Fight the Giants

  Gong Ziyi followed to watch the excitement, his eyes were very hot.

   "Are you going to Nanyang next year?"

  Huo Xi looked at him: "It's not what I thought, is it?"

  Gong Ziyi raised his eyebrows: "What do you think?"

Huo Xi smiled: "I didn't think about it. However, you'd better not even think about it. As an heir to the salt merchant, you can just stay in the country, eat in bed, eat in vain, and die. Don't do things that are unrealistic dream."

   "Why is it an unrealistic dream?"

"Of course it's unrealistic. Your family has a big business, and it's not that there is no one in the family. How could you let a young boss run out to sea? If you are careless, no one can come back. You are not afraid that the family business will be swallowed up by your concubines." Already?"

  Gong Ziyi was silent.

  Sigh secretly. He yearns for a vast world, hoping to travel and see every inch of the beautiful scenery in the country. Now that I hear about the customs of overseas countries, I am thinking about it again. But he knew that his family would not allow him to go to sea.

  Maybe in the future when he becomes the head of the family, he will be able to decide what he wants to do.

   Packed up his emotions, looked at Huo Xi, and jokingly said: "Remember my family affairs, remember so clearly, what are your plans?"

ah? I have a good memory, is there something wrong?

   Seeing Huo Xi staring at her with round eyes, Gong Ziyi covered her big eyes with his hands in a funny way.

  Huo Xi didn't pay attention, his eyes were covered by him.

   Unaccustomed to the darkness, he blinked his eyes. The long eyelashes brushed and brushed in Gong Ziyi's palm, tickling his mind.

  Seeing that he didn't let go of his hand, Huo Xi directly pulled his hand off and bared his teeth at him: "Why? Take advantage of me!"

   Gong Ziyi's face turned red. He turned around quickly, his ears burning with heat.

  Huo Xi was puzzled for a while. Why is this eldest young master acting strange recently? Tsk tsk, it seems that yin and yang are out of balance.

  Seeing that he still ran away, he ignored it, and just went to the shop to take inventory of the goods brought back from Nanyang, and discussed with Yang Fu and several shopkeepers and managers to arrange where to deliver and sell them.

   Most of the precious jewelry, spices, and handicraft decorations were packed and handed over to Langguang Pavilion. For the rest, pick and choose, arrange to ship in two shops.

   And send it to the shops in each city. Now the other four have brought back a large amount of goods, and they are all piled up in the capital, fearing that they will not be able to sell at a high price.

   Many well-informed merchants, those who are unable to go to sea, also keep an eye on them and come to buy one after another. Ready to be shipped to distant places for sale.

  As long as the price is right, Huo Xi will sell it. Such a bulk shipment is less profitable than retail sales, but it also collects funds quickly and does not occupy labor and other costs.

   In two months, Dongyang's ship will be back. I am afraid that the goods will pile up, so it is better to collect funds. On the other hand, it can also strengthen closer cooperation with various businesses.

  Since going overseas with the ship, Wanjia Timber Co. opened a shop in the capital.

   But Wanjia has a lot of clan members, and the other four are single-family businesses. Only Wanjia's goods are part of the fight of people from various clans. Now that the goods have been shipped back, the Wan family members work independently and compete, and the prices are also very chaotic.

  Huo Xi had a headache.

   Decisively kept some of their own goods in the warehouse, and handed over the high-quality and rare goods to Langguang Pavilion. The other part is sent to other shops, and some are shipped to other merchants in bulk.

   No longer messing with the Wanjia in the capital, those **** who can fight with their own people.

  The other three are also very annoying to Wanjia.

  But there is no way, the two boat purchases were all made by Wanjia, and it is not easy to do the thing of crossing the river and demolishing the bridge.

   As far as Patriarch Wan is concerned, he himself has a very headache.

  Since the goods were brought back, the clan members went to his house every day to ask for the explanation.

   "Patriarch, a catty of pepper and four houses only sell for four cents and five cents, which is so much lower than the market price, how can we sell it!"

   "It's my family's business to sell it for four cents and five cents. It's none of your business. I can make a lot of money if I sell it for four cents. I'm happy. If you want to sell it for five cents or six cents, just sell it."

  Master Wan had a headache: "There are five yuan per catty in the market. If you sell it too low, it will disturb the market price."

  The clansmen who sold it at a low price didn’t take it seriously, and the clansman who couldn’t sell it at a high price jumped around and quarreled endlessly.

   Before the price of one pepper was settled, the rest of the tribe who didn't take advantage came to make trouble again. "Patriarch, when will it be my family's turn?"

   "What's your turn? It was yours last year, and your family is not happy. I'm afraid I won't be able to come back after going to Nanyang. Now I'm jealous? If you want to line up, just go to the back and don't want to jump in line."

   Wanjia is very lively every day.

   When Wanjia sold the pepper to three cents and a half, Huo Xi found out about it.

  The pepper in her house can’t be sold anymore. Grinders can be found everywhere in Beijing.

  Huo Xi is so angry.

Immediately ask Shen Qianzhong to represent Guangfengshui, unite the Pei family, Langguang Pavilion, and Xin Jiutong, and the four families find the head of the Wan family and ask him to take care of the clan. His family cooperated.

  There are peppers that cost three cents and five cents a catty. Would others be so stupid as to buy pepper for four cents and five cents a catty?

   Now that a large amount of pepper is being shipped back, it is normal for you Wanjia to want to ship and collect funds, but don’t compete maliciously and do things that destroy market prices.

You Wanjia sold the price of pepper at a low price, and several of them will also sell at a lower price. Then they will be bought by other merchants at a low price to stock up. After this wave passes, pepper will be in short supply, and others will stock up. They have worked hard A trip to sea, all made wedding dresses for others.

"If the Wanjia competes like this, the four of us will follow suit, and when the price of your pepper is lowered to the lowest price, the four of us will join forces and buy them all. At that time, you Wanjia, don't blame the four of us for not talking about the old relationship. .”

   Patriarch Wan panicked.

   It's not a big deal to make less money. His family has also made a lot of money in the past two years. There are fewer serious timber businesses, and they only focus on the business going to sea.

  In case of being abandoned by the other four families, it is not impossible for his family to go to sea alone with its current ability, but one is that he dare not take such a big risk, and the other is that he is afraid of being suppressed by others.

  Family Master Wan finally dealt with it cruelly, cleaned up his clansmen, and gave Sijia countless smiles, and gave him a generous gift, so Sijia didn't care about him anymore.

   "Xi'er, let's go to Dongyang next year, don't go with Wan's family. And I know that his family is already secretly preparing a ship, and they are going to go to Dongyang by themselves." Yang Fu was quite annoyed.

  Going to Dongyang, whether starting from Ningbo or Taicang, is only about 1,600 miles away, which is closer than going to Guangzhou Port. All the merchants on the sea route to Dongyang have become familiar with it in the past few years.

   After running for two years without incident, every family is ready to move.

  Who doesn't want to make extra money? The imperial court changes every day, what if the sea is banned again?

  Huo Xi pondered for a while: "Wait for the Dongyang ship to come back and see what they think. It is estimated that not only our family wants to go to sea alone, let's not mention it, let them mention it first."

  Yang Fu nodded. Among the five families, Guangfengshui seems to be the weakest on the surface, unable to be the leader. It's still like what Xi'er said, keep a low profile, don't show your face, and make money quietly.

  Actually, Huo Xi didn't want to go to Dongyang exclusively.

  The Japanese pirates and ronin on the coast of the East are still very powerful in combat. If you want to go to Dongyang, you have to take Langguang Pavilion with you. Langguang Pavilion is staffed. Moreover, Langguangge also accounted for 20% of Guangfengshui's dry shares.

   I'm afraid the stingy young master will agree.

  Going to the Western and Nanyang Lines, she still dare not break up the team. It is estimated that those few did not dare. However, the Pei family had successful experience of going overseas exclusively, so if they split up, they might be willing to do so.