Imperial County Magistrate

Chapter 379 Make enough money
"Let them know that we are also collecting grain, but at a lower price. Let them understand that we don't have much money on hand now, but we still want to collect grain for disaster relief."

Zhao Kang smiled and said: "Force them to buy up all these high-priced grains."

Qi Yunshan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Sir, you are trying to drive down their food prices and kill them all."

Ever since he understood what Zhao Kang wanted to do, Qi Yunshan knew that Zhao Kang's conscience was very, very bad.

If Mashan and Qin Yang knew that their government had also begun to collect grain and wanted to sell it at a low price.

So how could these two bastards who were waiting to make a fortune for the country let the government succeed?
They will buy food in a big way and buy up all the food they can buy. After all, in their view, the court has plenty of money. As long as I buy all the food, the government will have no choice but to buy from us.

And you, surnamed Zhao, also said that our two families sell grain, and we can sell it however we want, and your government will not buy or sell by force.

There will be no food at that time. Even if we offer fifty cents per catty, you will have to hold your nose and pay for it in order to provide disaster relief.

Otherwise, the disaster relief efforts will be unfavorable and you, the court ministers, will just wait to lose your official title and lose your head.

But what they didn't know was that Zhao Kang had already sent people to other places to promote the price of grain in Qingzhou before he came to Qingzhou. When grain merchants from other places heard about it, they came and brought large quantities of grain into Qingzhou. .

The food they bought at a high price will only fall into their own hands!

"Nonsense, since they want to suck my blood, and I don't want to give them any pain, why should I use a knife to drain my blood for them?"

Zhao Kang rolled his eyes: "Then all the Buddha statues in the temple should be removed from now on, and I should be put up as a memorial."

Wu Xinyi smiled when she heard this, and said with a beautiful charm: "What a metaphor."

Zhao Kang said happily: "Let's put it this way, to deal with this kind of moth, we must suppress them severely and give them a long memory, so that they will not dare to make mistakes in the future."

Qi Yunshan smiled and nodded: "Then I will resign."

"Go ahead and tell the officials under me to hold on for a while longer. I will remember all the credit for your hard work and wait until I return to the imperial capital. I will personally ask for credit from your majesty!"

Qi Yunshan: "This feeling is good."

Wu Xinyi next to her listened, her eyes suddenly dimmed, she didn't say anything, and she retreated silently.

two days later

At Qin's house, Ma Shan hurried over. As soon as he walked in and saw Qin Yang drinking tea, Ma Shan was a little anxious.

"Brother Qin, how can you still sit still!"

Qin Yang raised his head and smiled as if he had everything under control: "Brother Ma, why are you panicking? Sit down."

Mashan sat down angrily: "Did you know that the disaster relief minister named Qi was already buying grain with his money? When some guys in Yecheng heard that the government was selling grain, they were so frightened that they bought grain at the original price. Sell ​​the grain to them and you will be held back!"

Qin Yang smiled and said: "Don't be angry, don't be angry, of course I know about this."

"I know you still have time to drink tea here!" Mashan said angrily.

Qin Yang smiled and said: "It's normal that there are a few timid people below, but not everyone is like this. Let him buy it for his surname Qi."

"Those thousand kilograms of grain are of no use. It won't be used for half a day and it will be distributed! Besides, Brother Wei has already made arrangements!"

Ma Shan raised his eyebrows and looked at the old fox opposite: "Tell me about it?" Qin Yang put down the tea bowl and laughed: "I found out last night that Qi Yunshan was buying grain, so this morning I gave Qingzhou University... The heads of the 38 Grain Shop have all sent letters, it depends on Brother Ma if you have the courage."

"What do you mean?" Mashan's eyelids twitched.

Qin Yang said softly: "Qi Yunshan wants to buy low-priced grain in the name of the government. What does this mean?"

"First of all, the Wu family can't hold on any longer. With such a large amount of grain released, their Wu family's warehouse should be almost empty. The Wang family has also squandered all the grain. Secondly, these disaster relief ministers don't have much on hand. Disaster relief funds!”

"That's why they are in a hurry to sell food at this time, otherwise they can't afford to be accused of being unfavorable for disaster relief. Maybe by now they have started to send people to the court to ask for aid and funding."

"Then you want it?" Mashan's heart skipped a beat.

Qin Yang's eyelids drooped: "This time, I want to make enough money! I plan to buy all the grain from 38 Grain Store!"

"Damn it, you are fucking crazy! I have received news that grain merchants from other places have come to our Qingzhou these days. If they fall into your hands by then, it will be over!" Mashan exclaimed. road.

Qin Yang laughed sinisterly: "They are just guys who came here after hearing the news. How many of them can come from other places now?"

"But the victims are waiting for food with their mouths open!"

"You mean, before the foreign businessmen come, we buy up all the food first and force the government to buy food from us?" Mashan understood what Qin Yang was thinking.

Qin Yang nodded and said, "Yes, a group of Liangzhou grain merchants came to the city a few days ago, and the grain was bought by the Wu family."

"I guess Wu Xinyi, that woman, will definitely ask these people to go back to Liangzhou and notify the merchants in Liangzhou to come to Qingzhou to sell grain. This woman has always been cunning and cunning."

Qin Yang said: "But it takes more than a month to go back and forth from Liangzhou to Qingzhou, not to mention escorting food. By the time they arrive, the victims will starve to death."

Ma Shan said softly: "So you want to take advantage of this one-month gap to buy up all the food!"

"Of course."

Qin Yang said: "I have already estimated that our two families will each contribute 10 taels of silver to eat the grain stored in the 38 Grain Bank. By then, we will be the only ones in Qingzhou with grain. If the government wants to provide disaster relief, it will have to come from us. Get the food here. You can resell it several times! You can get enough at one time!"

Ma Shan narrowed his eyes: "Aren't you afraid that the court will drag you down?"

"They can delay the victims, but they can't." Qin Yang snorted, without thinking carefully, how dare I, Lao Qin, do this?

Mashan hesitated for a long time, thinking about the success of this matter.

After a moment, he suddenly raised his head and said, "It's done!"

Qin Yang smiled: "That's right. Only you and I can eat so much food in Qingzhou City if we work together. If we don't get rich, who will get rich? Then everything in the treasury is just money!"

The two old foxes looked at each other and smiled, but soon they discovered that they were wrong and had misjudged the arrival time of the grain merchants from other places.

The result of this wrong estimation was that the two families almost lost their pants in Zhao Kang's trap.

End of September.

It started to rain lightly. Qi Yunshan walked in wearing a raincoat and took off his straw hat: "Sir, there is news from below that the Ma family and the Qin family have purchased all the grain from the large and small grain stores in Qingzhou. Now Qingzhou basically has 80.00% of the granaries belong to the two of them, and the total grain storage is estimated to be more than 15 dan!"

(End of this chapter)