Chapter 118

General Wang Wei wore a faint smile. "I thank you on behalf of the Xiguan Army. Your cooking oil has solved a major problem for us." Shi Yi quickly replied, "General, you are too kind. I should be the one thanking the Xiguan Army. Because you chose our tea seed oil, you have kept dozens of people at our oil mill from starving to death." Seeing Shi Yi this way, Wang Wei liked him more and more. He had, in fact, been observing Shi Yi for a long time. He had also kept a close eye on how Shi Yi speculated in furs. First, while Shi Yi had certainly made a large amount of silver through furs, it had not been squeezed from the common people; it had been earned from the merchants and the Song Family. Thus, he had caused no harm to the common folk. Second, the mountain hunters had actually benefited from this surge, as the large families in town had raised their purchase prices in a scramble to secure inventory. Third, after the fall of the Song Family, he had assumed the kid would strike while the iron was hot, replace the Song Family, and adopt their same ruthless methods to exploit the hunters. But the boy had done no such thing; instead, he had opened up the fur trade. Without the middleman, the hunters could connect directly with outside buyers, which naturally benefited them more.