"I'm sorry, but the price of our things has increased again!"

In the bazaar in Xiamen, the men of the Royal Comptoir said to several people who came to sweep the goods that made them feel like they were struck by lightning.

"What...... The price has risen again! ”

The green skin who was called the third brother at the head flashed violently on his face, and he stepped forward and grabbed the placket of the guy's clothes and said sharply: "Boy...... Are you entertaining your uncle? It's only been a few days, why have you raised the price again? ”

The guy who was grabbed by him was a little out of breath, his eyes began to roll his eyes, and he couldn't help but start struggling, but because the third brother's hand was very strong, he couldn't break free for a while, his face began to turn red, and his tongue began to stick out.

Seeing that something was about to happen, at this moment, a muffled sound sounded.

"Bang!"

The third brother, who was grabbing the placket of the guy's shirt with a fierce face, only felt that something hit his forehead heavily near the corner of his eye, and he immediately felt that his eyes were dark, and countless Venus began to twinkle in front of him, and then he felt that his stomach was kicked heavily, kicking him backwards several steps before falling heavily to the ground.

The third brother, who was kicked to the ground, struggled a few times and was about to get up, but he felt his stomach roll over, and after his mouth opened, a cloudy object erupted from his mouth, which was what he ate this morning, and for a while, a sour smell immediately lingered around.

After vomiting all the things in his stomach, the third brother, who felt more comfortable, saw a figure slowly coming to him before he could stand still.

Dressed in red-painted iron armor, he wore an iron helmet on his head, and held a brown bess fire gun with a bayonet shining with a chilling light.

This is a sergeant of the Jiangning Army, and the third brother was smashed on the forehead by the sergeant with the butt of the gun just now, and his forehead was already high and swollen at this time.

I saw the sergeant slowly pacing his steps and walked to the third brother again, looked at him and smiled slightly, revealing a mouthful of snow-white teeth, and then said, "Boy, it's good!" Dare to come here to spread wild and beat people, new here, right? Brothers, come over two people, teach him the rules! ”

"Head...... Just take a look! ”

The sergeant seemed to be a junior officer such as a captain or a chief, and after his words fell, more than a dozen sergeants came from behind to surround the third brother and several of his companions, and then smashed down with the butts of their guns and fists and feet, and after a quarter of an hour, the third brother and several green skins, who were scarred, struggled to support each other out of the crowd.

The news of the beating of several green skins soon reached the ears of Hong Anque, who was sitting in a nearby restaurant.

"What...... They have increased the price again? ”

"Yes, this time they've tripled!"

This time it was Hong Qiang, the chief butler of the Hong family, who was over forty years old, who stood respectfully in front of Hong Anque, and said softly: "Not only that, but the Jiang Ning army who maintained order also beat up a few of us who went to buy things. ”

"It's just a dog jumping over a wall."

Hong Anque's snort coldly, he didn't ask a word of superfluous words about the people who were beaten, the left and right were just green skins that were paid for, even if such a person died hundreds of times, he would not feel the slightest distress.

"It looks like they're running out of stock, otherwise they wouldn't have raised prices again. Uncle Hong, you immediately order to go down and let the people below sweep the goods as usual. ”

"This ......" Hong Qiang hesitated for a moment before reminding: "Young master, if we sweep the goods at this price, it will be higher than the price at which we can buy the goods elsewhere." ”

Hong Anque's eyes flashed with anger, but this Hong Qiang is no better than yesterday's steward, and he can be allowed to scold. Hong Qiang is the son of their family, and he grew up with his father Hong Futong since he was a child, and he is loyal to their Hong family and is deeply respected by his father. If he dared to drink Hong Qiang at will, he would definitely be scolded by Hong Futong.

"Uncle Hong......" Hong Anque's patience explained: "These days, the six of us are not only in Xiamen, but also in Fuzhou, Quanzhou and other places, and millions of taels of silver have been thrown away, in order to sweep away the goods of the Ming Royal Commercial Bank, and now it looks like it is about to achieve its goal, how can we give up halfway." ”

"Okay!" Hong Qiang nodded, "Since the young master has decided, the villain should obey, then the villain will be ordered." ”

"Alright, there you go!" A smile appeared on Hong Anque's face.

After Hong Qiang went down, the smile on Hong Anque's face immediately retracted, and a trace of history flashed in his eyes. He knew very well that nominally Hong Qiang was here to help him, but in fact he was the person sent by Hong Futong to supervise him, and he was also Hong Futong's eyeliner, after all, this time the six major maritime merchants and the Daming Royal Commercial Bank had invested millions of taels of cash in just a few days, how could Hong Futong completely let go.

"Hmph...... Old fellow, and let you be proud for two years, and when you become the head of the house, you can also live as a housekeeper. ”

Hong Anque, sitting on the chair, recalled the events of the past two days repeatedly, and once again determined that after the past few days of sweeping, the goods brought by the Daming Royal Merchant House should be sold out this time, so he nodded with satisfaction: "Yang Feng, Yang Feng, others say that you are the reincarnation of the God of War, and you are also the Dinghai God Needle of the Ming Dynasty, but today my son wants to teach you a lesson, so that you know that it is useless to know that you can fight." Fighting and killing can't solve things in the business field, and you're still far from making money. ”

Although the people of the Daming Royal Commercial House raised the price by as much as three times, the Hong family and the other five seas still did not change their faces and wantonly looted the goods on the market, putting on a posture of not swearing to stop if the goods were swept away.

Under such circumstances, some of the people who bought the goods at ordinary prices could not help but liven up their minds, and some of the big ones dared to ask the people who came to the market to sweep the goods if they could buy their goods, but they were answered by a few scolding words or even two slaps.

Lao Tzu swept the goods in order to empty the inventory of the Ming Royal Commercial House, what is the matter with buying your goods? These untouchables wanted to make money and went crazy, and they actually hit Lao Tzu with their ideas.

When night fell, Hong Anqi dragged his tired body back to Hongfu, and was summoned by Hong Futong to the mansion where he lived.

"Is everything done?"

Hong Futong, who had just finished bathing, sat on a chair and slowly tasted the fragrant tea, and a beautiful maid with a slender figure and a delicate face was standing behind him and gently beating his back.

Hong Anque's glance at the beautiful maid and found that he had never seen the other party, and he immediately understood that this beautiful maid must have been dedicated to his own Lao Tzu by the people below in the past two days.

Holding back the covetous gaze, Hong Anqi lowered his head and said secretly in his heart: "Damn, another flower is inserted in cow dung." ”

As mentioned earlier, although Hong Anque, a person who looks personable on the surface and looks like a well-mannered scholar, he is secretly very lascivious and short-tempered, but these things are well concealed by him, because he knows that if he wants to sit in the position of the head of the family and become the helmsman of the family, he can't show it.

Hong Anque's respectful replied: "Back to my father's words, we have purchased more than 400,000 taels of silver today, and the children estimate that the goods of the Daming Royal Commercial House have been almost swept away, and they should have nothing to sell tomorrow." ”

Hong Futong hummed noncommittally, as if asking casually: "I heard that the price of the goods sold to us by the Daming Royal Commercial House has increased again today, is that so?" ”

I had long expected Hong Futong to ask this, Hong Anqi replied unhurriedly: "Yes, the child thinks that the shopping mall is like a battlefield, since Yang Feng has increased the price by three times, this proves more and more that he does not have many goods in his hands, and wants to use this method to force us to quit, at this time, we naturally can't show weakness, so the child is bold, and without asking his father, he will make the decision to let the people below continue to sweep the goods, and ask his father to punish him if it is inappropriate." ”

"Forget it this time!" Hong Futong waved his hand slightly, "You also said that shopping malls are like battlefields, and the art of war has said that there will be no foreign military orders, and it is understandable that you will do this, but this matter can not be repeated, if you encounter this kind of thing again in the future, but you can't make decisions without authorization, understand?" ”

"It must be Hong Qiang's old thing suing this young master!" Hong Anque hated it in his heart, but his face was more respectful, and he lowered his head and whispered: "Yes, the child understands." ”

"Okay, you're tired too, hurry up and go back and rest, there are still things to do tomorrow." Hong Futong knocked Hong Anque, and then let him out.

After Hong Anqi went out, Hong Futong didn't speak, still sitting quietly in the chair thinking about things. It wasn't until the tea in his hand became cold that he came back to his senses. The corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and he said in a voice that only he heard: "Yang Feng, Yang Feng, the old man wants to see what tricks you have this time." ”

At this time, the beautiful maid had already brought him double the hot tea again, and handed it to him respectfully: "Master, please use tea!" ”

Hong Futong didn't take the teacup, but looked at the beautiful maid up and down, and her originally cloudy eyes revealed a ray of essence.

This beautiful maid is a Yangzhou thin horse bought by the people below for him, needless to say, the key is that the other party is also good at tea ceremony and massage, after serving for the past two days, Hong Futong feels very satisfied. Now, with the help of the light in the room, it looks even more beautiful and delicious.

"Goo-dong!" Hong Futong swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and smiled kindly at the beautiful maid: "Picturesque, you go and bring the old man's nourishing pill, you don't have to sleep in a small bed tonight, just sleep here." ”

Although she knew that sooner or later there would be such a day, a hint of gloom flashed in the eyes of this beautiful maid, but she did not dare to show any strange color, but bowed her head and whispered, and quickly entered the room and took out a porcelain vase.

Hong Futong took the porcelain vase, poured out a bright red pill, the size of a little thumb, swallowed it with water, and put the porcelain vase on the table, and some couldn't wait to pull the beautiful maid into the room inside......

The next day, after a slight light, the market began to be noisy for another day.

After a few days of word of mouth, not only the people in Xiamen, but also the people in the surrounding towns and villages rushed to the city to buy them. Moreover, the people on the outskirts of the city not only came to buy things, but they also brought their own souvenirs to sell. In this way, the bazaar unconsciously returned to its former prosperity.

This kind of situation was originally refreshing or exciting, but in Hong Anque's eyes, it was so hateful.

Today is an important day, so not only Shopkeeper Qiu and others arrived at the scene, but even the rest of the Bai family, Ning family and several other families at sea also sent people over.

Looking at the bustling scene outside, Hong Anqi snorted coldly: "This Yang Feng really has some ability, after the strike, no one dares to come here to set up a stall to sell goods, I never thought that in just a few days, these mud legs will come again." ”

Shopkeeper Qiu smiled and said: "Why should the prince be like these untouchables, when the Daming Royal Commercial House has no goods to sell, these bazaars are not for us to have the final say, when the time comes, we can sell as much as we want, and sell as much as we want, and then it will be the time to make a fortune according to you." ”

"Then it was natural!" Hong Anque's proud look jumped on his face: "Come on, immediately order to go down, send someone to continue to sweep the goods, this son wants to see how many things can be sold in the Daming Royal Commercial Bank." ”

"Yes!"

Someone outside immediately answered.

The market was still full of people, and in addition to the people, the Hong family and the other five families continued to scan the market.

But as time went on, something felt that something was wrong.

"Young master, something is wrong, there seems to be no sign of shortage of goods from the Ming Royal Commercial House, although the people we sent kept sweeping the goods, they quickly put out new goods, as if our sweeping still has no effect on them."

"How is this possible?" Hong Anque, who heard the report, frowned slightly: "It stands to reason that after so many days of cleaning up the goods, they don't have much inventory, why don't these people show any signs of panic?" ”

After thinking for a while, Hong Anqi said decisively: "Tell the people below to continue to sweep the goods for this son." ”

After speaking, Hong Anquek turned his head to Hong Qiang on the side and said, "Uncle Hong, you send someone back to collect another batch of silver from the treasury, the matter has come to this point, we must not stop, do you understand?" ”

Originally, Hong Anque's thought that he would have to spend some time persuading Hong Qiang, lest he make a small report in front of his father, but he didn't think that Hong Qiang said without hesitation: "Understand, the villain will immediately go to collect silver." ”

After Hong Qiang left, Hong Anque turned his gaze to the shopkeeper Qiu. This time, without waiting for him to speak, Shopkeeper Qiu and the others also said in unison: "Don't worry, Gongzi Hong, we know what to do." ”