Ming Dynasty: Evolution from snake to national guardian beast

Chapter 23 Free Coal

"Zhao Yan, do you know what you are doing?"

This person is clearly Zhao Yan, the owner of the store, from the Zhao family.

But Zhao Yan and Shopkeeper Sun had a bloody feud.

Shopkeeper Sun was the owner of a charcoal shop in Beiping Prefecture, and he was living a good life.

However, after Zhao Shitan took over Beiping, he bought all the charcoal shops in the city as he does now.

What he has to do is to use his strong funds to drive down his competitors at lower prices across from his competitors' stores.

There is a saying that cuts off other people's financial resources, which is equivalent to killing other people's parents.

Shopkeeper Sun suddenly went bankrupt under the pressure of Zhao Yan, and his originally happy life suddenly turned into poverty.

His mother and wife both starved to death, leaving only him and his only child, his six-year-old son.

If Prince Yan's Mansion hadn't taken a fancy to him, Shopkeeper Sun would have starved to death or froze to death.

Now that Zhao Yan had made another move, Shopkeeper Sun was even more furious and wanted to have a fight with Zhao Yan right away.

However, looking at Zhao Yan's appearance of not being afraid of death, Shopkeeper Sun suppressed his thoughts.

"Shopkeeper Sun can benefit the people, and Zhao will be happy to do so."

"It's just because the price is expensive that it is disliked by others, but it has nothing to do with me. I also ask shopkeeper Sun to reflect on himself."

"Now, you are still thinking of selling poisonous coal, which makes me very unhappy."

"I opened a shop here to warn the world not to be deceived by you."

"I would like to advise you, you'd better persuade the person behind you now to sell this shop as soon as possible to prevent him from going out to harm others."

"Ha ha ha ha ha!"

Saying that, Zhao Yan laughed loudly and walked away.

Shopkeeper Sun looked at Zhao Yan's leaving figure, clenched his fists, but slowly put them down.

Shopkeeper Sun thought of his biological son and finally swallowed his breath.

As soon as shopkeeper Sun Xiao Suo returned to the shop, a servant from the palace came in a hurry.

When shopkeeper Sun heard this, his eyes almost popped out of his head.

"One pound of coal per person, free for three days?"

"Could it be that King Yan is seeking his own death?"

"Don't worry!"

"This is the prince's order. You cannot disobey it and execute it immediately."

When shopkeeper Sun heard this, he immediately became energetic and quickly called his men to go to work.

Shopkeeper Sun walked to the door of the store and put a huge wooden sign on the door that read "Free Coal".

The eight stores in Beiping Mansion and Yanwang Mansion have also become busy and have launched free services.

This incident shocked everyone in Peiping.

The civilians came to the shop again, just like the last time it opened. The civilians could only stand outside and watch, but no one dared to get the coal first.

Shopkeeper Sun was almost spitting out what he said, but no one stood up.

Of course, all this was caused by Zhao Yan.

Zhao Yan led his men and kept saying in front of everyone that the coal poison was terrible and the death was miserable. There was no way to treat him and he could only close his eyes and wait for death.

Such a tragic death made everyone stay away from him.

Shopkeeper Sun was furious, pointed at Zhao Yan, and cursed.

"Zhao Yan, you are so shameless, you actually dare to talk nonsense!"

"Whether it's nonsense or not, you all know in your own mind." Zhao Yan also felt very uncomfortable. After all, today is the day when Zhao's Charcoal Store opens, but because of the free offer, everyone was attracted to this side.

Prince Yan's Mansion can do without money, but Zhao Yan can't.

After all, the cost of charcoal today is too high. If it were given away for free, Zhao Yan would probably not be able to afford it.

Of course, in addition to these, there is no shortage of sales for charcoal. When people's novelty wears off, there will still be people coming to buy it.

There is only one such family in the entire Beiping Mansion. Besides the Zhao family's charcoal, what else can we buy?
  Just when everyone was about to leave, an old beggar in ragged clothes and disheveled hair walked out of the crowd tremblingly.

"I don't know boss, is this really free of charge?"

When Shopkeeper Sun heard this, he immediately felt happy. He didn't care whether the other party was a beggar or not.

"Of course, there is no charge within three days. Anyone who enters our store will receive a pound of coal for free!"

Shopkeeper Sun said as he handed the coal in his hand to the boy behind him.

"Right now, give him a pound of charcoal."

"Okay!"

In addition to briquettes, a large amount of coal is also stored in Prince Yan's Mansion.

This kind of coal has no fixed shape, but its quality is almost the same as that of briquettes.

These things are all used to be placed in the brazier for warmth.

And when they saw someone actually going to get coal, everyone was stunned.

Zhao Yan saw it in his eyes but didn't take it to heart. In his opinion, the beggar was almost freezing to death. Even if he was collecting coal, he was desperate.

Instead of doing this, it would be better to be poisoned directly, at least it would not be so cold.

Zhao Yan didn't think that other civilians would be so crazy.

However, Zhao Yan really made a mistake this time.

Once the broken window effect is broken, everything else becomes logical.

As the old beggar walked out with a large bag of coal, more beggars appeared in the small shop of Prince Yan's Mansion.

Later, even ordinary civilians came over.

This is true for most people. The herd mentality will make people make some irrational decisions at certain times.

They may not know why they behave the way they do, but since everyone else is doing it, they will follow suit.

This is the legendary story of a person sneezing, causing a large number of people to look up at the sky.

Besides, everyone is a little careful. Since it is free, even if you take it home and don’t use it, it is still very good to get such a bag.

In this case, onlookers flocked in to get a piece of the action.

More than 3,000 kilograms of coal originally planned to be sold and more than 10,000 kilograms of coal stored in the warehouse were all snapped up.

This scene made Zhao Yan dumbfounded, shopkeeper Sun and others were also dumbfounded.

It can be said that zero-dollar shopping is the biggest hobby of mankind since ancient times.

However, despite being exhausted, shopkeeper Sun was still happy. Zhao Yan's opening this time was considered a complete failure.

On this day, everyone was queuing up to buy coal, but no one bought Zhao's charcoal.

"Zhao Yan, does Zhao's charcoal have a bad reputation?"

"Didn't you think that my charcoal was expensive before? Now it seems that the people prefer coal. Are you willing to sell Zhao's charcoal to them cheaply?"

Shopkeeper Sun finished venting his anger and mocked Zhao Yan.

Zhao Yan looked gloomy and squeezed out a few words through his teeth:

"Sun Xiang, don't be too arrogant."

(End of this chapter)