After the immortal disappeared

"Let it go." He Lingchuan didn't care. At worst, he would hire a boat at a high price. "Look at you coming here with your feet covered in mud. Why are you so anxious that you have to go to the island to find me?"

Ding Zuodong opened his mouth to speak, and He Lingchuan happened to see a seat in the open space of the bamboo forest, so he said: "If the sky doesn't fall, come and have a rest."

Wherever there are people, there is a market.

This is a large workshop with more than 300 people living nearby. Everyone got tired of eating in the big pot and started to think about something else, so someone used their skills to set up a tea stall and eat on the hour, providing a place for the workers to rest after work, and making some extra money for themselves.

There is a small market in this open space, selling everything from fish and wild vegetables to rattan and bamboo furniture to soup, noodles, tea, and rice in bamboo tubes.

There was also a big man who squatted on the ground and made a grasshopper and gave it to the children next to him.

He Lingchuan looked familiar as soon as he saw the profile. Isn't this Qiu Hu?

He shouted, and Qiu Hu scratched his head and came over.

"What are you doing here?" He clearly sent Qiu Hu to Xiaosu Island, how did this guy show up?

"The things you told us have been completed and went smoothly." Qiu Hu said sarcastically, "I'll just come over and take a look."

have a look? What to see?

He Lingchuan glanced at Reni behind him, her eyes were a little wandering.

Oh, I seem to understand.

Without saying anything, he invited the four of them to sit at the tea stall. The tea vendor's smile was brighter than the flowers, and he kept wiping the towel on the bamboo bench: "Master Hedao, please sit down, please sit down!"

He Lingchuan forced him to give him a few copper coins, and brought him steaming Kuding tea by his familiar means. Qiu Hu quickly helped him.

A total of five tubes of tea were brought.

Yes, the tea sets here are also made of bamboo, which is convenient and quick to use locally sourced materials.

It's just that the Kuding tea is held in a moso bamboo tube, which is about the same thickness as a pen holder, and is far less exaggerated than a giant bamboo dragon tube.

Workers want tea to quench their thirst, so the tea here is sold in "tubes".

As soon as they sat down, the civilians around them saw that this was a way to discuss official business, and they quickly evacuated.

There was not a single outsider within two feet of the table.

The local people are as afraid of officials as tigers.

He Lingchuan had no choice but to subsidize the stall owner a little more for tea.

Then he walked to the barbecue stall nearby and ordered a hundred skewers.

Centipede Island was originally the base camp of three pirates and was not invaded by Yin evil spirits. Therefore, there is no shortage of snakes, insects, rats, and ants on the island, except for the lack of live pigs and cattle. The few existing ones were brought by civilians.

Eating meat is too luxurious, and this barbecue stall didn't know that the owner of the island would come to visit, so the items grilled on the stove were all ingredients randomly obtained from the island.

Hares, bamboo rats, quails, nudibranchs, oysters, conches, yellow mushrooms picked from the forest, and grasshoppers that can't jump much after autumn were all dressed into skewers and grilled over the fire. .

Since the island owner ordered the dishes, the skewers were served one after another.

The grasshopper legs were burnt, and Ding Zuodong frowned secretly, but as soon as He Lingchuan said, "You are welcome to eat them all," Guan Ke immediately followed his lord and took a bunch, chewed it with a smile on his face, and said it was delicious.

He Lingchuan casually placed a soundproof barrier, and then asked Ding Zuodong: "What did you just say happened?"

"Lord, I have been contacting foreign merchants for shipments in the past few days. Seven or eight of them are very interested after trying the oil products and are willing to cooperate. The fleets of two of them mainly use the sea transportation of Mouguo and Yaguo, and the order volume is large. .”

Needless to say, the middleman must be Guan Ke, but Ding Zuodong did not mention it.

Guan Ke is a local know-it-all and has accurate information on the comings and goings of goods. This is how he can get a generous salary under He Lingchuan.

"Isn't this a good thing? What's the problem?" He Lingchuan picked up a bunch of grilled quails.

"The problem is that we sent oil and medicinal materials to the shipping department three times for inspection, but each time we were called back and said they were unqualified." Ding Zuodong held a bunch of yellow mushrooms and turned them around in his hand, but he had no intention of putting them in his mouth. , "In Blade Port, without a warrant issued by the Municipal Shipping Department, you cannot open a store, nor can you openly sell goods, transship, load and unload."

The Municipal Shipping Department is the official agency that manages the port. It mainly inspects incoming and outgoing ships and cargo, collects taxes, and trades. In Blade Port, it also handles all the functions of the local government office and has great power.

He continued: "Among the trophies you captured from the three pirates, there are several shops in Blade Port. They are in good locations. We originally wanted to use them to open stores, but now I'm afraid it will be postponed."

He Lingchuan immediately realized what the trouble was.

If the Municipal Shipping Department does not issue a license for a day, the freshly produced palm oil, herbs, wood, fish, mushrooms, and mushrooms from the Yangshan Islands, including fluorescent spores, spider silk and other specialties that will be produced in the future, cannot be disclosed in Blade Port. sell!

"Can't the trading place be set on our island?"

"Foreign merchants don't admit it." Guan Ke continued, "For many years, merchants have assumed that bulk goods are traded in Blade Port, and these goods must hold a license from the Shipping Department to prove that they are of qualified quality before anyone can buy them. "

In other words, the recognition of the Blade Port Shipping Department is very important. Without that piece of paper, it would be difficult for He Lingchuan to sell anything on his island.

Unless he doesn't do external business.

Guan Ke looked serious: "In addition, opening a store in Blade Port is also very important. Not only can we display our products to all merchants and civilians, but it also facilitates customers to come to negotiate. If we can't open this store, business will be difficult."

"There can be no problem with the quality of our products." He Lingchuan asked the two people, "Does the Shipping Company like Karen very much?"

"Generally speaking, if there is no big problem with the quality, you can get by with a small gift and a meal or two." Guan Ke replied, "If the deviation is bigger, be more filial."

All in all, within the rules and regulations, this certificate is not difficult to obtain.

"Three times for inspection, we also gave three gifts and three treats. Zhao Qianshi, who was in charge of the random inspection, was so full of food, but he got an unqualified result every time." Ding Zuodong's face darkened, "We went to the supervisor Wu Tiju from the Municipal Shipping Department said that official matters must be handled openly, and the verification results of Zhao Qianshi shall prevail."

Ding Zuodong went to Wu Tiju, and of course he would not be empty-handed.

In this case, Wu Tiju also gave him a hard nail.

He Lingchuan stroked his chin: "Have we ever offended anyone from Shibo Division?"

"It's never happened before."

He Lingchuan and others had only been in Blade Port for a long time, and they were busy working on their own business. They had only recently dealt with the Shipping Company, and they were all business dealings.

What kind of feud could this be?

Guan Ke said: "My lord, how is your relationship with Bailie?"

He Lingchuan was stunned: "What do you mean?"

"This Wu Tiju was born in Bailie's Qucheng, and his family is related to the Lu family. I heard that he could be promoted as a shipping secretary, and the Lu family gained a lot of favors later." Blade Port was taken from Bailie. It was borrowed and is now managed by the Qing Kingdom. Not to mention how chaotic the relationships, power, and entanglements here are, only a local know-it-all like Guan Ke can understand. "Of course, Wu Tiju was able to rise to power because he was Ning Guangrong, the uncle of the Qing Kingdom." Recommended.”

"You bought the Yangshan Islands from Bailie. I heard that the price is very... favorable." It's so cheap, it's just a bargain. "Now that the Yangshan Islands are booming, is there someone unhappy?"

After buying the Yangshan Islands, He Lingchuan flicked his backhand and pinned the label of the wretch back on the Lu family's forehead. Can Bailie be happy?

I wanted to see others laugh, but I ended up being the biggest joke. Guan Ke put himself in his shoes and realized that if he were the head of the Lu family, he would at least be depressed to the point of internal injury.

If we can't get back to Yangshan Islands, is there still no way to add some congestion to He Lingchuan?

How many people are so magnanimous that when they see others taking advantage of them, they still don't get jealous, they still smile and say congratulations, and they still sincerely want to cooperate with the other party?

I wish you would smash your mouth and bite the dirt, and then he would step on you hard to let out the bad breath in your heart.

He Lingchuan nodded slightly, that's it.

It was Bailie who was doing something behind his back again. This time he was even more despicable, using official channels to suppress him.

The City Shipping Department is the local leader of Blade Port and an official force. He Lingchuan was a lord on the Yangshan Islands, and he was also a white man when he entered Blade Port.

The people have never fought with the officials, so He Lingchuan won't get anything good when he goes to the port company.

If the officials want to deal with you, they can turn the laws into whips and beat you until you are full of teeth.

The Lu family and his son hit it very accurately, temporarily blocking the neck of Yangshan Islands.

They had tasted the sweetness of driving up prices in the first round; this was the second round, and they still wanted to win and make persistent efforts to bring down He Lingchuan.

"Lord?" Guan Ke saw that he was absent-minded and asked.

"Yeah." He Lingchuan finally came back to his senses, "Go on."

"Besides, this Wu Tiju also owns hundreds of acres of forest, and has planted cash crops, including a large number of palms, herbs, and fruit trees. His housekeeper also approached me before and asked me to help contact buyers." Guan Ke After a pause, he continued, "It is not the common people who have the final say on what to grow in the mountains, forests and paddy fields of Qing. The Wu family has really made a lot of money through these businesses."

Not only the Qing Kingdom, but also the Yuan Kingdom or the former Xiqiao and Panlong City, the fields must produce rice, wheat, cotton, and the mountains and forests must produce sweet potatoes, buckwheat, and sorghum. There are official restrictions on this, and you cannot grow whatever you want.

Who doesn't know that differentiated management can make more money? If you don't grow food in the mountains, wouldn't it be good to grow some herbs, tea, tobacco, and fruit trees?

No way. If there is insufficient food, the country will be unstable.

But Wu Ti's family is not an ordinary person, and he can make this money beautifully.

Therefore, the future economic output of Yangshan Islands may have a blow to his family's livelihood. As long as Wu Tiju is unhappy, he can cause hundreds of millions of troubles for He Lingchuan.

He Lingchuan invested most of his wealth in the construction of the Yangshan Islands. He spent money on renting boats, buying materials, and spending a lot of money on entertainment, but the most expensive thing was labor. Now there are nearly 9,000 people working for him on 14 islands. Although they are mainly part-time workers during the palm harvest season, the money spent is real.

When he wakes up every morning, before he does anything, he has to spend more than two thousand taels of silver, which is two million yuan.

How could he have dared to think of spending money at this speed when he was a young man?