Listening to his brother's reason for worrying, Pu Shougeng smiled: "It's good that they are willing to smash it now!" His expression was faint, and he was still bowing his head and carefully packing up the chessboard. Where are you now? A late appointment is only 15 or 16 times...... Even if 30,000 tickets are smashed, that is, four or five hundred thousand. We have prepared more than 3 million pieces waiting to take over. There are also several Tianfang Sect merchants in Quanzhou, and they have all agreed to join forces with us, and soon another three million will be shipped to Lin'an. With a total of more than six million yuan in cash, what else is there to worry about? ”

Pu Shousheng smiled bitterly: "There's nothing to worry about now, but what if it's late to copy 100 or 200?" If you smash out 350,000 at once, it will be millions or tens of millions...... Can we handle it? ”

Pu Shougeng laughed: "Then don't worry, when the late contract rises to 200, these Song people should stretch their necks to see 300, 400, and 500!" When the time comes, there will be a steady stream of cash coming in, and there will be no need for us to take out the money to fill it up. When we really need to take out the money to take over, it should be within 70 times. Now don't rush, let it rise slowly, for a month or two, so that all the people involved are happy. When each late contract rises to 70 yuan, I will press it, and then the time will be out, and those grain merchants who can issue new contracts should almost be sent out. When the pressure reaches 50, Liu Xiaoyuan will toss out a little mess and temporarily cut off the water transportation of the Yangtze River. As soon as the news arrives, the market should rush to buy. ”

Pu Shougeng paused for a moment, and then said: "Little brother estimates that by then, the current grain in Zhenjiang will rise to at least 5 guan per stone!" If we can hold 200,000 late contracts. That's 10000000 guan! You don't have to shoot them all, as long as you can quietly let go of two percent. The rest is mortgaged at 3% of the market price, and more than 44 million yuan of cash can be withdrawn. 15 million to those friends in Quanzhou. Our brothers can still have 29 million yuan in their hands, where else can they go then? ”

Pu Shougeng's trading plan, to be honest, is quite advanced. In later generations, the bookmakers in the stock market of the Red Dynasty roughly played like this. When it is low, open a position to control the disk, then pull up the shock to wash off the follow-up disk, further control the disk, and then pull up the good to pull the stock price to the sky, and finally find a way to ship.

And the best way to ship is not to all retail investors - this is more difficult. The best way to do this is to get a bank or some other lender...... What bank pledges loans, what allocation. What overdrafts and so on. Anyway, the essence is to use stocks as collateral for cash, even if you can't withdraw it, you can't do anything, just buy chips on other accounts (other accounts of the dealer) at a high price.

Such a set of methods that have long been played rotten in the village are useless in the Red Dynasty, and the core of several generations of leaders of the Red Dynasty is to strictly control the entry of bank funds into the market, which basically seals the channel for the dealer to use pledged loan chips in disguise. Therefore, although the stock market of the Red Dynasty has not created much value for ordinary investors, it is not a place where the legendary overseas reactionary big short can wreak havoc at will -- after all, after the overseas reactionary big short comes, there is no very easy way to exit. If you don't do it, you will be set up as a shareholder. Therefore, the stock market of the Red Dynasty is not something that can be touched by foreign hostile forces. Well, at least until Chen Dexing hung up in his previous life!

However, Pu Shougeng's set of sitting on the village in the Red Dynasty will definitely not work, and it is still very useful in the 13th century in the Great Song Dynasty. After all, this era. There is not even a real bank in the world. Finance is still in a very primitive state, and no one has ever seen a financial turmoil, let alone a stock market crash. And. The merchants of the Song Dynasty were relatively honest, and ordinary small transactions did not need to be signed to make contracts. As long as the agreement is reached verbally, the parties to the transaction will basically not cheat.

It's the rice merchants who are now releasing late appointments. It's also a down-to-earth business. How much purchase amount has been negotiated with the upper family (landlords and farmers) before the next family can be delayed. Merchants who put their plates indiscriminately when they don't have goods in their hands basically don't save zài. After all, everyone is a long-term business, and no one wants to smash the brand by themselves.

Of course, Chen Huaiqing and Pu Shougeng are exceptions. One of them is ready to be the emperor's father, and he doesn't want to do business at all. The other is going to get a vote and leave, and he doesn't plan to mix up in China. In short, these two perfect matches collided together until the Great Song economy was broken.

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"Second brother, my lord thinks that Jia Rudao still has a better way to control the feudal town. In the past four years, there has been no rebellion in the Southern Dynasties, which is all due to Jia Yidao. On the one hand, he used money to envelop several Sichuan feudal towns far away from Lin'an, and let them contain Jinghu and Lianghuai. On the other hand, there are also large-scale regimental exercises, and now there are regimental training ambassadors on Jiangnan 5th Road and Guangnan East Road, and every state capital has a regimental training envoy, and it has also made an exception to let locals be local regimental training officers, allowing regimental training ambassadors to take full charge of the troops. At least 200,000 group exercises have been practiced. It's a pity that this person only has talent but no talent, and his actions are too frivolous. My lord thinks that this is an opportunity for us to take Jiangnan......"

Chen Defang was in the cabin with a pale face, and he was very dutiful and talked to Chen Dexing about the situation in the south. He was sent by Chen Huaiqing to Yanjing to build a yì to Chen De to take advantage of the chaos to take Jiangnan. The fast boat arrived in Tanggu, but it happened to meet Chen Dexing's drive back to Mingdu, so he got on Chen Dexing's new flagship Daming.

During this time, Chen Dexing was not idle, but was fighting and expanding the army.

To fight a war is to capture the mountain passes of Yanshan, the most crucial of which is Juyong Pass. It didn't take much effort, and Brother Mo had long lost the heart to fight, and shrank his troops to the prefectures behind the mountains and Kaiping City. gave up the mouths of Yanshan to Chen Dexing.

The expansion of the army is mainly to expand all the 27 infantry brigades owned by the upper, middle, and lower armies of the Northern Ming Army according to the standard of "silver armored brigades", that is, each brigade is equipped with ten battalions, with a total of more than 3,000 people. As a result, a division was expanded to more than 10,000 people, and it began to be equipped with divisional artillery battalions. The size of an army naturally expanded to about 33,000 men. The three armies of the army have a total of nearly 100,000 officers and soldiers!

plus a 6,500-strong Guards Division; a Guards Cavalry Division, a merger of heavy cavalry divisions and Guards cavalry, numbering about 2,000; The officers and soldiers under the jurisdiction of a daimyo governor's office have also been reduced to the size of an army after being sorted out, but the equipment and training are relatively poor, and there is no way to become an army for the time being; A silver-armored division (6,500 men) and 40,000 bannermen.

The total strength of the army alone has exceeded 180,000. If you count the navy and the growing civilian ranks, there are now as many as 230,000 people who need to be financially burdened (not necessarily in full) by Beiming! It has accounted for nearly 10% of the total population of Beiming!

The army has expanded to this point, and the expenses have naturally gone straight to astronomical figures. Even if Beiming's army does not pay full salary, the monthly expenditure on personnel is as high as 600,000 yuan! That's 7.2 million a year!

Moreover, these more than 200,000 troops still need to be equipped, and the navy must purchase more spinnaker gunboats in order to gain absolute control over East Asia and the southern seas. The army will expand the number of steelclad soldiers and forge more cannons. If more than 100,000 people in the upper, middle, and lower armies, the Guards, and the Silver Armor Brigade want to all be steeled in hand-to-hand combat, at least 50,000 sets of plate armor will be purchased, and even if the price of crucible steel falls by half this year and next year, it will cost 25 million yuan!

Due to the pressure of expanding the army and upgrading weapons and equipment at the same time, Beiming's originally relatively generous finances have now become overstretched. Judge Huang Zhishen of the Chief Secretary for Administration has been crying for days, and when he saw Chen Dexing, he told him how the finances are tight - although the regular annual income is 15 million yuan, there are too many places to spend money! military spending, resettlement of refugees, repair of cities, roads, and ports within the territory, establishment of government offices and councils at all levels, and the purchase of food to help refugees tide over famine...... Everywhere you have to spend money, everywhere you have things. Chen Dexing sometimes thinks that he is covered in iron, so how many nails can he pick? Thinking about it again, I already have a country, I definitely don't have to worry about it in my life, sometimes I want to be lazy and be a "Great Liao Emperor".

Fortunately, this kind of unenterprising thought is just a thought.

Chen Dexing retracted his mind and looked at Chen Defang, "What do you mean by adult?" Do you want to use this rice grain market to mess up Jiangnan? ”

Chen Defang nodded slowly, "That's what my lord means, if Jia Rudao just wants to live in a daze, according to the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty and the hearts of the people in Jiangnan, he can support it for a few years." However, he came up with the bad idea of replacing the soldiers with food. ”

Chen Dexing waved his hand: "Taking Jiangnan is not about the people's will in Jiangnan, but about when my soldiers will be trained." ”

Although the expansion of the Ming army has been completed, the expanded soldiers need to be trained and equipped. It takes a lot of time. And the army must have taken the sea route to the south, which in turn involves the direction of the wind. In winter, the wind is just right to go south, and if the southeast wind hangs in the summer, there is no way for tens of thousands of troops to go from Liaodong to Jiangnan.

Chen Defang just chuckled: "Jiangnan is rich, the crown is in the world, if you raise 100,000 soldiers, conquer cities, and kill countless people, so that Jiangnan is like Hebei, our Ming Dynasty will have a hard time in the future." Therefore, the meaning of the adults is to make Jiangnan chaotic first, the people are trapped in food, the gentry and merchants are on the verge of bankruptcy, everyone is resentful, and the family is uneasy. In this way, the merchants and people of Jiangnan will turn their backs on the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, and then they will be able to take the three cities of Lin'an, Qingyuan (Mingzhou) and Quanzhou with large soldiers. These three cities have a population of one million, industry and commerce gathered, trade is prosperous, and now fifty percent of the taxes of the Great Song Kingdom are out of these three cities. If my Great Song Dynasty takes it, no matter how good it is, it is not difficult to earn tens of millions of dollars a year. (To be continued......)