Feng Yu's voice was soft and soft, lighter than the midsummer wind.
Silence filled the place!
No one expected that the weak and charming third girl would have a tough temper. No matter how gentle her tone was, or how nice her voice was, they could not hide her strength.
Xue Yu has a headache. Jinzhou is the business center of the twelve states with developed transportation. The waterway connects Jiangnan and Zhongzhou, and the land connects Yancheng and Ningzhou. The status of Jinzhou merchants is generally relatively high, and the state government is very polite to these merchants. They are invited every month.
When merchants are customers, they talk about Jinzhou's private business, economy and trade, and the good relationship between the government and merchants. Merchants doing business in other cities in Yanyang do not have such a high status.
Shopkeeper Cheng made his fortune by doing business with the Su family in the south of the Yangtze River. He has been established in Jinzhou for more than 20 years and has deep roots. Shopkeeper Cheng’s eldest son was elected again. He has a high status in the Jinzhou business world. After all, the Su family firm has a strong presence in Jinzhou.
There is no serious host, people from Baofeng Silver Village always come to the banquet, and the seats are arranged in the middle.
This banquet had been decided a long time ago. When Xue Yu knew that Feng Yu had arrived in Jinzhou, he handed over the invitation as a sign of respect, but forgot about the seats. He did not expect that Feng Yu, a little girl, could be so powerful.
If you make a mistake, no one dares to refute it.
Even if Feng Changqing resigns, Feng Yu is no longer the daughter of General Dingguo, she is also the unmarried wife of King Qin. If she does not recognize these two identities, she is still the granddaughter of Su Ming. In terms of taxation, no one in Jinzhou can compare with the Su Family Trading Company
, who dares to say that she can't sit still.
After being refuted, shopkeeper Li next to her turned red and white, looking extremely ugly.
Xue Yu chuckled and said, "The third lady is right, but I was negligent and the seats were arranged in the wrong order. Please move back."
When the seats were moved, shopkeeper Cheng arrived late and saw clearly what was going on at the banquet. His face was not very good. After all, he had been in the business for many years and was able to bend and stretch. He soon started to smile and said hello to Feng Yu.
Seating is a matter of dignity and status. Once arranged like this, it will be arranged like this every time. Feng Yu responded implicitly. She knew very little about the situation in Jinzhou and only got very one-sided information from shopkeeper Wang's summary. During the discussion, Feng Yu was very upset.
Just listen quietly and don't participate in the discussion.
Shopkeeper Cheng suddenly talked about Xie Xun's suppression of bandits and the capture of twelve states. There was silence at the table, and everyone looked at Feng Yu.
Feng Yu thought to herself, she is indeed here!
Xue Yu invited her, who had just arrived, to call it a Hongmen Banquet. Tens of thousands of cavalry were just outside the city. He did not dare to hold a Hongmen Banquet, which was just to inquire about the movements of Xie Xun and the Ningzhou cavalry.
Whether he wants to capture the twelve states and when.
After conquering the twelve states, Jinzhou will implement the New Deal or the old system.
"I am a businessman and I don't know much about military affairs." Feng Yu smiled slightly, "However, according to my observation, the prince and the second young master are busy earning military rations for the Ningzhou cavalry, so why don't they go out to suppress the bandits?
We are very poor and will not conquer the twelve states for the time being."
The merchants were well-informed and had vaguely heard that Xie Xun was responsible for collecting money from bandits. They asked Jiaozhou for a hundred thousand taels of silver. The main reason was that there were robbers and horse thieves in Jiaozhou. They had caused trouble for many years.
The group of horse thieves or robbers who were surrendered by him were all resettled in Xizhou and Huangzhou.
"Will we not attack for the time being, or will we never attack?" Shopkeeper Cheng asked.
"I don't know." Feng Yu said calmly, "I am surprised that you are so concerned about current affairs. I thought that the twelve states did not care who becomes the emperor in Yanyang."
Everyone laughed.
Feng Yu spoke impeccably, and it was difficult for others to find out the specific plans of the Ningzhou Cavalry from her. She only gave them one piece of information: Xie Jue and Xie Xun were poor and needed money!
"Everyone is concerned about the ownership of the twelve states, and essentially they are also concerned about trade." Xue Yu said, "Jinzhou, Jiangnan, and Zhongzhou have frequent business exchanges, and have long established a very mature business system. If the prince captures the twelve states, Yanyang will be divided into two.
2. The commercial exchanges between Jiangnan, Zhongzhou and Jinzhou will inevitably be affected. Many merchants from Jinzhou also have industries in Zhongzhou and Jiangnan. If the prince captures the twelve states, the trade route will be cut off and the merchants will suffer heavy losses."
Feng Yu's heart sank slightly, this was the most concerning and difficult issue for merchants.
"I have a question for you."
"Third Miss, please ask."
Feng Yu asked, "Your Majesty has 350,000 cavalry in his hands. They are brave and good at fighting. There are more than a year's worth of food and grass reserves for the cavalry in Ningzhou City. He is sending his army north, or to the twelve states, to support the war with war. The twelve states have resistance."
Three hundred and fifty thousand cavalry troops?"
"No!" Xue Yu answered truthfully. There were only 20,000 troops stationed in Jinzhou City.
"The prince has never thought of conquering the twelve states. Although he rebelled from Yanyang, he still abided by the iron laws of military law. He never harmed a single soldier, and he couldn't bear to destroy the homes of the people. We are merchants, so we can only go with the flow.
Following the trend, after the banditry in the twelve states is eliminated, the trade in the twelve states will only get better and better. The trade in Zhongzhou, Jiangnan and Jinzhou will not be interrupted. I can promise you that the prince will not close the domestic trade.
Please don’t worry.”
She was not sure whether Yu Wenjing would close his business.
But sooner or later, Yu Wenjing will not be able to hold on to his empire.
Xie Xun is now suppressing bandits. Anyone who is smart can see that he is boiling a frog in warm water. The Twelve States are just a big frog. He must first eliminate the banditry in the Twelve States and restore the vitality of the Twelve States.
Whoever can give the people a good life will be their king.
The next step was to talk about the business issues in Jinzhou. Feng Yu squinted her eyes, listened carefully, and discovered a very interesting phenomenon. These people should all know that the Su family iron mine and trading company were out of control, but no one mentioned it.
They were all waiting to see her joke, whether she solved the company's troubles quickly and messily, or whether she was ignored by the company and became a showpiece.
Feng Yu drank three glasses of wine at the banquet, and she was already tipsy. Feng Yu was very majestic at a young age, and others did not dare to drink her. Unfortunately, her drinking capacity was too light. Chun Lu drank the rest of the wine on her behalf.
When Qiuxiang and Chunlu helped her out of the office, Fengyu had a double image in front of her eyes. Her cheeks were red, as if she had applied a touch of crimson rouge. She pointed forward with drunken eyes, shook her head and said, "Qiuxiang, I
I saw Zhixu, wow...three Zhixu...one, two...three..."
She suddenly covered her mouth and exclaimed, "Wow, there are so many things to know."
Zhixu was still suppressing bandits, so why did he appear in Jinzhou?
"Girl, girl..." Qiu Xiang hurriedly reached for her, but Feng Yu stood unsteadily and didn't pay attention to her manners, "It's really the prince, he looks very angry!"
Fengyu burped, rubbed her eyes, her soft neck shook as if it was about to be broken, and asked Qiuxiang, "Who is the prince?"
Qiuxiang, "..."
Chun Lu saw Xie Xun striding over, her scalp numb, "It's Xie Xun, girl!"
"Oh..." Feng Yu rubbed her eyes with her little fists, "One, two, three... of the five acquaintances... which one is angry?"