Chapter 475: Jiangnan Times (II)
"The general is right, maybe the slave family should really ask Xiao Wan for their opinion. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info" Liu Ru sighed in dismay, she should have been happy to find a solution that could help her sisters solve their predicament, but for some reason she was not happy at all now.
It's not a good feeling to pull those hard-working sisters out of a predicament and only to get them into more trouble! With mixed feelings, Liu Ru was full of sorrow, and looked at Liu Fan with complicated eyes, "General, it's not too early, since the method is already there, it's time to leave!" ā
"Hmm!" Liu Fan bowed slightly, "If so, you don't have to worry too much, some things are not as bad as you think." You go back and ask for their opinions first, if it really doesn't work, we'll find another way! ā
Liu Ru stood up lazily and stretched her slender figure, showing her snow-white fragrant shoulders and slender waist in front of Liu Fan's eyes one by one. Looking at Liu Fan's stunned appearance, he glanced at Liu Fan coquettishly and said, "Go back and try it!" See you back, Shogun! ā
"Alas!" After sending Liu Ruis away, Liu Fan sighed a little helplessly, and then turned around and returned to the study.
In the study, Xu Wenjue teased with a smile, "There is a big beauty in his arms, why is Jimin still sullen?" Do you think I'm disturbing your good deeds here? I'm so sorry! ā
said sorry, but Liu Fan obviously saw that Xu Wenjue did not look embarrassed at all, and his face was full of playful abuse. The corners of Liu Fan's mouth twitched, and he said angrily, "I know that you still dare to say it if you disturb me, if you weren't here to get in the way, maybe I would have hugged the beauty a long time ago!" Say, what's the matter with coming to me this time? ā
Xu Wenjue pursed his lips disdainfully and said, "I have already understood, Jimin, you are just talking about it." If you really want to do it, you will be afraid. Typical colored hearts have no color gall! ā
When Liu Fan heard this, his forehead was bruised, and he snorted angrily, "If you have something to say, just let it go!" I'm leaving, I'm leaving, I still have a lot of things to deal with, but I don't have time to talk to you here! ā
"Uh" After getting along for such a long time, from the initial disdain to the present, Xu Wenjue's attitude towards Liu Fan has gradually become both respectful and awe-inspiring, and as soon as Liu Fan got angry, Xu Wenjue softened instead. Rubbing his hands together in embarrassment, he laughed twice, and Xu Wenjue flattered, "Jimin, I have two news here, one good news and one bad news, which one do you want to hear first?" ā
"Bad news!" Liu Fan said decisively
"Alright then!" Xu Wenjue sighed helplessly, "The bad news is that the people we have been arrested have not been fished out yet, and Zhang's father-in-law said that the resistance is too great, and the local government will not release people, and if you insist on fishing people, it will cost a lot of money." Father-in-law Zhang wants to ask you, is this money from the families of those who were arrested? Or will it be up to you to pay for it? ā
"This old eunuch who wants money to die!" Liu Fan scolded angrily, "I don't think it's that the resistance is too great, but that he is reluctant to pay this money!" Maybe this old guy wants to take this opportunity to make a fortune! Hmph, rat-eyed guy! ā
"Alas!" Xu Wenjue said helplessly, "You don't care if he's greedy for money or not, the main thing now is how to solve the problem." These days, those family members are going crazy, running to my side every day. Lao Tzu is also about to be driven crazy by them. If you don't think of a way, I'll let them find you!" ā
"Don't worry!" Liu Fan muttered, "We must give this money, but not now." Those people have already been arrested, and even if they are released now, it will not do much to us. You might as well wait for the next three or five days, and then try to get them out after we have completely suppressed the two Huai salt merchants. The price we will have to pay will be much smaller than it is now. ā
"That makes sense!" Xu Wenjue nodded quite approvingly and said, "Then let's drag it first, and let that old guy suffer, so that he can know that our money is not so easy to take!" ā
"You've got all the bad news, so it's time to tell me what the good news is!" Liu Fan wondered
When Xu Wenjue heard this, he immediately raised his eyebrows and smiled, "The good news is really good, thanks to you." Since the Jiangnan Times, where you and Liu Ru cooperated, became popular, the two Huai salt merchants have completely stopped cooking. Now the common people of the whole Jiangnan are cursing these black-hearted profiteers, and the people don't buy those coarse salts after knowing their true colors. In the past few days, their business has been getting worse and worse day by day, and now they are basically relying on continuous price reductions to maintain their bleak maintenance. The price of coarse salt has dropped from 200 wen per catty at the beginning to less than 100 wen now. I think they won't be able to last a few days even if it's this hundred! Jimin, you say, isn't this good news? ā
Liu Fan rolled his eyes and said, "The expected things are just appearances. The two Huai salt merchants are actually not as weak as they imagined. Aside from their local influence, the fact that their salt-producing areas in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces alone is enough to offset their lack of competitiveness. As long as they are ruthless and fight us to the end, it is not yet known who will kill the deer! ā
Xu Wenjue said dissatisfiedly: "Jimin, don't grow up with others' ambition to destroy your own prestige, okay!" How can the situation be as serious as you say? Even if they occupy a good position? Now that they're on the back foot, we have a chance to take them down! ā
"Hmm!" When Liu Fan heard this, he suddenly became a little arrogant, and said loudly, "The great man said that it is advisable to chase after the poor with the remaining bravery, and not to become a scholar overlord!" Now that they are at a disadvantage, a good chance to officially beat the Reservoir Dogs! Let's not give up! Brother Xu, these people, you step up to contact more salt merchants, as long as they are willing to abandon the secret and openly join us, then we can also agree to them according to the conditions of the other joining forces before. Only by constantly dividing and disintegrating the forces of the two salt merchants can we finally defeat them. The ancients said that those who have attained the Tao have much help, and those who have lost the Tao have little help, and now we are the one who represents justice! ā
"Representing justice!?" Xu Wenjue looked at Liu Fan dumbfounded, "Jimin, we are just bad people who steal other people's jobs, how can we represent justice in the blink of an eye?" You've turned a little too big! ā
"Uh," Liu Fan glanced at Xu Wenjue speechlessly and said, "I'm a metaphor, do you understand the metaphor?" Don't worry about justice, you just need to know that you have to put pressure on them! Hurry up and do what you have to do! ā