The test that night, because of the short time, the complete information, has not yet come out, for the long-term, and for the stability, it has not yet been determined, for these merchants, the previous obtained these are enough, these data can already be judged, the commercial use of these horses.

This time, the Weizhou Cattle and Horse Conference only appeared suddenly, and even most of the businessmen would not have participated if it were not for the generous recommendation of the Chamber of Commerce in the Northwest. In their active or passive comes, the reason is to get horses.

Horses have an undoubted role in feudal society, whether it is speed, or strength, is the first choice for long-distance and short-distance transportation, even if the strength is not as good as the ox, the speed of this aspect, it is completely explosive.

There are at least 30 days left for the auction, and even if the current sales volume is maintained, 200,000 horses will take more than 20 days to be fully sold, but these chambers of commerce are a little urgent.

Even if it is to sell goods, even if it is to mobilize funds, the vast majority of chambers of commerce will not mobilize all the funds to come, compared with these high-quality horses, the funds in their hands are still a little worse.

Also last night, after the news spread, most of the chambers of commerce interviewed the root cause of the money bank, and they needed to mobilize themselves.

Up to now, among the chambers of commerce participating in the Weizhou Cattle and Horse Conference, the top ten chambers of commerce in the northwest are no longer the largest chambers of commerce, but they are one of the most eager forces, but even they have not brought all the funds over.

The top ten chambers of commerce in the northwest, their annual turnover is more than 1 million, and the funds that can be mobilized to the limit are also about 300,000, not to mention the larger-scale chambers of commerce, the top ten chambers of commerce in the northwest, they only mobilized about 100,000 yuan of funds on average, and the larger chambers of commerce did not mobilize all the funds, the absolute number is very large, but the proportion is not much.

All the chambers of commerce involved in this transaction did not actually exert all their strength. Who would put all their money on a single transaction, even if it was a scarce material like a horse.

But after coming to Weizhou, especially after seeing these horses in person, they changed, these horses are all horses in the sense of the Northern Song Dynasty, with great strength, can work for a long time, can pull things faster, and create higher value.

That's right, it's speed, which is only useful for ordinary Shengdou small people, or farmers, when they are busy with farming and harvesting, but it is the key to the pursuit of businessmen.

Feudal society is based on farming, the whole pace is relatively slow, and the rural environment formed over the years has always been low-paced, slow farming, slow life, slow year after year.

A person only has so much land, the growth of plants, is also seasonal, when planting, a little tired, a little tired when harvesting, other times, a little more industrious, in the middle of the time, watering, weeding, some lazy, even these do not have to do, just sit and wait for the harvest.

There will be a difference in the middle, but the difference will not be too big, it is nothing more than a little hardworking, an acre of land is more than thirty or fifty buckets, even a stone is rarely up, in this case, a little harder to go out to do odd jobs, there is no such pursuit, is to give birth to a child at home on the hot kang.

The impact of a peaceful and peaceful life is the rapid increase in population, which has doubled or tripled in a hundred years, and the average annual growth figure is close to about one percent.

This is not one percent between hundreds of thousands and millions, but one percent of tens of millions, and the static number of a year's growth, more than hundreds of thousands, which has become the foundation of the growth of the power of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Traditional feudal agriculture and modern industry, are completely different from the two extremes, industry, especially modern industry, as long as the production line, on the factory, is a climax, the industry will be stable at a fixed speed, forward, these, in a short period of time can not see anything, a long time, the accumulation of more, naturally, will have an effect.

However, among all the personnel, there is one category of people who are exceptional, that is, merchants, perhaps among all the occupations in the Northern Song Dynasty, the closest to the modern one, only businessmen will pursue efficiency and speed.

There is an obvious difference, the same two businessmen, get the same goods, one goes faster, the other goes slower, when the faster, arrives three or five days in advance, and when these urgently needed products are delivered to the place, they can create high profits, and later, perhaps, things will not be sold, or even at a loss.

Commodities have timeliness and exclusivity, and under certain circumstances, products that can create profits, because of a large amount of supply, after having and solving, become less scarce, and there are not so many people in demand, the market economy will naturally adjust, or it will be manifested as a decline in prices, or as a slowdown in commodities.

The phrase time is money, in the eyes of others, is just a process of accumulating money, but for businessmen, it is a test of life and death, sometimes, the difference of a day, one party makes a lot of money, the other party, but can not sell, or simply has a large-scale loss.

This is not alarmism, this is a reality-proven, even stark example, of one side that has made high profits, and the rest of the followers have only taken a small step and suffered heavy losses.

For example, more than 10 years ago, the Bianliang flood, the Yellow River burst, the sudden flood flooded Bianliang, the flood of several days, so that Bianliang suffered heavy losses, but also made food the most terrible problem, at that time in just 10 days, the price of grain as high as 10 per stone, which is more than ten times more than usual.

Because of the floods, neither the Yellow River nor the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal could complete the transportation, and the entire city, in addition to the flood control, was to strictly restrict grain, plus some speculators, the price of grain immediately soared to the sky.

Except for a small part of the grain in the city, which is on higher ground, the rest has been soaked in the flood, and in this case, the price of grain has skyrocketed, and even the political situation is somewhat unstable.

Grain is related to a stable political situation, and it is unstable at any time when there is no grain, and in this case, as long as the grain is transported into Bianliang, it can be sold to some extent.

Bianliang, a million people, has a daily consumption capacity, to a terrible level, and all the chambers of commerce are trying to find a way to get food, which is almost the money in front of them.

However, on their traditional path, it is difficult, and it is not easy to simply deliver information to the outside world.

When the flood had not completely receded, and there was still a crisis in Bianliang City, the Xinyi took action in advance.

Xinyi used means, with the help of the people behind it, mobilized 200 horses, and spent 4 days and nights from Bianliang to Caizhou, and obtained at least 200 carts of grain from Caizhou.

When this batch of grain was transported to Bianliang, it made a huge profit, a total of 1,500 stone of grain, almost all of which were sold at a price of more than 12 guan, and the cost would not exceed 2 guan, and the profit would exceed 10,000 yuan.

Such a short and fast transaction is only four or five days before and after, and the capital used is small, but the profits are huge, so that countless people follow the trend and become a craze.

After that, people came one after another, and even triggered a large-scale rise in food prices in the surrounding states and counties of Bianliang, and the followers did not realize that the first few days were crucial.

Floods will always recede, especially the super floods that inundate Bianliang like this, and only for a short period of time, when the rains no longer continue, at least the water in the rivers and canals will recover.

The water network of the Northern Song Dynasty is developed, the recovery is much faster than that of later generations, the river water falls, the water transportation is smooth, all kinds of materials gather from all directions to Bianliang, some of the food that cost a huge price, get from the surrounding area, in the face of the crazy grain of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, it is good not to smash it in the hand.

However, the loss was still generated, and the freight, the price required to get a good horse, coupled with the factor of rising grain, the average cost of transportation to Bianliang exceeded 3 times.

This price, compared with the selling price of more than a dozen guan, still has a great profit, and it is conceivable that when the grain arrives in Bianliang, they will also get a lot of profits.

It's a pity that their earnings are always on paper.

The power that the government can mobilize is much greater than that of ordinary merchants, and even when the flood is at its greatest, it can use vehicles and ships to communicate with the surrounding areas, and even at critical moments, a small batch of vehicles and ships can be used to transport a part of the grain.

In a big city with a million people, if there is no food, it will be okay for a short time, but if it is a long time, it will be turbulent, in this case, it doesn't matter whether the merchant lives or dies, no matter how big his background is, no one will care about him.

At this time, if it is sold at this price, these followers can still get a small amount of profit, not to lose money, some people see the opportunity is not good, sell it directly, and some are smashed in their hands, with more and more grain, less than 20 days, the price of grain is like a roller coaster, from the high price of 10 guan, to less than 1 guan.

Later, it was calculated that the range of opportunities formed by the flood was 15 to 20 days after the flood began.

From 7 days after the flood, it is possible to pull back twice if you make a quick decision, and if there are enough horses, you can create a terrible profit.

This is a special case, and one that shows the role of the horse, which is speed and efficiency.

Replaced by ordinary horses, not to mention whether they can leave Bianliang in the flood and come to Caizhou, even if they go, the time to go back and forth for more than 10 days will make all the efforts come to naught, because the time in the middle is eight or nine days, and even in the later stage, because of the arrival of a large amount of food, if they do not respond in time to the market, they will be like those who follow the trend, and they will lose all their money.