Spoiling my mistress and swallowing my dowry? After my rebirth, I changed my marriage to a powerful

Wu Zhaohui's heart was struck hard, but he remained calm on the surface: "Where exactly is it?"

"It's near the capital. It was originally planned to be sent to Mozhou and Zhuozhou in the north, but there was another war in the north. My master didn't dare to take the risk, so he wanted to dispose of it in Daqian."

The servant said, "If you can make money, why go far away, right?"

Wu Zhaohui didn't dare to miss it this time, and asked, "What about the grain price?"

The servant said, "Mr. Fang is offering 33 guan ( kg) per stone. If you offer the same price, I'll go first."

40 shi of grain, my old swan, the Meng family is truly worthy of being the largest family in Nanzhao Kingdom.

However, 40 shi of grain, according to the current grain price, is equivalent to 1340 million strings of money.

This is not a small amount of money; it is almost half a year's income for the national treasury.

Wu Chaohui quickly started thinking. The wealth accumulated by the Wu family over generations was even richer than the treasury of Daqian. It was not that they could not take out 1340 million strings of cash, but taking out these would basically empty the Wu family.

At least all the working capital has been withdrawn.

But if he didn't take action, the food would be eaten by King Qi's men.

Right now, the earthquake has subsided, floods are raging, and plague has begun to break out in Zhongzhou. Daqian will not be able to recover for several years.

Food is hard currency. It helps you earn money, build connections, and raise soldiers. Whoever has food wins.

He said to Meng Yan's servant, "Go back and tell Master Meng that I want all this grain and don't want to give it to another family. But I need some time to raise the money."

The servant said, "That's not a big deal. My master said that if you can raise the money within seven days, you must pay at least 500,000 strings of cash every day. We will wait for you for seven days. If you wait for more than seven days, we will be sorry and will not wait any longer."

Wu Zhaohui wanted to ask about the address of the grain warehouse, but the servant frowned and said, "Master Wu, you are an expert and you know the value of rice nowadays. I will not tell you the location of the rice before you get the silver."

Wu Chaohui is the prince's man. As long as Wu Chaohui does something bad, the prince's men will dare to steal all the food.

After the servant left, Wu Chaohui quickly counted his own funds. Finally, the whole family discussed and decided to share the grain with the Cheng'en Mansion and the Prince's Mansion.

The Wu family contributed 500 million strings of cash, and the remaining 840 million strings of cash were asked from the Crown Prince and the Cheng'en Palace.

We all make money together and share the risks together.

This risk mainly refers to hoarding grain, profiting from disasters, and the risk of being beheaded and having your property confiscated by the imperial court in the future.

Wu Chaohui felt that as long as Meng Yan did not give him stale or rotten grain, this business would be a sure win.

With the involvement of Duke Cheng'en's Mansion and the Crown Prince, his head is safe.

As long as there is food in hand, there will be profit. The common people can eat dirt, but can the army eat dirt? If there is a little friction on the border, the court will have to pay money obediently.

The prince was in Zhongzhou providing disaster relief, and Wei Shixun was busy on the Grand Canal, so Wu Zhaohui quickly contacted them.

The Crown Prince and Wei Shixun both felt that as long as there was no problem with the quality of the food, they should take it all, and if they could rob it, it would be best to do so.

40 shi of grain is nothing but a life-saver.

The prince's advisers felt that grain prices were too high, but everything else was controllable.

However, it would be very difficult for Prince Qi and Prince Jin, who wanted to seize the throne, to obtain this batch of grain.

In the end, the Wu family, the Wei family, and the Prince's Mansion jointly purchased 1340 shi of grain for 40 million strings of cash.

After receiving the silver, Meng Yan took Wu Chaohui, Shi Xiu and the Wei family to the temporary warehouse at Yejiancheng Wharf, where they saw grain stored in six warehouses.

These six warehouses are not in the same place and only contain 20 shi of grain.

Another 20 shi were stored in county towns outside Beijing.

Meng Yan is really a smart guy.

The Prince's Mansion, the Wei Family, and the Wu Family jointly inspected the grain and found no problems from the quantity to the quality.

According to the contract, the three companies gave Meng Yan 1340 million strings of silver notes, and the silver notes filled an entire box.

Meng Yan was very smart and asked for silver bills from more than one silver house, especially the silver bills from Tongyuan Silver House were the most popular.

Tongyuan Silver House is extremely secretive and no one can find out its details, not even the person behind the scenes.

It can be said that Meng Yan has considered every step carefully.

After the payment was made, Meng Yan left safely under the protection of 50 masked guards.

The plan of the Prince's Mansion and Duke Cheng'en's Mansion to steal other people's goods and banknotes failed.

Those 50-odd people all looked like they had been stained with blood countless times, and they were filled with murderous intent.

Fortunately, the food was very substantial, all good food, without even a bag of stale food.

Meng Yan and his servant, together with 50 guards, took the silver bills and left the inn, leaving it empty.

The court normally ends at the end of noon, and Lord Gu usually ends at the end of the evening.

At the beginning of noon, Yuanyuan was feeding Jiaofeng under the corridor when a gray robin flew over and landed on the birdcage under the corridor.

Yuanyuan immediately grabbed it and took the note off her foot.

She turned her head to look at the yard door, said nothing, and took the paper tube into the inner room as if nothing had happened.

There were only four words on the note: All the best.

Xie Zhaozhao smiled and burned the note.

Yuanyuan whispered, "Beichen should have seen the robin coming."

"It's okay. I didn't intend to hide it from Lord Gu. I meant the 100,000 shi on the farm."

The 100,000 shi of rice collected during the winter solstice was hidden in the dowry farm, and she would ask Lord Gu to present it to the court.

She stockpiled 110 million shi of grain, 10 shi were donated for free, 10 shi were sold to Prince Qi's people, 40 shi were sold to the prince's people, and the remaining 50 shi were used to completely lower the price of grain.

She wanted to make the Crown Prince and Duke Cheng'en lose all 40 shi of grain.

In their previous life, the reason why Gu Chengyan and Guan Yingying were successful was because of the prince.

The entire Xie family’s tombs were also given by the prince.

In this life, I will clip off his wings first.

She must try her best to protect the Xie family and her father and brother.

The Prince's Mansion, the Cheng'en Mansion and the Wu family received 40 shi of grain and held several meetings together. After discussion, they set the price of grain at 400 wen per catty.

They are the only ones in the entire market who have grain on hand, so they will hold on to it first and then sell it out when the imperial court is in despair and hits a wall.

Duke Cheng'en was more diligent than ever before, as hardworking as a little bee and paying close attention to the court.

Emperor Hui became sick due to worry.

It's not just that the prices of grain and salt are high, but there is no grain in the market.

It’s only winter now and the food is gone. How are the people going to survive this long winter?

Gu Shaoyu asked the government to stop selling the granary, because grain merchants and some local officials were eyeing the grain in the warehouse, and it would never reach the hands of ordinary people.

He demanded that food be distributed to the people according to households.

Duke Cheng'en pretended to be more honest than anyone else. When His Majesty asked him if he could get some food, he said with a sad face, "Your Majesty, I have run out of rice in my own palace."

Emperor Hui summoned all the imperial merchants in the capital for questioning, and found that none of them had any food.

"Your Majesty, it's not that there is no food in Daqian now, but the food is in the hands of the rich. When an earthquake occurs, these wealthy families start to hoard food. Ordinary people don't have that much money, so they can't afford to hoard food."

"The people who are really starving to death now are ordinary people," said Pei Kunfu, the Minister of Revenue. "There is not much food left in the national treasury."

"Isn't there a bumper harvest this year? What about the grain?" Emperor Hui coughed.

The courtiers knelt on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, please take care of your health."

Emperor Hui waved his hand weakly and asked everyone to leave.

Take care? Can he take care?

The people are starving to death, what's the point of him being the emperor?

At this time, Leng Luo, the commander of the Imperial City Department, walked in and muttered something to Your Majesty, and Emperor Hui coughed even more violently.

Several rice shops that had been closed for many days opened today.

But the price of rice is 400 wen per catty.