Chapter 959: Guaranteed Profit, No Loss

Takada Maru's face darkened and he said, "Does Madam want to plunder the people in our city?"

"What plunder? I just applied for their job. Can't I find a group of common people to build Qiuri City for me? Are you too overbearing?" Hongfu Nu's face darkened, and she burst out with astonishing momentum.

Sugawara immediately said: "Madam is happy and angry, we don't mean it. It's just that the city is noisy now and it's really inconvenient for us to manage. I hope Madam can wait for two days."

In the past two days, the five of us have come up with a countermeasure that will not cause chaos in the city, but also free up manpower to help Madam build Qiuri City."

Hongfu Nu nodded and said: "No problem, but I want to buy some building materials. I wonder if the four adults want to stop me?"

"No, not only will we not stop you, but we will also help Madam send the materials to Qiuri City."

"It's so good, what conditions do you have?" Hongfu Nu asked.

The four people on Sugawara looked at each other and said in unison: "We want food."

Hongfu Girl frowned slightly and said, "You actually want food? Don't you have a granary built in your city?

The officials of the Tang Dynasty built granaries to meet their needs."

"My lady may not know that Shikoku Castle used to be Oda Ichiro's castle, so it is impossible to build a granary."

"I don't know about this. However, if you want food, I can give it to you, but you can only buy it with money."

"Of course there is no problem. We are willing to buy it at the original price," Sugawara said.

"Original price?" Hong Fu Girl smiled, "I am a businessman, can I do unprofitable business?"

Takata Malüque said: "Madam gives free food to the people. Isn't this a loss-making business?"

"You said this is a loss-making business? Haha... You're laughing to death." Hongfu Nu laughed loudly, "I don't want to explain, if you think this is a loss-making business, then I am a loss-making business.

If you want food, then buy it at three times the market price. This is because you are the lord of Shikoku City, otherwise I won’t sell it at ten times the price."

"You..." Takada Marugao wanted to get angry, but was stopped by Sugawara Kame.

"Since Madam said three times, we will pay three times the price. Please collect the food and give us two days to raise money." Sugawara said.

"Okay, after you send the money, I will go back to Qiuri City." Hongfu Nu said.

"It's a deal," Sugawara said.

Then the four people on Sugawara left the inn.

"Madam, they are a little aggressive, do you want me to go?" The maid gave Hong Fu Girl a look that made you understand.

Hong Funu smiled and said: "If you don't commit a crime, you will kill people at every turn. This will scare those aristocratic families. Who would dare to surrender to us?"

"Yes, madam." the maid said.

"Notify the outside world that no more grain will be distributed. Just say that all the grain has been sold to the government."

Outside the inn, Sugawara got angry when he saw so many people queuing up to receive food.

"Come here, arrest Ichiro Matsumoto."

Two soldiers immediately went to arrest Matsumoto Ichiro, but Matsumoto Ichiro was already tied up. The two soldiers had to bring the tied Matsumoto Ichiro to Sugawara Kame.

"Sir, help me." Before Sugawara could speak, Ichiro Matsumoto had already spoken first.

Sugawara asked: "What happened?"

"The Tang people, it was the Tang people who arrested me. I didn't want them to send food, but they still wanted to send food. They thought I was in the way, so they arrested me and asked you to save me." Ichiro Matsumoto explained.

Just as the four people on Sugawara were about to break out, they saw Hong Funu's maid coming out and told everyone that they would not send food and had already sold the food to the government.

The expressions of the four people on Sugawara immediately softened a lot, but soon, their expressions suddenly became very ugly.

The common people began to curse the government crazily, showing no fear of the government at all. Especially when they saw so many officers and soldiers, as well as the four people on Sugawara, they even louder their voices and insulted them.

They even said that they are a group of vampires, even worse than Ichiro Oda.

"It's so abominable, they actually compared us with Ichiro Oda." Sakabe was so angry that his whole body trembled.

Mari Takada also said: "Catch them, arrest them all."

Inugami Mita suddenly said: "I understand, I understand why Madam said he did not lose money by sending food."

Sugawara Ue also said: "I understand, let's talk about it when we get back."

So the four of them returned to Sugawara Prefecture amidst the curses of the people.

Takada Maru asked: "What are the benefits of sending food to the people?"

Sugawara said with a gloomy face: "Gather the people's hearts. You saw it just now. The people hated us just now. If a war breaks out, will the people help us?"

The other three fell silent, they could still remember the scene just now.

Sugawaraue continued: "I have a hunch that the Tang Dynasty will definitely send troops to deal with Oda Ichiro this time, and even deal with us and Tsuruta Castle.

It was agreed at the beginning that Oda Ichiro's three cities would be left to Li Feng. We can only take action if Li Feng cannot win.

However, the emperor couldn't help it anymore and asked us to take the lead. Ichiro Oda also gave up the two cities very simply.

Now that I think about it, Ichiro Oda is planning to let us and Li Feng fight to the death first, and then reap the benefits."

"I see. No wonder Oda Ichiro said he would definitely come back. I also said he was dreaming." Inugami Mita said.

Takada Maro nodded and said: "I didn't expect this matter to be so troublesome. I thought this was an opportunity for our four major families to show their strength. I didn't expect that our four major families are actually the emperor's chess pieces and can be thrown away at any time."

Sakabe said: "We cannot sit still and wait for death. We must find a way to get through this difficulty."

The four of them were silent. This difficulty was not easy to overcome.

After a long while, Sugawara took the lead and said: "Now we have three choices, one is to seek refuge with the Tang Dynasty, one is to seek refuge with Oda Ichiro, and the other is to be loyal to the emperor.

Loyal to Oda Ichiro and the Emperor, we will arrest all those in the Tang Dynasty now, including the Matsumoto family.

Especially if we are loyal to the emperor, we will send the Tang people to Oda Ichiro and hand over this responsibility to Oda Ichiro, causing a fight between the Tang army and Oda Ichiro, and allowing the emperor to reap the benefits."

Inugami Mita sighed and said: "Do we have a choice? Our foundation and all our people are in Heian Jing. The foundation can be destroyed, but the people cannot die. We have no choice."

The four of them sighed heavily. For the sake of their people, they could only be loyal to the emperor. Now that they had a choice, they had to take action.
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