Dragon map of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 277 Battle of the Salt Merchants Part One
In the golden autumn of October, the weather suddenly started to turn cold. In Luoyang City, the streets and alleys were full of fallen leaves, and there was a gust of autumn wind everywhere.

Jingping Firm.

This mansion was once breached and burned into ruins. After being renovated, it has formed the current pattern. The front yard, the middle yard, and the back yard are three major courtyards, covering an area of ​​more than ten acres.

The front yard is the gate yard, where the guards of the firm are stationed, defending the main entrance of the mansion of the firm, the side rooms on the left and right sides are the residences of the servants in the mansion, and the middle courtyard is where the main courtyard is located, which is the office of the firm, and the backyard is a warehouse And cellars, hoarding supplies.

On this day, in the main hall of the Central Court, an elegantly decorated meeting hall.

The conference hall is very large, with a table for the superior, and two rows on the left and right. There are many people sitting there. The two executive shopkeepers of Jingping Commercial Company, Zhang Heng and Sun Hao, are the leaders, and there are more than ten people from the Luoyang shop of the commercial firm. dispensers.

Mu Jing wore a long robe, sat cross-legged, carefully flipping through the papers in his hand, and kneeling behind him on the left was Tan Zong, the boss of Jing Wusi.

Mujing looked at the information, and he said with some dissatisfaction: "Sun Hao, the salt merchant in Luoyang, is there only such a little information?"

"Boss, this is the only information we can get at the moment!"

Sun Hao said a little ashamed when he heard this.

"Tan Zong!"

Mu Jing raised his head, looked at his confidant Tan Zong, and frowned slightly.

People in the business have some shortcomings in terms of information scouting, so Mujing asked Tan Zong to send a lot of people to Sun Hao for the purpose of obtaining more detailed information.

"My son, Jing Wusi is currently focusing on the attention of the ministers of the DPRK and China, and is preparing to establish a news network in various places, so it is a bit weak in this area. In an emergency, I can only find these materials. Give me a little more time. I will Will find more information!"

Tan Zong said in fear.

"never mind!"

Mu Jing waved his hand: "Jing Wusi's foundation in Luoyang is fundamentally unstable. If this matter attracts attention from all parties, the loss outweighs the gain. You should do your best within the scope of your ability. As for other things, you don't need to pay too much attention!"

The existence of Jing Wusi itself is already a secret, and it is a preemptive action planned by him in the future. If it is exposed to the eyes of all parties for this matter, it will be encircled and suppressed.

Mu Jing would rather lose this battle than let Jing Wusi get hurt.

"promise!"

Hearing this, Tan Zong let out a long sigh of relief.

You know, now Jingwusi itself is in a state of preparation. The foundation of the news network is in Nanyang. In the land of Luoyang, it is basically starting from scratch. The project fell short.

"The five major salt merchants in Luoyang, I won't talk about their capital, but each of them has a relationship with the sky!"

Mujing continued to read these documents. In fact, these documents were inquired very carefully. There were information about the shops and sales of each salt merchant, and some listed the purchase channels behind them. He carefully studied these documents. After looking at it carefully, he said: "If we resist all of them, we will have a lot of trouble, and we will even alarm the court. Once we go to the court, we will alarm countless people. At that time, our advantage will no longer exist. So split it up!"

Luoyang City is very large. As the capital, this is the largest city in the world. There are hundreds of thousands of households in the city, with a population of nearly 200 million.

Salt is a necessity of life, and it is very important to consume salt in such a big city.

In a huge salt market, there are countless large and small salt merchants, but only the five major salt merchants can dominate the market.

The Yan family in the west of the city.

The Liu family in the east of the city.

North of the city.

The Yao family in the south of the city.

What family in Luoshui.

These are the five most famous salt sellers in Luoyang City.

These days, selling salt itself requires government certificates, and those who can become salt merchants are more or less closely related to the government. These five salt merchants who dominate the Luoyang Salt Ba market have even more connections. In order to stabilize the salt market.

"Boss, Luoyang Salt City has been quiet for many years. They will not easily provoke a war. How should we divide it?" Zhang Heng asked.

"The salt market in Luoyang has indeed not been touched for a long time!"

Mu Jing closed the dossier, and his eyes flickered brightly: "But it doesn't mean it's calm. If someone suddenly moves, their first guess may not be that an outsider enters the venue, it's more about their interaction with each other." The guessing between them is that the so-called peers are enemies, and they also operate the salt bar. They will not be so friendly. Who wants to monopolize the salt market in Luoyang. It is not difficult to provoke a little thing, but they can become Luoyang. The bosses in Yangyan City are all human beings, they won’t be so easy to be fooled, they will only guess secretly, and what we have to do is to let them turn their guesses into facts!”

"What the big shopkeeper means is to let them fight among themselves, and then we will take action!"

Zhang Heng's eyes flickered brightly.

"Ok!"

Mu Jing nodded: "Before you start, you have to do one more thing!"

"Boss, what's the matter?" Sun Hao asked.

"Secretly buy the salt from the city near Luoyang!" Mu Jing said: "Break their retreat and enclose the battlefield in Luoyang City. We don't know how extensive their connections are, but as long as the The salt is taken down, even if they want to bring the goods back from outside, it will take time!"

"Understood!"

Sun Hao stood up, cupped his hands and said, "I'll do it!"

"Ok!"

Mu Jing nodded: "You can win as much as you can, but you can't do too much, it's not good to startle the snake!"

"Yes!" Sun Hao nodded.

"Tong Qi, Lin Hong, Wang Bang!" Mu Jing said.

"exist!"

All three of them were shopkeepers transferred from Nanyang, and they were also merchants in Nanyang. They later joined Jingping Commercial Bank and are now considered the backbone of the commercial firm.

"You follow Sun Hao to handle this matter properly!"

"Yes!"

The three nodded.

After they left, Zhang Heng continued to report: "Boss, I haven't found a salt merchant in the East China Sea. The local salt merchants are very united, and they have their own supply channels. As far as I know, most of them are private salt. , I have my own fixed supplier merchants, and I don’t like doing business with strangers, but I made friends with one in Guangling, not a salt merchant, but a local family, who handles most of the local affairs, and may provide us with about [-] shi of salt. Five thousand coins per stone!"

"What is the price of salt in Luoyang?"

"About eight thousand!"

Don't look at the huge profits at a unit price between five thousand and eight thousand, but Luoyang is nearly ten thousand miles away from Guangling, and most salt merchants are unwilling to leave because of the danger in the middle, and there is not much profit here.

"Who are they from Guangling?" Mu Jing asked.

"The Chen family in Guangling, I heard that they have a very good reputation in Guangling. They don't think they do much business. The only thing they get involved in is grain and salt!"

"Chen family?"

Mu Jing thought for a while, but there was a Chen family in his mind, but he didn't know if it was true, but now he couldn't care less about it, so he said in a low voice, "Take it, let them transport it to the capital as soon as possible!"

"As ordered!"

"However, [-] shi of salt is not enough. The Luoyang market is so big, if there is no stock of more than [-] to [-] shi, there is no way to beat Luoyang's market. Could it be that Xichuan has nothing to gain!"

With such a large population, Luoyang consumes a lot of energy. Thirty to five million salt will be consumed. This is a huge market, and it cannot be shaken without capital.

"I sent a lot of people, but there was no response. I'm afraid we won't be able to find a salt merchant who can supply us with salt!" Zhang Heng sighed: "I thought this was a simple matter before, but this They are doing business with acquaintances, but I have neglected this point!"

"Since we can't find the source of goods, we can only snatch food from the tiger's mouth!"

Mu Jing said in a deep voice: "We must prepare for a tough battle!"

Some of the shopping malls have the supply of goods to the side, and some buy for sale, but the latter has better funds than the former. If there is a careless move, all funds will be suppressed.

"How about I transfer some funds from Nanyang!"

"Not yet!" Mu Jing shook his head: "Although it is necessary to establish a foothold in Luoyang, it cannot hurt the foundation of the firm in Nanyang. After all, we still need to rely on Nanyang. The gains outweigh the losses!"

"My subordinates understand!"

"Go and get in touch with this family these days!" Mu Jing spread out the papers, pointing to one of them: "Let's not specify the purpose, it is to test them, as a supplier, to see if they can eat How much, I want to know the salt supply channels behind them!"

"Which family is in Luoshui?"

Zhang Heng's gaze was fixed on the title on this document, and his pupils doubled slightly.

(End of this chapter)