Dongzhou.
Fang Fu looked at the news sent by Zhang Bao from Hezhou and couldn't help but nodded.
During this time, Dongzhou suddenly had a large influx of Japanese people.
Even when they pretended to be robbers and robbed people on the road, they encountered many such people.
Not just traders, but also some people who are not weak in kung fu.
The whereabouts of these people are very mysterious. Even in the daytime, their faces are covered, and they even carry bamboo hats with them.
In addition to a long and narrow knife, he also carried some darts and the like.
At the beginning of the fight, Fang Fu's men suffered a lot.
Their darts were caught off guard, and the darts were poisonous.
Those who were infected were soon poisoned and died.
In a rage, Fang Fu personally led his men to catch up with the dozen black-clothed Japanese.
Random arrows shot into a hornet's nest.
And Fang Fu also learned from those merchants that the prices of many goods sold by these Japanese merchants were very low.
Take the silk cloth that people in Dongzhou need daily.
Huizhou silk cloth has always been very popular among the people in Dongzhou.
The price of these Japanese products is one-fifth of the current normal silk price in Dongzhou.
So almost as soon as the sales started, they were sold out. At the beginning, it was these ordinary people who bought them. Later, many cloth shops in Dongzhou began to actively cooperate with these Japanese people.
Let them sell these cloths to them at a low price.
Gradually.
These Japanese became suppliers to some cloth shops in Dongzhou.
Because the price itself is low and the market in the entire Dongzhou counties is so large, many cloth shops have gradually stopped purchasing from previous suppliers.
And they exclusively purchase from the Japanese.
A large number of suppliers were directly killed.
But gradually, after monopolizing the channel, the price of Japanese products increased. At the beginning, it was said that it was due to delivery problems, but it would gradually fall back later.
However, the price rose instead of falling, and slowly exceeded the previous purchase price.
It made the cloth merchants miserable.
But there is no way, the previous channel has been cut off.
This is not just an industry in Buzhuang.
This is the case in many industries.
Of course, not all businessmen would choose to cooperate with the Japanese. After all, most of them had been in business for many years and were aware of this phenomenon of malicious competition.
I have been struggling to support it.
Only those who are eager for quick success will choose this method.
When Fang Fu learned the news, he realized that the Japanese might have some conspiracy.
I was about to tell Zhang Bao what I knew about the situation and my guesses, and asked Zhang Bao to also remind the Zheng family.
But I didn't expect that Zhang Bao's news had already been sent.
And not only was it delivered, it was even more absolute than the response Fang Fu had thought of before.
Just cut the grass and get rid of the root.
Fang Fu had to admire Zhang Bao's wisdom and courage.
"Sir, shopkeeper Zheng is here."
At this moment, someone came in and said.
"Master Fang, something happened!"
As soon as the man finished speaking, Zheng Shiqi walked in anxiously.
"what happened?"
"Speak slowly."
Fang Fu asked quickly when he saw this.
"Recently, a lot of people who look like dwarf radishes have come from nowhere and come to our salt fields, saying they want to buy the salt fields at a high price."
"After asking around, I found out that many of them were sold around us. Now around our salt fields, there are some dwarf radishes transporting salt."
"And his attitude was very tough. After being beaten away by our people, he came to our salt field in the middle of the night and spread a lot of manure, and even injured many of us."
"I took my men and horses to the theory, but unexpectedly some men and horses came out with knives. We are no match."
"Hurry up and lend me a team of men. I must kill them!"
After Zheng Shiqi came in, he said angrily to Fang Fu.
"Is there such a thing?"
"Before, you were patient enough to engage in conspiracy and conspiracy, but now you're openly robbing him?"
Fang Fu snorted coldly.
"Isn't it just an open robbery?"
"I'm telling you, these dwarf radishes are amazing!"
"Three or four hundred of us went, but we were repulsed by more than a hundred of them."
Zheng Shiqi said helplessly.
The Zheng family is considered a wealthy family in Dongzhou. Who dares not to give them some face?
But it happened to be eaten up by these short thick radishes.
Zheng Shiqi felt very humiliated.
"Shopkeeper Zheng, don't panic. Even if you don't say anything about this matter, our adults have sent news and asked us to take care of them."
"In this case, you go and make an appointment with them to fight, tell them that you will use force to solve it, and let them gather everyone."
"Otherwise, if we deal with them one by one, many of them may run away early."
"I'll also make arrangements here to catch them all!"
Fang Fu thought for a while and said to Zheng Shiqi.
"oh?"
"Does Zhangzhou Mu also know what's going on here?"
"Fuck him!"
"Got to fuck them!"
"During this period of time in Dongzhou, we have been in a state of chaos due to these short and thick radish people."
"It just seems like these generals are blind."
"It's so abominable!"
Zheng Shiqi said to Fang Fu.
"This is inevitable. The purpose of these generals is not here, so naturally they won't care about this."
Fang Fu was not too surprised.
However, Zhang Bao's letter also asked him to deal with Dongzhou's affairs as soon as possible. What Fang Fu was hesitant about was whether he should take the opportunity to involve the remaining two generals and kill them along the way.
After thinking about it, I decided to forget it.
They only came with a few thousand troops, and they were relatively scattered. Facing the general's tens of thousands of troops, they were really passive, and this kind of toughness was not their purpose.
So I had to give up.
After Zheng Shiqi returned, he immediately came to this group of dwarf radishes.
Although these Japanese people look very different from them, being about half as tall and looking like little dolls, they speak Daxia dialect quite well.
Some people say things that basically make them unable to tell the difference.
But there are some people who are chattering in their mouths, and some people just know how to count and shout something like seven or eight.
Zheng Shiqi had Fang Fu backing him this time, so he was naturally not afraid of these Japanese.
He wrote a letter of challenge to them eloquently, and agreed that the winner would be decided in their salt field in three days.
After sending someone to deliver the letter, he not only beat the person he sent to deliver the letter, but also yelled at Zheng Shiqi to take all his land titles with him.
Zheng Shiqi almost went crazy.
The entire Zheng family in Dongzhou was immediately summoned.
These dwarf radishes must be driven out.
