Halfway through Shenshi, Ahudala and his entourage returned to Haoyue City.【】
After entering the city, Ahudala was anxious to inquire about the situation of kerosene, so he went straight to the Grand Prince's Mansion.
Coincidentally, as soon as Ahudala arrived in front of the Grand Prince's Palace, Karugala's sedan also came back, and the two sides happened to meet each other.
As soon as Karukala got off the sedan, Ahudala came up to him and said impatiently: "Prince, about the kerosene..."
Karugala interrupted: "Ahu, this is not the place to talk. Come on, sit in the room and speak slowly."
After saying that, Karuga walked towards the door.
Because Karugala was too fat, when he lifted his legs to cross the threshold, the servants around him stepped forward to help him to prevent him from losing his center of gravity and falling to the ground.
After the two of them came to the main hall and sat down, the servants quickly brought tea and cakes.
Kalugala said politely: "Ahu, since you are here, don't go back in a hurry. Stay for dinner and let the two of us have a good chat."
Ahudala did not answer, changed the subject and asked: "Elder Prince, you said last time that news about kerosene should be sent back to Jiezhou today. Is there any news now?"
Karugala smiled slightly and said: "Ahu, you came at the right time. In fact, I was thinking just now that I would send someone to find you as soon as I got home. Now it saves me a lot of trouble."
"So, there is news?" Ahhudala was overjoyed.
Karukala nodded solemnly and said: "Yes."
Ahudala quickly asked: "Prince, what is the current price of kerosene? How much do they have? When can it be shipped back to Haoyue City?"
Karugala said with a smile: "Ahu, look at how anxious you are. You ask so many questions in one go. Can I answer them?"
"Eldest Prince, please stop being so pretentious and tell me quickly. General Fan is in great need of kerosene right now," Ahudala said.
"Okay, okay, I don't want to make you anxious..." Karugala's face immediately became serious.
Then he said: "It's like this. The people I sent to Jiezhou City met a Shengguo caravan coming from Jiezhou City on the way. It happened that the Shengguo caravan had a batch of kerosene...
..."
"Really? How much is that batch of kerosene, eldest prince?" Ahhudala believed it to be true and asked hurriedly.
The eldest prince said: "About three hundred altars."
"Three hundred altars? Okay, that's great!"
Ahudala was very happy and thought that his luck was really good. When he was short of kerosene, a batch of them actually came, and they met him on the way. This trip saved a lot of time!
"Ahu, don't be so happy yet, I haven't finished talking about this yet..."
Karugala immediately showed a troubled look on his face.
Ahudala realized something was wrong and asked hurriedly: "Eldest Prince, what's wrong with you? Is it possible that there is something wrong with this batch of kerosene?"
"Ah, kerosene is no problem." Karugala shook his head.
Ahudala immediately breathed a sigh of relief and felt relieved.
Karugala continued: "The asking price for this Shengguo caravan is too high, and I think it is unreasonable. But I can't decide for you and General Fan whether to buy it or not, so I have to ask someone to stabilize it first."
After you and General Fan agree, I can tell them no."
"Prince, what price did they quote?" Ahhudala asked with a frown.
Kaluga said: "Eighty taels of silver per altar."
"What? Eighty taels per altar!" Ahudala almost jumped up.
"This...isn't this an open robbery?" Ahhudala shouted in surprise: "Even if our country of Muyue does not produce kerosene, a jar cannot be sold for this price! Profiteers,
What a profiteer!"
Karugala looked indignant and said, "Who says it's not the case! My people are bargaining with them, but they are still not happy. They are really profiteers!"
Ahudala said angrily: "Prince, if it is eighty taels per altar, then three hundred altars will cost twenty-four thousand taels. This... this is too expensive, no, no, we can't
To buy their kerosene, we should go to Jiezhou City to buy it ourselves."
Karugala shook his head and sighed: "Ahu, the situation is not as simple as you think..."
"What do you mean?" Ahudala stared at Karugala.
Kalugala said: "Ahu, the people I sent had the same idea as you do now. They were also unwilling to buy such expensive kerosene, so they sent two people to Jiezhou to inquire, and the rest
People stay with these Shengguo merchants and continue to stabilize them..."
"Then what did they find out?" Ahudala was very anxious.
Karugala said with a helpless expression: "Ahu, guess what's going on, it turns out that all the kerosene in Jiezhou City was bought by this profiteer. The three hundred jars in their caravan are the ones that were exposed before."
All the inventory in the city!"
"Ah?" Ahudala was instantly furious and couldn't help but cursed "shameless profiteer" three times.
After scolding, Ahudala said: "Prince, please quickly ask them to contact the seller and bring back more kerosene. We want them all, we want them all!"
Kalugala said: "Ahu, the people I sent naturally know this, but those people said that if you place an order now, you will have to wait seven days at the fastest to be shipped to Jiezhou City. Wait until it arrives at Haoyue.
City, I don’t even know when it is.”
"How...how can this be done? We can't afford to wait for such a long time!"
Ahudala was so anxious that she couldn't help but walk back and forth in the main hall.
After walking back and forth for a few times, Ahudala suddenly stopped and asked: "Strange, why do these profiteers suddenly start selling kerosene? Why haven't I seen it before?"
Kalugala said: "What's so strange? Isn't this obvious? The Piz people came to attack Qingyuan Pass again. Those profit-seeking businessmen had a keen sense of smell. Naturally, they smelled that kerosene was in short supply and easy to sell, and then they bought large quantities of it on the market.
I want to ship the inventory to us and sell it at a high price!"
The more Ahudala listened, the more angry he became, and he cursed repeatedly: "Damn it, it's so abominable!"
Kaluga said: "Ahu, you have to calm down! It's useless to be so angry. The most important thing right now is Qingyuan Pass. Do you want this batch of fire oil or not?"
Ahudala didn't even think about it, and shouted in a hurry: "Yes, of course!"
Seeing Ahudala like this, Karukala laughed secretly in his heart, but he couldn't see it on the surface.
Speaking of which, Ahudala is still too young and too impulsive. In fact, there are many loopholes in what Karukala said from beginning to end. As long as he calms down a little and thinks carefully, he can figure out the clues and know that Karukala
What Gala said is untrue.
But now Ahudala's mind is full of plans to sneak attack on the Pitz country's granary, and kerosene is the key to this secret plan, so his impulse and urgency defeated his calmness and reason, and decided to pay no matter what the price.
, also need to get the kerosene!
Karukala looked at Ahudala seriously and asked: "Ahu, have you thought about it? If you really want it, I will send someone to deliver the message immediately so that they can transport the things to Qingdao as soon as possible.
Yuan Pass, to solve the urgent need of the Moon God Army!"
Ahudala said with unusual certainty: "Please the eldest prince, please order someone to send a message immediately. The sooner the kerosene is delivered, the better!"
"Okay!" Karugala stood up in response, shouting "Here comes someone" and walked out of the main hall.
Ahudala frowned and sat down. Although he felt heartache at the high price of kerosene, when he thought about the very important role that kerosene could play, he felt much relieved accordingly.
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