What made Li Zhongyi feel a headache was that it was not easy to purchase grain, but the money given by Chai Rong was very small, only according to the seventy percent of the grain price on the market.

Even if Li Zhongyi gets the money, if the price of grain in Kaifeng Mansion is raised to the point that the common people can't afford it, his head will still be cut off by Chai Rong and used as a scapegoat for the grass people's anger.

In this way, Li Zhongyi was forced to accept the task of buying grain without a choice, but he was faced with an almost insurmountable barrier.

Li Zhongyi locked himself at home, pondered for three days, and decided to do a big thing. Once this matter is done, Chai Rong will no longer be able to do without him, the "God of Wealth".

In the vicinity of Xiaoyaojin, because Li Zhongyi bought a thousand acres of wasteland in advance, he directly circled fifty acres of land.

Then, Li Zhongyi invited 500 strong idlers to dig pits in shifts in the enclosed wasteland with 30 yuan a day and a preferential salary for taking care of food.

Immediately afterwards, Li Zhongyi arranged for Huang Jingsheng to spread out in the bazaar to buy bamboo, bark, pine bark, broken linen cloth, hemp bark, rotten grass and other items at high prices.

Due to the support of the bazaar, Li Zhongyi's acquisition work went quite smoothly. In fact, these things he bought are not worth much at all in the people.

Now, these waste products can be exchanged for money, and businessmen from near and far are flocking to them. Nowadays, when the farming season is slack, many farmers even push wheelbarrows to help buy these waste products and sell them to Li Zhongyi.

According to the agreed time, more than a month has passed. Li Zhongyi has not yet received a grain of grain.

Chai Rong, who got the eyeliner report, couldn't sit still, and it was a trivial matter to cut off Li's head. The preparation of military rations is a big matter, and this cannot be delayed!

Li Zhongyi was busy working at the construction site where the high wall was erected, and when he suddenly heard that Zhao Kuangyin was coming, he couldn't help but smile slightly.

Hehe, I'm afraid Boss Chai is worried, this is to let Zhao Kuangyin come to find out the news, right?

Li Zhongyi welcomed Zhao Kuangyin into the heavily guarded high wall, and the two had just met. Zhao Lao Er asked him in a low voice: "Why don't you hurry up to raise food?" Pounding some useless stuff here, you're really not afraid of losing your head? ”

Li Zhongyi sighed heavily and said, "Now the big grain merchants in the entire Kaifeng Mansion know that I want to buy grain. As soon as my side makes a move, the price of food in the city will immediately double. At that time, you can tell me that my head can't fall off? ”

Zhao Kuangyin is also a big understanding person. He sighed and said, "Alas. Your majesty has a terrible problem for you! ”

"Alas, if His Majesty had allocated enough money, I wouldn't have such a headache." Li Zhongyi doesn't complain at this time, so when will he wait?

Zhao Kuangyin accompanied Li Zhongyi for a while, and kindly reminded: "If you can't hand over the food at that time, with Your Majesty's temper, it is likely to be ......" He raised his hand and made a downward motion.

Li Zhongyi sighed fiercely. said: "Brother Yuen Long, you won't watch me lose my head, right?" ”

Zhao Kuangyin patted his chest and said, "Where did Mr. come from?" As long as I can do it. There is no ambiguity. ”

Li Zhongyi smiled secretly in his heart, what he was waiting for was Zhao Laoer's words, between him and Chai Rong, there was really a need for a middleman to pass the word.

"You secretly report to Your Majesty, just say this and that......" Li Zhongyi attached to Zhao Kuangyin's ear and muttered quietly for a while.

After Zhao Kuangyin listened, he couldn't help but widen his eyes, and asked Li Zhongyi in surprise: "Can this work?" ”

Li Zhongyi sighed and said, "If you can't do it, you have to do it, do you want to watch my whole family go to a dead end?" ”

"Well, I'll help you do that." Zhao Kuangyin also knew that Chai Rong was deliberately making things difficult for Li Zhongyi, but compared with the overall situation of the Northern Expedition to Khitan, Li Zhongyi's head became a small situation.

Just when Li Zhongyi was making trouble in private, the magnates and grain merchants in Kaifeng City were waiting to see his jokes.

"Hehe, that 2 ministers, this time he is dead."

"Yes, yes, as long as the grain is stored well, it will be stored for three years and five years, and there will be no problem at all. If you don't give a reasonable price, Lao Tzu would rather cover it up than sell it. ”

There are different opinions, and there are all kinds of things, anyway, no one is optimistic that Li Zhongyi will eventually receive enough food.

On this day, after Li Zhongyi was busy working on the construction site, he returned to Jinka, and just sat down and took a sip of hot tea, when he heard that Liang Guobin, one of the top ten grain merchants in Beijing, had come to visit.

After Liang Guobin entered the door, he said proudly: "Li Jinling, I have 300,000 stone of grain there, and I only need this number." He stretched out five fingers and spread them out in front of Li Zhongyi.

Fifty cents a liter? Li Zhongyi secretly sneered in his heart, surnamed Liang, you are really crazy about money.

Large-scale grain purchases must deal with large grain merchants, and relying on retail grain purchases in the market is not only expensive, but also impossible to gather hundreds of thousands of stone of grain in a short period of time.

Liang Guobin was afraid that Li Zhongyi was cornered, so he took the initiative to come to the door to extort.

Seeing that Li Zhongyi didn't squeak, Liang Guobin smiled and said: "Don't hide it from Li Jin, the grain merchants in the city have already discussed, lower than the figure I just said, let alone 300,000 stone of grain, even if it is 10,000 stone, you can't make it up." ”

Li Zhongyi has his back to the Xiaoyaojin Market, and it is naturally impossible to be unfamiliar with the grain market. He knew that since the news leaked, the major grain merchants in Kaifeng City had stepped up their purchases of grain, waiting to make a lot of money from him, and then sat on the shore and watched him capsize.

Although Chai Rong's money for Li Zhongyi's grain purchase is not much, it is also a huge amount of money. The red-eyed profiteering people all stared at the big piece of fat in his hand, and they all wanted to swallow it in one bite, and Liang Guobin was obviously the most uncontrollable one among them.

Li Zhongyi secretly sneered in his heart, but his face was silent, he said lightly: "Someone is already going to sell me grain, and the price is very low, only ten cents a liter." ”

"What? How is this possible, this is already far below the purchase price. Liang Guobin stared at Li Zhongyi in disbelief. You don't have a high fever, do you? ”

Li Zhongyi smiled slightly and said, "Since Liang Gong doesn't believe it, there is nothing to do in the future. ”

"Hmph. If that's the case, how much I have, how much I want. "The backer behind Liang Guobin is extremely hard, so hard that you can't imagine it, that's why he dares to be so arrogant.

"Huh. Liang Gong, only if you have food, are you worried that you can't sell it? Why should I sell it to you? This Kaifeng house. I don't know how many grain merchants are waiting in line. Li Zhongyi knew very well in his heart that if he really had a large amount of grain in his hands, the grain merchants in Kaifeng would definitely jump out as soon as possible. Open to acquisitions.

It's actually quite simple. Grain merchants and their backstage bosses make money from the monopoly of selling high and buying low, taking advantage of the fire to rob.

Once a large amount of grain appears on the market, the grain stocks on hand of the big grain merchants will also depreciate sharply, and where will the windfall profits come from?

"Hmph, the old man is still afraid that your lies will not come true? You can't buy much food. Liang Guobin thought of the monstrous power of the backstage boss. The confidence in my heart suddenly exploded, "It's better to be like this." Let's find some famous gentry to be a witness, and make a note between you and me, if you get 300,000 stone of grain by then, all my belongings will belong to you, otherwise, your bazaar in Yaojin will all belong to the old man, what do you think? ”

Li Zhongyi thought to himself, aren't you bullying people, knowing that it will be difficult for Lao Tzu to get a large amount of food in the short term, you actually set up such a ruthless gamble, obviously trying to swallow the batch market that Lao Tzu has worked so hard to manage.

Having said that, Liang Guobin does have a long-term strategic vision, and over time, the Xiaoyaojin Bazaar in Li Zhongyi's hands will gradually grow and become a pivotal commercial distribution center for the entire Great Zhou Dynasty.

Whether it is the flow of people, business, or money, it will make people drool when they look at it.

Dog thing, it's just that Lao Tzu doesn't mess with you, he actually coveted it and remembered Lao Tzu's belongings!

Li Zhongyi knew very well in his heart that Liang Guobin and his master-in-the-scenes were expected to be unable to turn over and would definitely die. So I want to start in advance and take away his property before he dies.

His heart is really damned!

Li Zhongyi pretended to hesitate and deliberately did not speak, Liang Guobin waited for a long time, but never saw a response, and he was inevitably a little anxious.

Xiaoyaojin Bazaar, such a big piece of fat, you can only have a fast hand, and there is absolutely no slow hand, how can Liang Guobin miss the opportunity?

"Otherwise, the old man will hand over 300,000 stone of grain for you, and all your family will be sold to the old man as slaves, what do you think?" Liang Guobin's eyes rolled several times, and he deliberately used a radical trick to lure Li Zhongyi to take the bait.

"The surname is Liang, you are a puppet, you deceive people too much!" Li Zhongyi slapped the table violently, and Huo stood up, "Lao Tzu will accompany you to bet on this." ”

Liang Guobin was secretly proud in his heart, stinky boy, Jiang is still old and spicy after all, you are so manic, just wait for your death and defeat.

After the clever plan succeeded, Liang Guobin was worried that Ye Chang would have many dreams, so he hurriedly sent someone to write a post and invite someone to testify.

More than an hour later, Li Zhongyi had a huge private room on the second floor of the teahouse, which was crowded with celebrities and wealthy businessmen in Kaifeng Mansion.

Among them, the highest status is actually the prime minister's Fan Qian, as soon as Li Zhongyi saw this person's figure, he understood it in his heart.

Chai Rong has been secretly watching his every move, and this time he deliberately sent Fan Zhen over to be a witness, this is to see how capable he is.

The boss behind Liang Guobin is the second most powerful military general in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the commander of the guards and pro-army Ma Bujun, Li Chongjin.

Li Chongjin was the nephew of Guo Wei, the Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, but when Guo Wei was seriously ill, he passed the throne to Chai Rong, the king of Jin at that time.

Li Zhongyi had already inquired about the background of the top ten grain merchants in the capital. Chai Rong has two major opponents in the court, one is the strongest palace to check Zhang Yongde, and the other is Li Chongjin, who is the biggest threat to the imperial bloodline.

This Li Chongjin holds the military power, but he is privately expanding his wealth, what is the picture, can a male lord like Chai Rong not know?

To put it bluntly, Chai Rong deliberately put a heavy burden on Li Zhongyi, just to force Li Zhongyi to cut off the most profitable source of income for the elites in the DPRK and China - grain.

Now, Li Chongjin's white gloves took the initiative to provoke, wanting to swallow Li Zhongyi's hard work in one bite, how could there be such a cheap thing?

So, under the witness of everyone, Li Zhongyi took out the Xiaoyaojin Bazaar as a bet, and Liang Guobin signed the contract with his full net worth as a bargaining chip. (To be continued!)

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