One kick to the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 193
Qin Yi took advantage of Qiu Xi's opportunity to hold a banquet at the Hongmen, carefully planned, mobilized in one fell swoop, and occupied the eldest son county by means of thunder.This was a very beautiful surprise attack, achieving the strategic goal of defeating the strong with the weak and defeating the many with the few.

After this battle, the strength of Qin Yi's men expanded to three thousand, more than doubling.Moreover, obtaining sufficient food, grass and property also expanded his sphere of influence to two counties.

Qin Yi also realized from this that in troubled times, the only way to keep making progress is king. If you rely on success, you will die sooner or later.

It was also because of Qin Yi's thunderous means that all the tyrants in Lu County and Zhangzi County were greatly shocked, and they all bowed to Qin Yi, at least, on the surface.

The most obvious manifestation is the tyrants in Lu County. When Qin Yi first came to Lu County, many tycoons were not interested in Qin Yi.But Qin Yi suddenly occupied the eldest son county, and these tyrants who were dissatisfied with Qin Yi immediately stopped.

According to Wei Jian, when he contacted the powerful people in Lu County to lend grain to the county government, they all resisted.But after the news of Qin Yi's occupation of Changzi County reached Lu County, some people immediately went to visit Wei Jian and agreed to borrow food.

Qin Yi now has enough food and grass, but he doesn't care much about the food of Lu County's powerful people.However, since he had some "good intentions", Qin Yi couldn't help but appreciate it.He then told Wei Ji that after returning to Lu County, he still had to raise the food that should be raised.This thing is not afraid of too much, the more food, the more soldiers you can raise.

Don't look at Qin Yi already has [-] soldiers and horses, but he is still far from his goal of expanding his troops.What's more, Qin Yi has a bigger plan and needs a lot of food.

Having said that, although Qin Yi occupies Lu County and Zhangzi County, he is still an outsider. He still has a long way to go if he wants to completely absorb the land of these two counties and gain a firm foothold.

Right now, one of the most urgent things for Qin Yi is to obtain the sincere support of the powerful men in these two counties.It is not necessarily expected that all the powerful will support him, but at least, Qin Yi will have the support of half of the powerful.

In this era, the gentry and powerful are the actual rulers of the whole society.The gentry controlled the government and the powerful ruled the place.Only with the support of Hao Qiang can Qin Yi truly control the eldest son county and Lu county.

Especially in Changzi County, Qin Yi has already offended several big powers. What he urgently needs to do is to win over small and medium powers and fight against those big powers.

And the Huangshiya Iron Mine was Qin Yi's first sugar-coated bullet to win over the tyrants.

He has been to the Huangshiya Iron Mine several times to inspect the situation of the iron mine on the spot.Huangshiya Iron Mine covers an area of ​​hundreds of acres of land.According to the mining scale, the reserves should not be small.

In the past, the Huangshiya Iron Mine was jointly exploited by five or six powerful companies in Lu County, but they operated independently, and each powerful company occupied a part of the mining area.After Qiu Xi colluded with the Huns to occupy the iron mines, these powerful mine owners lost their iron ore mining rights, and all suffered serious losses.

After Qin Yi occupied Changzi County, some of the original mine owners came to Changzi County one after another, either directly or tactfully, to inquire about the situation from Qin Yi, hoping to resume mining iron ore.

To this, Qin Yi did not give a positive reply, he just said that he would deal with the Huangshiya Iron Mine as appropriate.

A few days later, an investment invitation notice issued by the government of Zhangzi County and Lu County was posted all over the urban and rural areas of Zhangzi County and Lu County.

The notice stated that the Huangshiya Iron Mine was owned by the government, but the mining rights had to be contracted out and jointly exploited and operated by powerful tycoons from the two counties.If anyone is interested in participating, he can register at the Changzi County Government Office within five days.When registering, you need to pay a deposit of [-] guan, and the government will select five to ten tycoons from among the applicants to participate in the joint venture.For those who are unsuccessful, the deposit will be refunded.

Once the notice was posted, some people were happy and some were worried.That [-] guan deposit made many little tycoons discouraged.It's not that they can't afford so much money, but they are afraid that the money will become meat buns for beating dogs, and they will never return.

But those powerful tycoons didn't care about this small amount of money. On the day the notice was posted, the principals of three tyrants in Zhangzi County went to the county government to sign up with a deposit.

To Qin Yi's surprise, one of the three tyrants actually attended Qiu Xi's Hongmen Banquet and was blackmailed by Qin Yi.

The name of this person is Wang Heng, and it is said that he is a distant descendant of the Wang family in Taiyuan.Qin Yi was puzzled that Wang Heng would take the initiative to support his work.Is this person a masochist, or does he really hold no grudges?
Qin Yi asked Wang Heng obliquely, you have already "donated" half of your property, do you still have the strength to mine iron ore?
Unexpectedly, Wang Heng actually said that it is because I donated a lot of family property that my family is short of money, so I need to make money quickly!

Only then did Qin Yi feel relieved, and it was the same sentence, "Interests touch people's hearts, there are no permanent enemies and friends, only eternal interests."Besides, the family property donated by Wang Heng is actually only a small part, not even half of it.Since there was no muscle injury, he and Qin Yi did not have much hatred.

The premise of this conclusion is that Wang Heng is a broad-minded and far-sighted person, and he will not care about a little loss.If it were a short-sighted and narrow-minded person, even if Qin Yi took a penny from him, he would not let go of his hatred to curry favor with Qin Yi just because Qin Yi wanted to give him a hundred penny.

As expected of a descendant of the Wang family in Taiyuan, Qin Yi admired Wang Heng's mind and foresight, and he had already listed Wang Heng as an important target in his heart.It is far more difficult to get an enemy to support you in turn than a friend to support you.Wang Heng's support was an excellent advertisement for Qin Yi's reputation.It's a win-win situation.

In the next few days, people from Lu County and Zhangzi County successively came to sign up with deposits.By the deadline, there were a total of 18 applicants.

Everyone who signed up was left in the county office by Qin Yi, serving them with delicious food and drink.This is Qin Yi's first investment promotion meeting, he is not short of money now, so naturally he wants to take good care of these future God of Wealth.

Each applicant also received a detailed investment invitation, which introduced in detail the future joint venture method of the iron mine and the bidding process.

In this era, businessmen are not as discriminated against as in those dynasties after the Sui and Tang Dynasties. There are many tycoons who made their fortunes by doing business, such as the Zhen family in Hebei and the Mi family in Xuzhou. They are both local tycoons and one of the few big businessmen in the country. .

Because of this, Qin Yi did not shy away from calling this event an "Investment Fair."

(End of this chapter)