My younger brother Lü Fengxian

Chapter 126 Undercurrent
After Lu Yi and Qiqige met Zhang Wan'er, the expected tension did not occur.

Although the two met for the first time, they got along quite well.

Not only was Zhang Wan'er a new mother, but she also showed the magnanimity of a wife, so she was very kind and friendly to Qiqige, calling her "sister" all the time.

The older Qiqige was destined to be unable to become Lu Yi's principal wife because of her Hu ethnicity, so she was very respectful to Zhang Wan'er.

The two sides treated each other with respect, which made Lu Yi become a foil.

However, the conflict that Lu Yi had expected did not occur, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.

He waited until midnight and coaxed Zhang Wan'er to sleep before quietly going to Qiqige's room and talking to her in private all night.

The next morning, Lu Yi, feeling refreshed, gently covered Qiqige, who was still in a deep sleep, with a blanket, and then started to get down to business.

He arranged for Unit B to stay behind in Zhang's Fort, while Gao Shun, accompanied by Unit A who came to replace him, continued his trade with the caravan.

As for the horses that the merchants brought back in July, Lu Yi sold them directly to the caravan that came to purchase them.

As the deal between Lu Yi and the Zhen family became more stable, Lu Yi also spoke out about the conflict of interest between himself and the Zhongshan horse trading group.

Zhen family was closely related to them, so it was not easy for her to openly support Lu family. However, she secretly told Lu Yi the relevant information about Su Shuang and others.

And Lu Yi knew that Zhen would definitely secretly befriend and appease Su Shuang and others.

Trying to please both sides has always been a common tactic used by businessmen.

As long as the size reaches a certain level, the business qualities that society appeals to, such as credit, honesty, and fairness, will be completely gone.

Because only in this way can Zhen stand firmly beside the winner and benefit from whoever wins.

Although Lu Yi has a relationship with Zhen Yi, he is destined to only receive support and assistance, and it is impossible for him to get Zhen's 100% bet.

But even so, Lu Yi was satisfied.

In order to prevent the horses that the caravan had worked so hard to sell from being robbed along the way by Su Shuang and others, the current horse trading model has changed from Lu Yi escorting the horses to Zhongshan to Zhen Shi purchasing the horses herself and escorting them back around the end of each month.

Even though Bingzhou is already in Han territory, it is not necessarily safer than the grassland.

Moreover, both natural disasters and man-made disasters on the grassland are visible and tangible, and beneath the seemingly safe Han land lies treacherous and unpredictable dangers.

However, the goods of the Lu family caravan might be looted, and even if Su Shuang and others were given ten times the courage, they would not dare to move rashly.

The Zhen family has the endorsement of the top Han officials. Without this relationship, it would be impossible for the Zhen family's business to be among the best in the country.

The construction of Luwu consumed countless materials, and Zhang had already cleared out all the stocks around Mayi.

However, this amount of material is nothing to the Zhen family.

Therefore, Lu Yi and Zhen agreed that out of the nearly 30 million yuan in payment for goods, 10 million yuan would be used to purchase the remaining construction materials.

The other ten million will be exchanged for 250 dan of grain at the price of coins per dan after the autumn harvest.

The remaining payment for the goods was still made in copper coins, which Lu Yi used to pay monthly wages to his employees, maintain Jiuyuan's expenses, and most importantly, to respond to the next summons from Wang Zhi, the governor of Wuyuan County.

He had already spent one million yuan on Wang Zhi's cousin, Jiuyuan County Magistrate Wang Li and others. Faced with the younger brother of this powerful Ten Attendants, he naturally had to prepare more sugar-coated bullets.

Because the main residence of Lu Wu was not completed, Lu Yi left his two daughters to live with Zhang this time.

He himself returned to Jiuyuan with his guards.

It was already early August, and the crops on the 250 hectares of land near Lvwu were almost ripe. In about ten days it would be the autumn harvest season.

This is the first harvest of Lu Yi’s forces.

After farming for so long, I finally get some rewards.

After Lu Yi returned to Jiuyuan Pavilion, he immediately ordered all the young and strong laborers, regardless of whether they were servants, servants, refugees, or construction workers, to rest and wait in preparation for harvesting the crops.

Whether this season's grain harvest is good or not is related to Lu Yi's next series of plans, and it is of great importance and significance.

However, just when Lu Yi was making intensive preparations in Jiuyuan to harvest the grain.

The news that Zhen had bought horses from Mayi spread quickly among the Zhongshan search group.

Su Shuang urgently convened a meeting of all members of the group to respond.

"This Lu Yi can now stably sell nearly a thousand horses from outside the Great Wall every month. He controls the Mayi Great Wall Pass alone and is becoming increasingly powerful!"

Su Shuang sighed and said to everyone.

"It would be fine if he was honestly selling in Mayi or Wuyuan, but according to what I have heard from various sources, he has signed a contract with the Zhen family and will be supplying them for a long time."

Zhang Shiping also looked worried when he heard this.

"Zhen is the largest buyer of our Zhongshan Horse Trading Group. Not only is the price Lu Yi offers to Zhen higher than ours, but the share is also extremely large. Zhen will be given priority in all purchases. If he becomes the only one in the market, we can only sell our horses in the ordinary horse market. Not only will the profit be greatly reduced, but it will also take a very long time to get the money back!"

When the two of them said this, everyone looked miserable.

"What should I do?"

"If we don't have Zhen as our big buyer, we won't have much profit left!"

"Please two leaders think of a solution!"

The cake is only this big. Even if the Zhen family has great connections, the demand in a month is only that much.

They were already keenly aware that there was a strong seller competing with them.

However, at the beginning, Su Shuang and others just thought that the horse trading group from Youzhou or Liangzhou had followed the Zhen family's path and stepped into their Bingzhou territory.

However, after two months of investigation at all costs, he bribed an experienced old housekeeper of the Zhen family and learned about the agreement between Lu Yi and the Zhen family. Only then did he realize that the fire was in his own backyard.

Not only Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping, the two top smugglers, were troubled by this.

Other small smugglers like Wang Fu were even more frustrated.

In order to join the smuggling group of Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping, they had to pay tribute to them, and almost half of their profits had to be handed over to them. The money was used to open up the passes controlled by Su Shuang, Zhang Shiping and others, and to deal with the Hu people outside the Great Wall. They could have done Zhen's business and even made some money.

Now that Zhen’s big buyer is gone, profits have dropped sharply.

Although the benefits after the reduction are far greater than what can be harvested honestly from the land.

But it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.

How can people whose appetites have already been whetted be willing to be landlords?

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(End of this chapter)