Chapter 548: Hidden Red Lady
"Thank you for being here today, so take a seat. You're welcome. The Hidden Red Lady walked directly to the main table and sat down. This vigorous and resolute style is very in line with her heroic temperament. The strange man with the box on his back stood behind her, his only eyes showing out, scanning the people present.
At this moment, Li Mu also made eye contact with him. There was coldness, despair, and gloom in the man's eyes.
Somehow, this look reminded Li Mu of Shen Li. When Shen Li was about to die outside Songyang City, her eyes were like this. Li Mu couldn't forget this look, so he felt even more sorry for Shen Li.
"This man, I'm afraid, is not an ordinary person. Li Mu muttered to himself, and Yi Fan on the side listened to the change in his tone and said, "Being able to carry such a big box is definitely not an ordinary person." Besides, the person came in with the Hidden Red Lady, and I'm afraid it was also a member of the Red Shark Gang. ”
Li Mu remembered that Shao Yang had some knowledge of the Red Shark Gang before, and turned his head and asked, "Gang Master Shao, do you know who the person next to the Hidden Red Lady is?"
Shao Yang frowned slightly, "Is that the person carrying the box on his back? This person's name is Tang Yizhi, and he is the personal guard of the hidden red lady, and his identity is mysterious, and he rarely makes a move." So, I don't know. ”
"What do you mean?" Li Mu muttered, "Thank you Shao for helping Master Shao solve your doubts." ”
After Yin Hongniang sat down, she looked at the people sitting at the bottom, and then said: "The matter of Dongchu City should have also spread to the territory of Dazhen." For a woman, the voice of the hidden red lady is not as soft and crisp as that of ordinary women, only slightly magnetic and hoarse. However, husky doesn't mean it's not open, and her volume is controlled just enough to be heard by everyone present without making people feel uncomfortable.
"You are also a figure with a head and a face in Lanzhou, so I won't say much about it. The hidden matchmaker leaned back in the chair, revealing a domineering aura that had been in the top position for a long time. "We Red Shark Gang want to find someone who can do something, and we can join forces and do some business. ”
As soon as Li Mu heard the word "business", a strange smile appeared on his face. The Red Shark Gang's usual business to survive is semi-openly raiding caravans and collecting protection fees from passing caravans. The former has rarely done it publicly because the Red Shark Gang was recruited and Redbeard became the leader of Qiangzhou. More of the latter, in the form of a protection fee,
However, the word "very little" certainly does not mean that there is none. When encountering a caravan that does not cooperate, or a caravan that returns with a full load and is enviable, the Red Shark Gang will still go back to its old business.
"To do some business, apart from collecting some stolen goods from unknown sources, what else can it be?" Li Mu knew this. He suddenly understood why the Red Shark Gang would invite gangs in addition to inviting caravans.
Caravans that want to buy daily supplies and do serious business grab a handful. As long as the profit exceeds the cost by 30%, it is enough for them to squeeze their heads to fight. As for the imperial court, one is willing to fight, and the other is willing to suffer. The innocent transaction of paying money with one hand and delivering goods with the other seems to have no need to stop. The territory of Qiangzhou is originally vast and sparsely populated, and the Qiangzhou state government is also counting on being able to collect some more commercial taxes.
As for the loot obtained by plundering the caravans, the ordinary caravans were afraid that they would not dare to accept them.
Da Zhen has today's prosperity, to a large extent, because Chen Xiao continued to open the ban on commerce on the basis of the first emperor. Compared with the previous agriculture-oriented, Chen Xiao encouraged commercial development more under the condition of ensuring that the national treasury rations were sufficient. Caravans traveling abroad, as long as they were engaged in serious business, were protected by the imperial court. The Red Shark Gang plundered caravans, which was a criminal act. In addition, when the Red Shark Gang was recruited, they made an oath not to do anything about robbing caravans. Once the Red Shark Gang robbed the caravan and was convicted of the crime, the court would hold the Red Shark Gang responsible.
Those who can take the risk of being pursued by the imperial court to collect the stolen goods of the Red Shark Gang are indeed the only places like Dongchu City, which are beyond the reach of the imperial court. How could an ordinary caravan have the courage to test the bottom line of the imperial court for the benefit of a little stolen goods?
Besides, the batch of goods you received today is very likely to have been lost by other merchants' caravans. Everyone is in business, and the business is bigger, and they are all people with heads and faces in this industry. Accepting the stolen goods of the Red Shark Gang means that he is slapping the face of the victim business. If it's done secretly, no one will know about it. If the East Window incident happens and is known by peers, will you be able to do business in the future?
So, the Red Shark Gang is looking for a gang. Only gangs that are free in the gray area can eat the stolen goods.
Find caravans to guarantee supplies and gangs to dispose of stolen goods. The hidden matchmaker is also a good hand.
The Hidden Red Lady then began to introduce the benefits of cooperating with the Red Shark Gang, of course, mainly for the people present at the business, revealing that she would buy the materials needed for life at a high price. As for the gang, it was temporarily left to the side by her.
After Li Mu listened to the introduction of the hidden matchmaker, the latter immediately came to a bidding meeting on the spot. With the annual living cost of the Red Shark Gang as an indicator, within the price range given by the Hidden Red Lady, let the major businesses quote. After listening to the words of the hidden matchmaker, the shopkeepers who came here have begun to calculate the costs and benefits in their hearts.
Li Mu looked at Xie Bing, who asked Xianzong to come over as well. It doesn't look like what I said outside before, it's not a joke. Xie Bing really had an idea and wanted to cooperate with the Red Shark Gang.
Li Mu touched his chin, weighing it in his heart. The Red Shark Gang is a big force, and it comes and goes in Qiangzhou, and the imperial court can't control it. If you can get involved with them, selling some supplies is just a small amount of money. The real big head is the trade route in the north! The trade route of the night white country! The other caravans have to guard against the steppe people, the night whites, and the Red Shark Gang. If you take a trade route, I am afraid that it will account for most of the cost in terms of the expenditure of the guard.
Once you have a good deal with the Red Shark Gang, then the Red Shark Gang will turn enemies into friends. The Red Shark Gang has always been at odds with the grassland people, and with their escort, the cost of a trip to the Night White Country will drop by as much as fifty percent. The income remains the same, the cost decreases, so isn't this profit a disguised increase?
Although the hidden matchmaker did not say it explicitly, she had already revealed such a little meaning. The big and small shopkeepers who come here are not stupid people, such a simple arithmetic, who can't count?
However, Li Mu was thinking about another thing, that is, the suggestion that Bu Yanjun mentioned before, let himself let go of everything in Yacheng and go to the north. Qiangzhou is in the northeast of Lanzhou. Bu Yanjun is a god operator, and Li Mu has already seen his magic. Then, what he said to himself should not be untargeted.
At this time, there was an accident in East Chu City, and the Red Shark Gang chose to come to Yacheng to find a new partner. Could there be something to say?
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