Nanyang
On this day, Ji Wuyin and Zhang Xian met and the two parties signed an agreement. This matter was hidden from Zuo Anmin.
After receiving the secret message from Liaodong County, Zhang Xian did not take any action.
He had sent a secret back to Chang'an and issued a military order to the emperor. He was responsible for restoring the people's livelihood in Nanyang, thus gaining full power to make decisions in Nanyang.
After the two parties signed the agreement, Zhang Xian said politely, "Lao Ji will show off next."
"It's easy to talk, let's encourage each other." Ji Wuyin looked at Zhang Xian friendly, these are his own people.
Xuchang
The atmosphere in the Yuzhou Grain Merchant Chamber of Commerce was condensed.
I can't imagine what they have experienced in the past seven days.
Starting from the selling of low-priced grain in Luoyang, Runan followed suit the next day. Every day, they unilaterally sold ten thousand shi more grain than the previous day. For example, Luoyang throws 10,000 shi on the first day, 20,000 shi on the second day, and 30,000 shi on the third day. Runan followed up from the next day, and the amount of grain sold was the same as that in Luoyang the day before.
On the fourth day, Luoyang seemed to find that their intake was slow, so they stopped increasing the amount and continued to maintain the daily amount of 30,000 shi. As for Runan, the pace is surprisingly consistent with that of Luoyang, and the daily amount is set at 20,000 shi.
They were happy at first, thinking that the other party didn't have much food.
Soon they knew they had guessed wrong.
Because starting from the fourth day, Luoyang released 30,000 shi of grain every day, and Runan released 20,000 shi. Fifty thousand kilograms of food was kept stable every day, delivered on time and in the right amount. It lasted for four days. It was so stable. How could it look like there was not much food?
They are obviously considerate of them and are afraid that they will not be able to cope with too much input at once.
In just seven days, they ate 180,000 shi of grain from Luoyang and 110,000 shi from Runan, totaling 290,000 shi of grain, and spent nearly 700,000 taels!
At present, the entire Grain Merchants Chamber of Commerce only has one hundred thousand taels of cash left.
In order to gain more profits from the subsequent land scraping operation, they had already exchanged the money in their hands for more food. They did not have much cash in the first place.
An emergency fund of eight hundred thousand taels was thought to be enough. Eight hundred thousand taels for half a month, isn’t that enough?
If they have experienced future generations, they will know that Luoyang's move was a smash.
You pull it up, I smash it.
At first, the Yuzhou Grain Merchant Chamber of Commerce thought it had a lot of chips and wanted to raise the price limit and then ship goods to the people of Nanyang at a high price.
But they encountered snipers, and someone kept smashing the plate.
If there is a smash, the price is not theirs to decide, so they can only continue to take in chips.
The other party keeps shipping goods to them, running on their existing positions.
When their positions are full and there is no working capital left, they will become very passive.
At this time, Che Jiuming had a gloomy face. He had already determined from the beginning that the relief food brought by Zhang Xian was not much, and the court had other concerns, so subsequent support was basically cut off. He just decided to take action. Now, who is ruining his good deeds?
But no matter who it is, the current situation is very unfavorable to the entire Grain Merchants Chamber of Commerce.
Che Jiuming looked around and said, "Everyone has seen that the current situation is not good for us."
The members of the Grain Merchant Chamber of Commerce looked at each other.
"But I believe that the other party must be at the end of their game. How can they get so much food, right?"
"This time, as long as we work together and come up with another sum of money, and continue to eat food from Runan, Luoyang, we will definitely be able to hollow them out and achieve our goal of controlling food prices in Nanyang."
The prospects are promising, but responders are sparse.
"The president is right. It is the darkness before dawn. It will be good to get through this hurdle. Everyone should work together to tide over the difficulties. And this time, so many of us have set up a joint action of the Grain Merchants Association. If it fails, , I’m just asking you if I can slap you in the face?”
Others also echoed, "Yes, yes, everyone must do their best this time."
"Meizishan, Shan Tianxing, Zhou Beicheng, what do you think? How much more money can be spent?" Che Jiuming clicked on a few silent members.
Mei Zishan wailed and cried out, "President, I am just a small grain merchant. I really can't make any money at this time."
Even though Che Jiuming said the prospects were so good, is this really the case?
Shan Tianxing: "Yes, President, my entire net worth is also at this time."
Che Jiu Ming had a gloomy face and was furious. They were really a bunch of cowardly guys who lacked the resources to plan!
But on the surface, he gave them advice very gently, "Do you all have relatives and friends? Your relationship with the big bank is not bad, right? Can't you borrow some for emergency use?"
Mei Zishan said reluctantly, "I'll try my best."
Che Jiu Ming said earnestly, "You have to think clearly. The money you invest now can be doubled in the future."
The members of the Grain Merchant Chamber of Commerce present had different ideas. Are they allowed to use funds to eat grain? The people whose names were called shook their heads in their hearts like rattles.
Now, they had all the food in their hands and no taels of cash, and they were panicking.
The key is, they don't know how much food the other party still has!
If the other party has a lot of food, and the food can only go in but not go out, they will be starved to death.
Moreover, the food cannot be stored well and will become moldy and wormy if it is not stored well. It is very realistic that by the next year, this year's new grain will become old grain and cannot be sold at a high price.
The risk of continuing to invest money is too great! As a businessman, buying and selling is business. If you lose this time, you can make it back next time. They are not willing to stress their wealth.
Now, they are not saying that they want to get out of the way, but at least they are not willing to spend any more money. As for what to do next, they need to wait and see. Maybe the president, Che Jiuming, can turn the tide?
Finally, Che Jiuming said, "Everyone, go back and think about it. This is the last thing we need to do. Think about it, everyone, we can't let our efforts for such a long time go to waste, right?" and let them disperse.
There was nothing Che Jiu Ming could do, they were now riding a tiger.
The next step is to compare who is stronger.
Mei Zishan and Zhou Beicheng were on the same road, so they left together.
Mei Zishan arrived home first. As soon as his carriage stopped, Zhou Beicheng also stopped.
Seeing him like this, Mei Zishan knew that he had something to say and invited him in.
After the two entered the Mei family teahouse, they dismissed the servants. Zhou Beicheng asked directly, "Brother Mei, what do you think of President Che asking us to raise funds again?"
The relationship between the two was quite good, so Mei Zishan's answer was quite candid, "The enemy is coming fiercely. The water in Nanyang is too deep. I don't want to go deeper into this muddy water."
Zhou Beicheng understood, which meant that he would not take out any more money.
He was not surprised by this. Mei Zishan was timid and not very determined. He could run faster than a rabbit when there was any disturbance.
