Chapter 150

In the private room of Wangjun Tower, Mr. Zhang, who was sitting on a luxurious carved maple, red sandalwood and wooden bench, was playing with the exquisite cigarette box distributed from the shopkeeper with a serious expression.

Unlike those business travelers who are addicted to gold and silver trading and dream of making a fortune, Mr. Zhang, as the future heir to the Zhang family of the capital, is not only the so-called gold and silver treasures, but his eyes are deeper and longer-term.

What he saw from this cigarette box was not just the luxury, but more of what he saw was the deep-seated things contained in this box.

That is the exquisite skills of the craftsmen in the military mountain.

There are at least four or five cigarette boxes on it. The patterns are extremely complex and require powerful carving techniques. After careful observation, almost every cigarette box is exactly the same. I have to look for surprises, at most it is only the size of a hair.

A squeak.

Pushing the door from outside, a young man with a thin body and a shrewd face was filled with savvy spirit.

The young man seemed to be quite high in the Zhang family. He did not say hello to Mr. Zhang, but instead placed the teapot next to Mr. Zhang, poured a cup of tea, and sat down next to Mr. Zhang.

He asked with a slightly puzzled expression: "Young Master, this ash box is exquisite, but with the luxury of our Zhang family, you won't be able to observe it for more than half an hour, right? Could it be that there is something strange about this box?" Zhang

The young master took the teacup and held it to his mouth. The tea couldn't enter his throat for a long time. After a long time, he let out a long sigh and asked softly: "Xiulin, take a closer look, what's special?"

After the man called Xiulin took the cigarette box, he looked at it for a long time, and his expression became more and more confused.

Mr. Zhang kept drinking tea and did not disturb Xiulin. He just looked at the young man beside him with fun. He didn't believe that although this identity was only a concubine, he had been valued by the family for just a few years and could not tell anything.

When Mr. Zhang drank the second cup of tea, the young master called Xiulin breathed a sigh of relief and exclaimed: "There is such a craft in this world, with a total of five cigarette boxes, not to mention the size of each cigarette box, even the difference between the knife skills depicted in the pattern on the cigarette box is pitiful. If this is used on the right path, how powerful is this military mountain."

The young master nodded and said, "Yes, this is exactly where I value Junshan. It is not scary to own cigarettes, and it is just a tool for making money. Our Zhang family has many ways to make money. A Grand Canal is enough for our Zhang family to earn a fortune every day. What really makes me feel afraid is the strong craftsmanship level of Junshan. If it is used to produce firearms, crossbows, and machinery vehicles, who can stop it?" Zhang

Xiulin also sighed: "I am afraid that only the young master in this world has such a sharp vision. Others can only see the wealth contained in this cigarette. Only the young master's eyes are like a rook and sees the powerful craftsmanship behind the cigarette. Think about the fact that these craftsmen are all doing so standard and exquisite in producing civilian utensils. If they use knives to produce weapons, it is really terrible. My Dayuan is probably adding another strong enemy."

Mr. Zhang said: "In the past, the Yuan court swept the world, and it was not as simple as the benefits of cavalry. It relied more on the strong craftsmanship of our Han people. The craftsmanship of the Junshan was obviously stronger than that of the imperial court. And its rise was not as simple as the princes.

If he wanted to be a prince, it would only aggravate the turbulent situation in Jiangnan. However, when Zhu Zhen's various behaviors were not independent, he would focus on the people everywhere, and seemed to be caring to assist Zhu Yuanzhang. I am afraid that Zhu Yuanzhang, who was Yingtian, would be not far from the unified Jiangnan. If Zhu Yuanzhang had half of the Jiangnan country and the strong craftsmanship of Zhu Zhen, the court would be really dangerous at that time."

Xiulin said: "What does the young master mean?" Zhang

The young master put down the teacup in his hand and said calmly: "Get close to them, take control of their craftsmen, and then destroy them."

When Zhang Xiulin heard this, his eyes flashed with light. He quickly got up to observe the doors and windows. Seeing that no one around eavesdropped, he turned back and asked in a low voice: "Young Master, you have a plan."

Mr. Zhang smiled and said, "I originally wanted to directly rely on the power of the Wang family to form an alliance with him by intoxicating with that stupid boy, and then slowly control them. However, this guy Zhu Zhen seems to be young, but in fact he has the talent of heaven and earth, and he is not willing to be controlled by others. Today, he is not going to benefit our Zhang family alone, so I have to adopt a second plan."

Zhang Xiulin said: "Young Master means that since they have made a move, let's take it?"

Mr. Zhang said: "We have to take on the challenge of being open and conspiracy. What we have to do now is to take over the market in the north by any means, first let this little guy taste the sweetness, and then cut off his external supply line through Chen Haiping. At that time, Junshan, who is used to good life, suddenly one day can't eat, so he has to ask us to eat with a meal."

Xiulin praised: "Young master is a talented man."

Late. Red

The lights are hanging high. Come on.

Luxury merchants from all over the country carried boxes of gold, silver and jewelry into the auction hall of Wangjun Tower.

But what they didn't expect was that this auction was not as simple as picking up goods. What Zhu Zhen wanted to auction was the local agency rights for cigarettes.

The new word agency rights have also been heard of by the rich merchants from all sides.

Although they were preparing to do the cigarette business, they naturally inquire from many aspects. Whether it was the cigarettes in Jinling or the cigarettes in Junshan, although they were all operated by Zhu Zhen’s subordinates, they were nominally Zhu Yuanzhang’s industries.

Junshan has the right to represent the Song Dynasty in Jiangnan Road.

It is rumored that Junshan paid at least 300,000 taels of silver for this matter. It is precisely because of this that Zhu Yuanzhang gave the green light to all matters in Junshan.

The cigarettes produced in Junshan are much better than those produced in Jinling, which made the entire Central Plains boil and made the people of Dayuan recognize the cigarettes, which made merchants full of endless desire for cigarettes.

Facing the eager expressions of various wealthy merchants, he said calmly: "Our Deshengmen cigarettes will not set up a provincial (the provincial system was implemented in the Yuan Dynasty). In the future, the highest agency in the world will be set to the government level."

boom!"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone was uproared.

In this era of separatist rule, it is too small to delegate the agency system to the prefectures.

"Shopkeeper Shen, you also know that when today is in a turbulent situation, we come to your Junshan to do business thousands of miles away. Isn't it just to sacrifice your life? What else do you earn if you do this?"

"Yes, Shopkeeper Shen, do you know that you are so messing around?"

"We want to meet the county man!" Chen

Zui smiled and said, "If anyone wants to gain the agency rights of the province, it is very simple, just take a picture of every state in the province."

Every businessman present felt intoxicated that he wanted to make money and was crazy."

Just a few agents at the provincial level want to send me off? Don’t think that only you, Junshan, can do the tobacco business!" The unwillingly prosperous merchant stood up immediately and led the servants out.

Zui sneered and said, "I'll leave my words here. From today on, this tobacco business will start. In addition to Junshan and Jinling, everyone can buy a little from the side. There is also the guy who just said he's leaving, you can get out."

At that time, no one was choosing to leave. Everyone looked at the businessman who said they were leaving with pity.

The businessman who just wanted to leave was carried out by a few powerful warriors, shouting loudly, letting go of me, I am rich, and so on.

Finally, he was thrown directly to the restaurant door and burst into tears.

"Why did I force myself to stand out? I came with the hope of my family!"

The atmosphere in the auction hall of Wangjun Tower has been at the freezing point. Everyone looked carefully at the young man in front of him who seemed to have a friendly smile but was actually merciless, for fear of saying something unpleasant and being kicked out of the door.

After about half a stick of incense, he said intoxicatedly: "The agency rights of Qingzhou are auctioned, starting with a price of 1,000 taels of silver. Each price increase shall not be less than 100 taels, and the auction will begin now."

Zui is worthy of being a descendant of Chen Wansan. He has a very good grasp of the time. If you know that you can't come up, you will definitely not be more profit-oriented. However, auctioning barbarian towns may cause the genres to be looked down upon by wealthy merchants at all. Now, it is not to say how good Qingzhou is. After all, it has a long history and a large population, and its market potential cannot be underestimated.

The rich merchants just hesitated for a moment, and then someone shouted: "Five thousand taels."

"Five thousand five hundred taels."

“…”

Thirty thousand taels!!" Zhang

Xiulin looked around and no one dared to stand up again to compete with the Zhang family.

Intoxication seemed to have expected this ending, but her expression was still very enthusiastic, "Thirty thousand taels! Is there any higher 30,000 taels? 30,000 taels once, twice, three times, transaction."

Although the Zhang family spent 30,000 taels to buy an agency in Qingzhou, the cost was a bit high, but it was definitely a big profit.

But the Zhang family absolutely couldn't imagine how crazy it was to be intoxicated. He first auctioned the medium-sized prefecture, then a major town in the north, and finally a wealthy place in Jiangnan.

The finale afterwards was like Gusu, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, Yizhou, etc. The transaction prices in these places were mostly more than 100,000 taels.

The tall one is Su Su, and was photographed by the Gao family with 200,000 taels of silver by the rich merchant in Su Su.

The sale continued until late at night, and the money boxes of the wealthy merchants were directly emptied, and the agency rights of various states and prefectures were suddenly discharged for more than four million taels of silver. In some states and prefectures, no one wanted them, and they were bought at the lowest price of 1,000 taels.

But they absolutely don’t know that these cities with low prices are also very valuable to take. As long as you smoke cigarettes, you will be a steady stream of wealth.

The family wanted to rely on its powerful financial resources to seize most of the prefectures, but in the end they found that the wealthy merchants seemed to care about the cities in the north at all, while the cities in the south could not compete with the Zhang family's financial resources.

At this time, Zhang Xiulin finally realized that the economic strength of the south was much stronger than that of the north.

The fundamental reason for the turmoil in the Dayuan period was that it could not control the wealth of Jiangnan.

The merchants asked intoxicatedly: "We spent all the money on the shopkeeper Shen, but you can give me some advice. As far as we know, although there is little tobacco in the market, it is not only yours. How can you guarantee that from now on, you will not only yours tobacco in Dayuan."
Chapter completed!