Meng Ji glared at Meng Bi and asked Hou Jian: "Then what Brother Hou said, doesn't it mean that I have to suffer this loss in vain? This matter must not be let go like this!"
"Yes! We must never give up with Su Renshan. He can take it away, but can't we take it back?"
Hou Jian shook his head: "I have finished what I have said. It is up to you to decide what to do. Now I am here to tell you that I am going to Huainan with Mr. Liu tomorrow. I specially say goodbye to Meng Changshi and thank Meng Changshi for taking care of me these days.
I can’t thank you enough.” Hou Jian was quite sincere.
Meng Bi smiled coldly and said: "You have been eating and drinking at my house for so many days. It's time to leave, otherwise you will bore others!"
In response to Meng Bi's sarcasm, Meng Ji remained silent. Hou Jian smiled bitterly in his heart, and without saying a word, he turned around and left.
Looking at Hou Jian's thin back, Meng Bi said coldly: "Father, this Hou Jian is so weird that he actually asked us not to deal with Su Ren. I heard that he and Su Ren were brothers when they were in Wenshui. Maybe it was Su Ren who released him.
To confuse us.”
"Don't talk nonsense, Hou Jian and I have known each other for more than ten years." Meng Ji said it well, but frowned: "The Sichuan Chamber of Commerce has seized our business, we must not just give up and send someone immediately.
Investigate, and if it is confirmed, we must use any means to save those shops."
Meng Bi nodded, quickly picked up the account book and walked out.
On the second day of the new year, the weather was good, the sun was shining, and the spring breeze was warm. However, it rained last night and the ground was muddy. No one wanted to go out. Lao Wang, the shopkeeper of Xiangfu Restaurant in Anren Town, was drinking tea behind the counter.
Shopkeeper Wang was none other than the shopkeeper of the Xiangfu Hao Silk Shop in Sangyuan Town. The last time he almost fell out with Su Ren, Cui Jiuming gave him a severe scolding and told Lao Wang to get out. Later,
Lao Wang found the old man of the Cui family, and Cui Jiuming finally gave up. However, Lao Wang was also transferred from Sangyuan Town, where merchants gathered, to Anren Town, a deserted town.
"Shopkeeper, are you free?" A middle-aged man in short attire but with fair skin smiled and handed over to Lao Wang.
Lao Wang hurriedly returned the gift: "Hello, sir, what do you need? Our store has high-quality rice, precious bag salt, and linen from Chengdu. If you like something, I will definitely give it to you at a cheaper price."
The man chuckled and looked up at the things on the shelves behind Lao Wang. Originally, the big man's shop was more like a grocery stall. No matter what they were selling or how many things they were selling, they were all thrown into a pile, and anyone who liked them could pick whatever they wanted.
Picking up, sometimes you can't find what you need if you don't look carefully. Su Ren watched too many TV dramas and came up with such a counter, which was the first of its kind for Han merchants. Later Xiangfu Hao also followed suit.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, every household is still celebrating the New Year. In the entire Anren Town, except for Xiangfu Shop, there is not even a single hawker on the street. Lao Wang is the only one in the shop. There were originally two clerks. During the New Year period,
.
"Haha, shopkeeper, how do you sell that linen cloth?"
"This is two dollars a foot. This is fine linen. It is trafficked from Chengdu. It is definitely durable and wear-resistant!" Lao Wang is a good shopkeeper and is very suitable for business.
The man looked at it and smiled: "Two cents! It's really not expensive. Give me ten feet. It's really hard for the shopkeeper to do business during the Chinese New Year!"
"That's how we are. We'll close the shop whenever the boss says. There's nothing we can do!" Lao Wang quickly measured the cloth while chatting with the man.
After getting the cloth and calculating the money, the man had no intention of leaving. Lao Wang asked strangely: "What else does your guest need?"
"Oh! No need. It's just that the road is muddy and difficult to walk. I want to take a rest here. Is that okay?"
Lao Wang was overjoyed. He had been alone all morning. It would be a good idea for this person to stay. He finally found someone to talk to. He pulled out the small table and put on a posture. Lao Wang was not stingy either. He made some tea and greeted him warmly.
.The two started chatting in this shop.
The man was very talkative, and he complemented Lao Wang perfectly. As they chatted, they did not expect that they were fellow villagers, both from Fan County, and the two families lived not far away. The man claimed that he was visiting friends in Anren Town and was returning home.
On the way, he remembered that his wife asked him to buy some linen. After searching for a long time, he didn't expect that the door of Xiangfu Restaurant was still open, so he came in.
Since we are fellow villagers, we naturally talk more casually.
"Eh? Linen in our hometown costs three yuan. How come your store is not far from Chengdu and sells it for two yuan? Wouldn't it be a loss if you sell like this?" The man was very curious about this matter: "What if I put you here?"
If we bring the linen back to our house, wouldn't we be able to make some money? Come on, come on, get me some more."
Lao Wang chuckled and did not move: "I advise you not to think about this idea. Yes, the linen here is cheap, and it will cost money to carry it back? The reason why we sell it so cheaply is because we have such a happy chat.
, I won’t hide it from you, it’s not a secret, it’s just one word, too much!”
"what for?"
"Our Xiangfu Hao is now the largest merchant in the Shuzhong Chamber of Commerce. My son is the president of the Shuzhong Chamber of Commerce. There is a rule in our Shuzhong Chamber of Commerce, that is, everyone purchases everything together. Think about it,
How many cloth-selling shops does a Shuzhong Chamber of Commerce have? Every purchase costs two cents, but we buy it together. How much is the purchase each time? The farmers sell it cheaply and the transportation is cheap, so it is cheap. Small profits but quick turnover. You are the only one.
How much cloth can one sell?”
"Haha!" The man chuckled. Regardless of whether he understood it or not, he extended his thumb and said, "It's indeed a brilliant move! I admire your young master's vision."
Lao Wang chuckled: "You are wrong, this trick was not thought up by my young master, but by Su Shipu."
"Oh! So it's Su Shipu, I've heard of it too!"
The two of them chatted until it was getting late, and then the man stood up and said goodbye. Lao Wang had done this business today, and reluctantly went up to the door. He looked around and found no problems, so he turned off the light on the counter.
Cui Jiuming just turned to the back of the house from the corner door on the side. Cui Jiuming sat quietly in the dark.
Lao Wang was startled and saluted quickly: "Sir, you won't just sit like this all the time, will you?"
Cui Jiuming wanted to get up, but after struggling a few times, he didn't get up: "That guy is really eloquent. He has been talking to you all day."
Lao Wang quickly supported Cui Jiuming and said, "Everyone who snoops for information is like this, beating around the bush. If you just open your mouth and ask, it's not snooping."
"That's true!" Cui Jiuming limped back: "But you're pretty good, anyway, you make me sound like you're clueless. Not bad. If you can deceive them this time, I'll give you a credit!"
There are usually two channels for business wars, and you have no control over consumers. So you have to start from two channels: price, quality and supply. After the Meng family was seized by the Sichuan Chamber of Commerce in the peripheral markets around Chengdu, Meng Bi also thought about passing through
He lowered prices to attack the Shuzhong Chamber of Commerce, but he soon discovered that the prices of the goods in the shops of the Shuzhong Chamber of Commerce were very low, almost unimaginably low. Then he had to start with the source of goods.
Meng Wei came back panting. As soon as he entered the door, he changed out of his rough clothes and put on the clothes of the housekeeper of the Meng Mansion. Before he even took a sip of water, someone came to inform him that both Meng Ji and Meng Bi were looking for him.
Mengwei did not dare to neglect and hurried over.
"How is it? Have you got any news?" Meng Bi was very anxious.
Meng Wei smiled: "I searched for two days before I came across an open shop in Anren Town. It belonged to the Sichuan Chamber of Commerce, and it was the Xiangfu name of the Zitong Cui family. At that time..."
"Tell me the important point! Did you ask anything?"
"Yes!" Meng Wei quickly agreed: "At that time, there was only one shopkeeper named Wang in the shop. The villain pretended to sell a foot of linen. This is the linen the villain bought. It only cost two yuan a foot. The shop not only sold
Linen cloth, and cloth bags of salt and grain..."
"Tell me the important point!" Meng Bi's eyes turned green.
"Yes! The shopkeeper of the Xiangfu Hao is very nice, and he even invited me to drink tea. The tea is really good, and the taste is very fragrant. It is bitter first and then filling..."
"Pah!" Meng Bi slapped his hand on the case: "That's a long way to go. If I don't get to the point, I'll treat you to tea too!"
Meng Wei was startled and lowered his head quickly: "The villain has been talking to him for a whole day. The villain lied to him that he was from the same hometown, and then he told some of their secrets!"
At this point, Meng Wei stopped and looked up at Meng Ji and Meng Bi. Meng was about to get angry, but Meng Ji stopped him. Meng Ji was the head of the family, and he knew that his housekeeper was a garrulous person.
Yes, if you don't let him finish what he said, he will never get down to business.
Meng Ji nodded: "What did you talk about?"
When Meng Wei heard this, he became energetic again: "We talked about everything, starting with the linen. He told the villain that their linen is not purchased by each shop, but all the shops purchase it together, so that bulk purchases can reduce costs.
, and cloth bag salt..."
Meng Wei was so speechless that he talked for three or four hours before he finished the last word. The more the Meng family listened, the more difficult it was to accept it. At a certain moment, they even thought that Hou Jian's proposal was a good one. It turned out that
, Su Ren had been making arrangements to deal with the Meng family for a long time. Su Ren also knew that no matter whether he could bring back the Bo people or not, the Meng family would not let him go. When Su Ren was just about to go to Bo land, he started to arrange for Chengdu.
Surrounding shops.
Using the method of bulk purchase, we obtained a lot of goods that were only suitable for selling in villages and towns at very low prices. Choosing to open before the year was also a day specially chosen by Su Ren. During the Chinese New Year, no one would buy something, and the Meng family was trapped in
According to the rumors, it was just the right time to make a move. With just one move, the Meng family's properties outside Chengdu were almost wiped out.
"Bastard, this guy is so vicious!" After Meng Bi heard this, he started shouting: "Father, now that we know Su Ren's method, we will cut off his supply tomorrow!"
Meng Ji waved his hand and signaled Meng Wei to go down. Then he shook his head and said: "It's useless! I am a big man who is based on agriculture. All goods are produced by each household. If you can kill one person, how can you kill the entire Shuzhong?"
"Then we can't just watch them continue to suppress us!" Meng Bi rolled his eyes viciously: "Even if our business fails, Su Ren can't even do it!"
"Don't mess around!"
"Don't worry, father, I won't do anything random, let alone kill him! I have my own way." A sinister smile appeared on Meng Bi's lips. (To be continued)
