At the end of the year, the Li family in Qian'an, in the main hall of the ancestral house.

Li Qing, the contemporary head of the family, has already read the various branches and the account books submitted by the chief shopkeepers in various places.

At this time, he was glaring at Li Hongjing very dissatisfied:

"Lao Wu's family, your line is mainly in charge of the grain business, no matter what year or month, doing this business is basically a steady profit, although it is not as good as the roadblock robbery, but it is definitely not much worse.

Is this ledger here to fool the hell this year?

In those places where the famine occurred, instead of making money, they also lost money, so you have nothing to say? ”

"Father, you can't blame me for this.

Not only did our family lose money, but also several other families who sold grain in those famine areas, and the grain could not be sold at all, and no one bought it even if the price was reduced.

At that time, we all thought that we could make a lot of money, so we spent a lot of money to transport a large amount of grain to the past, but because the grain could not be sold, not only did we not make money, but also lost the freight and part of the cost, and the loss was very large! ”

Li Hongjing had already guessed what would happen today when he had a deficit, so he replied with a helpless expression even though he was very calm.

"It's really weird.

Where there is a famine, but the grain cannot be sold, look at you like this, you have encountered some force majeure, let's say, give you a chance to justify and explain. ”

As soon as Li Qing heard what he said, and looked at his expression, he immediately understood that he was prepared.

This matter must not have much to do with him.

Otherwise, he should have knelt on his knees and begged for mercy.

And Li Hongjing obviously didn't dare to deliberately hang his father's appetite, so he quickly straightened up and explained:

"Father, this matter is to blame on the newly opened grain merchant called the parity grain shop, he specially opened the door when the grain prices in the disaster areas rose sharply, and after opening the door, he did not sell grain at a high price like us, but sold grain at a low price, and even the price was lower than in previous years when there were no disasters, who can be an opponent?

It is normal for those foolish people to be greedy for cheapness, and a little favor is enough to make them rush to it, not to mention the quality of the grain at the affordable grain store, and the overall is not bad.

We were warned about it at the beginning.

But they didn't listen.

Later, we even wanted to join forces to buy all the food from his family, but his family first set up a purchase restriction, and then brought in countless grains from nowhere.

Whatever we want to buy.

It's endless.

We didn't dare to buy it again after we bought 10 million catties.

In the end, we wanted to use official means, but we were warned by the local county officials, and in the end we had no choice but to lose a great opportunity to make money, and had to dump at a low price.

And they make sake from grain that cannot be sold.

This is how to keep most of the capital, not to lose too much, several losses on the books are basically similar situations, the other party's grain seems to be endless, and the price of selling food is a feeling that it is just to do good deeds, which is really confusing. ”

"Stupid, what's the use of you asking the county magistrate for this?

The little money you bribed can still have a local political record that will be useful to the local magistrate?

But this sudden grain merchant.

Where did it come from?

Why are you so unruly, you go back and contact a few other companies, you must find ways to suppress this so-called affordable grain shop, the rules of grain merchants for so many years, can't be broken because of him, if the grain can't be sold at a high price in the famine years, how can we buy the own land of those ordinary fools? ”

After glancing at his five boys, Li Qing began to give him ideas, and gave him requirements and orders:

"If serious means can't work, then don't be polite, those mountain bandits and horse bandits raised outside the family are not vegetarians, rob them of several batches of grain, and see if they can continue to transport grain to the disaster area and sell it at a low price, regardless of losses.

If you dare to continue to oppose us.

Then they burned down all their grain depots.

In addition, if necessary, you can carefully investigate who the owner of the so-called affordable grain store is.

If not for some big shots.

It shouldn't be too difficult to get killed.

Soft-hearted, do you understand?

To deal with these rule-breaking existences is to make an example of them, and to alert latecomers. ”

I have to say that Jiang is still old and spicy, and people are also old and ruthless, and what he said is an understatement, but the degree of viciousness is not inferior to all kinds of evil people.

"Yes, I just hope that my father will cooperate then.

There are some people that I can't mobilize. ”

Others may think that Li Qing is too vicious and cruel, but Li Hongjing doesn't have these thoughts, he just nodded logically, and described what he was embarrassed about, hoping to get his father's help.

"No problem, you just let me know."

At this point, the discussion between the father and son about this aspect was temporarily stopped, and then Li Qing continued to ask about the situation of other industries involved in his family.

Within two days of that.

Under the leadership of the Li family, several large grain merchants in all parts of the country, more or less, who bought and sold grain, formed a unified foreign camp with each other, and officially began to take action against all grain shops with cheap grain stores.

Because it was just the beginning, they didn't just set fire to it and loot it, but strictly ordered small grain merchants everywhere not to sell half a grain of rice to cheap grain shops.

And as much as possible, inform them of the villages in their sphere of influence, and bring them out of the villages with which they have been in contact in the past.

It's the villages where they used to harvest grain.

They were also strictly ordered not to sell grain to anyone other than themselves, otherwise they would not accept it in the future, hoping to directly cut off the source of grain from the source of the grain at the affordable grain store, if not completely.

It should also stop the expansion of affordable grain stores.

Even let the grain store have no grain to sell.

If Ding Yun's affordable grain shop is in normal operation, it will definitely be affected.

And it has a huge impact.

Direct bankruptcy is possible.

But the grain supplier of her grain shop is not those ordinary farmers, small and medium-sized grain merchants, small and medium-sized landlords, etc., all the grain is basically supplied by her own farm.

So these operations of the other party had no effect on Ding Yun at all, and she didn't even notice that someone was suppressing her.

That's not worrying at all.

I didn't take those things to heart at all.

Because not long after the Chinese New Year, she focused on the contact network of gift-giving, but fortunately, the hard work paid off, so after tossing for a long time, Ding Yun finally spent tens of thousands of taels of silver to buy one from the more than 50 copies of the degree that was released at the beginning of the year.

Then he successfully entered the Taoist class.

became a female crown with a degree.