The reason is very simple. Although Li Yue has been shopping outside for a week and made harsh words, the people in other families are not vegetarians either.
This means that Li Yue is actually in the light, while other people's spies are in the dark, observing Yi Xiaotian's shop until evening.
When Li Yue came back, Ma Liang had already received the news about a fire in a salt shop behind Li Yue.
The stupid Li Yue still thought that Yi Xiaotian was dead, so he returned to his house and happily reported to Ma Liang:
"Fourth Master! Fourth Master! There is something wrong with that boy Yi Xiaotian... He collects salt at such a high price, we don't even need to take action, we just wait for him to lose money and close down!"
Li Yue walked into the lobby excitedly, but saw a dozen pairs of cold eyes, and his smile suddenly froze.
"Ahem...Everyone...it turns out that all the family heads are here...hahaha..."
Li Yue smiled awkwardly, his triumphant look in stark contrast to the gloomy atmosphere in front of the hall at this moment.
Ma Liang, who was sitting at the head of the desk, shook his head in disappointment:
"Li Yue..."
"Here...here! Fourth...Fourth Master...what orders do you have?"
Li Yue heard Ma Liang's disappointed voice, and almost felt the urge to pee in his crotch.
The calmer the tone, the more scared Li Yue became. The key is that he still doesn't know why the family heads came uninvited today. Could it be because he did something wrong?
"Do you know what happened after you took the people away?"
"What...what...what happened?"
Li Yue shrank his head, the expression on his face was as if he was about to cry.
"Haha... Manager Li, you gave Yi Xiaotian a big gift today!"
"Obviously you had three choices today, but you chose the one that benefited Yi Xiaotian the most..."
"Fourth Master, is this the steward of your family?"
"I think even if you die in front of Yi Xiaotian today, it will be much easier for us than it is now!"
Hearing the word "death", Li Yue stopped pretending and couldn't pretend anymore. He paralyzed his legs and sat on the ground, trembling all over and crawled towards Ma Liang.
"Four...four...fourth master! No...don't kill me! Please don't kill me! I...I am willing to do anything..."
However, before he could reach him, Ma Liang kicked Li Yue away.
Now he is very irritable and has no time to pay attention to Li Yue.
"Now let's talk about what to do..."
Ma Liang frowned and started talking.
"Fortunately, Mr. Xi responded quickly and notified each of us. Now our salt shops have released the news that they will purchase refined salt at a fair price tomorrow, which means Yi Xiaotian does not get too many benefits..."
"It's just...I always feel that Yi Xiaotian has more than this..."
Xi Ming snorted coldly:
"Fortunately, my housekeeper took notice and stayed at Qinghe Street for a while longer..."
"What do you mean by backhand? Is it possible that Yi Xiaotian can continue to fight with us at a loss?"
What Xi Ming said is basically what everyone thought... Li Yue today acted as a foil for Yi Xiaotian, almost allowing Yi Xiaotian to dominate the salt market outside the control of his family...
When doing business in salt and iron, financial resources are one thing, and reputation is also very important.
They all felt that Yi Xiaotian wanted to rely on this wave of large-scale acquisitions of Sanyan to establish his own brand of integrity, and then there would be other operations later - or he would bring refined salt from other places to fight with them, or other methods
, in short, it will have an impact on their current salt control.
"Yi Xiaotian is from the north. Is there any other large refined salt producing area in the north?"
"No more...unless it's shipped from Jizhou, but if refined salt is shipped from Jizhou, Yi Xiaotian can't afford the transportation cost, and he won't make anything."
Wang Huan and Luo Meng added on the sidelines that they have been in the green salt and refined salt business for many years and are quite familiar with the salt industry in the north.
In addition to Qingzhou's sea salt being comparable to Xiangyang's refined salt output, there are several salt wells in Jizhou that can produce high-quality refined salt.
It's just that transporting salt from these places breaks the market balance in Xiangyang. Even with Cao Cao's help, Yi Xiaotian will lose all his capital.
"No...I mean, can any of you go inside the Villa and see how they deal with the coarse salt?"
Until Ma Liang suddenly interrupted everyone's discussion and gave a rather surprising answer.
"Is there a villa?"
"You mean over there at Lumen Mountain?"
Everyone was confused and wondered why Ma Liang suddenly mentioned Youjian Villa——
Youjian Villa is being built very quickly, mainly because of previous oversights. With the help of the Huang family, Yi Xiaotian has accumulated a large amount of building materials in advance. In addition, there are three thousand soldiers and horses in the entire military camp who take turns helping Yi Xiaotian day and night.
Build a villa.
The mountain villa that should have taken half a year or even longer has already taken shape in just seven or eight days.
The key is Lumen Mountain... This barren mountain that no one bothered to occupy in the past was firmly surrounded by Yi Xiaotian in the center of the villa.
And there, as far as the family heads know... there are only two coarse salt mines that can be considered to be quite productive.
"Isn't Fourth Master worried that Yi Xiaotian will open up the salt market in Xiangyang by selling coarse salt?"
Xi Ming, Zhang Jian and others couldn't help laughing, feeling that Ma Liang was definitely overly worried.
"Yes, Fourth Master, not to mention that mining his coarse salt mine requires a lot of manpower. No matter how cheap he sells the coarse salt... no one in Xiangyang will buy it!"
Cai Cheng reminded from the side that what he said was just the truth.
Because Xiangyang and even Jingzhou, except for Lingling and other Jingnan counties in Shannan, which are slightly poor, the other counties are mostly extremely wealthy. Even farmers in the countryside are definitely wealthy at home.
Under such economic conditions, no one would be stupid enough to eat coarse salt that only refugees would eat.
"I hope so..."
Ma Liang also felt that he was overly worried. As for coarse salt, no matter how much Yi Xiaotian produced, it could not shake the foundation of their family's salt industry.
After thinking about it for a while, I gave up the idea.
"That's it, starting from tomorrow, we will also purchase private salt from the private sector at a fair price. The prince and Luo Gong will be troubled by the negotiations on the salt road outside Xiangyang City..."
"Don't worry, Fourth Master, as long as we all join forces, we will definitely be able to lock up this ungrateful Yi Xiaotian!"
"In less than three days, his salt shop will close down due to lack of understanding. By then, Yi Xiaotian will understand how stupid it is to go against us."
Amid the laughter, the fate of Yi Xiaotian's salt shop seemed to be completely decided.
only--
Lumen Mountain, among the mountains.
Yi Xiaotian was greeting everyone and building the framework of the salt mine overnight. If nothing goes wrong, a salt farm that includes two huge coarse salt mines will be completed tomorrow.
And until then…
There was a confident light in Yi Xiaotian's eyes.
