Chapter 641: The Turmoil Intensifies
Lu Jiu finally couldn't help but said indignantly: "Now there are bastard bastards and we are rushing to buy food, seeing that the food in the army can't hold on, you two still have the heart to tell jokes and play dumb riddles, it's really unreasonable." ”
Mi Yan looked at him and said: "Why do you go south this time is to cut off people's money, if no one jumps out to make a stumble, it would be strange, for now we just need to wait and see what happens, remember to act rashly and fall into the tricks of thieves..."
"What Yuan Chang said is reasonable, now it is more wrong to do more, and less to make fewer mistakes. It is a good idea to adapt to all changes without change. Li Xin very much agreed with Mi Yan's statement. Lu Jiu smiled bitterly: "You two can't say it, even if it's like what the thirteenth brother said, to respond to all changes with the same, the food problem is imminent, and it has to be solved first, right?" Otherwise, tens of thousands of horses have nothing to eat, and they all have to be messed up? ”
Li Xin also had a plan for this important matter, and he knew that there must be grain in the granary in Longtan County, although the amount was not much, but it was enough to survive some time.
When a few people were discussing, there were grain trucks that came to the barracks one after another on the order of Longtan County, but Mi Yan asked the escort leader, where was the county commander Chen Wenshan, the man was vague and covered up, and at a glance he knew that there were ghosts in it, and Mi Yan did not say anything, and the counting of grain was only 5,000 stones, which was enough for the Three Guards to tighten their belts and eat for a month.
Mi Yan reprimanded the leader of the escort, and blamed Chen Wenzhi for not doing his job effectively, and only collected 5,000 stone of grain in seven days. These words quickly reached Chen Wenshan's ears, and he immediately became worried again, suspecting that the Marquis of Zhenyu had learned about his reselling of grain.
Chen Wenshan's cheap brother-in-law, Hu Liu, and the master hit it off, in addition to selling the old rice that was originally earned at a low price, they even had to collect high-priced rice in the market, and hoard it to wait for the price of rice to soar again, so as to make more profits. In this regard, he once taught these two guys who were greedy for money and didn't want to die with the allusion that people's hearts were not enough, and solemnly warned them that the silver in their hands now was not his own, but that it belonged to the county treasury and the town marquis. Take 10,000 steps back, even if it is his own, he can't toss like this.
After getting the warning, these two people finally stopped, and now that the town marquis has revealed his mouth, Chen Wenzhi once again has trouble sleeping, so he has to call his master to discuss his idea. Who knew that after hearing his worries, the master actually smiled, "The county lord thinks that such a shrewd person as the town marquis will not know what we are doing behind our backs? ”
Chen Wenzhi was stunned for a while by his master's rhetorical question, and then looked at him and asked with difficulty: "You mean that the Marquis of Zhenyu already knew?" Suddenly, he seemed to come back to his senses, and then asked, "You already knew?" ”
This sentence is questioning the master who knew that Li Xin knew that they bought low and sold grain at a high price, but deliberately concealed it from himself. The master immediately realized that he had slipped out of his mouth in the spring breeze, and hurriedly went back to make up for it.
"Don't worry about the county, the villain has just figured it out, and the marquis of the town is obviously turning a blind eye, otherwise he would have already made a move? As long as we make money......" At the same time, he made another move to divide the money, and Chen Wenzhi immediately understood.
After calming down for a while, Chen Wenshan said uneasily, "You and Hu Liu must stop messing around, remember?" This money is not earned, it comes quickly, and it loses quickly. Also, the money that has been sold will be folded out and sent to the county treasury. ”
The master laughed dryly, "It's not that the villain is lazy and doesn't borrow money from the county treasury, but now that the money is tight, more than half of the bills can't be discounted immediately, and the county can't let the villain release these bills to the county treasury as treasury money, right?" ”
Chen Wenshan's tortured head and two big, unwilling to listen to the master's noise, forced in an unquestionable tone: "No matter how much cash there is, from now on, it will be solved in the county treasury..."
Master's words are unknown, with Chen Wenshan's understanding of Hu Liu, he must have come up with any bad ideas, and the two of them hit it off and couldn't guarantee that they would do something strictly forbidden behind their backs. At this time, Chen Wenshan already regretted it a little, originally he planned to let Hu Liu and the master check and balance each other, which Cheng wanted to make it self-sufficient to cause the two of them to be clumsy wolves, but now it has become a tiger riding trend, and he can only strictly admonish and supervise. I can't help but sigh from the bottom of my heart, it is not easy to employ people, and it is even more difficult to recognize people.
As a result, Li Xin personally sent someone to urge Chen Wenzhi to go to the military camp outside the city to discuss matters, which made his heart hang again. But as it turned out, his worries were too much to worry about. Li Xin bluntly said that he did not object to him selling low-priced old rice, but there was one point, now the price of rice has almost reached the critical point of collapse, and he must sell all the old rice in his hand except for the official warehouse in the warehouse, otherwise there will be a possibility of losing all his money.
Rao is like this, Chen Wenzhi still broke out in a cold sweat, it turned out that the marquis of Zhenju had already illuminated the candle, but it was ridiculous that he still thought that he had a plan and could hide it. Even if Li Xin had no intention of pursuing this, he still had palpitations. It was also from this moment that he had a new understanding of Li Xin. This person is not a martial artist who only knows how to wield guns and sticks, and it would be a big mistake if he had a contempt because of his status as a martial artist.
Out of the barracks, Chen Wenzhi thought of the unreliable cheap brother-in-law and master, and secretly urged them not to do it anymore, now that there is a Jun order from the Marquis, there is nothing to be afraid of, and everything can be done freely. Thinking of this, he was relieved again.
Unlike Chen Wenshan's relieved heart, Li Xin's nerves became more and more tense, it turned out that Mi Yan had just learned from the scout's military report that there was another group of unknown people involved in the rush to buy grain, but judging from the source of the money, it was definitely different from Ruan Dacheng. Because under the malicious price hike of the two sides, the price of Yingtianfu Chen rice has risen to a sky-high price of ten taels of silver and one stone. This is already higher than that of Henan, Shaanxi, and some provinces in western Liaoning that have been repeatedly hit by military disasters.
Things have developed to the point where they have become quite interesting, originally starting from the urgent need of military rations for the Three Guards to purchase civilian rice, but after a toss, Li Xin, as the protagonist, became a spectator. Li Xin could not receive military rations, and the Three Guards were admittedly facing the crisis of running out of food. But is he the only potential loser? The people have no rice to cook because of the soaring price of rice, and the local law and order has deteriorated, and there are often mobs in groups to rob homes and houses. This even included Ruan Dacheng himself, Li Xin thought he had disembarked, but this time the sudden appearance of a third party made this person have to re-board the ship and go into battle. Now, for anyone on board, the situation has actually reached the point of life or death. Even if you don't die, you have to pull out the skin.
After thinking about it, after thinking about it, in this rush to buy rice, there were all losers, and there was no winner.
After another three days, Mi Yan rushed over, "Today's rice price has risen to twelve taels of silver and one stone, which is really the first time since tomorrow... It's enough for Ruan Dacheng to drink a good pot,"
Li Xin doesn't care about Ruan Dacheng anymore, this person is already doomed to suffer a loss since he was forced back on the boat. What he was curious about was who the other behind-the-scenes protagonist who suddenly came out of nowhere. On the surface, he appeared to compete with Ruan Dacheng for profit, but in fact, he saved himself. It was this person who entangled Ruan Dacheng and the people behind him, so that they had no time to take care of anything else, and naturally they couldn't continue to engage in the ghosts of the Three Guards behind their backs. If it were possible, he would like to meet this master who does good deeds and does not leave a name.
At the moment when the two of them were speculating wildly, Li Shuangcai entered the Chinese military tent and was overjoyed.
"It's a good thing, someone has brought us food..."
"Oh? Who sent it? ”
"How many stones?"
The first sentence was asked by Li Xin, and the latter sentence was asked by Mi Yan. Li Shuangcai stretched out his right hand and scratched the back of his head, "I really don't know who sent it, the people who sent the grain arrived here, and they didn't even want the carriages and horses, and they were all gone." There is definitely a lot of food, 30,000 stones... I don't have to worry about running out of food anymore..."
Li Shuangcai's preface is a little incompatible, perhaps because of excitement. Mi Yan's eyes shone brightly, and he was amazed again and again, only Li Xin lowered his head and pondered, he was wondering who was helping.
Li Xin did not have any old people in Jiangnan except for Sun Jiao, and most of the people he met after coming to the Ming Dynasty were almost the same as enemies, almost every one of them wanted to get rid of them first and then quickly.
Lu Jiu thought about it thoroughly, for fear that someone would deliberately poison the grain with malicious intentions, so he first sent someone to catch a lot of wild dogs to try it, and only after making sure that there was no danger did he officially put it into storage as the military food of the Three Guards. Thus, the military food crisis of the Three Guards was safely passed, but a rice price war had reached its climax.
At this moment, Li Xin was even a little worried about the battle with Ruan Dacheng for the price of rice, and they all said that killing 1,000 enemies would cause 800 self-losses, and if it continued, life and death would be unpredictable, and the loss would only be no less than one million. If ordinary people are only afraid of breaking their homes dozens of times, hundreds of times are not enough to repay their debts. People who can afford to play this kind of game are obviously either rich or expensive, even so, if he is greatly affected by himself, how can he bear it?
After another day, the price of rice, which had been soaring, finally stopped at the price of 13 taels and 8 coins of silver and one stone. Li Xin felt that it was time for the price of rice to fall. Unexpectedly, the price of rice stopped for only one day, and it skyrocketed by one or two. At this point, even Li Xin couldn't understand what was going on.
Under such circumstances, Li Xin unexpectedly discovered a peculiar phenomenon. Because the price of rice changes almost every day, and the rice traded is often hundreds of stones, and it is time-consuming and laborious to count and weigh, so there is a kind of arrears similar to a contract, which alone can replace the rice transaction, and these arrears are guaranteed by the original contract, and the person who draws the name must bear the responsibility of cashing the rice. Otherwise, if you sue the government, it will also be a lawsuit that you will win and not lose.
However, as a result, the daily trading volume is better than the day, and the decline in rice prices expected by Li Xin has not occurred, but has also fluctuated regularly.
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