Wang Hao's face sank when he heard this, and he deliberately tried to say, "If this is the case, would it be good for Duke Zou to sell the grain in his hand to this son?" ”

Zhang Gongjin's face was overjoyed when he heard this, and he said with a smile, "Very good, at the price of 150 wen per stone, the old man has almost 800,000 stones here, and after Wang Gongzi pays the money, he can send someone to the wharf to transport grain." ”

"Eight hundred thousand stones?"

Wang Hao sighed in his heart, looked at the big boat on the river, and almost fell on the boat.

At present, the population of the entire Hongzhou is only tens of thousands of households, and the grain produced by itself is enough to eat, and now the summer harvest is imminent, but two million stone of grain is hoarded here, and the year of the monkey can only be sold?

"Duke Zou laughed, the kid can't eat so much grain, but I don't know, why does the imperial court sell grain at such a low price?" Wang Hao slowed down before continuing.

"What else can be the reason, it's too much, last year the Turks were disabled by my Datang, the Lingnan Rebellion, and it didn't take the imperial court to settle a single soldier, how many people is there in our Datang? More than two million households, His Majesty gave each household 80 acres of Yongye field, this year most places are in good weather, the imperial court has not been requisitioned because of the war, of course the grain grown can not be eaten, this is this year's new rice seeds have not yet been rolled out, if next year, a stone of grain can be sold for dozens of dollars is good. ”

The more Zhang Gongjin said, the paler Wang Hao's face became, he was not stupid, he knew that what Zhang Gongjin said should be true, there was no war in the imperial court, the people had idle land, and the wind and rain were smooth, and the price of food would only fall all the way.

Historically, after four years of Zhenguan, the price of grain was so low that a later dynasty did not dare to imagine, three or four dollars for rice, and only thirty or forty yuan for a stone of grain, and such prices continued for many years, until the Gaozong period, after a round of population reproduction, the price of rice rose to more than ten yuan.

Wang Hao is a smart person, he only needs to move his brain a little to see the general trend of the future, but seeing this general trend clearly, it makes him break out in a cold sweat.

Isn't the reason why their families are rich and noble precisely because they are landlords, and what kind of grain they have in their hands, and when the grain is so cheap that it is worthless, what do they use to control the tenants who produce for them? What can be used to feed the children who spend a lot of money on studying? This is not a good situation.

Thinking of this section, Wang Hao touched the cold sweat on his forehead and said, "You might as well tell Zou Gong that the kid also has a batch of grain in his hands, and he doesn't know what to do with it." ”

"How much?"

"One million and two hundred thousand stones."

"Sss

Zhang Gongjin took a breath of cool air, pretended to look at Wang Hao in surprise and said, "It is very unwise for Wang Gongzi to hoard so much food in his hands. ”

"Yes! There were originally two fleets in the lower hands, but they did not come to Hongzhou to transport grain, which led to the backlog of grain and grass here. ”

The one on Hongze Lake has been exterminated by the old man, and the one in Hangzhou Bay has also been absorbed by Sun Zhengming, so it's strange that he can come, Zhang Gongjin thought so, but he smiled on his face, "I have a lot of naval vessels, if Wang Gongzi is in need, as long as he gives some coolie money, the old man can help Wang Gongzi transport the grain away." ”

"How much does it cost?" Wang Hao asked tentatively.

"Gongzi's grain is a lot, 1.2 million stones, it is not easy to carry it, and it takes a lot of effort from the boatmen who paddle along the way, and the people who pull the fiber are even less, if it is transported to Chang'an, it will cost at least 50,000 yuan."

50,000 guan transports 1.2 million stone of grain from Hongzhou to Chang'an, which can be said to be a very generous price, but is it worth it for Wang Hao? What he wants is not money or food, these things, the Wang family has a lot, what he wants is a report card on the business, and after finding out that the matter was revealed, his report card was no longer good.

According to Zhang Gongjin's selling price, these grains can only be sold for a total of 180,000 yuan, and they will not be able to sell them in a while and a half when they arrive in Chang'an.

"If this is the case, the grain in his hand will be sold to Zou Gong at a discount, and Zou Gong has a fleet in his hand, so he can first build a warehouse here and put it up, and then slowly transport it to various places with high grain prices to sell, and the cost of building a warehouse will be discounted in the grain price."

Wang Hao is a decisive character, knowing that cutting meat and leaving the field now is the best result, otherwise, the imperial court can really let his grain rot in Hongzhou.

"I think the old man won't be able to sell out of these grains for a while and a half, and it is inevitable to build a warehouse, I don't know what the prince asks?"

"150,000 is good?"

When Zhang Gongjin heard this, he shook his head and said, "After buying it for 150,000 yuan, the old man not only didn't make a profit, but I am afraid that he will lose a lot of money, so Wang Gongzi should find someone else to sell it!" ”

150,000 yuan sells 1.2 million stone of grain, on average to each stone, it is also more than 100 yuan a stone, Zhang Gongjin now sells 150 yuan a stone, no one wants it, it will be harvested in the summer, and the price of grain will only be lower, if he is willing to take over, Wang Hao will doubt his intentions.

"What about 120,000?"

Zhang Gongjin hesitated when he heard this, but still shook his head, although the price of one hundred dollars and one stone, although it is very low, it still does not cost money, it costs money to build a position! Transportation requires manpower, wear and tear! At that time, even if you can sell it for 200 yuan a stone, the profit will be very small.

"One hundred thousand! It couldn't be any lower. ”

"At this price, the old man can make a little profit, but you should understand how to pass the official face!" Zhang Gongjin said with some meaning.

"I understand, these grains were donated to the Tang Southern Expeditionary Army, as for how much grain will be in Zou Gong's warehouse, God knows, Zou Gong knows alone."

"That's very good."

The two agreed that even after signing the paperwork, Zhang Gongjin sent troops to take over Wang Hao's grain hoarding land, and Wang Hao took his own people, pulled a boatload of copper coins, and left in a hurry.

When he saw the mountains of grain in Hongzhou City, Zhang Gongjin didn't have much joy, he had a deeper understanding of Wang Hao, the son of the family, he was too decisive, such a big deal, it was decided within one day, there was no imaginary repeated confrontation, perhaps, for him, it was redundant to stay here for half a day, such a person is too smart, decisive, and has a clear goal, such a person is not easy to deal with in the future.

Wang Hao knows very clearly what he wants, the position of the head of the Wang family is his goal, just tens of thousands of dollars, bento is his expenses for a year and a half, if he has merit, even if the merit is not earned, he does not need to lose.

Therefore, he is now desperate to find out the ins and outs of the whole thing, who set up such a big trap for himself, if it can be found out that it is Wang Lin, or one of Wang Xu, then after he returns to the family, at least there is an explanation.

Unlike the situation in Hongzhou, Zhang Liang and the two Cui Gongzi in Changsha were grinding back and forth, the emperor had a will, Zhang Liang did not dare to mess things up, but Cui Ji and Cui Zhao sent him a heavy gift that he could not refuse, and in the end, Zhang Liang won one million stone grain in their hands at a price of 200 yuan per stone.

Feng Zhidai on the Quanzhou side took the 500,000 stone grain in Zheng Peiyu's hands at a price of 100 wen per stone, so that this great drama of instigating the Civil War launched by the family was over, and the result was that the imperial court bought 2.7 million stone grain in the hands of the family for 350,000 yuan, which was more than twice the market price on average.

Of course, after the three people knew each other's quantity and price of the grain, Zhang Gongjin and Feng Zhidai both stroked their beards and laughed, Zhang Liang angrily smashed the cup and the basin, this time Zhang Gongjin and Feng Zhidai made a great contribution, but he Zhang Liang made a big mistake, in the Changsha area, where the price of grain was only 300 wen and 1 stone, to buy these grains for 200 wen and 1 stone, plus the consumption of transportation, Zhang Liang actually did not bargain much, the key is not to compare with the other two, a comparison, it seems that he is very incompetent.

It took 200,000 guan to buy 1 million stone of grain, and it cost 150,000 guan to buy 1.7 million stone of grain, what will the princes of the imperial court have when they see this form? After that, I am afraid that there will be no fewer twists and turns to impeach him Zhang Liang, and these twists and turns are likely to be instructed by Li Shimin himself, and his position as the governor of the navy army is likely to not last long.

At the beginning of July, the land of Lingnan was filled with the fragrance of rice flowers, Sun Xiangfu took the farmer to pull the flowers in the field piece by piece, pollination, and the growth of Zhancheng rice was very gratifying, in his opinion, this was much more important than the imperial court to purchase a batch of grain at a low price.

Ah Shan's stomach is completely gone, and muscles have grown on his body, Li Chunfeng and Xuanzang agreed that his potbelly disease is completely cured, so as the world's first cured potbelly patient, he was very lucky to be caught by Sun Xiangfu and came to the Baiyun Lake Peninsula to urge farmers to defend against schistosomiasis.

In the morning, when the sun just rose, Ah Yue used a peeled banana to lure Xiao Hei and Xiao Ye behind her to follow her to a mango forest full of fruits, and she found that as long as she brought these two big guys here, she didn't have to climb the tree to pick mangoes, because these two guys would use their long noses to roll down the mangoes on the tree to eat, she only needed to peel one or two big ones for them to eat, and their ears and tails would swing happily.

Today's harvest is good, just a while, Ah Yue filled her basket with big green mangoes, seeing these big mangoes, Sun Xiangfu will definitely praise her for being smart.

However, a team of people wearing Datang military uniforms stopped her on her way back.

"Captain, it's an elephant cub, this is a rare thing, if you can get it back to Chang'an, Your Majesty and the nobles in the palace will definitely have a reward."

A soldier looked at Xiao Hei and Xiao Ye Dao greedily. Little did he know that the little girl next to the two elephants did not speak Chinese like other Lingnanians.

"Xiao Hei and Xiao Ye belong to adults, you can't take them away."

The timid voice interrupted the fantasies of several soldiers, in Ah Yue's opinion, these people were not as powerful as her Uncle Zhao Long, there was nothing to fear.

"Hey, it's a little girl, the adult you said in your mouth, but the Lord Sun who lives in Baiyun Lake?" The soldier who was called the captain looked at the black and thin Ah Yue and smiled.

Ah Yue thought about it, and there were indeed many people on the island who called Sun Xiangfu Sun, so she nodded and said, "Yes." ”

"That's right, you can show us the way! We are sent by the imperial court, and we are about to inform him to go to Guangzhou City to meet the Qincha! ”

In fact, Feng Ang sent a team of people to do this kind of thing, and this team of people had to come on their own, and they didn't let Feng An's people follow, in fact, they just wanted to touch the actual situation in Lingnan first, and they were naturally military attaches with secret guard status.