It’s late at night, but the back office of Dali Temple is still brightly lit.
But the lights lit today are not because the hard-working Dali Temple minister is still handling official duties.
Gu Zhouting was thinking about the endgame on the chessboard by himself, and the black chess piece in his hand could not be moved for a long time.
Finally there was movement outside.
"Little Prince, you are here!"
"Xing Feng, go get me a bowl of noodle soup. I haven't eaten yet!"
"Okay, little prince, please wait a moment, I will do it now."
Ji Yunchen pushed the door open and walked in. Seeing Gu Zhou stop and study the chess records, he couldn't help but said bitterly: "It's quite comfortable for you. I was arguing with those old guys at the Ministry of War until my throat started to smoke. It's a big deal. Let's discuss it. Go ahead, be afraid of wolves and tigers behind, and you will get angry just by looking at them."
Gu Zhouting raised his eyes and looked at him: "Yun Chen, do you have money?"
Ji Yunchen's buttocks hadn't even landed on the chair when he heard the words and froze: "What? Are you short of money?"
"Um!"
"How much is missing?" Ji Yunchen asked, but his hand reached for the money bag, untied it and threw it away.
Gu Zhouting reached out to catch it.
"There are about four hundred taels of silver notes and some broken silver in it. Is that enough? If not enough, I will go back to the house to get it tomorrow."
Gu Zhou stopped and put the money bag next to the chessboard: "One hundred thousand taels."
Ji Yunchen just picked up the tea cup and drank it. When he heard this, he almost choked in his nose when he took a sip of tea.
He looked at Gu Zhouting in disbelief: "One hundred thousand taels? What do you want to do?"
"Buy grain and transport it to the north."
Ji Yunchen:......
"You want to do the grain business? It's hard to make money for the country?"
Gu Zhou paused and glanced at him: "What are you thinking about?"
Is he this kind of person?
"I only considered the overall situation, but ignored the plight of the people in the north. As soon as the notice was posted yesterday, panic spread throughout the city. Today the price of food has doubled. Just imagine, if the news spreads to the north, it will have a negative impact on the people in the north. What kind of impact.”
"No way, it has increased so much? Are profiteers driving up food prices?" Ji Yunchen has been at the Ministry of War all day today and has no knowledge of what is going on outside.
"There are indeed profiteers driving up food prices. The government will introduce measures as soon as possible to stabilize food prices, but the results will not be that fast. As long as the increase is not extremely outrageous, the government will not interfere too much."
"Look at the panic in the capital. I really can't think of it in the north."
"You worry too much. The emperor, the prince, the cabinet, and the Ministry of Revenue have to worry about this kind of thing. It's not your turn to worry about it."
Gu Zhou stopped and said: There was someone who was more worried than him, and he had foreseen the consequences early and started taking action early.
Gu Zhouting laughed at himself: "Yeah, it's not my turn to worry, let alone make decisions, but I have to do something. If Nan Zhi is still here, she will definitely do something."
Ji Yunchen was silent. Indeed, Nan Zhi was the most enthusiastic, opinionated and methodical person.
"Then what are you going to do? Buy the grain yourself and transport it there. How will you sell it there? What will happen if the big business over there blocks you? What will you do if there is robbery? You wouldn't just give away a hundred thousand dollars, right? "
Gu Zhou stopped and said: "Businesses have business ethics, and this kind of thing must be left to experienced people."
"Do you mean……"
"Ms. Jiang, she took action long after she learned that Prince Su He was killed. One hundred thousand dans of grain are already on the way, and another 40,000 dans will be shipped tomorrow."
Ji Yunchen was a little surprised: "She has a keen sense of smell and can seize business opportunities."
There was a hint of sarcasm in the words.
Gu Zhouting had a complicated look on his face. Ji Yunchen had prejudice against Jiang Wan Ning. Prejudice is the hardest thing to eliminate. However, he believed that Jiang Wan Ning was not all about making money. If he could make money and help the people in the north, why not Are you happy?
"Just tell me if you have?"
Ji Yunchen said bitterly: "I don't have that much, I have to ask my mother for it."
"I've collected 80,000 taels here. If you can collect as much as you can, let me know as soon as possible."
Xing Feng brought in noodle soup.
Ji Yunchen held the noodle soup and sighed: "Just a bowl of noodle soup from you will cost me one hundred thousand taels. It's a huge loss."
Early the next morning, Jiang Wanning was about to go out when Zheng Guan came.
Zheng Guan held a box: "Ms. Jiang, my master asked me to give this to you."
Then he put down the box and left.
Jiang Wan Ning was baffled, what is in this?
When I opened it, I saw that it was all free money. I counted it and found that there were 180,000 taels.
Also wrote a note.
...It’s best to protect your capital. If you lose money, keep at least one hundred thousand taels because it’s a loan.
Good guy, Gu Zhouting took out 80,000 taels, which probably cost him all his money. The other one hundred thousand taels were probably borrowed from Ji Yunchen.
Gu Zhouting could only borrow money from Ji Yunchen, and only Ji Yunchen could give him one hundred thousand taels without blinking an eye.
"Oh my God! So much money." Qing Xing's eyes widened.
Mr. Gu gave his wife so much money, is he planning to re-employ her?
If true, that would be great.
Mr. Gu has become the Minister of Dali Temple at a young age. He has a bright future and the most important thing is that he is so good-looking.
Jiang Wanning saw that her smile was ambiguous and knew that she was thinking wrongly again. He didn't bother to explain to her, so he called Xiao Pan and ordered: "Go to Mr. Wen quickly and tell him that this batch of grain is for Zhou Li and Zhu Sheng will go and deliver it, just leave it in the hands of Manager Yang and ask him to come see me quickly, I have something important to do."
Xiao Pan responded and immediately went to find Mr. Wen.
On this day, the price of food skyrocketed again, reaching five taels and one stone, and it continued to rise. Almost everyone was grabbing food, and the rice and grain shops were closed. One was for fear of being robbed, and the other was to wait and see. The higher it goes, the more you make. If you sell it now, you will lose money.
Qin Siyue has been paying attention to the price of food. Hearing the news, he couldn't help but worry. It had risen so much and the risk was too great.
So she hurried to find Lu Shanshan.
Lu Shanshan comforted her: "Don't be afraid, no matter how much the price rises, the problem is that food is in short supply now and there is no food available in the city. I will send people to the surrounding counties to buy it."
"Otherwise... let's forget it!"
Qin Siyue felt uneasy. It was her first time doing business and the capital was borrowed. What would she have to pay back if she lost money?
"Princess, how can you get great wealth if you don't take risks? Think about it, when this business is completed, it will be a profit of tens of thousands taels. If you miss this village, you will not have this shop."
Qin Siyue was shaken again.
Even though she was a noble princess, she was really short of money and couldn't do anything.
The allowance given to her by her parents' family, as well as the prince's salary and savings, were simply not enough.
"Okay, then you have to figure it out. If the price is too outrageous, forget it."
Lu Shanshan repeatedly promised that she would not lose money and coaxed Qin Siyue away. Lu Shanshan sneered: You are really timid. You want wealth but don't want to take risks. How can there be such a good thing in the world?
Thinking back to the time when Qin Siyue even dared to scheme against the prince in order to become the crown princess, now he is shrinking back.
If her brother hadn't relied on Uncle An Ping in the future, she wouldn't have wanted to make Qin Siyue rich.
