"The son of the world, the people of Zhou are deceitful!" A brown-clothed deacon rushed into the Eshi trading house and shouted.

"Say it!" Eshizikun, who was paralyzed on the ground, jumped up like a divine help.

"The people of Zhou bought goods in cash, and they were all transported into the West Market and into various sheds!"

"Got it!" E Shizi Kun let out a long sigh and couldn't help gritting his teeth: "It's not the Zhou people who are cheating, it's the merchants of the West Market who are cheating!" It is clear that the small businessmen joined forces and hired Zhou people to pay me in cash! Say, don't you?"

"Reasonable! I see that there is still the official market interfering in the back!"

"Birds! A group of ant traders also dare to fight against the market with me, but they won't win!"

"Anyway, there is no return for all the money, the prince only said how to rectify the Fa, let's just do it!"

"Medium! We also came to him to govern others in the way of others, and listened to the orders of the prince of the world, and plundered him in an empty market!"

"Yes! Listen to Eshiko!" Everyone roared in unison.

"Good! You trust me E, and Kun has become this bird!" E Kun bowed his hand angrily: "My proposition: whether the official market intervenes or not, it will not come to the table after all. As long as the government is not crazy, the business war is still a business war after all, and we will deal with it with the strategy of business war. In the first round now, I'm going to lose. However, there are still the second and third rounds, and we will definitely win! The law of the West Market is the "Swallow City War", and the root of this law lies in whether the financial resources are abundant. We are all big businessmen in the world, backed by the homeland, and the grain is still like a mountain without money! You say, 'How do you fight?'"

"Short the West Market! Go back and raise the price! Kill them!"

"Wonderful—" There was a loud applause, and Dongshi suddenly came to life.

Not to mention the busy night of the big merchants in the East Market, it is only said that the next morning, a continuous fleet of ox carts and horses poured into the West Market from the four gates of Luoyi, but they were shocked to find that all the goods sheds in the West Market were hung with large cloth flags that read "The highest quality is at the highest price, and the price is doubled". Overnight, it soared from 20% of the parity price to 20% above the parity price, a full 20% increase in the high price, and it is also the highest point of the market price allowed by "Zhou Li".

The ox cart and horse team outside the stone square couldn't help but be stunned, lingering and watching, and did not move forward. Finally, a team of ox carts started with a clatter, and drove into the tall stone square without hesitation. The ox cart and horse teams behind hesitated for a while, and finally followed one after another, and entered the West Market in an endless stream.

Just when the autumn is crisp, under the blue sky that is as clear as spring, unprecedented zero big transactions are hustle and bustle in Luoyi West Market. Buyers of all kinds came one after another, and all countries had all kinds of money, and they were all clear of money and goods, and they were loaded with horses.

Because the West Market is, after all, a disaster-curing city directly under the official city system of the Great Zhou Dynasty, since the opening of the market, there has been a decree that those who enter the market can buy a limited amount of grain each time. In the past few days, although the official market has retreated, and the west market has nominally become a shack area for traders from small countries, the law of the city to deal with disasters has never changed. Under this law, the buyer cannot buy and sell in large quantities at one time, but can only buy a small parcel of one and a half cars.

Rao is so, the goods shed in the West Market can not stand up to the endless ox cart and horse team to buy grain and load, can hold until the sunset, the size of the West Market and the six animal markets are empty except for the full cabinet of money.

The autumn moon is hazy, and the official city tent under the west city wall is brightly lit.

Guan Shicheng summed up the accounts, held the brochure in both hands and trembled and reported: All the grain and goods were sold out, and he got 238,000 gold in one day, and 2,365,321 yuan in the world, deducting the principal of the grain and goods, and the profit was six times great! The officials and city officials were about to cheer, but they saw that Rong Yi's face was as gloomy as autumn frost, and they all lost their voices.

"Ladies and gentlemen, how should Nishishi respond?" Rong Yi asked in a deep voice.

"In the following opinion, business is profitable, and trading is easy to do!" The lean middle-aged official Cheng Ang raised his chest and said loudly: "There are only two ways at the moment: first, do not entangle with the bird merchants in the East Market, use the profit money to buy grain and goods elsewhere, and kill the thieves and merchants; Second, swallow him again and starve the thieves to death. This is Da Zhou Wangji! Does he dare to go crazy?"

"It's a step away!" The newly appointed official Ling Yigong shook his head: "The merchants of the countries are in the same spirit, and they have already formed an alliance, even if they go elsewhere, it is a price, and the first strategy is not feasible. If you swallow it again, you won't be able to do it. Who said that Dongshi would not dare to raise prices in Wanggi? You rise first, others rise last, can the government do two things? Lack of financial resources, first

The second strategy is not feasible."

"Just ignore them." An old official stood up: "The two cities have been fighting at low prices for many days, and the autumn sowing of the Zhou people is almost over, and the rations and winter goods are also enough. The official market ignores him, the East Market wants to go crazy and raise high prices, and the old Zhou people just don't buy their grain, what can I do? When the summer ripens in May next year, will the price of his old grain dare to fall?"

"No, no, no." A deacon in charge of grain affairs shook his head and said, "Since ancient times, grain and goods have been afraid of monopoly. The goods of this business war are all the daily necessities of the people, and there is no transaction on which day? Even if the farmer has seeds and a month's worth of rations, how can the people of Luoyi get by? If there is no grain in the official market, the people of the country can only be slaughtered in the eastern market, and the situation will be in danger immediately."

Rong Yi turned around twice expressionlessly and waved his hand, "You guys are scattered, let me think about it."

Guan Shicheng and Yi Gong glanced at each other, came over and whispered, "Sir, you can only send the treasury in this way."

"Step down and don't be impatient, the fifth watch is in the account." Rong Yi said to Guan Shicheng, waved his hand and left, and followed silently.

After entering the back account, Rong Yi silently sipped tea and pondered, and suddenly asked, "How much grain is there in the East Market now?"

Yi Gong held the arithmetic pillar and replied: "The total amount of circulation in the two cities, minus the total amount bought in the past few days, the grain flowing into the east market is about 3 million hundred, and there are more than 600,000 pieces of various farm tools and six livestock goods; If the price rises sharply by two times, it will be roughly a million dollars." The number reported in one breath goes straight to the ultimate goal, which is the long-standing Yigong in the business world.

"Counting all the surplus funds of the Nanlin Society, how much is the shortage?"

"Shortage------- Yi Gong pondered for a moment before he spoke, "Around 500,000 gold."

After a long silence, Rong Yi let out a long sigh, smashed his fist on the case, and the tea cup fell to the ground. 500,000 gold, Mo said that he himself and the Nanlin Society are the treasury of any country, how can he raise it in a hurry? If it was a few years ago, but there was a period of ten days, he Rongyi ran between Song Wei, but he could barely manage, but now that the family wealth is broken, the remaining money was also invested in the first big swallow yesterday, and then there is living money is the real money to buy rice, which is tantamount to a drop in the bucket for such a huge transaction.

After thinking about it, the only way out is to use the Great Zhou Treasury. Providence? Is he really going to lose the business war? -------

"Mr. Annunciation, someone is asking to see you!" The officer on duty seemed to be a little panicked.

Rong Yi was immediately impatient: "What do you mean that someone asks to see? Don't you have a name?"

"He, he's masked, he won't speak, he won't go."

Rong Yi's eyes flashed, and Yi Gong immediately said to go first, and went to the outer tent with the calculation pillar. In a moment, a tall, thin man with a cyan cloak and a cyan felt hat and a cyan mask stood under the lamp.

"In Xia Rongyi, dare to ask what is going on here?"

The man in the green cloak didn't speak, but passed a thin and shiny mud-sealed copper pipe with both hands. Rong Yi took it with both hands, and Yi Gong immediately handed over the Kaifeng narrow knife. Rong Yi cut open the mud seal, unscrewed the copper pipe, took out a roll of parchment, and unfolded it, with two lines of text in front of him: "There are 600,000 gold into the West Market, what is the benefit?"

Rong Yi's eyes lit up, his heart trembled suddenly, and he arched his hand and said, "Is it a believer or a messenger at your feet? Would you like to speak here?"

The man in the green cloak did not move, only whispered two words: "It's okay."

Rong Yi nodded and said, "I need to listen to the Lord, why do I want to enter the Luoyi Insurance City?"

The cyan cloak said, "How can he make a profit in business?"

Rong Yi said: "The official city is legal, and there should be a way for believing in the Lord to invest in gold."

The cyan cloak said, "Without him, to repay Mr. Patina's life-saving grace." Do you know where you came?"

Rong Yi suddenly sighed: "King Chu is very good!"

The cyan cloak said lightly: "Now that you know the King of Chu, is it a deal?"

Rong Yi nodded and said, "Lijin is on orders. I wonder if the king of Chu has anything else to ask for?"

The cyan cloak sneered softly, "The foot is really clear in business. However, my king has no other plans, just to help Mr. Xiang to weaken the country of Hubei, can you believe it?"

Rong Yi smiled faintly: "The two tigers compete, the audience gains, believe in the words!"

The cyan cloaked man nodded, "

Lijin Yicheng. The first three watches, Luochuan Taniguchi waited for delivery. Farewell." After speaking, he turned around and went out of the tent, got into a cyan cart driven by two big green horses, and went away in the wind.

"It's ------," Yigong was speechless in shock.

"I'll talk about it later." Rong Yi lowered his voice and advised, "You immediately prepare a light boat to wait at the mouth of the Luochuan Valley. I came from the foothills with a convoy of oxen."

Yi Gong hurriedly said, "In my opinion, you should take the official city horse team to go, just in case!"

Rong Yi waved his hand and said, "Abrupt things can't be prevented, but by heaven's will."

Yi complimented and hurried away.

The bright moon hangs in the middle of the sky, and the vast blue water at the mouth of Luoshui Valley crosses a silhouette of a dark and winding mountain forest. A light boat rowed by, and the sound of oars made the world even more secluded.

When there was a faint rumor of the three watches fighting in Luoyi City Tower, a ox convoy with almost no sound drove into the valley along the foot of the mountain, and a wind lantern floated slowly on the opposite mountain road. The wind lantern drifted close to the ox cart and led a group of men in black into the valley again.

The black-clothed crowd was busy shuttling in the moonlight for about a meal, the ox convoy was rumbling eastward, and the white-sailed light boat moored at the Gukou Wharf also floated out of the secluded valley mouth and into the surging water.

Datun West City, at this time the East City people are very happy, according to the business tradition, is the night to gather wine until the fourth watch. The big businessmen unanimously agreed that after this big swallow, although most of their money was filled, it was a big victory to empty the grain goods in the West Market in one fell swoop. The grain and goods are hoarded in the East Market, and the Zhou people can only count on the East Market for wintering after the disaster.