The grain merchants who entered Puyang from other places were mainly in two aspects.

One is the elk family in Xuzhou.

Lu Zhu is a super tyrant, he will never let go of this opportunity to make a lot of money, and he also has a lot of grain in Xuzhou, so he changed his identity and brought a lot of grain to Puyang, ready to sell it to Cao Cao at a high price.

Cao Cao slaughtered Xuzhou, although there was enmity between them.

But in the face of absolute interests, hatred can be put aside for the time being.

They just want to make money.

On the other hand, it comes from the major families in Jingzhou.

They occupy the land of Jingchu, with large plains and abundant water resources, which are suitable for the development of agriculture.

Those families have countless fields under their names, and they can't eat all the grain they have.

Now they have an opportunity to make a lot of money by selling grain, so they want to exchange the grain for gold and jewelry, after all, these can't be broken.

In addition to these two aspects, there are some families from other regions, but the amount of grain that is shipped is not very large.

"There are more and more grains coming to Puyang."

"But now the price of food is getting lower and lower."

Lu Zhu came to Puyang in person, they all came with different identities, and nothing was discovered.

Cao Cao didn't bother to check the origin and identity of the grain merchants who came, as long as they were willing to send the grain.

Elfang said: "Big brother, the current food price is far from as high as we expected, and it has fallen to 1,800 yuan a hundred. ”

Lu Zhu said calmly: "According to my speculation, grain prices will continue to fall, in fact, we have all been deceived by Cao Cao." ”

"Scammed?"

Elfang was puzzled.

Lu Zhu said: "Behind Cao Cao, there must be a high finger, or a master who knows how to do business, first deliberately raised the price of grain to deceive us, and so on to Puyang after more and more grain, because the price of grain is too high will not be sold, at this time as long as there is a person to reduce the price, then our grain price can only be reduced." ”

Elfang finally understood what was going on, and said in shock: "That is to say, after the price of grain plummeted, our grain was either sent back at a loss, or sold at a reduced price. ”

"That's right!"

Lu Zhu nodded and said, "We were impulsive and fell for Cao Cao's plan, but Cao Cao's plan is really good." ”

Elfang said: "Then he is not afraid of offending many people? ”

Lu Zhu shook his head and smiled: "To this extent, he is still afraid of offending people?" From now on, we will continue to wait for the price of grain to fall, when it will fall to about 600 yuan, and sell it in large quantities, and we will not lose money at this price. ”

If it goes any lower, it will definitely lose.

Not only Lu Zhu, but all other grain merchants can afford the price of around 600 yuan.

It's too high, Cao Cao doesn't want to buy it, and if it's too low, they don't want to sell.

Lu Zhu admired it very much, and the person who made this plan for Cao Cao even wanted to meet him.

Meanwhile.

Those grain merchants who brought a large amount of grain to Puyang were all discussing the price of grain.

There is a lot of food, the price of food is high, and they panic because they can't sell it.

Now that the price of food is low, they are uneasy because they can't make a lot of money.

However, they can guess that raising food prices is Cao Cao's means, and they have no choice but to accept it.

Many foreign grain merchants have similar ideas to those of Elk.

No one wants to lose money and go back, as long as it comes to a price they can afford, they are still willing to sell.

Time was quick, and another two days passed.

Food prices vary greatly, and the morning and afternoon are completely different.

A small drop in an hour.

After falling for two days, the price of grain finally reached about 600 yuan.

According to Chen Zhou's instructions, Cao Cao knew that it was almost time to buy, so he ate a large amount of all the grain sent to Yanzhou.

dug up the property obtained by the king of Zhongshan and moved it out box by box.

The exchanged grain was brought back again and again.

They are very busy.

Cao Cao handed over this matter to Man Chong to take full responsibility, and then went to Chen Zhou to contact the feelings, they walked out of the house together, came to the street outside, and saw that various grain merchants were busy collecting money for grain, and the people of Puyang were busy pulling grain back, and the streets were almost filled with these people.

There were even some grain merchants from other places, because they couldn't make the big money they wanted, crying and crying, feeling that they were still losing 600 yuan, and tearfully sold their grain.

Local grain merchants don't have a freight loss, but they are no better.

Because when the price was rising, some local grain merchants bought a large amount of grain from other grain merchants, and were ready to sell it to Cao Cao at the highest position.

It's like a stock quilt and you have to go up to the roof to blow the wind.

"But once the price of food has exposed a lot of human problems!"

Cao Cao stood at the bottom of the city tower and saw that above the city tower, several people from local families in Yanzhou were crying and saying that they wanted to get justice or something.

He knew that these people wanted to make their own money and waited to sell grain at a high price.

Such a person does not deserve sympathy.

Chen Zhou looked up at the city tower, shook his head and smiled: "The lord thinks that they really want to jump down?" It's just that they want to coerce the lord to buy grain at a high price to make up for their losses. ”

Cao Cao nodded and said: "Du Zhi is right, come here, remove all the people who persuaded and rescued them, and remove the cushions under the city tower, I want to see if they want to jump." ”

The soldiers on the castle tower all retreated after receiving the order.

Those families who were about to jump off the building continued to cry, but in the end, they found that there was no one at all, and they all left.

"Sure enough, Watayuki was right."

Cao Cao looked at it and laughed.

"People are life-conscious, especially people from families."

Chen Zhou then smiled slightly, and said: "After taking these grains, the lord should not be short of grain in the next two or three years, right?" ”

Cao Cao said: "If it is only eaten in the army, there will be no shortage for more than three years in the future, but now to maintain the livelihood of the entire Yanzhou people, it will take at most one year. ”

In ancient times, farming was all about the weather.

If it doesn't rain, no matter how much you plant, it's useless.

Chen Zhou could feel the helplessness of the ancients, but he couldn't change anything for them, and sighed: "It seems that God is also helping the lord." ”

"If God had helped me, it wouldn't have made it so hard for me."

Cao Cao smiled bitterly and continued: "But Duzhi help me, that's true, by the way, Duzhi will be free tomorrow, right?" You are our hero, and I would like to invite you to come home and sit down, just as a celebration feast for you. ”

He looked at Chen Zhou expectantly.

"The lord invited, even if I don't have time, I have to squeeze out the time."

Chen Zhou readily agreed.

"I knew Watari was coming."

The more Cao Cao saw Chen Zhou's ability, the more he wanted to win Chen Zhou to his side.

With Chen Zhou's assistance, hegemony can be achieved!