As soon as Lord Lorraine arrived in Naian Province and got off the bus, in order to show the authority of the governor, he issued a decree to combat the bad habits of slavery.
In the eyes of the rich and powerful people in Naian Province, it was actually mainly because Lorraine, the grandson of Sheigol, was not very discerning and negotiated the price with his old man. As the governor of the group, Lord Lorraine was the one who could control these little bastards.
The price?
Therefore, everyone also expressed a certain understanding of Lord Lorraine whose dignity was offended.
The so-called three things to do when a new official takes office.
In fact, to a certain extent, this is like Nohara Shinnosuke, that is, Xiaoxin’s classmate has just bought a pair of Superman’s underwear. Even in kindergarten, he still has to take off his pants to expose Superman’s underwear, which is very arrogant.
Show off to the kids.
But Lorraine kept going all the way without stopping. And the attack area became wider and wider. Although for those lowly dead slaves, this was a great happy event, and they all cheered and ran around to tell each other.
But for the wealthy families with huge wealth, many slaves, and overwhelming power, this is obviously taking money from them, knocking on their jobs, and slapping themselves in the face. This makes everyone very worried.
It's hard to accept.
Although we don't have as many subordinates as Lord Lorraine, if a fight breaks out, even if we blow the whistle, we won't be able to call in the 100,000 or 200,000 imperial troops to help us fight. But it doesn't mean that
, everyone is easy to bully.
In order to give Lord Lorraine some color, a group of wealthy landowners were forced to know that flowers are also red and grass is green. Not only can they jump over the wall, but they can also bite.
Human~!
I don’t know who started it. The patriarchs of various families whose interests were harmed all received chicken feather letters. Then, in order to avoid the attention of official spies and all-pervasive spies, they all put on makeup.
Everyone gave full play to their imagination. Some turned into women, some turned into beggars, and some made up to be gay... There were many different forms. Even the chief makeup artist of James, Bond, and Bongo looked at it.
Yes, I have to accept defeat.
Then on a dark and windy night, everyone gathered in a dark and humid cave on a rockery in Central Park in Nai'an City to hold secret talks and discuss countermeasures.
'Tick, tick, tick...'
Under the flickering candlelight, water droplets dripped from the rocks on the roof of the cave and fell to the ground.
The sound reached the ears of everyone present extremely clearly, and it was impossible to believe that there were already more than a dozen people gathered in this small cave.
If anyone knows these faces, they will definitely be exclaimed. Because everyone here is a big boss in Nai An Province. There are big landowners with thousands of acres of land, and there are also monopolies.
wealthy family.
At this time, these big bosses who usually looked so pampered were all sitting on the floor.
They are usually used to sitting on the noble buttocks of velvet cushions, but now they are sitting on the cold and hard ground, but they do not feel uncomfortable at all. This fully illustrates the adaptability of human beings to the environment as the spirit of all things.
How strong it is.
A breeze blew in through the stone wall of the rockery, causing the candlelight to sway. The weak candlelight swept across their faces one by one, and those nervous and slightly pale faces looked particularly gloomy.
At this time, a voice came from nowhere and said: "Is everyone here?"
Another person replied softly: "No, the Yi family hasn't come yet."
The man seemed to hesitate for a moment, and then continued, "Then we won't wait for him..."
As soon as he said this, he heard another rush of footsteps outside.
Someone immediately shouted hurriedly and excitedly. "Coming, coming, the Il family is coming."
Immediately afterwards, I saw a man wearing a lady's gauze and colorful clothes walking over from behind, panting.
Everyone looked at it and couldn't help but be stunned. The smart ones even quietly reached out to touch the boots or the dagger on their waists, planning to kill and silence them.
Immediately afterwards, the man took off his turban, revealing a familiar face.
After everyone saw it, they immediately relaxed.
One person saw that the guy from the Yi family who was disguised as a woman was still out of breath. He handed him a glass of cold water and said, "Why are you so out of breath while running?"
The man took the water glass, took a big sip, and then cursed bitterly: "These sons of bitches. When I was passing through the woods just now, there was a drunk who had drunk too much and wanted to tease me.
Fortunately for me...fortunately for running fast..."
Some people present gloated and laughed softly.
Another person whispered: "Mr. Iyer, you should really get to know the lives of ordinary people. Look at me, disguised as a beggar, and I was given three silver coins while walking along the way."
The man said, chuckled, and then shook his pocket. A crisp sound of metal collision was heard from inside.
Mr. Ir took a sip of disdain and said, "What kind of ability do you have? You don't even look like a beggar when you dress up."
Everyone looked at each other and realized that the normally well-dressed big shots like themselves were all dressed up in such funny ways, and couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"Okay, okay. Stop making trouble, everyone~!" said a stern voice.
After everyone heard this, they all became quiet.
The man whispered: "Now that everyone is here, we need to discuss what we should do next."
Someone sneered and said: "What to do? Of course we have to find a way to cause trouble for him. We can't go too far. We all have a big family. Once the empire gets angry and sends out soldiers, we will all be hanged."
On the cross.
But we can’t be too soft, otherwise that bastard pretty boy will really think that we are too easy to bully. Next time, he may not just climb on our heads and poop."
Everyone heard what he said was reasonable and nodded in agreement.
"That's right, this province of Naian is not his alone. We can't just let him have the final say."
"Yes, this is our territory, we have to let him know how powerful he is."
"..."
Seeing that everyone had reached an agreement, the leader nodded and said happily: "Very good, since we all agree, let's talk about what we should do next."
Someone laughed softly and said: "This is not simple. Of course, it is still the same old method used to deal with the previous governor, Talintos."
"What's the old way?"
"We all use our money as hot money, and then speculate on a certain commodity, raising prices in a short period of time, causing people to complain, and thereby putting pressure on that pretty boy."
"That's right, when the time comes, in order to quell the people's resentment, he will have to beg us. Then he will know who is the real owner of this place."
After hearing the gloomy voice, everyone couldn't help but shudder, and then they all looked at the patriarch of the Sheigol family.
Everyone fell silent for a moment.
Everyone was secretly cursing in their hearts: This is not all because you failed to teach that little kid of yours. You pretended to be too much and acted like a fool. Use a stick to poke the pretty boy's lungs and provoke him.
It pissed him off.
As a result, it caused so much trouble for everyone~!
At this moment, the leader noticed this situation and coughed slightly, drawing everyone's attention back.
Someone asked rashly: "Then what are we speculating on? I think steel is good~"
Everyone immediately groaned loudly.
"Steel speculation? That's the backbone of the country. You might as well just start a rebellion. Start speculation here. Over there, not only the Governor's Mansion, but also the imperial military and the Holy See's Inquisition will send people over with knives to question you.
What exactly do you want to do?"
Another person cursed in a low voice: "Style, I think you want to take the opportunity to sell those broken urinals made by your family?"
Only then did everyone wake up and started laughing and scolding themselves.
After hearing everyone's criticism, the man couldn't help but sneered. "That's what I said. If you don't want to, forget it."
Someone else suggested loudly: "Specialize in real estate~!"
"Fuck your mother-in-law~! We don't practice family planning here, and we don't have B-ultrasound for early detection, and abortion is not allowed. The male-to-female ratio is a normal 100 to 120.
There are more women than men. But there is no rigid demand from the mother-in-law. In order to marry off their daughters, everyone wishes they could give a few more dowries. If any mother-in-law is really careless and dares to open her mouth like a lion, she will get anxious.
Everyone wants to change their mother-in-law."
The man became more and more angry as he talked. He stood up, pointed at the guy who came up with the idea, and continued to shout: "Speculating in real estate is nonsense. You can't sell it even if you speculate~!"
If you dare to talk about real estate speculation, believe it or not, I will let you go to Hades to do real estate business~!
I have done bad things in the past, gave birth to sons without buttholes, and was a bad person, but they have never been reincarnated. Over the past few thousand years, the pressure of rigid needs has been considerable."
After everyone heard the man yelling angrily, they hurriedly comforted him, saying: "Okay, okay. Don't be angry anymore. It's an old thing more than ten years ago, so don't care about it.
Although people kicked you because they disliked the poor and favored the rich, now you are considered successful and famous, so don’t worry about the little things in the past. Isn’t it just first love? If the old doesn’t go, the new won’t come, right?
Besides, you already have more than a dozen mistresses alone, do you still care about these things?"
Everyone tried to persuade him. After hearing this, the man was still angry and cursed a few more times in a low voice before sitting down again.
After everyone sat down, they discussed again. However, they could not come up with a result after a long discussion. So they all looked at the old man who was leading the group.
Everyone saw that the old man was sitting there silently, looking inscrutable and well-informed, and they all said: "Lord Aude, you have always been a highly respected man. You are the one who sent this feather letter to everyone. You
Old man, please stop hiding it and show us the way~!"
The old man looked at everyone, then smiled faintly and said: "This is not simple. We are going to speculate on a product. If it is something that the common people need and cannot live without, they will not feel the pressure otherwise. But at the same time, they can stock up.
It's a unique place, and it's not afraid of damage."
Everyone was stunned and thought: There are these conditions, but they are harsh enough. Is there such a thing?
Odd seemed to have read everyone's thoughts, smiled lightly, and then said: "Of course there is, and it is right next to you and me, that is... salt~!"
Everyone immediately woke up. Yes, Salt.
This is good stuff. Although the price is not expensive, it requires certain technical requirements. You can only boil the sea to get salt. The yield is not high.
But people can't live without it all the time. Without salt to eat, people have no strength and can't cheer up.
It is said that in many places in the countryside, because there is no salt to eat, people even pick out their noses and throw them away. (This is how Brown seems to have carried forward the spirit of hardship and simplicity.)
And the most important thing is that Nai'an has always been a major salt-producing province, which is very convenient for everyone to speculate.
When everyone thought of this, they couldn't help but look at each other, and then they all laughed proudly.
Lorraine was sitting on the couch in the corridor, holding a glass of wine with ice cubes in her hand, looking at the beach under the bright moonlight.
Catherine and Adele had already drank a lot, their delicate faces were alluringly red, and they were lazily huddled in their chairs.
Leo picked up an ice cube, threw it into his mouth, chewed it loudly, swallowed the ice cube hard, and sighed: "Mages are really good at making money. Just this bucket of ice cubes,
They actually sold two gold coins, but I saw it, and they just put their hands on it. Oh, it would be great if Luo Linna was here, it could save the boss a lot of money."
Lorraine smiled and said: "Knowledge is wealth. What's more, it's a monopoly seller's market. It's good if you don't get ripped off."
Catherine said drunkenly: "Lorraine, how are you going to deal with that group of unscrupulous businessmen who are driving up the price of salt? I heard that shops selling salt have started to be smashed in the city today."
"You deserve it." Adele snorted and said, "If you ask me, just arrest those bad guys who speculate on salt prices and give them twenty lashes each in the square, so that they will be honest.
"Then he gave a cute burp.
"Mine, it's all mine." Vera murmured in her sleep, twisted on the recliner, turned over and went back to sleep.
"It doesn't have to be that troublesome at all. I have a trick that can defeat them easily. Moreover, it can also make salt no longer a valuable condiment. You can buy it for a few copper coins."
Catherine jumped up from her chair excitedly and shouted: "Really?" She looked at Lorraine with charming eyes and said: "I know you have many evil ideas, tell me now, tell me now. You know the empire
Half of the common people cannot afford salt. If you can make a few coppers per pound, you will have made great achievements, and the imperial family will be more popular among the people."
Lorraine turned her head away from Catherine, who was as excited as a kitten with a fish in front of her, and said to Leo: "Would you like to start a separate business like those mages?"
Leo's eyes sparkled in the gray night. He swallowed the ice cubes in his mouth, choked and coughed loudly. He beat his chest and said anxiously: "High-tech industry?"
Lorraine nodded and said, "Even so."
"Monopoly?" Leo grinned with excitement.
"Well, if the two of us, the government and businessmen, collude, we will soon have a monopoly." Lorraine said with a sly smile.
Catherine watched Lorraine and Leo fighting, and she sat on Lorraine's lap in a hurry, hugged Lorraine's neck, twisted in Lorraine's arms, and said coquettishly: "Good man,
Tell me quickly, it’s really feasible, I’ll let Adele serve you well.”
Looking at the charming and confused Catherine, Lorraine felt that she was not a good person and was about to become a werewolf.
Adele spat at Catherine and said with a blushing face: "Bah, you damn girl, don't drag me along if you are in love with me. I don't do those ridiculous things."
Leo said angrily: "I told you two not to interrupt, let's discuss serious matters here. Boss, tell me quickly, tell me quickly, how much do we need to invest? How much is the output? How much profit is there?"
Lorraine said: "Are you investing? Except for a little labor cost, there is basically no investment. It just needs a larger site, but it doesn't matter. I am not the governor for nothing. I will designate a few preferential policies later, and we will get the land."
Not only does it cost nothing, but it also rewards you with money.”
Leo slapped his thigh and said, "Boss, I'll sell you these few kilograms. Tell me what we're going to do."
Lorraine said: "We just sell salt."
"Tch..." Leo looked at Lorraine with contempt and said with a hum, "I thought it was something like that, but you can't fool me. Boiling salt is not a high-tech industry, it is a labor-intensive industry.
A larger Yancheng city has thousands of people."
Lorraine said: "Did I say boiled salt? You little fool, I said it was a technology-intensive industry, and then after a little manipulation, it became a capital-intensive industry. Just wait and count the money."
After watching so many braided dramas, Lorraine was deeply impressed by the wealth of the Lianghuai salt merchants. This group of guys who relied on collusion between government and businessmen to monopolize the salt trade were not only rich, they were just
The amount of money donated to the descendants of wild boar skins is more than 50 million taels of silver. The wool comes from sheep, so imagine how much money these people paid for it.
Even after the Revolution of 1911, the salt merchants actually retained their monopoly and exclusive status, which shows that their hands and eyes are astute.
There is also the Haisha Gang in traditional martial arts. Even though they are just walk-on characters such as Song Bingyi, their biggest use is to be beaten up by the male and female protagonists or buried with them, but they cook sea salt and are all rich.
The oily character is the one who makes money every day.
Even though he was a Double Dragon Hero in the Tang Dynasty, the first thing he thought of to make money when he first debuted was selling illicit salt~!
In fact, it would take so much trouble for the Haisha Gang to deal with the protagonist and his like. Send out an advertisement, kill that so-and-so, and send you two shiploads of salt to ensure that that guy doesn't survive the next day.