"Look at the foreign devils, okay, there's no coal, the ship can't move, guess what? This Qing Dynasty has state-owned coal, and if it doesn't work, they have to send some coal over, it's not one star or two points, this is not a grain wharf, and a boatload of Jingxi lump coal is sending it towards Tianjin. ”

"The foreigner's soldier ship will stop there, and the ship will get tens of thousands of catties of coal if it moves!"

"If you don't buy it, if you don't buy it, just wait to eat raw rice!"

"Jingxi coal was shipped to Tianjin......"

Rumors, one by one, spread by word of mouth in the capital, everyone who heard it was always exaggerated, adding fuel and vinegar, as if it was not like this, it could not prove that he did not know the news, even if it was passed on by word of mouth, but it was just a day's work, and the entire capital, and even the eunuchs in the palace knew that there was a major event that the capital was out of coal.

A kind of unprecedented future panic quickly spread in the capital, this panic is even more terrifying than the foreign devil to enter Beijing, the foreign devil into Beijing, can escape, can run, no matter how bad it is, it is nothing more than a change of master, but this is no coal, firewood, rice, oil and salt, this firewood is the first major event to open the door every day.

At the same time as the rumors were spreading, all the people who bought coal were crowded outside the large and small coal shops in the capital, whether he was a slave in the house or a flat-headed commoner, who would come one by one with silver, squeezing into the line with broken silver in his hand.

"Shopkeeper Liu, a thousand briquettes!"

"Give me two thousand dollars too......

"Shopkeeper Liu, we said that we can't buy coal, and we will break our legs when we get home......"

"I'll add money, Shiwen!"

"I'll add fifteen ......"

Hundreds of people were crowded outside the shop of Wangji Coal Shop, people were next to each other, people were crowded, everyone was shouting there, trying to squeeze forward, even a few lucky people who bought coal, this would be squeezed out of the door.

"The owner, the owner, it's not done, it's not done, it's not going to be coal!"

The shopkeeper's words made Liu Zhiwen, who was sitting in the back cabinet six gods and no owner, sweat suddenly broke out on his forehead.

"Has the coal from the mine arrived?"

"The owner, we only have a total of more than 6,000 catties, which is not enough, those people want 1,000 yuan, he wants 2,000 yuan, and those coals are not enough for two or three families!"

"This, how good is this!"

Liu Zhiwen paced anxiously, and at this moment, another guy came over.

"The owner, I inquired, I inquired, I heard that it was the foreign devil's soldier ship that ran out of coal, and stopped at Tanggu, and asked our Great Qing Kingdom to send them coal, and also named it as Jingxi Coal ......"

Without waiting for the guy to finish speaking, Liu Zhiwen's face instantly turned pale, and he didn't have to think about it to know that this was a rumor, and it was clearly Tang Haoran pushing the big guy into the fire pit. Liu Zhiwen, who was pale, rolled his goldfish eyes and looked at the shopkeeper's strength and said weakly.

"There is no coal today!"

When he spit out this sentence, Liu Zhiwen's pale face changed his expression, and as for the pair of goldfish eyes, all kinds of emotions flashed from time to time, and when he closed the pair of goldfish eyes, he remembered the words that person said when he touched the gourd in the teahouse that day, it seems that there is only one way.

"Tang Ziran, since you are ruthless, then don't blame me for being unrighteous!"

Before shouting this sentence, Liu Zhiwen bit his teeth violently, slammed the teacup on the table to the ground, and the person left the store.

"No coal today!"

But a day's work not only Wang Ji hung this brand, even the old number such as Yanzihao, also hung up the "no coal" brand, the people crowded on the number did not seem to believe, I don't know who shouted, said that they might hide the coal not to sell, the crowd was angry, the people even directly smashed a few coal shops, rushed in to see, suddenly dumbfounded, there is indeed no coal in the backyard, which seems to prove a fact that there is no coal!

"No coal today!"

When he saw that "Yanzihao" was hanging this brand, Tang Haoran suppressed the excitement in his heart, looked at Tan Sitong beside him and said:

"Brother Fusheng, the success or failure of things depends on tomorrow!"

Compared with Tang Haoran's excitement, Tan Sitong looked at the angry people with a solemn expression, he didn't expect that those few flawed rumors could incite the people of the entire capital.

"Chinese have always believed rumors, no matter how outrageous rumors are, some people believe them, not to mention, they also involve foreigners!"

Thinking of Tang Haoran's confidence when arranging the rumors that day, he had a delusion, maybe Tang Haoran understood the temper of the Chinese people better, and sure enough, as he said, when foreigners were involved, even this flawed rumor was taken true by the people, and the whole city was crowded and rushed to buy coal.

"Ziran, what are you going to do next?"

Tan Sitong asked quietly.

"I heard that even the Prime Minister's Yamen sent a telegram to ask Li Zhongtang in Tianjin, is there any foreigner in Tianjin asking for coal? Q: What's going on? If it goes on like this, if there is an uncontrollable mess, what will it be? ”

It's not that it has led to chaos, the people who don't believe that there is no coal in the coal shop have been smashed by the "Yan brand", and the whole city does not know how many coal shops have to be smashed, and once these coal shops hang out the "no coal" sign, the signboard will be smashed!

Looking at the people who were still crowded outside the Yanzi number, Tang Haoran pondered for a moment and said to the guys on the side.

"Changsheng, you send someone to inform the stores and raise the price of briquettes to twenty-five Wen! There is also a lump of coal, which also has to raise the market price! The purchase is limited, 100 briquettes and 100 catties of coal per household, sue them, this is enough for them to burn for a month! ”

Others don't have coal, but I do! However, if you want to buy coal at a low price, you can't sell it at a low price, but you have to sell it at a high price.

Tang Haoran was proud, the corners of his lips raised slightly, looked at the smashed wooden door of Yanzihao, and sneered.

"To be honest, we have to thank these people, if it weren't for them, we wouldn't have been able to earn this money!"

Tan Sitong said hesitantly.

"Ziran, I think it's better to take the opportunity to get rid of the coal we collected at parity, this is raised, will it be ......?"

Tang Haoran shook his head and said in a resolute tone:

"No, do as I say!"

The guy was a little confused, but he hurried away. And Tan Sitong looked at Tang Haoran with some puzzlement, in this case, the risk is too high.

"Tomorrow, sixteen coal companies will continue to limit sales, and the price of briquettes will be tied to 30 yuan! Contact the coal mines in western Beijing, and we will add half of the coal price! ”

Tang Haoran smiled coldly, put it aside, Hua Yang sent coal to the door, and almost never came out of the pavement, but now it was different from usual, he not only wanted to take this opportunity to make a lot of money, but also took this opportunity to bite those coal lines fiercely.

"Ziran, are you trying to ......?"

Looking at Tang Haoran, Tan Sitong understood what he meant, the two glanced at each other, at this moment, he even felt that Tang Haoran had become strange, he was going to push all the coal lines to a dead end,

"Ziran, you have to be forgiving and forgiving, if the expectation is not bad, tonight, those coal shops will send someone to see you!"

"See me?"

With a sneer, Tang Haoran walked in the direction of home with his hands behind his back.

"Am I so?"

If they really let them see it, it would be really cheap, sneering, Tang Haoran's eyes narrowed into thin slits, and he glanced at Yan Zihao, his expression was full of pride, he was just trying to do it according to a half-known method!

Well, from now on, there will only be Huayang in this capital!

"Ouch, it's over!"

The white cloth wrapped around his head, and the bloody shopkeeper Du sighed, looked at the owner and said:

"The owner doesn't know. These days, the coal from the mine, after Huayang bought it, was not transported into the city, but stored outside the city, they spread rumors that there will definitely be a price reduction, the common people still dare to buy coal there to be cheap, plus the coal sold a while ago, naturally there is no need to worry about the coal on the number is not enough to sell! ”

Shopkeeper Du looked at the owner again and added.

"I also inquired that this time, eighty or ninety percent of the coal sold on our number was bought by Huayang, and before today's siege of the market to grab coal, tens of thousands of catties were sold on our number, and they were all bought by people sent by Huayang! Even now this rumor was created by him! ”

The shopkeeper's words made Li Tingyu furious and said:

"Are we all deaf and blind and ignorant of anything about the outside world?"

Shopkeeper Du hesitated, looked at the owner and said.

"Owner, there are too many people who buy coal now, and everyone has to buy coal at a higher price, for fear that they won't be able to buy coal. You can't buy it! We're not in a hurry to pull coal now! ”

Shopkeeper Du's words made Li Tingyu suddenly anxious.

"What then? Do you want to say, even if we brought in coal. I can't solve the ......."

Only halfway through the words, Li Tingyu's face changed again, he was really not in a hurry and had no time to dry coal!

"The ...... of the owner"

"It's over, it's over...... Yanzihao's reputation for hundreds of years has been ruined in my hands! ”

When Li Tingyu, whose face was like ashes, muttered, he finally knew why he always felt that something was wrong from the beginning, and now he understood that from the beginning, Tang Haoran dug a pit and waited for him to jump there, and he thought he had a plan, but he never thought that from beginning to end, he played like a monkey.

Thinking that the Yanzi name that had been passed down for several generations would be destroyed in his hands, he became more and more unable to control his feelings, and he seemed to feel that there was a big net tightening on his head, so tight that he couldn't breathe.

"Owner, let's, we still have a chance, and we can still ...... Go to Tang Ziran, let's beg him, he must have coal in his hand, he bought hundreds of thousands of catties just by buying ours! ”

Shopkeeper Du's words made Li Tingyu's face a little bloody, and he looked into the distance and muttered.

"Yes, there is still a chance, there is still a chance, but, but Tang Ziran will, will he agree to sell us coal?"