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It's just that the volume of grain and cloth is different, so there is still surplus money.

Meng Liang seemed to enjoy the process very much, he said to Shen Bing when he came back:

"General, if you go here, you can go sightseeing all the way, meet drinking buddies, and sell cloth to make money."

"In the future, if there are such good things, they will be handed over to the subordinates."

In this regard, Meng Liang is actually a bit rebellious.

In fact, he is not short of money, and he has no worries about food and clothing since he was a child.

But because of this, he is defined as a "playboy" by his surroundings and even his family... This kind of person who has never made money and spends money given by his family will have a new experience once he can make money.

It can even be said that this is not just an "experience", but also a kind of "pride", "confidence", and "proud".

If there is anything that can subdue such a cynical young master, it is probably only this kind of pride that comes from his heart.

3 Chapter Twenty Price Wars

After going back and forth like this for several times, the situation changed. Meng Liangfei sent a letter back saying that the cloth sent to Yanmen County could not be sold because the price of cloth in Yanmen County had dropped to 38 yuan a piece.

Shen Bing was stunned when he heard it.

If the cloth produced in Yunzhong County sells for 38 yuan a piece, it will still make a profit, and it will still make a lot of money.

But the cloth in Yanmen County sells for 38 yuan...I'm afraid I can't even earn back the cost of raw materials and labor.

You must know that it was originally sold for 38 renminbi, and the profit of [-] renminbi is already sky-high, so isn't the [-] renminbi a loss?

That being the case, how can Yanmen County lower the price to such an extent?

After thinking about it, Shen Bing understood that someone wanted to monopolize the cloth industry in Yanmen County and fight a price war with Yunzhong County.

Shen Bing was stunned... Hand-looming actually wants to compete with hydraulic weaving on price?

Shen Bing was right in guessing that the cloth industry in Yanmen County has always been controlled by a businessman named Chen Yong, and this Chen Yong also recruited dozens of nursing homes with his family fortune earned over the years... said it was nursing homes In fact, it is a rogue.

Usually there are relatively few crimes of committing crimes in the Great Qin, especially forming a party for personal gain is not tolerated by the Qin law.

However, Yanmen County itself is located in a remote area and has only recently been recovered from Zhao Guo, so the Qin law has not yet been implemented.

In fact, Wu Xiao of Yanmen County hopes to manage Yanmen County with the help of Chen Yong... As the saying goes, a strong dragon cannot overwhelm a local snake. Wu Xiao will inevitably encounter dissatisfaction and unclear situations when he governs Yanmen County after being descended from the Kingdom of Yan. So I want to keep these people to stabilize the situation first.

The cloth from Yunzhong County actually caught Chen Yong's attention when it was sold in Yanmen County for the first time.

If it was an ordinary businessman, Chen Yong's group would have already started beating people to grab goods.

But when he saw that the person guarding the cloth was dressed as a businessman from the state of Qin, and he was still holding a dick in his hand, he didn't dare to act rashly.

These "Qin businessmen" are actually Meng Liang's personal guards. Because the Qin law stipulates that soldiers are not allowed to do business, they disguised themselves as businessmen to avoid suspicion and to avoid scaring the people from buying cloth, so they made this bad move.

At this time, the Qin people and the original Zhao people were still very easy to distinguish, such as clothing, hair, and accent.

Not long after Yanmen County was included in the territory of the Qin State, the people in the entire Yanmen County could be said to be "unreasonable people". Of course, the guards did not dare to make mistakes when they saw the businessmen of the Qin State.

So the nursing home could only fly to report to Chen Yong. Chen Yong thought about it and said:

"Maybe it's just that those Qin people are in urgent need of money to sell cloth at a low price. More than a thousand pieces are not too much, as long as they are sold out."

That's what Chen Yong said, and he also hopes so.

However, the facts disappointed him. These Qin people repeatedly transported cloth to Yanzhong County for sale, and each shipment was nearly a thousand.

Is this okay?

If this continues, won't Chen Yong's job be ruined?

But after thinking about it, Chen Yong felt that he still didn't dare to get rough with the Qin people... At this time, the Qin people were Shangmin, and if there was a big trouble and they went to the county guard, they would help the Qin people to speak.

So Chen Yong decided to lower the cloth price.

In his words, it is:

"I will lower the price of cloth so that these Qin merchants' cloth cannot be sold, and they will naturally transfer to other places for sale."

"At that time, I will adjust the cloth price back, or even rise even higher."

Chen Yong's wishful thinking was very loud, and after Qin Shang left, he would increase the price of cloth... In fact, there was no loss for him.

What he didn't expect was that what Shen Bing was going to do was a long-term business, and Yanmen County was the closest station to Yunzhong County, and it was also the first battle for the textile workshop, if he lost like this... How will the cloth from Yunzhong County gain a foothold in Yanmen County? !

Fusu saw this information and asked:

"What should we do now?"

Fatty Tun said without thinking:

"Of course the price will be reduced!"

"I still have a lot of room to lower the price, even if it drops to [-] yuan, I won't lose money, so I'm afraid he won't make it?"

Fusu frowned and said:

"But... as the general said before."

"If we lower the price with them, the price of cloth will be even lower, and the people will lose too much?"

Shen Bing replied:

"So you can't cut the price, but buy it!"

Fusu asked in surprise:

"What does the general mean by that?"

Shen Bing explained:

"According to the normal price, I sell it for 45 yuan and he sells it for [-] yuan."

"He sold it for 38 yuan. If I buy it, I can earn two yuan per horse..."

Fusu couldn't help being taken aback when he heard this:

"The general's intention is that I wait to buy the cloth from the opponent?"

Shen Bing nodded and said:

"Exactly."

The fat man asked puzzledly:

"General!"

"We clearly can make a piece of excellent cloth at a cost of more than ten yuan, why should we buy a piece of inferior cloth for 38 yuan?"

Shen Bing replied:

"It's a question of purchasing power."

"If we lower the price with each other, a large number of people in Yanmen County who need cloth will buy it under the lower price."

"So the purchasing power goes down."

"But if I wait for a full buyout and other people can't buy it, it won't have much impact on purchasing power."

"When we adjust the price back to the original price, even those inferior cloth bought at a low price can make money."

Fusu was a little dizzy, with a half-understanding on his face.

But Fatty Tun suddenly realized when he heard it, and nodded repeatedly in agreement.

It's actually not that complicated.

In the final analysis, the initiative is completely in the hands of Shen Bing, who has sufficient funds because of his ability to make paper and weaving cloth by water.

Unless the other party is as rich as an enemy... In fact, even a wealthy country may not be able to fight against Shen Bing.

In a price war under such circumstances, the other party is in a "never-dead" state... Every time Shen Bing buys a piece of cloth, the other party will lose a sum of money, until he buys him no cloth to sell, and the price will not be random at that time How did Shen Bing decide?

During this price war, as long as Shen Bing purchases fast enough, the "just-needed" who really need "weaving" will not be able to buy cloth at all.

So "just need" is still "just need", and they can only wait until the price pulls back to buy.

This is actually a kind of protection for the common people...Because the "rigid needs" have not been released excessively, the cloth in the hands of the common people can still be sold for [-] yuan as long as the price war is over.

The only one who lost was the guy who tried to fight a price war with Shen Bing.

Although Shen Bing didn't know who he was at this time.

So there was nothing to say, and Shen Bing quickly transported a batch of paper to Taiyuan County for sale.

The reason why they are not shipped to Yanmen County but to Taiyuan County for sale is because Shen Bing is worried about attracting the attention of this profiteer... If he realizes that the paper and cloth are made by the same person, he will feel the strength of the other party and rush back , then Shen Bing lost a big fish.

As I said before, paper is "robbing the rich and giving to the poor", so Shen Bing feels at ease when he hates money.

The paper was sold quickly, and funds were raised in just a few days.

In addition, the surplus from the previous cloth sales was also sent to Meng Liang, and then Shen Bing issued an order to buy it...

Chapter 321 Master

So a strange phenomenon appeared in Yanmen County: Chen Yong's cloth priced at 38 yuan was sold out as soon as it went on the market.

Originally, Chen Yong thought it was a normal reaction to sell cloth at a low price, but it was only after a few days that he realized that something was wrong.

The purpose of selling cloth at a low price is to lower the price of cloth so that the cloth in the hands of Qin merchants cannot be sold, but the price of cloth in the market has hardly remained unchanged for a few days... The good cloth in the hands of Qin merchants still sells for 45 yuan, and the inferior cloth in Yanmen County It's still forty dollars.

Thinking about it, Chen Yong realized what the problem was, and he immediately ordered the housekeeper:

"Stop selling cloth immediately."

After the butler hastily passed the order, he asked inexplicably:

"Boss, if you stop selling cloth..."

Chen Yong frowned and replied:

"The visitor is not kind!"

"These Qin merchants seem to want to dominate the cloth market!"

The butler wondered:

"What does the master say?"

Chen Yong explained:

"The cloth we sold for 38 yuan was obviously purchased by these Qin merchants."

"That's why these cloths were sold out as soon as they came on the market without changing the price."

The butler couldn't help but gasped:

"So, these Qin merchants didn't sell cloth because of lack of money?"

The butler has accumulated a lot of experience following Chen Yong in business for many years, so he has this analysis:

If the Qin merchants had the financial resources to buy all the cloth sold by Chen Yong for 38 yuan, then naturally there would be no shortage of money, and if there was no shortage of money, they would not sell the best cloth at a price of 45 yuan a piece...

This is also why Chen Yong couldn't figure it out and also why he underestimated the enemy. He inferred Qin Shang's identity based on the current situation: such a good cloth can be sold for at least 55 yuan, but Qin Shang sold it for 45 yuan. It must be a lack of funds So it's not hard to deal with.

Who would have thought that this was not the case at all, Chen Yong felt that something was wrong in an instant.

After thinking about it, Chen Yong took out a piece of cloth from the box, opened it in front of the case, and stroked it while observing its fineness... This is the cloth he bought from Qin Shang.

Then Chen Yong called for someone to bring a pair of scissors... At this time, the scissors were still of the joint type, that is, the kind with elastic springs attached to the tail.

Chen Yong carefully cut a small strip from the cloth, then took out the hemp thread to examine it carefully, then removed a few for comparison, shook his head and said:

"How could this be?"

"How is this possible..."

The steward stepped forward curiously and asked:

"Boss, what's so strange about this cloth?"

Chen Yong raised his head towards the cloth and thread on the case, and said:

"It's fine to say that the cloth is of high quality, but the twine is just as thick as a rope."