After dinner, Qian Cai called Zhu Youzhen to come to the study, followed by two people, these two people were Zhu Youzhen's guards, Gao Han and Hu Bao.

The door of the study was tightly closed, but several lights were lit inside, and even when the door was closed, it was still as bright as day.

Qian Cai gently pushed the door open, and then turned around and invited Zhu Youzhen to enter, at this time the study was already full of people, Zhu Youzhen probably glanced at it, there were about a dozen people, and when they saw the two of them coming in, everyone in the study stood up.

After the two of them entered the room, Qian Cai turned around and closed the door of the study tightly, and the bolt was dropped, and Gao Han and Hu Bao stood outside the door to prevent anyone from approaching.

After Qian Cai and Zhu Youzhen sat down in the main seat, they motioned for the others in the study to sit down, and the incense table next to the two of them had already been filled with tea, and the water temperature was just right at this time. ”

At this time, the first person on the left hand side of Zhu Youzhen got up and said: "Proprietor, son, the business name I went to today is Rishenglong, and I saw Zhang Jie, the second shopkeeper of Rishenglong, at first Zhang was not willing to lend tickets, but was only willing to lend Yin Liang to let me go and buy tickets by myself, the money is not high, but the purpose of my visit is not this." Just when I was about to think of another way, one of the courtiers of Rishenglong entered the room and didn't know what to say to the shopkeeper Zhang, who readily agreed to lend the tickets, and the price was slightly lower than the market price, and the money collected by Yinzi was also 10% less than usual. ”

Qian Cai nodded with a smile and introduced to Zhu Youzhen: "This is the shopkeeper Chen." ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded towards the shopkeeper Chen, and said: "I think that shopkeeper Zhang heard some news, we received the coupon at such a high price with such fanfare, he naturally knew that the price of the coupon would soar in a few days, if he sold you a tael of silver today, you will return it to one or two or five dollars of silver in a few days, not only to make money, but also to pass on the risk of low-price exchange, why not do he?" If my guess is correct, the term of the shopkeeper's loan to you should be within half a month, right? ”

"Childe is right, the term of Rishenglong's loan is ten days, but the proprietor explained that he only needs to borrow for seven days, for the sake of insurance, he is also afraid that the shopkeeper will be upset, so he deliberately borrowed three more days, but the shopkeeper is only willing to lend 300,000 taels of tickets, and the rice coupon that the shopkeeper opened the seal money is extremely high, and a one-stone rice coupon for a day of printing money costs 30 Wen, so I gave up the rice coupon and only borrowed several other kinds of tickets."

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but nod and said: "This matter is exactly what I want, the shopkeeper Chen is also a serious move, I didn't expect that the shopkeeper Zhang helped us crookedly, if all the rice coupons were borrowed, this matter would not be able to continue." Have you ever wondered which type of ticket Sunrise has in his hand? ”

Shopkeeper Chen shook his head helplessly, "I tried it a few times, thinking that 300,000 taels alone borrowed a kind of coupon, thinking that I should be able to find out the bottom of Rishenglong's hand, but I have been dealing with the shopkeeper for a long time, in addition to rice coupons, cloth coupons, tea coupons, salt coupons, sugar coupons, meat coupons, leather coupons, medicinal material coupons, and even the least cake coupons, he can unambiguously lend 300,000 taels of coupons, and in the end I can only borrow some of each except rice coupons and cloth coupons, and make up enough for 300,000 taels, and buy 200,000 taels of raw silk coupons with Rishenglong." It's just that I really can't find out the bottom of Sunrise, so I can only continue to look at it in the next two days, and I think that a single ticket of 300,000 taels is not too much for Sunrise. ”

Qian Cai said: "Rishenglong is winning at this time, their family has a big business, and it is basically impossible for 300,000 taels to find out the bottom of Rishenglong, is there any other news?" ”

Shopkeeper Chen shook his head again, and then sat back, and one of the people sitting under him got up and said: "In the following four roads, I have seen the owner of the son, hehe, coincidentally, I went to the same house with the shopkeeper Chen, but it was half an hour late, and the shopkeeper Zhang Er was very happy to lend 400,000 taels of coupons, the same, there were no rice coupons and cloth coupons, and what was more coincidental was that I saw hundreds of people collecting coupons everywhere when I got out of the door of Sunrise, and the price of their coupons was one percent higher than the loan price of Sunrise, hehe, So I sold half of the 400,000 taels to them. ”

Qian Cai was furious when he heard this, he slapped the table and scolded: "You miser who sees money, you sell the coupon if the price is one percent higher, does Lao Tzu let you borrow the ticket to make money?" ”

"The proprietor is angry, the proprietor is angry, I haven't finished yet. I'm thinking that we will collect the coupons in front of the house today, even if the coupons are sold, won't they still return to us tomorrow? And although I sold 200,000 taels of coupons, I turned back to Sunrise and bought 220,000 taels of raw silk coupons, and this time I had 20,000 taels of raw silk. ”

Zhu Youzhen didn't care about this person selling coupons to buy raw silk, but said with some surprise: "Did these people think of collecting coupons to sell them so quickly?" ”

As soon as Zhu Youzhen's voice fell, more than a dozen shopkeepers sitting underground responded: "Exactly, we have also met people who collect coupons at a higher price, and the number of people is quite considerable, but we didn't dare to sell the coupons according to the owner's orders." ”

At this time, the shopkeeper was a little embarrassed, the status of these shopkeepers was not lower than him, but he was the only one who sold tickets to make some difference, so when he thought about it, he felt a little more panicked.

Zhu Youzhen didn't have the heart to listen to their reports one by one, so he asked, "Has anyone inquired about which of the eight joint firms controls which kind of ticket?" ”

A group of shopkeepers sitting at the bottom, you look at me, I look at you, the shopkeeper saw everyone's expression, so he got up again and represented everyone: "Our experience is similar to that of Shopkeeper Chen, and the borrowing of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver can't test the bottom of the eight major joint firms." ”

Just as the shopkeeper Wen's voice fell and sat back in his chair, a shopkeeper sitting opposite him got up and said: "The salt coupons in Suzhou Mansion should be mainly controlled in the hands of Fuda Firm, except for Fuda, the salt coupons in the hands of the other seven joint firms account for at most 10%, and the salt coupons in the hands of Fuda Firm account for at least 40%, because they are the largest salt merchants in Suzhou Prefecture, and they are a monopoly one. ”

Shopkeeper Wen glared at the shopkeeper opposite dissatisfied, if he had said it earlier, he would not have lost face, and his words on behalf of others were simply to put his face up and hit someone.

"Salt coupons, salt coupons, salt coupons ......", Zhu Youzhen kept chattering, everything else is easy to operate, only this salt coupon is a trouble, unless Fuda can be successfully squeezed to bankruptcy, and the salt in their hands can be taken together, otherwise even if they know their bottom, there is no way to take them, Nanzhili and Zhejiang, Fujian Province's official salt trade in a year has reached 30 million taels of silver, as long as they have no salt in their hands, there is no other way out of these salts except to eat.

Zhu Youzhen shook his head, put aside the matter of salt coupons, and then asked the Zhongren, "Has the amount of coupons borrowed today been counted?" ”

"It's been counted." After speaking, Shopkeeper Chen stood up and walked towards Zhu Youzhen and Qian Cai, and then he handed over another account book that he took out of his arms and put it on the incense table between the two.

Zhu Youzhen is still a little self-aware, he can't quite understand the account book, and he doesn't reach out to take it, but the money reaches out and picks up the account book from the incense table and looks through it.

Zhu Youjian said: "A few shopkeepers will go back to rest today, tomorrow you will be there to change the name of the business and then go to borrow, the price can gradually rise, tomorrow after the afternoon, the price of the loan can be borrowed according to the price of the coupon outside the house today, and the money can be doubled." ”

The more than a dozen shopkeepers sitting in the study listened to Zhu Youzhen's words, and couldn't help but look at the money, and when they saw that the money didn't say anything, these people responded one after another, and then got up to say goodbye and leave.

After these people left, Zhu Youzhen said to Qiancai: "Starting tomorrow afternoon, all the tickets borrowed and purchased today will be gradually sold at the market price, and thirty percent of the bills on the books can also be sold at the market price, and the remaining half will be used to run on the market. ”

Qian Cai sighed and said, "It seems that Suzhou Mansion is going to be chaotic for a while. ”

Early the next morning, before the gate of the popular courtyard was opened, the gate was already full of people, and even the streets outside the courtyard were blocked, and the cars and horses could not move an inch.

When the time came, the vermilion lacquer gate of the popular courtyard "creaked open, and the people who were lying on the door and listened to the movement inside couldn't help but squeeze forward. ”

The porter who opened the door looked at the surging crowd outside, and hurriedly closed the door, but there were so many people outside that he could stop alone, even if he tried his best, the door still opened slowly, and several accounts behind the gatekeeper saw this situation and thought that they had recruited bandits, so they hurriedly stepped forward to help hold the two gates, and shouted to the courtyard while exerting their strength: "There are thieves breaking the door, go and call the courtyard to come." ”

Because the second half of yesterday was a little too busy to collect coupons, today Xu Yun also specially called three more account rooms to come over to help, those account rooms didn't know what was going on outside, but he knew very well, only to hear him shout outside, "If you squeeze in again, you won't accept today's tickets." ”

As soon as the words fell, several account rooms and gatekeepers only felt that the people outside the door seemed to have lost their strength, and a few people just used a slight force, and the door was "boomed" tightly ~ closed.

Xu Yun looked at the frightened porter and the account room and said, "You don't have to be nervous, it's just some people who are in a hurry to sell coupons, not thieves." Then he said to the porter, "Reopen the door." ”

The porter said with some hesitation: "Shopkeeper Xu, do you really want to open the door?" ”

"Open, if you don't open the door, how to collect coupons? By the way, you can call a few more bookkeepers, and look at the situation, these few people are not enough now. ”

"But what if ......"

"There is nothing, but in case, if you don't open the door again and delay the big things of the owner and the son, can you take care of it?"

The porter listened to Xu Yun's words, so he had to slowly open the door again according to his words, but fortunately, no one squeezed in again.

The door opened, and Xu Yundang stepped out of the house door first: "With me as the boundary, anyone who exceeds my body will be disqualified from selling coupons, and those who exceed my body with more than three people will cancel the coupon collection today." ”

The people who had been waiting outside the door for a long time retreated one after another when they heard this, for fear that they would be disqualified by surpassing the person in front of them.

It's just that these people took a step back, Xu Yun took a step forward, these people retreated more than a dozen steps in a row, Xu Yun finally stopped, and at this time, a large space was finally vacated in front of the door of the Fengxing Courtyard.

Seeing that the people retreated, several account rooms in the door came out with tables in twos and twos, and today three more tables were added, and six five-foot long tables were lined up, blocking the front of the house.