The wedding that night was a grand one, and many people in the city still talk about it. But look at this, the people around the street are in a hurry, either carrying grain for others, or carrying rice for others, and a few shouts will sound in the street from time to time. Although the people were sweating profusely, their faces were full of happy smiles. There are some people who are wiping their sweat and resting on the side, and when they mention the wedding two nights ago, there are also Ma Zongheng who are full of praise.

It turned out that because the families and merchants in the city purchased a large amount of grain for the horses, they naturally needed a lot of manpower, so that the people in the city had more opportunities to work. In addition, Ma Zongheng repeatedly ordered that the people's wages should not be deducted, and even set up a labor department in the county government to give the people a special appeal. Therefore, those families and businessmen did not dare to play any tricks. In addition, a large number of horses have been gathered, but from time to time to increase the distribution of grain, or sell the grain to the people at a low price, so it is deeply respected by the people of Changyuan.

On the street, Liu Ye was listening to an old man in his fifties, opening his mouth with two front teeth missing, and talking slowly with a smile. Liu Ye also smiled on his face, but he sighed in his heart, and sighed secretly: "It seems that this Ma Zongheng is not inferior to Shang Ying's reform and new talent!" I'm looking forward to seeing him more and more. ”

In the end, Liu Ye also smiled, took out some broken silver from his arms, and without looking closely, he stuffed it into the old man's arms. The old man had never seen so much silver, he was stunned, and when he reacted, Liu Ye was gone.

After a while, in a restaurant, Liu Ye stepped in, and Le Jin and other seven or eight men sat in two seats, all leaning on the side. Liu Ye walked to Le Jin's table and sat down, and smiled at Le Jin: "Later, Wen Qian, you will go with me, after seeing that horse, talk less and see more." ”

Le Jin listened, squinted, only bowed his head, and still didn't speak. When Liu Ye saw it, he couldn't help but be stunned, but he secretly laughed at himself that what he said seemed to be a bit redundant.

But he said, at the same time, in the inner hall of the county office. Zhao Qiang is reporting to Ma Zongheng one by one.

"After half a month of transportation, the grain transported from all over the country has now completed seven or eight years. The various grain storage places in the city are close to full. However, with the news that Changyuan purchased a large amount of grain and Cao Mengde's intention to initiate a document in Chenliu, the grain price of grain in various places has increased a lot, and the lord still needs to continue to buy? ”

"Chew on it. It's enough for us to have so much food. When Ma Zongheng heard this, he smiled brightly and said.

Zhao Qiang listened, although Ma Zongheng was a lot younger than him, but his face was full of admiration, and he said with admiration: "The lord is really amazing, if it weren't for the lord to let us scatter the purchase from all over the place, and go in batches, so that those big grain farmers in various places couldn't react for a while, and now I know that most of the grain stocks are going to us, and it is too late to raise the price to us again." Moreover, now Changyuan Tun has the name of huge grain, spread far away, these months there have been a lot of big families from all over the country, come to check, negotiate the price, according to this trend, in the near future the lord will be rich on the first side! ”

Ma Zongheng heard this, but smiled faintly. Speaking of which, the idea of making this windfall, he had been thinking about it as early as the beginning of the crusade against Zhang Mang. However, because of the lack of funds at that time and the lack of a place to live, there was no move. Later, when he obtained Changyuan, he began to conceive, and the first thing he found at that time was naturally Zhao Qiang, the head of the Zhao family, a large family in Changyuan. Zhao Qiang was skeptical at first, in order to make Zhao Qiang believe, Ma Zongheng took all the money he got from the Black Mountain thieves these days as a deposit, gave it to Zhao Qiang, and let him do it. In this way, Zhao Qiang also had some confidence, and at the same time, he saw that Ma Zongheng was righteous, so he agreed. Zhao Qiang has a very high reputation in Changyuan, of course, at the beginning, he did not say that the boss behind the scenes was Ma Zongheng, only said that he saw that the Central Plains would be in chaos soon, and said that this was an opportunity to make a fortune, and taught them to run errands all over the country to buy back the grain, and he bought it back from everyone at a slightly high price at that time. Then he said a series of plans. Many of them are even unheard of, and even when everyone heard about it at the beginning, they thought that this Zhao Qiang was crazy, which was simply whimsical.

And in order to make these small families and businessmen believe, Zhao Qiang's heart was hot at that time, and for some reason, he always felt that this was a great opportunity for himself and the Zhao family to soar, gritted his teeth, and made a big deal first, it is said that he purchased nearly 100,000 loads of grain from several large grain households in Yuzhou at that time, and almost scattered his family wealth.

Previously, after Ma Zongheng learned of Zhao Qiang's idea, he was moved, and happened to meet Zhang Niujiao again, so he taught Gao Ran to lead elite soldiers to protect the left and right. In addition, the big families in Yuzhou have a certain relationship with the government, and they have raised a large number of private soldiers. Therefore, this big deal was completed very smoothly.

The small families and merchants in the city were relieved when they saw that Zhao Qiang had started, and Zhao Qiang was willing to give them a deposit first, so they listened to Zhao Qiang's instructions and went to various places in batches to buy.

Later, Ma Zongheng defeated Zhang Niujiao and returned triumphantly, and he was naturally overjoyed to see that most of the plan had been completed. It's just that at that time, Ma Zongheng was extremely troubled that Wang Yi sent a letter to report, saying that all the passes leading from Xiliang to the Central Plains have been heavily guarded recently, and even the Chikui cavalry is difficult to get through.

It turned out that Ma Zongheng originally wanted to borrow the financial resources of the 36th shop on Wangjia 7th Street to pay everyone's first payment. It is said that Ma Zongheng has made full use of the knowledge of later generations, and he knows very well that the amount of money needed to make this big deal happen can be described as astronomical, so he came up with the idea of paying in installments. After removing the deposit, the payment is divided into three installments and settled at regular intervals. In this way, Ma Zongheng has enough time to make a profit in the second and third periods to settle everyone's payment. In other words, Ma Zongheng's calculation at the beginning was to rely only on the deposit and the first installment of the payment as the principal to complete the transaction!

And the process of Ma Zongheng's big deal, about this, first of all, the small family and businessmen in Changyuan bought grain at low prices for Zhao Qiang in various places, of course, how much price they could suppress, that was their ability, and then Zhao Qiang unified it at a slightly higher price to buy back. Moreover, with the help of Zhao Qiang, he gathered a large amount of grain from Ma Zongheng, and then took advantage of the imminent war to make a big windfall, and finally made a profit.

After all, the most important thing to do in this business is Xinyi, and this installment payment is a novel way, once the time is up, it will definitely cause panic, and Zhao Qiang will naturally be ruined and bankrupt. And once the news that Ma Zongheng is the boss behind the scenes comes out, it will also cause the resentment of many families and businessmen, and he has lost his faith, I am afraid that no one will believe him wherever he goes in the future!

And at this critical time, Ma Zongheng received a gift from Wang Yue, a full 100,000 taels of gold!

It turned out that the Heavenly Thorn Organization under Wang Yue's jurisdiction had been killing corrupt officials and corrupt officials in various places, and most of the money obtained would be distributed to the people, but some would still be left in case of emergency. And after Zhang Rang's death, Wang Yue, who was difficult to vent his hatred, ordered his brothers to kill all the godsons and grandsons he recognized as godsons, and looted all the property of these people. Because Zhang Rang was in power in the court, for nearly ten years, his godson and grandson relied on Zhang Rang's support, in order to collect money, it can be said that he had done all the evil things that lost his conscience, and some money was too much, and he even dug up a treasure trove and hid it. It is said that the Heavenly Thorn has nearly one million taels of gold!

And Wang Yue only has one daughter, Wang Ying, since the tragedy many years ago, although he is ruthless to Wang Ying, he has always loved her in his heart. When the revenge was avenged, Wang Yue, who had been blinded by hatred for many years, finally came to his senses, and saw that Wang Ying was pregnant, and when he wanted to make up for it, he found that he had lost the ability to love others.

The 100,000 gold he sent was certainly due to Wang Ying's guilt, and at the same time, he also hoped that Ma Zongheng would be good to his daughter. Moreover, more importantly, after the investigation of the Heavenly Thorn, Wang Yue found that since Ma Zongheng came to Yanzhou, he had many good deeds and often distributed grain to the people, and although he collected a large amount of grain in Changyuantun, he did not raise the price to the people, and still sold it to the people at a low price. Wang Yue saw that Ma Zongheng had the benevolence and righteousness to treat the people well, and thought that if he distributed all the silver taels he received to the people, but now he was in a troubled era, thieves were rampant, and the princes everywhere took care of their own troops, how could the people have the ability to keep these silver taels. In this way, it is better to give his son-in-law, under his benevolence, he can make the people continue to live a good life.

Because of this, Wang Yue, the father-in-law, can be said to have solved Ma Zongheng's urgent need.

After Ma Zongheng cleared the first installment of the payment, Zhao Qiang took the initiative to invest. Ma Zongheng admired Zhao Qiang's loyalty and ability, and was also overjoyed.

"However, recently, there have been many families in neighboring cities and counties, using the common people to collect grain, although for the lord, it is just a drop in the bucket, but if this trend is not suppressed, I am afraid it will cause a lot of trouble in the future." Zhao Qiang's face froze, and he said in a deep voice. When Ma Zongheng heard this, he couldn't help but squint, because the news that there was low-cost grain sold to the people in Changyuan had already come out, and people from all over the country came to buy it, and even some of them had taken root in Changyuan.

"Hmph, these people are cunning, and you will give me an order that from this day onwards, limit the quantity that the people can buy, as long as they are provided for their daily needs. Since they are those people from outside, not only must the quantity be limited, but the price of food must be slightly increased, but it is also necessary for them to enjoy the benefits of the low price in the past, but they must register their household registration in our Changyuan City and move here. Moreover, a notice was issued again, stating that all grain obtained at a low price could not be transferred, and once discovered, it would be expelled from Changyuan! Ma Zongheng's mind was spinning, but he quickly came up with a countermeasure. Zhao Qiang's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he bowed his head and said, "The lord's plan is very clever. I'll do it later. I don't know if the lord still has orders? ”

Ma Zongheng thought about it, and then smiled: "It's really hard for you, you must be tired these days, after finishing this thing, you can rest for a few days, now that you are almost on track, you don't have to worry about it." ”

"Thank you for your concern, Zhao can serve the lord, it's really Zhao's luck, it's a trivial matter, it's not worth mentioning." Zhao Qiang's face shook and bowed.

"Okay, then you can go down and rest first." Ma Zongheng nodded, and Zhao Qiang bowed to him, that is, he withdrew.

Not long after Zhao Qiang left, a soldier suddenly came and reported that Cao Cao's lord Bo Liu Ye had visited him.