Xu Luqing stood up and said, "No problem, you have no problem discussing it for a year." ”

After the words fell, Xu Luqing said goodbye to Xu Shixing directly, Xu Shixing sent Xu Luqing outside the gate, and said with some anxiety:

"Is that okay?"

"No problem!" Xu Luqing smiled confidently: "It is impossible for these merchants of the vassal kingdom to go back empty, and it is impossible for them to spend too long here. And the conditions I gave can already meet them. As long as we dry them for two days, naturally they will succumb. ”

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

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 needed by Joseph and others, and went straight to the prefect's yamen, after Xu Luqing came to Hangzhou, he has been living in Zhang Juzheng's prefect's yamen.

Xu Shixing came to the prefect's yamen in a hurry, saw Xu Luqing, and handed over the list of goods to Xu Luqing and said:

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

"Okay, I'll arrange it!"

Xu Luqing took the list and went to the Xu family's mansion in Hangzhou, and after entering the door, he instructed the housekeeper:

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

Soon, Xu Kun and Xu Ying came to the flower hall. Towards Xu Luqing, he said:

"Big brother!"

Xu Luqing had a calm face, threw a stack of goods lists on the table and said, "This is the list of goods, the merchants of the vassal kingdom have agreed to the price we proposed, let's deliver it." ”

"Butler!" Xu Kun shouted outside.

The butler walked in and saluted each of the three sons. Xu Kun handed the stack of lists to the housekeeper and said:

"Let's deliver it."

The butler took the pile of papers, looked at it carefully, and as he looked at it, a cold sweat broke down his forehead. A trace of uneasiness rose in Xu Luqing's heart and said:

"What's wrong?"

"The eldest son!" The butler's voice trembled: "We don't have so many goods." ”

"How could it not be?" Xu Kun shouted: "Joseph, their goods have already been given, but there is another Tom, how many goods can he want?" ”

"But ......"

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

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

"Big brother!" Xu Kun and Xu Ying both stood up.

After Xu Luqing sat down, he said: "I asked, these days, three more groups of merchants from the vassal kingdom have arrived, so there is this list." Well, let's make deliveries 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 a third ......"

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

Dengxian Pavilion.

It's been three days later, and the Xu Mansion hasn't bought much goods at all, and their Xu family still wants to make money......

Well, at least they didn't want to lose money, so they further lowered the purchase price. However, their Xu family is not stupid, and others are not stupid!

Almost all of these small and medium-sized merchants sold their goods to Joseph at a low price. At the beginning, it was said that the Great Ming Sailor would protect them and defeat the pirates, and then they would trade at the price of Luo Xin when he was in the southeast. That way they'll make a lot of money. They never thought that the Daming Water Master would be defeated, and they were bent on following the two sons of the Xu family to make a lot of money in the future, squeeze out the five great families, and become the new five great families.

But......

Now the result is that the Daming Water Master is defeated, and then there is only one way to make a deal with the previous one. That price is basically not profitable. And now it's going to go for that price......

It's not a matter of not making money, but about losing money, and losing a lot of money!

Because more than seventy percent of the business in the entire southeast was monopolized by the five major families, the five major families did not look down on some low-quality things before they were given to those small and medium-sized businessmen. Now that the five great families are no longer playing, they have monopolized all the goods, and they will not sell them to those small and medium-sized merchants at all, and they have also released that they want to open up trade routes in the north, and the goods of the five major families will be sold to the north.

In this way, these merchants, including Xu Fu, have no source of goods, not that there is no source of goods, but there is no nearby source of goods. They had to go further afield to organize the supply. Although the price is about the same, it is a long way, which will add the transportation fee.

In ancient times, this transportation fee definitely accounted for a large part of the cost, they did not have planes, trains, cars, they could only be transported by horse-drawn carriages, and people ate horses and fed along the way, which was definitely a huge consumption, so the cost came up, and at the price proposed by the merchants of the feudal kingdom, it was a loss of money!

Such a money-losing deal may be done by the Xu family for the sake of Xu Jie's position, but no one will do it except the Xu family. Therefore, it has been tossed for three days, and the Xu family has not organized any goods.

These people also want to suppress the prices of those workshops, but those workshop owners are not stupid and do not do money-losing business. In this way, Xu Luqing was anxious, and scolded Xu Kun and Xu Ying with a face.

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, the two of them would definitely be broken by Xu Jie, and they would not want to be in charge of the Xu family's business in the future. Therefore, these two people were ruthless, and they did not discuss with Xu Luqing, so they went to Wuxi, Suzhou and other places, and even farther away, in the name of Xu Jie, colluded with the government, fought openly and secretly, and got a batch of goods at a very low price. However, countless small workshops have been destroyed.

That's it, the two brothers didn't complete the task either, and they only had half the cargo.

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

"Xu Jie, Xu Jie, let you be cunning, but you have two sons who are cheating!"

"Daqing!"

"Go and tell Liu Shouyou that I will invite him to dinner at Jiajialou at noon."

Midday.

Jiajialou.

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

"Brother, how is the news from the southeast recently?"

Liu Shouyou lowered his voice and said: "Hu Zongxian's sailor was defeated, Xu Luqing went to the southeast, maintained the original price and traded with the merchants of the feudal kingdom, but the source of goods was monopolized by the five major families, and the Xu family could not stop the goods, so the Xu family colluded with the government, fought openly and secretly, and obtained a batch of goods from some small workshops at a very low price, resulting in the destruction of many small workshops. ”

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