Chapter 22 Forced Buying
After taking over the business of Fourth Avenue, the Julong Gang also soared. The new members of the gang now know that the leader of the Julong Gang is Hakka Taojian Gaocheng, and the deputy gang leader is the "Seven Absolute Floating Slaughter" Yuan Ji.
Yuanji now has a high reputation in the eyes of the gang, especially the newcomers. Yuan Ji went hand in hand with Gaocheng in the Chongdu Rebellion, and after the story of the bloody battle spread all over the streets and alleys, many people from the rivers and lakes came to worship the Julong Gang.
In the hearts of these gangs and Jianghu guests, Yuanji and Gaocheng have become synonymous with the friendship of life and death.
As the sun sets, the sky is dyed with oranges, and the sun shines on the outer nine cities.
Yuan Ji led dozens of gangs towards the wharf in the west of the city, and a group of people were violent, and the gangsters who followed Yuan Ji's side kicked open the door of the wharf warehouse and walked in with their heads held high.
"Who are you doing?" The thugs arrogantly glanced at the operators with their noses, "Tell the chief to come out and meet our master."
"Master Yuan?!" When the transporter carrying the sack heard these two words, he immediately trembled, "Julong Gang?!"
"Go and ask the shopkeeper!" Immediately, the organic spirit operator shouted in a loud voice, "Hurry, hurry!"
The transporters quickly moved the goods away and retreated to the side, and then stood in two rows, trembling and hanging their heads, not daring to look at Yuanji among the gang. Z.br>
"Distinguished guests, distinguished guests!" A man dressed in a high-quality ice silk robe stammered down the stairs, and he walked quickly to Yuan Ji and saluted respectfully, "Yuan Ye has arrived, the little one is far away, and I ask Yuan Ye to atone for his sins."
Yuan Ji glanced at him coldly, and then said, "Tell the chief to come out to greet him, and you stand down."
When the shopkeeper heard this, he immediately smiled enthusiastically and said, "Master Yuan, the little one is the owner of this warehouse, and if the master has any orders, even if he squeaks, the little one goes to the soup and does his best—"
"I'm looking for you, the owner of the business." Yuanji's words quickly followed, interrupting, "Go and call, don't disturb my ears."
The shopkeeper bowed his sleeves in embarrassment, and he smiled and said, "This ...... Master Yuan, the owner of the other—"
"Master Yuan!" An exclamation suddenly came from the fence on the second floor, "Why is Master Yuan here?!"
The man propped up the fence, his eyes widened as he looked at Motoyoshi, and immediately laughed enthusiastically. I saw him rushing down the stairs with a sneer, and when he came to Yuanji, he bowed respectfully.
Yuan Ji looked this person up and down, then stared at his face carefully, and after a while, said, "Jiang Nianhua?"
"Exactly, exactly!" Jiang Nianhua grinned, he seemed to be familiar and said, "I didn't expect that when I first met Yuan Ye in Xia, Yuan Ye actually knew the name of Xia."
"The name of the shopkeeper Jiang is not loud in Chongdu, but it is well-known in Tongzhou and Panzhou." Yuan Ji snorted lightly, "Shopkeeper Jiang, the four streets of the outer nine cities are now the territory of my Julong Gang, you are the king of the mountains in the two states, and your business is very prosperous. Now, why is it that even the flag of the dock has been planted on the boundary of our Dragon Gang? Isn't this out of order?"
"Oh, that's ...... What Yuan Ye said is extremely true. It's really offensive to be a newcomer and not understand the rules of the Outer Nine Cities now." Jiang Nianhua wiped his forehead in surprise, "Things have been busy these days, but I have been thinking about going to the mansion to meet the master. It's not." He pointed to the full load of goods and transporters on the left and right, "Yuan Ye has also seen it, he is really busy and dizzy. Now that I have met the Yuan Ye, it can be regarded as a fate to meet thousands of miles away, and I will pay homage to the dock below, and please forgive the Yuan Ye."
"Shopkeeper Jiang is polite, you are so humble, Yuan is quite abrupt." Yuan Ji returned the salute, "A hundred ruins are waiting to be rebuilt, and now many displaced people in the south have fled into Chongdu, and there are more and more outsiders in the outer nine cities. The streets are full of refugees begging for food, and I see that the business of this dock is so prosperous, I guess many of those homeless people have mixed up with Jiang's shopkeeper, right?"
"They are all the people of Zheng Guo, I am short of manpower, they lack work to support their families. Then give me a job, as it should be." Jiang Nianhua muttered in his heart, "Master Yuan is here today, I don't know what you are doing?"
"Shopkeeper Jiang is a businessman, Yuan Moujie is a martial artist, and he hopes that Shopkeeper Jiang doesn't care if he speaks roughly." Yuan Ji casually tore open the sack and looked at it, "I'm here to talk to Shopkeeper Jiang about business on behalf of others."
Jiang Nianhua squeezed his eyebrows, and then grinned
He smiled and asked, "Master Yuan, please speak."
"I heard that Shopkeeper Jiang has a lot of fields in Tongzhou and Panzhou, and he harvests three crops a year, and the grain is quite abundant." Yuan Ji looked at the sack full of rice, "I just thought, come here and ask Shopkeeper Jiang to buy some rice."
Jiang Nianhua stepped forward with a flattering smile, then grabbed a handful of white rice from the sack and said, "It turns out that the Yuan Ye is going to buy rice, easy to say, easy to say. Yuan Ye looked at it, these are all Panzhou rice, watered and planted by the cold spring in the mountain stream. Plump and large-grained, all of them are high-quality rice, you see."
Yuan Ji grabbed a handful of white rice, spread it in his palm and looked at it carefully, then nodded with satisfaction and said, "Yes, this rice looks really good." He poured the rice back into the sack and shook his hands, "What price?"
"The face of the Yuan Ye, the two achievements of the market price, the right to make a friend, and also as an apology for not coming to the door for a long time." Jiang Nianhua smiled enthusiastically, "I don't know how much the Yuan Ye wants, I'll ask the guy to write it down."
Yuanji stared at the sack and asked, "What is the market price of 20%?"
"Back to the deputy leader." The thug who followed Yuanji's side immediately said, "Panzhou rice is seventy dollars for one bucket, and seven hundred dollars for one stone. Twenty percent is fourteen dollars a bucket, and one hundred and forty dollars a stone."
"Heh, shopkeeper Jiang gives noodles, so low." Yuan Ji chuckled and looked at Jiang Nianhua, "In that case, Yuan will accept the love of the shopkeeper Jiang and make you a friend."
"Thank you, Master Yuan!" Jiang Nianhua clapped his hands and laughed, and then asked, "Master Yuan said that he would give a number of reports, and he would definitely pay all of them."
"Not much." Yuan Ji chuckled, "I just want to buy your two years' harvest."
As soon as these words came out, not only the shopkeeper behind Jiang Nianhua was dumbfounded, but Jiang Nianhua's laughter also froze on his face.
"Master Yuan, this is a joke." Jiang Nianhua maintained a smile awkwardly, "The harvest of the two states for two years is enough to feed the mouths of the people of one state for half a year, and the Yuan Ye will really take it to find fun."
The gangster immediately scolded coldly: "Our master has a promise of a thousand gold, how can he make fun of you, a *** businessman?!"
Jiang Nianhua shrank back when he was reprimanded, he looked at Yuan Ji with a dumb smile, and said astringently, "Master Yuan, this is ......
"Shopkeeper Jiang, I'm a person who doesn't like to joke." Yuan Ji looked at him sideways according to the sack, "Since Shopkeeper Jiang looks up to me Yuan someone, he says that two percent is too cheap. A bucket of seventy dollars is a bucket of seventy dollars, but this amount I have to pass and plate two states and six seasons of harvest, how?"
Jiang Nianhua's complexion changed, he looked at the shopkeeper beside him, the shopkeeper wiped his sweat, and his waist was a little lower.
His mind struggled, and he thought about it for a long time before he said, "Good! Yuan Ye can buy rice at the market price, and that is also worthy of me Jiang Nianhua. This rice has been sold!"
"Shopkeeper Jiang is refreshing." Yuan Ji looked at him squarely, "Making a friend like you, Yuan feels that it is fate. If you don't give up now, Yuan will prepare a table and talk to Jiang's shopkeeper about wine, okay?"
Jiang Nianhua sideways his eyes, then nodded and said with a smile: "This is very good, such a big business, there are many matters to discuss with the Yuan Ye in the future."
Yuanji stepped aside and said, "Please."
Jiang Nianhua clasped his fists and saluted, and then stretched out his arms and said, "Master Yuan, please."
The two of them walked out of the warehouse one after the other, and the shopkeeper immediately beckoned the transporter to move the goods.
But the thug who was following Yuan Ji suddenly grabbed the shopkeeper's shoulder and said, "This brother, Yuan Ye is happy to celebrate today. I'll see you for the first time, and I've just offended a lot, come. Let's go and drink together."
The shopkeeper was thin and weak, unable to withstand the strength of the gangster's arm, and he euphemistically prevaricated, "The small one is still entangled in many things, and it is really inconvenient to drink, this master, you are still—"
"What's the inconvenience, the Yuan Ye said that he wanted to make your boss a friend. Then you'll be a friend of our Dragon-Gathering Gang." The thug said like a scoundrel, "Then we are friends, please have a drink, can you go?"
The arrogant and domineering bastardism was revealed again, how dare this little shopkeeper provoke, so he had to smile bitterly and nod again and again, and said, "Go, go, I'll accompany you to have a few drinks."
The thugs laughed at him, and soon everyone left the warehouse.
The transporters saw that the steward was gone, and again
No one urged them to work, so they immediately looked around and muttered and discussed, and then they all secretly went out of the warehouse and locked the door, and went home early.
At this time, the time had just arrived, and the silent and unmanned warehouse suddenly sounded a burst of footsteps, and a group of sneaky black-clothed people came to the warehouse.
Someone pried open the lock and tore open the door, and then waved his arm at the person behind him, and a group of people pushed the one-wheeled truck into the warehouse.
The night was dark, and the door was closed.
Rows of trucks entered the Manhong Pass along the winding road, and Liu Shuoyun stood in front of the city gate and watched.
The soldier standing beside him looked sad, and he watched the wagons enter the city gate, and said, "These are all the grain and grass of this season, my lord, and the amount has been reconciled, and it is not less."
Liu Shuoyun rummaged through the ledger in his hand, frowned and said, "How is it the grain of the northern border city? Hasn't Chongdu delivered the paperwork notice for military rations yet?"
"Back to my lord, there has been no urgent document from Chongdu, and the small report station has gone to confirm, and scouts from all over the country are also investigating." The soldier straightened up and sighed, "The granary has checked the accounts last month, and it has been enough to support all the brothers in the pass for more than two months, but now most of the brothers are out of the fortress with Captain Liang, and the five battalions are too far apart, so it is inevitable that the transfer of the time arrangement will be more detailed. Moreover, the atrium is now also buying grain and grass, and the merchants of Daizhou are driven away by the profits, and the grain of the people is completely harvested, and it is really difficult to support the five battalions of armor soldiers outside the desert."
"It's a big thing that burns the eyebrows." Liu Shuoyun's face was gloomy, "If there is no food, the armor soldiers outside the fortress will have to fight hungry, how can this be good."
He turned around and walked along the avenue of the city gate towards the martial arts arena, and the hand behind his waist was clasped very tightly.
"The adults, the small ones have been summed up with the clerks of the accounting office." The soldier said in a consultative tone, "Now that the war is tight outside, it is absolutely impossible for the five battalions to go without food. It is better to order the scouts to loot some small tribes in the desert, and get some dry meat cattle and sheep for a while. When the grain and grass from Chongdu arrive, we are transporting it to the outside of the Saiwai. Your Excellency, is this an appropriate move?"