When Ye Fengliu heard the news from the villagers, he knew that the goal of completing the last link of the "Half-Orc Tomb" mission had finally appeared.

He immediately teamed up with the other three members of the princess group to lead all the villagers to the town overnight.

The reason why Ye Fengliu wanted to bring so many villagers was not because he wanted to put on a show, but because he wanted to buy some food for the villagers in the town, and by the way, let them hurry back to the village, so that some villagers would not be able to wait to starve to death first.

The group walked all night, and finally arrived at the nearest town to the Zhitian Mountain, Nanming Town, at dawn the next day.

As the name suggests, the town spends almost half of the year in the shadow of the Zhitian Mountains, and in fact the surrounding villages are probably the same.

It refers to the lack of light at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, where there is not much food that can be grown, so most of the local people who cannot make a living by farming are miners or blacksmiths.

Nanming Town is a famous gathering place for blacksmiths and equipment and weapons manufacturing on the Marfa continent. The reason for its existence is precisely because it refers to the Beach Mine Cave under the Tianshan Mountain.

But it is difficult to know that the town has been in an embarrassing situation since the Beechcraft Mine was sealed sixteen years ago due to the appearance of monsters.

Without a local supply of ore, a large number of blacksmiths had to rely on ore purchased at high prices from the Viper Mine and the Ginkgo Biloba Mine and transported from the two places to survive.

And as the number of monsters in the Marfa Continent increases, the cost of transportation and the price of ore continue to rise, and the blacksmiths in Nanming Town finally begin to face a difficult situation of running out of raw materials.

As a result, the blacksmith association, which was formed by all the blacksmiths in Nanming Town, began to have serious divisions.

Some members of the Blacksmith Guild with merchant and official backgrounds called themselves new, and decided to package the Blacksmiths Association and the Beechcraft Mine they belonged to and sell them cheaply to the Hongyuan Trading House under the name of the second prince to stop the loss.

The part of the blacksmith guild that was born as a true blacksmith was called the old school by the new faction, and they were adamantly opposed to this.

And that unlucky Brother Yang of Tieshi Village was caught by the ore purchasing merchant belonging to the new faction of the Blacksmith Association, on the grounds of stealing ore.

When Ye Fengliu and the others came to Nanming Town, they originally went straight to the shop that arrested people, but they came up empty. They had no choice but to follow the instructions of the shopkeeper to go to the largest blacksmith shop in Nanming Town, the Flint Blacksmith Workshop.

Rushed to the flint blacksmith workshop, which was crowded with people.

Ye Fengliu casually inquired and understood the situation, it turned out that there was a showdown between the new school and the old school in the blacksmith association.

The term "share funding" originally referred to the fact that members of the Blacksmiths Guild had just begun to participate in raising money to buy a share of the mining rights in the Beach Cave.

Because these blacksmith-turned-veterans were not good at management, they later reluctantly allowed the merchants to inject capital into the shares and participate in the operation.

In order to prevent the merchants from completely controlling the Blacksmiths' Guild, the patriarchs added 30% of the technical shares to the stock plan, and introduced a decision to redistribute the shares by introducing new shareholders who had invested more than 50% of the total amount of the original stock chips.

There are five competitions in the stock fundraising duel, which are the traditional skills of blacksmiths: beneficiation, smelting, forging and building, plus the five items of competition.

The venue for this duel between the new school and the old school is in the front yard of the flint blacksmith's workshop.

Ye Fengliu led people into the gate, and immediately saw hundreds of people standing on the left and right sides of the open-air compound.

There were more people standing on the left, all dressed plainly and covered in sweat and mud, and at a glance they knew that they were old-school blacksmiths who had been sold as coolies.

The number of people on the right is much smaller, but all of them are gorgeously dressed, and at a glance you can tell that they are all wealthy merchants of the new school.

There are many people in the old school, but all of them are sad as if the end is coming. On the other hand, although the number of new factions is small, they are all smiling and laughing.

No matter how you look at it, it's a situation where the winner is already divided without waiting for the showdown.

After the four members of the princess group entered the courtyard, they naturally stood on the side of the old school, and in fact, many of the villagers they brought were blacksmiths or apprentices in the old school.

"Brother Tai, how's the situation?" The black thin village chief approached a short, muscular middle-aged man and asked.

That Tai brother replied with a sad face: "Brother Yang from Tieshi Village was indeed brought here by the new faction, but unfortunately I don't know where it is, and I don't know what they want to do when they bring Brother Yang here?" ”

"It's not the right time for you to come now! Now how can Lu Da have the heart and time to pay attention to us! When we change sides, we can still ask him to help us figure out a way. ”

Hearing this, the black and thin village chief was puzzled: "Isn't the Lu family buying a large number of shares of the Blacksmith Association?" Didn't you tell me the other day that the Blacksmiths' Guild would soon be back in the hands of your blacksmiths? Isn't the acquisition successful yet? ”

Brother Tai's face was slightly red: "It was going to be successful." All of our blacksmith shops took advantage of the low share chips now, and they all gathered molecules to help Lu Da master buy the shares, and they all received 60%, but I didn't expect the new faction to suddenly make trouble. ”

"I heard that it was Hongyuan Commercial Bank that claimed to have injected 50,000 gold coins into the fundraising to save the blacksmith association. With such a large number of new shares in the fundraising, according to the old rules of the blacksmith association, it is necessary to conduct a shareholding duel and redivide the ownership of the blacksmiths' association's shares. ”

"Originally, this is nothing, it stands to reason that 30% of our technology stock chips should be guaranteed, and even if the original stock chips are inevitably inferior to Hongyuan Commercial Bank in terms of capital injection, at most it will lead to the original share of stock chips to decrease again, and it will not let the shares of the old faction fall below 40%, and completely lose the right to speak on personnel appointments and dismissals."

"But it is said that this time, Hongyuan Commercial Bank invited a top blacksmith from each of the four places of Ginkgo Mining Area, Viper Mining Area, Mengzhong Earth City and Sealed Demon City."

"Now it will be difficult for us to have a chance to win in the blacksmith skill duel, in fact, as long as we lose one, I am afraid that we will completely lose the right to speak in the blacksmith association."

"And if we are completely wiped out in the duel this time, then I am afraid that we will only be reduced to the slaves of the Hongyuan Trading Company. It seems that God is not ready to give us any more way to live! ”

"So as long as you inject a large amount of capital, you can participate in the stock fundraising showdown?" Ye Fengliu suddenly interjected when he heard this, "This Master Tai, please take us to see your Lu Da master, just say that the Knights of Justice will also inject 50,000 gold coins into the Blacksmith Association and participate in the stock showdown." ”

At 9 a.m., there is still an hour left for the Blacksmiths Guild to officially start their showdown.

In the left and right wings of the backyard of the Flint Blacksmith's Workshop, the senior management of the old and new schools of the Blacksmiths Guild are respectively carrying out final negotiations and preparations.

In the wing room on the right, the high-level members of the new faction of the Blacksmiths Association were greeting each other, and they had a tacit understanding to greet a fat middle-aged man in gorgeous clothes sitting in the main seat in order according to their status.

The fat man in the fancy dress was very arrogant, and when someone came to say hello, he didn't reply, but just half-squinted and nodded.

But when it was the turn of a thin man in green clothes with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks to bend down to greet him with a flattering face, he suddenly sat up straight, opened his eyes and asked, "You are the shopkeeper of the gold mining company, Na Xiren?" ”

"Back to Director Qi, the small one is Na Xiren, and the firm under my name is responsible for ore acquisition." Nakhi Xiren replied flatteredly.

"I heard that you came up with the plan for this stock showdown?" Director Qi looked at Na Xiren's eyes with a hint of appreciation. "But why do you insist on waiting for the old school to buy 58% of the shares?"

"Back to Director Qi, the small one is thinking about Hongyuan Commercial Bank to the greatest extent." Na Xiren's smile was even more respectful, "If we adopt the method of directly acquiring shares, it will naturally be easier to seize control of the Blacksmith Association. ”

"However, those old-school diehards still have the ability to break away from the Blacksmiths' Guild and even join our rival firms."

"Now we use the method of selling stock chips to make them consume most of their old capital, and then launch a stock chip duel when they think they are about to succeed."

"At this time, they will definitely not be willing to lose the control that is about to be acquired, so they will definitely continue to increase investment, even at the expense of money."

"In this way, once we can get more than 80% of the shares, they will never be able to get rid of the shackles of the blacksmith association, and they will completely become the long-term workers of Hongyuan Commercial Bank."

"80% of the shares?" Director Qi's body leaned forward, "Then you have to win a full victory in the duel, right?" Are you sure? ”

Na Xiren said with a confident face:

"In the technical duel, Master Li from Viper Village is recognized as the first in the country in terms of smelting technology, and it is said that he has mastered the secret technique of raising the furnace temperature to 1500 degrees."

"Master Jiang of Mengzhong is an authority on casting molds, and it is said that he can purify iron ore to 95%."

"Master Meng from the Demon City is the only blacksmith grandmaster who has mastered the skill of equipping enchantments."

"The only thing that can't guarantee victory is the beneficiation ability of Master Mi in Ginkgo Valley, but I have made corresponding arrangements, and I believe that there is no problem in winning."

"As for the bidding session, I believe that those poor ghosts will definitely drop their jaws when they see the 100,000 gold coins that Director Qi injected again. I don't think they can even make up 10,000 gold coins with their current capabilities. So Director Qi can rest assured, the Blacksmith Association will definitely belong to your Hongyuan Commercial Bank this afternoon. ”

"Yes, I appreciate your talent!" Director Qi sat back in satisfaction and closed his eyes, "You can mess with me in the future, I won't treat you badly." ”

……

Unlike the quiet and peaceful room on the right, the room on the left side was full of people, and the old high-ranking members of the Blacksmiths' Guild were making a lot of noise.

"Master Lu, we can't put any more money into it, it's a waste! Let's admit it! An emaciated old man shouted loudly to the burly middle-aged man on the throne, and his voice was already filled with tears.

"I can recognize Lu Yi, but how can thousands of blacksmith brothers recognize it?" Master Lu's eyes were red, "Uncle Lin, without our protection, they can only sell themselves to Hongyuan Commercial House as slaves!" ”

Uncle Lin rubbed his hands anxiously and kept turning back and forth, "But even if we bet all our assets, it is less than 10,000 gold coins, and it can't be compared with them at all." When the time comes, if we lose the skill duel again, even we will have to sell ourselves into slavery! ”

Lu Yi bit his lip tightly, "Except for Master Meng who sealed the Demon City, we may not necessarily lose against the rest of the masters, as long as we can win all three games, maybe we can still keep at least 40% of the shares." We have to bet on it! ”

"Wake up!" Uncle Lin roared angrily, "Have you ever thought about the consequences of a complete failure in the duel. At that time, Hongyuan Commercial Bank will own at least 80% of the shares, and our fate will be at the mercy of others? ”

"yes...... Master Lu, we can't gamble......" The rest of the people in the room also began to persuade him.

Suddenly, there was a sharp knock on the door. "Master Lu, I'm Taiyun, someone wants to see you."

"Taiyun," Lu Yi said unhappily, "When is this?" I don't have time to ......"

Before Lu Yi finished speaking, the door had already been pushed open, and Ye Fengliu stood at the door with a smile on his face and said, "No, Master Lu must have time to see me, because I want to inject capital and participate in the stock fundraising duel." ”