Chapter 038: Thousands of Households
The city of Lausanne is located in the northeast of Nuyan City, about 300 miles away. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Since there is a wide main road between the two, many hunters heading to the Soul Broken Mountain Range have to rush through Lausanne City to the Nuyan City at the foot of the Soul Broken Mountain Range.
Nuyan City is located one or twenty kilometers away from the foot of the Soul Broken Mountain Range, and the prosperity here is naturally needless to say, hunters and adventurers from all walks of life have gathered here, it can be said that there are many people, and the floating population has always been high.
It is precisely because this place is too close to the Soul Broken Mountain Range that many hunting products from the Soul Broken Mountain Range, such as the fur of the desolate beast and the crystal nucleus of the desolate beast, are not sold at a high price, and the market will always be in excess of demand.
On the other hand, due to the large number of people entering and leaving, the inns and taverns in the city were almost full day and night, and those pharmacies selling pills were even more profitable.
In particular, there is a trend of short supply of treatment pills and recuperation pills.
Therefore, the price of this pill has also risen, a small blood tonic pill, other cities only need a few silver coins, and dozens or even a gold coin can be copied here.
The low trading price and high consumption made many hunters and adventurers who did not have a lot of money choose the cities near Nuyan City to resell the items they obtained and replenish related supplies.
Among them, the city of Lausanne accounted for a large part of the transaction value.
On the one hand, Lausanne City is one of the largest counties within a radius of 100 miles from Nuyan City, and another reason is that Lausanne City has a very good geographical location and is a transportation hub connecting many cities in the east and west of Yuntai Prefecture.
There are hundreds of horse-drawn carriages passing by here every day, if not thousands.
Countless hunters and adventurers began to auction their hunting proceeds here for high income.
For example, the crystal nucleus of a first-order desolate beast, which is a rotten street thing in Nuyan City, sells a gold coin and requires a roadside stall to accept it, not to mention taking it to the auction house for auction, maybe it will be kicked out by the guards in front of the auction house.
It's different in Lausanne City, although the auction house will not accept this low-level crystal nucleus either, but there are a large number of pharmacies and pharmacies vying to recycle it, and the price is generally two to three times that of Nuyan City.
As long as they are not in a hurry, hunters usually come to Lausanne with their goods to trade, so that they can earn more.
When there are more people trading, the market is booming.
The pharmacy business in Lausanne City also began to be driven by a large influx of hunters, and the blood tonic medicine and Huiqi Pill, which had not been able to sell at once, were sold out all at once.
Gradually, pharmacies began to bloom everywhere, and you can always find one or two pharmacies in the bustling area of almost every street.
However, more than 80 percent of these pharmacies are monopolized by two large families.
Those two big families are commonly known as "thousand" families and "ten thousand" households.
These two big families, who happen to be digital surnames, control the economic lifeline of the entire city of Lausanne, and have sub-industries in all walks of life.
Among them, this "thousand" family is the largest sect in the Snow Country, a small branch under the thousands of factions of the Haoxue Sect, and it contributes a lot of sect income to the Haoxue Sect every year.
And the "Wan" family is the second largest sect in the Snow Country, a subsidiary family under the Yunhai Sect.
Haoxue Sect and Yunhai Sect in order to compete for the first sect of the Snow Country, the open and secret struggle for thousands of years, a thousand years ago, the Yunhai Sect has always been the national sect of the Snow Country, and then because of the poor management of the sect master, the Haoxue Sect was overtaken or even overtaken, and in the next thousand years, the Haoxue Sect ranked first, and the Yunhai Sect could only be second in ten thousand years.
With this grudge, the descendants of the two sects of Haoxue Sect and Yunhai Sect have always been well water and do not commit river water, if they do, it will definitely turn into a bloody case.
However, under the close monitoring of the imperial court, the people of these two sects did not dare to blatantly fight fiercely, but moved the struggle behind the scenes and suppressed each other through various means.
The Qian family and the Wan family in Lausanne City have been living in peace on the surface, but behind the scenes, they are desperately developing their own shops and suppressing each other's shops in order to crush each other.
For a huge sect, to support so many people, the contribution of these low-level business families is indispensable.
If these families from the bottom start to break down one by one, the huge sect that stands on top of this will eventually collapse.
Haoxue Sect and Yunhai Sect considered this, so they happily joined this battle of priing each other's "foundations", and they were very busy.
For thousands of years, the open and secret struggle between the low-level families has not stopped.
The thousands of families and thousands of families in Lausanne City can be said to be the perfect epitome of this kind of deformed competition.
And some other small sects and individual businesses can only survive in the struggle between these two families, and they are miserable.
Speaking of which, there was a recent announcement that caused a stir throughout the city of Lausanne.
Three days later, Qianjia and Wanjia, the two behemoths of Lausanne City, met to hold a duel between families in the martial arts arena in the south of the city.
The winner will receive the right to operate a newly opened commercial street in the south of the city.
The battle between the two families over this burgeoning commercial area has been a long-standing battle, even turning into a bloody affair.
Then, under the mediation of the county magistrate, the two families temporarily calmed down and chose to use the method of "duel" to gain the initiative.
Duel, on the surface, it is said that the point is over, but well, hum, there are no rules for injury and disability.
The people on both sides were full of strength to deal with this duel.
In order to reflect the fairness of the duel and prevent the situation from further expanding, the prefectural magistrate specially stipulated that this duel would be a best-of-three system, and the people who appeared must be the younger generation under the age of 16 of the two families.
If the old guys of the two families come to the stage and fight, that one may last for a few days and nights, and the county town may be demolished by them.
This condition is also very true, and the patriarchs of both families agreed.
Soon after, the details of some duels were finalized, and the duel for the right to operate the commercial street in the south of the city was officially finalized.
The prefectural magistrate specially ordered someone to announce the matter on the notice of the city wall.
Then, the underground gambling houses began to set up gambling games, and the participants exceeded five figures in just a few hours.
Taking into account the strength of the young people of this generation of thousands of families and thousands of families, the majority of people who bought thousands of families won the duel, and the odds began to stabilize at the level of one to two, while on the side of thousands of families, it was as high as one to five.
The factors that affect the one-sided gambling game, in addition to the comprehensive strength assessment of the younger generation of the two families, are also the bloodshed last time.
The thing is that one of the pharmacies under the Qianjia family first discovered the commercial potential of Chengnan New Street and opened a branch here, and soon after, the business exploded, attracting the eyes of Wanjia people, so they also opened a similar pharmacy here.
Originally, thousands of pharmacies were in a monopoly position here, but since there were 10,000 shops opposite, the business turnover began to plummet.
And the most annoying thing is that the level of the alchemist hired by the other party's family is higher than that of his own, and the elixir he practices is much better than his own in terms of quality and color, and the price is cheaper than his own?
If you were a guest, which one would you go to?
I believe that you can come up with the answer without having to think about it.
The manager who runs this branch is a young man from the Qian family, and on impulse, he took a few people from the family to the opposite shop to discuss the explanation, but he didn't expect that without saying a few words, he was punched and kicked out by the other party's people.
Coincidentally, Qianlong, the young master of the Qianjia family, passed by there with a group of fox friends and dog friends at the right time, and saw that his subordinates were being bullied, and he was furious on the spot, regardless of the consequences of doing so, he rushed up directly to beat the other party's scary man.
The struggle intensified, and the people on the other side naturally did not suffer dumb losses, and soon found helpers, the young master of the Wan family, Wan Peng, to join the battle.
This Wan Peng is also sixteen years old, and Qianlong belongs to the same way, and he is the master who walks sideways in the family on weekdays.
However, his cultivation is one level higher than that of Qianlong, and he has reached the imperial rank.
As soon as he heard that the young master of the rival family had made a move against his subordinates, Wan Peng immediately rushed to the scene with a few junior brothers.
The people on both sides instantly fell into a scuffle.
Half an hour later, if it weren't for the officers and soldiers to suppress it, I am afraid that there would really be a lot of casualties that day.
This bloodshed caused thousands of families and thousands of families to lose a store, all of which were smashed by the other party's people, and the financial losses were comparable.
However, the personnel injuries were one-sided, and the people of the Wan family basically only suffered a little flesh injury, and the most serious thing was a fracture.
On the other hand, the people of the Qianjia family had blue noses and swollen faces, especially that Qianlong, one leg was discounted, and the children of the other families more or less broke a few ribs, in short, they failed miserably.
When these guys were carried back to the Qianjia compound by their subordinates, the head of the family, Old Man Qian, was almost not angry!
"Rubbish! It's all rubbish! Can you come back like this with more bullying and less being hurt? Usual cultivation, isn't it all messing around? ”
As soon as the old man was angry, the sons below couldn't sit still.
They all came forward to beg for anger, brought their precious sons back, first laid down the thirty boards, and then treated them.
On this day, passers-by outside the gate of Qianfu heard a burst of ghosts crying wolves in the compound, and thought that Qianjia had seen ghosts during the day.
Unconsciously...... The three-day deadline has expired.
The duel that has been brewing for three days is finally about to begin!