Plane red envelope

Chapter 399 Fishing
Jinling City has a population of 80. Such a large number of people consume an astronomical amount of food every day.This flood was an unprecedented natural disaster, and a large amount of cultivated land on both sides of the Yangtze River was destroyed.

Along with the arable land, this year's grain was also destroyed. There was no harvest on both sides of the Yangtze River, so there were so many refugees.

Merchants are the purest group of people in the world. They can do everything for their own interests, driving up prices, and making money out of the country are not uncommon, but this time their ghostly tricks are used in the wrong place!Because the cultivated land on both sides of the Yangtze River can't affect the overall situation at all!

Fang Qiang has developed a large amount of arable land in the Hengjian Mountain area, and the autumn harvest is approaching, and the grain harvested by then will be an astronomical sum, and it is initially estimated that it will not be a problem to feed 200 million people.

This is Fang Qiang's confidence!So he decided to fight an economic war with those illegal traders who drove up prices!

In fact, Fang Qiang can achieve his goals through bloody violence, but after all, the world cannot be governed by swords and guns alone, not to mention that the economy has its own laws since its birth, and Fang Qiang does not want to become that bloody lever. Son, therefore, a slightly mitigating means came into being.

Jinling City is the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties. The commerce here has been very developed since ancient times. The germination of capitalism in the early Ming Dynasty was born in this place.

Such a prosperous metropolis will definitely give birth to many large merchants. Together, these people are a force that cannot be underestimated.

There are four large local merchants in Jinling City. Together, they almost control the economic lifeline of the entire Yangtze River Basin. What's even more frightening is that they are involved in almost all the livelihood industries!

Oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar tea are almost inseparable from the control of these four!

Fang Qiang came to Jinling City for the first time. Although he killed a lot of landlords who didn't want to die, they were all small characters who had just surfaced.The pool of water in Jinling City seems to be deep enough!
Early the next morning, Fang Qiang had a secret talk with Liu Bowen at the Duke Wu's mansion.After yesterday's comprehensive investigation, Liu Bowen has a general grasp of the business context of the entire Jinling City. He also suddenly discovered that this huge network of interests is much more complicated than imagined!
"Report to Duke Wu, through yesterday's contact, I found many problems. The four largest merchants in Jinling City seem to have reached some agreement. They want to negotiate terms with you!"

"Really!" Fang Qiang waved his hand, signaling Liu Bowen to sit down, and then said: "These people are too courageous, what qualifications do they have to negotiate terms with me!"

Liu Bowen also meant the same thing, but he didn't express it, but further said: "Wu Guogong, this matter cannot be taken lightly. I suspect that there are people behind them, otherwise these merchants would not be so courageous..."

"Oh?" Fang Qiang raised his eyebrows, his voice was somewhat cold, "No matter who is behind them, find out and kill him!"

"As ordered!"

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Food prices in Jinling City have risen again in the past few days, and most of the people are pale, especially those refugees who were displaced by the flood!Even so, Jinling City never starved to death.

All this is thanks to Fang Qiang, the commander-in-chief of Jinling City, who ordered the opening of [-] porridge restaurants throughout the city. As long as the homeless people can exchange for a minimum guarantee, at least they will not starve to death.

At the nearest congee house in the Duke of Wu’s mansion, homeless refugees lined up to wait for the soldiers to serve porridge. There were many people, but the order was orderly.At the front of the line, there was a rogue young man looking around. His face was rosier than those of the refugees, and his clothes were cleaner.

"Hey, boy, it's your turn! Hurry up and serve the porridge!"

"Good military master!" The young man agreed, and then said hesitatingly: "I still have an 80-year-old mother at home, can you give me more?"

"No!" The officer who gave the porridge shook his head and said, "Wu Guogong has an order that the relief porridge should be given to each person, and you can't take it falsely! If your old mother wants to drink porridge, let her come in person!"

Although the officer said this, his face was filled with unbearable expression, so when he served the young man with porridge, he scooped up a bowl of oatmeal, so that the young man and the old mother would not starve to death.

The young man glanced at the porridge pot, there was a clear soup with little water in it, and the rice grains could be counted, so he nodded meaningfully, and then left without looking back.

The officer watched the young man leave, and loudly persuaded the refugees behind him: "Let's not panic, Mr. Wu has already sent people to transport food. As long as we survive this difficult period, we will be able to eat every meal." what the hell..."

"Long live the Duke of Wu, long live the Duke of Wu..." There was a tsunami of shouts from among the refugees, and everyone kowtowed to Fang Qiang's mansion, their pious appearance seemed to be meeting the king...

At this time, Fang Qiang was grinning from ear to ear in Duke Wu's mansion, because the number of absolutely loyal people has soared. In just a few days, the number has exceeded 1!You know, it was only six hundred a while ago!

This huge gap in numbers gave him the feeling of winning the lottery.

Happy is happy, but Fang Qiang still has guilt in his heart, yes, guilt!
In fact, he has already stockpiled a large amount of food, and it is conservatively estimated that it can feed these 80 people for a year.However, he did not open a large-scale warehouse to release grain, but gradually reduced the quota of the victims on a purposeful basis.

The common people are all simple, they only saw Fang Qiang opening a warehouse to release grain, so they paid their most sincere thanks...

In order to catch big fish with a long line, Fang Qiang can only wrong these common people temporarily, so he will inevitably feel some guilt in his heart...

The young man who got the porridge quickly disappeared into the deep alley in front of him. His pace was so fast that many grains of rice were scattered on the ground without knowing it...

In the end, he came to the back door of a wealthy family and knocked lightly four times. A luxuriously dressed butler opened the door, the young man walked in calmly, and then the door was closed heavily.

"Second boy, how are you doing? Have you found out everything you asked for?" The old butler asked expectantly. He is the most loyal lackey of Jin Dahu, and he will strictly implement every order of his master.

The young man named Erxiaozi threw away the porridge without hesitation, and then replied with a flattering look: "Old housekeeper, don't worry, the rice in this porridge is getting less and less, I think this porridge house is also It won’t last long, Master Jin has the final say sooner or later in Jinling City, and that Wu Guogong doesn’t have much food in his hands anymore, and he will soon be unable to withstand it, and in the end he will have to cooperate with us obediently!”

(End of this chapter)