Ruins of the past

In the lobby of the restaurant, Chu Qiguang and Wang Cailiang disguised themselves slightly and found a corner to sit down. The lobby was crowded with people, but no one paid attention to them.

Sun Bin's passionate shouts were heard from the stage: "...Chu Qiguang said that the Qingyang Chamber of Commerce could earn millions of taels of silver in the first year."

"I told you later that Chu Qiguang was too slow. I will exceed his goal in half a year."

"No one believed me at that time, and many people laughed at me for not overestimating my abilities."

"But let me tell you now, the Qingyang Chamber of Commerce has made 500,000 taels of silver from the cotton cloth sold in the past two months!"

As the canvas fell behind, everyone present became short of breath as they looked at the rows of numbers displayed on it.

"The Qingyang Chamber of Commerce's goal next month is to break through 300,000 taels of profit and achieve the goal of 1 million taels of silver before the end of November!"

"Can Chu Qiguang do it? He can't! But I can!"

Chu Qiguang in the audience was not angry when he saw Sun Bin's performance on the stage. In his previous life, he had never seen any business struggles involving snatching official seals, secretly taking photos over the wall, and poisoning tea?

This method of promoting himself and gaining popularity by bombarding industry seniors is considered an old-fashioned operation for him.

But the old fashioned ones always work.

With Sun Bin's bold words of stepping on Chu Qiguang, the atmosphere instantly became heated, and the audience's eyes lit up when they looked at the profit figures on the scroll.

Chu Qiguang can already imagine that Sun Bin's words will spread throughout the county tomorrow, and will spread throughout Beiyue Mansion in a few days. By then, the stock price of Qingyang Chamber of Commerce will rise again.

But Chu Qiguang was still very curious about the profits listed by Sun Bin. After all, he calculated the accounts very clearly at the beginning, and there was definitely something fishy about the extra profits made out of thin air.

Chu Qiguang looked at Wang Cailiang and asked, "What tricks did he get up to?"

Wang Cailiang said disdainfully: "Baimi took Mao to check, and it was all done through accounting. Wu Wei relied on the power of the elder to forcefully suppress the cotton farmers' quotations, and would not pay the money until the end of the year."

"In this way, if the cost of cotton is not recorded in the past few months, won't the profit be high?"

Sun Bin on the stage then shouted: "Chu Qiguang said he wanted to redefine textiles, but I tell you now, what he said is outdated."

"In the future, the Qingyang Chamber of Commerce will make cotton merchants all over the world tremble!"

"We have developed the latest wind-powered textile machine. As long as there is wind, we can continuously spin cotton cloth. The productivity is a hundred times that of the hydraulic machine..."

Listening to Sun Bin's words, Chu Qiguang almost spit out the tea he just drank in his mouth. He looked at Wang Cailiang standing aside with a strange expression: "Is what he said true?"

"I don't know." Wang Cailiang frowned and said, "But I heard that the Wu family allocated a piece of land to build this wind-driven textile machine, but no one has ever seen it."

Chu Qiguang asked about the origin of Sun Bin, and Wang Cailiang said: "I heard that he was originally an accountant from Luozhou. After he came to Qingyang County, he deceived Wu Wei with some sweet words."

"He served Wu Wei every day for several months. He would wait at the door of Wu Wei's room with hot water and hot towels early every morning..."

…

A month ago, due to the random operations of Wu Wei and Chen Zhu, the stock price of Qingyang Chamber of Commerce fell again and again. It soon fell from 1 tael of silver per share at its peak to 2 taels of silver per share, which was equivalent to the original five taels. one part.

Later, Wu Wei sent Sun Bin to the Qingyang Chamber of Commerce. He originally only wanted to be a doctor for a dead horse, but he didn't expect that this kid was even more powerful than Chu Qiguang, and actually brought the stock price back up bit by bit.

Now the share price of Qingyang Chamber of Commerce has increased to 4 yuan per share.

…

At this moment, Chu Qiguang looked at Sun Bin who was constantly dissing himself on the stage, bragging about profits and boasting about the concept of wind spinning machines.

He was already 80% or 90% sure that the other party had no intention of engaging in cotton spinning, but just wanted to rely on shares to harvest leeks.

Wang Cailiang said from the side: "Brother Chu, are we just going to watch him do random things?"

Chu Qiguang smiled and said, "No need to stop me. Didn't I ask you to sell your shares to cash out last time? Let's start buying tomorrow, but keep a low profile and don't let Wu Wei find out."

Last time, Wang Cailiang cashed out at a high price of more than 1 tael of silver, but now he is about to buy more goods after the stock price dropped to 4 taels of silver.

That night, Sun Bin, Wu Wei and other wealthy children drank and slept with prostitutes until late at night, and fell asleep after a while of happiness.

When I woke up the next day, I saw scattered pages and pen and ink on the table.

After Sun Bin asked the boy outside the door, he said that the things on the desk were scrawled by Sun Bin after he was drunk last night.

‘Did I write anything when I was drunk? ’

'Um? The character was written crookedly, and it was indeed written while drunk. ’

After taking a closer look, he frowned.

Chen Gang, who was disguised as a boy at the side, smiled slightly when he saw this and quietly retreated.

Although the handwriting on the paper was messy, cursory, and untidy, it was written very carefully, and all methods were explained in a simple and profound way, allowing Sun Bing to understand it at a glance.

"...purchase cotton at a high price...go to cotton merchants to sweep cotton across the state at a price higher than the market price...but ask for installment payment..."

"...cotton cloth is dumped at low prices...but the cloth shops in various places are required to pay once a year...full payment..."

When he saw this, Sun Bin smiled sarcastically: "Sure enough, he was talking drunkenly. Buying at such a high price and selling at a low price will reduce the profit?"

He continued reading as if he were joking.

"...occupy the market...raise the stock price...find princes and nobles to pledge shares..."

"...Invite wealthy businessmen, high-ranking officials and dignitaries from all over the world to carry out round A financing...round B financing...round C financing..."

"I wrote this when I was drunk?"

Although some parts of it seem to be related to drunkenness, they are vague and not very detailed.

But Sun Bin could still make a rough idea based on its context.

After reading the whole thing, Sun Bin remained silent for a long time.

He thought about it for a long time... He only had one thought in his mind, that is, this method seems to be really feasible?

‘My talent in business...maybe it’s a natural talent? ’

A few days later, Sun Bin thoroughly studied the method on the paper and added some unclear parts.

By this time, he had completely regarded the contents of the letter as his own.

So he ran to Wu Wei and talked.

"Master Wu! As long as you follow my method, the Qingyang Chamber of Commerce will soon expand to the entire Lingzhou."

"And as long as the stock price keeps rising, using the pledge and financing methods I invented, we can continue to harvest money from wealthy families everywhere.

"Not only can we always have more cash to throw out, but we can also bring in all the major wealthy families and senior officials in Lingzhou to do business together..."

"I'm afraid it will be hard to find shares by then, and the princes and nobles will be vying to buy our shares."

Listening to Sun Bin's description, Wu Wei also looked strange: "Sun Bin, did you come up with this?"

Sun Bin nodded proudly, and Wu Wei clapped his hands and said, "You are indeed a business wizard. I really saw you right."

But the number involved was so large that Wu Wei was still a little hesitant at first.

He and Sun Bin started studying again, and finally couldn't help but get greedy and planned to act according to Sun Bin's plan.