Although Ruxian is well-known in the Jingshi, in fact, no matter how powerful her talent is, she only learns the ability in Qinglou, and when she learns, it is also regarded as a hobby rather than the main business, which is still quite inferior to the big businessmen of this era. The reason why the business can be done so well is because Zhu Xiuchang is controlling the overall situation behind it. The owner behind the entire Yang Ji is this princess of eternal life.

When she was in Anlu, Madame Qian was one of the best businessmen in Anlu, and after she arrived in Jingshi, although her authority was smaller, her means were still there. Later, after the revival of Jinyiwei, she grabbed a large part of the power of Jinyi, plus the old ministers of the Qiandi brought by Jiajing from Anlu, the power grew day by day, and some relationship networks were also re-established, and the business gradually became prosperous. When Yang Chengzu was training troops in the southeast to kill the Japanese and exterminate the captives, Yang Ji began to expand rapidly in Beijing and even in the entire north.

Yang Ji intervened in the fields of grain, restaurants, inns, mills, groceries, silk, cloth, ready-to-wear, jewelry, tea, and medicinal materials in Jingshili.

In the field of grain, after cleaning up the four major grain merchants, the grain stores in Jingshi and Beizhili have been monopolized by Yang Ji. For example, a businessman like Fan Chong has put all the shops under his name under Yang Ji under his name and has become a franchise businessman.

Relying on the joining and shareholding model proposed by Yang Chengzu, Yang Ji swept most of the grain merchants in the north with the momentum of whale swallowing. Large-scale grain merchants have been swallowed by him, and those who are unwilling to be swallowed will be found fault by the government, even if they have backers, they dare not take it hard, and finally either admit it or change careers, and those who can persist in doing it are difficult to form a direct threat to Yang Ji.

The most critical factor in this is the price. The purpose of Yeung Kee is not simply to make money, but also to consider integrity. Yang Chengzu tried his best to make food, not to make money with food, but to ensure that the people did not rebel and that the nine sides would not have food.

Originally, the grain in the north of the Ming Dynasty was not enough to eat, in another time and space, due to the opening of the sea trade in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, cash crops were generally planted in the south of the Yangtze River, and finally the grain was transported from the north to the south for sale. At present, grain is transported from the south of the Yangtze River, and as soon as Cao Yun is affected, there will be a grain shortage in the north, which is to a large extent due to the manipulation of grain merchants and the hoarding of grain by large landlords in the north.

Due to the restrictions on the dissemination of information, some large landowners would rather rot their grain or pile it up in the field and burn it in the field, rather than be willing to trade it. Yang Ji is well-informed and has official authority, and has signed contracts with many large landowners in the north to ensure the supply of goods. Compared with the transportation of grain from the south to the north, this has greatly saved transportation costs and losses, and with the help of Zhao Jiuxiong's Cao Gang, the freight is also low, and the most important thing is that Yang Ji did not expect to make money from grain.

Whether it is grain from the north or grain from the south to the north, after calculating logistics and labor costs, the profit per catty of grain is extremely low. For example, Jingshi, as the best place in the imperial capital, is to maintain a situation full of flowers, and it is based on the grain of Jingshi, which sells almost 100 catties of grain, and the net profit is only one catty of grain.

As for the people in Beizhili and other places, although they can't enjoy such low prices, compared with the past, grain prices are still a big drop. This kind of decline is indeed beneficial for most residents, and those who have no savings and are ashamed of cloth can enjoy it more confidently and boldly this time, without worrying about eating.

With the exception of a very small number of people living in extreme poverty, the majority of the population will not starve to death. Without the danger of starvation, there would be no thought of taking risks to rebel, for the vast number of low-level people, this must indeed be regarded as good governance, and for the imperial court, it must also be regarded as a contribution to the stable situation.

However, after the implementation of this good governance, even Yang Ji, who has a strong background, has been greatly impacted, for no other reason, and has cut off some people's financial routes.

First of all, among the officials, there are many people who are not happy with the low grain prices, because the officials have fixed their salaries, and the price of grain has dropped sharply, which is equivalent to a disguised reduction in income for them. Moreover, most of the officials have to be regarded as the spokesmen of the gentry and landlord class, and with this kind of low grain price, most of the peasants will not go bankrupt, or they will not be able to survive by borrowing usury, so that they will not sell their land, and how can they collect land if they do not sell it?

Moreover, this kind of grain price actually has an impact on the value of land, making the value of land less important than before, in their eyes, this is a typical evil government, the worst of evils that harm the people.

There are also some people who believe that such food prices are feeding the lazy, which has a very bad impact on people's hearts, making the people more and more lazy, losing the motivation to create wealth, and eventually the whole country will be ruined.

Those poor ghosts who do not sell their children, sell their daughters, sell their houses and sell their land because of the price reduction, or who do not pick up a knife and go up the mountain to fight against the imperial court, in the eyes of these people, are not qualified to be counted as people. They didn't include the bipedal walking humanoids. Jiajing received a lot of impeachment notes about Yang Ji, and for the sake of businessmen, he was able to make trouble in front of the Son of Heaven, which in itself is enough to explain the problem.

In the local yamen, the black hand of Yang Ji's envoy has never been broken, and in the green forest, there are also many bandits and robbers, martial arts heroes, who have targeted destruction and smashing of Yang Ji's shop, and even personally threatened or injured Yang Ji's employees. Yang Ji's workshop has been burned, and there have been casualties, in the past two years, Yang Chengzu killed the corpses and blood in the southeast, and Princess Yongshou was in Beijing, with open guns and hidden arrows, and the danger was actually more dangerous than the battlefield.

Fortunately, her foundation is strong enough, she relies on the emperor behind her, and she has a team that can fight and kill, whether it is a lawsuit or a fight, she will not suffer in the end. Whoever used a means against Yang Ji, she used more drastic means to retaliate back, Yang Ji almost stepped on the dead body, facing the attack in the open and in the dark, and rushed all the way over. It's hard to say how much effort this princess has put into this.

Yang Chengzu grabbed Zhu Xiuchang's hand, feeling a little guilty, "Xiuchang, I'...... I can't live with you, these things, which should have been my errands, have put all the burden on you. Now, I'm back, and those people, whether white or black, use the means on the table or the number of roads below, just come at me, have revenge, and have revenge. There is no hatred or injustice, see who is not pleasing to the eye, and pull him out! ”

Zhu Xiuchang smiled with satisfaction and kissed him on the chest, "Sure enough, it's my good husband, as soon as you come back, I can rest." I am the wild woman you raised outside, what you should think about is how to make yourself beautiful, at home, drink tea, be a female celebrity, and then wait for the man to come back and spoil me. You are so capable, you must be able to raise me, from today onwards, I will be responsible for causing trouble, and then help you smooth it out for me, and I will rely on you. ”

The two lingered for a while, Zhu Xiuchang was a polite person after all, and knew that if Yang Chengzu was left with him tonight, things would be too much. In addition, he is now also a corner of the court, this time he came back from the south, I don't know which way the gods may come to worship the pier, tonight there may be some visitors who can't push away, so in the end he is reluctant to send him out of the house, just whispered

"In two days, I'll go to the Dengshikou to find you...... There is also a little brother who wants to review the new army this time, this is your chance, perform better, although you can get credit without credit, but after all, I can only speak with a little credit, so show your ability, don't let me be embarrassed ....... ”

At the mouth of the alley where Princess Yongshou's mansion is located, several men with hats looked at this from a distance, and when they saw Yang Chengzu coming out, someone couldn't help but say: "What the hell are you thinking above, don't move your hands, if you don't take it, it will be in vain." ”

"Take your mother's legs, just the people of Princess Yongshou's Mansion, it won't be difficult to kill a few of our brothers, An Sheng looks, don't act rashly." Another man scolded sharply, and lowered his head tightly, for fear that Yang Chengzu would see it, as a party concerned, Yang Chengzu didn't expect that someone had already begun to target him.