After two weeks, Qin Leyin came to the ‘Chaofeng Pavilion’ again.
Today's invitation is in the name of dinner. The last ray of sunset touches Xuanzhu County by the sea. The light falls on the bustling outer city, while the shadows remain on the quiet and tidy inner city.
Standing in the shadow, Qin Leyin's red hair became even more colorful and charming.
He looked into the distance, and the Xuanzhu County in his field of vision was divided into two parts by nature.
One is up and one is down.
One is in the dark and the other is in the light.
One extends outward and the other contracts inward.
Many ordinary scenery, in unusual days, will be seen differently by people who are undergoing changes.
"God's will." He chuckled and said, "It's hard to violate it."
The servant at the door respectfully led Qin Leyin to the VIP compartment inside. Just like last time, it was already filled with familiar old faces, either the president of the Chamber of Commerce who had been up and down for many years, or the young hero who scolded Fang Qiu.
It's just different from the last time they were full of confidence in "cutting off the thorns, destroying and listening", when Qin Leyin walked in, no one said hello to him, everyone was deep in thought and drinking.
In their eyes, there was confusion, sadness, confusion, and at a loss.
Although they wore brocade and silk clothes, drank good wine, ate delicious food, lived in a luxurious restaurant, and were surrounded by well-behaved and obedient maids.
But they look,
Just like the untouchables they despise, there is no difference.
Qin Le sat down with a gloomy expression, rejected the waitress's request to serve, glanced at the empty main seat, and asked: "It's already this time, why don't you invite me to come?"
"Please." Luo Zhen said while drinking. "It's just that they didn't send anyone. Now that everyone is here, let the others go out."
"Why?" Quan Xin, who was having fun with the maid, was dissatisfied: "What else is there to talk about now? Why don't we all eat and have fun, and wait until we go to Xiangxuehai to feel comfortable. I'll treat you tonight!"
"Quan Xin!" Luo Zhen slapped the table and became angry.
"The money you paid for going to Hongyu Sea should be paid to me, okay?" Quan Xin was not false at all. He shook his head and sneered: "What's wrong? Without Jing Zhengwei, without Tingda Tinger, you think it's your turn.
Becoming the boss? Who do you think you are? Why do you think you want to manipulate me?"
"Quan Xin!" Luo Zhen laughed angrily. He and Quan Xin had been friends since childhood. Quan Xin had always followed his lead. Now Quan Xin actually insulted him on the spot. He stood up and clenched his fists: "You
Did you take medicine that damaged your brain or can you only think from below? Bastard, do you want to die?"
"Haha, you're in a hurry, you're in a hurry, you're in a hurry." Quan Xin hugged the maid and laughed loudly: "Who doesn't know that your Luo family is the dog of the noble family? Now that Jing Zhengwei wants to unify the silver blood, you can no longer do it.
Their wallets are full.”
"Wang Haigong wants to give him a daughter, will other nobles still use your Luo family? Your Luo family licks the nobles, and the nobles lick Jing Zhengwei. As long as Jing Zhengwei expresses his willingness to continue supporting those guys, the five major chambers of commerce will be the first to disappear.
It’s your Luo family!”
Luo Zhen's face turned pale.
Because everything Quan Xin said is true.
Among the five major chambers of commerce, if we describe it in terms of technical content, the Luo family's industry is the least technical. It is either a store, a transit agent, or a downstream assembly factory. To put it simply, the position of the pig in the Luo family
, can do well.
The Luo family's confidence comes from the support of the nobility and the county governor's office. Unlike other chambers of commerce that first monopolize technology and then let the county governor's office maintain their monopoly, the Luo family first took out the county governor's chicken-feather arrows and forcibly
By monopolizing industries with no technical content, huge profits can be made without any pressure.
For example, shoes.
Yes, shoes, consumables with little value, are monopolized by the Luo family in Xuanzhu County. Ordinary people make their own straw sandals, and the Luo family doesn't care. But if you dare to open a store to sell shoes, you are waiting to be patrolled.
Let's extort money and blow up the store.
The Luo family divides shoes into many grades. The highest grade and the most popular ones are naturally those for superiors and superiors, but they will not let go of the few copper coins for servants. Even the cheapest shoes are a shoe that makes ordinary people extremely uncomfortable.
The price is high, but they are smart enough to create a chain of shoe discrimination.
‘Luo family shoes are comfortable to wear, durable, have a century-old history, and are cultural symbols’, ‘Only wearing shoes can you be worthy of yourself’, ‘Silver-blooded nobles love to wear this style of shoes’ and so on.
This kind of public opinion is still very popular in Xuanzhu County. People who wear shoes do have a sense of superiority to barefoot people. Many young people buy shoes for themselves as their first salary, and they are even willing to buy more expensive shoes - others
Wear the lowest-end ones, you wear the same style as the silver-blooded nobles, and you hold your head high even when you lift bricks.
But in the final analysis, the Luo family's profits all lie in his 'forced monopoly'.
Even if other chambers of commerce compete with their peers, they can still be overwhelmed by their size; but not the Luo family. Once a peer enters the market, their 'good money' profits will be squeezed to zero by the untouchables' 'bad money' products.
Therefore, the Luo family is very dependent on the nobles of the county governor's mansion. Once there is no support from above, the Luo family will be doomed in an instant.
And now, it is the summer when the Luo family's survival is in danger.
The nobles and powerful officials have all turned to Jing Zhengwei. There is no pressure on them. At most, they just have one more master. As long as they can continue to be officials, they will be exploited back sooner or later.
Naturally, they will not cherish white gloves like the Luo family. Although the Luo family is obedient and easy to use, after all, they are just gloves and not a family heirloom. If the master wants to use them to warm his hands, just give them to him.
Everyone also knew this, and couldn't help but look at Luo Zhen with a hint of pity in their eyes.
Although others cannot escape, it is obvious that Luo Zhen will die the fastest, and it can even be said that he will die.
Workers need to be "irreplaceable" to avoid being abandoned when they grow old, and the same goes for chambers of commerce.
It's like the Luo family found a rich man to support them through kneeling and licking when they were young. They usually lived by collecting rents from a dozen buildings. Now that the rich man is bankrupt, they packaged the Luo family and the dozens of buildings and sold them to Jing Zhengwei.
, the Luo family has no temper at all.
Luo Zhen just stood there, staring straight at Quan Xin. Quan Xin, who was exhausted by the wine, quickly gave up. He waved his hand and said, "Forget it, save some energy and go to Xiangxuehai tonight."
The maids hurriedly left the room as if they had been granted amnesty. They could talk about the secrets inside the Silver Blood Society, but they couldn't listen. If they continued to stay, their lives would have to stay there.
Luo Zhen took a deep breath, calmed down, sat down, looked around, and asked: "The poet is not here either?"
Someone said: "Originally, they were selling off their property and preparing to leave Dongyang. Now Xuanzhu County is like this. They paid a large sum of money to Linhai and finally got permission to leave."
Everyone couldn't help but feel pity for the poet - other chambers of commerce had physical properties anyway, and the money in them did not need to be deducted from military expenditures, but the poet had sold off almost all of his physical properties these days and had an excessive amount of liquidity.
The poet's tax was 40%, which means that 40% of his property was really confiscated. A top 20-level chamber of commerce lost more than half of its property just because of losses in the Tianji District and continuous man-made disasters.
Luo Zhen just asked casually and quickly got to the point: "Does anyone know Tingjia's reaction?"
Lan Jianbo said: "Tingjia is under full martial law, but they seem to be planning to sell the goods ordered by Heyang Army to the warlord over at Tianji, and a ship has already been shipped there."
Someone said in surprise: "How dare they sell Heyang Jun's goods?"
Someone soon sneered and said: "He Yangjun is disabled now, and I don't even know that there is still Heyang Army in the future. How can I still keep it as charity for Heyang Army?"
Tingjia's most famous product is, of course, firearms.
When He Yangjun was there, 90% of the output of Tingjia's firearms factory was sold to Heyang Jun at cost price, often even losing money, and the remaining 10% was naturally the source of Tingjia's fortune.
The reason why Tingjia was sold to Heyang Jun so cheaply was not because of their deep love for this land, but because Heyang Jun pointed guns at them. How dare they sell it so expensively?
Now that the Heyang army has been crippled, the commander-in-chief Ge Shiwen is gone, and there may be internal fighting at the Wolf Prison docking station, the military is completely unable to check and balance the Ting family. Why does the Ting family need to watch their faces?
On the other hand, the Ting family is now the most likely to become a warlord. They have guns and people. If Jing Zhengwei had not intervened with Lin Haijun, Dongyang District would have been named Ting by now.
"Tingjia and we are no longer on the same page."
"Yes, Jing Zhengwei can't do anything to them."
"If Ting Jing joins forces... Fortunately, Ting Wan Jian has a grudge against Jing Zhengwei..."
"What's that little grudge? The big feud between Tinggu and Tingwanjian is really big. Didn't Tinggu pretend that nothing happened? He even actually gave his concubine to him..."
"Do you know if it's true or false?"
"Two days ago, I saw Ting Wanjian flirting with a woman at the pier. I practice flying flower warfare, and I recognized that woman to be Ting Gu's concubine."
Quan Xin asked seriously: "Is it beautiful?"
The respondent gave a thumbs up: "Xiangxue Haitou brand level."
Even if it is a matter of life and death, once the conversation comes to something of color, it will quickly turn upside down.
But Qin Leyin can understand them.
When faced with difficult-to-solve problems, normal people will choose to escape, just like a student doing homework for one minute and playing on his mobile phone for half an hour, or an author writing a thousand words and playing games for three hours... This is a defense mechanism, because everyone
People who are not rational cannot make optimal decisions.
The best decision for primary school students who score 10 points on the exam is to go home and take off their pants and wait for a spanking, rather than adding a zero with a red pen after the score. However, there are always primary school students hoping that this way they can deceive their parents and escape a severe beating.
When faced with unprecedented problems, most people are no different from elementary school students. They may know the best decision in their hearts, but they are unable to make up their minds. Perhaps they are hoping that a miracle will happen in reality.
At this time, you need a leader, a guiding light, someone who can make everyone feel better.
So Qin Leyin knocked on the table to let the gossipers focus on herself.
