Chapter 217 Business Layout
Lü Buwei relied on white pigeons to send messages to control the affairs of Han. He released white pigeons from Yiyang to remotely control the cities of Han, and the cities of Han released white pigeons to Yiyang to inform Lü Buwei of the progress.
By observing the flight path of white pigeons in the sky, Zhang Liang determined within seven days that Lü Buwei was in Yiyang and mobilized the Yiyang aristocratic families to find Lü Buwei's whereabouts.
Only then could a letter be delivered to Lu Buwei, asking him to come here to play chess.
Now that Lu Buwei was here, Zhang Liang thought that as long as he wanted, he could kill Lu Buwei on the spot, leaving the Lu Chamber of Commerce leaderless and breaking the deadlock by removing the fuel from the fire.
When the letter was sent, Zhang Liang didn't know whether Lu Buwei would come to the appointment, but that didn't matter.
Because Zhang Liang had spent a lot of money and mobilized the noble families in recent days to capture all the hawks and other birds of prey in Han, all of which had been trained and obeyed the command of a special person.
As long as Zhang Liang is willing, not a single carrier pigeon will be left in the sky over Yiyang, and Lu Buwei will have no orders to do anything.
If the major cities in Han cannot receive Lu Buwei's transfer orders in time, it will be the same as if Lu Buwei were dead. In any case, Han will be in a situation of leaderlessness.
“No need.”
Lu Buwei shook his head.
When Zhang Liang's letter arrived, he knew what Zhang Liang meant by the general situation.
In the past, I only knew that Zhao Ji was a meticulous woman, but I never thought that Zhang Liang, who looked like a woman, was also like that.
Appearance is determined by the heart. This boy looks like a girl and his heart is also like a girl. I am indeed a little arrogant in this matter.
Before Lü Buwei came to Han, although Ying Chengjiao told him that Zhang Liang was extremely smart, he still did not look down on Zhang Liang.
After receiving the letter, he put away his contempt for Zhang Liang and regarded Zhang Liang as his opponent.
Picking up a handful of white pieces and scattering them randomly on the table, Lu Buwei said, "This is the general trend."
The white pieces were just like the black pieces just now, bouncing around and scattering on the chessboard.
Zhang Liang asked tentatively, "Sir, are you saying that now all cities just need to follow your previous orders and there is no need for you to personally control them?"
The reason why it was a test rather than a confirmation was because he was deeply impressed by Lu Buwei's previous move of "stopping for one move".
If Lu Buwei said now, "I don't think so. Even if you scatter a handful of chess pieces, I have to scatter a handful too," he would not be surprised, but would be a little depressed.
Fortunately, Lu Buwei did not make him depressed.
Lu Buwei nodded approvingly and said, "It's rare to see someone this smart."
"Sir, do you think you can take over my Korean land now?"
"Yes."
"All major trends are irreversible. Since you are so sure, why don't you tell me clearly?"
Lü Buwei smiled and said, "You have made a good plan. Nothing in this world is irreversible until the time comes. If you can think of it, then think of it. If you can't think of it, then wait and follow me back to Qin and enter the palace."
Zhang Liang lowered his head and arranged the white pieces belonging to Lu Buwei on the table one by one.
"I have guessed something, but I don't know whether it is right or not. I will tell you now, sir."
"Can."
Lu Buwei answered casually.
He is a businessman who started his career with business, and what he is best at is business warfare.
Zhang Liang came from the Zhang family and served as prime minister of the Han Dynasty for five generations. He was good at power struggles and politics.
Even the business elites who made money for Ying Chengjiao around the world didn't know what he was going to do, and he didn't think Zhang Liang could guess it.
It’s not that he still looks down on Zhang Liang, but he feels that the two are not in the same field.
"Sir, your great power should be related to all the blacksmith shops in Handi."
Zhang Liang raised his head and saw Lu Buwei's suddenly upright posture and his solemn eyes.
He knew, he guessed right.
Zhan Yan smiled and said, "Is that right?"
South Korea was one of the seven major powers in the Warring States Period and also the last of the seven major powers.
Because of the reasons of Taoism, the Korean royal family is more like the largest family in Korea than a royal family, and it does not have absolute control over the major families in Korea.
The politics and military of Korea are not good, but the aristocratic families are very good and all of them are very prosperous.
South Korea has existed for more than two hundred years. Anyone who can be called a noble family must have a lot of pig iron hidden in their homes - this is hard currency.
After Lü Buwei tripled the price of iron in Han, the iron on the market was quickly sold out, so Lü Buwei proposed to increase the price of iron by five times.
So all the noble families in Han were overjoyed.
Isn't it just iron? We have plenty of it, and we'll give it all to you!
Seeing this opportunity to make a fortune, the major families in Korea opened blacksmith shops in their cities and sold iron!
Within seven days, the number of iron smith shops in Handan increased by at least twenty in each city, all of which were selling iron to Lu Buwei.
At a time like this, not to mention Zhang Liang of the Zhang family, even the King of Han of Korea could not stop these aristocratic families - cutting off someone's source of wealth is like killing my parents, the Zhang family is nothing!
After observing this incident, although Zhang Liang did not initially understand the logical principle behind it and did not know what Lu Buwei was going to do, he could still make things difficult for Lu Buwei.
Zhang Liang sent pigeons to convey messages to the major families.
He did not ask the major families to stop selling iron, but asked them to raise the price of iron.
Since the Lu's Chamber of Commerce is willing to pay five times the price for iron, then they may be willing to pay seven times the price. Let's raise the price of iron together and see if the Lu's Chamber of Commerce will accept it. If not, we can sell it to them at five times the price.
When the major Korean families heard this, they thought it was a good idea - the Zhang family was the leading family and was working for the benefit of everyone, so they listened.
Some small families in Han were afraid that the Lu Chamber of Commerce would no longer accept iron, so they were unwilling to do so.
But these small families do not stand with the big families and cannot afford to offend the Zhang family.
Overnight, all blacksmith shops in Korea sold iron at seven times the market price.
Zhang Liang's move could not only make Lü Buwei spend money, but also let him see Lü Buwei's iron determination and verify what he was thinking.
When Lu Buwei received the news, he smiled slightly.
You have plenty of iron, I have plenty of money. Don't ask for seven times the price, ask for ten times the price, will you sell it?
This caused the Handi family to lose control, and they have been selling like crazy until today . The blacksmith shop is continuously shipped with pig iron every day, and all the iron mines in Handi are working day and night.
Some extremely greedy families wanted to raise the price of iron, so they found Zhang Liang and asked him to take the lead.
Zhang Liang refused.
Zhang Liang knew very well that the Zhang family's limit was to allow everyone to drive up the price of iron to seven times, and this was to give face to the Zhang family.
Most of the noble families are not stupid. They all know that the price of iron will return to the starting point one day, and they all know that the Lu Chamber of Commerce is definitely not here to do charity.
If the Chamber of Commerce can buy iron at ten times the price, then it must be able to get a profit of more than ten times the price. There must be some profit at this price, but it should not be much.
This is the consensus reached by most of the noble families.
Raising the price of iron again at this time would easily lead to nothing. If Zhang Liang dared to propose this, he would be undermining the Zhang family's prestige in Han.
At this moment, all the major cities in Korea were extremely deformed, with every street being filled with blacksmith shops.
"Anyone who comes to Han can see that the iron smith shop in Han is out of control. If you are not deceiving me, continue talking."
Lu Buwei said in a deep voice.
He just didn't believe that Zhang Liang saw through it!
