Red Mansion Taoist

Chapter 102 Gem
  One person massacred thousands of members of the Salt Gang, and it was a bit horrifying to think about being targeted by such a terrifying being.

For this reason, Shopkeeper Ma did not care about the hatred of his predecessor. After handling the internal affairs of the Ma family, the first thing he did was to come to Lin Ruhai.

"You're welcome, Shopkeeper Mada, please take a seat!" Lin Ruhai enjoyed the feeling of being feared by the big salt merchant, he said with a smile and waved his hand.

In the past, he was the one on the defensive when dealing with big salt merchants.

The big salt merchant has a large amount of silver in his hands, and he can use bribery, coercion, inducement, etc. to attack Lin Ruhai's relatives.

As for Lin Ruhai's identity and the fact that he only had so many people in his hands, all he could do was try to survive.

But since Jia Qiang's powerful revenge, when major salt merchants want to do something off-market, they need to consider whether they can withstand the revenge from Lin Ruhai.

"Ma Yuanchu is involved in salt affairs, and he still needs Mr. Lin's care. In the past, the Ma family and Mr. Lin had some misunderstandings, and I hope I can start to resolve them!" Shopkeeper Ma said, pushing the two gift orders over.

"Two small gifts are prepared here, one is for Mr. Lin, and the other is for Mr. Lin to hand over to your guard. The Ma family will obey your orders in the future!" Shopkeeper Ma continued to explain.

Lin Ruhai looked at the two gift lists. In fact, if possible, he wanted to throw the two gift lists back.

The Ma family almost caused him to lose his daughter, and he didn't want to let go of this hatred so easily.

But as the salt patrol censor, he needs to maintain the stability of the salt affairs. Even if he wants to deal with the Ma family, he needs to maintain the stability of the salt affairs before he can take action.

Besides, it is not so easy to deal with the Ma family. Without ironclad evidence that points directly to the critical point, the Ma family has the ability to turn over.

"I heard about what happened to the Ma family. Please express my condolences!" Lin Ruhai replied calmly without touching the gift list.

Shopkeeper Ma Da breathed a sigh of relief. The gift order was not rejected, which meant that Lin Ruhai accepted it.

He chatted with Lin Ruhai for a while, and after seeing Lin Ruhai pick up the tea cup, he wisely said goodbye and left.

Lin Ruhai took two gift lists, glanced at the contents on the gift lists, and couldn't help but shook his head, secretly shocked that this shopkeeper Ma Da's handiwork was not small.

But considering that this is money to buy one's life, and considering the humble behavior of shopkeeper Mada just now, he is probably afraid of death, and it is normal to use the family's interests to save his life.

He didn't leave a gift list, he picked up both gift lists and prepared to send them to Jia Qiang.

Originally, it was Jia Qiang's fault that shopkeeper Ma Da came to give gifts.

Considering his and Jia Min's ages, as well as the fact that the Lin family has few natural heirs, it is impossible for the couple to have children.

Lin Daiyu is their only child, and the Lin family's property will be handed over to Lin Daiyu and Jia Qiang in the future.

Strangely enough, after Lin Ruhai married Jia Min, she took in two more concubines.

Lin Ruhai and Jia Min were together, and they gave birth to a son and a daughter, if not counting their son who died young.

But he and his two-room concubine had nothing to do with each other. Due to this situation, he had little contact with his two-room concubine in the past two years and spent most of his time with his wife and daughter.

The two gift lists were delivered to Jia Qiang's room together with the gifts from the two carriages. In the Lin Mansion, in order to be able to put down Jia Qiang's belongings, three more rooms were vacated next to his room and used as his. 's warehouse.

Jia Qiang did not expect that after assassinating the salt merchant Ma Da, the Ma family would also send him a heavy gift.

Not all the gifts were on the carriage, but only part of them. Just like the five large cargo ships on the gift list, they had already docked at his dock and were waiting for him to receive them.

There are also some great medicines. These great medicines are of very high quality and are only used to practice the body refining technique of generals.

It can be seen that the new boss of the Ma family gave this gift with great care. Jia Qiang did not know that Lin Ruhai's share was also given to him.

He had people deliver the gifts to the warehouse. He didn't expect that the three-room warehouse was almost full after he had only been in Yangzhou for a long time.

He checked in the warehouse. Although anyone who gave a gift had a gift list before, even if it was put into the warehouse, Old Butler Lin would help organize a warehouse list.

But he had never seen many things before, and now he became a little more interested, so he looked at these belongings in the warehouse.

He held the warehouse list in one hand and clicked on the corresponding items with the other hand.

When Jia Qiang found a gem called the 'Red Crow Falcon Stone', he sensed energy fluctuations in the 'Red Crow Falcon Stone'.

This made him very curious, and he took the 'Red Crow Falcon Stone'.

The 'Red Crow Stone' is an Arab gemstone that was transported to the East from Sri Lanka by Arab traders.

Jia Qiang was surprised that the 'Red Crow Falcon Stone' had energy fluctuations. He had come into contact with a lot of gems, but this was the first time he discovered energy fluctuations.

The way he checked the 'Red Crow Falcon Stone' was very simple, he directly put the 'Red Crow Falcon Stone' into his inventory.

Check the "Red Crow Falcon Stone" through the inventory. If the "Red Crow Falcon Stone" has any special uses that are useful to the game board, it will be displayed in the game prompts.

He focused on the 'Red Crow Falcon Stone' and got the name of this gem, 'Gem of Life [Mortal Grade 0.1]'. The game prompts that its purpose is to increase life by .

Jia Qiang was stunned. He really didn't expect that during this casual inspection, he would actually find items recognized by the game board that could enhance himself.

He recalled the role of gems in the game in his previous life. Gems were used for inlaying, but each piece of equipment could only be inlaid with one gem.

Although the amount of life added by a 'Life Gem [Ordinary Grade 0.1]' is very small, only life, this life will not bring any benefit to him.

But considering that ordinary products can be upgraded, look at his white horse, which is the third level of good quality.

Just looking at the gap between the first-level ordinary war horse and the white horse of the third-level good quality, you can imagine how much the effect of the 'Life Gem [First-level Mortal]' will be enhanced after it is upgraded.

Now he became interested and looked through the warehouse list from beginning to end, trying to find all the Arabian gems.

Unfortunately, Arabic gemstones are extremely expensive in Daqian. Even among the gifts, there are only twelve Arabic gemstones.

He took out all twelve Arabian gems and found that only eight Arabian gems were recognized by the game board as 'Ordinary Grade 1', while the remaining few were not recognized.

Jia Qiang discovered a total of four kinds of gems recognized by the game board. In addition to the 'Red Crow Falcon Stone', there are also 'Blue Crow Falcon Stone', 'Yellow Crow Falcon Stone' and 'White Crow Falcon Stone'.

'Blue Crow Falcon Stone' corresponds to the name 'Taoist Gem [Ordinary Grade 1]'; 'Yellow Crow Falcon Stone' corresponds to the name 'Speed ​​Gem [Mortal Grade 1]'; 'White Crow Falcon Stone' corresponds to The name is 'Demon Control Gem [Ordinary Grade 1]'.

As long as the four kinds of gems are placed in the inventory, after paying attention, there will be a fusion reminder.

He tried to fuse the 'Life Gem [Mortal Grade 1]', and two 'Life Gem [Mortal Grade 1]' were combined into a 'Life Gem [Mortal Grade 2]'a.

He found Old Butler Lin and asked about the value of several 'crow falcon stones'. The answer he received surprised him. Since this type of top-quality Crow Stone is produced in Arabia, it is an extremely luxurious and expensive gemstone even in Arabia. After being taken to the East after a long journey, its value is extremely astonishing.

The value of a top-grade Crow Falcon Stone ranges from approximately 20,000 taels of silver to 100,000 taels of silver.

The reason why there is such a big fluctuation in value is because the number of top-grade Raven Falcon stones is too small, and the Raven Falcon stones obtained through different channels have different values.

Jia Qiang had more than eight million taels of silver in his hands, so he could purchase top-grade Crow Falcon Stones. However, he calculated that the amount of top-grade Crow Falcon Stones he needed was extremely large. Even if he had so much silver, it would probably not be enough.

"It seems that we still have to do some money-making business!" Jia Qiang shook her head and said helplessly.

Before, he thought that more than eight million taels of silver was enough for him to squander.

His requirements for life are very simple. In total, more than eight million taels of silver are enough for a family like Rong Guofu to consume for nearly a hundred years.

And even if Rongguo Mansion is in the capital, it is also the home of Zhongming Dingshi.

But if he wanted to fuse the Raven Falcon Stone, he would need an extremely large number of top-grade Raven Falcon Stones.

According to Old Butler Lin, if you want to buy top-grade Crow Falcon Stone, you need to have a certain amount of power, otherwise it will be difficult to buy it even if you have money.

For the top Raven Falcon Stone, he plans to establish a business ambition.

At this time, he thought of the three shopkeepers given to him by Huang Quanyi. These three shopkeepers were all experienced hands and were in his hands.

He asked the servants of the Lin Mansion to invite three shopkeepers. These three shopkeepers lived in Yangzhou City and had their own families.

"I've met my boss!" The three shopkeepers bowed and saluted after seeing Jia Qiang.

The three shopkeepers have been a little restless these days. They were sent away by Huang Quanyi, but they have never been assigned any work.

And because of their physical incarceration, they cannot actively look for jobs.

If they really had nothing to do, they would each have a family to support.

A contracted shopkeeper is a special profession. In order to gain more trust from his boss, he puts his life and property in the hands of his boss.

This kind of shopkeeper usually won't betray, because the price of betrayal is too high.

Even if you use money to bribe the shopkeeper, it is not worthwhile for the shopkeeper to lose his life while gaining the money.

The most important thing is that once you betray the boss, not only the boss can kill the shopkeeper, but the shopkeeper's family will also be implicated.

"I have some property in Yangzhou and need someone to take care of it!" Jia Qiang said lightly.

"I am willing to contribute to my employer!" the three shopkeepers said in unison.

The three of them looked at each other with dissatisfaction in their eyes.

"My current property includes a canal terminal and eleven large canal cargo ships. In addition, I also plan to open a restaurant in Yangzhou. Each of you can choose a business that you are good at to take over!" Jia Qiang continued.

Suddenly, the three shopkeepers no longer had any thoughts of competing, and the three businesses were enough for them to distribute.

"Boss, young Teng Mingming has managed the dock for several years and is very experienced in the dock!" Shopkeeper Teng Mingming bowed and said.

"Little Ping Zhenyu is willing to take over eleven cargo ships!" Shopkeeper Ping Zhenyu followed.

"The young Quan Shizhong has some experience in restaurants, but the competition among restaurants in Yangzhou is extremely fierce. It is difficult for a new restaurant to gain a foothold in Yangzhou!" Quan Shizhong finally said.

The three shopkeepers each have their own characteristics, their situations are different, and they are good at different things.

"Shopkeeper Teng, you have to hand over the dock matters to Mr. Lin's people!" Jia Qiang told Shopkeeper Teng, and then he arranged for Shopkeeper Ping: "You will take over the eleven cargo ships. Contact the major salt merchants to let them know." They give priority to our cargo ships!”

Nowadays, the Salt Transport Envoy Yamen is very powerful. This was the result of Jia Qiang's single-handedly instigating it. Now that we can borrow a little influence from the Salt Transport Envoy Yamen, I don't think Lin Ruhai will say anything.

"Shopkeeper Quan, the restaurant I want to build is a branch of Qingfeng Building in Beijing. It uses the same secret recipe as Qingfeng Building in Jingcheng. As for the chef, it's up to you to find it. After you arrange everything, the secret recipe materials will be We will supply it to you regularly!" Jia Qiang said to shopkeeper Quan again.

Shopkeeper Quan was stunned for a moment, then his face showed a look of joy.

Originally, he thought that the business he took over was the most difficult one. There was no trace of the restaurant yet and he had to start something from scratch.

But he never expected that what Jia Qiang planned to build was a branch in Qingfeng Building.

The name of Qingfeng Tower in the capital has long been spread to Yangzhou, and it is extremely popular among the upper class circles.

With the secret recipe of Qingfeng Tower in hand, even a fool can make money by managing it.

Shopkeepers Teng and Ping both looked at shopkeeper Quan with envy, but then they thought that the business they were responsible for was also very good.

"Your remuneration will be double the market price. I won't treat you badly in terms of money, but you must also consider your personal contract and don't do anything fatal!" Jia Qiang warned lightly.

"Please rest assured, boss, I will live up to my trust!" The three shopkeepers were shocked and bowed quickly.

Jia Qiang waved her hand. He would not ignore things completely. He had his own considerations.

The Lin Mansion has a ready-made accounting room. As long as the accounting room is randomly checked every once in a while, the three shopkeepers can prevent anything from happening.

"One more thing, you have a long-term mission, that is, if you find a top-grade Crow Stone, buy it back for me!" Jia Qiang finally ordered.

The three shopkeepers also knew about precious gems such as the top-grade Crow Falcon Stone. Although they didn't know why Jia Qiang was interested in the top-grade Crow Falcon Stone, they still agreed.

Shopkeeper Teng was sent to the pier in a carriage sent by Old Butler Lin. When he saw the size of the pier, he was still surprised.

This wharf was originally a medium to large wharf, and due to Lin Ruhai, the wharf was extremely busy and seemed to have more cargo throughput than the large wharf.

Since the salt industry was released, a large amount of official salt was sent to Yangzhou from various salt farms, and then distributed from Yangzhou to various places along the canal.

This wharf is known as the salt transportation envoy and has some relationship with Zhang Zhizhou. Therefore, the official salt of various salt merchants is naturally preferred here.

Shopkeeper Teng then took over the wharf from the Lin Mansion Management Office, and he has since managed the wharf.

(End of this chapter)