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Chapter 439

The development of Qinzhou is unbelievable. Despite the gorgeous coat, many people can still find part of the truth.

The imperial court sent troops to clear Ning's family to reduce resistance for Wang Hua's development of Ningzhou. Wang Hua brought a large amount of supplies to make the people settle down and create a good development environment.This is the table.

The emergence of canned food and granulated sugar not only made profits, but also stimulated the development of the local planting and transportation industries. With this as the leader, a large number of workshops appeared one after another, which in turn led to the derivation of service businesses such as inns and restaurants. bone.

The new city is not about reselling houses and land, but gathering people together to become a city. Otherwise, no matter how many industries Wang Hua creates, it will not work if there is one area in the east and one area in the west.When people gather together, food, clothing, housing and transportation all require new consumption.Moreover, in one episode, the businessmen who came here were visually shocked and had the idea of ​​investing in Qinzhou.The development of Qinzhou has created expectations for housing price increases.The construction of a large number of houses has stimulated various industries.This is flesh and blood.

Wang Hua's business knowledge is the soul of Qinzhou's development.For example, if the agent is someone else, if the supply is released, there will be no crisis of the goods, but using an agent will not only drive up the price of the product itself, but also get higher preferential terms.This is the unique value of the goods.

The development of Qinzhou is still mainly based on entities. The grain war is the real commercial war. It is a bit like futures trading, which requires more business acumen.

In the spring, Hao Pengfei hooked up with the big family to drive extravagant food prices.Wang Hua immediately judged Hao Pengfei's attempt, and used the grain in his hand, as well as the grain hoarded by the major families, to suppress the price of grain first.During the summer harvest, the purchase price will be very cheap.But the real grain harvest is still the autumn harvest, so Wang Hua predicted that they would hype it up first, get a profit, and then suppress the grain price.When the real hands-on, it is the autumn harvest.The long winter and spring are enough for them to have time to fry the grain to its peak.

But when it got to the point where it was easy to accept it, Wang Hua estimated that it was 75 yuan, and once it reached [-] yuan, it would soon be close to [-] yuan, so the price of food during the autumn harvest would not fall back.Therefore, Wang Hua told Li Xian that he asked him for tips at [-] Wen.

Two royal capitals are not enough to pry up this lever, but in the process of rising and falling, you can take advantage of this momentum to close at the low peak and sell decisively at the peak. Capital has skyrocketed.In fact, they harvested more spring grain than the other party, after all, the other party had to take out a part of the grain to lower the price.Then borrow money from Li Xian, tempt Wei Shi to also support a sum of money, and then see if there is any money in Qinzhou.The result was better than he thought. According to his estimation, the funds that can be operated in the end can only be around 800 million yuan.The last is door-to-door service, which subverts all previous concepts.

Finally, this food war has reached a satisfactory result.

Following Wang Chun and Ye Ke's order, dozens of people rode fast horses and flew to various places.All the two grain stores put up a striking banner with a "King" written on it, and then all opened their doors to sell them at 620 renminbi per shimi. It was transported to the river boat, and then transported back to the city from the river boat. The price increased by [-] yuan, which is not too high.

Sales were not good on the first day, and many people were on the sidelines.On the second day, merchants from the north began to purchase, and on the third day, sales began to pick up gradually.

But the fish hasn't taken the bait yet, Ye Ke and Wang Chun are not in a hurry, because of the current food price, these people come from more than a dozen families, and some of them have to ask the head of the family for instructions.Therefore, they continued to send and receive food, and on the fourth day, the two families transferred all their boats back to moor on the moat outside the city.Because there is no food to be harvested, the little harvest a day is not enough for the expenses of these people. It doesn’t matter to the people on their own. Apart from the people on their own, there are countless helpers, and because some of the inland rivers are shallow, they have to hire four hundred A smaller riverboat.All these helpers and ships were returned to reduce expenditure.

The grain sales on the fourth day were also normal. After all, it was almost October, and some merchants went to the river for a while.I saw that only one party was buying, but there were still no people selling grain.Then I inquired about it, and found that there was still food among the people, but it was some landlords who could afford it.Still counting on this batch of grain to bring a greater harvest, isn't it?At the end of summer, the grain price has increased by nearly [-] yuan.Why did you stay up for so many days, and no longer stay up for a few more days.

Therefore, on the fifth day, the business of the grain store was booming.

But it was not as hot as the sixth day. Suddenly, many big households flocked to every grain store at the same time, holding large denominations of flying money in their hands, and bought all the grain at once.There are also northern grain merchants who were waiting to hear the news and regretted it. They are not fools. After the rise and fall of summer grain, they can all tell who bought it.All of a sudden, in addition to the grain in his hands, this party has the grain in Wang Hua's hands, which can account for almost [-]% of the people who sell grain in the entire south of the Yangtze River, and two-thirds of the grain sold in the country.There is also grain sales, Yizhou, not to mention the high shipping costs, even if it is shipped out, it will not help.

Wait for the price to rise in the future.

Why did Wang Hua's family sell the food to them?Don't you know how many ordinary people will starve to death because of the rise in food prices?

When it was their turn to have food in their hands, they would definitely go too far than Wang Hua. At that time, it was guaranteed that no one would think about the life and death of ordinary people.

But after the transaction was completed, all the shops of the Wang family closed their doors.

In the city of Luoyang, the Wang family.

Li Hong, Wang Han, Li Xuejun's father and Wang Han's father were dividing up the loot. Not only Wang Han's father, but also three elders came.

Not all of them were sold, leaving 380 million shi of grain, because Li Xian was promised to give him 500 million shi of low-priced grain, but Oceania could only scrape together 120 million shi of grain, which had already arrived in Suzhou.Li Hong sighed, otherwise he would have been able to get more money from the other party.

The spoils began to be divided, and the grain sold received 21 million coins, of which at least 950 million coins were eaten by the other party.

There is still the original remaining 24 coins, but if the wages of tax workers, ship hire fees, and other miscellaneous items are excluded, another 32 coins will be deducted.

It turned out that the three companies took out a total of 150 million coins to operate, but Wang Hua sent three 10,000+ stones to the store one after another, and Li Hong made sixty coins for each bucket.In fact, more than that, Wang Han's father immediately agreed.This is equivalent to deducting another 20 yuan of capital.There are also 350 million mints transferred from Qinzhou, and 320 million mints from Webster, Li Xian and Li Guer, a total of 840 million mints, so the accounts show more than 170 mints, plus 3000 million shi of grain , is the profit.

When hearing this number, everyone, including Li Xuejun's father, was silent for a long time, it was too shocking.

Li Hong continued: "Although the profit is quite high, it can't let you suffer. How about our family eating the leftover grain at six hundred cash per shi?"

Although twenty texts were missing, no one objected.

In this way, a total profit of more than 400 million points will be obtained. According to the original distribution, the Taiyuan royal family will get 280 million, and Li Xuejun's father, the Persian royal family in exile, will get 210 million.But Li Hong was afraid that they would be jealous. Li Xuejun's father didn't care.Mainly the Taiyuan Wang family, Li Hong continued to explain: "Although there is still a big head left, I promised to let the queen share the dividend. If the dividend is small, the queen will be angry. Of course, if the dividend is too much, it will not work, and some villains will become greedy. .”

No one will check their account books, but the three companies are also planning to jointly forge an account book to reduce profits by two-fifths, so as not to cause more disputes.This account book has to be shown to Li Xian and his wife, so that no one will worry about it.

"Therefore, at least 200 million grains must be sent, and the remaining grain will be sold to the imperial court at [-] cents per bucket to repay the emperor's support."

Without Li Xian stamping jade seals on a thousand pieces of documents, the acquisition would not have been so smooth, maybe because of the big commotion this time, Wang Hua would be dismissed from office and ransacked his home.After hearing Li Hong's words, several people made calculations. In this way, Wang Hua could only get about 540 million with the grain.Although it is still more than them, the cost of Wang Hua plus food and ships is also higher than them, and it is also in the name of Wang Hua, and the planning is also planned by Wang Hua.It's not too much, let's express our acquiescence together.

"Then everyone agrees, the three of us will take a break for a while, and then we will have a second battle." The next battle is not as obvious as this time, and it is hidden, but it will also be very rewarding.It's just that the members of the Wang family in Taiyuan were both happy and in pain. After the two battles, the family's profits were doubled, but the other big families were also offended.

Li Hong looked at the members of the Wang family in Taiyuan and said, "Also, my Erlang has something to discuss with you."

"Please tell me." The oldest elder among them said with a very respectful attitude. This time, nearly 300 million yuan was the first dividend, and there was a second batch. The hidden profit benefited more from his family. And Qinzhou.That is to say, the money earned this year can buy all the properties of the Wang family in Taiyuan last year.

"Now that the money has been withdrawn, the 50 coins will be handed over to your government, but if you want your government to do one more thing for us, Erlang is willing to give another 80 coins."

"There is no need for money, as long as we can do it, we will try our best to do it for Wang Shilang." Although the 80 yuan was enough to make the elder's heart flutter, he is still very clear-headed, and he should not be too greedy.

"This Qiangui Mansion must accept it, because it is a bit difficult."

"What's the matter?"

"Erlang would like to ask your government to transfer [-] people to Oceania."

Since Li Hong's madness in the spring, more than 8000 people have been transferred to Oceania one after another.This time Wang Hua did it freely, mainly because he felt sorry for the end of the Ning family.In addition, this year's food price has been manipulated by two parties, and the neurosis has occurred, causing many innocent people to suffer and be displaced.Li Xian was weak, and officials began to do nothing, which facilitated the transfer of people.

But not like this, a long-term pain is worse than a short-term pain. In the future, some people will not give up, and food prices will rise and fall from time to time, and more people will suffer.Therefore, the number of refugees is increasing now. The main reason is that Li Xian saw the shortage of population in Qinzhou, so he issued an imperial edict to allow people from all over the country to go to Qinzhou.Even more chaotic, if this opportunity is not seized, it will be difficult for food prices to stabilize in the future, and it will be difficult to recruit people.So let it go.

"Fifty thousand?" The elder was taken aback, but then he thought that not to mention fifty thousand, even five million, that piece of land could fit there.Good money, but it's a bit hot to hold.

Li Hong took another medicine jade cup and said: "If your government can help my family complete this matter, there is another business that will be entrusted to your government as an agent."

The elder smiled wryly. Now that he finally knew what an agency was, he asked, "What business?"

"It's this medicine jade, but it is hundreds of times better than this medicine jade, and its luster is transparent, better than crystal."

The elder's eyes lit up: "Is there a sample?"

"It is being tested in Oceania and should be available next year."

"Okay, we agreed." This made him painful and happy again. 5 people, not 1 people, although Wang Hua's men arranged the people well, it was not easy to bring them out of the Tang Dynasty without disturbing anyone.But also happy, this time I brought back 410 million coins.Since ancient times, the family probably never had such a huge income.

But it's not over yet, the rest of the grain has to be transported to the capital.This is the joint profit of the three parties, so the Wang family of Taiyuan also needs to assist.The final transaction is all flying money, which must be converted into cash.There is one more important thing, but it has nothing to do with the other two.

A huge sum of 100 million guan was allocated to purchase a large amount of porcelain, cotton cloth, tea, silk and bamboo paper, which were to be transported to Tianzhu to trade grain.Some ships have already made a round trip to Tianzhu, but the number of transactions for the first time is not large, mainly for inspection.There is food, and the climate is very suitable for growing rice, but the people are lazy.

However, if the goods from the Tang Dynasty are traded, it will somewhat stimulate their passion for planting, and it may bring more than 1000 million shi of grain, but that's it.Also a huge number.This time the fleet was led by Lu Ergou himself. After looking at it, he made a big circle around the peninsula with the help of a deal, and gave the goods on board as gifts to the local chiefs, and made a deal. The number of transactions, but this one came back with a long delay.But after Wang Hua heard this, instead of being angry, he praised Lu Ergou, saying that he could do things.You can't just look at things in front of you.Through the friendship in this circle, Lu Ergou met many chiefs, which are the resources of contacts.

Therefore, this shipment is where the real deal begins.

It's a pity that the quantity can't satisfy Wang Hua. Otherwise, 5000 million shi of grain will come all at once, which is 310 million tons.

But it's not too small. According to Lu Ergou's prediction, if the transaction goes well, at least 800 million shi of grain will be obtained for the first time.

Fortunately, the shipbuilding yard has tripled in size. From the first month to September, in addition to launching [-] river boats, [-] sea boats were also built.But the number of ships increased, but the number of sailors was short.

It can't be a sailor, but a sailor from the Tang Dynasty.Wang Hua repeatedly said this.On land, the ratio of Tang people to slaves is one to seven. As long as the weapons are well controlled, it is a safe line.If it exceeds one to ten, there will be danger at any time.But on sea ships, the safety line is one to two, and if it exceeds one to three, danger will also occur.

Not only that, but that's it. In the future, at least more than 800 ships will be added, which means [-] ships, to meet the needs of the next few years.But if it continues to develop, the fleet will also expand.In this way, the shortage of sailors is even greater.Like this time when Lu Ergou led the team to Tianzhu, it had to be completed in two parts, otherwise the ships would not be available.

Li Hong also wanted to go to Chang'an immediately, and if he arrived one day earlier, he would be able to save the other party from the trick.

With 520 million flying money, and fifty guards.Had to be careful, too much money.Now even the Wang family is afraid of attracting people's attention, and has hired more than 300 guards to guard the mansion.As for whether Webster would think of exchanging these flying money into cash, Li Hong didn't care.

After seeing Li Xian and Webster, Li Hong took out their principal, then pointed to the 200 million cash money and said: "This is the interest money obtained by the queen and princess."

Webster's eyes are a little green.

What about the queen?With 20 to 200 guan, it is guaranteed that no minister will say anything.But try it with 45 million yuan?She regretted giving less at the beginning.But even if she gave too much, there were only so many points, and it was just for her teeth.In fact, after the price of food rose to [-] yuan in the later period, the profit was not large.Even if the capital is less, it doesn't matter.The reason why Wang Chun let the ship continue to buy is to play with the other party, and speed up the price increase of food by the way, so as to end this matter as soon as possible.

Webster's expression was as expected by Wang Hua, after all, it is calculated by money, not by words.Li Hong took out the account book and said, "This is the account, Queen, how about the distribution?"

Webster looked over, not dissatisfied, but curious about how much money Wang Hua made this time.The income in the account book was reduced, and several shareholders were also mentioned. At this time, the Taiyuan Wang family and the Persians surfaced, and they could not hide it.But in this way, there is only less than 500 million yuan in profit, which is of course very considerable, but if it goes down, no one will get as much as Webster.

After Webster saw this result, he was a little embarrassed, but thought that several companies would do something.Another idea is that the Taiyuan royal family had a good daughter with that Persian prince.Otherwise, it won't be able to get the glory of Wang Hua this time.

Li Xian didn't get any money, so he was still a little clear-headed, and asked, "Li Hong, food prices are going up again."

"Your Majesty, the servants are here for this purpose. The 500 million shi low-priced grain will arrive in Luoyang in a short time. However, most of these grains come from the Tang Dynasty itself, so there will be a second batch, and a third batch. Four batches, except the second batch will arrive in the Tang Dynasty before the year, and the last two batches will be a little later. But these grains, my Erlang said, will only be handed over to the court at [-] Wen per bucket, so that the price of grain will be stabilized."

The first batch of food is the summer harvest in Oceania, because the population has increased, and it will not exceed 200 million shi.In the last two batches of Lu Ergou's trips, Wang Hua took the initiative to lower the price of food, even if the ships were shipped by themselves, there would not be much profit, and they might even learn to do good deeds.

But it doesn't matter, the lower the food price, the more than a dozen families will be trapped, and when they are disintegrated in the spring, the benefits will also come from it.

"so cheap?"

"Your Majesty, Erlang's family has made a small amount of money from handling the grain this time. The money comes from the people and is used for the people. So it is handed over to the court at this price. Not only that, because there is some money in hand, except For the three batches of grain mentioned by the servant girl, next year and the year after that, 3000 million shi of grain will be paid to the court every year at this price."

"3000 million stone?" Li Xian was startled.If there is this grain, the price of grain will be suppressed at once.

"Another thing to tell His Majesty, there are 2000 families who want to hoard grain this time, because we are ahead of them, and they have to buy a large amount of grain at a high price during the autumn harvest. This makes them trapped More than [-] million yuan. Although these families have strong capital, they will not only have these properties, but they will not have so much liquidity. These funds are borrowed from other places. If His Majesty Yi Erlang, give them a A painful lesson. After seeing this lesson, no one dares to hoard for self-interest, disregarding the court, disregarding the country, disregarding the people.”

"What is it, let's hear it."

"Your Majesty, release 500 million shi of grain from the warehouse, and distribute it to the common people with food coupons at 25 Wen per bucket. With the harvest next year and the transfer of Erlang's 3000 million grain back to the Tang Dynasty, they lack funds, and finally We can only reluctantly sell about 4000 million shi of grain in our hands. There is no shortage of grain, no one dares to hoard it, and the price of grain will be stable for several years."

Wang Hua didn't know it at first, but after serving as the Minister of the Household Department, he realized that the Tang Dynasty had no grain reserves. Although it was not as terrifying as Yang Guang's storage of billions of shi grains, there were nearly [-] million shi grains in various treasuries.But this is the foundation of the country. Normally, officials only exchange new grain for old grain for adjustment, and dare not embezzle it.

When Li Xian heard that the state warehouse was being used, he pondered for a while and dared not express his opinion.

"Your Majesty, only 500 million shi was used, but Erlang raised more than 7000 million shi of grain for you in three years. These grains will not make money, but the more you raise, the more you post. A courtier will do the same Do. Your Majesty, the country is your country, the people are your people, what is the warehouse for? Is it just a decoration? If your majesty doesn’t believe it, please read this.”

He took out a letter of guarantee from his pocket, written by Wang Hua, if he fails to hand over the grain next year or the next year, he will die as an apology.

Li Xian was a little moved.

Li Hong said again: "Your Majesty, if you don't believe it, you can call Wei Xianggong. He is a veteran of the four dynasties, and he should understand the seriousness of the matter better than Erlang."

Li Xian heard the same thing, after all, the state warehouse was used, and it was not a little or two grains.So he called Wei Yuanzhong over and told the story.Wei Yuanzhong looked at Li Hong meaningfully, it turns out that you have benefited, but you used the court's food to set up tricks for more than a dozen families.

Li Hong was not afraid of him, and said with a smile, "This is a big transfer. My Erlang is a transfer station, transferring some people's money to the hands of the common people."

Li Xian understood that Wang Hua had made a lot of money, but he used the money he earned to forcibly suppress the price of food to benefit the common people.Therefore, the money is equivalent to just passing through his hands.The most unlucky ones may be those big families.But for these families to make food fortunes, he will not sympathize with them.

Li Hong said again: "If Your Majesty and Mr. Xiang are not willing, then we have to watch these people raise the price of food to one hundred and two hundred. At that time, even if we find my Erlang, there is no other way."

Wei Yuanzhong was also moved, and asked, "Is 25 Wen per bucket of rice too low?"

"Wow, Mr. Wei, do you want to be like those shameless families who want to exploit the poor people's money?"

Wei Yuanzhong blushed.In fact, Li Xian also wanted to say this sentence, but he was too embarrassed to say it.

Li Hong hit the iron hot, took back the military order, and said: "If your majesty and Wei Xianggong disagree, this servant has no choice but to take back this military order. Just this time, my family's Erlang also shared a lot of money, which is enough for the Wang family for a lifetime." I don’t have to worry about food and clothing. I don’t have to watch the money disappear day by day.”

Li Xian and Wei Yuanzhong blushed again, Wang Hua was good at earning money, it seemed that all the money he earned was used to subsidize the country and the people.

Li Xian looked at Wei Yuanzhong, Wei Yuanzhong nodded his head, expressing acquiescence, and said to Li Hong after nodding, "Li Hong, you have to think clearly, this is not 300 million shi, but 3000 million shi of grain a year. If His Majesty issues an edict to open the warehouse, Wang Shilang will not be able to hand in the task. At that time, he will really be decapitated."

"Wei Xianggong, please rest assured that this grain can still be raised. When the fleet sailed last year, we found many grain-producing countries, but it would be difficult to find more. Before I came to Jingzhao, I had already asked my servants to go to Suzhou Purchase 100 million shi goods with Yangzhou, and prepare to go to these countries to trade with them."

Webster became interested and asked, "Where are these countries?"

Maybe the fleet of Wang and his family can also go there and make a fortune.

Li Hong asked the eunuch to bring a pen and paper, drew a bit, pointed to the Indian Peninsula and the African continent, and said, "It's right here."

It was Wang Hua's instruction, and it gave Li Xian a reassurance.I don't mind the Wei family's fleet passing by.It's just that Oceania must not be exposed.

A few people looked at the map with great interest, and Li Xian made a gesture to see how big Africa and Tang Dynasty were, but he was disappointed that it was much smaller than others.Since it is such a big place, it shouldn't be a problem to get a grain of 3000 million shi.What's more, there is another one who has no money in the back, which makes him feel nervous.

Gritting his teeth, he said, "Come here, the officials from the Household Department will see you."

But there was no immediate decree to release grain, and it was not agreed to release grain until it was confirmed that Wang Hua's subordinates had made large purchases in Suyang and other places, and loaded them on ships to go out to sea.But fortunately, after these families got the food, in order to create a sense of crisis, they hoarded it and did not sell it.Although they are powerful, they started to sell grain after receiving the news that the court sold grain at a low price, but it was too late.

Now that the action has been taken, the imperial machinery runs faster, and if there is no food distributed, it will take time to release the food stamps first. This thing is fast, and small pieces of paper are delivered to the people door to door.But Li Hong felt that the monarch and his ministers were shameless.My own family reduced the food to 28 Wen, but the food that came out was still 35 Wen.Is the court so short of money?Fortunately, it has not been raised to [-] words, otherwise it will lose its effect?
So the dozen or so families had no choice but to continue to keep the food in their hands. At this time, many people felt that something was wrong, as if they had fallen into a trap.

(End of this chapter)