Chapter 1192 Yang Shan's Industry

This is a deserted village, no one lives there.

As they approached, the grass rustled, and several weasels ran away quickly with their butts twisted.

Dong Rui walked to a few houses and looked at them casually, and came back and said: "Most of the doors and windows are broken, broken inwards, and some wooden bolts were cut off. Well, this village was attacked."

This kind of thing doesn't seem to be uncommon in the Shining Gold Plain. Especially in Gaopu Country, there was a war a few months ago. Even if the whole village sticks together, there is a disaster that cannot be resisted.

"Let's go, fortunately this is not Jishi Village."

They continued to walk forward along the mountain road, and only a few miles later they were close to the Rolling Stone Valley.

Dong Rui looked at the mountains ahead and murmured: "This place name is really appropriate."

The mountains ahead are continuous, winding like a sleeping dragon. Among them, there is only one mountain with sparse vegetation, and the rocks all over the mountains are basically spherical.

Big balls, small balls, flat balls, round balls. Just as the two were looking at the view, two more stone balls rolled down and rumbled to the bottom of the valley.

"... No wonder it's called the Rolling Stone Valley." If someone accidentally walks in the valley, he will either die or become disabled.

The magic of nature has carved this mountain into a conspicuous bag among its kind.

It is not difficult to cross the Rolling Stone Valley, but on the way, they met a group of patrol soldiers, who shouted "Stop" when they saw He Lingchuan and the others.

Fortunately, the Yangshan Islands and the local area do have business cooperation, and the two can also produce proof, so the patrol team sent three people to "escort" them to Jishi Village.

The two talked with the patrol guards on the road and learned that Bixia had failed to attack twice a month ago, and then changed its strategy and sent people to sneak into General Situ's territory and harass everywhere.

"Jishi Village, where you are going, is also within the range of attack and harassment by Bixia."

He Lingchuan asked them another question: "Have any civilians been killed inexplicably near Jishi Village?"

"Yes." The patrol gave a completely different answer from the Jucheng Baozi Shop. "In the past month, more than 120 civilians have died in the surrounding towns and villages, and even General Situ was alarmed. The way of death is similar, and there are no external injuries."

He Lingchuan asked a few more questions casually.

Soon, they arrived at the destination of this trip:

Jishi Village.

This is a small village on the hillside, with more than 40 houses, basically made of local materials, mainly stone houses.

On the surface, this is an ordinary village, with smoke curling up and the smell of rice coming with the wind.

However, the people walking in the village are all middle-aged men, and there are no children.

As the two approached, someone at the entrance of the village immediately came up to stop and ask: "Who are you?"

He Lingchuan took out a token and shook it at him twice: "Is Jiang Lishui here?"

The man reached out to take the token and looked at it over and over again.

Dong Rui seriously suspected that he was illiterate, otherwise he would have understood it after seeing the words "Yangshan" on it.

But the sign was black with a hint of green, and was inlaid with the stone unique to the Black Page Island, with exquisite overall patterns. This man was not sure, so he had to say: "Follow me."

They walked into the threshing ground at the edge of the village.

In the stone courtyard at the edge of the field, four or five people were discussing matters. One of them looked up and said unhappily: "I told you not to do this at this time..."

Halfway through his words, he also saw He Lingchuan, and he was startled, and swallowed the rest of his words back into his stomach.

He Lingchuan smiled: "Old Jiang, long time no see."

Old Jiang thought he had seen it wrong and was trying to identify it. As soon as He Lingchuan opened his mouth, he shuddered: "Ah, island, island..."

Others had never seen him so excited that he stuttered, and they all turned to look at He Lingchuan. The latter raised a finger in front of his lips: "Calm down, I have something to talk to you about."

He didn't want to make it public.

"Yes!" Jiang Lishui understood immediately, and after calming down, he began to drive people away, "Let's stop here today, you guys go out. Hurry up, don't just stand there."

The subordinates were puzzled, but they also obeyed the order and stood up and left.

The patrolman who followed He Lingchuan and the others asked: "Are these two really your people?"

Jiang Lishui nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, they are really from our Chamber of Commerce! Thank you, two soldiers."

After that, he stuffed some silver coins into the hands of the two patrolmen, and the two turned around and left without saying anything.

Jiang Lishui quickly gave up his seat to He Lingchuan, then moved everything on the table away, and personally poured a cup of warm water for the two.

"This is a poor and remote place, there is no good tea, only clear water..." He was embarrassed.

He Lingchuan didn't care: "It doesn't matter, as long as there is water."

When all the idle people around were gone, Jiang Lishui lowered his voice and said: "Island Master, why did you come in person?"

He was the manager under Ding Zuodong, and was stationed in the Shining Gold Plain. He had seen He Lingchuan four times from a distance in Yangshan Islands before, but he had never had the opportunity to talk to this big boss.

Although this boss's boss was young, his eyes were very sharp. Jiang Lishui was looked at by him twice, and his heart was beating fast.

The pressure from the top to the bottom was really strong.

He Lingchuan recognized him at a glance, which also surprised him.

"I heard that you had some problems here, so I came to take a look." He Lingchuan raised his glass and drank water, "I just saw the news you sent to Julu Port."

Jiang Lishui suddenly realized.

Since Yaguo cut off the supply of ore from Yangshan Islands, Yangshan Islands turned to import from Shanjin Plain. This ghost place is full of good and bad people. Yangshan Islands must send capable people to station there to deal with such things as local negotiation extortion, banditry, logistics transportation, etc. Because He Lingchuan has reached an agreement with Pengguo, the guards of Yangshan Islands can enter the plain from Pengguo, which greatly increases the self-defense and negotiation capabilities of Yangshan Chamber of Commerce.

Therefore, the Chamber of Commerce continued to penetrate into the central and eastern parts of the plains and sent more men.

Jiang Lishui was sent here by Ding Zuodong and was responsible for collecting materials locally and transporting them to Julu Port.

In the chaos-ridden Golden Plains, it's hard work and life-threatening. Therefore, Yangshan Chamber of Commerce paid very high rewards. In the past, people were involved in decapitation transactions, but no one was involved in money-free transactions, so Jiang Lishui volunteered.

He has a clear mind and knows that he lacks background and connections in the archipelago. He also knows that a senior manager like Ding Zuodong has many talented people, and he knows how long it will take to rank him in terms of seniority. Then it would be better to find another way and go to the Golden Plains to do the most scarce job. As long as he doesn't cause trouble in the plains, he will probably rise to the top with his gold-plated qualifications when he returns.

Speaking of risks, what are you doing that is not risky? It is easy to get stuck by the spines when eating fish.

So when He Lingchuan and Yan Yuese said to him, "It's not easy to work here, thank you for your hard work," Jiang Lishui immediately said: "It's my job, my job! I took this job, and I should have done the job well. But here..."

"Don't be too busy blaming yourself. Let's explain the situation clearly first. What kind of ore is produced here?" The business in Yangshan Islands is getting bigger and bigger. Usually, all matters, big and small, will be screened by several general managers before the important ones are reported to He Lingchuan. Take care of the little things yourself.

Information about what kind of ore is produced in a rolling stone valley is usually not sent to He Lingchuan's desk.

The Yangshan Chamber of Commerce has set up a stronghold in Julu Port, where the intelligence from the Shining Gold Plains will be gathered and then sent to the Yangshan Islands by the bird demon.

However, before He Lingchuan left Pengguo, he went there for a walk, and a new line of information happened to arrive.

When he saw it, he thought he was on his way, so he might as well go there himself.

"Siderite, the associated mineral is scale stone."

"They are all good things." Diamond iron is one of the auxiliary materials for making armors. It can effectively improve toughness and is usually used in weak areas such as ankles and waists. Scale stone can quickly absorb water after being refined into powder and is usually used in hemostatic powder and Among bandages, they are cheap and beautiful, and more cost-effective than elixirs.

These two things are not produced in the Yangshan Islands and are purely imported.

Dong Rui interjected: "What's going on in this village? There are no residents?"

He had already noticed that the people coming and going in the village did not look like local residents.

"When the war came, people's livelihood was ruined. Even Jishi Village, which was hiding in the mountains, was not spared. This area was originally the territory of Gaopu Kingdom. Gaopu Kingdom was destroyed by Bixia a few months ago——"

Dong Rui interrupted: "The Situ family has taken it back again, right?"

"Yes, that's right, the island owner knew it when he came here. He really has extraordinary skills." Jiang Lishui slapped the horse P first, and then continued, "I heard that those battles were fought in darkness, and people's heads were beaten into dog's heads. All the villagers have fled, including the Jishi Village, with only a few old, weak, sick and disabled people left."

"We just happened to come here to look for mineral sources and wanted to buy minerals from the Situ family. They were short of money during the war, and they really wanted to sell but there was no one to mine, so they just told me that as long as we can find people to mine, we will give them the mining rights Lease it to us for seven years at a favorable price." Jiang Lishui quoted a number, and He Lingchuan nodded and said, "It's a very favorable price."

Yangshan Chamber of Commerce came here to buy mines, but they didn't expect that they would take over mining after they came. This business is doing great. Starting from the source and removing the intermediate links, profits will be significantly increased.

There are risks, of course.

"I reported it to General Manager Ding, and he replied directly to me. No matter what, we can win it! As far as I know, this is also the first mine that our Yangshan Chamber of Commerce has built in the Golden Gold Plains, and it is still a rich mine!" Jiang Lishui was excited! "The biggest risk is that we don't know how many years this group of people will be in power. If they are overthrown within two years, we will be in trouble when it comes to mining and transporting mines here."

This is the biggest risk when doing business in the Golden Plains. "I don't know who owned this mining right in the past. Anyway, the Situ family took it back and gave it to us. I, my subordinates, don't want to follow in the footsteps of those unlucky ones!"

He Lingchuan nodded, knowing what he was worried about.

Before the dust of the war settled, Jiang Lishui went to fight for the mining rights. He was worried that the island owner would be dissatisfied. If the Situ family is defeated by Bixia, the mining rights of Rolling Stone Valley will most likely be taken away by Bixia, and Yangshan's business here will be nothing.

However, at this time, the price of mining rights was the lowest, the profits were the highest, and it was easiest to make good deals with local governments. As a businessman who dared to take risks, Jiang Lishui was really excited.

If we wait until the outcome is decided before taking action, is there still a place for the Yangshan Chamber of Commerce here?

He Lingchuan saw through his thoughts in a second: "According to your observation, can the Situ family still persist?"