This morning, Lorraine walked into the meeting room of the Governor's Mansion as usual and started the routine morning meeting every working day.
Those attending the morning meeting were all the chiefs of the main government departments of Nai'an Province, the generals of Nai'an's local army, the chief of the city guard station who is equivalent to the police chief of Nai'an City... and so on, all these senior officials at the department level.
Nodding to her subordinates, Lorraine sat down in her seat, and the aunt from the secretariat served Lorraine some brewed tea.
The tea was brewed quite well. Just by putting it in front of me, I could already smell the fragrant aroma. But look at the appearance of the secretary.
All the officials sighed in their hearts, and then shook their heads quickly...
At the same time, everyone secretly glanced at Governor Lorraine with sympathy: "Having a eldest princess as your girlfriend, no matter how high-ranking an official you are, you still lose a beautiful female secretary with big breasts and a big butt."
A purple suit that represents successful people - if you don’t have one, you won’t be able to say hello to anyone when you go out~!
But Lorraine didn't pay attention to their looks. He just noticed that when he first entered the door, they were still talking in whispers. But at this moment, they were all like old monks in meditation, looking down at the documents in their hands.
One who talks.
Lorraine smiled and said: "Hey, hey, I saw you guys lively just now, why are you not talking now?"
The governors of Naian Province raised their heads and looked at each other, and finally they all looked at Angus intently.
Angus grinned, gave a wry smile, and said: "My lord, because the price of salt has soared, the people below are resentful. The officials below keep complaining, saying that they can no longer bear it. My lord, let's take some action."
Lorraine raised her eyebrows and said, "Oh? Is it so serious? There has been no problem for so long, what happened today?"
"This matter..." Angus let out a long sigh and said, "Lord Serian, it's up to you to speak."
Serian, the chief of the Nedel City Guards, straightened his body immediately, and then said: "Your Majesty Governor, since the price of salt doubled, the people in the city have become more and more irritable, and riots involving smashed shops often occur. For this reason, I cannot add any additional force.
We dispatched manpower and ordered the guard captains in each district to go down and stay in place. They must go deep into the streets and fight on the front line of maintaining public security and stability.
However, news from the exchange spread throughout the city every day. It seems that the price reduction of salt is far away. The captain below me has also complained to me that now they themselves are running out of salt, and the soldiers at the guard station have also begun to make troubles with the people.
.We have tried our best, but the recent security situation is still deteriorating."
Lorraine said: "Angus, didn't I ask you to try your best to comfort him?"
Angus grimaced and said: "Mr. Governor, our subordinates can no longer appease the people. At the beginning, we paid for experts and asked them to preach that this was a big game for you, Mr. Governor."
Mahjong.
After a period of time, those unscrupulous people came to their senses and began to say weird things, complaining about why the game of mahjong was always messy. Do they want Huangzhuang?
We had no choice but to add some money and let those experts say that poor people should not have toilets...ah, no...they should not be able to afford salt.
But now the middle class can't afford salt. Later it turned out that they couldn't be deceived, so they had to spend more money to hire a few called beasts who were said to be very powerful.
Let them publicize that it was the mother-in-law who pushed up the price of salt, causing the current marriage rate to drop dramatically...
Now, those experts who call the beasts have begun to complain too, saying that they just put their butts and brains and their large intestines together, but they really can't think of any excuse..."
Angus thought for a while, and finally came to a conclusion, saying: "Sir, please think of a solution quickly, the subordinates really can't hold on any longer~!"
"Sir, please order administrative intervention. If this continues, there will be big problems." The officials below also said.
"Yes, sir, we have found out the details of those unscrupulous businessmen, and we are just waiting for your words."
"Please give the order~!"
"That's right, please give me the order~!"
"..."
Seeing that his subordinates, no matter they were real or fake, were as excited as the government officials of Bangzi Country, their faces turned red and their necks were thick. Although Lorraine nodded solemnly on the face, he felt overjoyed in his heart.
He casually muttered a few perfunctory words to the officials, and after everyone had vented their emotions and calmed down a little, Lorraine coughed lightly, then shrugged and said: "Gentlemen, I understand everyone's difficulties. But it needs to be pointed out.
The thing is, since these people are playing with us within the rules, we cannot use methods outside the rules to deal with them.
If we say this, no one will play with us in the future, and it will have a negative impact on Nai'an's economic development."
Although what Lorraine said was reasonable and plausible, although the officials did not object vocally, they were quite dissatisfied with Lorraine's statement.
As senior officials of the empire, everyone holds great power, but they are all very aware of the ruling class. Nai'an is in the hands of these people. Of course, they can do whatever they want, and they don't have to worry about the people below.
opinions.
Whoever has an objection or dares to blow up someone's body will have his home raided and his whole family destroyed~!
However, in front of Lorraine, they are also being ruled. Of course, Lorraine is what he says. In addition, Lorraine is so disciplined. Although it is troublesome and not refreshing enough, it is still a good thing after all - because everyone can rest assured.
Don't worry about being played by him.
The clever guy had already begun to flatter Lorraine, saying things like, "The Governor is so wise, rational, and wise."
Angus still had a grimace on his face and said to Lorraine: "But, sir, how should we issue orders to the grassroots officials?"
Lorraine thought for a moment, and then said: "Tell them, if you really feel that you can't hold on, think of our sacred Emperor, the wise Prime Minister, think of those glorious figures in the history of the empire, grit your teeth, and hold on.
Five minutes. Do you understand?"
If you don't understand the orders from the top, you have to carry them out. If you understand them, you have to pretend you don't understand them and then carry them out. If you don't do this, you won't be able to show your foresight, wisdom and wisdom as a leader?
Especially during this extraordinary period, it is the time for these subordinates to show their abilities.
Angus gritted his teeth and looked like he was going to die heroically, and then said loudly: "I understand, sir, don't worry, our Nai'an civil servants will definitely be able to withstand it with all our strength."
"Yes, yes." Lorraine nodded with satisfaction and said, "It's just a bunch of clowns. Don't pay too much attention to it. You all should concentrate on the work at hand. After the matter is resolved, I will reward you based on your merits."
All the officials are also high-level intellectuals who have read three or five "Jin Ping Mei" novels. Although they have all learned poems like "Winter is coming, can spring be far behind?", which are full of inspirational and poetic poems,
But everyone has been around for a while, and has long passed the age of taking these nonsense seriously.
These ruffians were all grinning as if they had eaten flies: After the matter is resolved? No matter how you look at it, you can't see that time?
Little did they know that Lorraine was already confident of winning, and had his carefully crafted Spanish lasso firmly tied around the necks of those malicious profiteers~!
When he closes the net, he will definitely leave behind a mass of mourners.
But as a top-level business secret, Lorraine would not and had no need to tell these subordinates.
In Nadel's port, between eight and nine o'clock, the sun is already very hot, transport ships are still busy coming in and out of the port, and dock workers are carrying the goods on the ships despite the scorching sun.
The exchange started to get lively early in the morning. Unlike the noisy crowd around the blackboard, in the corner behind the exchange, a group of people gathered together and chatted in boredom. Everyone who walked by them stared at them angrily.
This group of people are the salt merchants on duty here.
At the same time, in Leo's "forward headquarters" on the other side, Leo was standing in front of the window with a glass of juice with ice cubes in his hand, looking very worried and deep.
He frowned slightly, pursed his lips tightly, and his plump cheeks were elongated. His white and plump arms were folded in front of his chest. The fingers of his right hand pinched the rim of the glass, and gently
Shaking gently, the ice cubes collided with the wall of the cup, making a crisp clanking sound.
There is a small vest on the outside of the snow-white shirt, and a black and white striped tie on the inside. A gold chain is connected from the buttonhole to the upper pocket. Leo works hard to push his belly forward, and his big black and white eyes are full of thought.
light.
Leo was looking at the wide water outside the harbor through the glass window. With this posture, how could you see Morgan (John Pierpont Morgan, the Napoleon of Wall Street, in charge of one of the most formidable financial institutions in the world, so gorgeous?
Lidi is a person who is so awesome that he can’t stand up to the heavens.)
Leo shook the cup in his hand, said with a husky voice on his pink face, "Let's get started~!"
"Huh?" Melina looked around and said doubtfully: "Leo, who are you talking to?"
She looked at Leo's appearance, walked to him with concern, reached out to touch Leo's forehead, then put it against her own forehead to try, and said inexplicably: "You don't have a fever?"
Leo was furious at that moment, raised his hand and slapped Melina's little hand away, saying: "Go, what do women know? I am brewing feelings. You have ruined such a good atmosphere.
The boss said that when the Dow Jones crashes, the Nasdaq crashes, the Nikkei Index plummets, and A-shares plummet by 80%, you must stand in front of the big window with your back to everyone.
, put on a cool airs, with Remy Martin in the left hand, Cohiba in the right hand, and then say some very cool words, this will give a sense of historical vicissitudes.
But I couldn’t find anything about Remy Martin or Cohiba (a well-known brand in Cuban cigars)”
Milena blinked her big eyes and said curiously: "What are you talking about, what are you talking about?"
Leo spread his hands and said: "I don't know either, but according to the boss, it is a very awesome organization. Everyone is crying and shouting that they will throw the money in their hands to you to spend as you want, even if you don't want it, wait until it is spent.
They gave it back again.”
"Tsk, there would be such a stupid person." Melina was stunned for a moment, and then said dismissively.
"Why not?" Leo was immediately worried. He pointed at the port and shouted loudly: "Aren't they the same group of people in the exchange? They live at the port every day, fighting to give me money.
I don’t want it, but they still cry.”
Milena said in a daze: "That's right..."
At this time, the door of Leo's advanced headquarters was pushed open, and Catherine, Adele, Vera and Lorraine walked in one after another.
Adele kept waving the fan in her hand and shouting that it was hot. When she entered the door, she pulled up a chair and sat next to the ice tray, wishing she could hold the large ice cube in her arms.
Catherine also threw her gorgeous silk hat aside, then walked to the window and looked at it, saying, "Has the ship arrived?"
Lorraine threw his coat on the chair, exposing the shirt underneath, poured himself a glass of wine, threw in a few ice cubes, walked to the window, held hands and looked into the distance, saying: "It's time, maybe
Mix in the fleet."
After saying that, he took a breath and folded his hands on his chest.
Leo looked at it, and immediately rushed over, standing side by side with Lorraine, and put on the same airs as before. Lorraine and Leo said in a deep voice almost at the same time: "Let's get started."
Then, there were two sounds of "pop" and "pop", accompanied by Catherine's voice angrily yelling: "You two give me a little more."
Naider is a large city with a population of more than 300,000. In order to maintain the normal operation of this pearl in the southeastern part of the empire, transport ships carrying passengers, food, fruits, wine, cloth, steel, wood and other materials arrive from Haikou every day.
Go up or down the Beni River and settle in the port of Nidel City.
The sails and masts cover the sun, and the ships are like a forest. Densely packed ships gather on the water outside the port. People come and go on the pier, bustling with workers carrying various bags and boxes walking up and down. Even at night, people on the port
It's also brightly lit.
Ships leaving and entering the port each have their own channels, and the ships sail along the channels in an orderly manner.
Under the guidance of the port pilot, a transport ship slowly turned into the port and docked at the stone pier.
The sailors tied the ropes and put the gangplank onto the pier with a bang.
The clerk on the dock had a usual dead look on his face and walked to the transport ship holding a small notebook.
The ship owner jumped off the ship in two steps and came over to greet him. The clerk said in a rigid tone: "Ship name, ship owner, cargo, quantity, please report it."
The shipowner squeezed to the side of the clerk, first stuffed a few silver coins into his hand, and said with a smile: "Nai'an Salt Industry No. 1, Kefna, the ship only carries 50,000 pounds of salt."
The clerk said oh, changed his smile, and said: "I didn't expect you are still the big boss."
The old dock worker nearby asked, "The boss has made a fortune again this time."
The captain chuckled, stuffed a handful of silver coins into the clerk's hand, and said with a smile: "Get rich, get rich, everyone gets rich, but I'm not here to get rich today."
"You're talking nonsense, you salt sellers have become very prosperous recently," the dock worker yelled.
The ship owner cupped his hands and said, "It's all the big businessmen who get rich. Those of us who make salt just make hard money."
"Qiu, do you still call that hard-earned money? Now there are a few people who say it can be eaten with salt."
The captain smiled and said: "Everyone can afford it today."
The clerk weighed the silver coins in his hand, put them into his pocket, and said with a smile: "Are you kidding? My wife uses chopsticks to dip her salt in cooking. Okay, please go to the exchange."
The ship owner said: "Thank you, thank you very much. I guarantee that everyone can afford salt today. Twenty old workers are here to unload the cargo."
"Huh?" The onlookers were stunned. The kung fu boat owner laughed and walked out of the crowd and walked straight into the exchange.
The exchange was still as noisy as before, with merchants bargaining around the blackboard, waving their arms and shouting.
Half of the blackboard was already filled with chalk writing, on which were written things such as how many pounds of barley, how many rolls of cloth, how many barrels of wine, and so on.
The captain of the ship, Coffin, pushed through the crowd, walked to the blackboard in front of the crowd, and wrote "Salt, fifty thousand pounds" on it.
The businessmen next to him made a noise and said, "Salt merchant!"
"Another big deal."
"Look at how good this business is."
Kefner waved to the people around him, and the salt merchants went up to push through the crowd, gathered around Kefner, and said: "Your shipment volume is too large, lower the price, lower the price, we can only sell twenty silver coins per pound."
"That's you, twenty-four silver coins, a fixed price. Now, except for us, no one can come up with that much money."
Several salt merchants around looked at each other, shook their heads and walked back.
Kefner held the salt merchant's hand and said: "Twenty-four, twenty-four, deal. It's not easy to sell it for this price now."
"You're absolutely right. Now the market is saturated, and no one has much cash in hand." The salt merchant agreed.
Kevna and the salt merchant completed the transaction at the port. Kevna pointed to the salt bags piled up on the dock and said to the salt merchant: "This pile of things belongs to you now. Goodbye." Then he couldn't wait to jump on the transport ship and ordered the sailors.
Let's sail.
As soon as the transport ship left the berth, another ship quickly docked.
Before the clerk came forward to register in his usual tone, the owner of the ship got off the ship and said: "Nai'an Salt Industry No. 2, table salt, 50,000 pounds."
The clerk said "Ah" and was stunned.
The dock workers were also surprised: "They are transporting salt again, how come it is so fast?"
"One ship after another."
The shipowner stuffed a handful of silver coins into the clerk's hand and said, "I'm in a hurry, so I'm sorry to trouble you." He walked straight to the exchange.
After adding another line "Table salt, fifty thousand pounds" on the blackboard, there was a commotion in the exchange.
"here we go again."
"Normally there is only one ship every two days, why are there two ships this time?"
The salt merchants also looked at each other in confusion. One salt merchant tried to shout: "Twenty, that's all."
Unexpectedly, the captain shouted cheerfully: "Okay, it's a deal."
The merchants in the exchange were stunned, and someone murmured: "Could it be that the price of salt has really dropped?"