Huang Xiaoshi stayed in this semi-idle state for some more days. By the end of March, when the weather started to get hotter, Huang Xiaoshi received a message from Gong Guangjie at the door.
Gong Guangjie still can't write, so he can only ask people to take messages.
In order to make it easier for others to remember, the oral message is not long and has three contents, from the most important to the least.
The first one is that the price of medicinal materials and elixirs may increase for a period of time, and Huang Xiaoshi is asked to pay attention to the quantity of goods on weekdays, and to stock up at least six out of four;
Article 2: Gong Guangjie brought good news to Huang Xiaoshi. He is getting married this year, and the bride is the daughter of a medicine farmer from Shennong Baicaomen;
Third, Gong Guangjie asked Huang Xiaoshi tactfully if he could take time off to stay in southern Sichuan for a while.
Southern Sichuan is a good place to grow medicinal materials. As the power of Shennong Baicaomen expands, its demand for medicinal materials is also increasing.
Now Shennong Baicaomen is a trust that will only appear in the future, and the instinct of expansion is in every pore of it.
The Shennong Baicao Sect, which was expanding to the south, had a conflict with another sect in southern Sichuan and northern Yunnan, and both sides suffered casualties.
Gong Guangjie hoped that Huang Xiaoshi could go to southern Sichuan to take charge.
After Huang Xiaoshi received Gong Guangjie's message, he thought for a while and asked the person who sent the message to reply to Gong Guangjie as follows.
The first one is definitely nothing to say, just follow the instructions.
Second, Huang Xiaoshi used two thousand taels of silver from the savings he had accumulated over the past few years as a gift for Gong Guangjie's wedding.
As the leader of the Luoyang Sect, Huang Xiaoshi's income is very high, and he doesn't have much expenses other than daily food and drink. The little money adds up to a huge sum of money.
Unfortunately, there are no financial institutions in this world, and Huang Xiaoshi has no intention of increasing his personal wealth, so his money just sits there in vain.
Regarding Gong Guangjie's wedding, in Huang Xiaoshi's impression, Mr. Gong seemed to have no other hobbies except money, so he directly used part of his savings to give Gong Guangjie a heavy gift.
Of course, Huang Xiaoshi didn't get the 800 taels of silver he won from the Black Box Casino.
This harvest of wool cannot be harvested on the owner.
Article 3: Regarding the garrison in southern Sichuan, Huang Xiaoshi only asked the person who brought the message to give Gong Guangjie a simple reply: "There is an errand above", and no further explanation was needed.
For Huang Xiaoshi, staying in Luoyang is his core priority. It is impossible for him to go and squat in the dense forests of southern Sichuan for a few years for a Poison Dragon Cult.
It was only a matter of time before the Shennong Baicao Sect and the Poison Dragon Sect came into conflict, and it was a zero-sum game in which the contradictions were irreconcilable.
In Huang Xiaoshi's opinion, the simplest way is for the old bachelor Gong Guangjie to marry Lan Ting, the beautiful leader of the Poison Dragon Sect. The two sects will become one and everything will be solved.
However, in fact the problem cannot be solved so simply.
The two gates of Shennong Gate and Baicao Gate merged into one, which was originally divided into two, so there was not much resistance from two to one.
Shennong Baicao Sect and Dulong Sect are not only very different in their business models and business philosophies, but also have huge differences in their population structure. On a larger scale, they are involved in the dispute between Han and Miao, and may even have conflicts with the imperial court in the Southern Expedition.
There are relationships.
For such a headache, Huang Xiaoshi could not come up with any proposal of "peace is the most important, Han and Miao are related". In his opinion, it would be easier to just take the knife.
Although force cannot solve the problem, as long as it can solve the person who caused the problem, the effect will still be the same.
Gong Guangjie's wedding was an important moment of change for Huang Xiaoshi. Once Gong Guangjie had a son, Huang Xiaoshi's internal title of "definitely appointed as the next sect leader" would be a problem.
The trouble with some bad things is that it’s not that you don’t care, others don’t care either.
Huang Xiaoshi didn't want to conflict with Gong Guangjie, let alone have any intentions of getting into trouble with him, but what was more important was to make others believe that he didn't want to.
This requires Huang Xiaoshi to have better evidence to convince others that "he really doesn't want to".
Tianlong Sect is a good place, Huang Xiaoshi thought silently.
As long as Huang Xiaoshi can climb the high branch of Tianlong Sect, others will naturally think that he will no longer miss the chicken coop.
However, the Tianlong Sect is an extremely large, well-organized, and hierarchical cross-regional social group. To put it in human terms, the job promotion of newcomers in the Tianlong Sect is more gradual, and it is difficult to soar to the sky.
Huang Xiaoshi does not have enough time or patience to work at the bottom level for three to five years.
Time waits for no one.
If he wants to win the future battle for the Holy Temple, Huang Xiaoshi will need to rely on the power of the Tianlong Sect.
This means that before the war, Huang Xiaoshi's status in the Tianlong Sect must at least reach the level where he can "take advantage of the situation", that is, if he enters the decision-making level, otherwise he will be a "worker" working for the Tianlong Sect.
Huang Xiaoshi thought hard, the senior figures of the Tianlong Sect must have three major elements besides the beauty and ugliness of men and women: meritorious service, martial arts, and status.
These three are all urgently needed by Huang Xiaoshi, but the relationship between the three is dynamic.
The promotion path for ordinary believers is to gain status through accumulated meritorious deeds over time, and finally learn stronger martial arts. The rule of this routine is: meritorious service-status-martial arts.
Some of the more special followers of the Tianlong Sect, such as those who defected with their talents, or the martial arts people from the Central Plains who defected.
This kind of believer belongs to a special recruitment model. They gain status through strong martial arts, and finally prove their strength with meritorious deeds. The rules of this routine are: martial arts - status - meritorious deeds.
Huang Xiaoshi doesn't have martial arts skills now; he doesn't have the patience to accumulate meritorious deeds, so if he changes his way of thinking, can this kind of routine appear, starting with status?
For example, status-martial arts-merits, or status-merits-martial arts.
Huang Xiaoshi has been thinking about the pain in his head and has not thought of any good way. To gain status, the easiest way is to be born with a blood relationship. This is destined by nature.
Just like in my previous life, I was born into a rich second generation. This only has something to do with the family I was born into.
Alas, Huang Xiaoshi let out a long sigh.
He is an orphan who has no memory of his first birth. How can he have any high-status blood relationship?
Suddenly, another idea flashed in Huang Xiaoshi's mind. There was a guy with a super hidden blood connection who happened to be about the same age as him, and this blood connection was not only useless to that guy, but even a constraint and hindrance.
Well, at least Huang Xiaoshi knows that this guy will not die well in the future because of this inseparable blood relationship. No matter what the ending is, the best thing is to die in depression.
One person's poison is another's medicine.
If you don’t want it, you can give it to me! I need it!
When he thought of this, Huang Xiaoshi suddenly became energetic. He sat up from the bed and walked excitedly back and forth in the small room, thinking excitedly and nervously.
This move is extremely dangerous, but the benefits are also extremely huge. The most important thing is not to make any mistakes. Any carelessness will risk your life.
After thinking about it for a long time, Huang Xiaoshi murmured to himself: "It seems that when Boss Gong gets married, he must go back to Shuzhong."
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Gong Guangjie's wedding will be held in a few months, and Huang Xiaoshi's plan to change the world will also be carried out in a few months.
It's not that he's not in a hurry, it's that the stakes are too high and too many actions will inevitably leave flaws, and if there are flaws, one will lose his life.
In this plan, opportunities and opportunities are extremely important.
After figuring out the plan, Huang Xiaoshi lay back on the bed in a happy mood and slept peacefully until the next day.
I don’t know if Gong Guangjie has a keen sense of business or if he knew something in advance. After the beginning of April, the prices of medicinal materials really increased one after another, and the finished pills were even more popular. Many traders from other places came to Luoyang City to search for all kinds of medicinal materials, and they were crazy.
To the extent that you accept the medicine as soon as you see it.
If you have money, don't make a bastard. In line with this basic principle of being a businessman, various merchants in Luoyang have raised the prices of medicines one after another. The prices of medicines on the market are seeing a sharp rise.
At this time, Huang Xiaoshi asked his disciples to let out a message. After maintaining the food-to-food ratio, half of the 70% of the goods he released would be sold wholesale at double the price, and the remaining half would be retailed to the people of Luoyang City at the original price.
, but personal purchase restrictions have been implemented.
Huang Xiaoshi's move became an exception in the tide of price increases. He was cursed by buyers and praised by the people of Luoyang at the same time, but Huang Xiaoshi became more and more uneasy day by day.
The market will not lie.
Food prices rise in famine years, and rising prices of medicinal materials can only indicate where serious epidemics are occurring.
The fact that there is no news now does not mean that this epidemic is not serious, but it means that this epidemic is extremely serious, so the government has blocked the news.
The government blocked the information, but naturally there were still well-informed people who took advantage of the information gap and made huge profits.
Sure enough, in mid-April, news spread one after another about a major epidemic in Jiangbei.
Jiangbei, relative to Jiangnan, mainly refers to the area north of the Yangtze River.
The Jiangbei region includes Yangzhou, Huai'an, Taizhou, and Hefei. This region is located in the north and south of the Yangtze River, close to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. It is an important transportation hub connecting the north, south, west and east, and is also one of the economic centers in the southeast region.
At the beginning of spring and February of that year, the epidemic spread in Jiangbei, and eventually it became a major epidemic, killing countless people.
As news of the great epidemic in Jiangbei spread, an imperial decree from the emperor spread throughout the world.
The imperial edict states that "seeing is believing and hearing is false." Anyone who makes false claims about the epidemic in Jiangbei will have his whole family moved to Jiangbei to witness it with his own eyes; anyone who makes false claims in Jiangbei will be enrolled in a support camp to help the sick.
Treatment.
As soon as this imperial edict was issued, thousands of weeping family members followed the upright Confucian scholars from other places and moved into Jiangbei. As for whether they would live or die after arriving in Jiangbei, it depends on God's will.
As soon as the news of the epidemic in Jiangbei came out, the price of medicine in Luoyang City rose even more. Jiangbei was not far from Luoyang, and no one knew whether the epidemic would spread.
Under this situation, Huang Xiaoshi still asked his disciples to save three and put seven, half high price wholesale and half low price retail. His disciples were a little confused, let alone this half high price and half low price selling method. Isn't this the way to save more?
Some goods?
Not to mention saving seven and releasing three, at least it has to be half deposited and half released.
Everyone can see that the price of this medicine is definitely getting more expensive day by day.
At this point, Huang Xiaoshi said with a sad look on his face: It is great to make money, but as medicine people, the first thing we should do is conscience.
These righteous words silenced all the disciples.
Shennong Baicaomen originally bucked the market trend and had low prices, but some people who couldn't stand them always said, "There are no good products because of this."
But as soon as Huang Xiaoshi's words came out, even many scholars who had never used street stalls (in ancient times, those who could read were either rich or noble) went to the Shennong Baicaomen stall and bought a pack of Shennong Baicao.
Affordable medicine for the door.
"This is conscience."
Nowadays, when Shen Nong Baicao Gate is mentioned in Luoyang City, who would not praise it as "benevolent and righteous".
Of course, if other people dare to do this, they may be labeled as a person who deceives the public and win people's hearts. They may be imprisoned or even lose their lives.
However, Shennong Baicaomen does this very well, and they dare to do it all the time.
Because Shennong Baicaomen is different from those who sell talisman water to cheat money, their medicine is really effective.
Shennong Baicaomen will not sell medicine today. Someone may die of illness tomorrow, and people may riot the day after tomorrow. Local officials cannot avoid the serious mistake of "forcing the people to rebel".
The country belongs to the emperor, and the most important thing is to hold the position firmly.
In fact, Huang Xiaoshi didn't tell anyone the truth. Of course, with the wisdom of others, he probably wouldn't be able to understand it.
Stocking up on food in a famine year and stocking up on medicines in a pandemic year may seem like smart ideas, but there is a prerequisite: the government will not kill you like a fat pig.
Looking at the merchants who were still trying their best to stock up on medicinal materials at high prices, Huang Xiaoshi had a mocking smile on his lips. They really looked like a group of stupid pigs who were still gobbling up food as the year was approaching.
Within a few days, there were rumors that the imperial court was going to send troops to conquer the northern nomadic tribe again.
When Huang Xiaoshi heard the news, a sentence popped into his mind: This emperor is probably going crazy.
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The Northern Nomads have always been a serious concern for the Central Plains imperial court, but the timing of sending troops to conquer the Nomads is very important.
In the spring, troops were sent to clear out the troops. At this time, after a hard winter, the cattle were thin and the horses were weak. At this time, the court could send troops without giving the nomads a chance to recuperate, which could greatly weaken their combat effectiveness.
Sending troops to clear out the troops in the summer, when the northern grasslands are rich in water and grass, can reduce the difficulty of supplying the expeditionary army and make it easier for the expeditionary army to drive away the nomadic tribes.
Sending troops to clear the cattle and sheep in the autumn is the time when cattle and sheep need to store fertilizer for the winter. At this time, the court sends troops to clear the livestock, which can disrupt the winter and summer pasture migration of the nomadic tribes, causing the cattle and sheep to not be fat enough, increasing the mortality rate during the winter, and weakening them.
Basic strength.
Sending troops to clear out the herds in winter, and using cavalry to drive away and surround and kill cattle and sheep, can completely destroy the nomadic tribe's ability to survive, and may be able to achieve the effect of annihilating the tribe in one battle.
So the question is, when should the imperial court send troops to clear out the Nomadic Ministry?
The answer is: when the imperial court can defeat the nomadic tribe.
As long as the imperial court can defeat the nomadic tribe, spring, summer, autumn and winter won't be a problem, okay?
And is now a good time to send troops?
Although Huang Xiaoshi didn't know much about political economy, he also knew that now was not a good opportunity to send troops abroad.
First, when the new emperor ascended the throne, because he announced some new policies and dealt with some powerful people, a group of local kings in Jiaozhi, far away from the emperor, incited the people to raise flags to rebel.
This is what many officials have written about "officials forcing the people to rebel."
Regarding these officials, the emperor directly sent them to Jiaozhi to appease the people, and the whole family and nine clans went together.
From Huang Xiaoshi's point of view, putting the blame for Jiaozhi on the new emperor's head was originally an attempt by the officials to use their strength to fight against the enemy. The real twists and turns actually had little to do with Jiaozhi.
Originally, the problem of Jiaozhi was no longer a matter of one day or two.
First of all, one of the big reasons is that because the birds don't poop in that place, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, so the officials are treated as local emperors.
These guys imposed excessive taxes on the Cochin area, causing the situation in Cochin to gradually deteriorate.
Of course, the new emperor will take the blame for the previous emperor's fault.
The emperor has to help wipe the shit out of your wise ministers.
So, at the beginning of the new year, the imperial court had sent a large army south to Jiaozhi to quell the rebellion.
Jiaozhi is a place with a lot of epidemics, and most of the officers and soldiers are from the north. After going there, they fell ill again and again.
At this time, Gong Guangjie somehow hooked up with the Tang Sect and used the Tang Sect's military supply line to sell his elixirs to the military.
It has to be said that the medicines from Shennong Baicaomen are cheap, but they are extremely symptomatic and are especially good at detoxifying.
After the officers and soldiers who went south solved the historic problem of non-combat attrition, good news came out.
However, the officers and soldiers attacked and defeated the enemy's stronghold, but did not stop. Later, news came out that the home of a certain imperial official was ransacked by the officers and soldiers, and all eighty-seven members of his family died.
Others said that they were not officers and soldiers, but rogues pretending to be officers and soldiers.
What the truth is, I'm afraid we will never find out.
Now the emperor's intention was very clear. Since the knife had been drawn out, he didn't just give it a slight cut and call it a day.
The emperor wanted to borrow his sword to plow the weedy and thorny land of Jiaozhi again.
There is a word called "slash and burn".
But the troops in the south were not finished yet, and they began to conquer the north again.
Huang Xiaoshi didn't understand. Even if the plan had been planned for a long time and the arrow was on the string, it had to be fired. Couldn't we wait until the epidemic in Jiangbei was over?
You must choose this time.
No matter whether the emperor was wise or mighty, the first thing Huang Xiaoshi was sure of was that this emperor was definitely not a benevolent king.
