Chapter 233: The Decisive Battle - True and False
The largest dental shop in Yuzhang City has hardly closed its doors these days, and in fact, the situation of the various dental shops in the city is almost the same.
In the period of unprecedented popularity of land transactions, a large number of investors have long regarded the dental industry as their own, saying that eating, drinking and lazing are all in the dental industry, but the facts are not far from it.
When the dental shop was overcrowded, the inns and liquor shops around the dental store also made a lot of money, and the merchants and vendors in the city simply moved their stalls to the door of the dental store to sell some food and daily necessities. The high rollers in the tooth shop are not bad at money, and every reward can be worth the income of the past few days, and in the rest of the month, these merchants and hawkers have saved up a solid family fortune.
To say that Yuzhang City is the most reluctant to end this qiē is naturally them, but everything has a beginning and an end, although the days of making money are cheerful, but there is a moment of end after all.
"Boss, let's finish shredded pork rice noodles!" a middle-aged man dressed in brocade walked towards a food stall across the street, and shouted loudly at the stall's owner, an old man in his sixties with gray temples.
The man in brocade had just walked out of the tooth shop across the street, and the clothes on his body were just a glance to know that the workmanship was extraordinary, exquisite and abnormal, and he thought it was worth a lot of money. It's just that today's clothes are stained with red and yellow stains, and a large number of them cover up the original exquisite patterns on the clothes. The bun on the top of the man's head was also sloppy, the hair was twisted together, and it was also covered with pieces of solid stains, and I didn't know what it was. As we got closer, a strong and pungent smell came with the wind.
"Okay, you sit down and wait for a while, and you'll be fine right away!" The boss in his sixties heard that another guest was coming, and hurriedly replied in a loud voice, and got busy without raising his head.
The man in brocade didn't mind, and found a fairly clean table to sit down alone. The tables and chairs on this food stall naturally can't be the mahogany furniture produced by Xu Chen's family, but it is the wood cut by the boss himself, and he made it according to the shape of the table and chair.
After a while, the boss held a tray, jumped to the table of the man in brocade with his legs and feet, skillfully held a large porcelain bowl with his right hand, and with a slight shake of his wrist, a large bowl of rice noodles fell steadily in front of the man in brocade, and not even a drop of soup was spilled.
"Guest, use it slowly!" After speaking, the boss turned around lightly, and continued to hold the tray with a few large porcelain bowls and walked towards the rest of the tables.
The man in brocade took a pair of chopsticks from the table, took a deep breath at the bowl of red and white rice noodles, and the warm soup entered his nostrils, instantly making his whole body warm, and the man in brocade felt that the fatigue of his body had faded a lot.
Nowadays, there is no chili pepper in Datang these days, even peppercorns, pepper and other seasonings are also rare, and ordinary people rarely see them once a year. And on this small food stall, the boss actually sprinkled a few grains in each bowl of rice noodles, which is rarely tight!
It turned out that the owner saw that the guests loved this thing, and the rice noodles with these spicy things tasted better and were loved by the guests. For this reason, the boss spent a lot of money to buy a lot of spices, in order to retain more customers.
The boss's hard work is not in vain, the rice noodle soup with spices is really delicious, so that the guests will not want to return, although the price is several times more expensive than others, but how can the people who come here to eat care about these copper plates?
As a result, the business of this food stall became more and more prosperous.
Rice noodles, also known as rice noodles in the early days, were eaten by people who migrated south from the Central Plains to miss the taste of noodles and imitate the practice of noodles. It's just that wheat is grown in the north, but rice is planted in the south, and the materials are different, and the appearance and taste are very different, but each has its own taste, and it is impossible to say who is good and who is bad. One side of the water and soil raises one side of the people, and the food is a hometown. Later, it was not very pleasant to call it rice noodles, so it was changed to rice noodles, and some were called rice noodles, with different names, but the practices were not much different.
Originally, as a man in brocade, he would not care too much about this market snack. It's just that almost all the liquor shops and restaurants near Yahang have been booked, and the man in brocade clothes came to Yuzhang late, and he came alone, and there was no acquaintance around, and it was not good to compete with those gang-up businessmen for anything, so he had to retreat to this street food stall to pass the three meals a day. After eating rice noodles a few times, the man in brocade clothes also got better, and if he didn't come to a bowl every day, he always felt that the bird was fading out of his mouth.
Although the market snacks are not as delicate and delicious as the banquet of Zhong Ming Ding Food House, their uniqueness still makes them endure for thousands of years.
In the middle of three or two, the man in brocade ate a big bowl of rice noodles, put down the bowl and chopsticks, burped, breathed a sigh of relief, and the man in brocade comfortably asked the boss to come to a pot of coarse tea, and began to listen carefully to the conversation of the guests around the snack stall after drinking the tea.
The people who come here to eat are basically all investors who come to Yuzhang City from other places, and what these people gather to talk about is inevitably inseparable from the current land market in Yuzhang City.
Although most of the information discussed is worthless or hearsay, it is inevitable that there will be one or two shrewd people among the investors who have not been deterred until now, or a few words of information that they inadvertently say that seem to be hearsay, but in the eyes of the man in brocade, it may not be untrue, and he can also obtain a lot of useful information after his own scrutiny, and he has never eliminated a lot of risks for his investment.
The man in brocade has been doing this for almost a month, and the harvest during the period is indeed amazing, and now the amount of land in his hands has already been ten times that of when he first came to Yuzhang City, and they were all bought at a lower price, and now his assets have already exceeded five million, which is also ten times that before he came to Yuzhang.
The man in brocade was leisurely drinking tea, but the tasteless coarse tea was sweet, but his mind was all left in the nearby crowd.
"Hey, have you heard?" a young man with a short beard lived up to the expectations of the man in brocade, and began a topic that he thought was shocking with a mysterious face.
"What did you hear?" a burly man with a Guanzhong accent answered sincerely.
The young man with a short beard saw that the other two people at the same table were still eating slowly with their heads buried in their heads, and their attention was not on him at all, and after the displeasure on his face was fleeting, he pretended to be shocking and said, "The land sale in Yuzhang City is estimated to be over soon!"
The burly man was stunned for a moment, and said in surprise: "Huh?"
As for the other two men, they just raised their heads and glanced at him, and one of them seemed not to want the short-bearded young man to continue to talk and disturb him to eat, so he said impatiently: "This news spread all over the city more than ten days ago!
The short-bearded young man was suddenly questioned, and his upper body immediately sat up quietly, and said angrily: "This time is very different from before!"
"What's the difference?" said the man before with a shallow mockery on his lips.
The short-bearded young man was immediately annoyed, and said urgently: "What do you know! Yuzhang City's current land sale is not out of thin air, it is controlled by the black hands of the big families behind it!"
"You still want to say this, the blind can see it!" The mockery at the corner of the man's mouth turned into a naked mockery.
The short-bearded young man gasped, obviously angry, and for a moment his head was hot-headed, so he blurted out the secret that the elders of the family had told him to strictly keep: "Do you know the seven clans and five surnames? That is the great family that has been inherited for thousands of years in the Central Plains! Just a few days ago, these seven families sent a large number of masters to Yuzhang in order to defeat the local wealthy families on this side of Yuzhang, and a few days ago they were somewhere outside Yuzhang City, and even the two sides even had a big fight! Moreover, the local wealthy families in Yuzhang have also taken action, and I heard that an important person has already gone to Chang'an to operate. Do you know the former left minister Li Shizhi? The one who was just imprisoned not long ago heard that there is a shadow of Yuzhang's wealthy family behind this incident!"
The three people at the same table naturally heard of such a thing for the first time, and there were wealthy families behind the local land trading in Yuzhang City, which almost all foreign investors in Yuzhang knew in their hearts, if such a big deal was not involved behind these big forces, it would be really rare!
But like the short-bearded young man who has a clear eye and says it by name, it is really the first time that the three of them have heard of it.
Shocked by this shocking secret, the three of them were a little stunned, and seeing that they had finally shocked the three of them, the short-bearded young man suddenly became proud.
Looking at the other party's arrogant appearance, the person who had just made a sarcastic remark felt a little unhappy in his heart, and he involuntarily sneered: "I heard! I heard! Who did you listen to? Is it the old man who sells Hu cakes on the street? Or the aunt who sells flowers next door? I think these are all made up by you! It shouldn't be true!"
"You, you fart! These are Lao Tzu...... Lao Tzu's father heard it with his own ears from the mouth of a steward of the Lu family in the Seven Sects and Five Surnames, how could it be fake?"
It's just that the man made up his mind today not to let the short-bearded young man have a good time, and he still has an intriguing smile on his face, in short, he just refuses to believe it.
"You! you wait! Don't leave if you have the ability! Lao Tzu will go find someone! Come and testify to Lao Tzu!" After saying that, the short-bearded young man left quickly, and while running, he turned back and told the three of them not to go away.
Naturally, the three of them would not be stupid enough to wait here, and left in a hurry after settling the account.
The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was intentional, and the man in brocade quickly fell into deep thought after learning the news from the short-bearded young man.
"It's no wonder that in the past few days, the land transaction has been much more popular than before, and the arable land in the city and outside the city have appeared in two completely different attitudes. Moreover, the final battle of Yangzhou City that day seems to be strikingly similar to today's Yuzhang City, all of which are focused on competing for several important places in the city. Is this really going to be the end of this deal?"
The man in brocade thought silently, but suddenly raised his head suddenly.
"Not good! If the chaos in Chang'an City is really related to the wealthy families in Yuzhang City, according to the current situation, I am afraid that Chang'an should also be about to produce results, once the results come, no matter who wins or loses, this transaction in Yuzhang City will really come to an end! No! I have to start dealing with some land quickly, it will be too late to finish!"
As soon as the brocade-clothed man thought of this, he immediately took action, dropped a piece of broken silver, and rushed towards the tooth shop.
At the same time, in the various food stalls outside the Yaxing in Yuzhang City, similar scenes are being staged frequently, some of them are indeed the unintentional mistakes of the unintentional people, but more of the intentional people are targeted.
"Childe, according to your orders, the news is about to get out!" In the private room on the second floor of the largest dental shop in Yuzhang City, Zhu Da was bowing to Xu Chen and reporting.
Hearing this, Xu Chen nodded with satisfaction.
"Senior brother, what is your intention in spreading this news now? Didn't you say that you wanted to seize this little bit of time?" Sun Desheng, who was also in the room, asked puzzledly.
Xu Chen replied with a smile: "Senior brother, don't worry, we have already taken advantage of this opportunity, and now that the news is spreading, it is natural to let these unsuspecting, but shrewd guys take the bait!"
Sun Desheng obviously didn't understand the meaning of "taking the bait", and still looked at Xu Chen blankly.
Xu Chen wasn't ready to explain to him, but asked the guys behind him, "Do you remember what you were told?"
"Don't worry, remember!" replied in unison.
Xu Chen nodded and said with satisfaction: "Okay, you can do as you are told!"
"Yes, owner!" said the men, and the crowd rushed out.
And Sun Desheng noticed that the guys who were still dressed in uniform were now in very different styles and dressed differently.
After the men left the private room one after another, they quickly separated and dispersed into the crowd in the hall downstairs.
After a while, some sharp-eyed customers in the tooth shop noticed that suddenly there were many more purchase orders for farmland outside the city, and the price was terrifyingly high!
For a while, the sound of discussion in the hall of the tooth shop suddenly sounded.
"What's going on, why is the price of arable land rising so fast?"
"That's right! The price of cultivated land has fluctuated so much these days, and few people have bothered to do so, so what is the reason why they dare to put up so many orders and the price is so high?"
"That's right! That's ten times as much! It's almost the price of land in those busy areas of the city!"
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Upstairs, in the private room where Xu Chen was, Sun Desheng also asked Xu Chen puzzled: "Senior brother, why is this? Didn't you say that the news of Chang'an will come in a few hours? Now shouldn't we sell the land in our hands quickly?"
When Xu Chen heard this, he just smiled mysteriously, and didn't say a word, only the brothers who were familiar with him knew that the eldest brother would only show this kind of wilted smile on his face when he was pitting people.
Ignoring Sun Desheng, who was puzzled, the discussion in the hall downstairs continued, but everyone discussed for a long time but still couldn't get anything.
However, some people who are sensitive have begun to smell unusual smells, and the man in brocade is one of them.
So, he hurriedly ran to the counter, took out a large pile of land deeds in the sleeves of his wide coat, and put them on the counter, including the land in the city and the cultivated land outside the city. But he was not disturbed by the skyrocketing price of cultivated land, and he was thinking about selling the land to get out, and only by exchanging all the land deeds in his hands for white money could he really avoid the turmoil that he might encounter next.
Although there are a few people like the man in brocade, they are an absolute minority, and most of them are overjoyed in the face of the sudden rise in land prices, especially those who have invested a lot of money in arable land before, after experiencing the torment of the past few days, these people all think that good times have come, and the price of arable land will skyrocket.
Then, an exclamation suddenly sounded in the noisy hall: "No! they have got the news!"
"What's the news?" the man who exclaimed loudly immediately attracted the attention of many people.
The man was watched by so many pairs of eyes, but his face showed irrepressible anxiety, and he hurriedly stretched out his hand to peel off the crowd in front of him.
Unexpectedly, his exclamation had completely aroused the curiosity of the people around him, and they all believed that this person must have thought of something, which was why he was so anxious. So, they got out of the way and pulled him one after another, and asked, "Don't be in a hurry to go!
The man was stopped by many people, unable to move forward, and hurriedly shouted angrily: "What are you doing? Let me buy land! I will go buy farmland!"
Seeing that everyone still refused to let go, the man had no choice but to scold loudly: "You fools! Such an obvious thing has not yet been understood! Now that the cultivated land outside the city can be circulated, most of it has been bought out by the gang of people with the seven sects and five surnames, and now the price of cultivated land has skyrocketed, it is obvious that these people have won the battle in Chang'an City, and this will take advantage of the victory, intending to defeat the local forces of Yuzhang in one go!"
There are also many people around who know the inside story, as soon as they heard this person say this, after comparing the news they got, they thought for a while that the matter of Chang'an City should have ended. And those who have a way behind them to know more inside information think more, and they now guess that Li Shizhi's case is over, and this big man must have survived this crisis without danger. Come to think of it, Li Shizhi, Wei Jian, and Huangfu Weiming are all important ministers of the government and the opposition, how can these turtle families in Yuzhang County be their opponents?
After thinking about this, those people no longer had any doubts, and sent people to the counter, grabbed the guests who were selling the land, and offered higher prices, intending to buy the farmland in their hands.
But he didn't notice that the man who screamed just now was gradually disappearing from the surging crowd at the moment......