After leaving Shanqian County, Zhang Bao took Fan Hanzhong and the others towards Yunzhong County.
Originally, I planned to go to Hehe County first, but firstly, Princess Yongtai was in Yunzhong County at this time, and secondly, there was not much business in Hehe County.
Regardless of whether they were Lao He or Hu Dugu, they had all spent some time in Hehe County and knew the county well.
Besides, Huang Lin was familiar with the situation and there was nothing special.
"Mr. Zhang, something very strange happened recently."
On the way, Luo Mu rode up to Zhang Bao's carriage and said.
Ever since Zhang Bao brought Luo Mu back from Liaozhou, Fan Hanzhong was very happy.
Not only were they familiar with each other before, but Luo Mu also saved Fan Hanzhong's life. Fan Hanzhong was hit by an enemy's poisonous arrow before. It was Luo Mu who smelled the type of curare and prepared the antidote. Otherwise, Fan Hanzhong would have died long ago. .
After hearing Luo Mu's experience, Fan Hanzhong was also filled with sadness.
When Luo Mu learned about Fan Hanzhong's current situation, he was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a long time.
Perhaps they have been loyal to the imperial power throughout their lives, but the power of God is unpredictable and crises are everywhere. Since ancient times, few officials in the government have been able to end up well.
Now Fan Hanzhong has looked away. Whether he is a state pastor or a general, it is just a reputation.
Fan Hanzhong didn't care much at first. What's more, after experiencing this disaster, Fan Hanzhong felt even more disheartened. Even when he was in Shanqian County, he only took care of military affairs and other aspects. Providing text suggestions to merchants without much involvement.
After Zhang Bao came back, Fan Hanzhong took the initiative to make Zhang Bao the state pastor of Hezhou.
Zhang Bao doesn't have anything to do with it. He doesn't care about any official position, as long as the entire Hezhou is in his hands.
"Strange thing?"
"It's really rare for you to call it strange."
"In what respect?"
Zhang Bao smiled and walked out of the carriage.
Riding on a horse, walking side by side with Luo Mu.
While Zhang Bao came out, Lao He slipped into the carriage.
"Price!"
"Prices in Heyang County have experienced great fluctuations in recent times, which is very wrong."
Luo Mu said with a frown.
"Price?"
"what happened?"
Zhang Bao asked in surprise.
After all, Zhang Bao didn't buy anything in Heyang County during this period, so he naturally didn't know.
"To put it simply, according to what I know, the things sold in Heyang County, no matter how good they are or how scarce they are in the market, the prices are pitifully low."
"And the prices of things sold to our Heyang County have increased ridiculously."
"It's not even affordable."
"Just talking about medicinal materials, there are several places in Heyang County that produce Coptis chinensis and sell them to other places. The normal price in the past was around a few taels of silver. But according to their medicine dealer, overnight, Heyang County's Coptis chinensis is no longer worth anything.”
"When the drug dealers heard that it was Huang Lian from Heyang County, they didn't even want to pay for it, even if it was for nothing."
"But Coptis chinensis from other counties is still being received, and the price has even risen a lot."
"On the contrary, I heard from them that they wanted to bring in a batch of Bletilla striata from outside. The original price was around ten taels of silver, but now it has suddenly increased to thousands of taels of silver."
"This is just the medicinal materials industry. I made some inquiries and found that other industries seem to be like this."
"I feel that someone is controlling this matter. No matter who this person is, he must have very strong financial resources and status."
Luo Mu said slowly.
"Uncle He!"
"Immediately ask the people from the Women's Kitchen Knife Brigade to disperse to the surrounding counties and inquire about the recent changes in prices!"
"There must be many industries. I want to know when this thing started."
Zhang Bao shouted to Old He in the carriage.
"okay!"
"Women's Chopper Brigade, follow me!"
Lao He waved his whip, mounted the carriage, and led the women's kitchen knife brigade to rush out.
Zhang Bao was very surprised.
Maybe others don't understand, but Zhang Bao knows that this is a trick that the bad guys often like to use in financial wars!
I didn’t expect to see it in Daxia now.
But who could this person be?
Zhu Yue has been killed. Could it be that he had arranged it before going to Liaozhou?
Zhang Bao was a little worried.
These things may not seem like much, but they have a huge impact on real life.
Self-sufficiency can only occur in a relatively large area, or in a place with a relatively small number of people. The current Heyang County obviously cannot meet the conditions for self-sufficiency.
Luo Mu is right.
If you want to leverage and influence the prices of the entire Heyang County, this is definitely not something that ordinary people or ordinary forces can do.
But what Zhang Bao wonders is, if everyone has the power to influence the price of goods in a county, why use a financial war that is slow to produce results and requires a lot of investment?
And who is going to target their Heyang County?
On the second night.
Lao He and others from the women's kitchen knife brigade came back one after another.
The situation was more serious than Zhang Bao and the others expected.
This situation seems to have slowly started after the military operation arranged by Zhu Yue in Hezhou failed.
It's not a short time.
But at the beginning, it was only launched in a few specific industries. These were niche industries, and ordinary people were not aware of them.
For those affected, it seems that this unreasonable price fluctuation is attributed to the recent war.
But in recent times, this kind of price fluctuation has affected all aspects of Heyang County.
"It's strange. I have never encountered such a thing in all my years in Hezhou."
"It's really evil!"
Fan Hanzhong was shocked while listening to the news brought back by the women's kitchen knife brigade.
"When we went to inquire about it, many people had very strong opinions, almost scolding them."
"I'm not bragging to you. The chips in any casino in Heyang County now are only 800 or 800 taels. It's hard to go in."
"The same is true in brothels. The price of rouge and gouache has increased tenfold. Now the prices of prostitutes have also increased several times."
"Especially in the medicinal materials industry, for most people, they can tolerate it in other aspects, but once they get sick, if they can't get medicine, they can only wait to die!"
"I heard that many people are planning to leave Heyang County!"
Lao He also said worriedly.
Zhang Bao's eyelids twitched.
This Uncle He has quite a complete range of places to inspect...
"Who could it be?"
"If this matter is not handled well, Heyang County will be completely in chaos."
Fan Hanzhong sighed and said.
After thinking about it all, there is no one in Heyang County who has this strength and courage.
"never mind!"
"Go to Yunzhong County first, I will figure out a solution for this matter!"
Zhang Bao took a deep breath and said lightly.
