Chapter 477: Killing chickens with a cattle slaughtering knife

The heavy rain relieved the worries of the spring ploughers, but also made the road difficult.

The road surface of Henan Road is also muddy, only in the wealthy villages, a few cement paths will be built for people to walk, as for the mainland is still paved with mud and sand, not because they can't afford to pay for it, but they can't afford to waste livestock.

Walking on concrete roads, the number of wheel breakdowns decreases, but the hooves of livestock are very worn, and the damage to the road surface is great, and before the bicycle was popularized and the automobile was invented, the dirt road could only be used.

The merchants who bought garlic estimated the distance and the road conditions, felt that the profits had decreased, and found that the water transport ships were busy transporting goods from place to place in the normal season, so their enthusiasm also faded.

The price of garlic in Henan Province has remained three times the price of ordinary times, and due to speculation in various places, it has not dropped much, and it is still about twice as much.

This price is still artificially controlled, otherwise, according to most restaurants and people's homes to try the new dishes between the water and clouds, no one will buy garlic at all.

The wind logistics in charge of Shoji Kazehashi is still collecting garlic, and the price of compensation has been increased to five times, but the compensation cycle has been extended, and the local merchants do not send them garlic, but Huainan Province has sent a lot, and directly tied the mortgage they just got.

Fengqiao Zhengji, who was supposed to be happy, was now worried, no longer went to the water clouds next to Luoshui to eat the expensive dishes, came to a restaurant next to the bridge of a chain bridge by the Yellow River and sat by the river, ordered two cold dishes, warmed a pot of wine, and looked at the rain outside in a daze.

Yamamoto and Yamaji haven't been very busy lately, just finished harvesting a batch of garlic, the deposit is gone, and they want to use silver and sulfur as collateral, and the price given everywhere is very low, so that Yamaji has no choice, even if the gift he sends out is not light, the other party will not let go.

"How much garlic have you collected?" Shoji Kazahashi's eyes were still looking outside, and he asked casually.

"There are about 1.4 million catties, the current price is 27 wen per catty, and there are 21 wen in the capital, according to the proportion of our compensation, we need to pay out 50,000 guan, plus bribes to others, it is 63,000 guan, our mortgage money is these, and the remaining 720,000 guan of silver and sulfur have not been successfully mortgaged, and the part of the successful mortgage is still 9,000 guan."

Yamaji is very familiar with this data, and he opened his mouth and said to Shoji Kazahashi.

Kazahashi Shoji did a little math, and found that the garlic he harvested not only did not make money, but lost money, frowned and said: "No, this price is not good, we must raise the price to more than fifty wen to make it, why is there so little money left?" Even if one-third of the mortgage is mortgaged, it should be nearly 100,000 guan, and it only adds up to 72,000 guan. ”

"Fengqiaojun, we borrowed a loan shark, nine out of thirteen, said to give 100,000 yuan, in fact, we will give 90,000 yuan, we have to pay back 130,000 yuan when we return it, this is the principal, not to mention that there is a donkey rolling, what about the profit, then the profit is unbearable, so I will pay back the money first, as well as the cost of garlic transportation, the rented warehouse, which one is not money?"

Yamamoto explained.

Kazehashi Shoji's brows furrowed even deeper, forming a Sichuan character, "Since it is nine out of thirteen, how can it still be profitable?" ”

"It was decided like this at the beginning, thanks to renting a warehouse, otherwise it would have been all wet." Yamamoto replied.

"No, we have to make the price of garlic go up, is there a way to get money? Damn rainy day. "Shoji Kazahashi began to complain about the weather.

"Yes, it is rumored that Datang Qianzhuang wants to restrict the mortgage of silver, but I don't know why, it has not been implemented, but the price has been lowered, there is too much silver in the near future, and the market automatically adjusts.

I guess someone wanted to use Qian Zhuang to restrict us a few days ago, but later found out that it was not good, so it was not implemented, just a rumor, I guess it must be an order from Zhang Xiaobao to not allow Qian Zhuang to directly participate in non-pure financial and economic behaviors. ”

Yamadera is in charge of this and knows this very well.

Shoji Kazahashi smiled contemptuously, "Zhang Xiaobao is stupid, if I were him, I would mobilize all the resources I could mobilize to limit the opponent, even the administrative aspect, and he didn't even allow it." ”

Yamamoto was unhappy, and said that Zhang Xiaobao was stupid, he had lost several encounters, wouldn't it be even more stupid, and then Shoji Kazahashi said:

"Zhang Xiaobao is not stupid, he doesn't disdain to do that at all, the part of the book he wrote at the beginning, the part that circulated is not important, it is mentioned in it, unless there is really no way to use administrative orders to solve the economic crisis, otherwise it is absolutely impossible to do that easily, otherwise it is easy to cause confusion about the functions of the government and enhance the dependence on administrative orders.

Invisibly, there is no distinction between officials and businessmen, and officials are too involved in economic affairs, which can cause officials to privately use their own power to obtain commercial benefits that they should not obtain. ”

"Then his own family still does such a big deal? He himself is the envoy of the Bohai Festival, look at the northern part of Hebei Province, how many of his family's business are there? Say one thing and do another. Shoji Kazahashi scoffed at this.

Yamamoto couldn't say it now, and thought for a while before he spoke, "Maybe he will let him out later, right?" Saying how useless he is, the main thing is that he must be meddling in the garlic matter now, we must be careful and careful, and we must not be careless, otherwise the bones will be swallowed by him. ”

"I don't care whether he interferes or not, I must let the price of garlic rise, mortgage all the remaining silver to Datang Qianzhuang, and order our people to directly increase the price to buy garlic in various places, and there are two months, the new garlic will come down, and during this time, the price of garlic will definitely rise to fifty wen a catty."

Kazehashi Shoji couldn't count on others, so he had to take the risk of buying it himself, hoping that the court of the Tang Dynasty would not count garlic as a necessity of life, so as to put on them the charge of hoarding.

Yamamoto and Yamadera couldn't think of a better way, and seeing that Shoji Kazahashi insisted, he gritted his teeth and agreed.

Shanji transported about 600,000 guan worth of silver to the Datang Qian Zhuang in Luoyang, and according to the ratio of three to one, in exchange for more than 200,000 guan in cash, scattered it to the hands of the Japanese in various places, and began to buy.

As soon as he made a move, without waiting for Zhang Xiaobao to give an order, Fang Liu'er reacted first, and sent out telegrams one by one, ordering the industries belonging to Bi Xin'er to take action in various places, and she was already impatient to wait for this day.

Since the money had to be delivered to the Japanese everywhere, everything that was too far would not work, and the radius of the journey to buy garlic was put within half a month.

The news quickly spread to Zhang Xiaobao, and Mo Jianlian was also very interested in this, so he specifically found Zhang Xiaobao and asked, "Zhang Xiaobao, someone has done it, you don't make a move?" ”

"If they don't collect the garlic in person, I will take action, since they have reached this point, they can no longer use me, the garlic I transported from Huainan Road in front of me will lead to it, and others will do other things, saving trouble."

Zhang Xiaobao said with a smile, he didn't expect that Shoji Kazahashi would dare to make a dangerous move, and he was finally forced to this step, who made the people of Wind Logistics not consider the weather.

Mo Jianlian didn't understand why Zhang Xiaobao didn't make a move, and was even more curious, "Then you watched them act?" ”

"At that time, you will naturally know that my Datang is not the Tang Dynasty of the past, and I use a cattle slaughtering knife to kill chickens? I don't eat at noon in Zhuangzi today, go to the school to see, the rain is heavy these days, the tide is high, and my hall has not taken it into account. ”

Zhang Xiaobao looked at the ploughing cattle in the field and said to Mo Jianlian.

"What should I eat on this day?" Silent and puzzled.

"Out of the stew, put more ginger slices, preferably beef stewed radish."

"I've tasted it, bitter."

"When you stew the turnips, they don't peel, of course they are bitter."

"Huh? Still peeling? ”

As Zhang Xiaobao said, there is no need for him to continue to shoot, and the ending of Shoji Kazahashi has already been determined.

Just when Fang Liu'er used Bi Xin'er's industry to snipe, other merchants also moved.

Luoyang City, Thunder Material Circulation Group, the owner Li Chengfang, the sixteenth place in the top list of Monopoly, as soon as he got the news of Wind Logistics, he immediately held a temporary emergency meeting, and then a transportation team of nearly 30,000 people took action in Henan to the surrounding area.

Suzhou Mansion, splendid groceries, female owner Ge Yunfei, the twenty-fourth place in the top list of Monopoly, temporarily transferred 600,000 yuan, regardless of success or failure.

Jiannan Province Yizhou Fuliu Trade, Donglong, the seventy-first top ranking of Monopoly, telegram received information from the Kaifeng Office, authorized to use Wanliu Trade shares as collateral, and Yizhou issued a certificate to obtain 800,000 yuan from Kaifeng Datang Qianzhuang, transferred to the Shouchun Branch, purchased garlic on the spot, and sent it by water to Luoyang.

Jiangnan West Road, Yuezhou Dongting Lake, Dongting Aquatic Products, the owner Yangyang, the nineteenth in the top ranking of Monopoly, got the news, and immediately ordered the fleet that transported fish and shrimp into the capital to ship quickly, clean the boats, look for merchants who want to ship garlic along the road, take a short distance transportation, and wait for the opportunity in Luoyang, waiting for other things to come back.

Hedong Road, Fenzhou .......

...... of Shannan Province.

Kannai Province .......

In this way, there are people in the state capitals one after another, as if there is a tacit understanding, and whoever makes a move must be within the top 100 of the top ranking of Monopoly.

Shoji Kazahashi also thought that his decision to buy garlic himself because he was worried that the garlic would be damaged by moisture and that the road would be difficult to navigate, would attract so many people to snipe at him.

It's not because of how much money he has, the garlic is only 300,000 yuan, and he can find a random person within the top 100 of the Monopoly list, and his net worth is more than a fraction of him.

Sniping at him is that he is angry, many businessmen in Datang look down on him for this method, if the top 100 people in the top list want to do this, the wave will be bigger than that of Kazehashi Shoji, but one of the people does not dare, afraid that Zhang Xiaobao will make a move, and the other is that they have a tacit understanding and are unwilling to mess up the economic environment of Datang.

Originally, some people wanted to do something to the wind logistics, but they didn't know how to disrupt the other party's logistics compensation strategy, and they were also worried that they would interfere with Zhang Xiaobao casually, so they were waiting.

Now that I finally saw the opportunity, I learned a lot from it, and the easiest way was to change the people's eating habits in a short period of time, and offset all the other party's collateral at once, and then wait for the rainy day to come.

The rest forced Wind Logistics to buy garlic in person, so there was no need for Zhang Xiaobao to teach it anymore, and all the businessmen knew how to deal with it.

That is to raise the price of garlic, so that the cost of wind logistics will increase when it is acquired, and increase the price to sell garlic to wind logistics, if wind logistics does not buy, then ship at a low price, so that the price of garlic can never be raised.

Wind logistics absolutely can't afford to consume, can only take out the money to swallow the goods, now don't swallow the goods, wait for the new garlic to come down when swallowing, then these people will raise the price of new garlic, swallow the goods now, the price can't go up, even if he consumes to the end, he must have money to pay, don't take the money, have to take the garlic, but the previous garlic can be saved by that time is not much, if you want to lose less, you have to ship when the garlic is not broken, the price is still high, and then wait for the new garlic to buy cheap first.

It is now sold to you at a high price and you are not a foodie, then the price is lowered so that the garlic in your hands cannot be sold at a high price, and when the price is low, you are a foodie, and when the compensation period comes, the garlic collected is almost bad, and the new garlic will give you a high price.

The method of smashing people with money made Kazehashi Shoji stunned, he knew that in this way, if he was to die, the other party would also pay for it, but there were so many people, one person would lose a little, and he would lose all of them, so it would not work.

Shoji Kazahashi knew about this mutual hedging relationship, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to buy garlic anymore, wondering how he could keep the garlic he collected for as much time as possible.

But he found that there is no good way, if the quantity is small, what can be done, the problem is that there are too many now, and if you want to keep it for a long time, you must need something else, which increases the cost.

"They are so bullying, don't they just see that I need to pay several times the amount of money, and compare the loss with me? I hope they can stop it, let me withdraw the funds, get back more of the pledged silver, and find a way to sell it in the future, even if it is an immortal, it will not be able to return to the sky at this time. ”

Shoji Kazahashi said to Yamamoto and Yamatera, who were also sad, as if he was making excuses for himself to fail, after all, the other party was too powerful.

Someone else may agree with his words, but Yamamoto and Yamaji definitely disagree, Yamamoto sighed, and said: "Zhang Xiaobao is not only counting our principal, counting our way, but also counting the weather changes and other people's thoughts, this time he didn't continue to take action in person, Fengqiao-kun, hurry up and sell the garlic, let's admit the loss, we can make up as much as we can, and first exchange the silver worth three times." ”

"What if he continues to shoot? Not like it is now? Shoji Kazahashi was not convinced.

"Like now? Fengqiaojun, you are dreaming, if Zhang Xiaobao continues to shoot, then only if we lose, he will not bet with us like other businessmen to lose much, you didn't really fight him personally, I don't understand his strength. ”

Yamamoto saw that Shoji Kazehashi still didn't admit defeat, and he wanted to die, and glared at him and reprimanded.

Shansi also nodded and said: "Yes, Zhang Xiaobao can't look at it with common sense, don't say anything else, let's just say that he is now in our position, he can also turn the tide, the same pressure, the same principal, he will not lose, he definitely has a way to make money in the case of attacking everywhere."

Otherwise, why do you think the merchants of Datang are so honest? Start trading, rules and regulations, all Datang businessmen follow Zhang Xiaobao's code of conduct, all necessary items for life, the price is high, the price is high, and the price is low, they are afraid of Zhang Xiaobao, they know the consequences of Zhang Xiaobao's anger, even if they join forces, they are not opponents. ”

"I don't believe it, I don't believe that Zhang Xiaobao can be so powerful." Kazehashi shouted vigorously.

Yamamoto shook his head and sighed, "Hey~ There were many people who didn't believe in evil at the beginning, and that person in Tubo was able to enter the top ten of the top rankings, and even hid his strength.

The result? A letter sent to Zhang Xiaobao made Zhang Xiaobao discover the problem, and then remotely controlled it for thousands of miles, not to mention that the person even lost his capital, and Zhang Xiaobao seized the opportunity to abolish Tubo all the time. ”

"Not bad." Yamaji continued: "Later, Yamamoto and I didn't believe it, so we set up a plan to fry silver and rice stalks, but we lost money, and we were not convinced, so we designed to enter his research place, made the recipe for ginseng, and bought a lot of cement, and then all the money was gone."

The people of Silla didn't believe it, so they had to go to Changning to cheat Li Xun's younger brother Li Yu, Li Yu went to Xincai County to borrow money from his brother, and met Zhang Xiaobao.

Later, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan went to Jili Prefecture, but suddenly did not believe in evil, and traded with Zhang Xiaobao, and joined forces with him militarily, as a result, the entire tribe was gone, and then the two people wanted to repair the mud river, the Silla clan was not satisfied, and arranged for Li Dong to find someone to make trouble, and now the river is paid by Li Dong, and the road repair fee of one million guan will not come back until now.

You are not the first and will not be the last to be unconvinced, but the ending is the same, that is, whether you believe it or not, against Zhang Xiaobao, you will definitely lose. ”

"Then what do you say, if Zhang Xiaobao is in our position?" Shoji Kazahashi couldn't refute what he said, so he had to ask for advice.

Yamamoto shook his head at the same time as Yamaji, "I don't know, we are not Zhang Xiaobao." ”

When the three of them were thinking about it, others were also thinking about it, but it was easier for them than they were.

On the bank of the Luoshui River, in a private room on the fifth floor near the river between the water and clouds, there was a loud noise, and then it stopped, and then the sound became much quieter.

"East wind."

"Great, touch, Nijo."

"I'll eat." "Stop, I'll touch, chicken."

"Eat, whiteboard."

"Gojo."

"I'll eat." "Stop, I'll touch, Hongzhong."

"Are you all together to lie to me? It's been two laps, I haven't played a card, is it to see the farthest away from me, Jiannan Dao, you think I'm a bully? ”

The person who shouted twice in a row and didn't eat stopped doing it.

"No, it's just in time, I can't touch it, let you eat." The man hurriedly persuaded him.

When a circle comes, those who haven't eaten twice go home "30,000." ”

"Eat, I can't eat 30,000 yuan, is anyone else touching it?"

No one said, "Then I'll fight, South Wind." ”

"Bar, oops, someone will wrap the bar when you come up, and the three pennies will be in hand."

"I'm not playing anymore." The person who had two byes finally played a card, and let people go to the bar, and said angrily.

"Don't, didn't I let you eat it, I didn't touch it, you see, I have two 30,000 yuan in my hand, you have a bad idea, isn't it just three pennies, as for this?"

The next family hurriedly persuaded him.

"It's not about money, you guys are bullying me together, just like we are bullying Shoji Kazahashi, I can see it, can anyone win by bullying like this?"

"Why not, it depends on who it is, if it is replaced by Zhang Xiaobao, he will not be afraid if we partner with him, and we guarantee that there is a trick to crack it." The man said to home.

"How can I not believe it, this time we are jointly using money to smash the wind of logistics, even if it wins, if he fights to the death, we also have to pay compensation, let him consign people earn, win is not glorious, boring, if it is not for the headquarters order, I really don't want to wade into this troubled waters, play cards, bar me you are to play cards, I must come back, first say good, catch the last no card, Huangzhuang on the yellow bar, no one Hu will not give."

"I've never seen you play so badly, okay, I'll light a cannon in a while and earn your money back, nine cakes, if you want me to say, this is not a matter of muddy waters, this time let other people with ideas understand that my Datang's money is not so easy to cheat."

Didn't you see who the people who shot this time? The top 100 on the top list, Fang Liu'er moved first, Zhang Xiaobao didn't speak, that is, it was tacitly up to us to do it, don't move, I still have a bar, North, I don't regret hitting North. ”

"I remember you, two bars, dreaming about home, drawing cards."

"No, I'm thinking, Jiujo, I think, Zhang Xiaobao doesn't make a move, do you know that if you make a move, you will fight with the wind flow, and it is estimated that we will move."

"Don't do nine, don't eight, if you want me to say ......."

"Bump, Kujo."

"You hold on? Hit two nines in a row, and it was my turn again, didn't it? Okay, you guys, two rounds, two rounds of bars, two rounds, and then rounds, are you still ready for bars? ”

"How do I know that he has two eight-strips in his hand, if you want me to say, Zhang Xiaobao will never let us lose, if you don't believe it, just look at it, his methods are unpredictable, two cakes."

"Touch, I have two two cakes in my hand this time that are useless, I didn't mean to let you have another bye, and I will definitely not touch it next time."

"You don't have a few cards in your hand, what else do you touch, right, it's your turn, can you still play nine-of-a-kind?"

"Me? Okay, I'll catch it, oops, sorry, since, huh, thank you, thank you. ”

"You can play by yourself, I'll go over and watch them play pai gow, I can't afford to be angry."

"Two bars were given."

"I owe it."

At this time, all the businessmen who participated in the operation received a telegram: 'Do as you want, make sure you don't lose money, Zhang Xiaobao.' ’