Dunshan was at a loss, and he didn't know what he had done wrong to cause such a big commotion. The only thing he wanted to do was to look at the box of rouge with peony flowers painted on it, and he would leave after reading it, so why should the stall owner be so unkind to him? If he hadn't been frightened, he wouldn't have knocked down the old man who was selling eggs by stepping back, causing the old man to cry bitterly over the broken eggs......

Hey, whether it's his fault or not, it's also a fact that he broke the old man's eggs, so he has to pay for it! But he is penniless, what will he pay for?

The house leak happened to rain overnight, and Dunshan, who was trembling and panicking, was surrounded by a group of yellow-haired children who were not enough to reach his knees, and the piercing children's voice singing nursery rhymes drilled into his ears, making his brain like being pricked by ten thousand needles, and the demon who thought that he would never come to invade again had signs of resurgence......

"I'm not a scourge, I'm ...... It's not a black cauldron on my back, don't do this to me, I'm ...... I beg you to ......."

Dunshan was full of sorrow and pleaded bitterly, but no one paid attention to him. The onlookers were all immersed in the excitement of watching the excitement and watching the jokes, lest the incident not be big enough and not enough material for future gossip.

At this moment, a group of sturdy men in short black clothes quietly slipped behind the crowd, all of them holding their chins with their hands, staring at the shouting crowd with interest.

They don't need to crowd into the crowd just to see what is happening, the head of the shield mountain is like an iron tower, even if it is a few miles away, he can see him clearly, why should he be sweaty and exhausted?

Those people came from an organization called Soul City, which had not been around for a long time in Chang'an City, and its leader was said to be a guy surnamed Hong, who had nicknamed himself the Wheel Beast.

The nickname sounds like a demon seed, but in fact, that person is an authentic new human, but since childhood, he has envied the demon race people who can grow a different image from humans, especially their pointed ears, sharp teeth and tail dragged behind the buttocks, which can give ordinary people a sense of awe.

The parents of the body and skin cannot be changed the day after tomorrow, but the name can be determined by oneself at will, and the surname Hong is so nondescript to call himself, but after he became famous, he reined in, and in order to get through the people in the government, he still used his real name.

successfully organized the soul capital, and the surname Hong released the name of the gang, and it began to be widely spread in the rivers and lakes.

What is the main business of the soul city? On the surface, it was too serious to do business—buying goods sold by merchants from Hu and retailing them at a price 30% higher than the cost price.

In order to attract merchants to sell to them, the price of goods purchased at the beginning of the establishment of the Soul Capital was particularly good, and those merchants from the Western Regions or Persia made a lot of money, and they couldn't wait to sell in-demand goods such as silk, medicinal herbs, or handicrafts to the Soul Capital the following year.

Not only that, because of the strong consumption power of Chang'an City, foreign goods are always in short supply, and the traders get this market information, which greatly increases the supply.

However, to their great surprise, the purchase volume announced by the Soul Capital for the second year was 50% lower than the first year!

What's going on?

The businessmen were shocked and discussed, and they didn't know where the error in the supply and marketing link was.

There are a large number of Hu merchants who come and go to the Tang Dynasty and do business with Chang'an merchants, so the scale of the chamber of commerce has been formed many years ago, and there is a special management organization.

The merchants are profitable, so the chamber of commerce can continue to operate, and the president found that the situation was different, so he naturally could not sit idly by, so he immediately sent people to investigate, and found out a shocking secret.

Last year, the soul capital used the goods collected at a high price, and they did not sell them completely, but only used a small part of the inventory in the store to fool people, making people think that they had sold all the things, but in fact, the big head was still kept, and they would sell it when the sales season came this year.

The most infuriating thing is not only these, but the biggest financier in the soul capital is actually not individual customers, but those distribution merchants in Chang'an City!

Although these things are found out to be true, what makes the foreign chamber of commerce very puzzled is that the soul will be bought at a high price and sold cheaply, isn't this a big loss? Doing business without making money and losing money, what kind of routine are they playing? Or rather, what is the intention?

When the investigation deepened, the mystery gradually came to the surface, and the people of the Chamber of Commerce understood that what the soul would want was not money, but power. They are spending a small amount of money to buy out the commodity circulation channels of the entire Chang'an City, and then as the overlord of the dominant side, they will make much more money than the cost investment in the first year!

It seems complicated, but the reason is simple:

First, the inventory stored in the first year of the soul capital can meet 70% of the demand of the market in the second year, and they are actually supplying normally, but nominally they are clearing the merchants of Chang'an City, and the word game is played in this way, so as to avoid the anti-commodity monopoly regulations set by the official government of Chang'an City. Isn't that the case? I'm just getting rid of last year's old goods, why do you care about me? In your anti-monopoly regulations, there is no mention of "anti-liquidation", let alone the amount of liquidation must be below what limit!

Second, the remaining 30 percent of the market demand will not be touched immediately, but will be left to ordinary distribution merchants, allowing them to go to Hu merchants to buy, which is completely legal and compliant. It's a pity that these merchants are not very big, and after tasting the sweetness of foodies from the soul capital, they don't dare to buy goods from the merchants of Hu State at a price higher than the purchase price of large goods. Wool out of the sheep, the purchase price of high goods have to rise, the end customer, that is, scattered shopping customers if not buy, no longer patronize, will cause unsalable goods, resulting in a year of business failure, I am afraid that in the final calculation of the general ledger, will find not only not only not to make but also to lose!

With the successful operation of the first year without the knowledge of the gods, thirty percent of the market vacancies could only be filled by the soul capital, and then the merchants of Hu could only sell their goods to them.

Hu Shang came from afar, and it was really impossible to bring back the goods that had been dragged over intact. Ignoring the soul, selling goods to ordinary merchants at a reduced price can be described as thankless, and the price has to be kept down so low that it is almost a free gift!

The soul will be bought, and the merchants of Hu can empty the goods at one time, but the other party doesn't seem to be so immoral, and he has to press the purchase price to the point of making him cry bitterly, so if he can sell it, he will sell it!

As a result, the warehouses of the Soul City began to fill up again, preparing for the clearance of the next year. However, this year, the purchase price they gave was 30% lower than that of the first year, and the supply price to Chang'an merchants remained unchanged, it still seemed so cheap, but they had a lot of benefits.

Since that year, the foreign trade business between Chang'an City and foreign merchants has deteriorated without people realizing it, and when the Hu Merchants Chamber of Commerce and most of the Chang'an distributors come back to their senses, it is too late, and the business and trade between the two parties has been played by the soul in the palm of their hands.