Because of the harassment of the Qinglian Sect, even if Jinling City has returned to normal now, this normality is only established within the scope of Jinling City itself, and the exchanges and exchanges with the outside world cannot be compared with before.

It's like calm outside of a storm, and if there is no way to get rid of it, the calm can only be temporary.

Because of this reason, this has led to an extreme shortage of materials in Jinling City, even if Guo Renjie has thought of a lot of ways, but for Jinling City, which has a large number of people, it still seems a drop in the bucket. And one of the most scarce materials is medicinal materials.

As one of the commonly used materials, medicinal herbs themselves have high profits. And if you encounter troubled times, it will be a huge profit! Although the imperial court had its own reserves of medicinal herbs, due to the unpredictable nature of warfare, there were often insufficient reserves. Moreover, most of the medicinal herbs stored by the imperial court were used on the battlefield, and the circulation of medicinal herbs among the people could only rely on Heda herb merchants.

Because of the geographical location difference in the growth of medicinal herbs, the herb merchants in Daqing are mainly divided into two factions: north and south. In fact, not only the herb industry is divided in this way, but most of the industries in Daqing are divided according to the north and south.

There are many herb merchants in the southern school, but there are only three of them. They are Xu, Cao, and Xian, and among them, the Xu family and the Cao family are all according to the surname portal, just selling medicine, regardless of seeing a doctor. Only this "immortal" is not a big businessman, but a pharmacy called "Xiancaotang", which participates from selling medicine to seeing a doctor.

If it is a pharmacy, no matter how large the scale is, it should have an owner. But the business model of this Xiancaotang is not so, Xiancaotang basically has branches in all parts of the Yangtze River, although the shops in this place are called "Xiancaotang", but the shopkeeper of each shop is operating separately, and there is no direct relationship.

It sounds like this fairy grass hall is "independent" and has nothing to do with it, and it can't become a climate at all. But in fact, the existence of the Fairy Grass Hall is based on an organization called the "Fairy Grass Association". To put it bluntly, it is an organization established by the owners of herbal medicine shops in Langzhong all over the country. Every once in a while, there will be a president from within, and the shopkeepers who run shops in various places are also hierarchical, and there are also people in charge in large cities...... To put it simply, this Xiancaotang is like a joint-stock company, while the Xu family and the Cao family are family businesses.

The headquarters of the Xu family and the Cao family are in the land of Suzhou and Hangzhou, if it is peaceful, it will be close to a big city like Jinling, but now that the war has just begun, the merchants who are doing the medicinal herb business are all waiting and seeing.

It is definitely not an easy task for Guo Renjie to hide a hundred flowers in Jinling City to prepare these herbs. And he went to the Lin family to find Lin Mubai, and it was for this matter that he hoped that Lin Mubai could come forward as the prefect of Jinling and mobilize these herb shops and merchants in Jinling......

After all, the stable situation that has been established in Jinling with great difficulty, if there is a forced buying and selling because of this kind of thing, which leads to the uncontrollable Jinling scene that has just stabilized, it will be a bit self-defeating.

According to Baihua's meaning, she wanted Guo Renjie to prepare the herbs overnight, and after dawn, she directly transported the herbs to Yangzhou...... But according to the current form of Jinling City, it is a little difficult to do so. Guo Renjie can only prepare enough at most, and the rest will have to be unexpectedly tried to find a way in Jinling before it can be delivered later.

However, this is not an ordinary disease, but a plague! If it can't be suppressed in time, then the entire Yangzhou will be finished! It is precisely because of this that Baihua is so anxious to rush back from Yangzhou City. Therefore, Guo Renjie now has to prepare as many herbs as possible, if it is too late, even if there are more herbs, it will be in vain......

The night was already dark, but in the lobby of the Jinling Prefect's Mansion, the lights were still bright, and under the dull and oppressive atmosphere, it was the herb merchants in Jinling City, as well as the prefect Lin Mubai and Guo Renjie, the son of the Jinling Guo family.

"Lord Prefect, you have called us here in the middle of the night, I don't know what is going on?"

The peers are enemies, and except for Guo Renjie and Lin Mubai, who are sitting here, they are all in the herb business. Usually they stumble each other, but now they suddenly sit together, and they are a little embarrassed.

"Lord Prefect, I'm just a businessman, and I'm really a little unaccustomed to being in this yamen!"

That is to say, these people know Lin Mubai well, if the prefect of Jinling is still Luo Haotian, they probably don't have the courage to sit here and talk at this time!

Listening to these people's tones, Lin Mubai frowned slightly, he knew that these people had a lot of prejudices against him, especially since he was also from a business, so he called these people to this hall to demonstrate.

Listening to these people's gossip, I felt that the scene seemed to be a little out of control, and before Lin Mubai could speak, Guo Renjie coughed heavily, "Everyone, don't be embarrassed!" ”

Guo Renjie's opening immediately made everyone on the field fall silent. In the face of Lin Mubai, the prefect, they may be a little presumptuous, but in the face of Guo Renjie, they always have to give some face. Especially when Guo Renjie still has a close relationship with the Dingnan Army in Jinling City.

"Little nephew Guo, don't be rude!" Lin Mubai stood up and planned to sing a "white face". After saying to Guo Renjie, he looked at the people in the hall again, "Although I, Lin Mubai, am a merchant, but now I am also the prefect of Jinling City, and you were also sitting in the same boat as me Lin before, and then there is a place in Jinling to help you, and I, Lin Mubai, will make a move!" ”

Lin Mubai can be regarded as giving benefits. In fact, he is not the kind of old-fashioned person who eats the ancients, and such a thing as honest government is always relative. Officials and businessmen are always related...... Because the people want to eat and survive, they can't do without merchants, and if merchants want to make money, they need to rely on the power of official uniforms. A really good official is not blindly honest, nor is he blindly serving businessmen to collect money, between the two, we must find a good balance, that is, what we do is honest but not mediocre!

These words were all said by Shi Yuan to Lin Mubai, and Lin Mubai remembered them deeply. He is now trying to find such a balance!

(End of chapter)