The news of the pirates in Dongfang Harbor opening a warehouse to collect grain caused a sensation in the entire Anyun City, and the two grain companies in Anyun City were shocked, because the price offered by those pirates was about 10% higher than the price they sold, and there was no limit, as many as they wanted. www.biquge.info The main reason why they do not sell the grain is that the purchase price offered by the grain bank is too low. After the sudden emergence of an Oriental Port, they learned from various connections in the Oriental Port that the Oriental Port had a great demand for grain, but their grain import channel was mainly the Zhancheng Port of Annan, and they had not bought grain from them, and many large households had been trying to find an opportunity to sell grain to the Oriental Port, but they could never find a channel.

The news of the attack on Champa Port was spread through Dongfang Port, and many of the large local families in An Yun were selling grain in exchange for hard currency such as gold and silver and preparing to flee with their families, but only one large family surnamed Chen did the opposite, and he used almost all of his savings accumulated over the years to buy these sold grain, and the price was unimaginably low. At this time, this Chen Dahu was standing in the patio looking at the sky, wearing a blue cloth robe made in Oriental Hong Kong, holding a coarse porcelain teacup in his left hand, lightly twisting his beard with his right hand, and reciting a few lines of poetry in his mouth. Chen Xiaomao's big household name is Xiaomao, Chen Xiaomao is a native of Wuguo Cantonese, the family moved to this Annan during the Chenghua period, and later settled down in this Anyun land, so far it has been four generations. Because he was born with a handful of hair on the top of his head, and he was a "small" generation, he was named Chen Xiaomao.

Chen Xiaomao was thirty-five years old at this time, ranking sixth, but the first five brothers were not good at running the family business, so the Chen family business was controlled by him. The purchase of grain this time was a decision that he made against public opinion, and the elders of the family felt that this matter was inappropriate, and they should sell off the grain at home like other large families to prepare for migration. However, he felt that the gang of pirates in Dongfang Harbor could defeat the attack of more than 2,000 officers and soldiers with about 200 men when they first arrived, and they must have something unique in their military strength. At this time, it had been more than three months since these self-proclaimed Chinese pirates landed, and they built cities and ports on the seashore, and built many large workshops along the coast, which must have been intended to develop here.

On weekdays, he also walked with his family along the smooth and spacious avenue built by the Chinese to the Oriental Port to see the bustle, the steel giants in the sea, and the gray coats patrolling the market with red armbands with the words "Chengguan Law Enforcement", all of which highlighted that these Chinese were by no means ordinary pirates. In recent months, a large number of products provided by the Chinese such as cloth, woolen sweaters, kitchen knives, iron agricultural tools, needles and threads, etc. have appeared in Anyun, and they almost destroyed Anyun's original market in an instant. Not to mention the cheap iron farm tools, the price is much cheaper, but the quality is much higher than the farm tools made in the subway craftsman's shop, and the cloth, which used to be woven by local peasant women at home, is of rough quality and extremely uncomfortable to wear.

As soon as these Chinese goods appeared, they immediately destroyed the local market. Fortunately, although these blacksmith craftsmen and weaver women can no longer make money from production, they have not become an unstable factor for An Yun, because the workshops in Dongfang Port are recruiting a large number of workers, both men and women, and the wages offered are quite low, and these Chinese also have room and board. Such conditions directly impacted An Yun's labor market, and in just one month, An Yun could not find any short-term workers in the city, only long-term workers and tenants remained, and these long-term tenants were not at ease, and they all waited for the New Year to go to the "pirates" to carry the work. As for the domestic slaves who did not have personal freedom, the phenomenon of fleeing has also begun to appear in the past two months, and many large families can only implement family law to deal with the domestic slaves who were captured before they could escape to the pirates, but there is no way to deal with those domestic slaves who have escaped to the hands of the pirates. At that time, the only way to go to the "director" in charge of "personnel management" in the pirates was to go to the pirates, this veteran named Yusha fell face down some time ago, and as a result, he was left with a scar on his face, coupled with the deterrence of the name of the "pirates", so that these big families who begged for fugitive slaves did not dare to squeak much, and could only listen to him to redeem the fugitive slaves according to the price on the deed.

Therefore, during this period of time, many large families have strictly managed their house slaves, or sent people to guard them all day long or improve the treatment of house slaves. But despite this, fugitive slave incidents are still common, which makes a lot of big families quite a headache, but they don't dare to find the pirates who caused this situation to theorize, the Wang family in the south of the city went to arrest the fugitive slave some time ago and was broken by Director Yu's leg with a handcuff, and it's not good yet.

However, Chen Xiaomao does not have this trouble, although his Chen family has more than 1,000 acres of land, in previous years, he only hired short-term workers to help during the busy farming period, and his family usually took care of the fields. Since he did not withhold the food of the short-term workers, these short-term workers were also quite grateful to him on weekdays, although at this time these short-term workers had already gone to the Oriental Port to work, but they all told him that as long as he wanted to help, he would definitely take the time to come and help him to thank him for so many years of care.

In the face of the impact of pirates on their lives, Chen Xiaomao can also see that they have such a large financial resource to support so many workshops and support so many workers, if they can cooperate with them, they will definitely be very profitable. At this time, as soon as the news of the siege of Champong came out, Chen Xiaomao keenly grasped several key points: First, in recent years, the Nanban has repeatedly plundered northward, and although he rarely entered the territory of Anyun, he has never heard of his defeat in Annan. Since these Chinese do not block the news, it shows that they are not afraid of the northward movement of the Nanban; Second, the port of Champa had been completely surrounded by this time, the port had also been completely destroyed, and the city of Annam to the south must have been sacked by the Nanbans, so the port of the east would no longer be able to obtain grain import channels from Annam. Then in addition to obtaining grain from the mainland of Wuguo, the Chinese can only buy grain locally in Anyun. Then it is the right time to hoard the grain that these big households sell at low prices; Third, although these Chinese razed Wen Xinyi's Wu'an Village, Wen Xinyi can be regarded as a notorious inferior gentleman in Anyun, and their worst move is to punish the strong and help the weak to protect the territory and the people, just by looking at the momentum of their restoration of production in Yancun and helping Yancun's development. Therefore, a squire like him would not be threatened by the Chinese at this time, and judging from the actions of the market they established in the Oriental Port, these "pirates" who protected the market order and never harassed the people looked more like the government, and doing business with these Chinese in the Oriental Port was more reliable than trading with the government.

Just as he was thinking of this, his distant cousin ran in through the doorway like a gust of wind, clutching a piece of paper in his hand, and beaming with joy.

"Big brother! Eldest brother! The cousin waved the paper in his hand as he ran, "Great joy! You've got it! ”

"Oh? What's in it? Chen Xiaomao was a little stunned, and snatched the piece of paper with his hand. As soon as the paper was in his hands, he was taken aback, there was a paper shop in Anyun County, ten miles away, but it was all those rice papers, and with a little force, he might be poked a hole by his fingers, and the paper in his hand was different from the softness of the rice paper, relatively speaking, it was quite firm, and it would make a rattling sound when it shook twice in his hand. He figured out in a blink of an eye that this must be the product of those Chinese, and immediately opened it to see that it read "Dongfang Port Sue An Yun People's Book".

The words on this are quite small, but they are extremely clear, and he can't help but be a little stunned, what kind of pen can write such a small font? The words were different from the ones he had seen on a daily basis, and there were some small tadpole-like things or small circles, but he understood in a flash that they were meant to break sentences. Although it was a bit awkward to read, it was easy to understand what was written on it. This group of Chinese said that they were also Chinese people in their early years, and their ancestors were oppressed and fled away from their homeland during the pre-Qin period, and later because of their heart for China, they specially sent them back to the land of China to return to their roots. These things made him very interested, but the content that followed made him even more interested, that is, these Chinese have now set up a granary in Dongfang Port to buy grain from An Yunguang at a preferential price. He took a closer look at the price of grain, which was even higher than the price sold by the grain store in the county, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, and for a while, the haze of being blamed by the elders of the clan for not collecting grain on a large scale was swept away, and he couldn't help but sing a little song and turn around twice in the same place, and then drank the tea juice in the teacup in his hand.

"Cousin, in this case, you go and get ten stones of grain, and we will send it to Dongfang Port." Chen Xiaomao said.

"Big brother, we have thousands of stones of grain here, when will we sell the ten stones and ten stones?"

"Since they can offer such a high price, they must have a great demand for food, so we might as well adjust their appetite first and talk to them about the price." Chen Xiaomao couldn't help but dance with his eyebrows.

His cousin was obviously a little worried, "This group of people is pirates, how about negotiating a price with them, if they are coerced by force?" ”

"No," Chen Xiaomao shook his head and said, "This group of people is definitely not the pirates you usually see, if the pirates need food, when have you ever seen the pirates issue a notice to buy food?" When didn't they besiege the village and rob it? At this time, since these Chinese claimed to be from China and issued notices to buy grain, they would certainly not do such looting. If we are the first to make a deal with them, we will definitely get more benefits. Don't waste time, go get someone to prepare the car, let's hurry up. ”