Chapter Forty-Five: The Lanfangtang Incident Eight
Cheng Yuhuan pondered for a while and said: "I didn't expect that the Fang family kept so much inventory. This is reasonable. If they didn't have so much inventory, they wouldn't be able to confront us like this. You see, they have lowered the wholesale quantity. It is obvious that the surviving quantity is insufficient.
According to my estimation, they don’t have much inventory left, now it’s up to us who can hold on to the end.”
Butler Liu tried to ask: "Then shall we continue to acquire?" Cheng Yuhuan said firmly: "Continue to acquire, we have worked hard to this point, and there is no possibility of turning back." Butler Liu nodded: "Then we have to do this."
"Second Grandpa, how many deposits do we have in Huitong Bank now?" Fang Qiong said: "About 70 million." Fang Xiaoyu nodded and said: "Now we will send people to Huitong Bank to withdraw money, and they will be withdrawn separately, and they will be withdrawn in the capital.
Twenty million, get fifty million from the East China Sea." Fang Qiong nodded: "Xiaoyu, I will listen to you this time, let's win this time."
A few days later, rumors suddenly appeared in the capital, saying that there was a problem with the funds of the Cheng family's Huitong Bank. The same rumors began to spread in various counties in the East China Sea. Fang Xiaoyu asked Zhao Quan to send people to spread them.
Immediately afterwards, many people lined up to withdraw money from the bank. These were people sent by the Fang family. Since the Fang family had previously deposited money in the name of others, the Cheng family did not know that the Fang family had so many deposits at Huitong Bank. Now the Fang family
Use these accounts to write large amounts of small checks and have people queue up.
The Fang family was busy for a while, and the Huitong Bank's deposits in various places were exhausted. The Cheng family urgently transferred funds from the bank banks in the southwest counties where no one was running on money. However, the deposits there were not much left due to large-scale land purchases, so Cheng Yuhuan had to endure the pain.
He gave up the money banks in the East China Sea counties and tried his best to protect the capital's industry.
The banks in various counties in the East China Sea had no financial support, so they had to declare bankruptcy and close down one after another. Fang Xiaoyu took the opportunity to rely on the manpower of Lanting Bank, which had already been arranged, to take over all the personnel and banks of these banks. Cheng Yuhuan was helpless after knowing this.
But the matter was not over yet. The run arranged by the Fang family caused panic in the capital. People with deposits in Huitong Bank rushed to the exchange offices of various banks. The anxious Cheng Yuhuan had to order to raise funds. Most of the Cheng family's funds
The land is the lifeblood of the Cheng family, so they have to sell the land. At this point, they have no choice but to sell Lanfang candy at a low price to recoup their funds.
The Cheng family lowered the price, but the Fang family pushed the price even lower. Besides, there are only three other major families in the capital that can afford such a large batch of goods. The Xia family first stands on the same front as the Fang family, and it is impossible for the royal family to do so.
Blatantly helping the Cheng family. Because the royal family needs to maintain a balance among several major families, at least on the surface, it must remain neutral. If he directly favors the Cheng family at this time, it will be an alliance with the Cheng family and against the Xia Fang family. If
Once the four major families are divided into two factions, the situation in the entire empire will be turbulent, and the Xiahou family's world will be unstable.
As for the other small forces, not to mention that they couldn't accept so much goods, but who would be willing to offend the Fang family at this time? As a result, the Cheng family's sugar price dropped again and again, but no one cared about it. In the end, Cheng Yuhuan couldn't hold it anymore.
, he had no choice but to go see the emperor.
Fang Xiaoyu was playing in the garden of the Fang family's old house with the visiting Xia sisters. Xia Tingwei laughed and said, "Did you really make tens of millions in just ten days?" Fang Xiaoyu said, "It's not just me.
The bank purchased from Donghai is worth more than tens of millions when opened." Xia Tingyun said: "I don't know how your head grew, making money faster than printing money." Xia Tingwei asked: "Why don't you
Acquire the parts of Huitong Bank in the southwest counties together? Then wouldn’t all the Cheng family’s banks have the surname Fang?” Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: “The southwest is their territory. After all, Jiaozhi County is the territory of the Cheng family, maybe it will let
I will suffer a loss, and besides, do you think the royal family will let me completely swallow up the Cheng family’s bank?"
While Fang Xiaoyu was talking, a chief steward of the Fang family ran over and said, "Young Master, the Second Master asked me to send you the Emperor's secret decree." After saying that, he took out a bamboo tube sealed with fire paint and handed it to Fang Xiaoyu and left.
Fang Xiaoyu opened the bamboo tube, took out a piece of yellow silk, unfolded it and looked at it, with a smile on his face.
Xia Tingwei, who had been watching Fang Xiaoyu, asked: "What is written in the emperor's decree?" Fang Xiaoyu put the yellow silk into his arms and said: "The emperor wrote the words 'give mercy to others'. He didn't want to."
Seeing the complete collapse of the Cheng family, he asked me to stop. He also said that in view of my many merits and contributions to the country, he would promote me to colonel, and at the same time, all properties in my name would be tax-free for five years."
Xia Tingyun asked: "Upgraded to four levels in a row? Still tax-free? What does the emperor mean by this?" Fang Xiaoyu said: "The emperor wants to balance, so he gives me some sweetness to let me stop." After saying that, Fang Xiaoyu shouted: "Tobul, come here.
one time."
Tobol has been following Fang Xiaoyu at Fang's house these days, protecting him nearby. Just now, he had been standing far away, fearing to disturb the young master's pick-up with girls. Now when he heard Fang Xiaoyu calling him, Tobul immediately came over and said, "Young Master is looking for me.
What's the matter?" Fang Xiaoyu said: "Send someone to tell my uncle and ask him to buy all the Lanfang candies on hand from the Cheng family at a price of 20 yuan per kilogram."
Xia Tingwei was shocked: "You are simply robbing." Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile; "No, it's faster to get money than robbing, and it's legal." Xia Tingyun said: "What if the Cheng family doesn't sell it?" Not yet?
When Fang Xiaoyu answered, a rich and old voice said: "If you don't sell, it means that the Cheng family doesn't want to settle the matter. Xiaoyu can ignore the imperial edict and kill the Cheng family, and the emperor can't say anything."
The Xia sisters looked back and immediately recognized the person. They exclaimed, "Grandpa." and ran over quickly. Fang Xiaoyu also turned around and saluted with a military salute: "Marshal Xia."
Xia Jun smiled and said: "Good boy, military tactics are so good. I never thought they would be the same in shopping malls. You have caused great harm to Lao Cheng this time." Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "Shopping malls are like battlefields, and it is equally tragic in this battlefield.
Cheng Shoufu is a good politician but not a good businessman."
"Well said, a good shopping mall is like a battlefield. Your actions in the shopping mall are as sharp as the artillery tactics you wrote. The Fang family is really lucky to have a talent like you." Marshal Xia Jun sighed with emotion. Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "Marshal
You didn't come here to praise me, right?" Xia Jun said, "Of course not." He took out a shiny silver pistol and said, "You did this, right?"
"It's so beautiful." Xia Tingyun couldn't help but admired. Fang Xiaoyu took a closer look and found that Xia Jun was holding the pistol he gave to Xia Ziqing. Fang Xiaoyu said: "That was a small design I designed when I had nothing to do.
Why does the marshal like this stuff?"
Xia Jun said: "You really dare to brag. Zhang Peiyun was shocked when he saw this gun. It was a magical weapon. If I hadn't stopped him, he would have come to your door to become your disciple." Xia Jun picked up the pistol and skillfully fired the bullet.
He took out a brass bullet and said, "I heard from Zhang Peiyun that using this bullet can save the time of cleaning up the remaining paper casings in the bullet nest, and the shooting speed can be doubled?"
Fang Xiaoyu nodded: "Yes, and there are not many changes to the existing guns, but the production of bullets is complicated and mass production is currently impossible." Xia Jun nodded and said: "Zhang Peiyun said the same. Originally, I didn't give up, but I didn't expect you.
That's what I said." Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "Why does Marshal Xia care so much? Our current weapons are already very advanced for neighboring countries."
Xia Jun sighed: "You don't understand. It is very frustrating for a soldier to see good weapons but not be able to use them." Fang Xiaoyu nodded: "I can understand this feeling." Xia Tingyun on the side said: "
I don't understand what you are talking about, but I also want such a beautiful pistol. Brother Yu, what do you think we should do?" Fang Xiaoyu sighed and said, "I'm really scared of you, okay, I'll give it to you two every day.
One person."
The business war between the Fang family and the Cheng family ended with the Fang family's complete victory. The Fang family not only annexed all the strength of the Cheng family's Huitong Bank in various counties in the East China Sea, but also made a huge profit from Lanfang candy. In order to raise funds, the Cheng family
funds, they had to package and sell all the Lanfang sugar in stock to the Fang family. As a result, the Fang family not only took back the 1,100 tons of Lanfang sugar sold at a low price of 20 yuan, but also returned the Cheng family's original 300 tons of Lanfang sugar.
into one's own control.
Fang Xiaoyu suggested that his uncle Fang Weiming lower the price of Lanfang sugar to 100 yuan per kilogram, and launched Lanfang rock sugar with 1,000 yuan per kilogram. This high-low combination continued to occupy the market for Lanfang sugar in Zhili County.
most markets.
Later, Fang Weiming relied on sufficient inventory and a huge business network to start expanding outwards. The Fang family's Lanfang candy gradually sold throughout the Eastern Continent. Of course, this is a story later. At this time, the Cheng family had been severely weakened, and there was no hope for a few years.
After recovering and temporarily removing the threat from the Cheng family, Fang Xiaoyu decided to continue his plan and travel to the Western Continent.
A note to readers:
I didn’t have time yesterday, so starting from today, I will update twice a day during the Spring Festival holiday.