Seeing such a good thing, more than a dozen shareholders, large and small, also chose to sell their shares. In the end, some of them were ashamed and thanked them profusely. However, two or three thought about it and felt that they should sell their shares at this time.
But it's only tens of thousands of taels of silver, and a big family can't afford to lose it, so why not shamelessly use it to see how the Lin family can come back to life...
In the end, the Lin family's method couldn't be simpler. They would just pull twenty or thirty large carts tomorrow, wrap up the goods stored in Guangshen Hall, and pull them directly to the grassland. These people were
Ye Du and Lin Fengjin can tell each other, but when it comes to the road on the grassland, it is completely dark.
The most important thing about border trade is relationships. To pass the checkpoints, you have to get through the relationship with the guards. If you want to go to the grasslands, you have to have good relationships with those grassland barbarians. There is a missing link in this, that is, you will lose everything, lose all your money, and pay for it.
The pension is not even enough for you to pay!
So as everyone finally shook hands and made peace, Guangshentang also became the semicolon of the Lin family. This vigorous business war came to an end. The big businessmen in Yedu also had a good experience of the capabilities of the Lin family. Compared with
Backstage, people have a backstage. Compared with the mall's clever tricks, they can turn their hands into clouds and rain. They even swallowed up the trading company that jumped out to compete in the ring without even letting out a belch... What's more important is that
The family still has a successor. Although shopkeeper Lin is in his late sixties, the successor of the Lin family is only in his early twenties and will be at the helm for another thirty or forty years!
Combined with these factors, many people have given up their thoughts of competing for supremacy. They can only burn incense and pray to the Lin family not to interfere with our business. Unexpectedly, the Lin family even opened a beauty salon. It is a unique approach. From the seventy-two
An additional seventy-three lines were created in the business, and it was not related to anyone's business, and no one was offended. For such a business, one can only use the word "genius" to describe it.
Therefore, after Lin Fengjin opened the beauty salon, there were not many followers. They all followed the lessons of Guangshentang, and in this business, connections are extremely important. Fu Miner has a wide network of friends, so she can invite more
Best friends come to try to open up sales for free, and Lin Fengjin is also very smart and can invite the princess to come. This is the best advertisement, and the various medicines they use are also unique, even the imperial doctor wants them
Feeling impressed with the excellent materials used.
These many reasons are stacked together, which makes it very difficult for some people who are not afraid of death and want to copycat the village. Unfortunately, they have more than enough ambition but not enough power.
***
It is said that Lin Fengjin's business in Yedu is in full swing here. He himself is also very busy. On the one hand, he has to deal with Zuo Yasi, who is jealous and says that he is unfair. On the other hand, he also has to deal with schoolwork. Finally,
The remaining poor time had to be squeezed out to run to Honuaiya.
Hey, it's not that Mr. Lin has no restraint. What's more, the charm of the saint here is very exquisite. It has reached the otherworldly state of "no gun in hand, but gun in heart". It is also to gain Lin Fengjin's acquired dragon aura.
She has set goals and pursuits, so when Lin Fengjin comes, this enchantress always shows her full ability and flatters her. Lin Fengjin eats the marrow and knows the taste. Although she is also very restrained, she still has to go there every week.
Twice, and occasionally three times. Anyway, we haven’t gotten married yet, and no one dares to say anything...
In addition, during this period of time, Lin Fengjin also made considerable breakthroughs in the secret technique of spreading beans and forming soldiers that he obtained from the demon worshipers. This was mainly based on the control of dragon energy. Lin Fengjin
After practicing hard, I am now basically sure that I am on the right path.
At present, he has successfully produced two mud pills. Each mud pill can last for a month. It can be activated when needed, and then a yellow scarf warrior will appear. This shape was deliberately used by Lin Fengjin.
Confusing the opponent, making them think that what they have produced is from the Maoshan lineage, and therefore underestimate the enemy.
The combat power of this yellow scarf warrior is average, and he can probably reach the level of one-on-one combat with heavy cavalry. He does not yet have any magical powers. He uses an extremely thick stone stick, one foot long. The most powerful part is
It is because he is not afraid of any magical powers, luck, or even blood evil energy, and he can have the long-range attack ability of throwing rocks as big as the mouth of a bowl. This kind of attack power is already quite deadly compared to ordinary people.
What Lin Fengjin is currently improving is hoping to add an innate ability to the yellow scarf warrior. This innate ability is to spit out a ball of mucus. The mucus itself has no lethality, but it will make the target nauseated and vomiting, making it difficult to move. This
It was specially set for the relatively slow movement speed of the Yellow Turban Warrior. Lin Fengjin had no way to make the Yellow Turban Warrior faster, so he could only focus on how to make the enemy slower.
The days passed by day by day, and while Lin Fengjin was struggling painfully whether or not to accept the conspiracy of Emperor Ming Qian Xu, a chicken-feathered letter was sent to him from outside the Great Wall.
It is said that although Lin Fengjin is not in Wu Zuocheng, his control over there has never been relaxed. Every seven days, three spies from Wu Zuocheng who have no contact with each other and have different positions will send him letters.
Tell them the information they learned in detail.
But this letter was not sent within the seven-day deadline, and there were more than thirty people escorting the letter. This shows the importance of this letter. Lin Fengjin heard about it.
After that, they immediately rushed to the village outside the city where they were accommodated, and saw the envoy who had sent the message.
The special envoy who delivered the letter was a businessman from Eastern Xia. His name was Li Xiang. This man looked a little pale and sickly. He coughed whenever he spoke. It made people worry about how he traveled such a long distance to get here.
When he came, this man saw Lin Fengjin and gave Lin Fengjin a salute.
It's also very strange to say that after the meeting and greetings, it is reasonable to get down to the main topic, and what Lin Fengjin said is also a bit irrelevant.
"Who else is in Mr.'s family?"
"There is an old mother in her 60s above, and a wife and three sons below." Li Xiang said seriously.
Lin Fengjin looked at his face and said:
"Sir, is he suffering from some illness?"
Li Xiang smiled bitterly and said:
"Yes, I have been suffering from tuberculosis for eleven years. I have lost all my money and even infected my second aunt who often comes to take care of me. It is really a terrible crime. I have seen several doctors and they all said that I will not survive the autumn."
Lin Fengjin said with a somewhat solemn expression:
"I know, I will give you a hundred taels of pure gold when you return."
Li Xiang sighed and smiled bitterly:
"Thank you very much, sir. Do you want to read the letter now?"
Lin Fengjin said:
"Since we are so mobilized, what we are talking about must be very important, so I can only give you time for a meal."
Li Xiang laughed and said:
"No need. Both the young master and the princess have treated me with utmost benevolence. How dare I delay the young master's important event? The prince asked me to bring him three taels or seven coins. Please give me a stick of incense to be alone for a while."
Lin Fengjin nodded seriously. After he walked out of the house, the leader of the escort delivered a letter to Lin Fengjin. The envelope was blank. Lin Fengjin opened the envelope and found that the letter was also blank.
There was a blank, but he didn't seem to be surprised at the result. He waited silently for a stick of incense, then walked to the door of the room where the businessman Li Xiang was alone and knocked on the door.
No one agreed. Lin Fengjin walked in and found that Li Xiang was already lying on the table. His face was calm, but he had died. A trace of black blood spilled from the corner of his mouth. It looked like he had died of poisoning.
Lin Fengjin asked his men to bring a sharp knife and cut Li Xiang's wrist. The blood was still warm and gurgling out. Lin Fengjin caught it with a bowl, then took a small scale and determined the amount of blood in the bowl.
After three or two or seven dollars, he stopped collecting blood. Instead, he spread out the blank letter paper and poured the blood in the bowl onto the letter paper. After about a whole stick of incense, the letter paper was soaked with blood.
The writing begins to show.
This is the way in which confidential documents are conveyed in the Eastern Xia Kingdom. One person holds the letter paper, and the letter paper has long been tempered with drugs, so it looks blank. To make the letter paper show writing, you must take a certain drug.
There is a special kind of human blood in the medicine, and the amount of blood poured on the letter paper is also different.
Because people who take that special drug are almost certain to die within a year, so people who are terminally ill or sentenced to death are often found to do it.
In this case, the chance of leaking the secret was reduced to the maximum limit. Lin Fengjin was very surprised when he heard what Princess Cui said. He felt that the emperor's family had really tried every means to keep it secret, and they had even disregarded human life to such an outrageous level.
The first few paragraphs of this letter are full of feminine style, and they only mean two or three things: "I miss you, do you miss me?" "Are the tigresses in your family as beautiful as me?"
Words like "You are wandering outside again".
Later, it gradually turned to the business. The focus was on two things. The first thing was that the little kid King Dong Xia knew how to do things in a roundabout way. First, he lamented his sister's hard work and achievements, and then said that his sister did not get married because of the national affairs.
I really couldn't bear to feel sorry for my ancestors, so I decided to choose a consort for Princess Cui.
Obviously, once Princess Cui gets married, she will no longer be able to live in the palace. As everyone knows, a married daughter will throw water out. Once she gets married, the princess will also have to obey her husband, so naturally she can be removed from
The national affairs were separated.
It stands to reason that Cui Guojun's plan is an excellent one. It involves killing and defeating, and it is justifiable. What's even better is that all of Cui Wangnu's relatives are dead, so this marriage should be handled by his younger brother, even the consort must be replaced.
Now that he has become his confidant, he is not afraid of leaving any hidden dangers in the future.
However, this news made Lin Fengjin very unhappy, because after all, she was the first Princess Cui he possessed. There was nothing that this brother-in-law couldn't do, so why did he try to find a way to cuckold me?
Princess Cui said she would handle the matter herself and asked Lin Fengjin not to worry.
However, the second thing made Lin Fengjin frown tightly, because in the past half year or so, as Lin Fengjin and Princess Cui established a relationship last time, the Jiangnan businessmen he brought must also have
On the side of Princess Cui, although Lin Fengjin has not organized a fleet to go to Dongxia recently, businessmen will have enough motivation as long as they have enough profits.
In the past six months or so, because the route from Shangmao to Wuzuocheng has been fully matured, a large amount of scarce goods from the Eastern Xia Dynasty first sailed from Shangmao in the south and then were transported to Wuzuocheng. However, Wuzuocheng has a large number of livestock.
These goods continuously traveled thousands of miles from Wu Zuocheng and were finally imported into Dongxia!
Although this kind of transportation requires first traveling by water and then by land, it seems very troublesome to load, unload and carry. However, it can save at least ten checkpoints. It saves taxes and silver that are three times the value of the goods themselves, so the cost is actually cheaper.
Many. Relying on these scarce goods, the "Prince and Daughter Party" is rapidly expanding, and under the circumstances, the monarch's side is becoming increasingly difficult.
Because of this, of course the monarchs could not just sit back and wait for death, so they decided to take the next step, which was to send out a large army to annihilate Wu Zuocheng!
In this regard, it is really difficult to stop the Queen's Party, because of course the king of Dongxia cannot directly state his strategic goals. He can only use the recent rampant horse thieves on the grassland as an excuse to send troops to clean up. This excuse is justifiable.
No one can stop it. Secondly, it is impossible for the Queen's Party to directly send troops to support Wu Zuocheng. Otherwise, it would be equivalent to both sides breaking up. Therefore, what they can do is provide support in terms of intelligence.
Try to delay the logistics as much as possible...
After watching it, Lin Fengjin still felt heavy in his heart, because this time the king of Dongxia seemed to be serious about it. The new-born Wu Zuocheng would face the test of blood and fire!
Of course, the most fortunate thing is that Wu Zuocheng's city defense system was basically completed in March this year. According to the Queen's Party, the opponent planned to send troops in May, which is the time when the grass grows and the warblers fly.
, at least half of the supplies for the horses can be saved. They tried their best, but they could only delay it until June at most. At this time, there was still a two-month buffer time.
Therefore, the first thing Lin Fengjin did at this time was to think of Li Hu.
What this guy is trying to do at this time is to achieve the ultimate in the six words of "gathering grain widely and building walls high".
His subordinates are also talented people. He implemented the Baojia Law in the territory and organized the rural households into one. Ten households were assigned to one Bao, and each household with more than two people selected one person as a Bao. They gathered during the off-season to receive military training, and did all the work.
Anyone who gets Baoding will have a share of money and food, so the people who come are very active.
Li Hu's current income is probably more than 30% of that of the entire country of Nanzheng. The tax collected at the port alone is extremely rich, and his hoarding of military supplies is even more astonishing. So if there is a real need, he will
These guards were equipped with swords, guns and armor, and after being dragged out to fight a few battles, the waves washed away the sand, and the remaining ones were the elite.
Therefore, the number of troops under his command does not seem to be much. There are only 10,000 troops in one county, but if they are really mobilized, there will be more than 100,000 soldiers. The real military potential is already extremely amazing!
At present, it can be said that businessmen are gathering in Shangmao. It is obvious that the city of Shangmao can no longer accommodate the rapidly expanding population. Logically speaking, the only choice is to develop the outer city. However, if the outer city becomes prosperous, the enemy's army can only rely on it to suppress the border.
When defending a city wall, a fire can cause heavy damage to your economy.
Li Hu's wife actually came up with a new method, that is, the sea market. How did you do this? It was to imitate Cao Cao's method during the Battle of Chibi, using iron ropes to connect a large number of ships together. In Shangmao's
A huge market has formed in Lepo Bay.
Jiangnan's shipbuilding industry is already extremely developed. It is easy to build such a platform that only needs to float on the water and not move. In this way, it will not only form a special landscape, but also save costs significantly. Once there is any military
In times of disaster, it is necessary to rely on the shangmao city wall to resist, so the sea market can be slowly floated dozens of meters away from the shore.
Unless the enemy has a navy, they can only stare at this thing. Don't think about looting and burning. Once the war is over, the offshore market can be opened again as soon as it is docked again, avoiding a military disaster.
It would be embarrassing to see these prosperous facilities outside the city being destroyed.
As for the navy, because currently no country pays much attention to this aspect, most of the water forces are anti-smuggling ships on the Yangtze River. Therefore, Li Hu, who was influenced by Lin Fengjin, owned more than 20 three-masted and five-masted warships.
It can be said to have overwhelming power, and with the addition of Nanzheng Shanshou, various powerful machines used to defend the city can be transported onto the ship with slight modifications. The firepower is extremely amazing. And the crew members all have experience in ocean navigation, so they are powerful.
Needless to say, it is probably second to none in the entire world.
Since Li Hu had grown so powerful at this time, Lin Fengjin unceremoniously sent a message through a special channel, asking him to send troops to help. Most of the soldiers in the Jiangnan water town would not get seasick.
It is necessary, plus four warships, as for food and grass, it is not necessary. Wu Zuocheng was originally freezing most of the year, and the food stored in it was enough to last three to five years, but it was arrow clusters and oil used to defend the city.
, the instruments are all complementary.
Calculating the time, the wind is also beautiful now. It is the monsoon season at sea. The sails of the ship can float hundreds of miles with the wind.
After Li Hu got the news, the violent reaction was completely beyond his expectation. The main reason was that he and his staff completely underestimated the combat power of Wu Zuocheng and Sanlibu. They were also discerning people and knew very well that at this time, Zhang
The county's current scale and current prosperity are entirely dependent on the golden route between Wuzuo City and Shangmao City. Once something happens to Wuzuo City, which is thousands of miles away, it can be said to be a drain on the cauldron and someone behind the scenes.
Knife! The prosperity in front of you is just a bubble, and any grand plans and hegemony will become empty in the blink of an eye.
Therefore, Li Hu's reply to Lin Fengjin was also vigorous and resolute: Five thousand soldiers and ten warships can reach Wuzuo City in fifteen days! He repeatedly warned, with tears streaming down his face, that the dragons there were leaderless, and the young master must go and take charge.
Otherwise, the foundation cannot be lost.
Lin Fengjin thought about it and felt that what Li Hu said was quite reasonable. The foundation cannot be lost. It is necessary to be prepared for danger in times of peace. He calculated the time and went to the academy to apply for leave.
, saying that something happened in the business and had to delay for a while. The academy also knew that Lin Fengjin was a man who made millions per second and had to take care of business, so he simply agreed to the leave.
Lin Fengjin calculated the time before leaving. When he arrived, he still had plenty of time. The Dongxia Army was held back by the Queen's Party members, who had to travel thousands of miles to cause trouble for him. Their morale may not be very positive, so they simply organized it temporarily.
A batch of goods went out in a caravan.
What he was thinking about at this time was not combat readiness materials, but at this time he was already focusing on post-war reconstruction. This time the enemy was strong, so he could only rely on Wu Zuocheng for defense, which meant that a series of peripheral facilities had to be destroyed.
We have to give up, such as the big market that has become a climate, and the wharf that has become as prosperous as a small town. Needless to say, the manpower is the best, the prisoners of war are the best, and there is no shortage of stones, but the wood is very rare on the grassland.
So this batch of goods is all wood.
But at this time, he suddenly received another urgent report. Lin Fengjin read the urgent report from Dongxia, but there were only a few words written on it:
"There seems to be something strange happening in Momen."
Lin Fengjin pondered over these words for a full two hours, and then went to look for his father. The father and son muttered for half an hour before they separated, not knowing what they were arranging.
***
Along the way, the grass was growing and the orioles were flying. Because everyone was busy grazing and farming, there were scenes of singing and dancing everywhere. This time, there was an unexpected person in Lin Fengjin's caravan, wasn't it?
The other person was none other than Earth Saint Huonu Yaya. When this woman heard that Lin Fengjin estimated that he would be away for two or three months, she immediately became unhappy. She had been with Lin Fengjin for so many days, and it would have taken her thirty years to practice.
The progress of the advanced magic skills is very fast. If you practice according to the normal way, it will take at least ten or eight years.
Everyone knows that there are long nights and many dreams, so the second wife Huonu Yaya was also extremely unhappy. She insisted on the spot that she would not let go and must follow Lin Fengjin. Lin Fengjin also rolled his eyes, but when he thought of the saint beside this woman,
The insect end has an indestructible style, and now it has become two ends, and it feels like a strong boost. And it goes without saying that there will definitely be people from the Mohist family involved in this battle, and they might even engage in some decapitation tactics.
So I thought about it carefully and nodded.
This can have multiple bed warmers or multiple bodyguards, which is the best of both worlds.