Who would have thought that seeing that nearly 800,000 stone of grain purchased by several major grain merchants in Zhejiang entered the boundary of Nanjing, such a thing happened in Henan. But this is better, originally just to make the profiteers who hoard Juqi feel painful, and now that they are doing their own evil, then I will tell them what the result of not living will be!

This time the plot was very big, Shen Chongming's original idea was to directly put 800,000 stone of grain on the market to stabilize the price of grain, but since he wanted to rectify the people ruthlessly, this strategy would have to change. Don't you like hoarding, well, I will directly sell this batch of grain to you for 700 yuan, and then buy a large amount of grain from Jiangxi to completely stabilize the price of grain, and then use the power of the imperial court to see and transport it into Henan, not only exempt from taxes along the way, but also act secretly without being detected by Hu Yingjia. In this way, even if the market price of grain is reduced to 500 yuan, it will not lose money.

This is only the first step, the second step is to have enough food at that time, and then repay the other in the other way, through public opinion to make your reputation stink, so that you can not sell all the food you have, and finally force you to sell it to the government for disaster relief at a price of 400 yuan, and completely lose all your money!

Thinking about it, Shen Chongming couldn't help but laugh proudly, his own means are really high. Although he has no friendship with the grain merchants in Jiangxi, the government has official guidance, and taxes can be exempted from all parts of the way, and 500 yuan and one stone can still be earned. I am afraid that no one will refuse this good thing that not only earns money but also gives the government face.

"Chongming, how do you plan to make these profiteers lose all their money?" Watching Ma Erdan go out and close the door, Zhao Ziqian leaned on Shen Chongming's shoulder and asked.

Shen Chongming added fuel to his fire and explained his plan, touched Zhao Ziqian's little hand and asked, "How is it, your father-in-law is amazing." ”

"Well, awesome." Zhao Ziqian responded sweetly, and then her expression darkened and said with some concern: "But if you do this, I am afraid that the grain merchants who have lost their blood capital will inevitably lose their family fortune, if they borrow debts outside for the sake of storing grain, then life will be even worse, maybe the family will be ruined, and then their wives and children will be good?" ”

"Well...... this" Shen Chongming was stunned and hesitated, and he also understood why Zhao Ziqian had such thoughts, she had suffered a lot alone in the past few years, and the most unsightly thing was those orphans.

Turning around and touching Zhao Ziqian's cheek, Shen Chongming smiled: "Don't worry, the Xiang Guild will leave them a way to survive when the time comes." ”

"Chongming, you're so nice." Zhao Ziqian smiled sweetly and turned her head to reward a fragrant kiss.

"What, Zhejiang's grain merchants have come to Henan again? Damn it, these wolves can't be fed! "Seeing that the price of grain can break through the mark of one or two silver and one stone, and if it is strong for seven or eight days, it will be able to reach the one or two or two hundred wen and one stone that he wants, but at this juncture, Zhejiang grain merchants who have made a lot of money a few days ago have poured in again, and how can Hu Yingjia, the mastermind behind the price rise turmoil, not be in a hurry, and it is reasonable to scold his mother.

"My lord, what can we do now, not only are all the silver we have on hand on the grain in the granary, but several other big grain merchants are also in a similar situation, and the 800,000 stone grain transported by the Zhejiang grain merchants this time has no appetite to eat anymore. Once they start selling directly, the price of grain that has finally been raised to one or two stones will fall in an instant, and it is possible to fall below 700 Wen. "The chief who is in charge of the grain storage has a good mind, and as soon as he heard the news, he realized that a catastrophe was coming, and if things really developed to this point, although it would not lose money, he would not make much money at all.

"What to do? We must not let them do anything bad, and immediately inform them in the name of our own officials that the officials of the prefectures and counties through which they pass must pester them, and let them in when we have all the food we have on hand is sold out. Hmph, there are more than 1.5 million stones of grain in Henan and Beidi, and if all of them are sold, they will be enough for nearly one million people in Henan and North to eat for a month, and when the time comes, almost all the surplus money in everyone's hands will be concentrated in our hands. Hu Yingjia sneered and said, dare to disturb the good things of the official, how ugly and ugly it will definitely make you die!

Hu Yingjia sneered, didn't notice Chang Sui's ugly expression at all, and after listening to what he said, he interjected with a bitter face: "My lord, I can't stop it at all this time, the method you said has already been tried, the prefect of Runing Mansion said that this time a grain merchant is related to Xu Ge in the capital, and he is the leader of these grain merchants." ”

Hu Yingjia was stunned for a moment, and his face immediately turned a miserable green, and Xu Ge Lao also participated? Thinking about it, I think this is normal, after all, it is difficult to feed a large family with that little money alone, and officials should also make some extra money. Especially for an elderly person like Xu Gelao, the authority in his hands is used day by day, if he doesn't grasp it tightly, waiting to return to his hometown, he can only live a hard life, and it makes people feel chilling when he thinks about it.

But the heart is cold, now Hu Yingjia hates Xu Jie, the root of the tooth is itching, we don't care if you make money, but you can't help but let others earn money! However, his arms can't twist his thighs, not to mention that the other party is still a giant Xu Ge Lao, and now Hu Yingjia can only knock out his teeth and swallow it in his stomach.

"Well, how much grain do they have?" Hu Yingjia asked helplessly, the only way now is to join forces with several major grain merchants to eat this batch of grain in advance, and must raise the price of grain to one or two cents of silver!

"My lord, it's more than 800,000 stones." Chang Sui wanted to cry without tears, and it was precisely because of such a large amount of money that he felt afraid, as soon as the market opened, the price of grain could be suppressed in an instant.

"What, how can there be so many?" Hu Yingjia was shocked, since ancient times Zhejiang businessmen are unique, as early as when the flood occurred in Henan, they realized the business opportunities, some time ago they and several major grain merchants in Henan joined hands to eat nearly one million stone grain is mostly from Zhejiang businessmen, it stands to reason that almost the grain in Zhejiang in the folk circulation is scraped clean, how can it be a blink of an eye and emerge 800,000 stones?

"Adults, the small ones don't know, it is estimated that Zhejiang businessmen are squeezed out of the profits of the Henan grain market, and as soon as the 800,000 stone grain enters Henan, they are afraid that the private grain stocks in Zhejiang will be empty." Chang Sui said helplessly, flies don't bite eggs that are not sewn, who makes Henan's high food prices scary.

"800,000 stones, 800,000 stones......" Hu Yingjia muttered, but he was so worried that he only had less than 80,000 taels of silver left in his hands, and the major grain merchants were afraid that they would have no money left, so where should they go to get so much silver left?

"Borrow!" Hu Yingjia said viciously, the richest people in the world are not these businessmen, but those rich people in the countryside, who have accumulated for generations, and that is absolutely right, they should be able to take out such a little silver.

When they say they will borrow, the price of grain in Henan has risen to this point, and the landlords who have already bought all the grain in their hands to the grain merchants regret it, otherwise they would have made a lot of money this time. At this time, several major grain merchants opened Chrysostom under Hu Yingjia's prodding, and borrowed from them at high interest.

Of course, such a good opportunity Hu Yingjia will not give it to others, with his connections in supervising the imperial history in various places, he immediately became the largest fundraiser in Henan, and he hung a huge debt of more than 200,000 taels in one breath, and he was at least 300,000 taels when he was waiting to repay the money!

Waiting for them to live together, the grain of Zhejiang businessmen was also transported to Kaifeng, and it was not opened along the way, just waiting for Hu Yingjia and other big customers to come to the door, which is really lucky.

The matter was too big, Hu Yingjia put aside his official business and ran to Kaifeng Mansion to take command, but he was limited by his identity and did not appear behind the scenes.

If you don't agree, our Zhejiang businessmen will sell their own stalls, and they will be regarded as doing good deeds for the fathers and villagers in Henan, and I believe that they will also rob them crazy with 800 Wen and one stone!

In the face of the toughness of several Zhejiang merchants, the Yu merchants who originally thought that they would eat all of them for 700 Wen had no choice, so they had to grit their teeth and eat them all, anyway, even if they were at the current price of one or two cents and eight cents of silver, they would make money, and there was nothing to be afraid of.

Hearing that his subordinates reported that the Zhejiang businessmen returned with the silver, Hu Yingjia couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and this pass was finally over. Despite this, I still hate Zheshang and Xu Jie in my heart, this group of bastards who eat people and don't spit out bones, this is simply taking advantage of the fire to rob, no wonder the book says that there is no good person in business, this must be wrong!

"My lord, the price of food is already one or two cents and eight cents of silver today, and those who have joined forces with us will ask when you will open. It is said that the political envoy of Henan Province is in a hurry, and he has sent people to urge them to open several times, and the big guy is really a little unbearable. Chang Sui said cautiously.

"In this way, it's twenty cents short." Hu Yingjia touched his beard and pondered, "Go back and tell them that all places will open early tomorrow morning, and the price will be one or two cents of silver and one stone, and the people will be anxious, and they must not care about the twenty cents." ”

"Everyone, congratulations on your big deal!" In the most luxurious restaurant in Kaifeng Mansion, the proud little third son got up and raised his glass.

Several big grain merchants in Zhejiang also got up one after another, and one of them smiled and said: "Shopkeeper Xiao is polite, I can have this windfall, thanks to you." Come on, let's toast the shopkeeper Xiao for a drink. ”

In a remote inn in Kaifeng, Shen Chongming sat in it waiting for the news of the third son, as for the grain in Jiangxi, it had quietly entered all parts of Henan in batches under the protection of Jinyiwei, and Hu Yingjia and others did not notice it at all. Now we are waiting for the success of this transaction of Zhejiang merchants in Kaifeng City, and once everything is ready, we will immediately support the stall to open for business. If the price of grain is low, it will be 500 yuan a stone.

Although such a profit is really low in Henan's current market. However, the Jiangxi grain merchants involved in it knew that they were serving the imperial court, and if they didn't do it obediently, they would be sad to die in the future. In addition, everyone also understands the situation, there is too much grain in Henan now, and if there is no price war, not a single grain can be sold.

Therefore, it is better to listen directly to the words of the court and show goodwill, as long as there is today's incense, what is difficult to do in the future, but it is a trivial matter in the eyes of others, maybe it will be solved with a greeting, and it can be regarded as a lot of wealth.