"Cooperation? How do they want to cooperate?" Zhang Xiaobao asked as he jumped down from his horse.
"What they are thinking is that they will use money to buy a part of the things that I have built over there. When the time comes, the income of that place will be theirs. Also, some of our carriages and horses will be given to them. I really don't know what they are thinking. How can they say such a thing?"
Li Xun showed a helpless expression.
When Zhang Xiaobao heard this, he also felt that the people of the Yellow River Shipping Company were stupid. How could they have such a stupid idea? If it was anyone else, they wouldn't agree. Thinking of the 12 owners, Zhang Xiaobao shook his head and said to Li Xun, "Don't pay attention to them. Do you have other things to do? If it's just such a small matter, then you wouldn't be sitting at the door waiting. "
Li Xun saw that Zhang Xiaobao saw through him and nodded. He sighed and said, "There's news from the capital. I will have my own fief. It's not a false title. They really want me to go somewhere else. I don't know where I will go. I might have to leave soon.
Originally, I wanted to wait for your father's matter to be done before I let your family follow. Now, it seems that there's not enough time. When the time comes, we won't be able to see each other. If we want to see each other, we will have to travel a long way. I really don't want to leave. "
Li Xun finally said what was troubling him. He just received the news today. He was old enough to have his own place. If it was in the past, he would be very happy. But now, he didn't want to leave Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan. He only felt interesting when he was with the two of them. Others were afraid of him.
Zhang Xiaobao was very surprised when he heard the news. After calculating, Li Xun was indeed old enough. If he left, not only would he have one less person to play with, but he also couldn't do many things. He was still counting on Li Xun to make the siege crossbow.
After thinking about it, Zhang Xiaobao asked, "Isn't it not settled yet? You can think of a way to delay it. I estimate that by the second harvest this year, my father will have to move to another place. At that time, you can arrange a place to go. It shouldn't be too difficult. You can cause a small trouble or do something that can't be interrupted. That way, your time in the fief will be extended. "
"What can't be interrupted? I can't think of anything. You and I know each other, so help me think of a way. " When Li Xun heard Zhang Xiaobao's words, he felt a glimmer of hope. He no longer had the ability to ask Zhang Xiaobao for help.
"Alright, think about it. Think about it carefully. There's no rush. Even if they've made a decision now, it'll take some time for them to send the news over. You can continue with your work on that thing on the mountain. Cuckoo and I will think of a way for you."
Zhang Xiaobao did not have any good ideas at this moment. Everything happened too suddenly. However, he was confident that he could find a reason to make Li Xun stay in Lu Zhou for a few more days. When his father was about to leave, he would follow Li Xun to his fief.
Li Xun's fief would not be an entire province, but it would not be small either. Naturally, his father would not be able to work in the imperial court. He would have to continue training outside. Perhaps, he would be able to promote his position as a lower fourth-grade official. If he was promoted to a higher fourth-grade official or lower third-grade official, he would still be a provincial governor outside.
Li Xun nodded. He felt more at ease now. He did not say anything more to the two of them. He turned around and left. He had to make a trip to the mountain and settle the matters there as soon as possible. Otherwise, he would not have the time to care about it if it was not settled by the time he left.
"What should we do? If he leaves, we'll have one less person to help us. We have to think of a way. Xiao Bao, let's think about it separately. When the time comes, we'll think of a way together. If we think together, we'll be easily influenced by the other person. "
Wang Juan did not want Li Xun to leave so early. Both of them wanted to train Li Xun properly. Therefore, she suggested that they split up to think of a way. The two of them found a place to sit and thought hard.
*****
The people of the Yellow River Shipping Company had their eyes opened this time. Although they could see many dangerous places on both sides of the Yellow River, the Hundred Thousand Mountains gave them a different feeling.
The mountains and rivers here, as well as the rainbow-colored waterfall, were very attractive. They had played these days and participated in hunting activities. None of them wanted to leave. They wanted to walk around here more. Although they had spent a lot of money, they did not feel any heartache.
What they were thinking now was that since the people here did not feel any heartache after spending money, then the rich people from other places must be the same. Therefore, they wanted to occupy some space here.
Sun Dongjia had already found the person in charge left behind by Li Xun to discuss this matter. However, the person in charge had no right to decide. He could only let them wait for a while and ask the Little Prince before they could give an answer.
"It's really good here, especially those houses. It would be great if we could buy one. Unfortunately, they only rent it to the outside, and there is a time limit. One person can rent it for five days at a time. After five days, they have to give it to others. I don't know who came up with this idea. It's really amazing."
A landlord was lying in the stream, looking at the white clouds in the sky and listening to the chirping of the surrounding birds. The people next to him also followed his example and lied there. However, some people didn't know what benefits there were in renting a house for five days, so they asked,
"So what if it's five days? So what if it's ten days? Isn't it still in this place? What's more, it's impossible for people to stay here for five days, right? After two days, they should continue to look at other places. In my opinion, five days is a bit too long. Who will rent for five days? Two or three days will be enough. "
Hearing someone ask, the person who just spoke immediately said, "You don't understand. Some places don't need five days, but some places with good scenery are different. People who come here to visit can't stay in a place with good scenery for five days.
This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the local specialties in this place are better, and there are people helping to guard them. If you come from other places, will you be alone? Of course, you have to bring more people with you. Some people will stay here, and some will go to other places. They have a special place to make food here.
Different places have different things to pick. In addition, there are many women. A man can't be with all the women all the time. Of course, they have to be separated. When that time comes, they will think of arranging women here and there. When they think of having their own women everywhere, that feeling … "
Speaking of these things, this person laughed. The others also understood when they heard this. It was indeed so. Especially in this mysterious mountain, arranging people to wait in different places would make one feel like a king.
At this time, Sun Dongjia also said, "Not only that, the main thing is that I'm afraid that some people will rent the houses in key areas. When the time comes, they will rent it out to others at a high price. This is something that the people here don't allow. I reckon that it would be impossible for us to buy a part of this place. Who would give up such a good place?
Look at those houses they built. They are clearly for renting out to some people who do business. When the time comes, we can just occupy more houses. As for buying a place, don't think about it. "
"If that's the case, why do we still want to talk to them about buying? If we knew this, we would've just discussed with them about renting some good places. "The person who asked the question asked at this time.
Among the twelve people here, this person seemed to be the most stupid. Sun Dongjia was easy to talk to. When he heard the other person's question, he explained, "The reason is simple. In fact, those people might not be easy to talk to. If we directly say that we want to rent some places, they will ask for a high price. They might even deliberately make things difficult for us.
However, if we say that we want to buy this place, it's different. If they don't agree, they will give up some things and let us choose. In this way, we don't have to take the initiative to rent those places from them at a low price. "
When Sun Dongjia said this, the person finally understood. He smiled and said, "I see. Good, when we meet their people, we will insist on buying this place and wait for them to make a concession. Good idea. Sun Dongjia is really smart. However, this place doesn't seem to be completely under Lu Zhou's control. Why don't we buy this place from other provinces? Can Lu Zhou's Provincial Governor be in charge of other provinces?"
The person next to Sun Dongjia did not wait for him to speak this time. He explained to the stupid person, "The people from other provinces can't control this place. There are many mountain people here. Even if they sell this place to us in name, it's useless. Do you dare to go against the people here?
Putting aside the fact that the person who created this place is a member of the imperial family, even if you don't care about his identity, can you protect this place? He can transfer all the people under his protection away and ask you to find a way here on your own? What ideas do you have? Ask the locals for help? The locals who can hunt here safely have long been taken away by others. Do you think they will wait for you?
Ask them to transfer people from other provinces? Who do you have that can be transferred here? It's impossible. Even if those people are very powerful, they are not familiar with the situation here. They are useless. It's very likely that they will be eaten by some wild beasts. "
"Then what should we do? Can we only rent it? I'm worried that it won't be worth it if there are fewer people in the future. It's different if we buy it. We only have to spend money once and no one else will come. We can still stay here in the future. If there are fewer people renting it, we probably won't be able to earn back the rent.
He's a member of the imperial family, so he naturally doesn't care about how much it costs to build things here. But we can't afford it. No, if the rent is too expensive, I will withdraw. "
The person who asked the question just now began to voice his thoughts. He didn't seem to be too stupid and knew the situation here.
They hadn't even started to discuss whether to rent this place or not, and such a thing had already happened among their own people. This made Sun Dongjia feel very embarrassed and helpless. He was afraid that some people would not band together at the crucial moment. Now that there were already signs of it, he didn't know what would happen when the time came.
At this point, the 12 people didn't have much intention to continue staying at the stream. They stood up one after another and ignored the water dripping from their bodies. After a while, they would be dry.
"Let's go and continue to look around. This place isn't small. No one knows if there is a better place. If we want to rent it, we have to occupy the best place."
Sun Dongjia wiped his face with his hand and led the way forward. The 11 people followed behind him.
As the group of people walked, they arrived at the waterfall with many rainbows that Li Xun had discovered. The water of the waterfall was still flowing, and rainbows appeared on the top of the waterfall, appearing very dazzling under the sunlight.
"There is actually such a place. Look at that pavilion. It's a pity that there is no house for business next to it. What should we do? I think there will be a lot of people here when we arrive.
No, we have to discuss it with them and rent the pavilion and the corridor that extends into it. I'm willing to spend a lot of money. Even if other people don't come, I can follow the boat and come here to have a look in the future. Don't fight with me. I want this pavilion. "
When a boss saw the scenery here, he immediately said to the others. Boss Sun finally couldn't bear it this time. Even if his temper was good, he couldn't watch these people become disunited in order to compete for a place. Otherwise, when the time came to discuss things with the people here, they would be attacked one by one.
After hearing this person's words, Sun Dongjia's face sank and said, "What are you thinking? If they start to compete now, then when their people talk to us, they will also compete for a place. If they say that the person who offers the most will get the place, then we will help them raise the price.
Listen to me, if you see a good place, then remember it. When the time comes, we will arrange these good places and divide them among ourselves. We can't let others take advantage of us. Also, no one is allowed to contact the people here in private.
Otherwise, even if you secretly buy a good place here, you can only stay here. There will be no place for you on the Yellow River. Did you hear me? I will say this again. "
Sun Dongjia didn't have the intention to joke at this time. He looked at everyone with a serious face. Everyone understood the importance of this matter. On the Yellow River, Sun Dongjia's boat was the most powerful. One by one, they nodded. They didn't want to lose the business in the Yellow River after getting a place here.
No matter how good this place was, it was just a place to do business. The Yellow River was their foundation. Without the Yellow River, they would be finished. Therefore, after knowing that they couldn't bring out their thoughts, one by one, they began to agree with Sun Dongjia's words.
Seeing that they understood his meaning, Sun Dongjia was relieved. He said to them, "In the next few days, we need to spend more money to let them know that we are not short of money. This way, they will care about us. After all, everyone wants to make money. Even if we lose some this time, it's nothing. But we must not casually take out money to buy things.
We need to buy things that are useless to us, but will be popular in the future. When we go back, we need to think about how to make these things more valuable. Alright, that's what I mean. Let's go and have a look at the pavilion first. "
When everyone heard Sun Dongjia's words, they nodded. They really wanted to play here. They didn't care about the people around them.
By the time they arrived at the pavilion, Li Xun's side was also rushing over on their horses. It would probably take at least five days to find them. After all, they were quite far away.
The people of the Yellow River Shipping Company found their things, but the people who came to cheat had been anxiously waiting. Now, they were a bit regretful. When they said this idea, they forgot that the fish grew slowly. The fish they gave out were not big.
This made them have to wait for a long time. Now, they were a bit worried that if they spread the news, their master would be angry. They stayed together to think about what to do.
The head of the Chamber of Commerce sat in the middle. He looked at the people around him and said, "Everyone, what should we do now? We can't just do nothing and go on as before. We have to wait until next year. We can wait, but our master can't wait. Who came up with this idea? "
As he spoke, his eyes looked at the person sitting closest to him on the left. This person was a bit scared. Weiwei lowered her head, but she was scolding them in her heart. When I said this idea, you didn't oppose it. Now that you found that you didn't think it through enough, you stood up and said something. You even pushed the responsibility to me. What were you doing in the beginning?
Although he thought so, he absolutely didn't dare to say it. If he really said it, he would be handed over. Others would wait for him to take the responsibility. Seeing that they asked him, he had to bite the bullet and admit it.
"Yes, I didn't think it through at the beginning. I was wrong. I will take responsibility for this matter. But now is not the time to find out who is responsible. We should think about what we should do. Didn't I tell them to feed the fish noodles? That way, they would waste a lot of noodles.
But who knew that they didn't do as we said. What should we do? Should we say that we don't accept the fish eggs that eat other things? That's fine, but we won't accept it. It's just a little bit of money.
They now have a total of 20 people who are willing to do this. Together, they only have enough money. What's the use of this little money? It's useless to Zhang Zhong. They don't care about this little money at all. Should we say that we cheated the Zhang family of their business and cheated them of their money? "
This person seemed very helpless when talking about this matter, but it was normal. After all, it was the first time. If all the people agreed, then something bad would have happened. But now, they couldn't leave immediately.
If others knew about this, not only would they not laugh at Zhang Zhong, but they would also laugh at the entire Ning Clan if they knew that they were sent by the Ning Clan. It was like two kids were quarreling, and one of them scolded the other, then covered his ears and shouted, "I can't hear you, I can't hear you, I can't hear you, I'm the one who took advantage of you."
Their goal this time was to cheat at least 10,000 strings of cash. In other words, they had to cheat a lot of people. But this fish was too small and couldn't lay eggs. They couldn't wait any longer.
After this person finished speaking, the others didn't continue to stare at him. After all, he said that he would take all the responsibility, so they couldn't do anything to him.
At this time, a person next to him said, "How about this? Let's not care about their small fish first. We'll send them some big fish. It's best to send them the ones that are about to lay eggs. Let them sell it first. This time, our master gave us 7,000 strings of cash to do this. As long as we don't spend all the money before the last scam, it's fine.
When more people join us, we'll have more money in our hands. We'll use the money they've submitted as collateral to give them interest. The more we collect, the less we give. When they've basically all raised fish, I estimate that we'll be able to get thirty to forty thousand strings of cash this time. "
As this person spoke, he revealed a look of yearning. At the same time, he admired those powerful people in his family even more. They could actually think of such a way to make money. The others also thought the same. They now wanted to do their first business as soon as possible.
"In that case, let's send people back to find the fish. The sooner, the better. We'll write a letter to the master now. We'll take the responsibility together. We can't let one person bear it."
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