Chang'an City.

Countless grain merchants gathered together, all with sad faces, and the atmosphere in the hall was gloomy and gloomy than the dark clouds hanging in the sky outside.

"Let's cut the price!"

After half a ring, the grain merchant giant Jia Yetong was like a teenager of Canglong, holding a cane, his breath was weak, and he opened his mouth quietly.

"Tong Lao, we can't reduce the price, we are reducing the price now, the loss is all our own payment, most of the grain merchants here are afraid that they will end up with great damage, or even bankrupt!" When many grain merchants heard this, they suddenly became impatient.

Chang'an grain merchants lost the opportunity at first, and later got a lot of grain from the scholars, and they wanted to make a big deal with foreign grain merchants, raise prices, quickly return to their capital, and make a lot of money.

But they could never have imagined that the rainy season, which was rare for decades, caused a great loss of grain in Guanzhong, and it stands to reason that this situation is even better, because there is a shortage of grain, and there is no market for it, and it can be raised to an incredible price.

But what they never imagined was that those people in Jingping Commercial Bank actually fainted in their brains, and sold at a reduced price at this juncture, which disrupted all their positions at once, not only guided the market to the past, but also caused strong public opinion pressure.

Although these local grain merchants hold the grain, but these grains are taken from the high price of the scholars, they are naturally unwilling to sell at a lower price, after all, once the price is reduced, it is equivalent to selling at a loss, and the most important thing is to reduce the price like this, and I don't know what the size is.

The gentry will never pay for their losses, and it will definitely be them who will lose at that time.

At that time, most of the grain merchants here will be greatly damaged, and some will even go bankrupt and lose their families because of heavy debts.

"If you don't reduce the price, the people will be in turmoil together, and the court will be in trouble, and the last person to take the blame, do you think it is us or those high-ranking scholars?" Ye Tong raised his head, his cloudy eyes burst out with a fierce light, and he glanced at everyone: "Raising the market price and ignoring the will of the people, that is a big crime of raiding the family and exterminating the clan, how many of you can afford it, or do you think that the Guan Sergeant clan will compete with the imperial court for us merchants?"

Everyone was silent.

Since ancient times, the status of Shangjia is humble, can only be reduced to a subordinate, if they take the blame, they must be the first choice, if they in Guanzhong and there is an unpacifying civil unrest, then in the end they must be guilty, the scholars will never help them, and even stab them in the back.

"That's right, since the situation is now, we can only sell at a reduced price, and first regain the market from the hands of those people in Jingping Commercial Bank, and we will talk about the loss when the time comes!" Kou Ming let out a long sigh and opened his mouth in response.

"The hateful Jingping Firm, harming others and not benefiting oneself!"

"Don't they know that this will cost a lot?"

“……”

In desperation, the businessmen couldn't help but complain one by one.

It was all because of the price reduction of Jingping Commercial Bank that they fell into such a dilemma.

"It's useless to talk about that now!"

Ye Tong shook his head: "Starting tomorrow, the Ye family's grain shop will start to sell grain at the same price as Jingping Commercial Bank, save the market, and we will reduce as much as they want!" ”

The tumbler among the grain merchants, the old fox, can still understand the situation.

The grain merchants of Chang'an can only fight head-on with Jingping Commercial Bank on the price of grain, maybe they can still fight their way out, otherwise they can only wait for the impact of public anger and public opinion, and finally become the backstabber, and be exterminated by the imperial court.

"My Kou family's grain store can only do this!"

"Then let's take a look at the price first!"

"That's all there is to it!"

Everyone responded one after another, and was forced to reduce the price in desperation.

The price reduction sales of Chang'an grain merchants suddenly collapsed the strings of the entire Guanzhong grain merchants, and all the grain merchants who had the remnants of Guanzhong Tun grain began to panic at this moment, and opened their grain shops one after another to sell grain at a reduced price.

"Price reduction, seven hundred, seven hundred dollars a stone!"

"Damn, now everyone is selling at a reduced price, aren't we waiting for death if we hold the grain, fast, fast, all the grain stores will sell at a reduced price!"

"The first thing now is to sell the grain!"

"You can't smash the food in your hands!"

"Six hundred, six hundred dollars and one stone!"

“……“

Guanzhong grain began to drop in price, this storm of price reduction blew up like a tornado, rolled by, quickly led to the collapse of the entire market, starting from Jingzhao, straight to Hongnong, Hedong, and then rushed into Henan Hanoi.

Faced with this situation, the grain merchants in Luoyang hurriedly got together to discuss.

"Chang'an can't stop it, if we resist hard in Luoyang, we will bear the brunt of it, the imperial court has begun to pay attention to this matter, and many people have come down from the Dasikong Yamen to investigate, if it is ......"

"This time the rainy season came too quickly, it was impossible to resist, and if the price was not reduced, it would cause civil unrest, and no one would be able to protect them at that time, and we would probably be the same!"

"Let's cut the price!"

Several grain merchants led by Luoyang discussed, and in desperation, they had to order the price reduction of the whole Luoyang.

The two major grain markets in Guanzhong, Chang'an and Luoyang have collapsed successively, and the general trend of the entire grain price has begun to fall, and countless grain merchants who have stockpiled grain suddenly panicked, and they have more or less hoarded a lot of grain in the previous storm, and they were ready to make a lot of money, but now the grain price is like a waterfall, flying down 3,000 feet, and they began to panic.

A businessman of any era is a characteristic, and making money is the first criterion.

Losing money will naturally lead to panic.

Just like the stock market, even if you think that you are holding a good stock with long-term profits, but when this stock begins to fall repeatedly, you will panic, and the life of the undetermined will is afraid of the collapse of the particles, so you will naturally clear the position and stop the loss.

Today's grain merchants are in this state, and in the grain market in Guanzhong, the guide may be more than ten grain merchants in Chang'an, but the big market of the grain market is not those big grain merchants, but more than 1,000 small grain merchants.

When their mentality completely collapses, so does the grain market.

"Even the Dong family in Luoyang has reduced the price. If we die, aren't we looking for death? ”

"There are so many grain merchants in Chang'an Luoyang who can't bear it, we can't wait, so the grain can't be sold in our hands, it is equivalent to putting all the money here, and it can't be operated at all!"

"Reduced price sale!"

"Start reducing the price and sell the grain as soon as possible!"

The price of grain in Guanzhong has completely collapsed, once falling to an unprecedented bottom, which is almost a low price that has not been encountered in hundreds of years, and has fallen to a price of nearly 400 yuan a stone, and countless grain merchants have gone bankrupt.

……

Luoyang, Dongshi, Jingping Commercial Bank.

On the top of the main hall, Sun Hao, the executive shopkeeper of Jingping Commercial Bank, and Gong Chang, the shopkeeper, faced each other and knelt on both sides.

"Today, the latest situation of grain prices in several markets in Luoyang, about 470 yuan a stone!" Sun Hao said.

"Four hundred and seven?"

Gong Chang squinted: "Let's start!" ”

"Not waiting?" Sun Hao glanced at Gong Chang and frowned slightly: "According to the budget, the price of grain may fall by a hundred yuan!" ”

"Grain is grain after all, it is impossible to fall to the bottom, we will harvest it when we see it!"

Gong Chang said indifferently: "The most important thing is that the big shopkeeper said that this time the bottom-buying action, everything is listened to me, success or failure is my responsibility and honor!" ”

"Good!"

Although Sun Hao was a little unkind to see Gong Chang, he would never disobey Mu Jing's orders, and said: "Since the big shopkeeper has said so, I will naturally listen to you, if you fail, don't blame me for being unkind!" ”

"I'm not going to fail!"

Gong Chang said indifferently: "Remember, when copying the bottom, you must not copy the name of Jingping Commercial Bank, copy the bottom quickly, before they have no reaction, shoot quickly, each grain team is best to use people from the northern accent, once we react, we will lose the opportunity!" ”

Mujing has always had a backup plan to do things.

Gongchang is the B plan of this grain war, if you can complete a bottom copy under such a big situation, then this battle can be regarded as a real victory.

……

At the end of July, the rainy season passed early, and the sky rarely shines brightly.

The grain market in Guanzhong stopped the storm in a wail, and the grain price began to slowly recover, rebounding from more than 400 yuan per stone, and finally stopped hovering above the price of 600 yuan and 1 stone, which can be regarded as the end of this grain storm.

The main thing is that the imperial court has come forward.

Guanzhong grain has been sold at an unprecedented price, which will have a great impact on the imperial court, and even cause some turmoil in Guanzhong, above the imperial court, whether it is the pastoral party, or the family gate valve party, are aware of the impact of this storm, so it is rare to have a unified opinion, and they jointly took action, and ordered the county officials to stop the continued decline in grain prices.

In this grain storm, whether it is Jingping Commercial Bank, Mi Family, Jingzhou Grain Merchants, Donghai Merchants, Chang'an Grain Merchants, Luoyang Grain Merchants, Guan Zhongshi Clan, and so on, there have been large-scale losses.

The only good thing is that the people of Guanzhong have survived the natural disasters brought about by the rainy season safely, and there has been no starvation due to lack of food.

Of course, it is still the local grain merchants in Guanzhong who have suffered the greatest losses, and half of the losses of the Shi clan have been pressed on these grain merchants, such as the Chang'an grain merchants, more than ten of them have gone bankrupt, even if it is the Ye family and the Kou family, this kind of big grain merchants, the loss is also more than 5,000 gold, and a large part of the market has also been lost.

As for the Guan Sergeant Clan, their biggest loss is that the grain on the granary is almost less than half, which is their confidence, losing this food, it will take at least a few years to not come up, once there is a war, they will face a dilemma.

The foreign merchants, Jingping Commercial Bank, although they lost some money, but with their early price reduction, they won a good reputation in the hearts of the people of Guanzhong, and opened many grain shops in Jingzhao and Hongnong, barely gaining a foothold in the Guanzhong grain market.

Even Mijia, Jingzhou merchants, and Donghai merchants, there are also some shops that have opened a little bit of the market in Guanzhong with their good reputation.