"Come here, who are you?"

Soon the caravan was called to the side to inspect it individually.

"We are a caravan from Tokyo, and we want to go to Qi to purchase goods, this is the reason for Tokyo!"

Cao Zheng took the voucher and handed it over.

"And this, protection money!"

Cao Zheng smiled again and handed over a bag of silver money, this is the rule of Liangshan, foreign caravans must pay protection money.

"You're here to buy food, aren't you?"

The soldier looked at Cao Zheng and asked directly.

These words made Qin Hui and the others' faces change, and the purpose of their trip was actually known by the enemy.

"Uh...... Yes! ”

Cao Zheng pretended to be stunned and hurriedly said.

"You go directly to Hecai Town, and someone over there will trade with you!"

The defenders inspected it and let it go.

"What's going on?"

Qin Hui was a little dizzy, he had prepared a lot of excuses, but the defenders let them go without asking, the most important thing was to know that they were here to buy grain, and Liangshan also had a special place to sell grain to them.

"The villain doesn't know, I haven't heard of the grain seller in Hecai Town!"

Cao Zheng also pretended to be nonsense.

"They said there would be someone in Hecai Town who would trade with us? Liangshan and these people are ready to sell it with great fanfare? ”

Qin Hui finally came back to his senses after a while, and said with a surprised face, the defender's words just now were so blatant, it seemed to be said to everyone.

"Isn't that a good thing! Let's not worry! ”

Cao Zheng said with a smile.

"Stupid, the Liangshan thieves sell it personally, how can I lower the price!"

Qin Hui glared at Cao Zheng, the purpose of his coming was to lower the price of grain to make a difference, but if Liang Shan came forward, where could he suppress the price? And the purchase price is also difficult to keep secret, so how can he make fake accounts? How to embezzle?

Cao Zheng pretended to be submissive and didn't dare to speak.

The caravan waited for a day, and the following caravan converged, and everyone walked along the wide and flat road towards Hecai Town.

It was only one day that the team arrived at Hecai Town, which was very lively at this time, and many boats full of goods came and went on the river.

"But it's a caravan from Tokyo!"

Chai Jin smiled and led people to look at the mighty frame procession at the gate of the town, and there were no less than three hundred carriages alone.

"We are, I don't know who Shangguan is?"

Someone immediately stepped forward and saluted.

"I'm Chai Jin, and I'm now in charge of Hecai Town's trade!"

Chai Jin said with a smile.

"It turned out to be a big official of Cangzhou Little Whirlwind Chai!"

Everyone hurriedly stepped forward to salute Chai, they were all people who went south and north, and they were no strangers to Cangzhou Chai's officials, and some people even went to Chaijiazhuang in their early years.

"That's all in the past, Chai is now an official of Qi State!"

Chai Jin waved his hand and said.

"Chai Daguan, we want to buy food this time!"

Seeing this, everyone went straight to business, and they had already seen the granaries piled up in Hecai Town.

"Let's go, talk inside!"

Chai Jin smiled and led everyone into Hecai Town, and went directly to an inn in the town.

"How much food do you want?"

Chai Jin glanced at everyone, and finally his gaze fell on Qin Hui, he could see that this person was not a businessman, and all the businessmen looked at him as a horse.

"As many as you want!"

Qin Hui said directly, he had also heard of Chai Jin and knew that this person was a member of the royal family of the previous dynasty, but now he couldn't show weakness, otherwise he wouldn't be able to take the initiative in negotiations.

"It's not small, do you have so much money?"

Chai Jin said with a smile.

"How much is a stone?"

Qin Hui directly asked the most important question

"One thousand two hundred wen and one stone! No two prices! ”

Chai Jin smiled and quoted the price.

"Aren't you 1600 wen and 1 stone!"

Qin Hui's face was very ugly, he didn't expect the price to double directly.

"Six hundred wen is the internal price of our Qi country, your Tokyo grain is two thousand wen and one stone, I will give you a profit margin of eight hundred wen, and my Qi country will only take six hundred wen of profit, this is a win-win situation, right?"

Chai Jin said.

"The grain in Jinghu is only 1,300 wen, how dare you ask for 1,200 wen? Then I might as well go to Jinghu and buy it! ”

Qin Hui slapped the table and was about to refuse.

"How far is Jinghu from Tokyo? Crossing mountains and mountains, crossing rivers and rivers, there are water thieves along the way, risky and high-freight, 1,300 wen? I'm afraid the actual cost is more than 1,500 yuan. ”

"How far is my Qi country from Tokyo? The road is flat, smooth and safe, and the Gojo River leads to Tokyo, so it is convenient to transport by water, and there is almost no transportation cost by water. ”

Chai Jin pointed to the carriage outside the inn and smiled.

A horse-drawn cart pulls up to 20 stone of grain, and 300 horse-drawn carts are 6,000 stone of grain, and it takes at least half a month to go to Tokyo on a single trip, during which people eat horses and chew plus time are all costs.

The transportation by ship is different, 6,000 stone grain can be loaded in a few large ships, and it will only take three days to go to Tokyo by water.

Qin Hui was speechless by Chai Jin, and all the businessmen behind him were in a hurry, secretly saying that Qin Hui, an official, could not talk about business, and was bluffed in a few words.

"Chai Daguan, you can't say that, we are also doing business with our heads, the imperial court in Tokyo is very strong in reducing prices, and we really don't make any money for 1,200 yuan!"

Cao Zheng came out to complain with a bitter face at this time.

"I have heard that the big officials of Chai are righteous and squandered money, so pity and pity us who eat hard food!"

Seeing Cao Zheng speak, the rest of the businessmen were also pitiful and bitter.

"Alas, I can't help it, 1,200 Wen, this is approved by His Majesty, at most, let you bring something else back and sell it."

Chai Jin looked embarrassed, and finally spoke.

"Big official, do you have wine to sell?"

As soon as they heard that they could bring something else, the merchants immediately gathered around, and there was no pitiful look, but their eyes lit up.

"Yes!"

Chai Jin saw that these people were fooled, and replied simply.

"Chai Daguan, the price of this wine?"

They asked again.

"If the price of Liang rises, the price of wine will also double!"

Chai Jin thought for a while and said.

"Great officials, we want as much wine as we want!"

This time, the merchants did not have the slightest sense of bargaining, and directly agreed, there are many ways to get food, and the land grows every year, but the wine is only available in Liangshan, and this thing is scarce.

"And how much food do you want?"

Chai Jin saw that everyone agreed, and changed the topic back to the topic with a smile.

"Let me say it again, our Qi country pays attention to paying money with one hand, delivering goods with the other, and trading with cash, and those miscellaneous money are not recognized!"

Chai Jin emphasized that there is no market for such things as five dollars and ten dollars in Qi country.

"Six thousand stones first! I'm going to send someone to fetch the ship! ”

Qin Hui opened his mouth and said, although the price of grain is high, he can be regarded as having fulfilled the emperor's order, as for making money, he has to rely on that fine wine.

Qin Hui didn't understand how profitable this wine was, but he received the eyes of those merchants who looked at him eagerly, and he could make all the merchants so excited, and the profits were definitely considerable.

"Good!"

Chai Jin looked at the silver money in front of him and smiled, and immediately wrote out a bill of lading for six thousand stone grains and signed his name. (End of chapter)