Chasing Ling Jian and Picking Acacia

The steward brought a middle-aged man to Jin Ling, "Patriarch, he is the one who put up the logo of the Lan family.

The firm directly under the management of the Jin family actually betrayed!Jin Ling angrily threw the account book in front of him, "Why did you do this!"

The man said confidently, "Now everyone recognizes the Lan family. The order of the company has doubled compared to before, and it has been more than half a month. I still have a family to support."

The steward asked sharply, "Those old customers are still here. If you raise the price privately, if the old customers don't agree, you just give them the leftovers, and leave the best goods to the rich government. If not, how can the orders be reduced!"

"In business, making money is the first priority. Now half of the raw materials for the goods are monopolized by Lanjia. If I don't display the Lanjia logo and buy raw materials through normal channels, the profit will not be enough to cover the cost."

"Enough." Jin Ling looked at the man coldly, "If you don't remove the Lan Family logo, you don't want to be this boss anymore."

The man yelled red-faced, "You think I want to do it? What do you, a high-ranking patriarch, know? If you have the ability, don't take it out on us, go to Lan's house and tell me!"

"I'm really blind to give the business name to a snob like you."

The manager dragged the man out, Jin Ling gritted his teeth, and thumped the table, Lan Sizhui, you really have a good strategy!

"Where are you going?" The steward came back and saw Jin Ling putting on his hat and preparing to go out.

Jin Ling picked up the account book, "Come with me, go to the raw material supplier, see if you can get them not to raise the price, and choose a few treasures from the warehouse to bring over."

"Patriarch..." Jin Ling rubbed his forehead wearily, "Don't talk too much, just do it."

"Sizhui, now there are more and more rumors that are not good for the Lan family, do we really want to monopolize raw materials?"

The tall, dark man in front of him is Wei Shun, he is a friend he made in Nanman. Although Nanman is remote, there are many people who know how to do business.

The Lan family basically didn't know how to do business. Lan Sizhui went to the barbarians a few years ago and rescued Wei Shun from the murderers. Later, he found out that Wei Shun was an experienced merchant.

When Wei Shun first heard that Lan Sizhui wanted to develop a business, he proposed to increase the reputation of the Lan family first, so that some small sects could voluntarily convert and obtain their stores.

Then open up the official road and attract other big sects, but you can't do it too directly, first use the guise of cooperation to expand the blue family logo.

Marriage with the imperial court was originally a good way to stabilize the official career, but Lan Sizhui took the risk and snuffed out this career path.

If the government hadn't taken a fancy to the Jianghu sect market and tasted the benefits of cooperating with the Lan family, the official career would have been impossible to maintain.

He didn't understand more and more what Lan Sizhui wanted to do, to monopolize raw materials, in other words, to force the company to compromise with the Lan family.

Since he wanted to be a bad guy, at least he would treat everyone equally, but Lan Sizhui did not raise prices to other sects, but only raised prices to Lanling Jin's, which caused the Jin family's firm to complain.

"What did they say outside?"

Wei Shun told the truth, "The Jin family's firm said everywhere that the Lan family was ambitious, but the superficial cooperation was actually to annex them. They also said that the Jin family was only the first step in the Lan family's conspiracy, which caused other sects to panic."

Lan Sizhui nodded, "Continue to monopolize, if the Jin family's business name does not compromise, continue to raise prices."

Wei Shun's eyes widened, feeling unbelievable, he thought Lan Sizhui would give up persecuting the Jin family, "Sizhui, do you really want to swallow the Lanling Jin family?"

"No, I have my reasons for doing this."

"Jiazun!" Wei Shun felt a headache when he heard this voice, Lan Sizhui laughed, "You better get out of the way."

Wei Shun didn't care about asking any more, and hurriedly jumped out of the window. Almost at the same time, the door of the study was pushed open, and a very delicate-looking little boy rushed in.

"Jin Heng, don't shout so loudly in Yunshen, you will be punished if you are caught."

Seeing Jin Heng's angry look, Lan Sizhui already guessed the reason, and asked gently, "Did you see Dad?"

Jin Heng said happily and angrily, "I see, Dad looks even better than what you drew. But Dad looks so tired. I hid on the roof and saw Dad gave that old man a lot of things."

Lan SiZhui patted Jin Heng's head, "Did you bother Father?"

Jin Heng threw himself into Lan Sizhui's arms, "No, you told me not to meet Father so early, so I resisted going."

Lan Sizhui hugged Jin Heng, "Are you angry because of this?"

"No."

"why?"

"I heard that it was you who asked those bosses to raise the price, which is why Dad's business has problems. Why did you do this!"

Lan Sizhui didn't answer directly, but looked into Jin Heng's eyes, "Do you want Father to hug you like I do?"

Jin Heng sniffed, "Of course I do."

"Then don't be angry, go to practice hard, you don't want Dad to be disappointed when he sees you."

"I don't want to." Jin Heng wrinkled his face and got off Lan Sizhui, "Then I'm going to practice."

"Don't always trouble Wei Shun, you know?"

"I know~"

Lan Sizhui shook his head with a smile, looked at Jin Heng's leaving back, and recalled ten years ago.

...

One day Wei Shun came back with a dirty baby in his arms, saying that it was abandoned by a flower girl on the side of the road.

There are many flower houses in Nanban, where there are local women and women of other races.Because of frequent wars, their heads may fall off at any time, so many men do not have a family, and when their desire comes, they go to Hualou.

Lan Sizhui wiped off the ashes on the baby's face with his hands, and when he saw the delicate and small facial features, a thought suddenly popped into his mind.

He named the baby Jin Heng, taught him how to practice, taught him to read, pointed to Jin Ling's portrait and said to Jin Heng, "This is your father."

After Jin Heng became sensible, he imitated Jin Ling's tone and wrote letters to Jin Heng, one letter per month. Every time Jin Heng got a letter, he would happily let him read it.

When Jin Heng was five years old, he asked about his life experience.He didn't want to hide the fact, so he told the truth, "Your biological parents abandoned you when you were just born."

When Jin Heng heard this, he was very sad, cried for a long time, and kept asking him, "Why don't they want me?"

"I want you, and your father also wants you. You see, father keeps writing to you because I told him how cute and obedient Jin Heng is."

"Then why daddy hasn't come to see me?"

"Yes, he will see you, just wait."

...

There was a wind blowing outside the window, Lan Sizhui closed the window, sat back at the desk, picked up the thick account book again, and flipped through it page by page.