These days, people in the capital were panic.

The price of Xishan New City not only has no downward trend, but has even risen for days.

In the middle of next month, twenty-seven taels of silver were actually received.

Twenty-seven taels per meter, this is almost an astronomical figure. Even in the new city, the price is terrifying.

But there are almost everything in Xincheng, whether it is a school, theater, or road, but this fiefdom of Fang Jifan is still a large construction site.

Compared with the two, any rational person can understand it.

But the problem now is that the mansions on Xishan market are popular.

The price has tripled in less than two months.

This benefit is extremely terrifying.

Therefore, more people want to buy it like crazy.

It seems that people are crazy and no longer care whether the aggrieved little house is suitable for living and what the future will be.

Some families also spent all their money and borrowed money from each other, all wanting to get a share of the pie.

Some businesses were jealous of it and couldn't help but take out some of the gold and silver that were used to expand production and devote themselves to it.

In the past two months, it was no longer the secret purchases by Li Zheng and others. People seem to hope that the mansions here will continue to rise.

So much so that the increase was at the high level of 27 taels of silver, not only did it not have any downward trend, but it became even bigger.

Therefore, when the price suddenly reached 35 taels, it only took six days.

In six days... the price has reached four times.

Li Zheng was in a much relaxed mood.

Everything was as expected.

And now... he was finally no longer nervous, but had leisure and elegance, and invited the assistants from the embassy to have tea.

The deputy envoy was an Ottoman, originally named Mustafa, but now he has changed his Chinese name to Zhu Cheng.

Many people from this country changed their surnames to Han.

There are many people with the surname Zhu.

After all, in their eyes, the surname Zhu is a national surname. Anyway, he calls him, so he doesn't have to enter the imperial enthronement of the Ming Dynasty, and no one pursues it.

Since then, there are also those with the surname Li, Zhao, and Liu. These surnames are relatively fewer, but most of them are also. As for other surnames, there are also many. After all, there are all kinds of strange things in the world, of course... those with the surname Fang are more rare.

Not that there was no one. Last year, a Jiaozhi man changed his surname to Fang, and he was quite happy. Some people seemed to say that at night, a servant from Shuntian Mansion surrounded his inn and pulled him out. He insisted that he was an orphan from the Fang family overseas. He desperately denied it. As for what happened to this person later, no one knew. The people in the inn only knew that he was taken away and disappeared without a trace. No one had seen anyone in his life or death. The luggage he left in the inn had been picked up so far.

Of course, everyone knows that there is a tacit understanding of this, but they will never speak out, forming an invisible taboo.

Zhu Cheng poured tea for Li Zheng himself. After all, he was not a tea boy, but a deputy envoy. Logically speaking, his identity should not be poured tea for Li Zheng, but he was still willing to accept it. His eyes looked at Li Zheng with a little respect.

Zhu Cheng smiled and said, "Mr. Li, the memorial to His Majesty has been sent out."

"Oh." Li Zheng Shi picked up the teacup and took a sip, still looking calm: "If Your Majesty knows that the price has increased four times, it will definitely be happy. Don't worry, everyone has made a contribution this time, and I have already remembered you for your Majesty."

Zhu Zhi immediately showed awe-inspiring look and hurriedly said, "Thank you, Mr. Li, for your support. Mr. Li, how did you know the land of Xishan New City..."

Four times.

How capable is this? It is hard to imagine. It only takes a few months to make a comeback.

Now, they have 60,000 or 70,000 houses in their hands, and when they purchased them, they used a down payment, which means they spent nine million taels of silver, but got a house worth tens of millions of taels of silver.

For Ottoman, ** million silver patterns are astronomical numbers.

This time it can be said that Ottoman almost made a desperate bet.

Previously, Han merchants poured into the Ottoman on a large scale. The Ottoman received a lot of treasure money from the Ming Dynasty, and these treasure money also had a sum of gold. In addition, the wealth of caravans and merchants all of them were invested in it.

And now...

Fortunately... it succeeded.

"This is very simple. You should go and take a look at the Wealth of Nations." Li Zheng smiled.

When he heard the three words "Theory of Wealth of the People", although Zhu Cheng was an Ottoman native, his face became tense, his eyes were a little displeasure, and he said seriously: "You will never read such bad people's calligraphy."

Li Zheng nodded and agreed.

The Four Books and Five Classics were passed on to the Ottomans, opening a new door to the Ottomans. Coupled with the powerful promotion of the Ottoman Emperor, countless Confucian scholars entered the middle and upper classes of the Ottomans to repeatedly preach, and a group of Ottomans like Zhu Cheng had gradually emerged.

The biggest difference between them and the Han Confucians is that the Han Confucians who went to the Ottomans were certainly stubborn, sticking to Neo-Confucianism and criticizing new learning. But after all... they would occasionally read some idle books. The Ottomans seemed to have a strange and fanatical atmosphere. They regarded all the non-Confucian, Mencius, Cheng and Zhu as heresy. In their eyes, any other knowledge was nothing but idle books, miscellaneous books, and even bad people's knowledge, and they should abandon them.

Li Zheng smiled and said, "This book is indeed full of deceitful arts. It is necessary to deal with deceitful people. In this wealth theory, one thing mentioned that the so-called price rise and fall is essentially demand. The reason why the price surge in Xishan New City soared is that it is in short supply. On the surface, it sold tens of thousands of houses, but in fact, nearly half of them are in our hands. It can be said that... the reason why it rose is not because I know it will rise, but because I enter the market, and it must rise."

After hearing this, Zhu Cheng seemed to have some insight and couldn't help but say, "In this way, as long as we have enough money, we can continue to push Xishan New City higher."

Li Zheng smiled and continued, "There is a limit. The mansion in the new city is more than twenty taels, but Xishan New City has been broken by thirty. It is not impossible to go up any further, but... it requires more funds than before. In the past, million taels of silver could double the price of the mansion, but now, I am afraid that five million will not be able to achieve this effect."

"So that..." Zhu Cheng seemed to understand: "Can't you rise?"

"It's almost done." Li Zheng said confidently: "But there's no hurry, you have to wait a little longer, wait for a month or two."

"this……"

Li Zheng said: "It is not us who have caused the increase in the new city now. Our funds have already dropped from the drop in the bucket. However, due to the continuous surge, many greedy people have used money to buy the mansions in Xishan New City. So... it may increase slightly in the future for a while, and the mansions will continue to be sold. With our gold and silver, this Xishan New City has become a hot commodity."

"What about after that?"

"From then?" Li Zheng smiled again: "From then, he sold all these mansions for treasure money."

"Baochao?" Zhu Cheng said in disbelief: "Can we sell all of our mansions...?"

Lee Zhengdao: "If you only have a thousand houses, it will certainly be more troublesome, but if you have tens of thousands of houses, then... it will be difficult not to sell them all. Do you know how terrible the consequences will suddenly start to sell 60,000 or 70,000 houses in a market of 200,000 houses? This result is... the price of houses will inevitably plummet, and the rate of the plunge will be ten times higher. This is an extremely dangerous situation, which means that countless people who follow the trend will disappear overnight."

Zhu Cheng still didn't understand: "In this way, will our mansion be just a wealth on paper? Once sold, then Mr. Li will be finished?"

Li Zheng shook his head and smiled: "Impossible! The reason for this is very simple, because the West Mountain is not an ordinary businessman. Fang Jifan is the Duke of Zhenguo, and he is the most important minister of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. Think about it, if there are tens of thousands of people suddenly, everything will be gone. Can Fang Jifan afford such consequences? The only thing Fang Jifan can do is to try his best to stabilize the traders. But how to stabilize them? I think it is only possible to buy back these mansions at a high price. We invested a mansion of millions of taels of silver, and Fang Jifan had to buy back at a market price of 40 to 50 million taels of silver. If he did not buy back, his losses would definitely be more than tens of millions of taels of silver, and it might even lead to many serious consequences."

Zhu Cheng took a breath: "So that's it. In this way, Mr. Li is really a chess-high game. In just a few months, he earned tens of millions of silver-patterned wealth for His Majesty the Emperor."

Looking at Zhu Cheng's expression of admiration, Li Zheng felt even more proud, but shook his head and said, "You are wrong again. This time, I made so many arrangements and earning money is actually secondary. This time, I came here on the order of the Holy Emperor to weaken the Ming Dynasty and earn tens of millions of silver patterns. It is actually just the first step."

Zhu Cheng's eyes were bright and he looked at Li Zheng and said in admiration: "What's the next step?"

"The next step is very simple, to exchange gold and silver for these tens of millions of taels of silver for a short period of time." Li Zheng narrowed his eyes: "Our real goal is Xishan Money House. Xishan Money House uses gold and silver as reserves to distribute treasure money. These treasure money can be fully redeemed gold and silver according to the rules. Now suddenly, someone on the market is holding such a huge treasure money to ask for it, so... it is a catastrophe for Xishan Money House."

After hearing Li Zheng’s arrangement, Zhu Cheng shivered.

Li Zheng then said slowly: "Then next, Fang Jifan will face a terrible choice. He can choose not to exchange it. Once it is not exchanged, everyone will inevitably be in danger, because everyone uses treasure banknotes in this Ming Dynasty. People firmly believe that the treasure banknotes in their hands are equivalent to gold and silver. Once the treasure banknotes cannot be exchanged, wouldn't the treasure banknotes in this Ming Dynasty be no different from waste paper?"

"But if Fang Jifan chooses to exchange it in full, he will be in a state of great difficulty. He will try his best to draw all the real money and silver, and try his best to look back on the treasure banknote."

"So... something even more terrible may happen. This may cause the reserves of Xishan Money House to plummet. At that time, he will be Xishan New City and Xishan Money House. He will have to take care of both ends, but neither end is concerned. He will lose sight of the other. If we take this opportunity to create some rumors, the entire Xishan will be like a mud-footed giant. Is it a slight kick that may collapse. Even if it holds over, it will be a damaging force. In this way... With these real gold and silver, I have strengthened my Ottoman and greatly weakened the Ming Dynasty. Isn't this killing two birds with one stone?"
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