blessing."

"Hahaha, Brother Liu likes it, I'll order someone to go home and pick up some later, and send them to your home."

"No, no, no!"

"Hey, you have to get it!"

After greetings, Su Shuang looked at Liu Jian with a smile and asked, "In the past few days, I have heard a lot in the market, and I heard that the two young Langjun and the new county monarch have met?" ”

Liu Bei picked up another jujube and chewed it, and said quite proudly: "Brother Su is well-informed, I can't hide it, my two brothers have a friendship with the Ming court, and their temper was even more speculative in the past, and the relationship is very good......

"Brother, brother!"

Liu Jian stretched out his hand and patted Liu Bei's arm, and smiled: "Be subtle." ”

"Oh."

Liu Jian took over the conversation and said to Su Shuang: "Although they are classmates, they have not been in contact for many years.

"At most, it's just that the deacon went to the house to visit Yan Jun, and today he summoned me to the county office to discuss some important affairs in Zhuo County, and there is nothing else to do."

Su Shuang was chewing dates, listening to Liu Jian's words, he suddenly coughed, but he almost didn't choke the jujube shells into his lungs.

The servant hurried up to help him pat him on the back.

"Ahem, ahem~!"

Su Shuangyi pushed the servant away, coughed with all his strength, and finally spit the jujube shell on the table.

"Cough, cough, Shaolangjun spoke, and he was really subtle."

After that, Su Shuang picked up the jujube shell again, and gnawed the remaining jujube meat twice, before he was willing to throw it away.

Liu Jian frowned a little, but he was also a huge rich man with a family fortune of tens of millions, which was too economical.

"The two virtuous brothers and the county gentleman are really gentlemen's friends, as expected, the right and talented brother said to me downstairs, saying that within a few days, someone will come to me to buy horses, could it be that ......?"

Liu Jian looked calm and said: "If someone from the official office comes to buy a horse, he may not be able to give 400,000 yuan, and Brother Su is willing to give away his love?" ”

"Willing, willing, naturally willing! Whatever you want. ”

At this time, he already knew in his heart that if someone from the agency came to buy a horse in the future, it would go without saying that it must be sent to Liu Jian, otherwise Liu Jian would not have come to show off these in front of him.

Thinking about it from another angle, Gongsun Zhan is willing to pay Liu Jian to buy a horse, which is by no means just an ordinary friendship with classmates.

It's easy to get along, but it's hard to get along.

"Congratulations to the two young Langjun, from now on one foot into the official door, will definitely make great achievements in the future, alas, it is a pity that Su has worked hard for half his life, and he is still only a manuel, where is there such a good opportunity for two virtuous brothers, it is really envious."

He was not modest, but genuine.

Don't look at Su Shuang's wealth, but in terms of identity, he is just a horse businessman after all, or a horse merchant who came out of the gang, and a family like Zhang Fei is not at the same level at all.

Zhang Fei's family also has money, but they are not only butchers, but also wealthy right, although Su Shuang is rich, but his money is from business in recent years, compared with the wealthy families accumulated over the years, people like Su Shuang have less background and less backers.

A big dilemma that a family like this must face is that the rich and middle-aged people in Zhuo County will unite to chase and intercept him.

Gu's local strength is always looking for opportunities, wanting to divide Su Shuang's industry and money.

On the surface, this horse merchant seems to have a well-to-do life and a wealthy family, but in fact, he is living on thin ice every day.