The "fool's nest" mentioned by grain merchants is nothing more than the Jinjinlou, the landmark building of Yangzhou Goods Store.////

The Jinjin Tower is six feet high and has five floors, making it the tallest building in Yangzhou. The entire building is magnificent and magnificent. When you look at it, you will know that the owner of this building is a unique wealth.

There is a hall on the second floor of Jinjin Tower, which is six meters square enough to accommodate four or five hundred people. Looking around, such a huge hall, with only four pillars in the middle, which makes people amazed. These four pillars are not simple, three or four feet thick, made of high-quality nan wood. On the pillars are carved with various dragons and phoenixes, and four oil lamps are hung. The oil lamp burns cotton oil, not only without any odor, but also emits a burst of fragrance, and spices are obviously added to the lamp oil.

On the wall on the front of the hall, a blackboard of more than meter wide was hung. The blackboard was filled with place names and numbers with white charcoal pens: Suzhou, one or six qian; Changzhou, one or five qian...

These blackboards record grain prices in various places.

Lin Chunhong and Zheng Tiancheng stood in front of the blackboard and were looking at the price of grain.

I saw Zheng Tiancheng being quite angry and scolding the grain merchant:

"Military, Hui merchants, and Jiangnan merchants control the terminal market of grain, which is fatal to Bangtai! Li Zhonglian and Liu Sanshui know that Bangtai has a grain of tens of millions of stones and is extremely rich in funds, but they can muster up the courage to make a desperate bet. It's just bullying Bangtai without a terminal market!"

Lin Chunhong nodded and signaled Zheng Tiancheng to continue.

Zheng Tiancheng was inspired and almost spit out of his mouth: "These merchants not only control the terminal market of grain, but also control the terminal market of all other commodities. This is also an important reason why Bangtai has been unable to open up the situation in Jiangnan for a long time!"

Lin Chunhong snorted and sneered: "It's okay to have a terminal market. As long as we spend some time, we will build it sooner or later. The key is that these merchants do everything they can. Over the years, Bangtai has made many attempts in Jiangnan, and has encountered problems outside the market and has to be terminated. Only Yangzhou cargo warehouse has been preserved to this day in the name of supplying military supplies!"

"It's amazing, this time these merchants must pay the price of bleeding!"

Lin Chunhong's words were like a trumpet of battle, causing Zheng Tiancheng's blood to surge, like a warrior preparing to charge, clenched his hands and shouted: "Military, let's start now. I've almost gotten sick all these years!"

Lin Chunhong nodded solemnly and ordered: "Two hundred thousand stones, no stone can be lost! All are shipped to Yangzhou and sold publicly! Nine coins and one stone!"

"Every county, I heard it clearly. Each county has thrown away at least a thousand newspapers. I don't care what method you use, but I must let the people know that we are selling grain publicly for nine cents of silver and one stone!"

The food war finally reached the stage of exploring the map, and then, the bayonet should be revealed!

The sudden rise in grain prices caused a crazy rush to buy. People from all over the country were like crazy, queuing at the door of the grain store day and night, staring at the constantly beating upwards with fear.

In Danyang County, at the entrance of Liuji Grain Store, the people lined up almost for a long time. The guy in the grain store happily carried grain to weigh the food for the people. A guy even stood at the door of the store, his hands shaping into a trumpet shape, and shouted: "Each person is limited to purchase three dou, one dou of grain is one qian and seven cents!"

As soon as the guy's shout fell, the people immediately started to move and asked, "Isn't it a qian 5 cents yesterday? Why did it only qian 7 cents today?"

The guy looked at the people lined up with contempt and shouted: "If you think it's expensive, you can't buy it... No one is asking you to buy it!"

The people were furious and cursed. One of them even shouted: "Blow it, damn it..."

The crowd was excited, and the people rolled up their sleeves and were about to step forward. The team was in chaos. When the guy saw it, he jumped aside and shouted in a trembling voice: "Dare you dare to hit someone? There is no way to be a king? Boss Liu is a guest of the county magistrate. Are you impatient to live?"

The guy's threat made the people a little stunned. One of them seemed to be a naughty man and shouted: "My fellow villagers are almost starving to death, how can they care about so much?"

After shouting, Yantouqing picked up half of the blue brick from the ground, raised his arm and threw it hard on the price sign in the grain store.

Only a bang sound was heard, and the price card was knocked to the ground.

"Okay...good..." There was a lot of cheers around, and the momentum was quite strong.

The people finally exclaimed a sense of anger, and with someone charging forward, they all became like tigers and forced their friends to go regardless of the situation.

"Don't worry, beating him will make people live..."

"Beat! What a bullshit Boss Liu, just a profiteer, you'll be beaten up for nothing!"

...

The chaotic situation was about to break out, and Boss Liu had been alarmed. He hid behind the door panel, looked outside through the gap, and was ready to escape from the back door at any time.

The clerk who reported to the officials had been sent out long ago. Although Boss Liu received a hint from the guild the day before yesterday, even though there was anything wrong with the reporter, the constable and the yamen runners arrived as soon as possible, Boss Liu couldn't believe that the officials would react so quickly.

The situation continued to deteriorate, and the people bent down, picked up the hard objects on the ground, and smashed them hard at the arrogant guy and the shop door. Seeing that the situation was not good, the guy jumped into the shop like a rabbit.

When the people were about to rush forward, a loud shout came from behind:

"stop!"

It was the yamen runner, and the constable arrived!

I saw these yamen runners and constables holding up water and fire sticks, shouting and rushing towards the grain store with great momentum. The Park Knife hanging around her waist also shook, which looked particularly scary.

"Mr. The county master has an order. Who dares to cause trouble? Let's take a hundred sticks first..."

The yamen runners and constables waved water and fire sticks and rushed into the crowd. They saw people beating people and dogs beating dogs, and they were very arrogant.

The screams and scolding immediately sounded, and the crowd was in chaos.

"Everyone line up in a regular manner. If anyone dares to make trouble, be careful of eating sticks..."

The people were captured by the momentum of the water and fire sticks and dodged one after another.

The chaotic situation was curbed, and the people dared not speak out, and they could not vent their anger, staring at the yamen runners and constables with hatred.

Seeing the yamen runners and the constable arrived, Boss Liu finally breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly appeared from behind the door panel. He was about to thank the captain when suddenly a idle man emerged from the crowd, holding a pile of newspapers in his hand and shouted: "Let's read the newspaper, read the newspaper... Today's newspaper is free... free..."

The people were so worried that when they heard the idle man shouting, they cursed angrily: "Where are the bastards coming from? Get out of here, I can't even expose the blame, how can I be in the mood to read the newspaper?"

"Get out! Damn, do you use me as a pastime?"

...

The yamen runners were extremely nervous, but when they saw this inappropriate idle man, they seemed to find fun and joked: "Brother, I went to the wrong place, it's better to go to the teahouse... Be careful of being beaten here!"

They were just talking and being happy, but the idle man made a sentence, which made them stunned: "Free newspapers... front page headlines, Yangzhou warehouses sell grain on publicly, nine cents per stone..."

"It's nine cents per stone. The warehouse is on the other side of the river. If you hire a boat, you can buy as much as you want..."

When the people heard this, they didn't care about the water and fire sticks on their heads, and immediately surrounded the idle man in the center and shouted wildly: "Hurry! Take it and see if there are anyone who knows literacy. Read, read quickly..."

The yamen runners were stunned and looked at the headmaster.

The captain looked grim. After thinking for a moment, he shouted: "Catch this crazy gangster! The evil words confuse the crowd!"

With an order, the yamen runners rushed up and pressed the idle man to the ground. The idle man threw the newspaper at his hand into the sky, causing a large number of people to rob him.

The headmaster looked at the crazy people, his face was as frost-faced as ice. Now, the county master was scolded by the stern master.

The headmaster was furious, stared at the idle man coldly, shouting: "The bold madman actually deceives the public with evil words! Take it away!"

After being snatched, the idle man shouted: "It's illegal to deliver newspapers... Where is the law of nature..."

...

The yamen runners and constables arrived quickly and retreated quickly. The people called each other for friends, as if they had completely regarded the grain shop in front of them as nothing.

"Sanlaizi, you have a boat, and I will take it with me tomorrow..." A group of people immediately surrounded Sanlaizi and said with a flattering look.

"Sanlaizi, I think it's better for you to bring it back to everyone! Isn't it enough to cross the Tiaojiang River?

"Come on, think of those who buy grain in Guazhou, come to Sanlaizi to register and pay the money to ensure that there will be low-priced grain tomorrow..."

Soon, the people who were waiting to buy the grain were completely dispersed, leaving behind the stunned Boss Liu and his friend.

At the same time, the same scene was staged in various parts of Jiangnan. The doors of the grain shop were suddenly deserted and there was no one carriage in front of them. The people were either preparing to go to Guazhou in person or asking relatives and friends to help bring food, and gathered in Guazhou.

The agency was too smart to calculate, but Qingqing's life was calculated! Li Zhonglian and Liu Sanshui obviously did not realize that the reason why they were able to control the grain prices in Jiangnan was not only firmly controlling the terminal market, but also "information asymmetry" was also a necessary factor!

Now Lin Chunhong not only has grain in his hands, but also uses the newspapers with an increasingly powerful influence to eliminate "information asymmetry" and suddenly slam the life of grain merchants in Jiangnan.

Life is so exciting.

Li Zhonglian and Liu Sanshui have already started preparing to count the silver. Unexpectedly, in one day, the storm suddenly changed, and the piles of grain were abandoned by the people as if nothing had been paid attention to. This storm originated in Guazhou. Within one day, it quickly broke out in various prefectures and counties, pushing them into a desperate situation.

In modern times, information is so developed, smart merchants can still make high profits by using "information asymmetry", let alone the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century. In this era, news was jaw-dropping. A dog in the capital bites a person, and after it reaches the south of the Yangtze River, it often turns into chengren bites the dog.

Newspaper! Everything is caused by newspapers!

Although the literacy rate of the people in this era is no more than 20%, and although there is still no newspaper in the vast rural areas, it cannot be held back from spreading one by one or ten to one. The news that low-priced grain is sold in Guazhou is like wings growing, spreading rapidly to various places.

Especially necessities such as food that are related to their wealth and life, the people have devoted twelve minutes to inquire about the news. Even if these people are a little skeptical, they can't help but send people to Guazhou to find out.

As for the grain shop, the people hated it to the core and were too lazy to even look at it. Even when passing by, they would spit out a spit and curse: "The profitable businessman!"
Chapter completed!