Prime Minister

Chapter 409 Greed
On the day of selling salt banknotes, crowds of people gathered outside the exchange, with hundreds of merchants gathered.

Everyone took a look, there was no sign outside Duyan Courtyard today.

In the past, it was necessary to hang a sign of the price of salt money.When the price of salt banknotes is high, it is the current price minus five hundred coins per seat, and when the salt price is as low as five guan, it is five hundred coins per seat of five guan.

In other words, when the salt banknotes are less than five guan, the imperial court will not start the acquisition.It was like a stiff person standing there being beaten.

Many businessmen take advantage of this disadvantage for profit.

Among the people who came to wait outside the Capital Salt Courtyard, there were not many real salt merchants, and many of them were speculators and people who wanted to speculate in Jiaoyin shop.

Among them, Shen Chen and Shen Yan's uncle and nephew from the Shen family's Jiaoyin shop also came here.

"I don't know how many goods you own here? How dare you sell them like this." Shen Chen said.

Shen Yan said: "You can tell by the price he bids. If he dares to bid a low price, then he doesn't have much goods in his hand. If we don't make a move, the intersection shop in Jieshen will eat them all."

"But if he dares to call ten guan, then clear the goods immediately, otherwise it will be too late."

Shen Chendao: "Ten guan? Unless the Northwest lends him all the salt money for a year. Now the entire Bianjing dealers value the salt money."

Shen Yan nodded and said: "Look at Member Hu and they are here."

The two uncles and nephews looked into the distance and a few more carriages came. A few rich and wealthy merchants got out of the carriages and saw the uncle and nephew of the Shen family.

Shen Yan said: "The court's money is easy to make, these people are addicted to it."

Shen Chendao: "Yeah, I heard them yesterday that the imperial court's money is like unattended fat, and you can go up and take a bite at any time."

Seeing the joyful expressions on the faces of these businessmen, who were eager to try, the Shen family's uncles and nephews all sighed.

Not only these people, but now the price of salt banknotes in the capital is rising day by day, and many people have won tens of thousands of dollars because of this.

Zhang Yue looked at the hundreds of people outside at the intersection, and shook his head. Human nature has not changed since ancient times.

Speculating in buying and selling, gamble all your wealth, and try to get rich, but in the end, most of them go out naked, which is cheaper for those big dealers and cross-selling shops.

Because it's a zero sum game.If someone makes money, someone must lose money.

But knowing this, there are still countless people flocking to it. This is the eternal greed in human nature.

Such an industry that is not beneficial to the people should still be in the hands of the state.

At this moment, the people outside shouted loudly: "Why don't you hang up the sign? How many seats?"

Zhang Yue said to Luo Jianyuan: "Open the door and let them in."

After speaking, Zhang Yue turned around and left.

At this time, the gate of the Salt Courtyard was opened, and hundreds of businessmen flocked to the courtyard.

Everyone wanted to ask about the price of salt, but they couldn't find a sign to explain it when they looked around.

But I saw an official from Duyan Yuan said: "Everyone, today are people who ask for salt money, let's make a rule."

"It's Mao time now, and there is still a quarter of an hour before Chen time. Our exchange office divides a day into five sessions, one for each hour. For each session, I will call out a price first, and then you will call for a price, and negotiate a price. "

"After negotiating the price, you can buy banknotes at this price. If anyone is willing to sell banknotes, we are willing to accept banknotes at a price lower than [-] cash. One bid per section! Please invite more than [-] buyers to come in first. Come negotiate!"

After the official finished speaking, there was a burst of chaos in the venue, filled with various voices like a noisy vegetable market.

The officials inquired one by one and cleared out all the merchants with less than [-] seats. In the end, there were only a few dozen people left in the door.

Everyone has never seen such a novel method, and they don't know what the court is up to.But the host said: "I will call for a seat at [-] first. Those who are higher than the bargained price will get first, and those who are lower than the bargained price will not be allowed!"

The scene stagnated for a long time.

But seeing a businessman hesitantly said: "I have twenty guan, two hundred seats!"

The clerk on the side recorded: "Mr. Xu has two hundred seats!"

A businessman said: "I have twenty pens and five hundred wen, one hundred seats!"

The scribe recorded it.

A businessman scolded: "It's worth [-] guan and [-] renminbi, and the Jiaoyin shop in Beijing is only [-] guan. How can the imperial court make us money?"

The person was kicked out as soon as he finished speaking.

Everyone immediately shouted prices.

In the end, the host made a compromise and took [-] yuan and [-] yuan, and then the one who bid higher than this price made the delivery.

Merchants came forward to pay the money one after another. Although some merchants did not buy salt notes with [-] guan and [-] ren, they felt that the price of [-] guan was good, so they went to the Jiaoyin Exchange to sell the salt notes.

At this moment, someone has already come out to report to the Shen family's uncle and nephew.

Both of them were taken aback when they heard this. Why didn't the Exchange lower the salt, instead it raised the salt?
Shen Yan said: "The government repeatedly ordered us to sell salt banknotes at a price higher than [-] guan for a seat, but I sold [-] guan for [-] Wen."

Shen Chendao: "This means that only the state officials are allowed to set fires, and the common people are not allowed to light lamps. It's really unreasonable."

Both uncle and nephew showed indignation.

Shen Chen immediately wanted to step in, but was stopped by Shen Yan: "What are you going to do?"

Shen Chendao: "I'll buy hundreds of seats to push up the price of salt! Let's see if I can keep this dog official's black hat or not."

Shen Yan scolded after hearing the words: "Stupid, have you forgotten what our Shen family's ancestral motto is? The poor don't fight the rich, and the people don't fight the officials!"

Shen Chen heard the words and sighed heavily.

At this moment, in the Duyan Courtyard, the odd number of salt goods traded appeared in front of Zhang Yue.

There are far more people buying salt notes than selling them.

But Zhang Yue now has plenty of goods in his hands.

When I arrived at Sishi, I saw some buyers in the hall leaving.

The host said: "Let more than fifteen buyers enter!"

Some more people were added to the hall, and the merchants were much more orderly this time.

At this time, the host shouted: "Twenty pens and five hundred papers per seat!"

The merchants below have experience and offer quotations one after another.

In the end, the buy order was settled at 21 guan, and the sell order was settled at [-] guan and [-] yuan.

When the buying and selling orders were aggregated to Zhang Yue, there were a little more selling orders than before, but there were still far more buying orders than buying orders.

But Zhang Yue sells here and buys there, and there are only [-] seats missing in his hand, which is not much for the cost of [-] seats.

It's noon, which is the third quarter.

There was another wave of people walking in the hall, and the host had already shouted 21 yuan to 21. When the order was sold at [-], the exchange was already boiling inside and outside.

However, within two hours, the price of salt bills had risen substantially, and it was as if the money had been given away for nothing.

Now anyone within the twelve seats can enter, and countless people are holding gold and silver money to deliver salt money.

There was also a person who bought salt banknotes early in the morning and already made five hundred coins for one seat, and five guan for ten seats. He made so much money without any effort.

Many people choose to wait and see to see if the banknote price will continue to rise, and some people choose to settle down, turn around and enter the banknote selling hall to sell the salt banknotes that have not yet been warmed to the exchange.

Zhang Yue in the Duyan Courtyard saw that the buy order skyrocketed, and at the same time the sell order also increased a lot.

At noon, another [-] seats were sold out.

At this moment, Zhang Yue is glad that he didn't sell [-] seats in one go... The so-called surprise is because you never know how crazy and greedy human nature can be.

The hall is still frenzied.

Zhang Yue said to Luo Duyuan beside him: "Look how many people out there actually buy salt with banknotes."

Luo Duyuan said tremblingly: "Bachelor Zhang, how much did our Duyuan earn today?"

Zhang Yue looked at Luo Duyuan and shook his head. He walked to the door but saw countless people in the hall blushing and dancing happily.

Everyone is happy, but who is sad in the end?

At the end of the day, the salt bills were called to 22 seats, and at this moment, buyers with more than ten seats entered together.

Quite a few people were impatient, trying to find ways to squeeze into the Duyan Courtyard.

At this moment, there are countless people with small books or not enough money. They stare outside and now they can't sit still and shout loudly: "Let me wait in! We also want to buy banknotes!"

The officials said: "In the last section, everyone can buy banknotes, as long as there are more than three seats!"

After listening to the last words, the commotion of the crowd eased a little.

They are all people who go in with gold and silver with jealousy and come out in exchange for salt money, as if they are holding some supreme treasure in their hands.

At the last quarter of Shenshi, the price of salt notes remained unchanged at 22 guan.

Everyone outside the Duyan Courtyard got their wishes and bought the salt banknotes, with smiles on their faces.

Shen Chen said to Shen Yan: "It seems that several employees have bought banknotes. According to this, it seems that the price of banknotes will rise tomorrow. You see, the sales of this exchange today are comparable to those sold by hundreds of companies in our world. .”

After Shen Chen finished speaking, Shen Yan remained silent.

"uncle?"

Shen Yan asked: "Nephew, how about selling tens of thousands of salt bills at the auction house this day! Where do you think the government got so many salt bills?"

Shen Chen couldn't help being stunned when he heard the words: "Yes, I'm afraid they sold tens of thousands of seats today."

Shen Yan walked a few steps as if trying to understand what he said: "No, sell all the salt money in the shop immediately tomorrow."

"Why uncle?" Shen Chen asked.

Shen Yan said: "There is an expert in the government! He came up with such a wonderful method."

"Don't fight with him, sell it as soon as possible, and it will be broken when it falls badly."

Zhang Yue and Luo Duyuan looked at the money piled up in the treasury of the Duyanyuan and remained silent for a long time.

Today, I also borrowed [-] acquaintances from the third division, and they have been counting for at least midnight, and the counting has not yet been completed.

Not to mention delivery procedures.Some people really didn't finish the delivery, so they filled out a form and left.

Looking at the money in Curry, Luo Duyuan swallowed his saliva and said, "Will it be like this tomorrow?"

Zhang Yue said: "Someone will wake up tomorrow."

Luo Duyuan said: "Money is fascinating, I am afraid of difficulties."

The next day, there were more people crowded in front of the Salt Courtyard than yesterday.

Countless people scrambled to line up in the queue.

Due to the lack of manpower, many merchants simply delivered on the basis of buy orders and sell orders.

On this day, the salt note rose to 22 yuan.

It even rose to 23 on the third day.

Zhang Yue knew that the price of salt was about the same, if he bought and sold it himself, the price would increase even more.But he didn't do that. Instead, he used the [-] salt bills in his hand to keep down the price of salt as much as possible.

But it can't stop the red-eyed merchants from buying.

In this way, after the price stabilized at 23 for two days, it still broke through to 23 for [-] coins.

At this time, there were [-] to [-] seats left in the salt bank, but the buying and selling of salt banknotes in the exchange had almost equaled.

(End of this chapter)