Teleport to Zhulu City and go straight to the administrative center.

Seeing Su San also in the administrative center with a heavy look on his face, Yu Buzhi felt excited in his heart.

"My lord, Mr. Xu." Yi Feng came up to him and bowed.

Yu Buzhi waved his hand and asked: "Deputy City Lord Yi, what happened?"

"Reporting to my lord, someone has secretly launched a commercial attack on us, resulting in a decrease in the territory's income..."

Yi Feng is the deputy city lord of Zhulu Ling. He controls the most resources among the three deputy city lords. He not only needs to take care of the main territory and the surrounding supporting auxiliary territories, but also needs to continue to provide blood to the two special territories. Yi Feng can be called the great steward of Zhulu Ling.

Feng is self-aware, and his ability is not as good as that of Zhai Jiong, let alone Xun Yan. He is what he is today because of the lord's dependence. Yi Feng thinks that he has a heavy responsibility, and he does not dare to neglect for a moment, and is extremely diligent in his work.

After becoming the steward of Zhulu Leader, Yi Feng has felt economic pressure for a long time and has a very tight grasp on the economy. In addition to paying attention to the previous day's income and expenditure every day, every ten days he will comprehensively review the territory's economic performance in the previous ten days, find problems to solve, and seek opportunities to improve

Utilizing it, Yi Feng has a very good understanding of the economic situation of the territory.

A few days ago, it was time to review again every ten days.

Looking back this time, Yi Feng discovered that there were differences in the territory's balance of payments: Zhulu Ling's ten-day income was less than expected.

Although the absolute value of the income is still growing and has not had an obvious negative impact on the territory, and even the officials in charge of finance in the administrative center optimistically reported that everything is normal, Deputy City Lord Yi does not think so. Yi Feng is well aware of the financial and industrial conditions of the territory.

, combined with the recent improvement in the territory's production capacity, the territory's expenditures are roughly equal. Zhululing's balance of revenue and expenditure in the last ten days should be more than what is shown on the books, and it should not just be like this.

Since there was a problem with the general ledger, the conscientious Deputy City Master Yi immediately began to find out the details.

After checking the detailed accounts of each industry, we quickly found the crux: the decline in revenue from the textile industry.

To be precise, Shibu's income has decreased.

Silk cloth is one of the specialties of Zhululing and one of the few profitable industries in the territory. If something goes wrong with silk cloth, it will have an obvious impact on the overall economy of the territory. I continued to investigate and found the reason for the decrease in silk cloth income. The market price of silk cloth fluctuated.

The unit price dropped significantly, resulting in a shrinkage in the revenue of the Zhululing silk cloth industry.

Yi Feng was suspicious of this.

The price of silk cloth has always been stable. Although there have been occasional adjustments in the past, this is the first time for such a big price fluctuation. However, the price reduction of silk cloth is not unique to Bajun. The entire Yizhou is reducing prices. Vice City Lord Yi has nothing to do about it. He is unwilling to be the pillar of his territory.

Industrial profits declined, and people were sent to investigate the reasons for the price reduction of silk cloth, trying to figure out whether the price reduction of silk cloth was a short-term change or a long-term effect, so that the territory could come up with countermeasures.

When the investigation results came out, Yi Feng broke into a cold sweat.

It happened that Su San from the Ant Caravan was working here at Zhulu Leader. After discussing with Su San, Yi Feng realized that the matter could no longer be solved by himself, so he sent someone to notify Yu Buzhi and Xu Shu to return to the city.

Yu Buzhi frowned slightly: "Do you think the price reduction of silk cloth is a conspiracy against us?"

"Yes!" Yi Feng said firmly.

"The price of silk cloth dropped this time because the Yizhou Prefecture released the stock of silk cloth accumulated over the years from the treasury, which hit the market and caused the price to plummet. Since the Qin Dynasty, Bancheng barbarians have had a tradition of using silk cloth to pay taxes.

, the attack was delayed during the Han Dynasty. The Banchen tribe mainly lived in Yizhou. In addition, there were a small number of Banchen tribes in the south of Jingzhou, but they never became popular, so the acquisition of Shibu was mainly by the Yizhou government."

"The silk cloth is colorful and unique. It is very different from the cloth woven by the Han people. It is very popular in the Central Plains. The place of origin is cheap. In the past, the common practice was to send the silk cloth to the Central Plains, Hebei and other places for sale, and you can earn huge returns. This time

Selling it in the Yizhou production area is against both convention and business ethics, and the motive is very suspicious."

Su San began to add.

"I also asked someone from the business community to investigate this matter."

"The person who presided over the silk cloth sale in the prefecture was Wu Ziyuan of the Chenliu Wu family. The Chenliu Wu family was originally a giant businessman in Yanzhou, as famous as the Zhen family in Zhongshan, the Mi family in Donghai, and the Wei family in Hedong. The business was very big. In recent years, the Wu family

They all turned to Liu Junlang and followed Liu Junlang to Yizhou, and most of the family property was transferred to Bashu. If other people were to handle this matter, it might be interpreted as a lack of business ethics. However, this time Wu Ziyuan was personally in charge, and there was no way to act haphazardly.

It is possible, and there must be a purpose for doing this. The person who will be most affected by suppressing the price of silk cloth is Zhulu Ling. I believe that Wu Ziyuan is coming for us!"

Su San interpreted the Yizhou Prefecture's dumping of silk cloth from a commercial perspective.

The biggest victim of this incident is indeed Zhulu Ling.

Shibu is a specialty of the Jin people. In the game, due to Zhulu Ling’s investment in the Jin tribe, the tribe has gained huge benefits, and other tribes are sought after by player forces. Although no other players have obtained the specialty technology of the Jin people, multiple forces have repeatedly competed for the market.

In the game of shares, various tribes have benefited greatly. The development of tribes has generally improved. The population has increased, and production capacity has increased. Basically every tribe can make rice cloth, and some tribes have developed to the point where they can produce Baxiang Qing.

s level.

In other words, Cibu and Basiangqing are not unique to Zhululing, but Zhululing is the only player territory that has mastered the production technology of Cibu and Baxiangqing.

Previously.

It is.

According to the principle of non-transmission of specialty technology, Zhuilu Territory will still be the only territory with technology in the future.

The player's territory mastering specialty technology and the NPC force's mastering specialty technology are two different things. The biggest difference between the two is that the territory can increase production by adding relevant skilled talents, while the NPC force's production capacity depends on the size of the force.

One can be targeted for improvement, and the other can look at overall development.

If we take an enterprise as an example, then the territory is equivalent to a group company representing an advanced production model, while the NPC power is equivalent to a small family workshop. There is no comparison between the two, and the output and development potential are not at the same level. The silk cloth produced by Zhululing

, more than all the tribes of people combined!

This is related to the difficulty in growing the scale of the Jin tribe.

In the game, based on specific factors such as historical facts, behavioral characteristics, living environment, and combat effectiveness, different NPC forces have different development directions, potentials, and difficulties. They are all examples of NPC forces that exist in the form of tribes. The large Qiang and Hu tribes can easily exceed ten thousand people, while the Qiang and Hu tribes can easily exceed 10,000 people.

A human tribe with a thousand people is already a big deal. Historically, a single tribe of Tibetan people who settled along mountain streams could not compete with the population size of the Qiang and Huhu tribes who lived in pursuit of water and grass.

The Qinggu tribe and the Hongshu tribe have developed rapidly for so many years, and their respective populations are only about a thousand people.

Just imagine, if there is no limit to the population growth of a fighting nation with a variety of specialties and overwhelming combat power like the Zhi people, what will happen? This is a very real problem, related to the balance of power in the game, and how to deal with it.

If not, big problems will arise.

Therefore, the Ti people are very miserable. No matter how they develop, the ethnic group cannot grow much.

But people are also very lucky. They have special products, fighting strength, and are free and easy. They can just concentrate on being super mercenaries.

The Jin tribe is small, and its production capacity is not very large. Compared with the wildly growing Zhulu collar, there is a huge gap in production between the two. Su San said that the Zhulu collar is the biggest victim, which is not an exaggeration.

Yu Buzhi nodded silently and asked, "How sure are you?"

Su San hesitated for a moment and said, "Seven points."

"Yuan Zhi, what do you think?" Yu Buzhi looked at Xu Shu again.

"Nine points." Xu Shu said calmly.

"Reason? There is no reason for Liu Yan to use this method to deal with us. His opponent should be Prefect Zhao."

"We are too close to the governor of Bajun, and we helped Bajun solve the problem of goods circulation, which made Yizhou Prefecture's plan to block Bajun fail. It is not surprising that Yizhou Prefecture retaliates against us."

"On the other hand, after Liu Junlang took control of Yizhou, all his actions were clearly based on Yizhou's self-reliance. Zhang Gongqi separatized Hanzhong and blocked the passage between northern Yizhou and Guanzhong. The state government did not launch a large-scale crusade. Presumably he had the self-respect to support the bandits.

With this idea, it is inconvenient to send Yizhou rice cloth to other places, so it is not a bad idea to sell it locally."

"It's no secret that our salary expenditures are huge, and we can only barely support it with the profits earned from several key industries. Wu Ziyuan is very accurate. A direct attack on one of our profitable industries, if it breaks through a little bit, may cause the entire territory's economy to collapse.

We have too much time to take care of ourselves, so our support for the Bajun Prefecture is weak..."

Xu Shu talked eloquently and analyzed the stakes one by one.

In the struggle between Liu Yan and Zhao Bu, Zhulu Leader clearly sided with Zhao Bu. Of course Liu Yan was angry, but Zhulu Leader was player territory, and its support for Zhao Bu was within the rules of the system. Although Yizhou Prefecture was dissatisfied, it could not

We can only hold our noses and admit it. The Yizhou government’s suppression of Zhulu Ling must be carried out within the scope allowed by the rules. This is how the sale of silk cloth reduces the price.

In fact, this is one of the few means available to Yizhou Prefecture.

Shibu can be deducted from taxes. The state government has stocks, and there will be a steady stream of Shibu tax deductibles in the future. Neither Ba Xiangqing nor [Zhang Jisan] will have the same effect. Wu Yi made the right choice by using Shibu as a breakthrough.

Target.

Yu Buzhi's face was as dark as water and he said: "How do you think we should respond?"

"It's not difficult to deal with the price reduction of silk cloth."

Su Sandao: "The price in Yizhou is low, but we have a caravan, so we won't be stuck in the city. The caravan transports the silk cloth to Hebei and sells it in the Central Plains. Although it is a little troublesome, the price is correspondingly guaranteed, even if Yizhou Prefecture sells the inventory, it will have some impact.

, I am sure that the price will be roughly the same as before. But if this turmoil in Shibu is Yizhou government’s test of our side, if one plan fails, another plan will be made, and the territory needs to be handled carefully."

“Man’s calculation is not as good as God’s calculation!”

Yu Buzhi snorted: "Wu Yi thought that suppressing Shibu would weaken us, but he didn't know that we had hidden cards that he couldn't see. From now on, the sales of Shibu will be left to the caravans until the price returns to normal. As for the others,

, you don’t have to worry, the territory will handle it on its own.”

"promise!"

Su San hesitated for a moment, and then said: "I received a rumor during my investigation, and I thought it was too ridiculous, so I didn't tell Deputy City Lord Yi before. But since the matter is serious, I thought it over and over again, so it's better to tell it."

"What rumors? Let's hear it."

"I heard from people who are familiar with Wu Ziyuan that the rice cloth sold in the state capital is not for deer hunting, but actually an ant caravan!"

"How could it be for the ant caravan?" Yu Buzhi was stunned.

"I also find it completely ridiculous. Ant Caravan is just a new face in the business world. Although it has developed rapidly, its overall influence is far less than that of big merchants. With Wu Ziyuan's status in the business world, he is suspected of bullying against a certain chamber of commerce.

What's more, our little caravan?" Su San said with a bitter smile.

Xu Shu raised his eyebrows slightly and asked, "Did you mention the reason for dealing with ants?"

"It is said that it was because when the state capital blocked Ba County, the ant caravan stationed and activated Ba County's logistics. We were the first caravan to go against the market and vigorously expand the business of Ba County. At that time, the momentum was relatively loud, which led to the influx of other businesses.
To be continued...