Chapter six hundred and twentieth: turning the clouds over the rain(1/2)
Obviously, these merchants of the Tang Dynasty, whether they were the Western Regions, the Dashi, or the Persian nobles and merchants, were welcomed.
These worthless land and assets were originally unattended, not to mention asking, and even the owners did not even have the desire to sell them.
This is not because they are greedy for land assets, but because... this thing is indeed worthless.
The prices given by the business bank are actually not high, and some fishing villages are actually just priced at hundreds of swords.
But at least... they have value now.
Not only the mountains, but also the population, and the transactions of population are popular everywhere.
At this time, whether it is the Dashi, the Western Regions or the Western Regions, there are still a large number of slaves. These slaves are either prisoners of war captured during the years of war, or the efforts of generations, and even the black slaves captured by the Dashi in the Mediterranean and other places.
The Chen family seems to have great interest in the population, which actually leads to a very interesting situation.
That is to the nobles here, they felt that these Tang merchants were pursuing a lot of originally worthless assets, even slaves, which was a joyful thing.
As for the Chen family, it seemed that looking at the worthless assets all over the floor was also very happy.
After all, at this time, the entire Western Regions, the Grand Food and Persia fought for years, and the level of productivity was extremely low, but most places had no ability to develop, which led to... the asset prices here were extremely low.
How low is it?
The same ten thousand yuan, if it were in the Tang Dynasty, even in Hexi or Gaochang, the mountainous land that could be purchased here could be purchased thirty times.
This is simply a snatch for Dashi Trading, which is flooding assets at this time.
In the eyes of the nobles, this worthless stone on the land became like a pearl when it arrived at the Dashi Trading Company.
Of course, the most important operation is monopoly.
Dashi Trading Company has no competitors. All the aristocratic families have joined Dashi Trading Company in the name of investment. No one dares to acquire assets here privately, which avoids the possibility of someone bidding against each other and causing the asset price to soar.
The Dashi Store sets a highest price at almost the lowest price. In other words, they will never acquire these assets higher than their own estimates. If you like to sell, you can sell it. If you don’t sell it, it doesn’t matter.
More than 20 million yuan was spent in an instant.
It's just two months.
After that, many assets that still wanted to acquire could not be acquired.
After all, not everyone is willing to sell their assets, and it is obviously still a little far from the 30 million chunks that Chen Zhengtai had to buy...
Of course, Chen Zhengtai was not in a hurry. Here at the Intelligence Bureau, Chen Zhenglei was invited to the Liang Prince's Mansion in Lanzhou.
Entering the hall, there were two people sitting here with their legs raised. The one sitting in the middle was Prince Li Chengqian. Li Chengqian looked lazy. He thought he was here to do big business, but in the end... he hid in this palace every day, looking at various reports and countless boring data all day long.
The other side was Chen Zhengtai. Chen Zhengtai had a smile on his lips, and he looked very excited.
You can't be excited.
Li Chengqian sighed and said, "It makes sense, you have many ideas, but Gu feels that doing business here is boring! I thought... doing this big business must be very... very... what do you say on weekdays? Yes, it's very exciting. But Gu feels that it's not exciting at all, it's boring."
Chen Zhengtai laughed and said, "Your Highness, you must be patient in your work, and you will soon have fun."
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A quick report was delivered to a manor outside the capital of Persia.
Bachel then took the news from the sheepskin. He glanced at him with a glance, and then his face became solemn.
The housekeeper standing beside him looked at Bachel carefully and said, "Vizier, what happened?"
Bachel looked solemn and covered in darkness with his hands behind his back!
"The day before yesterday, the cannibal attacked a manor on the border and killed more than 300 people."
The butler's face immediately paled a little. Such things are actually common. Even if there is a dispute between the lords, it is normal to occasionally enter the country to kill a few people.
But this matter was much more serious, because the casualties were too great, which was clearly a sign of the big cannibal attack.
The housekeeper said: "Do you ask for help from the Chen family?"
Baher sneered: "If the Chen family is willing to interfere, how could the great cannibal dare to be so presumptuous... I think the Chen family doesn't care. They just want to do business."
"So...what should I do?" the butler said worriedly: "Is the war going to begin again?"
Baher took a deep breath, thought for a while and said, "I will go to see His Highness the King immediately."
He then cleaned up, but he did not return to his manor that day.
In the palace of the Persian king, many lords of all sizes came, all of them frowning because things were more difficult than they thought!
The Great Cannibal dispatched two thousand people this time. If it were a plunder of such a scale in the early years, it would have been normal, but since the Great Cannibal King was attacked, both sides have become much more peaceful.
Now... it is obviously a terrible sign.
The military power of Dashi is still strong, and their cavalry is not something that the current Persians can resist.
The Persian king is just a child today. The so-called negotiation between the nobles and Bachelors in the palace.
However, the lords' opinions were obviously not unified. The lords near the border believed that they should immediately summon large troops and engage in war.
After all, for them, the next time the cannibal might come to their territory.
However, the other lords believed that the recruitment of the army was obviously overreacting.
This time it was just a small-scale military operation. The other side did not make a big move and recruited tens of thousands of troops to rush forward. If the Persians reacted too aggressively, the cannibals would inevitably launch a large-scale attack.
The quarrel between each other was red and there was no result.
It scared the little king to tears.
The palace servants beside him rushed forward to comfort the little king.
Bachel couldn't help but glance at the little king with disgust. He knew that there was no result in the matter. The current Persia is no longer the Persia that was the first. Everyone is in charge of their own affairs, and no powerful king has great appeal.
The nobles and lords each have their own plans.
Even if a war is to be organized, I am afraid that the lords who are willing to obey the conscript will be limited.
As long as the cannibalism is not a big attack, these people with different ulterior motives will never work together.
Now we are together, it's just more quarrels between each other.
Even though Bachel had an amazing appeal among the nobles, he did not have the power to speak out. Therefore, he had to return to his residence in the capital in despair, but seemed worried.
The next day, a terrible news spread in Persia.
The war may be about to begin.
The horrific memory of war is terrible, both nobles and civilians.
As a result, the Chen family's various weapon orders suddenly increased by 70%.
On the fourth day, it increased by 50%.
The nobles hope to purchase more weapons to protect their estates, while the civilians were afraid that there would be no self-defense weapons in the future.
But weapons are expensive and people don’t have much cash. If you want to buy weapons, you have to sell some assets that many people think are worthless.
After all... the Chen family is willing to accept it.
Even Bachel even planned to package and sell all the other lands that could not grow grain to the Chen family.
In this era, people only care about grain fields, and other lands were worthless. Now the Chen family has estimated some value at least. The grain fields are related to the issue of food, and other useless lands are obviously not within the scope of the Persians' calculations.
So the deal of Chen's acquisition became popular again.
"These damn Tang merchants."
Although it was sold for nothing but land that was useless, Bachel still couldn't help but feel a little resentful.
At this time, his eyes looked gloomy, his hooked nose couldn't help but hang down a little, and his eyes looked towards the tip of his nose, and seemed to fall on his boots. He continued sneered and said, "Hmph, what's the use of these useless lands when they want them?"
The housekeeper stood aside. In fact, he couldn't even think of what the Chen family was going to do.
Humans are empiric creatures. They only believe in the lifestyle on which they depend, and they only believe in what they see with their own eyes.
The more 'wisdom' people are, the more they have, the more they rely on historical experience. This is somewhat similar to the great scholars of the Tang Dynasty. They always call them the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, either the Qin and Han Dynasties, or the Sui Dynasty, because the lifestyle of their ancestors was like this. In the eyes of these intellectuals, there would be no mistakes in knowing that they should follow these experiences of their predecessors.
The housekeeper had been struggling for a long time before saying, "Maybe... they are trying to buy their weapons."
"It makes sense, too." Bachel nodded: "Have the land been sold?"
The housekeeper said: "It's already been discussed. The Chen family is only willing to pay 40,000 yuan. It's our land, so it's not worth much."
Forty thousand coins are actually not a small amount.
Of course, the land that Bachelor continued to sell was by no means a decimal. Although this land was worthless, it occupied half of the area of his territory, which was roughly equivalent to the Tang Dynasty buying a few acres of land for a penny.
Bachel sighed and said, "Forty thousand is just 40,000. These lands are worthless anyway."
This is true for Bachel, and most of the others.
The great cannibals were even more radical than the Persians, because the great cannibals believed in force and believed that with force, more land could be conquered, and force was the basis of all wealth.
In addition, they love swords, especially the exquisite swords that the Chen family introduced to Dashi. In the eyes of Dashi, these swords are simply works of art, and the land and slaves are not of high value, but they are sold much more enjoyable than the Persians.
One thousand two million coins, and in just over a dozen days, countless assets were traded.
When the report was soon delivered to Chen Zhengtai, Chen Zhengtai couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Your Highness... the business bank can't even get three million yuan now. The money I raised was already used."
Li Chengqian looked at the latest maps and deliberately blacked out all the Chen family's land.
To be continued...