Chongzhen nine years of November seven sunny breeze Hangzhou wharf outside the sea mouth, moored a huge Dafu ship, and around it nine same type of Dafu ship like the stars and the moon around it around it continue to swim, in the Fu ship that has been anchored, today came more than ten very rich guests, they are Hangzhou City is also the most famous grain merchants in the entire Zhejiang territory.

And Pang Gang, who was dressed in civilian clothes, was talking to these grain merchants with a smile, and he couldn't tell that he was a decisive general.

"Come on, come on, come and try this dish, this is the Song sister-in-law fish soup made by the famous Liu Yidao in Hangzhou City, you can taste it and make it authentic."

Pang Gang raised his chopsticks and drew a half circle, pointing to the wine and food on the table and constantly persuading everyone to drink and eat, although the dishes on the table were indeed very authentic, but few people moved the chopsticks. Speaking of which, none of these people on the boat today are worth a lot of money, there is something they haven't eaten, and besides, they didn't come here to eat today.

Pang Gang persuaded for a while, and when he saw that his persuasion didn't seem to have any effect, he didn't get angry, put down his chopsticks and smiled slightly before he stopped persuading everyone.

Pang Gang saw that everyone put down their chopsticks, and knew that these people's minds were no longer on this wine and food, so he put down the chopsticks, and the smile on his face also tightened and said: "Everyone, the purpose of Pang Mou's invitation to everyone must have been known, this official is a martial artist, and he likes to speak straight, so he won't go around in circles with everyone. ”

Pang Gang's voice was not loud, but it was very clear, and there was no sound in the small living room except for Pang Gang's voice echoing.

These grain merchants in Hangzhou were able to come here today to attend the gathering held by Pang Gang not so much by invitation as by coercion, which came from the pressure of the official uniform on the one hand, and the black muzzles of the ten warships outside the dock on the other.

Since he was coerced, he inevitably had resentment in his heart, so he didn't buy Pang Gang's persuasion.

Pang Gang looked around and said in a deep voice: "Okay, since everyone is full of food and comes to the banquet, the official will not persuade everyone, let's get down to business!" ”

Although Pang Gang, who was smiling, was not wearing an official uniform at the moment, he also had a majesty that was not angry and self-entrusting, and everyone couldn't help but feel a pang in their hearts, and let go of the dissatisfaction and resentment in their hearts and said in unison: "My lord, please speak." ”

Pang Gang nodded, cleared his throat and said, "Everyone, I believe that the official doesn't say that you also know, and today the official came to you to buy food, and the more the quantity, the better, how about it?" All of you should save face and sell the surplus grain in your hands to the official at the current market price, right? ”

Everyone was silent for a while, and more than a dozen grain merchants looked at each other, they had long understood that Pang Gang had come to them to buy grain, but they didn't expect him to buy so much, and to buy all the inventory they had on hand, which made them a little unacceptable. I sold all the grain to you at market prices, so what do we sell in winter? Isn't this cutting off their financial route, as the saying goes, a short-bladed financial path is like killing parents, if it weren't for this General Pang's notoriety, they would have scolded them a long time ago.

A grain merchant couldn't help but open his mouth and said: "General Pang, we are all in the grain business, and we are naturally very happy when someone buys grain, but you are going to buy all the surplus grain in our hands at the market price, and to be honest, we have suffered a lot of losses." ”

Pang Gang nodded: "This official naturally knows that this official has always done things fairly, since this official bought your grain at the market price, but he can also sell you a batch of refined salt at the same market price, I don't know what you think." ”

"Refined salt!" The eyes of the grain merchants suddenly lit up, there are not many things in this world that can be kept secret, and now no one knows that the lord in front of him is the largest supplier of refined salt in Hangzhou, and it is no longer a secret that Pang Gang can extract refined salt from coarse salt. Everyone knows that with this set of coarse salt to refined salt technology, the entire salt industry in the south of the Yangtze River will be controlled by the general in front of him.

Now this General Pang is going to sell them a batch of refined salt at a flat price, what does it mean? This means that they can make a considerable amount of money with this batch of refined salt through their own channels, and everyone knows that the profit of refined salt is much greater than that of grain, and in this case, none of them mind making a cameo appearance as a salt seller.

"I wonder how much refined salt the adults can sell us?" Soon, a grain merchant couldn't help but ask, businessmen have always been the word "profit" first, and when they have interests, these businessmen immediately put their hesitation and dissatisfaction behind them.

"Whoever gives the official more grain, the official will naturally sell him more refined salt." Pang Gang smiled and said: "Let's put it this way, this official plans to take out 100,000 catties of refined salt this time, and then distribute the amount according to the amount of grain you sell to the official. ”

"20,000 catties of refined salt!" Everyone's eyes lit up at once, and these refined salts were all white flowers and silver after they changed hands.

Which of the grain merchants here is not a human spirit, as soon as Pang Gang's words came out, they understood, isn't this letting them compete with each other, okay, competition is competition, who doesn't compete in this business field.

Soon, someone among the crowd spoke, "My lord, there are still 8,000 stone of grain in the villain's warehouse, and I am willing to sell it to my lord at a low price." ”

"There are still fifteen thousand stone of grain in the villain's warehouse, and they have all been sold to adults."

"The villain has 30,000 stone of grain."

"The villain has 20,000 stone of grain."

With the person who took the lead, the rest of the people were naturally unwilling to be left behind, and began to report the number one by one.

Seeing that everyone was so enthusiastic, Pang Gang pressed his hand with a smile and said to Lin Feng, who was sitting behind him: "Okay, please wait a minute, Governor Lin, you will record the number of people sold to us." ”

In the end, Lin Feng counted that in the end, the grain reported by these grain merchants was as much as 260,000 stones. When Pang Gang heard this number, the smile on his face became even bigger, so that the purpose of his visit to Hangzhou this time was completed, and some of these grains, plus the grain originally stored in Qingzhou, he was fully capable of dealing with the tide of displaced people coming at the end of this year.

The grain matter has been settled, Pang Gang's mood suddenly became happy, and he was also in a happy mood There are also those grain merchants, although they sold most of their stock of grain, but they can exchange for a lot of refined salt, and it is a large amount of silver when it changes hands casually.

After the negotiation was over, the atmosphere in the small living room was naturally completely different from just now, Pang Gang and these grain merchants began to push the cups and change the lamps, and drank until the afternoon Pang Gang sent these drunk grain merchants back to the dock.

(To be continued)