Chapter 81: The Truth
The Spring Moon Building is very lively.
Since it was suddenly occupied by the Stacked Green Building, this is the first time that the Spring Moon Building has encountered such a lively scene.
Because, Cheng Kai Kai is coming.
Who is Cheng Kaikai?
Many ordinary people don't know this person, but as long as they mix in the Daming business circle, no one dares to ignore it. This is a wealthy businessman, a real giant businessman.
Legend has it that Cheng Kaikai has far more insight and strategy than ordinary people, never gives up when faced with difficulties and business blows, and is a persevering person.
I heard that after Cheng Kaikai arrived at Guide Mansion, many wealthy local businessmen went to Chunyue Tower to visit.
In addition to these visitors, there were also more than a dozen important figures in the medicinal material world invited by Cheng Kai Kai, who also arrived at the Spring Moon Tower at the same time.
The night is busy.
Of course, Cheng Kaikai didn't come to Chunyue Tower to prostitute himself, he came to do business.
On the third floor of Chunyue Building, in a wide hall, Cheng Kaikai sat at the top of the position, looking at the two rows of people sitting there neatly and respectfully on both sides and looking at him cautiously, he smiled slightly, and put the tea bowl in his hand lightly on the coffee table on the side.
"Everyone!"
Cheng Kaikai's voice was loud, even in such a spacious hall, it sounded unhindered, "Cheng someone first arrived in your place, and he wanted to visit the house one by one, but because of the urgency of time, he had to summon you here, don't blame it." ”
has a very gentle tone, neither arrogant nor low-key, Cheng Kaikai opened his mouth and made everyone feel very good.
"Whereever, it is our honor to be invited by Mr. Cheng."
"yes!"
"Honored, honored!"
……
The people below echoed for a while.
Qiu San was the most exaggerated, stood up and applauded a few times, and said with a smile on his face: "Mr. Cheng, you are my idol, don't say that, after I received Mr. Cheng's invitation, I didn't sleep all night excitedly, just waiting for Mr. Cheng to summon me!" ”
"That's flattering!" Cheng Kaikai hurriedly bowed his hand to Qiu San, but he didn't think so, and said secretly: You invited you at noon, you can't sleep all night before you spend the night, isn't it too exaggerated?
"This is Mr. Qiu, look up for a long time!"
Qiu Sancai is really the flattered one.
You even know my name?
Mr. Cheng actually knows who I am?
Oh, my God!
What a blessing.
"Cheng, Cheng, Mr. Cheng also knows me Qiu?"
"Hehe, naturally!" Cheng Kaikai raised his remaining right hand, twisted his beard and said, "Mr. Qiu is the largest medicinal herb merchant in our Guide Mansion, and Cheng will rely on Mr. Qiu next." ”
"Good!" Without waiting for Qiu San to speak, Cheng Kaikai motioned for him to sit down, and then his face suddenly changed, and he became a lot more serious: "Everyone, please come over today, in fact, you are helping me Cheng someone."
Someone comes, send the list down. ”
A slender young man came from behind, carrying a stack of rice paper in his hand, and handed out one to everyone in the room.
Yue Ran was naturally there, she took the rice paper, and just glanced at it, Qiong's nose wrinkled slightly, and her two good-looking eyebrows were also frowned together.
Codonopsis,
radix astragali
licorice
Rehmannia,
forsythia
Schisandra
……
Honeysuckle!
Aren't these medicinal materials the same as the Jingshi medicinal herb merchant named Niu or something a few days ago who came to buy them? At that time, Su Baiyi went outside to get two cars and came back, and sold them at twice the price, making a lot of money!
After reading the names of the medicinal herbs in the first line, Yue Ran's gaze moved to the second line: quotation.
She gasped.
OMG...... Four, four times the price?
The price of the original price of medicinal herbs is four times the price!
"This ......" Sure enough, after seeing the price, not only Yue Ran, but everyone was shocked.
How can it be?
This is the first reaction of most people.
"It's gone, it's gone" Qiu San's eyes lit up, and he gritted his teeth fiercely: It's really developed, the day before yesterday, I just found out the origin of these medicinal materials from the mouth of Tongjitang's work, okay, the price of this medicinal material has directly increased to four times.
If you do a big ticket, you don't have to come back in this life.
Wang Minde looked at the list of medicinal materials, and his face was cloudy: Something happened.
Definitely something happened!
If nothing earth-shattering happened, the price of these medicinal herbs would not have risen to four times anyway.
He thought that someone was doing the game, but he thought about Gu Xuanfei and Niu Xinsheng, who came from Beijing a few days ago, and shook their heads when they saw the opening of Cangzhou Yishang Cheng, which was sitting at the top of the hall today.
Maybe this is really a game, but it must be a super chess game made by some adult in Jingshi who can reach the sky.
Cheng Kaikai and Gu Xuanfei, or Niu Xinsheng, are all chess pieces running for this big chess game. And he and Qiu San are not chess pieces.
However, as long as you can make money, you can do it.
Even if these medicinal materials were finally transported to the territory of Tartar through Jiuyuan and known to the imperial court, then even if they were killed, it would not be their turn, and Cheng Kaikai and Gu Xuanfei should be the targets of killing.
After all, if they follow their carpet search method, I don't know how many businessmen in the whole country are involved!
The law does not blame the public!
There was no imaginary cheer in the hall, only dead silence.
So many people here, no matter who they are, are not stupid, from another point of view, they are all smart people.
After being silent for a while, Yue Ran suddenly stood up, saluted Cheng Kaikai, and then said softly: "Hello Mr. Cheng, I am Yue Ran from Tongjitang, and I have a few questions I want to ask you. ”
"Haha, it turned out to be Doctor Yue, it's really better to be famous than to meet, and it's even more famous to meet!" Cheng Kaikai smiled and said, "If there is any problem with Doctor Yue, you can say it." ”
"The seniors have won the prize!" Yue Ran was a little serious, "Some time ago, there was a Jingshi named Gu Xuanfei, who came to our Guide Mansion to buy these medicinal materials, and later there was another one named Niu Xinsheng, who bought these medicinal materials at twice the price. Now that you're here in person, I'm wondering, what's going on?
Also, as far as I know, Mr. Cheng should have been in the grain business for so many years, right? Why did you suddenly turn to medicinal herbs? ”
After Yue Ran finished speaking, Chao Cheng Kaikai said "offended" and sat down.
Many people's eyes were full of doubts, and they looked at Cheng Kaikai at the same time.
That's right, no matter how you look at it, it's weird.
"Hehe......"
Cheng Kaikai was like a light weight, nodded at Yue Ran with a smile, and then said, "Doctor Yue has questions, it's very good." I'll answer your last question first, Cheng has always been in the grain business. But everything in the world is changing all the time, and to say a bad word, a person who does business is to make a profit in various operations.
Now that medicinal materials are profitable, I will make medicinal materials, there is nothing wrong with this, right? ”
The people below listened and couldn't stop nodding.
Qiu San even stood up in person to support Cheng Kaikai, and said: "Mr. Cheng said it well, as long as he can make a profit, you don't care what he does, if the price of grain is high, I still want to dump a few hoards of grain!" ”
"Okay, thank you, Mr. Qiu!" Cheng Kaikai's brows furrowed, the only remaining hand took a big sip of the teacup, and continued to look at Yue Ran, "As for the first question, I didn't want to answer it, but this matter can't be hidden for long, since you asked, I'll say it together." ”
"Mr. Cheng is really a cheerful person!" Qiu San's voice this time came from the bottom of his heart: "Last time, Gu Xuanfei and Niu Xinsheng came over, and no matter how much they asked, they refused to reveal it. ”
"Hmm!" Cheng Kaikai hummed noncommittally, and then said: "Here's the thing. It is estimated that some of you have also heard the rumor, and last month, the gang of dogs in Shanxi suddenly took action and looted these common bulk medicinal materials. According to my estimate, these medicinal materials will basically flow into the hands of Liaodong Tartars. ”
"Oh, I see!"
"These Shanxi businessmen are hateful!"
"The court won't cut them down?"
……
Cheng Kaikai waved his hand and suppressed the discussion in the crowd below a little, "Of course, this kind of thing happens almost every year, and the Tartars have to store supplies before winter every year, and these dogs in Shanxi naturally work hard, and there is no way to do it."
But this year, it's different from previous years. ”
Cheng Kaikai took the list in his hand, stared at it for a second, and said, "You may have discovered that most of these medicinal materials are produced in the north. In the past, even if those doglegs in Shanxi poured medicinal materials to Tartars, as long as the autumn harvest arrives and new medicinal materials are on the market, there will naturally be no problem.
This year's problem is that there is a rare drought in the entire north of our Ming Dynasty, especially in Yulin, Luliang, Xi'an and other places where Codonopsis is produced. ”
The Northwest has been suffering from drought for many years, and this year is the fourth year!
This is known to the people of Guide Province, and the people of the whole country are also aware of it.
However, no one expected that the drought would be so severe, and there would be no green seedlings for thousands of miles.
What kind of scene is that?
Next, without Cheng Kaikai talking, everyone here has turned on the automatic brain supplement mode one by one.
There is a great drought in the north and even no harvest, and these medicinal materials will really be hanging next year, no wonder the price will start to rise now?
Everyone, including Yue Ran, felt that Cheng Kai's words made sense, and they all felt that the price of four times was actually very high.
"So, guys!"
Cheng Kaikai took out a stack of silver tickets from his arms and put them on the coffee table next to him: "In three days, whoever can get the medicinal materials I want, I will buy them at the price on the list, no matter how much, my surname Cheng has accepted them all, Cheng has only one requirement, that is, the source of the medicinal materials must be correct, otherwise, I would rather not make this money."
In order to show good faith and be willing to do this business with me, Cheng paid a deposit of 500 taels in advance......"
Hiss......
Many people took a breath of cold air after hearing this.
It's five hundred taels when you raise your hand, and it's just a deposit, which is really a big deal.
"Of course, you think about it carefully, I only waited in Guide Mansion for three days, and at dusk three days later, Cheng led the team south......"