Chapter 1373 What Is Going On?

Although the Youzhou nobles who were still in the mutual market felt that the world was spinning, they still did not give up the last trace of their fantasy.

So they split up and asked a number of Xianbei merchants who were still in the mutual market.

The results obtained are much the same.

King Khan is selling soap, the price is 70% of the market price, the quantity is sufficient, the soap is produced in Hanzhong.

Putting this information together, these Youzhou nobles, no matter how stupid they are, began to understand that it was Cao Jie or Bai Feng who took action!

After leaving Hushi, these Youzhou nobles went to the mansion of the prefect Liu Yan again.

But my face doesn’t have the look it had yesterday.

"What?!"

"how so!"

Liu Yan said in shock after listening to the stories of the Youzhou nobles.

How could Hanzhong soap be sold to Kebineng and Bu Dugen quietly, and in large quantities?

There was no warning before this!

Liu Yan really couldn't imagine how Bai Feng and Cao Jie used such precise timing to sell the soap to Xianbei just when Youzhou soap was about to be sold in large quantities.

And it was sold directly to Ke Bineng and Bu Dugen.

This made Liu Yan very confused.

"Everyone, what is going on? Haven't you heard anything about it before?"

Liu Yan didn't believe that with such an arrangement, Bai Feng and Cao Jie could prevent any news from spreading.

After Liu Yan's reminder, several Youzhou nobles reacted immediately.

"Prefect, I remember that among the last batch of craftsmen we recruited, several of them were very familiar with the soap production process!"

After this Youzhou nobleman finished speaking, several other Youzhou noblemen also nodded, and this was what they were thinking of.

"artisan?"

"I think this is unlikely. Logically speaking, neither the Marquis of Hanzhong nor Her Royal Highness the Princess need to allow our soap workshop to start smoothly, right?"

Liu Yan didn't believe it when he heard this.

"Well, now you send people back to see if those craftsmen are still in the workshop. If they are, they are probably not the ones sent by the Hanzhong Marquis and Her Royal Highness the Princess."

Liu Yan believed that if these craftsmen were really undercover agents sent by Hanzhong, they would definitely have left after the affair was over.

Several nobles who suspected that they were craftsmen nodded after hearing this, and then called their servants to their respective soap workshops to check.

Soon the servants came back and reported that these craftsmen were working normally in the workshop, and no one left, not even asking for leave.

Several nobles who suspected that Hanzhong sent undercover craftsmen were dispelled.

What they don't know is that the most dangerous places are the safest places.

Bai Feng asked these craftsmen to stay until the soap workshop established by the Youzhou nobles closed down, and then returned to Hanzhong.

After losing the breakthrough point of craftsmen, Liu Yan and the nobles turned their attention to merchants.

With such a large batch of soap, there will definitely be merchants who come forward to trade with Kebi Neng and Bu Dugen.

So they sent people to the mutual market to inquire about the merchants who had recently come to Youzhou.

Shopkeeper Zhou's name naturally came into their sight, but Shopkeeper Zhou was a cloth merchant and was quickly excluded by the Youzhou nobles.

If they could really investigate Shopkeeper Zhou more deeply, they would definitely find something suspicious about Shopkeeper Zhou.

It's a pity that there is no if.

In a short period of time, Liu Yan and the Youzhou nobles had no clue.

The next thing they discussed was how to sell the batch of soap in their hands.

The materials used to build a soap workshop, recruit craftsmen, and produce soap are all silver.

And it's not a small sum. After all, the nobles involved invested hundreds of taels of silver, and even more than a thousand taels of silver.

"Prefect, if we lower the price to the same price as Hanzhong soap, we will lose at least 20%!"

Some nobles proposed selling at a lower price, but other nobles immediately stood up and objected.

Even if you can't make any money, you still have to lose money. No one is willing to do this kind of thing.

Even if you get your money back, you have wasted at least more than a month in it.

Time cost is also a cost!

"But if we don't choose to sell at a lower price, we will have to wait until all the soaps in Hanzhong are sold before we can get this batch of soaps in our hands for sale!"

The nobles who wanted to sell the soap in their hands to get some blood came out and spoke loudly.

Liu Yan listened to the nobles constantly arguing about whether to sell at a lower price.

"enough!"

Liu Yan couldn't help but said loudly.

This kind of debate is getting more and more intense, but it doesn't solve any problem at all.

"The soap in your hands must be sold, and it cannot be delayed for too long."

Now Youzhou's soap workshops are still maintaining production, and soaps are entering the warehouse every day and being backlogged.

If we really wait until the batch of soap from Hanzhong is sold out in Xianbei, and the soap workshop in Youzhou has no income, it will really have to stop work, and the nobles will suffer even greater losses.

Seeing that Liu Yan was already very dissatisfied, the nobles finally stopped arguing.

"When you found me, I will definitely give you a solution now."

Then Liu Yan said in a deep voice.

He had long known that the nobles had found him in order not to face Bai Feng's wrath directly.

Now that this situation has occurred, he needs to come forward to solve it, and Liu Yan will definitely try his best to solve it.

Because now he has offended Bai Feng and Cao Jie, and he will not get the silver that the Youzhou gentry prepared to give him. That would be a big loss.

When the gentry heard Liu Yan say that he would give a solution, they immediately looked at Liu Yan with hope.

"Since this batch of soap cannot be sold to the Xianbei people, or it is a loss to sell it to the Xianbei people."

"Then we will sell this batch of soap to Yongzhou and Liangzhou!"

After thinking about it, Liu Yan planned to open up other markets, so he set his sights on Yongzhou and Liangzhou.

"And the price must also be lowered, otherwise even in Yongzhou and Liangzhou, this batch of soap is not easy to sell, you can keep 10% of the profit."

Because Yongzhou and Liangzhou can also buy some soap from Yecheng, Qingzhou, Xuzhou and Yizhou, so although the price of soap is slightly higher locally, it is not as profitable as selling it to Xianbei.

The Youzhou nobles present had no choice but to nod and accept the decision. After all, there was no better way.

In addition, they did not know whether Bai Feng and Cao Jie had other tricks waiting for them.