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The people in the hall exchanged words and ears. Whispered.

The voice was low and ragged, amplified incessantly in the hall. Faintly, everyone seemed to be able to feel that in the depths of their hearts, a fierce and cruel demonic beast was opening its bloody mouth and roaring silently at them.

Sure enough, everyone saw that the salt of this ship had not been completely unloaded, and there was an identical transport ship on the berth next to it. Moreover, the sailors on the two ships were familiar with each other.

The young clerk who was in charge of registering the ship's records on the dock looked at the sign on the bow of the ship, and said in a strange way, "Salt Company?"

Then, he suddenly came to his senses, looked up and shouted, "You are from the salt company?"

The owner of the ship stood at the bow of the boat, looked condescendingly at the clerk on the dock, and said with a laugh: "Yes, we are the Ne On Salt Company." Not only me, but the boats behind me are all ~!"

The clerk was stunned for a moment, and said to himself, "People are going crazy today?"

The shipowner laughed and said, "I'm sorry, sir. I'm not crazy today. But some people must be going crazy today~!"

Before he could finish his words, the workers on the docks didn't know why. Suddenly there was a big commotion, and there was a commotion.

The clerk frowned when he saw it.

He was about to reprimand a few words, but when he heard the voices of the workers, he couldn't help but lose his voice.

I heard the workers pointing to the sea not far away and shouting, "The third ship, three ships carrying salt have come today." ”

On the blackboard of the exchange, just below the line "table salt, 50,000 pounds", there is a line filled with the same content.

The merchant in the exchange suddenly exclaimed loudly like a hen harassed by a fox.

The salt merchants slapped the table and stood up, shouting excitedly, "How can this be?"

"It can't be!"

"Usually there is only one ship in two days, why are there three ships this time?"

“......”

"Ladies and gentlemen, what do you say?" said an old salt merchant in his sixties as he stood up, looked at his peers around him, and asked in a deep voice.

The salt merchants looked at each other, and they all fell silent.

After a long time, someone whispered and said in despair: "What else can I do? Buy it! If we can't get the supply of goods, once they flow to the market, we will release the goods." The goods we stock up on are worthless. ”

At this moment, the owner of the ship squeezed out of the crowd and came to the salt merchants. bowed to everyone, and then said with a smile: "You are really rich, everyone is rich, everyone is rich." ”

The salt merchants looked blankly at the smiling shipowner in front of them, and an old salt merchant smiled bitterly and said, "Get rich." Today, your brother is rich, and we will be miserable~!"

The owner of the ship glanced at the man, but he was also a little sympathetic, but according to Lorraine's explanation in advance, he still said with a smile: "The old rules, I'll wait for you to bid?"

The old salt merchant looked left and right, and his peers were now all dumbfounded. The old salt merchant shouted twice at the moment: "Hey, hey, bid, what are you doing~!"

"Those two boats just now, how can there be any money?"

"Yes, the boat just now is still the money of the three of us. ”

“......”

It seemed that they had no choice, the old salt merchant sighed, carefully calculated his family background, and then said astringently: "Eighteen silver coins a pound, do you think this price is okay?"

The owner of the ship laughed and said very happily: "Okay, the deal, if you don't hurry up, there will be no chance." My colleagues are all rabbits, and they run faster than anyone else. ”

Listen to what the shipowner said. The old salt merchant immediately had a bad premonition.

His cloudy old eyes immediately burst into two bright lights, staring closely at the owner's face, and asked word by word, "Your colleague?"

The owner of the ship still laughed and said, "yes, why didn't anyone sue you......?

As he spoke, he pointed to the blackboard of the exchange, drew a large circle, and then proudly said loudly, "It's all from our Ne Salt Industry." ”

"You ...... The old salt merchant's eyes widened, as if he had heard some terrible news, his eyebrows turned upside down, and his expression became fierce.

The surrounding merchants also followed suit.

"Naian Salt?"

"Haven't heard of it. New company?"

"If you can play the name of Nai'an, it seems that the strength will not be weak. ”

“......”

The owner of the ship still had that kind of cute smile, and even smiled more kindly than just now, first arched his hand at the salt merchant, bowed in a circle to the merchants around him, and said loudly: "It has just been established, and the company is not big, please take care of it in the future." ”

The old salt merchant laughed miserably at the moment, and said to himself: "Naian Salt Industry." ”

At this time, I only heard a commotion outside the exchange, and the people outside were shouting loudly, and they couldn't hear anything clearly.

Everyone was stunned.

The old salt merchant was about to send out to inquire when he saw a young man stumbling in through the door of the exchange.

His face turned red with excitement, and he pointed outside and shouted loudly, "Again...... Here comes another boat~!"

Seeing his excited appearance, the old salt merchant immediately reached out and grabbed him, and asked sharply, "What is a boat?"

"Salt! Another boatload of salt~!"

There was another coaxing in the exchange.

The merchants who bought and sold other goods looked at the group of salt merchants next to them, who had fallen into stupidity, and looked at them with a kind of schadenfreude, and whispered to each other: "These salt merchants are going to be unlucky." ”

"Unlucky, not just unlucky, but this time, they are all dead. ”

"Well deserved!"

"yes, you deserve it. ”

“......”

And the salt merchants stood together as if they were mourning. All of them turned pale.

"Salt, it's salt again......" A salt merchant's chubby hands pressed on the table, bean-sized sweat drops dripped down his cheeks onto the table, his body slowly trembled, he grabbed the people around him, trembled and said: "Go and report to the master, something is wrong......

Then, there was a soft 'cough' sound from deep in his throat, followed by a release of his hands and falling backwards.

The guy next to him hurriedly helped him, and shouted helplessly: "Boss, boss!"

At this moment, another shipowner wearing a captain's hat walked briskly into the exchange.

He was also on the blackboard of the transaction, and after skillfully filling in the line of "table salt, 50,000 pounds" with chalk, he felt the silence in the exchange at the moment.

He couldn't help but be stunned, and when he looked up, he saw that everyone in the exchange was staring at him, and he was immediately startled, and said suspiciously: "What's wrong with you?"

"You're also from Ne Ann Salt?"

"yes. Is there anything wrong?" asked the captain curiously.

"How many boatloads of salt do you have?"

The man bared his teeth for a moment, laughed, and said, "Trade secrets, no comment." ”

At this time. After another berth in the harbor was added by the transport ship, looking at the familiar sign, the clerk suddenly felt dizzy, and said to himself: "Did this salt fall from the sky?"

The owner of the ship jumped down from the boat, and when he walked past the clerk, he said: "This did not fall from the sky, this is grown from the ground, 50,000 pounds of table salt, trouble." ”

With that, he also walked to the exchange.

At this moment, Jerry came out of the way.

He pointed to the owner of the boat, who had just disembarked. Shaking his head and scolding, he scolded: "You guy, didn't you tell you that you would enter the port again?

The owner of the ship spread his hands and said innocently, "I don't want to either." But the guys in the back pushed me in. They jumped there like monkeys and shouted, saying that the later they came, the lower the price, the lower the price, and the less the prize. ”

At this time, a group of strong men forced through the crowd and walked towards this side.

The style of these people is extremely rough, and after they come forward, they directly push other people's chests and force them to both sides.

The people who were pushed away were about to get angry, but when they saw the swords at their waists and the chain mail peeking out of their collars, they all wisely shut their mouths.

These men rushed to the front of the transport ship and formed a tight wall in front of the crowd of onlookers.

Everyone looked at these expressionless men, and they couldn't help but feel a burst of hair in their hearts. What do these guys do?

At this moment, I heard a crisp children's voice coming out of the human wall, and said sternly: "Jerry, why are you still here?"

Jerry hurriedly took off his hat, then bowed respectfully and said, "Back to Your Highness, our company's ship is coming a little too fast." ”

Everyone was immediately shocked.

Although their status is low, they are mixed in the provincial capital, and relatively speaking, they are much more sensitive to politics than those local and old people in the countryside.

All kinds of gossip are also extremely well-informed. Everyone is just thinking slightly, and they also know that there is only one person who can be called His Royal Highness in the empire, and he is so young.

Moreover, that person also happened to be the cheap brother-in-law of the governor of Lorraine, and according to the official words, he was inspecting and inspecting the work in the province of Nai'an.

At that moment, someone had the audacity to take a look through the cracks, and sure enough, he saw a short figure in the middle.

"How many times have you said it, you want to call me president, president~!" Leo said unhappily with a straight face, and then folded his arms, trying to show his majesty. Said: "I saw it, you ......"

Leo pointed to the owner of the ship who had just come down and said, "Quick, go and register the goods, and give those guys another heavy blow, go quickly." ”

The shipowner hurriedly nodded and said loudly, "Yes, Your Majesty...... Ah no, His Highness the President. ”

After saying that, he ran over quickly.

Leo was furious at the moment, looked at his back, waved his little fist, and shouted: "It's the president~! Bastard, believe it or not, I'll deduct your salary?"

He sighed, slapped his forehead, and said, "It's really nerve-wracking to have a group of stupid subordinates like you, I don't have any autonomy at all, I have to do everything myself, and if I don't pay attention to you, I'll make a mess, it's really ......"

Melina's hearing from Leo kept frowning, and interrupted Leo, "Leo, aren't you still going to give a righteous judgment to those salt merchants? ”

Leo sighed, and said meaninglessly: "No wonder Nicole always likes to scold me, it's so cool to scold people like this." Okay, let's get down to business, Jerry, let's listen to it tomorrow. ”

"Yes, Temple...... President. Seeing Leo turn around and walk away with satisfaction, Jerry wiped the sweat on his forehead, and secretly said in his heart: Fortunately, this master is a master who turns his head and forgets things, otherwise the president will have fun catching him every day for his own pleasure.

By the time the words "50,000 pounds of salt" were written on the blackboard, the merchants in the exchange were already excited, and they had already thought that someone was dealing with these salt merchants and dumping salt in a concentrated manner.

The businessmen who guessed the reason for the incident were all in the mood of watching the excitement at the moment. They also no longer trade their own goods, but stay in the exchange and wait for things to develop.

Just now, the salt merchants could pretend to be calm and think of countermeasures, but the 50,000 pounds of salt that came out completely destroyed their confidence at this moment.

In the past half a month, they have been talking and laughing in the exchange, and they have no eyes to spare, hugging the female secretary and laughing loudly, and the high-spirited salt merchants are all frightened at this moment.

They were stunned in their chairs, like a flock of frightened quails.

A salt merchant jumped up, slammed his fist on the table, and shouted hysterically: "Buy~! ”

The other salt merchants suddenly came to their senses at this time, and shouted: "Buy, buy, buy them all~!"

A loud shout came from the door: "Okay, fifteen silver coins a pound, how much do you want, how much I sell~!"

Everyone couldn't help but be stunned, and then turned their heads to look.

I saw that in the midst of a large group of people in front of and behind him, a half-sized figure appeared at the door of the exchange, not developed, and the slightly flattened small nose bridge with big sunglasses, with white and red, fat little cheeks, wearing a white shirt and black vest, and a meticulous tie, it was the little grandfather Leo who was waiting for the time to appear.

Leo was now holding one hand behind his back and pointing at the group of salt merchants with the other, with a righteous and stern expression on his face.

Everyone in the exchange was confused by the sudden appearance of Leo, and said to themselves: Who is this?

Seeing that Leo's raised arm didn't let go for a long time, Portocci, who had been following Leo's side, suddenly came to his senses, clapped vigorously, and shouted: "Well said, wonderful, really powerful, too courageous~!"

The Praetorian Guard soldiers who were guarding Leo woke up at this time, and they also applauded vigorously, shouting: "It's so handsome~!"

"Good~!"

Leo laughed, waved his hand, and said modestly, "There, there." General. Don't praise me anymore, if you praise me again, I won't be proud, hahaha......"

Everyone immediately sweated profusely, and secretly said in their hearts: You are already proud, uh, no, you are already arrogant~!

When Melina saw it, she also felt a little embarrassed, and immediately quietly moved two steps to the side, posing as "I don't know this stupid boy".

The people in the exchange looked at Leo and his men, and after a long time, a guy in the crowd asked, "Who are you?"

Jeff shook out from behind Leo and said loudly, "This is the president of our Ne Salt Company." ”

Some of the merchants had seen Leo at the reception in Lorraine, and whispered in the crowd, "This is His Highness Leo." ”

The merchants in the exchange looked at Leo in amazement, who was also the president, the businessmen's brains were the most flexible, and the group of merchants in front of Leo also cheered and shouted, "Your Highness is wise." ”

"Long live, long live Ruman. ”

Leo smacked his little belly proudly, and snorted with his nostrils facing the sky. He winked at Melina triumphantly.

Leo pressed his hands downward, signaled everyone to be quiet, and then raised his hand and pointed at the group of salt merchants in a daze, and said: "You guys, your conscience is very bad, and you are desperately exploiting the people of Nai'an for the sake of profit, and your behavior cannot be judged by the law, so I will judge you morally." Today the president also represents the moon...... Ah, no, it's the sun, ah, it's not right......"

Melina lowered her head, rubbed the rag doll in her hand vigorously with both hands, and said sharply in a voice that could only be heard by Leo alone, "It's the people of Ney." ”

Leo turned to look at Melina and said, "What did you say, Melina?"

Melina gritted her teeth and said, "It's on behalf of the people of Naian." Melina's two little white hands twisted the rag doll so hard that the tendons on her knuckles jumped.

"Ah, yes, it's the people of Naan, punish you. After saying that, Leo looked at the twisted rag doll in Melina's hand, swallowed saliva, reached out to loosen his tie, and laughed dryly.

Melina raised her head, smiled sweetly at Leo, and said, "Hurry up and finish your show." ”

Melina's smile became brighter and brighter, but Leo's little face turned white, but he knew that Melina was becoming more and more like Nicole now, and Catherine, who smiled the sweetest, was the most terrifying.

Leo shuddered, nodded at Melina and smiled, "It's over soon, it's over right away." ”

Then he turned around and pointed at the group of salt merchants, put on that righteous expression, and said loudly: "From now on, five ships of salt will be brought in from the port every day, and I see that you can hold out for a few days." ”

As soon as Leo said this, he turned around and walked out of the exchange, surrounded by guards.

The workers surrounding the exchange waved their hats and cheered when they heard Leo's declaration.

"The price of salt is finally coming down. ”

When Leo left the exchange with the people, the salt merchants sat down in disgrace and fell to the ground in distraction from their chairs under the eyes of pity or disdain.

The salt merchants' faces were all white and scary, and one of them covered his face and kept chanting: "It's over, it's all over, it's all over." ”

The other salt merchant, who had fallen to the ground, slowly rose from the ground, and suddenly pounded the stone slab to the ground, and began to cry.

A salt merchant on the side seemed to be ten years old in an instant, grabbed the guy next to him, stared at the empty eyes and said in confusion: "I threw all my net worth into it, what should I do?"

The guy cried and said, "Boss, our salary this month?"

The salt merchant burst out laughing so loudly that tears came down his eyes, and he laughed and said, "What wages do you have left?" Hahaha. ”

A person beside him staggered to his feet and said, "You just went bankrupt, and I borrowed more than 50,000 gold coins and got in." Alas, my wife advised me not to be too greedy, I'm sorry for her~"

As he spoke, the salt merchant walked through the crowd and walked out of the exchange. (！)