Especially the crystal clear glass, the zodiac, tiger, rat, rabbit, horse, and ox are all lifelike.

If a good thing like this is put up for sale, any one of them can be sold for a high price, which will also earn him a lot of money.

But no matter how good the mood was, when it was finally over, when he saw that the person in charge of the auction had handed over a full million taels of silver, he was still shocked at that moment.

At the time, he was shocked, but since he left the auction house of the Chen Mansion, Huang Yuliang thought of a countermeasure. You have a heavy business tax here, right, then I won't sell it on your Daming territory, what can you do with me?

When he thought that whether it was sent to the Qing army, or to Li Zicheng or Zhang Xianzhong, he would not have to pay a tael of silver business tax, and his face smiled again.

It's just that this smile, when he returned to Huang's shop, quickly disappeared, and the tax officials of the household department actually came to him and wanted to collect taxes on the grain sold in the past few days.

In the past few days, Huang's grain shop has still sold some grain, especially for some powerful people, the price of grain has only tripled, which is nothing to them. And all the grain sold was registered and re-registered, which was also used by the proprietor to check the accounts in the future.

The tax collector of the household department came, got the account books, and began to collect taxes from the Huang grain store according to the sales of the past few days.

The tax collection ratio is naturally collected according to the tax of 20%, and the housekeeper Huang Ran took out the silver and paid it when he was full of distress in his eyes. When he had dealt with these official errands, he trotted out to the backyard and began to complain to his master.

"Okay, don't you see that even the god-killing industry is heavily taxed at 20 percent? What else do we care about. Although Huang Yuliang was also angry in his heart, he didn't have any way at this time.

Without it, today the auction house directly paid a tax of one million taels in front of everyone. That's one million taels, compared to the fact that they just paid less than ten thousand taels this time, what is it?

In comparison, the ones you pay are naturally not much, but the silver is handed over in vain, and anyone will be unwilling to exchange them.

Thinking again, he still had so much grain in his hands, and he didn't know how much he would have to pay if he went back to pay taxes, and at this moment Huang Yuliang couldn't help but curse Zhu Changwu in his heart.

This so-called new policy was made by Zhu Changwu, and then implemented by Zhang Ao. At the beginning, he thought that this was an opportunity for himself, especially after the goods were to be handed over to the market and their pricing power was also handed over to their merchants, and he also praised this Zhu Changwu for his vision.

Now it seems that the other party is even more ruthless than himself.

"Master, are we still selling our grain?" Huang Ran had no idea, and looked at Huang Yuliang and asked for instructions.

"Sell, why don't you sell, the price of our grain is so high, even if you pay taxes, you can make money." Huang Yuliang said in an affirmative tone. Anyway, paying more taxes also proves that he earns more, and he wants to see what tricks Zhu Changwu and Zhang Ao can play next.

Huang Yuliang thought he had won, but don't forget that every day his grain shop is open requires a cost, and if the amount of food sold in a day is extremely limited, then there is really nothing left after deducting the cost and the taxes paid.

Of course, if there is a shortage of food in the Jingshi, then he still has something to earn, after all, people are iron rice but not steel, and if he doesn't eat a meal, he will be hungry and panic. Hard currencies such as grain, the more troubled the times, the more they can be sold for a large price.

But how could Zhu Changwu not think of this, and followed his third move.

Just after the Huang family and some grain shops in the Beijing division had just been collected a wave of commercial taxes, then there was gossip in the city, saying that the Ming army had defeated the battle of the thieves and seized a lot of grain from the other party.

The news first spread, and truckloads of grain began to be brought from outside the city to the city.

I don't know if it's because I'm in a hurry, when the grain truck entered the city and entered the most prosperous street, a grain truck overturned on the ground, and the rice followed by white flowers appeared in the sight of many people.

When he saw that there was a big plum character on those grain bags, Huang Ran, who was crowded in the crowd, panicked, hurriedly trotted back to the grain shop, and found the master Huang Yuliang again.

"Seized grain? These thieves are rubbish. After learning the news, Huang Yuliang couldn't help but curse.

can be scolded and scolded, this is already a fact, it can't be changed, what he is eager to know now is how much food the Ming army got this time, this is the most important thing. "In this way, you go and check it immediately, don't be afraid to spend money, we just need the result, be fast."

"Don't worry, master, the little one understands." After Huang Ran agreed, he turned around and trotted away.

The victory of the Ming army in this battle was indeed to seize some grain from the thieves on the battlefield, but the amount was not very large, that is, about thirty or forty thousand stones, and with the remaining grain in the original treasury, Zhu Changwu could only mobilize fifty thousand stone of grain.

Fifty thousand stone of grain is a lot, but if you want to solve the stomach problem of nearly two million people in the entire Jingshi, it is obvious that the gap is still too big.

It doesn't matter, there is not enough food to make up for it.

Every night, after the curfew in Beijing, truckloads of grain will be transported out of the city again, and the grain left in the Daming department store in the city is filled with straw except for the upper layer, unless someone can open the bag to check, otherwise, there is no problem on the outside.

Zhu Changwu is playing the set of Ming Xiu plank road and secret crossing Chen Cang. Just like in the early days of the Three Kingdoms, when Dong Zhuo led his troops into the city, the cavalry entered the city during the day and would go out quietly at night.

After Zhang Ao got the strategy given by Zhu Changwu, he played this set. During the day, truckloads of grain entered the city and put it in the Daming Department Store to start selling, and the price was the same as before, two taels and one stone.

In the evening, the grain brought in during the day would be quickly transported out of the city, leaving behind only bags of rice with grass.

This was repeated, for three consecutive days, about 40,000 stone of grain came into the city every day, and the original food shortage in the city was completely suppressed because of Zhang Ao's actions.

Not to mention, there is also gossip that the price of grain is likely to fall next, saying that the general Zhu Changwu is in urgent need of money, if he does not sell the grain now, once the foreign grain enters the Beijing Division, then the grain is likely to be smashed in his hands, and in the next year, he can only be sold as old grain, and the price will only be cheaper.

It is also a helpless move to release this news, otherwise, there will only be a total of 50,000 stones, and if the people are crazy and robbing, they will not be able to support it for too long. But once the news of the price reduction came out, the smart people would not be so active, as long as they had enough food to eat for the time being, they would wait, waiting for the price of food to be cheaper.

Doing so has another advantage, that is, it can put more pressure on grain merchants such as Huang Yuliang.

Huang Ran had already inquired about the news and came back, and he spent a lot of money to ask a few centurions of the Ming army who had just been promoted, and learned from them that a lot of grain had indeed been captured on the battlefield this time. They don't know exactly how much, but three or four hundred thousand stones should always be there.

These people will say this, that is, Zhu Changwu revealed the news in advance, and the prevention is that someone will come to inquire about the information.

Huang Ran didn't know this, when he heard that there was 340,000 stones of grain, he was frightened, and ran back to see Huang Yuliang without saying a word.

After getting the news, Huang Yuliang was also anxious, but he didn't want to let go of a chance to make a big profit, he was still thinking about whether he could buy all the food in the Daming Department Store, so that his pressure was greater, but after all the grain was in his hands, he had the power to reprice.

But before he could raise funds to do this, there was news that the price of grain was going to drop, saying that the grain merchants outside the Beijing division had already known about the safety of Beijing, and that there were already people ready to sell grain here.

Well, as soon as the new news arrived, Huang Yuliang became completely honest. Afraid that his new grain would become old grain and become more worthless, he had no choice but to reduce the price, and the price was cheaper than that of Daming Department Store.

The price of grain really dropped, and the people who got the news were naturally happy, and walked to Huang's grain shop one by one, with smiles on everyone's faces.

For the people, the cost of living has fallen, and this is the best news. As for other things, what does it have to do with them?

Seeing that so many people were flocking to his grain shop to buy food, Huang Ran became happy. But he was also not happy for long, and news came that the grain from other places was less than 100 miles away from Beijing, and it was seen that it would enter in a few days, and the price of grain in Daming Department Store was 10% cheaper.

As soon as they heard that the grain in the Daming Department Store was cheaper than here, the people who bought the grain regretted it one after another, and the people who did not buy the grain became unanxious. They want to see if this price will continue to fall, if this is the case, wouldn't they suffer a big loss if they buy it now?

Huang Ran hurriedly asked Huang Yuliang for instructions, in order to sell the grain earlier, Huang's grain store will drop by two percent, which is one percent lower than the grain in the Daming Department Store. This price is not much different from the price of Huang's grain harvest before.

At this time, Huang Yuliang no longer thinks about making money from it, as long as he doesn't lose money this time.

He never thought that the thieves would be defeated so badly, and they actually threw so much food to the Ming army.

Second, I didn't expect that those grain merchants outside had such a good nose and reacted so quickly.