Chapter 120: Establishing a Partnership
Guo Zhiyuan's remarks can only be regarded as rotten street remarks in modern terms, which company doesn't shout slogans to build a brand, but listening to Sun Chuan's ears, it is simply a twilight drum and morning bell, patting his thigh hard, and he is convinced: "High!" It's really high, if you go to business, I'm afraid that I and other businessmen will drink the northwest wind! ……”
Guo Zhiyuan laughed and said: "I said that no one can make all the money in the world, if you want to make money, you must cooperate with others, only by letting others make money first can you make more money, and this official ambition is not in business, so I prefer to cooperate with Sun Lao......"
Sun Chuan nodded knowingly and said, "My lord, the old man has been taught!" I am more than willing to cooperate with adults! By the way, I don't know when the road building business that the adults said before will start? The old man is a little impatient! ……”
Guo Zhiyuan shook his head and said with a wry smile: "The time is not yet ripe, although we have won a big victory this time, there are still more than 400 bandits who escaped, and the bandit leader Drill Mountain Leopard has not been captured, plus other bandit forces, the bandits' power is still very large, this time we are also lucky to learn about the bandit nest of the Drill Mountain Leopard, the raid can win, now the bandits have defense, and it is difficult to rely on sneak attacks, if we fight head-on, our strength and the bandits are too far apart, it is difficult to win, and now we start to build roads, but give the bandits a chance to take advantage of, Let them wreak havoc, so we have to wait for the right time......"
Sun Chuan also frowned and nodded: "Yes, this matter is really tricky, these bandits come and go like the wind, and there are many people, it is really difficult to deal with, a small group of bandits is easy to say, but the three major bandit forces of the Diamond Mountain Leopard, the poisonous king bee, and the rattlesnake do not even dare to provoke the old man...... That's it, the adult is resourceful, and he must be able to come up with a strategy to suppress the bandits, and the old man will not worry about this idleness, in a word, the old man absolutely supports the adult's plan to suppress the bandits, ask for money to give money, and ask people to give people! ……”
What Guo Zhiyuan wants is Sun Chuan's words, he gave up such a big benefit of the four-wheeled carriage to Sun Chuan, if Sun Chuan still has the previous attitude, then he will have to consider changing partners, haha laughed and said: "With Sun Lao's words, the official will have confidence, please rest assured Sun Lao, I will definitely defeat the bandits again, and our road construction business will soon be on the agenda!" ……”
The two exchanged a few polite words, and then Sun Chuan finally remembered his other doubt, glanced at Bai Du next to Guo Zhiyuan, and said in a long tone: "Bai Xian's nephew, you and Lord Guo are this?" ……”
Bai Du naturally knew what Sun Chuan meant, and he had a good relationship with the Sun family, so naturally there was no need to hide his current relationship with Guo Zhiyuan, and confessed: "Before, the little nephew was not able to measure himself, and the pearl of rice grains also tried in vain to compete with Haoyue, fortunately, Lord Guo was magnanimous and did not pursue the little nephew's previous reckless behavior, so that the little nephew could follow the left and right, and it was wise for Uncle Sun to cooperate with Lord Guo, and the little nephew was also very happy for his uncle......
Sun Chuan knows the background of whiteness, and he also knows the ability of whiteness, so he has always supported whiteness, and now he heard that even whiteness was accepted by Guo Zhiyuan, he couldn't help but feel a little overwhelmed, and felt more and more that Guo Zhiyuan was a little unfathomable. He was born as a pirate, so he naturally has a natural wariness of people in the government.
Guo Zhiyuan looked at Sun Chuan's demeanor and became more and more sure that Sun Chuan had indeed been a pirate, and now it is likely that he still has contact with pirates at sea, and he will not break it, he smiled and said: "Brother Bai really exalts me, I just usually like to read some miscellaneous books, so I have some knowledge, by the way, speaking of which, I suddenly remembered that I saw in a miscellaneous book note that there is a kind of book called ' Rubber's things, like gum and the like, are very elastic, I don't produce them in the Ming Dynasty, only in the distant barbarian continent (note: guide America), if you can find this thing wrapped in the wheels of the carriage, even if it is driving on the mountain road, it is like walking on the ground, without bumping, and it can reduce the wear and tear of the wheels, and can greatly increase the speed of the carriage......"
When Sun Chuan heard this, he was excited again, and said in surprise: "There is such a magical thing? The old man knows some Franc machine merchants who have been to the Barbarian Continent, so he may be able to inquire and see if he can find this thing......
Guo Zhiyuan was waiting for Sun Chuan's words, and said happily: "Sun Lao has a wide range of friends, if there are unknown strange things from other places, you might as well bring them to the official, maybe it can bring some windfall to Sun Lao!" ……”
Sun Chuan has now seen Guo Zhiyuan's magic, and nodded again and again: "The old man will order him to go down when he goes back, and let my fellows in the carriage and horse shop collect all kinds of unknown things from them when they meet the Franco merchants, and then ask the adults for advice......"
After this conversation, the cooperative relationship between Guo Zhiyuan and the Sun family was completely stabilized, Sun Chuan set up a sumptuous banquet on the house to entertain Guo Zhiyuan, and the guests and hosts enjoyed themselves at the banquet, Guo Zhiyuan also made an exception and drank a lot of wine in order to improve the relationship with Sun Chuan, and finally got drunk and could only be helped back to the county government residence by Xu Guangqi and Bai Du.
Guo Zhiyuan knew that Zhang Cheng must have something very important to report when he came over at this time, so he got up and put on his clothes, and summoned Zhang Cheng directly in the bedroom.
Sure enough, as soon as Zhang Cheng came in, he said excitedly: "My lord, you asked the villain to choose people from among the bandit captives who were recruited, I have already found more than 20 suitable candidates, all of whom are alert and loyal people, and they have provided an important news to the villain. ……”
"Who is it?!" A cold light flashed in Guo Zhiyuan's eyes, and he stood up and asked sharply!
"They don't know who it is, the ones we have incorporated this time are all Xiao Luoluo, and it is impossible for them to know about things that are too confidential......" Zhang Cheng scratched his head and said.
After talking for a long time, it means not saying it! Guo Zhiyuan glared at Zhang Cheng unhappily.
Zhang Cheng hurriedly added: "However, they said that the Tuntian Army of the Patrol Inspection Department would also send them a letter when they encountered merchants with valuables and insufficient guard strength, asking the Diamond Mountain Leopard to take people down the mountain to slaughter fat sheep, and then share the spoils together, this matter is also likely to be revealed by the Tuntian Army......
"Chen Xiaodong?!" Guo Zhiyuan frowned, shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be Chen Xiaodong, with his character, he can't do such a heartbreaking thing!" ……”
"Who could he be?" Zhang Cheng scratched his head and said.
Guo Zhiyuan stood up suddenly, laughed and said, "This is no longer important!" I'm worried about how to defeat the bandits again, and now it's delivered to the door! ……”
(Note: Rubber was discovered in South America by the Italian navigator Columbus as early as 1493 A.D., and brought back to Europe, but it was not until 1839 that the American Goodyear (Charles Goodyear) invented the vulcanization method of rubber, which solved the problem of raw rubber becoming sticky and brittle, so that rubber has high elasticity and toughness, and rubber really entered the stage of industrial use, and China officially introduced rubber until 1904)