Dong Guangzheng complimented Han Du modestly and then revealed this section.
Han Du looked at Dong Guangzheng with a smile, and was not sure whether the facts were as he said or whether there were other reasons for this. Because, according to Dong Guangzheng, it is entirely possible. When I first built the road, there was indeed a lot of movement. Many people visited and walked past the road after it was built. If Dong Guangzheng happened to be there at that time, it would be possible to know himself.
The other businessmen on the side were also speechless by Dong Guangzheng's words.
After all, Han Du is an official, regardless of whether Han Du is a senior official or a junior official. These businessmen, with the mentality of doing less, would not embarrass Han Du on such an occasion. Since Dong Guang was complimenting Han Du and saying that what he did was known to everyone in the entire capital, then even if these businessmen had just heard of Han Du for the first time today, they would pretend to have heard of Han Du for a long time. Du, who had the same reputation, echoed Dong Guangzheng's words with a smile.
Anyway, it is a principle, everyone carries the sedan chair.
It can be seen from this that Dong Guangzheng is very powerful in speaking. Not only did he pat Han Du's horse without leaving a trace and avoid Han Du's questioning, he also blocked the mouths of others to prevent any leakage.
Han Du smiled and didn't pay too much attention to Dong Guangzheng. After pondering for a while, his thoughts returned to the matter of mirror sales, and he asked everyone: "I heard from Xiong Ting, do you want to operate mirror sales in the fourteen provinces of Ming Dynasty?"
When Dong Guangzheng heard this, his heart straightened, and he immediately replied: "That's right, we can increase the price by 10% and be fully responsible for the mirror business of the province. I wonder what your Majesty thinks?"
Xiong Ting stood beside Han Du with his head lowered. Hearing Dong Guangzheng's words, anger welled up in his heart. If Xiong Ting hadn't lowered his head, he would have been worried that the anger in his heart would show up on his face and ruin things for the adults.
If Han Du had not explained to him, he must have thought that this opinion was very beneficial to him, but after Han Du's explanation, he already knew that these people were digging a hole for him and waiting for him to jump down.
But it's fine now. There are adults here to see how to deal with you profiteers.
When Han Du heard this, he smiled and said, "Well, this is a good thing. In principle, I agree."
When Han Du nodded in agreement, all the businessmen present smiled knowingly, feeling that things were already in hand and it was time for them to make a fortune.
However, the next few words from Han Du made them realize that it was too early to be happy.
"But I have my own ideas about how to sell it." After Han Du finished speaking, he looked up at everyone.
Dong Guangzheng smiled kindly and stretched out his hand to signal Han Du, "If Master Han has any ideas, please let me know."
Han Du nodded and said straightforwardly: "Although the Ming Dynasty has fourteen provinces, there are rich and poor in these provinces. And what about the mirror? It is a precious object, so these provinces have different purchasing power for mirrors. Rich provinces will naturally buy more, and one of you who occupies these provinces will naturally earn more than those who sell in poor provinces. Do you think this is fair?"
As soon as Han Du said these words, several businessmen immediately fell into deep thought. Some of them also changed their expressions. Among them was Dong Guangzheng.
Dong Guangzheng was naturally dissatisfied when he saw Han Du directly exposing the conspiracy, but he had no way to keep Han Du silent. When he and several familiar businessmen gathered a group of people to take over the mirror business, there was naturally an agreement among them. That is, they want to occupy the richest provinces in the south, and of course they also want to take advantage of the upper family and the lower family. It's just that these were discussions between a few of them and were not disclosed to other businessmen who came together.
The one hit by Han Du now hit the weak point of their union, and Dong Guangzheng and others could not help but change their expressions.
Seeing that several other businessmen looked at him and others with some doubts, Dong Guangzheng calmed down and said with a calm smile: "We can come down and discuss this issue of who is poor and who is rich. It's great, let's draw lots to decide, no. Okay? No matter you are poor or rich, everything depends on God’s will.”
Draw lots?
This was a good idea. Several other businessmen withdrew their suspicious gazes and turned to look at Han Du. The most important thing now is not how to distribute, but how to successfully win all the mirror business from Han Du.
As for how to distribute it, that is a matter for later.
Han Du looked at everyone calmly with a smile on his face. From Dong Guangzheng's words to ease the conflict just now, Han Du keenly discovered that these people are not monolithic. Since they are not monolithic, there are naturally loopholes to exploit.
I saw Han Du chuckle and said: "Drawing lots? What age are we in? You still learn from children to draw lots. I will kindly help you solve such a simple matter. Oh, I have calculated it. These fourteen Although the provinces are rich and poor, they can still be balanced. I roughly divided the fourteen provinces into eight parts. The most is three provinces, and the least is only one province. In this way, eight parts can be sold. The mirrors are almost the same. In this way, no one suffers, wouldn’t it be better?”
Is it better to divide it into eight parts?
But they have a total of fourteen merchants here, how should they be divided into eight parts?
Dong Guangzheng watched Han Du blatantly divide them. He could no longer maintain the smile on his face and turned livid with anger. He said in a deep voice: "Master Han only needs to give us all the mirrors to sell. I don't dare to bother you about other things."
When Han Du saw Dong Guangzheng talking to him so unceremoniously, he almost ordered him. Naturally, Han Du would no longer pretend to smile with him, and waved his hand to stop Dong Guangzheng's words.
He continued: "I haven't finished speaking yet."
He glanced at everyone and said: "If you want the selling rights of these eight parts, of course you can, but you have to pay for them. You can pay to buy out the selling rights, and the one with the highest price will get it. But this selling right has a time limit, so let’s set it to five years for the time being. Within five years, I can guarantee that you will only be provided with mirrors by one firm within the corresponding distribution range. When the five-year period expires, the selling right will be renewed. Auction. Of course, as a testimony that we have cooperated with each other for five years, if someone agrees with your conditions by then, then you will be given priority to continue, how about it? "
