My younger brother Lü Fengxian

Chapter 77: Cooperation Achieved (Three more chapters completed, please read on, thank you!)
"So that's how it is!" Upon hearing this, Zhen couldn't help but admire Lu Yi even more: "I have seen many profiteers who stink of money. These people are only interested in profit and forget about morality. Only heroes like Lu can have such a broad mind and not be moved by money!"

"Zhen Yi deeply admires it!"

Zhen Yi was impressed by Lu Yi's frankness and stood up and bowed deeply.

Seeing this, Lu Yi's smile widened and he quickly helped Zhen Yi up.

After Lü Yi led the caravan back to Mayi, he learned from Zhang that although the horse trade had high profits and was large in scale, it was also because of this that the turnover was not as fast as some small commodities.

There are too many projects that Lu Yi wants to launch now. Luwu, cavalry, reclamation, etc. are all large projects that are costly and require long-term and continuous investment.

Therefore, a stable capital chain is extremely important to him.

If he were to travel back to a stable and peaceful era, Lu Yi would naturally choose to put the horse in the store like Zhang and wait for the buyer to come, in the hope of selling it at a suitable price.

But now the Han Dynasty was on the verge of decline, not to mention the Yellow Turban Rebellion which would happen five years later.

Right in front of Bingzhou, the area outside the Great Wall, separated from Jiuyuan by a wall, was also in great turmoil.

The Xiongnu, Xianbei, and Wuhuan were all extremely brutal. They would take turns to invade the interior of China almost every year in late autumn and early winter, wreaking havoc on Han territory, plundering the people, and burning down cities.

The corruption of the government was reflected in the border areas where the Han army's military pay and food supplies were often withheld, armor and weapons were decayed, soldiers fled, and the army had no will to fight.

The combat effectiveness against the Hu people was rapidly declining at a speed visible to the naked eye, and had gradually changed from the initial active attack to passive defense.

Even now, it is difficult to defend against the Hu people even with the help of the Great Wall.

Lu Yi knew that just on the eve of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Bingzhou was finally conquered by the Hu people. The iron hooves of the Hu horses ravaged Bingzhou and Youzhou, and even Jizhou, which had always enjoyed peace for a long time, was deeply affected.

Although in the end, the Han army fought hard and drove the Hu people out of the border wall again.

However, after being ravaged by the Hu people, Bingzhou and Youzhou were devastated, industries declined, and they took many years to recover.

Although Zhang Jia once said that the first phase of Lu Wu would take six months, Lu Yi would not really waste time.

Six months later it was September, when the Hu horses were fat and strong, and it was a good time for the Hu people to invade the south, and Jiuyuan was the first to bear the brunt.

Lu Yi didn't know when the Hu people would break through the Great Wall and invade the interior.

Maybe if we are lucky, it will be four or five years later, when Lu Yi will have grown strong enough to be fearless of the Hu people.

But maybe it will happen this year. If Lu Yi is not prepared by then, he will have to deal with the Hu people in a hurry.

Although he had some soldiers and horses that could escape, the innocent people who depended on him could only die tragically under the iron hooves of the Hu people.

Although Lu Yi was ambitious and unwilling to be inferior to others, it did not mean that he had no bottom line or conscience. Therefore, naturally, the first thing he would reject was escape.

If fate really was so unkind to him, he would just die, and it would be worth it for him to come to this wonderful era.

And if they were to make preparations, a small fort with a side of 200 steps standing alone on the frontier would certainly not be able to stop tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of Hu cavalry.

Lu Yi must hurry up and complete the construction of Luwu before the end of September.

Therefore, he had to find a buyer who could continuously purchase his horses and who could not bargain too hard. According to the current scale of the caravan, Lu Yi had to sell no less than 600 horses from the grassland every month.

If the horse is sold for an extra thousand coins, Lu Yi can make a profit of 600,000 at a time. If he does business nine times a year, that would be a huge number of over 5 million, which is enough to match Lu Wu in the first stage now!

Ever since Lu Yi learned from Zhang Xun that the Zhen family was buying a large number of horses, he immediately set his sights on this wealthy family.

Historically, Liu Bei was defeated by Lu Bu after a surprise attack. Not only did he lose Xia Pi, but even his wife was captured by Lu Bu.

Thanks to the Xuzhou tycoon Mi Zhu, who not only married his sister to Liu Bei, but also provided two thousand servants and gold, silver and other goods to support Liu Bei's army, Liu Bei, who was facing danger, was able to regain his spirits and overcome the difficulties.

The Zhen family in Jizhou is definitely as wealthy as the Mi family in Xuzhou, and is naturally an ideal partner.

But to Lu Yi's surprise, the young patriarch of the Zhen family, Zhen Yi, the father of "The Goddess of Luo River", the protagonist of "The Goddess of Luo River", seemed to admire and respect Lu Yi very much because of his obsession with being a knight in the sky when he was young, and he was even willing to sacrifice his own interests to make Lu Yi useful.

But Lu Yi is such a great man, how could he be blinded by the immediate benefits?

People often say that to achieve great things one must have a vision and a broad mind.

But what is pattern? And what is mind?
It's just that the immediate benefits are too small to move my heart.

What he really wanted was more than the value and benefits of just six hundred horses.

Therefore, he wisely lowered the price on his own initiative. On the one hand, he wanted to continue to establish his tall and majestic image as a hero in front of Zhen Yi. On the other hand, he wanted to avoid offending the old patriarch of the Zhen family who was behind Zhen Yi.

The old patriarch of the Zhen family dotes on his son, and it is his business to let him squander the family money. But if he knew that Lu Yi used Zhen Yi to steal the Zhen family's girls, he would naturally be furious, and might even attack Lu Yi from behind.

Although Lu Yi is not afraid, his current strength is still too weak, so it is not advisable to make too many enemies in the early stage of rapid development.

However, although Lu Yi had such a high level of awareness, in Zhen Yi's eyes it was seen as humility.

My idol finally gets a chance to visit my home, so as a little fan, how can I let him go back empty-handed?

Although Zhen Yi is not as crazy as Lu Yi's fan in his previous life, he is obviously not much less.

So he immediately took over Lu Yi's words and shook his head.

"Not right, not right! The price of thirty thousand coins is for others. Brother Lu is here, so we can't treat him as an ordinary person. The price must be at least thirty-four thousand coins per horse!"

"Haha, Brother Zhen is too polite. Since Brother Zhen is so enthusiastic, I can't afford to lose face. The most I can sell it for is 31,000 coins. If it's more, I would rather go back to Bingzhou immediately!"

"I am convinced..." Lu Bu and Zhang Xun looked at each other in surprise upon seeing this. Such an unconventional bargaining really opened their eyes.

"Is there any logic in doing business this way?" Manager Zhen, who had been immersed in the business world for many years, looked at the interaction between Lu Yi and Zhen Yi with a dull look on his face. He felt that the outlook on life, values ​​and world view that he had worked hard to build for many years were all collapsing at this moment.

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