Suppressing the panic in his heart, Zhu Yongzhi took a few steps back.

But suddenly someone grabbed his shoulder.

"Boss Zhu, things aren't over yet. Where do you want to go?"

When the accident just happened, Jiang Maoshan ran over. If Yin Jia hadn't been persuading him, he would have stepped forward to stand up for Jiang Li.

Seeing that the troublemaker wanted to run away, Jiang Maoshan stopped him directly.

After all, he was a young general, and he instantly overwhelmed Zhu Yongzhi in both strength and momentum.

"No, I don't plan to go anywhere." Zhu Yongzhi explained with a pale face.

He never imagined that the medicinal materials in the herbal medicine shop would be so different.

"Okay, Fourth Brother, please don't scare our guests." Jiang Li smiled and comforted him, "Boss Zhu, could you please bring the medicinal food bowl next to you over? Let's take a look and see what went wrong."

Ignoring the man's trembling, Jiang Li used chopsticks to pick up the rhubarb that Bai Mo had handed her. After burning it for a while, no golden color appeared. She then picked up another herb from the medicinal bowl marked "Zhu Yongzhi."

As soon as it was put on the fire, it turned golden.

“It’s really different!”

"Look, everything here is golden!"

"I have it here, too."

As they were talking, many people couldn't wait for Ji Zhong to check, and directly picked up their own herbs from the medicine bowl and started to burn them. When they saw the herbs change color, they instantly became excited.

"Tsk tsk, it seems that our boss Zhu only changed the herb Phytolacca."

After burning all the herbs in his medicine bowl, Jiang Li put down his chopsticks.

Seeing the change in everyone's gazes, Zhu Yongzhi broke out in a cold sweat and quickly explained, "You have no evidence to prove that I replaced it! I even said you did it on purpose! Just in case, so you can clear yourself."

The man's voice was no longer as calm as before.

Jiang Li shook her head. "Ordinary people wouldn't store Chinese rhubarb in their homes, so I guess the Chinese rhubarb you brought today, Boss Zhu, must have been purchased recently, right?"

"Do you want me to send someone to investigate? Or, I can report it directly to the authorities. Guess how long it will take the Dali Temple to find out who in your family bought this Chinese rhubarb and when?"

"thump--"

Zhu Yongzhi was no longer able to refute and knelt on the ground.

Seeing this, no one dared to say anything. Only some older wealthy merchants shook their heads and sighed, "Boss Zhu is really confused."

"Come here, take these people away and send them to the Dali Temple."

"yes."

The guards who had been waiting outside the assembly hall since early morning rushed in with swords in hand upon hearing the news and took away all the people Jiang Li had named.

"Princess, I was just asked to identify the medicinal herbs. What do you mean?" Ji Zhong didn't expect that he was also among those arrested, and shouted hurriedly.

"Don't worry, Boss Ji. I'm just taking precautions." He then turned to the guards and said, "Please keep an eye out for any other medicinal herbs they have on them. Don't let anyone secretly throw them away. Also, remember to bring their medicinal food over for inspection."

"yes!"

Hearing Jiang Li say this, the few people who were captured looked at each other in shock, and then instantly wilted.

That's right, they also brought poisonous herbs, intending to secretly put them into the medicinal food so that they could claim compensation from Jiang Li, but Zhu Yongzhi got there first.

Therefore, by the time Qin Ji received the news, all the wealthy businessmen under his command had been imprisoned.

Even though he spent a lot of money and was under pressure from Prince Jingling, he still couldn't save those people from imprisonment.

Without these people's offerings, the Qin family became increasingly stretched to the limit.

Of course, this is all later.

Assembly Hall.

After those people were taken away, Jiang Li gestured for everyone to sit down again.

She looked at the crowd below, smiled, and after a long moment, sighed, "In the business world, deception is inevitable. But business cannot succeed without morality. Business shouldn't be like this."

Seeing the different expressions of the people below, Jiang Li snapped his fingers, and the screen behind him changed again.

"Okay, it's getting late, let's get back to the investment conference. Someone was just worried that today's investment conference was trying to make money from everyone."

"Let me tell you a rule first. To protect your rights, I will only recruit one franchisee in each location."

"If you want to join the Liuli Medicinal Food Shop, you must purchase all of your herbs from us. Of course, we will pay you according to the local cost price of the herbs. But this also means that you must give up the idea of ​​being a profiteer. Because, in order to protect the rights of the people, I will have this method of identifying herbs publicized by the government and announced to everyone in the world."

"So, if you're still interested in joining the Herbal Cuisine Shop after hearing this, please go to the right and queue up to register. Other bosses, please go to the guest rooms and rest first. A carriage will be dispatched to take you away tomorrow."

Everyone who had been silent because of what had just happened could no longer sit still after hearing these words.

In particular, several wealthy businessmen from the same place looked at each other for a few seconds, then immediately left their seats and rushed to line up as soon as possible.

Many people were already interested in joining the Liuli Herbal Cuisine Shop after seeing its profits. The fact that each location only recruited one franchisee completely dispelled everyone's concerns.

Everyone present was a seasoned businessman, and who wouldn't know this was a golden opportunity? Anyone still worried about being scammed was a complete fool!

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