"Zheng Jia's quick announcement of the number of grain sold so far!"

"Zheng Family ......"

On the street in front of Zheng's rice shop, a group of Ruyang people were instigated by the guards sent by Zhao Yu to coax the store, and the Zheng family servants in the store were full of anger.

Or a domestic servant scolded hatefully: "Helping the Zhao family like this, isn't it because you have received any benefits?" ”

Scolding and scolding, in fact, the servants of the Zheng family in the store all understand in their hearts that it is not so much that the group of people on the street has accepted the benefits of the Zhao family, but that this group of good deeds is purely to watch the excitement and not think it is a big deal...... How good is it to have the time to carry a hoe to the farm? Do you want to join in the fun?

In the past, who dared to ridicule the Zheng family like this?

That is, this time, the threat of the Zhao family on the other side is too great, so that the Zheng family can only be honest in order to take care of face, otherwise this group of good deeds on the street will catch a few people and break their legs in the store, who would dare to say anything nonsense in the entire Ruyang?

At this moment, a domestic servant hurriedly ran down from the second floor and shouted: "The prince has a life, announce the results of the grain sale." ”

"Announcement?"

The servants of the Zheng family in the shop looked at each other, after all, they also knew roughly that the amount of grain sold by his family might not be comparable to that of the other side so far.

Subsequently, Zheng's rice shop also stopped selling rice and grain, and waited for half a stick of incense before two Zheng family servants walked out with black faces and hung a wooden sign outside the door.

The people on the street hurriedly stepped forward to take a look, only to see that the number on the wooden sign was 4,100 stones.

"Four thousand one hundred stones?"

"There really isn't much to ...... Zhao family"

"But it's not much different......"

"That is, the group of people in the Zhao family also said that the Zheng family only sold 1,000 or 2,000 stones, and that face was disgusting......

"The Zheng family is my Ruyang family, how can it be compared to a mere family from a foreign country?"

The people of Ruyang on the street talked a lot about this, some thought that the Zheng family lost, but more people chose to protect the Zheng family, after all, 4,100 stones and 5,000 stones are indeed about the same, and in their opinion, they can catch up in a few days, and there is no victory or defeat.

Even, they praised the Zheng family's frankness.

At this time, several Zhao family guards who were mixed in the crowd saw that they could not provoke the Ruyang people to mock the Zheng family, so they returned to the rice shop with interest and reported the matter to Zhao Yu.

"Four thousand one hundred stones?"

Zhao Yu stood at the window and secretly estimated, calculated and calculated, and felt that the number was indeed about the same.

After all, he also knew that before the emergence of the 'third party' forces of merchants and other families in Ruyang City, the Zheng family's business was indeed better than theirs, after all, the Zheng family was a local, and under the same price and no need to queue for a long time, the locals in Ruyang would basically still support the Zheng family's business.

"This Zheng Qian...... I can't see that there is still a bit of backbone. Or did he think about the consequences? ”

Zhao Yu chuckled secretly.

To be honest, Zheng Qian's announcement of the real grain sales results so honestly was a little unexpected to him, you must know that he was already prepared, as long as the Zheng family concealed the number of grain sales, whether it was because the grain sales were backward or because they couldn't pull it down, he would take the guards to the street to make a wave, and take the opportunity to discredit the Zheng family - anyway, he was sure that it was his Zhao family's grain sales that were the lead, if the Zhao family lied about the number, how could he not instigate Ruyang's good deeds to check the accounts?

In this era of the supremacy of reputation, even if it is a strong Zheng family, it will eventually succumb because of the care of face.

Unexpectedly, Zheng Qian honestly announced the true results, which made Zhao Yu's plan to take the opportunity to discredit the Zheng family go bankrupt.

But it doesn't matter, anyway, Zhao Yu's purpose has been achieved.

"Since Zheng Qian has reported the true amount of grain sold despite his family's disgrace, it can be seen that he has made up his mind to chase after us, as far as the current situation in Ruyang is concerned, if he wants to chase after our family, he can only ask the rest of the merchants and families in the city to send people to his house to buy rice......"

I have to say that Zhao Yu's thinking is very clear, and Zhang Ji, Ma Cheng and others nodded again and again.

Facts have proved that Zhao Yu's judgment is not wrong at all, and after just two days, the Zheng family's rice shop sold grain with '8,200 stones', far ahead of the Zhao family's '6,500 stones' grain sales.

This made the direction of public opinion on the street completely reversed, and many people helped the Zheng family ridicule the Zhao family.

"Didn't your Zhao family say that this Ruyang City only needs your Zhao family's rice shop to be enough? Why was the amount of grain sold surpassed by the Zheng family? ”

"Haha, I'll just say, how could the Zheng family lose to an alien family so easily."

Unlike last time, even though the Zhao family was temporarily ahead last time, there were still a group of people who helped the Zheng family speak, but this time, there were very few people who helped the Zhao family speak, and the reason for summarizing it was nothing more than one: the Zhao family was an outsider after all.

As for the ridicule of the group of people on the street, Zhao Yu and the guards and servants under him seemed to be fighting silently as if they hadn't heard it.

In contrast, in the Zheng family's rice shop, the servants and guards of the Zheng family were cheering, cheering that they had overtaken the Zhao family and forced the arrogant guys to shut up.

Only Zheng Qian couldn't laugh.

Others don't know, doesn't he know the purpose of the Zhao family deliberately announcing the amount of grain sold?

He heard that in the past two days, the Zhao family hired a group of locals to investigate the merchants and families in the city who took the opportunity to hoard grain and rice, and it was obvious that Zhao Yu had already sensed the existence of a 'third thrust' - I have to say that this kid is indeed very smart, and hired the locals in Ruyang to do this, no matter whether it is found or not, at least the news has been released, warning the group of people in the city who are trying to fish in troubled waters.

One strategy to deal with the group of people in the city who tried to fish in troubled waters, and another strategy to deal with his Zheng family, the trick he Zheng Qian secretly played was easily cracked by the other party.

Even, his Zheng's rice shop was led by the nose by the other party.

It is true that surpassing the Zhao family in terms of the number of grain sold, and even leaving the Zhao family far behind, is certainly a happy thing, but don't forget, this also means that they are more at a loss than the Zhao family.

"It's enough to keep ahead, so that the Zhao family can't always surpass, there's no need to lead too much......

Zheng Qian thought secretly in his heart.

Compared with the other side, he also has advantages, for example, he can control the merchants and families in the city, and use these people to balance the number of grain sales of the Zhao and Zheng families, which will not make the Zhao family take the lead and let Zhao Yu's kid find an opportunity to mock his Zheng family, nor will he let the Zheng family lead too much and suffer greater losses.

This is an advantage that Zhao Yu on the other side does not have.

Time passed day by day, and in the blink of an eye, in the middle of April, the shops of Zhao and Zheng in Ruyang City had sold more than 20,000 stone rice respectively.

Doesn't seem like much, does it? That's because this is only the amount of grain sold in Ruyang, and in the rest of the Rushui counties such as Linru, Lunshi, and Jiaxian, which have excluded Yangcheng and Runan counties, the Zhao and Zheng families have sold nearly 50,000 stone of grain each.

A family of more than 70,000 stones......

It is no exaggeration to say that this amount is almost equivalent to the grain stored by the government of a county town, Zheng Qian couldn't imagine how the Luyang Zhao clan could get so much rice—he later learned that the Luyang Township Marquis had received great help from the in-law Yuncheng Zhou clan—he only knew that he was already a little frightened.

Recently, some of his relatives in Henan counties went to Ruyang to discuss and complain about his father, the Marquis of Ruyang, because in order to fight this battle with the Zhao family, the Zheng family's division purchased grain and rice in various counties in Henan and shipped it to Ruyang, bought it at a high price in Henan counties, and sold it at a low price in Rushui counties.

Thinking about it, the price of rice in Henan counties was originally about 230 yuan a stone, even if the Zheng family could buy grain and rice at half price at first, it would almost cost about 120 yuan, and then counting the manpower and material resources for transportation, the conservative cost was about 130 yuan a stone.

In other words, the Zheng family lost thirty yuan when they sold one stone of rice.

And this was still at the beginning, and then, with the Zheng family's large-scale purchase of rice prices in Henan, it invisibly caused the rice family in Henan to soar, and it has risen to about 270 yuan, and almost the Zheng family will lose 50 or 60 yuan when selling one stone of rice.

So far, the Zheng family has sold more than 70,000 stone rice in Rushui counties, guess how much they have lost?

It can only be said that even if it is the Zheng family, it will also cause the whole clan to tremble.

Some people may ask, the Zheng family has lost so much, I believe that the Luyang Zhao family is not comfortable, right?

This is the interesting place, Luyang Zhao with the help of the power of the in-law Yuncheng Zhou, from Dingtao, Hebei, Xuzhou to buy grain and rice, part of it transported to Yuncheng, Rushui to Rushui counties, and Zheng family fighting, part of it was transported to Ye County, loaded and transported to Wancheng, at a price two percent higher than the market price - that is, about 260 to 280 yuan a stone, sold to Wancheng Military Market.

And when the Zheng family learned of this and prepared to trade with Wancheng Military City, they found that they had no way to go at all: to the west, they had to pass through Luyang, and to the east, they had to pass through Yexian, but Luyang and Yexian were full of rumors that were unfavorable to his Ruyang Zheng family, and the locals were extremely repulsive to them.

So in this confrontation, the Zhou family basically kept their capital, and the Zhao family didn't lose much, but the Zheng family lost a mess.

For such an 'injustice', the Zheng family naturally has to take revenge.

No, Zheng Qian immediately went straight to Wancheng and personally asked to see Wang Shangde, the general of the garrison in Wancheng.

At that time, he said to Wang Shangde: "The Luyang Zhao family manipulated the public opinion in Luyang and Ye County to prevent my Zheng family from passing, but the hateful thing is that the county orders of Lu and Ye counties turned a deaf ear and indulged the Zhao family to suppress my family...... My family and the general are doing business in the city, and the Zhao family dares to stop it, but his father and son don't take the general in their eyes at all. ”

Zheng Qian said it very seriously, but Wang Shangde didn't eat it at all.

If Wang Zhi was willing to donate 100,000 or 200,000 stone rice when he came to see Wang Shangde, then even if Wang Shangde might not have issued him a certificate of access to the city, he would at least remember the Zheng family in Ruyang.

After all, if you get benefits from the Zheng family, you can take advantage of it once and you can take advantage of it twice, this General Wang is so realistic.

Of course, in addition to taking advantage, Wang Shangde will also help reconcile the grievances of the Zhao and Zheng families, but since the Zheng family is not on the road, what does he care about the Zheng family?

At least on the side of the Luyang Zhao family, they promised to bring him hundreds of thousands of stone grains.

Although Wang Shangde has only bought tens of thousands of stones from the Zhao family so far, he has also inquired about the Yuncheng Zhou family, and he is quite relieved about the promise made by Zhao Yu that day, where will he ignore Zheng Qian.

Unless Zheng Qian promised to sell him more than ten or two hundred thousand grains cheaply, then he could still consider whether to come forward to reconcile the Zhao and Zheng families, otherwise, General Wang, who was busy preparing to crusade against Nanjun, how could he have such idle time.

In desperation, Zheng Qian had no choice but to return to Rushui counties to find another way.

At present, among the Rushui counties, the only ones that the Luyang Zhao clan has not set foot in are Yangcheng and Runan......

No, Runan is also coming soon.

About one-third of the shops in Runan County have hung up the sign of 'Lu Ye Gongji', which makes Liu Yi of Runan County shocked and angry.

Yes, just when the people of Rushui counties set their sights on the war between the Zhao and Zheng families, there was also another war between merchants and merchants in Runan, and a chamber of commerce called the Luye Freemasonry invaded Runan with a devastating force......