A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 668 Seeing his building collapse
Yu Shuheng was sweating profusely at this time, and Zhao Qian next to him no longer had the gentlemanly demeanor of the past.

After eating vigorously for several days, the money in their hands has been exhausted, and even the borrowed money has been used up.

But just now, news came back from the servants, and there was an endless stream of grain trucks outside the city again, no less than yesterday.

The other representatives of the Guanlong family next to them also had solemn expressions.

Chen Rong was already starting to get scared. He said loudly: "The imperial court has released millions of shi of grain in the past few days. Where did they get the food? Today there are at least 200,000 shi. Among my brothers, who can still borrow money?" We can’t allow so much food to be thrown in!”

"Where can we borrow money? Where are the other grain merchants? Let them show up to buy too!"

He Lanrui, who was next to him, sneered and said, "Brothers, let me ask, do you believe that the imperial court still has millions of stones of food?"

"We have a total of 1.3 million dan in our hands, and other grain merchants also have 600,000 dan in their hands. No matter how much food the court has, how much can it have?"

"The imperial court said he had two million stones of grain. Did he think there was a Luokou granary here?"

"It doesn't matter which Prime Minister Wang is from the Wang family? Jiangnan doesn't have millions of stones to transport food to!"

"Don't worry, you three. Your Majesty has already sent the Xuanjia Army!" Wang Xuanhe said with a smile.

"Tell the brothers outside the city to be careful of those people jumping over the wall!"

It's June and the weather is getting hotter and hotter.

Wang Xuanjing looked at the sky, and then asked with a smile: "How much money did they borrow?"

Li Shentong looked at the mountain of IOUs in front of him and felt cold all over. Now he had more than two million yuan in wealth, all of which were the assets of Guanlong nobles, grain merchants from various places, and aristocratic families.

"Now that everything is ready, let's let the show begin!" Wang Xuanjing flicked his clothes and then said: "Let's put another five hundred thousand stones today. Let's see if they eat it faster or we put it faster!"

He Lanrui shook his head and said: "We have no money, but we can use the manor as a mortgage. Li Shentong still has money, so borrow money from him!"

"As for the Helan family, we also know that this is the Prime Minister's conspiracy, but Brother Chen also said just now that he has no money! I have no money too!"

"Then let's take another gamble!"

"The prime minister transports grain in a fleet every morning, just to let people see that there is so much grain, you can buy whatever you want!"

Everyone said that in fact they had no way out. Once the price of food fell, their wealth would collapse instantly.

"One million and three hundred thousand yuan!" Wang Xuanhe said with a smile. You must know that borrowing money as a mortgage does not mean you can borrow as much as you want. It requires depreciation. I paid for it at a 70% discount.

"Who knows whether the grain truck contains grain or straw?"

"But this just shows that it doesn't have that much food in its hands."

"If you can't eat it, then let's sell it completely!"

So everyone took out the manor to mortgage and borrow money, and then went to eat food vigorously.

"It has reached a point where either you die or I die, so we can only take a gamble!"

There are too many assets. More than 80% of the wealth of Guanlong nobles and wealthy families from all over the world is here.

He didn't even dare to sleep, for fear that something might happen to these things.

Outside Mingde Gate, as soon as the sky dawned, groups of grain trucks entered the city like long snakes. There are also troops on guard around. Under the protection of the army, grain trucks headed towards grain stations in all directions in the city. Today's food is like a flood, pouring down from the inner city of Chang'an, to the outer city, and then to the city walls, and quickly spread to Guanzhong.

Wang Xuanjing has now used more than three million shi of grain. Three million shi is equivalent to 360 million kilograms of grain.

Wang Xuanjing came to the palace wall and looked at the mountains of food in the east and west cities of the city: "It's time for all this to end!"

"A fight of rice costs a thousand dollars? Is your rice made of gold or silver?"

"All grain depots, fifty cents per pound of rice, are open for sale!"

"Aren't they going to raise the price? Let them raise the price!"

Wang Xuanhe smiled and said: "They have no money in their hands and can no longer maintain the high price of food!"

"Prime Minister, these are the IOUs they mortgaged with me!" Li Shentong next to him said tremblingly.

"They even mortgaged their family's manor. With the current price of food, they can't pay back the debt!"

These nobles, tycoons, and aristocratic families used to be very forced when they lent money to the people. Now they have become debtors, and the debts they owe are still to the court. If they dare not pay back, then don't blame the court for ordering the confiscation of their homes!

"You will be punished if you do it yourself!" Wang Xuanjing said coldly.

The only chance for these noble families was to burn the food, but Wang Xuanjing had already prepared it. A large number of troops entered the city to maintain order and did not give them a chance at all.

"The fight is about to begin!" Wang Xuanjing looked cheerfully into the distance with his telescope. Representatives of grain merchants, distinguished families, and Guanlong nobles were arguing at the top of their lungs.

"Everyone, listen to me!" He Lanrui kept shouting: "Listen to me, everyone!"

"The imperial court has forty cents per dou of grain, which is not even at this price in a good year. He is losing money. He can only keep grain for a few days. The drought is far from over. In a few days, the price of grain will be as low as Has it gone up?"

"Fuck you!" A man next to him yelled: "How long will it take? All the food from Dongdu has been shipped, and you still make a shitty amount of money!"

"Don't listen to their nonsense. His Majesty and the Prime Minister have ordered that the price of food today is 40 yuan, and tomorrow it will be 40 yuan. In the next year, the price of food in Chang'an will be 400,000 yuan per dou! The imperial court has prepared three million shi of grain. , enough to feed Guanzhong for a year!”

"Our food is in our hands!"

A man next to him finished shouting and immediately disappeared into the crowd.

"He Lanrui, it was you who asked us all to borrow money and mortgaged the manor to borrow money. You said that the price of food will continue to rise. Now that we have lost food, you should pay us back!"

"Yes, pay back the money!"

He Lanrui said angrily: "We agreed at the beginning that we would be responsible for our own profits and losses, but I asked you to participate? You were blinded by money and borrowed it. What does it have to do with me?"

"Now the blame is on me, no way!"

He Lanrui's words immediately angered these people. Someone shouted and hit him. Countless people suddenly became emotional and started fighting.

Wang Xuanjing did not let things continue to develop. Soldiers had already gone to maintain order, but even if they were rescued, what would happen.

In the next few days, people kept seeing corpses floating one after another on the Wei River.

In many houses in the city, corpses hanged one after another.

(End of this chapter)