Drinking human blood, ***, is a black-hearted black-hearted trader to the extreme, and even people who don't know the truth have gone to the Xue family's territory to make trouble under the deliberate instigation and bribery of a few people, or to the door of the official government to complain.

After getting the news, the big businessmen of other shops also woke up suddenly and found that something was wrong.

If the Xue family's shop sells ten taels of silver, they only sell three taels of silver, and after careful calculation, they also sell one stone of grain, such a round trip, they will lose seven taels of silver, and because the price set by the Xue family's shop is higher, it has become a luxury item, even if the Xue family sells less, it will also make a lot of money.

Suddenly, this move directly forced them to convene everyone to discuss the matter.

Soon, a leading businessman was busy gathering grain merchants who had hoarded a large amount of grain in various parts of the state capital to come to the state capital to discuss the impact of the Xue family's high price of grain and the strategy to deal with it.

Zhao Sheng of Dongsheng Rice Company and Li Fei of Hengsheng Rice Company were the largest local grain merchants in the province.

The two of them also have the most food and business influence in the entire state capital, and they are the most resounding in the entire state capital.

Therefore, this gathering of businessmen was held under the auspices of the two.

Zhao Sheng looked at the big and small heads of the major grain stores that hurriedly gathered here in front of him, and couldn't help frowning, and said, "Then the Xue family's shop is obviously anti-water, and we can't pee in a night pot. Now that the Xue family's shop has raised the price of grain to ten taels of silver, will we keep up?"

When it comes to profits and money, these businessmen cannot be allowed to be careless, and they must be in a spirit of 100,000 points.

A well-informed businessman smiled bitterly when he heard this, and said, "This must be the idea of the minister behind the Xue family, I heard that the concubine of the Xue family married that adult as a concubine, and the entire business of the Xue family also relied on this lord to support behind the scenes, sweeping away all kinds of troubles and obstacles. Now that he is in power and a minister, he must want to take advantage of this famine to take advantage of the same tricks as we do, and to profit from it."

"What a minister, I thought that he would be a good official who was in charge of the people when he killed Zhang Tan and others, but now it seems that he is still a dog official in human skin, and he is even more greedy than Zhang Tan and others.

"That's ten taels of silver and a stone! We are now losing a lot of money by selling only three taels of silver and one stone, and the difference in the price of seven taels of silver is painful even when I think about it now."

"Then the Xue family's shop has the support of the minister behind him, what can we do?"

"No, we will also raise the price, and we will also sell ten taels of silver and one stone. Anyway, this head was provoked by their Xue family's shop, if they were unlucky, they should also kill the people of the Xue family first, instead of targeting us and others. That Jia Yun is a smart person and a fool for a while. With the little grain in their Xue family's rice warehouse, how can it be comparable to the grain in our rice warehouse?"

「..........」

At this moment, everyone expressed their opinions and saw the opportunity to seek higher profits, which is a golden mountain!

A stone of grain is exchanged for ten taels of silver.

This is no longer drinking blood, but eating the whole person in one go, including the skin and bones.

Don't say that there was no such precedent before, and even now it is an extremely appalling thing to hear.

Li Fei stroked his long beard and said with a smile, "This time I invited you over to discuss this matter. Now it seems that everyone agrees on the same thing, so I'll come up with an idea."

Hearing this, everyone hurriedly looked at Li Fei and asked, "What's your idea?"

Li Fei was not shocked and said, "We will buy all the grain of the Xue family, and when the time comes, the Xue family will have no grain to sell, won't we be able to sell the grain to the outside world at the price of ten taels of silver?" As the ancients said, lift a stone and shoot yourself in the foot. Now this Jia Yun is lifting the stone, but he is going to hit himself."

Listening to Li Fei's words, everyone's eyes couldn't help but light up, but after careful consideration, this is the truth.

How much grain is there in the Xue family's rice warehouse?

And how can they be compared to them?

Once they bought out the granary of the Xue family with ten taels of silver, then they formed a monopoly in the grain supply market of the entire state capital, occupying an absolutely dominant position and high position.

When the time comes, don't say that one stone of grain is exchanged for ten taels of silver, that is, twenty taels of silver, one hundred taels of silver, as long as the people want to eat, then they must buy from them.

"Okay, that's it!"

After a short period of deliberation, everyone reached an agreement, that is, pinching their noses, stubbornly, exchanging ten taels of silver for the ungodly price of one stone of grain, and buying all the grain in the Xue family's rice warehouse at a high price, and then, in the same way, they monopolized the grain selling price of the entire state capital.

Once this is done, even Jia Yun has to kneel on the ground and beg them to sell food to help the disaster, and even they can ask for a higher price and make Jia Yun suffer the consequences.

The more they pondered, the more they felt that they were clever, and they were complacent and overjoyed.

At the same time, they also changed the price of grain sold to the outside world, which was the same as the price of the Xue family.

The price of the Xue family's sale to the outside world is ten taels of silver for one stone of grain, so they use the Xue family's standard as the benchmark, and also sell it to the outside world at the price of ten taels of silver for one stone of grain.

For a time, the grain prices in the entire state capital surged, and the food prices were so high that they were terrifyingly high, not to mention ordinary Li people, but even Dai Quan, who was accustomed to seeing big scenes and the big world, was scared to death.

Dai Quan, who heard the news, was also frightened, and said angrily, "What? These grain merchants are so daring, ten taels of silver can be exchanged for a stone of grain, such an ancient anecdote, they really dare! Are they not afraid that the court will raid their house and destroy their people?"

The next moment, Dai Quan looked at the two little eunuchs beside him and said, "Prepare a sedan chair, I'm going to find Jia Yun, and let Jia Yun come out and kill the arrogance of these female businessmen."

The hearts of the ordinary people in the state capital are completely hopeless, and there is no hope and hope at all.

Ten taels of silver are exchanged for one stone of grain, such an ancient anecdote is something that you don't even dare to think about.