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"So, what then?"

Seeing that his son was so useless, Shen Sanguan sighed and said, "Kuo'er, I ask you to go to the counter more on weekdays to learn something, but you just don't listen." Messing around with a group of wine and meat friends all day long, I can't even understand such a simple question. ”

Seeing his father's blame, Shen Kuo hurriedly said: "My son knows that he is wrong, and he asks his father for advice." ”

Shen Sanguan said with a blank face: "For my father, I would like to ask you, why has the price of grain changed?" ”

Shen Kuo said in his heart What kind of problem is this, my father looks down on me too much.

"Back to my father's words, the farmers grow grain and watch the sky eat. If God appreciates his face, the harvest will be good, and the price of grain will naturally be low. If natural disasters continue, droughts and locust plagues follow, then there will be no harvest, and we can only rely on storing grain in the warehouse, and the price of grain will naturally rise. ”

Seeing his son's complacent look, Shen Sanguan felt even more angry.

"Hmph, then let me ask you again, where is the most grain produced in this dynasty?"

"Naturally, it's Huguang."

As the son of Nanzhili's leading grain merchant, Shen Kuo can still answer such a simple question.

They often hire a fleet to transport grain from Wuchang to Nanzhili to sell.

Transporting grain by water has little loss, but one entry and one exit can earn a lot of price difference.

Originally, Nanzhili was also a grain-producing area, and there was even a saying that Suhu Lake was familiar with the world.

However, since the Jiajing Dynasty pursued the national policy of changing rice to mulberry, Jiangnan, especially Zhejiang, Nanzhili and other places, changed farmland to planting mulberry trees.

Although the income from planting mulberry trees is high, there is not enough food to eat.

Jiangnan is densely populated, and with so many mouths waiting to eat, they can only transfer grain from Huguang.

It is so that there is a saying that the lake is wide and ripe, and the world is full.

Shen Kuo was very satisfied with the answer he gave, waiting for his father to praise him.

But Shen Sanguan continued to ask: "What is the price of grain in Huguang now?" ”

"This..."

Shen Kuo scratched his head a little.

He only knew that Huguang produced the most abundant grain, but he did not know the specific price of grain. But it shouldn't be very high, right?

"I don't know."

Shen Sanguan said coldly: "Now the four mansions of Xiangyang, De'an, Jingzhou, and Chengtian are in the hands of the white thieves of the Chuang Department, confronting the officials and soldiers of the imperial court. There are hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers, and the consumption of military rations is huge, and grain prices have tripled since the beginning of this year. ”

Shen Kuo hurriedly said, "Isn't this a good thing?" The price of grain in Huguang has risen, so let's follow it, which is reasonable. ”

Now Shen Sanguan is really angry and vomiting blood.

"You, why are you so stupid!"

Shen Kuo looked aggrieved and muttered: "My son is stupid and asks my father to make it clear." ”

Shen Sanguan snorted and said: "Huguang is a family of its own, and the imperial court can't control the price of grain." But if Nanjing's grain prices also rise as wildly as Huguang. The imperial court will open warehouses and release grain to stabilize grain prices. ”

"What is the truth? The hand of the imperial court can't reach out to Huguang, so you know that it will disturb the market of Nanzhili? ”

Shen Kuozhi was indignant and couldn't stop waving his fists.

"So food prices can't skyrocket, we have to take it slowly."

Shen Sanguan stroked his beard and said, "Wait, isn't Shandong also fighting?" I'm afraid that the grain stocks of the imperial court are about to be adjusted, right? ”

"What's the use of that? Food prices still can't go up. ”

"You, you!"

Shen Sanguan is really going crazy.

"At the moment, we don't dare to rashly raise prices because the imperial court still has grain in stock. Let's raise prices, and the imperial court can open a position to stabilize grain prices. If the grain stocks of the imperial court are transferred to Shandong, and we raise the price again, what will the imperial court use to fill the pit? ”

Shen Kuo finally understood, patted his head and said, "Ah, why didn't the child think of it." My father is so calculating. But how did my father know that the imperial court's food stocks were running out? ”

Shen Sanguan said lightly: "It's very simple, there are people in the court for my father." In our line of work, no one is watching how to do it. You see, if it is more than a month or less than half a month, the granary of the imperial court is about to bottom. At that time, we can increase the price as much as we want. ”

Shen Kuo was overjoyed when he heard this: "Then what does my son need to do right now?" ”

"Collect more food in secret, and be cautious in the name of different people."

Hoarding has always been a businessman's specialty. Shen Sanguan naturally wouldn't be unaware. But food is an extremely sensitive thing, and it must be hoarded with care, and it must not be given to anyone.

It was he who would buy grain in the name of different people and hoard it.

"I'll leave this matter to Shopkeeper He, so don't interfere."

Shen Sanguan, the son of a loser, was still not very relieved, and after thinking about it again, he decided to appoint the big shopkeeper He Jin to do it.

Because the grain on the market in Nanjing was slowly emptied, the price of grain would not fluctuate much during this period, and the imperial court would not easily detect it.

When the grain in the imperial court warehouse bottomed out, it was when Shen Sanguan turned the clouds and rain.

At that time, it was too late for the imperial court to react.

"Don't let the rest of the grain merchants in the Chamber of Commerce inform you first. The less people know about it, the better. ”

In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Shen Sanguan decided to eat alone in this matter.

As for these peers poking his backbone and scolding him Shen Sanguan afterwards, they scolded him.

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Qinhuai River, Meixiang Building.

At this time, the lights were already on, and there was a tactful singing voice from the Meixiang Building, and the pedestrians were about to lose their souls.

Hou Fangyu walked to the front of the building in despair, and looked up to see what it was if it was not Meixiang Building?

After he left Gao Hongtu's mansion, his whole body was like a deflated sheepskin raft, and he completely softened.

Is it the meaning of the Son of Heaven that the father cannot recover? What is the Son of Heaven's own arrangement?

Could it be that my father will not be able to recover for the rest of his life?

Hou Fangyu couldn't accept it, and subconsciously walked to the front of Meixiang Building all the way.

How to solve worries, only Xiangjun.

At this moment, only Li Xiangjun can soothe his wounded heart, right?

Hou Fangyu walked towards Meixiang Building, but as soon as he entered the building, he was blocked by a person who looked like a turtle.

"Hey, isn't this Hou Gongzi? What's the matter, Hou Gongzi has time to come to our Meixianglou again? ”

Hou Fangyu held back his anger and said, "I want to see Xiangjun." ”

"Huh? Hou Gongzi wants to see Miss Xiangjun? The silver is enough, isn't it Miss Xiangjun? ”

The turtle didn't smile and sneered.

Hou Fangyu was furious, pointed at the turtle and scolded: "The dog looks at the low things of people, and asks your bustard mother to come out." ”

The turtle man rolled his eyelids and said, "Look at Hou Gongzi's temper." The little one is just a joke. Besides, where did Hou Gongzi get this money and what do I have to do with it? Hey, take the money. ”

Hou Fangyu's teeth chattered, he closed his eyes and forced himself to suppress the fire, only then did he calm down, took the silver from his purse and slapped it on the turtle man's hand.

"Enough, right?"

The turtle prince weighed his weight and said with a smile: "Hou Gongzi, please, Miss Xiangjun has been waiting for you." ”

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