"Servant Liu Xuan, do you know that His Majesty will summon the person with the highest score in this exam to meet at Ningxiang Pavilion?"
Grandma Wang looked at the graceful and graceful woman opposite and asked calmly.
Liu Qing's heart skipped a beat, and she guessed at Grandma Wang's intention. She nodded and said, "Of course I know!"
"Since you know, why don't you work hard?" Grandma Wang sighed and said helplessly.
"Mother Wang, I have tried my best..." Liu Qing felt that the person in front of her seemed to care too much about herself.
Does she think there's something wrong with herself?
Liu Qing's heart tightened, and she didn't dare to show any strangeness on her face, which looked like a well-behaved and obedient person.
"Why!"
Grandma Wang sighed. She had made it clear that this was the case, but Liu Qing still looked like she didn't understand. What else was she supposed to say?
His Majesty specifically stated that he could not reveal the true situation to Liu Qing...
"Think about it for yourself!!"
Grandma Wang shook her head and said, "Go back!"
"Yes, Grandma Wang." Liu Qing was still confused. She still didn't understand what Grandma Wang wanted to do with her.
As soon as Liu Qing returned to her seat, a beautiful woman wearing green clothes came to her side.
A cold and arrogant female voice sounded.
"What did Grandma Wang say to you just now?"
Liu Qing turned around and saw that it was Lin Cairen.
"I didn't say anything, just told me to study hard and take the exam seriously." Liu Qing did not hide anything and said truthfully.
"Hmph!" Lin Cairen snorted coldly, stared at Liu Qing, and said coldly: "Even if you study hard, a mud-legged person will still be a mud-legged person after all. How many books have you read? Can you learn the art of war?"
"A shallow woman like you with no background should just be a palace maid, and get out of the palace when your sex fades with age!!"
"This is your fate!!"
Liu Qing raised her eyebrows. She didn't expect that the other party would ridicule her so much. There was obviously no conflict between the two parties.
"What Lin Cairen taught me is that Liu Qing will remember it." Liu Qing's expression remained unchanged and he said calmly.
"snort!"
"Does a little sparrow want to fly up a branch and become a phoenix?"
“Don’t overestimate your capabilities!!”
Lin Cairen sneered arrogantly, turned and left.
Liu Qing looked at the other person's leaving figure and squinted her eyes slightly. She knew that if she didn't do something, and if Lin Cairen was allowed to take over, her future life in the palace would probably be very difficult! !
Even if he didn't go, he couldn't let Lin Cairen become the number one... Liu Qing narrowed his eyes slightly, already having a plan in mind, he lowered his head and read the military book.
...
Qingzhou, a manor.
"The time is almost up, now comes the second step of your plan."
Xiao Si handed over the intelligence collected from all over Qingzhou these days to Zhou Zhenwen, disguised as Shangguan Yu.
"Through the increase in weight these days and the efforts of several major families, the locusts that were once on the streets have become in short supply again, and the prices have soared. Some people have begun to stop planting crops and start catching locusts all over the mountains and plains... ."
"Many businessmen, like hungry wolves who smelled the smell of blood, started to go crazy and began to hoard large quantities of goods. At the same time, they continued to collect locusts in the market, causing prices to continue to rise."
"This is a baton game. You can make a profit at any stage of the game, but whoever takes the last baton will fall completely into the abyss."
Xiaosi looked at "Zhou Zhenwen" and said softly.
"Has the market reached its limit?" "Zhou Zhenwen" put down the document and asked.
"Not yet, but no one dares to bet, and no one dares to leave it until the last minute. Some aristocratic families have already begun to sell secretly. Once a large number of locusts appear on the market, the price will collapse in an instant. According to the chain reaction that the adults said , the entire locust business will be destroyed!!" Xiao Si said in a deep voice.
“Selling off so soon?”
"These aristocratic families really can't keep their temper!"
"Zhou Zhenwen" chuckled. She was not surprised by this result. After all, they were all old foxes from a family that had been in the family for hundreds of years. Everyone knew the consequences of the avalanche, and no one wanted to be the last to be taken advantage of.
"In that case, let's start as planned!"
"Start selling from other places first, let businessmen and aristocratic families from various counties and counties take over first, wait until the day before the locusts in their hands are about to be transported to Qingzhou City, throw out all the locusts in their hands, and let the price of locusts go to hell... ....”
"Zhou Zhenwen" raised a smile at the corner of his mouth, and a sharp look flashed in his eyes.
"Yes, sir." Xiaosi also showed a smile, "I will make arrangements right away."
"Yeah." "Zhou Zhenwen" nodded slightly.
In the next ten days or so, in several counties far away from Qingzhou City, a few lucky villagers suddenly discovered locust nests and dug up a large number of locusts. In order to prevent them from mutating, the villagers burned these things with fire. Burnt.
Locusts that were quickly cooked began to appear in the market in large numbers. Merchants collected them in large quantities, thinking of transporting them to Qingzhou City to sell them, making a profit from the price difference.
But as time went by, some businessmen discovered that something was not right. There were too many roasted locusts, as if they were endless, and they could not collect them all. The more they collected, the more frightened they became, and the more they collected, the more frightened they became... ..
"No, something's wrong..."
"There's a problem, there's a problem here!!"
A businessman with a big belly was pacing back and forth in the room, sweating profusely and looking nervous.
The young man stood aside, looking at the master so nervous, and was extremely puzzled, and asked: "Master, what's wrong? What's the problem? Isn't everything going well? We collected 100,000 locusts this time, as long as they are transported to Qingzhou City , you can make tens of thousands of taels of silver by flipping it, which is a huge profit!!"
"No, no, that's not right..." The fat businessman looked pale and kept mumbling to himself: "There is definitely something that I didn't expect. It's so smooth. Everything is so smooth. It's so smooth that it's scary to do business. That’s not the case, there is definitely a problem, what is the problem?”
Seeing that the master's expression was wrong, the boy comforted him and said, "Master, don't scare yourself. What could go wrong? The price of locusts outside is skyrocketing now. How can we not sell our locusts?"
"Yes, the price is sky-high, how could it not be sold..." The fat businessman repeated this sentence, and the more he thought about it, the more something was wrong.
"It's just that those lucky villagers are really lucky to find so many locusts... They can't sell them all..." The boy muttered with envy and hatred. .
For a moment, the fat businessman's eyes lit up. He seemed to have thought of something, turned his head, stared at the boy, and shouted: "What did you just say?"
"I...I..." The boy was startled and said quickly: "I said those villagers are so lucky and so lucky..."
"No, that's not the sentence!!" The fat businessman interrupted the boy, "The next sentence!!"
"I can actually find so many locusts... I can't sell them all..." The boy was also a little stunned and replied.
"No matter how much I sell, I can't sell out..."
"No matter how much I sell, I can't sell out..."
The fat businessman kept repeating this sentence, his face getting paler and uglier: "His grandma, this fat man has really been pecked in the eye by an eagle. Damn it, it's over now, fat man is like this." Secondary bankruptcy!!”
"Ah?" The boy looked at the master, still not understanding what happened.
"Damn it!" the fat businessman yelled: "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... These butchers and executioners are trying to cut off the fat man's flesh!!"
"Xiao Qi!!" The fat businessman looked at the boy and asked, "How many days will it take for us to transport the things to Qingzhou City?"
"If we travel day and night, it should take about five days..." The boy thought for a while and said.
"Immediately, split these things, buy one batch locally, and buy one batch from surrounding counties. Arrange for the purchase price to be paid out. No, three-quarters of the purchase price, no, half of the purchase price. It must be paid out within five days. Within, sell everything!!” The fat businessman’s heart was bleeding! ! His face twisted for a moment, obviously showing great determination.
"ah!!"
The boy was also shocked: "Master, if we do this, we will lose hundreds of thousands of taels of silver? This will be a direct loss of half, plus the workers' money..."
"What nonsense are you talking about? Are you the master or am I the master? Go quickly!!" The fat businessman kicked the boy hard and cursed: "Damn it, slow down and pay half the price. What the hell are these locusts?" , not even worth a copper plate, go quickly!!”
"Yes, yes, yes." Xiao Qi nodded repeatedly and ran out quickly, touching her butt and butt and muttering: "You are the master, whatever you say is..."
