Technology dominates the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 317 The War Without Gunsmoke Begins
One 1990, late October.

Nanyang County, Jingzhou, Wan County, a house on East Street.

Zhou Zhang (President of Jiaozhou Chamber of Commerce), Yan Xi (Vice President, engaged in tea and salt business), Liu Jing (Vice President, engaged in iron ore, ironware, weapons, etc. business), and others such as: Tian Jiang, Fu Kun , Tan Yan, Utolatu, Kang Xun and more than [-] members of the Jiaozhou Chamber of Commerce, and more than a dozen big merchants from the Central Plains.

Dozens of them gathered in Wanxian County, Nanyang County, just to fight a war without gunpowder that was destined to be recorded in the annals of history!

As the chairman of the Jiaozhou Chamber of Commerce, Zhou Zhang has worked under Lu Bu for a long time, and his momentum is much stronger than others.He asked Yan Xi beside him:
"Vice President Yan Xi, how about the salt and coins you prepared?"

Yan Xi has been excited for a long time since hearing Zhou Zhang's talk about this plan, rolled up his sleeves and prepared to do a big job, so that people in the world would never dare to underestimate merchants, and said confidently: "President Zhou, don't worry, we have already waited Everything is ready, just waiting for your order."

"Very good." Zhou Zhang nodded in satisfaction, and then asked Liu Jing: "Vice President Liu Jing, you are responsible for the comprehensive acquisition of iron ore, ironware, weapons, etc. in Nanyang County, do you have enough coins?"

"Haha... President, don't worry. The general has prepared a lot of coins for us, and we promise that Nanyang County will not be able to buy any iron for a while!"

Of course, Liu Jing's words were a bit exaggerated, but what he wanted was this momentum!
Then Zhou Zhang asked other people about their preparations, and his family was fully prepared and eager to try.

For this "war", Lu Bu provided a lot of copper coins, gold and silver, grain, salt and so on.

After a month or so of preparation, what should be bought has been bought, and what has yet to be delivered has also been delivered.All is ready except for the opportunity.

The whole plan is divided into six major directions:

First, for the main grains: wheat, millet, rice, etc., first use the hoarded grains in your hands to suppress the grain prices in the counties of Nanyang County, and then wait for the grain prices to come down, buy them in a big way, and then transport them all out of Nanyang County, even if the transportation is not complete , burn them all, and never leave them to Yuan Shu.

Second, for table salt.The main strategy is to buy the salt in Nanyang County first, the price is too high, and then take advantage of Jiaozhou's salt abundance, regardless of the cost to suppress the salt price, and finally buy it back if there is a chance, and forget it if there is no.There is no food, only salt, and it is not enough to fill the stomach.

Third, horses and cattle.Especially for horses, the strategy adopted is to buy wildly, buy everything that can be bought, and then quickly transport it out of Nanyang County.

Fourth, iron ore, iron, weapons.Similarly, as many acquisitions as there are!

Fifth, cloth.Lower the price first, then buy aggressively.

Sixth, medicinal materials.How many acquisitions!

Through a series of means, in addition to salt, food, iron, horses, cloth, medicinal materials, etc. will be in short supply, prices will skyrocket, and people will be in dire straits, causing turmoil, and merchants can also profit from it!

In short, if there is a shortage of supplies in Nanyang County, prices soar, and the economy collapses!
"Everyone, since ancient times, we merchants are the most lowly. We make money hard for others, but we are still being trampled!" Zhou Zhang encouraged his morale: "Are we born lowly, be looked down upon by others for generations, and live humblely forever?

No, we merchants, buying and selling items, exchanging what we need, have contributed a lot, and we should not be reduced to the lowest people.Starting today, we will shock the world, let them see the power of our merchants, and dare not despise merchants in the future!

Do you have the courage, the guts, the confidence? "

"Have!"

The voice is not loud, but the tacit understanding is very neat, full of confidence.

"Very good!" Zhou Zhang issued an order: "Everyone, start action today!"

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A few days later, Wan County was listed.

In Wan County, the price of food began to rise quietly, and the prices of the same cloth, salt, horses, etc. were all slowly rising.

The Zhao family, Chen family, Huang family, Cai family, Wu family and other aristocratic families noticed the change.

Due to the severe drought in the Central Plains this year and the war, grain production has been severely reduced after the autumn harvest.

Although the aristocratic families seldom do business, they know the importance of grain, salt, cloth, etc. in this period. They guess that other families are hoarding grain, salt, cloth, etc., and worry that the prices of these things will become higher and higher in the future. So he ordered the family members to start buying in large quantities.

In this way, the prices of grain, salt, cloth, etc. rose again, and even Yuan Shu noticed it, and quickly ordered people to prepare for stockpiling of grain, salt, cloth, etc.

Prices were pushed up again, just when they feared they were too expensive to buy.Zhou Zhang ordered people to start selling the goods that had been hoarded in large quantities, as much as they could sell.

When the price is soaring, the common people will buy a lot and hoard it if they are afraid that they will not be able to buy it. This is the classic "buy high and sell low".

As time went by, the prices of grain, salt, and cloth stopped rising and began to fall instead.

At this time, Zhou Zhang and others continued to sell a large number of stockpiles in their hands.

Once the price stability line is broken down, the price will plummet!

The aristocratic families are still stable, but the general public is panicked. They have all the money to buy food, cloth and salt. If the price keeps falling, they will lose money.

There are also stable ones, thinking that even if they can’t be sold, they can be kept for food and clothing.

"Why did it drop so much again?"

However, seeing the price falling all the way, it has already fallen by half from when they bought it, and finally panicked, thinking that if they sold it earlier, they could buy twice as much now.

Worried that the price will fall a lot and there will be a bargain, so many people began to sell in large quantities.

In this way, it is like opening Pandora's box, and the price will only fall but not rise.

In the end, the aristocratic families also panicked, and Yuan Shu also panicked, feeling that they had suffered a great loss.They inquired that many merchants learned that Nanyang County was short of these things, so they shipped a lot of grain. They didn't want to ship too much at once, so they had to sell it at a reduced price.

"Businessmen are a bunch of idiots, making them fly!" Yuan Shu asked Yang Hong: "Will the prices of grain, salt, and cloth continue to fall?"

Before buying some at a high price, Yuan Shu felt that he had suffered a big loss.

Yang Hong smiled mysteriously, and said: "Dissatisfied with the lord, many merchants begged to the lower official's house, begging the lord to accept the things they shipped, otherwise the price will continue to drop, and they will lose everything. The lower officials believe that there will be a lot of decline.”

"Oh..." Yuan Shu calculated in his mind, and said with a sinister smile: "Okay, then the general will fulfill them. After the price is doubled, I will buy all the things in their hands, haha."

"My lord is wise!"

Yang Hong flattered.

He didn't know that the merchants begging to come to his door were a cover-up arranged by Zhou Zhang.

Zhou Zhang, who has been paying attention to the situation in Nanyang County, saw that the time was almost up, and began to receive a large number of low-level grain, salt, and cloth from the aristocratic family and Yuan Shu.

As for other medicinal materials, horses, ironware, etc., with the cover of grain, salt, and cloth, even if the price is pushed up, not many people pay attention.

This war without gunpowder smoke, after a month, has entered the second half of the sentence, and the real good show just started

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In addition, in late October, a major incident happened at Huashen Medical College in Panyu, Jiaozhou.

Hua Tuo once again raised the scalpel and successfully operated on Huang Xu, the son of Huang Zhong.

This made Hua Tuo's name resound throughout Jiaozhou and the two counties, and at the same time, Huashen Medical College became famous, with far-reaching influence.

Zhang Zhongjing plans to stay at Huashen Medical College to learn medical skills from Hua Tuo.

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(End of this chapter)