On the evening of this day, after the shops of the eight joint firms were closed, several shopkeepers began to quickly transfer inventory to Suzhou Prefecture to avoid running out of stock.

At night, in the business name of Sunrise, several shopkeepers gathered together again, and the faces of several people were no longer indifferent at noon, and they were a little more gloomy.

Feeling that the atmosphere in the room was a little wrong, Zhang Mingli said: "I think that among your businesses, there was a run on the situation this afternoon, even if I don't say it, you should also know who did it, everyone should tell their opinions." ”

"Shopkeeper Zhang, my Siming firm is already a little unable to hold on, and if it goes on like this, I'm afraid all the profits we earned in front of us will be spit out."

The first to open his mouth is the history of Zhejiang Siming firm, he is different from others, other businesses are run, using borrowed tickets, as long as the price of goods is lowered, and the price of tickets is raised, those who borrow tickets to come to the run once the loan date expires, those people to collect high-priced coupons to repay, there will be a lot of losses in the middle, and he here, those people who run not only use coupons to exchange, as long as he lowers the price of those people cash coupons together, which makes him a little difficult to parry.

Zhang Jie said: "Shopkeeper Shi, don't worry, I've also heard about the situation of Siming Firm, but what I'm curious about is that those people don't seem to be targeting Siming Firm, and whether they buy it with raw silk coupons or cash, all of them are white raw silk, why do they want so much white raw silk?" Could it be that the plague was born and a large number of people died? These people want to make some difference with their hands? ”

Shopkeeper Shi shook his head and said: "Now they are selling short of borrowed tickets with great fanfare, but they are only buying raw silk, which seems to be to make such a difference?" Even if they eat rice coupons at this time, the profit is not comparable to raw silk, does Shopkeeper Zhang think they can afford such a little profit from raw silk? ”

When the shopkeeper of Kangwang Grain and Oil Store saw that Shopkeeper Shi mentioned the matter of rice coupons, he couldn't help but feel a little angry, and said in his heart, "It's not enough for you to be unlucky, you still want to pull the rice market." He said: "It's not just the Siming firm that has been squeezed now, what they exchanged in the Siming firm is only white raw silk, aren't your silk and other raw silks still safe and stable?" We are different, but we are squeezed across the board, and if the shopkeeper is still aggrieved, it will be a bit hypocritical. ”

"You ......"

"Okay, okay, let's not fight, let's think about how to endure the run in the past few days, otherwise once our few firms cut off supply, it will definitely cause bad conjecture, and the run will only be more fierce."

After Zhang Jie's words were finished, Shopkeeper Shi and Shopkeeper Qin snorted coldly before they stopped arguing.

Fuda's shopkeeper Duan said, "Don't you think it's strange? According to our plan, since the price of tickets has risen, those people who collect coupons at low prices should stop, but when I went out today, I still saw people collecting coupons at low prices, and the number of people has not decreased, is there still people who will sell coupons at low prices at this time? ”

"It must be the ghost of those businesses that lend tickets, they want to suppress the price of coupons, so they naturally want to sell, we stabilize the price here, they can only seek help from those people, but they are also sick and rushed to the doctor, those people received at a low price, and sold to us at a high price, as long as the price here does not fall, the price of the coupon is not reduced, and their move stinks enough."

Shopkeeper Duan shook his head and denied the statement of the shopkeeper of Dasheng Haiwu, "I don't think so, I sent someone to check, the amount that those people collected is not much, if it is thrown down according to this amount, it will be the Year of the Monkey and the month of the horse."

I can't finish throwing it away. ”

Zhang Jie said: "Could it be that many people don't know about our price increase?" After all, it was only half a day, like Wan Yutai's side raised the price for one day, isn't there still many people who don't know the news? ”

Shopkeeper Duan always felt that there was something wrong in his heart, but apart from this explanation, he couldn't think of any other reason, this time it was a matter of making more money and less money for the Fuda firm, no matter who came to run on it, it was not a problem for them, after all, selling salt requires salt introduction, and those merchants who borrowed salt coupons couldn't take out so much salt even if several companies joined together, and they could only store it in the warehouse and eat it slowly.

"Since the shopkeeper Zhang thinks it's no problem, then I won't say more, everyone wants to find a way to deal with the run in the past few days, I have asked people to transport salt from Zhejiang and Yangzhou, Huai'an to Suzhou, tomorrow morning will arrive in Suzhou, Fujian salt will arrive in three days at the latest, it is not a problem to deal with it for ten days."

The rest of the shopkeepers are also you and I said a word, and where and how many goods were transferred to Suzhou, Zhang Jie roughly calculated, these goods should be enough to cope with this period of time.

Just when everyone was about to leave, the shopkeeper Qin of Kangwang Grain and Oil Store asked, "If we take some businesses and borrow the tickets again, do we want to borrow them again?" ”

This time, without waiting for Zhang Jie to speak, Shopkeeper Shi, who had some disagreement with Shopkeeper Qin, mocked: "Why, just such a run scared Shopkeeper Qin?" The share of the current loan is not enough to make up for the loss of my Siming firm. ”

Zhang Jie said: "Shopkeeper Shi is right, of course we have to borrow, and we will give as much as they want, but this time we can't just charge some money to lend out the coupons, but also let them mortgage the dry shares of their own firms, otherwise, hmph, let them lose hundreds of thousands of taels and admit defeat and leave, and increase the price of the coupons by three percent tomorrow, as long as they are unwilling to mortgage, let them give some blood." Since they dare to grab food in the tiger's mouth, they must bear the consequences of being eaten by the tiger. ”

After Zhang Jie's words were finished, a bloodthirsty smile appeared on the faces of these shopkeepers.

Early the next morning, before dawn, the canal wharf of Suzhou Fudu Bridge was full of boats of all sizes, all of which were hung with the flags of major merchants.

Even the ports of Changshu and Taicang are also densely packed with ships, just waiting for the water gate to open, and then load the goods on board into horse-drawn carriages and urgently transport them to various shops and warehouses in Suzhou.

At the wharf of the Fudu Bridge, Zhu Youzhen and Qian Cai came here early in the morning, and there were also ten ships of their goods among these ships, and the people of the eight joint firms saw it, and only thought that this was also the materials temporarily allocated by Wan Yutai in order to cope with the run, but no one expected that these were actually all white raw silk exchanged in Zhejiang in the name of other merchants, and all ten ships were full.

Wan Yutai's porters in charge of loading were all their own personnel, and Wan Yutai, the porters on the wharf, did not employ any of them, so no one knew what was covered under the tarpaulins except themselves.

"Since the shopkeeper Zhang thinks it's no problem, then I won't say more, everyone wants to find a way to deal with the run in the past few days, I have asked people to transport salt from Zhejiang and Yangzhou, Huai'an to Suzhou, tomorrow morning will arrive in Suzhou, Fujian salt will arrive in three days at the latest, it is not a problem to deal with it for ten days."

The rest of the shopkeepers are also you and I said a word, and where and how many goods were transferred to Suzhou, Zhang Jie roughly calculated, these goods should be enough to cope with this period of time.

Just when everyone was about to leave, the shopkeeper Qin of Kangwang Grain and Oil Store asked, "If we take some businesses and borrow the tickets again, do we want to borrow them again?" ”

This time, without waiting for Zhang Jie to speak, Shopkeeper Shi, who had some disagreement with Shopkeeper Qin, mocked: "Why, just such a run scared Shopkeeper Qin?" The share of the current loan is not enough to make up for the loss of my Siming firm. ”

Zhang Jie said: "Shopkeeper Shi is right, of course we have to borrow, and we will give as much as they want, but this time we can't just charge some money to lend out the coupons, but also let them mortgage the dry shares of their own firms, otherwise, hmph, let them lose hundreds of thousands of taels and admit defeat and leave, and increase the price of the coupons by three percent tomorrow, as long as they are unwilling to mortgage, let them give some blood." Since they dare to grab food in the tiger's mouth, they must bear the consequences of being eaten by the tiger. ”

After Zhang Jie's words were finished, a bloodthirsty smile appeared on the faces of these shopkeepers.

Early the next morning, before dawn, the canal wharf of Suzhou Fudu Bridge was full of boats of all sizes, all of which were hung with the flags of major merchants.

Even the ports of Changshu and Taicang are also densely packed with ships, just waiting for the water gate to open, and then load the goods on board into horse-drawn carriages and urgently transport them to various shops and warehouses in Suzhou.

At the wharf of the Fudu Bridge, Zhu Youzhen and Qian Cai came here early in the morning, and there were also ten ships of their goods among these ships, and the people of the eight joint firms saw it, and only thought that this was also the materials temporarily allocated by Wan Yutai in order to cope with the run, but no one expected that these were actually all white raw silk exchanged in Zhejiang in the name of other merchants, and all ten ships were full.

Wan Yutai's porters in charge of loading were all their own personnel, and Wan Yutai, the porters on the wharf, did not employ any of them, so no one knew what was covered under the tarpaulins except themselves.

"Since the shopkeeper Zhang thinks it's no problem, then I won't say more, everyone wants to find a way to deal with the run in the past few days, I have asked people to transport salt from Zhejiang and Yangzhou, Huai'an to Suzhou, tomorrow morning will arrive in Suzhou, Fujian salt will arrive in three days at the latest, it is not a problem to deal with it for ten days."

The rest of the shopkeepers are also you and I said a word, and where and how many goods were transferred to Suzhou, Zhang Jie roughly calculated, these goods should be enough to cope with this period of time.

Just when everyone was about to leave, the shopkeeper Qin of Kangwang Grain and Oil Store asked, "If we take some businesses and borrow the tickets again, do we want to borrow them again?" ”

This time, without waiting for Zhang Jie to speak, Shopkeeper Shi, who had some disagreement with Shopkeeper Qin, mocked: "Why, just such a run scared Shopkeeper Qin?" The share of the current loan is not enough to make up for the loss of my Siming firm. ”

Zhang Jie said: "Shopkeeper Shi is right, of course we have to borrow, and we will give as much as they want, but this time we can't just charge some money to lend out the coupons, but also let them mortgage the dry shares of their own firms, otherwise, hmph, let them lose hundreds of thousands of taels and admit defeat and leave, and increase the price of the coupons by three percent tomorrow, as long as they are unwilling to mortgage, let them give some blood." Since they dare to grab food in the tiger's mouth, they must bear the consequences of being eaten by the tiger. ”

After Zhang Jie's words were finished, a bloodthirsty smile appeared on the faces of these shopkeepers.

Early the next morning, before dawn, the canal wharf of Suzhou Fudu Bridge was full of boats of all sizes, all of which were hung with the flags of major merchants.