Chapter 267 Logistics Collapse
"Sit anywhere!"
Sun Mo greeted Li Gong in the guest room: "I just came here, and I haven't even bothered to clean the room, and there is no hot water, so you should be more concerned."
"The Minister is very kind."
Li Gong lowered his eyebrows and stood beside him. Don't look at Sun Mo's words to sit at will, but how dare he sit, he's as good as a baby.
As for the tea?
Just kidding, how could Li Gong have the qualifications to drink tea in front of Sun Mo, and being able to enter this villa was already a great gift.
"Tell me, what's the matter?"
Sun Mo didn't force Li Gong to do what he said, because Jinling and Tang Dynasty was a feudal dynasty, and there were classes among people.
Li Gong is a servant in front of Sun Mo. This is a deeply ingrained servile thought. If you let him sit, it will make him uneasy, thinking that he has done something wrong and made Sun Mo unhappy?
"The Ma family, the Wei family, and the Zhang family firm are conspiring to raise prices."
Li Gong reported and handed over a document.
Sun Mo took it and browsed quickly while listening to Li Gong's report.
"These three firms are responsible for more than 90% of the material purchases of our colleges. Once the price rises, given the current financial situation of the Zhongzhou colleges, at most five days, the food will be cut off."
Li Gongneng became the No. 1 dog leg of the former minister Yang Cai, not only because he was flattering, but because he was too quick.
Li Gong, in terms of personality and character, it is not too much to call him a scumbag, but he is indeed capable.
"Who ordered it? Zhang Hanfu?"
Sun Mo's expression was calm. He had just become a minister. It would be strange if Zhang Hanfu didn't fight back.
"do not know!"
Li Gong is telling the truth, with Zhang Hanfu's rights, it can't affect the business circle, it should be other big shots.
"Oh?"
Sun Mo's brows,
Wrinkled slightly: "Can you change to another firm?"
"cannot!"
Li Gong explained: "These three companies have been able to cooperate with us for more than 20 years because the vegetable farmers, charcoal farmers, and meat farmers they are responsible for have been eating with our school, which is our foundation."
If Zhongzhou University wants to gain a foothold in Jinling and expand its influence, it not only needs contacts in the elite circle, but also needs a great mass base at the bottom.
Like these ordinary people, it can be said that they are completely on the side of Zhongzhou University. When the children at home are at the age when they should go to school, if they can enter Zhongzhou University, they will definitely choose this school first.
In Jinling, and even in the south of the Yangtze River, if there are floods, droughts, and rebellions between soldiers and bandits, the food, cloth, and vegetables produced by these people will be supplied to the Zhongzhou University as soon as possible. Even if people from other places come to pay more, they will buy it not.
Of course, in return, the children of these vegetable farmers, even if they are slightly less talented, can still enter the Zhongzhou University to study.
It can be said that Zhongzhou University and these farmers are the relationship between fish and water.
"Can you bypass those three businesses and trade directly with farmers?"
Sun Mo asked.
"Minister, those peasants don't know a single character, so they have to take the lead. Besides, peasants have a very serious awareness of small peasants and are afraid of being deceived, so they only trust the three firms that have been cooperating with them for many years!"
When Li Gong said this, his expression was full of contempt. Those peasants thought that the three companies were good, but they didn't know how much difference they had earned and how much blood they had sucked.
No way, this is the limitation of cognition.
"Minister, don't think about doing it yourself. The consequences of bypassing the firm are very serious."
Seeing that Sun Mo was thinking, Li Gong quickly reminded him.
Although Sun Mo doesn't know much about this, he has watched some costume dramas and knows that there were such chambers of commerce in ancient times, such as the salt gang, the Cao gang, the cloth gang, and it's very difficult for ordinary people to come in and make money in this industry, unless they pay enough money. Molecules, with access permission.
Similarly, Jinling's market share is also divided, whoever has the most power will eat more.
The Ma family, the Wei family, and the Zhang family are qualified to purchase the agricultural products of those farmers and sell them to Zhongzhou University because they are the largest commercial firms in Jinling City.
"They want to increase the price, what do you think I should do?"
Sun Mo asked.
"Negotiate, try to increase as little as possible!"
Li Gong sighed in his heart, he knew that this day would come after all.
If the former Zhongzhou University was one of the nine famous schools, and killed those three firms, they would not dare to raise prices indiscriminately, but now the school is not good enough, it would be strange not to bully you.
What other cards does Zhongzhou University have? Don't let our children go to school? Then we can go to Wan Dao Academy, you are not attractive anyway.
"I see."
Sun Mo smiled: "You did a good job this time. Continue to monitor the three companies, and write down any troubles among the farmers."
"As ordered, Minister."
Seeing Sun Mo's calm expression, Li Gong couldn't help admiring him. Seeing how good they were at nourishing qi, it was no wonder that they were able to get Yang Cai down and Zhang Hanfu to be so mad.
Ding!
Favorability from Li Gong +20, friendly (205/1000).
Li Gong left, and Sun Mo went to take a shower first. After changing his clothes, he left the school gate, called a carriage, and went to Ren Laolang's house.
"VIPs come to the door, welcome and welcome!"
Ren Laolang smiled and went out in person.
"I'm going to trouble Big Brother Ren this time."
Sun Mo got straight to the point.
"Mr. Sun is too polite. If I have something to do, I will do whatever I want, as long as I can do it."
Ren Laolang patted his chest and assured that the last time he was at the Taoist Temple, he was shocked by Sun Mo. This is a famous teacher that even the prefect and Zheng Xiang care about. Among his disciples, there is a member of the royal family. Every day I follow behind and flatter me. Now that I have the opportunity, it's naturally a dog's work.
Sun Mo was not polite, and explained a thing or two.
...
Trouble came sooner than expected.
This time, the enemy was definitely targeting Sun Mo, because on the second day after he returned to school, the three business owners from the Ma family, the Wei family, and the Zhang family came to visit together.
"Minister Sun, this year's harvest is not very good, and the farmers have to eat, so the purchase price of vegetables, grain, charcoal, etc., will increase by 50%."
Ma Cheng is a fat man. He smiles when he speaks, and always nods and bows, giving a very humble feeling, but his words are like sharp knives, capable of severing a large piece of bloody flesh from a person's body.
"Up 50%? Ma Cheng, just don't sell it to us."
Sun Mo pouted.
Hearing Sun Mo calling himself a taboo, Ma Cheng, who was over 40 years old, changed his face, but he held back, it was not the time to turn his face.
"Minister Sun, everyone is a mess, and it's not easy for us."
Wei Ziyu is gentle and elegant, with short beards under his jaw, and is always stroked frequently.
Sun Mo was silent.
"Minister Sun, if you can't be the master, just say it and we'll go talk to Principal An."
Ma Cheng sneered.
"It won't go up by 10%, I'm a big deal to buy someone else's."
Sun Mo has a tough attitude.
"Ha ha!"
Hearing Sun Mo's angry words, the three of them laughed.
"Are you going to buy it? If you can buy it, I will lose!"
Ma Cheng mocked in his heart, the big man above has already explained that this time is to kill you Zhongzhou University, whichever chamber of commerce dares to help, just wait to be killed.
"I'll leave it here, the three of you please!"
Sun Mo didn't want to talk nonsense anymore.
"Minister Sun, I hope you don't kneel down and cry and beg us when the time comes."
After the carriage finished speaking, he flung his sleeves and left.
After the three of them left the minister's room, they went straight to the principal's room. It was the same topic.
"Up by 30%?"
An Xinhui frowned.
"This is our bottom line, Principal An, it's not easy for the farmers!"
Wei Ziyu sighed.
"Give me a few days to think about it?"
An Xinhui did not refuse, because she knew that the consequences of refusing were too serious, but if she did not refuse, could she be slaughtered by others?
The key is that the current cash from Zhongzhou University has been used by An Xinhui to buy medicinal materials and used to make giant medicine bags.
After Ma Cheng and the three of them left, An Xinhui, who was holding her back, immediately covered her cheeks with her hands, feeling a little overwhelmed, but after a few minutes, she adjusted her mentality and began to think of a solution.
"We must get the giant kits on the market as soon as possible and make a lot of money."
An Xinhui's thoughts were beautiful, but the reality was too cruel. Early the next morning, the attack of the three major firms arrived.
Students and teachers entered the cafeteria and found that the meals were pitiful.
"There are only so many vegetables delivered today, can't we do anything about it?"
The chefs in the cafeteria are also very helpless, don't scold me.
Students can't go hungry, they can only go out to forage for food, but they find that the stalls on the street are all empty, and the restaurants on the street have directly increased their prices, which is so expensive that it makes people feel distressed.
Everyone thought that this situation was only occasional, but who knows, it lasted for three days at once.
Not enough food!
The food is not fresh!
The rubbish is not cleaned in time, and the stench begins to drift
...
Because of the logistical problems in the cafeteria, which directly affected the students' study and life, some rumors began to spread rapidly.
"Mr. Sun's teaching ability is good, but it's really not good to be in charge of logistics."
"In just a few days, the school has collapsed, which is enough to prove that Sun Mo is a piece of trash."
"I don't want to be hungry!"
People take food as their priority, and their stomachs are not full. How can you be in the mood to do anything else?
Zhang Hanfu guessed that it was Prince Li Zixing who made the move, and he was the only one who had such a big hand. Saying that Sun Mo didn't die in the Dark Continent, Zhang Hanfu was very upset and complained that his son was not doing well, but forget it, I can see Sun Mo It is also a pleasure to be silent.
On the fifth day, Zhang Qianlin called the teachers of the whole school to hold a meeting in the auditorium.
At the meeting, Zhang Hanfu first announced the serious problems the school was facing, and then called on everyone to overcome the difficulties together.
"Minister Sun, do you have a solution? In the end, this incident is all because of you. As a person, don't be too arrogant. If you didn't offend the three business owners, the matter would not have happened. Will it be like this?"
In front of hundreds of teachers, Zhang Qianlin didn't give Sun Mo any face, and called him an incompetent guy.
"Whose dog ran out and barked after being unleashed?"
Sun Mo couldn't bear the anger, so he opened his mouth and bit back.
Whoa!
Hearing Sun Mo's words, the audience was in an uproar.
"Sun Mo, what is your attitude? Do you have the guts to tell me again?"
Zhang Qianlin was furious, his face full of disbelief, that he was scolded in front of so many teachers? Really unbearable.