Chapter 899 Going against the grain
"You two will cooperate with Fang Junzhi until today!"
Ju Wendou and Akagi Hague almost thought they were hearing hallucinations...
So far?
Ju Wendou said in surprise: "What does the chief manager mean by this?"
Guo Xiaoke casually glanced at the fat-headed and big-eared former Prime Minister of Gaochang Kingdom, snorted, and said angrily: "It means literally, why can't you understand Chinese?"
Ju Wendou hurriedly said: "Don't dare, I will understand naturally. It's just that the chief manager's blunt words are really surprising. I am so bold, can I ask the reason?"
When you cooperate with Fang Jun, is there any day when you don’t make a lot of money?
You can't just say "that's it" in an understatement, and that really means it's over!
Guo Xiaoke was displeased, thinking that his authority had been questioned, and immediately glared and said: "Isn't it easy for my words to be applied in this border of Xizhou?"
Ju Wen was full of vindictiveness.
You are the general manager and the governor of Xizhou, but you can't be unreasonable!
It was not appropriate for him to continue talking at this time. If he talked too much, he would really question the authority of the Anxi Protector of the Tang Dynasty, although in his heart he was questioning this idiot...
He glanced at Akagi Hague.
Akagi Hague took over the conversation and said with a smile: "The General Manager is the highest official in Xizhou and represents the power of the Tang Dynasty. How dare we not listen to your words? It's just that this matter is of great importance. It's not just our two families, it's Most of the merchants in the Western Regions have business dealings with Fang Jun, especially grape wine. The wool business is too involved. We are just elected by everyone. How can we make the decision for everyone? If the general manager wants us not to cooperate with Fang Jun, he must tell him the reason. Let us have an explanation with everyone, right?”
He is different from Ju Wendou.
Although Ju Wendou has a prominent reputation, he has the status of a former prime minister of Gaochang State. This is equivalent to a "criminal", but he was only sentenced to a suspended sentence. If Guo Xiaoke arbitrarily planted a crime with this kind of identity, he would have to shed his skin even if he died, so he could not and did not dare to act too tough in front of Guo Xiaoke.
Chimu Haiya is a member of the Uighur clan, and his family is very powerful in the Gaochang Kingdom. As long as Guo Xiaoke is not blinded by lard and wants to disrupt the Western Region, he will never dare to be rude to Akagi Hague.
Furthermore, Akagi Hague is over seventy years old, and he has the qualifications to rely on his old age in front of Guo Xiaoke...
Guo Xiaoke glanced at Akagi Hague with a half-smile, knowing that this old man was difficult to deal with. The Uighur people are very united, and Chimu Haiya has a high prestige in the clan. If you are rude to him, it will be equivalent to offending the entire Uighur clan.
No matter how conceited Guo Xiaoke is, he will never do such a stupid thing...
"I don't want you to give up the grape wine business, I just want to find a new partner."
Akagi Hague was stunned and asked tentatively: "What does the chief manager mean... do you want to participate?"
“It is not my participation, but my leadership.”
Guo Xiaoke said it with full confidence and great courage!
How could Fang Jun integrate the Hu merchants from the Western Regions and expand the grape wine business to all states in the Tang Dynasty? Isn't it because after the destruction of Gaochang Kingdom, Fang Jun stayed here and suppressed various Hu merchants with force!
Fang Jun was only a small general at that time and was able to do this. Now that he is in charge of the Western Region, isn't he as good as Fang Jun at that time?
Fang Jun had the connections to sell grape wine to every corner of the Tang Dynasty. Is Guo Xiaoke worse than Fang Jun? Moreover, grape wine has now been sold in the Tang Dynasty, and the trade routes have been laid. If you take over it yourself, you can get a lot of money without having to worry too much. How can you give up such a thing that can not only take revenge on Fang Jun, but also make money? Chance?
At worst, the profits will be distributed to the major lords in Guanzhong and allies in the DPRK. Everyone has been very greedy for the profits of grape wine...
Ju Wendou and Chimu Haiya looked at each other, feeling dumbfounded.
The emotional one just thought that Fang Jun was using force to make everyone surrender, so he had to follow Fang Jun in the grape wine business.
The general manager didn't even understand the key points, so he eagerly wanted to pounce on him and take a bite...
Akagi Hague smiled bitterly and said: "The general manager must have a fashion that he doesn't know about, right? Although this grape wine is jointly managed by Fang Jun and I, the most critical winemaking process has always been in the hands of Fang Jun."
Guo Xiaoke was stunned and asked: "You don't know how to make wine?"
Stop talking, did you have no grape wine in the Western Regions before Fang Jun?
Akagi Hague said helplessly: "It's not that we don't know how to do it, but the quality is too different. Let's put it this way, if the grape wine from Fangjia Winery is top-notch wine, then the grape wine we made before, then It’s just sour dregs..."
This is really no exaggeration.
Wine merchants in the Western Regions had no way of removing tannins from wine, and the wine they produced was bitter and unbearable. There was no comparison before, and it was still drinkable. However, after Fang Jun's winery brewed a brand-new grape wine, all the wine merchants in the Western Region gave up their own brewing.
There is no way, the craftsmanship is too different and the quality is very different.
Nowadays, except for the grape wine produced by Fang Jun’s winery, the grape wine in the past is simply unpalatable...
Guo Xiaoke really never considered this issue.
The secret recipe for winemaking?
This Guo Xiaoke really had no choice. No matter what, Fang Jun would not be able to sell this recipe to him.
However, General Manager Guo has always been simple and rude in his work. He waved his hand and said: "Before Fang Jun's secret recipe, wouldn't grape wine still be as popular? If Fang Jun is kicked out from now on, grape wine will be brewed according to the previous method. Anyway, there is no Comparatively, what does it matter? If you want to drink it, you can drink our grape wine; if you don’t want to drink it, you can’t drink anything! ”
Ju Wendou was stunned.
What's the problem?
The problem is big!
It would be fine if people in the world have never drank the grape wine brewed by Fang Jun, but they have already tasted the sweet and mellow taste. How can they endure the bitterness and difficulty in swallowing before? Even if there were only bitter wines on the market, many customers would rather not drink them!
As a result, the sales of grape wine will definitely be greatly reduced...
Guo Xiaoke was not afraid. He couldn't get in and had nothing. He got a penny for nothing, but the wine merchants didn't do it! Who would want to see a drop in sales and a sharp drop in income, even though they can make a lot of money every day?
After all, Akagi Hague is an old fox. Seeing Guo Xiaoke's attitude, he must have insisted on going his own way to the end. Discouraging him would not work, so he said in a roundabout way: "What about the wool business?"
"Wool?"
A sneer appeared on Guo Xiaoke's face.
I really don’t know if there is something wrong with Fang Jun’s mind. He throws hundreds of thousands of dollars into wool every year and has yet to make even a tiny bit of profit. What is he trying to do? Why exchange wool for food? The sheep eat and everyone eats the sheep...
I just don’t know what it means!
Since he could be named the governor of Xizhou and the protector of Anxi by the imperial court, it was naturally impossible for him not to explain the imperial court's strategy in the Western Regions. This strategy was formulated by Fang Jun at that time and determined after discussions at the Political Hall.
The profits from grape wine were used to integrate various forces in the Western Regions, and wool was used to squeeze the food cultivation in the Western Regions, so that the food in the Western Regions was controlled by the Tang Dynasty, achieving control over the Western Regions in both economic and food aspects.
But Guo Xiaoke neither understands nor cares about this!
In his opinion, what kind of economy and what kind of food are of no use?
After all, don't we have to rely on the soldiers' swords and crossbows to charge and kill, but go all out to capture the city? He has more than ten thousand elite soldiers, enough to defeat any force in the Western Region. Even if the Turks reappear, they will still be able to fight!
Even so, why waste all the effort?
At this moment, a soldier hurriedly came in and reported: "Reporting to the General Manager, there was a fire in a farm outside the city just now. The fire was so strong that we couldn't save it when we rushed there... It is said that there is the house of Huating Hou and the Prince Consort. Jun’s industry.”
"Oh?"
Guo Xiaoke pretended to be surprised: "Is it the property of the husband-in-law? Have you ever asked where the property is and are there any casualties?"
Ju Wendou and Chimu Haiya were stunned. They felt a cold air rising from their spines and quickly spreading throughout their bodies, making them shiver.
Could it be...your wool workshop?
As expected, the soldier said: "It is still unknown whether there were casualties or not. It's just that the property was probably the son-in-law's wool workshop. The wool stored during the period will probably be burned..."
Ju Wendou and Akagi Hague were really scared!
Thinking about Guo Xiaoke's expression when he heard Akagi Hague mention the wool business, the two of them had no doubts.
This Guo Xiaoke is going to attack Fang Jun! (End of chapter)