After the news of Ji's semicolon announcing a hundred wen and one bucket of grain spread, the people of Nanyang were stunned, and when they came to their senses, they were ecstatic.

"Ji Daxiu, what kind of great act of kindness is this?"

"What is Ji Daxiu, we should call him Ji Dashan in the future!"

Because the person who announced the price reduction of grain prices was Ji Wuyin, all the praise of the common people went to Ji Wuyin.

However, all the grain merchants, who had a large handful of grain in their hands, were wailing.

The reduction in food prices means that they have lost more food in their hands.

They just wanted to wait and see, but they didn't expect to lose more and more as they dragged on.

These people scolded the Ji family and the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce one by one for not being a person, and at the same time regretted that they did not sell the food in their hands earlier.

Those who cut the meat, such as Tao Xun, such as the grain merchants who sold the grain in their hands under the influence of Tao Xun, were extremely glad that they ran fast at this time.

Two waves of grain merchants, stark contrast.

"I really envy you." They have food in their hands, and now they are all troubled and dead.

"I advise you to throw it away." Anyway, when I came to Nanyang, I stretched out my head with a knife, and I shrank my head with a knife, so I was relieved to cut it early.

"But at this price, we have lost too much."

"Believe it or not, if you don't throw it now, you will lose more in the future?"

"You're saying the price of food has to go down?"

"Who knows? The Ji family and the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce have joined forces, and they may also push down the price of grain. ”

"Wouldn't it? Still pressing? ”

"What the hell are they trying to do? Can Ji and the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce bear such a loss? ”

"You take care of others, worry about others, you might as well worry about yourself."

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At this time, Chefu was simply going through a raging storm.

Che Jiuming smashed the whole house and lost his temper.

After the qi was a little smoother, he summoned the old account office of Chefu to speak.

"Count the money we have."

The old bookkeeper said, "Before the Luoyang branch of the Ji Chamber of Commerce announced the sale of parity grain, the old man had a total of 940,000 stone of grain under his name, and the current silver was 450,000 taels. ”

"During the period when the price of grain was 120 yuan, we ate 180,000 stone of grain for six consecutive days, and together with the labor cost, we spent a total of 220,000 taels."

"Remove the expenses for a while, and pay off the gambling debts to the eldest young master. At present we have 1,120,000 stone of grain and 150,000 taels of silver. ”

Che Jiuming listened carefully, he knew very well that after this round of price reduction, his assets had shrunk by more than 200,000 taels again. This is equivalent to the entire family property of a medium-sized merchant. The thought of this made his heart sink to the ground.

"I owe 800,000 taels to Liu's Qianzhuang, and if you add interest, it is 854,000 taels. Sir, what are we going to do next? "The voice of the old account room is also very heavy, and now the situation is very critical, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will go bankrupt.

The old bookkeeper persuaded him, "Stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood." ”

Che Jiuming silently calculated an account in his heart, if they still owed the money to the Liu family at this time, they would have to sell at least more than 700,000 yuan of grain. Then all his assets are only 450,000 stone of grain.

After the calculation, he didn't speak, where is he still Qingshan?

At this time, the porter came to report, "Master, Shopkeeper Lin and Shopkeeper Mo ask to meet." ”

Both of them were his followers, and Che Jiuming nodded, "Please let them in." ”

The old account room on the side was worried, as the saying goes, blessings are incomparable, and disasters are not singular. Shopkeeper Lin and Shopkeeper Mo came to the door at this time, I'm afraid it's not a good thing.

Sure enough, as soon as the two of them entered the door, they cried and begged Che Jiuming, "President Che, in order to respond to your call and advance and retreat with you, we all borrowed silver from Liu's Qianzhuang, and then all this money was used to eat food." ”

"Now that the Ji family has pushed the price of grain to 100 wen a dou, we are all on the verge of insolvency. Mr. Che, you can help us. ”

"Yes, just now the people from Liu's money bank came to the door and need us to deposit a deposit in the money bank, otherwise they will be insolvent and they will have to force the performance of the contract. They gave us three days, Mr. Che, can you help us? ”

The two begged, their posture was very low, they were not as big as the Che Jiuming family, and they borrowed 800,000 taels from Liu's money village at once, and the two of them borrowed 200,000 taels and 300,000 taels respectively.

Originally, I wanted to take the opportunity to make a big profit and double my assets, but I didn't expect to go bankrupt!

They repent now, and their bowels are green with repentance.

Che Jiuming looked embarrassed, "In this situation, I can't protect myself, and I really don't have the spare strength to help you." "Joke, it's all at this time, how can he lend out what little silver he has?

Shopkeeper Lin and Shopkeeper Mo glanced at each other, their faces were ugly, they didn't expect Che Jiuming to turn his face and not recognize people!

Che Jiuming added, "However, listen to me, the people will definitely be restless at this grain price, can the Ji branch deal with the surging demand for grain from the people?" So, about money, I think you can borrow it from your relatives. It would be nice to get through this time and get through the difficulties. ”

The two came with hope, did not borrow money, and had to leave in despair.

But they listened to Che Jiuming's words and decided to believe him again, and when they got to this step, there was nothing they could do if they didn't believe it.

The two were lucky, and after they went back, they went to borrow money from relatives and friends. It's a pity that their relatives have already been borrowed by them, and even if they have the ability to help them, they don't want to lend them the silver.

When Ji's semicolon really sold a large amount of grain to the common people at a price of 100 wen per bucket, the grain merchants from other places who had grain in their hands couldn't sit still.

These people found Ji Dashao and Wu Ren through friends, and wanted to give them the food they had in hand at one time.

This time, the Ji Firm and the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce Alliance did not buy the grain in their hands at the price of one hundred wen one bucket, but lowered the price, and was only willing to pay the price of ninety-five wen one bucket.

At this time, they will not be relentless when they enter the harvest period. The reason why they bought the grain of Tao Xun and others at a price of 120 wen was because they were optimistic about them, so if they didn't lower the price, they should make friends.

The behavior of the Ji family and the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce alliance to lower the price made the grain merchants who came to inquire angry, and they thought to themselves, it is better to sell it themselves.

Countless grain merchants from other places chose to sell the grain in their hands, and then formed a squeeze.

The price of grain is falling step by step, one hundred wen per bucket, ninety-eight wen per bucket, ninety-six wen ......

The lowest price was 95 wen, and if there was no more, the grain merchants were reluctant to sell it.

And if the price is less than ninety-five Wen Yidou, they might as well sell it all to the Ji family and the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce.