Su Mengdie was born charming, men's clothes are not only handsome, but also quite heroic, Yi Zhicontent is the first time to see her men's clothes, I can't help but look at it a few more times, seeing that her words and deeds are very natural, I think there should be no less men's clothes to travel.

Kong Jian'an didn't dare to look at it more, and hurriedly bowed back, saying, "When the owner of Su came, no one would report it beforehand." ”

Su Mengdie glanced at Yi Zhizhi and said with a smile: "This time is not as good as before, I'm afraid it will be unpopular." ”

Hearing this, Yi Zhisuffi arched his hand and said with a smile: "Yuanqi has a lot of owners, and his affairs are complicated, it's not that he is not welcome, but he is afraid that he will neglect the owner." Saying that, he turned sideways and saluted: "Su Dongjia, please." ”

What is afraid of slackness, it is purely unwelcome! Kong Jian'an was secretly surprised in his heart, did the big shopkeeper not want to see Su Mengdie, or did he not welcome the owner to come to Yuanqi to disturb?

Su Mengdie didn't seem to hear the meaning of these words at all, walked straight into the room, and after greeting and sat down, Yi Zhishu smiled and said: "Su Dong's family came to the general number, I don't know what is important?" ”

Su Mengdie shook the folding fan and said unhurriedly: "In the past few days, there has been a shortage of silver in the market, and the price of rice and salt is rising, but the price of tea is not rising but falling. ”

As soon as he heard this, he understood what Su Mengdie meant by coming, needless to say, the Su family's tea shop still had a lot of stock, he couldn't help but be a little annoyed, as early as more than ten years ago, he reminded her not to touch the tea, but he didn't listen?

Feeling uncomfortable, he didn't bother to answer, took the cigar on the table, and took a puff slowly, seeing this situation, Kong Jian'an was a little uncomfortable, and hurriedly instructed the outside world: "Brew a pot of good tea, send some exquisite snacks." ”

Seeing that Yi Zhizhi didn't answer, Su Mengdie smiled and said: "Yuanqi issued silver tickets, as the owner, I should do my best, I have brought the silver stored in the house and the turnover silver of the tea shop and silk shop to the Song shopkeeper to exchange the silver tickets, but there are many people in the lobby, and the counter is busy ......." ”

Hearing this, Kong Jian'an hurriedly got up and said, "Su Dongzhu sat down for a while and said hello on the counter." ”

Su Mengdie arched her hand and smiled: "Then there is the shopkeeper of Lao Kong." As soon as Kong Jian'an left, she smiled coquettishly: "San Lang, don't be angry, the slave family knows that it is wrong, and when he turns around, he will ask someone to throw out all the tea leaves in stock." ”

Yi Zhishu nodded, stretched out two fingers, and said, "Two days, you only have two days." ”

"Is it today?"

"Count."

Su Mengdie's face turned a little pale, and she said in a deep voice: "Will it fall sharply?" ”

"It's miserable."

"Is it the Thirteen Lines of suppression?"

After a little hesitation, Yi Zhizhi said: "The thirteen lines are just following the trend." ”

"The London Tea Market has collapsed?" Su Mengdie said with some consternation: "It's June now, why haven't you heard any news?" ”

Yi Zhishu naturally wouldn't tell her that the thirteen lines had blocked the news, and with a slight smile, he said, "It's not collapsed yet, but it's fast." ”

Hearing this, Su Mengdie was still sitting still, and quickly got up and said, "Mine hurry back." ”

Yi Zhixiang didn't leave her alone, got up and said, "Tell the shopkeeper of your tea shop to pay attention to the movements of the Tea Merchants Guild." ”

Didn't wait for two days, the next morning, a news spread all over Xiguan, the British adjusted the tea import tax, from 12.5% directly to 100%, for what is the import tax, most people don't know, did not pay much attention to this news, but the tea merchants in Xiguan are like frosted leaves, it's gone!

The most direct impact of such a large increase in tea tax is that the profits of British retail tea trade have been directly cut by half! The tea trade is not only unprofitable, but also loses money!

All the British merchants returned the goods one after another, and those who paid the deposit also found all kinds of excuses to refuse to receive the goods, and some even did not even want the deposit.

In less than half a day, the price of tea fell from 32321 to 256.

Xirong Lane, Tea Merchants Guild.

The wide lobby was full of panicked tea merchants, and last year, it was also here that all the tea merchants unanimously formed an alliance to raise the price of tea, forcing the thirteen lines to accept the price of tea they had set, and in the end, the thirteen lines made concessions, and the price of a load of tea was increased by seven taels, and the price of tea rose by thirty taels for the first time.

Now, only a year has passed, and the price of tea has returned to last year's situation, and all tea merchants are speculating whether the Thirteen Lines colluded with British businessmen to maliciously suppress tea prices in order to avenge last year's one-shot revenge.

It's no wonder that a group of tea merchants speculated so much, because the thirteen lines of merchants have thrown out the tea in their hands one after another in the past few days, and those who signed orders did not hesitate to change hands at a loss, or transferred to tea shops, foreign companies or directly to British and American retail merchants.

Sixty-two-year-old Huang Zichang, the president of the Tea Shop Guild, walked out with steady steps and sat down on the wide main seat, and the whole hall was immediately silent, and everyone looked at him.

After coughing lightly, Huang Zichang spoke: "The source of the British adjustment of the tea import tax has been ascertained, it is from the British merchants and crew members of the British merchant ship "Mickstar", and there are newspapers in London with the ship, which has a report on the British adjustment of the tea import tax. ”

As soon as the words fell, there was a lot of discussion in the lobby, if the Thirteen Lines joined forces with British businessmen to suppress the price of tea, they still had a way to deal with it, if the British adjusted the tea import tax, they would be helpless.

"Everyone!" Huang Zichang raised his voice and said: "The British have now developed the habit of drinking tea, except for our Qing Dynasty, the British have no place to buy tea, no matter what the English government intends to raise the tea import tax, as long as we can grit our teeth, the price of tea will not go down!" ”

This is tantamount to giving everyone a reassurance, a group of tea merchants have nodded, last year they united, did not succeed in raising the price of tea?

However, only one day later, the London tea market collapsed, and the news of the sharp drop in tea prices came again, and the tea prices that had just stabilized in Guangzhou fell sharply, directly below the 20 mark!

All the tea merchants were panicked, the tea market was in a depression, and all kinds of rumors emerged one after another, which made people confused.

The most marketable rumor is that the East India Company hoarded tens of millions of pounds of tea at the time of its collapse in order to raise the price of tea in London, and the high price of tea in London stimulated the price of tea in Guangzhou to rise.

Today, the price of tea is high enough that the East India Company has sold it in London for a profit, causing the price of tea to collapse!

Needless to say, this version of the rumor is naturally easy to know and let people out, outsiders may not believe it, but as long as the tea merchants and British retail merchants think carefully, they dare not believe it, after all, the only one who has the ability to manipulate the price of tea in Guangzhou and London is the East India Company, and the timing of the price increase of tea coincides with the collapse of the East India Company.