Three Kingdoms: Stealing the Tiger Talisman and forcing Yuan Shao to become a monk

Chapter 389 Xuzhou Commercial Affairs Uneasy
"As I said before, if brother Xian is willing to pay the price, I, Liu Laosan, will be the master and eat all of brother Xian's goods."

"Everything is at this price! Boss Liu, don't bully people too much. Although our brothers are foreign merchants, Qihou's business and administration also know that if you sell cloth and pottery, they are all subsidized. You are suppressing us. The price, one side will receive the subsidy when the time comes, and both ends will be eaten!"

"Hehe, it seems that Brother Xian didn't discuss it well? Why don't we talk about it in a few days?"

"Hey, Boss Liu, don't procrastinate any longer. Today you asked my grandson to come over to be a witness. I have seen your affairs these days. Don't blame my grandson for speaking straight. Your Boss Liu's price is It's too low..."

"This is not a place to talk, why don't the bosses follow me upstairs, Xiao Ke booked a private room upstairs, let's talk slowly..."

"Brother, why do you have to tell them so much, they just want to bully..."

Only halfway through the words, the younger traveling merchant was forced by his elder brother's eyes to swallow the rest of the words in his stomach. He could only get up sullenly, and followed his elder brother, together with the three local merchants. went upstairs.

……

In a rather luxuriously decorated teahouse in Xuzhou City, there were people coming and going in bright clothes, and there were a lot of discussions at the moment, as if there were a lot of guests.

Passersby in the past know that this teahouse is not an ordinary place. Although it does not sell alcohol, the tea it sells is of the highest quality, and the last time it costs [-] yuan a cup. place.

Those who can go in and have a bowl of tea are all famous people in Xuzhou's business circle, and they don't have a few thousand taels of silver or tens of thousands of coins. If they go in, they will find it for themselves.

What's especially valuable is that this teahouse not only sells the orthodox tea soup of the Han Dynasty, but even the new green tea created by Qihou.

As for businessmen, the first preference is to be arty, and the second preference is to climb the dragon and the phoenix. In short, whatever the superiors like, the merchants will try their best to find what they like.

Therefore, this teahouse also attracted many merchants who wanted to take advantage of it.

After all, although Qihou invented new tea, it has not yet been accepted by the Han people. As for the teahouse that specializes in selling clear tea, there is only one in Xuzhou.

Maybe the proprietor behind it is Qi Hou!

If I visit the door a few more times, just in case, and leave a little impression on Qihou, wouldn't that earn me more money than drinking tea?
But these ideas are just a little thought of those middle and lower class businessmen.

For those big merchants who really have the right to speak in Xuzhou's business world, Dong Weng behind this teahouse has no secrets, he is just an ordinary teahouse owner.

It's just that he has a business mind, Qihou likes clear tea, so he tried his best to buy a few servants from Qihou's mansion, and learned how to fry tea and brew clear tea.

I opened this tea house by myself, but I didn’t expect the business to be really good. However, there are not many people who drink clear tea, and more people order a bowl of tea soup and refreshments. I invite a few colleagues to chat together and wonder if there is anything new recently. It's just a good fortune.

Of course, such words cannot be spoken in public, so in addition to the scattered seats, private rooms are also specially set up in the teahouse.

Not only is it covered by a screen, but the sound insulation is good enough for guests to talk at ease without worrying about being eavesdropped.

This kind of arrangement naturally attracted more merchants to pursue it, so the reputation of Mi's Tea House gradually grew as more and more merchants traveled to and from Xuzhou.

It is not uncommon for some newcomers to Xuzhou to come to this Mi's tea house to drink a bowl of tea and inquire about some news.

However, there are too many people coming and going here, and there are too many people talking, and there may be quarrels if some words are offensive. Fortunately, everyone is a businessman and understands the principle of making money with kindness.

Just like the little quarrel before, it will soon disappear into nothingness.

The owner of the teahouse was also used to such quarrels, so he didn't take it seriously. Three of the five merchants at the table were local merchants in Xuzhou. He was also a regular customer in this Mi's teahouse, and he recognized them all.

As for the two strangers, they only came in the past few days, and they came to this Mi's teahouse to pay homage to the mountains and look for business routes. Several quarrels.

After all, colleagues are enemies, and the capital of the traveling merchant brothers is not much after all, and they can't compete with the three local merchants. Today is to make the final agreement.

Either the pair of wandering merchant brothers gave out the cloth and pottery in their hands to Liu and Sun in one go, and the boss of the Wang family who had been silent all the time, earned a profit, left Xuzhou, and then thought of a new way.

Either there is no profit at all, and as many goods as you bring, you can take as many goods as you want, and you don’t even want to sell a piece of pottery and cloth.

This kind of thing is obviously that the three households of Liu, Sun and Wang are bullying outsiders, but this kind of thing is common.

Now it's settled, at least the traveling merchant brothers can still get a penny of profit. Even if they don't deserve it, they can still take the goods out of Xuzhou and sell them elsewhere.

If it was changed to before, perhaps these three families would have to find some relationship with the government, and directly detain the pair of brothers and their goods together, that would be truly ruthless.

In the teahouse, it was still noisy. Five businessmen went upstairs without attracting many people's attention.

Even the owner of the teahouse, who had been sitting behind the counter, just let out a breath of foul air, lamenting Qihou Yuan Tan's New Deal.

He squinted his eyes, as if he didn't pay attention to the movements of the five businessmen.

The second floor of Mi's Teahouse.

The few guests who had quarreled before had expressions of resentment or sneer on their faces, but after entering the private room.

Everyone's expressions changed.

The wandering merchant brothers who were originally low-key, a bit low-key and small-minded, suddenly changed their momentum, revealing the vigor of the battlefield that has survived a hundred battles.

As for the three Xuzhou landlords, each of them was fidgeting. Looking at the traveling businessmen opposite, they didn't know how to speak for a while.

In the end, it was Boss Liu who had a rather loud voice who spoke first, but now his voice is not so loud. Instead, he looked cautious and said cautiously: "My lords, why did you suddenly come to Xuzhou?"

The traveling merchant brothers who called themselves Li Er and Li San looked at Boss Liu with a look of fear, and then looked at the other two merchants sitting on the ground who looked eager to escape from the private room now.

A mocking sneer rose from the corner of Li San's mouth: "Boss Liu, and the other two bosses, why, after staying in Xuzhou for a year, have you forgotten your identity? If I remember correctly, the Prime Minister has sent a letter since last month , tell the three of you what to do."

When Li San made it clear, the three land dealers suddenly became restless, just as Li San said.

As early as June, Cao Cao had already wanted to get Xuzhou armor from Xuzhou.

After all, there is an irreconcilable relationship between Cao Wei and the Yuan family in Hebei, even if Yuan Tan wants to sell Xuzhou Kai to Cao Cao.

Taking into account Yuan Shao's emotions, it is impossible to openly sell Xuzhou armor to Cao Wei.

So Cao Cao made up his mind from the very beginning, to start with the spies in Xuzhou, and try to find a way to smuggle a batch of Xuzhou armor from the General Zuoyuan.

This matter, Cao Wei is not a precedent, whether it is Sun Ce or Liu Biao, after tasting the sweetness of Xuzhou Kai, they have more or less made similar attempts.

But... just because there is already a precedent, these three spies of Cao Wei who stayed in Xuzhou will be restless at this moment!

(End of this chapter)