Tai Lu sighed a long sigh and suddenly asked Lu Shizhi: "Uncle, can the people over there be contacting me?"

When Lu Shizhi heard this, he was stunned. Of course, he knew that what Lu Tai said was the people from the Ebony Cliff in Chu. Since Bai Mo monopolized the power and the Lu family was suppressed, people from the Ebony Cliff have been constantly coming to test. Lu Shizhi did not oppose contact with the people from the Ebony Cliff, but Lu Tai firmly opposed this.

"Have you thought about it?" Lu Shizhi said, "The people in Ebony Cliff are not at ease."

Lu Tai focused his attention and said, "I have already thought about it. Our Lu family will never betray the great man, but Bai Mo must be moved down. Bai Mo will not fall down. My Lu family will sooner or later be uprooted by him, but we alone cannot shake Bai Mo. If we want to win this decisive contest, we must rely on the power of Chu."

Lu Chan said in confusion: "But, what can Ebony Cliff help us?"

Lu Tai said: "Second brother, you're stupid. Behind the Ebony Cliff is the entire Chu State. The Chu State has vigorously developed industry and commerce since 16 years ago. How rich is it that I can match? Xiang Zhuang can just pull out his roots and buy all the grain in Guanzhong. As long as the Ebony Cliff is willing to reach out, Bai Mo will lose this time."

Lu Shizhi focused his attention and said, "Please go find them, uncle, now."

Lu Tai reminded: "The people in the Black Ice Platform are everywhere, so Lao Uncle must pay attention to keeping them confidential."

Lu Shizhi smiled coldly and said in a confident tone: "Don't worry, I'll have no other skills, but it's more than enough to deceive the group of hawks and dogs in the Black Ice Platform."

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In a blink of an eye, half a month passed, and the grain from Anyi and Handan was successively discharged. The grain mobilized by Baimo from various counties and counties was also transported to Xianyang one after another. More than two million stones of grain were placed, but the grain price in Xianyang did not drop at all. Just this morning, the grain price even soared retaliatoryly, from 500 coins per stone to 1,000 coins!

Moreover, there are even rumors that the price of grain will continue to rise to 2,000 yuan!

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"Ping!" Bai Mo swept the inkstone on the table to the ground with an angry expression.

Just now, King Liu Huan of Han rushed to the palace and really complained. Bai Mo also asked him to find a way to calm the grain prices in Xianyang.

Chen Ping's face next to him was also a little embarrassed. Obviously, there was a huge mistake in the information provided by the Black Ice Station. He thought that the other party could only raise 100,000 yuan at most, so if he invested 2.5 million stones of grain, he would definitely be able to kill them. At that time, they would be able to buy back at a low price just by just waiting for the price of grain to plummet.

But the result was not the case. The food on their side was almost sold out. However, the other party seemed to have enough energy.

Chen Ping said: "Prime Minister, there must be something wrong in the middle. I will ask the Black Ice Platform to check it out."

"Trial Master. No need to check again." Bai Mo waved his hand and said decisively, "It's certain that the true nature is. There must be people from Ebony Cliff who are making trouble behind the scenes."

"Euromous Cliff? Is the Prime Minister saying that Chu State borrowed their money?" Chen Ping frowned, "I don't understand. This is not hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, but tens of millions of dollars. According to the current price of gold and Wuzhu coins in Chu State, it is hundreds of thousands of taels of gold. Isn't Xiang Zhuang afraid of being wasted?"

"The Chu State is rich, what is the size of hundreds of thousands of taels of gold?" Bai Mo said coldly, "As long as I can mess with my man, even if I pay millions of taels of gold, Xiang Zhuang will probably not frown."

Chen Ping nodded and said, "That's right, so what should I do now?"

Bai Mo said coldly: "There is no food to pay in Guanzhong, so he has to borrow grain from Han Zhao."

"I still have to borrow grain? South Korea and Zhao have already borrowed 800,000 stones. Will they borrow it again?"

"Fortunately, I don't have much loan this time, as long as I have 300,000 stones, it's almost done. I am going to personally write two letters and send them to General Bai Xuan of Zhao and King Han Xin of Han. There should be no big problem."

"The question is, what should I do if Chu intervenes again?"

"We have already done the reason for the matter, so it is easy to deal with it. It is easy for Chu State to smuggle hundreds of thousands of taels of gold, but it will be difficult if we want to smuggle tens of thousands of Wuzhu coins in. So at that time, we only need to ban the free exchange of listed coins and lower coins, and they will definitely die!"

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"Hmph, Bai Mo is really amazing." Xiang Zhuang touched the curled beard on the corner of his lips and sneered, "I discovered the way to stop my Great Chu from participating in the chaos in Guanzhong so quickly." After a pause, Xiang Zhuang said again, "However, it is too late for him to discover this now. I have already completed the layout, hehe."

Widow Qin and Tang Tong, who were sitting at the head of Xiangzhuang, also looked excited.

Xiang Zhuang asked the two again: "Is the agent you are looking for reliable?"

Widow Qin hurriedly said, "I am looking for a nephew who is in line with the old country of Zhao."

"Guan Gao is a respected old minister. Even Bai Xuan has to give him some face. It's good." Xiang Zhuang nodded slightly and asked Tang Tong again, "Where is the one?"

Tang Tong hurriedly replied: "I am looking for Feng Guozhang."

"Feng Guobain?" Xiang Zhuang said, "The father of King Han's favorite concubine Feng Miaonu?"

"Yes, yes, the King of Han favors Feng Miaonu in all kinds of ways, so the Feng family has a great influence in Anyi. With the Feng family as an agent, there will never be any mistakes."

"Very good." Xiang Zhuang waved his hand and said with a grim voice, "Then let's do it."

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Half a month later, the second batch of 300,000 stones of grain transported from Handan and Anyi arrived in Xianyang.

With the arrival of another batch of grain, the food prices in Xianyang fell slightly again.

As mentioned earlier, there are three main groups that do grain dominance in Xianyang. The strongest ones are dozens of honorary families led by the Lu family, the weakest ones are more than 200 merchants led by the Sima family, and the weakest ones are more than 300 wealthy families who followed the trend and bought. The first two groups are allies, but the wealthy families of aristocratic families come to take advantage of the situation.

Although more than 300 noble families did not form an alliance with the two major groups of honor and merchants, the three parties had completed the speculation on Xianyang's grain prices very tacitly, but their speculative psychology determined that they were unreliable. Once the market fluctuated, they would short and leave without hesitation.

Before this, these noble families had not been shaken and had also experienced tentative selling. However, due to the strong buying of the two major groups led by the Lu family and the Sima family, they realized that the price of Guanzhong grain was far from the limit, and people were greedy. Under the temptation of huge profits, they chose to follow up again and again.

The slight decline in grain prices in Xianyang this time is still a test of the noble families. If the honorary and merchant groups continue to buy, they will continue to choose to follow up. If the two major groups of honorary and merchants stop eating, they will sell all the food they stocked up without hesitation, and escape by stepping on the bodies of honorary and nobles and great merchants.

These noble families did not realize that the group of husbands and servants in Guanzhong could not digest such a huge grain plague. In other words, they could not escape at all! Of course, then again, a small number of noble families had already left the market before and made a fortune.

When the noble family was watching and the honorary relatives and merchants were preparing to buy, King Liu Huan of Han suddenly issued an edict banning the circulation of gold in the Guanzhong market!

Since the Qin Dynasty, gold and copper coins in the upper coin coin coin have coexisted, but there is no clear comparison between the two. In other words, gold is the same as the antique calligraphy and paintings of later generations, and it is very valuable, but it has to be sold first to exchange for the Wuzhu coins. In the market, you cannot buy goods directly with gold.

However, Xiangzhuang's changes changed this situation.

In order to encourage the development of industry and commerce, Xiangzhuang issued gold coins with a denomination of one or two taels, and clearly stipulated that one or two taels of gold exchanged for 4,000 coins. More than ten years have passed, and the price of this comparison has fluctuated a certain amount, but in general, it is still stable. Other countries have also acquiesced to the circulation of gold in their own markets.

Without this prerequisite, Xiangzhuang would not dare to fight an economic war with the Han Dynasty at all.

But now, a decree of King Liu Huan of Han changed this situation and prohibiting the direct circulation of gold was equivalent to cutting off the capital chain of Guanzhong merchants who relied on to continue buying bulk grain. Just imagine, after buying some time ago, almost all the Wuzhu coins had flowed into the national treasury. Where did they go to raise this much money?

Liu Huan's ban could not fundamentally ban the circulation of gold and currency, but it inevitably affected the mentality of some aristocratic families, which became the last straw that broke the camel's back. Although the Lu family and Sima family repeatedly sent people to lobby to try to persuade the aristocratic families to continue to receive gold, they were rejected.

More than 300 noble families began to sell panic, and the wave of selling affected more than 200 merchants. When more than 20 nobles and nobles also began to sell food, the grain dominance that had lasted for more than three months finally collapsed completely. The price of grain that had already risen to 1,000 coins per stone began to fall wildly.

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Xianyang, Prime Minister’s Mansion.

"Trial Master, I've done it!" Bai Mo raised his cup and respected Chen Ping from afar.

Chen Ping raised the wine cup and covered his sleeves and drank it all, but he still felt relieved and smashed his mouth, saying, "Good wine, it's a pity that our Han Dynasty can't make it yet."

Bai Mo smiled and said, "Although this wine is good, it is always hard to satisfy your hunger."

Chen Ping also smiled and said, "Prime Minister, the grain price in Xianyang market has dropped to 400 coins per stone. Haha, I really can't imagine it. In just a few days, the grain price actually dropped to 400 coins per stone."

"Tai Shi, this is just the beginning." Bai Mo smiled slightly and said, "The amount of food stored by the honorary relatives, merchants and noble families has far exceeded the digestive ability of the Guanzhong military servants and mercenaries. If nothing unexpected happens, the food price in Xianyang will have to fall all the way. In short, the price of grain will not fall to thirty coins per stone, and the original appearance will not take action."
Chapter completed!