A relatively large shop in the east of Yongcheng is crowded with people, here is the grain exchange of Yongcheng, the price of grain from here every day will determine the price of food in the entire Yongdi, in fact, the price marked here does not know that there is food, as well as cloth, tea, salt and other necessities of life.

"Let's go, let's, let's ...... Those who want to see today's grain prices and transactions are lined up and come one by one. "A guy was standing on the second floor and talking to some crowd;" If you don't line up, you won't open the door! ”

Although there were five or six people in the crowd below, they heard the guys upstairs shouting, and everyone honestly went to line up, and none of them dared to resist, at most they complained and scolded.

After everyone lined up, the door of the grain exchange slowly opened, and the people who were originally queuing up neatly squeezed in frantically at the moment the door opened.

"Today's grain price is six taels and one cents per stone, and salt is two hundred and forty taels per stone......" shouted the trader in the block.

"Ha, ha, ha...... It's up again. A big businessman dressed in silk who was as fat as a pig burst into laughter: "Old Jin, I regret that you transferred your 50,000 stone grain to me yesterday!" ”

"Alas!" Lao Jin patted his head and said, "Don't say anything, don't say anything, hurry up and return the 50,000 stone of grain to me." ”

"Why should I give it back to you?" The fat-headed and big-eared old He said with a reluctant face.

"I buy, I buy...... How do you think you buy it back from your hand at the current price? Lao Jin licked his face and asked Lao He.

Lao He folded his fingers and calculated for a while: "Cheng, seeing that we are so familiar, I will transfer your 50,000 stones to you." ”

"It's decided, let's go and sign the paperwork in the back." Lao Jin grabbed Lao He, as if he was afraid that Lao He would run away.

Lao He dragged Lao Jin to a separate room at the back, in addition to Lao He, there was also a witness in the room, and the two traded in front of the witnesses and signed the transaction documents; The two then exchanged bills.

Lao He gave Lao Jin a cash withdrawal bill of 50,000 stone of grain, and with this bill, Lao Jin was able to withdraw 50,000 stone of grain and grass from the granary located in the south of Yongcheng.

And Lao Jin gave Lao He three bills of 5,000 taels, a total of 15,000 taels, with these three bills, Lao He can take out 15,000 taels of silver, or 15,000 silver coins from the Longsheng Money Village next to him; Since the world's bulk trading items must also like to use silver or gold, the exchange service of gold and silver coins of Longsheng Money Village only charges a small fee for each exchange.

After the transaction between Lao Jin and Lao He was completed, Lao Jin took out fifteen gold coins and handed them to the witnesses, which is the handling fee of the transaction, which is not fixed, mainly depending on the size of the transaction amount, generally one percent of the transaction amount is withdrawn as a handling fee, if it is a large transaction, the maximum withdrawal is one thousand taels of silver (that is, one thousand silver coins).

"Congratulations to the two on the deal." After receiving the coin, the witness smiled at the two men.

"There is labor, there is labor...... Lao Jin and Lao He bowed to the witnesses.

The two of them left the room and went their separate ways, and both were satisfied that they had earned it.

Lao He touched the bill in his hand and said happily: "Oops! Now it's too easy to make money, this sleep and a change of hands will make fifteen thousand taels, and when it rises again, I will sell the remaining 100,000 stone grain in my hand, and I don't have to worry about eating and drinking in this life, heh, heh, hehe......"

After Lao Jin and Lao He left, two more people came in to trade, and the process of trading was the same as that of Lao Jin and Lao He; There is more than one room in the exchange to sign documents, every room is trading, and because there are too few rooms, many people need to wait in line, and there are several luxury rooms that are used by large customers for trading, and these people can trade more than 100,000 stone at every turn.

Now the transactions that are less than 10,000 stones are not happy to be traded on the exchange, they are all traded in private, and the key is that they can't afford to lose that person!

And with the grain price in Yongcheng getting higher and higher, there are constantly grain, cloth, salt and other materials from all over the country to Yongcheng, now Yongcheng has almost become the grain trading center of Daqi, affected by the price of grain in Yongcheng, the price of grain in Guanzhong and Hanzhong is also rising, and even the price of grain in Luodu has risen a lot.

"Another penny, another penny......"

"There are still those who have not sold grain, Lao Tzu will charge fifty wen more than the current price......

"Shopkeeper Chu, you're embarrassed to say it for fifty more wen!" Qian Ding on the side sneered: "Lao Tzu has one more money to collect, and if you want to make a move, hurry up." ”

"Money shopkeeper, you are demolishing! Lao Tzu has an extra penny and fifty wen......"

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Qian Ding and the shopkeeper Chu soared again, and soon the price of grain was fried from six taels and two dollars to six taels and five dollars by the two, but even if the two quarreled happily, few people made a move; According to this situation, there is absolutely no problem for the price to rise further, and it will definitely be seen as a big fool to make a move now.

At the end of the day's trading in the midst of the noise, the merchants with whom the better relationship was in good relations began to gather in twos and threes, discussing the trend of the prices of grain, salt, cloth, etc., while walking towards Wei Mei Zhai.

Wei Mei Zhai in Yongcheng opened for a short time, that is, on the eve of the rise in Yongdi grain prices, although the opening time is not long, but Wei Mei Zhai has become the largest restaurant in Yongcheng in a very short period of time, as long as you are willing to spend money, even the emperor Lao Tzu can eat the imperial meal.

As the fame of Wei Mei Zhai grows, merchants from all over the world come to taste it, and more and more customers come to Wei Mei Zhai every day; Up to now, Meimeizhai has reached the point where it is difficult to determine a table, if you want to eat in Meimeizhai, you must book three days in advance, otherwise there is no place at all, and eating in Meimeizhai is no longer a simple meal, but has developed into a symbol of identity and status.

And because the people who come to eat are big businessmen from all over the world, the news from all over the world has also begun to spread from here, and even many internal information in the exchange can be heard, of course, those who can hear these inside information are very high-status people, in a word, coming to eat in Meiwei Zhai is not just about eating.

Different from the chaotic noise of Wei Mei Zhai, in a big tent in the Yongbei camp, a group of account gentlemen are "snapping, snapping, ......snapping" fiddling with the abacus in their hands.

Ling Jing and Song Yiming kept patrolling back and forth, both of them had very serious faces, waiting for the final results; The beating of the abacus did not stop until late at night.

"Two adults, it's been calculated." An official came to Ling Jing and Song Yiming and said, "This is the final result of the calculation. ”

Ling Jing saw the numbers on the account book, and asked in a trembling voice, "Are you sure you didn't make a mistake?" ”

"Lord Yu, Xiaguan and others are divided into three waves of separate calculations, and the final results are all the same, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it." The official assured Ling Jing.

"Lord Ling, stop it! If I don't stop, I'm afraid the consequences will be too serious. Song Yiming said to Ling Jing.