Mingshi

Chapter 1000 The news is sent back to the capital
Xu Luqing stood up and said: "No problem, you can discuss it for a year without any problem."

After the words fell, Xu Luqing said goodbye to Xu Shixing directly. Xu Shixing sent Xu Luqing outside the gate, and said anxiously:

"Is that all right?"

"No problem!" Xu Luqing smiled confidently: "These feudal merchants can't go back empty-ship, and they can't spend too long here. But the conditions I gave can already satisfy them. As long as we leave them alone for two days, Naturally they will succumb."

Sure enough, in the next few days, Joseph and others approached Xu Shixing several times, raising the price each time, but Xu Shixing told them that the price given by the Xu family was a dead price, and they would not give up a copper coin.

After four days like this, Joseph and the others finally gave in and agreed to Xu Luqing's price.Xu Shixing was overjoyed, took the list of goods that Joseph and the others needed, and went straight to the magistrate's yamen. After Xu Luqing came to Hangzhou, he has been living in Zhang Juzheng's magistrate's yamen.

Xu Shixing came to the magistrate's yamen excitedly, met Xu Luqing, handed the list of goods to Xu Luqing and said:

"Brother Lu Qing, the merchant of the feudal kingdom has already agreed."

"Okay, I'll arrange it!"

Xu Luqing took the list and went to the mansion that the Xu family decided in Hangzhou. After entering the door, she told the butler:

"Let the second young master and the third young master come to see me."

Soon, Xu Kun and Xu Ying came to the flower hall.He bowed to Xu Luqing and said:

"Brother!"

With a sullen face, Xu Luqing threw a list of goods on the table and said, "This is the list of goods. The merchants of the feudal kingdom have agreed to the price we proposed. Let's deliver the goods."

"Housekeeper!" Xu Kun shouted to the outside.

The butler came in and saluted the three young masters respectively.Xu Kun handed the stack of lists to the housekeeper and said:

"Delivery."

The butler finished the stack of papers and read them carefully. While reading, cold sweat dripped down his forehead.A trace of uneasiness rose in Xu Luqing's heart and said:

"what happened?"

"Eldest son!" The steward's voice was trembling: "We don't have so many goods."

"Why not?" Xu Kun shouted: "Joseph and the others have already given the goods, but there is another Tom, how much goods can he ask for?"

"But……"

Xu Luqing waved his hand suddenly and said, "You guys wait here, I'll ask Xu Shixing."

In less than half an hour, Xu Luqing came back with a serious face.

"Brother!" Xu Kun and Xu Ying both stood up.

After sitting down, Xu Luqing said: "I asked. These days, three batches of merchants from the vassal state arrived, so I have this list. Alright, let's deliver the goods according to this list."

"But..." The butler's face turned green, "We don't have so many goods."

"How many do we have?" Xu Luqing frowned.

"Less than one third..."

"Then go buy it!" Xu Luqing slapped the table hard.

Deng Xiange.

It was already three days later, the Xu family hadn't bought much goods at all, and their Xu family still wanted to make money...

Well, at least their Xu Mansion didn't want to lose money, so they further lowered the purchase price.However, their Xu family are not fools, nor are others!

Almost all of these small and medium businessmen sold their goods to Joseph at a low price.It was agreed at the beginning that the Daming Navy would protect them and defeat the pirates, and then they would trade at the price Luo Xin was in the southeast.Then they will make a lot of money.They never thought that the Daming Navy would be defeated, and they only thought about making a lot of money with the two sons of the Xu family in the future, squeezing out the five great families and becoming the new five great families.

but……

The current result is that the Daming Navy has lost, so the only option is to make a deal with the previous deal.That price is basically not profitable.Still going to continue with that price...

This is not a question of not making money, but of losing money, and it is a big loss!
Because more than [-]% of the business in the entire southeast is monopolized by the five big families, before the five big families looked down on some low-quality things and gave them to those small and medium-sized businessmen.Now that the five aristocratic families stopped playing, they monopolized all the goods and did not sell them to those small and medium businessmen at all. They also said that to open up commercial channels in the north, the goods of the five aristocratic families would be sold to the north.

In this way, these merchants, including the Xu Mansion, have no supply of goods, not to say that they have no supply of goods, but the nearest supply of goods.They have to go further afield to organize supplies.Although the price is about the same, but the distance is long, and the transportation fee will be added.

In ancient times, this transportation fee definitely occupied a large part of the cost. They did not have planes, trains, or cars, so they could only be transported by horse-drawn carts. People ate horses and fed them along the way, which was definitely a huge consumption, so the cost went up. The price proposed by the merchants of the feudal kingdom is definitely a loss!

Perhaps the Xu family would do such a money-losing business for the sake of Xu Jie's seat, but no one would do it except the Xu family.So, after three days of tossing, the Xu family didn't organize any goods.

These people also want to suppress the prices of those workshops, but those workshop owners are not stupid, and they will not do business that loses money.In this way, Xu Luqing became anxious, and scolded Xu Kun and Xu Ying sternly.

Xu Kun and Xu Ying were also anxious, knowing that this was related to their father's position. If this matter was not done well, they would definitely have their legs broken by Xu Jie, and they would never want to take charge of the Xu family's business in the future.Therefore, these two people became ruthless, and without discussing with Xu Luqing, they went to Wuxi, Suzhou and other places, and even further places. In the name of Xu Jie, they colluded with the government and robbed them openly and secretly. Got a batch of goods.However, countless small workshops were ruined.

That's it, the two brothers didn't complete the task, and only half of the goods were enough.

The news of Wang Cuiqiao was soon on Luo Xin's desk, and a hint of sarcasm appeared on the corner of Luo Xin's mouth.

"Xu Jie, oh Xu Jie, let you be cunning and cunning, but you have two cheating sons!"

"Daqing!"

"Go and tell Liu Shouyou that I will treat him to dinner at Jia's Building at noon."

noon.

Jia House.

Luo Xin and Liu Shouyou drank three rounds, Luo Xin looked at Liu Shouyou and said:

"Brother, what's the news from the southeast recently?"

Liu Shouyou lowered his voice and said: "Hu Zongxian's navy was defeated, Xu Luqing went to the southeast, maintained the original price and traded with the merchants of the vassal state, but the supply of goods was monopolized by the five great families, and the Xu family couldn't stop the goods, so the Xu family colluded with the government. Fighting openly and stealing secretly, obtained a batch of goods from some small workshops at extremely low prices, causing many small workshops to go bankrupt.”

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