Chapter 240: The Envoy from the Capital
Su Jin couldn't believe what he heard, the day of Su Mansion in Luzhou, to be exact, the day when Su Jin smelled the little black pill and caused a pillar of optimus to almost go out, he had indeed talked about his plan with Yan Biyun, who suddenly visited.
That plan was to use the grain in his hand to suppress the grain price of the Chamber of Commerce during the spring famine in the second year, so that the grain hoarded by the Chamber of Commerce at a high price would lose all its money.
The general plan is to sell grain at a flat price, and sell its own 80,000 stone grain at a purchase price, and the various expenses are only 700 wen and one stone, and the grain of the chamber of commerce is always purchased at 300 wen, if you want to sell it, you can only be the same as yourself, not only is it unprofitable, but it will also accompany nearly half of the old capital, as long as it can be put on the market in May and June, the old grain of the chamber of commerce will basically be scrapped.
Yan Biyun is a veteran of the shopping mall, she can see the fatality of Su Jin's revenge plan at a glance, but at that time, Su Ji's granary was burned, and Su Ji and the Chamber of Commerce were at a-for-tat point of life and death; In that case, Yan Biyun's persuasion would definitely not work.
The biggest omission of Su Jin's plan was that it underestimated the demand for grain and the timing of the spring famine; The 100,000 people in Luzhou City, even if they are thrifty in food and clothing, their monthly consumption is a huge amount of 40,000 or 50,000 stone of grain, and Su Jin's 80,000 stored grain can only last for two months at most; As long as the Chamber of Commerce endures these two months, the market behind it will be at their disposal.
Moreover, due to the severe drought in the south, the number of official grain collection in Luzhou this year will inevitably increase, and there will not be much grain left in the people's homes, which will lead to a longer period of spring famine; This is a thing that continues in a vein, just like dominoes, the first one falls, and there will be a chain reaction later, which will lead to the food shortage crisis will start early, just after the New Year, I am afraid that the New Year with the aftermath of the festival is the beginning of the disaster, Su Jin just did not take this into account.
Yan Biyun couldn't watch Su Jin do useless work, so she decided to secretly take out the funds to hoard food, and help Su Jin at a critical time; This 500,000 stone grain, Yan Biyun regardless of the cost, the purchase price is as high as 500 wen and one stone, fortunately, the Yan family has a solid background, and Yan Biyun didn't even frown when he took out more than 700,000 yuan.
Yan Biyun explained the reason, Su Jin was even more surprised and speechless, his plan was really inconsiderate at that time, and the omission was too big to be effective at all; Two days ago, Su Jin was already thinking about how to sell the 80,000 stone grain at a good price to maximize the benefits; Since he couldn't fight the Chamber of Commerce, he didn't want to do this useless thing.
If it had been two days ago, when Su Jin heard the news, he would have cheered, but today, two days later, Su Jin had no joy at all that he was about to be able to trample the Chamber of Commerce under his feet in addition to gratitude; Because from all indications, in the five or six months from this winter to tomorrow spring, the Great Song Dynasty will usher in the most serious crisis, at this time, the 300,000 stone grain of the Chamber of Commerce is gold, and no matter what means he has, he cannot prevent the 300,000 stone grain from being sold out at a sky-high price.
"Sister Yan, you are so good to me, spending such a high price on grain is for my plan to retaliate against the Chamber of Commerce; My original intention was to make the Chamber of Commerce lose more than 100,000 yuan, which would lead to their internal disintegration and hit their arrogance hard; But the purchase price of your 500,000 stone is higher than theirs, and if you sell it at the price I predetermined, won't you lose nearly 400,000 yuan? The gains outweigh the losses. ”
"Hmm...... Do you still need to remind you of this problem? The slave family is a businessman, but the slave family thinks it is worth it, and the loss of 400,000 yuan is just money, but what you get is your confidence, as well as your Su Ji's reputation, the slave family calculates this account, it is worth it. Yan Biyun said with a smile.
Su Jin rolled his eyes and said in his heart: A typical rich tone, it is difficult to buy happiness when you have money, and you are so confident when you have money.
"It's really worth saying this, and you have won my Su Jin's lifelong gratitude to you."
"The slave family didn't do this to make you grateful, if it really wanted your gratitude, wouldn't the slave family send you 400,000 yuan directly to make you grateful? You don't want to look at people through the cracks in the door, and you want to look at people flat. ”
Su Jin said: "It's just a joke, do you still need to talk about it between you and me?" ”
Xiao Sui'er and Huanniang laughed eating, Yan Biyun blushed and said, "You are you, I am me, so involved together." ”
Su Jin laughed, and his heart blossomed.
Yan Biyun thought for a while and said: "Now it seems that this favor can't be helped, the whole country is short of grain, they can't sell it in Luzhou, they can be transported to other state capitals to sell, during the famine, food is human life, and there is no worry about not being able to sell it at all." ”
Su Jin nodded and said: "That's the case, but it's always a good thing to have food in your hands, so let's do it, you lend me the food, I'll deal with it, it's not convenient to put it in your hands." ”
Yan Biyun nodded and said, "It's okay, my uncle is the third envoy, and he is worried about the lack of food in the imperial court, but he hoards a lot of food at home, which will be criticized." ”
Su Jin said: "It's exactly this, we can't help, but we can't add to the chaos." ”
Yan Biyun said: "Then what are you going to do?" Holding so much food in your hand may not be a good thing for you, the slave family is thinking, this time your suggestion is sent to the uncle, and the court will definitely have the means to come down in the near future, and the slave family does not want to let this food send you into the whirlpool again. ”
Su Jin said: "This is not going to happen, I will not use this grain to make huge profits, if this is the case, wouldn't it be the same as the gang of people in the Chamber of Commerce, I want to wait for the official document of the imperial court to come down, either sell it to the official family at a suitable price, or keep it until the famine to sell the grain at a reasonable price, in short, I will not do profiteers' business; It's just that this time the loss is certain, and I'm afraid you won't be able to recover your capital. ”
Yan Biyun said with a smile: "You can earn money when you don't have it, and the slave family doesn't lack this money." ”
Su Jin stuck out his tongue and said, "What a big breath, I didn't expect that I, Su Jin, would be able to make friends with a rich woman." ”
Yan Biyun poked Su Jin's forehead and said, "It's hard to hear, what a rich woman, but you have a lot of strange words." ”
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On the afternoon of September 17 of the first year of Qingli, when Su Jin was following Wang Anshi and a group of people to play a game on the grass of the academy, a group of black-clothed and red-collar officials hurriedly came to the academy, and the leader was a middle-aged man dressed in a five-grade civil official uniform, holding a rolled-up silk paper official document in his hand, and striding along the academy avenue towards Xiude Hall.
Su Jin saw that the atmosphere was not right, and hurriedly pulled Wang Anshi to show him, Wang Anshi said suspiciously: "Like an official who came to write an official document, Xiude Hall is a place where the chair mountain elders rest, I'm afraid something is going to happen." ”
"Let's go, let's see." Su Jin kicked Juju aside, grabbed a cloth towel to wipe his sweat, put on a robe, pulled Wang Anshi through the neatly trimmed small trees, and secretly followed the group of people towards Xiudetang Cat.
During the recess, the chairs and gentlemen chatted in the corridor at the entrance of Xiude Hall, and at first glance they were a little surprised when they saw so many officials coming, these officials were dressed differently from the officials of Ying Tianfu, and they were not from Ying Tianfu at all.
A man stood at the foot of the steps at the entrance of the Xiude Hall, and a man stepped forward and shouted: "Lord Fubi, the servant of the Great Song Criminal Department, is ordered to announce the joint writing of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Punishment!" The relevant people of Tianfu Academy should wait for them as soon as possible. ”
The chairs were in a panic, someone had already entered the Xiude Hall to inform Qi Shunbin and Cao Min to come to greet them, and after a while, Qi Shunbin hurriedly greeted Cao Min and a cadre chair with a wooden cane.
"I didn't know that the adults came, but I didn't come far to meet them, and atone for my sins." Qi Shunbin gasped, his heart went up and down, everything has not been going well in the academy for several months, Qi Shunbin's mind has been in a state of worry, and sure enough, something has come to the door again, but I don't know if this meeting is a blessing or a curse.
"The old mountain chief doesn't need to be polite, this time he didn't inform the Ying Tianfu Yamen, this official came to Ying Tianfu with the three envoys." The middle-aged official named Fu Bi clenched his fists and said gently.
"Lord Yan is here too? Where are the people? Qi Shunbin was busy looking around.
"Don't look for the old mountain chief, my lord is resting at the official post, and I feel a little uncomfortable all the way, so I sent the official to read the official document first, let's do it first." Fu Bi smiled.
Qi Shunbin was busy dressing up, and stood solemnly with Cao Min and the professors of the academy.
Fu Bi unfolded the book in his hand, and said loudly: "The Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Punishment wrote: Investigate the Tianfu lecture Cao Min during his tenure to collect money and privately swallow his own pockets in the name of Shu Xiu, which is bad for the style of my Great Song Dynasty Academy, and check Cao Min to catch the wind and catch shadows, privately manipulate people's hearts, disturb the audition, recite the teachings of Taizu, and do the disaster of words, his heart is unpredictable; He immediately dismissed him from the post of lecturer of Tianfu Academy, and removed him from the post of a member of the Ministry of Rites, locked up on the spot, and handed over to the Criminal Department for discussion. ”
Fu Bi waved his hand, and two men stepped forward and grabbed Cao Min, whose face was like ashes, removed his official hat, and locked him in shackles.
Cao Min woke up in shock, trembling and shouted: "Wronged, wronged, the lower officials are diligent and diligent, everything is for the sake of the Great Song Dynasty, it is really wronged." ”
Fu Bi said coldly: "Go to the lobby of the Criminal Department and say this, the official can't talk to you." ”
"I want to see Lord Teng, I want to see Lord Zhang Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, I want to ......"
"Take away, if you are making noise, gag him." Fu Bi shouted majestically.
The two men grabbed the chains and pulled Cao Min, who was screaming endlessly, aside, and one took out a large black cloth towel and shook it in front of Cao Min's eyes.
Su Jin and Wang Anshi behind the bushes glanced at each other, both of them understood that this was the coming of the Autumn Queen's accounting, and nearly twenty days had passed since the disaster of writing, and the imperial court had not given an attitude, and this time Yan Shu came in person, I was afraid that he would have to settle the matter.