The falling price of salt and the rising price of salt attracted the attention of the imperial court. Emperor Tianqi ordered King Xin Zhu You to conduct a market survey. Ma Xiaoquan then visited King Xin and gave him a rough description of the process of his struggle with the Zhi Alliance merchants.
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After listening to Ma Xiaoquan's description, Zhu Youjian laughed and said: "I'm just telling you why the prices of Yanyin and Yanba are so strange these days. After doing this for a long time, you guys have been fighting openly and secretly to this point."
Ma Xiaoquan chuckled, cupped his hands and said, "Yes, but even so, theirs is still much better than ours."
Zhu Youjian said: "Have you ever thought that if the fight continues like this, it will be in trouble if the emperor pays attention to it again? At the moment, Wei Zhongxian is annihilating the Donglin Party. When he frees up his hands, he will definitely deal with you.
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Ma Xiaoquan nodded: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for reminding me. I naturally know this, and I have also thought about it. After this incident, why don't you, Your Majesty, be a peacemaker and call the Yizhi alliance together to resolve the old feud?"
Zhu Youjian nodded and reached out to touch his chin, only to find that he hadn't grown much beard yet, only a slight stubble.
"Well, it won't be too late. I will host a banquet tomorrow. You all can come. But just talking about these big principles, I'm afraid it's hard for you to stand together, right?"
Ma Xiaoquan smiled and said: "Most of us are originally members of the Qianzhuang Alliance, but because the Zhi Alliance later split up and united with many outside wealth forces, this matter was complicated. From the perspective of my subordinates, we in the capital are
There needs to be a local wealth force in the capital, so that when outside wealth enters the capital, it won't just speculate on us."
Zhu Youjian nodded: "You are right. Although this capital city is prosperous, it is not as good as the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas. I have also heard that merchants from Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas work together to make money in the capital. Now you mentioned it,
That's it. Well, you can explain this directly at the banquet tomorrow."
Ma Xiaoquan shook his head: "In the Zhi Alliance, there are already merchants from other places. If I say it in such a big way, I am afraid it will arouse their dissatisfaction. My lord, after all, everyone is seeking wealth. We cannot suppress it too much. It is the right way to make money by being friendly."
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"Harmony brings wealth, how to use harmony to make money?"
Ma Xiaoquan chuckled and said: "Your Majesty, you can use the banner of the Emperor to divide our spheres of influence, and we can all work in our own spheres of influence, and we will naturally live in peace."
Zhu Youjian nodded: "Okay then"
When Ma Xiaoquan saw Zhu Youjian agreeing, he secretly laughed in his heart. This shopping mall is like a battlefield. The winner is always the king and the loser is the enemy. How can there be any reason to live in peace and harmony? Zhu Youjian is really easy to cheat. Hum, but that's okay. Zhu Youjian
The prosecutor ordered under the banner of the emperor, and it should be possible to temporarily maintain peace for a few years. This is enough...
The next day, King Xin Zhu Youjian held a banquet in honor of the bosses of Yi League and Zhi League.
When the two factions met, they were not as jealous as Zhu Youjian thought. In fact, the two factions were originally members of the Qianzhuang Alliance. However, because the original leader Wang Laosheng and Yongsheng were copied, they were on different sides. In fact, the two factions were on different sides.
In terms of external stance, the two groups will still use the banner of bank alliance.
Zhu Youjian sat in the front seat, picked up a glass of wine and said to everyone: "Today, the king of Japan has called all the bosses here. There is nothing else to do. The main reason is to deal with the salt issue during this period... Your Majesty
An order has been issued for me to investigate this matter thoroughly. Bosses, what do you think I should do to investigate this matter?"
The scene was silent for a while, and no one spoke first. After Zhu Youjian looked around, he smiled and said: "If you don't say anything, I will just say it. The price of salt in the market has become lower, so naturally there will be
This is a problem, so I will suggest to the emperor to gradually ban some salt products, well, those salt products that do not have the weight marked on them... In addition, there must be rules for the fight between your two factions. Don't do it for money.
Fighting to the death, I heard... some of the major banks in the capital have money from foreign businessmen. Is this allowed? Yes, but don't go too far. After all, we are the capital, the capital.
Our business should be managed by the merchants in the capital, do you understand?"
Among the bosses here, there are some businessmen who come to the capital from other places to prospect for gold. These businessmen have indeed invested money in some banks in the capital. Now that Zhu Youjian suddenly said this, it is equivalent to giving an order not to allow businessmen from other places to enter the capital.
Now that we are doing business well, what should we do now?
Ma Xiaoquan raised the corner of his mouth slightly, stood up with his hands raised and said: "Your Majesty, I have something to say..."
Zhu Youjian hummed and made the gesture you said.
Ma Xiaoquan said: "Your Majesty, businessmen from other places come to the capital to do business. This can promote exchanges between businessmen. After all, we don't have many things to sell in the capital, and businessmen from other places come to the capital and bring them with them."
The good things there, of course, Xia Guan will not deny that they will bring instability at the same time, but they will also be of great benefit to the development of the capital."
Ma Xiaoquan's words caused all the bosses to nod in affirmation. Zhu Youjian smiled slightly and said: "Ma Xiaoquan, you are right. Therefore, the emperor issued this order. I do not intend to conduct a thorough investigation. Otherwise, it would have been one bun for two."
I'm afraid the pennies will become five pennies."
"Haha..." All the bosses were amused by Zhu Youjian's words.
Zhu Youjian added: "Today's banquet is not a Hongmen banquet. It is just a banquet for the emperor to entertain you. Well, as for the matter of salt and salt, I think that everyone should give in to each other and let it go.
Okay. Well, in this way, I will suggest to the emperor that we allocate the territory for everyone to do business, so that everyone can do business in their respective territories and live in peace, how about it? "
The bosses present looked at me and I looked at you. Although some people were reluctant, King Xin said so. If he disobeyed on the spot, it would not be a very knowing move.
Seeing that no one objected, Zhu Youjian clapped his hands and said, "That's it, everyone, come and drink together."
Ma Xiaoquan picked up the wine glass, stood up with everyone, and toasted to Zhu Youjian. However, in fact, because there were too many people at the banquet, Ma Xiaoquan did not drink the wine completely.
He had to keep a clear head and go home after the banquet to continue planning. Judging from today's situation, the banquet would not last long. After all, it was still daytime and the bosses had to go back to their respective stores to do business.
Putting down the wine glass and just about to take a bite of food, a boss from Zhi Alliance walked up to Ma Xiaoquan, raised his glass politely and said: "Boss Quan, I'd like to toast you a glass."
Ma Xiaoquan put down his chopsticks, looked up, and said with a smile: "It turns out to be Boss Liu. Why, the Zhi Alliance is planning to reconcile?"