"Oh?" Mo Zhinian's mouth was "oh", but his face did not change. He asked, "In your opinion, how should we deal with it now?"

Mo Yiqing replied calmly: "My grandfather now controls the financial and taxation power of Hangzhou Prefecture. Why don't he use it and insist on using the power of the Mo family to fight against the whole city?"

Don’t obsess with hearing, your face moved a little.

"In the opinion of my grandson, my grandfather can ask the Hangzhou Maritime Bureau to post a notice. From now on, any merchant ships transporting grain from various places and countries to Hangzhou Prefecture will be exempted from tariffs."

Mo Zhengnian was shocked and glared at Mo Yiqing for a long time, asking, "But even so, it will take at least ten days, right? How to deal with the current danger? Within two days, if the Mo family does not produce grain, the food prices on the market will roll upwards... This is the military ration of the Lin'an Bo army, and there must be no mistake."

Mo Yiqing smiled slightly and said, "Grandfather can quietly transport the Mo family's grain storage to other places at the same time, and then disguised himself from Songjiang, Jiaxing and Suzhou to Hangzhou."

"Ah?" Mo Zhinian was shocked. He had already looked up to this granddaughter very highly. Now he found that he still underestimated it. "What if Lin'an Bo failed to recover Suzhou?"

"At that time, the crisis in Hangzhou City had already been resolved." Mo Yiqing said calmly, "My grandfather has always been optimistic about Lin'an Bo. Why isn't he optimistic about Lin'an Bo's Northern Expedition to continue to sing triumphantly?"

Mo Zhinian suddenly realized and then hesitated: "It's not that I don't like it, but after all, the army under Lin'anbo's command is complex and the people are hard to unite. The restoration of Songjiang Prefecture is not to conquer, but to surrender. According to the news, Hong Chengchou has led a large army to support Suzhou in person. I'm afraid Lin'anbo will not be able to conquer Suzhou for a while. In this way, it will be impossible to transport Suzhou rice and grain to Hangzhou to solve the urgent problem."

"After the grandfather's concern was over, my grandson thought that Lin'an Bo would win in the attack of Suzhou. Not only that, Lin'an Bo could also sing triumphantly all the way, and maybe he could really restore Yingtian Mansion."

"Oh? Where did this come from?"

"The grandson was subject to the strict orders of his grandfather and read history books since he was a child. Looking at the historical books, one rule can be found, that is, the so-called trend. Those who follow the trend will prosper, and those who go against the trend will perish. The demise of the Ming Dynasty may be due to the will of heaven, but it perished too quickly. Since the Qing army entered the pass, the Qing army was as powerful as the city and plundered the city. The Ming army in various places either surrendered when they heard the news or turned south. But because of this, people's hearts were suppressed for too long and they would want to rebound. Lin'an Bo attacked Hangzhou Prefecture, and did the grandfather and the rich family in the city think so? This also created the glory of Lin'an Bo today. Therefore, Jiaxing is like this, Songjiang is like this, and Suzhou Prefecture is naturally the same. What the grandson wants to say is that it was not Lin'an Bo who created this Northern Expedition, but the hearts of the world created this Northern Expedition by Lin'an Bo."

Mo Zhong Nian had a kind of enlightenment and he had to reexamine his granddaughter. This child had too high talent, but unfortunately he was just a daughter.

....

In the days that followed, Mo Zhinian almost copied the plans of his granddaughter Mo Yiqing. He first ordered that the tariffs on grain ships to Hangzhou Prefecture were exempted, and then the rice ships arranged secretly arrived at the port one after another.

The connected buying actions of wealthy households in the city quickly converged.

In fact, this is how human hearts are. No matter how powerful people are, they are afraid of the unknown.

They can control the grain prices around Hangzhou Prefecture, but they don’t know the situation abroad, especially on the other side of the sea.

The arrival of the rice boat made them deeply doubt the correctness of their decisions.

Tax exemption, this is a ruthless move.

The so-called wealth can help the gods, and the things that have money to make, especially those who have big money to make, can change people's position.

They did not suspect that the tax exemption policy prompted Chinese and foreign merchants to import a large amount of grain into Hangzhou Prefecture, so they began to wait and see.

This is understandable. Even if grain is the most unimpeded hard currency of this era, grain is ultimately renewable commodity two seasons a year. They can control the grain prices of Hangzhou and even several places, but they cannot control the grain prices and output overseas.

The so-called boating against the current, if you don’t advance, you will retreat. Their convergence gives no obsession with time and space.

The Mo family’s grain hoarding was quickly launched, becoming the last straw that broke the grain prices in Hangzhou.

But it was the restoration of Suzhou, Taicang and Jiangyin ten days later.

Wu Zheng did not make any mistakes. The first thing he did after liberation of Suzhou was to transport Suzhou's stored grain to Hangzhou. This transportation was three to four million stones, which was enough to defeat the last fantasy of the wealthy businessmen in Hangzhou.

In Hangzhou City, the lowest price of rice reached a terrifying position of one or two stones. This price was only available in the middle and late Hongwu periods in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the price of grain in Hangzhou City was one or two stones and three dou, which was also incomparable.

The rich people in the city are already overwhelmed, and it is the harvest season of midsummer again. New rice will be harvested, and the old rice cannot be cleared out, so they need to save more money, so they can only cut their flesh and clear their stocks.

When Wu Zheng went to the battle, the rice price had risen to one or two stones of indica rice, and the japonica rice price was even higher.

Mo Zhinian sold out at 90% to 60% of this price, but now Mo Zhinian repurchases it quickly and makes a fortune.

Let’s use a simple number to describe it. Between selling and buying, the official warehouse and the Mo family did not suffer any loss in the hoarding of grain, but instead exchanged old grain for new grain. This is just by the way. The key is that in Mo Zhinian’s hands, the net profit was more than 16 million taels.

This is the power of joint businessmen to build a banker.

This also proves from the indirect evidence that the Ming Dynasty's financial resources were strong and had reached an incredible level.

After this battle, the Mo family and the private merchants were already in power, but Mo Zunnian's prestige was established and he officially began to implement the reforms he promised Wu Zheng, re-determine the agricultural tax, commercial tax, and form a tax police.

What makes the glasses shocked is that several sons of the Mo family were forced to leave Hangzhou, saying that they were going out to do business, but anyone with discerning eyes knew that this was called expelling the power center. They judged that the Mo family's heirs had changed.

Sure enough, behind Mo Zhinian, the third generation of the Mo family appeared. What is puzzled is that this third generation is not a man, but a woman.

Hangzhou Prefecture has begun to be different.

....

The Qing court was in chaos.

When they learned that Changzhou had fallen, the whole government and the country were in panic.

Especially those Ming ministers who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, at this time, they suddenly realized that the Ming Dynasty might have a trace of salvation.

People's hearts are strange. When they are completely disappointed with something, they will feel that it is useless and everything is bad, evil and hopeless.

But once you think it may be saved, you will find that there is a good place and will be more and more pleasant to you.

Countless officials began to walk around privately and connect, and the atmosphere in the entire capital became extremely strange.
Chapter completed!