Zhang Youfeng, the second housekeeper, can be considered a distant relative of the Zhou family. He has been with the Zhou family even longer than shopkeeper Lin. That was when Zhou Wen's grandfather was still alive and worked as a servant in the Zhou family. At that time, the Zhou family was only considered
He was from a middle-class family. Later, when Lin Yun's family came, Lin Yun was well-educated and smart, and soon became Zhou Jinghai's right-hand man. Zhang Youfeng, on the other hand, did not know much about literacy and was not very capable, so Zhou Jinghai asked him to manage the inner house.
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As a result, for more than ten years, Zhang Youfeng watched the Zhou family rise step by step, becoming a large business house with a long history, and then building a large house. Then he watched Lin Yun, who was junior to him, become the boss of Fuyuan Company, living in
In the spacious east courtyard, there are people wearing bright clothes and angry horses, there are many shopkeepers and assistants under them, the shopping malls are crisscrossed, and the commanders are determined, giving it a unique atmosphere.
Zhang Youfeng was just envious and self-pitying at first, but later he couldn't stand his wife Aunt Zhang's daily nagging and complaining, and he gradually became resentful. He believed that if Zhou Jinghai hadn't been partial, the position of the big shopkeeper would hardly be his.
Most people without self-awareness are like this. They don't examine their own abilities and cannot see the efforts and hardships behind other people's success. They can only envy, envy, and hate.
But Zhang Youfeng did not dare to express his grievances. Zhou Jinghai's success did not rely on luck. The so-called shopping mall is like a battlefield, and it is impossible to get to where he is today without the courage to kill and decisively. Zhang Youfeng only dared to hide his grievances in
In my heart, I usually behave conscientiously.
Just a month ago, a man found Zhang Youfeng. After some bewitchment and persuasion, the demon hidden deep in Zhang Youfeng's heart was completely released.
This person is Li Yifu, the owner of Dashunlai Company in Lishi County, which has the same strength as Fuyuan Company.
Speaking of Dashunlai, it is not a time-honored brand among the shops in Lishi County. It is the foundation created by the hard work of three generations of the Li family. In the hands of the current head of the family, Li Yifu, he took advantage of the general trend of Yan Dashuai's painstaking efforts to develop Shanxi's economy and invested in highways.
He invested in minerals and became the boss of a business in Lishi County.
Later, the rapid rise of Fuyuan Company made Li Yifu feel a little pressure. The so-called peers are enemies, but the competition between Shanxi merchants is still bound by some traditional rules. After all, Shanxi merchants have been developing and growing since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Over the past few hundred years,
Naturally, some unwritten rules have been formed. For example, merchants from Shanxi generally do not engage in vicious competition, price wars, etc. If they encounter merchants from other provinces competing for the market, they must unite to squeeze their opponents.
Originally, there were not many business conflicts between Dashunlai and Fuyuan Company. Dashunlai's main focus in the past ten years has been operating minerals. It also invested in several mines in Zhongyang County and purchased a large number of Shanxi highway bonds, which resulted in a large capital investment.
.The market share of the mountain goods and local specialties that were previously our main business has gradually shrunk.
Zhou Jinghai saw this opportunity precisely. Fuyuan Company only dealt in mountain products and specialties, especially the large amount of medicinal resources contained in the Luliang Mountains. Over the past few years, it basically occupied all the markets that Dashunlai had withdrawn from, and even grew stronger.
.This is also in line with the rules. You quit on your own, not because I forced you.
Li Yifu's original intention was not to completely withdraw from other markets. That was because he had to temporarily reduce the size of the market because of the large amount of funds invested in other directions. He wanted to wait for the mines to start withdrawing funds and then slowly recover the market. Who knew that Zhou Jinghai found every opportunity to exploit, and in just a short time
Within a few years, the Li family's market was completely occupied. Others did not violate the rules, but he himself was in trouble. From then on, Li Yifu felt a thorn in his heart and secretly hated Zhou Jinghai. You are not giving the boss face.
Last year, when a shopkeeper from Dashun went to Jincheng to hand over goods, he met a merchant from Xuchang. The merchant was carrying a family letter entrusted by Zhou Wen. He knew that Dashunlai and Fuyuan were both large merchants in Lishi County.
I had something to do and had to change my route temporarily, so I gave the letter to the shopkeeper from Dashun to take back.
As a result, Zhou Wen's letter naturally fell into the hands of Li Yifu. Of course, he was unwilling to give the letter to Zhou Jinghai and destroyed it in private. As a result, Zhou Jinghai never heard from Zhou Wen and became anxious and sick.
By September, Dashunlai encountered the biggest crisis since starting business - the capital chain was broken!
It turns out that Dashunlai's biggest profitable project is minerals. The iron ore and copper ore from his mine are directly supplied to the Taiyuan Arsenal. As a result, the Jin army was defeated in the Central Plains War, and Marshal Yan resigned. He didn't even have time to pay for the goods in the previous months.
Once the settlement was settled, the arsenal was declared to have ceased production.
Li Yifu's life was at stake now. If he could not get back hundreds of thousands of yuan in payment, there were tens of thousands of tons of minerals backlogged in the mines. It was hard to find new sales in such a desperate situation. Then because of arrears in wages to the mine workers, he
In the end, a civil commotion broke out. Workers in a mine collectively made trouble and beat the mine manager to death during the fight. When the leading workers saw that the matter was getting serious, they kept doing nothing and took some valuable things from the mine.
They robbed everything and took the workers up the mountain to become bandits.
It was really a leak in the house and it rained all night. Li Yifu was so anxious that he couldn't find a solution after thinking hard for many days. At the end of the day, he looked at the rich and wealthy Fuyuan Company with a pair of blood-red eyes. Li Yifu was going to break the rules.
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Li Yifu's family has been in business for three generations and has considerable influence in Lishi County. His eldest son is a regiment leader of the second-line army of the Jin Army and is stationed in Zhongyang County. Without the support of his son who is the regiment leader, he will not be able to
He reached out to Zhongyang County to open a mine. His second son is the security captain of Lishi County.
At that time, the security team was actually equivalent to the police station. Only big cities had police stations, while small counties only had security teams.
Li Yifu also had a close relationship with the county magistrate of Lishi County, so he personally went to the magistrate's house with a heavy gift to state the pros and cons.
Mr. County Magistrate, do you think Fuyuan Company has so much property and such a big family business? But this family is not prosperous. Zhou Jinghai’s only son has been kidnapped and sent to Henan to serve as a soldier. The brutal war in the past six months has
But here in Henan, how can a small soldier come back alive in a battlefield where millions of troops are fiercely fighting? He will definitely die!
Look at Zhou Jinghai again. He is old and frail, with only one breath left. When he gets the news that his son died on the battlefield, why not return to the West immediately? That huge family property, those white oceans, and the golden gold bars will be there.
Why don't you give others an advantage?
If God doesn't take what he wants, he will be blamed for it. Strike first to gain advantage, strike later and suffer disaster. As long as the county magistrate turns a blind eye, I will take care of the rest. When the time comes, those property owners will treat us as...
After getting the county magistrate's tacit approval, Li Yifu approached Zhang Youfeng again...
Now, the entire county's military and political forces were on the same boat, and there was also a mole. So a plan that was not complicated but bloody was born.
