Princess Promotion

Chapter 116 Prepare for a rainy day

Da Niu quietly slipped into the store through the back door, and Shopkeeper Liu was not surprised to see Da Niu suddenly appear in the store.

Instead, he smiled slightly, deftly took out fifty taels of silver from his money box, handed it to Da Niu, and praised him, "Your performance was so vivid! Now the villagers are all motivated."

Shopkeeper Liu reached into the box again and took out ten taels of silver. He said slowly, "The two brothers suffered some physical pain the day before yesterday. Although this amount of silver is not much, it is enough for them to buy some nourishing food and take good care of themselves."

Da Niu smiled so hard that his teeth were showing. He took the silver and thanked the man repeatedly, his gratitude beyond words.

"Next time if there is such a good thing, Manager Liu, you must remember to look for me!" Da Niu's voice was full of anticipation.

At first, he was guarding there with three brothers. He originally wanted to put on a show, take a walk around the back mountain and pretend to have caught someone to get the reward. Anyway, no one would see them in the middle of the night.

The next day, the news spread among the people that Manager Liu's mission was completed.

But I really didn't expect that so many fellow villagers would show up along the way and volunteer to guard the granary.

At that time, Da Niu was so worried! Could it be that he was going to make the fake become real and let the villagers catch his two brothers and collect the reward?

So, these brothers worked so hard to act in the play, and in the end they have to share the money with these people.

Because this scenario was not in the plan. If the person was caught and brought to Manager Liu, what would happen if Manager Liu thought it was one of his own who was exposed?

Fortunately, after the man was brought to Manager Liu, Manager Liu was a better actor than him. If he had not been the one or Manager Liu had found someone to act, he would have believed it.

But when Daniu looked at the heavy silver in his hand, he realized that Manager Liu really gave him money!

It’s not wrong to say that it’s true.

After Da Niu left, Manager Liu slowly walked to the backyard, holding a prepared carrier pigeon in his hand, gently stroking the pigeon's feathers, and then released the pigeon.

The carrier pigeon flapped its wings and flew high, cutting through the sky, passing through the continuous mountains, and finally arrived at the Xueyue Tower in Yundu City.

She leaned quietly against the window, waiting for the carrier pigeon to land steadily on the windowsill. She gently removed the mailbox from its leg and pulled out a small piece of paper.

An Tian's gaze lingered on the note, which had only four words written on it - "All goes well."

Reading it aloud softly, An Tian's lips curled up into a satisfied smile.

Although An Tian has only been in business for a few years, his business has developed very rapidly.

To run a business well, in addition to having a unique secret recipe, you also need means and strategy.

Otherwise, no matter what secret recipe I give you, you won’t be able to keep it, and it will become a crime to possess a treasure.

An Tian was able to fight his way through and accumulate such a huge fortune. If he hadn't had some tricks up his sleeve, he would have been completely gnawed away.

An Tian may not have made much progress in other aspects in the past two years, but he has made considerable progress in his ability to guard against others.

An Tian knew too well how crazy these merchants and gentry could go for the sake of profit.

From the moment An Tian established the business, the first thing she did was not to think about how the business could make money, but to think about whose interests were harmed by opening the business here and whose business was taken away.

For a company the size of An Tian Trading Company, making money is just a matter of how much; how to survive is what An Tian needs to think about.

Doing business is no different from fighting on the battlefield; it's a fight to the death.

Although those merchants use various methods to target their competitors, they all use the same old methods over and over again.

The first type is to openly engage in price wars or poach people. An Tian usually ignores this kind of competition because no one has more wealth than her.

She has the support of a queen.

The second type is collusion between officials and businessmen. If it was in Yan State, An Tian might still have some headaches, but what about this?

This is Yao Chuguang's Qi State. It's ridiculous to compare it with An Tian as a backer.

The last one is the most efficient and has the lowest cost, which is to directly cut off the supply of goods. What business can you do if you don’t have goods? Producing goods requires time and raw materials, but destroying them only requires a fire.

An Tian was not sure that the gentry in Ningyuan City would take action against the business, but he had to be on guard against them.

If you are not on guard in business and passively wait for things to happen and then clean up the mess, the loss will definitely be greater than the effort you put into taking precautions.

What An Tian learned most from Yao Chuguang over the years is that you should plan ahead before doing things, because it will be too late to save the situation after things happen.

So when he started building the granary, An Tian built two granaries, one visible and one hidden. During the day, grain was transported out from the visible granary.

Because the amount of goods that enter and leave the granary every day is fixed, what outsiders always see is the grain and goods in the open warehouse.

But goods were always transported at night. There were two renovated but identical roads and granaries. Except for the shopkeeper and the foreman, the porters who moved the goods at night had no idea whether the goods they were moving were in an open warehouse or a hidden warehouse.

Although carrying things back and forth like this will double the labor costs, it can effectively prevent people with ulterior motives.

Even if the warehouse was burned down, An Tian would only lose one day's sales.

This loss is not even a loss for An Tian.