"What's wrong? Xiaoxian, am I not right? Cen Shaobai looked at Lu Xiaoxian in surprise.

Wei Xianyun smiled: "If I guess correctly, Xiao Xian is thinking about how to use this secret recipe to open up the situation in Luzhou!" ”

"Or the gentleman understands me!" A smile appeared on Lu Xiaoxian's face, "Brother Cen, the rouge fragrance lotion is made at the Dacaotan Racecourse, so as not to be detected and leak the secret recipe." The finished product is put away first, and there is no rush to sell it to various places. ”

"Why is that?" Cen Shaobai became more and more puzzled, and didn't understand why Lu Xiaoxian didn't make money with a lot of money.

Lu Xiaoxian didn't answer Cen Shaobai, and changed the topic: "Brother Cen, you tell Bai Zongyuan's business in Luzhou again!" ”

Cen Shaobai didn't know what Lu Xiaoxian meant, but he still said patiently: "The business in Luzhou City is basically under the control of Bai Zongyuan, and it is mainly managed by Bai Zongyuan's housekeeper Zhang Chengji. Bai Zongyuan's biggest business was not in the city of Luzhou, but with the states and Turkic tribes, which accounted for at least seventy percent of his income. ”

"No wonder we used the restaurant to test him, he was so calm!" Lu Xiaoxian suddenly realized, "It turns out that Bai Zongyuan didn't take us seriously at all!" ”

Wei Xianyun asked on the side: "What kind of business does Bai Zongyuan and other states and counties and Turkic people mainly have?" ”

Cen Shaobai had a clear grasp of this, and said: "Silk, tea, lacquerware, ironware, wine, and traditional Chinese medicine were bought from the southern states, and these things were sold to the Turks, and then livestock, leather goods, and jewelry were bought from the Turks, and finally these goods were sold to the southern states. This one in and one out, the price difference alone is several times the profit! ”

Wei Xianyun said with a solemn face: "It seems that if you want to completely defeat Bai Zongyuan, you have to intervene in these businesses." ”

"Get involved in these businesses?" Cen Shaobai smiled bitterly, "How can it be so easy, if we can intervene, we can still take our turn, and the others will already intervene!" ”

"What the hell is going on?" Lu Xiaoxian asked.

"Before Bai Zongyuan arrived in Luzhou, the Jiang family mainly traded with the Turks, and the Liu family mainly traded with the southern states of the Tang Dynasty, and the profits of the mutual market were equally divided. After Bai Zongyuan came, it was different, he ate the Jiang family and the Liu family alone, and took all the business of the two families into his own hands. The two also tried to join forces to snatch the business back, but in the end they failed. Since then, Jiang Jiao has surrendered to Bai Zongyuan, and although Liu Juren is still working against Bai Zongyuan, he can no longer shake the overall situation. ”

"Jiang Jiao?" Wei Xianyun pondered, "I don't think he's a person who admits defeat easily, if he guesses correctly, I'm afraid he's in Taoguang." ”

Cen Shaobai sighed: "Whether it's admitting defeat or Taoguang raising obscurity, in short, the current business in Luzhou is dominated by Bai Zongyuan's family." ”

Lu Xiaoxian asked again: "Brother Cen, tell me why the Jiang family and the Liu family fought back against Bai Zongyuan, so that we would not make the same mistake in the future." ”

"First of all, the customers who had cooperated with the Jiang family and the Liu family for many years suddenly cut off business contacts with them and turned to cooperate with Bai Zongyuan, and the Jiang family and the Liu family had no supply!"

Wei Xianyun judged: "It is estimated that Liang Dequan played a role in it, and those merchants did not dare to offend Liang Dequan." ”

Lu Xiaoxian asked puzzledly: "Datang has made more ideas, and it's not just these few companies that have cooperated with before, why don't they open up new sources of goods?" ”

"This is the second point, they have also tried to open up new sources of goods, but whether it is goods shipped to the Turks or goods from other southern states and counties, they will always be robbed on the way. Later, they hired a dart board bodyguard, but with little success, and in the end, no dart board was willing to protect them. And Bai Zongyuan's goods have not even encountered a single robbery, and a clear-eyed person can understand the mystery at a glance. After a few tosses, the Jiang and Liu families suffered heavy losses, and the matter was over! ”

Wei Xianyun said with emotion: "There is a mental calculation or no intention, Bai Zongyuan has a two-pronged approach, and the Jiang family and the Liu family can be undefeated!" ”

Lu Xiaoxian thought thoughtfully: "We have to set up a dart game!" ”

"Set up a dart game?" Wei Xianyun's heart moved, nodded slightly, and smiled without saying a word.

Lu Xiaoxian said without hesitation: "I'll send a letter to Mr. Long's dart head and ask him to help set up a branch of the Long's Dart Bureau in Luzhou!" ”

Cen Shaobai waved his hand and said: "They will definitely use the power of Changle Gate to rob the merchants, and I am afraid that relying on the dart game alone will not help!" ”

Wei Xianyun explained with a smile: "The Jiangdao Lord will soon bring his people to Luzhou, and his strength will be greatly enhanced at that time, and things like robbery halfway can be dealt with." ”

Lu Xiaoxian raised his eyebrows and said, "The most important thing now is how to make those merchants who do business with Bai Zongyuan agree to do business with us!" “

Wei Xianyun said meaningfully: "So, you plan to exchange the rouge developed by Yang Ke to lure those merchants to negotiate business with us." ”

"But where Liang Dequan is, how can the merchants explain?" Cen Shaobai had doubts.

Lu Xiaoxian is very confident: "Of course, they don't want to offend Liang Dequan, but businessmen have always put profits first, and if profits make it difficult for them to refuse, everything will happen." ”

"Xiao Xian!" Wei Xianyun reminded on the side, "This high-grade rouge fragrance is indeed very attractive to the merchants of the Tang Dynasty, but the Turkic side is not very interested in it, and it will not work if it only opens up one aspect!" ”

Lu Xiaoxian said confidently: "Sir, don't worry, I have already thought of something, its attraction to the Turks is no less than the attraction of Rouge Fragrance to the merchants of the Tang Dynasty!" ”

"What is it?" Cen Shaobai and Wei Xianyun asked in unison.

Lu Xiaoxian gently spit out a word: "Wine!" ”

……

On April 25, Lu Xiaoxian and Uncle Hai came to Dacaotan Racecourse again.

After the child slaves were stationed in the racecourse, Lu Xiaoxian asked Zhang Meng and Lu Xiaoyi to follow, and Lu Xiaoxian always came to see them every once in a while. Every time he comes to Dacaotan Racecourse, Lu Xiaoxian always has a feeling of relaxation and joy.

The twenty-three child slaves were much stronger, and Lu Xiaoxian would always talk and laugh with them when he saw them, and never put on any show. The child slaves were all half-grown children, and their hearts were undecided, and they soon fell in love with Lu Xiaoxian, the new master. They already faintly felt in their hearts that their future lives would be inseparable from the master in front of them.

After visiting the child slaves, Lu Xiaoxian, Zhang Meng and Lu Xiaoyi walked on the green grass of the racecourse.

"What about the four of them?" Lu Xiaoxian asked Zhang Meng casually.

Lu Xiaoxian asked about the four strong slaves he bought by the way when he bought child slaves.

"These four have their own strengths, which is really good!" Zhang Meng was very satisfied, "Wang Maozhong because his father committed a crime, the whole family did not enter the official mansion as a slave, and he has practiced a good martial arts since he was a child; Li Yide is a slave and has a good archery skill; The other two were Fan, Suba was a captive of the Turks and was good at raising horses; Zal is a frontier people who were plundered from Tibet, and he is a living map, as long as he has visited the places he has visited, he will never forget them. ”

Zhang Meng said in such detail that Lu Xiaoxian couldn't help but feel a little moved in his heart, he stopped and looked at Zhang Meng quietly.

Zhang Meng looked at Lu Xiaoxian in surprise: "Xiaoxian, what's wrong with you?" ”

Lu Xiaoxian sighed and said, "Do you remember the days when we were in Wangyun Mountain? ”

"Of course I do!" Zhang Meng was very strange why Lu Xiaoxian asked this question.

"I was tired at the time, but I didn't need to think too much!" Lu Xiaoxian looked at the sky in the distance, "Although life is better now, my heart is very tired." We have no way back, we can only go on like this! ”

"Xiaoxian, what do you want to say?" Zhang Meng stared at Lu Xiaoxian worriedly.

"What I want to say is that if you want not to be bullied in this world, you must have strength!" Lu Xiaoxian said loudly, "These child slaves are the first step for us to increase our strength, and there will be a second and third steps in the future!" Do you understand? ”

After listening to Lu Xiaoxian's words, Zhang Meng understood Lu Xiaoxian's thoughts, and he nodded and said, "I understand!" ”

"So, here I can only give it to the most trusted people!" Lu Xiaoxian stared at Zhang Meng, "This is the foundation of our future, please!" ”

Zhang Meng said emotionally: "Xiaoxian, here, there are still these people, you can rest assured to leave it to me, how you arrange me to do it, I will not let you down!" ”

Lu Xiaoxian patted Zhang Meng's shoulder heavily, turned his head to Lu Xiaoyi and said, "You and Zhang Meng both stay!" ”

Lu Xiaoyi was about to say something, but Lu Xiaoxian waved his hand and said, "I know what you want to say, you can rest assured of my safety, you just need to teach them well with peace of mind." ”

……

Although Luzhou City is not as good as Chang'an, it is very spacious, the pedestrians in the street market, shoulder to shoulder, the river is endless, there are businessmen doing business, there are gentry who watch the street scene, there are fast catchers on horseback, there are hawkers, there are family members of everyone who sit in a sedan chair, there are monks who carry baskets, there are tourists from other places who ask for directions, there are children in the streets and alleys who listen to stories, there are children of wealthy families who drink heavily in restaurants, there are disabled old people who beg on the edge of the city, men and women, old and young, Shinong and industrial, three religions and nine streams, everything is prepared, it is as lively as visiting the temple fair in the New Year.

On both sides of the neighborhood there are tea houses, wine shops, foot shops, butcher shops, temples, public houses and so on. There are silk and satin, jewelry and spices, incense paper horses and so on in the shops, in addition there are medical outpatient clinics, car repair, fortune telling, face repair and plastic surgery, all walks of life, everything, the door of the big store also tie "Cailou Huanmen", hang the market banner, solicit business, it is really lively and extraordinary.

"Uncle Hai, this should be the nineteenth, right?" Lu Xiaoxian wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked at the alley in front of him and asked.

If you want to make good wine, you must find connoisseurs, just like Yang Ke is an expert in rouge. Lu Xiaoxian had no shortcuts, so he had to take such a stupid method, he asked Yangu to mark all the large and small wineries in Luzhou City, and inspect them one by one.