Chapter 66: The Glutinous Rice Crisis
The construction of the WTO accession concept is in full swing, the foundation has been almost leveled, and all kinds of building materials have been put in place one after another. The giant trees of Longhu Mountain have also been cut down and trimmed, and they are loaded on the boat and on the way.
Tan Xinren has repeatedly calculated, the construction period is definitely no problem, and the profits that should be obtained have been passed by several parties. This project was originally planned to earn 20,000 taels, but now in order to prevent Xiao Feng from finding fault, everything is of excellent quality, and it can also earn 15,000 taels. Zhao Wenhua divided 7,000 taels, earned 7,000 taels for himself, and gave the remaining 1,000 taels to An Sizheng.
Although Tan Xinren usually doesn't take An Sizheng seriously, this time he helped him do things under huge pressure. What's more, according to the strength of the belief of Long Live the future, maybe there will be more real people in the future, more Taoist temples will be built, and there will be more opportunities to cooperate with the Daolu Division.
Although Zhao Wenhua was a little dissatisfied, considering that he had dealt a blow to Xiao Feng's arrogance in this matter, and Tan Xinren had already fallen to Yan Shifan, it was not the time for him to have the final say, so he didn't say anything more.
People are in good spirits when they are happy, and even the concubines say that they are much more powerful than usual when they talk about Xinren. Although Chunyan Lou is talking about Xinren's capital, he usually doesn't go. Because he only paid for it, the real backstage boss of Chunyan Building is Chen Hong, and his mother is not his person, but Chen Hong was selected from the Teaching Workshop Division, and he will not sell him much face.
So his hobby is to take concubines and raise maids and eat home-cooked food. I was eating hard today, when suddenly there was a noise outside the door, and then the housekeeper announced in the courtyard: "Master, the captain of the construction team is looking for you in an emergency!" ”
Tan Xinren was going to scold a few words angrily, but when he heard that it was a matter of building a team, this was the top priority now, so he had to reluctantly eat a few more bites, put on his clothes and scolded and walked out of the back house and came to the front hall.
As soon as he saw the face of the captain of the building, Tan Xinren's heart jumped: "What's wrong?" But have there been any casualties among the workers? Or did you dig up something? ”
There are two things that I am most afraid of, one is that if the workers are injured or injured, they will not only have to compensate for the compensation, but also affect the morale of the team; Second, they are afraid that if something taboo is dug up underground, they will have to stop work if they don't do it well, otherwise the workers will not dare to do it, and the master will not be satisfied.
But even if these two things really happen, Tan Xinren is sure to settle it, nothing more than spending a little more money. He has been in this business for so many years, and he has never seen any storms.
The captain turned pale, shook his head and said, "No, the owner, it's troublesome." It's the white soup that has an accident, we can't buy glutinous rice! ”
Tan Xinren was stunned: "How come?" The glutinous rice has been harvested at this time. Besides, our own prosperous grain store has also entered some glutinous rice! ”
The captain shook his head again and again: "We don't have much glutinous rice, and we will sell it when we come back." Even if it doesn't sell, that bit of rice is a drop in the bucket. What a large amount of triple soil is used in this WTO entry concept! ”
Tan Xinren was also anxious: "Then go buy it, glutinous rice is not a rare thing, can't you buy it?" ”
The captain didn't understand the reason: "It stands to reason that although the production of glutinous rice is not large, it will never be so scarce. But I sent people to various grain stores to buy it, and all the grain stores said that the glutinous rice was too late this year and did not come in. Otherwise, there would not be only two sellers of glutinous rice in the entire capital. ”
Tan Xinren's heart jumped suddenly: "There are only two that sell glutinous rice? Besides us, who is the other one? ”
"God-given grain, his family has glutinous rice to sell. But it is only for the people of the capital to eat, and after the season has passed in the past few days, it is no longer for sale. ”
Tan Xinren jumped up suddenly: "Come on, call me the shopkeeper of Shengshi Grain Bank!" ”
The shopkeeper of the grain store looked listless and couldn't get the bonus, and his tone was a little complaining: "The owner, how can you blame me?" At the beginning, you made it back by only a little bit of annual sales. The rest are in default! ”
Tan Xinren interrupted him irritably: "Don't talk nonsense, what about those glutinous rice?" Who bought it in the end? ”
The shopkeeper of the grain store blinked: "I don't know, I haven't followed it again." Glutinous rice is not a mainstream business, and it only sells a little bit every year. If this year is not to compete with the heaven-sent grain industry, who pays attention to the glutinous rice market. ”
Tan Xinren roared wildly: "Go and check!" Check it out for me! Who bought those glutinous rices! ”
Tan Xinren's strength is still very strong, and there are many people sent out, and the reply will come in three days: all the glutinous rice they can contact was bought by Zhang Tianci, and the purchase price is lower than the previous contract.
Tan Xinren got the news, and almost turned his back on it, but he didn't expect that he was first taken out of his heart by the black tiger, and then he was beaten by a monkey stealing peaches! But Zhang Tianci bought so much glutinous rice, how could he digest it? Glutinous rice is not delicious when it is old, and it is worthless.
Could it be that when Zhang Tianci purchased glutinous rice, he already knew that the WTO accession concept was going to be built? Waiting for me here? Even so, so much glutinous rice, the loss is not a small amount, in order to hit me, he also killed a thousand enemies, and lost eight hundred!
Tan Xinren couldn't sit still, he knew that it was a fantasy to expect Zhang Tianci to sell him glutinous rice. But after all, glutinous rice is not only available in his family, although the construction team in other places is basically not used, but the construction team in the capital will save a little more or less in order to meet the requirements of high-end customers.
Although each family does not have many in their hands, how many construction teams are there in Beijing? Together, it's just not enough, it's about the same!
Thinking of this, Tan Xinren immediately asked the housekeeper to arrange a banquet, and then went to invite the major construction teams in the capital to come to his house to drink and admire the moon. He plans to propose to buy glutinous rice from other families at a high price during the banquet, and it is not difficult to think about it, who will not make money.
Unexpectedly, in the huge courtyard of Tanfu, there were several large tables of banquets, and no one sat down. The bosses were very polite, and they sent their servants to apologize, and the reasons were varied.
"My lord said, talking about the lord's banquet, I didn't dare to be rude and not come, but my lord occasionally felt cold and was bedridden......"
"My lord broke his leg while riding a horse yesterday, I'm really sorry......"
"My lord took a concubine today, I'm sorry ......"
"My lord took a concubine yesterday ......"
"Wait, your lord took a concubine yesterday, why didn't he come today?"
"Talk about my lord, my lord was beaten by his wife this morning, so he can't come ......"
Listening to all kinds of reasons, looking at the empty banquet table, Tan Xinren overturned the table like a mad dog. He cursed with red eyes: "You bunch of fallen stones! Look at Lao Tzu's eyes and black heart when he makes money! Lao Tzu is going to find Yan Shifan and ask for your life! ”
After Yan Shifan listened to Xinren's report, he frowned and thought for a while: "Where does Zhang Tianci have such a heart, this is all Xiao Feng's business. He controls the glutinous rice market, which is to pinch your seven inches. Even if you collect slowly and gather enough glutinous rice, it will take a long time, and then your deadline will be too late anyway. ”
Talking about new benevolence and saying I don't know? He threw himself to his knees: "My lord, you have to pull me!" Otherwise, I'm going to go bankrupt this time! In this way, after this project, the villain can earn 7,000 taels of silver, and he is willing to contribute all of it to the adult! ”
Yan Shifan took a sip of wine: "I heard that you can't get along with others for Zhang Tianci's daughter?" That's a bit of a point. I can't take care of business matters directly, and it ruins my reputation if it spreads. Isn't Tan Tong your relative, doesn't he help you? ”
Yan Shifan's reputation has long been discredited, but he really didn't mean to be hypocritical when he said this. This is an extremely funny mentality among Ming officials - officials love money and take it in a good way. There is no shame in being a corrupt official, but it is a shame to be mixed with businessmen. There is no shame in accepting bribes from businessmen, but it is shameful to be involved in business.
In the final analysis, businessmen are like golden toilets in Daming, although they are rich, they are inferior no matter how rich they are. Shinong industry and commerce, Shi in the front, business in the last. It can be seen that people deprecated merchants at that time.
Therefore, Yan Shifan covered Tan Xinren, and was known by others, at most, he felt that Yan Shifan had opened a green building; But if Yan Shifan directly participates in the struggle of business operation, it is equivalent to Yan Shifan going into battle shirtless, from opening a green building to a girl who picks up customers. No matter how greedy Yan Shifan is for money, he will not be so wronged by himself.
As soon as he heard this, Tan Xinren was really anxious, and at the moment of life and death, he betrayed Zhao Wenhua without hesitation: "My lord, my lord, Tan Tong is a household servant, and it has nothing to do with the creation of Tan Ji." He just wants to help me, and he is also unknown. You'll have to figure it out! This project can earn a total of 15,000 taels, and there is originally a copy of Lord Zhao's, I am willing to persuade Lord Zhao to contribute all to you! ”、
As for An Sizheng, he didn't mention it at all, does it take a separate consideration to betray a six-rank official?
Earning fifteen thousand taels at a time, even with Yan Shifan's vision, this is definitely an attractive number. Yan Shifan weighed it for a long time, and finally smiled: "But since you have taken refuge in me, I can't sit idly by." I told the household department and asked them to requisition glutinous rice in the name of the household department, and those construction teams did not dare to directly confront it. For the rest, Talk will naturally help you. ”
Tan Xinren was overjoyed: "What about Zhang Tianci?" Can Tobe force him to spit out the glutinous rice? ”
Yan Shifan shook his head: "Zhang Tianci has Xiao Feng's support, he will not be afraid of the household." Xiao Feng is half the boss of the Tianci Grain Store, and I can't do it directly, otherwise the agreement will be broken. ”
Seeing that Tan Xinren was still not giving up, and wanted to ask what the agreement was, Yan Shifan said coldly: "This is not something you should ask. ”
The cold light emitted from the single eye was like a nightmare, and Tan Xinren couldn't help but shudder, kowtowing again and again to ask for guilt.
Yan Shifan suddenly smiled again: "So, Zhang Tianci's daughter is very beautiful?" If you bring down Zhang Tianci in the future, don't forget to bring me insight. ”
This smile was even more frightening in Tan Xinren's eyes than the gaze just now, he didn't dare to raise his head, but even claimed that it was. Even the maid who was waiting for Yan Shifan to drink next to her lowered her head deeply, not daring to look directly.