The Book of Heaven

Chapter 174
Two days later, there was a rumor in Jiading City that someone would enter Jiading City in seven days to sell a bottle of non-attribute mid-grade chalcedony.

For ordinary people, they don't know what chalcedony is, but what ordinary people don't know doesn't mean that everyone doesn't know.

As an important salt industry city in the southwestern part of the empire, the richest people in Jiading City cannot do without dealing with the salt industry.

Whether it is pumping brine or boiling salt, or even later packaging and delivery, a lot of manpower is involved. Therefore, wealthy merchants engaged in the salt industry often start their business by relying on their numbers. Even though these wealthy businessmen wear the clean and tidy clothes of gentry, they are still the big brothers of a large group of people in private.

One must not forget the fundamentals, or it should be said that behind every wealthy businessman, there are countless sufferings supporting them, and these countless sufferings are like the countless eyes and ears of the wealthy merchants all over Jiading City, and at the same time they are the eyes and ears of the wealthy merchants. thugs and knives.

Most of Kuhaha didn't know the value of intermediate chalcedony, but they knew that the news was very important and they had to report it in time. Maybe they could get a compliment, but they might also get real copper coins or even silver.

Any social class has its own way of life, but in the final analysis, it is the acquisition of information that determines the importance of a person in society.

The Qi family, a wealthy businessman who started out selling private salt, naturally would not let go of any disturbance in Jiading City.

When he heard that someone would sell intermediate chalcedony in Jiading City, Qi Mingdu didn't believe it at all!
It is impossible for intermediate chalcedony to be found in places like Jiading City. Even if there is, it can only be bought by wealthy merchants like the Qi family secretly and brought back from other places.

Only someone who has lost their minds will do it to bring a bottle of middle-grade chalcedony to Jiading Mansion for sale!

Although Qi Mingdu has this kind of self-confidence, the importance of chalcedony still makes him have to send someone to investigate further. After all, not everyone in the world is mentally normal. Such an opportunity, when the time comes, I really regret it.

As the real local snake in Jiading City, no matter what Qi Mingdu wants to know, he can get the most accurate information in the shortest time. Where did you come from.

"Three low-class bastards, who hide in the inn? How can people like this have chalcedony?"

Qi Mingdu seemed to be talking to himself, but also seemed to be asking the person standing in front of him.

This person is Qi Mingdu's housekeeper and also Qi Mingdu's think tank. His surname is Zhao and his last name is Ding.

The name Zhao Ding sounds silly, but in fact his real name is not Zhao Ding, but "Ding", the "Ding" who aspires to the top of the world.I think Zhao Ding's parents had great hopes for their children when they named them. However, things always go astray so easily. Lianren joined the Qi family with his abilities.

For the Qi family, Zhao Ding originally looked down on him. What is a family that became rich by selling private salt?Inferior!

However, it was such an inferior family who took out those yellow and white things, and finally changed Zhao Ding out of prison, changed his name from "ding" to "ding", stamped his life contract with a bright red thumb mark, and since then Zhao Ding is a member of the Qi family, even if the Qi family commits crimes and wants to exterminate the nine clans in the future, he, Zhao Ding, will be an indispensable one among the people.

In this way, Zhao Ding became honest. Apart from not being able to honor his ancestors, at least he can spread his branches and leaves. Qi Mingdu gave him a good treatment. There is ten taels of gold in a year, so Zhao Ding not only married a wife, In normal times, you can go to the brothel to spend your days, and you can even raise an outer room.

As time went by, Zhao Ding also knew that it was impossible for him to leave the Qi family in this life, and he and the Qi family had become a solid one, as the saying goes, if you lose, you will lose, and you will prosper.

"My lord, I have a different opinion on this matter."

"Oh, then you talk about it."

Qi Mingdu still trusts Zhao Ding's head, after all, Zhao Ding is a real scholar.

"Those people with red eyes know the basics, that is, their lives are a little easier than those of the bitter haha. If no one gives them money, how can they afford to eat wine and meat, wear silk and silk, and live happily in the inn every day? .”

"Well, that's true."

"Because I have a bottle of mid-grade chalcedony in my hand, I'm afraid I wouldn't dare to show up directly. The best way is to spread the news through people like Red Eyes, and even go through them for the transaction, so that the security is the best." It will be guaranteed."

"Hearing what you said, is it possible that the intermediate chalcedony is real?"

If such a bottle of mid-grade chalcedony really appeared in Jiading City, Qi Mingdu felt that it must belong to him, and no one else has that qualification!

Although no one in his family is qualified to use it right now, Qi Mingdu will not let go of this opportunity no matter whether he is hoarding it or preparing for it.

"Zhao Ding, what do you think we should do to benefit?"

Qi Mingdu's question is very interesting, he didn't think about how to trade, nor did he say how to start, but he asked the word "favorable".

"Master, maybe we should think about whether the other party is really short of money."

Chalcedony, unless it is a very low-level kind, it is basically impossible to trade with money. As Zhao Ding said, this kind of thing can only be traded by barter, so the other party takes out a bottle of chalcedony Intermediate chalcedony, what is the purpose?
"Do you still want to find those bastards?"

"This kind of thing, of course, does not need the master to do it himself."

Zhao Ding cupped his hands and bent down, with a familiar smile on Qi Mingdu's face.

"In that case, go ahead and do it. I won't treat you badly after this matter is done."

"Please rest assured, master!"

Zhao Ding bowed back, and slowly exited the study room, then took out a paper fan from his arms, and after tapping it lightly a few times, Zhao Ding sent for two family members to accompany him to go out on business.

The servant of the Qi family, to put it bluntly, is Qi Mingdu's thugs.

Of course, thugs also have high and low points. Those who only have brute force are thugs. If a servant knows some superficial martial arts, he is called a guardian in the Qi family. If martial arts can enter the third-rate realm, in a small place like Jiading City, basically You can walk sideways. Of course, if you pay enough money, it is also called a nursing home, but it is a senior nursing home. When the people below see it, they will call "Master Nursing Home".

As for the second-rate fighters, they can't be a guardian, even if they are called "Master Guardian", even if Qi Mingdu sees him, he has to bow his hands and say "worship".

To explain it literally, the profession of "worship" is usually a statue on the stage, and incense and candle tributes are indispensable, but if there is any problem, it needs to come forward to solve practical problems.

(End of this chapter)