In the backyard of the Babia Steel City Post Station, in a lonely firewood house, the conspiracy of the four dark shadows is still unfinished.

"Xiangye's family, didn't someone from your family go to investigate Pavel Province, is there any good news?"

"Hey, don't talk nonsense, we want to partner with Xiangye, but Xiangye's old man looks down on our small business. One shadow touched the other and asked a question, only to be immediately refuted. Everyone is in the white glove industry, know the rules, it doesn't matter if you are ruthless and thick-skinned, but you have to distinguish what you can do or not, such as the one behind you, that would rather lose your head than contact publicly, once you are caught in contact with the person behind you, it means that your business is at the end of your job, and you are lucky to mix a pension money, bad luck......

Hearing such a positive dissociation, the other three couldn't help but snort, they all hid in this place, and pretended to be a big-tailed wolf.

“...... Hehe, but we do have some news about Pavel Province. As he spoke, the black shadow lowered his voice again: "It's all bad news!"

"Hey, hey. Princess Sophia had good means, with the financial support of Baron Babia, and in just two years, half of the land in Pavel Province was indirectly controlled by those two. Of the remaining land, 1/3 is the princess's fief, which is directly controlled, and the last remaining ones are scattered and scattered throughout the province. The order of the princess's mansion can be regarded as a holy decree in the entire Pavel Province, and these two people have a lot of plans. ”

"Her Royal Highness the Princess, what means are so powerful, it's only been less than two years, and you have such ability!"

"Ha!~ What means? If you are ruthless and black-skinned, this princess is no worse than you and me. Hearing this, the other three couldn't help but turn dark, but unfortunately in this dark environment, others couldn't see the change in their faces.

No matter what the three of them thought, this "non-Xiangye's family" still continued to take care of himself: "Fortunately, Pavel has always been a poor province, the terrain is complicated, there is not much arable land available, and it is impossible to really use all of it to grow grain, but it is conservatively estimated that in the hands of Her Royal Highness the Princess and His Excellency the Baron, I am afraid that there will be no less than 50,000 tons of rice. ”

"Tsk~ gotta stop him. ”

"Nonsense, the question is how to stop it, although Baron Babia is only prevaricating today, I don't know what his plan is, in case these 50,000 tons are sent to the imperial capital at a critical moment, we will all fall short, and we will ...... then"

Although it is not clear what will happen at that time, the other three people are also related, and there is no need to say it to be scary. There was silence in the firewood room for a while, and the voice of Xiao Si calling a certain adult sounded outside, which startled several people in the firewood room, but fortunately they were stopped by a henchman guard, and they made up an excuse to go to the toilet casually.

“...... Why don't you bring Baron Babia in as well?"

"Why, he is a little baron, as usual, Lao Tzu is too lazy to look at him, isn't it 50,000 tons of rice, when the time comes, let's grit our teeth and take it all. ”

"Eh~ don't be impulsive. Let's not talk about how much the 50,000 tons of rice get at the current market price, just if we collect the rice but don't put it on the market to sell it, a hoarder will not be able to run, if there is a riot in the imperial capital due to lack of food, all the pots will have to be carried by us. This law is not advisable, and Baron Babia's grain must be prevented from entering Beijing. Once the grain enters Gyeonggi, even if we eat all the grain in advance, we will have to take it out to alleviate the food shortage. ”

"So what do you say? Really add him in and get a piece of the pie?"

"This ......"

There was a brief silence in the firewood room, and the four of them fell into thought together, but soon someone came up with a solution.

"Ladies and gentlemen, don't forget what we are doing here with the little girl and the Holy Maiden this time. The Emperor pressed us to spend real money to buy grain and make deals ♂ with lords like Baron Barbia. Since chartering ships and buying grain can be traded, it is equally possible to prevent Baron Babia's grain from entering Beijing. ”

"This ...... Is it done?"

"If you can't succeed, you have to try, but if you can't do it, only Baron Rababia will join in. ”

In the dark, the four of them can't see each other's faces, and if the eyes are better, they can see the outline, so it is definitely impossible to make eyes and expressions. In the post station, there was another voice calling for a certain deputy envoy, the time had dragged on for too long, and it was not a trivial matter for the four deputy envoys to disappear at the same time after all. The four of them glanced at each other, and it was time to make a final decision.

"That's it, we'll be the first to meet Baron Babia early tomorrow morning and ask for a deal ♂. If it doesn't work, I'll pull him into the gang on the spot, and I've been preparing for so long, I can't just forget it!

The four of them carefully restored the bundle of firewood to its original state, gently pushed open the window and looked around, four shadows suddenly came out of the window, and quickly disappeared into the garden of the post station.

Just when the undercurrent in the station was surging, Qin Shouzhuo saw Sophia and Velvet who came together in his office, and the two of them naturally came to visit so late.

"Velvet, I haven't seen you for a long time, you guy has been busy flying all over the continent for the past two years, and people are getting fatter. ”

"Hehe, thanks to His Excellency the Baron giving me my current position, I never thought that I would also control a national-level chamber of commerce one day, so naturally I have to work wholeheartedly to live up to Your Excellency's new appointment. ”

Sophia watched the interaction between Qin Shouzhuo and Velvet with a smile on her face, walked into the pantry very naturally, boiled a pot of tea and brought it out, filled the teacups of the three of them, and Sophia stood quietly beside Qin Shouzhuo. For the first time in his life, he accepted the tea poured by Her Royal Highness the Princess, and Velvet was so excited that he couldn't sit or stand, and the whole person was incoherent, and it took a while to suppress the excitement in his heart.

The fat ball-like Velvet sat down with some difficulty, and quickly got to the point: "Your Excellency, I just came back and heard that you ordered the statistics of the transport ships that can be dispatched within 5 days and the grain stockpiled in our Babia City and Her Royal Highness the Princess's Pavel Province, but in order to deal with the food crisis in the Gyeonggi region?"

Qin Shou was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect this to be the case, and thought that Villewit would talk about his recent establishment of an iron sales network. "Yes, I have this plan, after all, I am a courtier of the empire, and it is also a matter of concern for the monarch, but after seeing the imperial capital mission that came to negotiate, I am a little unsure of the other party's thoughts. These guys talk very insincerely, and it looks like they are not short of food. ”

"Of course they are not short of food. Velvet changed his sitting position to make himself more comfortable: "Your Excellency! I don't know if you know the word white gloves. ”

"White gloves" refer to the "legitimate" cloak that acts as an intermediary for the bleaching of "black money", or actually engages in "illegal" affairs, that is, dirty hands hidden in white gloves. The term originated in Taiwan, but it quickly became popular on the mainland as corruption at all levels was exposed. Indeed, just as every high-ranking corrupt official has a mistress behind them, there must be a "pair of white gloves" around them to help their families accumulate wealth and manage their finances. The white-glove actors are often skilful businessmen who are rewarded for gaining more for themselves by connecting with powerful officials and gaining inside information. Corrupt officials tend to deliberately distance themselves from their white-glove in order to give themselves room for denial. The white gloves look after the parents and children of the officials and provide their relatives and friends with plenty of opportunities to make easy money. ”

Qin Shouzhuo hesitated: "You mean, they ......"

"Yes, how can grain, a bulk material related to the national economy and people's livelihood, be sold by merchants at will, behind the 22 grain stores in the imperial capital are the entire aristocratic class, including the royal family, and it is the top part, and even the branch of the Holy See is involved. This is a bottomless puddle, and it is possible to find any kind of wealthy family name in it. ”

Qin Shouzhuo groaned: "Officially, the position of our Barony Barony is not stable, and the title of Princess Pavel of Sophia is not very stable due to the relationship between the queen, so ...... The most correct choice for us is to stay away from this pit. That...... How do we reply to the mission in the imperial capital? ”

Seeing this, Princess Sophia couldn't help but speak: "Shou Clumsy, I am an imperial princess after all, if the imperial capital riots due to lack of food, my father can directly order the transfer of food from Pavel Province, and I ......"

patted Sophia's arm, Qin Shouzhuo signaled that he knew that after all, she was a princess, and she couldn't do such a thing as making a fortune without blushing and heartbeat, and her discipline was still relatively high.

Velvet replied: "Please rest assured princess, we will definitely not let Her Royal Highness bear this infamy, not only Her Royal Highness the princess can't bear it, but our Barony of Babia and the Food for Heaven Chamber of Commerce can't bear it either, we must take the initiative to send food to the imperial capital, but at the same time, we must clear ourselves up, and we can't be involved in the conspiracy of 22 grain stores in the imperial capital." ”

Qin Shouzhuo glanced at Velvet, it seemed that there was some contradiction, and it was too troublesome to grasp the degree of this. The lack of grain in the imperial capital is inseparable from the 22 grain stores, no matter what their conspiracy is, it is certain that they hope that the imperial capital will maintain the shortage of grain for the time being, which requires the lords of various places to control the grain in their territories and not flow to the imperial capital. As a feudal lord of the empire, it is an obligation for the local government to support the central government, and if you don't send food at this time, it is to help the central government, and if you fight against the central government, you will definitely not end well, and if you can send more food, it is easy to get involved in the conspiracy of the grain line.

"Your Excellency, why don't we print food stamps......"