Tao Zhulu asked:

"So Boss Cao is worried that he doesn't have enough money?"

Cao Jinbao said:

"Yes, there is such a worry."

Tao Zhulu asked again:

"Then how much silver does Boss Cao have in the treasury?"

Cao Jinbao smiled:

"The point is not how much silver I have, but how much paper money the merchants have collected from me. In the past month, the exchange rate of my silver banknotes against silver has risen from one tael to one tael, and some people are collecting my printed notes on a large scale. ”

Lan Ziyi asked:

"When Boss Cao first issued the banknotes, the price of silver changed day by day, and the country banknotes had already passed the price of one tael, why did Boss Cao not feel strange at that time, but now he said that someone bought your banknotes?"

Cao Jinbao said:

"Wei Hou is very well-informed, and these details can be perceived. At that time, paper money had just been issued, and the people were ignorant, so I had to discount it, and there was a grain price to support it, and the price of my paper money for silver quickly recovered to one to one, and the high price of paper money in the countryside was actually the overflow of grain prices, and the villagers were actually buying grain at high prices. But now it's different, I've been sending banknotes for so long, and the people of Beijing have already changed their banknotes, and it is impossible for so much silver to rush up the price of banknotes in the market, and there must be someone behind it deliberately. ”

The three brothers of the Tao family on the side scratched their heads vigorously when they heard this, and Lan Ziyi continued to ask Cao Jinbaodao:

"So how much banknotes are piled up by the Jingshang?"

Cao Jinbao said:

"I have roughly calculated, and the Beijing merchant has about three million taels of banknotes in his hand."

Hearing this, Tao Zhutu asked in surprise:

"Could it be that Boss Cao doesn't even have three million taels of silver in the curry? It can't be, right? When my young master rewarded the soldiers that day, Boss Cao took out a few million taels at a time and didn't frown, why did three million stump you now? ”

Cao Jinbao laughed:

"That's the silver that Wei Hou's family deposited with me, Wei Hou wants to take me to smash the pot and sell iron, and I have to give it out, refusing to pay depositors' deposits is a taboo in the money bank, not to mention that I am not short of this bit of silver."

Peach Rabbit asked:

"Since Boss Cao is not short of this bit of silver, then why are you worried about the three million taels of banknotes in the hands of the Beijing merchants?"

Cao Jinbao said:

"Historically, those who have been shorts will not only rely on their own end and the other party will fight hard, there is no need for the bears to buy that I can't take out the silver, he just needs to let other people in the market think that I can't take out the silver, when the thousands of people in the capital think that my bank is empty, they will go crazy to come to my money bank to run, as long as I can't take out the silver at that time, I will be finished."

The Tao brothers were confused when they heard this, and Tao Zhuhu asked:

"What is a short position?"

Cao Jinbao sneered:

"It's nothing, it's just an inconsequential word."

was coldly looked at by Cao Jinbao one after another, which made Lan Ziyi unbearable and angry, and he interjected directly:

"The saints still have questions, let alone us and the common people? Boss Cao, you know something we don't know, let's tell us, what does it mean to be smart? If you really think that talking to me and other martial artists is playing the piano, then you don't say it, and we won't ask more. ”

Cao Jinbao didn't dare to offend Lan Ziyi at this juncture, and when he heard Lan Ziyi's complaints, he hurriedly apologized and said:

"The lesson of Wei Hou is that I am smart."

Lan Ziyi said politely:

"What Boss Cao is afraid of is nothing more than that the people follow the trend and exchange paper money for your silver, so how many banknotes are there in Beijing now? Can Boss Cao pay at the price? ”

This time Cao Jinbao didn't answer, he only shook his head, and Lan Ziyi asked:

"Then Boss Cao, how many banknotes did you send?"

Cao Jinbao raised his hand and stretched out two fingers, and said next to him:

"Two million?"

Peach Chase Deer interrupted Peach Chase Rabbit Road:

"Boss Cao said that Jingshang has three million in his hand, how can he only send two million?"

Speaking of this, Tao Zhulu suddenly realized something, he turned his head to look at Cao Jinbao with a long mouth in surprise, and he asked stupidly:

"Is it 、、、、、、?"

Cao Jinbao nodded and said:

"No need, that's right, it's 20 million."

As soon as these words came out, Lan Ziyi and the Tao brothers all shouted, and Tao Zhuhu asked:

"Twenty million taels, the annual tax of the imperial court is only this amount, why did Boss Cao send such money all at once?"

Cao Jinbao said:

"Because the people need so much. If they don't need so much, then they won't absorb so much, and the prices in the market will fly directly to the sky, which is the so-called money and cheapness. ”

Tao Zhulu asked:

"So, Boss Cao's silver treasury must have 20 million taels of silver?"

Cao Jinbao shook his head and said:

"No, there is so much silver confiscated at all, and there are sixty percent of Taicang's grain in these two million taels. Even the forty percent of the silver that was really redeemed was not all in my hands, and the household department also spent a lot. ”

Tao Zhuhu sighed:

"Doesn't this mean that as long as the Jingshang starts exchanging silver for Boss Cao, you will be dead."

Cao Jinbao smiled confidently again when he heard this, and asked puzzledly:

"Why is Boss Cao laughing? I'm asking about your death hole. ”

Cao Jinbao said:

"It's because you think you've got my death hole that I laugh. In this world, there are fools who follow the trend and throw low, and there are naturally nerds who hold tickets and wait and see, as well as those crazy people who hoard and want to mow the grass, not everyone will follow and sell, and what I am facing is by no means a gap of 20 million, I only need to hold on until the banknotes in the hands of Beijing merchants run out and win. ”

Hearing this, the Tao brothers looked at each other and muttered quietly for a while, after which Tao Zhutu asked:

"In other words, Boss Cao still has a chance to win?"

Hearing this, Cao Jinbao looked ahead with a gloomy face, he gritted his teeth and said:

"I don't have the possibility of winning, I am sure that I can win, as long as the government does not interfere, my goods and silver in the country can freely enter and leave the capital, then those Beijing merchants will definitely die, in my eyes they can fight none of them. But the problem is that the government has made a move, and the Jingzhao Mansion has deducted my money, so the outcome of the battle between me and Jingshang is unknown. ”

Peach Road:

"Boss Cao said so much, I seem to understand. Boss Cao is nothing more than taking the silver of outsiders to exchange for the people of the capital, you tear down the east wall to make up the west wall like this, in case the other places also follow the capital to exchange a piece of money, wouldn't you have no silver to redeem? There is also a lot of food in those foreign banknotes. ”

Cao Jinbao smiled:

"The premise of following the capital run in other places is that I didn't resist the capital, so the capital is the key. As long as I win this battle in the capital, then from now on the Taisho world will only use the paper money issued by my Cao Ji, at that time the common people will not be able to print the money I printed, when they believe that paper is money and have no other choice, it doesn't matter if I have silver in the treasury, I just need to ensure that the money I print is about the same as the price of the goods traded in the world. ”

The Tao brothers didn't seem to understand it, and Tao Zhutu was too lazy to listen to Cao Jinbao's explanation, so he asked a simple and simple question, he said

"Boss Cao, you said that this is the result of your win, but what if you lose?"

Cao Jinbao:

"I won the Beijing businessmen to jump the green onion river collectively, and the Beijing businessmen won and I went to jump the green onion river."

Lan Ziyi asked:

"What about the people? What will happen to the people? ”