The time before and after the arrival of the merchants did not exceed fifteen minutes.

Li Kuan smiled at this and didn't care.

After the people were seated, the maids of Li Kuan's mansion served exquisite dishes and drinks one after another, and then withdrew.

Fang Yu sat down beside Li Kuan silently.

When the merchants saw Fang Yu, they were all nervous, and muttered in their hearts: "This is a provocation." ”

They all knew about the beautiful guards beside Li Kuan.

They also knew that the beautiful guard hadn't appeared on Li Kuan's side for a while.

Now that it suddenly appeared, it represented a trace of Li Kuan's attitude and distrust of them.

Shopkeeper Lin was the last to come in, and when he came in, only the first seat on his left hand was vacant, but he didn't dare to sit down.

Li Kuan looked at his state, smiled casually, and pointed to the vacant seat, and Shopkeeper Lin sat down.

After everyone was seated, Li Kuan said softly: "Gentlemen, start your appeal." ”

A group of businessmen looked at each other, and Li Kuan's appeal was very cleverly used.

Appeal can be said to be the subordinates put forward their own requirements to the leader.

Again, it can be said that it is a kind of negotiation on an equal footing.

After looking at each other, the middle-aged businessman sitting in the first position on his right hand took the lead in speaking: "His Royal Highness the King of Chu, my name is Sun Zu, and I am the representative of the Huazhou Chamber of Commerce. ”

"We came to you this time, just to get on the line with you, we also want to become a person with power, we don't want to be scattered by others with a word, and a word determines life and death."

Sun Zu's words fell, and Li Kuan looked at him in surprise, so direct.

The other businessmen did not refute it, Sun Zu is their temporary leader, since he pushed someone out, what the other person said, he had to listen to it for the time being, if he had any doubts, he would talk about it later.

If people say something and deny it, it will make Li Kuan look down on them, which is the result they don't want.

"I helped you, what can you bring me?"

"Wealth, I don't lack power, there are few people in Datang who are bigger than me, women, all I have are the top beautiful women."

"So, why should I work with you?"

"Please give me a reason."

Li Kuan looked at Sun Zu with a smile, what can you give me?

In Li Kuan's view, what he has has has surpassed what others can give.

Sun Zu and the others instantly showed a wry smile, and sure enough, Li Kuan was not so easy to fool.

They had already thought about this problem before they came, and what they could give Li Kuan was extremely limited.

Because many things, for Li Kuan, are said to be at their fingertips.

Sun Zu fell into a hint of hesitation for a while, they still prepared some chips, the chips they had prepared when they gathered together a long time ago.

"Sun Zu, let's just talk about our last bargaining chip, in front of the King of Chu, we don't have to be careful, it's easy to play ourselves."

An old man sitting in the center of the left spoke calmly.

Li Kuan looked over thoughtfully.

Everyone else also looked at the old man in surprise, why did this old man suddenly speak.

The old man smiled at Li Kuan and introduced himself: "I have met the King of Chu, the old man's name is Zhou Lian, and now he runs a caravan alone, and he has had the honor to serve Jingzhao Du and Jingzhao Wei for a while. ”

The corners of Li Kuan's mouth hooked up a smile, he has served two families at the same time, and he is still alive and well, this old man, there is something.

Sun Zu looked at Li Kuan, and said with a firm look in his eyes: "His Royal Highness the King of Chu, our greatest sincerity is one, and we are willing to emulate the relationship between the Wu family and Gaozu." ”

"We're willing to gamble your life with your life."

"It's done, we can get the knighthood for the last time, and if we lose, our generation will disappear."

Li Kuan looked at Sun Zu with interest, and then glanced at the group of people present, and he suddenly found that he was a little more optimistic about everyone present.

"And how sincere are you willing to emulate?"

"Empty mouth and white teeth, you can't be trusted."

After Sun Zu said what he just said, he breathed a sigh of relief, this condition was responsible, and he was uncomfortable.

It's a lot better to say it now.

Facing Li Kuan's questioning again, Sun Zu looked directly at Li Kuan's dark eyes and said calmly: "Our first sincerity is that we are willing to take over this mess in the Western Regions. ”

The three words of the mess made Li Kuan's face change slightly, and he quickly recovered, he looked at Zhou Lian, and said calmly: "I don't know what kind of interpersonal relationship they have, but you said that you have worked for the Du family and the Wei family, so can I understand that the situation in the Western Regions is what you heard from the relationship between the two families." ”

Zhou Lian's face remained unchanged, he saluted slightly, and said with a smile: "His Royal Highness the King of Chu is as wise as a torch. ”

Scold.

Li Kuan couldn't help laughing, Yang Yun's bastard really deceived him, didn't the family find a solution, trick the businessman into entering the market and solve the problem.

Li Kuan could guess what those families would think in the future, and it was most likely to trick the merchants into taking over the overall situation of the Western Regions, and when the people of the Western Regions woke up one day and rebelled angrily, he would push these merchants out and slaughter them, so that the people would be angry.

Therefore, Li Kuan looked at Sun Zu and Zhou Lian with interest, and asked with a smile: "Then do you know the reason why this place in the Western Regions is called a mess?" ”

Sun Zu frowned, is there something else unknown in this?

Zhou Lian said suspiciously: "The departure of the family and the taking away of a large number of middle-level technical and factory management personnel, there are problems in the operation of the factories in the entire Western Regions, and the materials cannot keep up, which will make the local market prices near the Western Regions turbulent, and it will make the national policy of balancing prices and improving the living standards of the people that Datang was originally implementing turbulent." ”

Zhou Lian said this calmly, in their opinion, this is a big mess, Li Kuan took over the Western Regions, and the materials that should have been delivered to Datang regularly and quantitatively made a mistake, and there was someone in the court who could attack Li Kuan.

They are willing to take over and help Li Kuan through this difficulty, although it requires them to throw in a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, but this is their strength.

Li Kuan nodded, shook his head again, and sighed lightly: "Yes, it's not right." ”

At the same time, Li Kuan understood in his heart that these businessmen were really fooled by people with hidden news.

Jingzhao Du and Wei, these two families, as black as ever, are really ruthless.

Li Kuan couldn't help but wonder if they were intentionally harming this group of businessmen.

The merchants did not understand what Li Kuan meant by whether he was right or wrong.

Including Shopkeeper Lin was stunned, he knew what the hole cards prepared by the merchants were, that is, to use money to help Li Kuan pass the manpower crisis in the Western Regions.

Li Kuan shrugged his shoulders and looked at everyone directly: "The right reason is that there is indeed a manpower crisis in the Western Regions, but this is very easy to solve, and I have found a way." ”

"The reason why it's not right is that there's a deeper crisis."

"The name of this crisis is People's Revolt."

"The people of the Western Regions have been in the process of being continuously exploited by us, and when one day they are no longer satisfied with the status quo, they will inevitably rebel, and that is the biggest crisis, can you solve it?"

In the face of Li Kuan's words, a group of businessmen looked at each other, and they did not quite understand what the crisis of this people's revolt was.

But they knew from looking at Li Kuan's expression that that was the biggest crisis.

Li Kuan glanced at these big businessmen and explained: "You all bear the responsibility for the economic operation of a place, and I am not willing to send you into this pit of people's resistance, so you have figured it out for yourself, if you cooperate with me, can you come up with any bargaining chips." ”

The group of merchants shook their heads and sighed, they really couldn't think of it.

Sun Zu gritted his teeth and said: "His Royal Highness the King of Chu, what does this big pit of the people's resistance refer to, please explain." ”

He really didn't get it.

In their eyes, isn't the Western Regions running very well?

At this time, the Western Regions had turned into a huge production factory, and the original people of the Western Regions were working seriously every day, seeking future houses and land for their families.

Isn't that great?

(End of chapter)