Chapter 82 Te Langpu (1/2)

Chapter 82 – Te Langpu

March 30th, Julu City.

Te Langpu, the young master of the wealthiest merchant in Ye City, and his entourage arrived at Julu. They brought 100,000 tons of grain and other provision to trade with Tong. Their caravans and escorts occupied the entire road in front of the city south gate, which caused an uproar and interest of the civilian onlookers.

Five hundred patrolling light cavalries under Bo Cai had to stay around the vicinity of the conveys to protect them and kept the order. These people were too eye-catching, so Bo Cai was afraid that a random hoodlum or triad group might take this chance to rob them on the way.

Te Langpu saw that the city sent a small unit to protect them, he snorted.

”They underestimate me too much. Even if I'm by myself, no one in this world and kill me.”

As a reincarnator, Te Langpu had a few tricks in his sleeves to protect himself, including his system skills. He did not need Bo Cai's men to guard him and his caravans.

”Well, I'll leave them be. For now, let's see what kind of city that Zhang Tong has built.”

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Te Langpu entrusted the negotiation and other minor details for the business dealing with his subordinates, then he ditched the work and took the tour around the city.

Before Te Langpu got far into the inner city, he caught sight of two familiar buildings.

The mysterious buildings ”Wall-Marked” and ”Swing-Eleven” had been completed, and the craftsmen and carpenters with various tools were busy crafting mysterious long shelves and furniture inside the buildings.

The town people gathered around to see what these large buildings with 3 meters in height and 200 square meters were for.

Then a sign was placed at the front door. It said ”Supermarket for commoners. Open date – April 2nd”. None of the civilians understood the meaning behind it, even the scholars.

Within the crowd, Te Langpu glared at the sign with a deep frown. He was the only one who understood the purpose of this kind of buildings.

'Someone has made this move before the great me.'

'This is not good. I've lost the brand awareness competition.'

'Fudge! Why is it always the Chinese!?'

'I competed with you in my last life. Even in this life, you are still bigly haunting me!'

'Is it because I had kidnapped a daughter of a scum in my last life?'

'It was not my fault! Some assholes came up with this idea! I even let her bailed out!'

Gritting his teeth in frustration and envy, Te Langpu returned to his men. He no longer was in the mood for touring the city because of the existence of these shops.

Afterward, he heard about the new laws which Tong had implemented recently. Te Langpu wanted to curse Tong out loud for his amateurish constitutions and his government corporate system, but he swallowed his words back because there were too many people around him.

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The meeting with the officials was smooth. Although Te Langpu could not meet Tong, he completed his transaction and got his hands on 10,000 bars of soap. He would take this soap and journey southward to Xu Chang or toward southeast to Xia Pi City to resell all these goods.

It was a troublesome process of a peddling distributer, but the profit was worth the time and effort. If he sold it around this province, the price would be limited to 40 gold a piece or lower. Instead, if he took a trip further into the area which had not been touched by the soap merchants of the Yuan family, he estimated that he could get at least 70 gold a piece in return.

Te Langpu looked at the bronze mirror in his hand and combed his bang.

'A pity that I can't get to see Zhang Tong. But it doesn't matter. I'll get my hands on the soap recipe, then I'll relocate from Ye to the future Capital of Wei. Or maybe I should go a bit further south to Xiangyang City? Xiangyang was untouched by the civil war until Cao Cao snatched it over from Liu Biao's descendant. So I should be fine over there.'

Te Langpu recollected his thought. Although he was strong and almost invincible, he did not enjoy participating in any conflict, be it with the natives or other reincarnators.

'Zhang Tong utilized 7-11 and Walmart business model over here, so I can't compete with him in his turf. Maybe I should do something similar in other cities before he does. I-KEA still hasn't been taken yet. Right, I should also rebuild my casinos over there as well. I'll make it the new Las Vegas in this freaking ancient world!'

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March 31st.

The auction, which was organized by the city government, was held today. Although many merchants were dissatisfied with the new laws and disliked how Tong and his family operated the city, they still could not resist the treasures, antiques and the soap recipe that Tong put into the auction.

The auction would be held in the stadium in the noble resident area. This building once belonged to one of the corrupted nobles that Tong had killed. It was renovated into an open-air theater with a wooden stage and stone chairs, which was designed based on the European theater in the renaissance era.