After the Nai'an Salt Company's transport ship docked at the pier, the tightly packed bags of salt were carried off the ship by dock workers and piled directly on the pier.
After the people inside the exchange were no longer busy, they walked out and surrounded the piles of salt bags on the pier.
Not only the dock workers were here, but also the Nedel people who heard the news nearby also poured into the dock and circled around the salt bags.
Their eyes were glowing green, and they looked at the salt greedily.
Although the sun was shining brightly above our heads and it was ten minutes at noon, even the seaside was uncomfortable, but this did not affect the enthusiasm of the people on the pier.
After more than two months of eating without salt and seasonings, the Nadel people, as the old saying goes, can have a bird fly out of their mouths.
At this time, I suddenly heard that a large amount of salt was being shipped to the dock, and the group of black-hearted salt merchants who were hoarding it and wanting to make a huge fortune out of the country could no longer stand it.
The most important thing is that the price of salt, which is three times more expensive than meat, is about to drop~!
After hearing this great news, not to mention the impatient people, even the most frustrated ruffians couldn't wait to go and have a look at the scene.
Even if you can't buy the salt now, it's still good to come over and smell it.
Catherine raised her plump buttocks and lay lazily on the window. Looking at the bustling port below, she felt a little uneasy and said, "Is it okay to let Leo go like this? Will he mess things up?
Yes? You also know his virtues. The more people there are, the more he will get excited about mischief."
Lorraine looked at the exchange behind the pier through the window, shrugged, and said with a wry smile: "Is there any way? Can we not let him go? It's not like you didn't see it. He just got mad and almost rolled on the ground. Besides,
Now, don't talk about me, why didn't you stop him just now?"
Catherine was very annoyed at the moment and snorted coldly, then pinched Lorraine hard on the waist and said angrily in a low voice: "Just spoil him, look at what his skin looks like now~!"
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Adele gracefully took a sip of the cold red wine and said softly: "I think it's good. Boys are more cute if they are more lively. From now on, my children must be as lively as Leo..."
As he said that, he blinked his beautiful eyes and flew over with charming eyes.
Catherine gasped immediately.
She wanted to be angry, but after thinking about it, she just snorted and let go of Lorraine's hand, and gently rubbed the place where she pinched her just now.
Lorraine smiled bitterly and thought to herself: This is really Catherine's version of beating her with a stick and giving her a sweet date.
Adele looked at it and couldn't help but smile like a little fox who had stolen a chicken. She drank all the wine in the glass in one gulp and naughtily pushed the ice cubes back and forth in her mouth.
Seeing Leo walking out of the exchange, Lorraine said: "Okay, that little ruffian has finished his shit, now it's time for us to deal with those gangsters. We have only been praying for two days, and they think we are
Now that they are vegetarians, this time I will drive them all to the streets to beg.
These idiots still don’t understand that if they play outside the system, the most I can do is make them bankrupt, but if they play within the system, it’s easiest for them to confiscate their homes and destroy them.”
Adele still disagreed, and poured herself a full glass of red wine. After taking a sip, she said: "Isn't this a small place like Nai'an?
They can only entertain themselves behind closed doors. I'm not laughing at them. These natives who don't even understand fashion have probably never watched the crudest palace drama, otherwise they wouldn't even know how to conduct a simple conspiracy.
, it’s really disappointing.
Originally, I was fully expecting to have a good fight with those vixens, but I didn't expect that they were all aunties."
As she spoke, she raised the wine glass in her hand, then squinted her beautiful eyes, looking at the magnificent colors reflected by the sunlight through the wine glass, and then sighed quietly and said: "Alas..., life without opponents is still difficult.
It’s so lonely as snow~~!”
Catherine rolled her eyes angrily.
She calmed down and decided not to pay attention to the vixen, otherwise she would make her sick sooner or later.
She turned her head and looked out the window. When she saw the group of salt merchants, she felt angry again. She raised her eyebrows and said: "No matter what, these people actually dare to hold people's livelihood materials hostage and threaten the imperial officials. These Naian people
If you don’t teach the natives a lesson they will never forget, it seems they will not take the dignity of the royal family seriously.”
At this time, several carriages galloped into the pier.
Those horse-drawn carriages ran rampant without scruple, rushing quickly among the pedestrians, causing a lot of panic.
People on the road hurriedly hid aside, then pointed at the back of the carriage and yelled curses in the dust kicked up by the vehicle.
Seeing the huge crowds of people at the port, it was impossible to squeeze in, so the few cars stopped.
Several people in luxurious clothes jumped out of the carriage in a hurry, nodded to each other, and squeezed into the crowd at the dock without saying a word.
They struggled to squeeze in, and after a while, they managed to squeeze through the crowd and move to the dock where the boat was parked.
They looked at the high piles of salt bags in front of them, and there were workers carrying the salt bags down from the ship. They all stared at each other with big eyes and small eyes, and said in a panic: "How could this happen?"
Like this? Where do these come from?”
The leader was a middle-aged man with gray hair. Looking at the salt mountain in front of him, he couldn't help but gasp for breath, like a broken gramophone, and kept repeating: "What should I do? What should I do?
manage?"
While talking to himself, he scanned the crowd around him. All he saw were people looking at the salt mountain and happily discussing how far the price of salt would fall.
Only the salt merchant who just walked out of the exchange looked like his soul had been sucked away. He stared blankly, opened his mouth, and stood stupidly in front of the salt bag with a blank look on his face.
The middle-aged man ran over in a few steps, grabbed the leading salt merchant by the collar, and pulled him forcefully in front of him.
He glared into the salt merchant's eyes, shook his collar, and said sternly: "What's going on? Tell me what's going on~!"
The salt merchant was shaken by him twice before he came back to his senses. He looked at the middle-aged man in front of him steadily, swallowed his saliva, and said bitterly: "Master Hermione, it's all over, it's all over~!
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Hermione immediately felt a coldness in her hands and feet, and her heart sank to the bottom, but she was still unwilling to give in. She continued to shake the salt merchant's collar and asked angrily, "Where did this salt come from?"
The salt merchant said in a harsh voice: "Nai'an Salt Company is the salt farm built by that guy from Lorraine. They are all from Nai'an Salt Company."
Hermione continued to hold the salt merchant's collar with one hand, pointing at the piled salt bags with the other hand, and said loudly: "How is this possible? Didn't you say that he will never produce as much as us?"
The salt merchant said with a bitter face: "We have been deceived, Mr. Hermione, we have all been deceived. How come there are only 1,000 people in the 5,000-acre salt merchant, and there are at least 10,000 people in that salt farm."
"This is impossible. Where can he recruit so many people?" Hermione was still confused. She pushed the salt merchant away and turned to look at the salt bag that was still growing. Suddenly, as if she had made a big discovery, she patted her leg and said
: "By the way, that boy must be setting up a smoke screen. He piled up so much salt to scare us."
After saying that, Hermione just laughed and said, "That must be the case."
Several people who came with him also clapped their hands and shouted: "Yes, it can't be wrong."
"He actually came to have sex with us."
"Even if he recruits thousands of people from neighboring provinces, we won't be left without news."
"..."
These people are like drowning people grasping at straws to save their lives, trying their best to cheer themselves up.
The old salt merchant looked at the big shots in front of him who were manipulating salt prices behind the scenes and were still looking for reasons to comfort themselves. He suddenly felt funny. He shook his head and thought to himself: With this kind of virtue, he usually thinks that he is a good person.
Big shot? What’s even more ridiculous is that I actually thought so before.
He looked at the salt merchants and said coldly: "Isn't possible? In the past half month, although they have been shipping on a small scale, the goods we have eaten alone have exceeded one million pounds.
Our combined output is not as much as others. This cannot be faked. They have prepared the trap early in the morning, and we all fell into their trap. In the afternoon, all the salt was worthless."
Those people were speechless immediately. They were stunned for a moment and shouted one after another: "What should we do? What should we do?"
The onlookers had already seen clearly that these people were the masterminds behind the high price of salt. They all felt happy when they saw them all panicking like lost dogs. They surrounded them, some laughed loudly, and some laughed loudly.
Yell and curse.
Hermione grabbed the salt merchant's shoulder again and asked with a ferocious expression: "I threw all 80,000 gold coins in there, how can you be responsible?"
The salt merchant seemed to have heard a funny joke and laughed and said: "How can I be responsible? I staked all my property and lost everything. Who will be responsible for me? If it weren't for your greed and arrogance.
, how did we get to this point? Haha, you have offended the governor, and the compensation is just the beginning. I will watch how you die below."
As the salt merchant spoke, he pushed Hermione away from him, turned towards the dock, and jumped off.
Hermione and the others watched blankly as the salt merchant jumped into the sea, and then they all looked at each other with horrified expressions. The last words the salt merchant said scared them. He was right. This was Lorraine's counterattack.
The first step will definitely not be the last step. There must be other means waiting for them later.
Seeing the salt merchant diving into the water, the onlookers from Nedel were also startled and immediately started shouting: "Someone is diving into the water, someone is diving into the water."
Several people shouted: "Hurry up and save people."
The dock workers looked at each other, turned their heads, and one of them said: "You have to go, there are ships coming and going at the port, go down there to die. Besides, salt merchant, why are you saving him?"
Some people did not say anything and jumped deep into the sea to save others.
People at the port crowded to the water's edge and looked into the water.
A few minutes later, the people who had gone down swam up from the water, shook their heads, and said, "There are boats everywhere and I can't find them."
Hearing the sudden noise below, Lorraine put down the wine glass in her hand, walked to the window, looked down, and said, "What happened below?"
Catherine and Adele also walked to the window and looked down.
From upstairs, you can only see the chaos on the pier, and the crowds are facing the water and gathering on the edge of the pier.
Vera chewed the ice cubes in her mouth until they crunched loudly, raised her head and tried to swallow it, and said in a daze: "Someone is diving down below. Really, on such a hot day, what's the fuss about going for a swim."
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Emotional Vera regarded this diving as the diving that Lorraine and the others played in the villa swimming pool.
Lorraine was stunned for a moment and said: "Diving." Then he understood that someone committed suicide by diving.
Lorraine looked back at Vera. She didn't know how to explain it to Vera. She thought it would be better to let Vera only keep good memories.
After a while, Leo and Melina pushed the door open and came in.
As soon as Leo entered the door, he shouted loudly: "It's true, there is a salt merchant down there who has jumped into the water. You think of such a big person, how come his mental capacity is so small, he can't bear any blow."
Catherine asked curiously: "The person who jumped into the water was a salt merchant?"
Leo nodded and said: "Yes, Jerry told me just now that there are some people behind the salt frying. I was afraid that they were here to cause trouble, so I just watched them there. Unexpectedly, a few people said
During the conversation, the salt merchant actually jumped out."
Lorraine curled her lips and said: "It's nothing, it's expected. Once this kind of investment speculation collapses, a lot of people will jump."
Lorraine thought to herself that there are many souls of failed speculators on Wall Street. Similarly, there are also salt merchants in the Beni River in Nai'an. If you dare to fish for meat, you must be prepared to be beaten. (Only two
Nine years after the U.S. stock market crashed, thousands committed suicide.)
Adele showed a scared expression and leaned against Lorraine like a frightened little rabbit. She grabbed Lorraine's arm and asked nervously: "Has anyone been rescued?"
Milena thought for a moment and said, "It seems like she was rescued, right?"
Adele looked at Lorraine pitifully and said, "I've seen diving before. It's scary to think about it. What should I do?"
Lorraine pulled Adele into her arms, held Adele and patted her back, saying: "Be good, be good, just don't think about it. Think about the Governor's Mansion, it will be decorated soon."
Catherine rolled her eyes at these two disgusting people and asked Melina: "Meilin, did Leo do anything embarrassing just now?"
Leo said "Ah" and protested: "If you don't look down on people like this, why would you expect me to do something embarrassing?"
Catherine glared and said: "Shut up, I don't know you. When you are so proud, your little tail is raised to the sky."
Leo was stunned for a moment, then turned his head, his big black and white eyes slapped at Melina vigorously, his molars were exposed in the flattering smile.
Milena looked at Leo's appearance, lowered her head and sighed, then raised her head and said to Catherine with a smile: "It's okay, sister Nicole, Leo is following Brother Lorraine's words."
Catherine choked, her face darkened, and she said slowly: "Is that what represents the moon?"
Milena smiled sweetly and nodded.
Leo looked at it and suddenly became cautious. He smiled dryly and said, "Well, I remembered, the group still has work, I'll leave first."
"Hmph, can you run away~!"
At that moment, another sound of ghosts crying and wolves howling came out.
In the afternoon, Lorraine and the three of them have their own work. Lorraine has to go back to the Governor's Palace for work, and Catherine and Adele have to inspect and accept the decoration project of the Governor's Palace.
In the "Advance Command", there were only Leo lying on the sofa rubbing his butt, Melina standing next to Leo with a cold look, and Vera sitting on the president's seat, holding a pen and calculating diligently.
Jerry knocked on the door and walked in. He first saluted the giants of the Flying Eagle Group in the room (Melena is now the director of the president's office. According to Catherine's explanation, this position is specifically in charge of the president).
In order to maintain his authority as president, Leo hurriedly endured the pain, acted as if everything was business as usual, sat up from the sofa, and said, "Jerry, is something okay?"
"General...President, those salt merchants have withdrawn from the exchange. I'm here to ask the president for instructions on what to do with the salt on the dock?"
"They all ran away? Then I can't sell them for fifteen silver coins?" Leo was immediately shocked.
Jerry nodded immediately.
"What's the current market price of salt?" Leo asked.
"When the market opened in the morning, it was still fifty silver coins a pound. After lunch, it dropped to forty-two silver coins a pound." Jerry said.
Leo held his chin and thought for a while, and said to himself: "Nicole only said that she wanted me to lower the price of salt, but she didn't say how long it would take, right? Anyway, I just need to lower the price of salt in the end, and this part of the income is okay.
Making false accounts to evade taxes, well, it’s worth it.”
Leo said: "Jerry."
"Yes, President."
Leo secretly glanced at Melina, who was dozing next to her, and said: "In order to punish these unscrupulous businessmen and give them a serious blow from the bottom of their hearts, I have decided that our salt will be sold at thirty-eight silver coins per pound.
The market is selling uniformly, do you understand?"
When Jerry heard this, it was clear that this was the president's pursuit of maximizing profits. However, they had a huge production base and were not afraid of competing with those people. They even said that no matter how they played, they would always end up with that group of people.
Jerry nodded and said, "Yes, President, I understand."
In fact, after the salt merchants sadly left the exchange at noon, the price of salt in Nadel City began to fluctuate. Some salt merchants knew that the storm was coming soon, but they were powerless and kept holding on to each other.
The idea was to first lower the price of salt by a few silver coins in order to gain market share. Other salt merchants also had the same idea. When they saw someone lowering the price, they also lowered the price.
But these salt merchants don't dare to lower their prices too much. Like Leo, they all have the idea of making as much money as possible. If you sell it for fifty, I will sell it for forty-nine. If you lower the price, I will lower it again.
A silver coin, even so, the price of salt dropped from fifty to forty-two in one meal.
The masterminds behind the salt speculation also know that this is not possible. If this continues, before Lorraine takes action, they themselves will start to compete disorderly. It is likely that within a day, the salt merchants will start fighting among themselves. They will start from the port.
After coming back, they gathered together
came to hold an emergency meeting behind closed doors. Although everyone was already exhausted, after receiving the news that their subordinates were lowering prices to compete, they still ordered their salt merchants to sell at a unified price. They would settle down first, and then unite to find a way to fight against the enemy.