A few days later, Nanlichengdu

Snow is falling and snowflakes are drifting.

After stopping for a few days, heavy snow began to fall from the sky again.

There was peace and tranquility in the capital of Nanli, and the streets were even more lively and bustling than ever before.

Because soon it will be the annual festival of auspicious snow that heralds a good harvest and welcoming the New Year.

Every household on the street is busy preparing for the New Year, and New Year's paper-cut window decorations are pasted on the windows of the houses around the street.

Bright red lanterns are hung high, decorating every street and alley.

Stalls and shops selling New Year goods can be seen everywhere on the streets.

Even the monks who have been living in the Nanli city can't help but be infected by the festive atmosphere among mortals.

The entire Nanli city was filled with a joyful atmosphere.

Among them, only the Jiang family mansion was dead and the atmosphere was extremely depressing.

A few days ago, the Qi family suddenly began to buy up all kinds of magical herbs and medicines in the city, and they were buying them at extremely high prices.

Among the acquired magical herbs and elixirs, there are many that are completely worthless and have no effect.

Many monks and drug dealers sold almost all of their medicinal materials to the Qi family at high prices.

Jiang Zhen's keen business sense noticed the unusualness of the Qi family's large-scale purchase of magical herbs and medicines.

Overnight, he found many monks who were good at refining pills to study the medicinal materials purchased by the Qi family, but they could not figure out what new pill the Qi family was trying to develop.

No wonder the Jiang family couldn’t figure it out.

The formula for the immortal pills that Ning Yechen gave to the Qi family was developed by himself, and there is no record of it in the world.

Qi Rongchang of the Qi family is also very shrewd.

He knew that the Jiang family would definitely notice that the medicinal materials they purchased in large quantities were mixed with a lot of magical herbs and elixirs that were not in the recipe at all.

Even if the Jiang family studied it for a lifetime, they would never be able to figure it out.

At this time, in the Jiang family mansion, Jiang Zhen was sitting in the lobby, his brows furrowed, his hand stroking his forehead, his face full of fatigue.

With the Treasure Chamber of Commerce as a witness, he dared not fail to hand over the jurisdiction of the streets of Nanli City to the Qi family.

After gaining jurisdiction over all the streets, the Qi family immediately began to suppress the Jiang family's business!

Many of their chambers of commerce have already turned to the Qi family!

In order to deal with the suppression from the Qi family, he has been extremely busy in recent days.

Except for a few housekeepers and his younger brother Jiang Ming, everyone else in the family is completely useless!

Especially his son Jiang Li, who has been a playboy since the beginning and has absolutely no talent in business!

Now that his lower body is crippled, he just hides at home every day, throwing tantrums and smashing things, and has absolutely no ambition at all!

If it weren't for the fact that Jiang Li was Jiang Zhen's only son, he would have wanted to kick him out of the Jiang family!

The mysterious man who attacked Jiang Li and killed Jiang Gan has not been found yet...

The Jiang family didn't know when they had provoked such a person, and they didn't know if the other party would attack their Jiang family again...

After Chen Rou's death, Jiang Zhen and the rest of the Jiang family have been living in fear.

They are afraid that the next Jiang Li or Jiang Gan may be them...

This kind of mental torture made everyone in the Jiang family exhausted physically and mentally.

Before he finished dealing with one thing, another one came on his shoulders. Jiang Zhen felt worried and had a headache.

"Brother."

Just then, Jiang Ming walked into the lobby and greeted Jiang Zhen.

During this period of time, he has been responsible for recruiting alchemists in the Jiang family to study the Qi family's healing liquid and the acquired magical herbs and medicines.

At the same time, he has been responsible for tracking down the murderer of his son Jiang Gan.

Seeing Jiang Ming coming in, Jiang Zhen looked expectant and asked quickly:

"You're here, how's it going?"

"Can you crack the Qi family's recipe?"

Jiang Ming shook his head slowly and said with great regret:

"no…"

"The magical herbs and medicines purchased by the Qi family are of various types and too weird."

"I have already found more than a dozen alchemists to study together, but I still can't find out the recipe of the elixir in the hands of the Qi family..."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Zhen leaned back in his chair in disappointment and rubbed his eyebrows.

"Since there is no result, why did you come to me?"

"The Qi family sent someone again..."

"They said they wanted to buy the magical herbs and medicines from my Jiang family at a price ten times higher than the market price."

Jiang Ming walked forward, took out the list of medicinal materials listed by the Qi family from his arms and handed it to Jiang Zhen.

Jiang Zhen didn't even look at it, he grabbed the list and tore it to pieces, shouting angrily:

"Let the Qi family get out!"

"Otherwise, chop off his head and send it back to the Qi family!"

"Even if the Jiang family lets all the medicinal materials rot in the warehouse, they will never be sold to the Qi family!"

Jiang Ming stood aside and pondered for a moment, then stepped forward and advised:

"Brother, why don't you raise the price a little bit and sell all those herbs to the Qi family?"

"You want me to sell those herbs to the Qi family?"

Jiang Zhen looked at Jiang Ming with angry eyes and questioned him.

Jiang Ming nodded and said seriously:

"Brother, you know we are already in debt..."

The Jiang family's main business relies on selling Fire Lotus Liquid at a high price.

Now that the Qi Family Chamber of Commerce controls the lifeline of the Nanli City Chamber of Commerce, his Jiang family can no longer lower the prices of the materials needed for the Fire Lotus Liquid as madly as before.

The cost of refining Fire Lotus Liquid has increased greatly, and their sales channels have become much fewer.

A few days ago, I also ordered a large amount of materials for the Fire Lotus Liquid from various other places, and I am repaying part of the debt every month in the form of credit installments.

Every month, they have to pay a huge amount of spiritual stones to the Holy Lotus Sect...

The Jiang family seems to be very wealthy, but the flow of funds is huge, and there is not much money left in their hands.

Due to the suppression by the Qi Family Chamber of Commerce, the funds for next month are not enough to repay the previous debts...

If chambers of commerce fail to pay off their debts on time, their credibility will be affected.

Once the reputation is affected, it will be difficult to cooperate with other chambers of commerce in the future!

Jiang Zhen also understood this, which made him feel even more troubled.

He thought that the Jiang family would definitely win the Chamber of Commerce competition, so he ordered a large amount of Fire Lotus Liquid materials and was willing to pay on credit in installments.

As long as they win the Chamber of Commerce competition, the Jiang family will control all the Chambers of Commerce and shops in the entire Nanli City, and the funding gap they owe can be quickly made up.

I never expected to lose...

This is what caused the Jiang family to be in such an embarrassing situation today.

"Well, tell me what you are going to do."

"Since you asked me to sell those herbs, I guess you have a plan, right?"

Jiang Zhen sighed softly, looked at Jiang Ming and asked.

His younger brother is quite smart.

The Jiang family has become what it is today thanks to these two brothers.

But their two sons are too disappointing...

Jiang Ming smiled slightly and expressed his opinion:

"Brother, I have a plan!"

"The medicinal materials purchased by the Qi family are most likely used to refine the healing spirit liquid."

"The healing spirit liquid is not a body-hardening liquid, so it will not affect the business of my Jiang family."

"We can take this opportunity to raise the price and sell the herbs to the Qi family, and then speed up the refining of Fire Lotus Liquid in large quantities!"

"When the time comes, I can sell this batch of Fire Lotus Liquid at a high price, which will be enough to make up for the funding gap of my Jiang family!"

"By then, Nanli City will still be the domain of my Jiang family!"