The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

All the news was linked together, and everyone in the chamber of commerce vaguely understood that someone was secretly fueling the flames and deliberately going against them.

The abnormal price of grain in the surrounding area is just a matter of one or two days, but the Suji grain store put up a sign saying it was closed three days ago. Obviously, they knew the news a long time ago. Doesn't matter at all, that's hell.

"Quickly close the shop and put up the sold out sign, we might be tricked by this little bastard." Tang Dongjia roared angrily.

Because there are too many people queuing up to buy grain, the store has been shipping goods since it got dark. When I think that most of the grain in the warehouse has been snapped up, the hearts of the owners of the chamber of commerce will burst into pain. If the grain price is true as the news said It has soared to a consistent [-] stone, so the chamber of commerce has lost at least nearly [-] consistent income in this day.

"Tang Dong's family, in my opinion, we need to send people to the south overnight to find out the situation. What we hear is believing what we see is believing. We can't believe Su Ji's one-sided words, and Su Ji sent three big shopkeepers to the south. No matter how old you are, you don't believe that they returned empty-handed." Vice President Huang Dongjia pondered.

"Old Huang is right, you have to deal with this matter, and you have to find out the situation; at the same time, bring enough funds. If the situation is true, you have to buy some food anyway. There is a severe drought in the south, and the price of rice has skyrocketed. Three one stone, in the year of famine, not to mention two or three, but five or two, don't you have to eat, and the profit will still be there!"

"Yes, no matter what the price is, this time may be an opportunity for us to make a fortune. If the purchase price is high, we will sell at a higher price. We will not be the ones who suffer the loss." The spirits of everyone cheered up and echoed.

Suddenly, Vice President Liu, who had been sitting on the sidelines for a long time without speaking, suddenly said, "Everyone, I think it's better to think carefully about this matter. This old man always feels that this is very strange."

President Tang said: "Old Liu, let's see."

Vice President Liu said slowly: "You are all leaders in the business world, and you all understand a truth. The chaotic market price may be a time when we wait for merchants to make great profits, but a bad situation may also turn the ship over. As I said just now, Su Ji did not purchase rice grain from the south, so don't Su Ji understand the reason why the price of rice will skyrocket next year? Don't they know that once the spring starts next year, their grain shops will have no rice to sell, so why does Su Ji, the grain and oil shop in Luzhou Prefecture, think so? Succession? Isn't it a waste of the Su family's share."

"Perhaps... maybe Su Ji simply doesn't have the foresight and financial resources to make a fuss about this matter. Su Ji's cloth store has a lot of inventory, and Su Ji has been operating poorly in the past few years. I don't believe that Su Jin dares to take the old lady's money." The funds for the pension come to take risks." It was Lang Shaodong who spoke, his voice was high-pitched, and he could tell the difference without looking at the person.

President Tang said: "What Lang Shaodong said is not unreasonable. Su Jin is only sixteen this year. I heard that he has been studying in the house before. It is rumored that he is a nerd. It is probably the Su family's helpless move to take over Su Ji; During this period of time, this nerd was having a lot of fun in Luzhou City, but according to the old man, nothing was reliable, and he didn't make any money, but a few sour librettos were won among those poor people and bitches With some fame, it’s really not enough to be busy with other things.”

Everyone laughed happily, with disdain in their eyes, literati looked down on businessmen, businessmen also looked down on literati, bitches looked down on literati but looked down on businessmen, businessmen looked down on both literati and bitches, it was a mess.

"Since you all think so, the old man has nothing to worry about. There is still one thing that needs to be clarified before we can do it with peace of mind. If there is a severe drought in the south and the price of food soars, will the imperial court open warehouses to lower prices? Is the imperial court letting it go? If the imperial court releases the stored grain, wouldn’t it be a loss for me to buy grain at a high price?” Vice President Liu raised his second worry.

Everyone's laughing faces suddenly became serious. It's not a lie that the imperial court has stabilized the market price. Since the establishment of the dynasty, there have been severe droughts and floods.

In the sixth year of Tiansheng, there was a severe drought on Jingdong Road. There was a shortage of rice, grain and clothing in dozens of prefectures on Jingdongxi Road and Donglu Road, and the price soared. He hoarded private food, but lost all his money, and became the laughing stock of his peers.

In the first year of Ming Dynasty, the two lakes of Jiangsu and Zhejiang were hit by floods. The imperial court also used stored grain to stabilize prices and tide over the difficulties, and did not make any profit for the speculative businessmen.

Similar things happened during the Jingyou period and the Baoyuan period, so Vice President Liu's question was on point. Don't just buy grain at a high price here, and the imperial court hulala brought a large amount of grain over there. It's really clever but was misunderstood by cleverness. Once you lose money, hundreds of thousands of pennies are the least thing.

Everyone was silent, and no one dared to express their opinions on this matter. The only person who had the right to speak on this matter was President Tang. President Tang had a close relationship with the government. Li also said the words.

President Tang chuckled, turned his slender finger on the emerald green ring and scanned the audience, his expression was very haughty, and everyone showed no dissatisfaction at all. President Tang has the right to despise them, because they have a wide road and powerful power, and everyone is quiet Waiting for his explanation.

"Old Liu is very considerate. What I appreciate most is Lao Liu. He cares about every detail and makes decisions before making decisions. You are not as good as him in this regard." Chairman Tang laughed.

"That's, that's, Vice President Liu is the well-known little Zhuge of our chamber of commerce, and I'm naturally not as good as him." Everyone laughed, and Vice President Liu was expressionless, neither refusing nor showing joy .

"It's just that Lao Liu is too cautious this time. You might as well reveal a big secret to everyone, but no one is allowed to spread it out. If you say it, you will be at your own risk; that day when I was sitting idle with the Privy Councilor in the capital, the Privy Councilor Your Excellency talked about the Northwest War, the Song army and the Xixia rebels were stalemate for four years, and the two sides had tens of thousands of soldiers on the border, and each had victories and defeats; can you think of anything from this?"

"Tang Weng is saying...is the military rations consumed?" Vice President Liu asked with bright eyes.

"As expected of Xiao Zhuge, Lao Liu guessed it right. In the past four years, the frontier soldiers who eat horse chews have consumed nearly tens of millions of shi. Where did this food come from? These few years have not been a year of great abundance. The annual production Food self-protection is not enough, they are all eating their own money. What's more, the consumption of war is not only food consumption by the army. The three roads of Hedong, Yongxing and Qinfeng are in the middle of war. The relief will allow nearly 200 million people in Sanlu to get enough food and clothing. Where does the consumption come from? Or the national treasury. Think about it, does the imperial court still have food to stabilize prices? Maybe next spring, the imperial court will pay me a high price We don’t know when we buy grain, but we must seize this opportunity this time.”

Everyone was overjoyed, Chairman Tang's analysis was detailed, these were information that they could not get at all at ordinary times, and only Chairman Tang could know the state of the court from chatting, it is no wonder that the Tang family has been so busy in recent years Zhongtian, the only family in Luzhou City.

Speaking of this, basically all the problems are not a problem. Vice President Huang went to various houses to collect money and went south overnight. The chamber of commerce is not idle here. It caused panic buying and caused merchants to lose 10,000+ stone storage grains for nothing. How can this bad breath be swallowed.

The attack against Su Ji that the chamber of commerce had prepared for a long time was finally about to launch. This time Lang Shaodong volunteered to take the lead. Lang Shaodong thought very clearly that if he made more contributions to the chamber of commerce, he would be able to get a share of the pie in the future. In this one-sided battle If you are not active, you are not a fool.