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The middle-aged man who robbed the enemy sat leisurely in the carriage. Outside the city, then walked a while, and quietly returned to the docks.

He navigated the piles of goods. Then I came to a building.

There were dozens of big men in plain clothes standing around the building, faintly guarding the warehouse.

Although those big men have tried their best to pretend to be idle, but in their gestures, they are all professional soldiers who are well-trained, strong and arrogant.

As soon as they saw someone approaching, they all put their hands on their waists and watched them vigilantly. It wasn't until they saw each other's faces clearly that they relaxed again.

The middle-aged man didn't care, greeted everyone, and then went straight into the building.

He walked up the stairs to the top floor. He took his breath outside the door, and then knocked softly.

Immediately, the door slammed open.

The man stepped in, then bowed deeply and said, "Your Highness, Your Excellency." ”

But he saw that the room was bright.

Lorraine was sitting in front of the window, sipping wine from a glass.

Leo, on the other hand, was not in shape, and he sat in the swivel chair, staggering two chubby, white radish-like fat legs on the wide desk, and a pair of black, black, round, and Seiko black crystal glasses in front of him.

Hearing someone enter, Leo turned his head, picked at his glasses, rolled his big black and white eyes, and looked over the top of them.

After he looked at the other party, he pressed his glasses back to his nose. Then he said in an official tone, "Jerry, why didn't you still have the talent to act." Honestly, is there any hacking my money?"

Jerry was immediately startled.

He grimaced and said, "Your Highness, aren't you entertaining me? Even if you buy toilet paper, you have to register, how dare we"

Leo smirked with his hands on his hips and looked up and laughed, feeling that he had made a wise decision to ask Vera to be the Auditor.

Lorraine put down her glass, and then said approvingly, "It's good to be stunned." You have to work hard today, and tomorrow when we build a commodity exchange, it won't be so troublesome. ”

Jerry hesitated for a moment, then said worriedly, "My lord, the one you said" Xinke. Can an exchange really bring all the merchants together and have them all obediently trade commodities in it?"

Lorraine laughed for a moment, then corrected, "Jerry, it's not 'New' it's 'New York." 10,000 commodity exchanges. ”

Leo next to him couldn't help but say: "Boss, didn't you say before, like stocks, these things are very troublesome." Even if we go to the casino, can't we do this?"

Lorraine said: "The key to trouble is to look at the dealer." If we are the banker ourselves, then we will play whoever we want to die, and we will play whoever we want to die. ”

Leo still protested: "But after this is built, how can we evade taxes in the future!"

Lorraine was stunned for a while, and only after a long time did she smile bitterly and said, "I can't help this, I have a problem with Nicole to go." At that time, I was just building a commodity exchange, but I didn't expect to be happy. I got into it, too. Nicole saw that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, so she stuffed the tax collector over and took a ride to collect the transaction tax. ”

Leo jumped up like a boar with its tail stepped on.

He stomped on the chair with one foot and the other on the table. Angrily waving his chubby arm, he said, "I know, I know that as long as she mixes, it will not be good."

He glared at Lorraine hatefully and said, "You don't care about your girlfriend, just let her run out and hurt people casually." ”

Lorraine also did not give in, and said: "She is your sister, why don't you tell her?"

Leo was stunned.

The two stared at each other for a long time. Then he suddenly let out a long sigh and said in unison: "Forget it, forget it." It's like spending money to buy peace."

When the two of them were arguing, Jerry was next to him, although he tried to be as indifferent as possible, pretending that he was just a vase. But in the end, I also knew clearly in my heart: don't look at myself, the governor looks very bad, very powerful, and the grandfather is also a bad stomach, but the real person in charge is still the iron-fisted governor of the eastern province, Her Royal Highness the eldest princess of the empire.

Lorraine turned around and saw a vague smile on the corner of Jerry's face, and snorted coldly.

Jerry immediately lowered his head and looked down at the tip of his shoe.

Lorraine coughed lightly, then said, "That's right." Jerry, when we build the exchange and bring in all the salt merchants in Neyan, I want you to fan the flames and encourage them. ”

Jerry hurriedly replied: "Your Excellency and Your Highness, don't worry, when it comes to the means of doing business, they are far from our Flying Eagle Company.

Once the matter is linked to the gold coin. The degree of propagation is the former of light. Tiger Prison often heard at home that anyone who touched the lottery ticket and won something, ranging from television sets to fighter jets, but now that I think about it, it was all a deceptive trick. A means of speculation by merchants. ）

Especially now that the eyes of all Naian people are focused on the price of salt, every thing related to salt affects the nerves of Naian people, and those who fry salt are afraid of falling prices, and those who eat salt are afraid of rising prices.

"Certain. The salt merchant spent a lot of money to charter a shipload of salt at the port" This topic was discussed in all corners of the city that night, and the common people held bowls, drank tasteless soup, and scolded their mothers angrily. The merchant coveted the lucky fellow, and the salt merchants took advantage of it.

That night, like a coyote that smells of fish, the local snakes who operate the price behind the scenes gather again.

However, after knowing that Lorraine was not like the Marquis of Marreton. I like to simplify complex problems and talk to everyone directly with a knife, but I have been indifferent.

Everyone's courage has fattened a lot now.

They took Lord Lorraine's insidiousness for weakness. To think that Lorraine is just a very successful white face, nothing more.

Now they don't have the same toils as they did at the beginning, toiling to disguise themselves and then risk being sexually harassed into dark caves. And the party is starting brightly.

This group of rich landowners was not afraid of leaking secrets at all, and while hugging the second wife, they shouted "our business" around the table

After Lorraine learned about their actions afterwards. smiled disdainfully and gave them a comment of "Mu Monkey and Crown".

"Our business. Such a loud slogan is also worthy of this group of idiots.

Back then, "Our business." The committee, however, brought together the most prominent mafia families in the United States, and these brave people dared to use bazookas. Grenades, characters fighting with Thomson submachine guns in the downtown area of New York.

People held a plenary meeting, and the people standing guard at the door were all Yang Si's people. And people's credibility is better than that of the government, and a word is more effective than the governor.

The Corleone family in The Godfather is not awesome, and he is just an ordinary member of the committee.

Bribing the governor, bribing the judge, shooting and killing licenses, these are still inconspicuous jobs. There are even rumors that the president of the United States, Mr. Kennedy, has been killed. It also has a lot to do with them.

This group of people who are holding money in the dark and afraid that Lorraine will slaughter their landlord snake dare to say such a big thing, which is really unbelievable.

Although these local magnates have reached an offensive and defensive alliance, more sources of goods represent more profits, after more than a month of crazy price increases, with the soaring profits, these people's appetites unconsciously increased, and they quarreled at the conference table.

"Let's work together, monopolize the supply of goods on the dock, and then everyone will divide it by themselves, and if anyone dares to raise the price with us, we will find someone to kill him. ”

"Kill him? I'm not laughing at you, do you have the guts? That white-faced subordinate is waiting for us to break the law, Lao Ka is lonely in prison, you want to accompany him?"

"You black-hearted ghost, you're embarrassed to mention Lao Ka, who provoked him to turn the workers back into slaves. Lao Ka is dead, I heard that you took all his property. As soon as these words came out, the people around him immediately moved their chairs away from that person.

"That's a good saying, how do we divide the goods after they are bought?

"Of course, whoever pays more will share more. ”

"If you treat us as idiots, it doesn't mean that we take the money for you to spend. ”

"That is, everyone has their own ability, and whoever gets it is whom. Who doesn't know that you have the most hoarding at home. You're making a lot of money, aren't you?"

"We're all allies, isn't this a mess?"

"What are you afraid of, we have abundant funds now, and who in the local area dares to rob us? As long as we buy the goods, we can buy them. ”

"Okay, the hands are fast, the hands are slow, everyone depends on their abilities. ”

After a night of hard work, the salt merchants who had received orders from above gathered on the docks with their blankets, watching every transport ship that arrived in the harbor with a blank eye, and in order to fight for a favorable position, these allies even fought in the harbor, and the pot-bellied bosses rolled around the harbor like hooligans with their fleshy fists.

It was supposed to be a hard job on the docks, but the next morning, after a loud noise, a room in the harbor. Hang up an exchange sign.

There is a large blackboard hanging inside the exchange. The goods arriving in the port can be written on the blackboard, waiting for interested people to discuss, except for the tables and chairs in the room, the most conspicuous is the seat of the tax officer.

The people sent by the salt merchants saw it and were overjoyed at the moment. "It's so convenient for us people. This gentleman is really our sweetheart.

At the moment, he shouted "10,000" to Lord Lorraine for several times

After Lorraine found out, he laughed and said, "It was originally for you."

In the morning, another ship laden with table salt docked in port.

The shipowner walked directly into the exchange and wrote on the blackboard, "Fifty thousand pounds of salt."

The salt merchants below were like coyotes at the moment, with red eyes, "Whoa." Earth screamed.

In an instant, they surrounded the shipowner.

"I'm out of twenty!"

"Twenty-Two"

"When I die, I'll give you twenty-five, all for me. ”

"Twenty-eight, look at which of you is still arguing with me. ”

"Hum the character also dares to jump, thirty silver coins a pound. ”

The shipowner was stuck in a sea of people, but he didn't care. Looking at the fanatical face in front of him, his old face that had been exposed to the wind and sun for a long time was so happy that the folds came out.

The ship's owner paused again, then raised his hands and shouted, "Everyone, everyone, listen to me. ”

When the people around him quieted down, the owner of the ship said loudly: "It's such a mess, everyone has quoted the price, and I can't find anyone, bosses, please take a seat." Let's auction so that it's clear who is who."

"Okay, hurry, hurry, take this boat, and wait for lunch

"Come, who's afraid of whom. ”

"Fifty thousand pounds of salt. Sold at once, the reserve price is twenty silver coins a pound. Let's go!"

After a boatload of salt was sold for thirty-one silver coins a pound, Jerry walked out of the exchange with his hands rubbed together and into Leo's makeshift office.

A blank sheet of paper had just been pasted on the office door. The paste hadn't dried yet, and the crooked words "Forward Command" were written on it, and it looked like Leo's handwriting.

Jerry looked at the writing on the door and grinned wryly. I knocked on the door and walked in.

Leo was sitting behind his desk, Scholar Lorraine's usual appearance, his feet crossed on the table. Folded his hands behind his head and lay on a chair.

Midana was sitting boredly on the sand opposite Leo with a doll in her arms.

Seeing Jerry come in, Leo muttered, "What, it's not comfortable at all to sit like this." Jerry, how's it going?"

"It's a great thing, my Highness, the price has risen again today. Thirty-one silver coins are a brick

"Up? good". Leo yelled yes. He sat up, picked up the pen in his hand and dipped it in ink. The brush brushed and counted on the paper: "A pound of 350,000 pounds is" 15,000 gold coins, a boat a day, a month is 450,000. That's more than 5 million in one year, and more than 50 million in 10 years."

"I'm Lele!" Leo jumped out of his chair excitedly, slapping the table and shouting, "Five million! What else do I sell?" It's up, it's up. ”

Melina snorted dissatisfiedly and said, "Leo, this is the twentieth time you've counted today, you don't have to call every fifteen minutes." ”

Leo cocked his nose. He enjoyed it and said, "I have money now, so I don't care about you." Jerry. Isn't there another boat in the afternoon, and you continue to raise the price, and the higher the speculation, the bigger your prize will be, understand?"

Jerry nodded and smiled, "Yes, Your Highness." ”

Under Leo's instructions, the atmosphere in the afternoon exchange was even more enthusiastic, and the frenzied atmosphere in the auction could easily make people lose their minds, especially when the people around them were waving their hands and shouting, Leo's men specially fanned the flames in the auction, and the shipowner cooperated with them, and every time a ship arrived, the price of salt would rise a little. People on the periphery of the exchange lamented after every trade: it has risen again.

Catherine is in control of the amount of salt released. Leo personally commanded the salt from the salt works to be transported along the river.

Lorraine and Catherine grasped this measure in their hearts, if too much salt was released, these people would not only suspect the origin of the salt, but the price of the salt sold would fall, and if it was too little, Leo would make a lot of noise at the table.

Every morning Catherine and Leo would fight for today's quota, but Catherine always won, and Leo gave a few slaps. Heavy is a good fight.

But after the fight, Leo wiped his nose. Start thinking about maximizing your benefits today.

Although the local magnates who speculated salt boasted of abundant funds and recently made a huge profit from the salt speculation, they were just a group of local snakes after all, and in half a month, Leo released an average of a boatload of salt every day and a half, and the total price of each boat of salt was about 50,000 gold coins, Leo had already sucked up 500,000 gold coins, and the liquidity in the hands of these people had almost been exhausted.

After all, they desperately monopolized the supply of goods, just to maintain the high price of salt, and now most of the money in their hands has been exchanged for salt and stored in the warehouse.

The price of salt transported to the port has begun to decrease in the exchange, and after reaching the highest level of thirty-five silver coins a pound, the price of salt will drop by one silver coin a day.

Moreover, there are fewer and fewer bidders participating in the live auction, and speculators who have no money in their hands have withdrawn from the market, guarding the hoarded salt and starting to dream of getting rich.

The price of salt on the market is still rising, mainly because these speculators have consumed their liquidity and are now eager to make cash.

At today's dinner table, Leo complained dejectedly: "Hell, these people are too bad now, this is the sixth day in a row that the price has dropped." Now a pound of salt can only be sold for twenty-eight, silver coins. And there were few people on the scene to buy it, and I almost bought my own salt today. I'm really. ”

After saying that, he hated and snatched a piece of ribs from Vera's hand.

Leo stuffed something in his mouth and muttered, "Why are you boasting about the supply of goods, just these old people, a bunch of stupid people who talk big." ”

Lorraine thought for a moment and said, "Almost. It's time for the end of the show. It seems that the salt merchant has no liquidity in his hands, and if he continues to play, he may be exposed. ”

Leo hurriedly said: "No, boss, I'm avenging you, wouldn't it be better to earn them an extra amount of money." ”

Catherine said: "I don't know what you think, no, I'll sell it tomorrow, it's been two months, it's over, and we should go back to the city." ”

Leo sneered, "I'll sell it for another day tomorrow." Just one day. ”

"No, every silver coin broken, it's already a huge profit. Seeing Leo smile even sweeter. Catherine snorted, looked down at Leo no longer and added casually, "Let's talk about the tax increase." ”

Leo hurriedly covered his mouth with his hands. He nodded vigorously, then sighed helplessly. said: "I used to sell a boat for 15,000, and in the future, I can only sell a boat for 500 gold coins, alas, "Life is really up and down." (To be continued)