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A short rich businessman was blocked by the crowd, and hurriedly said to a tall rich man beside him: "Have you seen it, Boss Wang, you are taller, can you see what is written on it?" ”

The tall rich man saw the words on the notice and muttered to himself, "There is such a cheap good thing? ”

Another wealthy businessman next to him sighed with some regret: "Ah, I knew that I would stock up on more food at home......

The tall rich man Boss Wang looked at it carefully a few times, turned around and pulled the short rich businessman out of the crowd, and seemed to hesitate for a moment and said, "Boss Hua, how much grain do you have in your house?" ”

Boss Hua said vigilantly when he heard this: "What's the matter, you didn't buy less than me at Li Jun last time, don't you want to beat my idea!" ”

Boss Wang calculated in his heart, and said: "Boss Hua, give me all the food you have in your hand now, and I will add 20% to the original price for you......"

Boss Hua's eyes rolled, and he looked at Boss Wang with distrust and said: "You know that now there is a price of grain a day, and you only add two percent to my grain, or you sell me 10,000 stone of grain at home, and I will add thirty percent to you...... Hey, isn't there anything good about today's announcement? ”

Boss Wang looked in the direction of the City Lord's Mansion, turned his head and said to Boss Hua: "I can't hide this from anyone, let me tell you the truth, the notice just posted said that you can exchange grain for paper, and one stone of grain can be exchanged for a hundred blank papers......

Boss Hua exclaimed: "No, it's such a cheap thing, one stone of grain is now ten silver coins, and the white paper sold in the Hengchang Chamber of Commerce costs twenty copper coins, and a hundred pieces are twenty silver coins, and the paper in the City Lord's Mansion is twice as cheap as the paper in the Hengchang Chamber of Commerce......"

Boss Wang said again: "However, the notice said that exchanging grain for paper is one stone for one hundred, and if you use coins, it is one hundred silver coins, and it also said that the minimum standard for exchanging grain for paper is more than one thousand stones, which means that only the head of the household who has more than one thousand stones of grain at home is eligible to go to the city lord's mansion to exchange, and it is only limited to ten days, and it will not ......be sold after the deadline."

Boss Hua thought about it and said: "Since the appearance of this white paper, I heard that it has been sold at a sky-high price, and it has been sold for twenty-five silver coins and a hundred pieces in Wumang County, and it is more expensive in a further place, if you can sell these papers to the capital or farther away, the profit will be higher." I heard that it is more expensive to sell in the Jinguang Empire than in the Qingyun Empire, and we are in the Jinguang Empire when we go out of Hukou Pass, if we can sell it to the Jinguang Empire, it will be a huge profit......"

Boss Wang also nodded and said: "Although the price of grain is rising, it is sold everywhere, I heard that this blank paper is only the Han number, we can't miss this good opportunity, no, I quickly go back to take stock of the grain, how can I change more blank paper, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity......

The two broke up happily and rushed to their homes, and the big families who got the news were like crazy and hurried home to prepare food.

Liu Zhibang and Xia Zhuangzhuang stood at the head of the city and looked at the crowd of people under the city who were either excited or helpless, the two looked at each other and smiled, Xia Zhuangzhuang said: "Big brother, it's better to have your method, originally I wanted to directly forcibly expropriate the grain of the big families, but in that way, it will add a lot of unnecessary trouble, and it is also extremely unfavorable to ruling Xia Yuancheng, you can exchange paper for food, you can make big households profit, and we have also solved the food crisis, the best of both worlds......"

Liu Zhibang shook his head and said: "It's just that in this way, the Hengchang Chamber of Commerce will make less money, it is too early to solve the food crisis, the war needs a lot of food reserves, I am afraid of less and not more." After defeating Lu Yang, Dao Yan Weaving Letter will definitely block our connection with other cities in the Qingyun Empire, and we have to think of a way to exchange materials on the side of the Jinguang Empire, I plan to open the Hukou Pass and set up a trading market at the pass, so that we don't have to be subject to the Qingyun Empire......"

Xia Zhuangzhuang thought for a while, and then said: "Big brother, you promised yesterday that all officers can lead the army's salary, in this way, our military expenditure will be very large, and Xia Yuancheng can't support an army of 50,000 in such a small place." The total population of Xia Yuan City is only 200,000, and the army alone has 50,000, four people raise one soldier, if only the taxes collected, it will not be able to support so many soldiers, if there is no good strategy, we can only disarm......"

Liu Zhibang shook his head and said: "Disarmament is impossible, without so many soldiers and horses, it is impossible to resist the attack of the Qingyun Empire." Four to raise one, this ratio is very abnormal, no matter which government can not raise such a high proportion of the army, of course we can't rely on that little tax, let's do business ourselves, you go and invite Mu Tong to the shopkeeper, I have something to discuss with him......"

After reading the notice posted at the gate of the city, the shopkeeper Mu Tongmu was a little unhappy, and returned to the shop with his head down, looking at the direction of the City Lord's Mansion and sighing silently.

"Big shopkeeper, big shopkeeper ......"

"What?"

A person who looked like a small servant ran to Mu Tong's side and said, "Big shopkeeper, the city lord's mansion has sent a message that Patriarch Liu wants to see you!" ”

Mu Tong replied with a calm face: "I know, I'll change my clothes and go to ......."

After the little guy left, Mu Tong paced a few laps with his hands behind his back, thinking in his heart, this Liu Zhibang won Xia Yuancheng, but forgot the original promise, all the goods of the Han nationality are exclusively operated by the Hengchang Chamber of Commerce, and now it is announced that the grain can be exchanged for white paper, and the Hengchang Chamber of Commerce still has a batch of white paper in its hand and is not sold, although the grain is only ten days for paper, the Hengchang Chamber of Commerce can make a lot of less money, and it is estimated that the price of white paper will dive after a while, which is not good news. After climbing the big tree of Liu Zhibang, his status in the Chamber of Commerce has risen, from a small Xia Yuancheng shopkeeper to the position of the big shopkeeper of Wumang County, although today's announcement made Mu Tong very unhappy, but he still didn't want to give up the cooperation with Liu Zhibang, after thinking for a while, Mu Tong still decided to meet Liu Zhibang.

After a few words without nutrition, Mu Tong couldn't help but say to Liu Zhibang: "Patriarch Liu, you could have promised it well, how to explain this notice today?" ”

Liu Zhibang took a sip of tea, smiled and continued: "Shopkeeper Mu, you also know the situation in Xia Yuan City, food is getting more and more expensive day by day, there is no surplus food in the city lord's mansion, I can't watch the soldiers and civilians in the city hungry, I have no way...... You can rest assured, after ten days, the blank paper will still be sold by you......"

Mu Tonghu asked suspiciously, "Patriarch Liu called me here today just to explain this matter to me?" ”

After hearing this, Liu Zhibang glanced at Xia Zhuangzhuang, and Xia Zhuangzhuang answered: "Shopkeeper Mu, do you know anything about the Jinguang Empire?" ”

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