Chapter 45: Cool Oil Turmoil
"Stand upright!" Qian Longzhou shouted the password loudly, and the five Zhancheng soldiers had different forms, some were upright, some were resting, some were turning backwards, and one was obviously upright, but he looked left and right, and he also learned from the people next to him to turn backwards.
Qian Longzhou was so angry that he was about to smoke, two days ago, the city defense lord thought he was smart and rushed into the flower hall of the princess's mansion to threaten this group of American maritime merchants, and he drew his sword and verbally humiliated him, so that the princess lost face, and directly blasted him out, completely dismissed and investigated, and planned to let Qian Longzhou directly take up the vacated post of city defense. It is absolutely impossible to be a city defense in this two-eyed situation, not to mention that the parachuted Qian Longzhou is not obedient to the crowd in this group of soldiers who occupy the city port, even if they obey their own orders, they have no idea what materials are in this city, and where is the focus of defense. Finally, at Qian Longzhou's suggestion, the princess appointed the deputy city guard as the city guard, and Qian Longzhou was only responsible for the training of recruits.
From all the passages seen in the crossing books, training indigenous recruits is definitely a terrible nightmare for the trainers who have crossed over, not to mention standing up and resting, these uneducated indigenous soldiers are simply left and right. However, the situation encountered by Qian Longzhou at this time was far worse than that encountered by those who crossed the predecessors. Just one Lizheng, these five soldiers who were selected and recognized as the most clever and intelligent have been practicing for a morning, "What is Lizheng haven't you remembered yet?" With a whip in his hand, he walked back and forth in front of the indigenous soldiers twice in a threatening manner, making them nervous to death and sweating coldly. But Qian Longzhou didn't intend to whip them with a leather whip at all, because at this time he didn't know how to use the leather whip at all, and yesterday he tried to practice practicing whipping, but he was almost hit in the face by the whip tail, this kind of weapon that requires a long time of training to be proficient in using him at this time can not play at all.
He made a training arrangement based on the passages that appeared in the novel, and originally planned to spend a day to practice and stand up for a while, but he didn't expect that this day would not be done at all, and these soldiers at this time were still ignorant and swaying left and right and couldn't figure out what they were going to do.
"Standing right is to put your legs together! Spread your feet 60 degrees apart, press your hands down against the seams of your pants, and raise your head with your chest up. He yelled loudly as he corrected the movements of the nearest guy. These five soldiers have a certain amount of Chinese ability, in fact, they can understand every word spoken by the instructor in this rampage, but they can't understand it when they put it together, and they can only look at the leather whip in the instructor's hand at this time, praying that it will not fall on themselves.
"Stand upright!" Qian Longzhou shouted to himself, and then made a fairly standard upright action. "That's it, do you see it clearly?"
The five soldiers watched his movements, you look at me, I look at yours, and shook their heads at the same time. This shaking of the head made him almost collapse, and Qian Longzhou even had the idea of taking out a gun to destroy these five people in his heart at this time.
Angry, he yelled at the five soldiers: "Keep me in this position, no lunch, and if I can't tell the difference between standing and resting in the afternoon, then I won't be allowed to eat dinner!" Anyway, when to figure out when to eat! ”
At noon, he cooked a table of food for himself, and then brought it to the five indigenous soldiers who were standing in a military posture and began to eat. This trick is enough to say, if it is those pig-like meals on weekdays, these five soldiers will pass by standing up. But at this time, Qian Longzhou had a strong catering supply from the princess, and Nanyang was originally a spice producer, and there were a lot of spices in the kitchen, plus he was a high-end foodie who could cook a few good dishes, so when this table of dishes was placed next to the five soldiers, the aroma was directly stunned, and two legs were lying on the side as soon as they were weak.
"Stand up! Stand up for me! He punched and kicked the soldiers back to their previous military posture. Wait for me to check them one by one, and put the wrong ones in the back of the line, and only the right ones can eat! ”
"You! The first! Come here! The soldier hurried over. Attention! ”
I don't know if it was the smell of food that promoted the development of their brains, and suddenly the soldier snapped upright, very standard.
"Take a break!"
The soldier looked at him blankly, Qian Longzhou made a pause movement, and then shouted another password, which made him wonder that with the help of the smell of food, these five soldiers actually got all the five soldiers right at the first inspection.
"Strange," looking at the five soldiers around the table eating the meal they had just cooked, Qian Longzhou was very strange at this time, are these guys really stupid or pretending to be stupid? He couldn't help tiptoeing to the left and right, and in the distance the field he had chosen in the harbor was being leveled, and a group of local laborers were wielding their inferior tools and working on it. A few hired women in the port guard were wrapping the cool oil in small oil paper packets one after another, and the special smell of the cool oil had already permeated several streets in the vicinity at this time, and many merchants were surrounding the guard, trying to inquire about the origin and sales of this cool oil.
He once again recalled the sales strategy given by Gu Qingqian - open sales, isn't this a joke? This kind of thing is cheap and useful, and those merchants who sell it openly don't go up and round it up and then hoard it? Even if Dongfang Port sends it batch after batch, isn't this going to be swallowed up by this black hole? He has seen a lot of businessmen chasing profits, and there are a lot of businessmen to do inhuman things such as black-hearted cotton gutter oil in later generations, and this cool oil is really nothing.
However, as one of the local business representatives, he can only do it according to the instructions of the Ministry of Trade, anyway, this thing is not very valuable in the first place, these medicinal materials are really a lot near Dongfang Port, I heard that Sun Wenqing also has a few acres of land on his brother's farm to grow herbs. However, these three grams of cool oil are still sold for one or two to those merchants, and every day they are sold in quantities, with a limit of ten copies per person, which breaks the monopoly of local merchants to a certain extent, but scalpers are really ubiquitous. In the past two days, the number of people queuing has increased significantly, and some people have cut the queue inside, or warned the people not to come to buy them from a distance, or they have hired a large group of family members to line up here, which has caused the people to complain.
"Sir!" A child beside Qian Longzhou ran over while shouting, "I have inquired clearly, the merchant who is now forcibly buying cool oil outside is Zhuchengji, and the shopkeeper Lin Zhennan is sitting in a teahouse a street away." ”
"Oh," Qian Longzhou nodded, touching his chin with his right hand, "As I expected, I knew that the Zhucheng Ji would definitely not be peaceful." Okay, these twenty coppers are for you, so you can go play first. He met this child at a bankrupt local merchant's house, and he took a fancy to the child's clever eyes at a glance, and knew that this child must be very clever and suitable for finding out the news, so he gave the merchant's family a sum of money and accepted the child as an apprentice. Because the child's small size is not easy to attract attention, he is a good hand at inquiring about news or something, and he was born in a businessman, and his family has also taught arithmetic and literacy, and he is also a little knowledgeable, so he decided to train this child.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but laugh happily, turned his head and walked to the dining table to eat something, when he approached, he couldn't help but be stunned on the spot, not to mention the leftovers on the table, every bowl was empty, not even a few drops of soup left, I don't know how these soldiers ate so cleanly, "I'll go!" I haven't eaten it yet! ”
At this time, in the teahouse a street away, Lin Zhennan was sitting at the table, a pot of tea was placed on the table, he was sipping the tea in the teacup, and he was proudly looking at the door of the guard house that was regarded as an American store in the distance. There was a long table at the door, and behind it sat a few guys, selling the cool oil that had just been packed. He was originally annoyed in order to offend the American maritime merchants on the dock, thinking that the American maritime chamber of commerce was looking for agents in other merchants to sell cool oil that could be used as a luxury product, who knows if these Americans are not brains, not only do not monopolize, but sell it openly to everyone, although the supply is limited, but anyone can buy it, and the price is only one pack or two. The price was so incredible to him that he quickly rescued himself from his deep remorse for offending the Americans, and let all his family members line up with their silver. Although there are a lot of goods on hand in the past two days, other merchants also use this method to quietly stock up on goods, not to mention that so many people are also queuing up to buy, and they may not even be able to buy it if they go a little later every day. So at the suggestion of his housekeeper, today his guards were also sent out to stop these ordinary people and other merchants who went to buy cool oil outside a street, and they were not allowed to approach, and their own families lined up in front of the guard to buy cool oil.
At this time, his heart is now very happy, because of the anxiety of offending the American maritime merchants was completely thrown out of the clouds, two days ago his own family queued up to get a lot of cool oil, if like today, monopolize the Americans to buy goods for two days, you can prepare half a shipload. When the time comes, it will definitely make a lot of money to load it on the merchant ship heading south and sell it to Clovhan's gang of rich dirt buns, and when he thinks of this, he already has a lot of silver ingots flying around in front of him.
Unfortunately, at this time, he had not yet verified the color of the silver ingots flying in front of his eyes, but out of the corner of his eye, he saw an American approaching. The Americans were all dressed in green cardigans, black boots on their feet, and their hair was very short-shaved. The American walked over unhurriedly, walked to his desk in his surprised gaze, and then sat down on the stool opposite him, and bowed his hand to him, "Shopkeeper Lin, don't come to harm?" ”