Shanxi was so angry that he was breathing rapidly and his eyes were wide open. He was eighteen years old, with a strong body and no mustache on his face. His hair was tied up in a bun at the back of his head. He wore a huge gold ring in his left ear, which could be three or four in diameter.
inch.
He was not wearing the traditional Jingman clothes made of Pumu leather. His narrow-sleeved shorts and knee-covering shorts were all sewn with fine Han Chinese fabrics and dyed with grass to make the clothes brightly colored.
Jing Man all "love the five colors" and "decorated with colorful cloth". Even though he was deeply Chinese, it did not change the simple aesthetics of Jing Man.
The Jingman people live in the mountains and the family is the unit. Generally, three to ten families form a family, and several to ten families form a village. Jingcheng's father is the leader of a village with more than 80 households and 500 people.
Lord. For the Jing Man, its power is already considerable.
Shancheng's village was located in the Hengshan area. As for why he appeared in Linxiang, three hundred miles away, it was because he did not want to continue to be exploited by Han traders.
By chance, he learned from a merchant servant that a good-quality deerskin could be sold for 200 yen in Linxiang, while the price offered by Han merchants who came to their village was only 60 or 70 yen, a huge difference.
Three times. With this small amount of money, the Han merchants would often make money back before they could even keep warm.
The more I think about it, the angrier I get. How come they can only get a small amount of benefit while going through life and death all day long, while the Han merchants can get the maximum benefit without doing anything.
After a lot of talking and persuading my father, I decided to take this trip to Linxiang.
However, Shanwei still oversimplified things, and reality gave him a blow.
He lacked channels and connections, and he was still a Jingman. He came to Linxiang rashly and just had to write "I am a fat sheep" on his face. How could Linxiang leather merchants not take the opportunity to lower prices aggressively?
This is already the fourth leather shop I visited in one trip. For a good deer hide, the previous three stores only paid a maximum of 100 yuan. This one went even further and only paid 80 yuan.
Unable to suppress the anger in his heart during the journey, he said in fluent Chinese: "I have found out before I came here that the market price of a good deerskin is two hundred yuan. It is less than half of the market price here. Are you looking at me?"
Are you a descendant of Panhu who deliberately deceived me?"
The leather merchant was a middle-aged man in his forties, wearing white fine linen clothes. He said with a sarcastic look on his face: "You want to sell a deer skin for two hundred dollars? It's simply a wishful thinking. If it were replaced by a bear, it would be better than a tiger."
The skin is pretty much the same.”
Even if you don’t understand the leather goods market, you still know how precious the skins of bears and tigers are. How can it be worth only two hundred dollars? Visiting so many leather shops along the way is the darkest of people’s hearts.
If he were not living in Han territory, he would definitely let the other party know how powerful he was. Now he could only bear the bad breath and go to the next house to have a look. However, he was already a bit pessimistic about this trip to Linxiang.
Seeing that Jing Man was about to leave, the leather merchant said calmly: "Manzi, from the moment you came to my place, no one in Linxiang will dare to ask for your leather goods, unless you bring the leather goods back intact.
Home, otherwise you can only sell it to me."
"What did you say, Han thief?!" Shan Cheng suddenly became furious and pulled out the sword from his waist with a "clang" sound. The seven Jingman companions following him also showed their weapons when they saw this.
"What? You still want to take action here? You are blind! You don't even want to know whose property this is."
The leather merchant was not afraid and gave an order. A dozen servants with green scarves and mango shoes and armed with sharp blades rushed out of the mansion behind and surrounded the Jingman. These servants were all strong and fierce, more like
It's a thug.
The conflict was about to break out. Liu Jing arrived just in time, hurriedly pushed aside the crowd and walked into the restaurant.
When the leather merchant saw that the visitor was a young man wearing a black silk turban and a gray red-rimmed leader's robe, he didn't pay much attention at first, but then his mind changed and he seemed to remember something. He bowed respectfully and asked
He said: "I have the liberty to ask, is this the Shizuo Shi Liu Jun?"
Liu Jing raised his eyebrows when he heard this, nodded slightly and said, "That's right, do you know me at all?"
The leather merchant signaled his servants to put away their weapons, then knelt on the ground and paid homage. Through his self-introduction, Liu Jing found out that his name was Zhou Wei, and he was the slave of his elder brother Liu Zong.
industry.
I thought to myself that it was no wonder that this man behaved so arrogantly and domineeringly. It would not be an exaggeration to say that he bullied and dominated the market. It turned out that he relied on the power of his clan brother Liu Zong.
This also explains why there are so many thugs in a leather shop. In all likelihood, they are the diners maintained by Liu Zong, and they usually work as servants in the shop.
Since the other party was the slave of his clan brother Liu Zong, Liu Jing did not need to be polite to him. After helping him up, he said:
"On the twelfth year of the eldest brother's year, he became full of grief and spent money to acquire guests and avenge his father's murder, which attracted everyone's admiration in Changsha. For more than ten years, the eldest brother stayed at home to raise his reputation, and his reputation grew day by day. People mentioned the name of 'Liu Bosi'
, all praises are given, and there are not even a few bad words. As someone close to my eldest brother, you must know best how much effort my eldest brother has put in to have such a good reputation..."
Hearing this, Zhou Wei was already sweating profusely, and his two legs were trembling.
Liu Jing changed the topic and said: "And you? As the eldest brother's slave, not only do you not care about the eldest brother's reputation, but you use his power to invade your guests, buy and sell by force, and dominate the market..."
Zhou Wei was so frightened that he knelt down with a "thud" sound, put his forehead on the ground, and said repeatedly: "The villain deserves to die for his crime, the villain deserves to die for his crime..."
All the servants, or guests, in the restaurant couldn't help but look at each other, and they all knelt down to apologize.
Liu Jing shook his head and motioned for them to get up. Then he came to Shan Cheng, clasped his fists and said in a sincere tone: "I am the Zuo Shi of the city, and I have the responsibility of supervising hundreds of businesses. This leather shop is owned by brothers from the lower clan, regardless of whether it is public or private."
Personally, I have an unshirkable responsibility, and I am very sorry for what happened to you today."
Shan Cheng was not an unreasonable barbarian. Liu Jing apologized to him face to face. Most of the anger in his heart immediately dissipated. He slowly put the sword back into the scabbard, shook his head and said, "This matter is all his fault and has nothing to do with you." After that,
He glanced sideways at Zhou Wei, still feeling aggrieved in his heart.
Liu Jing reached out to summon Zhou Wei, who knew what he meant and apologized to One Way repeatedly.
Liu Jing said meaningfully on the side: "I have a saying: 'People cannot stand without faith, and businesses cannot prosper without faith.' The way to buy and sell is still to be based on credibility. Relying on force may lead to temporary gains, but in the end it is not
As for the long-term plan, I hope you can take care of yourself."
"I will take Liu Jun's words to heart." Zhou Wei bowed deeply, sweat pouring down his forehead.
In the end, Zhou Wei bought all the leather goods in his hands at the market price, and was willing to cooperate with him in the future. He finally got the latter's forgiveness, and the matter finally came to a happy ending.