But Yong Xinglan's ability is the most powerful one Bai Guo has ever seen.
The reason why Bai Guo can say this is that in these short few days, Yong Xinglan clearly went to admit his mistake, but when he came back a few days later, he brought back the locations of more than 20 stores.
"These are all shops that the county magistrate is involved in. He thought we were collecting these discarded ironware because we were worried about him finding trouble."
The reason why Yong Xinglan said the last sentence was to tell Bai Guo and others not to be afraid of people from the Hongliang Kingdom coming to trouble them.
Qian Feng and Li Cheng blushed and said nothing.
They wanted to do something but it didn't work out and they caused this, but Yong Xinglan cleaned up the things for them and got the thing done.
It's not that they think Yong Xinglan is eye-catching, it's just that they feel a little stupid.
"I will make better friends with him later. The status of merchants in Hongliang Kingdom is not as low as that in Chengzhou Kingdom. Officials are also involved in these shops. If this is the case, we can obtain these iron tools through him or other officials in the future."
Yong Xinglan did not make any decision but provided this direction to Bai Guo. Bai Guo nodded and said: "It would be too slow if he is the only one. Ask our people to explore other places. If those officials were involved in their own cities, they wouldn’t have to wait here.”
Ni Feng nodded quickly and turned around to leave. Li Cheng, who was about to leave at the same time, heard Bai Guo say: "Let us know first that we are here to collect grain at a high price."
Now who doesn’t know that nearly 200,000 people have poured into Hongliang Kingdom. These people always want to eat and drink, so merchants have already started frantically collecting food before this. When all the food in these cities is in their hands, These cities will sell them at high prices because of the lack of food. Then they only need to sell the food to earn several times more money than they bought it back.
This is a very common method of mobilization in the business circle. In severe cases, it can even control a country. Therefore, this is the reason why Chengzhou Kingdom has always suppressed merchants. Because of this, although there are some such methods in Chengzhou Kingdom, they are all It won't cause too big a wave. Officials will suppress these businessmen and open up the grain in the granary to suppress prices.
But Hongliang Kingdom is different. They already focus on industry and even actively encourage merchants, so there are many officials and shops involved in each other.
Because of this, the Hongliang Kingdom also has the largest number of people who starve to death every year, but these people will not go to other countries even if they starve to death. The reason is that the arrogant beliefs spread by the Hongliang Kingdom make these people always think that in Hongliang The country is superior to other countries and ordinary people. The platform has been accumulated in the past hundred years, and only a few can step down.
Bai Guo didn't want to comment too much on this, but whenever he saw the news reported to the emperor and saw the emperor's silent mood, he would also become somewhat silent.
Li Cheng didn't understand these things in the business world, so he just thought that Bai Guo was afraid of making too many moves to attract the attention of the government, so he nodded and agreed.
But Yong Xinglan’s knowledge in this area has been heard and seen by many people who have walked around the streets in these years, even if they have never done it or learned about it.
"Do you want to control these cities?"
Gingguo brought more than a thousand people to the Hongliang Kingdom as merchants. How could the officials of the Hongliang Kingdom not pay more attention to such a large battle? If Gingguo is released, the officials who purchase grain and grass will definitely release a lot of them. A large number of people came to confirm what Ging Guo said.
Some people who can't see when they sold out may look for Gingguo and throw out the grain and grass in their hands at this time after hearing the news about Gingguo. In this way, Gingguo will be forced to join the fight even if he is unwilling to do so. In the business war, more and more food will be in hand.
By the time……
I don’t know how many people will fight for food, and I don’t know how many people will be buried in the wasteland because there is no food.
But at that time, Ginguo had so much grain in her hands that it all depended on her thoughts whether to sell it at a high price or to get an intermediate number. At that time, it was too easy for her to control a few cities.
"It's just a cover-up." Bai Guo replied calmly, and then said: "I will let them give you the money you get from dealing with these officials."
Li Cheng looked at Ging Guo and then at Yong Xinglan, and finally turned around and left with Yong Xinglan's obviously different expression.
No matter what the situation is, it is not Cheng Zhou who is the first one here, but he is the second one who belongs to Gingguo.
Neither of the two most important things struck him as contrary to his conscience.
But Li Cheng still overestimated himself. The people of Tongfengguo were in trouble because of the oppression, and Hongliang had to express its stance. Hongliang Kingdom began to have serious food shortages in more than a dozen cities close to Fengguo. A large number of people could not buy food because they could not buy it. He was robbed in the street and taken away by officials.
But this is not the case in individual cities, but in all dozens of cities, and the number of people fighting for it ranges from the first dozen to the next dozens or even hundreds every day. More and more people are no longer going out and staying behind closed doors. As a result, nearly 200,000 people came in, but in the end the streets were not as prosperous as before.
Yong Xinglan came over and told Bai Guo about the current situation of the people of Fengguo. "The officials and soldiers of Hongliang Kingdom no longer dare to blatantly use these people as slaves. There are also many caravans taking advantage of this time to take them away." They have many young people in their prime, and some families also have many young people as servants.
It's just that although those women and the elderly have been freed from labor, their hope of survival is still not very high, not to mention the current situation of insufficient food, and they are already in a tight situation..."
Yong Xinglan paused and continued: "It's difficult to continue living."
Li Cheng looked at Bai Guo repeatedly as he listened to each of Yong Xinglan's words. He repeatedly wanted to say something amidst Bai Guo's silence, but in the end he could not find anything because of Bai Guo's demeanor of not looking away from the book. speak out.
But Yong Xinglan was different. Bai Guo said without saying anything, and he said it very seriously, "Other merchants are still waiting, waiting for the people who bought food before to have no food, but by then these people in Fengguo Have the people already..."
The sound of books turning on the soft couch was very clear. Li Cheng looked over and saw the book that he didn't know where to sell appeared in Bai Guo's hand.
Li Cheng's expression was hard to describe. He had been with Bai Guo for at least a few months, but he still knew Bai Guo well. The book he read was not like this before...
"How much grain has been harvested?" I don't know if Yong Xinglan's pause was too obvious, but Ging Guo spoke.
Yong Xinglan immediately added: "Enough to feed the people of twelve cities for half a year."
Bai Guo nodded, "You just have to make the decision. You don't need to tell me these things."
Bai Guo thought of something and lowered the notebook in his hand slightly. He pressed his fingertips to the position where he read. Then he looked at Yong Xinglan and asked, "What about the ironware?"
Yong Xinglan still didn't recover from Bai Guo's last sentence, and Li Cheng was smart enough to say: "We have purchased a large amount of iron from the officials in the seventeen surrounding cities by buying food and befriending the officials. , I just didn’t dare to go too far, so the purity of the recovered iron was not high.”
"The purity is fine, we just need the prototypes of their weapons." At this point, Bai Guo didn't dare to force too much. After all, it was unexpected to be able to get these now, but if he still wanted to have everything he wanted, he wouldn't be able to do it this time. It's just that some courtiers want to pull her down from this position.
Li Cheng nodded, "My subordinates have told the people below that this matter cannot be forced. Otherwise, if something happens, we may not be able to get out."
Gingguo picked up the warm tea cup and took a sip. He nodded after hearing Li Cheng's words, "It's better to be careful. You can't guarantee your life in a foreign country to the greed of these people."
These officials sold these iron items for the income of some shops, but this is because there is no doubt in their current performance, but once the iron items purchased are sophisticated and obviously weapons, they do not want to attract attention. All difficult.
Then how could it be possible for these officials who were told by the superiors to really release them just for some money?
At this time, Yong Xinglan seemed to have come back to his senses and confirmed with Bai Guo, "Can I handle this matter?"
Bai Guo was even more confused than Yong Xinglan, "You don't want to deal with this matter or something?"
Having said that, Baiguo didn't think anything was wrong, and he didn't even think about why Yong Xinglan would ask this question.
Yong Xinglan still didn't respond and left. He looked at Bai Guo for several seconds, as if giving Bai Guo time to think and give him a chance to regret.
But Ging Guo, who had no such intention, just looked straight at Yong Xinglan. For a moment, there was nothing but silence between the two of them.
Li Cheng looked around, coughed, and explained: "The supervisor probably hasn't asked Yong Xinglan to do these things yet. He should still be a little uncomfortable with it."
This was a very tactful statement. What Yong Xinglan said was much more direct than this, "If you let me handle the food that the people of twelve cities can chew for half a year, won't you be afraid that I will steal the food?!"
This grain is the currency in these cities. Even if it is taken out, it can be used as capital. In any case, it is a profit-free transaction. Not to mention, with his ability, he can use this grain to make friends with higher-status officials. As long as he is willing...
He can even make Ginkgo never come back!
It was possible to produce countless gold and silver from the Kingdom of Zhou, but in the end, no one could see it!
And he can still stand in the same position where countless people can only look at him with the admiration they once had.
He didn't believe that the other party didn't know about these abilities. After all, how could she not have checked on him in all these years from when he was captured by King Dingxi in Dadong Yi's house to now.
