The first thousand four hundred and seventy-five chapters shrewd Mr. Xu
Chapter 1,475 Smart Lord Xu
"Are you talking about Xu Jing?"
"Eh?
That's not right...Cheng Ji, I remember that Xu Jing was originally selling Shu brocade, but when did you tell me that he became a perfume dealer?"
"If, as the rumors say, Mr. Xu's perfume is really a counterfeit, it would only have been half a month since he switched to perfume business."
Cheng Ji immediately answered Liu Zhang's question, and now Cheng Ji also realized the problem.
"Half a month..."
"It means that in the past half month, he has thrown away the Shu brocade business that he has been running for so long?"
The more Liu Zhang asked, the more bad premonition he had in his heart. He quickly asked:
"I remember someone once told me that Xu Jing is very good at doing business. In less than a year, half of the Shu brocade industry was occupied by him. Everyone in the industry praised his methods...
He also made a lot of money through this - but he paid taxes in such a timely manner, which indeed increased our income a lot, so it doesn't matter that this is his skill."
"But why does he insist on making perfume for no reason?
Has anyone taken over his Shu brocade?"
Liu Zhang paused after asking. He had no idea how Xu Jing could get rid of such a large family business at this point.
Then, Liu Zhang noticed Pang Xi.
He slowly turned his head to look at the other party. Pang Xi's smile was as good as ever. The words Pang Xi just said seemed to be in his ears——
"You took over his property?"
"Sir, the transfer was completed just a few days ago, so I said you don't need to worry about this. I will help Miss Cai and the others solve the origin and sales of Shu brocade. All I need is that you can make it easier for us. Come on.
A legitimate pass is enough."
"Don't talk to me, I'm not in the mood to care about whether you have a pass or not..."
Liu Zhang really didn't care about Pang Xi anymore. He now realized that the biggest problem was that the timing of Xu Jing's rise and the time he sold out of the Shu brocade industry coincided with the timing of his previous investigation into the collapse of his own small treasury.
He only started investigating a month ago, and in just half a month, Xu Jing took action on all his shops that accounted for half of Yizhou's Sichuan brocade industry.
The time when Xu Jing rose to prominence happened to be only a year ago. At that time, Xu Jing was just a Chengdu governor who was promoted by himself. Not only was he respectful to himself, but the most important thing was that his family was very poor.
This is the biggest doubt. How did he start earning so much money by relying on his official position as a Chengdu prefect?
unless…
Unless his starting point is much higher than he imagined.
So where did this start come from? There is almost no need to think too much...
"Cheng Ji!"
"In the!"
Cheng Ji was startled by Liu Zhang's sudden roar, but he had basically guessed what Liu Zhang wanted to say - Pang Xi was not the problem at all. The biggest problem now was that there was a traitor in his family. Some people insisted on stealing.
Isn't it a dereliction of duty on all of them's part that they were able to enjoy themselves for so long?
If the reason for this matter cannot be found out, Liu Zhang might really have to question everyone.
"Check Xu Jing thoroughly for me, check all Xu Jing's store account books from the previous year, etc... Check everything you can to see if he is related to the death of some of my cronies!
"
"Sir...are you going to check now?"
"if not?
You haven’t noticed that Xu Jing was in such a panic that he didn’t even dare to raise his head when he saw me, isn’t it because he has a guilty conscience?”
"Hurry up and investigate, or let this guy destroy all the evidence. I'll see how you explain it to me then!"
"well!"
Cheng Ji was frightened. The key point was that he didn't expect Liu Zhang to think so quickly - as expected, people who can achieve this position are somewhat capable, but sometimes he pretends to be confused and is lazy and unwilling to think...
...Today it was about his fundamental interests. Liu Zhang's mind was almost overloaded, and he suddenly figured out many vague things before.
Pang Xi greeted Cheng Ji from the side:
"Don't panic, don't panic, Mr. Cheng, don't worry. If you can be of any use to me, just let me know... But when I took over Mr. Xu's shop, I didn't seem to find any suspicious traces."
"So I can give you a clear path - why don't you start investigating things from a year ago? Maybe things a year ago are more difficult to hide traces than recent things?"
"Ahem...Okay, thank you, Mr. Pang, for reminding me."
Cheng Ji glanced at Pang Xi with complicated eyes. He really didn't know what Pang Xi was thinking in his mind.
In short, while Cheng Ji was running around in a panic, Liu Zhang finally took a breath... He was leaning on the table, and he had lost his previous aggressiveness.
Seeing this, Pang Xi smiled and said to Liu Zhang:
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, I really didn't expect that I was able to take over Master Xu's property so smoothly because of your persuasion, my lord."
"Pang Xi, I don't want to scold you, so let me ask you, how much do you know about Xu Jing?"
"Haha, this is-"
Pang Xi showed a meaningful smile, suddenly clapped his hands, and called a man in black who had been standing in the distance since the beginning of the conversation to come over.
Liu Zhang tilted his head and looked at the man in black, confused.
But Pang Xi said to the man in black:
"Okay, take off your facade and let our Master Zhou Mu see if he recognizes you."
The man in black obeyed the order and took off his hat and cloak little by little.
Liu Zhang watched the other party's behavior nervously, and seemed to be looking forward to who the other party was.
Halfway through taking off his clothes, Liu Zhang suddenly noticed that the other party was wrapped in a bunch of bandages, and asked without any doubt:
"Pang Xi, why does he have these things on him?"
"These?
I have to thank the shrewd Mr. Xu for all this."
——
Xu Jing is really making a lot of money these days. Among other things, with the money Pang Xi sent him earlier, he has opened several chain stores in the city.
I just scratched my head with my inferior perfume. I had no choice but to make a huge profit from this thing and why everyone likes it?
Fifty coins can't buy you a loss, you can't buy a scam. Xu Jingna has a good sense of the principle that bad products drive out good ones.
And he won't just sell the fifty-dollar low-quality perfume forever. Before, he didn't have enough time to make a good-quality perfume. Now half a month has passed. Although it hasn't reached the best time to make the perfume, it's enough time for him to start launching it.
New perfumes of different grades.
And with his previous experience with rivals, it was impossible for him to give up the hard-won price advantage.
Therefore, after chain stores were opened one after another, the new perfumes that followed were only priced at 100 yuan. The price was much lower than the other perfumes, but the taste was much better than the previous inferior perfume.
So Xu Jing simply immersed himself in the ocean of money these days and ignored what was happening in the outside world, until...
