dream of red mansion

Chapter 685 Consolidation
"What do you think?"

Jia Qing seemed to agree with Xue Pan's words, so he asked everyone.

"This..." Zhou Dafu of Zhouji Rice Shop said: "Although our family has a lot of rice grain shops, since joining the second master's grain hoarding plan, we have also hoarded a lot of grain. We can’t even sell our own food.”

Zhou Dafu knew that the amount of food in Jia Qing's hands was huge, even if they were killed, they would not be able to swallow it.So I just hope that Jia Qing will not be as shameless and intimidating as Xue Pan.

Xue Pan and the others are not very afraid, but if Jia Qing overpowers others, they will have a headache.

At this time, Jia Qing smiled and said: "Since you can't sell all the food, you might as well sell all the food to me, wouldn't it be appropriate?"

"Are you crazy? Do you still want to buy food?" After half a year of cooperation, Xue Pan finally opened up a little "heart", and some of them regarded themselves as the future uncle.

He found that it seemed that this identity was indeed more awe-inspiring than his original identity.
Going out to hang out is also a lot of fun, and even those who used to call him Xue Da fool, both openly and secretly, have started to call him Uncle Xue instead.

Zhou Dafu and others suddenly hesitated.

They are all old and cunning profiteers. Hearing what Jia Qing said, he began to wonder if there would be something tricky in it.

But the fact that the court negotiated a peace is absolutely true, and Jia Qing can't fool them.

The point is, it is conceivable that once the court negotiates a peace, the price of grain will definitely drop immediately based on this year's harvest, and it may even drop even lower than last year. By then, it will really be a big loss!
It's not that they can't keep it stable, but that food can't be stored for a long time. If it gets moldy again, it will be paid to grandma's house.

After so many decades of hard work, you can't spend half of your family property on this business!

"Is what the second master said serious?"

"nature."

"I don't know what price the second master is going to buy," Zhou Dafu asked tentatively.The rest of the people are also concerned. This is the most important thing.

Although they were all grain merchants who had a good relationship with Jia Qing and the Shen family in the past.But there are no fathers and sons in the business field, and no one will do anything to lose money.

"If you want to sell it, I definitely can't give it to you at the market price"

"That's natural. We don't dare to let the second master suffer. Naturally, we must let the second master have room to make money."

Chow Tai Fook seems to be thinking of Jia Qing very much.

"You really want to buy it?" Xue Pan interrupted again.

Jia Qing signaled him not to be impatient, and continued to say to Zhou Dafu and others: "Well, let's take rice as an example, two taels of silver per stone."

"Second Master, are you serious?"

Zhou Dafu was surprised.Although the current price of rice in the capital is about [-] shi, that is the price that ordinary people buy for free.The price they charged at the hands of the grain dealers was less than this price.The point is that the price of grain will definitely drop in the future. All grain merchants are afraid that the grain will be thrown into their hands, and it will cost money to sell it by themselves.
It can be said that the price offered by Jia Qing is quite interesting.

They don't have to worry about losing money, after careful calculation, they can still make a fortune!
"Since that's the case, the villain has [-] shi of rice in the south of the Yangtze River and the capital, and I'll sell them all to the second master." Zhou Dafu tried to keep his tone down as much as possible, lest Jia Qing be scared off by the amount.

"can."

Jia Qing said in an extremely relaxed manner, no one could see what he was thinking.

If Chow Tai Fook can settle accounts, others can also settle accounts.Since Jia Qing had the confidence to eat the food they hoarded alone, he naturally had no reluctance.

I took a good deal of my own inventory, kept some for the survival of my own shop, and sold all the excess to Jia Qing at once to save trouble.

"Second Master, I also have [-] stones here."

"The villain has 12 stones here"

Soon, the five people finished reporting, and there was a total of 42 shi.

"Okay, no problem."

A smile finally appeared on Jia Qing's face.

"Bring a pen and paper!"

Zhou Dafu and the others were startled, and then asked: "What does Second Master mean?"

Jia Qing said: "Of course it's writing IOUs? You know that I, like you, have spent all my money to buy food. How can I get out eight or nine million taels of silver at once.

But don't worry, I, Jia Qing, am the first-class general of the country, how can I not count my words.Since everyone hoarded food based on my advice, but now it has not achieved what they expected, I can't let everyone suffer, right?

After I sell all the grain in my hand, I will hand over the money to you as soon as I get the money, and I promise not to default on a single penny! "

"This!" Zhou Dafu and others hesitated.

The Jia Mansion is powerful!Holding this IOU in his hand, it is not as reliable as white money, so he hesitated for a while.

Jia Qing saw their hesitation, and said again: "However, our warehouse can't hold so much grain for a while, so I ask you brothers to store it for me for a while, and wait until I sell the grain and get money, and then get cash. How about Yinzi to pick up the food at the old brothers' house?"

Chow Tai Fook and others were a little unnatural.They all hoard grain, don't they know that for a thousand taels of silver, they can easily build a warehouse that can store tens of thousands of shi of grain?It is absolutely impossible for the Jia family not to be able to stockpile hundreds of thousands of shi of grain, but they have seen through their minds and put the grain in their hands to make them feel at ease.

"Then I don't know how long the second master intends to keep the food with us?"

How thick-skinned the businessman is, even if he is embarrassed, he still has to clean up all the details of being cheated.

What if Jia Qing stays with them for a few years, except for mistakes, what if they ask them to pay?
"Within a year. Don't worry, I will send someone to inspect the grain at any time, so even if it is accidentally damaged by mold, I will not seek compensation from everyone."

After a year, he should be able to move the money around.

Jia Yun brought over the paper and pen, and Jia Qing seriously wrote down the IOU, and wrote down all the sub-payments, and then handed it to the five people in Zhou Dafu one by one.

After the five people read it again and again, they felt that there was no problem, so they signed and marked it.

In fact, they are just a little worried, after all, the huge family property of the Jia Mansion is there.
Of course, everything is safe now.

After being happy, they exchanged pleasantries again, seeing that Jia Qing didn't intend to keep them any longer, so they left one after another.

Then, only Shen Congcheng, who had a long-term friendship with Jia Qing, and his brain-dead brother-in-law Xue Pan were left.

Shen Congcheng has not spoken since Jia Qing said that he would collect the grain from those grain merchants.Xue Pan, on the other hand, looked at Jia Qing as if looking at a fool, and said: "My mother told me to find you for business cooperation. I was blind. Well, can we discuss it and take my share as well?" How about giving me their price?"

The Xue family is different from those families. This time, the Xue family is only responsible for investing money, and most of the purchased grain is placed in the warehouse of Ningguo Mansion.

So he had to discuss it with Jia Qing.

Jia Qing was in a good mood at this time, he was taken aback when he heard the words, then smiled and said: "Are you sure?"

"You promised?"

"Ah."

"Well, can you give me a little more, after all, they are outsiders, and you will give them two or two."

"No problem, how about I give you an extra penny per stone?"

Xue Pan was overjoyed immediately.In fact, he could accept the price of [-], but he didn't expect that he could only say a few words, do the math, um, it's almost [-] silver more, which is enough to buy many oirans.
In addition to being happy, I suddenly felt a little frustrated.Others said he was a prodigal son, but from his point of view, Jia Qing was much better than him!
He just went out to spend time and drink, and occasionally invited people to watch a movie or visit a brothel for free, and he would give someone 2 taels of silver without saying a word.

It can be seen that compared with him, he is more concerned about his family.

"Then I wrote it too?"

"Well, let's write."

Xue Pan pretended not to care, so that Jia Qing would not regret it.In fact, he was thinking in his heart: In the future, he must not do business with such a prodigal.

As usual, Jia Qing wrote an IOU to Xue Pan.

Holding the IOU, Xue Pan seemed ashamed to wait too long, and walked away with his fat all over his body.

(End of this chapter)