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Chapter 30 Slaughter the King of Wu, Golden Ten Thousand Taels

The big man had exhausted all his strength when he used this saber, panting heavily, the steel saber fell to the ground with a "clang" sound. On the other hand, although the fierce soldier was repelled a few steps, he was calm and calm, and his breath was flat.

"Come here, I will reward you with a thousand coins and a good horse." Chen Ci looked at the big man with a smile, and said with a smile, "Would you like to stay and become the guard of my Taoyuan Town?"

The big man was shocked, and immediately knelt down on one knee, clasped his fists and said: "It is a blessing in Ma Yong's life to be able to follow the son-in-law."

"Hahaha, good."

The statement laughed boldly.

The onlookers saw that there was no excitement, so they dispersed.

Wrapped in the crowd, King Wu and Murong Tong did not leave, when the people had almost left, the two of them walked up to the high platform silently, Chen Ci also walked down slowly, cupped their fists and said, "Greetings to King Wu, His Royal Highness. "

"Nephew, I really have you. In just a few months, Taoyuan Town has been built like this. I admire it." King Wu said quietly, unable to hear any emotion.

Chen Ci smiled all over his face: "Don't dare, just play around and pass the time."

"As expected of Xin Wuji's child, intelligent and capable." King Wu commented.

Chen Ci felt a little disdainful in his heart, thinking that the child of the cheap father is actually just a pedantic stinky scholar, how can he be capable?
But he remained calm, "Don't dare."

"Nephew, to tell you the truth, I have something to ask, and I don't know if you agree or not." King Wu said in a low voice with a look of embarrassment on his face.

Chen Ci sneered in his heart, of course he knew what King Wu wanted from him, it was nothing but the tobacco business in Taoyuan Town, but it didn't matter, he had already expected such a day.After the tobacco leaf business becomes bigger and stronger, it will inevitably come into the eyes of officials, so he has already prepared his speech.

"King Wu, are you here for the tobacco leaves?"

"Exactly." King Wu looked a little embarrassed. After all, he also knew how profitable the tobacco leaf business was.

"This..." Chen Ci pretended to be hesitant, and said with embarrassment: "King Wu, to tell you the truth, since we started the tobacco leaf business in Taoyuan Town, every household has stopped growing food, and their basic necessities depend on it. If you Taking away our tobacco leaves means cutting off the lifeline of thousands of households in Taoyuan Town."

Wu Wang smiled dryly: "I know this, so I'm cooperating with you. Tobacco is still grown in Taoyuan Town, and I, in the rest of the cities and counties, also open some fertile fields and grow tobacco. In this way, the value of tobacco may decrease." It’s a little bit lower, but it doesn’t matter, since it’s a cooperation, you must not lose money, and I will give you enough profits every year like the Dongying people, so that everyone can earn money and have meat to eat.”

The reason why Chen Ci’s shredded tobacco can be sold for one tael of silver and one tael of shredded tobacco is mainly due to the low output and the shortage of supply.

If you cooperate with King Wu to plant tobacco leaves on a large scale, the price will definitely drop sharply, and may even fall to the point where ordinary people can afford to smoke.

As a result, profits may be much less.

But the advantage is that the consumer base is huge and still profitable.

Chen Ci pretended to think about it, pretended to weigh the pros and cons, and gritted his teeth: "King Wu, this matter is related to the survival of thousands of households in my Taoyuan Town. How about this, give me three days to think about it."

King Wu frowned. What bothered him the most was the political stuff. He said, "If you agree to cooperate, Prince Wu's House is willing to give you 1 taels of gold as a deposit."

1 million taels?

Chen Ci was contemptuous in his heart, a huge Wu Wangfu, sitting in three cities, six counties and 18 counties in southern Wu, how stingy it is?
"1 taels, is it too little?" Chen Ci pointed to the terraced fields not far away, and said, "My tobacco leaves are sold out, and it is more than 1 taels. Before the Dongying people asked me to cooperate in papermaking, they also spent 10 taels." Ten thousand taels."

King Wu's face was livid, and he thought to himself, you little bastard, aren't you walking around just to open your mouth for the lion?

"Then, how good should it be between the nephews and nephews?"

Chen Ci Youzai Youzai raised two fingers.

King Wu took a deep breath.

"20 taels...gold?"

"Exactly."

King Wu's face was cloudy, Murong Tong hurriedly laughed, "My son-in-law, will it be too much?"

20 taels of gold, that was the entire annual military expenditure of the First Army under King Wu's account.

Chen Ci said solemnly: "Your Majesty, King Wu, 20 taels is not much. If you, like the Dongying people, can open up channels in the 20 prefectures and dump tobacco leaves across the country, you will soon be able to earn back the 100 taels of gold. Time waits for no one, if you are not willing to spend this money, some people are willing to spend it, not to mention those people in the imperial court, are there people from Dongying staring at this piece of meat? Come on, I have to call him a million taels of gold."

King Wu's face became even more gloomy when he heard this.

He was still hesitating at first, but when he heard the statement that he might sell it to Dongying people, how could he dare to delay?Immediately, he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I agree, when will the agreement be signed?"

"Uncle, don't worry, this year has passed the golden age of tobacco leaf planting, let's talk about it next year, but...you have to send me 20 taels of gold as soon as possible, or it will be too late, and the Dongying people will take the lead. There is nothing I can do to help." Chen Ci shrugged.

……

Early the next morning, the King of Wu really ordered someone to send 20 taels of gold.

It was Yu Xiong who escorted the gold and silver.

At Taolinkou, he was stopped by Ma Yong and a group of Taoyuan town guards.

Yu Xiong sacrificed his token, sat firmly on the rouge saddle, held the reins, and said calmly: "I am Yu Xiong, the deputy commander of the 'Mang' army of the First Guangling Army, and I am escorting 20 gold beads under the military order of the King of Wu. Two, please come out and see the son-in-law."

Ma Yong clasped his fists: "General, wait a moment, my son-in-law is on the way and will be there in a while."

Yu Xiong nodded, after all, he hadn't come to Taoyuan Town for a few months, since his last statement was rejected by Zhang Mang at the Qianshan Military Station, and then there was another statement to reach an agreement with the Dongying people, Yu Xiong just On the one hand, he severed the communication relationship with Chen Ci.

He just thought he was wrong.

Chen Ci is a villain who sees profit and forgets righteousness.

Recalling that Chen Ci relied on him to lead 1 soldiers and demanded [-] taels of gold from Shangshan Qi, he was convinced that Chen Ci was a villain who only had money in his eyes.

The two sides did not confront each other for a long time, and a moment later, a large group of people came to Taolin intersection.

Chen Ci is in the front, Fan Chu is in the back, and there are ten retinues with swords.

"Long time no see, Brother Yu."

Chen Ci clasped his fists in the air.

Yu Xiong didn't dismount from his horse, nor did he show any strange expression, he calmly replied: "Greetings, Prince Consort."

Chen Ci saw his indifference, and he didn't force it. Ever since he signed an agreement with Uesugi to sell the papermaking craft for 10 taels of gold, he had expected it. In addition, Yu Xiong never came to him again. He already knew that the relationship between him and Yu Xiong was probably severed from then on.

Yu Xiong waved his hand: "Unload the cargo."

A group of soldiers opened and unloaded the large boxes in an orderly manner.

Chen Ci waved his hand and ordered his subordinates to check.

After checking, Yu Xiong snorted coldly, led his troops away, and never said a word of nonsense to Chen Ci from the beginning to the end.

(End of this chapter)