Chapter 81 Cracking Down on Grain Merchants

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Among businessmen, news spreads like the wind, often faster than the government. When the words of the son on the Forbidden City today, and the bloody one hundred and thirty-eight heads. Quickly spread from the capital to the surrounding areas.

This has brought an extremely strong impact to some businessmen. In their hearts, it was even more shocking than the mob in the two provinces and the invasion of the enemy country. You must know that the vast majority of those 138 people are giants who can shake half the sky by stomping their feet in the business world, and their predecessors enjoy a very high reputation in the business world. But for violating the emperor's executive order, all of them were beheaded.

As for the landlord class, it was also frightened. Of the 138 people who died, 130 were grain merchants, large and small. But eight of them were landlords. Even if they are unlucky, they just obediently become rich landowners in the countryside, and they have to move to the capital. It's a good thing that I received the executive order first-hand, but I didn't take it to heart and suffered an accident.

As soon as I received the news, after receiving the notice of the declaration policy, I have not yet gone to the applicant. hurriedly spread his feet and ran to the local government. They clearly knew that the emperor was really angry about this matter. It's determined to stand up. In this matter, there is no need to wait and see, let's declare honestly, anyway, it's just the number of declarations. What's more, the emperor killed this time, just to kill his patriarch, or the big owner. I didn't take the opportunity to raid a house and make some money or something.

In this way, the more than 100 merchants and landlords who were killed, there are still many people who thank the emperor, and they can take advantage of the situation to take the throne. Anyway, the unlucky one is just one person, or a room of people. It's not the collapse of the whole business and the family.

But the effect that Zhao Zhe wants has really achieved. As long as the person who gets the news, only the extreme goods with the brain in the water will still go their own way. For this extremely small number of people, the local government, which has already made clear the political direction, directly detains and interrogates them in accordance with the policy, and even rushes to report directly to the capital. I can't say it, but I will let the emperor appreciate it because of this incident.

As for the many who missed the three-day deadline, but have not been found for the time being. One by one, they went to the house of the local parents and officials, and they refused to leave. No matter how much money you spend, you have to change the time and records of the declaration.

In short, no big grain merchant or landlord patriarch dared to joke about this matter. After all, the emperor's Chrysostom has been opened. If the emperor doesn't take things seriously, then the emperor will definitely not take him seriously, and he deserves to be killed.

In addition, there is another thing that people talk about in Beijing. There is a woman who appears in the business circle like a miracle. became the new owner of the Four Seasons Spring Restaurant, which originally belonged to Liu Chao in the background.

Jingshi and the wealthy merchants in the vicinity, who doesn't know the Four Seasons Spring Restaurant? However, when I inquired secretly, I couldn't find out who the woman's backstage was.

The woman's behavior was indeed strange, and just seven days before the declaration policy came down, she threw away all the 900,000 quintals of grain she had hoarded. That's not all, but with the discount of 5 million taels plus 2 million taels of silver at the Four Seasons Spring Restaurant, he negotiated with several well-known grain merchants to mortgage and borrow grain for one month, and after one month, he repaid 12,000 taels for every 10,000 quintals. If there is no food after a month, the cash silver and the Four Seasons Spring Restaurant will be used as compensation at the price of three taels and a half load.

A month later, it was already wheat harvest time. But according to the calculations of the grain merchants, and the subsequent operation. After January, food prices remained flat at best, and were by no means likely to fall. And they are still confident that not long after the summer harvest, they will be able to fry the grain to another level. This wave of market will last for at least a year and a half.

How can a single month make food fall by one percent or more? Grain has skyrocketed under their speculation, and the numbers on the books have really stimulated them, and their self-confidence has swelled like never before.

After a short period of calculations and measurements, the grain merchants decided to take a gamble with the woman. As long as it is only one month, after a month, there will be an extra 2,000 quintals for every 10,000 quintals. Moreover, even if the woman had not yet given food. Just the restaurant with a discount of 5 million, but worth 7 million, can make them a lot of money. What's more, it is still deducted at a high price of three and a half taels of silver per load of grain.

Although they are convinced that the grain will rise, because the summer harvest is approaching, it will be more or less affected. This month, and even the next two months, is a period of stagflation. This deal, no matter how you look at it, is profitable.

But the woman, on the other hand, relied on a mortgage worth at least seven million taels to borrow only two million loads of grain. Then, stunned by all the grain, the woman was crazy, and in just a few days, she sold all two million quintals of grain to other grain merchants who had not stockpiled them, and only received five million taels in total.

This came and went, and she lost two million taels on her books. This made the vast majority of grain merchants shake their heads and say that she was crazy. So that they will do such an unreasonable thing. Another thing is that her backstage should be her lover, who is very rich. Because he could not bring her home, he provoked her to anger and squandered his money.

In short, there is no way to break the black and white contract that has been impartially signed by the government. In just twenty days, they will be able to make money. At worst, he can earn 400,000 quintals of grain. If you are very lucky, you can get the Four Seasons Spring Restaurant back, and it will be even more profitable.

And yet, while they were still dreaming. The decree was issued suddenly, and this was not enough, they were consumed by profit, and they were dying, but they still tried to unite in vain to disobey the orders of the imperial court. Trying to create a situation in which the law is not held accountable. Because they know that this is not the first time this kind of thing has happened. At most, wait and see, if the imperial court is really determined to implement the policy. Then it's never too late to comply.

But I didn't expect that it was the current saint who personally approved the policy this time. And today's saint is the first time that he has participated in a national policy. In the news of feedback, when the gang of grain merchants were indifferent and regarded the national policy as nothing, they finally became angry. One hundred and thirty-eight heads were cut off directly.

The declaration policy was then implemented at a world record-breaking speed. And the high price of grain, which has been speculated, has also fallen in response. However, the nightmare of the hoarding grain merchant seems to have just begun. Immediately afterwards, a decree was issued that in order to prevent grain from falling into the hands of enemy rebels, those who traded more than 100 taels of surnames at a time had to go to the government for registration and be stamped with the official seal of the government.

For grain merchants, this is a house leak that happened to rain overnight. But if it was before the emperor didn't kill people, maybe there were still many people who dared to ignore this decree. However, at this time, they suddenly felt in hell.

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