After hearing the news, the shopkeeper who purchased the grain was certainly unwilling to accept it.
If we go to a farther place to purchase food, it will be too late, and the longer the distance, the more expensive the freight will be.
It would be better to pay a little more and buy the grain directly from these businesses.
At the same time, he sent someone to inform the shopkeeper of the news.
At the same time, look for merchants who purchase grain.
With their unremitting efforts, they soon found merchants who stockpiled grain.
Seeing dozens of horse-drawn carts loaded with food made them jealous.
Find a grain merchant to negotiate.
"Shopkeeper, I know you're making money by buying up grain and shipping it to disaster-stricken areas.
But business there is not as good as you think.
It has long been controlled by major grain merchants and requires permission from the government.
Otherwise, they might take away your food.
Since we are all trying to make money, why not just sell it to us at a higher price?
You can just sit there and earn 30% profit."
The shopkeepers under Li Ye had already been notified.
Look, the fish finally took the bait and began its superb performance.
"30% profit? You underestimate us, don't you? All the grain in this area of hundreds of acres has been bought up.
Even if the imperial court spends money to purchase grain for disaster relief, it has to buy it from us.
If the local authorities don't allow us to sell it, we'll just have to wait and see.
Why worry about storing food in your hands?"
Seeing that he failed to scare the other party, the owner of the Nanyuan grain merchant had no choice but to continue to increase the stakes.
"Then how much do you want? Don't be too greedy, the waters here are deep and murky.
You might end up losing both your money and your life.
At most I'll give you a profit from the project, should that satisfy you?"
"Hahaha, we've already found out about the business we dare to do.
The current disaster victims are in urgent need of food, so even if the price increases three or four times, they can still be sold easily.
You want to give such a small amount of money to a beggar?
What's more, if too many victims starve to death, local officials cannot escape responsibility.
I just don't believe they really dare to steal food.
Moreover, you dare to do this business, do you think we don't have a backer?"
Li Ye's shopkeeper did not take the other party's threat seriously at all, and his eyes were full of contempt.
When he heard that there was a background, Shopkeeper Nanyuan suddenly felt guilty.
Without knowing the other party's background, one dare not offend him easily.
What's more, the situation is urgent and we have to buy food as soon as possible.
I could only grit my teeth and continue to give in: "How much money do you want to make? You can't really increase the price by three or four times, right?
If it really sells for such a high price, I’m afraid the local government won’t sit idly by.”
Li Ye's shopkeeper pretended to think for a moment.
Then he asked: "How much food can you ask for?"
"We'll take as many as we can get. This time we'll buy at least 100,000 dan."
"Wow, that's quite generous! You dare to buy so much food? It seems you have the support of the government behind you."
"Hmph, I'm glad you understand! As the saying goes, a strong dragon can't defeat a local snake. If you want to make money safely, you'd better be sensible."
“Well, as long as you pay double the price, I’ll sell them all to you!
I won’t buy it even if it costs a penny less!
Let’s see who can hold on!”
"Can you wait for half a day? We must ask the boss for such a serious matter!"
"That's fine. We'll just wait for half a day! We also know the other grain merchants. We'll tell them to stop shipping and wait for your news."
All the major grain merchants in Namwon were furious when they heard the news.
Unexpectedly, someone took the initiative and took away all the food.
This way they would earn half the profit.
But there is nothing I can do.
Li Ye gave them too little time to purchase food.
There is simply no time to go further afield to buy food, and the freight cost is not much cheaper either.
I can only blame myself for my bad luck.
Send a message quickly and ask them to buy the grain at a high price.
The subsequent transaction went very smoothly.
The two sides exchanged money and grain.
Since Li Ye had made arrangements long ago, he had successfully purchased 100,000 dan of grain in just two days.
In order to prevent the disaster victims from robbing them during the transportation to Ni, the government also sent people to provide protection along the way.
A few days later, food was delivered to the disaster area one after another.
Li Ye has been having a very comfortable time these past few days.
Officials and big grain merchants invited us to dinner every day.
It is no exaggeration to say that there is revelry every night.
Li Ye lived quite comfortably in the capital, but it was also an eye-opener for him.
I never thought that life could be so decadent.
Every day there are groups of beautiful women around, and the food is all delicacies from land and sea.
A meal would cost several hundred taels of silver.
This amount of money is enough to save thousands of people affected by the disaster.
Li Ye knows the true colors of these guys and hates you with a vengeance.
We must destroy them all.
When Li Ye was with them, he even encouraged all officials to take out their money to buy more food.
As long as we can transport the food here, we can make a lot of money.
It was even revealed that the money for building the river embankment would be used to buy food.
Anyway, as long as there is food, a large number of young and strong people can be recruited to build river embankments.
There is no need to pay them at all, they still have to work.
After listening to Li Ye's advice, all the officials no longer had any doubts.
If someone truly wants to work for the people, he would never come up with such a cruel method.
Even many officials feel inferior to him.
Driven by common interests, officials also promised in person that they would find ways to recruit enough young and strong people to build the river embankment.
Since he regards Li Ye as his own, of course he must do his best to assist Li Ye in completing the task assigned by the emperor.
The more the emperor values Li Ye, the higher his status will be, and these officials will benefit from it.
Although these officials all follow the prince, they will not refuse to have another backer.
The longer the contact time, the more trust each other develops.
Let Li Ye also find out more evidence of their crimes.
Although the local disaster victims received temporary relief, each of them could drink two bowls of porridge every day.
Although we don’t have enough food to eat, we won’t starve to death.
However, it was discovered that food prices everywhere had skyrocketed to seven times the usual price.
Some people cannot get enough to eat with just the relief porridge and want to use the money they have to buy more food.
I found that I couldn’t afford it at all.
Especially when the people heard that the prince was coming to provide disaster relief, they thought it was a hope.
But the reality made them feel desperate.
Who can afford to buy such expensive food?
They would spend all their money just to eat.
It would have been better if the prince did not come to provide disaster relief, but more people came and could not afford to eat.
Many people in the public began to abuse Li Ye.
They believe that he is the same as the local corrupt officials and unscrupulous businessmen.
Li Ye's reputation deteriorated, but officials and grain merchants trusted him more.
㰱Wushuang inquired about 㳔's news and sneered repeatedly.
"Li Ye, ah Li Ye, I didn't expect you to finally reveal your true colors at this time.
Once we have evidence that you embezzled disaster relief funds, that will be your death."
Because Li Ye's pretending was so real, even Wushuang began to believe it.
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