Drinking human blood, *** is an extremely black-hearted vendor. There are even people who don't know the truth. Under the deliberate instigation and bribery of a few people, they go to the Xue family's territory to cause trouble, or go to the government. Go to the yamen gate to complain.
After the big businessmen in other shops got the news, they suddenly woke up and realized that something was wrong.
If the Xue family's shop sells ten taels of silver, they only sell three taels of silver. After careful calculation, they also sold one stone of grain. In such a round trip, they lost seven taels of silver, and because the Xue family's shop set The price is higher and it has become a luxury product. Even if the Xue family sells less, it still makes a lot of money.
Immediately, this move directly forced them to convene everyone to discuss the matter.
Soon, the leading big businessmen were busy summoning grain merchants from all over the state who had hoarded a large amount of grain to come to the state to discuss the impact of the Xue family's high-price purchase of grain and strategies to deal with it.
Zhao Sheng of Dongsheng Rice Store and Li Fei of Hengsheng Rice Store are the largest local grain merchants in the province.
The two of them also control the most food and business influence in the entire state capital, making the entire state capital resounding.
Therefore, this business gathering was held under the auspices of these two people.
Zhao Sheng looked at the big and small bosses of the major grain stores who had gathered in front of him. He couldn't help but frowned and said, "The Xue family's store has obviously turned against us. They can't even pee in the same chamber pot as us." .Now that the Xue family shop has raised the price of food to ten taels of silver, will we follow suit?"
Matters related to profits and money cannot allow these businessmen to be careless, and they must be extremely energetic.
A well-informed businessman smiled bitterly when he heard this and said: "This must be the idea of the imperial minister behind the Xue family. I heard that the legitimate daughter of the Xue family married that adult as a concubine. The whole situation The Xue family's business also relied on this man to support him behind the scenes and eliminate all kinds of troubles and obstacles. Now that he holds great power and is the imperial envoy, he must be trying to take advantage of this famine to plunder like us. Make profit from it.”
"What an imperial minister. I thought he was a good official who made decisions for the people before he killed Zhang Tan and others. But now it seems that he is still a dog official in human skin. He is even more greedy than Zhang Tan and others. , could it be that he wants to monopolize the entire state capital’s famine money?”
"That's ten taels of silver per stone! Now we only sell it for three taels of silver and one stone, and we are making a huge loss. The price difference of seven taels of silver is painful even thinking about it now."
"Then the Xue family shop has the support of the Imperial Envoy, what can we do?"
"No, we also have to raise the price, and we also have to sell ten taels of silver per stone. Anyway, it was their Xue family shop that started this problem. If we are unlucky, we should kill the Xue family first, instead of targeting us. Then Jia Yun, on the other hand, is a fool who is smart all the time but confused for a short time. How can the little food in their Xue family's rice warehouse compare with the food in our rice warehouse?"
".........."
At this moment, everyone expressed their opinions and saw the opportunity to seek higher profits. It was a golden mountain!
One stone of grain was exchanged for ten taels of silver.
This is no longer drinking blood, but eating the whole person, skin and bones, in one go.
Not to mention that there was no precedent for this before, even if I hear it now, it is extremely horrifying.
Li Fei stroked his long beard and said with a smile: "I invited you all here this time to discuss this matter. Now it seems that everyone has similar opinions, so I will come up with an idea."
After hearing this, everyone hurriedly looked at Li Fei and asked, "What's your idea?"
Li Feichu was calm and said: "We have bought all the grain of the Xue family. Then the Xue family will have no grain to sell. Can't we sell the grain to others for ten taels of silver? As the ancients said, you can shoot yourself with a rock. Jia Yun's feet. Now Jia Yun has raised the stone, but it's going to hit herself."
After listening to Li Fei's words, everyone's eyes lit up, and they thought carefully about the truth.
How much food is there in the Xue family's rice warehouse?
How can we compare with these people?
Once they spend ten taels of silver to buy out the Xue family's granary, they will form a monopoly on the entire state's grain supply market and occupy an absolutely dominant and high position. By then, won't the price of food in the entire state be what they want? How much can be sold to the outside world?
At that time, not only one stone of grain will be exchanged for ten taels of silver, but also twenty taels of silver, one hundred taels of silver. As long as the people want to eat, they must buy it from them.
"Okay, let's do it!"
After a short discussion, everyone reached an agreement, which was to hold their noses and bite the bullet, exchange twelve taels of silver for one stone of grain at the outrageous price, and pay a high price to buy all the grain in the Xue family's rice warehouse. Then, they In the same way, they monopolize the food sales price of the entire state capital.
Once this is done, even Jia Yun will have to kneel on the ground and beg them to sell grain for disaster relief. They can even ask for a higher price and let Jia Yun suffer the consequences. Being smart and wrong, he completely shot himself in the foot.
The more they think about it, the more everyone feels that they are smarter than others, and they feel complacent and overjoyed about it.
At the same time, they also changed the price of grain sales externally to match the Xue family's price.
The Xue family's external sales price is ten taels of silver for one stone of grain, so they use the Xue family's standards as the basis and sell it to the outside world at the same price of ten taels of silver for one stone of grain.
For a time, the price of food in the entire state capital was surging. The price of food was so high that it frightened not only the ordinary people, but even Dai Quan, the chief executive who was used to seeing big scenes and the world, to death. .
Dai Quan was trembling with fright when he heard the news, and said angrily: "What? These grain merchants are so brave. They exchange ten taels of silver for one stone of grain. This is an anecdote for the ages. How dare they! Don't they? Are you afraid that the imperial court will confiscate their homes and destroy their clan?"
The next moment, Dai Quan looked at the two young eunuchs beside him and said: "Prepare the sedan, I'm going to find Jia Yun, let Jia Yun come out and kill these female businessmen for their arrogance."
Ordinary people in the state capital are completely despairing and have no hope.
Twelve taels of silver can be exchanged for one stone of grain. This is an anecdote that is unheard of through the ages.
