King of Liao at the end of Han Dynasty

Chapter 111 Business War (1)

Since the big Li Lin got Liaodong, many big families came to curry favor immediately, Li Lin also knew that these players were a bunch of fools, Gongsun Du did not kill them when he was in Liaodong, but at the beginning of Liaodong Therefore, they can only show that they are reconciled with them, and then appoint some children from aristocratic families as officials. After all, they are also scholars and have some culture.

But after a while, Li Lin found out that many of the children of these aristocratic families lived on nothing, and there were very few who could stand up to the world. Li Lin saw how this could work, and immediately removed them. They recruited a lot of officials from aristocratic families, and caused dissatisfaction from many aristocratic families, but they were afraid of Li Lin, so they raised the prices of grain and goods in the county, as if the economy was in chaos.

At this time, Li Lin finally got angry and cursed, "If the tiger doesn't show his power, you will treat me as a robot cat!"

Immediately inject a large area of ​​his own business in Lelang into several other counties. Of course, there are a lot of conveniences in doing business on his own. Others can say whatever they want.

But the most important thing is that the price of food in the city remains high, and Li Lin has no choice. At this time, the savior arrived. Xu Miao, he and Sun Li had promised Li Lin at the beginning, as long as Li Lin had a foothold, tens of thousands of people would join him. , will come to help.

At that time, Sun Li's promise was vague. Xu Miao was indeed a man of integrity. When he learned that Li Lin was attacking Gongsun Du, Sun Li ran back home early, while Xu Miao was waiting for the timing to change. In the end, Li Lin won, and Xu Miao kept his original promise and came to Li Lin's command.

"Jingshan, regarding the current economic situation in Liaodong, I really have nothing to do. Merchants are driving up grain prices, and our army does not have much food and grass, which is not enough to distribute food to the generals. In such a situation, what do you think?" Li said. Lin asked anxiously.

Xu Miao thought about it for a while. He had already thought about this problem. When Gongsun Du was in Liaodong, he had already encountered this problem. The big family manipulated the economy, and now they manipulate politics. In the end, Gongsun Du took tough measures. Killing a group of rich children, although the economy has been stabilized, it seems that the big family dare not be presumptuous, but it has also lost the hearts of the people. After all, due to the better education conditions in the family, there will be a lot of talents. Therefore, all the children of the aristocratic families who want to become officials will respect Gongsun Du at a respectful distance.

Not long after Li Lin took control of Liaodong, Xu Miao didn't dare to be so tough. After thinking for a long time, Xu Miao said slowly, "Yuan Jie, we can only take the middle way. We can't be too tough, and we can't be too weak. Too hard will make people's hearts fluctuate." , the economy is too soft and unstable, it's really tricky..."

Li Lin said unhappily, "Hey, hey, I appointed you to be the chief executive of the four counties in Liaodong. To be honest, he was the one beside me who came up with ideas. With such a high position, you can't say something useful? Tell me quickly. , method, what is the method?"

Advanced, Bing Yuan is still in charge of 18 counties in Lelang, Wang Lie is in charge of 11 counties in Liaodong County, and 2 counties in Changli County, Gongsun Yan is in charge of 5 counties in Xuanju, and Xu Miao, who has just become an official and is young Li Lin didn't put him next to these people, but let Xu Miao stay with him. Li Lin knew that this kid had a lot of ideas.

Xu Miao frowned and said, "Yuanjie, if we want to stabilize these aristocratic families and stabilize prices in the city, we have to use tricks."

Li Lin wondered, "What kind of trick?"

Xu Miao smiled evilly, "We might as well be like this..."

The next day, outside the south gate of Xiangping City, a group of horse-drawn carriages came in mightily, with the words of the Zhao family business name written on them. avoid.

There were a lot of heavy sacks on the carriage. Suddenly, the wheels of the carriage hit a small stone on the road. The carriage tilted and a sack fell to the ground. Passers-by immediately gathered around and picked up the rice grains on the ground. It can be seen that the people in the city lived in distress after the war. Coupled with unscrupulous profiteers driving up prices, the people had no rice to eat.

Immediately, the guard came over and pulled it out, "Why! What are you doing, go away! Quick!" The surrounding people immediately dispersed to the surroundings when they saw the shining blade.

Immediately, someone picked up the sack, fastened the mouth of the sack, and the motorcade continued on its way, entering the warehouse of Zhao's firm.

On the second day, it was the same again. The convoy brought batches of grain.

And on the counter of Zhao's shop, there are indeed a lot of grains and grains, and the prices are indeed very fair, much cheaper than the grain stores opened by other aristocratic families in the city.

This kind of food price has attracted looting from the people in the city, and the families of the aristocratic families in the city are panicked.

In a small hotel, the guards who had just delivered the food ran over to drink and refresh themselves. One of them asked, "Brother, why does our Zhao family store have so much food? I heard that it will be transported to Xiangping City tomorrow!"

The elder brother whispered, "Hey, you don't know, no wonder, you are not high enough, how many years have I been working, let me tell you, our Zhao family business has a big business, we all know that it is Li Lin It was opened by the general. In fact, General Li Lin sent sea ships to Qingzhou and Jizhou to buy grain. No, these are just shipped over. I heard that the next batch is still at sea. Humph, now Will General Li Lin be afraid of the aristocratic families in Xiangping City driving up the price of grain? These aristocratic families will explain to each other sooner or later!"

The person beside him nodded and said, "Well, the price of food is not easy to deal with, but meeting General Li Lin, hehe, even if they are unlucky, you don't even look at it. In Le Lang, who dares to do this, who doesn't know Li Lin General's method!"

"..." The two were still talking, but not far from them, a person had stopped for a long time, rolled his eyes, and hurriedly told the boy, "Shopkeeper, the money is on the table!" After speaking, he walked away quickly, but he didn't see the smirk of the two people who spoke just now when they looked at his leaving back...

The shopkeeper came over to see that the food on the table hadn't been moved, why did this person leave, and also checked to see if the money left on the table was fake, thinking that this kid was here to use counterfeit money.

In the evening, the aristocratic families in the city gathered together to discuss what was going on with the Zhao family business in the past few days.

"Master Wang, what do you mean by this Li Yuanjie? You want to force us like Gongsun Du when you are so troubled?"

"Hehe, Mr. Li, you think too highly of that kid Li Lin, huh! You are still a child, even if you are seated as the Lord of Liaodong, what's the use? At most, you are a man who can fight. we?"

"Master Wang, the servants of my family came to report today, saying that Li Lin had actually let us go, so before attacking Gongsundu, he had already sent people to Qingzhou and Jizhou to buy grain. In the past few days, the Zhao family The grain that the company came in was purchased by Li Lin in Qingzhou and Jizhou, and I heard that there is still a large amount that has not been transported by sea!"

"This...huh! I didn't expect Li Lin to have such a skill! This is really difficult...Master Li, is the news reliable?"

"Hey...Master Wang, I can lie to you. This is what my confidants heard from the grain transport soldiers of the Zhao family business!"

"Mmm...Master Qian, you are a talented student, what's your opinion?"

This Mr. Qian stroked his beard, and said slowly, "This Li Yuanjie, who was able to occupy Liaodong in a weak year, must be an extraordinary person, and these generals are all ruthless, so we can't go too far." If you are so impetuous, otherwise you will anger this Li Yuanjie, and we will have no good fruit to eat!"

Master Wang is the largest grain merchant in the city, so he hurried to "Now the common people are buying grain from Zhao's business, and the backlog of grain in my hand cannot be sold, what should I do?"

Master Qian thought about it for a while, and said quietly, "Now we can only lower the price, if it is lower than Li Lin's grain, the common people will naturally buy our grain!"

When Master Wang heard this, he said angrily, "This......... Doesn't this make me pay a lot of money? No way!"

"Hehe, Master Wang, who made so much grain backlogged? If you don't sell it until everyone in the city has grain, do you keep the grain in your hand for yourself? How many people in your family! It's all your fault You are too greedy!"

When Master Wang heard this, he sat blankly for a long time, and then sighed slowly, "Hey...well, let's reduce the price!"

Sure enough, the next day, most of the shops in the city dropped their food prices, jumping off the building to sell them, and the price dropped to a price lower than that of Zhao's shop.

Unexpectedly, on the third day, the grain price of the Zhao family business also dropped, lower than other businesses, and the people in the city went back to buy grain from the Zhao family business.

The masters of the family were helpless, they had no choice but to continue to lower the price, and they went back and forth two or three times. This group of masters of the family was almost at a loss. At this time, a group of people suddenly appeared and frantically bought the shops in the city. The grain was not bought by the Zhao family business. In the end, although all the grain of the family in the city was bought out, they still lost a lot of money. The Zhao family took the opportunity to buy many grain stores. There is also a place in the food industry.

In Li Lin's mansion in Xiangping City, Li Lin laughed and patted Xu Miao on the shoulder, "Haha, Jingshan, your idea is really good, not only stabilized the price of grain in the city, but also made me earn a lot of money." A sum!"

Xu Miao shook his head and said, "I just offered a plan, but the real wise man is actually you, Yuan Jie, who can play with the aristocratic families in the city. Few are listed on the shelves, and now the Zhao family business is already ranked among the top few big businesses in this land of Liaodong, so it will also have a great effect on us being able to control the economy of Liaodong in the future!"

(End of this chapter)