I will be the master of Xuande

Chapter 22 The Merchant's Difficulties

Su Shuang is a businessman, a businessman who started as a swindler, and there are only a handful of businessmen who can do this business well.

Since ancient times, intermediaries have been a very difficult business to do. The so-called kindness does not control soldiers and righteousness does not control wealth. People who are too kind cannot be intermediaries, but people who are too evil and powerful cannot do it for long.

It must be a person with a deep mind, good at showing people with a smile, a simple and approachable appearance, a deep heart, and a person who will not be deceived by small gains.

And Su Shuang was tailor-made by God for this industry.

Showing people with a smile all the year round, her mind is calmer and more delicate than anyone else, and she is more sensitive to money than anyone else.

Liu Jian's words, seemingly unintentional, made him smell the taste of interest.

Logically speaking, although the Liu family is well-off, the two brothers are not in charge of the family, and they will never be able to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a good Xiongnu horse to play with.

But for some reason, Su Shuang felt that what Liu Jian said was true at the moment.

He thinks he is not only good at matching horses, but also good at matching people.

Thinking of this, Su Shuang said:

"Haha, dear brother, is there something in your words? You don't buy my horse, but you can find a buyer for it? I don't know how many days the buyer will come?"

Liu Jian looked relaxed and his tone was firm.

"At most one day, or less than two days, someone will come to ask the price. If Brother Su is within one or two days, we will wait."

Su Shuang's expression was quite playful: "How can Liu Lang-jun be sure that the person I'm talking to you will definitely make a deal?"

"Buying and selling a horse is not a trivial matter. Both the buyer and the buyer must be satisfied. It cannot be negotiated in just one or two sentences."

When Liu Bei heard this, a bit of anger appeared on his face.

"Since you know that the buyer and seller need to be satisfied, why are you asking us for 40 yuan today? Is it possible to ask the price randomly so that both buyers and sellers can be satisfied?"

Su Shuangduan had a smiling face and was not angry when faced with Liu Bei's accusations, but he was able to explain patiently.

"Buying and selling, you buy and I sell, I open my mouth to ask the price, you can just pay back the money, but you don't bargain, just annoy me, what's the reason?"

"If you really want to buy, you will naturally invite me to a secluded place to discuss. If you are not sincere, you are just here to explore the price. If I quote a low price, if there is a sincere buyer nearby, how can I talk to them later? "

Upon hearing this, Liu Bei said with emotion: "You bastard, you are really good at doing big business!"

Su Shuang stretched out his hand and said to the two brothers of the Liu family: "The biggest business today is for you two brothers. There are high-quality fruits and vegetables and boiled tea in the market. Su sincerely invites the two gentlemen to go to the pavilion. I don't know if I can appreciate it if I tell it."

Liu Jian secretly thought that Su Shuang was indeed a sensible person, and in a few or two sentences, he could smell the meaning of his own words.

"Since brother Su sincerely invited us, then we brothers will be disrespectful."

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The city building in the downtown area of ​​a county was originally built for the residence of the city officials to facilitate the management of the market, and it is generally the tallest building in the downtown area.

Because it is built high, it can be condescending and look down on the market.

But no city official would be idle and spend twelve hours a day looking down on it.

In this way, the huge city building will be idle for a long time. After a long time, the county office will vacate the city building at a specific time for merchants in the market to rest and negotiate business.

But in this society, even the market in a county is divided into classes.

The merchants who are eligible to enter the city building are undoubtedly local or Linxian rich merchants with strong financial resources, and those ordinary small merchants and hawkers can't even touch the door.

As for who is a big businessman and who is a peddler, it is naturally determined by the city officials based on the rental fees paid by the merchants.

Today, Su Shuang invited Liu Jian to talk in the market building. Firstly, it was because there were few people in the quiet place, and secondly, he proved his strength to Liu Jian from the side.

The three of them sat in a relatively remote room, and the servants under Su's hands had already offered the prepared dates.

"Oh, it's unfortunate that the two young masters are in a hurry. If it's a good season, I will use good persimmons and nago when entertaining the nobles. But this month, let alone the fruit, the flowering period has not yet arrived, so I have to make do with it." I have some winter jujubes stored in the ice cellar at the end of last year in my family."

What he said was polite, but in fact he was showing his financial resources to Er Liu from the side.

After all, in this era, it is easy to build a cellar, but it is not a simple matter to collect and transport ice, which requires a lot of manpower. Even Liu Jian's family did not build an ice cellar, which is too extravagant.

Liu Bei reached for a date and chewed it in his mouth.

These are not fresh dates, but dried dates that have been processed and air-dried. Although they are not as crisp as fresh dates, they still have sweetness.

Liu Bei, who hadn't eaten fruit for several months, was very happy, and his dissatisfaction with Su Shuang was also swept away.

"At this time of year, it is not easy to be able to eat this. In our county, there are no more than [-] households who can have this blessing."

"Hahaha, brother Liu likes it, I will order someone to go home to pick up some later, and deliver it to your home."

"Don't have to!"

"Hey, I want it!"

After exchanging pleasantries, Su Shuang looked at Liu Jian with a smile, and asked, "In the past few days, I have heard a lot in the market. I heard that the two Shaolang lords met the new county lord?"

Liu Bei picked up another jujube and chewed it, and said quite proudly: "Brother Su is very well informed, to be honest, my two brothers and Ming court have classmates, and their temper used to be speculative, and the relationship is very good..."

"Brother, brother!"

Liu Jian reached out and patted Liu Bei's arm, and said with a smile, "Be reserved."

"Oh."

Liu Jian took over the conversation and said to Su Shuang: "Although we are classmates, we haven't seen each other for many years. Now that brother Gongsun is working in this county, he has nothing to do with me."

"At most, it's nothing more than Li Li personally going to pay a visit to Lord Yan in the house, and today he called me into the county office to discuss some important affairs of Zhuo County, nothing else."

Su Shuang was chewing jujubes. Hearing Liu Jian's words, he coughed for a while, but he almost choked the jujube husks into his lungs.

The servant hurried up to help him pat his back.

"Cough, cough, cough~!"

Su Shuang pushed the servant away, coughed with all his strength, and finally spit out the jujube husk on the table.

"Cough, cough, Mr. Shaolang is really reserved when he speaks."

After finishing speaking, Su Shuang picked up the jujube husk again, and took two bites of the remaining jujube meat before he was willing to throw it away.

Liu Jian frowned a little. After all, he was also a billionaire, so it was too frugal.

"The two virtuous brothers and the county lord are really friends of gentlemen. As expected, the virtuous brother Shicai told me downstairs that someone will come to buy horses from me within a few days. Could it be that... ...?"

Liu Jian looked calm, and said: "People from the government office come to buy horses, but they may not be able to give 40 yuan. Brother Su, are you willing to give up?"

"Willing, willing, naturally willing! No matter how much money is willing."

At this moment, he knew in his heart that if someone from the agency came to buy horses in the future, needless to say, they would definitely be sent to Liu Jian, otherwise Liu Jian would not show off these things in front of him.

Looking at it from another angle, if Gongsun Zan is willing to pay Liu Jian to buy a horse, it is not just an ordinary friendship between classmates.

Matching horses is easy, but matching people is difficult.

"Congratulations to the two young masters. From now on, you will enter the officialdom with one foot, and you will definitely accomplish a lot in the future. Alas, it is a pity that Su has worked so hard for half his life, and he is still only one manuer. How can there be such a good opportunity for the two virtuous brothers? I'm envious."

His words are not modest, but sincere and heartfelt words.

Don't look at Su Shuang's wealth, but in terms of status, he is just a horse dealer after all, or a horse dealer who came from a gangster, and he is not at the same level as Zhang Fei's family.

Zhang Fei's family is also rich, but they are both a butcher and a rich man. Although Su Shuang is rich, but his money came from businessmen in recent years. Compared with the rich and powerful families who have accumulated over the years, there are fewer people like Su Shuang The background, and the backing is missing.

A big dilemma that such a rich family must face is that the big, middle and rich in Zhuo County will unite to chase him down.

The local tyrant is always looking for opportunities, and wants to share Su Shuang's property and money.

On the surface, this horse dealer looks well-off and his family is well-off, but in reality he lives like walking on eggshells every day.

(End of this chapter)