Chapter 394 Plan Acceleration
"Don't worry, we have plenty of food."
Aunt Zeng and the others didn't seem to believe it. "We have so many people in Nanyang, how much food do you have?"
Young Master Ji explained, "We are not fighting alone. We, the Ji family, have allies. Our allies are very powerful. Even if we sell out our grain, we still have allies, and our allies have plenty of grain. So, Auntie, don't worry, Nanyang will always have affordable grain for sale."
"Your Ji's firm has allies? Who are they?"
"Our ally is the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce."
"The Liaodong Chamber of Commerce is actually your ally?"
"I had a vague feeling before that the people at the Yuzhou Grain Merchants Association hated your Ji's Company and the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce. Turns out it's true."
“You are all good businessmen.”
At this moment, Young Master Ji happened to see Wu Ren and pointed, "Look, that's Manager Wu from the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce."
Aunt Zeng and the others all looked over.
"Are you married, you good-spirited young man?"
"Where is he from? How old is he? Who is his family?"
Young Master Ji: ...
"I'll call someone over, and you can ask them yourself?"
"Okay, okay."
Young Master Ji waved to Wu Ren.
When Wu Ren came over, he said, "I'll leave this to you. I'll be gone for a while."
After Young Master Ji left, Wu Ren was instantly surrounded by the ladies.
Liaodong County, Houcheng
Lu Songli has returned to Houcheng from Pingguo County. The plan in Nanyang has entered the second stage. This is a game of capital. It doesn't matter whether she stays in Pingguo County or not.
Lu Desheng looked at the news coming back from Nanyang and said, "Tsk tsk, Ji Wuyin has done this in Nanyang. When the truth finally comes out, will our Liaodong County be cursed by grain merchants from all over the country?"
Lu Songli quickly processed the documents on the desk.
Hearing her father's words, Lu Songli said indifferently, "You can scold me if you want. If you do great things but cherish yourself, and try to please everyone, you will only suffer in the end."
Being in her current position, Lu Songli has a deep understanding of why the middle class always suffers every time a country encounters an economic crisis.
Lu Desheng looked at his daughter meaningfully. He seriously suspected that his daughter was making a veiled complaint.
The secret memorial Zhang Xian had sent back to the emperor mentioned two plans. One was the plan they were currently implementing in Nanyang. The other was Fan Zhongyan's eternal conspiracy.
However, when Song Mo learned about the money and food that would be needed for the entire plan and the infamy he would have to bear, he chose to let his people share his worries and transfer all the risks.
Therefore, Lu Desheng felt that his daughter's words "do great things but cherish your body" were a scolding to Song Mo. However, Song Mo, that bastard, was scolded at will.
"My dear, will your involvement with foreign grain merchants be detrimental to the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce's expansion abroad?"
Lu Songli raised her eyebrows. In the business world, would she still be afraid of them?
Moreover, although these foreign grain merchants were profited from by her, she at least left some roots for them, right?
Besides, she had another trick up her sleeve. She knew how to give them a good reward after a good beating, and she believed that the reward would satisfy them. Then the leeks would soon flourish again.
"Dad, don't worry about that problem. Now, the situation in Nanyang is accelerating, and arrangements can be made in Chang'an as well."
"good."
Xuchang
Che Jiu Ming invited grain merchants from all over the country to discuss the plan that day, and agreed to work together to buy out all the grain from Ji's branch.
Although the Ji clan branch sold grain per household or per head, Nanyang was located in the heart of the Central Plains and was also the most populous county. Before the earthquake, the population of Nanyang had reached over two million, the highest of all the counties in Dali.
After the Nanyang earthquake, some people were killed or injured, and some fled. Even so, Nanyang still had a population of over one million.
With so many people, and the Ji family not being an official, they couldn't openly count the population and household registration, so they could only roughly register, and couldn't even verify each one. There was no other way, as verification would consume too much manpower, material resources, and time.
Therefore, Che Jiu Ming could take advantage of the loophole and eat Ji's food.
He did just that, buying 30,000 dan of Ji's grain every day, and he didn't expect the other grain merchants to consume more grain than him.
But what did he discover? These guys were mostly just watching, not making a concerted effort to buy food from the Ji branch as agreed!
He was fooled! Che Jiuming was furious.
On the day of the meeting, Che Jiu Ming wanted them to take out the silver and gather it with him so that he could arrange the purchase of grain.
But Che Jiu Ming had no collateral, and his words were just empty talk. These grain merchants were not stupid, so of course they would not agree.
Che Jiu Ming wanted to ask other members of the Grain Merchants Association to come out and act as guarantors, but these people had their own thoughts and refused to respond.
In the end, everyone just made a verbal agreement.
Che Jiu Ming never thought that they could be as dedicated as he was.
He felt that if they could contribute a little, that would be enough. They should also contribute a little for their own sake, right?
Is that a high standard? No, isn't it? But they haven't met it.
Upon learning the truth, Che Jiuming was furious and started cursing, "What a rabble! They deserve to lose money!"
Che Jiuming didn't know that it was human nature to chase rising prices and sell when they fell. If the market was looking good, people would buy in no matter the price. But if the market was looking bad, they wouldn't even be willing to pay a small price.
Before one wave subsides, another wave arises.
On the eighth day, Young Master Ji and Wu Ren led a team to Xuchang to collect grain. They had previously secretly purchased grain from the Yuzhou Grain Merchants Association, but some of the grain was inconvenient to pick up, so they left it there.
Che Jiu Ming looked at Mei Zishan, Zhou Beicheng and others in disbelief. Well, he said where did the Ji family get so much food.
"Big rats, big rats, you are traitors!" Che Jiu Ming pointed at their noses and cursed.
Mei Zishan was unhappy. "Although we all formed an offensive and defensive alliance, the situation was obviously not right at that time. Were you not allowed to run away?"
"You guys are running fast, but we are left at the bottom?"
Amid their internal strife, Young Master Ji and Wu Ren took their men away with the remaining food.
The next day, the Ji branch announced, "The price of grain has been reduced to one hundred coins per bushel."
"Ji Wuyin has gone crazy!" This was the common thought of all grain merchants in Yuzhou.
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