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Chapter 198 It's Difficult to Meet
Throughout the afternoon, there was an endless stream of people who came to visit Wang Xian, but Wang Xian still treated them differently, he met all the businessmen, but only met a few gentlemen who were friendly with him, and most of them were rejected by Erhei.

In the evening, Wang Xian borrowed flowers to present the Buddha, and asked that Master Dong to cook a table of famous Jinling dishes for Lu Yuanwai, Hou Yuanwai, Li Yuanwai and Boss Zhou.

Needless to say for the rest of the people, Li Yuanwai was really flattered when Wang Xianneng invited him.He couldn't help but be proud that he saw the opportunity early and ran to Hangzhou to apologize to Wang Xian, so he escaped a catastrophe and was recruited into the Wang's small group.

Li Yuanwai has already realized that Fuyang in the future will be ruled by this small group. Therefore, once Wang Xian invited him personally, the former leader of the gentry in the county felt a little bit lighter. He agreed wholeheartedly and did not return At home, we had tea and chatted with Lu Yuan in the backyard, waiting for the family dinner in the evening.

One is to enhance the relationship, and the other is to learn more about the situation, so that when the time comes, I won’t be able to understand what others say.

Before it was dark, Wang Xian came over, and several people hurriedly got up to greet each other: "Your Excellency, you have worked hard."

"Chinese New Year is so fucking tiring." Wang Xian sat down with a smile, and said to Li Yuanwai, "Yuanwai hasn't left all this time?"

"It's so easy for everyone to get together when it's Chinese New Year's Eve," Li Yuanwai hurriedly leaned over and smiled, "I won't even leave."

Everyone thought that this guy was thick-skinned, Wang Xian waved his hand with a smile, and signaled him not to be polite: "Yeah, I'm usually busy, so I haven't had a good chat during the Chinese New Year, by the way, what are we talking about?"

"Speaking of this year's market." Zhou Yang said: "Everyone is not very optimistic."

"How do you say it?" Wang Xian put on a posture of listening.

"Let's talk about the grain number first. Last year's prosperity was due to a catastrophe that has not happened in decades. This year, as the victims of the disaster returned to their hometowns and production resumed in various places, the decline in sales is a foregone conclusion." Lu Yuanwai said: "Master, you have to be mentally prepared."

"Yeah." Wang Xian nodded and said, "I'm afraid the situation is worse than you imagined."

"How?" Now it was their turn to ask.

"I wonder if you have studied the supply and demand of grain in Zhejiang?" Wang Xian asked.

Everyone shook their heads. They didn't have such an overall concept. They could only listen to Wang Xian: "I took some time to think about it last year, and found out that in terms of quantity alone, the province's grain production can feed the entire population of the province without any problem."

"Then why is there always a shortage of food? Make the price of food the highest in the country?" Everyone asked.

"It's caused by imbalance," Wang Xiandao said, "You can't distribute all the food to everyone according to their needs. There is a surplus of food in some places, but there is a shortage of food in some places. What the grain merchants think is not to exchange supplies, but to They will find ways to continue this imbalance in order to make a profit. Therefore, where there is a surplus of food, the price of grain will hurt farmers. Where there is a shortage of food, the price of food will be high..."

"Your Excellency, what you mean is..." Members Lu are all professionals, so they understood: "The lack of food in this province is artificially caused by the grain merchants."

"Yes." Wang Xian nodded and said, "Because food cannot be distributed according to needs, there will always be food shortages in places where there is a shortage of food. Once there is a food shortage in a certain place, it will cause panic in neighboring counties. As a result, the shortage of food has become even bigger." After a pause, he said, "This kind of psychology is called 'chasing the rise'. When the price is expected to rise, the price will rise to an unreasonable level."

"The other side of 'chasing the rise' is 'killing the fall'." Sipping a sip of tea to moisten his throat, Wang Xian continued: "Of course, when people expect food prices to fall, food prices will continue to fall, far exceeding people's expectations. Imagine."

"What a chasing up and down!" Li Yuanwai has learned a lot today.He finally knew that Wang Xian was able to play Fuyang officials and gentry in the palm of his hand, not because of his cleverness, but because of his great wisdom.

"So, we continue to import grain from Huguang, and the impact on grain prices in Zhejiang is much greater than imagined." Several shareholders of the grain company also understood, and their faces were very ugly: "If the price of grain drops sharply, , the profit is very thin.”

"It's not impossible to cut in half." Wang Xian nodded slowly and said: "The huge profits in this business have come to an end, everyone should plan ahead."

"Your Excellency said so." Lu Yuanwai echoed, "Nowadays we are a big tree attracting wind, whoever catches us wants to take a bite, and there are still people who are thinking about driving us away. In fact, these days are far from as good as they seem." After a pause, he said : "If the profits are too thin, we should change careers as soon as possible."

In fact, these remarks were addressed to several shareholders. Although Wang Xian passed his temper in advance, he had never talked directly about it, and he did not know their attitudes.Lu Yuanwai's task is to help him convince everyone.

"Changing careers..." Lianghao has brought countless wealth and honor to all shareholders. It is hard for anyone to accept that they have to change careers after only one year of establishment: "Easier said than done!"

"It's not easy and we have to turn around, otherwise we will be controlled by others everywhere in the future, and it will be tiring." Wang Xian said in a deep voice: "What's more, we will definitely have a bigger future!"

"Where should we go?" Zhou Liangshang also knew, so he said flatteringly.

"Luck Club!" Wang Xian said decisively: "You should know better than anyone else how big the potential of this business is."

"En." Everyone's eyes lit up and they nodded.Yes, the bulk of their profits last year came from the freight they earned from purchasing food on their behalf.At that time, when buying grain from Huguang, Wang Xian insisted on chartering a boat to transport it instead of hiring a boat, and he hired it for a year. At that time, he still didn't understand it. It has always been unquestionable, and everyone had to follow suit.

It was only later that they realized how famous this decision was.After becoming the official merchants in the province to buy grain, they traveled between Huguang and Zhejiang several times a year, and later they also shipped goods to tea merchants, paper merchants, and silk merchants in the county.If a ship is hired, at least half of it must be given to the ship merchant.

The reason for this huge profit is very simple - merchants have urgent needs, and goods from various places are shipped to markets in other provinces for sale, often making profits several times, or even ten times.But this business is very difficult to do. Officials and soldiers who pass through the gate have to pluck their feathers. If their greed is not satisfied, they will make things difficult.There are also local snakes at the wharfs everywhere, who will also make unreasonable troubles and extort money.This is only a land-based problem. There are also water bandits and robbers in the rivers and lakes.

Therefore, since ancient times, those who have been engaged in this industry have always been backed by a high-ranking person. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties when commerce was flourishing, there were more than a dozen powerful ship gangs active in the country, and there were countless smaller-scale transportation agencies.However, the Ming Dynasty emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce for 40 years. Merchants and commerce have only recovered in recent years. Most of their business scope is in the county, and most of the neighboring counties.

"We have accumulated a year of experience, and the conditions for establishing a transportation company are already ripe!" Lu Yuanwai said in a deep voice, "There are two Zhejiang Salt Transportation Departments under the banner of protection. Not now, when will it be!"

"Yes." All the members nodded in agreement.The maturity of the experience and conditions is secondary, their confidence comes from the banner of Yang Tongzhi, the director of salt transportation!

Hoisted the banner on the bow of the ship with the words 'Tongzhi Yang, the Department of Salt Transportation of the Two Zhejiang Provinces of the Ming Dynasty', and then miraculous things happened. Come closer, can this deal not be done?
Wang Xian feels that the reason why this flag can ward off evil spirits is not only because of his cheap brother's official position, but also for other reasons, but who cares about him, he is a small person with a small nose and small eyes, just pay the protection fee on time... There is no good thing that light can't get in. If this flag wants to be used for a long time, it will naturally have to pay tribute regularly.When Lu Yuanwai passed through Suzhou a few years ago, according to Wang Xian's instructions, he gave 2 taels of silver to Yang Tongzhi, and talked about the establishment of a sports club.

Yang Tongzhi saw Qian's eyes open, and the 2 taels of silver made him laugh from ear to ear.He has two sides of this flag, and he only uses one side for traveling, and the other side is spare for a whole year, so it would be great if it can be used to make money.Hearing that this amount of money could become a regular practice in the future, Yang Tongzhi was more active than Lu Yuanwai, and even matched them with the survey and cooperation of the Salt Transportation Department, so that they could match up with serious officials who boarded the ship for inspection.

With Yang Tongzhi behind him, the shareholders naturally have the confidence to change careers, so they nodded in agreement.

Seeing that the matter was settled like this, Li Yuanwai finally couldn't bear it anymore, and said calmly, "Can I count it?"

Everyone looked at Wang Xian, and Wang Xian said bluntly: "Whoever sees it has a share! Turn around and add up, so that other members can also get a share!"

The shareholders naturally looked forward to Wang Xian's leadership, not to mention that the background of the Li family was of great benefit to Yunshe, which was probably the reason why Wang Xian greeted him.

Seeing that they agreed to join him, Li Yuanwai was overjoyed, and was about to say thank you when Erhei came in and said, "The county magistrate Jiang is here. He said there is something big going on, so I must let the adults see him."

Everyone looked at Wang Xian, but Wang Xian turned a deaf ear and said: "It's getting late, let's start the banquet." He stretched out his hand and said: "Everyone, please."

"My lord, please." Everyone hurriedly got up to give in, but they were all a little uneasy. After all, the man outside was the elder of the county. How could Wang Xian keep him out?

No one dared to touch Wang Xian's misfortune, and they all sat obediently at the table, toasted and ate food, but the atmosphere was inevitably a bit dull, and several members of the staff tried their best to tell jokes, and the meal became more relaxed.

Just as the cups were being thrown together, Er Hei came in again, leaned over behind Wang Xian and whispered, "Jiang Zhixian said that if your lord doesn't go out, he will be bumped to death outside..."

"He hasn't left yet?" Everyone was a little surprised. They felt that Jiang Zhixian must have gone back to the house angrily after being shut down. They never thought that it had been more than half an hour, and they would not leave here.I couldn't help being secretly surprised... What did Jiang Zhixian do?To scare him like this?

Wang Xian pondered for a moment, then stood up and said: "I will see you sooner or later, let's see what he said." He said to everyone, "You drink slowly, I will go back when I go."

"My lord, please go ahead." Everyone stood up and watched Wang Xian go out.

　This is yesterday's Chapter 3, today's goal is still three chapters!Obviously, everyone needs a monthly ticket to refuel, in order to ignite the long-lost passion!
　　
　
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