Bai Lang has been thinking about what Wang Lin said before for the past two days, and he is still a little undecided.
Bai Lang has deeply realized the importance of spirit stones. Understand that the further you go in practice, the more indispensable spiritual stones will be. It is the most basic resource and the most important resource for a Qi practitioner to practice.
But Bailang currently knows three ways to obtain spirit stones.
The first is to steal from the spirit stone veins. Just like what Huang Yi did.
The second type is to hang out in the knife studio honestly. If you get to the knife position, you can get some spiritual stones, just like the ones in Tang Yan's hand.
The third option is to bid on the black market.
The first way to take Huang Yi's old path is obviously not feasible. At least with Bailang's current strength, it was a dead end.
The second kind is that Bailang is not sure for the time being, and there is even a conspiracy hidden in it that needs him to break. If it can be successful, it may be a way.
In the end, the black market seems feasible, but due to the lack of access, things like spiritual stones are not simply "expensive" in the black market, but also pay attention to channels. Otherwise, even if you go there with money, you won't be able to buy anything. Because although spiritual stones are expensive, who among the Qi Refiners can be poor?
Now Bailang has just come into contact with the black market business, and his plan is to quickly accumulate wealth by relying on the fortune bureau he saved on the dock and the black market counter to collect passing money, and then return to the black market to buy spiritual stones. After all, spiritual stones are too expensive. Even if Bai Lang's fortune in the industrial park is enough, it won't be enough to sustain the long-term purchase of spiritual stones. He entered the black market because of "poverty."
However, Bailang himself was unfamiliar with the black market, and he relied on Wang Lin, a former black market intermediary. But although Wang Lin is smart and knowledgeable, he doesn't have enough connections in the black market to make him happy. Being able to contact the spirit stone is the limit, but it is still far from getting the goods directly from the seller.
Wang Lin's statement is that the only channel he has access to to get the spirit stones is a green forest tycoon named "General Shan" who has over 10,000 thieves under his command. He is one of the most prominent thieves around Yongchuan City. .
General Shan said that he could provide Bailang with spirit stones on a regular basis, but there was one requirement, that is, Bailang needed to give him half of the berth at the dock to carry black goods, and he could not limit the types of black goods, but he could accept a certain quantity. The cap is so that the dock is hidden.
This is not profitable and does not get up early, which is essentially the same as the tolls paid by Bailang's black market business.
What General Shan wanted was to find a stable shipping channel for the black goods in his hands, so that they would no longer be kept in his hands for a long time. It’s not impossible to even resell it and get the price difference.
Bailang had some difficulties facing the other party's request.
If you don't agree, I don't know how long it will take to wait for the next channel about spiritual stones. And it’s unclear how much the price will increase.
But agreeing to it means that the risks that the dock has just been erected will immediately double.
Therefore, Bailang has not responded to the other party yet, but asked Wang Lin to continue to maintain the current rules of selling goods. No one can mess around. If anyone dares to mess up, let Wang Si lead the people to deal with it.
As for other Bailang, we still need to think about it.
Not long after lunch, Bailang was going to make a statistics of the income on the dock during this period, and then distribute the first profit.
People in the knife shop don't have much patience. What they like when looking for money is quick money. The industrial park has such a great reputation and is so lively. Although everyone didn't mention it, they must be hoping that Bailang will give them a number so that they can feel at ease. This is also a major matter that Bailang must solve quickly in the past few days.
But Zhang Wu rushed in, interrupted Bai Lang's plan, and said, "Master Bai, something big has happened!"
Bai Lang frowned slightly, subconsciously thinking that either something happened at the pier, or something happened again over at the Hemp Rope Alley.
But Zhang Wu said: "Mr. Bai, a list was posted in the city to recruit people to pay the military tax! This time I heard that there were a thousand people! Not only in the city, but also in the villages outside, people were selected, all of whom were forty years old. The men on the left and right. We will take roll call today and leave one night to say goodbye to our families. We will leave at noon tomorrow.
Moreover, the street wanderers in the city lord's palace also reported that the official warehouse has been opened for food in the past two days, and truckloads of food have been shipped out, and soldiers and armors have come out of it.
Mr. Bai, do you think there is going to be a war? "
fight?
These two words are really far away from Bailang. When he was a social animal in another world, the environment he lived in was a paradise protected by a group of steel great walls. fight? It can only appear in international news or historical materials. I have never felt it personally.
After arriving here, Bailang only hung out in the knife shop, and everyone around him was just thinking about making a living, and few people mentioned the word "war". Even when Bai Lang learned about the history of the Hong Dynasty, he also learned that as far as the Hong Dynasty was concerned, there had been no real war for decades.
Why did Zhang Wu suddenly mention this word?
"Isn't that true?" Bai Lang subconsciously shook his head to express his disapproval of Zhang Wu's guess.
"But Mr. Bai, Yongchuan City has not levied military tax for many years. The last time it was just over a hundred people were levied, and they went to Yuzhong Military Mansion to help build the school field, and they came back soon.
But the place we want to go this time is far away in Pengshan, the northernmost part of Hong Dynasty! "
"Pengshan? Do you know where it is?"
"Hey, Mr. Bai, I definitely don't know where Pengshan is, but I heard some masters talking about it on the way, and I heard a little bit about it. They said that Pengshan is south of the Tianduan Mountains, guarding the road leading from Hong Dynasty to Yunyan. The only intersection is the famous Pengshanguan Pass. Mr. Bai has also heard of Pengshanguan Pass, right?"
"Pengshan? Pengshanguan?!" Bailang was also shocked. Not only had he heard the word Pengshanguan, he was familiar with it. There are not too many stories, operas, poems and ditties about Pengshanguan. From eighty to eight years old, no one does not know about Pengshan Pass and the major events that happened here.
"Are you worried that the Yunyan disaster will happen again?" Bai Lang thought of the reason why Zhang Wu was so panicked. Because the biggest incident related to Pengshan Pass was the huge military disaster that almost wiped out the entire Hong Dynasty decades ago.
This is the "Yunyan Disaster" recorded in the history books of the Hong Dynasty.
Zhang Wu nodded and said: "Master Bai, when my grandfather was still here, he often told me about the time when he experienced the Yunyan disaster when he was a child. It was so miserable! The barbarians in Yunyan are inhumane. They kill them wherever they go. Wherever they go, they cannibalize people! And ordinary warriors can't do well against their warriors. And they also have their own qi-refiners, which are difficult to deal with."
"Don't think too much. What if things are not what you think?"
"But the conscripts have all come to our Yongchuan City. It must be very dangerous over there in Pengshan. Hey, Mr. Bai, I am so nervous that you are laughing."
(End of chapter)
