A group of lieutenants in the brocade began to appear in any place related to food.

Deng Jian even appeared shamelessly at the East Factory.

It seems that I have completely forgotten that everyone has had a grudge. I have a brother on the left and a family on the right. Please sort out some documents here to check it out.

The people from the East Factory were furious when they saw the Baihu House in Qingpingfang, but fortunately, the staff of the Clearing Office was a sensible person.

Who knows if you don’t meet his requirements, will suddenly rush in to kill the Jinyiwei?

He simply satisfies his needs and then sends people out like a plague god.

And the truth that was obtained was obviously shocking.

At least in the entire capital, the transaction of grain almost stopped.

The terrible thing about the human heart is that when there is an expectation of rising in this world, almost all people with food do not care about how much food there is in the world or how many people hoard it. Instead, they hold their pockets tightly without hesitation and wait for the final carnival.

The big grain merchants not only do not sell grain, but also buy grain continuously.

They gather almost every three days, but never talk about food, just drink tea and listen to opera.

Then they disperse.

But these big grain merchants appeared on time, showing a calm and gentle look. The more they did, the hoarders of all sizes on the market seemed to have taken a reassurance.

They are not in a hurry, so everyone is not in a hurry.

This means...the price is far from what they want to expect.

What's scary is that this emotion has spread.

Now, basically in the countryside, I can’t receive any food.

At least at the current price, it is absolutely impossible to acquire.

Zhang Jingyi felt that these guys were really crazy.

But everyone enjoys it.

The people in the capital have begun to have difficulties.

But the most difficult thing is obviously not the capital. Guanzhong, thousands of miles away, has deteriorated, and it has even reached the point where there is no food to sell.

The grain merchants in the world have already heard of the news. When anyone realizes that the originally not valuable food in their hands can suddenly be worth a thousand gold, their goal is no longer to exchange food for gold and silver.

But the land, the population, and the most precious thing in the world.

So, after the twelve days, the price of grain had reached eleven taels of silver.

Although it is only a short-term fluctuation, this kind of food price has a very terrible psychological impact on people.

Zhang Jingyi made a calculation that if the value of grain in the whole world is eleven taels, then even if you take out all the gold and silver in the world, you may not be able to afford the grain you hoarded now.

According to this hoarding method, it means that everyone in the world has to save money. How much food will be left every day?

The loss of food is greatly reduced, and it may even completely make up for the losses of the Guanzhong disaster.

But people's mentality is very strange, because no one can tell whether there is food in this world. No one knows it, and no one cares about it. It's just that it's going to rise.

Deng Jian hurried back to the Hundred Houses.

"Hundred households, I've found out."

Zhang Jingyi was in a little dry mood, so he frowned and said, "What should I say?"

"Those big grain merchants went to the guild hall again today, and they still drank tea and listened to operas. Now everyone's eyes are looking at them. As usual, they are all calm. The leader's grain merchant, whose surname is Chen, is Chen Moyan. This man is from Datong Prefecture and has always been doing grain transactions in the capital. He dare not tell the details, but they are closely related to many ministers in the court and even local royal families. He ordered a song today called "Shang Gaoshang Shishi".

Attend the senior supervisor...

Zhang Jingyi couldn't help but feel confused and said in confusion: "What does this mean?"

Deng Jian couldn't help but secretly despise Zhang Jingyi in his heart. No wonder he couldn't find a wife so unconventional.

But when I thought of myself, I didn't have a wife, I suddenly looked like a defeated rooster again.

So Deng Jian said, "This is what it means in the late Yuan Dynasty, officials of all sizes took the opportunity to corruption and abuse the law, plunder the people's wealth and splurge the money they plundered, causing the people to live in poverty and the people to suffer. The song was sung by Gao, who was appointed as the envoy of Lianwen, the envoy of Jiangxi Dao. At that time, Jiangxi was "fried every year, millet was distributed to the people, and the province was difficult to do so." So this envoy of Lianwen, who was surnamed Gao, tried his best to provide disaster relief, and the people praised him one after another."

Zhang Jingyi probably understood it, and then said, "I don't understand. Who is the envoy named Gao, and who is the corrupt official who plunders the people's wealth and omission?"

Deng Jian smiled bitterly and said, "Of course, our factory guards are stolen officials. They have always plundered people's wealth and squandered money, causing people to live in poverty! In fact, there is no need to think too much, everyone knows that we are talking about. A few days ago, the factory guards arrested a few grain merchants and killed a few people? Now it's spreading outside. Scholars and grain merchants say that our factory guards are... Alas, after all, we are officials, and they are citizens..."

Zhang Jing suddenly became angry in his heart. He always thought he was on the side of justice, but who knew that he was the image of a hawk and a stolen official among the people.

What’s abominable thing is that those who maliciously hoard grain and raise prices are these grain merchants who regard wealth as their lives!

So Zhang Jingyi sneered: "If I don't kill these people, my surname is not Chen."

Deng Jian said: "What should we do now?"

Zhang Jingyi was silent, as if measuring something, and then said, "It's almost done. You can go to Changping immediately and tell my father that you can transfer grain to the city. In Xinxian, you can set up places to sell grain in various places and ship them at the current price."

"yes."

…………

The Zhang family has 350,000 shi of grain in Changping.

This number is definitely much thicker than the so-called big grain merchants today.

In the beginning, everyone tried their best to clear the grain warehouse.

Although the Zhang family paid tens of thousands of taels of silver, they almost made money afterwards!

He obtained another 300,000 stones of grain at the price of seven cents of silver on credit. In fact, the 300,000 stones were not much money, but he was just owed 200,000 taels.

Of course, 200,000 taels of silver is a heavy debt, but the thirty stones of grain that can be exchanged for is a real wealth.

Zhang Tianlun's work was still very effective. The next day, ten thousand stones of food were sent to the capital in a vast amount.

It will be sold at the current price of 11 taels of silver.

Suddenly, the market began to go crazy again, and a large number of grain merchants who could not buy food came to rush for it like crazy.

Wu Wenlong was one of them, and he immediately made a quick decision to buy three thousand stones.

Although the price is high, with the relationship between the Li family, as long as the grain is sent to Guanzhong, the interest rate spread will definitely be unimaginable.

But just when Wu Wenlong was complacent, the next day, the Zhang family actually sent another 20,000 stones of grain to the capital.

People still rush to buy.

People coming to Xinxian to buy grain everywhere.

And on the third day.

The Zhang family transported 30,000 stones of grain.

And at this time... the market began to have doubts.

How much grain does the Zhang family want to sell?

Could it be that the market is not short of food?

Once a person develops such doubts.

It is inevitable that I will start to stalk.

The rising momentum of grain prices has finally begun to curb.

At this time, it was in the chamber of commerce.

The big grain merchants were still calm and calm. They smiled and entered the guild hall in front of everyone.

Since then, Chen Moyan, who was in charge, did not sit in the first place. The merchants often showed caution, especially in this era, the bigger the merchants, the less they like to show off.

Even Chen Moyan is like this, no one knows how much he has. He only knows that in his hometown of Datong Mansion, the Chen family's mansion has more than 300 acres, with carved beams and painted buildings and many slaves.

But he was still wearing only a cloth robes. After entering the guild hall, he sat alone in a remote corner.

The guild's staff knew his preferences and immediately gave him a cup of Wuyi tea.

So he took a sip of tea in the corner, and then listened to others discussing the recent market.

During this process, he would never interrupt, as if everything had nothing to do with him.

But when he saw a few very familiar grain merchants, he would smile, then stand up, bow for a long time, and then return to his original position to drink the remaining tea.

However, the atmosphere in the hall today is obviously a bit different.

The small grain traders seemed worried, but people like Chen Moyan still looked calm.

They were calm, after all, the small grain merchants were just people chasing the rise, but they... were the rulemakers.

Because of this, when the guy sent a playlist and asked Chen Moyan to order a play, people looked at Chen Moyan nervously.

Chen Moyan just pondered for a moment, and said to the clerk slowly: "I have wanted to listen to "Drunk Taiping" recently, but there are too many lyrics in "Drunk Taiping", and this lyrics will not be new after a long time. Maybe just this song "Drunk Taiping: A ridiculed by those who are greedy for small profits."

The guy heard this and hurriedly went.

In a short while, there were waves of silk and bamboo.

Chen Moyan held the teacup and listened attentively.

The merchants located everywhere also sounded carefully.
To be continued...