Zhu Nao

On the other side, the King Qin League is still going on.

Every two or three days, the envoys of each army would gather at the meeting place next to the vortex water, and continue to discuss how the armies should work together to serve the king.Yet meeting after meeting was held with little progress.

The slogans of each government were loud and clear, vowing to wipe out the rebels and save the court.But after shouting slogans, when it was time to assign tasks, each government tried its best to push things out, as if saying one thing and doing another to the extreme.

As the saying goes, one monk carries water to drink, two monks carry water to drink, and three monks have no water to drink.The current situation is like a dozen monks getting together, not to mention drinking water, it's not bad if they don't fight.

The governments intrigue, criticize each other, form cliques, add insult to injury... This situation is like a simple Spring and Autumn.

And in this chaotic situation, the happiest person is of course Junao.His business is booming, and every time the envoys from various prefectures gather, he receives a large amount of money, food and property.

Although the strategies he sells are not adopted by the princes every time, for the princes, the more news the better.If there is no benefit, there is absolutely no harm in knowing more things, so they are still willing to pay for it.

And some princes have investigated and found out that the people who sold the news to them were actually Shu merchants.This of course caused those princes to have contempt and dissatisfaction with the Shu people. After all, when the country is in crisis, the Shu people still want to make money by such dirty means, which is really embarrassing.But I don't despise it, this did not affect the excitement of Zhu Nao's business - knowing the source of the news, on the contrary, made the princes of all walks of life feel more at ease about the accuracy of the news.After all, everyone knows that Shu merchants brought a large amount of goods to the Central Plains for sale, and they had contacts with many armies. Obviously, the news was obtained in this way.Moreover, the Shu people are relatively neutral, no matter in terms of their performance in the alliance or their geographical location, they have no obvious position tendency.It cannot be said that the princes are not wary of the Shu people, at least compared to other forces, the Shu people are not so worthy of fear.

More importantly, although some people already knew that it was the Shu people who peddled news and strategies to them, they thought that they were the only ones who had encountered such Shu people, and did not realize that such behavior of the Shu people was planned for a long time The truth is that the net is cast widely-after all, the princes of all walks of life are on guard against each other, and they will not talk to others about where they got the news from.

So before the princes from all walks of life are completely awake, Zhu Nao can still do this business for a long time.As for waiting until the princes find out?At that time Jun Nao earned enough money...

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At the meeting table, envoys from various governments quarreled again.One attacked the other regardless of the overall situation, and the other scolded the other for harboring evil intentions.Liu Jingfeng couldn't help but yawned.

I don't know where the princes from all walks of life get the news, they can always dig out some scandals about the other side from the corners, and use them to attack the other side's status and raise their own prestige.However, everyone does this, but in the end everyone is dirty, and there is no one who can convince the crowd.

At the beginning, Liu Jingfeng found it funny to watch the intrigue among various governments from the sidelines, after all, such a good show doesn't happen often.But coming back and forth every three days, the singers are not tired, but he is tired of listening to the opera.

Seeing that the weather is getting colder day by day, if this drags on, in the deep winter, all the government troops will rush back to cultivate.At that time, if there is still no result in the quarrel, the Qin Wang matter may have to be left alone.

What a joke...

Finally, the meeting ended without a problem, Liu Jingfeng stretched his shoulders, stood up and walked out.He doesn't plan to participate in the next meeting in person, and just appoint someone to make do with it.With this time, he might as well go to tease Xie Wuchen!

When Liu Jingfeng got up, Wei Yue also got up with him.The two seats are next to each other, so they walked together for a while when they went out.Wu Cong came from the other direction, because of his fast pace, he passed by the two of them.

In the past, Wei Yue and Wu Cong had a pretty good relationship, and they often went back together because they lived near each other.However, for some reason recently, when the two passed by each other, Wu Cong cast a cold glance at Wei Yue and left quickly.Wei Yue let out a disdainful sneer from his nasal cavity.

Liu Jingfeng was very keen. Although the two did not speak, he immediately noticed that the atmosphere between them was not right.

He rolled his eyes slightly, and said, "Brother Wei."

Wei Yue said, "Brother Liu, what's the matter?"

Liu Jingfeng said: "Brother Wei, won't you go back with the envoys of the Yanzhou Army today?"

"You mean Wu Cong?" Wei Yue called him by his name and snorted again, "I don't know him well, why should I go back with him?"

Liu Jingfeng raised his eyebrows.He didn't ask any more questions, only showed a meaningful smile, and shook his head slightly.It seems that Xie Wuchen's plan has worked...

After another walk, Liu Jingfeng cupped his hands and said, "Brother Wei, goodbye."

Wei Yue said: "Goodbye."

The two parted ways and went their separate ways.

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Gao Wen walked into the tent, and Zhu Nao was sitting in the tent waiting for him.

"Fu Yin." Gao Wen hurriedly saluted Zhu Nao.

"Excuse me." Junao said.

Gawain straightened up.

Zhu Nao said, "You said last time that the Jiang Ning army is interested in spices?"

Gao Wen hurriedly said: "Yes, Fu Yin. When I first went back, they asked me what spices we brought."

He is the Shu merchant who is in charge of communicating with the Jiang Ning army. Previously, the Shu army sold a batch of Shu tea to the Jiang Ning army, which was peddled by Gao Wen.

There was a wooden box in Zhu Nao's hand, and he handed it to Gao Wen: "Go to the Jiangning Army again and ask if they are interested in these."

Gao Wen hurriedly stretched out his hands to catch the wooden box. There were three compartments inside the wooden box, which contained three kinds of precious spices produced in central Sichuan.The Shu army came out this time and brought a lot, some have been sold, and some are left.

Gao Wen asked: "Fu Yin, if they are interested, what price should they sell for?"

Zhu Nao said: "The base price is 120 Wen per tael, as long as it is higher than this price, you can negotiate with them."

Gawain nodded.Spices are sold in taels. Although the price of one tael is not expensive, it is not a small amount if the quantity is large.The price given by Zhu Nao was considered a relatively fair price, but Gao Wen was always eloquent and very good at negotiating prices, and he could always sell things at a much higher price than the base price Zhu Nao gave him.

Zhu Nao said again: "You go back now, I have another thing for you to do."

Gao Wen hurriedly said: "The Governor only needs to give orders, and his subordinates will definitely obey."

Zhu Nao said, "I want you to enrich yourself."

Gao Wen was stunned for a moment, and said in puzzlement, "What? This subordinate doesn't understand."

Jun Nao was able to give him instructions like this.

After listening to it, Gao Wen probably understood: "The governor means... I will try my best to make people in Jiangning Mansion think that I am a money-grubbing villain? Then...they might buy me?"

Zhu Nao smiled and said, "Yes. Can you do it?"

Gao Wen thought for a while, feeling a little nervous and a little excited.This matter is more difficult than negotiating business. If it is done according to Zhu Nao's words, he will have made a great contribution!

Those who follow Zhu Nao to do business are all bold and bold people, and Gao Wen is no exception.He made up his mind quickly.

"It can be done." Gao Wen said, "I have been in contact with the Jiang Ning Army during this period of time, and I have boasted a lot and used a lot of tricks. I think they will not find it strange that I did such a thing."

This is not nonsense.Few of those who talk about business are not glib, and they often use crooked means.For example, making money to manage others, or accepting money from others as a bribe.Gao Wen has done this kind of thing before.After all, it is impossible to buy and sell thousands of taels of silver without any oil and water.But unlike the corrupt Guangjin Army, he will do these things, but he will also report to Zhu Nao.

Because Zhu Nao was very generous to his subordinates, and he was never stingy in rewarding the Shu merchants with their rich wealth, but he had a rule, that is, no matter what the Shu merchants did, they should not hide it from him for personal gain.Otherwise, once discovered, this good job will be lost and heavy fines will be imposed.Because of Zhu Nao's generosity, most of the Shu merchants are very loyal to him, and they are not willing to lose their bright future for a little profit.

After Gao Wen made up his mind, he clarified his mission with Zhu Nao and went out with the spice box.

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Gao Wen went to send samples of several kinds of spices to Jiang Ningjun. Jiang Ningjun was really interested and readily expressed his willingness to buy all the spices brought by the Shu merchants.

However, it is very straightforward when expressing the willingness to purchase, but it is not straightforward when it comes to negotiating the price.

Gao Wen first set a relatively high price, asking for two hundred cash for every tael of spices.This also left room for Jiangning's army to bargain.However, the purchasing officials of the Jiangning Army were not in a hurry to bargain with him, and changed the topic after a few words, and asked Gao Wen about their Shu army.

"Brother Gao, I heard that your Shu army had a quarrel with the Yanzhou army recently. Is this really the case?" asked the purchasing officer of the Jiangning army.

Gao Wen sighed and said: "It is true. Those Yanzhou soldiers were rude and arrogant. They provoked us many times without reason, and even killed our soldiers. Our governor asked General Xie to hand over the murderer, but General Xie even defended his shortcomings! He repeatedly evaded, Refusing to hand over people. It's really deceiving people too much."

The purchasing official hurriedly echoed: "It is indeed too much. I heard that you Shu merchants also supported the Yanzhou Army with a lot of money and food in Guanzhong. It is really unreasonable for them to be so ungrateful."

His tone is like gossiping among friends.In fact, he received Xie Wuchen's order to use the business opportunity to find out more about the Shu Army and the Yanzhou Army.

He thought he was pretending well, but Gao Wen secretly laughed.Then he turned back to the topic in a serious manner: "What do you think of the price of this spice?"

The procurement official said perfunctorily: "I need to report this matter to the officer, and wait for the officer's approval. Brother Gao, just wait patiently."

So Gao Wen went to the Jiangning Army a few more times, and the Jiangning Army kept being perfunctory, each time only taking the opportunity to ask him for news, but not discussing business.Gao Wen could only follow suit.

But perfunctory can't continue to be perfunctory, it will arouse suspicion after a long time.So after Gao Wen went there several times, the purchasing officer of the Jiangning Army finally quoted the price to him: "Brother Gao, this spice is too expensive for two or two hundred dollars. We are willing to buy all five hundred catties, and you should too." Give us some discounts. Even if every tael is 130 Wen, the total of five hundred catties of spices is one thousand and forty, and the odds are erased to round up, 1000 taels."

He reciprocated ruthlessly, because he wanted to pay Gao Wen back and forth for a few rounds, so as to delay some time and let him get more information out of Gao Wen's mouth.

Gao Wen tutted, "You Jiangning people are really ruthless in haggling prices."

After a pause, he slowly said: "This price...is not bad..."

The procurement official was startled!When did Gao Wen talk so easily?Isn't it always necessary to start the price and talk eloquently, and never give up until you kill dozens of people back and forth?

But Gao Wen sighed and said: "I work for the caravan, running around day and night, working hard. Although the business is a big deal of tens of thousands of taels, the money doesn't go into my pocket. Sometimes I don't know how hard I am. , What exactly are you planning..."

The purchasing officer was taken aback.People who deal with money and money all day long have a very clear threshold. He heard Gao Wen's intention to extort bribes as soon as he heard this.Presumably it was because Gao Wen had negotiated a deal before and went back, and the caravan gave him too little benefit, so he felt unhappy.

The procurement official secretly despised him at the beginning, but soon realized something - this is a great opportunity for him to make meritorious deeds!

Xie Wuchen has always wanted to inquire about the news of the Shu army, but they have limited means, and they can only inquire about it on the sidelines.But Gao Wen's extortion of bribes from him today showed that he was already dissatisfied with the Shu army.And such people who are greedy for money and do not hesitate to harm the interests of the Shu army for personal gain, aren't they an excellent target to win over? !

So his eyes lit up, and he said hastily: "Brother Gao, I understand what you mean. Just wait here, have a cup of hot tea, and let me report to the officer, and then come back to you."

Gao Wen was noncommittal.

The purchasing officer went out.This trip went for a long time, and he finally came back after half a day.

Gao Wen complained, "Where did you go? It's getting dark."

But the purchasing official said: "Brother Gao, the officer wants to see you, please come with me."

Gao Wen frowned and asked, "Which officer wants to see me?"

The procurement official smiled, but refused to say it clearly, and said mysteriously: "Brother Gao will find out when he comes with me."

Gao Wen was obviously dissatisfied with the way he acted, and muttered a few words, but he could only follow him obediently.

The purchasing officer turned his back to Gao Wen, with a happy smile on his face - he reported the news and got a reward right away, can he not be happy?

But he didn't see that there was also a smile on the corner of the mouth of the person behind him.