"Let them know that we are also collecting grain, but at a lower price. Let them understand that we don't have much money on hand now, but we still want to collect grain for disaster relief."
Zhao Kang laughed and said: "Force them to buy up all these high-priced grains."
Qi Yunshan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Sir, you are trying to drive down their food prices and kill them all."
Ever since he understood what Zhao Kang wanted to do, Qi Yunshan knew that Zhao Kang's conscience was very, very bad.
If Mashan and Qin Yang knew that their government had also begun to collect grain and wanted to sell it at a low price.
So how could these two bastards who were waiting to make a fortune for the country let the government succeed?
They will buy food in a big way and buy up all the food they can buy. After all, in their view, the court has plenty of money. As long as I buy all the food, the government will have no choice but to buy it from us.
And you, surnamed Zhao, also said that our two families sell grain, and we can sell it however we want, and your government will not buy or sell by force.
There will be no food at that time. Even if we offer fifty cents per catty, you will have to hold your nose and spend money to buy it for disaster relief.
Otherwise, the disaster relief efforts will not be successful and you, the court ministers, will just wait to lose your official title and lose your head.
But what they didn't know was that Zhao Kang had already sent people to other places to promote the price of grain in Qingzhou before he came to Qingzhou. When grain merchants from other places heard about it, they came and brought large quantities of grain into Qingzhou.
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The food they bought at a high price will only fall into their own hands!
"Nonsense, since they want to suck my blood, if I don't give them any pain, why should I use a knife to drain my blood for them?"
Zhao Kang rolled his eyes: "Then all the Buddha statues in the temple should be removed from now on, and I should be put up as a memorial."
When Wu Xinyi heard this, she smiled with a beautiful smile: "What kind of metaphor is this?"
Zhao Kang said happily: "Let's put it this way, to deal with this kind of moth, we must suppress them severely and give them a long memory, so that they will not dare to make mistakes in the future."
Qi Yunshan smiled and nodded: "Then I will resign."
"Go ahead and tell the officials under me to hold on for a while longer. I will remember all the credit for your hard work. When I return to the imperial capital, I will personally ask for credit from your majesty!"
Qi Yunshan: "This feeling is good."
Wu Xinyi next to her listened, her eyes suddenly dimmed, she didn't say anything, and she retreated silently.
Two more days passed
Ma Shan hurried over to the Qin family. As soon as he walked in and saw Qin Yang drinking tea, Ma Shan was a little anxious.
"Brother Qin, how can you still sit still!"
Qin Yang raised his head and smiled as if he had everything under control: "Brother Ma, why are you panicking? Sit down."
Mashan sat down angrily: "Did you know that the disaster relief minister named Qi was already buying grain with his money? When some guys in Yecheng heard that the government was selling grain, they were so frightened that they paid the original price.
If you sell grain to them, you will be held back!"
Qin Yang smiled and said: "Don't be angry, don't be angry, of course I know about this."
"I know you still have time to drink tea here!" Mashan said angrily.
Qin Yang smiled and said: "It's normal that there are a few timid people below, but not everyone is like this. Let him buy it for his surname Qi."
"Those thousand kilograms of grain are of no use. It won't be used for half a day and it will be distributed! Besides, brother Wei has already made arrangements!"
Ma Shan raised his eyebrows and looked at the old fox opposite: "Tell me about it?"
Qin Yang put down his tea bowl and laughed: "I found out last night that Qi Yunshan was buying grain, so this morning I sent letters to all the heads of the thirty-eight grain stores in Qingzhou. It depends on you, Brother Ma.
Do you have the courage anymore?"
"What do you mean?" Mashan's eyelids twitched.
Qin Yang said softly: "Qi Yunshan wants to buy low-priced grain in the name of the government. What does this mean?"
"First of all, the Wu family can't hold on any longer. With such a large amount of grain released, the Wu family's warehouse should be almost empty. The Wang family has also squandered all the grain. Secondly, these disaster relief ministers don't have much on hand.
Disaster relief funds!”
"That's why they are in a hurry to sell food at this time. Otherwise, if they are charged with disaster relief, they can't afford it. Maybe by now they have started to send people to the court to ask for aid and funding."
"Then you want it?" Mashan's heart skipped a beat.
Qin Yang's eyelids drooped: "This time, I want to make enough money! I plan to buy all the grain from Thirty-Eight Grain Store!"
"Holy shit, you're fucking crazy! I've received news that grain merchants from other places have come to our Qingzhou these days. If they fall into my hands by then, it will be over!" Mashan exclaimed.
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Qin Yang laughed sinisterly: "They are just guys who came here after hearing the news. How many of them can come from other places now?"
"But the victims are waiting for food with their mouths open!"
"You mean, before the foreign businessmen come, we buy up all the grain first and force the government to buy grain from us?" Mashan understood what Qin Yang was thinking.
Qin Yang nodded and said: "Yes, a group of Liangzhou grain merchants came to the city a few days ago, and the grain was bought by the Wu family."
"I guess Wu Xinyi, that woman, will definitely ask these people to go back to Liangzhou and notify the merchants in Liangzhou to come to Qingzhou to sell grain. This woman has always been cunning and cunning."
Qin Yang said: "But it takes more than a month to go back and forth from Liangzhou to Qingzhou, not to mention escorting food. By the time they arrive, the victims will starve to death."
Ma Shan said softly: "So you want to take advantage of this one-month gap to buy up all the food!"
"Of course."
Qin Yang said: "I have already estimated that each of our two families will contribute one hundred thousand taels of silver to eat the food stored in the Thirty-Eight Grain Store. By then, we will be the only ones in Qingzhou who have food. If the government wants to provide relief, it will have to
Take grain from us and resell it several times! You can make enough at one time!"
Mashan narrowed his eyes: "Aren't you afraid of the court dragging you?"
"They can delay the victims, but they can't." Qin Yang snorted, without thinking carefully, how dare I, Lao Qin, do this?
Mashan hesitated for a long time, thinking about the success of this matter.
After a moment, he suddenly raised his head: "Done!"
Qin Yang smiled: "That's right. Only you and I can eat so much food in Qingzhou City if we work together. If we don't get rich, who will get rich? Then everything in the treasury is just money!"
The two old foxes looked at each other and smiled, but soon they discovered that they were wrong and had misjudged the arrival time of the grain merchants from other places.
The result of this wrong estimation was that the two families almost lost their pants to Zhao Kang.
End of September.
It started to rain lightly. Qi Yunshan walked in wearing a raincoat and took off his straw hat: "Sir, there is news from below that the Ma family and the Qin family have purchased all the grain from the large and small grain shops in Qingzhou. Now Qingzhou basically has
Eighty percent of the granaries belong to the two of them, and the total grain storage is estimated to be more than 150,000 dan!"
