Cut off my army's food supplies? I'll open a portal between the two worlds and max out my

Inside the camp.

Li Wen looked at the open pocket of Jiang Tian, ​​which contained a pile of broken gold coins.

Li Wen was very surprised; he hadn't expected the transaction to go so smoothly.

It seems that instant noodles, a high-end food, have captured the hearts of nomadic tribes.

Blackstone's straightforwardness didn't mean he was a fool. First, Li Wen's reputation convinced Blackstone that the Anxi army wouldn't deceive him. Second, he believed that this kind of food from the Zhou aristocracy had great commercial potential in the Western Regions.

After understanding the reasons, Li Wen did not raise the price on the spot.

Instead, Jiang Tian was asked to take most of the instant noodles and sausages and deliver them to the Black Stone tribe.

Watching the stockpiled instant noodles being transported away, Jiang Tian couldn't help but ask worriedly, "General, if these military rations are sold, what will happen to us...?"

Li Wen raised his hand and said, "There's no need to worry about food. Eating too much instant noodles is actually unhealthy."

Unhealthy? I could eat this delicious food every day and never get tired of it! Although Jiang Tian was puzzled, seeing his general's calm expression, he didn't press the matter further.

The Anxi army now has an inexplicable confidence in their general.

After Li Wen returned to his tent, he opened a bag of gold beans and weighed them; they were about forty or fifty grams.

Based on the gold price on Earth, the Anxi army's food crisis can be temporarily relieved.

After resting for a while and regaining his composure, Li Wen instructed the brothers in Jiang Tian's camp to rest in the afternoon and suspend patrol and training missions. Then he returned to his tent and activated the double portal to return to the modern world.

Li Wen looked at the gold coins he had brought and breathed a sigh of relief. After changing his clothes, he went downstairs and took a taxi to the Metropolitan Shopping Mall.

After getting off the bus, Li Wen did not go into the mall. Although there were gold recycling counters there, Li Wen did not have the relevant purchase documents, and he would be heavily discounted if he sold his gold there.

After Li Wen arrived, he went to a small alley behind the Metropolitan Shopping Mall. Apart from a few signs for mahjong parlors, there were hardly any storefronts to be seen.

Deep inside, there stands what looks like an antique dealership, with a sign at the entrance that reads "Research and Recycling".

Li Wen arrived at the door, pushed it open, and came straight in.

"What are you doing?"

A middle-aged man lay lazily on a recliner, too lazy to get up even though he saw that Li Wen looked unfamiliar.

Li Wen truthfully replied, "To do business."

The man said impatiently, "Go do business with other people. I don't do business with outsiders."

After being rejected, Li Wen was not in a hurry, but instead remembered what Lao Zhou had told him before.

The man in front of me is Wang Liwei, who runs a "head donation" business. He has been doing this for almost twenty years and has never been criticized in those twenty years, which shows how trustworthy Wang Liwei is.

Because of Wang Liwei's unique business practices, he has a strange rule: he only does business with acquaintances.

He remained unmoved by the potential profits offered to strangers.

Li Wen said with a smile, "Brother Wang, I was introduced by Brother Zhou."

Wang Liwei stopped lying down and looked at Li Wen: "Brother Zhou? Which Brother Zhou?"

"Old Zhou, Old Zhou from the wholesale market."

Li asked.

This was a channel that Lao Zhou introduced to Li Wen when he was drinking with Lao Zhou last time, but Li Wen hadn't needed it before.

Old Zhou's original intention in introducing Li Wen as a channel was that the cigarettes and alcohol that others gave as gifts were difficult to sell, so they could be converted into cash through Wang Liwei. However, Li Wen simply did not accept gifts.

"What's your name?"

"Li Wen."

"Wait a minute."

Wang Liwei was no longer so hostile, and instead opened WeChat to send a message asking him a question.

Soon his phone vibrated, and after glancing at it, Wang Liwei smiled.

"Oh, it's Manager Li! Old Zhou praised you when we were drinking last time!"

Wang Liwei stood up with a smile and turned on the brighter chandelier in the room, making the room less dark.

Li Wen smiled. He immediately guessed that Lao Zhou had complained about him being too honest while drinking. Lao Zhou had said this to his face several times before, and Li Wen himself didn't care.

After returning to the counter, Wang Liwei took out a pair of monocles from his pocket, put them on, and asked, "Manager Li, what kind of business are you interested in?"

"These."

Li Wen placed the bag on the counter, revealing the gold coins inside.

"Oh? Ancient alchemy?"

Wang Liwei has a keen eye and immediately recognized that these gold beads did not come from a jewelry store.

Li Wen nodded.

"Wait a moment, let me check the ingredients."

Wang Liwei bent down and started rummaging under the counter, quickly pulling out a machine—a gold purity testing instrument.

Then Wang Liwei put on white gloves and used tweezers to pick up the golden beans one by one and examine them.

"The ingredients are plentiful, no problem. Will it cause internal heat?"

Wang Liwei looked at Li Wen with a questioning gaze.

Li Wen nodded again.

Wang Liwei found a flintlock pistol and burned it for a while.

The saying "true gold fears no fire" applies here. After the beans melted into liquid and cooled into gold bars, Wang Liwei soaked them in water, cooled them, and weighed them again. The final weight showed 50 grams.

"Exactly 50 grams," Wang Liwei said, typing out a string of numbers on a calculator as he spoke. "This is today's gold price: 1058 yuan per gram. Since you were introduced by Lao Zhou, I won't beat around the bush. No paperwork or proof required. Is a buyback price of 980 yuan acceptable?"

Li Wen didn't dwell on the price difference; he urgently needed to cash out so he could purchase the supplies the Anxi army desperately needed.

"no problem."

"Open and aboveboard, shall we connect via WeChat?"

"it is good."

Wang Liwei immediately handed Li Wen 49,000 yuan.

After scanning the money, Wang Liwei proactively added Li Wen as a friend: "Let's be friends."

"Okay, I'll be going now."

"See you later, and hopefully we can work together again in the future."

Li Wen felt much more relaxed when he left the alley.

Now that he has more funds, he is no longer under pressure.

According to the original plan, Li Wen intended to withdraw some cash from Alipay to solve his immediate financial crisis.

After having the money, Li Wen wanted to buy goods from Lao Zhou, but at that moment his phone rang.

Seeing that it was his supervisor calling, Li Wen was a little puzzled, wondering why his supervisor would call at this time.

Li Wen's logistics procurement job was not only lucrative, but also offered flexible and free working hours.

Once the logistics department has a shortage of supplies under your responsibility, they will notify you one day in advance. You have two days to procure all the supplies, and then you are free to move around. There are no restrictions on opening the door during work hours.

"Feed".

"Li asked, 'Where are you now?'"

"This is the Metropolitan area."

"That's perfect. There's an important meeting at the hotel that requires all the purchasing staff to attend, and now we're just missing you."

"Okay... I'll be there in ten minutes."

After hanging up the phone, Li Wen began to ponder.

His relationship with his supervisor wasn't great, but it wasn't bad either. Just now, his supervisor revealed a very important piece of information on the phone.

"I'm the only one left."

This indicates that the other purchasing managers already knew there would be a relatively important meeting today.