Chapter 68 Bullying goes too far
After waiting for three or five days, Wang An looked forward to it day and night, but his long-awaited little brother never came.

Seeing that the stock in the coal warehouse was almost consumed, the restaurant owners who were urging for goods had lined up from Baimajing to Youanmen, but there was not a single piece of honeycomb coal left in the coal warehouse.

Wang An had no choice but to turn against Tian Gang and use the silver to buy coal from various coal mines.

Unexpectedly, the managers of various coal mines, who were originally smiling, immediately turned hostile and drove Wang An out when they heard that the one who wanted to order coal was Lai Fu Coal Depot.

Wang An didn't understand what was going on. There was no reason in the world not to make money. However, when he asked the man the reason, he got angry and wanted to ask his men to beat him up.

Wang An was left with no choice but to settle for the next best thing, which was to purchase coal from the cooperative merchants who ran coal warehouses in the city. Although these small retail merchants did not have much inventory, he could still get some in an emergency by visiting a few more stores.

But who would have known that when Wang Anchen revealed his purpose in the morning, these merchants, although not as direct and abusive as the managers at the coal mine, even wanted to beat people, they all showed reluctance and politely declined.

I went to four or five houses and they were all like this.

In fact, Wan An had already had a bad feeling in his heart after hitting a wall on the West Hill, and he roughly knew what kind of trouble he had encountered.

But it was not until the owner of the coal warehouse, with whom he cooperated, sold him coal that Wang An was 100% sure what was going on.

But this was just his guess after all. So when Wang An, who could no longer bear it, was once again delayed by the familiar coal warehouse owner, Wang An no longer cared about his face.

He grabbed the other person's collar and said viciously: "Boss Niu, although our cooperation time is not long, it is also pleasant!"

"It's fine if you don't want to sell me the coal today, but you have to remember our past friendship and tell me what's going on, right?"

Although Shopkeeper Niu was unwilling to sell Wang An coal, he was kind-hearted. He sighed and said, "Shopkeeper Wang was so angry today. I think it was not because of my failure. You know the reason better than me."

"It's not that I'm unkind, there's no reason to leave money unearned, but I can't sell it to you because I can't do anything about it!"

Wang An loosened his hand and sat back in his chair dejectedly.

After a long while, he finally said helplessly: "Is it the Duke's intention?"

Shopkeeper Niu nodded and sighed.

Wang An laughed out of anger. He sat on the chair and laughed strangely for a while. His eyes were cold and he kept muttering, "They took over my coal mine and cut off my financial resources. The nobles of the Ming Dynasty are really overbearing!"

Shopkeeper Niu saw that Wang An was speaking without restraint and thought that he was mad because of anger. He tried to persuade him with sympathy in his eyes: "I don't know how you offended him, but the old saying goes that the people should not fight with the officials, especially..."

"If I really have offended someone in some way, I should try to find a way to resolve the matter. After all, we are small business owners and we still have to make a living!"

Shopkeeper Niu pointed in the direction of the inner city, sighed and said no more.

As a small businessman in the market, Shopkeeper Niu was often harassed by the government. However, those people only wanted to extort some money from him and would never destroy his livelihood.

At the moment, the other party's posture was obviously intending to kill Wang An, which made Manager Niu feel sad for the loss of the rich rabbit.

"It's over? It's over!" Wang An snorted angrily, "If I really want to let this go, I won't have to do this business anymore!"

After Wang An finished speaking, he did not bother the shopkeeper Niu any more and stood up to return to the coal warehouse. As soon as he opened the door of the coal warehouse, he saw that in addition to Yun Zhao and Er Gou, there were several other people sitting or standing in the room.

Sitting on the only armchair in the room was a middle-aged man in green clothes, with a thin face and a rat-like beard, staring at Yun Zhao with a squinting look.

On his left and right stood several servants dressed as house slaves.

Seeing Wang An coming back, Yun Zhao and Er Gou acted as if they had seen their backbone, and hurriedly hid behind Wang An.

Ergou said in panic, "Boss, you are back. The boss of Laifu Coal Store is here again."

Wang An had met the middle-aged man with rat-like beard before. His name was Zhao Shanguan.

When Wang An's honeycomb coal just became popular in Beijing, Zhao Shanguan once came to Wang An on behalf of Lai Fu Coal Depot and proposed to buy Wang's Coal Depot. After being decisively rejected by Wang An, Zhao Shanguan then proposed to become the exclusive agent for the entire Beijing.

Wang An also did not agree. At that time, Zhao Shanguan was furious and threatened Wang An, saying that Wang An would definitely regret it.

At that time, Wang An didn't know the details of Lai Fu Coal Depot, but he found out later. It would be a lie to say that he didn't feel nervous at all.

But after a few days, there was no movement and the matter slowly passed.

Now it seems that what Zhao Shangguan threatened Wang An to regret has happened.

Zhao Shanguan turned his triangular eyes and looked at Wang An with a gloating smile on his face, "Oh, isn't this the tough Wang Changgui who is back?"

"How's it going? Did you buy some coal? I've been in the coal business for more than ten years. Do you want me to help you make a call and get some coal for emergency?"

But before he could finish his words, Zhao Shangguan started to laugh smugly, and several of his men followed suit with malicious laughs.

Wang An suppressed his anger, came to Zhao Shanguan, moved a chair and sat down, and asked, "Manager Zhao is really a good tactic. First he occupied my coal mine, and then threatened his peers to ban me, forcing me to have no way to produce, right?"

Zhao Shanguan was stunned when he heard this. "What do you mean by occupying your coal mine? How can you own a coal mine? The coal mine on the West Mountain is a business that ordinary people like you can do! I think you have gone crazy and started talking nonsense."

"But we have indeed informed all the coal mines in the West Mountain and all the coal warehouses in the city not to sell coal to you."

This time it was Wang An's turn to be stunned. He had already found out who had occupied his coal mine, and it was clearly Duke Chengguo Zhu Chunchen.

The big boss behind Lai Fu Coal Depot was obviously Duke Chengguo Zhu Chunchen, who then banned him from the industry, preventing him from getting coal raw materials. This made it impossible for him to continue his business, forcing him to transfer Wang Ji Coal Depot.

Wang An originally thought that this was a series of moves to block him and force him to submit.

Now it seems that Zhao Shangguan does not pretend, could this be just a coincidence?
Come to think of it, from a historical perspective, Zhu Chunchen was not a smart man, and he should not have had such a clever method.

But this made Wang An even angrier. First, they occupied two coal mines of other people, and then they wanted to block him and seize his property. This is not the way to bully people.

(End of this chapter)