After Fang Ling sat down in the room, Hao Tieniu went out to find Lu Bei, and after a while, Lu Bei came back, Dong Canghai and Shen Huantian also came to the house, and Hao Tieniu was outside to let out the wind.

Fang Ling opened his mouth and asked, "Brother Lu, is it safe for everyone to live now?"

Lu Bei replied: "Your Highness, please rest assured, the soldiers are all living in two inns, each with different identities, and the way of transmitting the news is also very secretive, and it has not aroused any suspicion for the time being." ”

Fang Ling knew that he was cautious, so he was relieved, the imperial city guards had a set of special training methods, especially for hiding their identities and finding out intelligence, they could clearly feel from Hao Tiepeng, the previous city guard soldier had now transformed into a bit of a professional, so he said: "Then you can tell me in detail about the current situation in Blackwood City." "The starters

Lu Bei replied: "The city lord of Blackwood City is called Yuan Ba, this person used to be the deputy general of an important pass on the border of Cai State, because he was found to have withheld military salaries and private military funds, and fled here with dozens of subordinates before being dismissed, this person is not only ruthless, but also very fond of collecting money, he came all the way to recruit his subordinates, and established this Blackwood City, and now there are more than 100 soldiers under his command, either soldiers and bandits or wanted criminals of the two countries, and many people have life lawsuits in their hands. ”

Fang Ling bowed slightly: "What about the residents in the city?"

Lu Bei replied: "There are about 200 residents in the city, and these people are also soldiers and bandits and wanted criminals, unlike soldiers, the residents here are engaged in black market transactions, according to the information we have found so far, most of these residents do not go out to rob in person, but act as middlemen, that is, the looted property from all over the country is sold through them. ”

Fang Ling narrowed his eyes slightly and said: "In this way, these people are really a bit like businessmen, they don't need to go out to rob, they only need to have connections and venues, and they can sit and collect money." ”

Lu Bei nodded and said: "According to the rules of the city, every shop in the black market can only be rented by the residents of Blackwood City, so those thieves have no way to sell things by themselves, so they can only entrust them to the residents of the city to sell." ”

Fang Ling asked, "Then how should Yuan Ba make money, it should be based on taxes, right?"

Lu Bei replied: "Exactly, there are several kinds of taxes in the city, including the cost of renting shops, transaction taxes, etc., although it is quite expensive, but these are all robbed things, whether it is a buyer, a seller or Yuan Ba, they all have their own profits." ”

Fang Ling pondered: "Has there been any progress in the identity of the buyer?"

Lu Bei took out a list and said: "There are a lot of buyers in the city, and their identities are also very secretive, but we still found out the identities ♀ of some buyers from some clues, in addition to the magnates of the local states and counties on the border of Cai, of course, there are also some magnates in my country." ”

Fang Ling took the list and took a look, and found that it contained the identities of more than a dozen buyers, and there were also names and quantities of goods they bought and sold, as well as the dates of entering and leaving the city, whereabouts, etc., he secretly appreciated, worthy of being a guard in the imperial city, he could inquire about so many people in a month, and after reading the list carefully, he smiled and said: "Sure enough, they are all local magnates, and there seem to be people in several states and counties around this king's fiefdom Identity. ”

After he put the list away, he said: "According to the rules of Blackwood City, outsiders are not allowed to sell in person, so there must be a middleman for the items looted by the Thirteen Murderers, is there any clue about this?"

Lu Bei shook his head and said: "There is no news about this for the time being, and it is not easy to hear more news, the population here is very tight, and if it is suspected, it will be wasted." ”

Fang Ling also nodded clearly and said: "Safety first, the more this time, the more you can't rush for quick success." "Update the fastest mobile terminal: ://

Dong Canghai asked, "Your Highness, what should we do now?"

Fang Ling flicked his finger and said: "If you want to ensure the safety of the fiefdom, you must not only solve the problem of Shicheng, the existence of these border towns has always been a hidden danger, but what we have to do now is to get more reliable information, if you want to get these news, you must have channels, and to get the news, then the best identity is to be a black businessman." ”

"Your Highness means that we are also pretending to be buyers?" Dong Canghai said in surprise.

Fang Ling shook his head and said, "No, the buyers are all local magnates, and these people are not on the same line as Yuan Ba and the local residents, so they must become sellers." Moreover, we are not approaching ordinary middlemen, preferably official ones. Brother Lu, is there any way to directly contact some of Yuan Ba's leaders?"

Lu Bei said: "There is a trading place, which is directly managed by Yuan Ba's subordinates, and anyone can sell goods, but it must be quite expensive. ”

"Oh, there is such a place?" Fang Ling asked with interest.

Lu Bei nodded and said, "That place is called the Fluttering Field." ”

Fang Ling understood, and continued to ask, "How about the price of 'medicine' materials here?"

Lu Bei thought for a while and said: "The prices are much cheaper than those in the outside market, if you talk about it, I'm afraid you can buy five or six achievements." ”

"Fifty or sixty percent? That's really too cheap, wouldn't it be a big profit to sell it in China from here?" Dong Canghai said in surprise.

Fang Ling smiled slightly: "This is also normal, many of the industries in those noble families have special purchase channels, so that they can earn a lot of silver." So, what if it's more expensive 'medicine'?"

"The same is true, because everything here is circulated through improper channels, and it can be said that it is a safe and profitable business, so even if it is a rare treasure, the price is much lower than that in the market. Lu Bei replied.

Fang Ling had a plan in his heart, picked up a pen and paper and wrote down a list, then took out a few silver tickets of one thousand taels, handed them to Lu Bei to buy some things, and kept the excess for the soldiers to pay here, and then returned to the room.

After a while, Lu Bei bought back the items on the list, which were eight 30-year-old ginseng plants, and in order not to arouse suspicion, the eight ginseng plants were purchased in three places.

When Fang Ling heard the price of the "medicine" materials, he secretly sighed that it was worthy of the black market, the things were so cheap that people couldn't believe it, the 30-year-old ginseng could be sold for sixty or seventy taels of silver in the outside market, but it was only sold for thirty taels here, and the eight plants were not even three hundred taels after being bought, but if they were bought according to the market price, it would cost twice as much money, and it was no wonder that the local forces flocked to it and became a veritable seller of stolen goods. (Initial launch, domain name (remember _ three.)

More than 300 taels of silver, or a few thousand taels of silver tickets, was only a small part of the money brought by Fang Ling, and he had asked Dong Canghai to sell some jewels to get 100,000 taels of silver tickets before he set off.

Although there are slight differences in the style of silver tickets in each country, the same thing is that they are all issued by the state, managed by the Ministry of Households, and can be exchanged for real money and silver at any time in local official institutions, so in the border areas of the two countries, the silver tickets of Chu and Cai can be used.

The silver bills circulating in various countries are generally divided into two types, one is the small banknote, which is divided into one tael, three taels, five taels, ten taels and fifty taels, and the other is the large banknote, which is divided into one hundred taels, three hundred taels, five hundred taels, one thousand taels and five thousand taels.

Whether it is a small banknote or a large banknote, in addition to the number written on the face of the bill, it is also printed with the year name of each country, and its printing method is special, whether it is the formula or the process is completely in the hands of the central authority, and the local government cannot forge it.

Therefore, although 100,000 taels of silver tickets sounds like a lot, in fact, taking 5,000 taels is only 20 tickets.

After Fang Ling was left alone in the room, he began to fuse the "medicine" materials≡ after cultivating to entering the realm of rigid power, Fang Ling's Sun Melting Moon Solution technique became more proficient, and the increase in the power of the sun naturally made the ability to fuse stronger, thus reaching the realm of three fusions.

Triple fusion, that is, the degree to which matter can be fused is superimposed three times, sounds like just one more time than secondary fusion, but the effect achieved is very different.

Take 30-year-old ginseng as an example, first divide four ginseng into two groups and fuse them once to obtain two 60-year-old ginseng plants, and then, the obtained 60-year-old ginseng can be fused twice to obtain a 100-year-old ginseng plant.

However, the tertiary fusion requires the simultaneous use of eight ginseng plants, which is twice as large as the secondary fusion.

First, the eight strains of ginseng are divided into four groups, and each group is fused once to obtain four 60-year-old ginseng plants, and then, the four 60-year-old ginseng strains are divided into two groups for secondary fusion to obtain two 120-year-old ginseng strains, and then the two are fused three times to obtain 240-year-old ginseng.

For example, the price of 10-year-old ginseng is only 6-10 taels, the price of 20-year-old ginseng is 25 taels to 35 taels, and the high-quality ones can even be sold for 50 taels.

At the beginning, Fang Ling relied on the difference in price to make a lot of silver, thus opening up the joints in the palace.

According to the market market, the price of 30-year-old ginseng is about 60 or 70 taels, and the price of 100-year-old ginseng is about 15 taels of gold, however, 200-year-old ginseng is at least 45 taels of gold or 4500 taels of silver, and its age is twice that of 100-year-old ginseng, but the price is 3 times, which is more than 70 times higher than the price of 30-year-old ginseng!

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