Ignoring everyone's repeated requests, these guests were forcefully 'driven' out of the mansion, and Tian Wei finally completely removed the hypocritical smile on his face, and only curled the corners of his mouth full of sarcasm.

"In the past few years, the first emperor and His Majesty have been a little too tolerant of the merchants in Guanzhong······

"So much so that these idiots actually dare to fight the idea of Guanzhong Grain?"

sneered and said a word, Tian Wei saw a playful gaze, and sprinkled it to the contemporary speaker of the Wuyan clan beside him: Wuyan Ji.

Although he didn't speak again, his playful gaze was clearly directed at the saltless taboo: Look at these people, how stupid they are······

Seeing Tian Wei behaving like this, Wu Yanji only smiled and lowered his head, and sat down in the first seat of the guest seat on Tian Wei's left.

Then, with a puzzled face, he looked at Tian Wei carefully.

"I don't know much about the grain business."

"I just heard that the Wei family's Su family and Anling Du family seem to be thinking about ······"

"Well, I'm thinking about eating all the cheap grain sold by Shaofu at the beginning of spring;"

"After the beginning of spring, when the winter grain reserved by the people in Guanzhong is eaten and they want to buy grain to eat, they will sell the cheap grain sold by Shaofu to the farmers in Guanzhong at a higher price."

"Hmmm······"

"-I thought that Tian Gong would also be interested in this deal?"

asked vaguely, and did not forget to smile and bow his head, and glanced at Tian Wei carefully from time to time.

Hearing the temptation in Wuyanji's words, the sarcasm on Tian Wei's face was even worse;

Strange smiled and turned to the side of the body a little, and looked at Wuyanji with some playfulness.

"Does Wuyan Gong think that what I said just now is to monopolize this transaction and not let the Wei family Su clan and the Anling Du clan get a piece of the pie?"

"Even the side branch of the Seven Veins Tian Clan was excluded from this transaction by me??"

With a joke, he hurriedly raised his head without salt, with a look of 'I didn't mean that' on his face.

But looking at Tian Wei's eyes, there was still a little suspicion.

-- Guanzhong produces 30,000 stone of grain every year, and at least half of it has to pass through the hands of these grain merchants.

Although the cost of storage, labor and capital, as well as the transportation cost of transporting grain to various parts of Guanzhong and even to Kanto, there is not much money per stone of grain;

But no matter how you say it, this is also tens of thousands of stone grain!

Even if you make one dollar per stone, it is a profit of tens of thousands of dollars!

In the past few years, thanks to the first emperors who 'cherished the world, Ze and birds and beasts', the profits of the grain market in Guanzhong have been compressed to the extent that they are less than three yuan per stone of grain.

The price of grain in Guanzhong has never exceeded the red line of 70 yuan per stone since the third year before the emperor.

In the event of a bumper harvest, the price of grain can easily fall by 50 yuan per stone, so that the profit space of grain merchants can be further reduced to 2 yuan per stone, or even less than 2 yuan······

That is, Tian Wei's Changling Tian clan has tasted the sweetness of grain trading by relying on the grain throughput of millions of stones every year, as well as strong grain storage capacity and capital reserves, in accordance with the idea of 'small profits but quick turnover'.

As for the other merchants?

Hey!

In this generation, food, that's a strategic resource!

If you don't have a way to hoard 350,000 stone of grain, maybe you will be regarded as a walking political achievement by a local official!

I don't even know how to die!

This year, the failure of the grain harvest in a large area in Guanzhong has undoubtedly created extremely favorable objective conditions for the sharp rise in grain prices in the spring and summer of next year.

As long as we take advantage of this opportunity to raise the price of grain in Guanzhong, the extra profit margin will be enough for the merchants in Guanzhong to eat for many years.

- Food prices can skyrocket overnight, but it is absolutely impossible to plummet overnight~

As long as the price of grain can be raised to 1,000 yuan, or even thousands of dollars per stone, then in the next ten years, the price of grain in Guanzhong will not want to fall back to less than 100 yuan!

No matter how bumper the harvest and abundant grain are in Guanzhong, the merchants in Guanzhong have the ability to keep grain prices at a high level for as many years as possible, and then slowly fall back to normal levels.

And such a feast will inevitably give rise to several huge riches with tens of thousands of assets, as well as dozens of wealthy businessmen with tens of millions of dollars······

"Hey;"

"Hey······ hey"

"Saltless male, you really don't understand the food industry?"

"Huh?"

After a long silence, Tian Wei was finally full of sarcastic words, pulling the thoughts of Wuyan Ji Fei back to his eyes.

When Wuyan Ji raised his head a little dazedly, he found that Tian Wei, who was sitting in everyone's seat, was actually looking himself up and down!

"The saltless prince is a ······ of Shu brocade"

"I'm afraid it's worth a lot, right?"

"Tsk;"

"If you don't spend 350,000 yuan, I'm afraid you won't even be able to buy materials?"

An inexplicable remark provoked Wuyan to subconsciously lower his head.

Looking at the body, the well-textured, completely made of Shu brocade, sewn by the world-famous coat maker, as well as the beads, jade and the like dotted on the belt, have not yet reacted to the salt-free taboo, only a little proud, and a little shy smile.

"This cloth was bought by me in Shudi."

"—The fabric alone cost me forty-five thousand!"

"Coupled with the clothes maker's labor fee, the jewels and jade on the belt, etc., it probably cost more than 100,000 yuan······"

As he spoke, he didn't forget to lower his head, and dusted off his robe with some contrived feelings, which did not exist, or even existed.

After a while, he raised his head a little suspiciously, and said with a little temptation: "If Tian Gong likes it, when I go to Shu next time, I can bring two Shu brocade ······ to Tian Gong."

Before the words of Wuyanji fell, Tian Wei's smile disappeared suddenly, and Wuyanji couldn't help but be stunned for a while;

With such a tense face, he stared at Wuyanji for ten breaths, and Wuyanji was a little restless when he saw it, and Tian Wei quietly narrowed the corners of his eyes.

"Wuyan Gong, aren't you afraid that this gorgeous dress on your body will cause you to kill yourself?"

"Emperor Taizu Gao once said that anyone who is registered as a merchant is not allowed to wear clothes made of silk or ride in a carriage."

"Now, the Duke of Wuyan, wearing Shu brocade worth more than 100,000 yuan, and sitting in a magnificent, wide and bright luxury car, is he not worried that one day in the future, he will be woken up from his sleep by the servants of the court captain?"

The tone that suddenly became cold only made Wuyan Ji shiver subconsciously!

After recovering from his senses, he looked at Tian Wei with a stiff smile: "No, it won't be like this, right?" ”

"In the past few years, the businessmen in Guanzhong, which one is not ······"

As soon as he was halfway through his words, Wu Yanji stopped talking, as if he remembered something, and his face sank suddenly.

Seeing that Wuyanji finally reacted, Tian Wei finally grinned.

Stand up from your seat, put your hands behind your back, and take two leisurely steps.

"Saltless male, you can actually figure it out, right?"

"——Liu, I have never relaxed my vigilance against my generation of businessmen."

"It's just because we haven't done anything to undermine the government's politics in the past few years that the Liu family has temporarily let us ······"

"My generation, but anyone who can break out of the world in Guanzhong is all those who moved into Guanzhong from the Kanto region, lived in the mausoleums of the previous emperors, and 'guarded' the spirits of the previous emperors."

"In other words: long before we moved into Guanzhong, we were already a thorn in Liu's side······"

As he spoke, Tian Wei couldn't help but smile playfully, and his eyebrows were full of self-deprecation.

"In the past few years, I, the Changling Tian clan, have been doing the grain business in Guanzhong."

"But only in the fall, I bought it for about fifty yuan, and the following year, I sold it for about sixty yuan per stone."

"And I, Changlingtian clan, only do grain trading in Guanzhong, and never check the grain in Guanzhong, selling even a grain of rice to Kanto."

"——Because of the legacy of the ancestors of the Tian clan in Changling: The descendants of the Tian clan can only do grain business in Guanzhong, and they can only earn two yuan per stone of grain."

"It is precisely by virtue of this meager profit of 'less than two coins per stone' that I, the Changling Tian clan, can stand tall in Guanzhong for many years;"

"Up to now, there are four families with the surname 'Tian' for every ten rice shops in Chang'an City, and three families with the surname Tian for every ten families in the grain shops in Guanzhong."

"Does the Saltless Duke know, why can the Liu clan tolerate my Changling Tian clan and buy and sell grain to the point where it is now?"

Hearing this, Wu Yanji's face only sank again, and he faintly realized something, but he didn't quickly realize the key.

Fortunately, Tian Wei didn't plan to sell Guanzi, and when he saw Wuyanji bowing his head thoughtfully again, he smiled and bluntly explained the reason.

"Because I grew up in the Lingtian clan, I have never forgotten that the reason why my generation was moved into Guanzhong is that the Liu family doesn't want us to bully those farmers in Kanto."

"Since my generation moved into Guanzhong, it was the Liu family who wanted us to stop bullying the farmers in Guandong, so after moving into Guanzhong, will the Liu family allow us to change places and continue to bully the farmers in Guanzhong?"

"——My generation was forcibly moved into Guanzhong, originally because of the crime of 'bullying the farmers in Guandong', if we come to Guanzhong, we bully the farmers in Guanzhong, Liu, can you still tolerate us?"

Hearing this, Wu Yanji's face only became more and more serious, and his lips couldn't help but tremble slightly.

In his thoughts, his eyes fell on his body again, and the brocade robe worth more than 100,000 yuan made Wuyanji inexplicably afraid!

There is no salt taboo, and I can't take off the robe on my body immediately!

Tian Wei's words are very straightforward;

It is precisely because it is straightforward enough that the saltless taboo at this time gives birth to fear from the depths of the soul······

Grunt.

Subconsciously swallowed his saliva, and 'swallowed' back the heart that was about to jump out of his throat a little, and saw a stunned gaze without salt, and sprinkled it on Tian Wei not far in front of him.

——In the past few years, as the largest sub-money merchant in Guanzhong, the Wuyan clan has bullied the 'Guanzhong farmers', which is really countless······

Wuyanji is very worried: what he has done in the past few years has made the fierce and vicious Liu family focus on his piece of fat······

"Don't worry about salt-free."

"Although this money business also requires some shady means, in the final analysis, it is still a legitimate business."

"-Debt repayment, it's a matter of course~"

"As long as you don't buy and sell, there will be no fault in the sale of salt-free business······

Call~~~~~~

With Tian Wei's words, there is no salt taboo, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief······

If you want to say that you are forced to buy and sell, you have not done anything in the past few years.

But after all, it is a profitable business, and there is no salt taboo and it is not too desperate.

If you go up to the sky, that is, you will lure those gentlemen to borrow money from yourself, and then take it back with interest.

As for ordinary farmers?

- How much money can a mud leg have?

However, Tian Wei's words today also made Wuyan jealous.

"In the future, let's pay attention again······"

Thinking so, he took several deep breaths in a row, and Wuyanji finally calmed down.

And Tian Wei's next sentence made Wu Yan Ji have a deeper understanding of Tian Wei, a young man from a businessman.

Breathtaking, to be precise······

"The money-free business of the saltless prince basically has nothing to do with the farmers."

"——Ordinary farmers are anxious to use money, and most of them would rather sell their land than borrow money."

"But the grain business is very different······

···

"One of them: the people live on food."

"No matter what kind of person you are, you have to eat; Farmers, on the other hand, are most worried about not being able to eat. ”

"The fluctuation of grain prices, even if it is the rise and fall of three or five yuan, will make these farmers uneasy."

"If the farmers are uneasy, the court will have a headache;"

"As long as the court, especially as long as Your Majesty has a headache, then we will have to worry about our heads······"

···

"Second, these farmers have been farming for a living."

"I can't afford to eat the food I grow—as long as this happens, there will be a lot of people who will lose their heads."

"Either the peasants were starved to death, or the officials were executed;"

"But compared with farmers and officials, the Liu family probably hopes more: it is us businessmen and lowly households who die······"

···

"When we die, everyone will be happy."

"We have hoarded food for the people to eat;"

"—Our family property can be given to the officials."

"Without us, the Liu family will be able to continue to sit firmly in the country and be loved by all the people in the world."

"And our death will not make anyone feel sympathy."

"Everyone will only dance because of our deaths······

The more and more lowly, and more playful tone, made Wuyanji's face, which had just calmed down, surging into real horror again.

When he heard Tian Wei's last sentence, the words 'dancing with his hands', Wu Yanji let go even more coldly, and gently fell the tea bowl he had just picked up back on the table in front of him.

Fortunately, the tea bowl was not taken too high, and after falling back to the case, the tea bowl was not broken.

It's just that the crimson tea soup in the bowl splashed a few drops on the Shu brocade on Wuyanji's body, but it didn't make Wuyanji dust off his clothes in annoyance as usual.

"How?"

"After hearing this, Wu Yan Gong, do you still plan to meddle in the trade of grain?"

In astonishment, Tian Wei asked a meaningful question again, only to provoke Wuyanji to hurriedly shake his head, and hurriedly waved his hand.

"Tian Gong misunderstood, misunderstood······"

"I didn't intend to meddle in the grain deal;"

"I just heard that the Wei family's Su clan, Anling Du clan, and several other branches of the Tian clan seem to plan to eat all the cheap grain sold by Shaofu."

"I thought, how can there be tens of millions, or even tens of millions of stones, the Wei family's Su family, Anling Du family, and Zhutian, maybe they can't get so much cash?"

"That's why I came to the door today to see if I can find a deal in this Changling Tomb and in Tian Gong's mansion······"

After an anxious explanation, Tian Wei still only smiled playfully, and pointed to the refreshments on Wuyanji's body.

After Wuyan lowered his head and subconsciously dusted off the tea stains on his robe, Tian Wei's relaxed tone sounded again in the guest hall.

"After what happened last time, I, the Changling Tian clan, can be regarded as having a friendship with Wuyan Gong."

"Since I'm not an outsider, I might as well tell Wuyan Gong directly;"

"- This grain deal, they can't do it······"

With a leisurely word, Wuyanji's movements were sluggish, and he didn't care about the gorgeous robe on his body, and only looked at Tian Wei who was sitting back in the first place.

"Tian Gong is talking ······"

"After the price of food is raised, Your Majesty will take action?"

"-Hey!"

"-Wuyan Gong, I really look down on Your Majesty, and I am too high to ask for those 'wealthy businessmen'~"

But when Tian Wei heard this, he only smiled sarcastically, leaned back slightly, and his eyebrows were full of jokes.

"Your Majesty, I won't let the price of food go up······"

"Not only will it not rise, but it is even likely to fall;"

"It's lower than ever······"

A meaningful word, seeing that Wuyan Ji was becoming more and more confused, Tian Wei stopped going around the corner.

"The first emperor saved a lot of money and grain ······ in Shaofu"

"Does the Saltless Gong know how much grain and money the Shaofu has saved?"

"Let's put it this way."

"——The year before last, His Majesty ordered the Shaofu to liquidate the savings and grain deposits in the Shaofu, and the accountant in charge of accounting alone allocated 500 people!"

"But these 500 people, under the transfer of the Shaofu, have been investigated for half a year, and they still haven't been able to figure out how much money and food they have in the Shaofu, how much money and ······ food they have."

···

"I went to Shaofu to see it myself."

"Shaofu's grain, there is no place to put it at all, and the grain stored in the interior ten or even twenty years ago has been blackened and rotten, and it was sprinkled into Weishui by Shaofu at night, almost blocking Weishui!"

"The rats in the granary are all strangled; The copper coins in the treasury were piled up, and the ropes that strung them together were rotten. ”

"If Wuyan Gong had seen that scene, he would have known: what I said is not an exaggeration at all."

"-Don't say that this year, the grain harvest in Guanzhong has failed;"

"Even if it is a bad harvest, as long as Your Majesty opens the Shaofu Treasury, the price of grain in the Guanzhong will definitely not rise······"

In the end, he said one more word, and finally made Wuyan Ji nod his head thoughtfully;

I saw Tian Weihe get up with a smile and walked in front of Wu Yanji.

After Wuyanji hurriedly got up from his seat, Tian Wei nodded to Wuyanji slightly solemnly.

"This year, I'm Changlingtian clan, and I will stand still."

"No matter how high the price of grain is, I, the Changling Tian clan, will not buy a grain of grain."

"——I also advise the unsalted duke: as long as you want to do grain business today and next year, it is better not to lend them money."

"Because next year, they will find out: even if they sell themselves, they can't afford to pay off the money they owe to the saltless prince······

Tian Wei said solemnly, only to provoke Wu Yanji to nod his head with a serious face, and bowed to Tian Wei with gratitude.

"If it weren't for Tian Gong's guidance, I would have almost lost my clan."

"Such a great favor, I really don't know how to repay it!"

Hearing this, Tian Wei still only shook his head and smiled, stretched out his hand, and gently patted Wuyanji's shoulder.

"You and I, you don't have to see each other like this;"

"It's just that Gongzi Sheng's side, it's still not convenient for me to send someone ······"

The meaningful words only led to a nod of the head of Wuyan Jealousy, and he gave up his hand to Tian Wei again.

"Tian Gong rest assured!"

"On Gongzisheng's side, I sent more than a hundred people to stare at it alternately!"

···

"That's right."

"I almost forgot to tell Tian Gong"

"——Today, the two of them, the captain Zhou Yafu and the general Dou Ying, seem to be going back to Chang'an."

"Gongzi Sheng, it seems that His Majesty has also appointed the envoy of the Son of Heaven to welcome these two?"

The second watch, there are two more

(End of chapter)