The Second Sword Returns to the Central Plains Chapter 43: Trading (2)
As soon as Changfeng walked into the study, Cao Ruifeng and Shui Ningxin walked in together. His face was flushed. It must be because of the rapid circulation of blood and energy in the snow just now, so it was so cute. Changfeng glanced at the two girls and said with a smile: "Why don't you play for a while? Such heavy snow is rare in Jiangnan."
Cao Ruifeng rubbed her hands, put them on the charcoal fire in the room and roasted them, "My husband seems to have a very happy conversation with Sister Qi Meng just now?"
Shui Ningxin also learned from Cao Ruifeng's approach and said, "Ms. Lin seems to be very involved in talking to her husband."
Changfeng looked at the two girls with a smile and said, "Aren't you crazy? Why do you notice that I am here? Are you going to torture and force me to confess if you don't say it today?"
Cao Ruifeng walked to Changfeng with a smile, lit Changfeng hard, and said angrily: "You are so beautiful, you are not cheap to torture and confession."
Changfeng saw the ambiguous meaning of water coming out of Cao Ruifeng's eyes, and laughed and said, "Actually, there is nothing. Miss Lin wants to make a deal with your husband."
"Oh, what's the deal?" Cao Ruifeng became interested, but it was obvious that she, the sister in the boudoir, did not even reveal it.
Shui Ningxin also walked over quietly, as if she was also very curious about Lin Qimeng.
Changfeng told the two women what Lin Qimeng said to him just now. With Cao Ruifeng's experience and wisdom in the world, he understood why Lin Qimeng did this. It was not easy for the Lin family to move away from Dugu in one go. First of all, the Li family will never give up this inexhaustible source of wealth. Secondly, the court is unwilling to leave such a super rich businessman who has a significant role in the country, so it is probably difficult to do it with the Lin family's own strength alone. If there is a river helper,
If it is on the water, except for Dugu's navy, the river basically dominates the entire Crescent River. The power is no less than that of the princes in one place, and Lin Qimenghua's price is so high. It is not so easy to get land. Moreover, industries like silk that are related to the lives of the people have always been controlled by the Lin family. Once the Lin family leaves, the disaster will be immeasurable, and the court will not let the Lin family leave like this. This is a transaction with huge risks and benefits. We have to be careful.
People in the martial arts world have no concept of family and country, especially in the past, they became bandits and became kings, so they knew that their country had a weak concept. If Cao Gongfang was alive, they would never agree. But now Cao Ruifeng is in charge of the river. She has lived in this atmosphere since she was a child, and Lin Qimeng is her close friend. Moreover, in order to escape the engagement with Li Xianlong, Lin Qimeng did not hesitate to make the decision to move out of Dugu. This courage is worthy of her admiration, so she has agreed to help Lin Qimeng in her heart, even if there is no such deal.
"What do you plan to do this deal?" Cao Ruifeng asked calmly.
Changfeng lowered his head and thought for a while, "No hurry. We have something to do. We will talk about it after we finish the whole thing. This is not a trivial matter, we must plan it very carefully."
Cao Ruifeng nodded. It was not a matter of Lin Qimeng's decision. It was probably a matter of two days. Wu Yue had already prepared it. Whether the Li family father and son knew about it or not, they didn't know it yet. This incident could be said to be a sudden incident. Guo Huai was about to start moving after stabilizing in the capital. The Prime Minister's Mansion could not let go of every move.
After Yuchi Tian went to Xindao, he simply stopped leaving. He didn't care about the Ice and Fire Island where he originally lived in seclusion. He threw it to Changfeng for treatment. Changfeng asked his second brother Qi Lei to go to the Ice and Fire Island and found that it was an excellent training base, hidden and wide, with all facilities. It was originally the training base of the Black Dragon Guard, so naturally there was nothing missing. So Qi Lei happened to use it and chose potential village heads to train together to conduct hell-style training according to the method of training the Black Dragon Guard.
Nong Yue didn't miss this good place. He specially drew twenty intelligence elites from the Blood Eagle to settle there and snatch talents from Qi Lei. There were already many talents training in the Black Dragon Guard, and now they were all useful. Now the three villages under Cao Ruifeng's control have exceeded 10,000, and their combat power is different from the past. Anyone who enters the Ice and Fire Island and then comes out has been reborn and formed the strongest place under Changfeng's men. This is the skeleton of the Black Dragon Legion in later generations.
Later historians were puzzled by the reason why Changfeng himself liked white, and his army was named after the word "black". Unfortunately, Company Changfeng himself did not know this answer.
It is a good thing to snow in winter, and auspicious snow indicates a good harvest. But what everyone could not imagine is that this snow fell intermittently for five days, causing a heavy snow disaster that had not been seen in the Dugu Dynasty for a hundred years. The heavy snow half a person was buried deep in it, and large areas were frozen to death. If the harvest dropped sharply in the spring season next year, Jiangnan was afraid that it would be similar to the current Dugu North. Changfeng sighed in his heart why God was so cruel and treated these ordinary people only for food and clothing.
Wei Lin'er is the most touched. In her early years, she followed her mother around the world and her experience was similar to the wind. She had seen the things that were scarce, floods, droughts, and starved people to death. Even if she later ran a pleasure boat and lived a life of luxury, she would stop every time she met a beggar, and try her best to help them with food and money. Everyone said that killers were ruthless. In fact, killers were the most affectionate. When they did not kill, they were better than anyone else and kind.
Fortunately, Cao Ruifeng purchased a large amount of grain before it snowed. It was not that she had the ability to predict the future, but that Xindao has a large number of people recently and consumed too quickly. Cao Ruifeng took advantage of the amount of free labor captured on the island, so she spent nearly one million taels of silver to purchase nearly five million stones of grain at one time. Basically, the grain merchants in Wangyue City were purchased by Xindao and transported them to Xindao to store them. Naturally, the money was first kept by Changfeng.
After the snow stopped, Lin Qimeng's body improved, so Changfeng negotiated with Lin Qimeng's deal and cooperation with the Lin family.
Lin Qimeng was very interested in the shipyard cooperation plan proposed by Changfeng, especially Wu Yue, which is a raw material for canvas on the ship, especially steel. Lin Qimeng felt that this was a strategic resource. Changfeng could actually have a relationship with the Tie Family in Dongloulan, which surprised Lin Qimeng. However, if he wanted to transport the steel to Dugu, the sea fleet that Lin Qimeng gradually established was naturally indispensable. Naturally, she agreed at once, but she asked Changfeng to take out some of the steel to sell it to Wu Yue every year. This request was not too much. Changfeng thought about it and agreed, and the cooperation agreement was signed soon.
Next is the core task of Lin Qimeng coming to Xindao this time. Lin Qimeng took out all the silk and satin shops and garment shops in Dugu, including dyeing and cloth protection, silk weaving and spinning materials. Guess. How big is more than 100 companies in total, not even a joint venture with others. It is worth more than 10 million taels. It takes a huge land house and a million books collection. Changfeng can get these by paying one million and two hundred silver. Such a huge difference will make even the gods tempted. Not to mention Changfeng, a mortal.
Moreover, Lin Qimeng also left Changfeng with five million taels of silver to return it to her after she walked on the mountain track. With such generous conditions, Ji Wujiu, who participated in the negotiation, had all his eyes out. He could not understand that Lin Qimeng would give his lord such good conditions to repay his life-saving grace. There was no need to do this. Even if Lin Qimeng's life is so precious, it would be too exaggerated to give Changfeng such a huge wealth of 20 million taels of silver to Changfeng. Besides, even if Lin Qimeng plans to end the Lin family's silk industry in Dugudi, she can sell each shop and end it slowly. Why should she be so anxious to give this huge amount of money to Changfeng?
Lin Qimeng can sit on the head of the Lin family and keep the Lin family's momentum alive. Isn't it a fool woman? There must be some secret agreements he doesn't know. Ji Wujiu turned his eyes to Changfeng in contemplation, hoping to see something from his face.
Changfeng stared at the information in his hand. He was still shocked. It seemed that the cargo of the Lin family ships was not simple. Lin Qimeng was willing to spend such a large price to allow the river to transport it to Wuyue in order to protect the escort. The things must be extremely expensive. Perhaps only the savings of the Lin family generations and countless treasures are worthless. Then it is difficult to reach Wuyue safely, so it is even more powerful than you imagined. However, he had already agreed at once. Moreover, Cao Ruifeng was also willing to help Lin Qimeng. If he refused at this time, it seemed a bit unfaithful. It took Changfeng a long time to come back to his senses and said, "Miss Lin, it was not Changfeng who deliberately wanted to know the secret of your Lin family, but this matter is of great importance. If you don't reveal a little, it will be difficult for us to make arrangements."
Lin Qimeng lowered her head and thought for a moment: "What Mr. said makes some sense. Let's do this. It's related to the secrets of the Lin family. Qimeng doesn't want too many people to know. How about asking Mr. to ask the other idle people here to go out?"
Changfeng thought about Ji Wujiu for a moment, Nong Yue, Cao Ruifeng and Shui Ning said in his heart: "You guys go out for now, I have something to talk about with Miss Lin."
Lin Qimeng also ordered Lin Fu and Zhen Ping'er to go out, and then said solemnly: "Sir, can you know that the Lin family is a martial arts family?"
Changfeng nodded and he knew.
"The Lin family's achievements today are closely linked to the Lin family's martial arts. Therefore, our Lin family's martial arts collection is not the best in the world, but it is rare to see the entire martial arts world. Therefore, when this time we moved to the palace, this batch of martial arts books will naturally be transported to Wuyue. Think about it, if the Li family father and son know, the value of these books will be far more than gold and silver to calculate. Therefore, Qimeng hopes to use the help of the teacher to safely transport these books to Wuyue." Lin Qimeng explained.
Changfeng knew that merchants were always cunning, and Lin Qimeng was even more of a local businessman among merchants, a profiteer among profiteers. Although this evaluation was a bit insulting, it was extremely pertinent. He felt a little bit credible. Although Lin Qimeng's words were a bit credible, they were definitely not just these. Since the other party stopped here, he would not say the core secrets no matter how he asked Lin Qimeng, so he said: "Since that's the case, then this batch of martial arts collections are really precious, and Changfeng has a clear mind."
Seeing that Changfeng had no intention of asking questions, Lin Qimeng secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thank you so much, sir."
Changfeng smiled slightly and said, "I should thank Miss Lin for such a generous reward."
"Sir, if you say so seriously, after this matter, your troubles will follow one after another. Qi Meng really can't let you down," Lin Qi Meng said with a bow.
"Trouble?" Changfeng laughed and said, "Even if Miss Lin is not involved, is Changfeng still having less trouble?"
"Sir is an extraordinary person. He does extraordinary things, but his skills are actually understandable by a little girl like Qimeng." Lin Qimeng praised Changfeng with great praise.
Changfeng was not praised by the beauties like Lin Qimeng, but said calmly: "Ms. Lin plans to move to Lin's Mansion and when those ships of goods will be shipped. I always have to give Changfeng some time. I have made careful plans and preparations."
"The spring next year is enough time. Sir." Lin Qimeng said with white teeth. Changfeng felt panic. She was almost fascinated by her smile.
Lin Qimeng's eyes suddenly became turbid and became clear in an instant. She didn't dare to be surprised at all. She had forced her eyes to confuse her heart, just trying to make a small joke with Changfeng, without any malice.
Changfeng knew that Lin Qimeng was just a joke, and he didn't take it seriously. However, this woman was really hard to figure out. She couldn't find any of the women who had tens of millions of courage, courage and methods. No wonder the Lin family was able to flourish in her hands, and also keenly discovered the huge potential of maritime trade. She ended her originally huge profitable industry in one fell swoop and turned to another career with an unknown future. Now it seems that the profit margin of maritime trade is greater, and Lin Qimeng's vision is indeed unique.
"If nothing happens, Qimeng plans to keep Ping'er on Xindao. She is familiar with the affairs of the Lin family and will be of great help to her husband to take over the Lin family's silk industry." Lin Qimeng told Changfeng.
Changfeng thought for a while and said, "Okay, Ping'er and I haven't seen each other for more than a year and a half. It's best for her to stay."
"Sir, the drunkard is not in the bar. But if Ping'er is willing to stay or not, Qimeng can't make the decision, so she should ask herself." Lin Qimeng left with an inconsistent sentence, and Changfeng felt a big pain. Why did this woman always leave a difficult word for herself before leaving?
Next were some details. Nongyue's Blood Eagle Intelligence Agency was finally reorganized, but the next thing was to take over the silk industry of the Lin family. The Lin family left everyone behind. After all, they still had a family in Dugu, so it was impossible to follow the Lin family to Wuyue. Changfeng naturally accepted it all. For a moment, Nongyue took care of both sides. He was so busy that he had no choice but to increase the workload of Wei Liner and Duan Caiyan.
Lin Qimeng was scheduled to leave Xindao in three days, and Zhen Ping'er did not ask Changfeng to say that she stayed there on her own initiative, but her eyes became cold when she looked at Changfeng, and she didn't like to pay attention to Changfeng, which made Changfeng feel a little puzzled. However, it was hard for the girl to guess how Changfeng was busy safely transporting the Lin family's cargo ships to Wuyue, and she had no time to care about this matter.
In the capital, Guo Huai came to information that Li Xianlong had returned to the prime minister's mansion not long ago at night, and later left the capital overnight. The people of the Blood Eagle kept following him, but lost their traces in Luohe County.
Changfeng informed Lin Qimeng of this information. It seems that the father and son of the Li family may have noticed Lin Qimeng's intentions. This time Lin Qimeng came to Xindao, but Li Xianlong did not follow him. This is not very consistent with Lin Qimeng's return to Hailing City, and Li Xianlong was inseparable from following him.
Lin Qimeng was also in deep thought. Li Xianlong did not follow her. He thought he was afraid of seeing Changfeng and others. It seemed that this was not the case. He secretly returned to the capital. So far, Lin Qimeng had not told his father Lin Yunbao about the move to the mansion. The subordinates of Changfeng, who went to accept the Lin family's silk industry, were also under Lin Qimeng's subordinates. All the orders were issued by Lin Qimeng, but now the person in charge has been changed. Only when the Lin family safely enters Wu Yue will they change their course.
The spies from the father and son of the Li family around the Lin Mansion have never been removed. Li Xianlong must have noticed something, or they want the Lin family to take action, but Lin Qimeng came back from Wu Yue and never showed the intention of moving to the house. Among the people accompanying him, only Zhen Ping'er and Lin Fu knew that they were both loyal people and would definitely not betray him. Then there was only one, the father and son of the Li family were going to take action against the Lin family.
Lin Qimeng was even more worried when she came to this conclusion. Now most of the Lin family's power has been drawn to Wu Yue by herself under various names. In addition to the power on Yuanyang Island, the Lin family is simply an empty shell.
Lin Qimeng could only ask Changfeng for help. Changfeng knew that the Li family's father and son had no benefit to him from the Lin family's financial resources, so he drew about 300 good players, led by Huang Tian, the Zhiduoxing of the 18 cavalry of Luohe, to join Lin's mansion with Lin Qimeng, and also prepared for Changfeng to accept the Lin mansion.
Chapter completed!