Three Kingdoms, I open a tavern in Xudu

"Appreciate further details!"

When Cao Cao heard Chen Yang's confident words, he was very interested and wanted to know what Chen Yang would do.

"It's actually very simple. You should know what businessmen do business for?" Chen Yang said.

"Businessmen seek profit, and the world knows it!" Cao Cao nodded his head like a primary school student.

Chen Yang said again: "Since businessmen like profit, then we will create profit for them. Just now Lao Guo said that even if they have surplus food, they may not be willing to sell it to us. It is because they can't see our benefit that they are unwilling to sell it. of."

When he heard about himself, Guo Jia didn't want to talk, so he lowered his head to have hot pot with Dian Wei, but he was also listening carefully, and he wanted to hear what good ideas Chen Yang could come up with.

Cao Cao thought about it deeply, but he couldn't figure out where the benefit came from, so he asked, "And then?"

Chen Yang said: "Let's raise the price of grain in Xudu first, as much as we can, and then the grain merchants outside will see the benefits."

"Shopkeeper Chen, this is not acceptable!"

Dian Wei suddenly raised his head and said, "The price of food is too high, and we are in great trouble."

Guo Jia shook his head: "If the price of food soars, not only will we not be able to afford the food outside Xudu, but even many people in the capital will starve to death because of it. I don't know what's your intentions when you say that, shopkeeper Chen?"

Chen Yang knew that they would think so, so he explained unhurriedly: "How long will the food in our Xudu be enough for the whole city of Xudu?"

"About a month."

Cao Cao thought for a while, then nodded and said.

"A month's surplus food is almost enough."

Chen Yang continued: "As long as the prime minister counts the number of poor people in the city in the name of the emperor, and establishes a security system based on this data, all the people who cannot afford to eat can receive enough food from the court. "

"However, we must pay attention to two points. The aristocratic families in Xudu, regardless of them, must have a large amount of surplus food. The second point is to pay attention to the officials below. If the price of food is high, the officials will definitely be greedy. The people will not go hungry."

Cao Cao muttered to himself, "This... sounds pretty good."

Guo Jia shook his head again and said, "Although this method is good, it guarantees the problem that the people have no food due to the soaring food price, but how can this solve the food problem?"

Chen Yang said with a smile: "The next thing is the key point, you have to pay attention to it."

"Our food prices are high, and businessmen are chasing profits. As long as they see the benefits, they will be blinded by money, and they don't send all the food to Xudu immediately. If there is more food, we can do whatever we want."

However, Guo Jia continued to shake his head and said, "The price of food is so high, no matter how much food there is, we can't afford it."

Chen Yang sighed helplessly: "Hey, what are your brains made of? I finally understand now, Lao Cao, you can only be a small follower next to the prime minister. If Guo Jia and the others listen to it, they will definitely understand that I accept it. What are you going to say next?"

Guo Jia, who was sitting next to him, was taken aback. He really couldn't think of it. He was just about to refute, but suddenly felt Cao Cao's gaze, and quickly lowered his head to think about why.

With more food, you can do whatever you want...

"I see!"

An idea flashed in Guo Jia's mind, and he slammed the table: "The reason why food is expensive is because it is scarce. Once there is more, it will be worthless!"

Chen Yang clapped his hands and said: "Old Guo, you are smart, you must be comparable to Guo Jia. At that time, as long as the price is lowered, the grain merchants will come from thousands of miles, and they can't go back with grain. If they do so, they will have to It’s too bad, if we use some tricks, wouldn’t we be able to sell those grains to us at a low price?”

After finishing speaking, Chen Yang couldn't help but praise himself for being ice-snow and smart, cutting leeks in ancient times gave him a sense of accomplishment.

As soon as this remark came out, both Cao Cao and Guo Jia fell into deep thought.

Only Dian Wei didn't quite understand, so he continued to eat hot pot, and after a while he finished all the meat slices.

"This plan is very good!"

In the end, it was Guo Jia who spoke first, with a light shining in his eyes.

After listening to Chen Yang's analysis, he forgot his previous dissatisfaction with Chen Yang.

"But, no money!" Cao Cao frowned, "Even if a large amount of grain comes to Xudu, the price is not expensive, but the treasury has no money, so it still can't buy much."

Chen Yang was surprised and said, "No way? I thought I was already poor. Could it be that the prime minister is poorer than me?"

Cao Cao nodded and said, "That's right, now the Prime Minister has been fighting for years to help the Han Dynasty, and the property he got is used for military expenses, and he doesn't have enough money to buy food."

Chen Yang thought for a while, and then said: "No, there are many aristocratic families in Xudu, and even the emperor. They must have accumulated something."

Cao Cao said, "Yes, so what?"

Today, Cao Cao is coercing the emperor to make the princes, and there are many people who are afraid of Cao Cao inside and outside the court, but there are probably no people who want to take the initiative to give money to help Cao Cao, right?

It's not easy for Cao Cao to use force to steal money. What's the difference between doing so and rebelling?After all, he still has to conquer the world under the banner of the Han Dynasty.

Once something wrong is done, I am afraid that the princes of the world will come to attack Xudu, just like Dong Zhuo was attacked back then.

Thinking of this, Chen Yang also understood that now not only he wants to make money, but also Cao Cao.

"If you want to make money, I have a good way!"

Chen Yang suddenly laughed, only to see him running into the back kitchen, and after a while, he came out with a jar of wine and a bowl of snow-white refined salt.

As soon as the wine jar was opened, Guo Jia sniffed and said pleasantly, "Wine, those good wines..."

He drank it at Cao Ang's that day, and it tasted like this, and he will never forget it.

However, Cao Cao was also there, so Guo Jia could only look at Chen Yang eagerly.

Chen Yang laughed: "You guys have enough for today's wine!"

He poured three bowls of wine for the three of them.

Guo Jia and Dian Wei's eyes lit up, and they immediately drank every drop.

"Good wine!"

Guo Jia showed the expression of a drunkard to the fullest, and Dian Wei was not much better.

"Shopkeeper Chen, I want more!"

"I want too, I want..."

Looking at the two drunkards robbing the wine, Chen Yang shook his head: "I'll drink the wine later, let's talk about business first. Lao Cao, how about our cooperation with this kind of wine? And these salts, you can be a middleman for me and the prime minister , I will cooperate with you, and you will cooperate with the prime minister in your own name."

"Salt?"

Cao Cao looked at the bowl of snow-white ones and asked in surprise, "You said, is this salt?"

He picked up some salt with his fingers, put it in his mouth, and said in surprise: "This is really salt, and it has no impurities. It is white and crystal clear, as fine as flour. I have never seen such a good salt."

Guo Jia also put down the wine bowl, and leaned over to look at it for a while: "Master Chen, where did you get all this salt?"

Although salt is not the most expensive seasoning, it is definitely the most important. In ancient times, table salt had a high status and has always been controlled by the government.

That's why, in some costume dramas, there are often big villains who make a lot of money by smuggling salt.

"Of course I refined it myself, because I discovered a salt mine, and I still have the technology to purify coarse salt, plus the wine here, are you interested in making a fortune with me?" After Chen Yang finished speaking, he asked himself After pouring a bowl of wine, he continued, "With these things, you can definitely earn money for buying food."

After listening to Chen Yang's words, Cao Cao thought for a long time before he said, "How do we cooperate?"