Raising the Demon

Chapter 745

Bei Qiang went to "see" Zi Baifeng the afternoon before the ultimatum.

Bei Qiang's arrival was not beyond Zi Baifeng's expectations, and he didn't say much to Bei Qiang.

When Bei Qiang walked out of Zi Baifeng's study, he felt a little relieved and also a little bit lost.Because he found that not everyone regards him as an important person, and he thinks too much of himself, which makes him very disappointed.

I don't know why, but Zi Baifeng didn't pay too much attention, but he was relieved.

Maybe it's because of the little stone's almost world-changing power that made him realize his insignificance, or maybe he still didn't dare to risk his life to challenge a powerful existence who could kill demon saints with a wave of his hands.

But no matter what, all of this has passed, and starting tomorrow, his people will live a better life than ever before.

Zi Baifeng is very busy, and the problem of the sand people is just one of the many problems he needs to solve in Mobei Prefecture.

Of course, it is also one of the important issues.

The surrender of Bei Qiang and several other leaders made things much easier.Zi Baifeng first rectified the official system of the entire Mobei Prefecture, withdrew those who should be withdrawn, and those who should be killed have been eliminated.Then he started to deal with some old cases, and gave the following many piles of headless public cases.Then, he had to find a sustainable way of making a living for the people of Mobei Prefecture.

After thinking about it, Zi Baifeng realized that at first there was only the path of "alluvial gold".

Make good use of the alluvial gold in Mobei Prefecture, sell it at a good price, and discover other values ​​​​of this desert.

In order to achieve this, on the second day after solving the problem of the sand people, Zi Baifeng summoned some respectable businessmen in the entire Mobei Prefecture, and prepared to let them brainstorm and express their views on the future of Mobei Prefecture.

For a long time, the status of businessmen has been very low. Although they have money, they have no channels of appeal.

In this world, many powerful people are businessmen, and the vast majority of businessmen do not have the corresponding power.They earn benefits by getting the protection of others through high amounts of money.

However, Zi Baifeng has a different view on merchants. Although the existence of merchants cannot create value, they can detect value. Mobei Prefecture now needs this.

To be summoned by the majestic demon fairy Baifeng and Zi Baifeng, the lord of Mobei Prefecture, these merchants who were summoned were so excited that they lined up outside the government office early in the morning.

When the clerk indicated that they could go in, several of them could barely walk.

Especially Lei Dafu who was at the forefront.

The moment he saw Zi Baifeng, Lei Dafu knelt on the ground and kowtowed, shouting: "Damn the villain! Damn the villain! Damn the villain!"

Lei Dafu's actions frightened the others, and they suddenly thought of many bad ideas. Could it be that Mobei Prefecture is in a state of waste, and it is really impossible to turn around, so they want to take them into surgery?

As the owner of the largest firm in Mobei Prefecture, does Lei Dafu know something?
When Lei Dafu did this, the others immediately knelt down and kowtowed to the ground.

There are still people who are excited and shouted again and again: "The villain is willing to donate a hundred taels of gold..."

"The villain is willing to donate half of his net worth..."

"The villain is willing to donate all his wealth..."

If this is a fundraising competition, Zi Baifeng has already won the medal for the fastest fundraising.

Zi Baifeng sitting at the top couldn't laugh or cry, and several maids carrying food also looked at each other in blank dismay. Luckily, Zi Baifeng was worried about their early arrival and provided breakfast.

"Get up, everyone, I am very pleased that everyone is so enthusiastic, but it seems that you have misunderstood something...Is it, Lei Dafu?" Zi Baifeng found the reason when he saw Lei Dafu who kowtowed the most.

"The villain deserves to die. The villain doesn't know the identity of the adult and offends the adult. But the villain really has a problem. Xia Junguo is the biggest placer buying country. The villain... the villain..."

Lei Dafu wished he could find a crack in the ground and sneak in. He never thought that the real identity of the junior in the business world in his eyes who was taught to be a man by him back then would be so amazing.

He still remembered that he said that Zi Baifeng would be unable to move an inch in Mobei Prefecture, and asked whether Zi Baifeng wanted to buy alluvial gold without his consent.

Looking at it now, how ridiculous this is.

It was extremely kind of Zi Baifeng not to lock him up with Xia Junguo's people.

But he had no choice, he had to rely on Xia Junguo's people to live, because Xia Junguo bought [-]% of the alluvial gold produced in Mobei Prefecture, if he couldn't curry favor with Xia Junguo's people, how could he make money?

Can't make money, how can he live?

Zi Baifeng smiled slightly and said, "Oh? When?"

Lei Dafu was startled, he immediately understood that Zi Baifeng didn't want to talk about the past, he quickly kept silent, scratched his head, smiled, and slowly got up from the ground.

Zi Baifeng glanced over Lei Dafu, and then at the others.

They had an oolong early in the morning, and these people all looked embarrassed.

"I invite everyone to come here today. I want to give full play to everyone's ingenuity. Please brainstorm and find more ways out for our Mobei Prefecture. Besides alluvial gold, what else can our Mobei Prefecture produce, and what else is valuable? Things." Zi Baifeng stretched out his hand to let everyone sit down, and then said.

The maid served breakfast to everyone. After a toss just now, the breakfast was no longer hot, but many people ate it warm in their hearts, and felt a long-lost feeling of being respected.

When will these officials and lords take their opinions seriously?
In the eyes of those officials and lords, they are just moving money bags, they are picked up when they are needed, and they are kicked away when they are not needed.

But today, they don't even need to donate money?
Someone still couldn't react, and said over there: "I am willing to donate for the development of Mobei Prefecture..."

"Of course you can donate money. We will discuss this matter later." Zi Baifeng interrupted him, "But donating money can only solve a temporary emergency. It is better to teach people to fish than to teach them how to fish, and to find a way for Mobei Prefecture to develop. , is the most important place.”

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay. This is a world where business is extremely underdeveloped. The reason why many people here are engaged in business is not because they have any entrepreneurial plans or projects, but because their father is a businessman.

And Mobei Prefecture is poor and remote, Zi Baifeng said that he wanted to find some businessmen, and the people in the Mobei government almost broke their legs, so they gathered dozens of people for Zi Baifeng, and most of these people were just small Just the owner of the shop.

What insights can there be?

Only a few people made comments, but there were no bright spots.

For a while, the conversation got bogged down.

"Lei Dafu, tell me, what's your opinion?" Zi Baifeng had to call the name, Lei Dafu seemed a little frightened, and he didn't speak.

"Master... I... villain..." Lei Dafu stood up, his legs were trembling, and he could hardly speak.

"Sit down and say, there are no adults today. I am also a businessman, but I am not running a store, but a state and a place." Zi Baifeng said.

"My lord, our Mobei Prefecture..." Lei Dafu swallowed, took a sip of tea, suppressed the panic in his heart, gradually calmed down, and said, "Our Mobei Prefecture has always relied on alluvial gold. Some monks will use alluvial gold powder as talismans, which can be exchanged for some jade. In addition to alluvial gold, we also have some minerals in Mobei Prefecture, but at most they can only support some small villages, and there is not much profit." He pointed to his side A dark-skinned man said, "Boss Guo owns a small coal mine."

Boss Guo quickly stood up, bowed around first, and then continued: "My lord, everyone, my name is Guo Wanshun, and I am in the briquette business. The coal in Mobei Prefecture is not easy to burn, and it is not easy to transport this thing. There are many coal mines under the barren hills, and they cannot be sold to the state..."

This world is similar to the previous life. There are small coal mines everywhere, and coal mines are also used in various ways. After the coal is processed, it is made into coal cakes, similar to the briquettes in the previous life, which can last forever. Just use this.

This Boss Guo's skin is dark. If you look closely, it looks like it is covered with a layer of gray soot, and every wrinkle is black.

Zi Baifeng frowned, thinking about the expanded use of coal, gas, etc., if there is still value for promotion in Shangjing, it is a bit too early in Mobei Prefecture, and the consumption level is far from reaching it.

As for the briquettes... Is this thing still sent outside all the way?It was purely full.

Seeing that Zi Baifeng frowned, Lei Dafu said again: "My lord, we still have silk in Mobei Prefecture. There is a small shrub in the Gobi Desert that can raise silkworms. This Boss Li is in the silk business."

Then Boss Li stood up, bowed to Zi Baifeng, and said: "My lord, the villain's surname is Li. The livelihood passed down from the ancestors is to raise silkworms. The silk in Mobei Prefecture is slippery and dense, but the yield is extremely low. Basically, they can be sold to places like Shangjing..."

After listening to him talk a lot, Zi Baifeng probably understood.

The sunlight here is sufficient and the water is low. The silkworms raised in that kind of shrubs produce dense and flexible silk, which is indeed three points better than silk from other places, but the yield is not high. I don’t know about artificial breeding. Can that kind of shrub be solved, but although that kind of shrub is short, it grows slowly, and it can't raise a mature tree in a few years, and it can't quench the near thirst.

In this way, Lei Dafu talked and introduced one by one, and introduced more than half of the various profitable businesses in the entire Mobei Prefecture, but none of them caught Zi Baifeng's eyes.

Lei Dafu introduced these influential businessmen and various businesses, and Zi Baifeng found that the market in Mobei Prefecture is really too small, basically every industry, one or two A representative businessman has completely monopolized it.

Afterwards, the introductions were made of some unpopular industries, and Lei Dafu also knew that these people would not be of much use, and they were all just passing by.

After the morning passed, Zi Baifeng was a little disappointed.

In the long run, there are some projects in Mobei Prefecture that can be operated, but the ones that can be effective in the short term are traditional industries.

Sand gold, and a salt well in an oasis somewhere in the desert.

When it was almost noon, Zi Baifeng said that he would invite everyone to dinner, everyone thought that Zi Baifeng was serving tea to see off the guests, so they hurriedly left and disappeared without a trace.

Zi Baifeng couldn't help but sigh, this is the generation gap.

Zi Baifeng was a little tired after sitting for a whole morning. He stretched his waist and walked out of the study. After walking a few steps, he saw Xiaoshi squatting in the corner, talking to a little old man.

Seeing Zi Baifeng, the little old man hurriedly kowtowed on the ground, and said loudly: "The little old man has seen the adults!"

"Old man, excuse me, excuse me!" Zi Baifeng hurriedly helped him up, Zi Baifeng remembered this person, sitting in the corner all the time, he looked like an ordinary street vendor, and Lei Dafu never introduced him.

"Brother, brother, Grandpa Zhu has such a beautiful little scorpion!" Little Shitou grabbed him and said.

"Little old man... I am not afraid of adults' jokes when I say it. The little old man has no special skills. He just catches some beautiful bugs on the Gobi Desert, sells them in the morning market, and barely makes ends meet... The officials don't know why, so they call the little old man Brought... oh... oh..." The old man was afraid that he would delay his business.

"Little scorpion?" Zi Baifeng felt the little scorpion lying on the ink pendant at his waist move, and seemed a little interested.

It's not that Xiao Shitou has never seen the world. To make Xiao Shitou so excited is definitely not an ordinary little scorpion.

"My lord, you don't know. There is a special kind of scorpion living around Mobei Prefecture. This kind of scorpion is not poisonous, but colorful. It looks very beautiful and bright. Everyone calls them colorful scorpions. This kind of scorpion is male. Scorpions are aggressive by nature. We children in Mobei Prefecture catch some and let them fight each other. Female scorpions are extremely quiet. Our big girls and daughters-in-law in Mobei Prefecture like to raise a scorpion on their head. It is more beautiful than any jade."

The old man untied a straw cage from his waist, inside which were a few small scorpions crawling around.

The little scorpion was very small, about the size of a finger, but it was indeed very beautiful and colorful, waving two majestic pincers, showing off its power everywhere.Looks like it's a scorpion.

"My lord, this is the male scorpion of the colorful scorpion." The old man said, "The colorful scorpion has a colorful body, but there are also very few pure colored colorful scorpions. The color of the young scorpion is translucent, and when it grows into a large scorpion, it becomes colorful again. , among which white and black are the best..."

The old man surnamed Zhu seemed to like this kind of scorpion very much, and he shook his head when he spoke clearly.

"Look, the little scorpion that Grandpa Zhu gave me." Little Shitou spread out his hand. In his palm, there was a black and shiny scorpion. The black of the scorpion was as black as jelly, with bright colors in the black. , very beautiful.

The scorpion is very quiet in the hands of the small stone, it seems that it is a female scorpion.

"Brother, look, it's even prettier than your little scorpion!" Little Shitou said.

The crystal scorpion on Zi Baifeng's waist suddenly became dissatisfied and waved its claws.

The old man was shocked immediately, and said: "It turns out that your lord is also an expert in this way, really... really made a mistake and made a fool of yourself."

He bowed his body, looked at the peimo crystal scorpion on Zi Baifeng's waist, and admired: "I thought it was carved, this is really... really... there is such a beautiful scorpion."

He stretched out his hand to touch, but the little scorpion flicked its tail and got into Zi Baifeng's lapel.

"This, little old man, really, really damn..." The old man suddenly realized that he was too rude to do so, and hurriedly knelt down and apologized.

"Hey, the old man doesn't need to be so nervous." Zi Baifeng spread his hands and said, "Little Scorpion, come out and let the old man see you, don't hide inside."

After a while, the little scorpion crawled out and landed in Zi Baifeng's palm.

"Thank you, thank you sir, can I... can I touch it?" This old man is really crazy about scorpions, Zi Baifeng nodded and said: "Of course."

He carefully held the little scorpion in his hand, and the little scorpion wagged its tail a few times, as if to say, I am not those non-poisonous waste.

Zi Baifeng looked at the little scorpion, but there was a flash of inspiration in his heart.

There is a saying that luxuries are necessities.

Mobei Prefecture is so remote, if you want to earn a lot of money, you must be a high-value commodity.

High value-added products, what is more valuable than jewelry?
The value of jewelry is entirely given by human beings, not only from its rarity, but also from hype.

The most obvious example of past lives is diamonds.

Why does this kind of thing that exists in large quantities in nature and can be manufactured artificially become the king of gems, and why has its value remained high for so long?

To put it bluntly, this thing is just glass with a higher hardness. If it is sold freely, it can really be sold at the price of glass.

But with subtle hype and tight controls, it can run the gamut and reap huge profits.

The power of capital is powerful, and anything, such as orchids, can be sold at an unimaginably high price.

There are tens of millions of orchids in a pot, how is this possible?

"Master, are these scorpions only produced in Mobei Prefecture?" Zi Baifeng suddenly had a brand new idea.

In this world, although many people are living in dire straits, there are still many people whose lives should not be too good, such as those so-called upper class people in Shanghai who are idle.

And this little scorpion has great hype value, if it can open up the luxury goods market in Shangjing, and sell this little scorpion, which is a specialty in Mobei Prefecture, to Shangjing...

"My lord, the little old man has never left Mobei Prefecture, but he has seen many merchants coming and going, and asked them, they have never seen such a beautiful and strange scorpion. The little old man thinks that maybe this is not the same as our Mobei Prefecture. It is related to the water and soil, only the scorpions living near our Mobei state have this characteristic."

Zi Baifeng sighed in his heart, old man, you are simply the Darwin of another world, and in a short time, you will probably discover the theory of evolution.

"Thank you, old man." Hearing what the old man said, Zi Baifeng suddenly felt better.

What are the characteristics of luxury goods?rare.

If this kind of scorpion is really only produced in Mobei Prefecture, then its production can be strictly controlled.

The next step is to formulate strict quality standards, so that the same things can be produced in different grades, so that they can be sold as luxury goods.

Once Zi Baifeng thought of this, many ideas popped up immediately.

"Come on, go and call the people from Youshangzong, and then let the elder Pingshang come to see me. By the way, call Lei Dafu too." Zi Baifeng said, and then he said to the old man: "Old man , I am treating guests at noon today, and I need your help with something."

If you want to set strict standards, who else is more suitable besides the old man in front of you?
Zi Baifeng didn't expect that the mountains and rivers were full of doubts and there was no way out, and there was another village.

(End of this chapter)