The first thousand four hundred and twenty-four chapters two cheats, black eat black
Chapter 1,424: Cheating from both sides, cheating from both sides
Peng Chao is a very capable person found by Xu Jing.
He knows very well that because of Liu Zhang, there are many people living among the people who are depressed and frustrated. As long as you give them a chance, they will serve you desperately.
This is what he planned to do when he found Peng Chao.
Sure enough, with Peng Chao's help, he quickly got the life he wanted - but it was naturally accompanied by some shady things.
He relied on Peng Chao to help him realize all of these.
Now Xu Jing can definitely be regarded as the largest Sichuan brocade owner near Chengdu.
But recently, due to the decline in land production... and also because of his own greed, in short, the sales of Shu brocade were sluggish, which gave him the idea of expanding his industry.
He wanted to unite many smaller Shu brocade merchants near Chengdu and rely on their support to cover all the sales of Shu brocade - commonly known as a monopoly.
As long as he has a monopoly, the price of Shu brocade will naturally be under his control, and he will naturally be able to make as much money as he wants.
But what he didn't expect was that Liu Zhang actually had cronies who were making money from Shu Brocade.
But Liu Zhang has always paid no attention to this - the reason is simple because he is on the official route and naturally does not need to deal with other people.
Others knew this and would not deliberately interfere with Liu Zhang's path.
Many people come to Yizhou from outside the customs. For the sake of safety and stability, they will only trade through Liu Zhang's cronies. Although the price is expensive, it is more stable and there will never be a shortage. These two points alone are enough.
Enough that many people choose to make money from Liu Zhang.
Some people may ask, didn't Liu Zhang prohibit smuggling? Why are there still people willing to trade Shu brocade from Liu Zhang's cronies?
In fact, this is just an analysis based on the results.
In fact this is not the case.
The reason why Liu Zhang didn't know about it was because Liu Zhang just asked some people to help him run the trade, and he himself didn't know what these people were doing. Although it sounds strange, everyone actually has selfish motives.
In other words, these people used the gold signs Liu Zhang gave them to help Liu Zhang make money, and at the same time, they deceived Liu Zhang and reported different trade projects to him to make money from them.
The reason why Liu Zhang didn't find out is also very simple. He can get a considerable amount of income from this group of people every month, no matter the weather, spring, summer, autumn, or winter. Since there is no problem with such a stable income, why should he bother?
What about above this?
In short, before anything happened, the Sichuan brocade business in Yizhou basically had two paths - "official business" or private smuggling.
However, this balance was broken by Xu Jing. Of course, Peng Chao didn't know that the seemingly ordinary mulberry farmers he calculated were actually Liu Zhang's cronies.
He just helped Xu Jing to open up Shu brocade business according to Xu Jing's needs.
Or it could be that the two scholars don't actually know how to do business. Peng Chao has good abilities, but he has no connections, so he can only solve the problem using methods without connections.
Where is Xu Jing?
Because he had no ability, he could only delegate power to Peng Chao to handle these matters for him, without considering the consequences at all, and without consulting the elders in this industry in advance.
One step and two mistakes lead to a big mistake.
After the incident, Peng Chao was just dumped by Xu Jing as a minor official, and naturally he felt aggrieved in the long run - he himself was a rebellious person, otherwise why wouldn't others use him if he had the ability?
He was noticed by Xu Jing thanks to the support of his friends from the same hometown.
But now, he is becoming more and more dissatisfied with his status. He has found Xu Jing many times, but he is always sent back by Xu Jing.
He can only drink to relieve his sorrows all day long. As a big-mouthed man, he naturally gets into trouble many times, but this time the problem is more serious - even if he is not lying, he is surrounded by friends who are just as big-mouthed as him.
While they were drinking, someone scolded Liu Zhang without hesitation. The scolding was very unpleasant. However, people around Liu Zhang passed by the tavern at that time and arrested the person who insulted Liu Zhang on the spot. The innocent Peng Chao also suffered for this.
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After learning about this, Liu Zhang was naturally furious. The person who insulted Liu Zhang was beheaded by Liu Zhang. Several people who were drinking with the person who was beheaded had their heads shaved, demoted to slaves, and distributed by Liu Zhang.
Went to Brazil to work hard in a stone quarry.
Peng Chao, who came to plead for mercy today, was already at the end of his rope. After crying and complaining several times, he got the chance to see Xu Jing one last time and say a few words.
However, the two fell out because of what happened today.
It's tragic to say that if Xu Jing usually thought of Peng Chao helping him, he might also express his love for Peng Chao.
But today, Xu Jinggang received a very strict and urgent order from Liu Zhang and various officials. Translated, it means that Liu Zhang found that his cronies suddenly lost contact and asked various officials to mobilize all their forces.
To find his missing cronies.
And how did he find out that his cronies were missing?
It's simple, he didn't receive any money this month.
Yes, it was such a coincidence that Xu Jing realized that he had been in big trouble before.
He actually forced Liu Zhang's cronies to death. He still remembered that Peng Chao had asked himself at that time, saying that he discovered at that time that the families of those individual mulberry farmers were not as poor as imagined, but were actually quite wealthy.
Not only that, the other party also asked him very angrily who he was doing things for.
Peng Chao felt that these people might have some background, so he asked Xu Jing if he wanted to ask clearly before killing anyone.
However, Xu Jing obviously didn't care at that time, and killed these people without any scruples, and successfully took over their sales, otherwise he would not have developed so fast.
Now that the matter is about to be revealed, Xu Jing is completely shattered. How can he still have the mood to care about Peng Chao?
In short, this is what happened. The next thing Xu Jing has to do is to think about how to hide this matter - and what about Peng Chao?
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Chengdu is actually not far from Langzhong.
However, because the slaves were escorted, the team could only travel by land, so the speed seemed slower.
At this time of year, it actually rains a lot in the Yizhou area.
Once it rains, the mountain road cannot be walked, making it extremely easy for the team to fall into a dangerous situation due to landslides.
The problem is that God will not notify you in advance when it rains, let alone take care of you just because you have something important to do.
In order to deliver the prisoners to the quarry before the deadline, the commander who escorted the prisoners had to sneak into the mountains in the rain and arrive in Langzhong as early as possible.
It was a good thing that we were not in a hurry, but as expected, because we were heading deep into the mountains in the rain... As the team was marching, a landslide occurred, and the carriage Peng Chao was in was swept away in an instant because it was in the center of the landslide.
Without a trace.
At this time, most people really have a narrow escape from death.
