Chapter 148: Closed
On the afternoon of the next day, an urgent city lord's order was issued from the Red Leaf City City Lord's Mansion, stirring up this pool of muddy water in the Far East even more unclear.
"The main materials are temporarily sold at the guide price, and the price refers to the average price of the past month?" Benjamin took the "Guiding Opinions on the Temporary Price of Materials" that had just been transmitted from Red Leaf City through the small material transmission channel, but he didn't see how nervous he was, but smiled.
"Was this Morey instructed by Lady Workin, and he also came up with this trick?"
"My lord, are we?" The housekeeper was a little worried, the family could invest a lot of financial and material resources in this round, and if the Joseph family was stopped now, the loss would be great.
"He Morey can't even control Red Leaf City, and he still cares about us? Let those guys in Momiji City make trouble on their own! ”
Red Leaf City, the southern business district.
Tonight's business district was particularly lively, and they were still a little complaining about Morey's resettlement of them all from all corners of the city to the southern district, but now they secretly thanked Morey.
Otherwise, it is like now that they can openly connect each other and hold a drinking party.
"President Rune, how are you doing today?"
Rune, a big grain merchant with a big belly, turned around, but it was a middle-aged man with a slightly sharp nose.
"It's average, and it's only the sales of the previous month, which is far worse than Sir Broel's shop for your alchemy potion!"
Sir Blore smiled: "Where, where, no matter how much we earn, we will work for Lord Elvis, and whatever you earn is for yourself." ”
"Humble, humble!"
In a harmonious atmosphere of flattery and mutual applause, a person's voice suddenly came coldly, which made the atmosphere of the scene solidify.
"What do you think of the emergency order of the City Lord's Mansion in the "Guiding Opinions on the Temporary Price of Materials"?"
This is a middle-aged businessman, and it seems that he still wants to fight for his eyeballs through this kind of banquet and show his existence.
"Views? What do you think! He, Morey, really forgot how this Red Leaf City prospered! Without us transporting red leaf wood to him, Red Leaf City would be where it is today! ”
An angry voice came from the middle, and the tandem of the top wealthy merchants in Red Leaf City this time in terms of price increases, the big merchant of Red Leaf Wood, Malov, stood up.
With an attitude of reprimanding juniors, this boy who doesn't know the height of the sky and the thickness of the sky is reprimanded.
"President Malov, discourage, the young man is still a little reckless! But Morey used the name of the city lord to force us to lower the price, what should we do? Johnson arrested a lot of our subordinates today! Bloor stepped up to play the round.
"What are you afraid of!" Thinking of the city guards and the more elite saber guards, Malov's voice couldn't help but drop another tone: "We don't want to fight with him, we definitely can't accept this price, if we don't give us a reasonable response, we will collectively close the market from tomorrow." ”
"Yes, closed! How can there be a saying that people sell things at a loss! ”
"That's right! That's right! We urgently allocated supplies, and the storage costs of those warehouses are very high! Let's sell it at the original price, that's only a loss! Rune, who is usually a dime a dime, suddenly cried out, and those who don't know really think that it will cost to sell the moldy military rations directly from the military depot!
"What did they do yesterday?" In the morning, Morey was still eating breakfast, and Andy, who got the news, hurried to the restaurant.
"Hehe, singing and laughing, singing and dancing!" Andy smiled, his eyes narrowed slightly, if someone who was familiar with Andy was here, he must know that this fast sword had made a killing move.
"It's busy! Sit down and have some breakfast! ”
Morey gestured to his chair and pushed an omelette over.
Andy, who has now slowly figured out Morey's temperament, naturally does not pay attention to so much hypocrisy, and he is indeed a little hungry after a busy night, so he picks up the bread and sandwiches the fried egg, and swallows it in three or two bites.
"Young Master, then let's ...... Thank you! "I was a little anxious to eat, and Corey, who was standing next to me, thoughtfully handed a glass of hot milk to Lord Kuajian.
Feeling that his throat was finally clear, Andy continued to ask, "Then what should we do next, young master?" ”
"Cory, bring Gourd's ledger!" Morey turned to Corey and said.
Taking the thick ledger, Morey spread it out in front of Andy: "They don't sell things, so naturally we will sell at a loss!" ”
The military supplies that were originally purchased with a large amount of gold coins in the Emerald City can now be regarded as useful.
The next day, when the citizens of Red Leaf City came to the pharmacy with apprehension, they found that the pharmacy that was still open yesterday was simply closed today, and the red "Guiding Opinions on the Temporary Price of Materials" The emergency order of the City Lord's Mansion posted at the door was so lonely next to the gate, which looked like an indescribable irony.
"It's over, it's over, I won't even open the store today, I only have one potion at home!"
Looking at the closed doors of the shops, everyone felt a sense of despair.
Originally, I thought that the arrest of a group of profiteers by the city guards yesterday could deter them well, and with the emergency order of the city lord's mansion, they did not expect the price to return to the previous level, but it was always okay to return to twice the price at the beginning, and then they would admit it, and they would treat it as if they had done it in vain in the past few months.
I didn't expect this group of guys to be so ruthless, they simply closed the door today!
But before everyone could recover from the blow of the closure of the alchemy shop, worse news came next.
"It's over, it's over! I've just heard that it's not just the alchemy shops, but all the rice and cloth in the city are closed! ”
"What?" The residents of Red Leaf City who live in the city do not know how to farm, and all their rations are bought from the rice grain stores in the city, because there are many rice grain merchants, and the price of rice grain has been very low, so they are not used to buying more grain.
So when the news of the closure of the rice shop came, everyone couldn't sit still.
Without the potion, it's a big deal to boil it yourself, maybe you can get through it! But without food, the more you boil, the closer you get to death!!
Rice grain, cloth and other shops closed one after another, and the merchants of Red Leaf City told Morey with practical actions that they would not accept the guide price of the materials.
Although those guys prevaricated with the reason of "mid-year accounting" and "counting materials", they all saw it clearly, this is all an excuse, and these profiteers have made it clear that they want to unite together to push back this emergency order!
Everyone looked at each other, and they didn't know what to say for a while.
At this time, a voice came from the crowd: "Why don't we go to the City Lord's Mansion and ask the City Lord to cancel the emergency order!" No matter how high the price of grain is, you can always buy it with money, and it is better than not having a grain of rice now! ”
As soon as the words fell, a voice chimed in: "Yes! Let's all go together, the old people and children at home are still waiting for dinner! ”
Although they always felt that something was wrong, their minds were already blank at the moment, especially when they heard "old people and children", thinking of the expectant eyes of their relatives, their feet began to move unconsciously towards the City Lord's Mansion.
"Hehe, it's so easy to make this money!" Paul touched the hot gold coin in his arms and resisted the urge to laugh out loud.
In the middle of the night last night, the guy in the rice grain store, his childhood friend Mike, found him overnight, and said that he was willing to spend 100 gold coins to let him shout these words in the crowd, no matter whether things work out or not, the money will be given to himself.
If he really succeeded in letting people go to the gate of the city lord's mansion to "petition", then he would pay himself a reward at the price of one gold coin per person, Paul just roughly counted, there are at least seventy or eighty people here, according to the habit of Red Leaf City to watch the excitement, at least twice as many people at the gate of the city lord's mansion.
That's a lot of money! It's enough to live like a noble lord for a while.
Thinking of this, Paul's heart couldn't help but feel hot, and his mouth began to stir and urge: "Everyone... Hmmm......"
But before he could finish speaking, a short stick used by a stubby thief to beat people smashed into his mouth, and a round and forward-centered rod smashed his rotten teeth like a wooden hammer under the action of inertia, and then these black and yellow broken bones were swallowed into his stomach along with the stench of blood.
Paul struggled to resist, but the backhand of the stick struck him hard, and his body immediately went limp.
The crowd that seemed to be disturbed by the robbery's act of entering the city and looting suddenly dispersed in a large circle, and their eyes were full of panic and panic.
"Who are they? What do they want to do? The people who did it were standing in the middle of them just now, not just a few times, they couldn't believe that these people who looked like them were so murderous.
Looking at Paul, who was dragged down like a dead dog by his men, Andy smiled coldly, turned his head, and jumped onto a wooden box that had been stacked at random.
Seeing that someone suddenly jumped on the wooden box, and it was obvious that he was dressed as a big person, everyone looked down in unison.
"Hello everyone, I'm Andy, the clerk of Red Leaf City!"
The crowd was in a commotion, and it was clear that everyone recognized him.
"Today is the first day of the implementation of the emergency order, and the owner of Morey City expects that there will be some shops to 'take inventory' and 'settle accounts', which will bring some trouble to everyone's life. Of course, there are also some guys with ulterior motives who will take the opportunity to discredit the city lord. Saying this, Andy couldn't help but pause, and waited until everyone showed a look of shame and shame before he continued: "But it doesn't matter, we have set up a temporary supply point outside the city, and everyone can buy what they want at the original price!" Don't spend an extra penny, wrong, in vain, money! ”
The last three words, Andy smiled word by word, and said it slowly in an accentuated tone, and the crowd who said it was rejoicing, long live the mountain! The spies of those profiteers are like drums, and they can't live in fear!