Li Ling's statement made both of them think deeply.

Although their Baiyitang has repeatedly robbed the food of the merchants and gentry, and then divided it with the affected people, they have never thought deeply about how to help the victims.

They thought what they did was already the limit, but now they realized that compared with Li Ling's plan, what they did was just a symptom treatment and could not change the real disadvantages of Huguang at all.

Fan Chao felt even deeper. He looked at Li Ling for a while before speaking: "Are you saying true?"

Li Ling did not dodge any and opposed his eyes: "Of course."

"But why? Why do you, a foreigner, take such a risk to spend a lot of money to help us in Huguang?"

"The road is not fair, and the matter is not fair, and I just like to help others. I don't want those working diligent people to be colluded by officials and businessmen and their families are destroyed."

Facing Li Ling's answer, Fan Chao fell silent again. He always felt that there was something wrong with Li Ling's statement, but after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't find any mistakes. After a while, he could only choose to believe it. After all, people have shown their sincerity, and even food that is of great importance can be guarded by them. What else is there to doubt?

However, Xue Jiong suddenly asked: "Are you not afraid of offending those people if you do this? Will you bring danger to yourself?"

"Yes, cutting off people's wealth is like killing parents. Don't you worry about your own safety? Even if you have master guards around you, once they use official relationships, as you are a foreign businessman, it is unlikely that you will escape unscathed, right?" Fan Chao also asked immediately.

Li Ling smiled: "That's why I chose to cooperate with you. Your Baiyitang is also a famous local gang in Huguang. I believe both black and white are involved. It is a difficult task to ensure the safety of me and those foods."

This made the other party stunned again, but he still accepted this statement. Finally, Fan Chao expressed his opinion: "If you really want to help the people of Huguang through the disaster as you said, we hundreds of brothers from Baiyitang will naturally cooperate with you and help you fight with those people!"

After a pause, he spoke colder again and reminded: "But if you want to use us, you are actually doing your own selfish interests. Once we find out, I, Fan Chao, will kill you even if I, will fight for this life!"

"So I am!" Xue Jiong also expressed his opinion.

Facing their threat, Li Ling was not at all unhappy, but laughed happily: "Yes, I feel more at ease if you can say that!"

"Then what are your plans next?" Fan Chao asked this, which means that he has formed an alliance with Li Ling on behalf of Baiyitang.

"I will take down the grain tomorrow first. During this period, I'm afraid I will be obstructed and provoked by some local forces. At this time, you Baiyitang's brothers will need help from you." Li Ling immediately expressed his plan, "Then you will help me guard the grain and wait for them to take action. If what I expected was not bad, within a few days, they will promote the act of exchanging grain for land in other places in Suizhou. As long as this matter is together, we will start to act and catch them off guard!"

"Okay, we'll wait for your news next!" Fan Chao promised again, and then took Xue Jiong away first. After watching them leave, Li Ling breathed a sigh of relief. With the help of this force, his overall plan was even more certain.

...

At noon the next day, Li Ling went to Ruyi Tower again, and then led by Boss Jiang to a very wide warehouse in the city. With some arrangements, three of the warehouses opened, revealing the sacks hidden in it.

Without Li Ling's words, someone took out a few bags at will and put them in front of them, indicating that they could uncover them.

Li Ling was not polite, so someone stepped forward to untied a bag, grabbed it deeper, and checked it carefully to confirm that it was a good quality grain. However, they did not untied the other bags. Instead, at Li Ling's instructions, they went to other warehouses to pick a few bags and opened them in public to find out.

After careful investigation, there was no problem with the six or seven bags of food. This made Li Ling smile and clasped his fists at the other party and said, "Boss Jiang is indeed a person of integrity." As he waved his hand, Li Moyun handed over a box containing the silver notes.

Boss Jiang also smiled back: "It's okay, the most important thing for us to do business is the word "trust". Then he took the box and asked his subordinates to help verify the authenticity of the silver bill.

In this way, while they were still checking, Boss Jiang said again: "Boss Ling, the food here will be handed over to you next. Do you plan to continue to place it here or transport them back to Huaibei? If it is the latter, we can also provide ships, cars and horses, and we will definitely deliver them there safely. The price is easy to say, it is no different from the market price."

The after-sales service of Ruyi Building was also awaited, but Li Ling just smiled and shook his head: "I have appreciated Boss Jiang's kindness first. Let's put this food here first, and I will use it at that time."

"Oh? Boss Ling is another use?" Boss Jiang immediately said meaningfully.

"What? Is there anything wrong with doing this?"

"There is nothing wrong. Since we have finished the transaction, the food here is yours. Boss Ling will decide how you want to use it yourself. I will never say much."

"That's good. The warehouse rental fee here will be paid in full. By the way, there will be no problem with how safe it is here, right?"

"Don't worry, here is close to the yamen, there is no unsightly little girl who dares to come and get food." Boss Jiang said, and his subordinates who checked the silver bills had come over there. After whispering a few words in his ear, he smiled more and more happily. "It has been found out that there is no problem with these silver bills. Boss Ling is a trustee. Okay, after the business is done, I will say goodbye!"

This guy was just right, and he just clasped his fists and left. As for how Li Ling and the others would deal with the food next, he didn't want to know at all.

Until these people left, and there were people from the warehouse coming to contact us and promised to keep all the food on their behalf, the matter came to an end.

This result was naturally good, but Li Ling felt a little surprised. Things were so smooth, which was different from his previous judgment. When he thought, when he showed that he would continue to keep food, local people would jump out to stop it. After all, he was just a foreigner, so how could the local gentry give up this large piece of fat?

So for the sake of his completeness, he asked the Baiyitang people to respond not far away. But in the end, nothing happened, which really made people feel a little confused.

But this entangled emotion did not last long. Just as Li Ling returned to the inn and had not sat down, he had already come to the door.

It was the wooden sign he gave Li Ling before that allowed him to participate in this auction, villager Niu Wu, the cousin who worked in the county government office. However, because Li Ling's identity was unusual, the other party did not even reveal his name, but now the situation has changed, so this person's attitude is completely different.

"Boss Ling is really a real person. Niu Kui was so negligent before, so please don't be surprised." After seeing Li Ling, he looked smiling and pleasing, no longer as arrogant as before.

Li Ling also smiled faintly and almost pulled out a silver note of 100 taels and pushed it over: "What does Lord Niu say? You can recommend this deal, so I am grateful to you, nothing else."

Niu Kui was happy when he heard this, and put the silver notes into his sleeves without any trace, and then praised: "Boss Ling is really generous. No wonder he can do such a big deal. Even the county master had an objection to you after hearing about you. So, I just took this errand to pass on the message to you."

"Even the trivial matters has alarmed the Lord County Master, which is really frightening." Li Ling said with a panic expression, but there was no stranger in his panic expression. Then he took out a silver note and handed it to the other party, "I don't know what advice do you have to ask me to see him?"

He received another silver note and made Niu Kui's eyes narrowed into slits, and then said, "Of course it's about Boss Ling, how do you plan to deal with this food. But don't worry, as long as you follow our rules, the county government will only help you and will not let you suffer any losses."

"So that's it. I wonder when I will meet the county master?"

"Of course, the faster the better. What do you think tomorrow morning?"

"Okay, please ask Lord Niu to report to the county master, I will definitely visit after tomorrow."

After Niu Kui left with satisfaction, the smile on Li Ling's face disappeared: "I didn't plan to get in touch with the local government in advance, but now it seems that I have to fight with this county government first!"

...

Somewhere in Huguang, two people were sitting and standing, talking.

"Is there any news about Li Ling?"

"No, since he left the team and went to Huguang in a very short period of time, it is naturally impossible for anyone to find out his whereabouts."

"That may not be true. With his old style of conduct, how could he really just visit privately without doing anything? By the way, has there been any unreasonable things happening in various parts of Huguang recently?"

"There are a few of this... but it seems to have nothing to do with Li Ling. For example, some businessmen took the opportunity to buy grain at a high price, in order to exchange grain for land at that time, and even some foreign merchants ran over. By the way, a guy named Ling Li was even more generous and bought a full 300,000 stone of grain at a price of 30 cents a dou."
Chapter completed!