Chapter 11: The Profiteers (Recommend! Subscription)
Hutt walked up to Situ Jin in one step: "Young Master, it's me!"
For a moment, Situ Jin's head was a little confused: "Why are you ......?"
Although he was only halfway there, John and Hurt already understood what he was asking. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
John said, "Boss, he came to the trading house to find me shortly after your family's accident. ”
Hutt, a seven-foot man, had red eyes at the moment, and his whole person looked as if he had suffered a great blow: "Young Master, the Earl's Mansion suddenly suffered that day, and the Earl asked me to escape to find you!"
Seeing that Hutt had something to say to Situ Jin, John and Xiu both turned around and walked away.
"Hutt, what's going on?" Situ Jin looked puzzled.
Hurt said: "After I escaped from the Earl's Court that day, I didn't know where to find you, thinking that the Daqi Firm is now your private property, so I went there, these days, thanks to John's kid...... A few days ago, Xiu went to John and said that you had returned, and I immediately followed him!"
Situ Jin nodded, although Hurt said it simply, he knew very well that there must have been a lot of twists and turns in the middle.
After calming down his excitement of seeing Situ Jin again, Hutt spoke: "Young Master, Lord Earl, let me tell you before I was arrested, I am sorry for you and my wife! Also, he asked you to give up this territory, leave the Yarrow Empire, and go to other countries to find a place to live well!"
After listening to what Hurt said, Situ Jin didn't know what kind of mood he was in, sorry? That man would even say sorry to him? Things in the world are changing really fast!
Seeing that Situ Jin was stunned, with a hint of a smile on the corner of his mouth, that smile seemed to be mocking and bitter, like emotion and sadness, Hurt found for the first time that maybe he and the people of the entire Earl's Court had never known about this Situ family's eldest young master - this eldest young master who had not been really paid attention to by everyone in the Earl's Court including him before!
Looking at Situ Jin's thin but incomparably tall figure, Hurt suddenly felt a sad feeling of wanting to cry for some reason.
In the end, he swallowed a lot of the words he had prepared to say to Situ Jin, and only said one sentence: "Young Master, you are now the only one left in the Situ family!"
"No!" Situ Jin suddenly spoke: "You are wrong, Hutt! Although the members of the family are all on death row, they are all still alive, aren't they?"
Hurt raised his eyes: "Young Master, are you ......?"
Situ Jin didn't go any further, but said, "Hutt, you have a good rest for a few days! I still need you to help me with many things in the future!"
Hurt stared at Stuart Jin's face closely, trying to see something in his face, but he didn't see anything.
At the behest of Situ Jin, Gawain took Hurt to the barracks to rest, and as soon as Hutt left, Situ Jin immediately called John and Xiu and walked into his military tent.
"How's the food matter going?" As soon as he entered the military tent, Situ Jin immediately asked.
John hurriedly said: "Boss, don't worry, I have already arranged a caravan to transport grain here before I came, because I am in a hurry to see the boss, so I rushed over first, if nothing else, the grain caravan will arrive here within a week!"
Situ Jin did not let go, but asked, "How long will the grain you transported enough to feed 5,000 people?"
A smile appeared on John's face: "Don't worry, it's not a problem to eat for a year or two!"
"Huh?" Situ Jin was a little surprised: "In a short period of time, where did you get so much food?"
John explained: "The boss doesn't know, the situation in the empire has been quite unstable in the past two years! After the eldest prince Robert ascended the throne, he has been gearing up with other small countries around him, and those small countries are now not pleasing to us, so I think that a war is a matter of minutes, and the food must be tight at that time, so I have been arranging for people to collect grain privately in the past two years, and hoarding the collected grain in the warehouse, waiting for the war to take it out!"
Hearing this, Situ couldn't help but be stunned, and after a while, he gave John a thumbs up: "John, you are really a profiteer!"
John was slightly stunned, with an embarrassed smile on his face, but said in his mouth: "The merchant is not a traitor, is he still called a merchant?!"
"Haha!" Situ Jin laughed out loud: "Well said, I am very relieved to have a profiteer like you take care of the industry for me!"
After speaking, he said: "Thanks to your foresight, otherwise it would have been enough for me to have a headache in order to solve the problem of eating for these 5,000 people!"
John nodded and said, "Boss, it's not a problem to hoard food to feed these people for three or two years, but in the long run, this is not a solution!"
Situ Jin smiled: "Don't worry about this, you don't need to raise it for so long, it will be enough for half a year at most!"
"Half a year?" John was a little incredulous.
Situ said: "Yes, as long as there is land, are you afraid that there will be no food?"
John didn't understand Situ Jin's words too much, so he only heard Situ Jin say again: "John, you have to stay by my side for the next period of time, I have a lot of things here that you need to plan and arrange, you'd better transfer more capable people over!"
John looked at Situ Jin: "Boss, are you saying that there are many things that I need to arrange here?"
Situ Jin nodded: "You see the island opposite, I want to build a city on it!"
John was slightly stunned, and said, "Boss, you're not joking, are you?"
"Do you think I'm joking?"
“...... If I hear this from someone else's mouth, I must think he's crazy!"
"Then take me for a madman!"
Situ Jin looked at John for a moment, and then smiled at the same time.
"Okay! whatever you want to do, boss, I'll obey the command! Boss, just arrange things for me!" John said in a loud voice.
Situ Jin smiled and nodded: "I'm relieved to have you say this!"
After speaking, Situ Jin took out a piece of parchment paper from his pocket and handed it to John: "First of all, I need a lot of medicinal herbs, this is the list, you see!"
John took the list from Situ Jin's hand, and said as he looked at it, "There are indeed a lot!"
"How long will it take?" said Situ Jin directly.
John thought for a moment: "Give me ten days, I can get a batch first, and the rest will be done in half a month!"
"Is it really a problem?" asked Situ Jin.
John nodded: "No problem, now there are dozens of caravans under our trading house, if these medicinal materials are all obtained from the Yarrow Empire, it will take a lot of time, but if they are obtained from other countries around them, it will be much faster!"
After speaking, John couldn't wait to say: "Boss, you have to give me at least two or three days next, I want to report to you about the development of our firm in the past few years!"