Song Mingyue

Chapter 58 A Great Victory
The majestic Zheng Mansion is even more imposing than the Zhao Mansion, especially the pair of big stone lions in the town house, each weighing several thousand catties, which is twice as big as the pair of lions in front of the Zhao Mansion. Extraordinarily majestic.

At this time, the square at the entrance of Zheng's Mansion was crowded with grain merchants of all sizes in Jiangning City, but they couldn't enter, so they could only wait anxiously under the stone lions.

In front of Vermilion's gate, dozens of guards with long knives at their waists were added, watching eagerly, ready to suppress troublemakers at any time.

In fact, as long as a smarter person sees such a battle, he will know what is going on, but these grain merchants who have lost their fortunes and put all their eggs in one basket still hold on to hope in case.

After all, the Zheng family has the Queen's shadow behind them.

It's just that they don't know that, in the commercial war thousands of miles away in the south of the Yangtze River, how can the empress of a country, the mother of the world, pay attention to and interfere with small things?
Jingxinzhai.

Chen Liang, the head of the Salt Gang, knelt in front of Zheng An, trembling all over, and his voice was full of panic.

"You should be damned, I don't want those children from Zhao, Xie, and Wang's family to be as cunning as a fox. On the outer grain boats, they covered the grain bags with bags of sand. I didn't notice it for a while, and I was deceived by them."

Zheng An was like an old monk in meditation, he didn't speak for a long time, and within half a day, his half-grey hair seemed to have turned silvery white.

In fact, he was completely sure of winning this business war.

Not only the Huainan Grain Gang in Jiangbei, but other places such as Fujian Road, Liangzhe Road, etc., he cut off all possible places to buy grain, but he never expected that Zhao, Wang, and Xie's families were directly at his nearest The trusted Huang Wenhu bought grain in his hands, so how could he be reconciled.

Immediately afterwards, Yin Yi, the leader of the Salt Gang, reported in a low voice: "According to the investigation, Huang Wenhu agreed to sell a total of 50 shi of grain to the Zhao family, and the price per shi is only 20 kuen... Jiangbei has not been flooded, and this year's rice harvest is bumper , although affected by the price of grain in the south of the Yangtze River, the average price is always around [-] yuan. It has now transported [-] shi to Jiangning, and [-] shi has arrived on the river near Dangtu. It will soon arrive in Jiangning, and another [-] shi The stones have been shipped from Luzhou City, and they set off three days ago. The remaining [-] stones will also be brought in one after another. On the way, not only the Zhao, Wang, and Xie families sent people to protect them, but Huang Wenhu also dispatched to fight the Huainan grain gang. There is absolutely no opportunity to take advantage of the escort of the ship."

Not only did Huang Wenhu betray him, but he betrayed him so thoroughly that he even sent a privately made warship to escort him throughout the whole process.

Others don't know, but he, Zheng An, knows that most of the private soldiers on the warships of the Liang Gang were from Taihu water bandits. They are no less skilled in water warfare than the Yangtze River water bandits.

"Under the order of our ancestors, I sent people to buy rice grains. Unexpectedly, the rules of the three grain shops limit each person to sell two buckets, but those who exceed two buckets will not be sold. A brother once wanted to use three buckets Buying grain at a price of one hundred shi, not only was rejected, but the government found a reason to arrest him and put him in prison."

The dejected voice of the housekeeper Li Gang completely cut off Zheng An's thoughts, making him feel as if he had fallen into an ice cellar. Although his face was still calm, a depression had already accumulated in his heart, which made him feel extremely uncomfortable.

The Zheng family had lost at least 30 guan in stockpiling grain of 30 shi, which was a painful pain for the Zheng family!

However, the loss of 30 guan was enough to hurt the Zheng family, but it was hard to hurt their vitality.

The most important thing is the wailing of hundreds of Jiangning grain merchants outside the gate of the mansion.

These grain merchants, instigated by the Zheng family, bought and hoarded grain at all costs, and now they have lost at least millions of coins. If they cannot be properly disposed of, the reputation of the Zheng family in the entire Jiangnan business community will plummet. The deadliest!
Zheng An only felt that he had aged a lot in half a day, and he said bitterly after a long time: "Tell the grain merchants outside the door to let them adjust the grain price back to two pennies and one stone, and count the loss. My Zheng family is willing to bear half of it. .”

Before the words were finished, the expressions of Zheng Qing and Zheng Hong on the side changed drastically, and they said anxiously: "Grandfather, we have already lost 30 guan, if we bear half of the loss now, we must get at least 50 guan..."

Zheng An looked at the two grandsons who were almost young but like idiots, shook his head, and said sadly: "You are so short-sighted, how will you fight with Xie Yun, Wang Tong and Xie Wen in the future? It's only 50 guan, if you lose your heart, My Zheng family is going downhill in Jiangning, and it is difficult to turn around..."

80 crowns is enough to dampen the vitality of the Zheng family, but it is nearly [-]% of the assets of the Zheng family. Compared with the hearts of the people gathered over the past few decades, they can only give up the fish and take the bear's paw... The way of doing business has come to them With this scale and realm, we care more about a word of faith and a word of sincerity.

However, this time, the defeat was indeed a little too much.

He, Zheng An, has been in the Jiangning Mansion for decades, and he has never been defeated so terribly... He was almost so defeated that he was helpless, being strangled by someone's neck and trampled under his feet!

If we talk about this war of hoarding food, he started with a scheming plan, and the layout was like a game of chess with a certain chance of winning, but now he made a careless move, was caught by someone's weakness and fought back, and lost everything!

Who set up this overall situation?

Xie Yun, Xie Yu, or Wang Tong?These three business geniuses who have dominated Jiangning's situation indeed all have the ability to make such arrangements.

The only thing I don't understand is who has the ability to turn Huang Wenhu against him. This is the key to breaking the game.

This person who breaks the situation is the most terrifying person in Jiangning City!
However, it is not known who this breaker is.

Zheng An waved his hand, motioning for everyone to retreat, leaving only Yin Yi alone.

"There are talented people from generation to generation in Jiangshan, and talented people from Jiangning. Now the situation is beyond the control of children... You have to be optimistic about Yaoyin. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the Taoist priest successfully refines the medicine, you will be the old man When you come back out of the rivers and lakes, you must be very careful."

"Here!"

"The matter is very important, even Daoist Aoki, maybe he should be careful not to make any mistakes!"

"Here!"

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It has been raining continuously for several days. Although the weather gradually cleared up, the fiery heat has subsided.

The vigorous food shortage finally subsided with the entry of the Jiangbei grain ship.The price of two grains and one stone has become a fixed price, not only for the grain shops of Zhao, Wang, and Xie, but also for the grain shops in the entire Jiangning City.

Although the hoarding grain merchants suffered heavy losses, they did not panic or resent too much.The Zheng family compensated them nearly 50 yuan. Although it was not enough to make up for all the losses, it prevented them from jumping off the building and diving because they could not survive.

Although the Zheng family lost extremely tragically in this battle, their prestige among the rice and grain merchants in the south of the Yangtze River was even stronger than before.

Not only Xie Yun, Wang Tong, and Xie Wen admire this point, but even Xie Yu, the old man of the Xie family, admires it the most, and Zhao Hao is the one who admires the most. I felt the strength of the opponent.

Generous writing, boldness, grand layout... My uncle is amazing, and he really deserves to be the master of both black and white in Megatron Jiangnan.

It's just... If this young master wins, he wins. Can you bite me?
The three families hoarded a lot of grain before the flood, but they were snapped up maliciously by the grain merchants, and they already made a lot of money—the Zheng family and the grain merchants lost more than 100 million yuan, but 15% fell to them. Among the pockets of the three families, the Zhao family alone earned [-] guan.

Secondly, Huang Wenhu’s 50 koku rice grains were usually sold at 15 kokos. After deducting the shipping fee of [-] kokomos a koko, he made a profit of [-] kokomo per koko, a total of [-] koko.

Not only did the three families not take a single cent of the 15 guan profits, they all donated it to the Jiangning Mansion's charitable funds, and each donated another 30 guan, bringing a total of [-] guan to Wang Hanzhi.

These money and food were originally a windfall. The vision and pattern of the heads of the three families are naturally far from comparable to those of Zheng Qing and Zheng Hong.
Especially the Wang family and the Xie family, who are famous families of nearly a thousand years, naturally cherish and pay more attention to the prestige of their respective families in Jiangning.

With more than [-] charitable donations in hand, Wang Hanzhi straightened his waist in an instant, and disaster relief was no longer limited to distributing porridge and food and resettling the victims.

More than [-] victims were distributed rice grains and resettlement fees for returning to their hometowns, and they were sent back to their hometowns one after another.

Five buckets of grain and two pennies per adult, three buckets of grain and one penny per child, the victims of Jiangning City became the happiest disaster victims in history...

On the streets of Jiangning City, a certain person was lazily lying in the soft and comfortable carriage, looking at the merit value on the system interface that rose rapidly like a rocket, and felt so beautiful.

(End of this chapter)