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Suzhou Prefecture.

In the private room on the second floor, the largest teahouse in the city, several brightly dressed people who look like rich people are drinking tea and chatting in the private room.

If you are familiar with the people, you will know that these people are all grain merchants in Suzhou Prefecture, and they are also one of the largest grain merchants.

The leader is the largest grain merchant in Suzhou, surnamed Yang, Yang Guocai said: "Everyone, then it is decided, from tomorrow, the price of grain will rise to three taels and eight yuan." ”

The rest of the grain merchants said: "There is no problem, this time we should make a lot of money, I heard that the grain in the north has been sold for four or five taels." ”

These grain merchants hoarded a large amount of grain during the autumn harvest this year, ranging from 10,000 to 20,000 stone and as much as 30,000 or 50,000 stone, like Yang Guocai, who hoarded about 100,000 stone of grain.

In less than a year, they have raised the price of grain from about two taels of silver to the current three taels of silver or six cents, and they are still preparing to raise it to three taels of silver.

One of the grain merchants said: "Everyone, have you found that in our Suzhou City, we have opened three grain stores in less than ten days, and the scale of each one is not small, and the name is also very uniform, I don't know what they are." ”

In fact, not only in Suzhou Mansion, but also in Songjiang Mansion, Changzhou Mansion and other places, that is, in just ten days and half a month, a number of grain stores have been opened, and the scale of each is not small.

These grain stores seem very mysterious, and most people don't know their backgrounds, but some people find that the names of these grain stores are the same, all of them are "Harvest Grain Chain XX Stores", and these grain stores are naturally all opened by Zhang Feng.

After returning from Ryukyu with a full load and bringing back a huge amount of grain worth at least 1 hundred thousand taels of silver, Zhang Feng prepared to open his own store to sell.

As a result, in Songjiang Mansion, Suzhou Mansion, Changzhou Mansion, a total of more than a dozen large grain stores have appeared, and now these grain stores are all ready, ready to open tomorrow.

One of them said, "I heard that these grain stores will open tomorrow, and I don't know what price they sell their grain at, and whether it will have an impact on our current prices." ”

Yang Guocai said: "What are you afraid of, can they still twist their arms and thighs, you don't have to be afraid, the food in our hands is combined, at least hundreds of thousands of stone grains, and they can't make any waves." ”

"Hmm." Most people order a little, but there are still one or two people who are drumming in their hearts, because the grain in their hands is basically purchased at a price of more than two taels of silver, and if the price of grain falls, they may lose money.

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Harvest grain chain Suzhou No. 1 store.

At about nine o'clock in the morning, the huge store door slowly opened, several guys, a shopkeeper, everyone was ready to open, two of them took the ignition cannon that had been prepared for a long time and lit it, and crackled at the door of the store.

"It's open!"

The work in the store, the shopkeeper, etc., everyone is happy, and after being busy for so long, it has finally opened smoothly!

The store is facing the street, the location is very good, and now at this time the street is full of people, such a big movement, immediately attracted the attention of many people.

"Another grain store has opened, and it looks like it's not small."

"These days, the grain store is making money!"

"Hey, food prices are getting higher and higher, and we can't afford to eat anymore."

“……”

Many ordinary people have a lot of discussions, but from everyone's words, it can be heard that the price of grain is expensive, and even some people are unhappy with grain merchants.

Li Chunxi is a person from Suzhou Prefecture, carrying a bag to the street to buy grain, several mouths at home to eat, the fifty catties of grain he just bought are almost eaten up, while walking, he touched a few taels of broken silver in his personal pocket, Li Chunxi was a little worried.

Because I heard that the price of grain had risen again, I didn't know how much grain I could buy with this broken silver, so I walked for a while, walked into a grain store, and asked the price, and the price of rice had reached three taels and eight dollars of silver and one stone.

Li Chunxi took his empty rice bag out of this grain store as if he had been bitten by a snake, thinking to himself, how could this be, the price of grain has risen so fast, and eating will be a big problem in the future, so I have to go outside the city to dig wild vegetables to satisfy my hunger.

With the sharp rise in food prices, many people go to dig wild vegetables outside the city, and the wild vegetables are almost dug up, dig back the wild vegetables, put a little rice if there are conditions, boil wild vegetable porridge, and if there are no conditions, eat wild vegetables directly to satisfy hunger, put a little rice to boil porridge that can only be a luxury.

Li Chunxi looked depressed, walked with his head down, walked about 100 meters, Li Chunxi suddenly found that the front was so lively, and when he looked up, it was a grain store, there were many people in the grain store, and there was even a long queue outside.

"What's going on?" Li Chunxi was suspicious, and happened to see an acquaintance, so he immediately stopped and asked, "Lao Zhang, why is the business of this grain store so good?" ”

Lao Zhang said: "Lao Li, don't you know? The rice in this grain store only sells for three taels of silver and one stone, and if you buy ten catties, you will get one catty, hurry, go and queue up! ”

There is such a good thing, if it weren't for seeing a lot of people lining up in a long line, Li Chunxi didn't believe it, seeing this, he immediately started to line up, and said in his heart, thank God, I can finally buy three taels of silver and one stone of grain. ”

The store is hot!

Several guys were very busy, and the shopkeeper was even more smiling from ear to ear, which was simply a soft hand to receive money!

"Why can I only buy fifty catties at most, no, I want to buy two stones!" A customer shouted, holding a silver ingot in his hand, insisting on buying two grains.

A guy said patiently: "I'm really sorry, our owner has an explanation, one person can only buy fifty catties at most, this is your rice, the next one!" ”

"No, I want to see your host, I want to buy two stones of grain!"

The guy said in his heart, just because you also want to see our owner, and tell our owner, I was scared to death, but although I thought so in my heart, the guy's face still remained smiling and enthusiastic, and said patiently: "I'm really sorry, we have regulations, we can really only sell you fifty catties of rice, the next one!" ”

Zhang Feng's more than a dozen grain stores, after the opening of the extremely hot, three taels and one stone of grain prices, plus buy ten catties of grain and give one catty, quickly attracted a large number of customers, this appeared a spectacle, Zhang Feng's every grain store at the door of a long queue, and other grain stores that sell high-priced grain are deserted.

There is grain for three taels and one stone to buy, and who will buy grain for three taels and eight dollars and one stone, unless the head is in water.

Yang Guocai's face was ugly, and he walked around in his grain store, and in the huge grain store, there were only a few dejected and drooping heads, and there were no customers who came to buy grain.

Selling grain at a lower price will make a lot less money, Yang Guocai doesn't do it, after thinking about it, Yang Guocai will have a heart, and evil will be born from the side of the guts.

………

Zhang Feng came to Suzhou, and Zhang Feng was with Xu Liangyi in addition to the two guards, of course, everyone was in civilian clothes, and now Zhang Feng was in one of the grain stores.

The business in the grain store is booming, and it is easy to see that there is a lot less food in the store, and it is estimated that it will be sold out in the afternoon.

Xu Liangyi is now Zhang Feng's right-hand man in business, and business matters are either taken care of by Yang Shenghai or Xu Liangyi.

Xu Liangyi is younger, in his early thirties, more capable, more passionate and aggressive, Zhang Feng is ready to focus on training, these grain stores will be prepared by Xu Liangyi, and Xu Liangyi will also take care of them in the future.

Seeing that the grain was sold so quickly, Xu Liangyi secretly admired Zhang Feng's long-term vision, because at the beginning of the preparation of the grain store, Zhang Feng explained that Xu Liangyi had found a large warehouse in Suzhou, and a lot of grain was stored in this warehouse, and the grain in the store was sold out quickly and the grain could be mobilized from the warehouse.

"Boss, look, Lord Liu, the prefect of Suzhou, is here." Xu Liangyi whispered in Zhang Feng's ear.

Zhang Feng nodded, there were many customers in the store, it was not a good place to talk, Zhang Feng said: "I'm in the back hall, you go and greet me." ”

After speaking, Zhang Feng went to the back hall, and Xu Liangyi went out of the grain store to pick up Liu Shiyu at the door, whispered a few words, and took Liu Shiyu and others to the back hall of the grain store from the side door.

As the prefect of Suzhou, Liu Shiyu was in the know, knowing that these grain stores were all Zhang Feng, and when he learned that Zhang Feng had come to Suzhou, Liu Shiyu was ready to come over to congratulate him, so he immediately brought a few of his colleagues over.

In the back hall.

Liu Shiyu first congratulated, and then, drinking tea, chatting with Zhang Feng, it can be seen from the looks of Liu Shiyu and others, although Zhang Feng is dressed in casual clothes and has a relaxed face, but except for Liu Shiyu, the rest of the people are somewhat restrained, after all, Zhang Feng is a general soldier of the third grade who holds the handle of the army.

While chatting, Xu Liangyi walked in quickly, whispered a few words in Zhang Feng's ear, and suddenly, Zhang Feng's face changed slightly.

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