Chapter 49: Talking Business
He understood what Meng Xingci meant, Meng Xingci was anxious to make achievements in Suiyuan County so that he could leave here, so he hurriedly put forward this condition. So she really wants to promote this, so now, whether he has the strength to do so.
Zhao Xuan said solemnly: "I don't know what Lord Meng, what do you need me to do?" â
Meng Xingci's eyes flashed, very good, and finally began to talk about the conditions seriously.
Meng Xingci said: "There is a wasteland at the foot of Nanshan, which is thousands of acres. This land is barren, and because it is backed by the South Mountain, it is not suitable for growing crops, but it is very suitable for the growth of medicinal herbs. I plan to let the people open up the wasteland and grow medicinal herbs. And I need someone who is familiar with the cultivation of medicinal herbs to help and assist, and after the medicinal herbs grow, you have to purchase them all. â
Zhao Xuan nodded thoughtfully: "Thousands of acres, this is not a small amount." No wonder the adults want to put forward that condition, this is a military medicinal material specially prepared for the Yan Hui Army. â
Meng Xing bowed his head generously: "Yes, this also reduces the cost of transportation." â
Zhao Xuan smiled and shook his head: "My lord, this is playing with words. After a pause, his expression was grim: "To put it bluntly, adults are actually just to grow medicines, someone buys them, and by the way, sells them to Yan Huijun." And this medicinal herb was actually planted for the return of the wild goose to the army. And how many medicinal materials the imperial court can procure, I am afraid that it is only a few thousand acres under the South Mountain. â
Zhao Xuan said, his expression also sank slightly: "My Zhao family contributed money and people, and the benefits I got were just these thousands of acres of medicinal materials. My lord's wishful thinking is really loud, but how do I know that I must be fooled by this? â
This is already a bit offensive, a businessman dares to talk to the county order like this?
Meng Xingci was not angry, and only said lightly: "If it weren't for that, your Zhao family would not have the qualifications to supply medicinal materials to the imperial court at all." After a pause, she looked at Zhao Xuan and said, "I'll give you a chance, as for what your Zhao family can do in business, it all depends on your Zhao family's ability." â
Do you think that the imperial merchant is so easy to be? Since the founding of the country, Daqi has valued agriculture over commerce, and the status of merchants is low. The imperial merchant is different, the imperial merchant actually already has an official position. It can be said that the imperial merchant is the highest position that a merchant can achieve.
Such a position has long been controlled by those bigwigs in the DPRK and China. Generally, those who have no background and no strength want to mix and kick? Just like Meng Xingci said, there is no such qualification at all!
Meng Xingci has a sentence that is the most true, if she hadn't been the county magistrate of Suiyuan County, she would not have been involved in this matter.
Zhao Xuan frowned slightly, as if he was thinking.
Meng Xingci said: "The signing cycle of this treaty is five years, and before planting, you also need to provide seeds, and you also need to pay a deposit, and the specific amount will be negotiated at that time." â
Meng Xingci did have a lot of requests, and Zhao Xuan fell silent.
No wonder Meng Xingci asked at the beginning if he could call the shots.
Even if he was arrogant like Zhao Xuan, he hesitated at this time, and Meng Xingci picked up the teacup: "Zhao Gongzi can go back and think about it, this matter also needs to be investigated by a few more merchants, and he will not make a decision so early." â
Pick up the teacup, this is the meaning of sending off the guest.
Zhao Xuan nodded and said happily: "Then I will say goodbye first, and come back to visit the adults in a few days." â
Meng Xingci smiled slightly: "Don't send it." â
As soon as Zhao Xuan left, the smile on Meng Xingci's face suddenly disappeared, and she called Chang Song: "You go and check the background of this Zhao Xuan, remember, it must be detailed and accurate." After a pause, she said again: "You can go to the Dingyong Marquis Mansion again, mention this person to the prince, and let him help." â
Chang Song had never seen Meng Xingci's solemn expression, so he didn't dare to be careless, and took the order.
After Chang Song's investigation, he found that what Zhao Xuan said was true. He was born in the Zhao family in Jiangxi, and the Zhao family is also a local family. Zhao Xuan's background is somewhat similar to Meng Xingci's, they are both grandsons of the long house, but they both lost their fathers at a young age and were raised by their grandfathers.
Zhao Xuan came out to practice this time, also to meet the opportunity, in order to convince the public to inherit the family business.
The results of Ye Xun's investigation were the same as those found out by Chang Song, and Zhao Xuan was also very attentive, and he came to see Meng Xing again within two days.
Zhao Xuan is erudite and talented, has a wide range of hobbies, and chatted with Meng Xingci very speculatively.
Zhao Xuan was very concerned about the cooperation of medicinal materials, and also proposed to see the wasteland where medicinal materials were planted.
Meng Xingci has been running around with him in Suiyuan County in the past few days.
On this day, the two went to the foot of Nanshan again.
In March, the grass grew and the warbler flew, and Meng Xingci looked at the wasteland in the distance.
"After the wasteland is cleared, medicinal herbs will be planted here, and it will not be so desolate." Meng Xingci said.
Zhao Xuan only looked at Meng Xingci, he had heard of Meng Xingci's name. Seventeen-year-old high school Tanhua, is the youngest Tanhua Lang of Daqi, born in a famous family, good ability, just arrived in Suiyuan County for only half a year, he has done a lot of great things, quite loved by the local people. hĪĪīŧ°s://()īŧ´/
Zhao Xuan looked at Meng Xingci and said with a smile: "Lord Meng's ability and talent are all good, but when he comes to such a place, facing a wasteland, he really has no talent." â
Meng Xingci glanced at him and said with a smile: "Someone has to do things, I came here to change the status quo of Suiyuan County and make the people's lives a little better, how can it be said that Huaicai is not met?" âīŧ¨tΤĪīŧŗ://()t/
Zhao Xuan nodded: "Lord Meng's words are good, it's just that Lord Meng is so talented, but he only became a small county commander, and I am just unhappy for my adult." â
Meng Xingci smiled and didn't speak.
The two of them wandered around along the wasteland, and Meng Xing said: "Looking at the barren land and becoming prosperous in my own hands, this sense of accomplishment is something that nothing else can give me." I'm so happy to be here. â
Zhao Xuan looked at Meng Xingci in a daze, Meng Xingci felt that his eyes were a little strange, but he couldn't figure out why.
Zhao Xuan said with a smile: "I've been in Suiyuan County for so long, and I don't know where to have fun." Do you have any recommendations? â
Meng Xingci looked at Zhao Xuan, all dressed in treasures, and with the message of 'I have money with you' all over her body, she couldn't help but squint her eyes and showed a bright smile. ÎΤΤΥs://()t/
"Zhao Gongzi, there are a lot of delicious and fun things in our Suiyuan County. Do you know that Yunke is coming? That's the imperial chef in the palace as the head chef, today I will take Zhao Gongzi to taste the dishes that only the nobles in the palace eat? Meng Xingci said enthusiastically.
Zhao Xuan looked at the smile on Meng Xingci's face, and inexplicably felt that something was wrong.
"Then there's Lord Law." Zhao Xuan said respectfully.
Meng Xingci took Zhao Xuan to Yunkelai, and when Xiao Er saw her coming, her legs trembled, and she ran directly to find the shopkeeper.
"The shopkeeper, smashing the field, smashing the field is here again." Xiao Er's voice trembled.
The shopkeeper glanced at him: "What a smashing field, now our business is half of the county government, and we are entertained by good students, without any eyes." â
Xiao Er reacted immediately, puffed up his chest, and went straight to the private room.
In the dim and damp mine tunnel, Lu Ye carried the mine basket on his back and the mine pickaxe in his hand, and walked forward step by step.
The content of the website is incorrect, please download the iReading app to read the correct content. The boy's expression was a little sad, and his eyes were focused on the empty space in front of him, as if he was staring at something.
From an outsider's point of view, there was nothing in front of Lu Ye, but in fact, in the young man's field of vision, a translucent shadow could be seen.
It was like the shadow of a tree, gray and invisible, with luxuriant foliage, branches parting from one-third of the body to the left and right, supporting a semicircular canopy.
It's been more than a year since he came to this world called Kyushu, and Lu Ye still hasn't figured out what this thing is, he only knows that when his attention is focused enough, this shadow tree has a chance to appear in the field of vision, and others won't notice it at all.
It's a tragic life. The boy sighed.
A year ago, he woke up abruptly in this strange world, and before he could get acquainted with the environment, his forces were overrun by a gang of thieves, many of whom were killed, and he and some other young men and women became prisoners of the gang of thieves, and then sent into this vein to become a lowly miner.
Afterwards, he learned from the scattered conversations of others that the force he was in was affiliated with the Haotian League, a sect called Xuantian Sect.
The name of this sect sounds cool and tyrannical, but in fact it is just a small sect that is not in the stream.
The one who captured the Xuantian Sect was the Evil Moon Valley under the command of the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains.
The Haotian Alliance, the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains, is the two major camp organizations in this world, both of which are formed by the union of countless large and small forces, fighting each other with the intention of completely destroying each other, and it is said that it has lasted for hundreds of years.
In Lu Ye's view, such a battle is simply a confrontation between the orderly camp and the evil camp, and he was just accidentally caught up in such a tide of confrontation.
Over the years, wars have raged on the Kyushu Continent, and every year small forces like Xuantian Sect have been uprooted, but soon more forces have sprung up, occupying various territories, making the situation even more chaotic.
Mine slave is mine slave Lu Ye comforted himself, compared to those who were killed, he was still alive.
It is not that he has any special skills to survive, but that Evil Moon Valley needs some miscellaneous servants to do things, and a person like Lu Ye, who has no cultivation and is still young, is undoubtedly the best choice.
In fact, the mine slaves in this vein are not only the people of the Xuantian Sect, but also the disciples of some other small families and small sects.
The strength of the Evil Moon Valley is not weak, and it has captured a lot of territory over the years, and the original forces on these territories have naturally been destroyed, and some of the available manpower has been sent to various places by the Evil Moon Valley to be enslaved.
These people, without exception, have one characteristic, they have not yet opened their minds, and they have not cultivated in their bodies, so they are very easy to control.
There is a saying in the Kyushu continent that it is difficult for a demon to transform without opening his mind, and it is difficult for a person to practice without opening his mind.
If you want to practice, you need to open the spiritual aperture, and only when you open the spiritual aperture can you have the qualification to practice.
Opening the spiritual aperture is not a simple matter, ordinary people can open the spiritual aperture after systematic training, but about one hundred, if they are from a cultivation family or sect, with the guidance of elders, this proportion may be higher.
Lu Ye failed to open his spiritual aperture, so he could only mine in this dim mine to make a living.
However, the mine slave is not without a way out, if he can successfully open his mind and find the person in charge to report to him, he will have the opportunity to participate in an assessment, and if the assessment is successful, he can become a disciple of Evil Moon Valley.
However, there are very few mine slaves who can open their minds, and how can they still open their minds when they work all day long in this dim environment and can't even eat enough.
Therefore, basically ninety percent of the mine slaves have accepted their fate and work hard every day just for a full meal.
Lu Ye didn't have any sense of belonging to the Xuantian Sect, after all, as soon as he came to this world, the Xuantian Sect was destroyed, and he didn't know who those people in the sect were.
He also didn't want to be a disciple of Evil Moon Valley, this was not a serious force, just hearing the name gave people a sense of evil, and sooner or later it would be cold.
But you can't stay here as a mining slave for the rest of your life, what kind of system is it, but he is also an elite in the new era, if you don't have a dream, what is the difference between being a man and a salted fish.
So he has been trying to enlighten himself for the past year, originally he thought that only the shadow tree he could see could provide him with some wonderful help, but until now, this shadow tree is still just a shadow, no matter what help, sometimes it will affect his eyesight.
Lu Ye seriously doubted that there was something wrong with his eyes.
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After turning a corner, a faint light appeared in the distance, which was one of the exits of the mine.
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Today's harvest is good, hand over the ore in the basket, you should be able to get three points of contribution, counting the accumulation of the previous days, there are about twelve points, two points are used to exchange for two steamed buns, and the remaining ten points are just enough to exchange for a Qi and Blood Pill.
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Qi and Blood Pill is a very low-level pill, not a thing to assist in opening the body, but if you want to open the body, you must be full of qi and blood, although the Qi and Blood Pill is low-level, it is suitable for people like Lu Ye who have not opened the body.
The reason why Evil Moon Valley is willing to take out the Qi and Blood Pill is not because of their good intentions, but because they are well versed in the way of people's hearts, and this cheapest and low-grade pill can make people with hope work harder and harder.
For example, Lu Ye is very diligent every day.
There were still thirty zhang away from the exit of the mine, and Lu Ye's gaze casually glanced at a corner in front of the left, where there was a boulder lying horizontally.
He continued to walk forward until he was about ten feet, and then he put down the mining basket he was carrying behind him, tightened the mining pickaxe in his hand, and took out a moderately sized stone from the mining basket, and weighed it slightly.
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The next moment, he ran towards the boulder, approached the boulder, slid sideways, stepped on the rock wall of the mine road, and the whole person swooped down behind the boulder with the help of the rebounding force, like a vigorous cheetah.
The two figures were half-crouching behind the boulder, using the boulder to hide their figures, but they didn't expect that anyone would find their traces.
Hearing the movement, it was too late to see Lu Ye wanting to get up.
Under the frightened gaze of the two, Lu Ye raised his hand and threw out the ore in his hand, hitting the bridge of the nose of one of them, and the person immediately screamed miserably, and fell to the ground on his back, blood flowing from his face.
Lu Ye's other mine pickaxe shot again, but he didn't hit the second person, and the person reacted well and dodged with his head.
However, Lu Ye had already rushed in front of him, kicked down, and hit the other party's lower abdomen, the man was suddenly full of pain, fell out, fell to the ground, and spit out a mouthful of sour water.
Lu Ye stepped forward, grabbed the other party's hair with one hand, saw the other party's face clearly, and sneered: Who am I, it turned out to be you two brothers!
He knew these two people, they were disciples of the Liu family, and after the territory where the Liu family was located was captured by the Evil Moon Valley, some young disciples of the Liu family were sent here to serve as mine slaves.
Strictly speaking, the two brothers Lu Ye and Liu are also connected by the same fate.
The content of the website is updated slowly, please download the iReading app to read the latest chapters. Did I say don't let me see you again, or I'll kill you! As Lu Ye spoke, he casually picked up a stone from the ground and smashed it down.
This time the smash was not light, and the second child of the Liu family only snorted, and was directly knocked out.
Lu Ye walked towards Boss Liu, who had been injured by him before.
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Boss Liu's forehead was broken, his eyes were blurred with blood, and he vaguely saw Lu Ye walking towards him, and he was so frightened that he crawled: Spare your life, my brothers didn't know that you were coming, and they thought it was someone else who spared their lives!
The two Liu brothers were sneakily ambushed in front of the exit of the mine, naturally they didn't have any good intentions.
Before these two people were arrested, they were both pampered, even if they became mining slaves, they didn't want to endure hardship, but the status of mining slaves was low, and the people of Evil Moon Valley didn't treat mining slaves as human beings at all, and if they didn't have ore exchange contributions, they couldn't exchange food at all.
Therefore, the two brothers often squatted in front of a certain exit of the mine road, robbing the lone miners, and many of them were unlucky, not only were the ore they worked hard to mine every day robbed, but they were also beaten half to death.
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Last time, they just wanted to rob Lu Ye, but they were not opponents and were taught a lesson.
Unexpectedly, it was only a few days before I met these two brothers again.
The same rice raises hundreds of people, and there are people like the Liu brothers who are lazy and lazy like the Liu brothers, and there are also people with dreams like Lu Ye.
In the past year, Lu Ye's contributions through the ore exchange, in addition to ensuring daily food and clothing, have all been exchanged for Qi and Blood Pills.
In total, he took no less than thirty Qi and Blood Pills.
This has created Lu Ye's physique stronger than most mine slaves, although his body is not strong, but the strength contained in his body is already better than that of ordinary people.
Dealing with two lazy mining slaves is naturally not a problem.
Boss Liu was still begging for mercy, but Lu Ye didn't hear it, grabbed his hair, raised the stone in his other hand, and smashed it down.
After more than a year of life as a mining slave, Lu Ye has seen too many tragedies, and he has long understood a truth, in this world of cannibalism, any pity and sympathy are useless.
The miners are not all in harmony, and the miners from different forces are destined to be unable to unite, and for the sake of a good ore, the miners will often break their heads and bleed.
There were daily deaths in the mines, and every distance one could see a dry skeleton scattered on the ground.
There are not a few mining slaves who starved to death because they were robbed.
Boss Liu fell in response.
Lu Ye picked up his mining pickaxe, put the mining basket on his back again, and walked towards the exit, he didn't kill the Liu brothers, not because he was soft-hearted, but the injured mine slaves generally don't live long here.
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After only a few steps, a person suddenly rushed in in a panic at the exit.
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I don't care about you! The man snorted and swept towards Lu Ye with a slap.
At this moment, Lu Ye's body was cold, just because he saw a light blue light flowing in the palm of the other party's palm.
It was the light of spiritual power, in other words, it was a monk who shot at him!
Only by opening the spiritual aperture can one be qualified to practice and be qualified to be called a monk.
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The monk's spiritual power is an extremely magical power, Lu Ye has seen a monk in the Evil Moon Valley make a move, although he is not too powerful, but that person just slapped a piece of ore with a light palm, it was only after seeing that magical scene that Lu Ye made up his mind that he must open his spiritual aperture and become a monk.
He had also secretly assessed that even if the cultivator of Evil Moon Valley was the lowest, he could easily beat ten of himself.
So when he realized that it was a monk who attacked him, Lu Ye knew that he was about to be in trouble.
At the moment of life and death, he stopped his pace and jumped backwards suddenly.
His chest was numb, the sound of a fracture sounded, and Lu Ye flew upside down and fell to the ground.
The sharp pain cleared his mind a lot, and he immediately got up after realizing that he was still alive.
Hey! The monk who made the shot was a little surprised, although he didn't use all his strength to slap the palm just now, but it shouldn't be something that the mine slave could bear.
Seeing the face of the mine slave clearly through the glimmer, he blurted out: Lu Ye?
Lu Ye had already put on a posture of turning around and running away at this moment, and he was also stunned after hearing the voice: Steward Yang?
This monk surnamed Yang was a small steward in the mine, and Lu Ye often dealt with him, because the Qi and Blood Pill was exchanged from him, so they were also familiar with each other.
Steward Yang is very optimistic about Lu Ye, after all, it is rare to see a hard-working mine slave like him.
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However, if you are optimistic and optimistic, there is no special preferential treatment, and there is no enlightenment for a day, and there is an insurmountable gap between mortals like Lu Ye and monks.
After recognizing Lu Ye, Steward Yang was relieved that he couldn't slap the other party to death with one palm, Lu Ye had exchanged a lot of Qi and Blood Pills from him this year, and his physical fitness was already stronger than that of ordinary mining slaves, plus he just hit casually, and he didn't want to deliberately kill people, so it was not surprising that the other party could survive.
Opposite Steward Yang, Lu Ye beat a drum in his heart.
The monks of Evil Moon Valley generally don't care about the life or death of the miners, and they also know that the miners will often get into fights and brawls in the veins, so they basically don't pay attention to them unless they meet them.
Lu Ye just beat the Liu brothers on the head and bleed, fainted to the ground, turned his head and slapped Steward Yang, in Lu Ye's opinion, this is clearly Steward Yang is teaching himself.
To see the latest and correct content, please download iRead. But soon he felt that something was wrong, because Steward Yang looked panicked when he rushed in, and he didn't look like he was standing up for the Liu brothers.
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The content of the website is updated slowly, please download the iReading app to read the latest chapters. Download the iReading app for a better reading experience. Just when he was thinking nonsense, Steward Yang had already shown a look of surprise, as if it was a good thing to meet Lu Ye here, he stepped forward and grabbed Lu Ye's shoulder: Follow me! â