There are many powerful families in Yunzhou City, but the strongest among them are only the four major families, the Chen, Wang, Sun, and Li families.
The four major families monopolize some of the most important trade channels in Yunzhou City.
The Chen family controls the largest food channel, the Wang family controls the largest ironware channel, the Sun family controls the largest salt sales channel, and the Li family controls the most important firewood and cloth channels for Yunzhou.
This Yunzhou is located in the north. Winter lasts for more than four months, accounting for more than a quarter of the four seasons of the year.
Simply relying on herdsmen to collect cattle and sheep dung from their homes and burn it is simply not enough to keep them warm throughout the winter.
During these four months, the Li family's cloth and firewood became the only way for the herdsmen to survive in the winter.
Every winter, many of the cattle, sheep, and horses that the herdsmen have worked hard to raise throughout the year are sold to the Li family in exchange for enough firewood and thick cloth for the family to survive the winter.
This year is no different.
The snow had just fallen overnight, and the herdsmen who had lived on the grasslands since childhood knew that the long winter was coming. Those who were prepared prepared firewood and cloth early, while those who had just reacted immediately took their cattle and sheep with them. The horses came to Yunzhou City, found the Li family's trading house, and lined up to exchange for the needed supplies.
From a distance, one can see a long queue lined up at the entrance of Li's Trading Company. Herders leading various livestock were queuing from the entrance of Li's Trading Store in Dongcheng to Beicheng, and herdsmen continued to join them behind.
The various sounds of cattle, sheep and horses were heard one after another in Yunzhou City, which added to the excitement of Yunzhou City in winter.
If it were normal, Li Xuanji, the head of the Li family, would have laughed so hard when he saw this scene, thinking about how much money he could make this year.
But now, he was like an ant on a hot pot, walking back and forth in a hurry, unable to stop at all.
"How could this happen! How could this happen! How dare they! Aren't they afraid of offending our Li family?
Even if they don't give me face, why don't they give me the main line's face?
It's over now! It’s over! what do I do! what to do! ! ! "
To talk about how Li Xuanji became like this, we have to talk about the Li family's business. Although the Li family is the largest firewood merchant and cloth merchant in Yunzhou City, the main line of the Li family was not originally engaged in these two businesses. Ever since they obtained the qualification to do business in Yunzhou City, the Li family has always relied on doing business with familiar suppliers to ensure a sufficient supply of firewood and cloth.
Everything was fine at first, but a few days ago, when the Li family's clerk went to pick up the goods from the supplier in the customs, the supplier could not provide the goods!
According to what they said, a large trading house had bought out all their inventory long ago, and now there was not even a stick of firewood or a foot of cloth left in their warehouse!
Hearing this statement, the Li family naturally refused to comply. We signed a supply contract with you long ago. Instead of leaving us enough goods, you sold all the goods to others. Didn't you violate the contract?
However, what the Li family didn't expect was that their supplier was even more bullish and said directly, isn't it a breach of contract?
We will give you liquidated damages, and three times the liquidated damages will be given to the Li family without hesitation.
The Li family was immediately confused.
Later, when I inquired about it, I found out that the large trading house that purchased all of their supplier's inventory had spent five times the price to clear out the supplier's goods!
It’s no wonder that the supplier doesn’t care about breach of contract. After all, if you don’t shiver if you make money, isn’t it a breach of contract? After paying the liquidated damages, what was left over made them earn much more than in previous years!
The Li family became more and more angry as they thought about it, so they directly used the Li family to pressure their suppliers. Their suppliers were not timid. They could provide such a large amount of goods to the Li family, and they had no one behind them.
The Li family alone is not enough to make them afraid.
With no other choice, the Li family, who was anxious to find a replacement supplier, searched all the surrounding firms that could supply goods.
As a result, all the trading houses that could supply in large quantities had their inventories cleared, leaving not even a scrap left.
In desperation, the Li family could only find those small trading houses. They did not believe that the big trading houses could buy and sell all the firewood and cloth.
Sure enough, with the Li family's tireless search, they obtained certain commodities from those small trading houses, but these commodities could only be said to be insignificant compared to the huge demand in Yunzhou County.
It is estimated that it will be completely consumed in less than a week.
But the time has come, and the Li family can only bite the bullet and start selling.
But the rapid depletion of inventory made Li Xuanji, the head of the Li family, so anxious that there were bubbles in his mouth.
Just when Li Xuanji was furious, shouts from the family's servants suddenly sounded outside.
"Master! Master! There's good news! There's good news! We've found the big trading house that bought out all the firewood and cloth!"
Li Xuanji's spirit perked up when he heard the words, and he immediately ran quickly in the direction of the sound.
Soon I met a guy running towards me in the corridor, shouting and panting.
Li Yuanji immediately grabbed the clerk's arm and couldn't wait to ask: "Who is it! Who is it! Which trading house emptied all the inventory?! It's a plan to go against our Li family!"
That's right, Li Xuanji determined that this big trading house was deliberately targeting the Li family. After all, he had never heard that other places in the Song Dynasty needed such a large amount of firewood and cloth, let alone that they specifically bought out the goods in this area at five times the price!
This is deliberately targeting their Li family!
The clerk was so painful that he broke out in cold sweat, but he did not dare to cry out in pain. He could only endure the pain and said: "After many inquiries, I finally found out that all the firewood and cloth near Yunzhou County were destroyed. The one who was short-sold was actually Feiyun Trading Company!"
"Feiyun Trading Company?!"
Li Xuanji was immediately shocked. He knew that Feiyun Trading Company was a large trading firm that suddenly emerged in the past few years. It dealt in some rare luxury goods, such as glass mirrors, perfumes and other top luxury goods, which might be for the common people. The name of Feiyun Trading Company is not very famous.
But among the upper-class circles of the Song Dynasty, the name of this trading firm was famous!
The Bianjing auction held on January 15th every year is packed with seats every time, and every time there are amazing and unique treasures. This year, the colorful glazed longevity star statue sold for a sky-high price of one million yuan!
It is said that it was taken by a big shot in the royal family and was to be presented to the Queen Mother on her 80th birthday.
The annual income of the entire Feiyun Trading Company is estimated by knowledgeable people to be around nearly 10 million yuan. The annual treasury income of the Song Dynasty is only about 130 million yuan. You can imagine how terrifying the profits of this Feiyun Trading Company are!
Of course, it is not that no one has thought about this kind of trading company with terrible income, but what is surprising is that so far, no force has successfully forced this trading company to reveal its trump card, and every time it reaches out, it is neatly chopped off. It's so clean that you can't even put your hands into the business.
Gradually, everyone came to know that there must be a terrifying background behind this trading company, and gradually no one dared to target Feiyun Trading Company.
But now, such a terrifying trading company has actually targeted the Li family and deliberately targeted the Li family. This made Li Xuanji's back instantly break out in cold sweat. He didn't understand how the Li family had offended Feiyun Trading Company. .
So much so that Feiyun Trading Company, a large and terrifying trading firm, actually became the enemy of the Li family!
This is really like being kicked twice even while lying down. It is a pure and innocent disaster!
