Mei Yun really didn't have a reputation for nothing! It only took a moment to point out the most critical issue.

"There are still some places, but they are all far away from this square, from outside the west city gate to the northeast to His Excellency King Teng, nearly a hundred miles, except for more than ten miles close to the city gate, which cannot be moved, the rest of the land has all fallen into the hands of this Xu Chen!" replied the middle-aged man surnamed Ou.

"Who is this Xu Chen?" Mei Yun then asked.

"A strange man!" said the middle-aged man surnamed Ou after a moment of consideration.

"Oh?"

Mei Yun's face couldn't hide his surprise, he knew that this Ou Peng in front of him was not a frivolous person, and to get such an evaluation from him, it seemed that this Xu Chen must have his own uniqueness.

Looking at Mei Yun's slightly inquiring look, Ou Peng then explained to Mei Yun.

"This Xu Chen is an orphan, a beggar to be exact! And this was only a few months ago!"

"A few months ago, this Xu Chen led a group of little beggars in Chongrenfang to destroy the tyrant in the workshop, and then opened a fish market on the edge of East Lake, and then it was out of control, not only worshiped Xu Fan, a doctor of literature, as a teacher, but also then took people to Changshan Island, and wiped out the water bandits on the island, and then at the night banquet of King Teng's Pavilion Taishou Wang Xian, all the students present did not dare to say a word, and took advantage of this to become Wang Taishou's guest ......"

Mei Yun listened quietly, and only after Ou Peng finished talking about Xu Chen's deeds did he speak: "So, this Xu Chen is a person with courage, scheming, and connections?"

"That's right!" said Ou Peng with a nod.

"Then we can only do business with him!" Mei Yun said with a hint of questioning.

Everyone present naturally understood the meaning of Mei Yun's words, and they all smiled helplessly.

"That's true! The most important thing is that whether or not this square will be expanded in the future and how it will be expanded is up to him Xu Chen to decide, that is to say, even if we go and buy the remaining wasteland now, if he Xu Chen does not build the square here in the future, the land we bought will be worthless!"

Mei Yun frowned when she heard this, this feeling of being controlled by others was not wonderful at all, and then she asked the black-faced middle-aged man, "Can't we build it ourselves?" It's just some buildings, can't they be imitated?"

"No, it's easy to say that the buildings are new, but they can't be imitated, but they use a kind of mud that I've never seen before, and I guess we wouldn't be able to make these new buildings without this mud, and the mud we use now is not strong enough!" the black-faced middle-aged man explained.

"Oh, is there still you Zhu Wu, the building materials that Master Zhu can't understand?" Mei Yun asked in surprise, this Zhu Wu is a famous craftsman in Yuzhang County, with perfect craftsmanship, whether it is in civil engineering or jade, Mei Yun really didn't expect that there would be buildings that the other party could not imitate.

"It's a shame to say that Zhu has been staying in that square day and night these days, and even secretly knocked on a stone on the ground to study it while people were unprepared, but so far he has found nothing...... Zhu Wu lowered his head and smiled helplessly.

Mei Yun sighed and said, "Since that's the case, then let's go to him to talk about business!"

"By the way, how many people know about this matter at the moment?" Mei Yun then asked.

"Mei Dongjia, don't worry! Only those of us who went to the banquet that day know about this matter, and no one else can know about it!" said the middle-aged man surnamed Wang with great certainty.

"That's right! And we've been going to the square in plainclothes these days!"

"That's it! If we get this business done this time, then in this Yuzhang City, we can really compete with those slaves of the family family!"

It's just that his excitement did not get Mei Yun's response, but instead he sighed helplessly: "Alas...... Hehe, what do you want Mei to say about you?"

Hearing this, the middle-aged laughter of the surnamed Wang stopped abruptly, and then looked at Mei Yun with puzzled eyes, and asked at the same time: "Mei Dongjia, I don't know ......"

"You should go in the open!" Mei Yun said with round eyes and a solemn tone.

"Is it the first day you have come to Yuzhang City? How strong the power of those families is in the city, have you not experienced it? Isn't it tantamount to telling them that you have a problem!" Mei Yun then said to everyone in a tone of hatred for iron and steel.

"This ......"

"Huh? What about this...... What a good thing that is!"

The middle-aged and lean man surnamed Wang also realized his mistake at this moment, so he hurriedly asked anxiously.

Mei Yun didn't have time to lament the incompetence of his teammates, the matter had come to this point, he could only find a way to save it!

"At this time, I'm afraid those people have already found Xu Chen, Brother Ou Xian, you can quickly find this Xu Chen now, you can make more concessions in the price, and be sure to eat all the land in his hands!" At this moment, Mei Yun showed his resolute side of a business tycoon.

"Okay, I'll go!" Ou Peng stood up and prepared to walk out.

When Ou Peng walked to the door of the living room, he saw that a subordinate of the Mei Mansion was hurriedly breaking in, and walked quickly to Mei Yun, leaning over to Mei Yun's ear and talking quickly.

After listening to the report of his subordinates, Mei Yun no longer knew that this was the first time he had smiled helplessly today.

"Brother Ou Xian, you don't have to go!" Mei Yun then said.

Ou Peng naturally saw the change in Mei Yun's expression, and knew that something should have happened, so he sat back in his place and waited for Mei Yun's explanation.

"This young man is really not simple!" This is the first time Mei Yun has made such an exclamation to Xu Chen, and naturally it will not be the last.

"Just now, he Xu Chen had already announced to the people of Quanyu Zhang City that he would publicly auction the wasteland by the Ganshui in his hand in three days, and anyone could go and buy it. Mei Yun didn't let everyone wait long, and then told the news from the next person just now.

"What? What does his surname Xu mean? Fool us?" The middle-aged man surnamed Wang couldn't calm down anymore, and he was already annoyed that he was about to be stuck in a vat by his opponent because of a good deal, but when he heard it at this moment, the cooked duck was about to fly! How did you let him calm down?

"What do you mean? What else does it mean? Wait for the price and sell!" Mei Yun said with a hint of a sneer.

"Mei Dongjia, what should we do then?" asked Ou Peng.

"What else can we do? I can't come to Yin, and I want to do this business, what else do you think we can do?" Mei Yun asked rhetorically.

Mei Yun took a deep breath and said, "The other party is using all the tricks on the surface, unless we don't want to follow up, we can only follow his routine!"

"That means we have to fight hard with those people!" Ou Peng said helplessly.

"Otherwise, what else?" After Mei Yun finished speaking, he stood up and said to everyone: "Okay! Don't stay here big guys! If you want to do this business, go back and count your family wealth now and see how much copper money you can cash out!"

When everyone heard what the boss said, what else could they do?

The same discussion was going on in many places in Yuzhang City at the moment, and what Xu Chen wanted was to expand his influence, so naturally it was impossible to limit his target to a small group.

In the current Yuzhang City, the business is basically showing a group of heroes, and the power of the families in Yuzhang City is not small, which Xu Chen has long been deeply aware of, but these families seem to have insufficient control over commerce, and only have a majority advantage in several important departments, such as food, medicinal materials, shipbuilding and other departments, and only account for a small proportion in the rest of the people's livelihood or light industry sector, which has made Xu Chen very puzzled.

Because in a traditional agrarian society, the level of industry was backward, and these handicraft sectors were almost all commodities, because except for the commodities of the imperial court, which were monopolized by the imperial court and could not be touched by private individuals, such as grain, although they were traded in large quantities, most of them were sold by peasants.

After all, in this era, only a small number of urban dwellers lived, and the peasants would have food rations in their hands, so the people who actually lived on food only accounted for a small part of the total population. Food, on the other hand, is more of a strategic reserve resource.

Therefore, the Yuzhang family, who gave up light industry, almost gave up the commerce in Yuzhang City.

Xu Chen has not found an answer to this question so far.

However, those self-made businessmen involuntarily formed a small collective because of the weakness of their individual strength, similar to the existence of the "merchant gang" in later generations, but there was no strict internal organizational form!

And this time Xu Chen's banquet is actually more than one! Xu Chen sent invitations to almost all the merchants in Yuzhang City who are not weak, and the language is very humble, and after these people came, they made a posture of inviting many people but only they came, plus these people all realized Xu Chen's purpose after Xu Chen passed down those numbers, so all the small groups concealed this matter in line with the idea of "fat water does not flow into outsiders' fields", so they successfully helped Xu Chen complete this "you must belong" drama.

In the end, Xu Chen came to "announce the world" again, and completely plugged all the loopholes in this play.

Now, Xu Chen's foreplay has been fully done, and then as long as the personnel are in place, he can start the next play!

Three days later, Autumn Water Pavilion.

Although Xu Chen's announcement was plastered all over the streets and alleys of Yuzhang City, and it was stated that everyone could come to participate in the auction.

But in the end, the vast majority of them were businessmen!

After all, it is useless for ordinary people to ask for those wastelands, and those honest and ceremonial families who cultivate and read heirlooms are ashamed of their words, even if they want to come in their hearts, they have to give up this opportunity for the sake of face.

For this reason, Xu Chen didn't prepare too much for this auction, after all, they were all businessmen who were in harmony with Israel, and it would be a bit redundant to engage in that set of fictitious ones.

Or is it more in line with the tastes of these businessmen to go straight to the topic.