Chapter 90: Keeping a low profile is king
This Huaishang Fang family is the biggest opponent that Yu Feng has faced since he started. If this is placed in the shopping mall of the later generations, it is nothing more than a competitor with relatively strong strength and fierce means, although there is a competitive relationship with each other, but there are still rules and regulations for each other's behavior, not too out of line, but, in this Ming Dynasty, in the face of such hostile actions, Yu Feng felt a little difficult to accept.
People have such an inferior nature, don't do to others what you don't want to do to others, that's what the saint said, Yu Feng is not a saint, those salt sellers who didn't know how to take food in his mouth, Yu Feng actually took this kind of thunderbolt method, but this kind of means is used by others on his body, then it is unbearable. He still has a little leeway in dealing with those competitors, at least he will not be unpredictable, and he will kill the other party indiscriminately, but the actions of the Fang family are far less than his kindness.
Whether it is colluding with the Zheng family to contact the Japanese Kou, or pretending to be a thief to attack in the middle of the night, how ruthless is the other party, either for his foundation, or to eliminate him directly from the body, in exchange for any person with a sense of crisis, he will not be so tolerant, and will definitely launch a counterattack, if you do the first year of junior high school, I will naturally be able to do fifteen.
The Bu family promised to investigate the details of the Fang family to Yu Feng, and then sent a detailed letterhead not long after, Yu Feng knew, but the matter had priorities, during that time, he was busy recruiting troops and horses to strengthen the power in his hands, and this matter was temporarily shelved. However, this shelving does not mean that he has forgotten about this matter, and now, he can free his hands, that is, he can face this matter properly.
This kind of thing, with the help of external forces, he is really helpless, his sphere of influence is so large, the Fang family is far outside his sphere of influence, and occasionally the tentacles that reach into his sphere of influence are also cut off by him mercilessly, although according to these information of the Bu family, he can make corresponding moves, but, there is always some unsteadiness in his heart, right now, he has a very good relationship with the Bu family, and the help of the Bu family is naturally undoubted, but if the Bu family has a different heart and does something in intelligence, wouldn't he be very easy to be used as a gun?
If only you had your own source of information! Yu Feng sighed slightly in his heart, found the letter from the Bu family before, and read it carefully.
Huai salt is sold all over the world, the world's salt is ten, and Huai salt occupies seven points, but the Jianghuai salt merchants are often located in Yangzhou, and through Yangzhou, a convenient transportation hub, the Huai salt is sold to all salt-eating provinces in the world. The Fang family is in Yangzhou, naturally has its own business, but, unlike other big salt merchants, in addition to the Fang family's trading in Yangzhou, it has also been operating in Jining for many years, and the Bu family does not know what the share of the Fang family's business is, but if the top ten salt merchants are counted in Jining Mansion, this Fang family can definitely be on the list.
The Fang family's business may not be anything in Yangzhou, but in Jining, it can be regarded as a giant, which is inseparable from the Fang family's many years of operation and the support of the Salt Merchants Chamber of Commerce. Jining is located in the key section of the north-south Cao Yun, to the north, can directly reach Hejian Province, Baoding Province, Shuntian Province, to the west, can cover Shanxi, Henan, and even part of the state capital of Shaanxi, to the east, is the entire territory of Shandong, is undoubtedly an excellent stronghold.
As long as there are Huai merchants who have a firm foothold here, the rest of the Huai merchants can naturally follow, although this first may occupy a larger share, but such a large market, definitely not a family or two can eat, the ultimate benefit, or the entire Huaishang Group, these chambers of commerce composed of salt merchants, naturally spare no effort to support the Fang family. There are Fang families charging in front, they follow behind to pick fruits, why not do it, under the huge benefit feedback, what is the difficulty for them to do some support.
Therefore, in the letter, the cloth ruler gave him a detailed analysis, on the surface, it was the Fang family who was embarrassed with him, but the interests of the two families were somewhat entangled, in fact, what he had to face was the huge Jianghuai Salt Merchant Group, for no other reason, you blocked other people's financial routes, and cutting off people's financial routes was like killing parents, so the means were a little more intense, which is easy to explain. If there is no aftermath of the wind, except for some territory near the local salt works in Shandong, the rest of the Shandong may have been in the hands of the Jianghuai salt merchants long ago.
Yu Feng himself thinks that his situation is okay, in fact, his little situation has not been looked at by others at all, so far, it is only the Fang family that has expressed some dissatisfaction with him getting in the way, and the behemoth behind the Fang family has not made any moves at all. Yu Feng's current private salt, the market that can be fully grasped, is only Denglai and the two places, Qingzhou still has a little place to infiltrate, but that's all, in Yanzhou, which is a little farther away, he can't get involved. He just wants to run his own place well, and his focus is only on a corner of Shandong, but the Fang family is different, people's vision is very big, this province near Jining is all in the calculations of others, and his aftermath is just a "disease of scabies".
This is still the unwillingness of people to use the power in the court, take the path of officialdom, to put it mildly, for Yu Feng such a small inspection, use the relationship, but also lose face, not only lose face, but also easy to give others the impression that the Fang family has no ability at all, a small inspection you can't be even, do you still have the face to compete with others for the share of other provinces?
You're spicy next door, so don't you treat bean bags as food! After reading the letter, Yu Feng was more annoyed, that is, how annoyed, this is like a person, in this summer evening, found that his body was itchy, and when he looked down, it turned out that there was a mosquito bite, he slapped it, but he didn't hit, and the mosquito flew. Although there was still some itching on my body, I scratched it a few times, and I forgot about it. Yu Feng is like the mosquito that has just escaped from the slap and is frightened, you almost killed me, forget it, and forget about it when you turn around, how can this be embarrassing.
However, after being annoyed, Yu Feng, who calmed down, thought about it carefully, and found that he was not valued by the other party, and there was also the benefit of not being taken seriously, although the other party had attacked himself a few times, but he did not get any benefits, the barrenness of the two states of Denglai and the wealth around Jining, naturally can not be compared, obviously the other party is to take this market, as a place of chicken ribs that can be noted, it is good to be able to take it, if you want to work hard, then forget it, there is that idle time, it is better to go to other rich places to grab the market?
Yu Feng is like a beggar begging for food on a secluded street corner, unlike other beggars, the place where he begged for food, although it is remote, but there is a rich man who plans to build a shop here, but he drove this beggar several times, and found that this beggar is not easy to deal with, and if he can't get it right, the other party has to work hard, so the rich man doesn't plan to cause this trouble, anyway, there are places to cover the shop, and they are all more prosperous than this area, so he can't compete with this beggar, as for whether to build a shop here in the future, I will talk about it later.
This is probably the real reason why the Fang family has not made any moves recently, the other party has tried a few times, and found that he has a master of this one-third of an acre, and the price he paid for cleaning up is a little unworthy compared to the income he gets, so he simply turned his eyes out of sight and was not upset.
Thinking about this, Yu Feng suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, he is not a fool, Bu Qi said clearly in his heart, people didn't have the heart to deal with him at all, he was full of food and held on to embarrass such a powerful enemy, just with the meager strength in his hands now? At this time, making a fortune in a muffled voice is the right way! Other rich people don't care about themselves, and they still pestered others, and they must have been beaten up by the family members around the annoyed and angry rich man.
A gentleman takes revenge, ten years is not too late! Even if the rich man almost kicked himself to death as a beggar before, but now is not the time to take revenge, even if he finds a free time now and kills the rich man, he will not be able to get any benefits, and he will be beaten to death by others. If you want to take revenge, you might as well guard your own one-third of an acre of land, make money slowly, and then build a shop on this land, and then make this shop bigger and bigger, it is best to squeeze the rich man's shop or even merge the other party's shop, when the time comes, the rich man is bankrupt and he is developed, isn't it how to rub the other party.
Well, that's how it should be! Yu Feng calculated clearly, and quickly set his own policy, of course, in terms of grand strategy, if you don't take the initiative to provoke, you still have to take the necessary precautions, and even, you can take advantage of the other party's inattention, expand your territory a little, anyway, the other party's big business is big, and you should not have much reaction if you occupy a little more!
On the Qingzhou side, the strength of Yanding should be strengthened, the Yanding of Dengzhou and Laizhou, fifty people are stationed in the big city, and thirty people are enough to be stationed in the small city, and the rest are transferred to the Qingzhou side, and the other party is to grab the land, Laizhou five counties, Dengzhou seven counties, six hundred people are enough, Qingzhou has eleven counties, if it occupies the market of Qingzhou, I am afraid that the income is not much less than Denglai. If you put more people, you can have more momentum. It's just that this time, the number of salt Ding is not enough, some time ago, I added a lot of old salt Ding in the Fengzi camp, and I have to send some salt Ding to his own Zhuangzi to train Jia Ding, this can only use the salt Ding of a brigade of 300 people, this is, I have to recruit people again?
This land grabbing, at that time, was the first to cut off the supply of local salt merchants and salt dealers, and then dumped their own salt into it, among them, there must be some people to cooperate, some people do not cooperate, when the salt Ding was just sent over, of course, it was not for the purpose of investigating illegal salt, first of all, it must be to give the sweetness of those who cooperate, to ensure their interests, and then use thunderbolt means to let those who do not cooperate cooperate, of course, if it is really Wang Ba who eats the scales and is determined not to cooperate, it must be to drive them out of this market, at this time, Force is the necessary means.
However, with these salt dices alone, I am afraid that they still can't deter these local heroes, who can be salt merchants and salt sellers, where will there be no power? Yu Feng pondered, it would be good if there were any bandits in the local area, the Fengzi battalion could enter the local area in the name of suppressing bandits, isn't Qingzhou also his own town guard, as soon as the army arrived, any unsociable voices would naturally disappear, and then Yanding would be much easier.