On the day when the salt banknotes were sold, there was a huge crowd outside the Exchange, with hundreds of businessmen gathered.
Everyone took a look and saw that there was no sign outside the Duyan Courtyard today.
In the past, there was a sign showing the price of salt banknotes. When the price of salt banknotes was high, it was the current price minus 500 fen per table. When the salt price was as low as 5 guan, it was 500 fen per table.
In other words, when the salt banknotes are less than five guan, the court will not initiate the acquisition. It will be like a dull person standing there being beaten.
Many businessmen take advantage of this shortcoming to make profits.
Among the people waiting outside the Capital Salt Courtyard, there were not many real salt merchants. Many were speculators and people from Jiaoyinpu who wanted to speculate.
Among them, Shen Chen and Shen Yan's uncle and nephew from the Shen family's Jiaoyin Shop also came here.
"I wonder how much goods there are in this salt shop? How dare you sell them like this?" Shen Chen said.
Shen Yan said: "Just look at the price he bids. If he dares to bid a low price, then he doesn't have much goods in his hand. If we don't take action, the Jieshen Jiaoyin Shop will eat them all."
"But if he dares to call ten strings, then clear the goods immediately, otherwise it will be too late."
Shen Chen said: "Ten Guan? Unless the Northwest lends him all the salt banknotes for a year. Now all the importers in Bianjing value the salt banknotes."
Ana Shen nodded and said, "Look, Mr. Hu and the others are here."
The uncle and nephew looked at a few more carriages coming in the distance. Several wealthy businessmen got off the carriage and saw the Shen family's uncle and nephew. They held hands from afar.
Shen Yan said: "The imperial court's money is easy to make, and these people are addicted to it."
Shen Chen said: "Yes, I heard them say yesterday that the court's money is like unattended fat meat. You can take a bite at any time."
Seeing the happy faces of these businessmen and their eagerness to try, the Shen family uncles and nephews sighed.
It's not just people like them, the price of salt banknotes in the capital is rising day by day, and many people have become rich.
Zhang Yue was currently in the exchange office, looking at the hundreds of people outside, and couldn't help but shake his head. Human nature has not changed from ancient times to the present.
People speculate in buying and selling, risking all their wealth in the hope of getting rich all of a sudden, but in the end they often go out naked, taking advantage of the big bookmakers and exchange shops.
Because this is a zero-sum game. If someone makes money, someone must lose money.
However, despite knowing this, countless people still flock to it. This is the greed that will never change in human nature.
Such an industry that is not beneficial to the people should still be in the hands of the state.
At this moment, people outside were shouting loudly: "Why don't you put up a sign? How many seats are there?"
Zhang Yue said to Luo Supervisor: "Open the door and let them in."
After finishing Zhang Yue, he turned around and left.
At this time, the gate of the salt courtyard opened, and hundreds of businessmen poured into the atrium.
Everyone wanted to ask about the price of salt, but when they looked around they couldn't find a sign explaining it.
But I saw an official from the Capital Salt Academy saying, "Everyone, today we are all people asking for salt notes. Let's set a rule."
"It is Mao hour now, and there is still a quarter of an hour before Chen hour. Our exchange office divides the day into five sections, one for each hour. In each section, I will call out a price first, and then everyone will call out the price, and we will come up with a price after discussion.
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"After discussing the price, you can buy the banknotes at this price. If there is anyone who is willing to sell the banknotes, I am willing to accept the banknotes at a price lower than 500 yuan. I will call out the price one by one! Please invite more than 20 buyers to come in first.
Come and negotiate!”
After the official finished speaking, there was a chaos in the place, filled with various voices like a noisy vegetable market.
The officials asked one by one to clear out all the merchants with less than twenty seats, and in the end there were only a few dozen people left inside.
Everyone has never seen such a novel method, and they don't know what the court is up to. But the host said: "I will first call for twenty votes for one seat. Those who are above the bargain price will get it first, and those who are below the bargain price will not be allowed!"
The scene was stagnant for a long time.
But I saw a businessman hesitate and said: "I have twenty strings and two hundred seats!"
The clerk on the side recorded: "Xu Yuanwai has two hundred seats!"
A businessman said: "I have twenty, five hundred, and one hundred seats!"
The scribe recorded it.
A businessman scolded: "It's not worth twenty guan or five hundred guan. The Jingli Jiaoyin Shop is only worth 20 guan. How can the imperial court make money from us?"
As soon as the man finished speaking, he was forked out.
Everyone immediately shouted the price.
In the end, the host compromised and took twenty 500 yuan, and then the person with a higher price than this was delivered.
The merchants stepped forward to pay the money one after another. Although some merchants did not have twenty guan and five hundred guan to buy salt banknotes, they felt that the price of 20 guan was good, so they went to the Exchange and sold the salt banknotes.
At this moment, someone had already run out to report to the Shen family's uncle and nephew.
The two of them were surprised when they heard this. Why didn't the exchange lower the salt level, but instead raised the salt level?
Shen Yan said: "The government has repeatedly issued orders not to allow us to introduce merchants to sell salt banknotes at a price higher than twenty guan per seat, but we actually sold it for 20 guan and 500 wen."
Shen Chen said: "This means that only the state officials are allowed to set fires, but the people are not allowed to light lamps. It is really unreasonable."
Both uncle and nephew looked indignant.
Shen Chen immediately wanted to step in, but was stopped by Shen Yan: "What are you going to do?"
Shen Chen said: "I'll buy a few hundred seats to push up the price of salt! Let's see if this dog official can keep his black gauze hat or not."
Hearing this, Shen Yan scolded: "Confused, you have forgotten what our Shen family's ancestral motto is? The poor should not fight with the rich, and the people should not fight with the officials!"
Shen Chen sighed heavily when he heard this.
At this moment, in the Capital Salt Courtyard, the odd number of salt goods sales appeared in front of Zhang Yue.
There are far more people buying salt banknotes than selling them.
But Zhang Yue now has plenty of goods.
When it was about time, I saw that some of the buyers in the hall had left.
The host said: "Let buyers with more than fifteen seats enter!"
Some more people were added to the hall, and the merchants were much more orderly this time.
At this time, the host shouted: "Twenty votes and five hundred coins for one seat!"
The businessmen below have made quotations one after another with experience.
In the end, it was agreed that the buy order would be settled at twenty-one dollars and the sell order would be settled at twenty-five hundred dollars.
When the buy and sell orders came to Zhang Yue, there were slightly more buy orders than before, but there were still far more sell orders than buy orders.
However, Zhang Yue was selling here and buying there, and the salt banknotes in his hand were only 5,000 seats short, which was not much for the capital of 100,000 seats.
It's noon, which is the third quarter.
Another wave of people walked into the hall, and the host was already shouting that it would be five hundred dollars for twenty-one times, and when the order was sold for twenty-one times, the inside and outside of the exchange office was already boiling.
In just two hours, the price of the salt banknotes had risen significantly, and it was as if the money had been given away for free.
Now everyone within twelve seats can enter, and countless people are holding gold and silver money to hand over the salt banknotes.
There was also a person who bought salt banknotes early in the morning and already earned 500 coins for one seat and five coins for ten seats. He made so much money without any effort.
Many people choose to wait and see whether the price of banknotes will continue to rise, while others choose to settle down and go back to the banknote buying hall to sell the unheated salt banknotes to the Exchange.
Zhang Yue, who was in Duyanyuan, saw the buy orders skyrocketing and the sell orders also rising a lot.
At noon, another five thousand tables were sold.
At this moment, Zhang Yue was glad that he did not sell out 100,000 seats in one breath... The so-called bull's-eye prediction is because you never know how crazy and greedy human nature can be.
The hall was still in a frenzy.
Zhang Yue said to Luo Duyuan on the side: "Look at how many people outside actually use banknotes to buy salt."
Luo Duyuan said in a trembling voice: "Xueshi Zhang, how much did our Duyuan earn today?"
Zhang Yue looked at Luo Duyuan and shook his head. When he walked to the door, he saw countless people in the hall with red faces and dancing happily.
Everyone is happy, but who is sad in the end?
At the end of the day, Yan Chao shouted to the twenty-two seats, and at this moment, buyers from more than ten seats came in.
Many people were anxious and tried their best to squeeze into the capital salt courtyard.
At this moment, there are countless people who are young or don’t have enough money. They are staring at each other outside and now they can’t sit still and shout: “Let me in! We also want to buy money!”
The officials said: "In the last section, everyone can buy banknotes, as long as there are more than three seats!"
After hearing the last words, the commotion of the crowd subsided slightly.
They were all jealous of those who went in holding gold and silver and came out in exchange for salt banknotes, as if they were holding some supreme treasure in their hands.
By the last quarter of Shen Shi, the price of salt banknotes remained unchanged at 22 guan.
Everyone outside Duyanyuan bought salt banknotes as they wished, with smiles on their faces.
Shen Chen said to Shen Yan: "It seems that several members of the staff have bought banknotes. According to this, the price of banknotes will rise tomorrow. You see, the one-day sales of this exchange today are comparable to those sold by hundreds of companies in our industry."
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After Shen Chen finished speaking, he saw that Shen Yan was silent.
"uncle?"
Shen Yan asked: "Nephew, the exchange sold tens of thousands of salt banknotes this day! Where do you think the government got so many salt banknotes?"
When Shen Chen heard this, he couldn't help but said: "Yes, I'm afraid we sold tens of thousands of seats today."
Ana Shen took a few steps and seemed to understand something before saying, "No, I will sell all the salt banknotes in the shop immediately tomorrow."
"Why uncle?" Shen Chen asked.
Shen Yan said: "There are experts in the government who have come up with such wonderful ideas."
"Stop fighting him. Sell it as soon as possible. It will be ruined when it falls badly."
Zhang Yue and Luo Duyuan were silent for a long time as they looked at the money piled in the Treasury of Duyanyuan.
Today, we also borrowed 30 experienced people from the Third Division, and we kept counting them until at least midnight, and they haven't finished counting them yet.
There is no need for delivery procedures. Some people just fill out a form and leave without completing the delivery.
Luo Duyuan looked at the money in the treasury and swallowed his saliva: "Will it still be like this tomorrow?"
Zhang Yue said: "Someone will wake up tomorrow."
Luo Duyuan said: "Money is so charming, I'm afraid of difficulties."
The next day, more people crowded in front of Duyanyuan than yesterday.
Countless people rushed to line up.
Due to the lack of manpower, many merchants simply rely on buy and sell orders for delivery.
On this day, the salt banknote rose to twenty-two thousand five hundred yuan.
On the third day, it even rose to twenty-three.
Zhang Yue knew that the price of salt was about the same, and if he speculated on it himself, the price would increase even more. But he did not do this, and instead used the 100,000 salt notes in his hand to keep the price down as much as possible.
But it can't stop the red-eyed businessmen from buying it.
In this way, after the price stabilized at 23 Guan for two days, it still broke through to 23 Guan 500 Wen.
At this time, there were only 10,000 or 20,000 salt banknotes left in the Salt Bank, but the amount of salt banknotes bought and sold in the Exchange Exchange had almost equalized the amount.
