Chapter 107: Tangled (Text)
Bad news is always accompanied by good news, and when you come back from the docks, I get the bad news that Chu Bo is seriously injured.
He had just talked about the three coastal towns of Xiacheng and Zuocheng, most of which were related to carriages and horses, and had a special supply of grease for lubrication, and then he was assassinated at the door of the oil mill guild.
Looking at the stiffened corpse, I stood for a long time without speaking, and he was still dragging a blood-soaked deed in his dying arms, but it was the unfinished business he left me, the supply agreement for bulk oil.
Borneo has the most palm forests, but it is relatively artificially cheap, so it is rich in palm wood, brooms, brushes, coats, pillows, mattresses, ropes, palm wax, fodder and other palm products, and is also the largest palm oil producer in Tokaido.
Especially in West Borneo, where oil palm is the most planted, the oil produced per hectare of oil palm is five times higher than that of peanuts and nine times higher than that of soybeans
Even in later generations, it was an important raw material for food processing and the chemical industry, such as soap, stearic acid and glycerin.
The former can only be used as lubricants, soaps, candles and other industrial and livelihood purposes, and the latter can be used as a substitute for edible oils such as vegetable oil, lard and butter.
Fuyuan Prefecture is undoubtedly the largest oil palm producer in West Borneo, and there is no one, so palm oil is also one of the important products for Roche to export profits.
From the local feudal slaves and natives, to the fields and manors of the countrymen and retainers, there are also a large number of people engaged in the work and management of related industries, which can be said to involve a wide range of people.
These carriage and horse shops are just a small beginning, and the large and complete range of handicraft guilds on the outskirts of Guangfu, as well as a large number of manufacturing yards and workshops that use water or animal power along the various river systems of the Pearl River, are the real big part of the demand for various types of oils.
If we can open up the local market in Guangzhou, we can naturally use the quotas we hold in our hands for export to win over and influence the attitude of a large number of Chinese people who were originally out of the way.
The FOB price in the port of Borneo and the CIF price of the ship sold to Canton are very different, and no one will be unable to live with the income of real money, but once they get used to this export model and the irreplaceable role I play in it.
The rest of the things will naturally fall into place, the so-called cutting off people's financial routes is like killing my parents, consciously or unconsciously trying to maintain the orthodox status and interests that I have.
This is also the basic strategy that I have discussed with Cai Liao and Chu Boai, the supporters who stand on the stage, on strengthening the outside and strengthening the inside.
Of course, this takes time to gradually manifest, and the subtle effect will not be counted on for a while.
This may also be one of the reasons why those people do not hesitate to take risks and kill people on the street? This is also like a wake-up call for me, don't underestimate the opposition forces from the domain, the dog jumped over the wall in a hurry.
The scenery is rich, the relatives are cared for, the guards are strengthened, and then someone is sent to help the coffin back to deliver the letter, by the way, he gave the uncle's family a statement, arranged the replacement manpower, and ordered all kinds of aftermath matters one by one.
"Where is Bo Fu......"
I thought about it and commanded
A moment later, I saw Bo Fu, who came out of the willow alley of the flower street and was covered with the smell of smoky fat powder in broad daylight.
"That officer of the Wu De Division, how are you doing with your friendship?"
I'm straight to the point
"That Murong Wu? ……”
Bo Fu rubbed the suspicious marks on his face and sat up straight.
"It's also a local snake, but the current position is a little unstable...... I'm working hard."
"You take this post and a thousand money tickets on my behalf, and go and visit him"
I decided.
"Just say I'm going to accept his favor......"
He nodded, and he accepted it.
"In addition, bring two groups of people from Lao Cai...... After you"
I thought about it and added.
"If he refuses without hesitation, or thinks that the odd thing is to be handled......"
"I know what to do......"
He said in a deep voice.
"I will do my best to ensure that everything he says is the truth......"
"You'd better not come forward and don't do it. Let those with local accents do the ......"
"Got it"
Bo Fu nodded again, and led the order to get up and go out.
Of course, I have a group of people who run errands at the bottom of the society, or do dirty work for me, but the level is relatively low, and they are usually attached to my anonymous industries, using the identity of gatekeepers, helpers, etc., as daily cover.
Among them, there are not only the best hunters in the former domain, but also the half-blood feudal slaves who are mixed up in Luocheng Port, and the former righteous servants who have been exiled to the domain.
However, the level they can reach is only to this extent, such as secretly threatening those petty officials and public servants who eat and take cards, and maintaining a certain degree of private deterrence against those gangs with local backgrounds, so that they will not dare to act recklessly in our industry. Or take my money and provide me with corresponding assistance and convenience.
However, if you go up a little higher, it will not play a big role, because officials and officials are different classes and worlds, and the means of doing things and the corresponding ways should also be different. It is no longer a level where simple murder and arson can be solved entirely.
As a last resort, I have no intention of challenging the ruling order at the top. But at the moment, it can be regarded as a special period, and special means to deal with it.
After a delay, I returned home, it was already the beginning of the lanterns, and I went to the next door to say hello, but the mysterious creature had already fallen asleep, so I didn't bother to bother.
A group of slaves came forward, washed my wide clothes, changed into my homely wide-waisted and open-arm pullover, and announced that the fire was served, but I felt that something was missing, but I found that I did not see the familiar petite figure
"Ami, I brought you dessert, the old nobleman's osmanthus stuffed balls......"
I shouted in the courtyard and looked for it,
Then in the study that I didn't use much, I found some movement,
Holding his head and curling up in the dark, he looked closer and found that his small shoulders were slightly shaking, but he was sobbing softly
"Did anyone bully you......
I couldn't help but be surprised.
"No one ......"
Like a quail, she continued to huddle in the shadows, making a slightly hoarse voice, which made me feel a little entangled in my heart and liver.
"I just feel like I'm useless......"
"Can't help you like Miss Yuwen......"
She lifted her little tear-stained face, with a pitiful expression like an abandoned little animal, and then quickly shrank back again.
"If I go on like this, I always feel that Ah Xia is getting farther and farther away from me......"
"Then you don't want me, and you don't want me......"
Mao, it's actually this reason, I'm a little speechless about this kind of children's plot, and suddenly remembered Cai Liao's hint today, is it related to this?
"Stupid girl......"
I thought about it and pulled her up angrily and funny
"Look at me,"
I looked directly into her red, swollen eyes
"How could I leave you, you are the precious young tame I plan to raise and eat."
"After walking through the mountains and rivers with me, the people who vowed to live and die together"
"If you want to leave, I won't let go...... Because you have too much of my privacy and secrets......"
Well, after such a messy and specious confession, she finally stopped sobbing and answered slightly.
"Unless...... Death divides us ......"
"Yes, unless death separates us......"
I looked into her eyes and said seriously, and felt that it was a little unlucky to say this, so I continued with a laugh
"But in the future, I am destined to have a lot of women's ......"
Again, I stressed to her. After all, I don't want to accidentally make it to the other extreme, and in the future, the reality gap is too big and blackened, and I will become a good ship firewood knife or something.
"I know ......"
She responded weakly, I am somewhat relieved, since I was a child, the consciousness of opening the harem and the correct mentality of virtuous internal help are really very important.
"I just feel sad......"
"Especially when Ah Xia and Yuwen are together, they seem to be happy, and they feel that they are redundant"
I smiled slightly, the little thing still tasted a little.
"There's no need to be upset......"
I continued to enlighten
"Loro is my important partner, but you are also my family, an important part of my life,"
"It's like my arms and wings......"
"Because you are still young, in my cultivation plan, I will have to wait until the near future to play more and greater uses."
"Are you really afraid of being left behind by me......"
"Then you should work harder to learn and discover your talents."
“。 Instead of hiding here, feeling sorry for yourself in the air."
"Everyone has their own place and value, and you are also irreplaceable, but you haven't discovered it yet......"
It was so easy to coax her to burst into tears and laugh, I was already sweating profusely.
Your sister's, why is it that the harem of other traversers is basically one, as long as you get your hands on it, you can plug and play, respect each other like sisters and girlfriends, neither jealous nor make love, and command the vase-shaped meat x device of the man upside down.
Hey, it's another shot, in the middle of the night, I was awakened again, I breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the head squatting in my arms with my head sleeping like a baby, and moved the pillow with a gentle movement, padding her ears.
In the middle of the night, I vaguely heard some rumbling cannons, but it woke up many people near and far, and they stayed up all night until the sky turned white.
On the upper floor of the lower city gate, there is already a busy figure.
After the towering battlement, the hot green smoke of the barrel had just dissipated, and under the action of the gunner's cleaning and heat dissipation, along the oil-filled track, the heavy and thick barrel was reset outside the firing port.
In the vast darkness that had grown out of the walls, where they had been hit, the fires and the cacophony of people had disappeared, leaving only the ignorant fragments that had been ignited, one by one extinguished in a deeper darkness.
This also represents another temptation to climb the city by night, completely destroyed in the trench under the city wall. Then there was a large lampshade on the top of the city, which was lit with fine fire oil, and the blazing fire rose up, which was reflected into a long cone by a circular mirror like a small lighthouse, which immediately illuminated a large area of darkness.
As the sergeant shook the turntable, the reflection of the cluster illuminated the spotlight, and the place where the cannon was fired could be seen, some of the potholes on the ground, and the corpses that had not yet had time to be cleaned up, in a miserable state, and some limb parts that were no longer humanoid.
The night breeze blowing from the sea, mixed with the extravagant atmosphere of the city's lights, hovered over the city wall for a long time, and also blew the soldiers of the sanitation battalions stationed on the wall, waiting for the day, clothes, armor, belt hooks, helmets, flags, swords and spikes, spears, in the fire and light are uncertain, emitting a small sound, changing the light and shadow of different lengths.
On top of a towering lookout.
"This is the first time ......"
A purple official robe was blown to hunt loudly, and Wu Xiuyuan, the envoy of the five cities, also sighed softly
"What a hard time......"
It's just that the sense of loss in his words about the opponent's name is more than the compassion in his words.
"What else to worry about......
A general next to him who was in the color of the forbidden guard's uniform said in a muffled voice
"Now the army of the king of all walks of life is congregation, and it has become a trend to ambush on all sides and encircle ......"
"Can they still run to the sky......
"It's just a few jumping clowns, the last madness, or the death struggle......"
Wu Xiuyuan nodded and said
"What the public cares about is nothing but the amount of the price and the aftermath"
"Aftermath ......"
The arch guard general was slightly stunned.
"This Kinai fertile soil is thousands of miles, Shiye Pingchuan, and it is easy to defeat thieves...... It's hard to wipe it out."
Wu Xiuyuan patiently explained to him.
"If they have a slight setback, they will be scattered, but I don't know how much work it will take to settle down......"
"Do you really want to make Jinai a scorched earth......
"So? ……”
The general subconsciously followed
"So the lord in the court, is he planning to get out of the way, lure him to gather and annihilate him......
"Otherwise, how do you think those traitors and the like can touch the capital so lightly......"
Wu Xiuyuan glanced at him with some appreciation and continued,
"As long as the upper city and the old city are safe and sound, how can you cry everywhere if you believe in a corner......
"Qing Jun side, hoe traitor, who knows, this Qing is the side of the king, and what kind of traitor is removed.
"The ban on keeping hair has always been without surrender, inducement, or negotiation, and the government and the opposition have already made a lot of excuses."
"At this moment, it is just right to kill those who take advantage of the situation and have hidden dissenting intentions, and they can be safe for decades......"
"It's just that you are from the country, and your future in the army is naturally great, so it's good to know a little bit of the inside story, and try not to get contaminated with these things......"
Many people's ending in their sleep has been decided lightly