Datang: From exiled prince to eternal tyrant

Chapter 158 Careful Layout
The rich old man sitting in this desolate courtyard is the Prime Minister of Tubo.

Shang Nang and Lun Keri can be said to be the two pillars of the Tubo court, one civilized and one military. They jointly assisted the young Songtsen Gampo, supported him in his rise to power, and supported Songtsen Gampo in conquering the rebellion of various Tibetan tribes and unifying Tibet.

Now that Tubo has a strong army and has become the overlord of the plateau, both of them have achieved success.

In the past, these two people joined hands together to support the Ming Lord, and they could be regarded as the best strategic partners.

But now, Tubo has become powerful, and the two have developed selfishness one after another, and they sometimes compete in the court.

But fortunately, Songtsan Gampo mediated, and the two were able to live in peace on the surface.

Lun Keri holds the military power and is well-known in the army, while Shang Nang has always been in charge of the government and is regarded as a master among the civil servants.

Compared with Lunkeri, Shang Nang has a huge advantage, that is, he has rich financial resources.

Shang Nang was born in a wealthy family in Tubo, and his family had already accumulated a lot of money, and he had been the prime minister of Tubo for many years, and he continued to use Quan Bing to accumulate wealth for himself.

One of the most important ways is to buy wool from neighboring small countries and monopolize the wool market in Tubo.

Neighboring countries, especially Nibera, Linguo, produce high-quality wool, and the wool products made from it are favored by the nobles in the country. Shang Nang earns a lot of extra money with this, and he earns countless money every day.

But recently, something troublesome happened, and Shang Nang was not very happy.

This mudra's wool is out of stock, so he no longer supplies wool to him.

The most important supply channel was cut off, and Shang Nang's income naturally shrank. For this reason, he severely criticized King Nibera and the eldest prince.

But cursing cannot solve the problem, Shang Nang can only seek other solutions.

Collect wool from other countries, or buy wool from Tubo.

However, the supply of wool in other small countries is also decreasing, and the wool industry in Tubo is relatively transparent, and the quality is not as good as that of Niboluo, and the profits from it are greatly reduced.

Just when Shang Nang was in great distress, a woolen sweater suddenly appeared on the market.

This woolen sweater appeared a few days ago, and he didn't care about it when he was a fashionista, but he didn't expect that the woolen sweater took advantage of the shrinking of his wool industry to expand aggressively, and suddenly entered the market of Tubo aristocrats, and was sought after by everyone. .

This has messed up all the layout of Shang Nang. Now, even if he restores the supply of wool, it may be difficult for him to grab wealth as before.

For this reason, Shang Nang immediately sent people to investigate, and finally, he asked his subordinates to find out the source of the woolen sweater—Lun Keri.

"It's been a long discussion day, the old man has disliked you for a long time, if you stay in the army honestly, the old man can rest assured to take care of himself, but now you have provoked the old man, don't blame the old man for being ruthless! "

As soon as he heard Lun Keri's name, Shang Nang's chest was full of blood, and he wanted to tear Lun Keri into pieces.

"My lord, pay attention to your body."

The old servant next to Shang Nang bowed to comfort him, his eyes rolled, as if he wanted to say something.

Shang Nang lightly waved his hand, signaling for him to speak directly.

The old servant cupped his hands and said softly: "Recently, Lun Keri has made a lot of money by borrowing woolen sweaters, and has made a lot of money... It's just that the old servant is curious..."

Shang Nang glanced at the servant who had been following him for many years and asked doubtfully: "What are you curious about?"

The old servant took out a woolen sweater from behind, brought it to Shang Nang, and said, "Please look, my lord, the process of making this woolen sweater is complicated, and it is not easy to make. I think the production cycle is not short. But on Keri... is it?" How can so many woolen sweaters be produced in such a short period of time?"

Shang Nang's heart skipped a beat: "What do you mean?"

The old servant went on to analyze: "The old slave has two guesses, either... it is that Keri spent a lot of money to buy a large number of woolen sweaters from the outside world; "

Shang Nang analyzed these two plans in detail, shook his head and said: "It should not be made by him himself. He is good at marching and fighting in Keri, but he does not have a processing industry at hand. If he wants to make so many sweaters, Impossible."

"Hmm... what your lord said is very true..."

The old servant nodded and said, "But even if he buys it from the outside world, it will cost a lot of money."

Shang Nang sighed softly: "Although Lun Keri is not a wealthy family, it is not difficult to spend such a sum of money..."

"But it's not easy!" said the old servant.

Shang Nang thought about these words carefully. He could vaguely guess what the old servant meant, and waved his hand for him to continue.

The old servant got Shang Nang's order, so he took a step forward and approached Shang Nang, quite confidently: "He can spend such a large sum of money to buy woolen sweaters, he should have already calculated that there will be woolen sweaters in the country." The shortage situation..."

Before the old servant could continue speaking, Shang Nang had already answered: "You mean... he anticipated in advance that there would be a shortage of wool here, so he spent a lot of money to buy a large number of woolen sweaters... just to take advantage of the situation. Take the domestic market, replace me, and become the leader of the domestic wool industry!"

"Um……"

The old servant narrowed his eyes slightly, and said affirmatively, "It should be so!"

"hiss……"

Shang Nang took a deep breath, sat up straight, and carefully savored the words of his confidant servant.

What this servant meant was that Kori had anticipated the wool crisis in advance, but if he thought about it further, how could he have anticipated the changes in the wool market in advance?

The supply of wool in this Ni Borna country has always been very stable!To anticipate such a sudden change...

unless……

Unless this wool shortage incident is directly related to his talk about Keri!

Thinking about this aspect, Shang Nang suddenly became enlightened.

He connected the whole thing together and went through it again.

Nipura had a stable supply of wool for many years. Just when Lunkeri was buying woolen sweaters on a large scale, there was a shortage of wool, which led to a vacuum period in the domestic wool market in Tubo.

At this time, the woolen sweater in Lun Keri's hands came in handy, taking advantage of the situation to plunder the wool market that he still controlled.

This... Doesn't this just mean that this wool shortage was originally carefully planned by Lun Keri, the first step towards his success?
"What a great subject day!"

Shang Nang was so angry that he slapped several cases and cursed: "I also said that you took advantage of my wool market. It turns out that you had premeditated and designed to harm me!"

He stood up angrily and paced back and forth.

Still perplexed, he grabbed the woolen sweater from the old servant's hand, threw it on the ground, and stomped on it a few times.

"Hmph! You are the first to attack me, so don't blame the old man for fighting back!"

In the desolate courtyard, Shang Nang clenched his fists and cursed with hatred.

His facial features, which were slightly sparse due to obesity, are now tightly knit together, looking hideous and terrifying!
(End of this chapter)