Zhu Nao

As the sun set, the sky was getting late, the crowds on the streets gradually dispersed, shops closed one after another, and the whole city returned to tranquility.

There is the lively end, here is the deserted end.Lou Yi closed the shop door and bolted it, feeling angry.But he still couldn't go back to rest, but went straight to Wu Liang's mansion.

Entering Wu Liang's mansion, Wu Liang was losing his temper, and everything in the house was thrown into a mess by him.

"Trash! A bunch of trash!"

"Asshole, all assholes!"

As soon as Lou Yi stepped into the door, a porcelain cup was being thrown towards the door, causing him to back away suddenly in fright, almost being stabbed by the cracked porcelain.

He broke into a cold sweat, and hurriedly persuaded after entering the door: "Master, calm down, don't get angry..."

Wu Liangzheng was worried that he had no place to vent his anger, and when he saw him sending someone up, he pointed at his nose and said angrily: "You are also a trash! How did you tell me a few days ago?! What happened today?!"

Lou Yi hurriedly called Qu: "Boss, you can't blame me for this matter. I didn't have any news beforehand, so I would have thought that they had no food in their hands. If you want to blame...just blame the officers and soldiers guarding the city. What are they doing for food? And those grain merchants, why didn’t they even notify them?”

It’s fine not to mention this issue, but when this issue is mentioned, Wu Liang’s teeth itch again, looking for things to smash, but unfortunately he smashed almost everything in the room, and he really couldn’t find anything in a while. What can he vent.

As Zhu Nao expected, after the grain store opened, Wu Liang immediately sent someone to re-investigate the non-traitor grain store.Although they still haven't been able to fully figure out the bottom line of this grain store, they did find out some things they had overlooked before.

They can basically be sure that the goods from the non-traitor grain store came in from Langzhou-today Wu Liang found the guards and soldiers, scolded them severely, reprimanded them for neglecting their duties, doing things badly, and letting people in at will. City, did not check properly at all.The officers and soldiers defending the city were also very aggrieved. Usually, Wu Liang’s team progressed, and they would be scolded if they asked too many questions. Why did they change to someone else now?But because Wu Liang was Zhou Mu's brother-in-law, they didn't dare to resist and could only help remember.Because they didn't check carefully, they really couldn't tell if they were asked to tell in detail who transported the grain into the city. Among them are the teams that transport food.

In addition, Wu Liang also found out that this non-traitor grain shop had a deep relationship with Li Xiang, a businessman in Yuzhou City.And Li Xiang happened to have a younger brother Li Shen in Langzhou, which was connected with Langzhou again.It is even very possible that the owners behind this grain store are Li Xiang and his younger brother Li Shen in Langzhou.

When he told Lou Yi the news, Lou Yi immediately reprimanded: "Those city guards are really useless. The state government spends so much money to support them, but tell them to neglect their duties all day long? And those wolf-hearted Langzhou grain merchants. Let's talk to them." They have been in business for so many years, how much money have they earned? They even supply goods to others without telling us, and they simply don't pay attention to us!"

Today, on the first day of the opening of the non-traitor grain shop, the Zhengda grain shop suffered a tragic upset, and he, the shopkeeper, cannot shirk his responsibility.However, he scolded everyone else, but he picked it out himself.

In fact, no matter where the grain bank got its goods from, or what kind of ecstasy array it had set up, in the end, they only used the simplest trick - cheap and good quality.With just this one move, Zhengda Liangxing was beaten helplessly, with no power to resist.It is true that Wu Liang and Lou Yi are used to being domineering in Yuzhou, and they don't reflect on their own management at all. Instead, they push the fault of the whole matter to those who failed to report the news in time.

Lou Yi said: "Boss, we must find a way to let them know how powerful we are. We can't let them continue to be arrogant!"

Wu Liang rolled his eyes at him: "Do you still need to say that?"

If an ordinary businessman encounters such an opponent, he will often consider how to attract customers.However, neither Lou Yi nor Wu Liang's thoughts moved in this direction.Only went in other crooked directions.

Lou Yi said: "Boss, Wang Zhoumu has to think more about it. If the state government can revoke their business license, no matter how capable they are, they won't be able to do so."

Wu Liang was so annoyed that he scratched his hair: "Take it as if I didn't expect it? I run to my sister's place every day, and my sister is also arguing with Zhou Mu every day. It's a pity that Wang Zhoumu ate that bitch's ecstasy soup from Mrs. Zhou, and refused to agree."

Lou Yi was silent.Wang Zhoumu's attitude was clearly amicable, and he might not agree so easily to withdraw the business license that was just approved.

He rolled his eyes, and said again: "Wang Zhoumu persuades him first, and sooner or later he will be persuaded to soften his heart. I still have a trick - those grain merchants in Langzhou have earned us so much money, and they want to take advantage of both ends, taking money everywhere. The benefits are too good to think about! Let’s send some people to warn them immediately, not to allow them to supply to that non-traitor grain store. Otherwise, they will stop earning a penny from us!”

Wu Liang frowned and thought for a while: "Will this work? Isn't Li Shen from Langzhou? He and the grain merchants in Langzhou may be better known than us."

Lou Yi said: "Why doesn't it work? Merchants must put profit first when doing business. I've heard about Li Xiang. His business in Yuzhou is almost at the end of his life, and Li Shen doesn't have much wealth. In terms of financial resources, we are far superior to them. So what if he is from Langzhou? The money they can give is only a fraction of ours. With the courage of those grain merchants, they would not dare to offend us!"

This is also reasonable, the non-traitorous food business is just the beginning, and the power in Yuzhou is completely incomparable with them.As for business, no one is willing to offend a big client, and it is human nature to give up a small shrimp for a big fish.

Once the supply of non-traitor grains in Langzhou can be blocked, even if they can still purchase goods from other places, both the purchase price and the cost of transporting the goods will be greatly increased, and the cost will also rise accordingly.In this way, they will not have the ability to compete with Zhengda Food.

After Wu Liang figured it out, he was immediately overjoyed: "That's a good idea. It just so happened that the caravan I sent to Langzhou to buy goods a few days ago hadn't returned yet, so I immediately ordered people to hurry over there and talk to those bastards in Langzhou. "

Thinking of the reactions of those who are not traitors and those who go to the grain store to buy food in the future, Wu Liang couldn't help laughing complacently: "Ha! Want to fight with me? Dream it!"

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A few days later, Li Xiang came to find Zhu Nao and showed him the list of officials in Yuzhou Prefecture that he had compiled.

After Zhu Nao took it, he roughly turned it over and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

He didn't say what he was going to do. This matter needed a long-term plan. He also needed to find someone else to check the information Li Xiang had collected for him.

In the past two days, Li Xiang often dealt with the officials of Yuzhou Prefecture, and heard a lot of gossip in the government.He laughed and said: "I heard that the backyard of Wangzhou Mu's house was on fire every day for the past two days. It is said that Mrs. Wu wanted to jump into a well three days ago, and Mrs. Zhou wanted to hang herself two days ago. These two nights, I didn’t even dare to go home, and spent the night in the Goulan.”

"Oh?" Zhu Nao asked, "Check to see if there is any woman he favors in the Goulan, and we will send someone to give some gifts."

Li Xiang: "..."

He looked at Zhu Nao with respect in his eyes.

The two chatted a few gossips about Wangzhou Mu's family, and Zhu Nao said, "By the way, I went for a walk in the city today. When I passed the gate of the city, I saw that the officers and soldiers inspected more carefully than usual. What's in the Yuzhou mansion?" news?"

"News?" Li Xiang said, "I haven't heard anything. It may be that Wu Liang sued them before, and they were scolded, so they dare not neglect their duties anymore."

After thinking for a while, he said, "Zhu Zhoumu, although we have bought Mrs. Zhou, Mrs. Zhou is also willing to compete with Mrs. Wu, and she can help us talk to Wang Zhoumu. But Wu Liang has been doing business in Yuzhou for many years, and his influence in Yuzhou He is much better than us. I have inquired about the news of the government in the past few days, and found that he still has some entangled relationships in the government. I am afraid that the state capital will embarrass us in the future."

At present, Wang Zhoumu turned a blind eye to them, because of Mrs. Zhou's face, he would not make things difficult for them.After all, the food business was just a trivial matter to him, no matter who ran it, as long as the money was enough; but Wu Liang had a wider network than them, and his intertwined relationship in the government was deeper than theirs.If Wu Liang thought of other ways to embarrass them, Mrs. Zhou might not be able to speak.

Regarding Li Xiang's worries, Jun Nao remained calm: "I understand. If you hear any rumors, please come and tell me as soon as possible, and I will try to deal with it."

Li Xiang nodded again and again: "No problem!"

He has been in business for so many years, even if he does not have much power and has accumulated a lot of contacts, he is still very well informed.

After reporting to Zhu Nao, he hurried to work again.

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A few days later, after Lou Yi finished her business, she went to look for Wu Dong again.

After seeing Wu Dong, he opened his mouth and asked, "Master, is there any news from Langzhou?"

The management of the Zhengda Grain Shop these days is really bleak, Lou Yi has already thought of many ways, but none of them worked.He also gritted his teeth and lowered the price, and he sifted away the sediment in the grain with tears in his eyes, but even so, there were still not many customers.

The only thing to blame is that Zhengda Foodstuffs has been too notorious in the past few years. Although many ordinary people often buy food from them, it is only because they have no choice.Once there is a choice, not to mention the cheaper and better quality over there, even if the two are comparable, many ordinary people in Yuzhou City do not want to look at them any more.Not for anything else, just to let out the bad breath that has been accumulated for several years.

He had no other choice but to ask if there was any progress elsewhere.

Wu Dong looked upset: "The team that went to Langzhou to buy goods hasn't come back yet, and it's been several days behind schedule. I'm worried that they won't be robbed on the way, right?"

Lou Yi was startled: "Ah? No way?"

There are no mountains in Yuzhou, and there are few bandits.Before Zhu Nao took care of the bandits in Langzhou, Yuzhou also became much more peaceful. I haven't heard of bandits for a while.

The two of them were wondering, when a messenger came outside.

"Master! Master! The people who went to Langzhou are back!"

Wu Liang hurriedly said: "Quick, call in."

Not long after, a dusty man walked in.This person is exactly the person Wu Dong sent to Langzhou to negotiate with grain merchants a few days ago.

Wu Dong quickly asked: "The caravan is back? Why did you delay for so long?"

The man looked flustered: "I didn't come back, the caravan is still in Langzhou. I'm the only one who came back first to report to my boss... My boss, something big is wrong!"

Wu Dong was surprised: "What happened?"

The man said: "I went to negotiate with the grain merchants in Langzhou according to the instructions of my boss, and asked them to stop supplying grain to non-traitor grain companies. Those grain merchants were furious, saying that we were too lenient and their business operations , it’s not our turn to intervene.”

"They actually said that?" Wu Liang raised his eyebrows, "Did you tell them what I said?!"

"I told you...it doesn't matter if you don't tell them, but they will be even more angry if you tell them. They say we are overbearing and unreasonable, and they say they won't do business with us from now on!"

"What?!" Wu Liang and Lou Yi called out at the same time.

This is unreasonable!They are doing thousands of taels of big business with Langzhou grain merchants. It's fine for those merchants not to curry favor with them, but they want to cut off business with them? !Lose your mind and go crazy! !

Lou Yi immediately said: "There are three grain merchants in Langzhou, did you only find one? If you can't agree on one, go find another one! We have cooperation with these three companies, and anyone who doesn't know each other will transfer our business to you." To other families, let the disobedient ones taste the pain of losing our business."

The man was about to cry: "I've searched for those three grain merchants. Those people didn't know what evil they were, and they got angry after a few words, and they all said that they would not supply us in the future... Boss, what should we do now? ah!"

Wu Dong and Lou Yi were stunned: "The three companies won't supply us any more??"

The man wanted to cry but had no tears: "Yes, yes."

Lou Yi became anxious for a moment: "What on earth did you tell them?! Did you offend them by talking nonsense?"

The man was aggrieved and desperate: "I said a few harsh words at the beginning, but I followed the instructions of shopkeeper Lou and the owner. Then they all turned their backs, and I felt wrong, and immediately said a lot of soft words , and gave them gifts and begged again. But no matter what, they refused to let go... The caravan is still in Langzhou, and the goods cannot be received, and they don't know whether they should come back empty-handed... What should I do... "

Wu Dong's face was pale, a burst of dizziness came over his head, he took two steps back and fell down on the chair.

Can no longer purchase grain from Langzhou?

Now, according to the pricing of the non-traitor grain company, they can only make a profit by purchasing grain from Langzhou.The cost of buying from other places has risen by not one or two points, and their cost will be higher than the selling price of non-traitor grain stores.

This is no longer earning more and earning less, but that the business can't be done! !