In Yanjing City, Ju Jiama's side has been very high-profile recently, firstly, because his "brother-in-law" Yelu Yixin was really promoted to the privy envoy of the Southern Yuan, just waiting for Yelu Yixin to be a safe official, and all the army food supplies in the sixteen states of Yanyun must go to the Ma side.

Second, because in just over two months, he earned a huge sum of nearly 400,000 yuan.

With these two things, it is difficult for the Ma side to be low-key, and his strength does not allow him to be low-key at all. Yelu Yixin's position is equivalent to the former king of the Southern Courtyard, the "brother-in-law" of the king of the Southern Courtyard, where can he be low-key?

In the past, he made money on the horse side, but after all, he was feeding the army, and there was no shortage of business, but the profit was actually not so high.

After all, this money is from the court of Liao, and the court of Liao is also a poor court, which is not much better than the court of the Great Song Dynasty. Fortunately, there is Yelu Yixin's cheap brother-in-law to cover him, otherwise this business would have been robbed a long time ago.

Is the horse side really rich? It's really not like that, because he hasn't been a fortune for a long time, and if it weren't for his sister becoming a favored concubine in Yelu Yixin's family, he would still be a little maid.

So when he made a fortune, he paid special attention to this outfit, the ruby was inlaid on the crown and hat, the jade belt around his waist was inlaid with gold, and the two night pearls that could still shine in the night were always indispensable in his hands.

But in front of people, the horse side is also extremely generous, because he has just mixed into the rich circle not long ago, only by making a generous shot can he quickly bring face to him, and can he show that his horse side is extraordinary.

Now that his cheap brother-in-law has become the privy councillor of the Southern Yuan, he even brags about it when he meets people, boasting that his sister has recently sent something remarkable to his home from the privy council.

Now around Ma Fangfang, there is also a large group of people, the dilapidated nobles of the Liao State, the upstarts of the Han people, the Xi people and the Bohai people who came to Yanjing to find a way.

But Ma Fang went to Han Derang's grandson's house outside the city, it was still polite and thoughtful, this Han family is the real top nobles in the land of Yanyun, although they don't show up in Yanjing City, but outside the city it is a fertile land, the key is that among the Han nobles in the Liao State, nine out of ten were from Han Derang's men in the past, and now no matter whether the friendship is true or not, they still have to sell the Han family a little face.

Han Caiqing Han was dazzled, and when he saw Ma Fang coming to the door, he was also polite, and when he looked at him, he also knew who the privy envoy of the Southern Yuan was now.

"Coming? Look at the tea and sit down. "Han Caiqing, this can be regarded as a greeting to the horse side.

The horse side saluted first, then sat down, and then said, "Grandpa Han, the pony is still here to buy food." ”

"Food, there is still a little, it depends on the price you offer."

"I knew you still had food here, and you were really not an ordinary person." The horse side flattered, but there was bitterness in his heart.

"What's the price?"

"Grandpa Han, you are doing well, my warehouse is empty, this time it is the food supply in the army, and the pony does not dare to ask the court indiscriminately, and please ask Grandpa Han to raise his noble hand." This is the bitterness in Ma Fang's heart, that Liu Xiandi is willing to buy it at a high price, not to mention that his own granary is temporarily empty, and he is also asked to buy grain everywhere. Turn around, the food in the army also has to be supplied, and this business still has to be done, but the court doesn't care so much about you.

If the price increases, it will increase by more than 100 dollars, and it will make sense to explain it with a face. If it suddenly doubles and rises, even if he has ten guts, he will not dare to do it, unless this long-term business is not done.

"Well, pony, don't be sloppy with me, and who is the privy envoy of the Southern Court now, don't you know when I'm old? The market price has always been seven or eight, don't you still want to sell grain for 700 yuan a stone? Han Caiqing's heart is clear.

Ma Yifang immediately cried and mourned: "Grandpa Han, this Yanjing is the most grain in your family, and no one else is as old as you, if I sell the grain that has always been seven or eight to the imperial court, then I can't eat it and walk away, even if my brother-in-law knows, I don't have good fruit to eat." Can't he just take up the post of privy envoy and I'll more than double the military rations, right? When the time comes, I'm afraid that my brother-in-law will also be held by someone......"

Ma Fang is not stupid, even if the price is going to rise, it can't be raised at such a critical moment, at least let Yelu Yixin figure out the yamen of the Southern Privy Council. Otherwise, it will really harm Yelu Yixin.

"Then you can post the money yourself, first post him for two or three months, Yanjing is just these tens of thousands of soldiers, this time I have also heard, you collect grain everywhere, how high the price is also put in your hands, there must be a big business to make a lot of money, paste it for two months, and you can't lose much."

"Grandpa Han, I only made tens of thousands of dollars in the Communist Party, and I went out with military rations for two months, so wouldn't it be in vain?" Ma Fang said half-truths.

"Bargaining is a word, no. Give the money, and the grain will be shipped away. "Han Caiqing doesn't believe in this, he can't control so much, he will give food if he gives money.

"My Grandpa Han, it's a pony, please." Ma would rather beg than spit out some of the money he ate.

"Ah...... What do you say? I can't hear ......" Han Caiqing, dazzled, really true.

"I said, Grandpa Han, please lower the price!"

"What? ...... louder"

"Alas...... Forget it, Grandpa Han, you're busy, I'll go for a walk at another house. "The Ma side has no choice but to find someone else.

Han Caiqing nodded: "Oh, okay, I want to come back as soon as possible, but many people have come to look for me." ”

Ma Fang said goodbye and left, and as soon as he went out, he really ran into an acquaintance.

"Shopkeeper Ma, fortunately, I will be lucky, buy food?"

"Shopkeeper Mo, there is no food in your warehouse?"

"Didn't you buy it from the shopkeeper in front of your head? No, I have to ask Master Han to sell some more, otherwise it will be out of stock. ”

Ma Fang sighed again, got up and left, he had to hurry up and ask other houses, Han Lao'er was a thousand-year-old fox, and he couldn't take advantage of it here, so he had to go to a remote place in the countryside to find some big families to ask, and the people there were slow news, maybe they could get a little benefit.

In Yanjing City, there is a grain store at the door, crowded with many people. The women in the neighborhood next door, the errand workers who get off work in the official office, and the small traders who walk the streets......

It's noisy.

"Ma Fang, who has no conscience, really sold for two hundred yuan for seventy-five dollars a bucket of grain, where is there such a reason in the world?"

"Do you want people to live?"

"In the past, when he lived next door to my house, there was no food at home, and I helped him, but now it's good, and I don't even give him a way to live."

"Lao Tzu stands in the yamen every day, and he has always had more money a month, but now at this grain price, how can he support a family?"

A shopkeeper bowed his hand and explained: "Neighbors, it's not like our family, you go to Yanjing City to walk around, ask more, it's all at this price, now this grain is transported from outside the city, one stone is always seven or eight, if you don't believe it, take the trouble to go out of a mile and ask......

"Killing a thousand knives, didn't you grain merchants join forces to raise the price? Ready to push us to our deaths? ”

The shopkeeper said: "Don't say anything about not dying, who doesn't have any savings?" If anyone doesn't have anything that can be exchanged for money, Xu will only be in the past two or three months, one by one, and after a while, it will pass. ”

"Ma Fang has no conscience, so I won't buy it at his house in the future, let's go to another place and ask, I still don't believe it, and there is no catastrophe or famine, why should the price of food rise?"

"Let's go to the west of the city and have a look."

……

The crowd slowly dispersed, and at this time, Ma Fang came back with an unhappy face.

"Boss, can you buy food?"

Ma Fang shook his head and scolded: "Every family has grain, and there is no family to talk to, and now they have tasted the sweetness, and they all think that strange goods can live, if my brother Liu Xian doesn't buy it in the future, see if their grain will rot in the granary." ”

If you want to buy up the rations of six or seven million people, it is obviously unrealistic for Ganqi, the market price seems to be the relationship between demand and supply, but things are often not so simple, speculation on prices is related to supply and demand, but if you really want to speculate, the relationship between supply and demand is not so important.

When everyone knows that the things in their hands are strange and livable, then the supplier market will naturally shrink, not because there is no supply, but because they are reluctant to supply to the outside, and they are reluctant to reduce the price to supply outside.

The scheming Han Caiqing is obviously a representative of this psychology. The people who really had a large amount of grain in their hands were neither peasants nor grain merchants, but landlords. The landlord class, no matter how big or small, is not easy to bully, and the reason why the family can accumulate a large amount of land is because they themselves are the upper class, and the family does not have the slightest relationship with the official, and even has no qualifications as a local owner.

The merchants, compared to the landlords, are far behind.

Now this price is no longer something that can be decided by the merchants, but by the landlords.

The horse side can't say if it's bitter, this grain still has to be bought, and it's impossible not to buy it, because tens of thousands of soldiers are waiting to eat. There is no choice but to take out tens of thousands of dollars from your pocket and go out and post it. Fortunately, he earned a huge sum of nearly 400,000 yuan on Liu Xiandi, gritted his teeth and held on first.

Things are fermenting, and just as the shopkeeper of the grain store said, ordinary people, who have not saved a little, who do not have a little bit of valuable things at home, although the price of this grain has more than doubled, most people can still hold it for the time being.

As for the more beggars on the street and the like, no one cared.

The army's grain is also supplied by the Ma side, although the purchase price of the imperial court has also risen a little, but for one stone of grain, the Ma side has to paste hundreds of dollars into it, and it has to paste it into 30,000 or 40,000 yuan a month.

But the landlords, really don't reduce the price, only the horse side regrets it, regrets that he was stupid before, no matter how anxious he is to ask for food, he should not increase the price to buy. I'd rather let Brother Liu Xiandi wait for a month or two longer, rather than wave his hand and say that it will be sent to Wuqing within ten days.

Two months have passed, and there are more people begging on the streets, and there are even more people who are complaining about it.

When Ma was at a loss, Liu Xiandi came again.

Before Brother Liu Xian could get down to business, Ma Fang said directly: "Brother Liu Xian, this time my brother can't help you buy grain anymore, otherwise the price of this grain will have to rise?" ”

"What's wrong?" Ganchi pretended to be innocent.

"In the beginning, I helped you buy grain three times in a row, and now the price of grain in Yanjing City has more than doubled, and if you continue to buy it, my brother and I can't afford to supply it, and I will supply 70,000 yuan for my brother in two months." Ma Fang is smart, no matter what kind of disaster he starved to death in the country, he was so reluctant to post money every day.

Gan Qi didn't feel any surprise, but this time he came prepared, so he couldn't help but be unentrusted, and said directly: "Brother, do you want to get rich?" ”

Ma Yifan nodded: "Who doesn't want to get rich?" But if you still have to collect grain to save the Japanese country, then my brother really can't help you now, at least in a few months, when the price of food comes down. ”

"I have a way to make my brother rich." Gan Qi said.

"What's the solution?"

"Brother, why do you think the price of food is rising?"

"Naturally, it's because Brother Xian, you bought 400,000 stone grains in Yanyun in more than a month, how can you not go up?"

"Did that brother ever think about taking this opportunity to make a lot of money?"

"Oops...... Brother Xian, it's good if I don't lose money outside, how can I make a lot of money! Ma Fang said.

"Then buy, then raise the price of food to buy, I guarantee that my brother will make a fortune this year."

"You can't buy it, you can't buy it, you want food, brother, then you have to wait......" Ma Fang waved his hand again and again.

"Brother, isn't it just that the military rations are losing 70,000 dollars? As long as my brother listens to me, let alone 70,000 yuan, 700,000 yuan can be earned! ”

"And this kind of thing?"

"Brother, listen to me......"

"You say, you say, I'll listen......"

"Now there is not much grain in the hands of the elder brother, and the grain is in the hands of those landlords, but the elder brother has money in his hands, and hoarding goods is the way to make money, and now the goods are in the hands of the landlords, and the elder brother has raised the price, but it is those landlords who make money, isn't it a pity?"

"I'm also regretting it, now those landlords, looking at the price of grain one by one, don't sell a penny less, they are really angry."

"If my brother buys it at the price of their grain, will they sell it?"

"Then it will naturally be sold, and they all know that I have to supply military rations, so they all open the price and wait for me to go."

"Isn't that right? Then go and buy, at the current price, sign a contract, keep buying, buy as much as you have, buy as much as you have, and if you don't have money, you have to buy it if you borrow money. ”

Ma Fang heard Gan Qi's words, scratched his head, and asked, "Why is this?" I still buy it, so do I have to pay it back? Food prices must not fly to the sky? ”

"That's right, just let the price of food fly to the sky." Gan Qi reminded.

"Then I...... Then I won't die...... Eh...... That's right...... Buy it at the current price, let the price of food fly to the sky, and I will sell it again...... Brother Xian, what do you mean? ”

"This is exactly what the younger brother meant, the elder brother is really smart, the younger brother hasn't said it yet, the elder brother has thought of it, this time, the elder brother should go around to buy grain, raise money to buy, buy as much as he can, the higher the price of grain, the more the elder brother will naturally earn, hundreds of thousands, easy to come."

Ma Fang took a deep breath, his footsteps couldn't help but move left and right, frowning and thinking, and there were words in his mouth: "Brother Xian wakes up the dreamer with a word, and wakes up the dreamer with a word!" It seems that this grain is really to be bought, to make a fortune, in one fell swoop. When the time comes, not to mention tens of thousands of dollars of military rations, hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars will also be earned back for him. ”

"Little brother, I wish my brother a fortune! There is also a younger brother who also wants 100,000 stones, and the price follows the elder brother. "Gan Qi wants another hundred thousand stones.

Ma Fang looked excited: "It's easy to say, as long as my brother goes to buy grain, there will be no virtuous brother." The virtuous brother buys more, it is also a favor for the elder brother, as long as the price of food is raised, the elder brother will really get rich this time. ”

"Brother, things should be done sooner rather than later, the sooner you act, the better, maybe there are others who are also playing this idea, but you can't let others take the lead." Ganchi was going to put a little pressure on the horse's side.

"Exactly, my brother is going out of the city!" The business opportunity is in front of us, and we must seize it.

(PS: The inspiration for this plot actually came from the later fall of the Jin Kingdom, and the fall of the Jin Kingdom was, of course, because of the invasion of the Mongols, which was an external cause.) But why did the Mongols, who had always been subjugated to the Jin State, suddenly turn their heads and destroy the Jin State? In fact, there are also internal causes in the country, that is, prices have skyrocketed, and the price system has failed, resulting in the almost collapse of society. This is all recorded in history, in the last years of the Jin Kingdom, a soldier's salary had to be paid by car. Some readers feel that one person cannot destroy a country's price system, but in fact, they underestimate the financial wisdom of later generations. Why is it effective in the era of Liaojin? It's just because commerce has really developed in this era, and in a country like Liao, the domestic market is actually very small. This truth is the same as why Soros was able to take down several countries by himself. It's just that the ancients didn't understand these modern methods. Lao Zhu wrote this because he wanted to write differently from other authors, so that readers could have some different new experiences. It is completely feasible to use financial means to make Liao's internal turmoil, Jin Guo is playing with himself, and it is completely reasonable for Liao to let Gan Qi get rid of it, as written in Lao Zhuwen. ）