Tong Jia anecdote

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On the second day, as expected, Ji Lan did not leave, and the two of them lived together peacefully again.

Tong Jiu has her own way of managing Dazhengchang. Among Dazhengchang's many transactions, food is the largest item.After all, food is the most important thing for the people, and those silk tea leaves can only be enjoyed by dignitaries.

The price of grain is affected by various aspects and changes every day, and the local grain price is mostly controlled by the big grain companies of Shanxi merchants.Therefore, if you are a little negligent about the market in the rice market, you will easily be caught in it.

Yangzhengtang is in the business of medicinal materials, so the price of medicine will naturally not change as quickly as the price of rice.In this way, Tong Jiu's business is less worry-free and labor-intensive than Ji Lan's money.Compared with Ji Lan, what she earns is indeed hard money.

"Going out for a run today?" After breakfast, Ji Lan watched Tong Jiu wrap up in a half-worn gray cloth coat, put a bag in front of it, put the abacus in the back of the ledger, and looked like a kid.

Tong Jiu put on his warm hat and said, "The price of rice has risen sharply in the past few days. I'll go to the rice store to find out what's going on."

After getting along for this period of time, Ji Lan has long been familiar with her director's habits.

No matter which main stall she went to, she would change into such a ragged robe and go out after breakfast when the weather was good, often wandering among the markets and shops.

"Then you go, I have nothing to do left and right, go to Wu's wine shop later to see how the progress is." Ji Lan watched as Tong Jiu put the bag on his shoulders, put his hands in his sleeves, braving the cold wind He buried his head and went out from the back mansion.

When Tong Jiu arrived at the rice market and looked around, he couldn't help being surprised. No wonder the second shopkeeper of Zhengchang came to him early in the morning.Today's rice price has risen by as much as [-]% compared to yesterday.

After thinking about it, there must be something going on, but what's the matter?In the past, every year of catastrophe or war, the price of food would rise so unreasonably, but Baotou Prefecture and even Mongolia did not take advantage of these two things.

So, he walked forward again, raised his eyes unknowingly, and arrived at the gate of Rishengyuan, the largest bank of Shanxi merchants in Baotou Prefecture, and saw a man kneeling in front of the gate. His whole body was shaking like chaff.

Tong Jiu walked closer to have a look, and saw that he was no more than thirty, his face was pale and his lips were black.

The man saw that Tong Jiu was at the side, and he didn't leave for a while, so he turned his head, saw Tong Jiu's bag, and asked with a trembling voice, "Are you also running around?"

Tong Jiu nodded. He heard that his accent was from Shanxi. Looking at Rishengyuan's shop, he said, "The man has gold under his knees, why are you kneeling here?"

"Hey." The man sighed long after he talked, shook his head and said, "Originally we were traveling together, and I was here as a street runner. But yesterday, a poor official came and wanted to borrow money. No one dared to borrow money if the boss was not around." Call the shots. Seeing that the officials were about to rob me, I ended up lending them the call, and that’s when I got the IOU.”

"Oh!" Tong Jiu picked him up, pulled him up, and said, "Get up. I can see that you have been kicked out. How much money did you borrow?"

"3000 taels." The man was crying, unwilling to get up, and said dissatisfied, "If it weren't for me, they don't even have an IOU, what will they ask the government for in the future? Now that I'm kicked out, I'm penniless, how can I return?" I got Shanxi. Besides, if I go back like this, I really don’t have the face to see my old mother.”

"The gun hits the head, 3000 taels is such a big amount, how can the manager explain it to the boss if he doesn't take your top bag?" Tong Jiu lifted him up and said, "You kneel here and pass it back to your hometown. Lingtang will be glorious at home. ? Let's go."

The man limped behind Tong Jiu, saying that his name was Shen Jianping.Going to a bun shop in the alley, Tong Jiu went in, ordered several drawers of buns and noodle soup, pushed him in front of him, and said, "Eat it."

"I don't have any money." Shen Jianping held the rice soup to keep warm.

Tong Jiu lifted his jaw, telling him to eat it without worry, while he squeezed a salt-baked peanut and put it in his mouth.

"Hey, why did the price of rice rise so much all at once?" Tong Jiu asked, thinking to himself.

Shen Jianping had already eaten two big meat buns at this time.Hearing Tong Jiu's question, he drank two mouthfuls of rice soup in succession.

He said in an unfathomable tone, "If you ask me, you are asking the right person. The current price of rice is all deliberately raised by the grain business under Rishengyuan Industry."

"Shanxi merchants are connected with each other. As far as I know, only the rice price of Dazhengchang from Jiangnan has not changed, and the rice prices of other grain stores have followed suit." Shen Jianping said truthfully, chewing on pickles.

"Yes, I saw this when I first went to the street, but why did Ri Shengyuan suddenly raise the price of grain so much?" Tong Jiu felt that what he just said was all nonsense, "They don't want to do business?"

"You're half right. It's not that Rishengyuan doesn't want to do business, it's that he doesn't want to sell grain to the common people. But he can't stop the market to make other merchants suspicious, so he blindly raises the price." Shen Jianping smiled complacently.

He also said, "There is a rebellion in Tibet, and Long Live God sent our Mongolian army to suppress the rebellion. As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses move, the grain and grass go first. Rishengyuan wants to sell the rice to the officials."

"Has the government decided to buy grain from Ri Shengyuan?" Tong Jiu wondered whether the news was true or not, why he didn't know it at all.

"That's not true, but looking at this Baotou mansion, who else can produce [-] shi rice and [-] shi fodder in such a short period of time as ten days." Shen Jianping said, "Even Risheng Yuan, currently there are only [-] shi of grain in stock, and the other [-] are being urgently transported here from Shanxi's [-]."

Tong Jiu ate the last salt-baked peanuts on the plate, clapped his hands, and thought about it, "Ten thousand shi forage is easy to say, what about [-] shi for grain—ten days, there are many things you can do."

Yesterday, I was worrying about not being able to get involved with the Queen, but today I have a chance.She made up her mind, as long as she doesn't pay for this deal, she will do it herself.

"Are you done eating? Let's go." Tong Jiu took out a few pennies and patted them on the table, urging Shen Jianping to follow him quickly.

"Where are you going?" When Shen Jianping asked, Tong Jiu had already left the door.

"Continue to be your runner." Tong Jiu took off the bag from his body and threw it into his arms.

"By the way, I don't know where you are. You are a Jin merchant?" Shen Jianping was full, and he became more energetic. Businessmen wouldn't hire me."

"Troubleshooting, let's go." Tong Jiu buried her head in front of her and walked quickly to Dazhengchang.

"Boss, the rice prices of Shanxi merchants have all gone up, shall we go up too?" As soon as Tong Jiu entered the door, Bai Zhanjin, the big shopkeeper of Dazhengchang who had been waiting for a long time at the door, stepped forward and asked, but couldn't help but look at Shen Jianping who was unfamiliar. .

Tong Jiu waved and asked as he walked towards the backyard, "How much food do we have in the warehouse now?"

"It's less than [-] shi." Shopkeeper Bai gave the boy a wink, and the boy hurried out to get the inventory book.

Tong Jiu stood still and ordered, "Well, take out [-] shi first and lower the price!"

"Price reduction?" Shopkeeper Bai asked in surprise, fearing that he had heard it wrong.

"Yes, another [-]% reduction. But remember, we only sell retail, sell common people. Common people and merchants, can you tell the difference?" Tong Jiu reminded Shopkeeper Bai, "Send a caravan to the road now, and take Jeddah Curry and The rice from all the grades in the grassland is shipped in."

Shopkeeper Bai nodded repeatedly, but asked puzzledly, "Boss, seeing that the New Year's Eve is approaching, the price of rice has increased, and ours has lowered the price. Why is that?"

Tong Jiu entered the study room, picked up a pen and scribbled a few strokes on the paper, saying, "The secret must not be leaked." After finishing writing, he blew up, stamped the upper seal, and handed it to Guan Jia, saying, "Send this letter to the Chengde Mansion divides files."

After assigning these tasks, Tong Jiu was finally able to take a breath, took a drink from the teacup on the table, looked around, and asked, "Shen Jianping? Shen Jianping——."

"Hey, brother, who is he?" Shen Jinping, who had been stopped outside the door by the boy, was talking to the boy.

"We are Dazhengchang's owner." The servant looked at his disheveled hair in surprise.

"Don't lie to me, he's really Han Laojiu?" Shen Jianping stared in disbelief while watching Tong Jiu talk to the shopkeeper and housekeeper.

Although it has only been a year since Dazhengchang opened in Baotou Mansion, Shen Jianping, who has been working for Shanxi merchants, has often heard the name "Han Laojiu".

At the beginning, in Baotou Mansion, no one paid much attention to this young boy who came from the south of the Yangtze River, and no one cared about his last name.Da Zhengchang had only been open for more than a month, and the grain shops on the same street as him, and even a few streets nearby, closed their doors one after another.

Later, the business line from Jeddah to Guannei, and grassland to Baotou, was opened, and the business of Dazhengchang became even more powerful when Rizhengsheng opened up.Many Shanxi merchants with little capital were forced to change their careers and stop doing grain business.

When he was staring at him, he heard Tong Jiu calling himself from inside, so he quickly responded, went into the study, and said with a smile to Tong Jiu, "Han Dong's family, it's not that you have eyes and don't know Mount Tai. It's really your body. You really don't look like a boss when you pretend to be."

Tong Jiu asked him to sit down, poured him a glass of water, and said, "Follow me in the future? If we can make this deal, I'll let you return to your hometown in a splendid manner, and eight palanquins will carry Lingtang to us to reach Zhengzheng." Chang offering, how about it?"

"Oh, I--." Shen Jianping, who was just at the end of his rope and felt like a lost dog, heard Tong Jiu's words, his eyes were red with emotion, and he didn't know what to say.

Tong Jiu patted him, and said, "I'm lowering the price of rice now, you are familiar with their people. Go out and watch, but if they send people to buy, tell the guys not to sell."

Shen Jianping analyzed, "The owner sells the rice cheaply to the people in the city, so that the people will not buy their high-priced rice. Isn't that helping them?"

"Other Shanxi merchants are just following Rishengyuan to make a fuss. They really don't understand why Rishengyuan raised the price of rice." Tong Jiu thought, "Baotou Mansion is such a big land, [-] shi rice, Enough. Once their rice cannot be sold, within three days, the price of rice will plummet!"

"That's right, when we buy it in one fell swoop, then we will have rice!" Shen Jianping clapped his hands in agreement.

Tong Jiu did the math, there is no need for more, as long as he buys another [-] shi from other grain shops, there is an [-]% chance of winning the deal.

As for the other [-]%, it depends on your luck.

Thinking of this, she immediately changed her clothes and asked someone to prepare a car to go to the General Military Mansion.Meet Tong Jia Yanggu, the current commander-in-chief of Baotou Mansion. He should be able to talk to the general manager of the grain and Taiwan this time about raising military rations.