"Oh?" Although Mo Zhinian said "oh", his face did not change, and he asked, "Then in your opinion, how to deal with it now?" ”

Mo Yiqing replied unhurriedly: "Grandfather now controls the financial and tax power of Hangzhou Mansion in his hands, why don't he use it and use the power of the Mo family to fight against the whole city?" ”

Mo Zhinian heard this, and his face was a little moved.

"In the grandson's opinion, my grandfather can order the Hangzhou City Shipping Department to post a notice that from now on, all merchant ships that transport grain from various places and countries to Hangzhou will be exempted from customs duties."

Mo was shocked, glared at Mo Yiqing for a long time, and asked, "But even so, it will be at least ten days later, right?" How to deal with the current crisis? Within two days, if the Mo family does not produce grain, the price of grain in the market will rise and fall...... This is the military rations of the army of Lin'anbo, and there must be no mistakes. ”

Mo Yiqing smiled slightly: "Grandfather can quietly transport the Mo family's grain storage to other places at the same time, and then transport it back to Hangzhou from Songjiang, Jiaxing, and Suzhou in disguise." ”

"Huh?" Mo Zhinian was stunned, he already looked up to this granddaughter, and now he found that he still underestimated it, "What if the recovery state of Lin Amber fails?" ”

"By that time, the crisis in Hangzhou City has already been resolved." Mo Yiqing said calmly, "Grandfather has always been optimistic about Linanbo, why is he not optimistic that Linanbo's Northern Expedition can continue to triumph at this time?" ”

Mo was obsessed suddenly, and then hesitated: "It's not that I'm not optimistic, but after all, the composition of this army under the command of Lin Anbo is complex, and the people's hearts are difficult to unify, and the recovery of Songjiang Mansion is not to conquer, but to surrender." According to the news, Hong Chengchou has led a large army to help Suzhou in person, and I am afraid that Lin Anbo will not be able to capture Suzhou for a while and a half. In this way, it is impossible to transport Suzhou rice grain to Hangzhou to solve the urgent need. ”

"Grandfather's worries are a little too much, and his grandson thinks that Lin Anbo will win when he attacks Suzhou, not only that, but Lin Anbo can also triumph all the way, maybe he can really recover Yingtianfu."

"Oh? Where does this come from? ”

"My grandson was strictly ordered by my grandfather to read history books since he was a child. Throughout the history books, one kind of regulation can be found, that is, the so-called potential. Those who follow the trend prosper, and those who go against the trend die. The demise of the Ming Dynasty may be providence, but it perishes too quickly, since the Qing army entered the customs, the Qing army is like a bamboo, all the way to attack the city and plunder the land, the Ming army around the country or the wind and surrender, or turn into the south, but because of this, the people's hearts have been suppressed for too long, they will want to rebound, Lin Anbo attacked Hangzhou Mansion, grandfather and the rich Jia in the city are not thinking so? This has created the brilliance of Linamber today. Therefore, Jiaxing is like this, Songjiang is like this, and Suzhou is naturally the same. What Sun Er wants to say is that it was not Lin Anbo who created this Northern Expedition, but the hearts of the people in the world who created Lin Anbo's Northern Expedition. ”

Mo obsessed with a kind of enlightenment, he had to re-examine his granddaughter, this child's talent is too high, but unfortunately, it is only a daughter.

……。

In the days that followed, Mo Zhinian almost copied the plan of his granddaughter Mo Yiqing, first ordered the exemption of tariffs on grain ships to Hangzhou, and then secretly arranged rice ships to arrive in Hong Kong one after another.

The tandem rush of the city's wealthy quickly converged.

In fact, the human heart is like this, no matter how powerful people are, they are afraid of the unknown.

They can control the price of grain around Hangzhou, but they don't know what is happening abroad, especially on the other side of the sea.

The arrival of the rice boat made them deeply doubt the correctness of their decision.

Tax exemption, this is a ruthless move.

The so-called wealth can be channeled, and things that make money, especially those that make a lot of money, can change people's positions.

They did not suspect that the duty-free policy had prompted Chinese and foreign businessmen to import large quantities of grain to Hangzhou, so they began to wait and see.

This is understandable, even if grain is the most unimpeded hard currency in this era, but after all, grain is a renewable commodity with two seasons a year, and they can control the price of grain in Hangzhou or even several prefectures, but they cannot control the price and output of grain overseas.

The so-called sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat, and their convergence has given Mo obsession time and space.

The Mo family's grain hoarding quickly went on the market, which became the last straw that crushed the grain price in Hangzhou.

And what really beat them back to their original shape and stole chickens and rice was ten days later, Suzhou, Taicang, and Jiangyin were recovered.

Wu Zheng did not lose his words, and the first thing he did after Guangfu Fuzhou was to transport the grain stored in Suzhou to Hangzhou, which was three or four million stones, which was enough to crush the last trace of illusion of the wealthy merchants in Hangzhou.

In the city of Hangzhou, the lowest price of rice reached the terrifying position of one or two or three stones, in the history of the Ming Dynasty, there was only this price in the middle and late Hongwu period, when the price of grain in Hangzhou City was one or two two stones and three buckets, the same is not the same.

The wealthy households in the city have been overwhelmed, and it is about to be the harvest season in midsummer, and the new rice will be harvested, and the old rice cannot be cleared, and it will require greater hoarding costs, so they can only cut the meat and clear the warehouse.

At the time of Wu Zheng's expedition, the price of rice had risen to one tael and one stone of indica rice, and the price of japonica rice was even higher.

Mo obsessed with selling at 90% to 60% of this price, and now Mo obsession secretly quickly repurchased and made a lot of money.

To describe it with a simple number, between this sale and purchase, the official warehouse and the Mo family did not suffer a little loss in hoarding grain, but exchanged old grain for new grain, which is only incidental, the key is that in the hands of Mo Zhinian, the net profit obtained exceeded 16 million taels.

The power of the joint efforts of the government and businessmen is nothing more than this.

This also proves from the side that the financial resources of the Ming people are abundant, and they have reached an incredible level.

After this battle, the Mo family and the private businessmen have become like ice and fire, but the prestige of Mo Zhinian has been established, and he has officially begun to implement the reforms he had promised Wu Zheng, redefining agricultural taxes and commercial taxes, and forming tax police.

What is shocking is that several sons of the Mo family were forced to leave Hangzhou, saying that they were going out to do business, but people with a discerning eye know that this is called driving away from the center of power, and they judge that the heirs of the Mo family have changed.

Sure enough, behind Mo Zhinian, the third generation of the Mo family appeared, but what is puzzling is that this third generation is not a man, but a woman.

Hangzhou is starting to be different.

……。

The Qing court was already in chaos.

Upon learning of the fall of Changzhou, the entire government and the opposition panicked.

Especially those Ming ministers who descended to the Qing Dynasty, at this time, they suddenly remembered that the Ming Dynasty may still have a trace of salvation.

It is strange in the human heart that when completely disappointed in something, it feels that it is useless, that everything is bad, evil, and incorrigible.

But once you think that it may still be saved, you will find that the original place is still good, and the more you look at it, the more pleasing it will be.

Countless officials began to move around and connect privately, and the atmosphere in the entire capital became extremely strange.