I'm a marquis in Datang

finally come.

He is now in Jiangyin County, and he has nothing to do anyway, so he can just use these people to pass the time.

Du Qidang even started to make arrangements.

Prepare to deal with these people.

A series of orders were sent from Du Qi's hands and arranged to each room of the county government.Because Du Ye had already made arrangements before he left, so Du Qi's order was passed on, and these county officials could only obey.

After Du Qi arranged everything properly, he lay down and drank tea bored again.

While Du Qi was waiting, the merchants headed by Mai Hong had already rushed to Jiangyin County.When they arrived in Jiangyin County, they went directly to

I found a house in the city to live in.

When Mai Hong and the others arrived, they investigated the local grain prices in Jiangyin County on the same day, and found that the prices were relatively moderate, not expensive.For the time being, they never went to buy food, because the money was still being sent later.

A day passed, and the money from all the major families was delivered.

Everyone is excited.

Under the night, the house where everyone lived was brightly lit, and a group of people were drinking and chatting while enjoying the shade in the yard.After all, all of them live a very luxurious life.Although I am now in Jiangyin County, I am on a long-distance business trip, but the quality of life has never been compromised.

Mai Hong is sitting on the main seat.

He was wearing a thin black robe, and his hair was combed meticulously.At this time, Mai Hong, holding a wine bottle, smiled and said: "Everyone, this is the first time for us to gather together like this, to have this leisurely drink. Come, drink!"

"Drink!"

Everyone raised their wine bottles and responded with a smile.

There are many people, and the atmosphere is high.

He looked very happy.

Because like them, it is extremely rare for Jiang Yu to support them to drive up prices to make money.That is to say, Jiang Yu now wants to deal with Du Ye quickly, that's why he arranged it like this.

A group of people exchanged cups with Mai Hong, and the atmosphere was very happy.

This banquet didn't end until midnight.

Everyone went to rest.

The next day, early in the morning.

Everyone got up early.

On the one hand, everyone is an elderly person, not much sleepy, and sleeps lightly.On the other hand, there are still things to do today, which involve making money, so everyone is looking forward to it.

But this time, Mai Hong gathered everyone together.

With a solemn expression, Mai Hong said in a deep voice: "Everyone, I still plan to talk about it first. You can't go back on things that have been agreed before. We have already agreed before that this time in Jiangyin County, it is all People act together. Everyone contributes their own money, and their respective ratios are the same. Then, they buy food uniformly and hoard food to make money. If anyone wants to act in private to break this plan, it will be punished by everyone."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

All agree.

Seeing that everyone agreed, Mai Hong nodded and waved his hands: "Okay, the old man is here. All of you, divide your troops into three groups, and come separately to buy grain at the major grain shops in the city. Within three days , I want to buy all the stored grain in Jiangyin County."

"Yes!"

Everyone agreed and left separately.

Mai Hong is the person who arranges the dispatch, and his qualifications are the oldest, so he is sitting at home right now.

Everyone went out to act, while Mai Hong drank tea and closed his eyes to rest.

Mai Hong believes that this action is a sure win.

There's simply no way you can go wrong.

The reasons are very simple. The first is that Du Ye is not around, and the second is that the Xu family also wants to buy a large amount of grain. Therefore, due to these two reasons, even if there are still many grain merchants in Jiangyin County, they will not be able to withstand the toss. .

Time passed little by little.

Mai Hong was drinking tea, basking in the sun, and before he knew it, he fell asleep.The sun was shining on his body, and his whole body was warm and extremely comfortable.

"Step! Step!!"

A burst of hurried footsteps sounded from outside the yard.

But a businessman entered.

The name of the visitor is Liu Xi.

He is one of the big businessmen in Jinling County. He is nearly fifty years old and has a slightly fat body.Among the eight big merchants, Liu Xi is not the strongest, but he is not the weakest either.

On Liu Xi's face now, there was a dignified expression.He came to Mai Hong's side, and said in a deep voice, "Mai Gong, the situation is not good!"

After hearing this, Mai Hong opened his eyes, looked at Liu Xi and said, "What's wrong?"

Liu Xi said: "Compared with today's grain price, yesterday's grain price is completely different. The grain price of the entire Jiangyin County suddenly doubled overnight, and the grain price has more than doubled. Maigong, for us To put it bluntly, it might have only cost more than one million yuan to subvert the grain price in Jiangyin County. But now, it has doubled at once, which is a huge loss!"

After a pause, Liu Xi continued: "Even in my estimation, the price of grain has suddenly risen. Tomorrow, it may be the same price again. The day after tomorrow, it will be the same price again. We want to hoard grain in large quantities , it will cost a lot of money.”

Mai Hong also frowned.

The situation is not good!

How could it be possible that the price of grain in Jiangyin County started to rise suddenly?

While Mai Hong was thinking about it, he saw another businessman entering the courtyard.Everyone's faces were slightly unhappy, and even a little dignified.

Mai Hong asked directly: "Did you also encounter soaring food prices when you went to buy food?"

Everyone nodded.

All of them looked solemn.

Mai Hong narrowed his eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Could it be that Xu Yinhe of the Xu family leaked the news about this matter. Even, it was because he secretly agreed to help us, but in fact, he was on the side of Jiangyin County .Because of him, the price of food has risen directly. Do you want to raise the price so that we can buy it?"

Liu Xi said: "Maigong, I agree with this speculation. Xu Yinhe's actions were done alone, and he did not act with us at all. Therefore, he is suspicious."

The rest of the people agreed one after another, and they were all quite pessimistic about the current situation.

After careful consideration, Mai Hong said, "Xu Yinhe is indeed suspicious, but at the moment, if Xu Yinhe is determined to be our enemy, there is no way, he cannot be influenced by us. If it is not Xu Yinhe, then we will go Questioning is unnecessary. Therefore, no matter what Xu Yinhe's attitude is, no matter whether he is on the opposite side of us or not. Now that this matter has happened, our only choice is to crush the other party."

"Because we had no choice."