History, on the night of July 21 of the sixteenth year of Wanli, Suzhou, Songjiang and other prefectures, the east wind is angry, and the water of Taihu Lake is more than two zhang high. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info strong wind pulls out the wooden servant house, and the fields are exhausted. After the 27th, the heavy rain lasted for ten days, day and night, the seedlings rotted, and the house drifted away. The people are hungry, and there is a great epidemic, and the price of rice is very expensive. People eat chaff, bean cakes make porridge, followed by grass roots and wood food, hungry corpses sleep, starvation fills, streets and alleys float to death, boats are hindered, and debris accumulates inside and outside the city.

At night, the wind and rain outside the house are fierce, and the house is brightly lit.

All the small and medium-sized grain merchants in Songjiang Mansion gathered together, and they all looked at Guan Kunyu sitting in the main seat, if it weren't for the deep water in the house, these people would even have the heart to kneel directly in front of Guan Kunyu.

In other words, although these grain merchants don't dare to show it at all, their mood is still very complicated, if nothing else, just because of this old grain that has been poured several times in three or four months!

Just four and a half months ago, when their gang heard that the Shi family had brought in a large amount of old grain and wanted to sell it at a low price, they felt that the day had come when they would make a lot of money.

Before the new grain is put into the ground, you can use this batch of old grain to make a small profit, and then when the new grain is put into the ground, you can also mix these old grains and sell them as new grain to make another profit. This kind of thing is repeated every year by all grain merchants, the only difference is that this year's batch of Shijia's old grain is not only of good quality and quantity, but more importantly, cheap enough!

So, they were moved!

Rush to buy the old grain in your hands!

But the happy day has not passed for a month, and most of the old grain in their hands has not been sold, and the news spread that the people of the Shi family are ready to suppress the price of grain! What's even more sad is that the Shi family actually did it!

Before the purchase of new grain, the Shi family, or the big guy behind the Shi family, forced down the grain price of Nanzhili to an incredible point! It was so low that the purchase price of new grain was slightly lower than the price they used to buy old grain!

As a result, this batch of old grain has become a fish bone in everyone's throat that does not vomit unpleasantly!

If you sell it, you will definitely lose money, but if you don't sell it, you have to let the old grain occupy the granary and occupy the capital, and the purchase of new grain will be over!

Therefore, when Guan Kunyu planned to buy stale grain and made a good bid, they were almost talking to Guan Kunyu in the posture of worshipping the savior. threw all the old grain in his hand to him.

But now?

The old grain, which was abandoned by them not long ago, has turned into a good thing like a mountain of gold and silver in an instant! No, isn't the reason why they are here just to pull down their faces and beg the Guan family to leak a little bit or two of stale grain from between their fingers, so that they can drink soup?

Guan Kunyu looked at the bitter faces of this group of people, and he didn't want to do anything more, it was very boring, and he also needed these people to sell his old grain.

"Okay, okay, you are all Kun Yu's elders, you all have such a bitter face, if it is passed out, some people will definitely say that the kid does not understand etiquette and snub the distinguished guests." Guan Kunyu glanced at the stagnant water in the room and said depressedly, "It seems that I really neglected ......"

"Hey, what is Guan Gongzi's words, where is there any slackness!"

"Yes, now that the flood is raging, it would be nice to have a place to stay, who is not in this situation, unhindered, unhindered."

The grain merchants now have a request for Guan Kunyu, where do they dare to say that it is not good, although their shoes and socks are already soaked.

Guan Kunyu said: "Now that the road is not smooth, there are Zeguo everywhere, and the elders can come to give us the face of the Guan family, so I naturally can't say nothing." In this way, the old grain in the hands of our Guan family will be handed over to you for sale at 70% of the market price.

In addition, I also know that your elders are short of money at the moment, so I can call the shots and give you some food on credit first, but you have to hire your own boat to pull it over. I wonder what your elders think? ”

"Of course no problem!"

"Guan Gongzi is refreshing, and we will naturally obey."

The grain merchants were all ready to be slaughtered, but they didn't expect that the conditions offered by Guan Kunyu just now were so generous! Selling grain at the market price is already very face-saving for these people, and if the Guan family sells a few shops by themselves, although it is more troublesome, they will definitely make more money!

Moreover, the Guan family is still willing to give them grain on credit, which is even more of a great kindness!

God is pitiful, the funds in the hands of their gang have not been very abundant since the Shi family was pitted, and now the fixed silver paid to the peasants in advance by the flood has been wasted, although there is still some silver left to pay for the balance of the new grain, it can definitely be said to be a drop in the bucket compared to the current terrible grain prices.

After another thousand thanks, the satisfied grain merchants hurried back to organize the grain transportation.

When all the grain merchants left, Guan Kunyu called all the family members over and asked them to gather all the people in the cantonment.

Although it was still raining lightly, the people were soon there, because Guan Kunyu asked the family to tell them that this time they were talking about the old grain stored in their house.

At the beginning, when the Guan family wanted to deposit the old grain in each family, the military households were very unhappy, and they all felt that the new grain was about to land. Can you just pile it up outside!?

At that time, the military households were upset every time they saw the old grain piled up in their homes, but when the typhoon passed through the grain and the harvest was doomed, their eyes couldn't help but start to glow green when they looked at the old grain again!

"If only all this food were homemade!"

Everyone couldn't help but think so, but everyone also knew that these grains belonged to hundreds of households, and they had nothing to do with a dime except for a little rent!

There are so many people in such a small place, and the grain merchants are in a hurry to come and go away with joy soon spread, at this time Guan Kunyu convened everyone to discuss the matter of Chen Liang, and everyone had a faint sense of foreboding in their hearts.

"Isn't it ...... Could it be that the Guan family sold all the grain and informed us to move the grain? ”

The restless speculation made everyone's faces tighten, and the group of hundreds of people gathered was eerily silent.

Guan Kunyu was very embarrassed by this scene, so he simply didn't wait, and shouted loudly with a horn rolled out of the hard skin.

"Everyone must know that the grain merchants are here! That's right, I sold the old grain! ”

As soon as I heard this, there was immediately a "buzz" below, and there were a lot of crying sounds, no matter how the family scolded them, they couldn't be quiet, but there was a tendency to intensify.

Fortunately, Guan Kunyu was prepared, took out a musket wrapped in oiled paper and fired a shot into the sky, and everyone quieted down.

Throwing the musket on the ground, Guan Kunyu shouted loudly: "Give me peace!" I've sold the grain, that's right! But I didn't sell everyone's future rations! Half of the grain in everyone's house will be cleared tomorrow to give to the grain merchants, and the remaining half will be the rations for the coming year that our Guan family will lend to everyone! As long as we close the family or a hundred households, we will never let a single person go hungry! ”

There was silence at first, and then a loud cheer.