Ghost Street!
This was originally just an ordinary black market, but everything changed three years ago.
At that time, the leaders of several major black markets suddenly joined forces and used five months to transform it into the famous Ghost Street.
There were many traps in Ghost Street. Other than the people in Ghost Street, outsiders who wanted to pry into its secrets could only enter and not leave.
At this moment, the core of Ghost Street-Heaven's Secret Tower!
What were the eight helmsmen wearing sinister masks waiting for?
The initiator of Ghost Street was also the person behind the scenes.
Back then, the establishment of Ghost Street was single-handedly promoted by him.
In the past two years, Ghost Street had entered a rapid development stage, and these people had gradually gained a resounding title-Nine Gates Inspector:
The top three: Golden-faced Buddha, Ghost King of Hell, and God of Fortune.
Middle Three Gates: Fa Qiu Tian Guan Lei Laowu, Sai Diao Chan Zhang Sanniangzi, Drunken Arhat Yang Chenghu
[Lower Three: Snake King, Butcher Zheng, Black Widow]
The Golden-faced Buddha was the mysterious Zhang Xiaoshan, the mastermind behind the entire Ghost Street.
Ghost Yama was also Zhang Xiaoshan's trusted aide. He was originally an imperial guard and the commander of the 100,000 imperial guards. He was framed by Cai Jing and lost his official position. After the establishment of Ghost Street, he was in charge of Tianji Tower.
The God of Fortune was An Shigeng of the An family, who was in charge of the An family's business on the black market.
Among the three sects, there was no need to mention Lei Laowu, who was now the chief escort in the grave robbing industry.
Sai Diao Chan, Zhang Sanniang, owned the largest brothel in Lin 'an Prefecture. She had at least three courtesans in Lin' an Prefecture as her subordinates, and she also had several large brothels.
Brothels were mostly places for literati, while brothels were only places for flesh and blood transactions.
Drunken Arhat Yang Chenghu's ancestor was originally a direct descendant of the Yang family of the Heavenly Wave Prefecture.
The Yang family declined, and the direct line of descent established the Ferocious Tiger Gang under the support of a group of loyal people. It was already the third generation of Yang Chenghu.
However, Yang Chenghu had already forgotten about the Yang Family's spear technique. The title of Drunken Arhat came from his Arhat Tiger Fist.
Lower third class-Snake King is in charge of the beggars of Lin 'an Mansion, mainly in charge of intelligence; The butcher, as his name suggested, started by selling meat and was known as the town of Kansai. The Black Widow, the legendary pretty widow who ate people without spitting out their bones, was also an extremely mysterious killer.
The nine gates of Ghost Street each had their own duties.
That was why Ghost Street was thriving.
Squeak!
As the door was pushed open, everyone immediately looked at the person who had arrived.
A seven-foot-tall, slender black-robed man stepped into the core meeting room. Under a golden mask, his eyes were bright and soul-stirring. Everyone immediately stood up and greeted him,
"Greetings, Lord Zeng!"
"Everyone, please take a seat."
Zhang Xiaoshan's body transformation was the Nine Yin Mantra's Tendon Shrinking Technique.
In this way, even if he met these people face to face in Lin An residence, it was absolutely impossible to recognize him.
Although Ghost Street wasn't a place where people couldn't see, it was a place where people were mixed together. It wasn't much better than the Demonic Sect. An Shigeng, for example, was an absolutely restless existence.
Secretly, the various families were constantly making small moves.
However, Zhang Xiaoshan had his own trump card. For example, most of the ideas of the Heaven's Secret Tower and Ghost Street came from him.
Even the chief designer of Ghost Street, Ghost Hand Yue Qing, was invited by him.
On the surface, Ghost Street was arranged according to Qimen Dunjia's layout, with hidden killing intent.
In fact, with all the black technology and obscure spatial designs, the secrets that people could pry into were less than one-tenth.
"This time, I'm here to inform everyone that the operation mode of Ghost Street has matured, and we can proceed with the next step of the plan.
Lin 'an House is the capital of the Song Dynasty. There are many dignitaries and merchants. Compared to the black market customers, they are our main customers.
Thus, there could not be any mistakes in the first Ghost Street Meeting.
At least one of you will take out a finale item.”
"Don't worry, Venerable One!"
The five of them nodded. How could they be careless when it concerned their own interests?
Even if Zhang Xiaoshan did not say it, they did not dare to neglect it.
"The second thing is about the Zhang Clan.”
"Zhang Clan?"
Hearing this, everyone's expressions turned serious.
Recently, the young master of the Zhang family, who was studying abroad, had returned. Moreover, he had donated a large sum of money to the disaster area. He had directly donated hundreds of thousands of stones of grain to store up.
In less than three days, the good deeds of the Zhang family had spread throughout the entire Lin An residence.
The imperial court gave the green light for this.
One had to know that due to the impact of the disaster in the south, the price of grain had skyrocketed. Even the price of grain around Lin An Manor was two to three hundred wen per bucket.
Compared to the usual 800 wen per stone, it had increased by more than two to three times.
In the affected areas, the price of grain was 400 to 500 copper coins per bucket, and there were very few of them. The price of grain on the local black market had already reached a sky-high price of one tael of silver per bushel, and it was not the peak yet.
Those profiteers held large amounts of grain in their hands, hoping that the price would double again.
To the Zhang Clan, even if it wasn't doubled, each bucket would increase by one tael of silver. A stone would be one tael of silver, and a hundred thousand stones would be a hundred thousand taels of silver.
Moreover, the price of food was different every day.
In their eyes, Young Master Zhang was the biggest prodigal!
"Lord Zeng, what do you mean?"
"Once the food of the Zhang family is transported to the disaster area, the business of the black market will definitely be greatly affected.
"However, it doesn't have much to do with us. Moreover, if we offend the Zhang family, our Ghost Street will probably be in big trouble. The gains won't make up for the losses.”
Everyone lowered their heads and pondered.
How could they not understand this principle? The development of the Zhang family in the past few years was not something that anyone could wantonly suppress.
Moreover, this was life-saving food, and the government was also keeping an eye on it.
Even the government had taken out thirty thousand ingots (fifty taels per ingot) of relief silver for natural disasters. Third-grade officials of the imperial court were sent to the disaster area as imperial envoys.
Once they touched the disaster relief grain, the government would definitely not ignore them.
"Lord Zeng must have a deeper meaning for reminding us.”
"If we fight, we will suffer. If we unite, we will benefit both sides."
"Cooperate?"
Everyone looked at each other, their gazes towards Zhang Xiaoshan even more puzzled.
With the current price of grain, how could he give up just like that? Even if he didn't sell it directly, the profit in the middle would be more than double the price difference.
A hundred percent profit was enough for them to take the risk.
Benefits moved people!
There weren't many opportunities to make a fortune like this. Even if they had to fight to the death with the Zhang family, they would still do it.
"Although the grain is profitable, it is only a temporary business.
Moreover, you're only middleman or take up some small portion. The real bulk is still those big grain merchants, the An family, the Lu family…
Now that the Zhang family had started, the An family and the Lu family would definitely follow suit.
Once the disaster subsided and the price of grain returned to normal, the grain that you bought at a high price would end up in your hands.
If we cooperate with the Zhang family and sell their glass and soap to foreign countries, we can easily make a huge profit. This is a long-term business.”
When everyone heard this, divine light burst out.
Azurite and Soap were the golden eggs of the Zhang family.
On the market, a piece of ordinary soap was worth one tael of silver. Soap mixed with floral essential oil was priceless in gold. It was in short supply and was only for the royal family and nobles.
"But how can the Zhang Clan cooperate with us?”
"You'll have to discuss this with Young Master Zhang.
As far as I know, the Zhang family's young master's 18th birthday is in three months. At that time, the Zhang family will definitely hold a banquet. This is your chance.
What the Zhang family wants is reputation, and what we want is benefits. As long as the two do not conflict, there is a possibility of cooperation between the two sides.
The existence of the black market was like black and white. The Zhang family was not omnipotent.
More friends, more paths. The Zhang family knew how to choose.”
"We understand!"
The few of them immediately nodded, understanding that this was an opportunity.
As for how? If they couldn't even settle this, they wouldn't be qualified to sit here.
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