Chapter 168: Is Shen Yan stupid?
Everyone looked at Cao Yi, not knowing what the evidence he was saying was. Even the shopkeeper Sun from Qingfeng Building looked at Cao Yi with confusion, and from time to time, he looked at the twenty jars of wine that had just been moved out of his store and the wine that was originally placed on the ground. He compared the two one by one, and found that he could not see anything strange.
Cao Yi raised his right hand, snapped his fingers and shouted: "Hongxiu!"
"Yes, young master!" Hongxiu stepped forward and sent a piece of paper to everyone except Manager Sun, Manager Li and Manager Zhang. There was no more to write on it, but it only indicated the name of the restaurant, the purchase volume of liquor, and... their respective corresponding symbols? But what does this corresponding symbol mean? Everyone had questions in their hearts.
"Okay, everyone pick up the wine jar you brought by yourself. Each wine jar has three corresponding symbols, one of which is at the bottom of the wine jar. You can raise it to see if it can be matched one by one. You can also check the symbols of other restaurants. Anyway, you can see them, so you can confirm each other, especially you can look at the symbols of Cuiwei Tower and Qingyuan Tower and the wine jar they brought by."
Cao Yi's words were compared and found that it was true. The two shopkeepers of nearby restaurants picked up each other's wine jars and found that they were all corresponding. So everyone looked at the wine jars placed on the ground in Cuiweilou and Qingyuanlou. Among them, the shopkeeper Hua of Huafenglou and Shangguard Liu of Yinfenglou, who were closest to them, immediately raised up and faced the symbol at the bottom of the wine jar to everyone, asking them to confirm. After checking, everyone nodded and confirmed that it was correct.
Cao Yi clapped his hands, attracted everyone's attention, and said to everyone: "You can go and see the ten jars of Taibai Zui and Ten Jars of Qinglian wine that you just bought from Qingfeng Building, and see which restaurant's exclusive wine jars are all."
As soon as Cao Yi finished speaking, Manager Li of Cuiwei Tower had already collapsed on the ground, losing his soul, while Manager Zhang of Qingyuan Tower had a vicious look and a gloomy face.
"It's the symbol of Cuiwei Tower!" "My this is also from Cuiwei Tower!" "I'm from Qingyuan Tower!" "My one is from Qingyuan Tower!" "I'm from Qingyuan Tower!"...
After a while, everyone calculated that among the twenty jars of wine, there were eight jars of Cuiweilou, and there were twelve jars of Qingyuanlou. Everyone looked at the shopkeeper Li of Cuiweilou and shopkeeper Sun of Qingyuanlou with contempt in their eyes. They believed that Cao Yi had treated them well and supplied them with 50% of the market price. Although they accounted for 30% of the total profit, compared with that, they still made much more money than before. Moreover, Cao Yi taught them cooking for free, and later handed over the rich eggs to them for sale. Cao Yi, the partner, had done his best and had done his best.
But the shopkeepers Cuiweilou and Qingyuanlou did not think so. Instead, they were not satisfied with their hearts and had a serious way to make money and refused to take the road to making money. They had to think about making money by making money by others. Now it seems that they are not good enough.
It must be that you will lose some rice if you steal chickens.
Everyone has signed contracts and agreements, so they naturally know what the punishment is. Everyone thinks it is nothing to return the liquor they purchased before, but it is awful to have 10,000 taels of silver. Even if they are given more than half a year, they may not be able to make a net profit of 10,000 taels of silver. What's more, they have to share 30% of it to Cao Yi. Zuixianlou started business after the Double Ninth Festival. They also started to cooperate in selling Taibai Zui and Qinglian wine at about that time. It's only less than four months to make a net profit of 10,000 taels of silver. But now they have to pay for it like this. It's really because of a small loss and the gain is not worth the loss.
Manager Li, who had already been slumped on the ground, quickly climbed in front of Cao Yi, hugged Cao Yi's thigh and whined: "Mr. Cao, please give me a way out... I'll forgive me this time. I was all bewitched by Chen Yan and Zhang Ning. I didn't want to sell it, they were all... They were all trying to instigate me to sell wine to Qingfenglou in private, saying that as long as I promised to sell the wine to them, their Shen family will support me in the future..."
"Li Yuan, are you a little bit of backbone? Do you think Cao Yi will forgive you and give you a way out? He will only punish us two and kill the chickens for the monkeys to see! Whether you beg for mercy or not, the ending of our two is destined!" Zhang Jianguan of Qingyuan Building said expressionlessly at this moment.
He now began to recall that Cao Yi had already made every step of the way since he customized the wine jar of different shapes, laying the groundwork, and finally summoning everyone to re-sign the contract and agreement, and bringing the government in to increase credibility and legal effect, which is to prevent people from refusing to implement the punishment clauses stipulated in the contract, or placing it off as fines.
It seems that Cao Yi had known for a long time that he was selling wine to Qingfenglou people in private, so he asked so many people to come together, and each brought the wine from his restaurant, and purchased twenty Qingfenglou wine on the spot in front of so many people, and then disclosed the secret of the personal exclusive symbols on the wine jar, just to make so many people called witnesses. Now that people, evidence and physical evidence are present, he and Li Yuan cannot deny it even if they want to deny it. It can be said that from beginning to end, it is slight and no loopholes. Cao Yi is really a scheming! Good method!
"Zhang Qi, it's you, you encouraged me to sell wine to Qingfenglou in private, and you said that you have been selling it for more than a month, and Zuixianlou won't find it at all. Just tell me that even if Zuixianlou knows that Qingfenglou has a large amount of Taibai Zui and Qinglian wine for sale, I don't know who sold it to them. I promised me that they won't find evidence. You promised me, you should compensate me quickly, you should compensate me quickly!" Li Yuan from Cuiweilou was already in hysteria, ran to Zhang Qi from Qingyuanlou, grabbed the clothes on his chest with both hands, and roared!
"Get out of here!" Zhang Qi pushed Li Yuan down and looked at Li Yuan with contempt, "Just like you, what if you are caught and fined! Mr. Chen said that if he had to fine in the end, he would give it to me.
Let's go!"
After saying that, Zhang Qi stopped caring about Li Yuan, turned to Cao Yi, and said ruthlessly: "Cao Yi, I admit that I underestimated you, but in order to prove the evidence today, you have exposed the personal exclusive symbol of the wine jar. Li Yuan and I can be persuaded by Mr. Chen, so in the future, these people will also be instigated. At that time, at most they don't need your wine jar, so what can you do? Hahahaha!" Zhang Qi pointed at the other shopkeepers and laughed arrogantly.
On the one hand, he said this to let others know that there is such a loophole here, and on the other hand, he is to disgust Cao Yi. If Cao Yi guards against other shopkeepers because of what he said, and a gap arises between the two parties, then his goal will be achieved.
"Haha, since I dare to say the exclusive symbols on the wine jar today, I am naturally not afraid that someone will change the wine jar for this. Moreover, do you think I have only this method? You are not underestimating me, you look down on me too much, so I will naturally have a way to distinguish it." Cao Yi looked at Zhang Qi and smiled contemptuously.
"If I add different things to this wine, the colors will become different. I have already recorded who corresponds to what color. Besides, after the precedent of you two, as long as you have been punished enough, I don't think they dare to try again!" Cao Yi said confidently.
Zhang Qi was blocked by Cao Yi's words, while Hongxiu looked at Cao Yi with a deep meaning, because she had never heard the young master say that Taibai Zui and Qinglian Wine had such recognition functions.
"Hmph! Cao Yi, don't be too proud too early. If this giant of the Shen family really frees up their hands to punish you, you can wait and cry when the time comes!" Zhang Qi said viciously.
This is not Zhang Qi's alarmist or some scenes. If the Shen family is really determined to mess with Cao Yi, then as long as the Shen family is willing to do some actions that hurt one thousand enemies and two thousand of them will be fine.
For example, buy all the vegetables, meat and rice near Jiangning City at high prices, and once they appear on the market, they will buy them immediately without giving Zuixianlou any chance. Then even if Zuixianlou has its own purchasing channels, even if there is still a large amount of inventory, it will definitely not last long. As long as the Shen family persists for three consecutive months, Zuixianlou will change from a tall restaurant to a "pure restaurant" that sells wine.
"Haha, you can go to the head of the Shen family to say this, to see if he is willing to listen to you and do what you said... and even if they do it, I will have my own way to deal with it. But Manager Zhang, you have to remember that you only have three days. If you don't fine me 10,000 taels of silver within three days, then the government will come forward to confiscate the deposit of your restaurant and give me the money. Manager Zhang, you should prepare the money first. Oh, by the way... Manager Li is the same here. I will give me the money in three days, otherwise the government will wait for me to ask for it. When your guests see it, then... hahahaha!" Cao Yi smiled gloatingly.
Chapter completed!