Chapter 946: Price Manipulation (2)
Habl pondered for a moment and said, "Can you get 100,000 sets?" ”
Lord Zhuo was stunned for a moment, revealing a look of surprise, and then said in embarrassment: "One hundred thousand sets out my ability!" ”
Hurriedly said: "However, I can contact other merchants to do this together, 100,000 sets should not be a problem!" Isn't it ・・・・・・・, my lord?"
Habler smiled, "You're smart! Yes, I do need to buy a lot of armor and ordnance! And I'm in charge of that! ”
Mr. Zhuo's eyes lit up, and he hugged his fists with gratitude: "My lord is so kind, I will do my best to repay him!" I am willing to give a quarter of the profit to repay the adult! ”
Habble Goldfish's eyes lit up, nodded indifferently, and advised: "This matter must be fast!" ”
"Don't worry, sir!"
The price of goods in Guishan has risen faster and faster, especially the price of grain has risen to nearly three times the usual price, which is the average price, and some grain shops have raised the price to more than five times the usual price, and these speculative merchants in the grain shops, the material resources of the caravans in the Central Plains are continuously transported to Guishan through the fortress of Green Ridge, among which grain and weapons are the mainstay, and the innumerable wealth flows back into the Central Plains along this road.
The local people of Kushan finally could not bear the humiliation of the high prices, and complained to the government one after another, and even organized to storm the shops and grab food.
The Kushan Minister of Finance Habul immediately reacted, immediately checking the grain shops whose grain prices were more than three times higher than usual, confiscating all the property of these merchants, and handing over a large part of the confiscated property to the imperial court for military expenses, and at the same time severely cracking down on the mob that attacked the Han Chinese shops.
All of a sudden, Habule's prestige in the Kushan government and opposition rose sharply, and the military generals who originally disliked him couldn't help but look at him with admiration, but who knew that Habul had made more than ten times as much black money behind his back as he confiscated his property.
"Congratulations, my lord!"
Mr. Zhuo visited the door again, and the four attendants who accompanied him each carried a one-foot square mahogany box.
Habler glanced at Mr. Zhuo's entourage and smiled meaningfully: "Mr. Zhuo believes he has made a lot of money during this time!" ”
Mr. Zhuo smiled humbly and said humbly: "Thanks to the blessing of the adults, I have made some money!" ”
He motioned to his retinue to place the wooden box at Habl's feet.
Mr. Zhuo smiled and said, "My lord, these are all yours!" Laugh it off! ”
Habl couldn't wait to let his cronies open the wooden box, and the wooden box turned out to be full of fine East Pearls, the value of these four big boxes of East Pearls was definitely an astronomical amount, and I was afraid that it would not be more than a million taels of silver.
Habl swallowed the corpse water greedily and nodded with satisfaction: "Good! Very good! Mr. Zhuo, it's a pleasure to work with you! ”
Mr. Zhuo hurriedly said humbly: "Where, where!" It is a great blessing to be able to have the help of adults! ”
Hable laughed, "Mr. Zhuo, don't leave today!" Stay and have dinner with me! ”
Mr. Zhuo couldn't help but be flattered, "This is the greatest honor in the world!" ”
Habl laughed heartily and ordered the food and drink to be prepared.
That night, when the moon was in the middle of the sky. Mr. Zhuo left the Habble mansion in a bit drunk.
After a while, I returned to the mansion in the capital of the Kushan king, the mansion was large, but it was not luxurious, and it was nothing compared to the mansion of Habula.
As soon as Mr. Zhuo returned to the mansion, the drunkenness on his face disappeared immediately. Pan said to one of his attendants: "Pay attention! ”
"No!" The entourage promised and immediately retreated, looking extremely vigorous.
Mr. Zhuo came to the back hall, and several people who looked like followers were waiting.
"I've seen a thousand households." Several people hugged their fists together.
At this time, Mr. Zhuo did not look like a businessman at all, but like a general who commanded Ruoding, in fact, Mr. Zhuo was not a businessman at all, but the person in charge of the Great Wei Jinyi Guard faction in Guishan
Zhuo Yifan, who can also be regarded as the old man of Jinyiwei, made many meritorious achievements during the Central Plains War.
"No need to be polite! Report all the information of the past few days! ”
The entourage on the left reported: "Qianhu, in the past half a month, due to the general panic of the people of Kushan, we have sold a total of one million quintals of grain, and earned a total profit of more than four million taels of silver, this is only the situation of our family, not including the situation of other major chambers of commerce, in addition, we have earned a total of more than three million taels of silver in salt, tea and other items, and a total of six million taels of silver in ordnance!" ”
Zhuo Yifan said in disbelief: "Why is the ordnance so profitable?" ”
Several people called out a look, and the entourage who spoke just now clenched his fists and said, "Qianhu, we didn't expect this before!" ”
Zhuo Yifan smiled, "Whatever, it's a good thing after all!" ”
Then he thought: "In addition to the one million taels of silver that bribed Habul, a barbarian, we still have a surplus of twelve million taels!" Damn, this expensive frost is really oily! ”
Several of the attendants laughed sympathetically.
Zhuo Yifan advised: "Xiao Li, you are responsible for transporting the money back, be careful, I will send a book to the Green Ridge Fortress!" ”
"Rest assured!" Xiao Li hugged his fists with confidence.
Zhuo Yifan nodded and said to the other person: "Pigeon, you guys continue to keep in touch with the major caravans, you must restrain them and don't let them get carried away!" ”
Several people hugged their fists and said: "Understand, rest assured!" ”
After discussing with his subordinates, Table Yifan sent flying pigeon biography to the Green Ridge Fortress and Chang'an respectively.
Early the next morning, Zhuo Yifan's subordinate Xiao Li led five hundred of his men to escort five million taels of silver in the direction of the Green Ridge Fortress, and the other seven million taels of silver had already been transported back before that.
As soon as the convoy left the city, it was targeted by horse thieves. These days, these caravans that were traveling densely between the Green Ridge Fortress and Guishuang had already attracted their attention.
Originally, they would not have the idea of fighting this line, after all, the line from the Green Ridge Fortress to the Guishan Royal Capital was firmly under the control of the Wei army and the Guishan army, but the huge wealth finally made these outlaws decide to take the risk.
There is a group of horse thieves in the valley dozens of miles away from the royal capital of Guishuang, a thousand people, and the strength cannot be compared with the horse thieves in the north of Guishuang, but the number one thousand brave and ruthless people are also a large force, they were originally active in the north, but because they could not compete with other powerful horse thieves, the leader decided to venture to the vicinity of the royal capital to try their luck.
A fast horse galloped into the valley.
"Chief, there's a fat sheep with a king-sized size!" The knight rushed to the leader of the horse thieves and reported excitedly.
"How fat?" The leader asked.
"More than a hundred carts, with deep ruts! According to the observation in the past few days, this convoy should be transported by Han merchants to the Green Ridge Fortress with the money they earned! ”
The leader couldn't help but be surprised, "If more than a hundred big cars are all money!" That's at least four or five million taels of silver! ”
As soon as they heard this, the small leaders couldn't help but stir.
"Boss, let's do it!" A small leader looked impatient. (To be continued.) )