Chapter 1085 Whereabouts

After Wang Yiming left, Shen Hao got up and walked to the wall on the left, looking at the military-level map of the entire territory of the Jingjiu Dynasty hanging on the wall for a long time without moving.

When I used to work on the front line, there were always endless cases. Every time I went out, I didn't know if I would die outside.

It seems that after the promotion of mission teams in various places, the small-scale collisions between the Black Flag Camp and the cultivators of the evil sect became more frequent, and there were casualties every time. The death toll just sent to Shen Hao has reached more than two hundred people. Shen Hao used to be one of those who rushed to the front.

Shen Hao's ability to stand out at the beginning was not due to his ability to play, but his clever mind that was good at analysis and derivation. Over time, he developed the habit of thinking about nothing.

Now that he is in a high position, there are very few cases that require Shen Hao's specific participation, and most of his energy has been transferred to intrigue with others.

But once there is any case that affects Shen Hao's mind, he will subconsciously ponder it, and the fun in it is addictive, but he himself does not realize it.

How many people are there in the Qin family? There are more than a hundred people in the master's family, and the offshoots live scattered, but most of them are in Jingbei.

On the top there is Qin Mu, the envoy of Xuanqingwei Township to keep out the wind and rain, and on the bottom there are family forces that have been carefully managed for many years. Once they go up and down, even the side branches of the Qin family can flourish in Jingbei. The poor are also the so-called "upper class" in one place.

So the Qin family will be short of food? Of course not.

Then why did the Qin family buy so much food? Not only did they buy it from the black market, but they also secretly smuggled old grains in the open, and played the trick of framing them.

Judging by common sense, food is for eating, and if the Qin family can't finish it by themselves, it must be eaten by others. This is essentially the same as what the grain shop outside does.

But who is the "customer" of the Qin family? Where is it?

Besides, where did the elixirs sold by the Qin family on the black market come from? Could it be that the Qin family still has alchemists in charge?

If you figure this out, you can in turn figure out all the context of what the Qin family is doing secretly.

Standing in front of the map for a long time, Shen Hao did not find any place in the Jingjiu Dynasty that could generate high profits from food.

Now that the war is gone, the food in the grain depots in various places has gradually become abundant again, and even the wineries have returned to normal brewing and sales as before. Is there still a shortage of food in the whole country?

Of course it is gone.

The old Jing Dynasty was basically very lenient about the flow of grain within the country. New grain and old grain are the same. As long as there are complete procedures, there is no place that cannot go. Of course, only within the territory of the country.

Moreover, grain prices have been severely suppressed by the old Jing Dynasty, which not only set the price paid by farmers, but also set the retail price of grain merchants. The profit in the middle is extremely low, so there is no room for small-scale grain merchants to survive in the Jingjiu Dynasty. Large grain merchants can only rely on volume to obtain sufficient profits.

Therefore, it is basically impossible for the Qin family to do grain business in the country.

If it is not inside the country, then it is outside the country.

As far as Shen Hao knows outside the country, there are only two places that have a large demand for food. One is the barbarian territory that has been smashed. Food is the most sought-after thing there. It can be used to exchange medicinal materials, crystal stones, and slaves. It is definitely a huge profit. But this business needs the cooperation of the frontier army, otherwise it is no different from meat buns beating dogs, so most of the food business in the barbarian territory is taken away by the frontier army, even the imperial merchants can only drink some soup there.

High risks are accompanied by high profits. Naturally, some people will take risks and want to smuggle food to the barbarians to exchange for good things, and then come back with a huge profit. It's just that there are not many successful ones. They were either buried on the road across the thousands of miles of bamboo sea, or died under the barbarian's cavalry, or were caught and beheaded by the frontier army. There are very few people who succeed, and basically they quit after one vote, which is enough to be rich for a lifetime.

Another place where food is needed is overseas. Generally speaking, marine merchants collect grain, then ship it to sea, and then exchange it for seafood. It is also a lucrative business, and it is also extremely risky, and the threshold for this bowl of rice is very high, and ordinary people are not qualified to serve it at all.

It is said that there is another continent across the Treasure Sea. And in the evil sea to the west of Jingjiu, there is another ethnic group: the Haizu.

The grain shipped out by sea merchants is basically these two outlets.

In Shen Hao's view, the way of the sea merchants is basically not related to the Qin family, the threshold is too high, and the sea merchants have a strict circle to exclude outsiders, and the Qin family is too far behind to squeeze in. Besides, maritime merchants are a legitimate business that pays taxes to the country. Even if it is to import grain, there is no need to buy black market grain with low price and low quality or old grain with unclear origin, right? Totally worth the candle.

Then there is only one place left: the barbarian land.

But even sending things to the barbarians has many problems that don't make sense. This is also the reason why Shen Hao slowly frowned.

Although the Qin family can be called "powerful and powerful" in Jingbei, it is only limited to Jingbei. Can it affect the south? And can it sell food to the barbarians for a long time?

Is the person who is really a frontier soldier an idiot, or can he get through the relationship with the frontier army to the extent that he can come in and out at will?

If this happened before the barbarian war, Shen Hao would not have so many doubts. After all, although it was difficult to smuggle things into the barbarian territory at that time, it was not so difficult. It can be easily done simply by relying on slave caravans and a large number of storage bags.

But now, the above path doesn't work anymore. Every move of the slave caravan on the barbarian border in the south is under the surveillance of the frontier army. Even the slave caravan does not know how many powerful spies have been deployed in the slave caravan.

Under such circumstances, it is naturally impossible for the Qin family to take the route of slave caravans.

It is not feasible to go to sea merchants to sell those grains. It is also not feasible to follow the path of frontier troops and slave caravans. There is no room for consuming such a large amount of food in other places, and Shen Hao's speculation was cut off at once, without a clue.

It's like trying to drink water alone, but you can't see him going to the toilet. Knowing that it is impossible, but can't find the clue.

Looking at the map, Shen Hao's hand unconsciously slid on it.

It is absolutely impossible for the Qin family to follow the path of maritime merchants, so he didn't think too much about it. Only the barbarian land was the only way to digest the grain that the Qin family had purchased for a long time. But the normal way can't be transported, and the Kundaliya Pass can stop everything.

unless

Shen Hao moved his eyes slowly, and came to the huge and wide bamboo sea next to the Kunduo Pass.

"Unless the Qin family has a way to repeatedly and safely cross the thousands of miles of bamboo seas and directly into the hinterland of the barbarians, maybe they don't need to worry about transportation for that batch of food?" Shen Hao tapped his fingers on the map a few times.