Crown Prince of the Empire, I quit!

Chapter 106 Tolls

“It sold so quickly.”

Qin Ming didn't know how Wan Shu speculated on the price, but he found some people in advance as Wan Shu requested and went to pretend to be southern barbarian merchants to supply goods to Linjiang City.

He also took a batch of rubber and gave it to Wan Shu to sell.

Zhuge Facai would never have dreamed that all the things he bought actually belonged to Qin Ming and Fang Qingyuan.

After the Nanman invasion ended, Qin Ming and Hui Ming reached an agreement.

The rubber is naturally under his control.

He did not inform the court of these matters, and there was no need to.

Zhuge Fa Cai naturally didn't know about it.

Qin Ming sighed, feeling the naivety of Zhuge Facai. He kept one box for himself and took the remaining two boxes of silver and said to them:

"Send these to the barracks."

"Yes!"

The next day, Qin Ming came to the military camp.

Liu Chuang was still training his troops. Qin Ming was very satisfied seeing the military camp getting better and better.

Qin Ming called Fang Qingyuan from the workshop and Cao Chuan who was in charge of logistics and said to them:

"Zhuge Facai has obtained a large amount of rubber, and we have made a profit of 100,000 taels of silver."

"The military camp will take 70,000 first to build the road for you."

"There should be another batch of rubber to sell in the next few days. We'll make plans then."

Cao Chuan nodded. This amount of money was enough for them to build some main roads.

But Fang Qingyuan was a little worried.

"Your Highness, if we wait a little longer, they'll have their tires too. Wouldn't that mean we'll lose our advantage?"

Qin Ming looked at him and said with a smile:

"Old Fang, you need to be more flexible. The road is ours, but don't you have any advantage?"

"What do you mean?"

Cao Chuan and Fang Qingyuan both looked at him in confusion.

At this time, Qin Ming said: "I opened this mountain and planted this tree. If you want to take the cement road, leave some money for the passage."

The highway built by Qin Ming can be considered a highway of this era.

Whether it is a horse-drawn carriage or a tricycle, it can pass through quickly.

Time is money. If you help people save money, they should pay some of the cost.

Cao Chuan thought about it and nodded seriously:

"Your Highness is right. We are not Bodhisattvas. It is only natural that we should collect some money for building the road."

Fang Qingyuan was very smart and thought of Qin Ming's other idea.

"Your Highness, once these roads are built, we won't charge for shipping goods, which will reduce costs. Zhuge may have made a fortune quickly, but he still has to spend money, so costs will remain high!"

"good."

Seeing that Qin Ming had quickly taken the money they had saved for road construction, he also found a business for the military camp to collect tolls.

At this moment, Cao Chuan and Fang Qingyuan both thought he was a genius.

Although His Highness often does things in a very unrefined manner, his methods are really tough.

As for building roads, Zhuge Fa Cai and the people behind him couldn't learn how to do it. They didn't have the qualifications to collect tolls or build official roads.

But Qin Ming can, after all, Lingnan is his fiefdom!

"I'm going to build the road!"

“I continue to seek support from local cloth shops.”

The two of them left.

Qin Ming smiled, left the military camp and returned to Linjiang City.

In the cloth shop, Wan Shu came early and sat down to chat with Guan Yue.

It seemed like they were waiting for Qin Ming. As soon as they saw him coming, Guan Yue and Wan Shu waved to him.

Qin Ming sat next to the two of them. Guan Yue asked curiously, "Xiao Shu just said that you helped her a lot this time and she kept praising you."

"Of course. I'm such an amazing person, it would be unreasonable not to praise me."

Qin Ming himself made 100,000 taels a few days ago. Wan Shu was a businessman and also controlled the entire market.

He definitely earns much more than Qin Ming.

"When will that miraculous penicillin be developed?"

At this time, Wan Shu approached Qin Ming and asked with a smile.

Guan Yue seemed to know about penicillin as well. At this time, she took Qin Ming's hand and said:

"Penicillin can cure many people's diseases, so why don't you come out?"

"This is a bit complicated."

Finding and culturing penicillin strains is a hassle.

This series of processes will require Qin Ming to finish his recent work before he can ask Wan Shu to do it.

This time, Zhuge Facai personally delivered the goods back to Huxi.

On the way back, he was nervous, worried that the president of Huxi Chamber of Commerce would cause trouble for him.

He gritted his teeth and went to the Chamber of Commerce workshop in person to supervise the work.

He finished it quickly in five days and took the tire away while no one was paying attention.

He sneaked around like a thief.

This also made the anger in his heart grow stronger and stronger...

Standing in the carriage, recalling the humiliation he had suffered on the way to Lingnan, Zhuge Facai clenched his fists and muttered:

"Prince Qin, Fang Qingyuan, you two just wait!"

"This time when I return, I will take back everything I lost and trample both of you bastards under my feet!"

……

Fang Qingyuan's actions are still continuing.

He took every step carefully, using Linjiang City as his base and snatching back many of the surrounding cloth shops from the Huxi Chamber of Commerce.

But today, when he was handing over the goods to Guan Yue in the cloth shop in Linjiang City, he suddenly saw a familiar figure.

Zhuge Fa Cai is back.

This time he casually brought a few carriage tires and prepared to install them on his tricycle.

"Shameless wretch, you're not even pretending? You steal everything we use."

"Good things are meant to be shared by everyone. I use your things because I'm giving you face. Don't give me face and refuse it!"

Zhuge's attitude towards making a fortune was extremely arrogant.

"I'm telling you, we'll install the tire tonight, and your death is coming soon!"

Zhuge Facai shouted with his teeth bared, his face full of resentment.

But compared to him, Fang Qingyuan seemed quite calm.

"gone."

He spoke lightly and turned to leave with the goods.

Seeing that he was not as angry as he had thought, Zhuge Fa Cai suddenly felt like he had nowhere to vent his anger.

"Fang Qingyuan, you're still pretending to be profound at this point? I'll kill you!!"

Zhuge Fa Cai didn't notice anything wrong because according to his investigation, there were no major changes to the tricycle in the past few days.

I can immediately reduce my costs to the same level as theirs.

On the second day, we walked on the newly built road.

Zhuge Facai, sitting on a tricycle, led the team personally, humming a little tune and leaving Linjiang City.

"The King of Qin did do some good things when he came to Lingnan. At least he repaired the road."

"Yeah, these days my brothers have been saying that riding to other major cities on the roads is much easier, and more importantly, the speed is much faster."

As they walked and chatted, they didn't notice that several soldiers were guarding the fork in the official road in the distance.

Seeing someone coming, they walked up and stopped the person.

"What?"

"It's business. This is our customs clearance document. The Huxi Chamber of Commerce has special approval from the government."

Zhuge Facai walked forward and shook the things in front of several soldiers.

But with a snap!

But the soldiers knocked his hand away.

"You guys, go up and check it out!"

"Yes!"

"Master Jun, what are you doing?"

Zhuge Facai's face looked a little ugly.

A few soldiers ignored him and went forward to search for a while.