Chapter 104: The boss invites guests

What they lack is nothing more than the source of salt goods. Lianghuai salt merchants have strict control over the direction of salt goods. If Wenru Trading Company gets goods in their hands, the cost will be too high and they will not make much money at all. Therefore, going to Laizhou to buy salt silently is the best choice.

People will starve to death if they don’t eat, and they will also die of illness if they don’t eat salt. Traffic in troubled times is inconvenient, and the salt road is almost cut off, and the price of salt will also soar. Wenru Trading has made a fortune here.

However, if you want to continue making this fortune, it depends on Li Meng's attitude. When Li Meng controlled Laizhou, Wenru Trading Company could still collect salt in the Shijiu area of ​​Qingzhou. However, after Li Meng almost controlled the salt transactions in five prefectures in Shandong, this road would not work.

I can only negotiate the price with Li Meng every year, just like in Fengmeng Town, and then purchase salt goods. To put it bluntly, it is equivalent to the wealth control in Li Meng's hands.

Li Meng did it quite authentically and did not squeeze them out. After the price rose in the first year, it has been maintaining this price. Moreover, the system built by Li Meng had almost no loss on the way, and there were fewer things to beware of. It was better to calculate than before.

Since it is a win-win situation, Wenru Trading Company strongly supports Li Meng for whatever he wants to do. For example, if the speculation of green salt in Jiningzhou is not a cooperation without people familiar with the local situation, it will not be as effective. What makes Wenru Trading Company even happier is that almost everything that follows Li Meng is doing is profitable, which makes their attitude towards Li Meng much more friendly and warm.

When Li Meng came to Jining, the shopkeepers of Wenru's shops were warmly welcomed and specially held a banquet at Linfeng Building, the largest restaurant in Jining Prefecture, to welcome the crowd.

In this era, there is no need to worry about traveling. Li Meng also walked slowly and at ease. He also went there happily. In his understanding, Wenru Business is very feasted in northern Henan and sells some face in all aspects. Of course, there is an important reason why Li Meng goes to Jining. I hope that Wenru Business will help arrange it. If there is a guide to guide the way and some other care, it will be much easier to walk on the road.

The rioters and soldiers in Shaanxi were fighting bloodied, and several other local forces in Henan were mixed in. Whether you are an officer or a rioter, the background of the rioters is extremely risky, but Wenru Commercial Bank has taken much less attention to this aspect.

Throughout the dynasties, the Kong family in Qufu has been very transcendent. No matter who is in charge of the country, they always give preferential treatment to the Kong family in Qufu. After all, this is the descendant of the saints. China also regards Confucianism as its priest. Respecting the Kong family is equivalent to respecting scholars in the world, and this scholar is the foundation of the world. Therefore, when you make the Kong Mansion brand openly and secretly, everyone wants to sell some face. The Kong Mansion is everywhere, and the word "ritual" is emphasized, but the word "profit" is never given up. Not to mention, these hundreds of thousands of acres of land are involved in the shops and shops in Jiningzhou, and even the private salt transactions are involved.

It makes people think about what was Kong Lao Er who was traveling around the country back then...

The situation in Wenru Business is a bit special. In addition to being a shareholding by the Kong family, it also brought up the Meng family in Zoucheng. Although the Meng family only inherited a doctorate in Hanlin Five Classics, the Meng family is often relatively easy to learn. The family is often famous for their erudition and has a high status among literati.

This business has brought the Meng family into this regard, and it is always more convenient. The children of the Confucius and Mencius families are often busy here, and of course, they are the kind of children who are very unpromising.

On the Linfeng Tower, Li Meng has the highest status. The shopkeepers at all levels are respectful toasting. Li Meng is also extremely polite. After three sessions of drinking, the atmosphere of the banquet has risen. Li Meng and Kong Xi, the current shopkeeper of Wenru Trading, asked about this in a low voice.

Basically, we want to go to Henan once. Can you help arrange it? It is better to have some advice. Kong Xi was very embarrassed after hearing Li Meng's words. However, he couldn't say anything to refuse Li Meng's status, so he had to answer:

"Mr. Li, this matter is not something that can be decided. Anyway, I am not in a hurry to leave. I will ask my boss tonight and I will give you a reply. How about it?"

Li Meng had to agree that he was also engaged in a salt product business, so he naturally understood what the other party was embarrassed about. Private salt sales were nothing more than sources and channels. With salt, he had to find a buyer's house. The buyer's news was easy to see people, and the salt price could rise and fall too much. If another seller came to the buyer, as long as the salt price was reduced, it would be easy to pull people away.

Wenru Trading Company has all the relationships with these buyers in Henan. If these people are asked to entertain Li Meng, I am afraid that if Li Meng takes these buyers away, Wenru Trading Company will die. This private salt transaction in troubled times is so profitable, but she is unwilling to give it up so easily. Li Meng nodded and expressed his understanding. At this time, you will not believe anything you explain, but suddenly remembered something and asked:

"Oh? Master, is it Yan Shenggong?"

"Mr. Li was joking. Some of the people who are in their houses come out to manage these industries. These people can make the decision. Coincidentally, our boss is in another industry in Jiningzhou and will be able to give you a reply tomorrow."

Li Meng nodded with a smile, and it was noon that the guests and guests were having fun.

I went to my own Xiangyan Salt Shop to take a look. Although the Xiangyan Salt Skill was first created by Li Meng, it did not have many complicated tricks and was quickly imitated by others. Although Xiangyan's business is good now, it can only cost more than 1,000 taels of silver a year.

Most of the time, it exists as a transit station and procurement point in Jining Prefecture. For example, many of the materials required for muskets and gunpowder are purchased here.

In the evening, Li Meng went to Jining Yunhe again. This season, the canal was the best time. The riverside was still singing and dancing, and the scenery was peaceful. After wandering around, I went back to the inn arranged by Wenru Business Bank. This time, I didn’t meet an old man who wanted to jump into the river by the river.

The next morning, Li Meng discussed with the people from Xiangyan Store. If Wenru Trading Company is unwilling to help, he would ask his own shop to find the merchants to deal with. Although it is not as convenient as Wenru Trading Company, there is no difference. According to the Di News, the chaos in Henan is currently concentrated in several prefectures in the south. This time, it is mainly to go to several prefectures in the north, so there should be no big problem.

As a result, before noon, Wenru Trading Company sent a friend to send an invitation, saying that it was to invite Li Meng to a private house in the west of the city tonight. Wenru Trading Company's owner set up a private salt banquet for Lord Li. Li Meng was a little surprised and knew that the matter of arranging the guide should be a big problem, but it would be too serious to specialize in private banquets, and there must be other things to discuss.

When Li Meng saw the signature, he smiled and thought that the so-called descendants of the saints were too rustic. Called Kong Sande, it didn't seem to be ranked according to the generational passage.

The rich people in Jining City all pay attention to establishing industries in the west of the canal. There are several small mountains behind the canal. In summer, it is almost a natural garden scenery, which is very comfortable.

When it was almost dark at night, under the guidance of the shopkeeper of Wenru Trading Company, Li Meng and several followers rode horses and followed slowly. When they walked into the west of the city, they were all rich families with high walls and deep courtyards. Needless to say, carved beams and painted buildings, but the level of the place can be seen from the pavement surfaces being paved with bluestone slabs.

Obviously, the nightlife in Jining City has begun. Carriages, sedan chairs, and horses are in and out in this area where wealthy people live. Li Meng noticed that even the roles of servants dressed as servants and other servants dressed as servants, some have rosy faces and look very healthy. This is different from the small place like Jiaozhou City. Even in the so-called place where rich people live, you can see poor families with a good face.

I remember that in the Shanxi area of ​​Shaanxi, Henan and Shanxi, it is said that the poor people there were already ate dirt and eat people when they were most miserable, and the wealthy Jiangnan won many times more than Jining.

The gap between the rich and the poor is so great that the imperial decrees in the palace report are still added year by year, but the taxes are all added to the common farmers. However, the industrial and commercial industries operated by wealthy businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River are in the name of not competing for profit with the people, and the taxes are reduced less and less. Such natural disasters and man-made disasters are not messy or unrest. That is strange.

Although Li Meng was calm, Chen Liu and Wang Hai were visiting Jining for the first time, and the salt dings around him were similar. When he visited Jining City during the day, he felt that his eyes were not enough. When he came to such a quiet and wealthy place, he looked a little dumbfounded, which made the people in Wenru Store very despise.

While thinking and looking, I soon arrived at Kong Sande's other family. The direct descendants of the Kong family naturally lived in Qufu. The magistrate of Qufu County there was Yan Shenggong who served as the King of the Kong family. The place where the Kong family was king was much freer than outside, but there was also prosperity outside that Qufu did not exist.

Therefore, people with status are all engaged in a house and other places in a prosperous place, and eating, drinking, gambling, and assured. As soon as the shopkeeper of Wenru Trading Company reported, the housekeeper of Kong Sande's mansion quickly went out to greet him respectfully, said a few polite words, and said to the door. Then Li Meng saw a fat man shakingly walking out. As soon as he went out, he first clasped his fists and bowed his hands, with a smile on his face, and said politely:
Chapter completed!