Chapter 601: Speculation
He carried the silver on his back to a store that collected money on weekdays, and by the time he was gone, the silver had turned into a cart of copper coins, which made him want to scream with excitement.
Between one in and one out, there is a profit of twenty wen for one or two pieces of silver, where to find such a good thing in the world?
During this day, he went back and forth between Cai's shop and various cashier's shops, and by the time he returned home in the evening, his silver had already increased by one-third than when he went out, and Xi's family did not sleep all night.
On the second day, the third day, and the fourth day, he made more and more money like a snowball, but by this time the news began to leak out, and more and more people began to learn from him as an intermediary and began to make money in large sums of money.
And those shopkeepers who collect cashiers don't care about the affairs of the market at all on weekdays, as long as there is no mistake in the entry and exit of the money every month, and they can explain it to the owner.
So the guys below were bold one by one, and pulled each other's copper coins to the Cai family's shop in exchange for silver, and they made a difference, and they were bubbling with joy.
The news spread more and more, and finally in the villages near Luoyang, those peasant households carried copper coins on their backs and ganged up to go into the city to exchange for silver.
This is much more lively than rushing to the market, every Cai family's shop is crowded with people, a large amount of silver money gathered here, the frightened magistrate hurriedly sent troops to maintain order, if there is a robbery accident, they will definitely not be able to eat and amuse.
This is the news from Luoyang, and Chang'an is also vigorous, but the money received is really not much, and it is all small people who take their family savings out to exchange, and those rich and noble families are waiting and watching.
Cai Cong visited Xungui three times and twice, but none of them were willing to nod their heads to exchange.
In the eldest grandson Wuji's mansion, the number one person in the court came, and even Wei Zheng, a pretentious and high-ranking person, took a stool and sat in the corner with a look of shame.
"This meeting was held in my house thanks to your trust, and now Cai Cong's kid has exchanged nearly 500,000 copper coins, and the copper coins in Luoyang and the pro-Chang'an people's homes can be said to have been collected by him for three or four years, and the rest of the cuts can no longer be taken away, so the old man proposed that we also collect copper coins. He collected it with nine hundred and ninety, and we collected it with nine hundred and eighty. At that time, all the copper coins will be in our hands, and he will have to come and beg us, and then we will exchange him for one tael of eight hundred wen, and he will have to compromise obediently. ”
The eldest grandson Wuji pinched his beard and said proudly, and the others nodded one after another, Cai Cong is known as the God of Wealth, although he doesn't want to admit it, but Datang can be so rich, and most of the money is obtained by Cai Cong.
But the more this happens, the more jealous people are, especially this time to marry a sister, the fireworks are put from Chang'an to Luoyang, it is too public, and everyone who can clean up Cai Cong on the premise of not breaking the law this time is very happy.
Even Wei Zheng took out all the silver in the family for nearly 30,000 taels, which shows how hated Cai Cong is on weekdays!
"The old man thinks that he should take out all the money in everyone's house, and one person will be responsible for collecting all the copper coins on the market, so as to avoid being taken advantage of by Cai Cong's kid."
Fang Xuanling pondered for a while before saying, all the people present naturally knew that if no one was in charge, it was easy to make mistakes, so as soon as Fang Xuanling said this, everyone looked at Li Xiaogong one after another.
"See what I do? I've never been in business for a long time, and I'll be wrong to leave it to me. No, no, no......"
Li Xiaogong hurriedly waved his hand, let him march and set up the formation, let him manage the money and do business, didn't this cost him his life?
"This thing is easy to say, we can't be separated from the government affairs, if we delay the political affairs in order to seek money, Your Majesty will be furious. The prince now has no military pressure, and he has a high authority to preside over this matter in order to serve the public, otherwise it will not be beautiful if he is replaced by a different person, and there will be many obstacles to doing things lightly. ”
"What the minister said is reasonable, in fact, this matter is not very complicated, as long as you coordinate the money and silver of each family, and use the silver to exchange all the copper coins back. At that time, I will go to Cai Cong to negotiate, and we will all go together, so many people are not afraid of Cai Cong's retaliation afterwards, isn't it wonderful? ”
"Yes, yes, this matter is so decided, everyone is convinced by the prince's affairs."
Everyone said one after another, and immediately pushed Li Xiaogong to the position of the principal, and now Li Xiaogong was not easy to shirk, and directly responded to this matter.
The next thing is to start apportioning, how much money each family pays, how many people each family sends out to do things, this is a very cumbersome matter, which involves the distribution of benefits and has been discussed until the evening before a result is reached.
Wei Zheng walked out of the mansion of the eldest grandson Wuji with an ugly face, and there were many people with the same ugly faces as him, all of whom were upright people who paid attention to their demeanor and integrity on weekdays, and they really couldn't wipe off their faces on this occasion of speaking outright about money, so they could only suffer dumb losses.
Cai Cong in the Hou Mansion of Chang'an ate the fruit in a big gulp, Xiao Liuzi looked at him with fear, this master didn't know what he was thinking, but the gold and silver at home were given out in large quantities, and he got back mountains of copper coins, and there was no place to use them, which made him worry about whether the Hou Ye was stupid.
"Don't look at me like that again, or I'll let you go to the latrine. How did those big fat sheep go to the eldest grandson Wuji's house today to discuss? ”
"This group of uncles is really ruthless, they elected Li Xiaogong to be in charge, and each family made up five million taels of silver to buy copper coins in the market at a lower price, and when there are no copper coins on the interface, they will come to slaughter us again."
Xiao Liuzi said hatefully, whether these noble officials are on the Lingnan side or Fusang side, the money they earn is brought to them by the Cai family, and now doing so is revenge!
"Hey...... Inform them, and when they start collecting copper coins, let the people below lower lower the price of copper by a penny. ”
Cai Cong said with a smile, the cold laughter made Xiao Liuzi tremble, and he wanted to lower the price? He was a little sympathetic to those nobles, and Xiao Liuzi was sure that Hou Ye must have a conspiracy waiting for these people.
A few days later, Li Xiaogong sent people with silver to start exchanging copper coins, the price was better than Cai Cong's, and a large number of manpower began to go deep into the countryside to buy copper coins all over the world like a merchant.
The momentum is very huge, even Cai Cong can't compete with them if he lowers the price to 984 Wen, and the common people will also calculate, not to mention taking copper coins into the city to exchange money, not to mention that they may eat the extra money after eating.
Listening to the people below report a large amount of copper coins into the warehouse every day, Li Xiaogong drank a small wine to celebrate with satisfaction, when he worked hard to distribute benefits, he would take more than others, and he got an extra amount of money for no reason, he was naturally happy.
(End of chapter)