There was a large stream of people who came down to visit Wang Xian, Wang Xian still made a difference, he accepted all the merchants, and the gentry only saw a few who were kind to him, and most of them were rejected by Erhei.

In the evening, Wang Xian borrowed flowers and asked Master Dong to burn a table of Jinling's famous banquet and invited Lu Yuanwai, Hou Yuanwai, Li Yuanwai and Boss Zhou.

The rest of the people were really flattered by Wang Xianneng's invitation. He couldn't help but feel proud, he had to go to Hangzhou to apologize to Wang Xian, and he escaped the catastrophe, and was not absorbed by the Wang group.

Li Yuanwai has already realized that the wealth in the future is the world of this small group, so once Wang Xian personally invited, this gentry of the county in the past was so light, and Yu Crisp did not go back to the backyard to eat tea and chat with Lu Yuanwai, waiting for the family banquet in the evening.

One is to enhance the sense of feeling, and the other is to understand more about the situation, so that when the time comes, people will not say that they can't understand.

Before Wang Xian came over, several people hurriedly got up and greeted each other: "My lord, I have worked hard." ”

"It's tiring for the New Year." Wang Xian smiled and sat down at Li Yuanwai and said, "The staff has not left? ”

"It's so easy for everyone to get together during the Chinese New Year," Li Yuanwai hurriedly bowed and smiled: "I won't leave." ”

Everyone said that this guy was cheeky enough, Wang Xian smiled and waved to him, don't say politely: "It's usually a good time to talk about the New Year, right?" ”

"Speaking of this year's market." Zhou Yang said: "Everyone is not very optimistic. ”

"How?" Wang Xian put on a posture of listening.

"First of all, the grain developed last year was because it was a big country that has not been seen in decades, and this year, with the return of the disaster victims to various places to recover, the decline in production and sales has become a foregone conclusion." Lu Yuanwai said: "Adults must be mentally prepared. ”

"Hmm." Wang Xian nodded and said, "I'm afraid the situation is worse than you think." ”

"How?" Now it's their turn to ask.

"I don't know if you have studied the supply and demand of grain in Zhejiang?" Wang Xian asked.

Everyone shook, they didn't have this overall view, so they could only listen to Wang Xiandao: "I took the time to ponder last year, and found that in fact, it is no problem to feed the population of the province from the amount of grain production in this province alone. ”

"Then why is there always a shortage of food? What about making food the highest in the country? The crowd asked.

"It's caused by imbalance," Wang Xian said, "You can't distribute all the grain to everyone according to demand, and in some places there is a shortage of grain, and the merchants don't want to communicate with each other, but will try to perpetuate this disparity in order to make a profit." As a result, the grain surplus hurts the peasants. High food prices in food-scarce localities......"

"What do you mean...... "The Lu Yuan" Lu Yuan and the others all understood a little: "The shortage of grain in this province is artificially caused by the grain merchants. ”

"Hmm." Wang Xian nodded and said: "Because the grain cannot be distributed according to demand, there is always a food shortage in places where there is a shortage of grain. Once there is a disturbance of grain in a certain place, it will cause fear in neighboring prefectures and counties, and the government will not allow grain to be released, and the people will work hard, and as a result, the food shortage will be even greater. After a pause, he said: "This kind of psychology is called 'chasing, and the price is expected to rise to an outrageous price when the price rises.'" ”

"The other one who is chasing is 'killing.'" Wang Xian continued: "Of course, people expect that food prices will fall, and food prices will fall again, which is not far beyond people's imagination. ”

"It's a good one to chase up and kill down" Li Yuanwai is a long insight today. He finally knew that Wang Xian was able to play with the Fuyang gentry in the palm of his hand, not by relying on Xiao Cong, but by great wisdom.

"In this way, we continue to import grain from Huguang, and the impact on Zhejiang's grain prices is much greater than imagined." Several shareholders of the grain number also understood that their faces were very ugly and said: "If the price of grain is very profitable, it will be very thin." ”

"It's not impossible to cut it in half." Wang Xian nodded slowly and said: "The windfall profits of this industry have come to an end, so everyone must take precautions." ”

"That's what my lord said." Lu Yuanwai echoed: "Now we are a tree move, and whoever catches it wants to bite one, and some people are worried about trying to get us out, this rì is actually far from being as beautiful as it seems." After a pause, he said, "If even the profits are thin, we should change careers as soon as possible." ”

In fact, this was to be heard by several shareholders, although Wang Xian approved it in advance, he never talked positively, and he did not know their attitude. Lu Yuanwai's Ren is to help him convince everyone together.

"Changing careers ......" grain number has brought countless wealth to shareholders, and it is difficult for anyone to accept that it has only been established for a year and is going to be transferred: "It's not easy to say."

"It's not easy, otherwise you will be constrained everywhere in the future, but it will be burdened." Wang Xian said in a deep voice: "Why we will inevitably have a more ambitious future"

"Where are we going?" Zhou Grain Merchant was also an insider, so he said.

"Yunshe" Wang Xian said categorically: "You should know better than anyone how much potential this industry has." ”

"Hmm." Everyone's eyes lit up and they nodded. It was their profits last year that came from the freight they earned from purchasing grain. At that time, Wang Xian insisted on renting a boat instead of hiring, and a hire was one, and he was still very ignorant at that time, feeling that this would not save money and cost jīng, but Wang Xian's decision had never been questioned, and everyone had to do it.

It was only later that they realized the name of this decision. They became officials and businessmen who purchased grain in the province, and they traveled back and forth to Huguang and Zhejiang many times a year, and after coming to Zhejiang, they also brought tea merchants, paper merchants, and silk merchants to the county, and the freight income at the end of the year was as high as 200,000 taels.

The reason for this profiteering is very simple - merchants who urgently need goods from all over the world to be shipped to the provincial market often make a profit of several or even ten times. However, this line is particularly rare, and the officials and soldiers who have passed through the gate have to be pulled out, and if they are not satisfied, they will be tricked in many ways, and if they are light, they will be delayed, and if they are heavy, they will be detained. There are also wharves in various places where they will be vexatious and extortionate. This is just the land of Majiang Lake, there are still water bandits, and if they encounter it, they will lose their lives if they are light.

Therefore, since ancient times, there have been high-ranking people engaged in this industry, relying on the commercially developed Song and Yuan dynasties, there were more than a dozen powerful ships active in the country, and there were countless smaller transportation societies. However, the Ming Dynasty focused on agriculture and suppressed commerce, and forty merchants and merchants only recovered in recent years, and most of the business scope was still in the vicinity, where there were decent transportation society boat gangs.

"We have a year's experience, and the article of the establishment of the transportation club has matured," Lu Yuanwai said in a deep voice: "There are two more banners of the Zhejiang Salt Transportation Division to ensure that this time will not wait for when."

"Yes." Everyone outside the team agreed. What experience conditions are ripe are still in them, and their confidence comes from the flag of Yang Tongzhi, the salt transportation division

On the bow of the ship, it was written: 'The great miraculous thing that the Ming Dynasty and the Zhejiang Salt Transport Division knew together, the gate was closed, the tax card was Bi Gongbi, the ruffians never sāo, even the rivers and lakes and water bandits did not rely on this business, can they not do it?

Wang Xian felt that the reason why this flag could be refuted was not only because his cheap brother's official should have other reasons, but he didn't care about his own small nose and small eyes, and he just had to pay the protection fee on time...... In this world, there is no good thing that light can not get in, and this flag wants to be used for a long time, so it is natural to pay tribute regularly. A few years ago, Lu Yuanwai passed by Suzhou, and according to Wang Xian's instructions, he gave Yang Tongzhi 20,000 taels of silver, and said that he wanted to establish a transportation society.

Yang Tongzhi saw that Qian Yan's 20,000 taels of silver made him happy. He has two trips to this flag, only one side and the other side for backup, and it is good to be idle all year round to make money. After hearing about rì, this input can become Chang Yang Tongzhi, and he is more than the land personnel, and he also equips them with the survey of the salt transportation department, so that they can also be on the ship to inspect when they meet more serious officials.

With Yang Tongzhi, the shareholders naturally had confidence, and then nodded in agreement.

Seeing that this matter was so decided, Li Yuanwai finally couldn't help but say with a grimace: "Count me as one?" ”

Everyone looked at Wang Wangxian and said: "Those who see it have a share of turning back, totaling one and letting the staff also enter a share."

The shareholders naturally thought that Wang Xian's horse head was, not to mention the background of the Li family, and had a good estimate of Yun She, which was also the reason why Wang Xian greeted him.

Seeing that they agreed to add Li Yuanwai, he was happy and had no words to thank Erhei and said, "Jiang Zhixian is here." said that it was a big day, and he would definitely let the adults see him. ”

Everyone looked at Wang Wangxian and stood up: "It's not early, let's start the banquet." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and said, "Please." ”

"Your Excellency, please." Everyone got up and looked at each other, but they were all a little apprehensive in their hearts, after all, the one outside was the elder of the county, how could Wang Xian turn him away?

No one dared to touch Wang Xian's mold, and they all obediently entered the table, toasted and ate, but the atmosphere was inevitably a little heavy, and a few people outside the staff thought out to talk and laugh, and the banquet became relaxed.

Just as he was staggering, Erhei leaned in behind Wang Xian and whispered: "If Lord Jiang Zhixian doesn't come out, he will die headlong outside......

"He's not gone yet?" Everyone was a little concerned, they felt that Jiang Zhixian must have been so angry that he would go back to where he thought about it, and he didn't leave here for most of the hour. I can't help but be secretly surprised...... What did Jiang Zhixian do? How did you scare him like this?

Wang Xian stood up and said, "Sooner or later, I'll see what he says." As he spoke, he bowed his hand to everyone and said, "You guys, I'll go back slowly." ”

"Your Excellency, please." Everyone stood up and watched Wang Xian go out.