Food prices in the capital have collapsed.

Especially after Xujiazhuang's cheap rice was thrown to the market.

The price of grain, not to mention maintaining the sky-high price of more than a dozen silver dollars per stone, even the price of 5 silver dollars per stone could not be maintained, and had to fall to 3 silver dollars, 2 silver dollars or even 1 silver yuan per stone, and in a very short period of time, a cliff-like plunge occurred.

Because all the grain hoarders are throwing grain, and they just want to recover part of their losses and stop losses.

As a result, huge quantities of grain poured into the market, and even those old grains that had been backlogged in warehouses for two or three years appeared in front of consumers at extremely low prices.

This creates a serious stampede that makes it harder to sell because food is everywhere and the price is lower and lower.

As for finding a way to bail out the market and bring food prices back up, it's almost impossible.

One they don't have the money on hand.

Secondly, they did not have the slightest hope of winning, and it was impossible for them to defeat Xujiazhuang.

The "Oriental Times" made it very clear that the 130 grain estates established by Xujiazhuang overseas, plus the 70 grain estates of the Zheng family in Fujian, can supply grain three times a year, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, with an average daily supply of nearly 300,000 stones, ensuring continuous supply throughout the year!

This rice alone will feed more than 30 million people.

In addition, Vietnam, Champong, Siam, Luzon, Myanmar and even India in the South Seas are rich in rice, and Xujiazhuang's partners can also spend more than 50 million stone of rice from these countries every year.

That's about enough to feed nearly 20 million people.

Together, these grains from overseas can solve the food ration problem of 50 million people in the Ming Dynasty!

It can feed all the population in the grain-deficient areas in the north of the Ming Dynasty!

The grain produced in the Ming Dynasty has been completely able to ensure self-sufficiency, and even a slight surplus, and the logic of the grain price rise of the grain speculators has long been bankrupt, even if the more than 400 million stone of grain hoarded in their hands is covered to the end of the world, and not a single grain is sold, the people of Daming will not lack food, and under the sufficient food security of Xujiazhuang, no one will starve to death.

There is only one fate for grain speculators: blood loss or bankruptcy.

And their original plan was that this hoard of more than 400 million stones of grain would be sold at the bottom line price of 5 silver dollars per stone, and the value would be at least more than 2 billion silver dollars.

But now it has plummeted to an eighteenth-layer hell price of only 0.5 silver dollars per stone!

Assets have shrunk by as much as ninety percent.

Therefore, in the past few days, there have been news such as this in the capital:

"I heard that Zhu Haidou, the largest grain merchant in the capital, committed suicide by hanging the beam last night, and poisoned the whole family, forty or fifty people, all of them are gone."

"Does Zhang Jinhao, a big grain merchant, know? He is a dog of interest raised by the British government, but today someone saw that Zhang Jinhao's body was carried out of the back door of the British government, and it seemed that he was stabbed to death by several swords, and it may have been killed by the British government, I wonder if the government will care? ”

"Grain merchant Wang Weiyu also had an accident, the whole family disappeared without a trace, it should be that he fled and ran away, I don't know where he went, the people of Xiangcheng Bofu are looking for him everywhere."

"Hahaha, these female businessmen died well, they died well, they should have ended up like this!"

"What a happy heart, we can't afford to buy food every year, and we often go hungry, they all deserve to die!"

"My family has been eating sweet potatoes and potatoes for more than half a year, and I have finally eaten fragrant rice and noodles in the past few days, and I have finally lived a human life.

"Yes, after my salary was paid yesterday, I went to the low-price grain sales point in Xujiazhuang, and bought six stones of Nanyang rice in one go, and finally no one came to grab the rice, I also know that there are some cheap old rice, one silver dollar can buy three stones, but I just want to take care of Xujiazhuang's business!"

"Me too, and I will try to only buy grain from Xujiazhuang in the future."

"Have you heard? His Majesty the Emperor seems to have hoarded a lot of food, and this time he also lost a lot, and he was in a bad mood, and killed several eunuchs who made small mistakes. ”

"Really, Your Majesty also fried grain? Your Majesty doesn't love the people like a son, how can he do such a thing? ”

"Don't ask for it. (This chapter is not finished!) )

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Comment, be careful of the brocade guards over there......"

The crowd suddenly stopped talking.

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Forbidden City, in the Imperial Palace.

Recently, Emperor Zhu Youzhen's mood is very bad.

He was also very irritable and irritable, and indeed ordered several eunuchs to be killed because of a few trivial things.

I haven't slept well for several days in a row, I often have insomnia, my eyes are always red and bloodshot, and when I am angry, I have a feeling of choosing people to eat, which makes the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace cautious and cautious, which can be described as walking on thin ice.

By the way, what's going on?

What's wrong with Emperor Zhu Youzhen, obviously some time ago, he was smiling all day long, why did he suddenly become so irritable and irritable?

No way.

He lost.

The loss was clean and thorough, the eyes of the loss were red, and the loss was so bad that I wanted to go crazy and kill.

Now he can be described by the word "bankrupt", and his mood is naturally not good.

More than 5 million silver dollars in cash are gone.

On the Royal Wealth Management account, there was a misappropriation deficit of 6 million silver dollars.

There are 12 million stones of grain on hand - 2 million of which are civil officials and nobles of the imperial court, who collectively knelt down and begged the emperor to save the price of grain, embezzled the deposits in the royal wealth management account, and bought 2 million stone of low-cost grain from the market at a price of 3 silver dollars per stone, which really played a role in saving the market.

But the effect only lasted two days.

Counting the 5.5 million silver dollars owed by Yizhi above to Tianxia Tong Bank, it has not been repaid yet.

and the previous three loans, a total of 10 million silver dollars owed.

So the financial situation of the royal family in front of Zhu Youzhen now is-

6,000,000 silver dollars deficit + 5,500,000 silver dollars in arrears from the Royal Farm + 10,000,000 silver dollars in past arrears, for a total of 21,500,000 silver dollars.

The only positive asset is the 12 million stone of grain.

But at the current price of grain in the eighteenth layer of hell, these grains can be sold for a maximum of 6 million silver dollars.

Still serious insolvency!

planted, this time he planted a big fight, because of a moment of greed, paid an extremely huge price.

Defy!

Of course, he was extremely unconvinced!

I sat down with some of the elders, ministers, and nobles who had lost their eyes, and sat down with these defeated dogs to discuss countermeasures, and discussed a lot of tough and effective countermeasures.

For example, official forces were dispatched to forcibly close all low-cost grain sales points in Xujiazhuang.

For example, the forcible confiscation of grain in Xujiazhuang.

Others proposed an all-out war and sent troops to destroy Xujiazhuang in the south of the Yangtze River to completely eliminate the source of this scourge.

In short, they can't afford to lose, and they don't want to admit defeat and plan to turn the table.

Zhu Youzhen, who lost to bankruptcy, of course, also had the idea of simply flipping the table, but ......

To lose is to lose.

Although Xu Jiazhuang is cunning and cunning, she also uses the rules of the game in the shopping mall, and uses the methods in the shopping mall to win this game.

What's more, even if you choose to flip the table and compete in force, will the court be Xujiazhuang's opponent? Will Xu Jiazhuang be afraid of them flipping the table?

"Oriental Times" also warned that after this food war, the grain speculators across the Ming Dynasty have lost about one billion silver dollars, which has been greatly damaged, and don't think about solving it in the next two years! Honestly give up the idea of speculating in grain and return to some right paths, and Xujiazhuang will soon establish a grain futures trading market to more standardize and restrict grain prices, and they will never have any chance of turning around.

In the future, if you want to multiply assets, you can buy overseas development bonds, open factories and workshops, invest in industries, and even save banks to eat interest, but only engage in speculation on grain, which is a dead end! Xujiazhuang will let these speculators lose their fortunes, and tell them that times have changed, and this road to wealth is impassable!

The most important thing is that in curbing grain speculation, Xujiazhuang has won the hearts of the people of the Ming Dynasty and has received more than ninety percent of the support rate, while the groups of officials, gentry, nobles, and vassal kings belong to a minority, once the fierce confrontation arises. (This chapter is not finished!) )

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The majority of the people can only support Xujiazhuang, because it is related to their own survival, and in the face of survival issues, even the emperor is a fart.

In the face of such public opinion.

Zhu Youzhen could only admit defeat and hold back his sadness and regret in his heart.

And then what to do?

How do you clean up this mess?

Do you want Wang Chengen to go on a trip, go and call Qi Chunnian into the palace, discuss it well, and get a charter to solve the problem, especially the 6 million silver dollars deficit in the royal financial account, which must be filled in, because the money is not his, it is someone else's deposit in this account, once the news leaks out, saying that the emperor swallowed and used the money, resulting in a huge deficit, resulting in the possibility of not being able to withdraw the principal, it is a shocking thunder!

It will be a fatal blow to the credit of the royal family!

The remaining nearly 20 million account deposits will also be taken out and run instantly, and there will be no money left. Initial Update@

It's just that......

He can't pull this face.

Because just a few days before the collapse of grain prices, Fang Yizhi, Qi Chunnian, and Gu Tianci, the president of the bank, jointly entered the palace to ask for a meeting, and the three of them persuaded him together, suggesting that he immediately sell the grain in the internal funds, otherwise the consequences would be extremely serious!

But Zhu Youzhen didn't listen and didn't take their suggestions to heart.

Now, if you take the initiative to summon them, admit your mistakes, and then plead for how to solve the problem of shortfall, this is something that is embarrassing and difficult to accept when you think about it, after all, he is a very good-looking person, and he is even more afraid of being ridiculed and stimulated, especially that Qi Chunnian, who will never have any good words out of his mouth.

After two days of delay.

Zhu Youzhen finally thought of a good way that was not a solution, that is, to let the queen come forward, summon Qi Chunnian and Gu Tianci into the palace, and discuss the solution to the problem.

And the queen is a woman, Qi Chunnian and Gu Tianci should be polite and will not put forward too harsh conditions.

So that night, after Zhu Youzhen told Queen Zhou about his thoughts, he hoped that she would come forward to help deal with this mess.

"Your Majesty, if you knew today, why bother in the first place?"

Empress Zhou was quite speechless and said, "If it is not mixed into the fried grain, how can it be such a huge loss?" There is also the deficit of 6 million silver dollars, and the 2 million stone of bailout grain bought, after investigation, it is all old grain from the homes of several civil officials, not even new grain, you have been put on the table by those civil officials. ”

"I have ordered them to be exterminated, but they have only copied out less than one million taels, and the rest have all been harbored and transferred away by them, and I am a big fool!"

Zhu Youzhen gritted his teeth with hatred.

"I don't listen to the advice of Xujiazhuang, I am always led by the nose by the civil officials, Your Majesty, I can come forward this time, but in the future, your majesty will listen to me, at least discuss it with me, and you can't listen to those civil officials anymore."

Empress Zhou put forward a request, she usually has more contact with all kinds of people and things in Xujiazhuang, and the "Oriental Times" also reads every issue, she is usually neutral, but now she also has a stomach for civil officials, and always feels that the emperor was deceived by civil officials, especially this food war, which is simply miserable.

"Okay, Zitong, I will definitely listen to you, and I will definitely discuss with you more!"

Zhu Youzhen nodded again and again, and said bitterly.

"Okay, this palace will talk to them tomorrow, it's a big deal to shed a few tears to show them, so as not to embarrass me as a woman."

Queen Zhou Road.

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