Three hundred and forty-six chapters of grain
The news of the grain transported by the far-away fleet spread from Quanzhou Port to Jiangnan Province like wings, and the grain merchants who were originally waiting for the price to sell were completely panicked!
It turned out that I was expecting a sum to be sent when the green and yellow were not received, but it didn't happen! This year's food prices are simply unpredictable.
In previous years, if there were good years, the price of grain would have been about half cheaper, but this year it is not! Do you want half the cheaper?
Over there, the royal firm came up with a protective price acquisition, no matter how much money you have in previous years, this year it will be 36 yuan of rice, and Tong Su is not bullied! As long as you send it, it's done!
At the beginning, the grain merchant still wanted to see the jokes of the business, who knew that the business did not mean to stop at all, and it would take as much as it sent!
Later, I heard that the grain was sold to Jiangnan Dongdao and Gaochang, Tubo, and Duoji, and only a small part of it went to the official warehouse, so this group of grain merchants panicked!
One by one, they gritted their teeth and wanted to collect it, and the royal merchant also closed it in a timely manner, and sent out a word~ Thirty-six dollars of rice, if the grain merchants dare to lower the price, they will be sent directly to the official warehouse, and the official warehouse will still collect thirty-six dollars of rice!
Now the farmers are shaking, don't you? You don't want to send it to the official warehouse! The grain merchants gritted their teeth and collected the thirty-six dollars according to the bucket of rice!
Seeing that the spring is sowing, although there is some grain in the official warehouse, it is not enough for the caravan and Jiangnan Dongdao to eat!
You must know that Jiangnan Dongdao is not a place where food is produced, except for mountains and rivers, the rest of the flat land is still saline-alkali land, every time the tide comes, the sea water backs up, except for the reeds do not grow anything!
Poor mountains and bad waters, that's what we're talking about!
You see, although your Chang'an Marquis made the family suffer a loss, the family will never sell you food so cheaply!
Especially if the entire Jiangnan Dongdao people eat horses and feed them, they may give you a few thousand loads, but they want them to sell it to you cheaply? That's impossible!
In the later generations, you can buy more at a wholesale price, which can be cheaper, but in the early Tang Dynasty, it was different, and the price was increased even more!
If you buy 36 yuan of bucket rice, if you buy tens of thousands of quintals, you will have to increase the price for others, and the price increase is not counted, if it is a private sale, the government will come to investigate!
All the grain merchants are holding the grain in their hands and preparing to see the jokes of Cheng Hong and Chang'an, this grain is about to be enough, and the grain merchants know it in their hearts.
Just the little grain in the official warehouse is enough for ordinary emergency use, but this grain still can't be moved, in case there is a war or disaster relief, it must come out of this grain!
And the people's grain is okay to supply the people in the Tang Dynasty, if you want to be the Western Turks and the various exchanges of Gaochang countries like last year, it is absolutely not enough!
Now someone has quietly released his words, ready to buy grain for 45 yuan, but none of the grain merchants came out, and they looked like they vowed to repay the revenge of collecting grain at a high price!
And the eldest grandson is also scratching his head here, seeing that after the New Year, the caravan is ready to travel, although the grain in Gaochang can wait until the next wheat harvest, but Dorjee and Yan Yan can't wait!
Let out the words to collect grain, this ** merchant will not sell it again! The grain in the official warehouse didn't dare to move, so I wanted to write to Cheng Hong for advice, but unfortunately Cheng Hong also went to sea!
Okay, what kind of sea do you go to, you pulled up this shelf, and you set the protective price to collect grain, but now the caravan has no food, and you still go to sea!
Although Hou Si didn't bring back much food, after Hou Si's description, it was certain that there was no shortage of food in that place called Zhancheng! And it's super cheap!
Just this one news, the Jiangnan Shi clan who got the news hurriedly sent the news everywhere, and all the grain merchants under their own hands immediately sold the grain, what are you waiting for?
If you wait for Cheng Hong's fleet to come back, not to mention other places, this Jiangnan Dao's grain, that is what Cheng Hong wants it to be at any price!
If the price of grain is low, he can collect it, and if the price of grain is high, he can still pull it back from Champa and sell it! How do you negotiate with him?
In Chang'an City overnight, Changsun Lian's border trade division began to sell grain in twos and threes! And the price is very fair, and there are absolutely no profiteers raising the price!
The eldest grandson is still wondering! Why has it only been a few days, and this has changed its face? Could it be that this **Shang consciousness has suddenly improved?
It wasn't until the fleet that went to Quanzhou to pull salt came back that I learned from them that Cheng Hong had quietly exchanged a lot of rice from a place called Zhancheng! Cheap and white picks up the same!
The eldest grandson wanted to lower the price, but in the evening, the eldest grandson Wuji called the eldest grandson to the room and specially instructed him: "Just collect it according to the proposed price, there is no need to reduce the price!"
Although the eldest grandson was puzzled, he still complied!
In fact, this was not said by the eldest grandson Wuji, but specially instructed by Li Er, after all, in the future, the matter of collecting grain from the countryside and selling it to the grain store in the city will have to be handled by this group of grain merchants!
You can't push them to their death! Besides, the people behind the major grain merchants are all families, although the price of grain can make them suffer, but in the long run, it is better to be mutually beneficial!
I didn't look at Jiangnan Dongdao Since the Gu family fell, the remaining seven families in order to seal Cheng Hong's mouth, the government decree along the way is called a smooth one!
In the past, Cheng Hong's order was also in Quanzhou, to build a Quanzhou city, and even Shanyue's Tan Hall was designed to be captured as a laborer!
That's not all, if there were no people from the Ashina clan who were fooled here, this Quanzhou City might not have been built until now, let alone Quanzhou Port and various factories!
But now Cheng Hong wants to build a cement road from Quanzhou to Tingzhou under the order, and the people who come are stunned to eat, and Cheng Hong's food storage is not enough!
If it weren't for the family's help to buy a lot of food, Cheng Hong would have had an accident here!
It can be seen from this that it is not to blame that people with five surnames and seven hopes do not give face, people themselves have the ability, whether they are writing history books or governing the world, they have to find people, do you dare to offend people casually?
So this matter is tacitly tacitly agreed by both sides, so it was reconciled, you received 36 yuan for rice in the farmhouse, and I have the same price as Chang'an rice here, 45 yuan for rice!
Although you don't lose anything, but if you store it for a winter, you have to drop a little weight, and if you add manpower and material resources, it will be a wasted effort! But at least I won't let you smash your hands! I'm taking care of you!
And the boats pulling grain here in Quanzhou have come back one after another, and Li Ke immediately ordered to build a row of warehouses specifically for grain!
Moreover, let the salt pullers and the sea trainees, except for the necessary patrols and the ships between Quanzhou and Zhangpu, all go to transport grain!
Moreover, Li Ke also deliberately mobilized a batch of short knives and iron arrows from Chang'an! Of course, this arrow is not the kind that Cheng Hong and the others use, but the kind that the caravan sells to the bara!
A team of ships docked safely, and Hou Si led a team of ships to continue to Zhancheng!
This fine white rice was unloaded boatload by boat, and everyone who watched it was dumbfounded! And there is another feature of these rice coming to the Hou Fourth Games, all of which are filled with cabins!
A group of people carried bamboo baskets on the boat, and the people on the boat waved the wooden lifts to load them in, and after they were full, they carried them off the boat and transported them to the granary by horse-drawn carriage!
There was no shelter for loading and unloading on this road, the grain merchants who saw it were dumbfounded, and the people of Quanzhou were overjoyed!
That's it, not to mention Jiangnan Dongdao, there is no shortage of food in the entire Jiangnan Province!
And after watching the boats of grain unloaded, they hurried back to transport the grain, and this group of people completely believed that there was indeed too much grain in the city to eat, and it was outrageously cheap!
By chance, they learned that a kitchen knife could be exchanged for 500 catties of food, and this group of people went completely crazy!
A kitchen knife, now due to the improvement of the level of ironmaking, a kitchen knife is now about 100 yuan, but if it is replaced with grain, it can be called 500 catties!
It's thirty-six dollars of rice, and these five hundred catties have to be consistent! It's the same as robbing money!
So this group of people began to grind hard and start looking for a relationship set that is almost like buying a sea boat!
They can also see the several trips back and forth on the sea, and the ships from the Quanzhou shipyard can't be compared with theirs!
Let's just say that the speed, stability, and load capacity are more than a step bigger than the flat-bottomed boats they built, and any boat in this river can be used, but when you get to the sea, do you expect to row a boat? Exhaust you!
So this sea boat must be bought! And that's the basics!
In the past, from Yuhang to Quanzhou, I paddled along the shore! But it's so inconvenient to go to the open sea!
If there is no food, it will be okay, after all, looking at the sea ship built by Cheng Hong, it is not too cheap!
If there is no big way to get money, it is really not worth it to take so much money to get a sea boat in vain!
But now it's different, a kitchen knife has always had more profits, who can't see it? Gotta get in!
The second point is to see if we can let the Navy lead the way, and what kind of regulations this tax is! You must know that all those who come to Quanzhou in addition to seeing the clean and tidy Quanzhou City, the second impression is the tax!
No matter what you do, you can't pay less in taxes, you won't ask for more in taxes, and as long as you pay taxes, no one will ever make you any trouble!
It doesn't matter where your merchant is, even if you are a local businessman, you don't dare to make trouble at a lower price, of course, if you sell fake goods and people are caught, you will not only be fined, but also jail if you don't get it right!
So in order to save worry, the first consideration for all those who come to Quanzhou to sell things is definitely to pay taxes, because as long as you pay taxes, all your things are protected by Quanzhou government!