Chapter 88 Are we scammed? (2/2)

Te Langpu was not a historic ignorant. He had learned about the history of ancient China before as he had to lead his own country to compete with this country. Because of that, he knew about the events that the Yuan Family had to face in the future.

'This is year 182. I have another decade to plant my roots into the northern region. Once Yuan Shao expands to the east and gets the territory on the east coast, I should move there ASAP. I think China's salt mines, coal mines, and iron mines in the other world located somewhere there? I should ask for a map from Tian Feng for more research.'

Te Langpu also planned to use the fund of this family to establish his casinos around the country of China. Once Yuan Shao met his end in the future, he would break free from this family and surrendered to Cao Cao or stayed neutral for the entire civil war period.

His free time did not last long. Tian Feng visited him and told Te Langpu about today demonstration at the auction house.

”From all of his auctions and that concession, what do you think Zhang Tong is trying to achieve? I believe it was to amass the fund for his army. But I want your opinion.”

Te Langpu had a smug look on his face. He shook his head while he answered.

”Have you checked the source of the spice and other goods? Where do you think they get all of those from? Do you even research the origin of the products? If you can't answer my simple questions, all of you have been conned by Zhang Tong.”

Tian Feng frowned after he heard the frank opinion of Te Langpu. It also reminded him that it was the first time he heard about such ingredients and new types of food. Because of the stubborn Feng Ji and the promising income that they could reap from this trade, he overlooked these simple practices.

”Why do you think that we are being scammed?”

Although Tian Feng had a suspicion, he still asked Te Langpu for his opinion and his experience as a veteran trader.

Te Langpu glanced at Tian Feng with the corner of his eyes and replied to him with an indifferent face.

”First, the cost of those products is dubious. It cannot be this cheap because he has to include the cost of the workers, the time consumed, and other factors before he set up the price of a product. In this case, it is too cheap!

Second! The origins of these peppers, chilies and the likes cannot be found or explained where they are coming from. Without the source of these crops, how can Zhang Tong acquire all of them in a large amount and in a short period of time?

For these two reasons, I can only think that Zhang Tong can probably acquire these ingredients for free or from a secret source! If he gets his hands on these goods for free, he can manipulate the price as he will!

It will be the worst-case scenario if he has an infinite amount of those things. He will drain all of our gold into his city. And because of his policy of gathering food from merchants and farmers, he will not lack both gold and provision! You should know what will happen next if Julu has become prosperous! Do you understand what I tried to convey to you?”

As a fellow reincarnator, Te Langpu guessed that Tong should have a skill that could create these spice and food ingredients out of thin air or ability that could accelerate the growth rate of a crop.

By thinking outside the box, it was not hard for him to come up with this theory after listening to Tian Feng.

Listened to Te Langpu's logic, Tian Feng was stunned. He only gave out a few pieces of information about Tong to him, yet he analyzed the situation faster than he could.

However, Tian Feng still doubted whether Tong could amass the spice as Te Langpu had predicted. He decided to wait for the spy report before he made the conclusion.

”If Zhang Tong really scammed us, what should we do to fix this?”

Tian Feng continued to probe Te Langpu, which made the latter frowned in annoyance.

”There are two solutions for this. If the goods are in limited quantity, buy all of them. If this is the case then Zhang Tong is being stupid. However, if we used up our cash and Zhang Tong still have those spice in stock, then just buy the first batch of spice then sell the concession to those five fatties. They went to the auction yesterday and bid 400,000 gold, do you remember? Sell them at that price and say something like you want to bail out or your financial is not ready.”

Tian Feng nodded and left Te Langpu alone. He returned to his duty while he considered the suggestion of Te Langpu in his mind.

'His idea isn't wrong. It is the best option if we want to withdraw from this wholesale trading. But I still have to wait for the inside report to get more information. But why was he so confident when he said Zhang Tong acquired the goods via other channels? On what basis is his theory coming from?'

Tian Feng decided to hold on to the concession for now. Once he had obtained more information from the spies inside the city, he would make the decision later.

He still could not put a 100% trust on Te Langpu even though Yuan Shao wanted to recruit him.