It just so happened that this time Zhao Feng led the people from Dali Temple and Shuntian Mansion to uncover their human trafficking business, which was considered to have eliminated a business that could earn them a lot of profits.
And because of this incident, the court will probably send people to investigate the matter behind the scenes. No matter who is behind the scenes, they have already felt the urgency.
Zhao Feng narrowed his eyes slightly, knowing that he could start the second step of his plan.
The first step is to cut off their interest chain, so that Mrs. Liu cannot transfuse blood to Meng Da and Magistrate Sun from the root, so that they will show their flaws out of anxiety.
And this second step is the strategy to remove the firepower from under the cauldron!
"If I guess correctly, those who made trouble in the past should be urging my Lord to pay back the money quickly."
Li Ding and Liu Jia looked at each other with surprise in their eyes and gave Zhao Feng a thumbs up.
"Sir, you are really amazing. You are obviously not here, but you seem to have seen everything!"
"They did use this excuse to cause trouble in the past. Even Her Highness the Princess said she wanted to pay back the money!"
Zhao Feng smiled slightly and nodded directly.
"Okay, then let Her Highness the Princess pay back all the arrears directly. Don't they want to use the high interest to cause Her Highness the Princess to lose a lot of money? I will definitely tell them how to eat this money. Just spit it out!"
Liu Jia and Li Ding both nodded. Zhao Feng gave them some instructions and asked them to return to the princess mansion. During this time, he was not around. If Liu Jia and Li Ding were not by Zhou Tong's side, he would also be worried about what would happen. Something else went wrong.
Immediately afterwards, Zhao Feng called over the person he brought back from the capital. This person's name was Zhou Bing, who was specifically responsible for helping with business.
"Go and choose a store now. The main business is food!"
Upon hearing this, Zhou Bing asked in surprise.
"Sir, the price of food here is high. If we collect food here and sell it, we will probably lose money!"
Zhao Feng nodded: "You are right, the price of food here is indeed very high, so I have to transport food from other places to sell it!"
"I know this will definitely cost us some money, but you don't have to worry, you just need to control the costs."
When Zhou Bing heard this, he had no choice but to nod his head, and then went to look for a more suitable store.
It seems that enemies never get together. The store Zhou Bing was looking for was actually opposite Meng Da's store. Opposite was Meng Da's grain store. After all, he had obtained Zhou Tong's land and these grain stores through those means. Here, many people can only buy food from him.
In fact, what Zhou Bing said makes sense. In this era, if you want to transport food from other places for sale, neither the loss on the road nor the profit of the food will be so huge, and you may even lose money if you are not careful.
But Zhao Feng just wants to do business at a loss, and he needs to use a lot of grain to directly crowd out Mengda's grain store!
Since most of the southern part of Youzhou is covered with mountains, there is not much land that can be cultivated, and there are even fewer fertile fields that can be harvested. Therefore, Mengda took control of the land that was previously awarded to Zhou Tong by the court. In fact, it was It has taken control of the local food lifeline.
In this era when it is very difficult to transport food from other places for sale, controlling these local food products can form a monopoly. Even if someone knows that the food here is relatively expensive, no one will risk it. There was such a huge risk in transporting the food.
But Zhao Feng is different.
Whether it is the Li family, which operates snowflake salt, or the public-private joint venture cement factory, cargo transportation lines have already been built in various places.
It would be absolutely impossible for others to use these routes for transporting goods, but Zhao Feng happened to have a relationship with them, so he could transport the grain through them at a very low cost.
From here we can see what a wise decision Zhao Feng made to develop these businesses.
Maybe these businesses don't belong to it in nature, but Zhao Feng has shares and dividends in them, and he also has friendship with them, so a situation of mutual help can be formed.
If I have to mention it, these are actually a large part of Zhao Feng's business empire.
A real businessman will not run too many businesses on his own, but will participate in multiple aspects of business operations through equity ratios.
Soon, the grain collected by Zhao Li using these two delivery routes was transported to Youzhou. After the influx of a large amount of grain, it was sold at a low price, and they did make some money from this.
After all, if the grain from other grain-producing areas is shipped here, even if it is cheaper than the grain in the grain stores in Mengda, you can still make money. Those people before had no choice but to buy it from these grain stores in Mengda. High-priced grain, but now that there are lower-priced options, of course they will buy it from Zhao Feng.
But no one knew that Zhao Feng controlled the grain store behind the scenes.
When Meng Da learned about this, he was immediately very angry. The reason why he was able to make money openly and not be afraid of others transporting food here was because Magistrate Sun took care of him.
It's not that other businessmen didn't see this opportunity to make a fortune. If they could transport food at a relatively low cost, they could also make a lot of money.
But the risk they have to take is whether the local government will allow the food to be sold after it is delivered.
For example, now, although Zhao Feng transported all the food, it was quickly censored by the government.
It's more of making things difficult than censorship. After all, food is a relatively profitable business, and it's related to the country's tax revenue, so the government comes to check the accounts almost every day, scaring away many customers in the store.
After Zhao Feng learned about this incident, he immediately understood that Meng Da and Magistrate Sun must have colluded to put pressure on them.
It's a pity that Zhao Feng had already thought of this matter.
Soon a letter was delivered to Magistrate Sun.
"It's a letter from Mr. Zhou Mu."
When Magistrate Sun heard this, he was immediately shocked.
He hurriedly opened the letter and found that it was indeed a letter written by the governor of Youzhou, and it secretly asked him not to target the grain store again, which made Sun Zhifu couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
"Oh my God! How could Mr. Zhou Mu write to me personally? Does this grain store have any powerful background?"
Hearing this, the government officials asked cautiously.
"Sir, are we still going to look for trouble?"
Magistrate Sun angrily slapped him on the back of the head.
