Zhu Youzhen and the four of them took the carriage back to the Fengxing Courtyard, and only then did they get off the carriage, and saw three people at the gate of the courtyard looking inside the door with their heads stretched out, these three people were Liu Youtian, Fan Mancang and Yu Deshui who had sold tickets to Zhu Youzhen outside the noodle shop before.

The three of them went home and got the hidden tickets, and hurried over, for fear that the benefits would be taken away by others if they came too late.

Zhu Youzhen came behind the three of them, stretched out his hand and patted Liu Youtian, who was still looking in, Liu Youtian opened Zhu Youzhen's hand without looking back, and muttered dissatisfiedly, "Don't make trouble." ”

Zhu Youzhen also followed Liu Youtian's example and leaned his head next to him, "What are you looking at?" What's the buzz? ”

Liu Youtian listened to the voice in his ears a little familiar but not like Fan Mancang and Yu Deshui, he looked back and saw that it was Zhu Youzhen, and his feet were suddenly tripped by the threshold of the other courtyard, and his body fell out of the door.

"Didn't you say that? Zhu Gongzi is not in the mansion, why did you come in again when you waited outside the door? ”

As soon as Liu Youtian entered the aisle of the house gate, he heard the voice of dissatisfaction from the porter in the hallway, and then saw the porter walking out sleepily.

Zhu Youzhen looked at the porter, and muttered in his heart, the porter looked like he was sleeping just now, how could he know that Liu Youtian had just entered, could this be the ability that he had practiced as a porter for many years?

As soon as the porter came out of his door-guarding hut, he saw Zhu Youzhen and a few people standing at the door, and he no longer paid attention to Liu Youtian who entered the door, and went straight to Zhu Youzhen's side, "Son, are you back?" Come in and take a break and eat a few pieces of watermelon. ”

Zhu Youzhen smiled at the porter, "No need, I still have some things, you go and tell Qian Cai and ask him to come to my room to find me." After speaking, Zhu Youzhen walked towards the house.

After only two steps, the porter spoke again: "Childe, these three people said that you asked them to come, what should I do?" ”

Zhu Youzhen almost forgot about this, and when he heard the porter's words, he turned back to Liu Youtian and the others: "You wait here for a while, the silver I brought with me has been spent, and I will let the account office come over and settle with you later." ”

Liu Youtian said with a smile: "Although the day is a bit big today, since the son ordered, we will wait outside the door." Although he said this, he thought to himself why he should let us sit inside and eat a piece of watermelon.

However, Zhu Youzhen really just nodded and walked inside.

When Zhang Zhiji walked past the three of them, he scared the three of them with his teeth and claws: "Do you really think he has no silver on him?" Is he like a man who lacks silver? My fifth brother's nickname is the King of the Five Yamas, if you don't run quickly, you won't even have any bones left when he comes out and eats carefully. After speaking, Zhang Zhiji left without looking back.

It's just that Liu Youtian and the three of them were a little worried in their hearts, that son was generous, it really didn't look like he was short of silver, but this person didn't look like a wicked person, how could he deliberately call them to the house for no reason to find trouble with them? However, this prince has been looking bad all the time, and the name of the Five Yama Kings must have been made up by that person.

The three of them weighed up, and they kept finding various reasons to persuade themselves that the prince called him to come just to buy coupons, and in the end it was the silver that prevailed, and the three of them were still waiting outside the door against the sun.

In Zhu Youzhen's room, Jinxiu, Zhang Zhiji and Wan Yutai, who accompanied the three of them to go shopping, Jinxiu poured tea for the three of them, and before the shopkeeper Xu had time to take a sip, Zhu Youzhen said to him: "I still have to worry about the hard work of the shopkeeper Xu, go to Wan Yutai and invite a few account rooms to come over, we will start today, and collect coupons outside the house." Xu Yun said: "Childe, this is to give up the near and far, if you talk about the account room, is there a better account room than me, the shopkeeper of Wan Yutai?" Leave this to me. ”

Zhu Youzhen said: "I'm afraid of such a trivial matter as collecting coupons, and letting the shopkeeper Xu do it is a bit overkill, since the shopkeeper Xu is not wronged, then this matter will be handed over to the shopkeeper Xu." It's just a matter of collecting coupons, although there are no people at this time, I think that in the near future, the road outside the popular courtyard will be overcrowded, but the shopkeeper Xu is afraid that he can't cope with it, so he still has to find a few more people. ”

"As long as it's a matter of the son, it's not a trivial matter, but there's no need to go to Wan Yutai to find an account room, the most important thing in this popular courtyard is the account room, so I'll go find someone to help collect coupons together." After speaking, Xu Yun didn't even drink tea and got up and left, and as soon as he arrived at the door, he encountered the money found by the porter.

Zhu Youzhen said behind Xu Yun: "Find someone to build a few sheds outside, write a few cloth flags, and set up a few more platforms to make the momentum bigger." ”

Xu Yun looked back and smiled: "Don't worry, Childe." With that, he said hello to the money that came in and left.

"Childe, are you looking for me?"

Zhu Youzhen nodded, then got up and walked to the inner room to take out the two account books that Zhang Zhiji had seen, and then said to Qiancai: "My son wants to sleep when he sees this dense number, you can tell me directly, how many tickets are saved now?" ”

When Zhang Zhiji heard Zhu Youzhen's words, he jumped up and shouted: "Oh! It turns out that you are filling your pockets. ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at Zhang Zhiji like that, and hurriedly reassured: "Ziyu, don't interrupt, we're talking about business." ”

"Two idiots!"

"Be good, don't make trouble, go to the side to play by yourself, Xiu'er, bring Ziyu a quick mud for him to pinch and play."

"You're the kid who plays with the mud."

Zhu Youzhen was just joking, Jinxiu would not take it seriously, Zhu Youzhen and Qian Cai ignored Zhang Zhiji anymore and began to talk about the account book.

"Since I came to Suzhou, according to the meaning of the son has been buying all kinds of coupons, in the case of secretly buying all kinds of coupons, it is impossible to completely move the rice coupons, we can only do not interfere with the price of rice, a few months down, the rice coupons have also started with nearly 80,000 pieces, the average price is about three taels of silver."

Although Zhang Zhiji was ridiculed by Zhu Youzhen for a few words and seemed to sit there honestly drinking tea, he actually listened to the conversation between the two with his ears open, and when he heard that Qian Cai said that he bought 80,000 rice coupons, and the average price was only three taels of silver, he jumped up again, "Are you bullying the fifth brother and can't read the account book?" I've seen the account book, and many rice coupons are sold for four taels for three taels and nine cents, and five taels for four taels and eight cents, you dare to talk nonsense. ”

Zhu Youzhen covered his eyes and said, "I can't understand the account book, so don't mention it again in the future." ”

Qian Cai also said: "Little grandfather, there are many ways to do business, even if I say that I will listen to you for a while, I will definitely not understand it, so I still don't say it." ”

"Why didn't you say it? You say, you say, do you have the ability to say hard, see if I can understand it? ”

Money will not entangle with Zhang Zhiji, but Zhu Youzhen was shocked when he bought Zhang Zhiji at this time, and he asked Zhang Zhiji: "Ziyu, do you know what floating profit and floating loss mean?" ”

"This ...... Is this also a business business? This tea tastes good...... Well, next time you can go and sell some. ”

Qian Cai praised: "What a floating profit and floating loss, the summary of the floating profit and floating loss of the son is really wonderful." Even people who have been immersed in the business world for decades may not be able to understand the true meaning of these four words from the ticket, and the son is really a business wizard. ”

"Needless to say, this son is not Ziyu, he will get carried away after being praised for a few words, let's get back to business." , in fact, Zhu Youzhen was also very happy to be touted, but these four words were really not summed up by him, so he was ashamed to be photographed.

"Yes, yes, talking about the coupons, the 80,000 rice coupons mentioned before, compared to the coupons issued by Suzhou, it is really a drop in the bucket, the 80,000 rice coupons in one stone are at least 50,000 in the number, and the rest are five stones, ten stones, and 100 stones, but together they are not more than 250,000 stones, and the rice coupons issued by Suzhou are all over Nanzhili and Zhejiang, except for nearly thirty percent in the hands of the people, and the rest are all in the hands of several large money banks and printing bureaus."

Zhu Youzhen thought about it, Qian Cai mentioned it when he was in the capital before, and the current rice coupons on the market have reached at least 300 million stones, so it seems that the 250,000 stone rice coupons can't even make a splash if they are smashed, but fortunately, he didn't plan to put the rice coupons into it in the first place.

"Let's talk about the rest of the tickets."

"In addition to rice coupons, meat coupons, cloth coupons, vegetable coupons, cake coupons, wheat coupons, noodle coupons, tea coupons, etc., add up to almost eight million, costing three million taels of silver, because the circulation of these things is not as good as rice coupons, so the number of issues is not so exaggerated, and the large money village printing bureau is not so tight, the coupons in our hands account for at least thirty percent of the total, Wan Yutai's previous owner is because of the wanton release of the meat coupon seal, only to be caught by us to the loophole, to use some means to finally take it down. The previous Wan Yutai only had nearly 10,000 taels of daily flow, and in the end, it was not even a thousand taels of cash that could not be taken out, and we only used 30,000 taels of silver to take Wan Yutai down. ”

Zhu Youzhen asked: "In addition to hoarding rice coupons and manipulating rice prices, are there any other coupons in their hands?" ”

"At present, we have 30% of the coupons in Suzhou except for rice coupons, 20% in the hands of the issuing firms, nearly 30% in the hands of the eight joint firms, and the remaining 20% in the hands of the people."

Zhu Youzhen said suspiciously: "Eight joint firms? What species is this? ”

"Childe's claim of this species is true...... Fresh. After holding back the money for a long time, it was hard to find another word to describe Zhu Youzhen, and then continued: "The so-called eight joint firms are Rishenglong, Fuda, Siming, Huizhong four money houses, Tonglian, Jin Xilai, Dashenghai three Indian bureaus and Kangwang grain and oil stores, none of these eight firms can control the price of rice in Nanzhili and Zhejiang alone, but these eight together have this ability, and no one in the market can shake them in the slightest, once someone does something on the price of rice and rice coupons, These eight comptoirs will then unite to suppress it. As for other types of coupons other than rice coupons, I don't know how these companies distribute them, maybe a certain business is operating alone, or it may be a few operating eight companies. ”

Zhu Youzhen asked with some doubts: "I have heard of the name of Rishenglong, isn't that a business name in Shanxi?" Why are you manipulating the market with Suzhou? ”

"It's not just Rishenglong, Fuda is a business name in Fujian, Siming is a business name in Zhejiang, Dashenghai is a business name in the north, and Jin Xilai is a business name in Lianghu, if it is not a collection of half of the resources of the Ming Dynasty, how dare they manipulate the rice market? It's just that the annual grain output in Suzhou is 80 million stones, and even if the two lakes and Zhejiang are less, it is not much worse, if the price of rice in Suzhou soars, and the rest of the businesses transport grain from Zhejiang and the two lakes, then what they do will become a joke, so as long as the price of rice in Suzhou has changed, that is, the price of rice in the whole country will change accordingly. ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded and said, "Then from today onwards, we will try the depth of the muddy water of Suzhou Mansion, go, go out and have a look." ”