Dragon map of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 78 Wuyin Merchant Battle Thirteen
"Report to the Patriarch, Shopkeeper Luo from Dongshi Market is asking to see you outside the mansion!"

"Rory? Let him in!"

Hearing this, Gong Chang collected his emotions and said calmly.

"promise!"

Soon, a Gong family guard walked in with the shopkeeper.

"The villain pays homage to the Patriarch!"

"Get up!" Gong Chang asked: "This is not the day for accounting. You came here in a hurry. What's the matter?"

"Reporting to the Patriarch, the villain found something wrong with the recent accounts, please take a look at the Patriarch!" Shopkeeper Luo sent the ledger and said in a low voice.

"What's wrong?"

Gong Chang's heart skipped a beat, he took the ledger, looked at it, and asked questions.

"Patriarch, the food shipments are too frequent recently. Although the quantity of shipments is not large, the number of purchases is more than ten times that of usual, which makes our store's inventory gradually empty!"

"what?"

Gong Chang was in a cold sweat, and looked carefully at the account transfers and deposits, his pupils changed color.

"Why don't you talk about such a big thing?"

"Before, the villain thought that there was nothing wrong. After all, the number of shipments was not large, and many of them were familiar big buyers and shopkeepers. But when the villain found that they had purchased several times, and the frequency became more and more frequent, he realized that something was wrong. Hurry up. Report to the Patriarch!"

Shopkeeper Luo said.

"Damn it, are they really so bold that they dare to provoke someone in the food market!"

Gong Zhang looked at the account in his hand, his eyes were sharper than Shopkeeper Luo, and he could see through at a glance that someone was hoarding goods, why hoarding goods, at this time, it was either buying military rations, or...

He clenched his fists, and his expression became more and more gloomy.

"Come on!"

"exist!"

"The shopkeepers of the shops under the Gong family in Chuan County, immediately bring the account books and come to my house to settle the accounts!"

"promise!"

The guards of the Gong family went around, going to the streets and squares in the promise to deliver orders.

……

In the north of the city, in Kaixingli, Luo's Grain Store.

"Shopkeeper, eight hundred stones of polished rice, do you have any in stock?"

"Yes, there are, but with such a large shipment, I have to ask the owner for instructions!"

"I'm the Runan Caravan. It's time to come and go, but I don't have so much time to spend here. Look, I'll increase the price by [-]%, can I move away immediately!"

"This one……"

"Shopkeeper, please be accommodating, we will do business next time!"

"All right!"

……

South of the city, Central Axis Street, Luo's Grain Store.

"Boss, you are the biggest grain store in Wuyin, you can't even sell a thousand shi of millet?"

"How is it possible? It's only a thousand shi of millet, and I have it in my warehouse!"

"Then I increase the price by ten percent, can you sell it to me!"

"I don't know if your Excellency is..."

"I am the Marquis under the command of Wei Doumin in Pingshi County. I came here this time to buy military rations. Please do me a favor!"

"I'll think it over!"

"This is a gold cake, shopkeeper. Now that the army is preparing to attack the thieves, I'm in a hurry, so please accept it!"

"Look at your sincerity, okay!"

……

Among the busiest markets in the east of the city, there is the Baijia Grain Store, a small grain store.

"Treasurer Bai, three thousand stones of millet, how about delivering the goods with one hand and paying with the other?"

"Sir, three thousand stones are a bit too much, we only have such a small amount in stock, and we can't spare them!"

"Shopkeeper Bai, you open the door to do business. I haven't heard that you will be afraid to sell it. It's not that the expensive grain store can't even get this little stock out. No wonder, I'd better go to the Gong's house to have a look. Their size Big, sure!"

"No, no, of course we have, we can trade right away!"

"That's good, this is a gold cake, please order!"

"okay!"

……

In the west of the city, the Hong Family Grain Store.

"Five thousand shi?" The shopkeeper of the Hong family's pupils changed color slightly. As a big grain merchant second only to the Gong family, he was still a little vigilant and asked, "Who are you?"

"Treasurer Hong, I am a small official under the command of the county lieutenant Zhang Chuan. Recently, my soldiers and horses are short of food, so I would like to ask the shopkeeper of the Hong family to show your respect!"

"Zhang Chuan?" Shopkeeper Hong's face sank a bit: "I really can't afford this kind of food!"

"Shopkeeper Hong, I sincerely buy it. Don't shirk it. My county captain is not a refined person. If he is angered, it's not a purchase. I'll bring soldiers to pick it up. Would you like it?" Sun Yuan asked. One of the purchasers of the Sun family did not expect the task of pretending to be a county soldier to fall on him. As a merchant, he usually keeps his eyebrows low and his eyes are pleasing to the eye.

"you……"

"Don't be shameless. My family is close to the people, and I don't want to get a bad reputation. It doesn't mean that my family's reason is to follow the rules. Now the county is in balance, and there are few thieves. It's the credit of my family. If the night is quiet, Hundreds of bandits fell from the sky, I don't know if the Hong family's food can be kept!"

"I sell!"

Shopkeeper Hong's eyes were red, he gritted his teeth, and said gloomyly.

……

……

The abundant funds in the hands of Jingping Trading Co., Ltd. went crazy, and began to sweep every grain store in the city. Whether it was a few large grain merchants or some small grain merchants that dominated the grain in the city, they were all swept away by them.

Carloads of grain were transported into the large warehouses of Jingping Commercial Bank, and each warehouse was filled with rice, millet and various grains.

……

Gong's mansion.

"Report to the owner, a Runan caravan has come to my store today, and the bid is generous, so I want to apply for stock from the shopkeeper!"

"Report to the owner, a person who claimed to be a merchant from Wancheng came to my shop today, and bought a thousand shi of grain at a price [-]% higher than the market price. I think they are willing to pay for the rich, so I will accept it!"

"Report to Patriarch,..."

Gong Zhang almost spat out a mouthful of old blood from the joyful report, and asked gloomyly: "So, your store doesn't have much stock anymore!"

"Exactly!"

The shopkeepers nodded.

"madness!"

Gong Zhang shouted angrily: "Don't you see that someone is hoarding goods?"

"Hoarding goods, why do you want to hoard goods?" The shopkeepers were still a little bit stunned.

"Get out of here!"

Gong Zhang was so angry that his expression was as cold as ice.

"Patriarch, calm down, this matter is not so simple, but if someone thinks that they can target us in this way, then they are too simple. I have been waiting for the grain store to stand for many years, how could such a small wind and rain be able to bring it down!"

A shopkeeper said: "We can borrow grain from other grain stores to get through this period of time!"

"it is good!"

Gong Zhang calmed down: "Housekeeper, go and contact the Bai family, Hong family, Xu family, Fang family, Liu family... and tell them that I want to borrow [-] grain from their grain store, and I will pay it back in one month! "

"promise!"

The butler of the Gong family led the way down.

In less than an hour, the butler of the Gong family came back. He looked a little unhappy, and cupped his hands and said, "Report to the Patriarch, just now the big families said that their family's food has also been sold, and there is not much food in stock!"

"Damn it!" Gong Chang heard the words, a little gloomy, and he shouted: "All shopkeepers obey orders, go out and buy all the grains in the market immediately, no matter big grain shops or small grain shops, buy them for me, raise the price to buy !"

He realized that he seemed to be being hit by people's voices, reacted, and shot immediately, cleanly.

However, it has been a step slower.

a day later.

"Shopkeeper, we only bought less than two thousand shi of grain today!"

"how is this possible?"

Gong Zhang was completely panicked: "Who has such a big hand, can actually clean up the food in the Wuyin market!"

You know, even if his Gong family is rich, he can't clean up the goods on the market.

unless……

To join forces, the funds of some merchants have already joined forces, which will cost at least tens of thousands of gold, let alone one family, two or three companies will not be able to get it out, unless more than a dozen companies join forces.

Big trouble!

"Patriarch, in fact, there is no need to worry so much. Now that Wuyin is peaceful and food prices are stable, they won't rise all of a sudden. Let's take it slowly and we will definitely be able to recover from the situation!"

"If Wuyin is not peaceful!"

Gong Zhang asked sinisterly.

"Wuyin is not peaceful?"

"impossible!"

"There are thousands of soldiers and horses stationed outside Wuyin City, how can any bandits dare to make trouble!"

All the shopkeepers looked at each other and said in a deep voice.

"Humph!"

Gong Chang snorted coldly, as if his heart had fallen into an ice cellar.

If it was him, since he had already started to control the supply of food, he would do everything right now, stir up the wind and rain, take the initiative to attack, pull down the goodwill accumulated by the Gong family for many years, and then defeat the Gong family in one fell swoop. Shops make it impossible for them to gain a foothold.

(End of this chapter)