Chapter 39 Jiangnan Businessman

Author: Hua Mingyou

Chapter 39 Jiangnan Businessman

Prince Lian’s Mansion.

Today, Yinsi said he had not gone to court without going to court. He leaned comfortably against the side of the water pavilion and fed koi that had gathered under the window to compete for food.

The Eighth Concubine flipped the account book next to him: "In this ten-day, three grain merchants borrowed money from Jiudi's money house, and they must have collected a lot of grain."

Yinsi sneered: "Businessmen are pursuing profits, just like this fish is greedy for food, and they are all in nature."

The Eighth Concubine sneered: "That day I met my thirteenth brother and rushed into the palace. I also thought that he, the emperor's "maintained minister", could have any extraordinary measures. Now, I can only open a warehouse and put grain and add porridge."

She remembered that she had been surrounded by people for a long time that day and had to sell several times the expected grain, and said hatefully: "I want to see if the little grain in the treasury is enough for him to provide for a few natural disasters."

Yinsi crushed all the cakes in his hand and sprinkled them into the water, patted the debris on his hand: "I can hold on for ten days and half a month, and the fourth brother is always cautious."

The Ninth Master Yinzhen came in from outside, and was so hot that he was sweating: "Brother, why are you cat here? I'm asking me to find me. Oh, you're quite cool here."

The Eighth Concubine smiled and said, "Naturally, I asked people to put ice around the water pavilion, and the wind blew in was a bit cool."

Yinzhen smiled and said, "My Basketball is such a coincidence. I also ask people to learn it when I look back. This is a big deal, I can sweat all over when I sit still."

"Brother, you didn't go to the morning court today, but you lost money. I didn't see that Jiang Tingxi from the Ministry of Revenue was challenging Lao Thirteen. He was bitten by the dog he raised, and his face looked really good."

A cool breeze blew over, and he said even more vigorously: "It's so interesting. Who would dare to offend him and Prince Shuoyi? He has praised him to heaven. Now he also told him to know that everything is not what he does."

He had no objection to Yinxiang at first, after all, the two were similar in age and even had a good time when they were young. Yinxiang was free and righteous.

But as soon as the new king succeeded to the throne, Yinxiang rushed forward and became the supreme Prince Heshuoyi from the flat-headed prince.

That's fine. Now even his mother, who had been dead for many years, has been posthumously named Emperor Jingmin and moved to the imperial tomb of Emperor Ama. Concubine Yi felt very unhappy, but their sons could only watch.

Yinsi signaled him to sit down: "He controlled the Ministry of Revenue, and Jiang Tingxi was also the one he chose himself. What's going on with him? Maybe it's just a show for us."

Yinzhen didn't care: "Who doesn't know how much money and grain the Ministry of Revenue has. Last year, taxes were reduced due to drought. At the beginning of the year, we were preparing for war and spent a lot of money to get that musket. Now we have to have money but no money, no food but no food."

The price of grain is so high now that when the government opened a warehouse, no matter whether the family was short of food, everyone would line up to get rice and porridge to save the family’s rice and grain.

There are really many leftovers, and some can even be sold at a high price.

Therefore, although there are officers and soldiers guarding the places where porridge and food are distributed in each county, it cannot withstand the greed.

It took only three days of disaster relief, and two or three incidents of robbing rice and grain occurred.

The Eighth Concubine frowned when she heard this. She hated Yongzheng and Thirteen, and felt that they had suppressed their husbands.

But he couldn't stand this selfish people and interrupted: "I'll serve here later. My ninth brother stayed here for a drink with your starling."

Yinzhen naturally responded to everything.

After she left the water pavilion, she said to Yinsi: "Brother, it seems that several groups of grain merchants from Jiangnan have entered the capital recently. They have not visited the grain merchants' association and have not come out for social engagements."

Yinsi raised his eyebrows: "Want to get a piece of the pie when smelling the fishy smell?"

Yinzhen also felt that this was the case: "If you want to make money, you have to do what we want. I will find a few people to beat them."

Yinsi did not take these grain merchants from Jiangnan seriously, and he just heard it all.

Unexpectedly, within three days, Yinzhen came to the door again because of this matter.

"Brother! These idiots don't know what they are from, so they rented the best location in East City when they came up, and they didn't know any rules at all."

Yinsi was funny: "What are you chasing about with some businessmen? Is it worth making myself so angry?"

"These southern barbarians are not up to the road, and they are 10% lower than ours when they come up," Yinzhen was so angry that he sweated: "The president of the Grain Trader Association asked them to make a unified price, and they were just making excuses."

You're very polite, the hospitality was very good, but I just refused to raise the price.

They said they came from Jiangnan all the way, not from the north, and they were not used to being in the capital, so they sold out the ship of food early and would go home early.

"My men also went to find them in person. What do you think they are saying?"

Yinzhen wiped his sweat: "Ha! People said they had never heard of any princes and ministers. They were just businessmen, and it was not illegal to do business."

The more he said, he became more annoyed. He picked up the tea at hand and drank it all: "Today the price is 20% lower than ours. Anyone who is not a pot without rice is not willing to pay for food now. I'm waiting to see if his family has lowered the price after a few days."

Several grain merchants have come to his mansion, and they have all stocked up huge amounts of grain.

These days, the imperial court opened warehouses to provide disaster relief, and encountered those who lowered prices and snatched business. These people were a little unable to sit still.

He said it several times, neither the court nor the merchants from Jiangnan could hold on for a few days, and finally asked the president of the Grain Chamber of Commerce to persuade them to leave, and he ran to Yinsi to hide from Qingjing.

Yinsi frowned slightly: "What are the backgrounds of these businessmen from Jiangnan? You have to be careful not to make trouble at this critical moment."

"I have asked people to check it, but I don't have any background. I am indeed rich businessmen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. There is a family who is intimate with Li Wei's family, but it's not very close."

Yinzhen looked down on these Jiangnan merchants, but he didn't dare to be careless.

In addition to letting the Chamber of Commerce go around on the spot, a lot of people were sent to stare near their store.

These Jiangnan businessmen are very good at enjoying themselves and are also "considered" to the people of the Chamber of Commerce.

Every day, there are fine wine and delicacies, and beauties to accompany them, and even generously gave a Yangzhou thin horse to the president of the Grain Chamber of Commerce.

Although President Fang was dissatisfied with them, he couldn't beat the smiley person: "I think the food on your ship is almost the same, so the price should be the same as us."

He just said something, a few southern merchants said one by one:

"Where is it? The food on our ship has not been sold half of it. Don't look at the people coming and going here. There are many people watching the fun and buying less. The court distributed porridge and food every day, and those who could queue up would not come to me."

"But, the price here is high, it's almost five times higher than ours, and it's worth waiting for a few more days."

"President, you don't know. We are also anxious. New rice will be coming in two months, but it won't be sold at this price."

"Look, we have received the news and got it out with such a big ship, and we can't go back at a loss."

"Yes, I borrowed money from the money house to collect food. If I can't sell it, my house will have to be paid to the money house. If I can't sell it now, I want to lower it a little more and cut it by half, and I will have to make a profit."

The president's big grain merchants looked at each other in a row, but failed to convince them to raise prices, but they were told to be active.

The last day of the holiday.

Although the Fourth Master & Chi Xiaoxia are workaholics, they are going to take a vacation today and are not going to appear. Hahaha

See you tomorrow!
Chapter completed!