On July 14 of the 20th year of Hongwei, Xu Rui continued to buy all commodities on a large scale, while Liaowang Group concentrated on purchasing industrial raw materials, and the prices in Changxing City rose sharply again.

By noon on the 14th, the price of rice had skyrocketed by as much as 70 times compared with two days ago, which was due to Xu Rui's hoarding and panic, but more because of the inflation caused by a large number of over-issued banknotes.

According to the calculations of the Imperial Central Bank, 600 million taels of silver was equivalent to the total financial sum of the three years of the Great Wei, and all of them were invested in the market in one day, causing violent inflation.

As of July 13, the original 1:1 exchange ratio to silver has dropped to 1:6, and the ratio has even reached a terrible 1:9 on the black market.

The astonishing rate of depreciation of silver bills has further exacerbated the panic in the market, forming a vicious circle.

The common people, even the dignitaries and wealthy businessmen in the capital, held a large number of rapidly depreciating silver tickets in their hands on the one hand, and almost could not buy any goods on the other hand.

Everyone instinctively loses confidence in the silver bills, and wants to take advantage of the greater depreciation to exchange the silver bills in their hands for hard currency such as grain, which preserves and increases in value.

It's a pity that under the impetus of this psychology, almost all the shops have broken the threshold, but the merchants who sell things also have the same idea, at this time, even if it is a pile of shit, there are people who want it, but where do they dare to sell it?

The major chambers of commerce, including Changxing City, all announced that they were out of stock from the 14th, and the Liao King dispatched the garrison of Zhili Province to close the road to prevent merchants from transporting materials from all over the country to Beijing, so that the prices of various commodities went all the way up.

As soon as the market opened on 14 July, the price of rice soared more than 20 times in just half an hour, and various other commodities also rose steadily, with an astonishing speed.

In the Liao Wang's Mansion, Du Ruo looked at the dazzling price list and felt dizzy.

Since the 14th, prices have been rising all the time, just like cloth, when he looked at it a moment ago, it was only two hundred and one horses, and the time of just one pillar of incense rose to three hundred and sixty taels, and he saw that this old Shangshu was in a cold sweat.

And the king of Liao behind him was even more anxious to pace back and forth in the room, in the morning, the tea on his table had been changed four or five times, but he did not move, kept scurrying around like a headless fly.

"Lord Wang, Lord Wang!"

At this time, Tong Fang hurriedly rushed into the study.

"How's it going, what's going on outside?"

Without waiting for Tong Fang to stop, the King of Liao rushed to him with a brisk step, grabbed his wrist and asked eagerly.

Tong Fang finally took a breath, shook his head bitterly and said, "No...... No, it doesn't work...... There is just a batch of goods that have been bought by Xu Rui......"

"Bought by Xu Rui? What are you eating?! ”

When the King of Liao heard this, he was furious.

"The prince is angry......"

Tong Fang hurriedly explained: "It's not that we don't work hard, it's really silver...... Not enough silver! ”

"What?"

King Liao exclaimed: "You only took 80 million taels of silver tickets from the household department early this morning, how can you say that the silver is not enough?!" ”

Tong Fang wanted to cry and said without tears: "Lord Wang, you don't know this, today's industrial raw materials have been sold at sky-high prices!"

As soon as the market opened this morning, we swept the goods as soon as possible, but those shopkeepers saw that the price of raw materials was rising, and they refused to sell it anyway, so I was afraid that Xu Rui would make some strange moves, so I had to win the first batch of goods at eight times the price, and it cost 40 million taels.

Who knew that at this time, the first batch of raw materials transferred to the capital happened to miss the outpost of the Zhili garrison and arrived as scheduled, and I immediately proposed to use the remaining 40 million taels to buy this batch of goods.

But the shopkeeper on Xu Rui's side also came at this time, and as soon as he opened his mouth, it was 80 million taels, and he paid immediately, without delay.

Those profiteers changed their faces on the spot, and immediately agreed to sell the raw materials to Xu Rui......"

With a "snap", King Liao slapped his palm on the table and said viciously: "Xu Rui! Xu Rui! How could he have so much money?! ”

Saying that, King Liao immediately rushed to Du Ruo and said, "Du Qing, tell me, how much money can the household department come up with?" ”

When Du Ruo heard that the King of Liao still wanted money, his heart suddenly trembled, and he shook his head again and again.

The King of Liao said bitterly: "Du Qing, Xu Rui has moved back to a city, if we continue to let him attack the city and plunder the land, we will have lost all our efforts, we must resist at this time, we must resist!" ”

Du Ruo's face sank, he also knew that if he couldn't withstand it at this time, then not only would the trick of disintegrating Xu Rui Group that had been planned for a long time be completely stranded, but also the silver he had lost before would be completely unrecoverable.

However, Xu Rui seems to have endless money in his hands to squander at will, this seems to be a bottomless pit, and even Du Ruo has no bottom line in his heart about Xu Rui.

"Lord Wang, if you continue to take money from the household department, it may endanger the operation of the entire imperial court, in case there is a disturbance, it will poke a big hole in the sky!"

Du Ruo gritted his teeth and said.

The King of Liao was like a gambler who lost a red eye, and said hatefully: "If we stop here, and borrow more than 100 million taels or more than 100 million taels of silver from the household department, what will we fill in?"

Du Qing, this is a battle, the battle has started and it can't stop, this time there is only you who live and die, the person who loses is destined to have nothing! ”

Du Ruo was shocked when he heard the words more than 100 million taels, but years of experience told him that nine times out of ten it was a trap set by Xu Rui, waiting for the King of Liao to jump, if they really continued to throw money into it, they would really be finished.

Thinking of this, Du Ruo immediately calmed down and said, "Lord Wang, don't you think it's strange that Xu Rui has so much money in his hands?" ”

King Liao was stunned when he heard this, and then he remembered that Xu Rui was facing the entire household, even if the Galaxy Group was really the money bag in the world, it shouldn't have so much money, not to mention that he had investigated it through special channels before, this matter was indeed quite suspicious.

Seeing that the King of Liao was thoughtful, Du Ruo said again: "Lord, if we don't know how much money Xu Rui has, then how much money is thrown into it now is in vain, so the top priority is to quickly find out where Xu Rui's bottom line is."

As for this battle, I have to say that Xu Rui's business is like a war, there is indeed a set, we really can't fight him in this regard, but don't forget, you are the prisoner of our Great Wei, and there are many ways to win this fight, so why bother throwing money with Xu Rui? ”

The King of Liao was stunned again when he heard this, and suddenly said: "Yes, Xu Rui wants to use the money to smash the king, and the king directly orders to cancel the transaction in the capital!" ”

Du Ruo shook his head and said: "Lord Wang, Xu Rui's Ministry of Commerce was originally a yamen responsible for supervising and formulating commercial policies, if you take action directly, the Holy Lord will inevitably interfere."

What Lao Chen means is that Xu Rui's means is nothing more than to increase the cost of our monopoly of industrial raw materials by raising the price of grain and raising the price of industrial products, and the core of all this is the price of grain.

Why don't you play the banner of easy prices and let the twelve official warehouses near Changxing City open warehouses to release grain? ”

"That's right!"

The King of Liao was overjoyed when he heard this: "The grain storage of the twelve official warehouses in the capital is enough for more than ten years of Wei, once the warehouse is opened and the grain is released, Xu Rui's means of raising the price of grain will immediately be self-defeating, and then he will not only fail his wishful thinking, but also the huge amount of money invested in grain hoarding before will also be lost!" ”

Du Ruofu sneered: "In this way, the price of grain will inevitably plummet, Xu Rui will suffer a huge loss, and the situation will definitely be worse, even if he can return the funds, he will never be able to pay liquidated damages."

Hmph, at that time, not only will the Galaxy Group, which is held by Xu Rui in the palm of his hand, be owned by us, but even the Apocalypse Guard may not be able to keep it! ”

"Hahahaha!"

King Liao laughed and said: "Okay, good, Xu Rui wants to use money to smash this king, then this king will use his power to crush Xu Rui to death, now the battle has reached the decisive day, this king will open a warehouse early tomorrow morning to release grain, so that Xu Rui will lose completely!" ”