124 Mi Hui 3 (2/2)
When it was about business, Yao Ying's mind started to work -- unlike when he heard about the political side. ”Lin Jian, what kind of business chains that the master has? Is it all embroidery business?”
”Not all of them are embroidery. Some of them are hua lou, restaurants, and woman's accessories. The master only chooses the most famous shop in each big city and acquire them one by one, the network intelligence on each big city will be handled by one person who will also make a greater network on nearby small cities.”
Yao Ying nodded in understanding. ”The ones that were being attacked? Which business?”
Mi Hui hesitantly answered, ”Embroidery. A few cities have been attacked at the same time.”
Yao Ying felt that this information was pretty interesting. ”I run the embroidery here, but no one attacks us. It makes me feel interested in knowing the attack details.” Yao Ying seemed to forget that Mi Hui didn't really accept him yet, because his mind was solely on the attack. ”Tell me about the attack!”
Lin Jian nodded at Mi Hui and he knew how business-minded this Yao Ying was. Who knew that he probably would come out with a good idea to handle them?
”The first one, a group raided our final products that were sent to the palace and our people were killed while our products were burnt to ashes.”
”Hmm... this is a blatant provocation. It's not about the business aspect anymore. They want to ruin the shop's name because the palace will get affected by it if they didn't receive the products on time,” Yao Ying analyzed. ”How about the products? Are there any backup?”
Mi Hui shook her head. ”No, but fortunately, the product was made ahead of time. There are still a few days left to start again from scratch. It seems like they need to pull an all-nighter in a row. However, the fabric is rare.”
Yao Ying asked her about the fabric and when he heard about it, he noticed that it was the fabric that Yao Ling wanted for her inner garment. It seemed like this Empress had a weird preference. She wanted the inner part of the robe to use this specific fabric because it felt good to the skin, otherwise, she would feel itchy. She didn't really make a fuss about the outer part, but she wanted the embroidery to a special technique. The outer robe and the inner robe had to have two different embroideries. Yao Ying shook his head in awe, because of the Empress' unreasonable request.
If the embroiderer didn't have a good skill and experience, she wouldn't be able to fulfill the request and also make it in only a few days time. ”Does our master has a solution?”
”We just received the information just now. It seems like they are currently discussing this matter,” Mi Hui answered.
Yao Ying looked at Lin Jian and whispered, ”I think I can solve this problem, but I need my wife's consent first. She's the one who will do most of the work, but I'm not sure whether I'm allowed to involve her. I don't want her to drink the poison.”
”We can talk about this after the report is finished,” Lin Jian whispered back. He understood Yao Ying's concern, but he didn't want to let Mi Hui know about this matter.
”That's the first attack. What about the others?” Lin Jian asked.
Mi Hui explained about the rest of the attacks. Basically, they were playing around with the suppliers and the customers. Orders had been canceled last minute, the fabric that they ordered hadn't been sent due to various reasons, the price of the fabric suddenly raised, and a few of their best embroiderers were taken. But fortunately, they could only bribe the oblivious people that worked in the stores. Some of the inner circle embroiderers had been poached too, but they reported it, so the countermeasure had been prepared.
The persons in charge of those stores -- whose rank was the same as Wang Luo Hai -- weren't idiots. The orders that had been canceled were sold at the store and the price was even higher than the bulk orders. Because of the good quality, they were sold easily.
For the fabric that had been played by the suppliers, their stores always had backup suppliers, so it wasn't really a big deal. After that, each store quickly terminated its cooperation with the shady suppliers. Even when those suppliers regretted their stupidity, everything was too late. There was no second chance for betrayers.
Those attacks were easily handled before it was too late, but only the palace's order that hadn't been solved. Yao Ying was quite impressed with the way each store dealt with the problems and he understood that he had to prepare more countermeasures --- just in case, something like that happened to Fu Rong.