nanming man

Chapter 326 The Hype Ends
In the room, when everyone saw the change in Ma Hongshan's face, they couldn't help feeling tense.

The few businessmen who came straight from the south were relatively calm, and they looked like people who had seen the storm.

Back then in Shouzhou, they followed Ma Hongshan and did business with Gao Yihuan, but the merchants from Shanxi colluded with Liu Liangzuo, arrested them, and forced them to sell goods to Shanxi merchants, but what happened in the end?
The merchants in Shanxi were wiped out, and Liu Liangzuo was beheaded.

Now their horsemen have the relationship with Ma Shoufu outside and inside, and the relationship with Marshal Gao outside. If the internal relationship is not balanced, they will collude with Marshal Gao outside. They are confident and relatively calm.

A few local merchants in Huguang trembled, fearing that something might happen.

Ma Hongshan was silent for a while, looked at the crowd for a while, and suddenly said: "Something has changed! My eyeliner told me that the grain on the Yuezhou wharf has stopped loading, and the Shanxi grain ship from Changsha has also been left behind. Leaving Yuezhou."

"Old Ma, what do Jin merchants mean by doing this?" A Huguang businessman didn't understand what he meant.

Ma Hongshan said coldly, "Isn't this obvious? Shanxi merchants don't want to buy high-priced grain from us, and they are going to sell the grain in their hands before we raise the price of grain. If there is a large amount of grain When entering the market, the people will calm down, the price of grain will plummet, and other merchants will rush to sell it first, and the grain in our hands will be thrown into our hands, and Shanxi people will be able to use the money they earn after making a fortune selling grain. Buy more food."

"These Shanxi merchants are really wicked!" This not only cut off the talents, but also made them lose their money, and everyone immediately became angry.

The room was full of chaos, but Ma Hongshan waved his hand, "Be quiet, don't disturb the Buddha!"

"Mr. Ma, these Shanxi merchants have a lot of food in their hands. We are frying in fours or fives, but he suddenly smashed our plates. Then this matter can't be done. Why don't we take advantage of them not to make a move?" , Throw it away first!"

Ma Hongshan glanced at the proposed Huguang businessman, "Old Zhang, you are also a well-known large grain merchant in central Hubei. Are you afraid that he will throw it away first in the border of Yuezhou?"

Relying on his relationship with Ma Shiying's relatives, Ma Hongshan is also very happy with these Huguang businessmen.

Everyone didn't know that this relative of his was actually out of reach. They heard that he was the eldest nephew of the chief assistant, Ma Shiying, and they were all overwhelmed by his background.

The businessman surnamed Zhang didn't dare to get angry after hearing Ma Shiying's words. The nephew of the first assistant had to show his face.

"Old Ma, what do you mean?"

Ma Hongshan thought about him, and said: "With your power in Yuezhou, Lao Zhang, can you let him throw it away first? If I were you, I would find someone to keep an eye on these Shanxi merchants. Once they make any moves, let them go." People blocked them, or caused a little accident. As a local, you are afraid that a few Shanxi people who have come thousands of miles away will not be able to cure them?"

Isn't this a rogue's way of doing things, but Lao Zhang has taken a reassurance, and he already knows it in his heart.

This group of people get together, you ask them to do a good thing together, guarantee all kinds of problems, most of them will fail, but if they work together to do a bad thing, it is almost impossible.

At this time, another person came in and whispered something to Ma Hongshan again. Ma Hongshan laughed immediately, "These Shanxi people are really greedy. They are not satisfied with the current grain price. They are worried that we are not strong enough to fry food." Go up, they have already started collecting grain every six taels."

After Gao Yihuan occupied Xiangyang, his forces had penetrated into Huguang, and Xuan Yiwei's secret work fully cooperated with Ma Hongshan's actions this time.

"Old Ma, what shall we do next?" someone asked.

Ma Hongshan smiled slightly, "First of all, we must continue to spread the news that Zhang Xianzhong will requisition Huguang. In addition, there is a famine in the north, and Shanxi merchants collect grain at high prices. Secondly, all shops must continue to increase prices and continue to increase prices. !"

Huguang was not hit by a catastrophe, so there must be a reasonable reason for the increase in grain. Earlier, Xuan Yiwei spread the news that Zhang Xianzhong was going to conquer Huguang again. If there is a war, the grain will naturally increase.

Now another one has been added, and Shanxi merchants have been collecting grain recently, so they gave the common people and some small grain merchants a reason for the rise in grain prices.

At this time, when everyone continues to speculate, more people will think that the food will go up, and when they sell it, someone will take it.

For a while, the rise in grain prices caused panic among the common people. There were long queues to buy grain in every good shop, and the warehouses of each grain number were full of grain, but the sale was restricted, and the purchases on the market continued. surplus food.

In Yuezhou City, in front of a grain store, people who came to buy rice lined up in a long line. One of the people in the line saw that the grain store did not sell a few people, and then closed down again amidst the protests of the residents. Just as he was about to turn around, he saw a group of government officials. He suddenly separated from the crowd, took away the shopkeeper and the shop assistants, and sealed the shop, so he hurriedly and quietly left the team and left quickly.

The man didn't realize that someone was following him, and soon went straight back to a house next to the pier.

This is a yard bought by Fan Yongdou, close to the pier, which is convenient for him to dispatch and command.

At this moment in the house, Fan Yongdou was sorting out the money and food in his hands with the treasurer Qian.

"Boss, we originally had 60 taels of cash in hand, which was enough to buy 30 shi of grain, but now we bought it at six, seven, or 12 taels, so we only bought [-] shi." Shopkeeper Qian fluctuated his calculations, He said to Fan Yongdou: "Boss, now we have a total of [-] shi of grain in our hands!"

Originally, the silver in Fan Yongdou's hand was enough to buy 30 shi, but as the price of food rose, he only bought [-] shi, and the previous purchase was less than [-] shi.

But Fan Yongdou was not only not angry, but rather happy.

"Now the price of grain has risen to 12 taels per shi. If I sell it now, 120 shi will be 60 million taels, and I will make a profit of nearly 120 taels." There are 60 million taels of silver, and once the price of grain falls back to [-] taels per shi, then we can buy [-] shi of grain, and we will definitely be rewarded by the regent."

Thinking of this, Fan Yongdou was overjoyed, and at this moment, a clerk suddenly came in and saluted and reported, "Master, I just came back from the city and found that the price of food is still rising, but the government took action today and sent Longsheng One of the shopkeepers of the store was taken away, and the shop was also closed."

Fan Yongdou raised his eyebrows when he heard this, "The government of the Ming Dynasty took action, it seems that we can't continue to fire."

As he said that, he lifted his spirits, and hurriedly ordered: "The people don't fight with the officials. Hurry up and prepare, and let people throw away the grain immediately."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a commotion from the pier.

(End of this chapter)