Chapter 474 The initiator

Not to mention a few months ago or even half a month ago, just a few days ago, these Liaodong grain merchants still gritted their teeth and thought that they must wait for Liu Peng to come to negotiate first, rather than Liaodong grain merchants going to Liu Peng to discuss cooperation.

After all, "cooperation" means compromise, and it means that a large part of the profits must be given to tigers like Longkou and Liu Peng. Liu Peng may take away most of the profits from Liaodong grain merchants.

The head can be cut off and blood can flow, and the profits cannot be given up for nothing. Therefore, Liaodong grain merchants have been waiting for Liu Peng to come to the door, but it was not until this moment that Liaodong grain merchants really realized that something was wrong. They stared at Jin Baiwan one by one and said, "We should have a good talk with inspector Liu Pengliu."

Jin Baiwan said a few truths under the gaze of the tiger: "Dear friends, do you think I haven't found Auxiliary Liu to talk to? But now he is the noble County Magistrate of Liu. I have been looking for him several times but I can't see Auxiliary Liu himself."

"There is no use to find Liu Peng in the past. I'll tell you the truth. At that time, I could see Liu Peng anytime. Even if Liu Peng was not free, he had to squeeze out time to accommodate me first. But now he couldn't find anyone at all. In the end, there was no way, so he had to ask Miss Gu first!"

Tong Guoyong immediately asked, "Is that powerful woman in the Beijia Gu family?"

The Liaodong grain merchant who had just helped Tong Guoyong analyze the situation continued: "You can only find Gu Mengyu's words, I'm afraid we will be in trouble!"

Why are there many troubles in Liaodong grain merchants?

No one understood, but Jin Baiwan continued, "I brought everyone to the fire pit. After seeing Gu Mengyu, I begged for him. She promised to buy the rice beans we shipped, but she could only buy 300,000 shi at most, and the price was too low!"

Immediately, a grain merchant in Liaodong blurted out: "How low is the price? A stone of rice will not be less than one or two or five cents, right?"

"One stone of rice and one tael of silver is not enough to guarantee the capital!" Jin Baiwan said with a wry smile: "And Miss Gu said that at most, she only collected 300,000 stone of rice, and the extra one can only say sorry!"

The price is much lower than the psychological expectations of Liaodong grain merchants. A Liaodong grain merchant immediately shouted: "This is too low. I thought I could live a life of one, two, four or five cents. The appetite of the Beishangu family is too exaggerated!"

Their purchase price in Liaodong starts at eight cents, and the transportation costs and various hidden costs from Liaodong to Dengzhou are really not low. Therefore, their cost has long exceeded one tael of silver, or at least one tael of one tael of one tael of one tael of one tael of one tael of one tael of one tael of one tael of one tael of one tael of one tael of one tael of one tael of one tael of one tael of one tael of one tael of one tael of one tael of one tael of one tael of one tael of one tael of one tael of one tael of one tael of one tael of one tael of five cents.

If you only need one tael of silver for a stone of rice, it means that most of the grain merchants present will lose money or even suffer serious losses. Moreover, the Liaodong grain merchant who had just helped Tong Guoyong analyze the situation was very clear-headed. He immediately added: "Jin Million, don't tell me, the price of one tael of silver for a stone of rice should be paid with a banknote?"

"That's right!" Jin Baiwan replied: "Qu Zengren, the boss Qu, is right. The Beihai Money House is just willing to get the bank tickets. Miss Gu told me that since we have arrived in Dengzhou, we can only follow the market. At most, we can use the silver tickets of three branches and seven cents!"

The Beihai Money House is only willing to pay a price of one stone of rice and one tael of silver, and 70% is paid with a bank ticket, and only 30% is the silver that Liaodong merchants are willing to accept. The Liaodong merchants feel that these two points are completely unacceptable: "Well, this price is not as good as we ship rice beans back to Liaodong. The price of rice beans in Liaodong is not low now!"

It just talks about transporting this batch of rice and beans back to Liaodong for sale. Now these Liaodong grain merchants are very hesitant to transport the grain from Liaodong to Dengzhou, and then transport the grain back to Liaodong. I don’t know how much the cost has been increased. In addition to increasing the cost, it also affects the layout of these Liaodong grain merchants.

The reason why Jin Baiwan can respond to Liaodong grain merchants is that these Liaodong grain merchants believe that it is profitable to transport rice to Denglai in the year of the disaster, and that transporting rice once can make two portions of money.

The price of rice in Liaodong is one tael of silver per stone. Liaodong grain merchants think this price is pretty good and can make some money. However, when transporting grain to Dengzhou, the grain transported can certainly make twice, triple or even four times the profit, while the bulk grain left by Liaodong grain merchants in Liaodong can make huge profits.

Facts have proved that the plan of Liaodong grain merchants was at least half successful. After transporting millions of stones of grain to Dengzhou, the entire Liaodong was already in a grain shortage. It turned out that a stone of rice was only one tael of silver, but now it has increased to more than one tael of five cents, and some remote places have even risen higher.

Therefore, Liaodong grain merchants think that if they really can't do it, it's better to ship the rice beans back to Liaodong for sale. However, in this way, they will suffer double losses. On the one hand, they will increase transportation costs in vain for free, and on the other hand, the rice price in Liaodong will naturally drop after the rice beans are shipped back to Liaodong.

Therefore, although the Liaodong grain merchants present said this, they could not make up their minds. The boss Qu Zengren and Qu were there to analyze it: "We can actually accept it when transporting it back to Liaodong, but we are afraid of losing our capital!"

"Yeah!" Tong Guoyong felt that things had not reached that point, and the Liaodong grain merchants still had room to drag on: "Boss Jin, go back and ask Inspection Liu out, everyone have a good talk. I think he should give me some face if I come forward, after all, he still wants to go to Zhaoyuan to be the county magistrate next!"

He has confidence in himself, or in other words, he has enough credit to the Tong family in Liaodong.

"Yeah, I'm so confused!"

The person who said this was either someone else, or the Shandong inspector Zhao Riheng. He stroked the question book with the ink fragrance on his hand and said, "I didn't expect that I would be confused at this time, but I must be confused!"

When Zhao Riheng thought about the responsibilities he had taken, he looked helpless.

In the Ming Dynasty, the inspector was only a seventh-rank official, but this seventh-rank official was completely different from an ordinary seventh-rank official. And the late Ming Dynasty, the more powerful the inspector was.

How powerful is the seventh-rank inspector? You can tell by reading the plot in the play. After the young master and the lady parted, they won the top scorer in the golden list, and then they mostly worked as the "Eight-Department Inspector" and returned home in glory with the sword of the Shangfang. This "Eight-Department Inspector" is Zhao Riheng's current inspector position.

The governor and the inspectors were side by side, and the governor and the inspectors were often the superiority of the inspectors on behalf of the inspectors. Therefore, on the ground in Shandong, Zhao Riheng could be said to be almost omnipotent, but today he had to be confused.

But the master beside him couldn't stand it anymore: "Master, you don't have to blame yourself. For the sake of the millions of people in Shandong, you recommended this Liu Pengliu County Magistrate!"

If an official can be recommended by the governor and ranks first, then his progress will naturally be stable. Moreover, after the Shandong Governor Qian Shiwan recommended Liu Peng, the Shandong Governor has now recommended Liu Peng.

Zhao Riheng was upright and scolded Emperor Wanli and the cabinet for a while and directly offered a condition. If the capital refused to let Liu Peng take over the position of Zhaoyuan County Magistrate, please send another 200,000 taels of treasury.

The treasury is the lifeblood of Emperor Wanli, so Zhao Riheng knew that Emperor Wanli would finally agree to his conditions, but because he knew that Emperor Wanli would eventually agree to his conditions, Zhao Riheng was helpless. He smiled bitterly and said, "Is there no descendant of the initiator? Today I will push Liu County Magistrate up, and I don't know how many people poked my backbone and scolded me for the rest of my life!"

But the Shaoxing Master didn't think so: "The master said it wrong. Today, the master will live hundreds of thousands of people. The people who will descend on Lai will be grateful to the master and will never forget it!"

"It is because Liu Peng can provide relief to the victims that I can tolerate this traitor until today, and even recommend him once, otherwise he would have been killed by the sword!"

The inspector is a patrol for the heavens. Although it is not as mentioned in the play, holding the Shangfang sword, and the province is rampant, Wuji kills whoever wants to kill, and he will save him, but his power is also amazing, and killing a small inspector is naturally no problem.

But Zhao Riheng looked at Liu Peng for dislike, but now he could only hand over the document to recommend Liu Peng. He continued: "But there are so many things I can do for the elders of Shandong. I have never been brave enough and I am about to get out of here, so I should do more for the latter. Even if I end up with a heinous crime in the future, I will be willing to have a clear conscience."

The master asked in a low voice: "Master, do you really want to resign from office?"

"Yes!" Zhao Riheng felt that it was more painful than recommending one hundred Liu Pengs. He said helplessly: "I really don't want to, but I can't continue to do this patrol!"

He was a Jinshi in the 29th year of Wanli, and he was considered to have a deep emperor's grace. However, although the emperor's grace was heavy, the endless pain suffered by millions of Shandong's elders made him understand that as long as Emperor Wanli was still there, the world would not be peaceful.

He sighed and said, "Hey, it's really difficult to be an official!"

At this moment, Liu Peng didn't know that Zhao Riheng had recommended his documents to use seals, so when he heard that Tong Guoyong came to discuss the price of rice with him, Liu Peng still gave Tong Guoyong enough face.

After all, the Tong family in Liaodong is not a top-notch academic school, but the ground of Liaodong is a top-notch county, and the relationship between Shandong and Liaodong is particularly close. "Shandong Liaodong was originally a province." Even if Tong Guoyong and these Liaodong grain merchants were not successful enough, they had more bad things. Now is the critical moment for him to be promoted to county magistrate, and no problems can occur.

Tong Guoyong is asking for Liu Peng, so he lowered his posture. He smiled and asked, "I heard that Mr. Liu is going to compete for the position of Zhaoyuan County Magistrate recently?"
Chapter completed!