Yuzhou, Luoyang
On the next day, Ji Wuyin ordered that 20,000 shi of grain be sold to Nanyang, but the price was still 240 wen per dou.
The Yuzhou Grain Merchant Chamber of Commerce continues to make gains.
Xie Zhan, who was in Runan, learned about it and ordered, "Follow up! We will sell 10,000 shi of grain to Nanyang at the same price."
The Yuzhou Grain Merchant Chamber of Commerce reacted a little slowly, and then also took in the food.
Liu Xiaohuai: "There are people in Runan who are following us to sell grain."
Ji Wuyin said, "It should be Xie Zhan, Gu Huaisheng, Lu Fei and others, don't worry about him."
Xie Zhan, Gu Huaisheng, Lu Fei and others could not leave Nandi quietly, let alone bringing so much money and food with them.
Those Ji family members who stayed in the south had already reported their changes.
This move by Xie Zhan and others will speed up their achievement of their goals.
On the third day, Luoyang sold 30,000 shi.
Xie Zhan sold 20,000 shi in Runan.
The Yuzhou Grain Merchant Chamber of Commerce has taken advantage of both sides.
Ji Wuyin looked in the direction of Xuchang, "Ninety thousand dan, how much more can the Yuzhou Grain Merchant Chamber of Commerce take in?"
Yuzhou, Xuchang
In the Grain Merchant Chamber of Commerce, Che Jiuming looked ugly, "How come so much grain came out all at once?" It was still two places!
The others also looked at each other. In three days, they had eaten a total of 90,000 shi of food.
They need to spend 24,000 taels for every 10,000 shi of grain. In only three days, they spent 216,000 taels, and it only lasted three days.
"President, if there is still food being thrown out in Luoyang and Runan tomorrow, what will we do?"
A member of the Chamber of Commerce asked them the most troublesome question. In order to scrape the Nanyang land, they had only food and not much money. Just hope that the food in hand will be cashed in at a high price. Now they have raised the price of food, and others are cashing in.
"Eat in!" Che Jiuming said coldly.
The others looked at each other without objection. Because they know that if they don’t eat, food prices will fall and all their hard work will be in vain.
Liaodong County, Pingguo County
Lu Songli learned that Ji Wuyin had begun to implement the plan.
Her trading plan was formulated based on the situation in Nanyang.
In the commercial wars of later generations, Fan Zhongyan's eternal conspiracy and China Grain Reserve's battle to become famous are both classics.
The former talks about when Fan Zhongyan was in charge of Hangzhou, and during a disaster year, local wealthy businessmen united to raise food prices. He didn't have much food for disaster relief, and his predicament was similar to Zhang Xian's current situation.
At that time, he thought of a way to directly purchase large quantities of grain from grain merchants at a price higher than the price set by the grain merchants. The wealthy businessmen happily sold the grain to Fan Zhongyan at a higher price.
Fan Zhongyan's move attracted a lot of criticism from the people, but he did not defend himself and continued to collect grain at a high price.
Because of his actions, news spread like wildfire that grain prices were the highest in Hangzhou. In the next month, grain merchants from all over the country shipped grain from all over the country, and the docks and stations in Hangzhou were full of ships and vehicles transporting grain, hoping to take advantage of the opportunity to make a profit.
Fan Zhongyan knew at a glance that the time was right, and immediately decided to stop purchasing high-priced grain, and opened warehouses to release grain. Free grain was released in large quantities, so that grain prices in Hangzhou began to plummet. At this time, if grain merchants from various places transport the grain back, they will suffer more losses. They have no choice but to sell the grain at a low price. As a result, food prices in Hangzhou have stabilized.
Lu Songli discovered that Che Jiuming, the president of the Yuzhou Grain Merchants Chamber of Commerce, had brains and means.
Today, the Yuzhou Grain Merchant Chamber of Commerce is raising grain prices, but it has not caused grain merchants from many places to swarm in with grain to compete with them.
All because he set the price of a bushel of rice at two hundred and sixty cents.
This price allows the members of the Grain Merchant Chamber of Commerce headed by Che Jiuming to make as much profit as possible without causing grain merchants from all over the country to flock here. After all, grain merchants from various places transporting grain to Nanyang will increase their costs and cause losses. The grain price of two hundred and sixty cents per bucket is not attractive enough for foreign grain merchants. After all, the current grain price is not low anywhere.
After talking about Fan Zhongyan's eternal conspiracy, we have to mention the battle to become famous in Zhonggrain Reserve.
In fact, Sinograin’s battle to become famous is even more exciting. In 2008, foreign businessmen wanted to control China's grain market and dumped grain at high prices. China and foreign countries have engaged in a game. China wants to stabilize grain prices and keeps selling out its grain reserves, while foreign businessmen continue to eat Chinese grain.
Foreign businessmen think that when they consume all China's grain reserves, they will have the final say on China's grain prices.
But the reserves of China Grain Reserve are so unpredictable that foreign businessmen can’t finish them no matter how much they eat. At the later stage of the game, China Grain Reserves' posture of selling grains still shows no sign of weakness. Foreign businessmen were afraid and did not dare to eat any more food.
After the foreign businessmen's strategy failed, in order to avoid greater losses, they had to sell the grain in their hands as quickly as possible at a low price. Because Sinograin has been selling off grain and constantly lowering grain prices, they will lose more if they don't sell.
Foreign businessmen continued to sell off the grain in their hands, and Sinograin took back the grain at low prices. With this in and out, Zhonggrain made a lot of money, fought a beautiful defensive battle, and became famous because of this battle.
Now on the battlefield in Nanyang, if they did what Fan Zhongyan did, they would certainly be able to solve the Nanyang problem, but wouldn't this be an advantage to those in the Yuzhou Grain Merchants Association? Let the people from the Yuzhou Grain Merchant Chamber of Commerce sell the grain at a high price as they wished.
The last ones to suffer were grain merchants across the country.
When people see business opportunities, they transport grain all the way to Nanyang in order to sell it at a high price. What's wrong with that?
Lu Songli's trading plan this time actually combined the essence of the two battles.
Since the Yuzhou Grain Merchants Chamber of Commerce has begun to significantly raise grain prices, it means that the other party has completed the work of raising funds.
They must have hoarded a lot of food on hand, waiting to be cashed in. From this, it can be inferred that they did not have much silver on hand.
Ji Wuyin sells grain in order to force the other party to take in the food, extract the other party's cash, and squeeze out their positions at the same time.
When all the members of the Yuzhou Grain Merchant Chamber of Commerce had all their hands on grain and no cash, and Nanyang was still holding on tenaciously and not reaching their expected state, I asked them if they were panicking? There will be some trouble later, tsk tsk.
Moreover, the wealthy businessmen of the Grain Merchant Chamber of Commerce are not monolithic. As long as they use the right method, they can always tear a hole.
Even if the operation fails and the plan does not go as expected, then the money they got from selling the grain at a high price of 240 cents is always real, right? At worst, if you use money to buy grain from elsewhere and transport it to Nanyang, the lives of the victims can always be saved.
With the premise that you can get the bottom of things, the next step is done.
