"Third Master, how could Li Xiang have the ability to take over fifty states? This would be a huge loss for us."
After sending Li Xiang away, Cui Yunzhu could no longer suppress his anger. In addition, he had just drunk a lot of wine, so his tone of voice was a bit unfriendly. He even felt disgusted by the laughter he had just had. Facing someone like Li Xiang, he only wanted to chop him with a knife.
I slapped myself twice in front of the hall that day, and I will never forget this grudge.
“Big Brother!”
Cui Yuncheng quickly grabbed the guy. Although there are two Cuis in one stroke, the two of them are not close to Mr. Cui Sanye. You speak to Mr. Cui Sanye in such a tone. Don’t you want to live?
Fortunately, Mr. Cui was in a good mood today and did not bother with this kid. Otherwise, based on his questioning tone, he would have been dragged out and whipped ten times.
"You're so shortsighted. If he doesn't cooperate with us, do you think he can't just force his way through? Although we can do some harm, there are many people who want to cooperate with him. The Five Surnames and Seven Clans appear to be a unified whole, but when it comes to their own interests, do you think they will all listen to us? If Li Xiang throws out this bait, many other major families will want to cooperate with him."
When Mr. Cui Sanye thought of the other families in the Five Surnames and Seven Families, he felt depressed. Although the Cui family was the richest family in the world, the other major families were not given away for free. Faced with the temptation of the Tang Tianniang, they would never stand in the same trench with the Cui family. This was also one of the reasons why the Cui family changed their original intention.
For a long time, the major families have been dissatisfied with the Cui family's monopoly on liquor, but they have no channel to get in, so they have been enduring it. Now Li Xiang is a troublemaker. Even if Li Xiang does not seek cooperation with them, after a while, these people will probably take the initiative to come to him. They are probably the ones who are most happy about the breakup between Li Xiang and the Cui family.
"So that kid is just getting away with it for nothing?"
Cui Yunzhu said indignantly.
"Brother, he's not the only one who got the benefit, we got the benefit too."
Cui Yuncheng said helplessly that although his body was not okay, his brain was fine.
Mr. Cui Sanye nodded in appreciation. We have gotten a lot of bargains this time. Although we have monopolized the liquor market before, it was only a monopoly in the market, not the product. Some high-end liquors are emerging in various places. In fact, the Cui family does not make much profit by monopolizing this market. It is just for show. Take the major families in Beijing as an example. Every household brews their own liquor.
But the situation is different nowadays. The taste of liquor brewed by each household is not good. Compared with Datang Tianniang, it tastes like horse urine.
Coupled with the previous publicity by Li Xiang and the Changsun family, Datang Tianjiu became like a luxury product, and every household began to compete with each other. If you didn't have it, you couldn't be called a wealthy family.
Under such circumstances, the Cui family entered the game directly and took over Luoyang and Jiangnan, with a share no less than that of Li Xiang and the Changsun family. Even if they gave up fifty states, if the total economic output was calculated, it would have increased many times more than before, which was a win-win situation.
Cui Yunzhu also understood this, but he was still angry. Whenever he thought of Li Xiang's appearance in his mind, his face would feel hot, and he would never forget those two slaps.
"What about the Tuyuhun people? Are we letting Li Xiang off so easily? Are we just giving him this information for free?"
Cui Yunzhu thought of another thing. They had almost completed their investigation of the assassination that day, and they could basically identify the Tuyuhun people as the culprits with an 80% probability. However, Cui Yunzhu was unhappy about telling Li Xiang this.
"You idiot, didn't you hear what he said later? If I hadn't offered him something genuine, would he have traded liquor with us so quickly? The fact that he's saying this now means their production is definitely not the 150 kilograms per day they've announced. Their output is truly incredibly high. If you don't get involved now, by the time you decide to, they'll already have other partners."
Mr. Cui Sanye said unhappily, "Anyway, the information has been investigated, and it is of no use to us. We might as well do a favor and establish a cooperative relationship with Li Xiang one day earlier. The sooner we can make money, the sooner. Why keep a useless piece of information?"
In addition, Mr. Cui San told Li Xiang this news because he wanted to see how strong the armed forces in Li Xiang's hands were.
The strength of Tuyuhun in Chang'an is not weak. In addition to the warriors accompanying their Prince, there are also a large number of merchants. As long as their Prince gives an order, the guards in the hands of these merchants can be assembled. If Li Xiang wants to cause trouble for them, he will have to use a strong armed force. Before the Tang Dynasty announced the plan to deal with Tuyuhun, Li Xiang had no way to use official force. Let's take a look at what Li Xiang's armed forces are like.
After hearing these explanations, Cui Yunzhu felt a little better. He had doubts about Li Xiang's armed forces. How could they be stronger than Hou Junji's men? How did they develop? Where did they usually train? Why didn't we have any information about them?
"Third Master, I'm sure you've heard about the treasure seized in the Eastern Palace. Will it shake our foundation?"
Cui Yuncheng raised another question, which was about Li Xiang’s newly opened Zhidaobao, which was said to be a pawnshop. If it were to be spread all over the world, it would conflict with the Cui family’s core industry.
"I've already investigated this matter. It's said that the pawnshop won't be widespread. The main business isn't the pawnshop, but money exchange. The business here isn't huge. Besides, the pawnshop isn't just my business. There's also the Taiyuan Wang family. Let's wait and see what happens."
Liquor is an industry monopolized by the Cui family, so they jumped to the front. Pawnshop is the pillar industry of the Cui family, but the Cui family does not have a monopoly. If Li Xiang challenges, he must also drag other families into it to avoid us fighting in the front while they eat meat in the back.
What's more, Mr. Cui Sanye didn't think that Li Xiang could make a breakthrough in the pawnshop industry, as it required huge financial support. Although Li Xiang had made a lot of money, if he wanted to open pawnshops all over the world, he would need several million strings of cash, which was beyond his reach with Li Xiang's current financial strength.
When people come to you with their things to pawn, and you don’t have enough money, won’t your store be exposed to the public?