Chapter III. 254

Qi Hui and Zhang Yong, who were strong because of the table, while eating exquisite and delicious Jiangnan snacks, drank elegant and fragrant tea, chatted from Tiannan to Haibei, and from Fengyue to business; As the topic gradually deepened, the misty spring rain outside the window gradually stopped......

Qi Hui, who was born as a tooth man, is a top master of teasing and cheering; relied only on language to set up an ambush, and hooked up Zhang Yong's conversation, and took out endless inside information; In addition, the morning tea atmosphere in Guangling City generally lasts until the afternoon; So even though it was already in the afternoon, there was still a leisurely and lazy atmosphere in the entire Xingchun Tea House, and few people left early. Want to - free - free - watch - end - full - version please Baidu search - so this pair of new friends who have just met and are already interested in each other, naturally the more they talk, the more speculative they are, and the more they chat, the happier they are.

Until the end of the day, the dim sum has also used up three or four rounds, and it is almost time to separate. Zhang Yong, who made an appointment with Mr. in advance yesterday and was in a hurry to go to Houliu Lane to listen to the commentary, also went to the righteous brother of Youbei who he had just met with guilt with a guilty face; Qi Hui also took three sea shark business men who had stolen half a day's leisure and left this Xingchun Tea House.

After pouring a stomach full of tea, and returning without stopping for most of the day, he just returned to the study of his residence, and immediately studied the ink and filled in the pen, and wrote hard without saying a word.

After another quarter of an hour or so, Qi Hui paused to blow his pen and ink, raised his head and said to Shen Gui:

"Whew, it's done! This is all the types of goods that have experienced abnormal price fluctuations in the Nankang market in the past three months; There are also some short-term fluctuations that I don't remember clearly, or that are too much moisture, and I've already marked them all later, so see for yourself. ”

Shen Gui picked up these papers full of handwriting, glanced at them, and stretched out a finger to the two girls behind him:

"One person takes a handful of counts and listens carefully to me singing and counting."

Two hours later, countless ink-stained pieces of paper were scattered throughout the study. Shen Gui, who was under the light, looked at more and more accounts, and his face became more and more ugly. When he finished reading the last account handed over by Yan Shuqing, the whole person breathed a sigh of relief:

"I'm afraid, something big is going to happen......"

As a snitch with a trick, Qi Yan has no talent for accounts and numbers since he was a child. So when he saw Qi Hui returning home safely, he lay down on the beam of the house and fell asleep with peace of mind. Now that he was awakened by Shen Gui's frustrating words, he yawned and asked:

"What's the matter? Did you steal a large amount of money-losing goods? ”

"No, it's something big going to happen in the Huayu Continent......"

The reason why Shen Gui was able to make this judgment was that all the bases and reasons were deduced from the accounts of the rise and fall of goods.

In recent times, the fluctuations of Nankang goods have been extremely fast: for example, the price of grain has risen wildly, but the price of silk has fallen; The price of iron ore has skyrocketed, while the price of timber has fallen; The price of salt has skyrocketed, but the price of cooking oil has fallen; There are many other abnormal ups and downs like this, far exceeding the normal frequency of market fluctuations.

If the price of goods is abnormal, it will be an excellent business opportunity to buy high and sell low, and strange goods can be lived; In the eyes of Li Le'an, the daughter of a big grain merchant, the family business has encountered a low period, and low-priced rice grain can be used in a timely manner to fill the gap between the reserves of the military warehouse and the official warehouse in Youbei; And in the eyes of the snitch Qi Yan, it is a guide price list for the sale of stolen goods on the black market; But in Shen Gui's eyes, it was the health status of the entire Huayu Continent.

Under normal circumstances, the price of goods rises, and there are generally many large buyers, jointly hoarding goods; But once the magnitude and cycle of the rise exceed the normal level, it is no longer just a simple business behavior.

There is an old saying in the business field, which even ordinary people often talk about, which can just illustrate these problems: collect antiques in prosperous times, and buy gold in troubled times.

In turbulent times when wars break out or natural disasters befall the world, only food and gold are the hard currencies that can cover the world. In addition, even the best things that are expensive and rare on weekdays are all empty. For example, in today's cultivated land in the Northern Yan Dynasty, the average price of one acre of fertile land is about seven taels to ten taels of silver; But when Dayan fell and Huayu Continent bloomed on all sides, the title deed of one acre of fertile land could only be exchanged for half a bucket of millet.

The Nankang Dynasty is the base camp of the world's wealthy merchants, and the actual king of the Nankang Dynasty is not the mascot who lives in Jiankang City, but a combination of wealthy businessmen and famous families. To put it mildly, although Nankang is a lame dynasty that values commerce and suppresses martial arts; But at least in the field of commerce, the Nankang Dynasty, which was controlled by merchants and big clans, could already control the price trend of every goods on the Huayu Continent.

Chunjiang Plumbing Duck Prophet, how can even Shen Gui, a layman, figure out the taste, hide from the eyes of businessmen? Therefore, the private affairs of any family on the Huayu continent are not a secret in Nankang.

For example, before the start of the War between the Two Norths, the prices of grain, medicinal materials, furs, mountain goods, horses and other goods on the entire Huayu continent had actually fallen dramatically; And the reason for the decline is precisely because the merchants who have hoarded similar goods in their hands join forces to dump. They hit the market with a large number of supplies on hand; When the overall price is smashed to a freezing point, they will go back to stock up on a large number of goods, and eat a mouthful of soup first.

When these giants had stocked up on enough low-priced goods, the War between the Two Northern Empires was officially declared. It is conceivable that the source of similar goods fell into war at the same time, and the trade routes were completely blocked at the same time, and the farmers and hunters could not continue to produce goods, so the prices would naturally rise. At all times, the wealthy merchants officially began to eat, and through financial skills such as covering the plate and sealing the warehouse, they could easily bring the market price, which was already as low as the freezing point before the war, to the top of the clouds; While they continue to clamor for a high price to close, they are secretly slowly shipping......

The so-called war money and national disaster money are basically such a way to play.

And today's Shen Gui, from this increase in the pen, from this sum of accounts, found many omenous categories of goods. The mountain goods of the three roads in Youbei, the horses of the Mobei grassland, the white noodles of the land of Sanqin, the rice grain of Qilu Zhongzhou, the medicinal materials of southern Yunnan and western Xinjiang, the dry goods and seafood of the Minjiang and Yuejiang rivers, etc......

If you look at the ups and downs alone, the origin of these goods is all over the Huayu continent; Even the production of small neighboring countries has also experienced huge abnormal fluctuations. However, the only strange thing is that the most worthless antiques and imported crafts in the troubled times in the past have not been affected in any way, and there has not even been a slight fluctuation.

You must know that these rare things are all transported to the Huayu continent by drifting across the ocean and taking big ships; Because all the foreign merchant ships of the Nankang Dynasty were docked at Shencheng Wharf to unload their goods; In other words, the price stability of these imported products also represents the fact that these business giants of Nankang have extremely strong confidence in the prediction that the war will not affect Nankang's local area!

In other words, the direction of this battle is strictly controlled by them.

It's also a bit ridiculous to say that the biggest advantage of wealth is that it can give people more choices; However, although most of the wealth of the Nankang merchants has been piled up, it has become a number game; But their choice is still to accumulate more wealth.

In their view, there was such a war treasure at hand, and it was within easy reach; If any business group does not add fuel to the fire and take advantage of the situation, it is already a ruined behavior of the sky; If anyone dares to try to get in the way of it, try in vain to eliminate the flames of war and unite the Huayu Continent, then he will immediately become the enemy of all the merchants, and even the enemy of the entire Nankang Dynasty!

Right now, Shen Gui, who has just sorted out some clues from rumors and accounts, wants to be such a person; Become a miser who makes these only yellow and white things in their eyes, an enemy hated to the bone!

Shopping malls are like battlefields, and timely and accurate news is always a magic weapon that determines the final victory. The price trend of goods in the market of the entire Nankang Dynasty is changing with the news of Di Ting's sale; As the main commercial artery of Huayu mainland, the Yanlin Grand Canal stands a watchtower every other distance; On the watchtower, there is a flag bearer holding a red and blue flag, using the bright flag in his hand to quickly convey all the fresh news that may lead to changes in the market.

Shen Gui's benefits for the news couldn't be clearer. During the period of the Youbei Dynasty, he relied on shamanism and Jianghu Dao to open up the line of heaven and earth, and quickly weaved a news network extending in all directions; With the assistance of this big net, there are several classic battles in which the weak defeated the strong in the future.

But at this time and at that time. They are now in the hinterland of the Nankang Dynasty, and they are fighting away from home without reaching the sky and the ground. Although the Qi family and his wife have worked hard for many years to manage the Huayan Business Gang and the Sea Shark Firm, they can serve as a solid backing for Shen Gui; But with the two powerful arms of the shaman, the winter solstice, they were completely annihilated in an accident; And the rivers and lakes that have nurtured the people at the bottom of the Huayu Continent for thousands of years have almost disappeared in the Nankang Dynasty controlled by wealthy merchants and clans......

In other words, Shen Gui and others, who are now fighting in other places and are isolated, are equivalent to a group of blind and deaf people who can't speak; What's even more terrifying is that these awkward wasted people, because of Shen Gui's uneasiness, have made many enemies and enemies......

Fortunately, Shen Gui still has two Heavenly Spirit Veiners in his heart as killers; Although these two old men are all unreliable and often disappear out of thin air, as long as they are willing to make a move, then there will be no more disputes in the entire Huayu Continent!

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