Xinmu Town, a town even more remote than Qingshan Town, was hardly affected even in the previous war between Luo'an County and Guang'an County.

Far from the main transportation routes, surrounded by diplomatic mountains, this town has been forgotten invariably.

However, the big people above will forget this town, but the people in Qingshan Town next door will not forget them.

As early as half a year ago, people in Qingshan Town began to come to purchase a large number of wooden barrels and other large quantities of wood for construction.

And today, the boss of Qingshan Town, Lin Ziran, arrived in Xinmu Town directly with hundreds of troops.

The people from Qingshan Town, if it is an ordinary caravan or something, it is not surprising, the people of Xinmu Town are used to this, and even look forward to and welcome the arrival of the caravan from Qingshan Town, because in this way they can sell the wooden oil barrels to make more money.

But now, instead of caravans, hundreds of soldiers in military uniforms came.

This made the people of Xinmu Town wonder and even panic.

In the town of Shinki, the local town guard, several officials, and gentry all climbed to the low top of the city and looked at the army outside the city.

"My lord, what shall we do now? Really open the gates and let them in? An official looked worried and said: "The soldiers and bandits are like combs, if they are really allowed to enter the city to garrison, they don't know how to harm us in the future!" ”

However, at this time, a gentry on the side said: "People have come to garrison with official military orders, can we refuse?" The people's supplementary brigade is a regular army, not a local militia group, and they have the right to be stationed in any place. ”

"Besides, if you want to resist, the town's guards can stop them?"

"If you do this kind of indifferent resistance, I'm afraid everyone will be unlucky after the army enters the city!"

After the gentleman spoke, an official on the side glared at him angrily: "Don't you just want to get more barrel orders from Tsingshan Oil Company!" ”

The gentry did not deny this in the slightest: "Yes, if Lord Lin is allowed to enter here, I will indeed be able to get more orders for wooden barrels, it is me who is not radical, even you can get a lot of benefits, now Qingshan Town wants everything, grain, wood, even if it is not processed into barrels and furniture, we can make a lot of money by buying wood directly." ”

"In the past, we had to compete with other people, but think about it, if we were connected to Qingshan Town, who do you think Lord Lin would give the list to?"

"If you don't give it to us, do you want to give it to the merchants in other towns?"

"Although we have always been on the side of Xinmu Town, everyone should also know that doing business this year is not what it was fifty years ago, as long as you have good goods, as long as you are cheap, you can get orders!"

"Now all feudal towns will only support the merchants under their own rule, and even deliberately raise the taxes at the checkpoint to prevent some goods from other places from entering, especially the timber industry in our town, and several other surrounding towns are not without timber, why does Qingshan Town always purchase timber from our side instead of purchasing timber from other places."

"It's because we didn't pose a threat to Qingshan Town before!"

"And now, Tsingshan Petroleum Company has already talked to me a few days ago, and if the two towns are connected in the future, they will place more orders for us, not only for their huge oil drums, but also for carriage frames, building timber and even wood furniture."

"Think about it, what do these lists really mean?"

When the gentleman said this, he just didn't continue to speak.

The other person said: "If their list is big enough, it is enough to bring the timber industry of Xinmu Town to a new height, the merchants will make money, the people will be able to have more job opportunities, and the town will be able to collect more taxes!" ”

Shi Jinhao, the town guard of Xinmu Town, looked at everyone and sighed secretly in his heart, judging from the reactions of these people, he already knew that most of them had been bought by Qingshan Town.

That's right, it's a buy!

On the side of Qingshan Town, just throwing out a list of timber made several gentry and merchants in the town defect.

They were clearly opposed to armed resistance and unequivocally supported the stationing of the Supplementary Brigade in the town of Xinmu.

Even many officials in the town guard office maintained an attitude of approval of this.

He seems to be the most powerful town guard, but as an outsider, and at the same time, Xinmu Town has not communicated much with the outside world for a long time, resulting in great influence on the local gentry.

Especially those timber merchants, that is even more influential.

Because they control almost all of the timber industry in Xinmu Town, there are many people under their hands who eat with their wages, and it is even polite to say that the economy of Xinmu Town is supported by these timber merchants.

Even the town's guards seemed to be a militia under the town guard, but in fact they were controlled by these timber merchants.

The influence of the local timber merchants is so huge, and he, the town guard, has to consider the opinions of these timber merchants most of the time.

If these timber merchants don't support him, he will become a puppet at most in Xinmu Town.

Seeing that these timber merchants and some officials were already supporting Lin Ziran to enter the city with a large army.

Thinking of the more than 100 guards controlled by the timber merchants, even if they forcibly resisted, it was estimated that they would not be able to resist for long.

Immediately, he sighed and said, "Open the city gate and welcome the army into the city!" ”

Shinki-jin's choice succumbs.

No, this can't be said to be a yield, but the local timber merchants took the initiative to welcome Lin Ziran's arrival.

In this regard, Lin Ziran outside the city accepted it calmly.

He came with a large army, in fact, it was just for deterrence.

However, if we can not fight or not, if we do not fight, we will be able to win a military victory once we fight, but politically it is easy to cause unnecessary trouble.

So this time in Xinmu Town, Lin Ziran took an indirect approach, that is, to directly buy a few local land snakes.

It's also very simple to buy, just let Tsingshan Petroleum Company increase the timber order.

The amount of wood consumed by Tsingshan Petroleum Company is very large, first of all, a large number of wooden barrels used to transport kerosene and crude oil, and the number of these barrels is not a few hundreds, but thousands or even tens of thousands at every turn.

In addition, many of Aoyama Petroleum's buildings are also widely made of wood, and the demand for this aspect is also very large.

As for other aspects, such as horse-drawn carriages, furniture, etc., there is also a lot of wood needed.

And these timber orders did not have a clear tendency in the past, and whoever had the high cost performance would purchase whomever they wanted, but if Xinmu Town could completely invest in himself, Lin Ziran would not mind dividing part of the orders from it to Xinmu Town.

No, the gates of Shinki Town are already open!