Chapter 354 Linlang Chamber of Commerce, the Beginning of the Oligarch (23)
——I see, this is the process in which primitive capital colludes with local armed forces at critical moments, joins forces to embezzle civilian assets, and evolves into a local armed oligarch.
After understanding this, An Jing nodded slightly. He pointed the scabbard at the old man and asked him to bow his head: "You are avoiding the important and taking the easy. You and the Linlang Chamber of Commerce are in a cooperative relationship."
"Your team is composed of ferocious beast hunters around Broken Blade Mountain and herb collectors who are familiar with the conditions in the mountain. This is also your chance to eliminate those competitors... I guess there are many hunting villages and hunting villages who are unwilling to cooperate with the Linlang Chamber of Commerce. The people who picked the medicine were all forced away or even killed by you, right?"
"Yes, yes..." The old hunter knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and blood came out: "We are obsessed with lard. This is all retribution, all retribution..."
"It is indeed retribution." An Jing did not care about the other party's confession at the moment. He said thoughtfully: "Your team has been traveling independently in the mountains, working with the beasts. You are too independent and secretive, and you also want to avoid being caught. Linlang Chamber of Commerce controls differentiation.”
"Because of this, you were spotted by the True Demon Sect, and then they occupied the magpie's nest and were completely controlled. You became their painting cover hidden around Broken Blade Mountain."
"In addition, the orders of the Linlang Chamber of Commerce are becoming more and more extreme. At first, they used you as swords to embezzle the assets around Broken Blade Mountain. But now, they have directly started to hire you, and maybe other bad horse bandits. To attack the escort convoy escorting aid supplies..."
"What are they trying to do? Completely block the connection between Broken Blade Mountain and the outside world?"
An Jing fell into deep thought.
The first thing he thought about was that the Linlang Chamber of Commerce and the True Demon Sect were cooperating to perform a blood sacrifice in Linjiang City.
But he soon gave up the idea.
What the Linlang Chamber of Commerce showed was pure greed.
They took advantage of the disaster to integrate resources, completely control the high-quality assets around Linjiang City, and achieve a monopoly in a certain area, hoping to become an oligarch who could dominate the sky.
The purpose of the Chamber of Commerce is to make money, make more money, and control more resources.
In this regard, the Linlang Chamber of Commerce is almost successful and does not need to cooperate with the Demon Cult. Moreover, if it really wants to sacrifice Linjiang City with blood, then why did it bother to acquire assets and force people to leave?
As for the purpose of the True Demon Cult, An Jing had some guesses.
Considering that the great demons in Xuanming Manor had clearly paid attention to Fu Xie, An Jing could only believe that the demons also knew the information that Fu Xie's fragments were located around Broken Edge Mountain due to various reasons.
The Frost Tribulation of the Northern Barbarians made the area around Broken Blade Mountain a lawless place without Dachen officials. The tide of beasts blocked the actions of various folk warriors, and the induction team was perfect and could reasonably travel deep into the mountains. Those hunters and herb gatherers also know the mountains very well and can look for the visions of Fuxie fragments for them.
Does the Linlang Chamber of Commerce really know nothing about the True Demon Cult? An Jing thinks not necessarily, at least they are using each other.
Because the previous induction team also cooperated with Linlang Chamber of Commerce, the forces behind this group of induction team warriors will almost monopolize all the profits in Broken Blade Mountain after the beast tide ends, and the combination of these warriors will become a force no less than Linlang Chamber of Commerce, a huge local interest-force group.
This is obviously not what the Linlang Chamber of Commerce wants to see, so the Chamber of Commerce is likely to have cooperation channels with the True Demon Sect. The Chamber of Commerce will help the True Demon Sect provide some supplies and cover, and the True Demon Sect will help the Chamber of Commerce eliminate this group of warriors who induced the team. If someone questions you, you can also blame the True Demon Sect.
If this is the case, then the Linlang Chamber of Commerce must have its own channels for transporting food and medicine.
They drove the True Demon Sect/Induction Team to block Linjiang City's support supplies, just so that they could completely control all the food and medicine, control all the resources in the city, and complete the reintegration of the city's assets!
A very ambitious action. An Jing can even be sure that there is definitely the support of Dachen officials behind this, otherwise, Linlang Chamber of Commerce would never be able to act so recklessly.
Perhaps there is more hidden story behind it, but this is something An Jing cannot analyze at the moment. "Xu Tai."
Raising his head, An Jing looked at the escort who was standing aside with a frown on his face: "You are from around Linjiang City. Do you know the situation in Linjiang City?"
"Um."
Xu Tai seemed to be waking up from a big dream. From the moment the old hunter started talking about their cooperation with the Linlang Chamber of Commerce, the warrior's hand couldn't help but reach towards the handle of the knife at his waist.
But now, he suppressed his anger, and after taking a deep look at the slumped old hunter in front of him, he calmly said: "Actually, strictly speaking, I am not a city dweller - there is a city outside the walls of Linjiang City. The outer city near the river is home to fishermen and other poor people. I was born into a poor family there.”
"My parents were too tired and had old illnesses in the early years. They passed away a few years ago. I haven't been back much since then. But in my memory, it was a pretty good city. Folks from the outer city Although he is poor but simple, I always get a fish to take home when I go to help them.”
"One fish a day nourishes my body, and then I have the opportunity to enter the martial arts academy."
"Although the rich people and lords in the city are superior, they don't discriminate against me as a foreigner in the martial arts academy - I'm afraid they are disdainful and think that I am not their competitor, so they want to win over me. I am often attracted by them. I was treated to a meal, and they gave me this knife before I went back to my hometown to eradicate the gangsters.”
Xu Tai patted the long knife on his waist. It was also a magic weapon. Although it was not as good as the Bahai Dao and An Jing's previous Zi Yao Ming Golden Mace, it was still a mid-level magic weapon with two forbidden spells. Soldiers.
A penny, a bowl of rice, a word, Xu Tai shook her head and said with a complex expression: "Although I disdain to be associated with mediocre people, I don't want to say bad things about them directly... They are not bad people. "
"Anyway, I have a pretty good impression of Linjiang City. This time I led a team to deliver food back because I wanted to help my old family."
"But now it seems..."
"Yeah. Things aren't looking good."
An Jing stood up and opened the door, letting the biting cold wind sweep through the house. He didn't care about the shivering old hunter who was kneeling on the ground, but looked in the direction of Linjiang City: "According to the Linlang Chamber of Commerce, there are some family properties in the city. People will also be exploited by them and squeeze out the last bit of money."
"If my mother were in the city..."
An Jing was silent for a while, and then said: "How much do you know about Linlang Chamber of Commerce?"
"That's the weird part."
Xu Tai frowned: "Linlang Chamber of Commerce is a large chamber of commerce in the state capital. I heard that there are people in the court (Shenzang can come to the court to hold meetings)."
"Why would such a big backend suddenly go to a rural place like ours to collect money?"
"What is their main business?" An Jing asked, while Xu Tai thought: "It's very complicated. They do almost everything, and they even accept commissions to rob escorts. There are many warriors."
(End of chapter)