I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 207 Tian Fu: Keep an eye on Young Master Sheng!

Regardless of everyone's repeated pleas, these guests were forcefully 'driven' out of the house, Tian Fu finally completely suppressed the hypocritical smile on his face, and only curled up the corners of his mouth full of sarcasm.

"In the past few years, the late emperor and His Majesty have been too tolerant of the merchants in Guanzhong..."

"So much so that these idiots actually dare to make an idea of ​​Guanzhong Grain?"

After saying a word with a sneer, Tian Fu cast a playful look on the contemporary speaker of the Wuyan family beside him: Wuyan Ji.

Although he didn't speak again, the playful gaze was clearly aimed at Wu Yan: Look at how stupid these people are...

Seeing Tian Fu's attitude, Wu Yanji just smiled and lowered his head, and sat down in the first guest seat on Tian Fu's left.

Then, with a puzzled expression, he carefully looked at Tian Fu.

"I don't know much about the food business."

"I just heard that the Su family of the Wei family and the Du family of Anling seem to be planning..."

"Uh, planning to eat all the cheap food sold by the Shaofu when the spring begins;"

"After the beginning of spring, when the winter grain reserved by the people in Guanzhong is exhausted, and when they want to buy food, they will sell the cheap grain sold by Shaofu to farmers in Guanzhong at a higher price."

"Um······"

"—I thought that Mr. Tian would also be interested in this business?"

Asking a question cryptically, Wu Yanji did not forget to laugh and lower his head, taking a careful look at Tian Fu from time to time.

Hearing the temptation in Wu Yanji's words, Tian Fu's face became even more sarcastic;

With a strange smile, he turned his side to one side, and then looked at Wu Yanji with some amusement.

"Does Mr. Wuyan think that what I said just now is to monopolize this business and not let the Su family of the Wei family and the Du family of Anling get a piece of the pie?"

"Even the offshoot of the Qimai Tian clan, have I been excluded from this business?"

With a joking word, Wu Yanji hastily raised his head, with a look of 'I didn't mean that' on his face.

But there was still a little suspicion in the eyes looking at Tian Fu.

——Guanzhong produces [-] million shi of grain every year, at least half of which has to pass through the hands of these grain merchants in Guanzhong.

Although the storage cost, labor cost, capital cost, and the transportation cost of transporting grain to all parts of Guanzhong and even to Kanto are thrown away, there is not much money per stone of grain;

But no matter what, this is tens of millions of grains!
Even if you earn one dollar per shi, it will be a profit of tens of millions of dollars!
But in the past few years, thanks to the gift of the first emperor who "cared for the world, the lake, the birds and beasts", the profit of the Guanzhong grain market has been reduced to less than three yuan per stone of grain.

The price of grain in Guanzhong has never exceeded the red line of [-] yuan per stone since the third year of the first emperor's Yuan Dynasty.

If there is a bumper harvest, the price of grain can easily drop by [-] yuan per stone, so that the profit margin of grain merchants can be further reduced to [-] yuan per stone, or even less than [-] yuan...

That is, the Changling Tian family where Tianfu is located, relying on the annual grain throughput of millions of shi, as well as strong grain storage capacity and capital reserves, according to the idea of ​​"small profits but quick turnover", tasted the sweetness of grain trading.

As for other merchants?
Hey!
In this generation, food is a strategic resource!

If there is no way out, if you hoard [-] to [-] shi of grain, you may be regarded as a walking achievement by a local official!

I don't know how to die!

This year, the large-scale grain harvest failure in Guanzhong undoubtedly created extremely favorable objective conditions for the skyrocketing grain prices in spring and summer next year.

As long as this opportunity is used to raise the price of grain in Guanzhong, the extra profit margin will be enough for the merchants in Guanzhong to eat for many years.

——Food prices can skyrocket overnight, but it is absolutely impossible to plummet overnight~
As long as the price of grain can be raised to a thousand renminbi, or even thousands of renminbi per stone, then in the next ten years, the price of grain in Guanzhong will not fall back to less than a hundred renminbi!
No matter how good the harvest in Guanzhong is and how abundant the food is, the merchants in Guanzhong have the ability to keep the price of food at a high level for as long as possible for a few years, and then slowly drop back to the normal level as much as possible.

And such a feast will surely produce several billionaires with assets worth tens of millions, as well as dozens of wealthy businessmen with tens of millions of dollars...
"Hey;"

"hey-hey······"

"Master Wuyan, you really don't understand the business of food?"

"Ok?"

After a long silence, Tian Fu's sarcasm finally brought Wu Yanji's scattered mood back to his eyes.

Waiting for Wu Yanji to raise his head in a little confusion, he found that Tian Fu, who was sitting on everyone's table, was actually looking him up and down!

"Mr. Wuyan is wearing Shu brocade..."

"I'm afraid it's expensive, right?"

"Tsk tut;"

"If you don't spend [-] to [-] yuan, I'm afraid you won't even be able to buy materials?"

The inexplicable words made Wu Yanji lower his head subconsciously.

Looking at his body, he saw that the gown was of excellent quality, made entirely of Shu brocade, sewn by a world-renowned coatmaker, and the beads and jade embellished on the belt. With pride, and a little shy smile.

"I personally went to Sichuan to buy this piece of fabric."

"—The cloth alone cost me [-] yuan!"

"Including the labor cost of the clothesmaker, the jewels on the belt, etc., it probably cost more than one hundred thousand..."

As he said that, Wu Yanji did not forget to lower his head, and rather artificially dusted the dust on his robe, which did not exist, or even existed.

After a while, he raised his head suspiciously, and tentatively said, "If Mr. Tian likes it, when I go to Sichuan next time, I can bring two brocades to Mr. Tian..."

Before Wu Yanji finished speaking, the smile on Tian Fu's face disappeared, causing Wu Yanji to be a little surprised;

With such a sullen face, he stared at Wu Yanji for ten breaths, Wu Yanji was a little restless, Tian Fu quietly narrowed his eyes.

"Mr. Wuyan, aren't you afraid that wearing this fancy dress will lead to death for yourself?"

"Emperor Taizu Gao once said that anyone who is registered as a merchant is not allowed to wear silk clothes or ride in a carriage."

"Mr. Wuyan is now wearing Shu brocade worth 10,000+ money and sitting in a magnificent, spacious and bright luxury car. Don't you worry that one day in the future, you will be awakened from your sleep by the servants of the Ting Wei?"

The suddenly cold tone only made Wu Yanji shudder subconsciously!

After being relieved, he looked at Tian Fu with a stiff smile: "No, it's not like this, is it?"

"In the past few years, among the businessmen in Guanzhong, which one is not..."

Just in the middle of speaking, Wu Yanji suddenly stopped speaking, as if thinking of something, his face suddenly sank.

Seeing Wu Yanji finally reacted, Tian Fu finally grinned.

He stood up from his seat, put his hands behind his back, and took two steps leisurely.

"Mr. Wuyan, you can actually figure it out, right?"

"—Ms. Liu, never let down her vigilance against merchants of my generation."

"It's only because we haven't done anything to undermine the great government of the court in the past few years that Mrs. Liu let us go temporarily..."

"In my generation, anyone who can break through the world in Guanzhong must have moved into Guanzhong from Guandong Qiang, lived in the mausoleum of the previous emperors, and 'guarded' the spirits of the previous emperors."

"In other words: long before we moved into Guanzhong, we were already a thorn in Liu's side..."

As he said that, Tian Fu couldn't help but smiled playfully again, and his brows were full of self-mockery.

"In the past few years, I, Changling Tian, ​​have been doing grain business in Guanzhong."

"But it's only in the autumn that I buy it for about [-] renminbi, and sell it for about [-] renminbi a stone the following year."

"And I, Changling Tian, ​​only trade grain in Guanzhong. I have never sold even a single grain of grain from Guanzhong to Guandong."

"——Because of the legacy of the ancestors of the Tian clan in Changling, the descendants of the Tian clan can only do grain business in Guanzhong, and they can only earn two yuan at most for every stone of grain."

"It is precisely because of this meager profit of 'less than two yuan per stone' that I, the Changling Tian family, have been able to stand in Guanzhong for many years;"

"So far, there are four out of ten rice shops in Chang'an City with the surname 'Tian'; and three out of ten grain shops in Guanzhong have the surname Tian."

"Master Wuyan, do you know why the Liu family tolerated my Changling Tian family and bought and sold grain to the point where it is now?"

Hearing this question, Wu Yanji's complexion sank again, and he had a faint feeling, but he couldn't quickly realize the key point.

Fortunately, Tian Fu didn't intend to show off. Seeing Wu Yanji bowed his head thoughtfully again, he smiled and told the reason bluntly.

"Because I, Changling Tian, ​​have never forgotten: the reason my generation was moved to Guanzhong is that Liu didn't want us to bully those farmers in Guandong."

"Since my generation moved to Guanzhong, Mrs. Liu wanted us to stop bullying the farmers in Guandong. After moving to Guanzhong, will Mrs. Liu allow us to change places and continue to bully the farmers in Guanzhong?"

"—My generation was forcibly moved into Guanzhong because of the crime of 'bullying the farmers in the Guandong'. If we come to Guanzhong, we will bully the farmers in Guanzhong again. Liu, can you tolerate us?"

Hearing this, Wu Yanji's face only became more serious, and his lips trembled slightly.

While thinking about it, his eyes fell on him again. That brocade robe worth more than [-] renminbi made Wu Yanji inexplicably afraid!

Wu Yanji, I wish I could take off the robe immediately!

Tian Fu's words are very straightforward;

It is precisely because of being straightforward enough that Wuyanji at this time gave birth to fear from the depths of the soul...

Gollum.

Subconsciously swallowed his saliva, swallowing back the heart that was about to jump out of his throat a little bit, Wu Yanji saw a shocked gaze, and cast it on Tian Fu not far in front of him.

——In the past few years, as the largest Ziqian merchant in Guanzhong, the Wuyan clan has bullied many 'peasants in Guanzhong'. There are really countless times...

Wuyanji is very worried: what he has done in the past few years has made the vicious Mrs. Liu focus on his fat...

"You don't have to worry about Mr. Wuyan."

"Although some shady methods are used to some extent in this money business, in the final analysis, it is still a legitimate business."

"--It's only natural to pay off debts~"

"As long as you don't buy and sell by force, there will be no troubles in the sale of Yan Gong..."

huh~~~~~~
With Tian Fu's words, Wuyanji, I finally breathed a sigh of relief...
In terms of strong buying and strong selling, it is not that Wuyanji has never done it in the past few years.

But after all, it is a lucrative business, and Wuyanji didn't do too much.

Go to hell, that is, to lure those dandies to borrow money from themselves, and then get back the principal with interest.

As for ordinary farmers?

——How much money can Mudlegzi have?
But what Tian Fu said today also caught Wu Yanji's heart.

"In the future, please pay more attention..."

Thinking like this, he took several deep breaths in a row before Wu Yanji finally calmed down.

And Tian Fu's next words gave Wu Yanji a deeper understanding of Tian Fu, a young man who was born in a merchant.

To be precise, it is astonishing...
"Wuyan Gong's Ziqian business basically has nothing to do with farmers."

"-Ordinary farmers are in a hurry to use money, and most of them would rather sell their land than borrow money."

"But the food business is quite different..."

···
"One of them: food is the paramount necessity of the people."

"No matter what kind of person they are, they must eat; farmers are most worried about not being able to eat."

"The fluctuation of food prices, even if it is three or five yuan, will make these farmers uneasy."

"The farmers are uneasy, and the court will have a headache;"

"As long as the court, especially as long as His Majesty has a headache, then we have to worry about our own heads..."

···
"Secondly, these peasant households already rely on farming for a living."

"I can't afford to eat the food I grow—as long as this happens, many people will lose their heads in the pass."

"Either, the farmers were starved to death, or the officials were executed;"

"But compared to farmers and officials, Mrs. Liu probably hopes that the ones who die are us merchants and lowly households..."

···
"Everyone will be happy when we die."

"—The food we hoard can be fed to the common people;"

"—Our family property can be distributed to officials."

"Without us, the Liu family can continue to sit firmly in the country and be loved by all people in the world."

"And our deaths don't make anyone feel sympathetic."

"Everyone will only dance because of our death..."

The lower and more playful tone of voice naturally made Wu Yanji's face that had just calmed down show real horror again.

After hearing Tian Fu's last sentence, the words 'dancing with hands and feet', Wu Yanji let go of his hand abruptly, and gently dropped the tea bowl he had just picked up back onto the table in front of him.

Fortunately, the tea bowl was not held too high, and after falling back to the table, the tea bowl was not broken either.

It was just that the deep red tea soup in the bowl splashed a few drops on the Shu brocade on Wu Yanji's body, but it didn't make Wu Yanji brush off his clothes angrily as usual.

"how?"

"After listening to this, Mr. Wuyan, do you still plan to intervene in the grain business?"

In astonishment, Tian Fu asked another meaningful question, only to provoke Wu Yanji to shake his head hastily, and waved his hands hastily.

"Tian Gong misunderstood, misunderstood..."

"I didn't intend to intervene in this grain business;"

"I just heard that the Su family of the Wei family, the Du family of Anling, and several other branches of the Tian family seem to plan to eat all the cheap grain sold by the Shaofu."

"I thought, how could the Shaofu's cheap food cost tens of millions, or even tens of millions of shi, the Su family of the Wei family, the Du family of Anling, and Zhu Tian might not be able to come up with that much cash?"

"That's why I went to the door today to see if I can find a deal in this Changling and in Tiangong's mansion..."

After an anxious explanation, Tian Fu still only made a playful smile, and pointed at the refreshment on Wu Yanji's body.

After Wu Yanji lowered his head and subconsciously brushed off the tea stains on his robe, Tian Fu's leisurely and relaxed tone sounded again in the living room.

"After what happened last time, I, the Changlingtian family, can be regarded as having friendship with Mr. Wuyan."

"Since I'm not an outsider, I might as well tell Mr. Wuyan directly;"

"——they can't do this grain sale..."

With a leisurely word, Wu Yanji's hands froze for a moment, and he didn't care about the gorgeous robe on his body. He only cast doubtful eyes on Tian Fu who was sitting back in the first place.

"Mr. Tian said..."

"After the food price is driven up, will His Majesty take action?"

"--Hey!"

"—Mr. Wuyan, you really underestimate His Majesty, and you set too high a bar on those 'rich merchants'~"

But when Tian Fu heard the words, he just smiled again full of sarcasm, leaned back a little, and there was a playful look between his brows.

"Your Majesty, I won't let the price of food go up..."

"Not only will it not rise, it may even fall;"

"The drop is lower than in previous years..."

With a meaningful sentence, seeing Wu Yanji getting more and more confused, Tian Fu stopped playing around.

"The first emperor spent money in the Shaofu, and saved a lot of money and food..."

"Does Mr. Wuyan know how much food and money the Shaofu has?"

"Let's put it that way."

"——The year before last, His Majesty ordered the Shaofu to liquidate the money and grain stored in the Shaofu. Just the accountants in charge of accounting alone allocated 500 people!"

"But the 500 people have been investigated for half a year under the mobilization of the Shaofu, but they still haven't been able to calculate the money in the Shaofu. How much money and food are there..."

···
"I went to Shaofu to see it myself."

"There is so much food in the Shaofu that there is no place to put it. The grain stored in the internal funds ten or even 20 years ago has turned black and rotted. The Shaofu sprinkled it into the Wei River at night, and it almost blocked the Wei River!"

"The rats in the granary are all strangled to death; the copper coins in the money bank are piled up like a mountain, and the ropes that string the money have rotted."

"If Mr. Wuyan has seen that scene, he will know: What I said is not an exaggeration at all."

"—Don't say this year, the grain harvest in Guanzhong is poor;"

"Even if it's a no-go harvest, as long as His Majesty opens the Shaofu's internal funds, the price of grain in Guanzhong will never go up..."

Finally, he said another word, which finally made Wu Yanji nod his head thoughtfully;
Then I saw Tian Fu got up with a smile, and walked in front of Wu Yanji.

After Wu Yanji hurriedly got up from his seat, Tian Fu nodded solemnly to Wu Yanji.

"This year, I, the Changlingtian clan, will stand still."

"No matter where the price of grain is high, I, Changling Tian, ​​will never buy a grain of grain."

"——I also advise Wuyan Gong: Anyone who wants to do grain business this year or next year, Wuyan Gong, it is best not to lend them money."

"Because next year, they will find that even if they sell themselves whole, they still can't afford to pay back the money owed to Mr. Wuyan..."

Tian Fu said solemnly, only to provoke Wu Yanji to nod his head with a serious face, and bowed to Tian Fu gratefully.

"If it wasn't for Mr. Tian's guidance, I would almost have ruined my clan."

"Such a kindness, I really don't know how to repay it!"

Hearing this, Tian Fu still only shook his head and smiled, stretched out his hand, and patted Wu Yanji's shoulder lightly.

"You and I, you don't have to see each other like this;"

"It's just that the young master wins over there, it's still inconvenient for me to send someone..."

The meaningful words only caused Wu Yanji to nod heavily, and bowed his hands to Tian Fu again.

"Don't worry, Mr. Tian!"

"Young Master Sheng, I sent more than 100 people to watch alternately!"

···
"correct."

"Almost forgot to tell Mr. Tian"

"—Today, Taiwei Zhou Yafu and General Dou Ying seem to be returning to Chang'an."

"Young Master Sheng, it seems that His Majesty also appointed him as the envoy of the Son of Heaven to welcome these two people?"

　Second update, two more

　　
　
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