Chapter 852: Died from Diarrhea

Zheng Yue Ru has also been very busy lately.

She travels by Track Carriage, running all over Longyan.

The target cities are mainly in the south, though, of course, some northern cities cannot be left out.

Because she is implementing the work deployment of the young master.

Tea leaves.

Carrying Xie Tianyao's permit and the checkbook of the Liangzhou Bank, she is purchasing tea everywhere.

The tea merchants are all extremely excited.

The tea farmers are all extremely happy.

Longyan's tea harvest is bountiful almost every year, only to be bought up at low prices by these tea merchants for trade. The drawback is that the prices are too low. Because of the distribution channels, Longyan's tea never fetches a good price year after year.

It is even lower than the price of agricultural crops.

But this year is different.

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It is completely different now.

This has also caused many tea farmers to switch from growing tea to growing grain.

Of course, the imperial court issues quotas every year, and some tasks must still be completed.

The tea farmers did the math and realized that growing tea is actually more profitable.

If they go by the current prices, they can easily achieve a well-off life by growing tea!

Once the Liangzhou Chamber of Commerce arrived, they bypassed the middlemen and purchased at high prices! Tea that was fifty wen before is now bought directly for one tael! Longjing Tea before Rain that was five taels of silver before is now bought directly for seven taels!

It exploded.

Very busy.

Although she does not know why Liu Zheng is focusing on tea, she knows that the things the young master does naturally have his own reasons.

Jingchu.

Zheng Yue Ru is travel-worn, but wherever she goes, she receives a warm welcome from the tea farmers. The people from the Liangzhou Chamber of Commerce are also busy running around with her. Tea naturally needs to be graded, with different prices for each grade and different prices for each season. Therefore, this time, Zheng Yue Ru has established a new department specifically responsible for tea in every tea-producing area: the Tea Rhyme Department.

At this moment, in the city of Jingchu, several men with sinister expressions are watching her from a restaurant.

These are a few tea merchants from Jingchu.

It is just that.

She did not notice.

Another one also said coldly: "But they have an imperial decree, what can you do?"

"So what if it's the imperial court? The emperor is far away, and if my whole family is about to starve, I don't care about your imperial court!"

Bang!

One of the fat men slammed his wine cup onto the ground fiercely: "Damn it, this Liangzhou Chamber of Commerce is leaving us absolutely no way to survive!"

They won't let them play!

Zheng Yue Ru simply won't let them play!

This group of people is furious.

Who doesn't know that in the tea trade, you have to take care of merchants at several levels? Who would have thought that as soon as the Liangzhou Chamber of Commerce arrived, they cut out several links, causing these middlemen to lose a huge amount of profit!

"Let those Liangzhou people know that we Jingchu tea merchants are not to be bullied!"

"Correct!"

"Think of a method!"

"We'll go down with them!"

Zheng Yue Ru wipes the sweat from her forehead.

"Chief Manager, it's done!"

The group of people quickly reached a consensus and looked at each other, their eyes full of coldness.

"It's almost done here, right?"

The people from the Liangzhou Chamber of Commerce are all very happy.

Zheng Yue Ru also breathed a sigh of relief and chuckled: "But we cannot overcorrect; we must learn to communicate more with the local government. In any case, we cannot let the grain harvest be affected just because the farmers have all gone to grow tea."

"Haha, Chief Manager, we've secured quite a few contracts this time."

"It is going quite smoothly!"

Only then did Zheng Yue Ru sit down, intending to rest for a while.

Someone nearby quickly whispered a reminder: "Manager, a few local tea merchants are a bit restless; I'm afraid they want to..."

"Yes!"

The group of people responded one after another.

Zheng Yue Ru chuckled: "If a person doing great things has to be fearful and trembling every day, how can work be carried out?"

The group of people gasped.

Zheng Yue Ru smiled faintly: "There is no need to report such matters to me in the future. Remember, commercial trade is sometimes more cruel than the battlefield. Wherever we go, we will affect the interests of many people; tea is like this, and other things are too. It is very normal for some people who find us an eyesore to want to kill us."

The group of people was silent.

The few restless tea merchants spent a large sum of money to hire a few Knights-errant, but that very night at the inn, they got food poisoning and died from explosive diarrhea.

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The next day.

A piece of news began to spread wildly in Jingchu.

Ever since Longyan had Vice Minister Liu, it seems that everything has become nothing to be surprised about.

The whole group was scared silly.

Can one actually die from diarrhea?

But with these forty thousand troops, Piao Zhengyong was playing them with great vigor.

They would stop at the drop of a hat, and the entire army would drill!

The fifty-thousand-strong army finally set out.

As mentioned earlier, generally speaking, a claimed army of fifty thousand only has about forty thousand actual combat troops, because the other ten thousand are responsible for logistics, support, and so on.

"Hahahaha, delightful, truly delightful!"

Along the way, this fellow had already treated Liu Zheng as his confidant, constantly putting his arms around Liu Zheng's shoulders.

Whoosh, haha.

This "Great General" was simply imposing and majestic.

"By the way, I must introduce you to Consort Zhang, I must! She is a very popular figure in the Li Dynasty right now."

In just a few days, Zhang Yuzhen had already been promoted to Consort, a speed that could be described as earth-shattering and ghost-weeping.

"Don't worry, Vice Minister Liu. Once we reach the Li Dynasty, I will certainly arrange for you to meet true Li Dynasty beauties!"

"Hahahaha, why not just stay in the Li Dynasty, Vice Minister Liu? With these fifty thousand troops, who is there to fear?"

Liu Zheng felt a jolt of energy and also lowered his voice to say, "Lord Piao, are you sure it is appropriate for me to do this?"

Piao Zhengyong narrowed his eyes slightly.

Liu Zheng chuckled.

Piao Zhengyong took a sip of wine, then whispered, "Vice Minister Liu, when would be the appropriate time to make a move regarding the Princess?"

It seems this Vice Minister Liu from Longyan isn't stupid after all; in fact, this was a mine that Consort Zhang wanted to bury from the start. After all, Li Xuanya is the Princess of the Li Dynasty; if she were harmed on the road while the current Renjing Queen is still on the throne, she would surely be furious, and someone would definitely have to take the blame.

At that time, they would use this fifty-thousand-strong army from Longyan.

Liu Zheng also gave a chuckle.

The atmosphere suddenly became eerie.

Liu Zheng looked deeply at Piao Zhengyong, a cold sneer finally appearing at the corner of his mouth: "Lord Piao, it seems you and I still cannot be completely open with each other."

Piao Zhengyong panicked instantly.

And then this Vice Minister Liu would also be left behind in the Li Dynasty.

Killing two birds with one stone.

Liu Zheng asked with a cold sneer: "Which faction in Longyan is she closer to?"

Trying to kill two birds with one stone against him?

"No, no, no, Lord Liu, Lord Liu..."

He looked around and sighed deeply: "I truly don't know about this matter. It was ordered by Lady Zhang."

It seems that no matter where he goes, he cannot escape the internal infighting of Longyan.

Piao Zhengyong was somewhat hesitant.

The Old Aristocrats?

Or the Scholar-officials?

I let you be the "Great General," yet you still won't tell me? What happened to being confidants?

Good fellow.

Liu Zheng kept watching him.

Finally.

Piao Zhengyong took a deep breath: "The leader of the Southern Faction is Li Zhenzhu. When he was young, during exchanges between the two countries, he served as an official in your Jinghua and once held the post of Hanlin Academy Reader!"

Liu Zheng's pupils contracted sharply.