Chapter 91: Insidious Calculation
It is not easy for a civilian merchant to find a big backer, especially if a person like Wu Qingyuan is of unknown origin and has almost no ancestral network resources, so he wanted to establish a school to cultivate talents in the situation of a spark and develop relationships with possible future bigshots.
But he didn’t expect his business to grow faster than he thought, and he had to find someone to protect him before someone could be made into a backer.
After some thought, Wu Qingyuan decided to go to the Jiangyi Prefecture Capital, and his target was the imperial merchant Qi family in the Jiangyi Prefecture Capital.
With his current status, let alone find the protection of the powerful and rich, those high-ranking officials will not even see him at all, only the imperial merchant Qi family, who is also a businessman, is his best bet at the moment, the businessman puts profit first, if he and the interests of the Qi family are bound, then with the Qi family blocking his enemies, the Wu family would be safe for a moment.
The merchants who can become imperial merchants must have connections behind them, and since Wu Qingyuan’s origin is unknown then his descendants within the next three generations will not be able to enter the road of a scholar, only the road of business. Cooperation with this kind of force is the only way out, as long as it is guaranteed that the Wu family does not perish, after three generations, the Wu family will develop, and the descendants will enter the road of scholars and become independent.
After careful discussion, Wu Qingyuan decided to leave for Jiangyi Prefecture immediately, now that even Amo has been able to be alone in business, there is still Wang Dafu and a dozen slaves at home to help manage the business, and there should be no big problem if he is not there for a short time.
Just in case, before setting off, Wu Qingyuan put down everything and explained to Amo the use of the power and all the items in the space, the space may only be an auxiliary power, and the critical moment can only save the life of the space owner, but what he prepared in the space in modern times is a vital life-saving weapon, as long as it is used properly, if something really happens, Amo and his family will not have an accident.
At the end of September, after everything was taken care of, Wu Qingyuan quietly took two slaves on the road and boarded the ship to the state capital.
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Wu Qingyuan left quietly, the matter of going to the state capital should not be publicized but how long can the matter be delayed, he can only try his best to buy time while doing things.
And Amo has completely surpassed ordinary people after becoming an awakened, and there is no need to recover after giving birth to a child like ordinary gers and girls, and after Wu Qingyuan left, after just a few days, his body has fully recovered, and he immediately came out of the house to start business.
Busy during the day, teasing his son at night, waiting for his son to sleep and continuing to burn candles in the night. Since Brother Wu is not there, he has to work hard to support things at home, and when Brother Wu comes back and sees the smooth and profitable business, he will be very happy.
Fortunately, his physique has changed now, otherwise it would be difficult for ordinary people to stick to such high-intensity work for a long time.
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It’s just that with the delay of time, no matter how Amo hides Wu Qingyuan’s whereabouts, the fact that Wu Qingyuan is not at home is still slowly spreading, the townspeople and villagers have no strong feelings about this, as long as the Wu family’s shop is still operating normally, it makes no difference to everyone whether Wu Qingyuan is far away or not, but Madam Qian and several large landowners in Shiqiao Town know this news and their minds become active again.
Nowadays, the momentum of the Wu family is rising in a straight line, and the Wu family’s main store and branches are full of people every day, and the business is too hot.
In particular, Wu Ji store not only has new and easy-to-use things, the price is more affordable, the price of everything in the store is not cheap, but it is within the acceptable range of everyone, and from time to time they will do giveaways from various preferential activities, the business method has broken through the conventions of this era and achieved great success.
On the other hand, as long as the other shops in town do other business aside from Wu Ji’s, the impact is not much, if they collide with Wu Ji, they will be miserable. The wiser ones signed a cooperation contract with the Wu family early, and can even buy a little goods from the Wu family to attract some customers, but Madam Qian and several large landlords’ shops have seen their business drop by more than half this year.
After the Wu family’s mountain tea garden was set up, many villagers in the village reduced their tenant fields and went to the Wu family to help, after all, going to the Wu family’s tea garden to help is not only much easier, but they are also earning more silver than the tenant field, and no matter how stupid people are, they can realize even this much.
There were fewer tenant farmers, and the output of several large landowners was naturally reduced, and after the harvest, the Wu family’s corn, rice, and other grains not only tasted better, but also cost more than theirs, and the townspeople naturally did not waste money to buy grain in their shops.
After the Wu family’s other industries were set up, their restaurants, grocery stores, and coal kilns businesses were all affected, and when Madam Qian and other landlords looked at the account books every day and their hair turned gray, they came to hate the Wu family even more.
But Wu Qingyuan’s means have already taught them many things, and suffering losses three and four times makes them hate and fear Wu Qingyuan. If they want to move the Wu family, they dare not act casually, for fear that they will not be worth the loss by going against the Wu family’s head..
At this moment, Wu Qingyuan is far from home, everyone felt like they were seeing a light in the end of a dark tunnel, hope is coming!
After a few months, the major landlords of Shiqiao Town gathered at the Qian family again.
“Madam Qian, yesterday we have all asked people to check, the man of the Wu family left Shiqiao Town half a month ago, and there is no news at all so far. Now all the things in the Wu family are decided by the family head, do we want to… This is a good opportunity.”
A few members were very excited, they were afraid of Wu Qingyuan, but they were not afraid of Amo and the remaining slaves, Wu Qingyuan was far away, Shiqiao Town was like a mountain with no tiger in it to rule and their group of monkeys were about to dominate the king.
“What are everyone’s good ideas?”
Madam Qian nodded, she naturally knew that this time Wu Qingyuan being far away was an opportunity, their business had been almost grabbed by the Wu family, if they didn’t want to sit still, everyone would have to drink poverty next year.
They were only missing one member, the head of the Li family. That old guy is a coward, he has not hesitated to surrender his identity to the Wu family, this time everyone’s business was robbed of the reason for the Wu family, the head of the Li family definitely had his hand in this. Without him, the Wu family alone could definitely not digest the business within a hundred miles of Shiqiao Town.
Others are also very resentful of Li Yuanwai, who has already cooperated with the Wu family, but they can’t do it as they don’t want to lower their identity and cooperate with the Wu family. In the face of Madam Qian’s question, everyone looked at one another and finally they all looked at her again and gave their opinions.
“Madam Qian’s means are clever, we will listen to you.”
When Madam Qian developed the Qian family to become the number one landowner in Shiqiao Town, everyone had already learned this woman’s means, in short, they couldn’t fight against her.
Madam Qian naturally knew that these people were fools with insufficient means, if it were not for the family inheritance accumulated by their ancestors, how would it be their turn to enjoy such blessings.
“Since everyone is so polite, this concubine would not be held back, this time the Wu family man is not here, it is our good opportunity, and maybe the only opportunity. The Wu family’s Fulang is capable, but he is still young and inexperienced, as long as we join forces, it will not be difficult to deal with him, the only problem is that if we do not completely bring down the Wu family before the Wu family man returns, I am afraid that it will be us who are unlucky at that time.”
“Then let us take advantage of the fact that Wu Qingyuan is gone to destroy the Wu family before he comes back!”
Everyone spoke in unison.
Madam Qian was silent for the time being, obviously, it was not difficult to deal with the Wu family, but it was not so easy to overturn the Wu family, and she knew that once she could not completely defeat the Wu family then as soon as the Wu family man returned, they were absolutely dead with that man’s means.
She didn’t speak so the others also quieted down, it was obvious that they said they should overturn the Wu family, but how to overturn them, they couldn’t think of any good ideas, and they could only look at the servants around them who were making some suggestions.
But regarding this problem, even Madam Qian does not have a perfect idea, these doglegs who usually only sneak around and come up with small ideas definitely don’t have any and for a while the room was quiet as everyone looked sad.
“Madam, Wu Qingyuan is arrogant and decisive, like a tiger, it is better to let the tiger return to the mountain then use another knife to hunt him down. The mountain bandits on the mountain and forest roads outside Shiqiao Town can be gathered, and it is normal for individuals to die while on the road…”
Finally, Zhao Haisheng, who stood beside Madam Qian, walked out and said his ideas, his eyes were vicious.
The eyes of several large landowners lit up, and Madam Qian thought for a while, and finally nodded.
As long as he doesn’t die in Shiqiao town then it has nothing to do with them, the Wu family man can’t come back, he absolutely can’t come back…
Taking advantage of Wu Qingyuan’s absence, such a good opportunity, Madam Qian, who had been silent for several months, and the major landlords joined forces again and quickly began to retaliate against the Wu family.
Although everyone has suffered defeat in Wu Qingyuan’s hands several times, as veteran landlords in Shiqiao Town, a thin camel is still bigger than a horse. Before they did not dare to move the Wu family because they were afraid of Wu Qingyuan, but now the Wu family only has a young husband, a steward, and everyone’s courage has increased. They must take this opportunity to kill the Wu family, otherwise once they fail, it will be them who will face tragic fates.
In the face of the attack and suppression of Madam Qian and others, Amo could cope at first, but as everyone became more and more ruthless, he began to slowly struggle, after all, as Madam Qian said, he was too young, even if Wu Qingyuan taught him a lot of things, he was inexperienced after all.
And this time, Madam Qian and others have a strong determination to kill the Wu family, not only is Amo finding things hard, but Jiang Da, who is experienced in business, also frowned. This is like a fish caught in a net giving their all to break free and fighting against death, and these landlords obviously mean to end this fight.
Since the opening of Wu Ji, the Wu family’s business has not been hit hard for the first time, but this time is the most serious situation.
At the same time, on the other side, Wu Qingyuan and two slaves finally arrived at the Jiangyi Prefecture after a long journey.
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