The people of Jinling Mansion are very puzzled by what happened during this New Year's Festival, and it is completely beyond their cognition!

First of all, the price of building materials has risen, which makes people not worry.

Then the firewood, rice, oil and salt rose a little, and some people began to worry.

After another two days, it went crazy, everything went up like crazy, even the price of rice doubled, and people began to pay attention!

And two days later, suddenly, the price of materials exploded and collapsed, making the people dizzy! In order not to suffer losses, the small traders struggled in the rise and fall of prices, and were dizzy and weeping by the big businessmen.

Now, the New Year's Day, even the tenth day of the new year, this full of carriages running around, the wharf that had become sparsely populated because of the New Year's Festival, is also suddenly full of traffic, so shocked that many foremen have not even had time to summon labor, people have already opened their own high prices to recruit people, with a group of coolie boatmen on the ship, so that the foreman lost a lot of money in vain!

"Last year's flood, this year's arrival will be everywhere price increases, this day is not allowed to pass?" Some of the people sighed.

"It's okay, anyway, my lord said that our wages have also doubled, and we can't lose anything." Some of the people who heard the news didn't care, but others seemed to understand something when they heard the news, and immediately rushed to their homes!

The wind and clouds over Jinling Mansion are surging, spreading in all directions, the first to notice must be Shanghai, Suzhou, Huizhou, Yangzhou and Hangzhou and other places, for the price increase in Ningzhou, they also received some news, but at the beginning it was only caused by the New Year's Festival, after all, what year at this time of the year things do not rise? But after a few days, they realized something was wrong. The price rise in Ningzhou has no intention of stopping at all, and the materials have increased to seven or eight times. But it's still in short supply!

And when they knew that the people who bought the materials were all scholars. only to find out that it was Taiping Dao who was putting pressure behind the scenes!

Opportunity, great opportunity! Although the materials are heavy and difficult to transport, they also want to build a Taoist temple of Taiping Road here, will the local scholars also buy it? But whether you buy it or not, go up, and it's not too late to come down when you can't sell it anyway.

This one can't go up, and the prices in the entire Jiangnan have flown up!

And when this price increase turmoil has not yet completely popularized Jiangnan, there are actually a group of people. At the end of the New Year's Festival, the frenzied purchases, the small items are immediately paid for and packed, and the large items are directly ordered, and then someone is sent to transport them away, making these local merchants look stupid!

But after two days, their faces changed from red to black!

It's so ruthless, the Ningzhou businessman is really ruthless, after the front foot buys your things cheaply, the back foot. The price increase storm has spread!

"What? Strike? Listening to the butler's report, an outsider was so angry that he almost fainted.

"Not only do they have to strike, but they also have to leave, and the little one wants to crush them with a contract. But as a result, they actually said that they would go to report to the official together, saying that the wages they got could not make a living at all, and other people's long-term jobs had increased their monthly salaries. As long as we don't rise here, even if they make trouble in the capital, they are justified! ”

"Crazy. These guys are crazy, they are craftsmen in the Kiba Stone Quarry. I'm a silk workshop, even if silk has risen a lot recently, but it's not to the extent of doubling, right? ”

"Master, you don't know, now I don't know that it's a wood field and a stone field, but all walks of life!"

"What!" The staff was shocked and angry, yesterday he only heard that it was only the wood and stone craftsmen who increased their monthly money, why did it become all walks of life today?

Although he was surprised and angry, he also had to eat this bitter fruit, and first give his long-term workers a fifty percent increase, otherwise the spring and summer clothes will be missed, so how much will be lost? Bankruptcy is possible!

And it is not only this family that has been harmed by this situation, but the entire Jiangnan!

When most of the businessmen in Jiangnan were busy gaining a foothold in this storm, there was such a group of businessmen who rushed out of Jiangnan, which frightened the merchants in the southeast, southwest, and Central Plains!

On the fourteenth day of the Lunar New Year, in a teahouse in Huaiyin Mansion, several Huaiyin businessmen sat together and were discussing something.

"Are Jiangnan businessmen crazy? Could it be that the flood has ruined everything over there? Otherwise, why buy everything? ”

"It's Jiangnan, but in fact, most of them are businessmen in Ningzhou, I found out what kind of chamber of commerce they seem to have, as for why they buy so many things, I don't know."

"I know, I heard that the price of some wood and stone has risen by an astonishing seven or eight times, you think this is not ridiculous?"

"It's really ridiculous, this year's festival, if it wants to rise, it will also be the price of the New Year's goods, even after the New Year's Festival, it will be rice, grain, silk cloth, what does it have to do with wood and stone? Who doesn't know that after the autumn harvest is the best time to build a house, the weather is not hot, and there is little rain, they are rising now, is it waiting for the autumn harvest to fall? It just doesn't make sense! ”

"What are you doing with all that, now we are discussing whether to sell it or not, and at what price to sell it to them?"

"In my opinion, let's use the weekday price, anyway, it's the New Year, and the weekday price is equivalent to a discount."

"Well, that's true, but what if they don't buy it?"

"It's better to be less, give them eighty percent of the parity, and continue to do it after the relationship is good."

"Hehe, your brothers are fine, the little brother is bitter, who let me do the business for the official family, our Huai salt can't be said to rise, everything has to wait for the approval of the government, unless they buy it at a parity price!"

After a few people finished discussing, they immediately went to their own business, for this business, they didn't value it at all, only because it was caused by the flood, Jiangnan did everything, they came out to buy on a large scale, and after Jiangnan stabilized, they also came out to sell some local goods, that is not crazy, it is really stupid!

"I didn't expect that Dong Gongzi was so young that he became the Jinling Mansion, which made Wang so envious!" A young man picked up a wine glass and touched a glass with Dong Ce.

After Dong Ce drank it all, he smiled bitterly: "Wang Gongzi has been promoted, and he is just taking over the duties of his father, and he is really ashamed to be the councilor." After that, Dong Ce glanced at the scenery outside the building, and said: "The Lantern Festival in Zhongli Mansion is not weaker than my Jinling in the slightest!" ”

"Hehe, Dong Yilang laughed, our Zhongli Mansion is only twenty years away, but Jinling is an ancient capital, it can't be compared, but when it comes to liveliness, let's Zhongli Mansion has a few lively places, and Dong Yilang must go to the cheers after dinner!"

"It's nature." Dong Ce smiled, and suddenly changed his words and said: "I have explained the origin before, I don't know if Wang Gongzi has thought about it?" ”

Wang Gongzi frowned, although he knew that Dong Ce wanted to ask, but he still wanted to delay, after all, he had also received some rumors, but thinking of the amount that Dong Ce wanted, it was really inseparable!

"Wang has already informed his father of this matter, and he also agreed to sell 30,000 bags of Jiang rice to Dong Yilang, but in terms of price, I'm afraid it will have to be discussed separately!"

Dong Ce raised his eyebrows and smiled slightly: "Does Wang Gongzi think I'm not sincere enough?" The next thing I want is glutinous rice, not river rice. ”

Wang Gongzi immediately smiled bitterly and said: "Dong Yilang doesn't know, since the autumn received, most of the glutinous rice has been beaten into rice, even if my Wang family does not have four warehouses in surplus, counting, about 10,000 bags, how can I meet Dong Yilang's needs." ”

"Ten thousand bags!" Dong Ce frowned, it seemed to be a pity, and after thinking about it again, he said: "Otherwise, I want all of these, and Jiang Mi also wants to raise enough 30,000 bags, I hope that Wang Gongzi will satisfy both of us in terms of price!" ”

"No problem!" Wang Gongzi smiled happily, because he was going to sell it to Dong Ce, but it was old rice, and it was not last year, but the year before last! Of course, there are not many Jiang rice left the year before last, and their Wang family can't raise 30,000 bags at all, but Dong Ce can't ask for it immediately, as long as they sign the contract, they can buy it from other people and then stuff it to Dong Ce, and he will want it if he doesn't want it at that time!

However, this contract naturally had to be done a little tricky, and after the two sides agreed on the price, Wang Gongzi took out the contract that had been prepared and handed it to Dong Ce.

Dong Ce just glanced at it, and knew what Wang Gongzi was planning, there was no mention of the new and old rice in this contract, only the quantity, if it was signed, you could only endure the pain and eat the old rice when people stuffed you!

With a slight smile, Dong Ce actually signed and drew a pledge directly on it, and it seemed that he really didn't notice the problem in the contract! (To be continued.) )