As soon as Zhuge Liang shook the fan, everyone felt that everything was in his control.

It was like a wonderful spell, and everyone couldn't help but believe that Zhuge Liang could find a solution to the problem for them.

Instead of harming them.

This is a wonderful thing that many people can't do. Not only can they not do it, but they also dare not think about it. For example, Sima Yi, he never thought that he could sit with a group of ordinary people and chat and laugh.

Isn't this a big deal?

But Zhuge Liang can do it.

He can not only talk and laugh, but also solve problems through talk and laugh.

"Today Liang invited you to come, not for anything else, but for a huge unjust disaster, I want to inform you, and please be prepared."

The merchants looked at me, and I looked at you, and they were collectively confused.

What is a huge unjust disaster?

Zhuge Liang slowly shook his fan and sighed: "You are all merchants in the city, some of whom have restaurants, some of whom have hotels, some of whom sell food, fruits, and meat, and some of whom specialize in buying and selling bulk goods with foreign merchants. Liang knows all these.

You do this business not with our own people, but with foreigners, and what you earn is also the money from foreigners. This is naturally a good thing, but you should also understand that the main reason why this business can be carried out is that there are continuous foreign merchants.

But have you ever thought that one day foreign merchants suddenly stopped coming, and those merchants who came to Wei State to buy goods everywhere will not come and will not buy things. What kind of situation will your business be like?"

Everyone still looked at each other.

The owner of a small merchant who runs a restaurant raised his hand.

"Zhuge Dupu, just tell me what you have, we're ready."

A group of merchants nodded repeatedly like chickens pecking at rice, staring at Zhuge Liang with their eyes.

"All right."

Zhuge Liang stopped shaking his fan and said, "There are two main customers in the country, one is Kushan, and the other is resting in peace? Now? Kushan is safe and sound, resting in peace... In the war with Loumo Kingdom, the capital fell? It is in danger."

The merchants were all stunned, look at me? I looked at you, no one spoke for a while.

Suddenly, a businessman with a fast head raised his hand.

"Zhuge Dupu? What do you mean? Do you mean that the Alizari Kingdom was defeated and gone, so their merchants were... gone?"

As he said this, the businessman himself showed a terrifying expression.

The other merchants also showed thrilling statements one after another.

They are not stupid? Can they do their business to this time? They are a little smart enough to maintain until this time. Opening a store and doing business is an extremely test of skills and endurance at any time.

So they quickly realized what Zhuge Liang said meant.

Zhuge Liang followed the trend.

"It's not that it's gone, but the country has fallen and Anxi has been severely damaged? Many powerful and wealthy families have been robbed, and how many of them have come to us to buy goods? We don't know, people are panic in the face of defeat? How many people still have money and need to come to us to buy things is really hard to say."

Zhuge Liang shook his fan again: "So everyone? Liang called you here? Just to tell you that? Anxi was defeated and suffered heavy losses. The merchants were likely to disappear in large quantities. Your business may not be done."

As soon as Zhuge Liang finished speaking, the merchants below were all shocked and then they started talking to each other, with unconcealed anxiety and panic in their words.

"What should I do if it's broken?"

"My business has just improved a little, why didn't I come?"

"Who will I sell my family's goods to? I just bought a lot of goods. Who will I sell this person if I don't come?"

"My family still owes the government money! How can I pay it back if they don't come! How can I pay it back?"

"It's over, it's over now!"

Seeing the chaos below, Zhuge Liang said aloud: "Everyone, please be quiet, be quiet, listen to me!"

Zhuge Liang was very prestigious. He spoke. Although the merchants were panicked, they still calmed down out of trust in him.

"I know that many of you are barely operating. You don't have much money at home, your business is not good, your income is not much, and you still owe money from the court. It won't take long before the number of our merchants has decreased greatly, your business will definitely not be able to continue.

By then, you will not be able to continue doing business and still owe the court money. There is nothing else in your family except land and houses. Life is tight and you have to squeeze out the money to return it to the court. This life is really hard."

The merchants who said Zhuge Liang were depressed, lowering their heads and covering their heads, not knowing how to live.

An anxious middle-aged merchant stood up and saluted Zhuge Liang.

"Protector Zhuge, our entire Beiting Protectorate merchants know that you can do everything. As long as it is a problem, you can always solve it. Now you call us over, is there a way?"

After saying the middle-aged merchant, everyone looked at Zhuge Liang with hope.

Indeed, Zhuge Liang has always governed the Beiting Protectorate with an image that can solve problems. For the people of the Beiting Protectorate, if something happens, Zhuge Liang will be the only savior.

It is absolutely true to rely on him, he will not let everyone down.

As expected, Zhuge Liang shook the feather fan lightly and nodded slowly.

"The solution cannot be said to be none, but for you, this method may be a little too much, and Liang doesn't know if you can accept it. After all, there are always more problems than methods in this world."

"Please say it."

Middle-aged merchants couldn't wait to hear Zhuge Liang's solution.

Zhuge Liang stopped shaking the fan.

"There are solutions, but such a thing is not our own problem, but the defeat of the Abnormal Kingdom. We cannot interfere with such things and can only bear them passively and are very powerless, so we cannot save your business. The only way at the moment is to actively close the store and stop the loss in time."

Zhuge Liang's voice was very loud and clear.

The scene solidified for a moment, and the hope in the middle-aged merchant's eyes disappeared completely. He sat back on the chair and sighed heavily with his head covering his head.

"If Zhuge Dudu can't help, it means there is really nothing to do, it's over."

The rest of the people were also depressed.

If Zhuge Liang had no choice, then there was no way. Even Zhuge Liang could not solve the problem, then it was really impossible.

At some point, the people of Beiting Protectorate had already formed this view.

Zhuge Liang himself does not agree with this. He always says that there are people outside of people and there are mountains outside of mountains, and there must be people who can solve problems for everyone better than him.

For example, the changer who made Zhuge Liang admire.

But people from Beiting Protectorate have never seen anyone who can truly solve problems than Zhuge Liang.

So they will inevitably have such thoughts.

Zhuge Liang sighed helplessly at the sad scene.

"Everyone, Liang knows that you have worked hard and tried your best to run a shop. Basically, you borrowed money from the court, and you also paid a lot of money. There are also many people and relatives and friends who have indeed put a lot of money into it.

Once you asked you to close your shop, you felt pain, and Liang also felt it. But you should know that this kind of thing is no longer something we can interfere with. Even the emperor cannot interfere with the battlefield thousands of miles away, let alone us?

If you close the store one day later, you will have more expenses for one day. If two days later, you will have two more days. When the crisis comes, not only will you not be able to recover the cost, but the loss will be much greater than the current shutdown. Think about it, is this the reason?"

No one answered on the field, but it was still a bleak cloud.

Zhuge Liang sighed again.

"Liang knows what you are thinking, what you are thinking is nothing more than thinking that if you can fight again, if you can hold on and continue to do business, wouldn't you make more money? But everyone, are you really sure that this will happen?"

Zhuge Liang stood up, walked to the middle of the merchants' seats with a feather fan, and looked at the merchants' depressed expressions from close range.

"Liang never considers the situation when doing things, because that situation is too illusory and is not worthy of hope, especially when it comes to matters related to livelihoods.

You are not worth a lot of money. To be precise, there is no other property except the land and houses in your home. Once the shop is forced to go bankrupt, you think how long will it take to repay the debts owed by the court and make up for the losses?"

The expressions on the merchants' faces began to loosen, showing hesitant struggles.

Zhuge Liang decided to use a killer move.

He sent someone to write some of the numbers he obtained through the calculation on a large piece of paper.

Now I send someone to unfold this piece of paper so that all merchants can see clearly - everyone recognizes words anyway.

People who have received the basic literacy education that Guo Peng has widely spread can understand hundreds of commonly used words, read and write, and also understand numbers.

Just kidding, don’t people who can open stores understand numbers and calculations?

Zhuge Liang always feels that when he is doing things, especially when communicating with the people, there is always a big hand pushing him behind him.

Without this big hand, he felt that it would be much more difficult for him to accomplish things.

With this big hand, at least, the exchange problems between the two sides no longer exist, and the government and the people have the most basic consensus.

This is not an easy thing.

The changer had to do this after thirty years of hard work. From the perspective of that time, how far-sighted was this approach?

So everyone, there are really people who can solve problems better than me.

Zhuge Liang was deeply moved.

To rectify his emotions, Zhuge Liang began his own preaching.

"Please look, this is a calculation made by Liang based on the statistics of the court over the years. The cost of your store costs is required for one day, the cost of the store after closing, and the additional losses after being forced to close. You can take a look."
Chapter completed!