Chapter 207: The Battle for Food

In fact, Jia Yi is only playing a very small means, that is, to fill up the low-priced rice in the market, creating an endless stream of low-cost rice for the nobles, and the low-priced rice in the grassland is likely to be dozens or even hundreds of times the profit, but the high-priced rice in their hands is at most two or three times or even one or two times the profit, and the difference will be very huge, and they will also buy a large number of low-priced rice, but the funds on hand are basically replaced by high-priced rice. It has become impossible to buy low-priced rice in large quantities, so they have to make some money to buy low-priced rice.

At this time, the news that the price of a bucket of rice for 300 wen came out, which made these businessmen and nobles see a turning point, although they don't know who dared to openly disobey the holy decree, but they are for profit, it is profit, so they don't care who picks this head, so they will also start to sell high-priced rice at the price of 300 wen, free up funds to buy more low-priced rice, sell a bucket of high-priced rice, you can buy 100 buckets of low-priced rice, although there is a certain loss in the process, But there are still 80 or 90 buckets for one bucket, so they will sell a large number of high-priced rice.

Maybe some people will watch from the wall, holding high-priced rice and waiting for the arrival of the emperor's specified time, so that they can go to the grassland in exchange for a lot of income, but after all, such people are a minority, who will think that they make more money, this small loss will bring greater gains, and everyone will calculate this account.

When a large number of high-priced rice holders begin to sell high-priced rice, the price of rice will naturally fall, and then the person who picks the head will slowly reduce the price of rice.

When the high-priced rice is reduced to a certain extent, there will be no more holders of high-priced rice to sell high-priced rice, and the funds in their hands have been seriously reduced, and the low-priced rice that can be purchased will be very limited, so that the rice circulating in the market is available, and the price has also dropped, which just meets the requirements of Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and Li Er.

Moreover, as the initiator, Jia Yi can also get a lot of benefits from it, after all, the rice in the hands of him and his friends is all low-priced rice, and when it is sold at a high price of 300 Wen, it has earned a hundred-fold profit, and in the follow-up rice buying boom, they will continue to buy low-priced rice and sell it at a high price, so that the rice in their hands will always earn hundreds of times the profit, until the rice price reaches a relative balance.

To put it bluntly, Jia Yi managed to snatch the funds from those high-priced rice holders, resulting in them not being able to buy more rice, which allowed the market to have rice circulation.

But the biggest sacrifice among them is undoubtedly Princess Li Yundi Ruyang, because she openly disobeyed the holy decree, even if she is the emperor's daughter, even if her original intention is for Li Er's consideration, but in the end, she will still receive a punishment, and this punishment will not be too light.

Looking at the back of the departing Princess Ruyang, Jia Yi even felt that this Princess Ruyang was very tasteful, no matter whether she was for her father or for the Tang Dynasty, she was willing to make such a sacrifice, it was worthy of admiration, just rush her with this energy, even if Jia Yi tried his best, he would not let Ruyang suffer any harm.

Ruyang's speed is very fast, before it gets dark, ten shops are located in various areas of Chang'an City, and after a little modification, they are opened, and the signs have even been hung out, and someone will come to sell rice early tomorrow morning.

Jia Yi took control of the official rice store from Fang Xuanling's hands, and tomorrow Tai will cooperate with Ruyang to launch the first financial storm of Datang.

That night, Jia Yi contacted all his friends and asked them to sell all the low-priced rice to Ruyang, and they could earn hundreds of times more Lin Run without going to the grassland, which made them readily agree and handed over the rice very happily.

The night is slightly cool, Chang'an City has entered the curfew time, there is no pedestrian on the street, there is a figure of Wuhou patrolling the street everywhere, ensuring the peace of Chang'an City at night, Jia Yi standing in the courtyard with his hands on his back and looking up at the sky, he knows that tomorrow Chang'an City will become extremely lively, and he is the person behind the whole farce who plans it himself, which makes his heart not calm for a long time.

Lin Ruyu looked at Jia Yi's back, quietly picked up a cloak and came to Jia Yi's side, draped it on Jia Yi's body, Jia Yi, who was awakened, turned his head to look at Lin Ruyu, and saw that Lin Ruyu's eyes were full of teasing concern, smiled indifferently, hugged it into his arms, and stopped to enjoy the starry night for a long time.

As soon as the morning dawned, the ban was lifted in various markets in Chang'an City, and the first news that people who had been hungry for several days heard was that someone had started to sell rice, and suddenly the crowd began to rush towards the rice shop opened in Ruyang.

Hundreds of Wen and a bucket of rice have been eaten for several years, who cares about the emperor's will of three cents per bucket of rice issued before, eating a full stomach is the king, not to mention that three hundred Wen has been a lot cheaper than at the beginning, and since the complete consumption, ten rice shops have become extremely popular for a while.

At the same time, Jia Yi also instructed the official rice shop located in Chang'an City to start business, Sanwen Qian a bucket of rice Tong Su is not bullied, the little friends who got the news in advance, waited in the rice shop early, the rice shop just opened, began a large number of acquisitions, when the people have not yet reacted, Jia Yi's limited 1,000 quintals of rice were sold out like this, so that the people who ran over hung their heads for a long time, and the grumpy ones scolded in the rice shop, until Jia Yi hung out a sign to explain that the new rice was in the process of being shipped. Tomorrow another 1,000 quintals will be sold, which makes the people stop scolding and prepare to come and queue up early tomorrow morning to buy rice.

Those who have a little money don't want to endure hunger anymore, so they still come to the rice shop in Ruyang, buy less rice, and deal with it for a few days.

The emperor doesn't have time to care if there is someone in Chang'an City who disobeys his will now, because he is having a headache at this time, he just thinks of this troublesome thing, and then his head hurts again, coupled with Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui's intentional concealment, Li Er can't know about this matter at all, although Wei Zheng wants to tell the emperor about this matter, but what he gets is the soft nail of the eldest grandson empress, the emperor has a headache, can you stop it first.

With the cooperation of all the bigwigs, this financial turmoil began to unfold slowly.

The next day, there were many more rice shops on the market, all of which were listed for sale for 300 yuan, and the sales were very hot, and those merchants or nobles who sold rice were lined up early outside the official rice shops, in order to be able to buy low-priced rice.

When an official rice shop opens, 300 quintals will first be set aside for turnover, and the rest will be sold to those who have started to sell high-priced rice.

On the third day, the rice in the official rice shop became 2,000 quintals, 600 quintals were set aside, and the rest was sold as usual, while the rice in the rice shop in Ruyang had become 250 quintals.

In the following days, the price of rice changed day by day, only the price of the official rice store has been kept at three cents, but it is a limited sale, and the price of other rice shops is falling again and again, with the reduction of prices, the whole Chang'an City began to be filled with the cry of those merchants who sell high-priced rice but do not buy low-priced rice, saying that they will go to the grassland to make a fortune, this has not yet started, the capital has been almost lost, and make a woolen money.

More and more money in the hands of Jia Yi and other friends has changed, and the rice in the official rice store is also selling more and more, and soon, the rice in the hands of Jia Yi and the friends is sold out, and the rice in the official rice store has also been cut off, this kind of thing can't happen, Jia can let the friends start to buy high-priced rice to fill the official rice store, and the money just earned will be spent, no one wants to do this, but when Jia Yi made it clear with a cold face and made the stakes clear, the speed of these friends to get the money quickly became very happy.

Of course, Jia Yi couldn't let everyone come up with a huge amount of money infinitely, and when the high-priced rice dropped to 100 Wen, he stopped the purchase, because the rice in the official rice store was already enough, and it really became a steady stream, and even the rice returned to the treasury was 20% more, which made Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, who had been watching this with fear, completely relieved.

For seven days, the grain war was over, and when those who sold high-priced rice and bought low-priced rice found that the rice in their hands had hardly changed, they found that they were busy in vain, and while crying bitterly, they could only lament that they had no children who came up with this trick, but they said it a little late, as Jia Yi's son, he had come to the world before they cursed, and it was very complete.

This financial turmoil is over, the biggest winners are Jia Yi and others, the rice in their hands has not changed much, but the funds have been greatly expanded, and before they go to the grassland, they have already earned back all their investments, and even made several times the profit.

This farce completely caused by Li Er has finally come to an end, the joy of making money, and the pain wailing of not making money, but this is all their own business, and no one will care.

When those merchants and nobles who lost money and made money woke up, they immediately pointed their anger at the ten rice shops opened in Ruyang, if there were no ten rice shops, the funds in their hands would not have become what they are now, and soon these people sued the rice shops in Ruyang to the county government, hoping to get a fair trial.

The law does not blame the public, so that they have the confidence to directly push Ruyang into the danger of blatant disobedience to the holy decree.