Whether it is a bill transaction or a futures transaction, consideration is required.

Without the right consideration, the transaction will naturally not be completed.

Kang Jin's eyes were red and he stared at the dense bidding signs on the wall, but found that there was no one, no one at all. While the price skyrocketed, there was no plate to take over for consideration, and for the exchange, it was an empty market.

It's just a façade.

It can also be said that there is no market.

"How much is that?"

Kang Jin felt the pain of dripping blood in his heart, what a big deal this should be, and the preliminary estimate is that there is a business of 100,000 yuan! How much money would it be if it were a commission?

In the blink of an eye, he at least watched the fifty copper coins go down the drain.

"Quick, go to the dock and ask, who still has tea oil to arrive in Yingzhou?"

The guy ran away, but Kang Jin couldn't sit still, and his face was gloomy in the exchange, staring at the bidding cards, hoping that someone would take them off in one go.

No.

Not a single sign was taken off.

This made him miserable, and what made him even more heartbroken was that the bid continued to go high, and it was almost close to the sky-high price of 50 yuan a stone. In previous years, the price of tea oil remained at about 167 guan and one stone. It is mainly the family generals, and even the luxury merchants who favor tea oil as edible oil, and abandon sesame oil.

As a result, the tea oil with a small output has a broad market.

The price of sesame oil is generally maintained at about 100 wen a catty, and for the poor, the reason why lighting lamps at night is considered a luxury is because the price of oil remains high. Whereas, the price of tea oil is more expensive than sesame oil. No one will use tea oil for lighting, it is used for cooking. Of course, more ointments and fats are used for cooking, the ointment is lard, and the fat is mutton fat.

However, some foods cannot be made with animal fat, and can only be replaced with tea oil. For example, the food used to receive distinguished guests in the temple. Only the Great Xiangguo Temple in Bianliang is an astronomical amount of one year.

In terms of taste, the taste deviation of tea oil, but who makes the tea oil market more recognized?

Yingzhou has a direct waterway to Bianjing, and connected to the Huai River, from Yangzhou to the north of the big ship, will bypass the seriously silted canal channel, choose the easy passage of the Cai River, since the opening of the exchange, the trade volume of tea oil is getting bigger and bigger, and even the merchants in the capital have begun to pay attention to the price of tea oil in Yingzhou.

There were many tea oil merchants from the two lakes on the wharf, and they became the main suppliers of supply to Bianjing and the surrounding two capitals.

Soon, the guy was sweating and trotted back to tell Kang Jin a return news: "The shopkeeper has asked, the tea oil picking period has passed, and a lot of the oil squeezed out has been shipped." The goods of the shopkeeper are the largest batch of this batch of goods. When the fleet crossed the Jingxia waterway, it hit a reef due to the turbulent current during the flood season. ”

"It's not going to sink a fleet, is it?"

In response to Kang Jin's questioning, the guy calmly said a reason: "Shopkeeper, I guess it's hanging." If one or two ships were sunk, the shopkeeper would not faint. ”

The skyrocketing price of tea oil is a foregone conclusion.

Kang Jin didn't care about the skyrocketing price of a single cargo, what he cared about was that there were no goods to trade on the dignified exchange. Doesn't this make him, a small boss, just stare at it?

May.

Food prices remain stable, and even fall slightly.

Su Shi's official voice was completely praised in Yingzhou, and the moment almost everyone saw Su Shi, they were respectful and grateful. Except, of course, for large households and grain merchants.

In the most important 'peak season' of the year, they were ruthlessly suppressed by the government.

Since the price of food stabilized, Su Shi has not participated much in the so-called cultural meetings. Instead, he often likes to take a car to walk around the places under his rule.

"I've seen Lord Zhizhou!"

"The lord loves the people like a son, and the people of us can survive in a difficult world thanks to the lord!"

"Master Xie saved the people from fire and water!"

Listening to the sincere and simple thanks of a group of people, Su Shi grinned and almost laughed three times, and his heart suddenly opened up. In the past, he liked to participate in literary conferences, and that was because he was able to obtain inflated praise at almost all literary conferences. Great writers also need to be admired and boasted about.

It's not like you nest in the grass shed every day and experience the warmth of people, right?

Nowadays, Su Shi is keen to go to the masses and talk to the people at the bottom, driving through the fields, he got out of the car, walked into a group of farmers who were resting in the fields, found a place to sit, and shared the pastries he brought with the people: "Everyone, try my magnolia cakes." ”

Su Shi took out Mulan cakes from the food box that were not much bigger than a child's palm.

Look at the lovely pastry with an enticing aroma, not of flowers, but of ghee. Just this box of magnolia cakes, not to mention the time and cost, but also the cost is extremely high. After all, ghee has never been cheaper.

"Master, how does this work?"

The old man in the field was obviously the leader of this group of farmers, and they shared the food with Su Shi, which was out of hospitality to the guests, and the peers were respectful to Su Shi.

But the food is not exquisite, but coarse grain and wild vegetable dumplings.

It tastes quite astringent, barely able to stomach. But the pastries that Su Shi took out were exquisite and expensive at first glance, and ordinary people had never heard of them, let alone eaten them.

Su Shi stretched out his hands and happily divided: "The elders and boys all have a share, as for the strong man, it will be insufficient, but it doesn't matter, tomorrow, I will come again tomorrow!" ”

"Drink the fall of Mulan in the morning, and fall in the autumn chrysanthemum at night."

While parting, he also shook his head and recited the verses in "Lisao", eating flowers, which was the favorite of the literati. Qu Yuan is not exempt from vulgarity. Of course, Su Shi is a fan here, but for a long time, Su Shi's flower dishes often can't even be swallowed by himself. The most famous is the oil residue peony flower, which is noble enough and gorgeous enough, but it is not delicious.

Magnolia flowers appear in early spring, the taste is elegant, the floral fragrance is not strong, accompanied by white sugar, as a filling, and then wrapped in a dough made of ghee, after baking, the oil fragrance is overflowing, take a bite, the filling is slightly full of elegant floral fragrance, full of spring taste.

It's a pity that at home, there is no like-minded person who likes to eat flowers, which makes Su Shi very angry.

Seeing Li Kui hand the magnolia cake in his hand to the old man beside him, Su Shi glared angrily and fought back. If before, he wouldn't have dared to be so extravagant, but now, he doesn't care about more than a hundred officials, what can make him happier than being an elegant person?

There are delicious food and elegant objects, but there is no one to share with, which makes Su Shi very depressed.

It's a pity that the people didn't know about the elegance and indifference of the magnolia, and they swallowed the cake like a wolf, and the stomach that had just eaten some food became even hungrier.

It's just that Su Shi can't help it at this time, he is not here to deliver pastries, but to observe the people's feelings. The meeting with Wang Anshi, although it was a few years ago, Wang Anshi was relieved of his official position at that time and retired in his hometown. And Su Shi gradually forgot about the fact that he was imprisoned back then. That's their meeting.

Wang Anshi introduced to Su Shi the reasons, goals, and means of his change.

Su Shi was deeply inspired, and what touched Su Shi the most was that Wang Anshi repeatedly warned that the affairs of the people at the bottom are the major affairs of the country, and the stomachs of the people are the guarantee of whether the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty can continue.

Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize a boat. That's what I'm saying.

Since then, Su Shi has begun to go deep into the people, often understanding and adopting the demands of the people.

"How many people, how many fields have you sown in a few years, is it rented or your own field?"

The first old man spoke: "Master Bachelor, half of it is rented official land, and his own family also has a few acres of thin fields, and he also has to rent some fields to survive." ”

"Has it always been like this before?"

"In the past, my family still had more than a dozen acres of land, but after the repeal of the Youth Seedling Law in these years, every time I ploughed in the spring, I had to owe some famine. In addition, the grain cannot be sold at a high price, and the field yield has been reduced by half. The young man who spoke was very angry, obviously dissatisfied with the government. But he was stopped by the old man, and after two reprimands, the old man said: "The bachelor is not talking about you, but the people...... Bitter! Fortunately, the bachelor is here, and the grain for spring ploughing is arranged by the government, and the burden on us will be much smaller. ”

Su Shi thought that it was this routine for the big households in Yingzhou to embezzle the people's land, but he was a little unclear: "Isn't the borrowed grain you sown in the spring according to the borrowed grain?" ”

"Even so, if the seeds are sown in March, the grain price will be calculated at 50 yuan, and the grain price will be calculated at 15 yuan for harvesting in June.

"What if you don't?"

"With the mortgage of the land, you can't run if you want to, and you can't go up the mountain!"

……

The old man jumped up violently, slapped the young man, and said angrily: "What bastard are you talking about!" ”

Lao Tzu beats his son, it is justified.

But it was clear that what he said was good, but suddenly the old man got angry and whipped his son, obviously, what the son just said would cause disaster for the family. The atmosphere became solemn and awkward.

Su Shi saw that the conversation at the beginning was very smooth, but in the end, it was not over, and he was quite helpless.

After getting in the car, he asked Li Kui: "Do you know what it means to go up the mountain?" ”

Mountain?

What else do you think about going up the mountain, of course, to be the king of the mountain!

But can Li Kui say that? Tell Su Shi that the people under your old rule have the grand ambition to be the king, and if you are lucky, you can still catch up. I'm afraid that Su Shi, who has done a lot for the people, will be angry to death when he hears such words.

He could only start from his own line of work and tell Su Shi: "I probably want to go up the mountain to be a hunter, right?" Although it is nonsense, Li Kui found a good reason: "Ancestor, you see, the common people have to bear heavy labor for farming, and at the same time, the taxes are also very high. But Orion is different, the last time I went out of the city to hang around the city, I caught a wild boar and sold it for more than a dozen. Li Yun and Gao Yu both knew about this. ”

Gao Yu also chimed in: "That's right, bachelor." Being a good hunter and having a high income is a bit dangerous. I'm afraid that the young man's father was worried that the young man would be injured, so they started to beat him. ”

Compared with Gao Yu and Li Kui, Li Yun thinks that he is much more upright.

With a disdainful expression, he sneered: "Are you coaxing the ancestor?" Master, they all talk nonsense. My father used to be a head hunter, and he knew that the people would go into the mountains if they couldn't survive. After entering the mountains, in ordinary times, they will also open up wasteland and cultivate land to avoid forced labor and taxes. But if a caravan passes by, these seemingly ordinary farmers will become thugs. To go up the mountain, in their consciousness, is to be a mob, there is no second option. Besides, the farmer worked hard to farm the land, but was repeatedly deprived of his family property by the big family, how can there be less resentment in his heart? ”

Su Shi glanced at Li Kui with a gloomy face, he was also a delicate and transparent person, so he naturally understood that the meaning of going up the mountain was not so simple.

Li Kui's explanation naturally couldn't let him go, but he didn't expect Li Kui to dare to coax himself?

Su Shi has not worried about food and clothing since he was a child, although his father Lao Su failed to take the exam many times and spent a lot of money in the family. At one time, life was still very difficult, but even in the most difficult period, the Su family still had land and slaves, and they did not experience the panic of having no food to eat. The word "mountain", naturally no one will tell him.

It must have felt bad to be targeted by the master ancestor, and Li Kui glared at the troubled Li Yun viciously.

The same is true for Gao Yu.

made Li Yun nervous suddenly, but thinking that he had shown his face in front of Su Shi, he responded arrogantly. However, Su Shi found that although he had done a lot for the people of Yingzhou, in the end, I was afraid that the people of Yingzhou were still living in dire straits. It made his heart extremely painful.

Nothing to say all the way.

After the carriage entered the city, it traveled all the way to the Yamen.

The shopkeeper Qiu was waiting in the gatehouse of the yamen for a long time, and the moment he saw Li Kui, he deliberately made an action of reaching out to attract Li Kui's attention.

After the two met, Shopkeeper Qiu said eagerly: "Second master, where have you been, let the villain find it easily." ”

"What's going on?" Li Kui frowned and asked, he had repeatedly warned Shopkeeper Qiu not to have too much contact with him in front of people. First, he didn't want to cultivate much strength in Yingzhou. Come, the business of the money bank will inevitably offend a large number of people in the future, as long as you have nothing to do with the money bank, there will be a lot less trouble.

"Second master, go and take a look, the exchange is going crazy!"

"We'll talk about that later." Li Kui led the shopkeeper Qiu to the small courtyard where he lived, and after the house was decided, Li Kui asked, "What happened?" ”

"Tea oil, the price of tea oil has risen crazy, within a day, it has increased by three times, and in Yingzhou City, it seems to be teased by the boiling tea oil, and it is all fried." Shopkeeper Qiu really wanted to tell Li Kui that he could act, and the opportunity was rare. But he also understood that Li Kui was not something he could control, so he could only wait anxiously for Li Kui to make a decision.

Li Kui didn't intend to interfere, but said sullenly: "Wait." ”

"Alas—" Shopkeeper Qiu left the state office in disappointment.

And Li Kui immediately found Gao Yu after the shopkeeper Qiu left, handed over a written letter to Gao Yu, and said with a solemn expression: "Brother Gao, can someone you trust directly hand over the letter to the little uncle in Jiangning?" ”

"Yes. In a hurry? Gao Yu subconsciously asked, and then patted his head and said, "Look at my brother's memory, don't worry, you won't look for me." Don't worry, after three days, the letter will definitely be given to the third prince in Jiangning. ”

Li Kui said gratefully: "It's hard work!" ”