This traveler only wants to choose the lowest difficulty

Chapter 285 Collapse across the board
In the Niu family's house in Shanzhou City, Niu Jichang was sitting in the middle of the lobby, looking at each other with several businessmen. Originally, they all looked high-spirited, but in just one month, these people have become a little lost. Niu Jichang's originally meticulous attitude His hair, now visibly mixed with a few white hairs, turned into mottled gray hair. His originally delicate and straight beard was now messy, and his eyes were filled with red bloodshot eyes. Niu Jichang held a The tea bowl was not brought to the mouth for a long time, and everyone waited with bated breath.

A trace of footsteps broke the deathly silence in the room, the door was pushed open, and Cen Bingqian walked in quickly.

"Come out?" Niu Jichang couldn't help asking, and all the businessmen looked in Cen Bingqian's direction, and Cen Bingqian nodded.

"How much?" Niu Jichang asked quickly.

"The number has been calculated. In the past month or so, we have purchased more than 30 packages of green Xining in the military warehouse in Longxi. Each package costs 9000 yuan, here is 4000 taels, and there are other grades of 5000 taels Cigarettes, all the cigarettes in Wang's Manor have not been delivered yet, and there will be tens of thousands of packs that will arrive later, so the cost of purchasing cigarettes for our army this year is about [-] taels."

5000 taels?Hearing this amount, Niu Jichang and all the businessmen took a deep breath.

The same idea rose in everyone's mind at the same time: this time their business is completely over.

When cigarettes first appeared in the Tang army, Niu Jichang and the merchants expected that the army would not be able to accept this strange addictive product. Cigarettes could not replace the role of alcohol in the army in a short time.Unexpectedly, as cigarettes entered the Tang army, the trend of smoking would soon spread throughout the Tang army.

Niu Jichang could see with the naked eye that there were more and more people smoking in his Zhechong mansion. Everyone was discussing the types and flavors of cigarettes and competing for the grades of cigarettes. Hou Junji's marching chief yamen also unabashedly promoted cigarettes. Alternative to the alcohol policy, there is no mercy in the cleanup of alcohol in the military.

Under the oppression of two forces, the demand for alcohol in the military has decreased visibly with the naked eye.Niu Jichang has nothing to do about this trend.It was not until today that Niu Jichang asked Cen Bingqian to obtain the corresponding amount for this year's military procurement after a full month of purchasing cigarettes in the military.He originally expected that the output of Wangjiazhuangzi would not be able to meet Tang Jun's demand for cigarettes, but he did not expect that the final figure was as high as more than 1 taels.

Niu Jichang and the others had already calculated that the amount of drinks purchased for the 4 Tang troops in Longxi each year could be around 1 taels at the end of the month, but the price of cigarettes was much lower for the same consumption amount, and more than [-] taels of cigarettes were enough to supply Longxi's [-] soldiers have been pumped for three months, and they have spent the entire autumn training period.

Hearing the news, all the businessmen looked at Niu Jichang, who saw Niu Jichang sitting on a chair for a long time, gnashing his teeth.

He really feels powerless towards Wang Dong now.

Wang Dong built a village outside the city. Originally, Niu Jichang was on guard against the fact that he would grow grain to impact the grain market in Shanzhou, which would bring them a little loss in the military food and wine business, but in his opinion, the loss was only a few hundred. The size of the two is only two, and Niu Jichang was afraid that it would affect his own profit, but he didn't expect that Wang Dong had been busy in Zhuangzi for several months, and finally he almost took over their entire wine business in Longxi.This was simply killing him, but he had Hou Junji as his backer, so he had nothing to do with him.

"Walking on the road, a ghost suddenly popped up!" Niu Jichang frowned for a long time, and couldn't help but said viciously while holding the arm of the chair.

"My lord, what should we do next? Are those drinks shipped or not?" When Niu Jichang lost his temper, the fat businessman on the side also asked in a low voice. A month ago, he was still a doughty rich man, but now the expression on his face However, the fat has disappeared visibly to the naked eye, and even Bangzi's cheeks are a little sunken, obviously tortured by the change in the consumption trend of fast-moving consumer goods among Tang Jun this month.

"Why don't we use some tricks? Master Li has been in Longxi for so many years..." The skinny businessman next to him quietly had an idea, and Niu Jichang glared at him, "Hmph! Hou Junji! What can we do about this?" He yelled so hard that all the merchants dared not speak, and just looked at him helplessly with their eyes open.

Niu Jichang stood up and walked for a long time, and finally his eyes full of anger gradually went out. He stood in front of the window, the sunlight came in through the window, and a long shadow was drawn on the ground. The shadow shook, and Niu Jichang sighed.

He knew that the real behind-the-scenes driver of this matter was Hou Junji. Hou Junji wanted to get involved in Tang Jun's fast-moving consumer goods trade. This was something they couldn't resist because of their identities. The only turning point they could hope for was to find their own Li Junji. envy.

"Brothers, I trouble you to go inside the customs and tell Lord Li the truth." Hearing that Zhongshan people were a little anxious, the skinny businessman couldn't help but said: "My lord, why don't we just do nothing? If this matter is reported to us for our achievements in Longxi in the past few years..."

Niu Jichang took a deep breath, his face full of helplessness. Originally, he only needed to do a good job of this trade this year to be promoted and make a fortune in the coming year, but he didn't expect that all of this would be ruined by Wang Dong, but facing Wang Dong who had Hou Junji as his backer, He's really powerless.

"I can't do anything..." In the end, Niu Jichang could only let out a long sigh. He was completely defeated in this round of competition, and he didn't even have a head-to-head confrontation. Even if Wang Hui handed him a cigarette, their side collapsed.Now the only turning point can only depend on Li Junxian's attitude, and even Niu Jichang on Li Junxian's side has no hope. This is a real struggle of interests, and it cannot be resolved by face in the officialdom , even if it is Li Junxian, it is impossible for Hou Junji to spit out the fat in his mouth...

At the other end of Shanzhou City, Wang Dong got off the carriage in the Wang family's house.The newly purchased carriage and the hired coachman hurriedly sent the magnificent carriage to the stables behind. At the side, He Luo, who was wearing a brocade robe, quickly picked up a lot of exquisitely packaged gift boxes from the carriage and joined the high-spirited Wang Dong. Enter the house.

For more than a month, cigarettes have been sold to Tang Jun, plus the retail sales have reached about 2 taels, and the direct profit has reached as much as 8000 million taels if the part that Tang Jun has not yet settled is included. After paying 5000% of the dividends to Hou Junji, Wang Dong still has more than 5000 taels left, and this is what happened in the first half of the year when he came to Zhenguan. More than [-] taels of income.

(End of this chapter)