The crown prince went on such a big expedition, but it didn't seem to cause any splashes, there were few changes in Chang'an City, and the price of grain became more and more intense.

Li Dong took the Hu people's funds to enter the market, a large number of swept the grain on the market, stored in the warehouse, the price of grain has skyrocketed in the past two days, it is already more than five times the original, Li Dong entered the market only about three times, this is a lot of money, but the more it rises, the more unwilling to sell.

Yang Guang came to Daxing City, and Yu Wenkai began to complain: "Your Highness, the price of grain in the city has risen sharply recently, and there are many farmers in Daxing City, and they all have to eat enough to have the strength to work. ”

"I guess I made a lot of money from selling my house."

"Yes, but I'm afraid it will be difficult to continue like this, and I see that food prices will not fall in a day or two."

"Don't worry about this, who are you going to buy food now?"

"Wechen asked the official in charge of supplies to talk to you."

Yang Guang chatted with the officials in charge of the materials, knew where they got the goods now, and inquired about the name of the shopkeeper of these grain shops, Li Dong, who was also one of the grain merchants in the city who hoarded goods and raised prices the most in the city that Yuwenshu gave him.

Yang Guang had a plan and said to Wang Yi: "Go, send me a message to this Li Dong, and say that I will go to see him tomorrow." ”

"Your Highness, do you have to send a message to meet you with such an identity? He was just a small grain merchant. ”

Yang Guang smiled slightly: "In this way, I can make him feel that I am also short of food now, and I have to beg him." ”

……

Li Dong suddenly received a letter from the Jin Wangfu in the house, and he was shocked, and the person who spent the money to deliver the letter inquired about the news that the King of Jin supervised the construction of Daxing City, and now the workers of Daxing City are short of food, so the King of Jin is ready to visit.

Li Dong, who got the news, laughed at the beginning, and the concubine fell delicately in his chest: "Why is the master so happy today." ”

"His Royal Highness the King of Jin will visit tomorrow, and the prince of the dynasty has officially sent me a letter of worship, it seems that there will be unexpected gains this time, hahahaha."

Li Dong was wild, they have always been looking at the face of the official master to eat, he made a lot of money, and he wanted to buy the official to do it, but there has been no chance, this time the king of Jin seems to have arrived.

"The house has prepared well, I have cleaned it up, and the good tea and wine have been prepared, our house has never entertained such a high-level guest, we must mention all the pomp and circumstance to me, if anyone makes His Royal Highness the King of Jin unhappy, he will not be spared."

The next day, the decoration of Li Dong's mansion was extraordinarily grand, Yang Guang didn't bring many people today, the carriage stopped at the door of Li Dong's mansion, got off the car, and Li Dong hurriedly greeted him.

"Grass people Li Dong, see His Royal Highness the King of Jin."

"Shopkeeper Li, I often hear that Shopkeeper Li is a rare Confucian businessman in the Great Sui, who can read and write poems, and when we meet for the first time, I will give me a lot of advice."

Li Dong nodded hurriedly when he heard this: "Yo yo, Your Royal Highness the King of Jin has a good reputation, Li Dong I am a small errand seller, it is really a blessing to be acquainted with His Royal Highness, Your Highness, please inside." ”

Li Dong invited Yang Guang in, and the surrounding neighbors looked at the carriage of the Jin Palace, and there were not a few people who were lively, so they started to discuss.

"Whose carriage is that, so luxurious."

"That's the regulation of the palace, Li Dong, a guy who gave birth to a son and has no eyes, can still climb such a high branch?"

"Li Dong's life is really not authentic, now the grain in the city has been hoarded by the owners of several of their grain stores, and we can't buy rice to boil."

"Who's to say it isn't? In the period before His Majesty ascended the throne, the price of grain was also long, and even the grain he hoarded, many people starved to death in winter. ”

"That's not all, it is said that there was a fire in his shop and people died, he set the fire himself, and burned his wife to death, and now he has courted several little wives, and he is alive."

"Tut, it's really murder and arson, promotion and fortune."

……

Yang Guang entered Li Dong's mansion, the courtyard is not big, but it is very elegant, Yang Guang praised: "Shopkeeper Li, your courtyard is elegantly arranged, even ordinary officials are not as good as you, and you can see that Shopkeeper Li is an elegant person." ”

"How do the grass people know what is elegant, they just like calligraphy and painting, before the auction house auctioned Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi's words I also went, I originally left money to auction Wang Xizhi's Lanting Collection Preface, but I didn't expect to be interrupted by someone to mess up, there is no fate, hey."

"No wonder people say that the shopkeeper Li is a Confucian businessman, elegant, elegant."

"Your Highness, please, the house has prepared a thin wine, and please invite Your Highness to appreciate it."

A table of dishes received from Yang Guang at the door, and someone quickly ran into the kitchen to inform him to start cooking, and the two chatted all the way to ensure that Yang Guang ate the freshest and hottest dishes.

Yang Guang looked at a table of dishes and said, "With Lao Li's shopkeeper, this table of dishes is no worse than that of Xinghualou." ”

Li Dong hurriedly curryed favor: "The chef in the house is very small, and he can't cook meticulous dishes, so for His Royal Highness, I specially went to Xinghualou to invite the best chef to make it." ”

"There is a heart, there is a heart."

Yang Guang sat down, Li Dong clapped his hands and rushed into several beautiful women to serve the banquet, and Yang Guang happily accepted it.

Li Dong only has a relationship with Yang Guang, and doesn't say a word about other things, of course, Yang Guang himself has to speak first.

Yang Guang ate something, and after greeting for a while, he spoke: "Shopkeeper Li's outside is rumored to have enough food in your family, and it is not false to see it today." ”

"Your Highness, we have a small business, where do we dare to say as much."

"Shopkeeper Li is a real person, and this king doesn't say anything about it, this king is visiting today to buy grain."

"Your Highness said that it would be polite to buy it, Your Highness wants to use it in the house, and I will send it to Your Highness regularly and quantitatively every day, so why bother Your Highness to come in person."

Yang Guang shook his head: "Li shopkeeper, the grain that this king wants is not for the government, but for the laborers of Daxing City, this king supervises the construction of Daxing City, which indicates that farmers build cities, if they can't eat, they will have no strength, and if they don't have the strength, they will delay the working hours, and this king will not be able to explain to his father, and now the price of grain has risen sharply, so he came to buy grain." ”

Li Dong's eyes rolled, there are 100,000 laborers in Daxing City, the amount of grain used is very huge, if you can package all the grain from Yang Guang from top to bottom, you will not lose money.

Busy said: "Daxing City is magnificent and vast, His Royal Highness the King of Jin has to buy food for them, which really makes the grass people feel emotional, His Royal Highness is really a good Royal Highness who has compassion for the people." ”

The pretending effort is not bad.

"Now that the price of grain in the city has risen sharply, I heard that Shopkeeper Li has a lot of money, and I hope that Shopkeeper Li will give up some of the grain to protect the farmers in Daxing City, of course, I will not let you suffer, and all of them will be purchased at today's current prices."

According to today's price, the purchase price is already very high, but Li Dong smiled and did not answer Yang Guang's question positively.

"Your Highness's food in Daxing City is now a day off, if Your Highness wants to buy it, I will naturally have to give Your Highness this face, but in two days, the price of the grain I buy from outside is probably higher than the current selling price, Your Highness, I will lose money."

"And what do you have to do?"

"Let me tell your Highness a story first, in the past, the grass people operated timber and supplied a yard, and the owner asked me to ship eleven, the actual supply quantity was nine, the shipping price was eleven, and the actual supply price was nine.

This is storytelling, this is the plan for Yang Guang.

Yang Guang sighed: "Now that the price of food is high, I'm afraid I can't afford to eat it." ”

"Your Royal Highness, the grass people remember when I was young, they were all a meal in the morning and evening, two meals a day, the morning was a big food, and the evening was a small food, since the Jin Dynasty, there was a gradual atmosphere of three meals a day among the officials, after the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Chang'an City, regardless of the rich and poor, all rose up three meals a day, those laborers ate another meal at noon is a complete waste, why should the cattle and horses be fed, eat a full six, only the most hard, everyone can eat enough, and the work is not hard."

Looking at Li Dong's smiling face, Yang Guang only felt that this guy was praising him as a capitalist, this is a slave owner.

I want Yang Guangke to deduct the food of the laborers in Daxing City, cooperate with him, and share the accounts together, of course, what he said is to leave room for bargaining.

"The task of Daxing City is heavy, if you can't eat enough, you are afraid that you will miss the time, and if you die, it will be extremely troublesome."

"Your Highness, you don't know these people, the better these people are to them, the lazier they are, the harder they fight, the grass people know this best when they deal with these people since they were children, and they starve to death, just sign again, squeeze oil and water from them to turn into money and food."

Yang Guang began to scold his mother in his heart, but he still smiled: "For the time being, let's purchase it at the current price first, but Shopkeeper Li must ensure the quantity that the king needs." ”

Seeing that Yang Guang didn't enter, Li Dong wanted to say something, but Yang Guang got up and was about to leave, so Li Dong naturally didn't dare to stop him.

After sending Yang Guang away, Li Dong was still excited, at least the people in Daxing City asked him to purchase grain, and hurriedly instructed the people below: "Continue to sweep all the grain stocks, now that there is this big export, are you still worried about the grain stocks?" Hahaha, my wife died last year, and this year I really had good luck. ”

After speaking, he said with a little disdain: "This King of Jin is young, too timid, this thing is still hesitant to do it, put so much money not to make, and try to come and go, but it's okay to wait until the mutual relationship is better, I should trust me, as long as I climb this big tree, I will be on the rise, and when the time comes, I will also learn from the country to open a porridge shop to help the poor, mix some reputation, I can't really mix an official." ”

The concubine beside her said softly: "Master, you can definitely be an official, it's a pity that you are not an official." ”

"How do you think I should be an official?"

"You are greedy, you are greedier than they are."

"Nonsense, I'm just a Confucian businessman, a Confucian businessman who knows the rules the most and pays the most attention to the rules."

(End of chapter)