Su Shuang is a businessman, and he started out as a monk. Among businessmen, there are only a handful of people who can do this job well.
Since ancient times, intermediary has been a very difficult business. It is said that kindness does not control soldiers and justice does not control wealth. People who are too kind cannot be an intermediary, but people who are too evil and powerful cannot work for a long time.
It must be someone who has a deep mind, is good at showing others with a smile, has a simple and approachable appearance, has a deep heart, and will not be blinded by small profits.
And Su Shuang was tailor-made by God for this industry.
He always smiles to others, his mind is calmer and more delicate than anyone else, and he is also more sensitive to money than anyone else.
Liu Jian's words seemed unintentional, but they gave him a taste of benefit.
Logically speaking, although the Liu family is wealthy, the two brothers are not family members and will never be able to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a good Hun horse to take home and play with.
But for some reason, Su Shuang felt that what Liu Jian said was true at this moment.
He believed that he could not only read horses, but also be good at reading people.
Thinking of this, Su Shuang said:
"Haha, dear brother, is there something in your words? You don't want to buy my horse, but you can find a buyer for it? I wonder how many days will the buyer come?"
Liu Jian looked relaxed and his tone was determined.
"At most one day, or no more than two days, someone will come to ask for the price. If Brother Su is not short of one or two days, then we will wait."
Su Shuang's expression was quite playful: "How can Liu Langjun be sure that I will definitely make a deal with the person you mentioned?"
"Buying and selling a horse is no small matter. Both the buyer and the buyer must be satisfied. It cannot be negotiated in just one or two sentences."
When Liu Bei heard this, his face showed a bit of anger.
"Since you know that both parties need to be satisfied when buying and selling, why do you still ask us for 400,000 yuan today? Is it possible that just by asking for a random price, both the buyer and the seller will be satisfied?"
Su Shuangduan was a smiling tiger. He was not angry when faced with Liu Bei's accusations, but could patiently explain.
"Buying and selling, you buy and I sell, I ask for a price, you can handle it and pay me back, but you don't bargain, you just annoy me, what's the point?"
"If you really want to buy, you would naturally invite me to a secluded place to discuss. If you are not sincere and just come here to explore the price, if I quote a low price, and if there are sincere buyers listening, how can I talk to them later?
"
When Liu Bei heard this, he sighed with emotion: "You idiot, you are really good at doing big business!"
Su Shuang stretched out his hand and said to the two brothers of the Liu family: "The biggest business today is for you two brothers. There are good fruits and vegetables and tea in the market. Su sincerely invites the two gentlemen to go to the pavilion."
Once I talk about it, I wonder if I can appreciate it."
Liu Jian secretly thought that Su Shuang was indeed a sensible person, and within a few words, he could smell the meaning of his words.
"Since Brother Su sincerely invites you, we brothers would be disrespectful to refuse."
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The market building in a busy city in a county was originally built as a residence for city officials to facilitate the management of the market. It is generally the tallest building in a busy city.
Because it is built high, you can overlook the market from a high position.
But no city official would have nothing to do and spend twelve hours a day inspecting it.
In this way, such a large market building will remain idle for a long time. After a long time, the county office will vacate the market building at a specific time for merchants in the market to rest and discuss transactions.
But in this society, even the market in a county is divided into classes.
The merchants who are qualified to enter the market are undoubtedly wealthy businessmen from the local area or neighboring counties with strong financial resources. Those ordinary small businessmen and hawkers can't even touch the door panels.
As for who is a big businessman and who is a hawker, it will naturally be decided by the city official based on the rental fees paid by the businessmen.
Today, Su Shuang invited Liu Jian to come to the market building to talk, firstly because it was quiet and there were few people, and secondly, it was to prove his strength to Liu Jian from the side. After all, those who can enter the market building to discuss business are extraordinary people.
The three of them sat down in a relatively remote room. A servant under Su's hands had already served the prepared dates to them.
"Alas, you two young masters are in a hurry. If it is a good season, I will use good persimmons and nachos when entertaining the nobles. But this month, let alone the fruits, the flowering period has not yet arrived, so I have to make do with it.
I have some winter dates that were stored in the ice cellar at the end of last year."
He said this politely, but in fact he was showing his financial strength to Er Liu from the side.
After all, in this era, it is easy to build a cellar, but getting ice to store and transport it is not a simple matter. It requires a lot of manpower. Even Liu Jian's family did not build an ice cellar. It was too luxurious.
Liu Bei reached for a date, put it in his mouth and chewed it.
These are not fresh dates, but dried dates that have been processed and air-dried. Although they are not as crispy as fresh dates, they are still sweet.
Liu Bei, who had not eaten fruit for several months, was very happy, and his dissatisfaction with Su Shuang was completely gone.
"It's not easy to have this kind of food at this time of year. In our county, only thirty households can have this kind of food."
"Hahaha, Brother Liu likes it. I will send someone home to pick up some later and deliver them to your home."
"No need!"
"Hey, I have to have it!"
After the greetings, Su Shuang looked at Liu Jian with a smile and asked, "I've heard a lot in the market these days. I heard that the two young men know each other and the new county king?"
Liu Bei picked up another date and chewed it, and said proudly: "Brother Su is quite well-informed, and I can tell you the truth. My two brothers were classmates with the Ming court. In the past, their tempers were even more opportunistic, and we have a very good relationship..."
"Brother, brother!"
Liu Jian reached out and patted Liu Bei's arm, smiled and said, "Be more reserved."
"oh."
Liu Jian took over the conversation and said to Su Shuang: "Although we are classmates, we have not interacted with each other for many years. Now that Brother Gongsun has taken office in this county, we have no intersection with me."
"The most I can do is to pay homage to Mr. Yan in person. Today I was summoned to the county office to discuss some important matters in Zhuo County. I have nothing else to do."
Su Shuang was chewing dates. Hearing Liu Jian's words, he suddenly coughed, but he almost choked the date shells into his lungs.
The servant hurriedly came up to help him pat his back.
"Cough, cough~!"
Su Shuang pushed the servant away, coughed with all his strength, and finally spit out the jujube shell on the table.
"Ahem, cough, Young Master is really very reserved when he speaks."
After that, Su Shuang picked up the jujube shell again and took two bites of the remaining jujube meat before he was willing to throw it away.
Liu Jian frowned a little. After all, he was a wealthy man with a fortune of tens of millions. This was too frugal.
"The two good brothers and the county gentleman are really good friends. As I expected, the good brother just told me downstairs that within a few days, someone will come to me to buy horses. Could it be that...
…?”
Liu Jian looked calm and said: "If someone from the government comes to buy a horse, he may not be able to give him 400,000 yuan. Brother Su, are you willing to give up your love?"
"I'm willing to give it up, I'm willing to give it up, of course I'm willing to give it up! No matter how much money I have, I'm willing to give it up."
At this time, he already knew in his mind that if someone from the department came to buy a horse in the future, it goes without saying that he would definitely send it to Liu Jian, otherwise Liu Jian would not show off these horses in front of him.
Thinking about it from another angle, if Gongsun Zan is willing to pay for Liu Jian to buy a horse, then it is more than just an ordinary friendship between classmates.
It is easy to recognize horses, but it is difficult to recognize people.
"Congratulations to the two young men. From now on, they have entered the officialdom. They will definitely make great achievements in the future. Alas, it is a pity that Su Mou has worked hard for half his life and still only has one manuer. How could there be such a good opportunity as the two good brothers?
It’s so tight with envy.”
His words were not modest, but spoke from the bottom of his heart.
Even though Su Shuang is rich, in terms of status, he is just a horse dealer after all, a horse dealer who came from a group of monks. He is not at the same level as a family like Zhang Fei.
Zhang Fei's family is also rich, but he is both a butcher and a right-wing man. Although Su Shuang is rich, he got his money from business in recent years. Compared with the rich and powerful families that have accumulated over the years, there are few people like Su Shuang.
The background and lack of backing.
A big dilemma that a family like this must face is that the big and medium-sized wealthy people in Zhuo County will join forces to pursue and intercept him.
Gu was a local tycoon who was always looking for opportunities to seize Su Shuang's property and money.
On the surface, this horse dealer seems to have a well-off life and a well-off family, but in fact, he lives on thin ice every day.