Chapter 40 I picked the sesame seeds and lost the watermelon

Wan Town was the first stop of Myanmar into China, and now Wan Town has prospered and expanded a lot due to the large number of goods and transport vehicles, and many locals have set up shops here or worked as brokers. Xiao San is one of the many brokers in Wan Town, Xiao San is a local of Wan Town, he is not very old, he is one of the first people to engage in the broker business in Wan Town, and many trading houses like to deal with him.

As soon as the day dawned, Xiao San, who was carrying two pieces of bread of grain cakes in his arms, waited early outside the Beishi Teahouse, which is where the stewards of those commercial houses drank tea for breakfast, as a qualified broker, it is most important to grasp the latest market information. "Sanzi, you came early, help me unload the door panel first" The guy in the teahouse greeted Xiao San who was squatting outside the door, and the guy who had made friends casually grabbed Xiao San and helped him. Fortunately, Xiao San was also easy-going, just smiled and stepped forward to catch the wooden board that had just been removed and moved into the store.

"Third son, Xiangbao's shopkeeper Xue drank tea here last night, it seems that the shopkeeper Xu of Dalian Sheng also came, I guess there will be a big business today" Xiangbao and Dalian Sheng are both famous businesses in Kunming City, and they also have a semicolon here in Wan Town, since the shopkeeper has come to Wan Town, it is naturally because there is a big business.

Xiao San fluted slightly, took out two banknotes from his pocket and quietly stuffed them into the guy's hand, and said with a smile on his face, "Fourth brother, thank you for telling my brother the news, and there will be heavy thanks after the matter is completed" The teahouse guy looked down at the banknotes in his hand, and he just smiled, and put them in his pocket without refusing. No one has had a good time these days, Xiao San is still a broker, and he can earn a few living money in his hands, which is much better than him, a teahouse guy.

After unloading the door panel, Xiao San helped the guys sweep the open space outside the gate again, and then sat down at a table in the corner. There were no guests in the teahouse on the left and right, so Xiao San ate a piece of bread of grain cake with freshly boiled water, and the remaining piece was his lunch. Waiting for the guys to eat breakfast, the tea customers also came one after another, and there are many people who make a living as brokers like Xiao San in Wan Town, but only Xiao San can enter the North City Tea House and sit, and get information directly from those business shopkeepers, so Xiao San earns the most money among the brokers.

"Xue shopkeeper early"

"Old Man Xue is early"

Xue Wancheng, the shopkeeper of Xiangbao with white hair, came, and there were two young people behind him. The merchants who had already sat down in the teahouse got up to greet Xue Wancheng one after another, and Xiao San, who was sitting in the corner, was not excluded. Almost everyone in the business of doing business knows each other, and Xiangbao's roots in Kunming are also very deep, and harmony is the unchanging law of merchants, plus Xue Wan has become a righteous person, and he has a great appeal among merchants.

"Okay, okay, everyone sit" Xue Wancheng also hugged his fists in return to the merchants who greeted him in the teahouse, and did not look at people in the crack of the door because Xiangbao's business was big, and the two young people behind them also nodded at everyone with a smile. The place of the North City Teahouse is very large, and the three people of the Xue family directly occupy a table in the middle, which is the local rule of Wan Town, everyone can sit casually when drinking tea in the teahouse, but whenever there is a big thing to discuss, the seats of the merchants are ranked according to the strength of their respective firms, and the seats near the middle, only big businesses like Xiangbao are qualified to sit.

"Yo, the shopkeeper Xu is also here" Compared with Xue Wancheng's calm when he appeared, Xu Shen, the shopkeeper of Dalian Sheng, has a lot of pomp, not only with two bodyguards with big shoulders and round waists, but also a woman with a bewitching body wearing a cheongsam on his arm. Dalian Sheng is a new business name in the city of Kunming, in just one year, in the strong Yunnan business community occupies a place, according to the inquiry of people with a heart, Dalian Sheng has the power of the military behind it. Since ancient times, there has been a saying about the official and business family, and it is not surprising that Dalian Sheng has such a background, but Xu Shen is arrogant and domineering, and his reputation in the Yunnan business community is not very good.

"Old man Xue, you are really early enough, I will go to your Xiangbao for nothing" Xu Shen still has a trace of awe for an old fox in the business world like Xue Wancheng, although Xu Shen has the background of the latter's military, but Xiangbao is also a well-known business name in Kunming City, and people also have official relationships, so when Xu Shen saw Xue Wancheng, he had to make a respectful look.

"Brother Xu, we have just arrived" Xue Wancheng was a little uninterested in Xu Shen's accosting, but just concentrated on dealing with the chicken soup fans in the bowl, and the one who answered the conversation was the young man sitting on Xue Wancheng's left, Xue Wancheng's nephew Xue Qiang. Seeing that Xue Wancheng was unwilling to take care of himself, Xu Shen's chest felt stuffy for a while, there were so many people in the teahouse, and he couldn't turn his face on the spot, so he had to nod at Xue Qiang, and sat on the table next to Xue Wancheng with his woman and bodyguard.

Xiangbao and Dalian Sheng do not deal with each other, many merchants in the teahouse know that there are silent merchants who silently support Xiangbao, and there are also guys who are secretly waiting to see the jokes. "Shopkeeper Yanlong, have you all arrived?" When the merchants in the teahouse had almost eaten breakfast, a few sturdy men came in from outside, and the man in black who walked in the lead called Yan Long, the shopkeeper of the Beishi teahouse, and this gathering of merchants was convened by the shopkeeper of the teahouse.

"Everyone, today to convene all the businesses to drink tea here, is the brother has some business needs help, in business, if you are interested in the brother's business, let's negotiate the price here and sign the contract" The man in black clasped his fists with both hands and saluted the merchants in the teahouse, "You are all reputable merchants in Wan Town, I won't say much nonsense, I need to transport a batch of materials from Myanmar back to China, about 300 trucks with a load of 3 tons, the time is three months, you provide vehicles and drivers, We provide oil, freight is calculated separately"

"This shopkeeper, then you have to tell us what is transported? We don't do anything illegal, but the British in Myanmar are not very easy to talk to: "The most in Wan Town is trucks, more than dozens of material transportation companies have offices in Wan Town, and a large number of trucks pulling materials travel between Myanmar and Kunming every day. If the merchants here band together and assemble 300 trucks, there is no problem at all, but some people are worried that this business of the man in black will cause trouble.

"You have a heart, we are all law-abiding people, naturally we will not do those things that are roosters and dogs" The man in black took out a cashier's note from Citibank directly from his arms and held it in his hand, "You are only responsible for providing vehicles to help us transport supplies, all the materials are concentrated in Mandalay, we will have people along the way to provide protection for your convoy, you only need to transport all the materials to Wan Town, now you can get a 10% deposit when you sign a contract, and the cash on delivery will never be in arrears"

If it's just to help transport materials, this business is indeed very good, especially with the adjustment of freight rates after the year, those guys who run the transportation company have made a lot of money, and the merchants in the teahouse looked at the cashier's check in the hand of the man, and each calculated the number of trucks they could find in their hearts. "We have taken over this business in Dalian, five days, as long as you give me five days, I can transfer 300 trucks from Kunming" It was Xu Shen who spoke, Xu Shen couldn't look down on this kind of transportation business, but he saw that Xue Wancheng seemed to be about to open his mouth to deal with this business, so he hurriedly shouted out.

"Shopkeeper Xu, let's talk about it first, I don't care what kind of car you get, as long as you take over our business, you must complete it, otherwise my boss will have a lot of explanations" The man in black saw that Xu Shen was so trusted, so he reminded him that the business competition between Dalian Sheng and Xiangbao has long been not news in Wan Town, but if this Xu Shen spoils his boss's plan in order to vent his personal anger, then this guy will be unlucky.

"Joke, I have kept my promise to speak in Liansheng, and you will wait for my convoy in five days" Xu Shen did not appreciate it, and only signed and stamped the contract brought by the man in black. Xu Shen's brother-in-law is the commander of Kunming City Defense, and Dalian Sheng doesn't have so many trucks, but there are in the army, and Xu Shen hit his brother-in-law with the idea. Xu Shen, who got a deposit of one percent after signing the contract, looked at Xue Wancheng and the three of them sitting next to him with a provocative look, snorted heavily in his nose, and left in a hurry with his woman and bodyguards, he wanted to rush back to Kunming to organize the convoy.

"Don't worry, the show is ahead, the surname Xu picked the sesame seeds and lost the watermelon" Xue Wancheng stopped the two nephews who were thundering, and still whispered and laughed with the merchants around him with a smile on his face, and did not take Xu Shen's provocation to heart. The old and strong Xue Wancheng has been tossing in the business field for decades, how can the concentration in his chest be comparable to that of an impetuous guy like Xu Shen, looking at the tone of the man in black, the business in his hand is definitely not only the one just now, according to the law of business, the big head will generally be placed behind.

Xue Wancheng's judgment will not be wrong, after Xu Shen left the Beishi teahouse, the man in black threw out the business of bulk grain and bulk cloth procurement, according to the scale of people's procurement, a time-honored brand like Xiangbao could not eat alone, Xue Wancheng considered it for a long time, and united three time-honored businesses to eat the business of food supply, and the cloth supply was jointly eaten by several other businesses. Xue Wancheng took a stake in the grain supply business, which brought more than ten times the profit to Xiangbao than Xu Shen's transportation business.