amaotonovel Chapter 269: Merchants are united into one rope.
Chapter 269: Merchants are united into one rope.
Jiang Xiang said: "Of course the representatives of the aristocratic families disagreed."
"But this matter is not up to them to decide."
"It's not that they don't agree that Your Majesty won't confer the title."
"When we were in the palace, the representatives of the noble families did raise objections."
"Whatever the distinction between scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans, the status of merchants has always been low and despised."
"They have done their utmost to belittle us, just to prevent His Majesty from making us imperial merchants."
When the other merchants heard this, their originally excited mood seemed to be poured with a bucket of cold water.
My heart sank instantly.
Someone asked:
"And then? What did your majesty say?"
Jiang Xiang said: "Your Majesty didn't even need to say anything, the Imperial Master already scolded them."
what?
National Division?
Does this matter involve the national teacher?
The merchants asked, "Is the Imperial Master here too?"
"When you met His Majesty, did you also meet the Imperial Master?"
Jiang Xiang: "That's natural."
"The Imperial Master is standing beside Your Majesty."
"The Imperial Master said that the economic prosperity of the Qin Dynasty depends on us businessmen!"
What?
The economic prosperity of Daqin depends on them?
The merchants looked at each other, all feeling inexplicably guilty.
Do they have that much energy?
Can it also affect the economic prosperity of Daqin?
"Don't disbelieve me, this is what the Imperial Master said himself."
"The Imperial Master said it himself in front of His Majesty and those noble families."
"I heard it with my own ears. If you don't believe me, ask them."
Jiang Xiang pointed at Gao Liu and another businessman next to him.
Gao Liu and another merchant nodded hurriedly.
"It's true. We heard it with our own ears."
"At that time, the representatives of the aristocratic families were still unconvinced and were severely reprimanded by the national teacher."
"They were speechless."
"Your Majesty also agreed with what the Imperial Master said."
"Immediately agreed to the Imperial Master's proposal and named the three of us Imperial Merchants."
Hearing this, the merchants were happy at first, but then they felt something was not right.
"Wh...what do you mean?"
"You three???"
"His Majesty has named you three as Imperial Merchants? What about us?"
The merchants all turned their eyes to Jiang Xiang, "Didn't you just say that His Majesty has made us the imperial merchants?"
"Why is it the three of you now?"
Jiang Xiang and two other businessmen had already thought about this matter.
Your Majesty simply conferred the title of imperial merchants on the three of them.
Not all merchants who donated silver and grain were named imperial merchants.
To solve the difficulties and fairness they are currently facing.
Also, to make all of them work together as one.
Jiang Xiang and two other businessmen had already come up with a countermeasure.
All the merchants on the list who had donated silver and grain were collected and divided among the three of them.
The previous business model and revenue remain unchanged.
The only difference is that on the surface everything is under the jurisdiction of these three people.
Although only three of them were named imperial merchants, they could use this method to bring other merchants under their wings.
Give them some shelter.
So that they can also do business under the title of imperial merchants.
After Jiang Xiang told the three of them their decision.
Other businessmen all expressed their willingness to invest under the names of these three people.
After all, there is no loss for them and they can still get protection.
It’s just that there will be an additional process for doing business in the future.
If there is anything, we have to inform Jiang Xiang and the others first.
The merchants said: "Okay, that's no problem!"
"I accept this proposal."
"I accept that, too."
"It's just that you three are under unified supervision, no problem."
"Although I am not as free as before, at least I have the title of Royal Merchant."
"With the identity of an imperial merchant."
"From now on, when we do business in Xianyang, we won't have to be so restrained."
"We don't have to worry anymore about those powerful families taking action against us."
"Even if we run into them head-on, we're not afraid!"
However...some merchants were worried and asked with frowns.
"Will those aristocratic families become jealous and find excuses to attack us?"
"After all, they have been bullying us in the past and trying to take over our shops."
"Although we have been named the Imperial Merchants, we cannot stop them from attacking us from behind."
Jiang Xiang said: "What are you afraid of? We have the support of His Majesty and the Imperial Master."
"If they dare to do anything to us openly, we will go to the palace to file a complaint!"
"If they did something secretly, I would go to the palace and complain to His Majesty and the Imperial Master if I found evidence!"
"I don't believe that your majesty and the imperial teacher will favor or indulge them."
He could clearly sense it in the palace today.
The national teacher dislikes those representatives of the aristocratic and powerful families.
Just because of Qi Pan's words against the noble and powerful families, Jiang Xiang was extremely sure.
As long as they do business honestly, those powerful families will dare to take action against them.
They took the evidence and went to the palace to complain to the imperial teacher.
The national teacher will definitely not ignore it!
As long as the Imperial Master is willing to take care of it, Your Majesty will never let go of those aristocratic and powerful families.
Jiang Xiang's words are also credible to other businessmen.
They were willing to believe what Jiang Xiang said.
I am also willing to trust his decision.
The merchants immediately began to discuss and decide which ones would be under Jiang Xiang's name and which ones would be under Gao Liu's name.
..........
The aristocratic and powerful families on the other side.
In a mansion.
Song An, one of the representatives of the aristocratic families, sat at the head seat in the hall with an unpleasant look on his face.
The others were other noble families and dignitaries who had followed him into the palace.
His face looked equally ugly.
The other noble families who had never entered the palace had been standing outside the palace gate waiting.
Looking at each other.
I don’t know what exactly happened.
Don't dare to ask.
It was not until Song An calmed down for a long time and the anger in his heart did he slowly speak.
"Today in the palace, His Majesty made an exception and named those three merchants as imperial merchants."
what?
Royal Merchant? ?
Other aristocratic families expressed their confusion.
"What does this mean? What is the imperial merchant?"
"Why did your majesty suddenly confer the title of imperial merchants on them? Or was it an exception?"
"The term 'imperial merchant' has never appeared in our Great Qin."
When it comes to this, Song An gets angry.
He still can't forget what Qi Pan said to him when they were in the palace.
What does it mean that the economic prosperity of the Qin Dynasty depends on businessmen?
I bother!
They are just a bunch of lowly merchants!
They are willing to buy goods from them, which is a compliment to them.
Return the economic prosperity of Daqin...