Call of the Heroes of Chaos in Another World

Chapter 1762: The Royal Merchants Join Forces to Fight Back, and the Four Economies Collapse

Moreover, even if he wanted to destroy them, why did he only bring a thousand or so people?

Do you really think that the Nangong family is just an ordinary businessmen, or do you think that the people in the Nangong family are no longer able to lift a knife?
Funny?
Among the top families in Da Cang, if we were to ask who has the strongest defense in their mansion, it would certainly be the four imperial merchants!
The Four Towns Generals' Mansion is only strong in its army, but they can't put all the troops in the mansion! At most, they can arrange a guard team of several hundred people!

The four imperial merchants are the ones that have the strongest overall quality of masters among the many top families in Da Cang.

With the resources owned by the four imperial merchants, something like a celestial being cannot be created by resources alone. However, the grandmaster level and even the lowest innate level cannot be forcibly created with resources, as long as you are willing to invest.

Although, generally speaking, these forcibly formed masters have the weakest combat power among the same level, and it is not impossible for them to be killed by others of a higher level.

However, on the one hand, there are geniuses among the people trained by the four imperial merchants, and not every one of them relies solely on resources.

Secondly, weak combat power does not mean that it cannot be supplemented by external forces. Among all the top families in Da Cang, whether they are civil officials or military officials, which one lacks martial arts?
Moreover, good equipment is also a kind of external force. It just so happens that the four major imperial merchants, these dog tycoons, have no shortage of these!

Therefore, Zhao Hong and Bu Ji had hit a wall this time.

It's not their fault. Before joining Tianshidao, they were just two strong farmers. In the early days after joining Tianshidao, they did a lot of things like slaughtering families.

Every time, they were able to gain advantages in everything. They brought a thousand or so people with them and robbed any house they wanted.

However, can the Nangong family be the same as the families they copied before? Not to mention a family like the Nangong family, they have not even copied a family like the Xuanyuan family that ranks high in the Dao.

He led his troops in with full confidence, but just as he kicked open the gate and before entering the front yard, hundreds of people suddenly rushed out and killed him to pieces.

These more than one hundred people are all elites selected from the orphans raised by the Nangong family since childhood. Each of them has innate-level strength, and there are also a handful of grandmaster leaders among them.

Although they are not high-level masters, except for the leader, the others are all in the initial and middle stages of the first-rate level.

However, it is undeniable that this force is powerful.

Moreover, each of these hundred people is equipped with soft armor. While ensuring the defensive capability, the lighter weight will not have much impact on their movements.

There are hidden arrows on his arms, hidden weapons on the soles of his shoes, thighs and other parts of his body, and a convenient crossbow is hung on his waist. Although this crossbow is only suitable for short-range combat and will be useless at a slightly longer distance, it can be very powerful if it suddenly strikes the enemy at a short distance.

The uniform long swords and short swords were not magic weapons, but they were made of fine iron. Although this weapon configuration was not good enough on the battlefield, the Nangong family trained this team not to let them go to the battlefield, but to let them guard the house or deal with some shady things.

This kind of mission naturally involves mostly street fighting, so the configuration of long and short swords is just right.

Unfortunately, the Nangong family’s mansion happened to be within the city.

The hundred people were divided into groups of varying sizes, and they led the thousand people to different places. They used their familiarity with the terrain in the city to annihilate them separately, and inflicted heavy losses on these people with almost no casualties.

Even the old man from the Nangong family came out in anger this time and took action personally, killing the instigators, Zhao Hong and Bu Ji, with his palms.

Although except for a few top-level skills like the Divine Hound Roaring Sky Scripture, which are purely internal or external skills, most of the top-level skills, in fact, cultivate both internal and external skills, and only begin to focus on one aspect after reaching a high level of cultivation.

However, even among the top-level techniques that cultivate both the inside and the outside, such as the Dragon Emperor's Treasure Book of the Da Cang Imperial Family or some Taoist techniques, there are very few that can truly achieve a balance between the inside and the outside.

Cultivating both the inside and the outside represents two possibilities, but these two possibilities do not mean they are equally divided.

Like the Dongfang family's martial arts, although it also cultivates both internal and external skills, the emphasis is 70% on internal skills, and the remaining 30% is probably external skills.

As for the Buddha Prison Suppression Sutra of the Four Towns General's Mansion, or the Nangong family's martial arts, the emphasis is more on external skills.

The ratio of external power to internal power in the Buddha Prison-Suppressing Sutra is only 70:3, but the Nangong family's skills are almost at 82:3.

Therefore, for example, the Nangong family or the four towns, although they have many powerful generals, they are indeed somewhat unsatisfactory to a certain extent. For hundreds of years, even if there are talented people in these families who have stepped into the realm of heaven, there are only a few who can achieve something in this realm.

Adding together these families, there are no more than three people who have been able to reach the late stage of heaven through practicing the family skills over the past few hundred years.

As for Wang Xianzhi, I'm sorry, this person is obviously the kind of person with good luck, and his fundamental skills are not his family's skills, but the inheritance from Baidi and Wudi.

Although the old celestial being of the Nangong family is only in the early stage of celestial being, no matter what, when it comes to dealing with people like Zhao Hong and Bu Ji, isn't it easy for him to trample on them as he pleases?
Zhao Hong and Bu Ji died cleanly, but they left all the troubles to Xuanyuan Huang.

At that time, Xuanyuan Huang was still on the front line, still thinking about how to seize the initiative from Ye Xiaoying and force Ye Xiaoying's troops out of Heyang Road.

When the news came through, no matter how well-mannered Xuanyuan Huang was, he still wanted to curse.

However, he couldn't really curse.

In the big tent, most people saw their own people being slaughtered by the clansmen of Nangong Qixing, the executioner whose hands were stained with the blood of their brothers.

A very small number of people even clamored to send a large army to wipe out the Nangong family and avenge their hatred.

Only a very small number of people can see the real problem.

At this time, Xuanyuan Huang was forced into a dilemma. If he took action against the Nangong family, how could the Nangong family be so easy to deal with? If he really pushed them into a corner, neither side would be happy.

But if we don't take action, those reckless men below will cause chaos.

But the Nangong family would not sit still and wait for death. After repelling the minnows under Zhao Hong and Bu Ji, the main group of people in the Nangong family and all the children under the age of ten began to retreat.

Their business routes were extensive, and the four imperial merchants had accumulated countless favors in all walks of life, which came in handy at that time.

Moreover, as the local bosses of Heyang Road, they definitely have many hidden tricks up their sleeves.

If the entire Nangong family were to escape unscathed, that would be absolutely impossible. However, leaving the most important group of people was only a small number, so this was not difficult.

Perhaps, the fate of those who stayed behind would not be good.

However, the Nangong family is not afraid of sacrifice!
The living will not let the dead sacrifice in vain!
They will make their enemies pay a hundred times, a thousand times the price.

Soon, countless merchants in Qingnan, Qingbei, Donghai and Heyang bought up basic necessities such as firewood, rice, oil and salt at high prices. Xuanyuan Huang was on the front line and did not have time to react immediately. By the time he realized something was wrong, the situation had already become very serious.

Furthermore, although Xuanyuan Huang was a versatile person, he was not as versatile in business as he was in other aspects, and he lacked the most direct sensitivity.

In a short period of time, the prices of materials on the market increased several times. Moreover, the most important thing is that these are the most basic materials needed for the lives of ordinary people.

Moreover, many ordinary people, in order to gain profits, sold an unknown amount of their stored grain.

As for what kind of problems will arise after the exponential increase in prices? I believe that this kind of question does not need too much explanation.

At this time, Xuanyuan Huang finally realized the crisis. He had usually acted relatively kindly, but this time he arrested a dozen typical businessmen and made an example of them.

However, Xuanyuan Huang killed the Huangs of these dozen merchants and raided their shops, but he did not seize any of their assets, as if all the materials they had purchased at high prices during this period had disappeared!
Moreover, after killing the chicken to scare the monkey, although those businessmen restrained themselves, it was only for a short period of time, and then they became even more crazy.

Even later, after the other three of the four imperial merchants got involved, in just half a year, the prices in these four regions increased by more than ten times compared to the initial period.

The four imperial merchants, on some issues, do not interfere with each other, but on some issues, they will advance and retreat together.

If someone wants to destroy the Nangong family, one day someone will want to take action against the other three of the four families.

They have wealth in their hands that makes all the big powers jealous, so naturally, when it is time to show it, they also need to show that they have enough ability to protect this wealth. At least, they need to let some people know that if they want to be jealous of them, they must first be able to afford the price behind it.

Although the four great merchants had played the role of money-spending boys countless times over the past few hundred years, that was only because they were willing to do so, and it did not mean that others could help them spread their wealth.

The price of goods increased by almost ten times in a short period of time. At this time, the four parties almost tacitly stopped purchasing. At this time, the people had almost run out of supplies.

For a time, all kinds of basic daily necessities in the four lands were hyped up to sky-high prices.

While merchants from the four regions were frantically buying up basic living supplies, a rumor suddenly spread that there was gold inside the copper coins, and a few skilled craftsmen actually cut a few copper coins in the middle and found gold.

As for the original one tael of silver could be exchanged for one coin, but since this rumor spread, the exchange rate between silver and copper coins has been directly out of balance. In addition, a large number of copper coins have flowed into the market at this time. Originally, one coin could be exchanged for one tael of silver, but now, these copper wires that have flowed into the market can be exchanged for one tael of silver for less than 50 or even 40 coins.

The silver and money in the hands of the people began to flow out in large quantities.

Dafeng once tried to use the difference in buoyancy to dispel the rumor that there was gold hidden in the copper coins. However, in public, the two copper coins put into the water sank to the bottom of the basin.

Afterwards, Dafeng found out that someone had dumped a large amount of salt into the wells in the city, and it had rained heavily that day, which led to the incident. However, even if he had found the cause, no one would have believed it at this time.

Instead, later on, a folk eccentric "by chance" uncovered everything and debunked the rumor that there was gold hidden in the copper coin.

But at this time, a large amount of silver had been lost from the people.

The so-called copper coins, after this rumor was dispelled, faced the most direct devaluation. One copper coin, or one hundred copper coins, could be exchanged for one tael of silver, but now it takes a full one hundred and thirty copper coins to exchange for a tael of silver.

Moreover, the four imperial merchants have endless means, and these are just two of them. With all these endless means, coupled with the outrageous prices nowadays, the people at the bottom of society are in a state of ecstasy.

Xuanyuan Huang became furious and tried both soft and hard tactics, but all were in vain.

He searched and searched countless shops of the Nangong family, both overt and covert, but he did not find a single thread.

The originally good situation took a sharp turn for the worse.

Xuanyuan Huang had no choice but to leave the front line and return to the rear to stabilize the situation.

As for the front line, the rear was in chaos at this time, so how could the front line still fight normally like before?

The four imperial merchants headed by the Nangong family would rather burn the materials they collected at high prices and make such a loss-making deal than allow the possibility of them returning to Xuanyuan Huang's hands again?
Moreover, not all materials purchased at high prices will be burned.

Qingbei, Qingnan and Donghai are all close to the sea, and Heyang Road also has the convenience of river transportation. A large part of the materials were sold to other places at a fair price by the four imperial merchants using the convenience of river and sea transportation. Some of them were also half bought and half sold to Wang Yu, Prince Jing, Zhennan Army and others.