Daming talker

Chapter 339 The inside story of the salt industry (please vote for me!)

After thinking about it again and again, Lu Junbi decided to be a human being and advised Lin Daguan: "Even if you don't get five thousand leads, Lin's salt industry can still survive at present, so why do you have to be so unscrupulous?"

It's a bit too much to take it apart and snatch it away after you've slept with it.

Official Lin didn't understand at first why Lu Xiucai persuaded him to give up fighting for a new nest, but after thinking about it carefully, he suddenly came back to his senses.

"What kind of person do you think I am?" Lin Daguan asked, "Am I the kind of villain who steals wives?"

Lu Junbi thought of Mrs. Fan who gave birth to Lin Daguan's eldest son. Does this count as taking someone else's wife?
He changed his angle again and advised tactfully: "If a woman like Wu Tian comes forward to admit her family, it will cause huge controversy."

Lin Daguan replied nonchalantly: "It is only when there is controversy that we can stir up trouble! What we need is controversy, otherwise we wouldn't use the Wu Tian clan!"

Lu Xiucai kept hearing about "picking quarrels and provoking troubles" today. He really didn't know if Lin Daguan had any business ideas.I couldn't help but say: "When doing business, you still have to pay attention to being friendly and making money."

Lin Tailai responded: "If harmony is important to make money, then the forcibly rented salt should be returned to the original owner, and you, the big shopkeeper, go back to study and continue studying. What do you think?"

Lu Junbi immediately woke up and replied: "That can't be done."

As the big shopkeeper of the salt industry who controls the operation of 1 salt quotas, he only has status in Yangzhou city. Otherwise, how many people would know him as a young scholar?
After that, Lin Tai talked about his future plans. After hearing this, Lu Junbi could only sigh with emotion. He thought that he wanted to be a non-human being by sitting in the restaurant, but he didn't expect that he would be even less human.

A beautiful young woman like Wu Tianshi only wants to be used as a disposable tool.

Then according to the instructions, Lu Junbi sent people to find Wu Deng and Wu Tianshi.

Lin Tailai, on the other hand, went to Wang's house with great fanfare and paid a visit to Yuan Wang.

Wang Yuanwai, a well-known "anti-Lin righteous man" in Yangzhou City, met with very low standards in the front hall without even offering tea.

After Senior Official Lin sat down, he said in a pleasant manner: "Brother Wang! I haven't seen you for half a year. How are you doing?"

Wang Yuanwai's face suddenly darkened and he asked, "Is it appropriate for you to call me this name?"

Lin Tailai explained: "Both Wang Situ and I are brothers, so what if we call you Brother Wang?"
In fact, the issue of title doesn’t matter, let’s just discuss it on its own! "

After Wang Yuanwai finished his mental construction, he replied: "Thanks to you, I feel quite comfortable recently."

Now, relying on his personality and reputation, he has evolved from a pure businessman to a business leader.

There are often twenty or thirty small and medium-sized salt merchants gathered around him, becoming new leaders in the industry besides Zheng Yuanwai and General Manager Sun who cannot be ignored.

Even the funds required for literary conferences were given to him to raise funds, which was a symbol of his status in the industry.

Of course, we have to admit that without Lin Tailai as a "villain", Wang Yuanwai would not be where he is today.

"I have sacrificed a lot for you." Lin Daguanren's main purpose today was not PUA, so he immediately asked: "As for the five thousand new nests, have you big salt merchants already made an internal decision?"

Lin Tailai knows that the trend of Yangzhou's salt industry is definitely becoming more and more monopolistic. The big salt merchants are becoming more and more like oligarchs in the industry and can directly control most of the internal affairs of the industry.

What he is doing now is to seize and control more assets and enter the ranks of the oligarchs.

Wang Yuanwai was not surprised that Lin Tailai could guess the inside story. He nodded and said:
"These [-] new nests will be given to Zheng Zhiyan. After all, he lost control of the [-] nests last year, and his momentum is not as good as before. He urgently needs to make up for the loss. After all, salt merchants rely on the number of nests in their hands to speak for themselves."

"Will the Western merchants give it to him?" Lin Daguan asked again.

Wang Yuanwai then replied: "Zheng Zhiyan privately leased two thousand Yin nests to General Manager Sun of the Western merchants and promised to completely abandon the Yin area in Henan Province."

This is one of the reasons why Lin Daguan and others praised Wang Yuanwai for his promotion. Otherwise, how could he know these inside information?
Now Wang Yuanwai is equivalent to a high-level undercover lurking in the salt industry.

However, Lin Daguan still deliberately made a "suspicious" look and said suspiciously to Wang Yuanwai:

"How did you know about the secret deal between them? Did they collude together to deceive me?"

Wang Yuanwai said angrily: "No matter how they deal with each other, they must communicate with me! Otherwise, there will be no tacit understanding, and I may compete for new entrants and cause trouble to Zheng Zhiyan.

So Zheng Zhiyan had to say hello to me and explain the situation clearly to avoid misunderstanding. "

Lin Daguan continued to be suspicious and said: "Then why don't you fight for the newly released five thousand Yinwo? Just give it to Zheng Zhiyan for nothing?"

Wang Yuanwai said angrily: "Are you interrogating the prisoner?"

Lin Daguan laughed and said: "After all, I am a newcomer in the industry. I just want to know more about the situation."

Wang Yuanwai swallowed his anger like a subordinate and explained: "First of all, my reputation mainly comes from my image of loyalty, so some colleagues are willing to team up with me.

And Zheng Zhiyan is an old acquaintance of mine from the same hometown. Now Zheng Zhiyan is in urgent need of recovery after suffering a heavy blow. If I insist on not giving in, how can I maintain my reputation? "

Lin Daguan expressed his understanding. In this era, the loyalty of fellow villagers was very important, and Wang Yuanwai was kidnapped by morality.

Wang Yuanwai continued to explain: "Secondly, in the past two years, Zheng Zhiyan has a close relationship with the Salt Transportation Department, so he should give way.

This time the Western merchants gave in to Zheng Zhiyan, and it was not without the Salt Transportation Department.

If the Salt Transportation Department is replaced by a Northerner in the future and has a good relationship with the Western merchants, then Zheng Zhiyan will also give way to the Western merchants. This is the default unspoken rule of the industry. "

Lin Daguan said with emotion: "Ordinary people only see that Huizhou merchants and Western merchants are clearly distinct and often fight openly and secretly, but they did not expect that there is such a tacit understanding between you big salt merchants.

This is called class being greater than region. The interests of you big salt merchants are the same, and other small salt merchants are not even qualified to serve on the table. "

Wang Yuanwai also reminded: “According to the usual practice, the Salt Transportation Department will summon registered salt merchants and issue quotations in the form of bidding.

If you make a move during bidding, your chances are still slim.In the face of the tacit understanding formed between the Salt Transportation Department and our salt merchants, you, an outsider, cannot compete with us. "

Official Lin sneered: "How can I, Lin Tailai, act according to your rules? No matter how much money you salt merchants have, they are just a frog in the well!"

After that, the servants and attendants standing outside the hall felt that a fierce quarrel broke out in the hall, accompanied by the sounds of slapping the table and throwing cups.

Then they saw Official Lin leaving the Wang Mansion angrily.

Then rumors spread, saying that Lin Tailai threatened Wang Yuanwai and asked Wang Yuanwai to help fight for [-] new nests, but Wang Yuanwai, who understood the righteousness of the matter, sternly refused.

Official Lin returned to the mansion and found Wu Tianshi already waiting.

"Why are you alone?" Lin Daguan asked, "Didn't I ask you and your wife to come together?"

Wu Tianshi lowered her head and replied: "My husband has gone to the salt field to do some business, so I have to come by myself."

Lin Daguan said dissatisfiedly: "I asked your husband to be the second shopkeeper, which can be regarded as trustworthy. He did a lot of smuggling in private and didn't care about him, but he always deliberately alienated me, and this time he disappeared with excuses! "

Next to him, Lu Junbi saw it most clearly. He wanted to clear up this misunderstanding to Lin Daguan. Shopkeeper Wu Er thought that Lin Zaituan had slept with Wu Tianshi, so he thought in his mind that he was using the name of Lin's salt industry to smuggle goods. As compensation, it’s not too much, right?
Besides, a normal man wouldn't be able to meet Mr. Lin Daguan without any psychological barriers in this situation, right?

"Don't talk about your husband!" Lin Daguan said to Wu Tianshi again: "This time there is something that needs you, and you have to show your face again. Come with me to the Salt Transportation Department in a few days!"

Wu Tianshi replied very respectfully: "The high officials are as kind to me as a mountain, and I should do my best to repay you."

Um?Lu Junbi, as an outstanding student who could enter the government school, was very sensitive to words.

What Wu Tian said just now was "The high official is as kind as a mountain to me", not "The high official is as kind as a mountain to my family".

At first glance, there seems to be little difference between the two rhetorics.But if you think about the meaning carefully, it is quite different.

Is there something inside that I shouldn't care about?
　I had a lot of mistakes in the first two days, and I missed the golden period for monthly voting. I have no choice but to catch up. Please help me vote. I will continue writing after lunch!
　　
　
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