Chapter 0143 Slap in the face or be slapped in the face?
Qianlan Nangong, as one of the four major palaces of the Tiangui Kingdom, is extremely famous. In the southeastern area of the Tiangui Kingdom, its influence is almost unrivaled.
Compared with Qianlan Beigong's domineering reputation, Qianlan Nangong also appears to be more pragmatic and approachable.
Of course, this is also related to the location.
The royal capital of the Tiangui Kingdom is located in the southeastern area of the Tiangui Kingdom. In this area, the power of the royal family is the core.
If Qianlan Nangong is as arrogant and domineering as Qianlan Beigong, it will obviously not work.
In a kingdom, the authority of the royal family still comes first. With the royal family, if you don't keep a low profile while doing Lan Nangong, how can the royal family tolerate you?
How can we allow others to snore on the side of the bed?
Therefore, in complete contrast to the arrogance and domineering nature of Qianlan Beigong, Qianlan Nangong has a very good reputation and is also the most willing to join the world among the four great monasteries.
The Qingyang Taoist Temple in Qingyang Valley is as low-key as possible. Almost the people in Qingyang Taoist Temple are not very involved in the world, and they rarely come out to make friends with worldly people.
Apart from recruiting disciples, he hardly interacts with the outside world.
Duobao Taoist Temple has the widest coverage and is engaged in all fields, but it is more focused on business.
Duobao Dojo is not so much a dojo as it is a business point set up by the Baoshu Sect in the secular kingdom.
Moreover, the fields covered by Duobao Dojo are also very wide.
In various popular fields and unpopular fields, there is almost no business that Duobao Dojo does not do.
Since the two missing auxiliary materials will be available at the big exhibition in a few days, Jiang Chen is not in a hurry.
If these merchants don't sell them, they just want to raise the price. Although Jiang Chen can also buy them at a high price, he follows the principle of keeping a low profile and doesn't want to attract too much attention.
Anyway, even if you buy these two auxiliary materials, you won't be able to start brewing wine for a while.
After all, this winemaking requires a winery and various utensils.
The equipment is easy to arrange, but the winery will take some time. Fortunately, the wine culture in Tiangui Kingdom is very popular, so there are still many wineries to rent.
In a few days, Jiang Chen sent his men to look for it, and finally negotiated a deal on a relatively poor wine shop and signed a short-term rental agreement.
After everything was ready, the grand exhibition of Qianlan Nangong was held as scheduled.
Early in the morning that day, Jiang Chen came to the venue with his entourage.
Of the four dojos, except for Duobao Dojo, which is located in the royal capital, the core areas of the other three dojos are not in the royal capital. However, as major forces in the kingdom, they all have their own territory in the royal capital.
Dry blue Nangong is no exception.
Jiang Chen thought he arrived very early, but when he arrived, he found that he was not the first. By the time they arrived, there were already many people at the scene.
Various stalls and trading desks are very prosperous and lively.
The purpose of Jiang Chen's trip was those two auxiliary materials.
Arriving at the trading area, Jiang Chen was overwhelmed by the rows of stalls.
However, Jiang Chen also knows that these two auxiliary materials are relatively rare and are definitely not available in ordinary stalls. They must be available to those with big influence.
So, he walked directly towards the VIP areas.
In the VIP area, they are all the big forces and big merchants of the Tiangui Kingdom.
Those who can have a booth in the VIP area are basically very awesome people.
Of course, not to mention Qianlan Nangong himself, the other three major venues also received invitations from Qianlan Nangong, and many people came.
As soon as Jiang Chen and others approached the VIP area, somewhere in the row of trading areas, a pair of eyes immediately spotted Jiang Chen.
This man was apparently a disciple of Qianlan Beigong, and he had participated in the battle that chased Jiang Chen and the others. However, this man was only from the True Qi realm and was not very conspicuous.
When the man saw Jiang Chen, he shrank his head slightly, lowered his head, walked to a person in charge of Qianlan Beigong, and whispered a few words in that person's ear.
The person in charge was about twenty years old, with a shrewd look on his face. After hearing what his fellow disciple said, his eyes narrowed slightly and he glanced towards Jiang Chen intentionally or unintentionally.
After just a quick glance, he looked back, obviously afraid of offending someone.
Then he asked the fellow disciple a few more questions. The person in charge nodded slightly and gave the fellow disciple a few instructions. It was obvious that some conspiracy had begun to be hatched.
"Boss, how do you sell these blue daylily and wood bark?"
"Well, this is a sample, not for sale."
"Brother, what's the price of these blue daylily and wood bark?"
"Sorry, this thing has been reserved and cannot be sold."
"boss……"
"I'm sorry, we don't have blue daylilies and wood bark here."
When Jiang Chen started to ask about the two auxiliary materials, he realized that things seemed a bit strange. If these two items could not be purchased two days ago, it could also be said that the merchants were hoarding the goods and wanted to sell them at a high price today.
But the trade fair has started today, do you still want to continue to raise prices? It seems that business has not been done this way since ancient times.
Even though things are there, there are all kinds of excuses not to sell them.
If everyone is like this, then that's it. Others buy and sell various elixirs very smoothly. Although the prices are on the high side, they have never encountered anything as evil as Jiang Chen.
No matter which store I went to, they would either not sell it or find various excuses to shirk it.
This is really weird. Jiang Chen didn't think that just after arriving in the royal capital, he could attract such hatred that all the merchants would unite to ban him.
The first thing Jiang Chen thought of was Qianlan Beigong.
Looking at the stall of Qianlan Beigong, it looks very busy and crowded. There are people standing in front of the stall, making it very lively.
At this time, Qiao Baishi came up and whispered: "Master, I just put some money in and asked the merchants. It seems that...these merchants have reached a tacit agreement, saying that whatever you want to buy must not be sold. for you."
"Why?"
"It should be Qianlan Beigong who is deliberately trying to make things difficult for you." Qiao Baishi guessed.
"Qianlan Beigong?" Jiang Chen's eyes turned cold. Qianlan Beigong provoked him last time, and the debt has not yet been settled. Could this guy still want to run wild in the capital?
Old and new hatreds surged up together, and a murderous intent flashed slightly in Jiang Chen's eyes.
"Well, besides Qianlan Beigong, who else can it be? It's impossible for some merchants not to give Qianlan Beigong face. It's normal for the four major shopping malls to give each other face. After all, we have no rights in the capital. Wu Shi, no one else would offend Lan Beigong for such a trivial matter."
Jiang Chen heard Qiao Baishi's analysis and felt that it was quite reasonable. However, it was too naive for Qianlan Beigong to play this trick.
"If I buy something and they refuse to sell it to me, then if I ask someone else to buy it, won't they still sell it?"
Qiao Baishi smiled bitterly and said: "I seem to have heard that the people from Qianlan Beigong have said that they will collect blue daylilies and wood bark at high prices. Anyone who has these two kinds of things today will collect them all, and they will pay double prices." Times the price.”
"Tsk, tsk, you are really willing to spend all your money." Jiang Chen sneered, "So, they will buy whatever I want?"
"Hey, come on, come on, buy Hemerocallis and Hemerocallis at a high price. As long as there are goods, we can collect as much as Lan Beigong has."
Suddenly, at the stall over the Qianlan Beigong, a guy put his hands in front of his mouth and started shouting.
While shouting, he looked towards Jiang Chen as if to demonstrate, and winked, which was obviously a deliberate demonstration.
"Damn it!" Princess Magatama couldn't help but want to touch the hilt of the sword.
"Don't be impulsive." Jiang Chen flicked his sleeves and stopped Princess Magatama from grabbing the hilt of the sword.
"They also bullied people too much." Princess Magatama was indeed unhappy, her chest was heaving, and she was obviously very angry.
Jiang Chen smiled faintly, walked slowly over, and stood in front of Qianlan Beigong's stall.
"You are planning to bully the market, right? If I remember correctly, this is a trade fair held by Qianlan Nangong. When will it be your turn to be arrogant here at Qianlan Beigong?" Jiang Chen asked calmly.
"Boy, you can eat whatever you want, but don't talk nonsense. This is a legitimate acquisition, not bullying and dominating the market. Don't slander others." The person in charge looked at Jiang Chen with a sneer.
"Tsk tsk, didn't you say that the people who work for Lan Beigong are the ones who dare to do what they do? You even dare to do things like killing people and selling goods, but why do you dare not admit it? A legitimate acquisition? Don't you say that? Are you blushing?" Jiang Chen sneered disdainfully.
The person in charge's face darkened: "What? Which rule do you see that says we can't acquire it? If you have the ability, you can also acquire it. Fair competition."
"fair play?"
"Not bad." The person in charge said proudly, "It's not that I, Zhang, look down on you. If you can buy blue daylilies and wood bark from here today, I, Zhang, will crawl out from here."
The person in charge had a very sharp eye, and he also saw that Jiang Chen probably had no status in the capital. Otherwise, there would be no way to buy these two things.
Such a person with no connections is not on the same level as Qian Lan Beigong. How could the merchants at today's trade fair sell these two things to Jiang Chen without giving Qian Lan Beigong face?
Therefore, the person in charge had great confidence in saying this. He actually wanted to use this incident to give Jiang Chen a blow and to please Senior Brother Liu who had entered the spiritual realm.
Although Senior Brother Liu is not here today, if this matter is handled well, it will definitely reach Senior Brother Liu's ears.
Out of consideration for currying favor with those in the spiritual realm, the person in charge would do this and create such a huge momentum.
He also firmly believes that he has been in this industry for so many years and has a wide network of contacts. The people who appear here today are all old acquaintances. Who would not give him face if they look up and see each other?
Moreover, this boy looked like a foreigner at first glance. Even if he was not an old acquaintance, these merchants would not offend him, a disciple of Qianlan Beigong, just because of a foreigner.
Jiang Chen looked at the person in charge, and then at the merchants all around who were watching the excitement, and a smile overflowed from the corner of his mouth.
"Climb out? Are you sure?"
The person in charge's chest puffed up: "Yes, if you can buy it, I'll walk around the trading area three times. If you can't buy it, so what?"
Since he wants to crack down on Jiang Chen, the person in charge will obviously not just ban him from the market. The harder he humiliates Jiang Chen, the more capital he will have to curry favor with Senior Brother Liu in the future.
Not only did he want to ban Jiang Chen, but he also wanted to take this opportunity to trample on Jiang Chen so hard that he would be embarrassed and unable to survive in the capital.