Chapter 134: Being a county guard is more than enough
The person coming from Guang'an was rather sneaky, and he was not a formal official, but someone who claimed to be a trading firm.
At first, Lin Ziran thought he was someone who came to cooperate and wanted to purchase kerosene.
Recently, many businessmen have come to Qingshan Town trying to obtain kerosene. Lin Ziran basically entertains these people warmly and tries his best to meet their purchasing requirements.
Because the kerosene output of Qingshan Petroleum Company is increasing day by day, even if it has reached certain cooperation agreements with Hongxiang Commercial Bank and Nanzhou Bank, their purchase volume of the two combined is only about one hundred barrels of kerosene per day.
Currently, the remaining kerosene production capacity of dozens of barrels per day is sold to other channel providers.
For collaborators, Lin Ziran would accept anyone who came, regardless of their background, whether they were malicious or well-intentioned, as long as they gave them money, they would sell kerosene.
Under this situation, Lin Ziran has actually found several powerful channel partners, each of which can purchase hundreds of barrels or more. However, Lin Ziran cannot supply so much kerosene for the time being.
That's all.
Even if he does not develop channel partners in the future and only relies on existing channel partners, Lin Ziran does not have to worry about the sales of kerosene.
With the strength of these ten medium and large distributors, the combined strength is enough to absorb hundreds or even thousands of barrels of kerosene production capacity.
It's just that Lin Ziran has always shared risks with sales channels. He would rather find more partners than cooperate with just a few large channel dealers.
This is actually to prevent sales channels from being monopolized by a few distributors and affecting the sales of kerosene.
When the people from Guang'an came to see them, Lin Ziran thought they were going to purchase kerosene because they had the name of a trading company, but he didn't expect that the people who came here didn't say anything about kerosene.
Instead, he said in a roundabout way that Luo An's army was almost finished now. Guang'an and Hexi County in the northwest had already occupied an absolute advantage on the battlefield.
I hope Lin Ziran can stand on their side and cooperate with the Guang'an army to conquer Chongguang City.
He also said that once Chongguang City is conquered, there will be many benefits.
In this regard, Lin Ziran naturally played the trick and fooled him casually.
Nowadays, the war between the three counties is as light as the Guang'an people say. Don't look at Luo'an's army as one and two, but in fact it is still on the offensive.
Luo An's army is still fighting fiercely, and has already entered Hexi County in the northwest.
As for Guang'an County, a large area in the southern part of Guang'an County is still occupied by Luo An.
However, it is true that Luo An's army is weak and its troops are tight. Therefore, who will win and lose in this three-county war is still unknown.
At least Lin Ziran couldn't see what advantages the Guang'an people had.
To take a step back, even if Luo An's army was defeated in the northwest, they could still retreat.
As for the Chongguang City defense line in the north, the Guang'an Army probably won't be able to take it down either.
In other words, as long as Luo An's army does not collapse on a large scale and suffer a disastrous defeat, even if it cannot be defeated, it will not suffer too much loss, and it can even continue to swallow the fruits of the previous war.
If this were not the case, it is estimated that these Guang'an people would not find Lin Ziran, try to win over Lin Ziran, and join them in attacking Guangcheng.
They thought well and gave Lin Ziran a big promise. What kind of division commander, Zhongqing's false reputation was thrown away for free, as long as Lin Ziran led the northward cut off the retreat of Chongguang City, and cooperated with the Guang'an army to attack from both front and rear.
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But Lin Ziran did not see their true sincerity.
If you want to win over Lin Ziran, it's actually very simple. You don't need the title of division commander, military title of Zhongqing or the like.
Just give the guns and ammunition to the horses!
Well, if you give me money, this won’t work.
Now Lin Ziran is not short of money, what he is short of is strategic materials, and large quantities of strategic materials cannot be bought with money, such as top-notch war horses, Nanzhou Horses, and large quantities of artillery.
If the Guang'an people had the courage to directly give him the equipment of a division, Lin Ziran might be cruel enough to grit his teeth and defect to them.
But these Guang'an people only talked the talk but didn't practice, and only provided needs but no actual benefits. Lin Ziran didn't bother to pay attention to them.
But the arrival of the Guang'an people also made Lin Ziran pay more attention to the situation.
The situation in the three counties these past few months is abnormal!
The development of things was indeed as Lin Ziran expected, something did happen.
But it's not what happened outside, it's still here in Qingshan Town.
Because Jian Liangzhi is here!
Moreover, Jian Liangzhi came to Qingshan Town secretly and lightly packed with only a few personal guards.
To be honest, Lin Ziran himself was surprised by Jian Liangzhi's sudden arrival. Today, Jian Liangzhi is not an ordinary person, but a famous figure.
He secretly came to Qingshan Town, no matter why, just the fact that he acted in secret was enough to prove that something happened.
Jian Liangzhi was still the same as before. When he saw Lin Ziran, he had a smile on his face and greeted him kindly, but he did not deliberately want to be brothers with Lin Ziran like Cheng Hongbin.
In fact, Jian Liangzhi did not call Lin Ziran brothers, nor did he deliberately mention any friendship between them.
But he just used one sentence to make Lin Ziran pay attention to it.
Because Jian Liangzhi said: "With Brother Lin's talent, let alone a small Qingshan Town, he is more than enough to be a county guard!"
Just two sentences, or just one word: County Sheriff!
Jian Liangzhi had already attracted Lin Ziran's absolute attention.
This Jian Liangzhi, no, it should be the Jian family that is definitely going to cause trouble.
Moreover, he was prepared to win over himself and made a promise to the county magistrate.
This is a hundred times better than a group leader, a senior doctor or the like!
So now Lin Ziran is very interested, but he still needs to think carefully and take another look, at least to know what the Jian family wants to do.
So he thought for a while and then said: "Lin is just a small militia battalion officer, how can he be a county guard?"
The nature of the position of county magistrate is absolutely different in different periods and in different places in recent decades.
Before the civil war in Daheng, the county magistrate was just an ordinary civil servant, responsible for the civil affairs of a county.
But after the civil strife, the county magistrates changed. In many places, the county magistrates were still just ordinary county magistrates and ordinary civil servants. However, in some places, the county magistrates were local vassals and held real power.
The simplest distinction depends on who is the county magistrate.
If an ordinary civil servant is the county governor, then he is just a civil servant.
But if someone like Lin Ziran, who holds an army of two thousand, becomes the county guard, then it will be a vassal town.
The difference between the two is worlds apart.
And Jian Liangzhi continued: "How is it impossible? I think you can take charge of this Lian Guan County Linying officer."