Traveling through Great Qin: Father Qin Shihuang!

"Your Majesty, these merchants in Xianyang City are really getting more and more rampant."

In the Xianyang Palace, the officials at the court meeting were reporting to Ying Zheng the situation in the past few days.

After yesterday's court meeting ended, Ying Zheng's intentions had already been spread.

However, instead of lowering the price, those merchants raised the price of grain by [-]%.

This is clearly a deliberate confrontation with Ying Zheng, which is naturally infuriating.

Ying Zheng's face turned a little cold when he heard that.

It seems that there is a reason for the low status of businessmen.

For those businessmen, they only have interests in their eyes, and for the sake of interests, they can even go against Ying Zheng's will.

"Hmph, after two days, everything will be decided!"

Ying Zheng said with a cold snort.

It is said that these businessmen can do business, so Ying Zheng taught these businessmen a hard lesson from a business point of view.

In two days at the latest, the first batch of potatoes can be excavated and transported back.

At that time, Yingzheng plans to sell these potatoes on the market directly under the name of Daqin Grain Bank.

Zhao Shu is already starting to build the Daqin Grain Store, and it is ready to open at any time.

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After the court meeting ended, Ying Zheng's meaning was conveyed again.

And in Xianyang City, many grain households also gathered together.

"Everyone, I got news today. Your Majesty said that in two days, the price of food will definitely plummet. What do you think?"

The person who spoke was the shopkeeper of the largest grain business in Daqin, named Chu Qiu.

Chu Qiu was from the state of Chu during the Warring States period, but when the Great Qin destroyed Chu, this person saw that the state of Chu must be unreliable.

Simply put, Chu Qiu packed up his business and fled all the way to Xianyang.

Even, in order to save his family and life, Chu Qiu even gave Daqin a sum of money to deal with his country.

This move is tantamount to collaborating with the enemy and treason.

Even Ying Zheng, in fact, has a lot of disdain for this kind of person.

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"Duke Chu, His Majesty's intentions seem to be very strong, but he didn't issue any orders. Maybe he just used this to beat us!"

"That's right, I'm a little worried. If His Majesty uses someone else's mouth to force us to lower the price of food, it will be a little troublesome!"

"Yes, if we blatantly violate His Majesty's will, if His Majesty gets angry, we will have nothing to do with it!"

Hearing everyone's discussion, Chu Qiu sneered.

"Everyone, don't forget how much money we spent buying these grains. If the price of grains is lowered because of His Majesty's words, wouldn't it mean that I have to bear the losses myself?"

What Chu Qiu said was not without reason.

The grain merchants present, when they started buying grain in large quantities, the price of grain had already started to increase.

In order to get enough benefits, more than half of the grain merchants present almost used all their wealth to buy grain, and many even bought grain with loans from the Daqin Bank.

Leaving aside the previous investment, the amount they loaned from the Daqin Bank alone is not a small amount.

Therefore, at this time, the price of food is actually beyond the reach of one or two of them.

The cost is here. Once the price is reduced, it means that a lot of benefits will be lost, and you may even lose your own capital.

Chu Qiu naturally understood this, so he was not in a hurry. It was impossible for these people to break away from his alliance.

As long as enough people are united, even Ying Zheng will not be able to force them to lower the price of food.

"Everyone, even though this is the case, we must not forcibly disobey His Majesty's wishes. Otherwise, if His Majesty is displeased, we may be targeted after this time!"

"That's right, we should give His Majesty some face, why not lower the price of food by half!"

Hearing this, Chu Qiu hesitated and agreed.

Compared with the huge profits that can be made this time, it's nothing to let half of it out.

"Since that's the case, everyone will announce after they go back that the food price will be reduced by half, and by the way, half of the profit will be used as a tax for us to contribute to Daqin. I believe that His Majesty will not say anything more after seeing our sincerity. !"

Hearing Chu Qiu's words, everyone was shocked.

This guy Chu Qiu is really courageous, and his business vision is different from ordinary people, otherwise it would be impossible to sit on the top spot of Daqin Grain Company in such a short period of time.

What others are thinking about is how to reduce the price of grain slightly without losing money, so as to gain Yingzheng's favor.

But Chu Qiu simply and rudely took out half of the profits and donated them to Daqin, pulling Daqin into their interest alliance at once.

As businessmen of Daqin, how could they not know the current situation of Daqin?

It is not an exaggeration to say that the property in the treasury of Daqin may not be as much as the private property of these merchants.

This time they seemed to only take out half of the profits, but so many grain merchants add up to a considerable amount, and even topped Daqin's tax revenue for a year.

If Yingzheng was not stupid, he would definitely not reject this proposal. Will Yingzheng force them to lower the price then?
"Mr. Chu's intelligence is really beyond our comparability. I admire you!"

"Yes, in this way, Daqin is on the same front as us, and my business will be much easier!"

"Hahaha, no way, His Majesty will encourage us to continue to raise prices when he sees that I have made so much profit!"

Many businessmen laughed, but there was no respect for Ying Zheng in their words.