"Let's go, people like this are not worthy of you and my brothers to be friends with."
"let's go!"
The door of the box next door was violently knocked open and then closed again.
The servants who were waiting outside saw their master coming out with a bad look on his face, so they followed behind him carefully without even daring to breathe.
Qin Jin, who was sitting alone, looked at the mess on the table, sighed with a smile, and drank the wine in the glass with a calm expression.
After waiting for a while, he stood up and called Feng Si who was waiting outside the door to go to Jiang Zhiyue's house next door.
Feng Si came out with Qin Jin, and Feng San also had to look after the grain store.
Seeing Qin Jin and Feng coming in, Jiang Zhiyue was not surprised at all, and asked them to take their seats with a smile.
Now that there were no outsiders, Feng Si was no longer polite and each found a seat and sat down.
Jiang Zhiyue put her chin on her hand and asked, "How was the discussion?'
Qin Jin shook his head helplessly and smiled: "Isn't Miss Jiang asking knowingly?"
"We didn't reach an agreement, so the popular ones waved their sleeves and left."
Jiang Zhiyue laughed out loud. She was not surprised by the result. She had heard almost everything about their conversation just now.
Qin Jin said with a smile: "Fortunately, Miss Jiang also ordered a table of dishes, otherwise I would have been hungry after lunch today."
Jiang Zhiyue smiled and said nothing, and then the three of them finished their meal quickly and returned to the grain store.
The few grain shop keepers who returned to their respective homes were not in such a good mood.
I originally thought I could get something useful out of the question, but who knew that they tried hard and soft methods, but Qin Jin still couldn't get anything done.
In the end, the person behind him didn't even find out who it was, let alone persuade him to change the price of food.
The three shopkeepers lost their temper when they got home. The servants and maids at home did not dare to speak out to attract attention, for fear that they would be used as a punching bag.
After the anger subsided a bit, some close confidants came forward to express a few words of comfort.
"Send someone down to find out where this Taiping Grain Store came from. I don't believe we can't find any clues!"
Naturally, nothing could be found through the investigation. Before the grain store opened, Ouyang Ming sent someone to cover up all the bad news about Jiang Zhiyue.
In the end, they only found some irrelevant things.
Shopkeeper Sun of the fourth prince's grain shop threw out the tea cup in his hand angrily.
He cursed: "They are all a bunch of trash. The beggars on the street are more useful than you. You can't even find out any useful information. There is someone behind him. How could I not have thought of this! Why didn't you find out who the person behind him is?"
who!"
The man kneeling below was also miserable. He was just a boy running errands. How could he find out this?
Naturally, he was not the one who didn't inquire about the situation. When it came to dealing with the Taiping Grain Store, the goals of the three grain stores were very consistent.
In their eyes, the Taiping Liangpu matter was not worthy of being reported to higher-ups for advice.
If they can't even solve such a trivial matter, doesn't it mean they are useless?
Although Qin Jin bribed the people around them, he was not so quick to let them take action.
Only when they hate him so much that those people go over to make him angry, they will become even more irrational.
After waiting for a few days, the three shopkeepers looked at the grain store, which had not received any revenue for a long time. The wrinkles on their foreheads could kill flies.
Just when they were distressed and resentful, a confidant close to Shopkeeper Sun whispered in his ear and gave him an idea.
Shopkeeper Sun looked at his confidant Sun Cai, who was almost touching his face, and asked, "What do you want to say?"
Sun Caijiao smiled and whispered: "If the shopkeeper is worried about this matter, I can give you some advice."
Shopkeeper Sun was so anxious that he had several blisters on his mouth. Looking at his confidant who was still grumbling, he kicked him on the butt and urged: "If you have any ideas, tell me quickly.
What's the matter!"
"Hey, master, don't be upset, I'll just tell you now."
Sun Cai possessed himself and spoke in Shopkeeper Sun's ear for a while before stopping. Seeing Shopkeeper Sun's eyes getting brighter and brighter, Sun Cai knew that his words had touched his heart, and he slowly felt relieved.
One breath.
Being able to be a confidant in front of shopkeeper Sun, Sun Cai would get a lot of reward money on weekdays, but a few days ago he accidentally got addicted to gambling.
He won two games at first, but he lost more and more as time went on. He originally wanted to win back his capital and then quit, but instead of winning back his capital, he lost more and more.
Over time, my gambling addiction grew stronger and stronger, and I ended up with a huge gambling debt.
The man from the gambling house said that if he didn't pay back the money, he would chop off both of his hands.
When he was scared, when he was helping shopkeeper Sun pack things in the warehouse, he secretly exchanged some fake ones and took the real ones out to exchange for money to pay off his gambling debts.
This is not a big deal. The most terrible thing is that the news about him and an aunt in Shopkeeper Sun's courtyard got spread out for some reason.
There are many aunts in Shopkeeper Sun’s backyard, and over time there are those who are unwilling to be left alone. When Sun Cai works in front of Shopkeeper Sun, it is inevitable that he will send some things to several aunts’ courtyards and run errands. Every time he goes back and forth, he gets close to one of the aunts.
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Although no one would believe this even if he said it, but with Shopkeeper Sun's petty temperament, he would rather kill a hundred by mistake than let one go, so he would definitely be suspicious of him.
Now that the aunt Sun Cai was having an affair with was still pregnant with a child, that child might be his.
Sun Cai originally thought that after the aunt gave birth to a son, he would plan to seize Shopkeeper Sun's money and family business.
But after all calculations, he didn't expect that all these facts about him would be investigated and used to threaten him.
He still has these handles in that person's hands. If he fails to complete the tasks assigned by that person and the person reveals them to him when he is unhappy, he will be doomed.
And that person was the one Jiang Zhiyue and Qin Jin arranged to send a message to threaten him.
At this time, Jiang Zhiyue and Qin Jin were sitting opposite each other in the yard behind the Taiping Grain Store.
After hearing the news from Shang Ziyan, Jiang Zhiyue waved her hand to let him go down.
Before letting him leave, I didn't forget to give him the antidote for Shang Ziyan for half a month.
Jiang Zhiyue waved the fan in her hand to relieve the heat and said happily: "It's done, it depends on what they do next."
Qin Jin leaned back on the chair and said with admiration: "The little girl in Miss Jiang's house is really amazing. She was able to pry out so many useful things from Sun Cai, who was next to shopkeeper Sun, and she also made him forget that he had seen this thing of ours.
matter."
Jiang Zhiyue gave him a sideways look and warned, "Don't try to trick her."
This time I was able to get so many questions out of Sun Cai's mouth, but Ming Yuanqing's help was indispensable.
Jiang Zhiyue has not forgotten that when Ming Yuanqing used her Gu to "interrogate" Sun Cai, Qin Jin, the old fox, looked like he had seen Bao.
Qin Jin smiled and said: "I heard that due to the previous dynasty's pursuit, the Gu clan has been wiped out." "As a result, Miss Jiang's good ability of hiding in the golden house actually has two boys who are good at Gu.
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Now part of the Jiang family lives in the town, and the house is only separated from the grain store's yard by a door, so they have close contact with each other.
Qin Jin, an old fox, managed to get their information out of Ming Yuanqing and Ming Yixi at some point.
Jiang Zhiyue avoided his question and asked: "How are the preparations for the shops in the two nearby towns and the county seat?"
Qin Jin replied: "Everything is ready, and the food has been brought over to prepare enough for two months."
He was really curious about how Jiang Zhiyue's so-called friend obtained so much food, but he also knew that asking would be a step beyond his bounds.
The two changed the subject and discussed the affairs of other grain stores and how to deal with the next three grain stores.
And the other side.
After getting Sun Cai's idea, shopkeeper Sun felt that his method was very feasible. When he was happy, he rewarded him with a few taels of silver and asked him to go to Du's Grain Shop and Wang's Grain Shop to invite the other two shopkeepers to come over for a gathering.
Sun Cai happily took the silver rewarded to him and sent two people to call for help. He went to a gambling house several blocks away and played two games and lost all the money he had yet to warm up before he became dejected.
Come out.
While shopkeeper Sun called the shopkeepers of the other two stores to discuss the matter, Sun Cai secretly ran to shopkeeper Sun's aunt's courtyard and made love to her heartily.
When the aunt saw Sun Cai coming, she looked around and saw that no one was there, and quickly welcomed him in.
After a while, an indescribable sound came from the house, and the maid who was watching from a distance became red-eyed.
In the flower hall in front of Shopkeeper Sun's house, three greasy-looking fat men were sitting in the flower hall discussing matters.
Shopkeeper Sun looked at the other two shopkeepers, glanced at them each and said, "I invited these two brothers here because I thought of a way to deal with the Taiping Grain Shop. Are you two guys interested in working with me?"
"oh?"
The other two shopkeepers became interested. They definitely hated Taiping Grain Shop no less than Shopkeeper Sun.
The Taiping Grain Store snatched away all their business in this town as soon as they arrived. Although they were not limited to this grain store, it was absolutely impossible to make them bow their heads and submit.
And there are a lot of people in the town. Taking all the guests is a big piece of fat. How could they be willing to let it go?
Shopkeepers Wang and Du quickly asked: "Shopkeeper Sun, please tell me what you have thought of. We will try our best to help."
Shopkeeper Sun raised his eyes and said confidently: "That Taiping Grain Shop is so arrogant and wants to cut off our livelihood, so we don't have to show mercy to him and just empty out his granary."
"Evacuate?" Shopkeeper Wang said in confusion.
Shopkeeper Du also said: "Let's not mention that we don't know where the granary of his Taiping Grain Shop is. Even if we know so much grain, we can still steal it for him quietly."
When Shopkeeper Du said he was stealing, Shopkeeper Sun gave him a rude and contemptuous look.
He originally wanted to make a few sarcastic remarks, but when he thought about cooperating with him, he softened his voice and explained: "This move is not stealing, we can buy out his food."
Now shopkeepers Wang and Du were even more confused. They had some mental problems to buy food from the right grain store.
Shopkeeper Sun saw that they were not interested, and quickly explained: "The two brothers thought, this Taiping Grain Shop is a newly opened shop, what can it compare with us? Isn't it just because the quality of the products is better than ours?"
Are the grains sold at low prices?"
"You two think carefully, if that kid has enough grain in his hands, can he just open a grain shop in our small town? So I guess, he must not have much grain in his hands.
"Let's find someone to pretend to be a businessman passing by and go to their home to buy grain. If we buy more, it will definitely be cheaper. When we buy up all the grain in his hand, the price of the grain will not be determined by us.
We have three families in our hands."
As he spoke, shopkeeper Sun clapped his hands and called two young men, asking them to carry all the grain they bought from the Taiping Grain Store to the center of the flower hall and open it for them to see.
"You see, the quality of his food is much better than the best food from our families. If you two are not willing to follow me, you will have to wait to be attacked by this guy who comes out of nowhere.
Taiping Grain Shop has suppressed so much that it will never be exposed. Not to mention that it won’t make any money, the master behind it will still be blamed.”
After listening to what Shopkeeper Sun said, Shopkeepers Wang and Du fell silent.
Shopkeeper Sun didn't care about them. He was sipping tea and waiting for their agreement.
Seeing that their expressions were shaken, shopkeeper Sun added fuel to the fire and said: "Look at the quality of this grain, we won't suffer a loss even if we buy it at the price in the Taiping Grain Store. We can store it in our own grain store."
If we set aside a separate area to sell these grains, the price can be doubled."
"Or we can take this part of the grain to the state capital and sell it. The dignitaries will definitely be vying to buy it. I don't think I need to explain the pros and cons to you one by one."
"When Taiping Grain Shop can no longer produce food for sale, we will spread the news that Taiping Grain Shop is dishonest and make it impossible for them to stay in this town.'
Shopkeeper Wang and Shopkeeper Du became even more excited when they heard this. After looking at each other, they both saw determination in each other's eyes.
As soon as the two agreed, they said they were willing to work with Shopkeeper Sun.
Even if there are not as many benefits as Shopkeeper Sun said, just defeating the Taiping Food Store is still great for them.
The three of them discussed for a long time and agreed on how much grain each person would buy from the Taiping Grain Shop before they dispersed.
The final decision was that no matter how much grain Taiping Grain Store still had in stock, Wang's Grain Store and Du's Grain Store would each buy 30% of it, and shopkeeper Sun would handle the remaining 40%.
In this way, they also determined that Taiping Grain Store would not have much grain storage at all.
After the discussion, the three people quickly arranged for people to dress up as three groups of businessmen and go to the Taiping Grain Store to discuss grain prices.
Feng San and Feng Si were busy working in the grain store. When one day they received three groups of businessmen who said they were "coming here to buy a large amount of grain because of their fame," they reported the matter to Qin Jin.
Qin Jin secretly laughed that the fish finally bit the hook, and asked them to negotiate the price with the three groups according to the originally agreed strategy.
After several conversations, the two parties settled on the price of grain.
The Taiping Grain Shop sold the grain to them at a penny lower per kilogram than when selling it in bulk. No matter how much the price was, they would not agree.
