The meaning of the famous post is that when he encounters trouble in the capital, he can take Liu Haojia's famous post to ask for help or ask for help! The two land deeds are for two shops in Tianjin. Just renting them out can generate an income of more than 10,000 taels per year! If you know how to run a business, you will naturally earn more!
But this is already a great help to Zhang Jingping! And he also realized Liu Haojia's intention, and at the dinner at the end of the handover, he said many things that neither Liu Haojia nor Qi Jiguang knew! Many of these things are unknown to outsiders! This made Liu Haojia lament the importance of being kind to others!
If he had put on a fight with Zhang Jingping back then, how could he not have such a smooth handover today and learn many confidential things! It seems that the ancestors are right, take a step back and the sky will be brighter!
But one thing Liu Haojia also noticed was that during the handover process, no one from the civil service system in Datong City showed up! Liu Haojia knew that this represented disapproval and confrontation! It seems that Qi Jiguang will have more opponents in the future!
The first thing Qi Jiguang did when he took office was to purchase military rations and stabilize military morale! He bought all the grain stored in Liansheng Grain Store, but he did not pay a tael of silver. Instead, he issued a receipt for the full amount to prove that he had indeed received the grain.
His second order was still to buy grain, but this time he meant spending real money to buy grain from the grain bank where Qian Shounian had originally worked. But Qi Jiguang had no money, so he used the money that Liu Haojia had stolen from Qian Shounian's family! .
And the story is also interesting. When Liu Haojia was arresting people all over the city, the shopkeepers in the grain store were so scared that they could only gather in the grain store to wait for the government's verdict! But they didn't expect that the government just asked them routine questions and didn't make it difficult for them at all!
And when they interrogated them, they only said that there was only one owner in the entire grain business, Qian Shounian, and no other people participated in the business. As a result, just after Liu Haojia announced that Qian Shounian was the leader of the White Lotus Sect and did not want to kill him, a man suddenly appeared miraculously with a document announcing that he was also one of the shareholders of the grain bank and now wanted to take over the entire grain bank. !
Liu Haojia sent someone to inquire and found out that this man was also a local in Shanxi. He was a small grain merchant from other places and had some business dealings with Qian Shounian. Now it seems that he is the puppet introduced by those behind the scenes!
However, I don’t know if this man was smart or had instructions from the people behind him. In the name of thanking the government and the labor force, he sent the grain directly to the military camp and confiscated every penny!
Liu Haojia saw what he was doing and knew that Qi Jiguang should be fine here. But he himself will soon be in trouble! He can be sure that the people behind the grain merchants will not let their business suffer losses, but will only fight back with a more violent attitude!
Since ancient times, all dynasties have been agricultural societies, and food is a vital material, no matter what! Therefore, anyone who dares to intervene in the grain market is all powerful and wealthy, even high-ranking officials and even royal families and aristocratic families!
They also know the truth that a thousand-mile embankment collapses in an ant nest, so they will never let Liu Haojia, a little ant, live happily in case he tears a bigger hole in the embankment!
Then news came from everywhere, making Liu Haojia and Qi Jiguang completely relieved! Because Jinyiwei had just sent news from other border towns, military generals everywhere had begun to purchase food after receiving news from Datong! Moreover, the acquisition model is the same as that of Datong. They buy a batch from Liansheng Grain Store, and then buy a batch from the grain store that they often cooperate with in the past! In short, the food shortage in Bian Town was solved in one fell swoop!
At the same time, due to the intervention of Liansheng Grain Bank, grain prices in all border towns fell sharply, more than 25% lower than this time in previous years! This price difference naturally doesn't matter to the powerful, since they still have meat even if they don't eat food. But for ordinary people, this means that they can buy 25% more food with the same money as in previous years! This is a great thing for them!
So all the people were happily buying food! Maybe the price difference of 2.5% is not much, but if you bite the bullet, it will be enough to get through the period of no work! At least they won't sell their sons and daughters!
As soon as the matter in Datong Town was settled, Liu Haojia and his people rushed to Tianjin at full speed. As for whether Qi Jiguang can secure Datong Town?
That's what he's good at! But I think it shouldn’t be a big problem with Zhang Juzheng taking care of me!
Liu Haojia rushed to Tianjin without even returning home, and went directly to the salt factory. Zhang Zhi heard that Liu Haojia had arrived and rushed out to greet him, but by the time he came out to greet him, Liu Haojia had already arrived at Yantian.
After seeing him, Liu Haojia looked Zhang Zhi up and down and saw that he was wearing short clothes except for official boots on his feet. This made Liu Haojia very satisfied! This outfit at least shows that he doesn't sit in his room drinking tea every day, but goes out for a walk every day.
As for wearing official boots, it doesn't matter! People in the palace don't often walk long distances, so their feet are naturally very tender! If Zhang Zhi imitated others to wear straw sandals, his feet would be worn out by now!
After Zhang Zhi gave the gift, Liu Haojia said directly: "I have just inquired about the amount of salt. Be prepared. Someone will come to collect salt tomorrow. The target is Jiubian, Shanxi and Hebei. I want to Bring the price of salt to the lowest in these three places!"
Zhang Zhi's heart trembled when he heard this! He naturally knew that Liu Haojia's words were equivalent to a direct declaration of war on the salt merchants! And standing behind them were officials from aristocratic families and even the imperial court. This was tantamount to declaring war on half of the imperial court! Although he felt that he had always been brave, sweat still broke out on his forehead for a while!
But he also knew one thing clearly. Now that he had boarded Liu Haojia's ship, he could not retreat! So he calmed down and said, "It's hard to say this! If we go by what the Marquis said, I'm afraid the price of this salt will be very low! Once people rush to buy it, the salt reserves may not be enough! And even transportation is a big problem. Big problem!"
When Liu Haojia heard this, he knew that he was a little impatient, so he couldn't help but patted his head and sighed! In fact, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, there was already relatively developed salt production technology, and the process was relatively mature. But the biggest factor affecting salt prices is transportation!
In coastal areas, especially places with salt fields, the average price of salt is about four to five cents per kilogram of salt, or even lower! Because it’s always easy to get salt at the beach. If the local fishermen don’t have any salt at home, they just scoop up a pot of sea water and boil it to produce salt. Naturally, the price is not much higher!
