Dressed as the cannon fodder who died prematurely, I will marry the villain in anger

Chapter 648 A series of bad news

At the beginning, twenty or thirty people wanted to ask the Yamen for explanations.

But as they walked along, the passers-by they met curiously asked them what they were doing. No one kept it secret, and when passers-by heard about it, they decided to follow and have a look.

Therefore, more and more people are being held hostage along the way.

Finally, they arrived in groups in front of the Zhuozhou Yamen, and were stopped outside by officers and soldiers.

The matter was reported to Zhao Minglou, but he chose to avoid it.

There were officers and soldiers stopping him, so the people didn't dare to go too far at this time. In the end, they had to change their ways and go to Cai family, Lu family and other big donkey families.

Wang Dong watched from a hidden place at the back, thinking to himself, this is just the beginning.

Before the situation reaches its worst, the people can still retain their sense and retreat after being intimidated. Later, it will be difficult for deterrence by force to work, and it may have the opposite effect.

Here, Cai Guang is still trying to save himself.

Cai Guang tried to contact the big customers around Zhuozhou that he had worked with before, hoping to sell the Cai family's donkeys to them at a low price. It was a coincidence that one of the stores he found was Anhe Pharmacy.

When he went to get in touch, the other party gave him the lowdown. They signed a contract with someone, and he could buy 100,000 donkeys for 600,000 taels, equivalent to six taels of silver each.

Cai Guang was stunned when he learned the news. In other words, it would be difficult for them to sell their donkeys for more than six taels of silver.

The surrounding roads were blocked, and their donkeys couldn't be sold without losing money!

But a donkey worth less than six taels of silver is really a loss.

Zhuozhou is over!

As the saying goes, if a leaky house happens to rain all night long, the hemp rope must be broken at the thinnest part.

Not long after the price of donkeys plummeted, Pingzhou took action again.

After Pingzhou announced that it would no longer buy Zhuozhou donkeys, Pingzhou began to tighten its grain pockets and increase grain prices.

The bad news comes one after another.

As if in response to Pingzhou's order to increase food prices, food prices in various places in Dali have also risen one after another. Among them, food prices in Zhuozhou and nearby areas have risen even more rapidly.

In fact, food prices in Dali have also increased recently. After all, March and April are the lean times every year, and food prices at this time will rise a bit. Furthermore, because Pingzhou merchants kept buying and exchanging goods in Dali last year, the people had less food in their hands, and the price of food in Dali rose higher than before.

The price of grain in Pingzhou has always been maintained in a low price range. Now that the price of grain in Pingzhou has increased, the grain merchants in Dali have even let go of the increase, and the increase is justified.

When the price of food in Dali rose, the people of Zhuozhou complained.

There was nothing left at home, no food, no money, and only a few donkeys left.

The key point is that the common people’s donkeys are a month later than the Cai family’s and have not yet been released.

It takes a year for their donkeys to mature. Before the donkey is one year old, it is the prime time for their growth. They are still in the peak period of growth and development, and consume a huge amount of food and grass. If they are deprived of food and grass, they will lose weight quickly. .

In other words, this food and grass cannot be cut off yet.

It’s really sad. The price of donkeys has been falling, and the price of food has skyrocketed. God doesn’t give people a way to survive.

Some people say that if the donkeys cannot be sold at a high price, they will be killed for meat.

But ordinary people live their lives carefully. When they calculate, they know that it is not cost-effective to kill and eat meat. After all, even if a donkey can only be sold for five or six taels, they can save some food bought by five or six taels of silver, and the whole family can eat it. People can still eat for a long time. And if you kill a donkey and eat its meat, how many meals can you eat? In addition, most of them still suffer from famine.

In short, Zhuozhou is now shrouded in a cloud of sadness.

Pingzhou, Changli

Lu Songli and the others are also paying attention to the situation in Zhuozhou.

Now Zhuozhou Donkey City is in the stage of trampling on each other and smashing the market.

Pingzhou posed a difficult problem for the Dali court. Zhuozhou was a hot potato and the court should accept it or not.

Should the court save the market in Zhuozhou or not?

If the imperial court had not taken action, Pingzhou's wealth disappearing technique would directly evaporate most of Zhuozhou's wealth, and most of Zhuozhou's people's livelihood and economy would be destroyed.

Now it depends on whether the court is willing to fill this hole? Either ignore it or choose to add insult to injury.

Anyway, Pingzhou has made two preparations. Boxes of silver are ready.

……

Xie Zhan, Liao Xuewang and others in Qingzhou have been secretly paying attention to the situation in Zhuozhou.

The changes in the situation in Zhuozhou are alarming.

Liao Xuewang said, "Grand Governor, the situation in Zhuozhou is very bad."

Qiao Xitong, a big timber merchant in Bingzhou, and Hu Jiangyi, a porcelain merchant in Xin'an, also looked solemn.

Qiao Xitong and Hu Jiangyi secretly came to Qingzhou after receiving Xie Zhan's summons.

Xie Zhan didn't speak, but fiddled with the information in his hand.

Cai Guangneng got the news about Anhe Pharmacy, and Xie Zhan also got the news. He had an intuition that contracts like Anhe Pharmacy were related to Pingzhou.

He placed the contract between Ding Jun and the Cai family, as well as the contract between Anhe Pharmacy and Zhou Yi, one on the left and one on the right in front of him.

Xie Zhan called Liao Xuewang and others, "Come and take a look at these two contracts."

Xie Zhan compared the two contracts and vaguely saw the context of Pingzhou's plan.

If he had noticed that Pingzhou was setting up a plan to buy deer to defeat Chu, he would have intervened and suppressed the price of donkeys, and Pingzhou would not have suffered much loss.

It should be said that if he had taken action at the beginning, Pingzhou would have stirred up troubles under the price control of the imperial court. No matter whether the price of donkeys rose or fell, Pingzhou would not have suffered a big loss.

Liao Xuewang, Qiao Xitong and Hu Jiangyi were all big businessmen. They looked at each other and understood that Pingzhou had completely transferred the risk.

What a superb method of cultivating goods!

They looked at the two contracts with burning eyes.

Xie Zhan pointed out calmly, "The price of donkeys in Zhuozhou will continue to fall, and it is estimated that it will fall below five or six taels."

For big buyers and patrons like Anhe Pharmacy, even if there is no contract, they will hope that the price of the donkey is as low as possible.

Liao Xuewang took a breath of cold air, so cruel.

Qiao Xitong said attentively, "In this situation, it depends on whether the imperial court can take action. If the imperial court takes action to save Zhuozhou Donkey City, the people of Zhuozhou will not be too miserable."

Hu Jiangyi shook his head, "This is right or wrong. If the court is willing to take action, it depends on the strength of the court's action."

"If it is strong, the people of Zhuozhou can still make a little profit."

"If your efforts are average, you will work in vain for a year! Or you will suffer a small loss."

"If it's not strong enough, haha."

Liao Xuewang also said, "Yes, Old Qiao, what good thing are you thinking of? If you want to keep the people of Zhuozhou in check, the court will have to pay a heavy price."

"Grand Governor, what do you think?" Qiao Xi asked Xie Zhan.

"The imperial court probably won't take action. The price of taking action is too high." Xie Zhan replied.

"From last year to this year, the cost of raising donkeys in Zhuozhou was very high. The cost of each donkey was as high as seven or eight taels of silver. How many donkeys are there in Zhuozhou now?"

"A conservative estimate should be more than one million, maybe more than two million."

Many people who originally lived in Daijun, Yanmen, Xinxing and other places flocked to Zhuozhou, Changshan, Taiyuan and Leping.

Because of Zhuozhou's special geographical location, many people flocked to it. According to statistics, there are 50,000 households, and almost every household raises donkeys.

The total number of donkeys in Zhuozhou must be sold for eight taels of silver each, so that the people can barely avoid losing money. This also means that the imperial court must spend at least 8 million taels of silver, or even 16 million taels of silver, in order to stabilize the donkey market in Zhuozhou.

Moreover, once they choose to take over Zhuozhou, it means that Pingzhou will compete with Pingzhou in the area of ​​commodity colonial economy, so they must be on guard against Pingzhou, so they have to make more preparations in terms of money and food.

Xie Zhan is very aware of the current financial situation of the Dali court, and Xie Zhan also knows Song Mo very well. For a small Zhuozhou far away, the crisis in Zhuozhou did not threaten Song Mo. It was impossible for him to spend tens of millions of silver for the people here in Zhuozhou.

Qiao Xi and Liao Xuewang looked at each other. If the court did not take action, Zhuozhou's people's livelihood and economy would really be ruined.

"What about Mr. Zhao from Zhao Minglou?" Liao Xuewang asked hesitantly.

Now Zhao Minglou is the chief official of Zhuozhou, and Zhuozhou's economy was destroyed by Pingzhou, and he cannot escape the blame.

"Now that public dissatisfaction is boiling, someone must take responsibility." Xie Zhan said coldly, who made the Zhao family insist on diving in in the first place.

"Ignore this, what do you think will happen next for Pingzhou?" Xie Zhan asked Liao Xuewang and the others.

Qiao Xi and Liao Xuewang looked at each other. The Governor was too calm and would never fight once he found something impossible to do.

Xie Zhan ignored the quarrel between them, and Zhuozhou was considered useless. In this battle, when Pingzhou successfully set up this game against Zhuozhou, Zhuozhou was destined to suffer such a disaster.

Along the way, he and Lu Songli fought against each other, winning and losing.

He lost this round, so he focused on the next round and tried to snipe the opponent from the front.