As soon as the day dawned, hundreds of people had already gathered in front of the North City, the news of price reduction spread far and wide, and the people who got the benefits yesterday went out again, and the cloth bags in their hands also increased, including many people outside Xianyang, who got the news and entered Xianyang, and wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to buy enough food for the winter.

"Why haven't you opened it yet!"

A person couldn't help but take a breath in the palm of his hand, a burst of heat came from the palm, and it was suddenly much warmer, and it was inevitably a little cold in the morning, the most important thing is that the clothes on the body are slightly thin, and the price of a thick cotton coat can be worth a lot of food, and more people are willing to choose the latter.

Cold stops can always pass, hunger must not work, that kind of taste can only be experienced by personal experience.

"Which price will it be today?"

An old man asked carefully, carrying an empty cloth bag in his hand, with a patch on the cloth bag, he couldn't help but regret and worry if he didn't buy it yesterday, so he followed his fellow villagers into Xianyang City overnight and stayed at the gate of Beishi all night.

At night, the cold wind kept drilling into the collar, so I had to lock my body tightly, and several people leaned against each other to keep warm, thinking that I could buy more food and drink hot porridge and rice, which was worth the bitterness.

"How can such a big chamber of commerce say that it can change."

"It's hard to say." The other person had a sad face, the north city is not as good as the south city, after all, the south city is Qin State's own market, so it is easy to control.

"If you want to do so much, the hour is coming, and you will know when you go in."

As soon as the gong sounded, the camp quickly divided left and right, and hundreds of soldiers of the Qin State were lined up on both sides with spears, these soldiers were used to maintain order on weekdays, the purpose was to worry that someone would disturb the city or steal, among which there were special officials to manage, the prosperity of Xianyang City was inseparable from the major chambers of commerce, and a lot of environment was also the first place to attract the chamber of commerce to settle in.

"The market is open."

The man holding the gong shouted, and the gate of the North City slowly opened, and the people gathered at the gate flocked in, rushing straight to the shops they needed, for fear that they would be preempted by others.

"Buy rice."

"Well said."

The rice warehouse was opened, the man looked happy, looking at the black crowd in front of him, in the eyes of the businessman, these people are interests, and an exclamation came from behind, "How has the price changed!" ”

The person in front of him tilted to the side and looked at the whole person, the whole person gasped, the price had more than doubled compared to the usual, and he didn't look at it at all.

"Wait!" The man in front shouted, looking at the eye-catching black letters on the price card, "It wasn't this price yesterday." ”

The seller smiled: "Today's business is counted today, this is the rule!" ”

"No matter what, it can't rise so much in one night, isn't this a pit! Go to the court. ”

"Yes, go and sue the official."

The man sneered, "Can you break the Qin Law?" "The Qin Law stipulates that the buying and selling price can be determined by itself, but the price cannot exceed ten times the price at intervals in one day, and the Chamber of Commerce will not increase the price by more than two times.

"Who can afford to buy it so expensive, this is obviously a robbery."

The people of the Chamber of Commerce sneered, "I love to buy or not, but I will reveal a bottom to everyone, and it will continue to rise tomorrow, and if you don't buy it today, you can only regret it tomorrow." ”

"Profiteers, profiteers who pit people."

The atmosphere in a person's heart lifted the cloth bag high, lined up all night and waited for this is indeed the result, carefully calculated according to yesterday's price is barely enough for a family to spend the winter, this year's harvest is less than three percent is not starving is already a blessing, I don't want the price to suddenly double, and the rice that can be bought is also less than half.

The angry voice kept coming out, the North City Chamber of Commerce had expected it, and the guards behind him quickly stepped forward, and one of them said in a loud voice: "There are wars everywhere today, coupled with droughts, there is a shortage of food in various places, if you don't believe it, you can wait a few more days, it's hard to say how much the price will rise." ”

"What should I do?"

"It's clearly trying to cheat our hard-earned money."

"People have the final say in the price, and if you don't buy it, it will rise tomorrow." After the man finished speaking, he couldn't help but touch his waist with his hand, and brought all his savings with him, just to be able to buy enough rice.

"If you really can't buy it, boil more porridge and rice, and wait until next year."

"This is also true, we can't have a famine every year."

One person untied the money bag on his waist, thinking of his family's anticipation of the figure, his arm couldn't help shaking up and down, the merchant snorted coldly, reached out and grabbed the money bag and pulled it hard, but he didn't pull it, the person grabbed it, and he didn't want to end up with a full stomach of rice and grain.

"Loosen."

The man frowned, glanced at it, slowly released his fingers, and the person from the Chamber of Commerce looked disdainful, "Sheng Mi!" ”

The wooden bucket flipped over, and one of the people in the crowd pulled his neck and shouted, "Nanshi is open, and the price is twice as cheap as this." A sound fell, and the people at the door quickly turned around and went straight to the South City, which is the official city of the Qin State, most of which are the shops of the Lu family, and the people who spoke out were also people from the Lu Chamber of Commerce who entered the North City.

"Let's go, go to North City."

"Give it to me, don't buy it."

With a wave of his arm, the man grabbed the money bag and snatched it directly from the hands of the people of the Chamber of Commerce, and ran out with the crowd.

"Damn, what a pariah, a first-class pariah."

Beishi turned from noisy to deserted in an instant, there were only a dozen people left, the rice bags were put aside and kept arguing, most of them were about to return the rice and grain they had just bought, so there was a dispute, and their eyes couldn't help but look back.

"What's the matter?"

"This person paid the money and took the rice, and now he wants to return it!"

The man's face was flushed with arguery, "Mi is here and hasn't moved, why can't he retreat." "That man was born with a loud voice, and now he is even more furious about it.

"Give him back."

"Okay, okay, the Lord will speak, and you're lucky today."

The man snorted coldly, "Don't dare to retreat, profiteer, go to Nanshi." ”

There is no change in the price of the southern market, which is much cheaper than the northern market, and everyone has a smile on their faces when they see the crowd getting closer and closer, and the business is coming.

"What should I do, everyone went to Nanshi!"

Several big lords gathered, originally thinking that they could raise the price and make a lot of money, but they didn't want Nanshi to intervene in it, and one of them let out a sneer, "The combat power can't be compared with Qin, if the strength of the Chamber of Commerce is to ask everyone here not to lose to the Qin State, the defeat of the six countries against Qin back then was completely because of their own battles, but now it is different, Liu Huizhu has a sentence that the major chambers of commerce have no other words." ”

"Yes, as long as you can bring down the Qin State and lose your old capital, you are willing."

"Good!" Liu Liu stood up, "Since you are so determined, why are you afraid of the Qin State, immediately order someone to enter the South Market and hype it up, and the price of the North Market is one percent lower than that of the South Market. ”

"Lower than them, this one is with them."

Dozens of people quickly entered the south market, shouted, the people rushed to the north market again, so a few days down, more and more people gathered in Xianyang City to buy grain, the price of the south market, the north market is also getting lower and lower, the people can not understand at all, such a strange thing is rare to see in a hundred years.

"Master, it's really a loss to reduce the price again."

"Keep descending."

The price of the North Market is updated rapidly, and most of the people are accustomed to it, and one person shouted, "The North Market has dropped." "The crowd does not increase but decreases, these days it has almost become a habit, as long as the price of the north market is reduced, the south market will inevitably fall, compared to the south market is cheaper.

"Check it out."

More than a dozen people followed the crowd to the south market, the situation in the south market was completely expected, someone quoted the price of the north market, the price of the south market immediately changed, always cheaper, don't look at just a little, relatively speaking, people prefer to find psychological satisfaction at this point, most of the people who do business have a grasp of people's hearts.

"Nanshi has dropped again."

There were bursts of cheers among the people, and the two sides benefited from the price reduction naturally, some people started immediately, and it was much cheaper than the last time, and some people continued to wait and see, according to experience, the North Market will fall, and no one knows how much it will fall in the end.

"It's already paid!"

A businessman in Beishi couldn't help but complain, he was originally fine, and he regretted that he shouldn't have listened to the words of others on impulse, and made some so-called joint anti-Qin work, which was not an old routine after so long, and finally fell short, and if he quit now, he will definitely not be able to gain a foothold in Beishi in the future.

"Stop for a while, and the master will compensate you twice for all losses!"

"Master Liu is really polite."

Liu Liu smiled indifferently, "What we fight for in this battle is foundation and patience, and we don't lack both of these points, so only we will win in the end." ”

The gong sounded and the market was closed, the North City Chamber of Commerce settled, and all the shops had losses, compared to the South City, which had more losses, and the North City had six major chambers of commerce, and the strength was far from being comparable to the Lu Chamber of Commerce.

The Lu Chamber of Commerce shook his head again and again after checking the accounts, "I lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in one day, and it is not a way to continue like this." ”

"The owner of the meeting explained that no matter what the price is, it will be lower than the price in the northern market."

"Tomorrow you have to cut the price?"

"This matter depends on Beishi, we can only accompany them to the end."

The battle between the north and the south was lively, and the officials in Xianyang City were completely focused on the new prince, opening up various relationships just to be able to enter the prince's mansion to meet the prince.

Lü Buwei couldn't be happy at all, the drought was getting worse and worse, and the chambers of commerce of various countries also took the opportunity to make trouble, and immediately ordered people to invite Sima Terrier, Ying Yan and others to discuss important matters.

Ying Yan smiled: "The old man has not cared about affairs for many years, and this kind of thing is in charge of the country." ”

Lu Buwei sighed, "The Qin law has an order, the disaster should be cured and not saved, this law is to maintain fairness, once the distribution of food is equal to the court's gift, the Qin law stipulates that only those who have established military merits can receive rewards, this practice is very disrespectful to the meritorious, and there are also drawbacks, once the disaster is too heavy, the people can not survive at all." ”

Sima Terrier said with a smile: "Lord Xiangguo, the general consul of government affairs, changed the Qin law before and was rewarded by the king, why not follow the actions of the day, with the ability of Xiangye, it will definitely be said that the king will open the treasury for disaster relief." ”

Lu Buwei shook his head again and again after hearing this, "The treasury is the foundation of Qin, and only when the treasury is sufficient can an army start a war at any time, and the treasury must not be moved." ”

Sima Terrier smiled: "If you don't use the funds of the treasury, the old man really can't think of any good way." ”

Ying Yan nodded, "Mobilizing the treasury of rice and grain is also the most direct method, but Lord Xiangguo has to think about it carefully." ”

Lu Buwei shook his head, "The matter of the famine must find a suitable way, and the two adults will go to the Shizi Mansion to explain the reason, and the matter of establishing the National Day will be delayed first." ”

Although the Qin country is rich, the people's daily life is still hard, how many people do not smell the smell of meat for more than a month, the old rites of the Qin country, but all major events must be celebrated by the whole country, to put it bluntly, it is to drink wine and eat meat, the prince just stands in accordance with the rules and deserves so, if it is squandered at this time, it will inevitably increase the burden, and even cause dissatisfaction among the victims.

"Lord Xiangguo can rest assured that if he doesn't retire in advance."

Sima Terrier and Ying Yan left, Lu Buwei quickly got up and went straight to the South City, a few days down, the Lu Chamber of Commerce and the North City Chamber of Commerce price competition, what is the fight, nothing more than inventory and foundation, who can't hold on to fall first will definitely lose all their money, victory can take the opportunity to increase the price, and you can rely on the market outlook to get back the loss.