Chapter 289: Borderland: Lu Liang's Changes
Not long after, Ning Yi saw Lu Hongti in the room on the side, her face looked a little long at this time, her face was sallow, and she seemed to be just a village girl in her thirties. However, Ning Yi also recognized her from her temperament at first sight, she was transfigured, but her eyes still had a quiet aura, she was the woman who taught him the internal skills of breaking the six paths and kept saying that it was a second-rate exercise.
After seeing it, Su Tan'er didn't beat around the bush, and asked if the two were old acquaintances, Ning Yi bowed and said with a smile: "Master." This frightened Su Tan'er, and after being slightly stunned, she picked up her skirt and was about to kneel, Lu Hongti blinked, and then held her up: "Don't talk nonsense, I can't accept you as a disciple." ”
Although Lu Hongti is similar to Ning Yi, Watermelon and others in grade, she has a gentle temperament, and it seems that she is much calmer, and she is dressed as thirty years old at this time, and no one will be suspicious. The three of them chatted for a few words, and Su Tan'er probably knew that although this woman did not admit that she and Ning Yi were in a master-apprentice relationship, Xianggong's kung fu was indeed taught by her, so she could treat her as an elder. If the two wanted to talk deeply, she would not be by her side, so she left after serving tea, leaving a chance for the two to talk alone.
After his wife left, Ning Yi asked, "Are you coming here this time to form an alliance with Fang La or what?" Other than that...... Tan'er said you were hunted down? ”
Lu Hongti looked at him for a while: "I came here to find you." ”
"Huh?"
Ning Yi was stunned, this reason was indeed unexpected by him, after all, Lu Liang came all the way, just to contact one person, how could it not be worth her to run like this. Later, I heard Lu Hongti talk about the reason.
"Hmm...... This year, as you said, the village has been doing very well. Things are done as you said before, we will contact the merchants on both sides so that they can borrow from Luliang Mountain. Except for the supplies related to the war, the rest can be passed. There is going to be a war this year, but all kinds of goods are more in demand, and we take a cut according to the market price. The remuneration was exchanged for salt, iron, and grain, and the familiar merchants brought it with them in advance. We also greeted a few nearby villages, they gave us, we made a contribution, and gave them something, heh, we had to convince them beforehand. It took a bit of effort......"
The part of things that Ning Yi envisioned for him before is actually a pure business operation, which is actually simple to say, Lu Hongti's village provides a one-stop Luliangshan crossing service, from this side of the people, follow the whole process, ensure safety, and also from this side of the people and coordinate with several forces along the way. Give them a certain share. In the past, the situation in Luliang Mountain was actually quite chaotic, with poor mountains and bad water paths difficult to travel, and traders risked their lives to cross the mountain. Being robbed on the road, encountering someone who talks about some rules, paying a protection fee may be able to pass, and it is a common thing to meet a village that is hungry and anxious, killing someone and stealing all the goods.
The problem is that in such a situation, the villages may not be able to get what they want, and no merchants will take this road to sell some food. If you snatch a cart of cloth and want to exchange it for food from the outside world, you will definitely be slaughtered. In the end, the benefits are actually quite limited, and the people who are forced to go up the mountain feel that they have no future, and they often have to live a good and bad life, in line with the attitude that one day is a day. On the contrary, everyone is in a difficult situation.
Modern business operations do not directly optimize production, but it will first coordinate distribution towards a benign development. In the past, grain merchants who dared to enter the mountains must make a lot of money, but now Lu Hongti is just according to the market price, so that the familiar merchants who have thought about it can bring a little salt, iron, and grain with enough tolls, and the one-stop security service can also make merchants more willing to help Lu Hongti. In other villages, they don't contribute to people, of course, they can't take the big head, but even if they divide the small head, it is better than the previous harvest, and most people, after all, still think that this side is quite kind. …,
In a chaotic system, as long as the system is formed and there are rules, there will be profits. Of course, such a thing is not unpopular, but a year is just the beginning of this kind of business, and there are not many people who have been alerted. And even if others want to do it, they won't be able to do it for a while, if the people who go up the mountain are not diligent and hard-working people, they have no direction in their efforts in the past, but they have to get by. It is not an easy task to maintain a smuggling channel, coordinate the characters of all sides, and exert great efforts to control the movement in the mountains. For those who are involved in the matter, it is equivalent to working from 9 to 5 and even working overtime, who wants to go to work every day for these mountain bandits who are used to being unrestrained and free on weekdays.
To really put things into operation, you have to rely on the various ideological work that Lu Hongti did in the village, remembering the bittersweet memories, telling stories, and even "saving" a family of opera singers, who performed a play in the village every seven days. Ning Yi said these things at the beginning, but he was just using things such as shopping mall operation, company culture, and system indicators, and Lu Hongti started to do it, but it was actually quite difficult. But the effect of everything combined is obviously beyond her imagination.
Of course, among them, the important thing is naturally force, if you want to make all the people in the village along the way, you can't afford to be a moth, and it is impossible to rely on interests and coordination alone. But in any case, it sounds like this business is basically taking shape under Lu Hongti's hands.
“…… Tian Hu has been reaching out to us, in March he asked the owners of the village to discuss the matter, there were seven owners of the village were killed, most of those villagers voted for Tian Hu, but fortunately we have not been affected by this road for the time being, but some people are not convinced, come to vote for me. In the past few months, the village has become bigger and bigger, Tian Hu should not have any intention of doing anything to my side for the time being, I heard that he thinks that our side is just some business people, but a little despised it. But you've also said before that if the stockade suddenly becomes too big, that ...... If the ideological work cannot keep up, it will also be very troublesome. Grandpa Liang also said so, and then asked me to go south to Jiangning to find you. ”
When Lu Hongti said this, he looked at Ning Yi and smiled: "Originally, I wanted to arrest you and go back to Luliang." ”
It turned out that the organization had developed to a bottleneck, and then he was not sure, Ning Yi understood, so he also laughed: "Forcing Liangshan, this is ......"
"It's not to force you to go to Liangshan, it's to go to Luliang." At this time, it naturally has no special significance to force Liangshan, Lu Hongti corrected it seriously, "But I went to Jiangning, I heard that Fang La was the emperor below, and you were not in the Su family, so I went to your confidante, called Nie Yunzhu's house-Originally, you asked me to pass on the letter, I still remember the place, looking at her situation at the time, I thought you were dead, and then I showed up to ask, and I knew that you were trapped in Hangzhou and there was no news, so I continued to go south." ”
Ning Yi thought for a while: "How is she?" ”
"I'm just worried about you, and that Yuan Jin'er Yuan girl, it's quite interesting." Lu Hongti smiled, "I said that I would protect you thoroughly, and I almost knocked down a tree across the river before they were relieved." After I arrived in Huzhou, I heard your news again, and I secretly found your lady at that time, stared at her for a while, and saw that she was about to go south, so I pretended to be chased and killed on the road, and asked her for a favor...... With her, it's always easier to find you, and besides, it was originally intended to make you owe some favors. ”
Ning Yi nodded: "I can't thank you enough." ”
Lu Hongti just smiled: "Here in Hangzhou, you are so deeply involved, when can you leave?" ”
"I can't tell, but don't rob me." Ning Yi crossed his hands, "I'll make a detailed five-year plan for you, I probably won't be able to go to Luliangshan for the time being, the matter here in Hangzhou is over, I have to go to Beijing, now the situation in the Wu Dynasty is dire, I know the right minister, and I will probably go to help." ”…,
"You...... Going to be an official? Lu Hongti frowned.
"Be a staff member, maybe help with some logistics."
“…… Now that Jin Liao is at war, how can the Wu Dynasty say that it is in dire straits, and the imperial court ...... Do you really want to take the opportunity to break through Liao and collect the sixteen states of Yanyun? ”
Although he was a mountain bandit, Lu Hongti was actually quite concerned about the situation of the Wu Dynasty, but Ning Yi just smiled and shook his head: "It's impossible, Jin is going to destroy Liao, Liao is an old wolf, Jin is a tiger, what we are afraid of now is that after this tiger killed the wolf, he found that there was a sheep below, and continued to kill it." The Wu Dynasty has no strength, and it always wants to be a white wolf with empty gloves, and what I am afraid of is that the most descendant country will perish......"
"Hmm." Lu Hongti understood what she said and nodded, "That'...... What is the five-year plan you are talking about......"
"When you have time, tell me about the situation in Luliang and the ...... around you All the details, when the time comes, the two of us will make one or several sets of plans, and see what to do in the future. However, the general direction is conceivable at present. Ning Yi pondered, laughed, and stretched out his hand to gesture casually, "Strengthen your own control over the surrounding areas, rely on Luliang Mountain, do smuggling, and develop your side into a smuggling transit station or free port...... Well, it's so that the smuggling merchants can live there, and make a market there, to provide protection, to provide order. ”
“…… Iron tools and war horses from the north were allowed to be transported to the south, and luxury goods from the south were transported to the north. Let's develop our strength a little bit, rob the Liao people's things, kill the Liao traders, and auction the things in Luliang Mountain, you can do business with Tian Hu, sell the things of the Wu Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom to them, and at the same time do business with the Wu Dynasty, if there is any Liao people's head, the army's armor, sell it to the army of the Wu Dynasty, haven't you fought with the Liao people before? The head is estimated to be wasted, and this must be very profitable. It would be best if a neutral three-way town could be built in the future, but for now, you can basically think about this direction......" (To be continued)