The rice merchants looked at each other, already sweating profusely.

Liang Xiao recovered his serious face and calmly drank tea.

Fifty cents and one stone of grain, used as military rations, is really not expensive.

In other areas of the Great Zhou that produce less grain, it is the norm for one stone of grain to start at 60 Wen.

If grain is transported from other regions to the front line, the freight cost of a stone of grain is even more frighteningly high.

According to the "Strategy for Pacifying Jungar", the freight cost of each stone of military grain that could reach the front line during the Qing Dynasty was about 30 taels, or even higher, which is still quite a frightening figure considering the different price levels.

It is logistics that fights wars, so the army can spend the least amount of money on local grain, and it can be imagined that the route is long and the freight is large.

He arranged for the Taishou Mansion to open a warehouse to release grain, although he had the need to appease the people, but he also had his own considerations.

There is a give-and-take.

These people have daily rations, so they will not be stupid enough to buy more than 150 yuan per stone of grain!

In this way, the pressure can be continued.

In contrast, if the people were not given rations, but the grain from the Taishou Mansion was taken out and sold normally, the people might still hoard a large amount of grain out of panic, and the more than one million stones would be sold out in a short time.

The world is bustling, all for profit. The world is crowded, all for profit.

These businessmen want to make money, let alone trade at a loss, and will make rational choices in the face of such a situation.

At this time, Qin Baili and the others sat beside Liang Xiao and waited, looking at Liang Xiao, their expressions became more and more admiring.

Looking at Da Zhou, Liang Xiao is definitely the first to be able to handle the rice merchant so well!

This group of rice merchants whispered, each more anxious than the other.

The grain cart displayed by the Taishou Mansion crushed their last trace of luck!

Fifty wen is profitable, they come from different regions, and the profit per stone of grain ranges from five to ten wen.

In normal times, this profit is absolutely unacceptable to them.

But if you don't accept it now, you will inevitably face a loss.

Rice merchants are one of the most well-informed groups.

There are more and more rice merchants from other places who are drilling in Yanzhou, and the calculation time is coming soon.

Liang Xiao was right, the bid of fifty wen was already too much for the Shoufu to take special care of them.

The only tools that the rice merchants can use to threaten the Taishou are the rice at hand and the power behind it.

It's ridiculous to want to rely on the threat of "not coming to business in the future" to be too guarded, because the rice merchants, like the salt merchants of the past, are what many people want to do when they break their heads.

After a noisy discussion, the scene fell into a brief silence.

After a while, finally a rice merchant couldn't hold it anymore, and took the lead in raising his hand, with an eager face: "Thank you for your kindness!" I sell! ”

"I'll sell it too!"

The first rice merchant to speak out was like a fallen domino, causing the rice merchants behind to scramble to speak out.

Now they just want to sell their food as soon as possible!

Liang Xiao didn't say a word, and accepted it all.

All qualified grain is purchased at the rate of 50 wen and 1 stone, and the unqualified grain is used as livestock feed.

One hundred and one thousand stone of grain, equivalent to two hundred and fifty-five thousand taels of silver, can be paid only after acceptance.

After everyone signed a contract with the Taishou Mansion, they went back to wait for news.

After Liang Xiao sent them away with a smile, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He had been fully prepared before coming to Yanzhou, if there were more accidents, the worst result would be to buy grain at a high price and sell it to the people at a low price, no matter what, Yanzhou must ensure stability.

The northern and western borders are not stable enough, and they are relatively small areas of tax revenue in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and 55,000 taels is already a huge amount of money for the Yanzhou treasury.

"Today's Yanzhou matter, the table of the counties in the future, I believe that rice merchants all over the country will not dare to maliciously raise prices, after all, no one dares to guarantee that the next Taishou will not learn from the Marquis of Lanling!"

Among the people in the Taishou Mansion, Lin Xiu laughed the happiest and most presumptuous.

The crowd couldn't help but laugh.

Joyfully!

The surplus grain of the Taishou Mansion is more than 2.5 million stones, which is enough to strangle all the rice merchants of the family and make them obedient!

Even if they have the determination of a strong man to break his wrist and burn all the grain, it will not change the fact that the grain shortage in Yanzhou has been lifted.

"The people of Yanzhou no longer need the food in the hands of those families, but our army needs it." Liang Xiao said with a smile.

Everyone's hearts sank.

He really eats people and doesn't spit out bones......

In the afternoon of the same day, several rice merchants entered the city one after another, and after learning about the situation, they panicked and went straight to the Taishou Mansion to ask for negotiations.

Liang Xiao took all the orders at the price of 50 wen per stone, and took the total of 200,000 stone of grain.

In this way, the surplus grain in the Yanzhou government treasury exceeded 2.7 million stones, ranking first in the list of Yanzhou's government grain reserves in peacetime!

"Those rice merchants, all sold??"

When Duguchen received the news, his pupils shrank sharply, he sat down and muttered to himself.

"My great families are scheming, and such a careful arrangement has been resolved by him with such a vicious method......"

For them, Liang Xiao's methods can be called vicious.

This is Liang Xiao's use of power and grain storage to entrap other rice merchants, and then isolate them, the rice merchants of the family.

They have never been the only families who have isolated others, how could they have suffered such a loss?

The surplus grain on hand in Liang Xiao is enough to support the entire Yanzhou through the autumn harvest, that is, they don't need the food of their family......

And now if they want to transport the grain in their hands to Beihu, it is even more unrealistic.

Originally, these grains were specially used to destroy the people's livelihood in Yanzhou and create chaos.

When the Beihu cavalry went south, they often chose to raid, and there were almost no sieges.

In other words, the Yanzhou Mansion Treasury has enough food, and no matter how much there is, it will have no impact on Beihu.

"Young master, why don't we sell it? If there is a surplus of food, it will be stored in the treasury of Yanzhou Mansion, and when Beihu goes south and takes Yanzhou, it can also be used as a supply for the Beihu people? ”

A helpless sigh sounded in his ears, Duguchen followed the prestige, it was his own rice merchant Dugu Yan.

At this moment, Duguchen just wanted to cry without tears.

Duanmu Yan's side was already starting to get restless.

They are also afraid that the food will rot in their hands, and it will be a pity if it is burned.

The point is that it can't cause any more trouble to Yanzhou if it is burned......

After a long time, Duguchen looked up to the sky and sighed: "Go!" Inform several other rice merchants that the general trend has gone, it is better to stop losses in time......"

That night, these rice merchants from the great families visited Liang Xiao together and expressed their willingness to sell grain at a price of 50 wen per stone.

Liang Xiao's gaze swept over them and said, "How much grain do you have in total, if it is qualified, it will not be counted as shoddy." ”

Duguyan gritted his teeth and said: "The grain on hand of our families is a total of two million stone ......."

The scene sounded the sound of everyone in the Taishou Mansion gasping suddenly.

Two million stones!!

Gongsun Yue had the support of the empress, and only raised one million stone of grain in the surrounding states and counties!

And they bought two million stones at a price of 30 wen in Yanzhou, and they couldn't do it with money alone!

Now they finally understand how the food shortage in Yanzhou was created by this group of families.

It's been planned for a long time!