Tenkai Dobu

Chapter 118 Conversation at the Wine Table
Zhenhai City, City Lord's Mansion.

"Yu'er, did your grandfather tell you before you came this time?" Lu Zhantian and Lu Ziyu sat opposite each other, with food and wine on the table.

"Say it, tell me to use gentle means as much as possible, don't be too aggressive, lest it cause panic among other forces in the city." Lu Ziyu put chopsticks in his father's bowl.

Lu Zhantian ate the food in the bowl, showed a satisfied expression and said: "Yes, we must use gentle means, or I will wipe them all out when Mr. Qin came last year. But on second thought, they There are so many materials in our hands. After we cut off, how will the city continue to operate, and what people in the city eat and wear."

Lu Ziyu took a sip of wine and sighed: "Yeah, they have weight in their hands, we can't kill them all. But I think we still have to kill one as long as they startle them, and we need to disperse the control of materials in the future, especially the source. We can't just kill them." It's in the hands of one or two families, let's find a few to support, and if something happens in the future, cutting off one or two will not cause any major problems."

"Not bad", Lu Zhantian looked at his son and said with a smile.Unexpectedly, not only was his son highly talented in martial arts, but he also had some ideas about governing the city.Then he said: "I'm already doing it, but it's too young now, it won't have much impact, and it will be done in a few years. But we can't wait, these companies have absorbed a lot of external power in the past two years, a little Bloated. Now sometimes my words don't work very well."

Lu Ziyu poured a glass of wine for his father, put down the jug and pondered: "Apart from the Surabaya Gang, do any other families have grandmasters?"

First of all, we need to understand the situation. Don't be like the Sishui gang. Grandpa didn't know until their master had already arrived in Xuanwu City.Every grandmaster is an existence that cannot be ignored. If you don't grasp the movements of each grandmaster, if it is not good for the Lu family, it will be very passive.

Lu Zhantian stopped holding the wine glass, thought for a while, then drank the wine in his hand, put down the wine glass and said, "Needless to say, the Surabaya gang, I don't even know when he broke through, so it's my dereliction of duty. The military officers don't seem to have any signs of masters, but each of them has recruited a few innate masters, and the military officer Changsheng seems to have invited a congenital golden core. The three families, the Lu family will not be mentioned, our own collateral, they The development here is not bad, and they have been cooperating with me. The other two, the Zhao family and the Chu family, are hard to say, but some time ago someone reported that the Chu family seemed to have signs of a grandmaster, but I tried it as the deputy city lord. Nothing has changed. The last is the Linhai Chamber of Commerce. This Chamber of Commerce is the most ostentatious. A grandmaster was invited by them. Since then, they have acted even more arrogantly. I have talked with their president a few times, but they are all perfunctory I didn't call you last time."

"I've settled my affairs, I'll go and have a look. If that grand master is easy to talk, that's fine, if not, I'll tell him not to talk forever," Lu Ziyu said.He still has confidence in the Grandmaster now, presumably few Grandmasters can survive under his knife.

"I'll look for it too, can we talk about it, as long as they don't go too far, our Lu family can still accommodate them." Lu Zhantian didn't doubt his son's ability. His father said that Ziyu is invincible under the great master. .

The Linhai Chamber of Commerce is composed of merchants from several nearby cities, or it can be said to be composed of many small families.The main personnel all live in Zhenhai City. There is one president, seven vice presidents, 13 deacons, and the rest are members.

The Chamber of Commerce has monopolized more than [-]% of the materials in several cities near Zhenhai City, affecting the prices of most commodities.In recent years, the price of goods in Zhenhai City has been getting higher and higher, and the City Lord's Mansion is almost unstoppable.

Suddenly, his heart moved, and he remembered how he dealt with those luxury goods in his previous life, and said: "Father, don't confront them head-on, first find out their source of goods, the price of purchase and delivery. Try to find the shipping route, I will first I'll take care of it. After the master is settled, we will add a tax in Zhenhai City, and if I can't do it, they will raise the price!"

"Ziyu, taxes are not collected randomly, maybe something will happen." Hearing his son said that taxes would be raised, Lu Zhantian was shocked.Taxes have been set long ago, and he is not eligible to change them.

"Father, don't worry, we only pay taxes on things that make huge profits, and everything else remains the same." He knew that tax matters were a big deal, and he wouldn't mess around, so he definitely wanted to ask grandpa.

Seeing that Lu Zhantian still didn't understand, he thought for a while, picked up the wine glass in his hand and said: "If I bought this wine glass from Xuanwu City for a penny, I would buy a hundred of them. If I transport them to Zhenhai City, the price I sell is One gold. There is no big cost in the middle, and there is no loss, but if I buy the price ten times or a hundred times higher, then the city lord's mansion will collect taxes according to his profits. The more profits we collect, the more we will collect. They have raised their prices, but their profits have fallen, and they should keep their profits under control."

He paused, took a sip of wine and continued: "If it's ten times the profit, we'll reap five to six times the profit, if it's a hundred times, we'll collect seventy or eighty times the money. We'll use the money we collect to compensate those who bought at a high price. Those who take the wine glass must of course find a name."

Lu Zhantian understood this time, and said with some excitement: "Then won't he be obedient?"
Lu Zi smiled stupidly, poured a glass of wine for the father and son, and said: "It depends on how grandpa cooperates. As long as this regulation is passed, the whole island will be announced. Then it depends on the evidence that parents have. As long as the evidence is confirmed , I can let them pay. I hope they don’t pay, that’s the best.”

Lu Zhantian also knew what would happen if he didn't pay, anyway, this is his Lu family's private island, and they are the rule makers.After thinking for a while, he looked at his son and said, "Okay, I'll go home and talk to your grandpa when I'm done, and then send someone to find their sources and prices."

Lu Zhantian had no other choice in his mind. He had been here for many years, and there was no major improvement.At most, it's just to suppress the speed of their development. The method that the son said this time can be regarded as once and for all.This kind of tax will not affect the underground people, that is, 90.00% of the people on the island will not be affected, but it will be a fatal blow to the Linhai Chamber of Commerce.

"This is not a long-term solution. If they don't care, the price may become higher and higher. In the end, both of us will lose. It's best to let grandpa organize people to set the prices on the island within a certain range, and don't let the merchants set prices too high. ", and added another sentence after speaking.

Lu Zhantian held the wine glass on his lips, thought for a while and said, "This is also a solution, but the workload seems to be too large, and a lot of manpower is needed, especially scholars."

Lu Ziyu took a sip of the food and nodded, "We need a lot of people, but there is no other way. We still need to make the laws on the island sound and include business matters, so that there will be things that will happen in the future. basis, and I’m not afraid to cause other people’s worries.”

"Okay, I'll tell your grandpa about these things. You came here today and told me about your future plans. You are all relieved now, you can't just let your temper run like you are at home." Lu Zhantian looked That's enough, let's talk about it.

Lu Ziyu thought for a while and said: "I just came here today, and there was a case of exterminating the family. I want to find out this first. I will look at the case file later, and find out if there are any accumulated cases. Check it out. At the same time , I want to beat the Sishui Gang, he dominates the underground power of Zhenhai City, it is too big. When the old man was promoted to Martial Saint that day, Cheng Bosheng was also present, I think he will be more honest."

After hearing this, Lu Zhantian nodded and said, "The Sishui Gang is a bit big. I didn't know that Cheng Bosheng, the leader of their gang, had become a master. I ignored their fight. I didn't expect them to grow up."

"It's not a big problem. A grandmaster is still not enough of a threat to our Lu family. It's just that they have too many people. So many people don't produce labor, but just idle around. It's a waste to extort protection fees. When I came this time , Seeing that the official road is very difficult to walk, grab tens of thousands and let them build the road." Lu Ziyu said with a chuckle.

The father and son kept talking about the darkness, and it was around midnight when Lu Ziyu bid farewell to his father and returned to Duwei Mansion.

(End of this chapter)