Chapter 127: Business War
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In the days after coming to Anzhou, Qin Miaomiao felt that she had become Su Mu from a while ago, busy from morning to night every day, and then when she got up the next day, she still had a lot of things waiting for her to deal with.
During the time she came to Anzhou, Qin Miaomiao would send a message to Luerling almost every day, Su Mu still didn't wake up, and everything else was normal.
After basically figuring out the situation here, Qin Miaomiao began to work on the next plan, the most effective is to monopolize the grain and iron industry. She began to run around with the warhawk.
After several tosses, she found that there was more than one business partner in the two categories of food and iron tools of the people of the Western Regions, but there were a lot of them, almost all of them were collected in a scattered manner, and then they saved enough quantities to send them away, and the locations they purchased were all over Great Xia, Qin Miaomiao's desire to monopolize these two categories was equivalent to monopolizing the grain and iron tools of Great Xia, which was basically impossible to complete, and she could only find another way. She has to force the people of the Western Regions to jump so that she can find their flaws.
In recent days, Qin Miaomiao began to investigate and learned that the business operation of the people in the Western Regions in Great Xia has long been deep-rooted, and Gejun's shops are just the tip of the iceberg.
In addition to these industries, the most opened are casinos and flower buildings, both of which are gray industries with violent income, and the income of a casino can reach 10,000 taels overnight.
Therefore, if Qin Miaomiao wants to cut off their capital chain first, he must first let these shops that they secretly operate close down.
She ordered all the grain stores under her command to increase the purchase price by 20%, but set the time for the purchase, and the purchase was made once in ten days, and many grain farmers heard the news, and they all waited for the day of purchase to sell Qin Miaomiao's shop, and some small grain stores also sent the stored grain in the warehouse to Qin Miaomiao's store to sell it, so as to earn 20% of the difference.
And Qin Miaomiao used all the funds of all the shops for the working capital of the grain store. Therefore, those who come are not afraid, buy a large number and sell a small amount, and after the end of the first round of purchases, the amount of grain flowing in the market has decreased by nearly 30%.
The grain in circulation has decreased suddenly, and the purchase price of Qin Miaomiao has continued to rise, and it has increased by 20% compared with before.
And there are many large-scale shops that can't stand it. In the past 20 days for no reason, the purchase price of grain has risen by 40 percent, and the amount of goods circulating in the market has decreased considerably.
As a result, the surviving grain stores had to buy at a higher price, and those who bought at a high price included the people of the Western Regions, because they were afraid that Qin Miaomiao would increase the price again.
And on the second day of their price increase, Qin Miaomiao released the news of the price increase again, this time directly increased by 30%, and it was purchased in a unified manner twenty days later.
At this moment, the people of the Western Regions couldn't sit still at all, and if this continued, they might not be able to harvest grain in Great Xia, and in the past few years, their Western Regions have almost lost their harvest, and most of the grain is supplied by these grain stores planted in Great Xia.
This matter also attracted the attention of the royal family of the Western Regions, their old king was nearly half a hundred years old, but the light in his eyes was still undiminished, and he discussed the matter with several of his brothers and sons with the same surname, who also held this important position in the royal family.
"Have any of you sent someone to investigate, why the price of grain in Great Xia has risen so much?" The old king was obviously worried about this matter, the Western Regions was located in the cold zone, the environment was already harsh, and the natural disasters for several years in a row caused their people to rely on the grain brought back from Great Xia to supply.
A burly and sturdy man in the prime of life, took a left step to the front of the hall, crossed his hands in front of his chest, bent down and saluted, this man looked very similar to the king of the Western Regions on the throne from his face: "Father, I have already sent someone to investigate, this grain rise is not caused by the imperial court of Great Xia, but a fairly large-scale grain store that has risen privately." ”
Is a private grain store so capable? The King of the Western Regions obviously didn't believe it: "Is it that our people no longer buy lives for us, so they hide something from us?"
"No, father, I specially corresponded with that person a few days ago because of this matter, and he replied that it was indeed not an order issued by the imperial court, and that the person had a prominent position in the imperial court, and he would not be unaware."
Since it is a personal shop, the king of the Western Regions is much more relieved, even if a merchant has power, he can't compete with him as a country: "Pass my order and continue to buy." ”
Five days after Qin Miaomiao released the news of the third wave of price increases, the people of the Western Regions also rose to the price she said, and bought it immediately.
Qin Miaomiao held the news from other cities, and the corners of her mouth rose proudly, it seemed that it was time to sell.
Qin Miaomiao ordered his subordinates to divide the first two batches of purchased grain into a few points, and take a small amount to the shops of the people of the Western Regions to sell, and sell all the purchased grain within fifteen days.
This food war lasted forty days, and Qin Miaomiao earned a full 100,000 taels of gold from the people of the Western Regions.
This time, the original qi of the Western Regions was greatly damaged, and the money could be sold twice as much grain as it is now, but now it is less than half for no reason.
And not only that, Qin Miaomiao began to target the people of the Western Regions to open flower buildings and gambling houses, except for killing people and preventing fire, she used all the other moves, if she could go out of business, she would close the door if she could, and if she could close the door, she would close the door.
She is not like Su Mu and pays attention to gentlemanly integrity, and disdains to use despicable means.
She was despicable, she didn't do anything except kill people and set fires, and she used all other damage tricks.
The business of the people in the Western Regions in Great Xia was frustrated one after another, and the prince of the Western Regions finally couldn't sit still: "Haorui, you take a few cronies and secretly go to Great Xia to investigate and see who is fighting against us one after another!" ”
"Yes! Father. "Hao Rui is the concubine of the king of the Western Regions, although he cannot inherit the throne, but the king of the Western Regions values him very much, he is good at talking and communicating, and many important matters will be handed over to him to deal with.
And the sister-in-law of the king of the Western Regions is now leading his troops to constantly harass and attack the border cities of Great Xia, looking for an opportunity to deal a fatal blow to Great Xia.
Although the Western Regions are far less populous than the Great Xia, they are not afraid of the Great Xia army in leading the troops to fight. They grew up on horseback, and the cavalry could be ten at a time.
If it weren't for the defeat of Wu Anjun of Great Xia who led the troops to victory, the person sitting in the Great Xia Palace now would be the King of the Western Regions, not the timid and suspicious emperor of Great Xia.
On the first day that Hao Rui led people into Great Xia, he was targeted by the people secretly sent by Qin Miaomiao, and followed Hao Rui all the way to the capital of Great Xia.
When Qin Miaomiao received the news that Hao Rui had sneaked into Great Xia, she had already returned to Luerling, and Su Mu also woke up the day after she rushed back, and he had been in a coma for nearly two months this time.
When War Eagle handed the letterhead to Qin Miaomiao, she was feeding Su Mu medicine, Su Mu had just woken up for only a dozen days, his body was still very weak, and he still needed nourishing Chinese medicine to recuperate.
Seeing that Qin Miaomiao seemed to be in a good mood after reading the letter, Su Mu couldn't help but ask, "Miao Miao?" What makes you so happy?"
Qin Miaomiao hadn't told Su Mu what she had done during this time, she wanted to wait until Su Mu's body had fully recovered.
Scooped a spoonful of the decoction in the bowl and blew it on his mouth, making sure that it was not hot before handing it to Su Mu's mouth: "After a while, we are going to leave for Chang'an, the capital of the country, okay?" ”
"Why are you going there?" Su Mu instinctively didn't want Qin Miaomiao to get close to there, it was a place of right and wrong that eats people and doesn't spit out bones.
"We're just going to stay for a while, and we're going to come back when we're done." Qin Miaomiao sensed Su Mu's displeasure, so she discussed it in a whisper.
"Miao Miao, are you hiding something from me?" Although Qin Miaomiao didn't say it, Su Mu had already guessed that she had been in a coma for two months, Qin Miaomiao would not obediently stay at home, she must have done something.
Qin Miaomiao glanced at Su Mu, and then looked down at the medicine bowl in her hand, feeling uneasy, she originally wanted to find a happy day for Su Mu to talk to him again, because she couldn't guess whether Su Mu would praise her or hurt her after listening to what she did, but she guessed that the latter was more likely.
Hesitantly spoke: "Xianggong, I'll tell you one thing, don't be angry...... Qin Miaomiao told Su Mu everything about how she had been collecting grain and making money in the past two months, and how she secretly made trouble and went to the Qinglou Casino of the Western Regions to make trouble.
After speaking, he didn't dare to look up at Su Mu, lowered his head, held the medicine bowl in his hand, and waited for Su Mu to scold him.
But after waiting for a long time, and Su Mu didn't make a sound, Qin Miaomiao secretly raised her head and glanced at Su Mu, seeing that he was looking at herself, she quickly lowered her head again, and said with some grievances: "If you want to scold, scold, why don't you make a sound?"
Qin Miaomiao still didn't wait for Su Mu's scolding, just sighed: "Miao Miao, you think things are too simple, if it was just the royal family of the Western Regions who poisoned me, with my character for so many years, I would have been poisoned for so many years, and there was someone else who poisoned me, just by the hand of the royal family of the Western Regions, I entered the palace of the Western Regions several times, thinking that I could find the antidote, but the last time I entered it, I knew that the king of the Western Regions did not have this antidote, but in the hands of another person." ”
"Then why do you still target the Western Regions everywhere?" Qin Miaomiao was a little frustrated, more unwilling, could it be that she was busy in vain?
"I'm not targeting, I'm trying to check and balance. The Western Regions cannot be allowed to become stronger, nor can the Western Regions be forced to have no way out. "Su Mu doesn't want the two countries to go to war again. Therefore, although he found out that the Western Regions were doing business in Great Xia, he could not suppress and stop it, and he had been secretly spying on it.