Except for some wealthy families in Guanzhong, such as the Wang family in Taiyuan, the Li family in Zhaojun, and the Lu family in Fanyang, they have all made corresponding preparations since they learned that the government wanted to raise the price of grain by ten cents.
Starting from tomorrow, not a single grain of food in the family can be sold. Not only cannot it be sold, but a large amount of food must be purchased.
After the private grain stores have finished purchasing grain, they purchase it from ordinary people and small businessmen...
In fact, several of them are preparing to start from the national grain store.
They will take care of all the grain that will be sold to the Central Government tomorrow.
Late at night, the streets in Chang'an City were under night curfew, but there were still carriages passing through the streets, and the patrolling soldiers turned a blind eye.
They are all honorable people. Even if they stop them, they will only get scolded and may not be able to go to work tomorrow.
At the residence of the Li family in Zhaojun.
Among the five surnames and seven hopefuls, except for the Zheng family in Xingyang and the Li family in Longxi, almost all of them have arrived.
Faced with such huge profits, even Cui's agent came to participate in this secret meeting.
After discussion, they decided to start stocking grain from tomorrow, especially the people from the Li family in Zhaojun and the Lu family in Fanyang. They were determined to organize a court this time to look good to Li Shimin.
The bosses of more than a dozen grain stores are also sitting here at this moment, their faces full of sadness.
In such a great situation, it was time to make money, but Song Jufu was right in his words.
When it comes to making big money, it's not their turn. Now, they're invited to drink tea.
The people of the Li family in Zhaojun said with a smile: "Everyone, if you do things against the imperial court, you will be punished by the nine tribes. I am afraid that you have your life to make money but not your life to spend money."
"Why don't you transfer it all to us for sixty cents and let us do it."
Grain merchants: "..."
Fan Yanglu's people also laughed and said: "My dear friends, we are thinking about you. With your status and power, you will not be able to play around at all. When the time comes, your family will be destroyed. How much loss do you think this will be?"
Liu Wanjin's teeth were almost broken. He was about to stand up and object. You are using your power to suppress others. I have never seen you doing business like this.
As a result, he was caught by Song Jufu. Song Jufu winked at Liu Wanjin, stood up with a smile and said: "Everyone, it's not that we are unwilling to transfer. Mr. Li and Mr. Fan are right. Now the price of grain is three prices a day. Tomorrow I don’t know how much the increase will be, but we are just small businessmen. We have the life to make money, but we are afraid that we will lose the life to spend it..."
"But the prices you two offered are really low. Before the market closed today, the price of food had already risen to eighty cents, and the government had also raised it to sixty cents..."
"Hahaha, sixty cents is not low. If you are not happy, tomorrow I will make it impossible for you to sell even a grain of rice. Do you believe it?"
Several merchants from the grain store all trembled at the corners of their mouths.
Wang Jinzi stood up, cupped his hands and said, "You two, how about we each take a step back and transfer it to you for seventy cents?"
"My Wang family has 20 grain stores in Chang'an City, with a total of 500,000 catties of grain. In Luoyang, Yangzhou and other places, there are also more than a dozen grain stores, with more than 100,000 catties of grain in hand."
Rich Song also raised his hand and said, "Although our Song family is not as good as Brother Wang, we still have hundreds of thousands of kilograms of grain."
"My family is also..."
"My family is also..."
After the dozen or so merchants from the grain shop finished talking, the eyes of several agents from big families suddenly lit up. They didn't expect that these idiots, who usually don't show off their appearance, would hold so much grain in their hands.
Most of the grains in their hands are refined grains, or processed noodles and rice.
After some discussion, several agents from big families decided to take over all the grain in their hands, including the storefronts and processing workshops, at a price of sixty-five cents.
It's just that the landlords don't have much spare money. Most of their industries are entities, such as smelting, shipbuilding, silk weaving, ceramics, brewing, tea making, catering services...
However, the working capital in hand is still enough to buy these grains.
As a result, several big families divided up the grain businesses of these dozen merchants.
As for the latecomers, such as Jingzhao Weishi, Hongnong Yangshi, Yuwenshi... Seeing that these big grain stores had been taken away, they were so angry that they jumped up and cursed, but it didn't help, so they could only transfer The next best thing is to buy those small grain stores.
These companies were even more ruthless and bought the grain from these small grain stores for sixty cents.
Then they began to purchase large quantities of grain from the villages and towns surrounding Chang'an City, and even went to remote places where information was blocked to purchase grain cheaply.
Even Fang Yiai, Du He, and Changsun Chong, these three idiots, were told repeatedly by their families not to touch the grain this time, but they still secretly pawned their family's shops or fields at the pawn shop.
After changing it into money, he specially found ordinary people to buy grain from the government at a price of 60 yuan, and then planned to sell it to the grain collectors at a price of 80 yuan.
Throughout Chang'an City, everyone who had some spare money began to stock up on food crazily. Some even started to mortgage their properties and fronts, and borrow money from Wanhua Building to buy food.
Since the opening of Wanhua Building, there has been a business of lending money to people, but it requires a mortgage. Recently, Wanhua Building has directly opened a pawnshop to lend money, specializing in mortgage loans.
The profit is not too high, it is two points lower than borrowing money from others.
"Princess, there are too many people borrowing money from Wanhua Building, and the money on the surface is no longer enough to borrow money..."
The roosters began to crow, and Si Huaijin and Wang Yi woke up the princess. This was because the princess had to speak, and all the spare money in the hands of heaven and earth had been lent out.
But there are three million dollars in spare money in the palace's treasury.
Li Shuwan got up in a daze. He had been extremely busy in the past few days, and the entire palace needed her to make the decision.
"We have met the princess."
"Excuse me for both of you."
"You two, the prince said before he left, how much money do you need, just ask."
"One million strings..." Wang Yi stretched out a finger.
Si Huaijin pressed Wang Yi's finger and said, "Princess, three million strings..."
Li Shuwan suddenly woke up, frowned and said: "The palace only has three million yuan, and it's not possible without cash."
"Don't worry, Princess. I'll find a way to make money around."
Li Shuwan still believed in the two of them. After all, these two were old men in the palace and the prince's confidants.
"Okay, three million strings is three million strings."
The sky got slightly brighter, and then the sun came out. The whole city of Chang'an was waiting for the bells and drums of the Drum Tower to ring when the market opened.
Today's drummer is also uneasy, because if he knocks this time, the whole Chang'an City will start going crazy again.
Dong dong dong...
The bells and drums on the drum tower rang.
For a time, the street was full of people, and they all rushed to the grain store.
The Jinwu Guard patrol envoys increased their personnel and began to maintain order. Even the guards of the Sixteenth Guard outside the city did not practice today. Instead, they dispersed and entered the city to maintain order.
Biquge
