Myriad Paths

Li Qi was extremely embarrassed when he heard this, and his toes clenched.

This guy really knows how to brag.

His technique might really be able to sense vitality, but Li Qi knew that his vitality would also be integrated into nature, and it would not be easy to discover.

But I'm afraid it was because he had such a perceptive ability that he noticed something was wrong, so he stepped out and called people from a distance to see if anyone was coming.

After all, if he really knew that someone was following him, Li Qi estimated that these people would directly set up an ambush to counterattack, and would not stand up and talk nonsense.

But Li Qi was not prepared to pursue this. After coughing twice, he walked up to the crowd and said, "I just want to find some food this time, but there are not enough distribution centers. I am thinking that I can follow you to a larger food production area and go directly to the food production area." I didn’t expect that you also had a magic method to discover me, but there were some misunderstandings.”

"I have absolutely no bad intentions, and I think you can all see that," Li Qi said.

The strong man stood up from his kneeling position and replied: "That's natural, we have no doubt!"

Nonsense, if this person is really malicious, I and others will not be able to hold on for a breath.

This person's strength is definitely on the same level as that of the sect leader, both are otherworldly beings!

"It turns out that senior wants to do business, so I, Jinlangmen, can make some recommendations to senior. I wonder how much food senior needs? Shall we get in the car and talk in detail?" the strong man said to Li Qi.

"Okay, let's go up and talk. I wonder if your Jinlangmen can come up with 300,000 shi of food?" Li Qi said as he followed him into the carriage.

Three hundred thousand stones!

This number shocked the strong man.

Three hundred thousand shi of food, this is not a small amount!

Just do a simple calculation and you will know that 300,000 shi is equivalent to more than 30 million kilograms.

Assuming that one person only eats one kilogram of grain a day, that is, a population of 100,000 will need 100,000 kilograms, which is about 50 tons a day, which is enough for more than 300 days, which is the ration of 100,000 people for a year.

Of course, people in this world have relatively large appetites due to martial arts and other reasons. In fact, they can eat three kilograms of food a day, and a big-bellied man can eat five or six kilograms. In other words, three hundred thousand dan, or about one hundred thousand people. One hundred days of rations, or enough to feed everyone in Guangyang City for two days.

Assuming there are 100,000 people, even if they start eating from now on, it will be enough to eat until the next harvest of spiritual rice!

But the strong man didn't know that Li Qi was indeed planning to let more than 100,000 people eat the next season's harvest.

"Senior, one stone of grain is worth about one hundred gold. If you calculate it this way, three hundred thousand stone of grain is equivalent to thirty thousand gold. I am afraid that not many grain merchants can afford this fund at once. Even if it is to raise money, it will take a while. More than a month, I wonder if senior can wait? Is the fund enough?" the strong man asked cautiously.

He deliberately ignored the option of 'giving it to Li Qi'.

No one in Guangyang city can afford to give away three hundred thousand shi of grain.

"Thirty thousand gold..." Li Qi frowned. He did have things worth thirty thousand gold on him, but those things were not easy to sell. Only a ghost would carry thirty thousand gold in cash. Cash.

One gold is about half a kilogram of gold cake, and thirty thousand gold is more than ten thousand kilograms of gold, which shows how valuable three hundred thousand stone of grain is.

Li Qi frowned, looking at the strong man with fear, fearing that Li Qi couldn't afford it and was in a hurry to get it, so he would have evil intentions.

But he was a little strange, why would such a great master start raising food?

There are generally two reasons for raising food.

One, that is, they have a group of forces under their command, with thousands of mouths waiting for food. However, these generally have fixed food channels and are unlikely to suddenly demand a large amount of food.

The second reason is to provide relief to the victims. But are there any victims recently?

It seems to have.

We heard that there were disaster victims near Zhenguan, but they were not many in number. Only tens of thousands of people actually came to Guangyang City, and there was not even a splash of water.

There are no special changes except that there are more beggars on the street, the business at Renyazi is better, and the price of Goulan Nulu is much cheaper.

It is nothing to the huge Guangyang City.

etc.

When the strong man thought of this, he suddenly realized something. He raised his head and asked Li Qi: "Senior, are you going to help the victims? Three hundred thousand dan is just enough for more than 100,000 people to eat the next season's spiritual rice harvest. Is this the case, senior?"

"You are smart. This is indeed the purpose. Don't worry, I won't rob you. You can take me there and discuss with your sect leader. Although I don't have 30,000 gold, I should be able to use other things to offset it. "Li Qi said.

The strong man stood in awe, raised his hands and said, "Senior is so righteous and has saved more than 100,000 people. With such merits, I don't know how many people will build a shrine and statue for you and pray for you day and night."

"What do you want to do with those useless things? You'd better take me to your station quickly." Li Qi said: "On the way, can you introduce me to the grain market in Guangyang City so that I can make a judgment."

"It's okay, sir, I have something to ask," the strong man said.

The motorcade continued to set off, and Li Qize and the strong man started talking in the car.

Along the way, maybe out of fear, or maybe out of admiration, he basically knew everything about Li Qi's problems and talked about them in detail. However, Li Qi didn't fully accept them. He just remembered them silently and could treat them as his own in the future. refer to.

The strong man called himself Di Danyi and was one of the leaders of the Jinlang Sect. He practiced the most popular martial arts. His cultivation had reached the level of viscera training and he had refined two internal organs, namely the kidneys and the lungs.

In other words, with three more, he would have entered the 'Innate Warrior' and reached the ninth level.

With this level of cultivation, he is already regarded as one of the top masters in Jinlang Sect. Even in Guangyang City, he is ranked among the top martial arts masters. Therefore, he is qualified to be the leader of a grain transportation team. He handles thousands of dollars every day. Stone grain, millions of stones are handled in a year.

The sect leader of the Jinlang Sect is an innate master, a ninth-level martial arts master. He formed a grain alliance with more than twenty other ninth-level people. More than two dozen gangs joined forces and each controlled a part of Guangyang City. Grain business.

And it is this grain alliance that monopolizes all grain business in Guangyang City.

In a person's life, the four major aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation are absolutely indispensable. This shows the energy of Liangmeng. Behind Liangmeng, there is even Guangyang Situ!

In other words, there is an eighth-level official with a government background supporting him!

It can be seen that his power is so great that in Guangyang City, he can be regarded as a man with powerful eyes and hands.

However, although the grain alliance is powerful, it is not monolithic internally. Under the control of Guangyang Situ, the eighth grade, although there is no contradiction on the surface, everyone works together to maintain the stability of grain prices without causing trouble.

But in fact, within the Grain Alliance, everyone has different channels.

For example, Jinlangmen, they can intervene in the grain trade because there are dozens of villages behind Jinlangmen. These beings are all die-hard supporters of Jinlangmen.

The village elders are the middle-level members of Jinlangmen. Young people who leave the village basically work as general helpers for Jinlangmen. Jinlangmen is responsible for selling most of the food grown by the villagers.

Following these villages, more villages were radiated that were willing to supply only to Jinlangmen, including even a county town, which was within Jinlangmen's sphere of influence. Based on these places, they occupied a place in Guangyang City. .

These are the background.

The more than twenty forces in the Grain Alliance each occupy some grain production capacity. The few have only one million dan a year. The largest family is a family called the Zhang family in Guangyang, with an output of nearly 10 million dan.

The combined total output of more than two dozen companies is about 50 to 60 million stone, which is enough for Guangyang City to need for a year, and there is still some surplus.

And the Zhang family in Guangyang is the one who established the pillar.

The twenty-foot giant pillar that Li Qi saw in Guangyang City before had ten thousand bats carved on it. The one named "Wan Fu Lai Chao" was erected by the Zhang family.

As for Jinlangmen, it is about three to four million stones, which is in the middle and upper reaches.

Di Danyi said: "In other words, senior, you are going to take away 10% of Jinlangmen's total annual output. This is indeed not something that can be easily taken out, at least most of the forces in the Food Alliance Can’t take it out.”

"Perhaps only the one with tens of millions of dollars can meet your needs." Di Dan spread his hands to Li Qi and said that there was really no other way.

Hearing this, Li Qi held his forehead with one hand and rubbed his temples: "How come there is such a big difference? According to you, there is not much difference between the personnel, experts and power of each family. If someone really eats such a large share, you How can you bear it?"

Didan nodded and agreed: "I also find it strange. The Jinlang Sect is also very aware of their sphere of influence. It is absolutely impossible to produce so much food, but they can produce so much, but the sect owner refuses. Tell us, I’m afraid only senior can ask about these things personally.”

When Li Qi heard this, he felt a headache.

The matter of food seems to be settled, but at this moment, ten hours have passed. I hope that the White Rhinoceros Army has received the news about me and will not panic because I have not returned.

More than 100,000 people are without food. Just thinking about it is scary.

The top priority is to contact the owner of the Jinlang Sect first and see what means he can use to help him contact the Zhang family in Guangyang.

With the Zhang family's huge annual output of tens of millions of dan in Guangyang, it shouldn't be too difficult to provide 300,000 dan of food. It should be enough if you squeeze it in. At worst, let Jinlangmen make up some. Enough.

As for whether he can let them sell it to him, Li Qi is not very worried.

Although he doesn't have much gold on him, there are many things that are more valuable than gold. If you put them together, you should be able to get something worth thirty thousand gold.

Moreover, these things are easily exchanged for gold.

If you want to buy these things for gold, it is not easy to buy them. The words "price but no market" are very reasonable.

Except for the special case of Li Qi, no one should sell these items that are only used by practitioners in exchange for some gold that is meaningful in the world.

The conversation continued all the way from morning to noon. When it was time for lunch, we finally arrived at Jinlangmen's station outside.

This seems to be a granary they built against a mountain, but it is empty at the moment.

Of course Li Qi didn't think this was the original destination of Di Danyi and his party.

It is estimated that when chatting with him, he had already signaled to change the destination and changed the original destination to this empty granary. There was nothing he could do if he had any ill intentions.

Immediately afterwards, Di Dan said to Li Qi: "Senior, please wait here for a moment. I will go and notify the sect master. I will be there in two hours at the latest!"

"Excuse me." Li Qi nodded and said.

"What's the trouble? The Jinlang Sect will definitely not miss this big deal, and it will be done beautifully for the seniors." He said, patting his chest, and then ran out quickly.

It was obvious that he couldn't hold himself any longer. Although he acted naturally, staying with Li Qi obviously put great pressure on the head of the Jinlang Sect.

After a while, Li Qi was the only one left in the room, and even the servants seemed to have evacuated nearby.

Li Qi stood up and looked around.

Although it was only a manor built next to a granary, it had everything it needed.

The manor faces the lake on one side. There is a long pond on the other side, where lotus seeds are planted, and there are hibiscus along the embankment.

There are three couplets in the small room, where the tea stove is placed, and the courtyard is sparse.

No one could be seen.

This made Li Qi couldn't help but murmur in his heart.

You won't run away, right? Then you put yourself here and packed up everything and moved?

It shouldn't be that big of a deal. A monk can run away but can't run away from the temple. There's a plate as big as Jinlangmen.

As soon as he thought of this, Li Qi simply sat down and waited quietly for the boss of Jinlangmen to come over.

This also made him sigh.

Once upon a time, when he faced the head of a business, his attitude had to be nodding and bowing, but now the situation was reversed.

Things are different now.

Once upon a time, the greatest good thing he could do was to give the neighbor kid a bowl of broth.

Now, it can take the lives of more than 100,000 people on one shoulder.

But to Li Qi, there is no difference between the two.

Both of them are just doing good things within your ability.

The only difference is that their own strength is different, so the scope of "what they can do" is also different.

Ninth grade, to this world, is already considered a master, able to hold a high position and be surrounded by thousands of people.

However, Guangyang City seems to be inferior to Qingwu City in Green Mountain Kingdom.

There are far more ninth-grade people in Qingwu City than here, and I don’t know why.

If the ninth grade in Qingwu City is one in a thousand, then this place is one in a thousand.

Is Qingwu City particularly strong? Or is there something special?

Li Qi was thinking about this, and at the same time he was thinking about how to deal with it in the future.

Three hundred thousand stones of grain, what would be a better exchange for it?

What things do you have that you don’t need that you can exchange for?

While Li Qi was thinking about this, time also passed slowly.

Soon, half an hour passed.

Li Qi raised his head and looked outside the room.

But he saw a carriage approaching outside the door.

Di Danyi led the way.

Seeing this, Li Qi sat down and waited for the other party to come in.

But he saw someone getting off the carriage.

Dressed in white, he is elegant and handsome, holding a folding fan in his hand.

Li Qi has seen this person before.

Wang Baiyan!

The man above the fifth-level pagoda!