Zhou Qian ignored Lin Ji at all and pulled the woman away in a hurry.
But before he could walk out of the mountain temple, Lin Ji pressed his shoulder with his hand.
"When old friends meet, they turn around and leave without saying a word. Have you done anything to feel sorry for me?" Lin Ji asked suspiciously.
Mainly because what Zhong Xiaoyan said in Yuquan County made Lin Ji very concerned, so much so that he would become suspicious when he saw people from Qingyang County.
Zhong Xiaoyan had not yet arrived in Qingyang County when Zhou Qian left, but Lin Ji was worried and wanted to ask more questions.
Zhou Qian's face looked a little ugly: "Boss, please let me and Xiaomei go. The two of us are in trouble. Staying here will only hurt you."
Hearing this, Lin Ji raised his eyebrows slightly, but was not in a hurry to ask. Instead, he looked Zhou Qian up and down.
After not seeing each other for a few months, this kid seems to be even richer.
The fur robe on the body, the fur hat on the head, and the fur gloves on the hands look valuable, and they feel even more so.
"Zhou Qian, don't forget where I am on errands. If you have any trouble, just tell me. It doesn't matter if you encounter me. Since you encounter me, can I still help you?"
Lin Ji forcefully dragged Zhou Qian and Xiao Mei to the fire and asked them to sit down.
Then, he bowed his hands to the merchants and others on the other side.
"I'm sorry, everyone. Meeting old friends in a foreign country will make you hungry for a while."
"Mr. Lin, you're welcome."
"There is still some venison left from yesterday. Although it is not enough to fill my stomach, it can still provide a cushion."
"Mr. Lin only wants to reminisce about old times and doesn't need to worry about us."
After greeting the people who were waiting for food, Lin Jicai sat down next to Zhou Qian.
She took the jar of wine from Zhong Xiaoyan, opened it and took a sip, then handed the jar to Zhou Qian.
Zhou Qian hesitated for a long time, but finally took the wine jar and took a big sip as usual.
Putting down the wine jar, his tense expression finally seemed to relax.
"Tell me, what trouble did you encounter?" Lin Ji asked again.
Zhou Qian breathed a long sigh of relief, looked at his wife Xiaomei beside him, and said with a wry smile: "Although wealth has been attractive to people since ancient times, I never imagined that the huge Hehuan Sect would actually covet my little property."
Lin Ji frowned in surprise.
"Just for money, just a little thing?"
"Captain Lin, your husband's wealth is not a small amount." Xiao Mei was somewhat dissatisfied with Lin Ji's contempt.
Lin Ji sneered.
"How much money does this kid have? I remember he took a hundred thousand taels with him when he left Qingyang County, right? With this kid's lavish spending character, how many taels does he have left now?"
"More than one million taels." Xiaomei said calmly.
This answer made Lin Ji startled. He subconsciously rubbed his ears, and then looked at Zhou Qian.
When he saw Zhou Qian nodding slightly, his heart was filled with excitement.
"Damn it, it's only been a few months, how the hell do you make money?"
Zhou Qian did not regard Lin Ji as an outsider, so he had no intention of concealing anything. He said bluntly: "They are all unseemly means."
"Elaborate." Wu Nan's ears stood up.
Zhou Qian glanced at Wu Nan strangely. He estimated that the young monk was Lin Ji's companion, so he did not blame him.
"After I joined the Hehuan Sect, I went to Xiangcheng with my banknotes."
"Then what?" Lin Ji and Wu Nan both listened attentively.
"I met the boss of a large chamber of commerce in Xiangcheng, and we hit it off immediately. We cooperated with him to monopolize salt. I paid to sweep up the goods, and the big chamber of commerce hoarded the goods. In half a month, the price of salt increased more than ten times."
"You dare to touch the salt merchant's business?" Lin Ji could hardly believe it. Salt tax had always been an important income for the Qin Dynasty, so the Qin Dynasty cracked down on illicit salt sales extremely severely.
To catch is to behead.
It doesn't matter whether accomplices are found on trial or not, just arrest and kill each one who stands out.
But Lin Ji soon realized that the big chamber of commerce Zhou Qian mentioned was probably the salt merchants in Xiangzhou.
After all, this is not Jingzhou or Liangzhou. The imperial court's control over Xiangzhou is too loose.
"The person I work with is the largest salt merchant in Xiangcheng and the largest salt merchant in Xiangzhou."
Zhou Qian continued: "I made a profit of two hundred thousand taels in half a month from this business."
"Then what kind of business did you do?" Wu Nan asked quickly from the side.
Zhou Qian smiled helplessly.
"I have arranged several brothels and asked the senior sisters from the Hehuan Sect to come down to attract distinguished customers, so each of my brothels is extremely popular."
"But making more than one million in a few months is too exaggerated." Lin Ji couldn't understand.
Zhou Qian grinned and said: "Has the boss forgotten my affairs in Qingyang County? Regarding the Goulan matter, besides having fun, men only want to have some face. They only need to seize this point. If they want to make money, it is not easy. ?”
"Elaborate." This time it was Lin Ji who asked.
"I asked the senior sister of the Hehuan Sect to dress up as a noble housekeeper who was proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and then in the half month before the senior sister came, I spread the word throughout Xiangcheng that all the ladies' families had fallen into disgrace. Everyone knows it.”
Lin Ji understood.
This is really hype. In this fucking era, do you know how to deal with traffic?
Why, is there a rice circle culture when visiting a kiln?
Sure enough, Zhou Qian's next words were just as Lin Ji expected.
"When the time was almost up, I made an announcement saying that the courtesan had arrived, and then I invited all the dignitaries, rich merchants and merchants to come."
"My senior sister is Maggi, and she has already whetted the appetite of these fools. So when they heard that the oiran was still in perfect condition and wanted to marry a good man, they all went crazy."
Xiao Mei on the side smiled crazily, looking at Zhou Qian with pride in her eyes.
Lin Ji didn't know what to be proud of in such nonsense.
"So you sold an oiran for millions?"
"Of course it's impossible, but you just have to come a few times if you can't do it once." Zhou Qian shrugged, "Didn't I say before that men go to brothels to save face except for women, and there are many rich masters in Xiangcheng. I will arrange it With a few helpers, sarcastic words, and wildly raising prices, I'm not afraid that no one will follow."
Hearing this, Lin Ji solemnly raised his hand to Zhou Qian.
"It's true that I have gained a lot of experience with you."
This way of making money didn't suit him, so he wasn't very interested in it.
"Tell me about your Hehuan Sect. The Hehuan Sect is a relatively well-known sect. Just because of these more than one million taels, are you going to kill the same sect?"
"More than one million taels is not a small amount." Zhou Qian sighed.
"But it's too difficult for a dignified cultivating sect to fall out over money."
"Hehuan Sect has encountered a problem. If we have this money, Hehuan Sect can still persist. But if this money is not given to Hehuan Sect, then Hehuan Sect may fall apart in less than two months." Xiaomei said. Said aside.
Lin Ji was confused when he heard this. Where is this going?
But just when he was about to ask further questions, the door of the mountain temple was suddenly kicked open.
"You two bitches are indeed here!"
