Gongsun Xiu thought that the price of sheepskin increased, would it be great? If the price of sheepskin continued to rise tomorrow, and one pound of tea cakes will be replaced with one pound of sheepskin, he would not be able to change anything. He frowned and said, "Two pounds of tea cakes will be replaced with one pound of sheepskin."

Deng Ai said: "That's all."

Although Jiulong Ridge only trades for three days a month, it is a large-scale gathering, and privately trades in various camps and horse farms. Gongsun Xiu’s location is not far from Jiulong Ridge, hoping that some herders would exchange sheepskins for herding.

The next day, Xianbei people came to exchange tea cakes one after another, but when faced with a sheepskin for two pounds of tea cakes, only a dozen herders came to trade with each other in a day, and only 800 sheepskins were exchanged, but the difference was nearly ten times the first day.

Lai Zhaoxin rode his horse to various camps to find out the news, and only then did he find out that the sheepskin had increased by 200 yuan. Xu Mumin kept holding the sheepskin and refused to sell it, hoping that it would rise even higher in a few days and could get more things back.

Deng Ai frowned and said, "If everyone thinks that sheepskin will continue to rise in price, they will not sell it. We can only collect enough sheepskin needed to prepare winter clothes for the army in the year of the monkey and horse. I am afraid that the tea cakes will also have to be depreciated."

Gongsun Xiu had long expected that this situation would happen. Now he was just playing the game of playing drums and passing flowers. Sheepskin is useful for most ordinary herdsmen, Wei and Yan people, but the amount is not large. It would be a fool to expect an ordinary herdsman to use sheepskin to make hundreds of winter clothes for himself.

The only household in need of sheepskin is Yan State.

This is also the reason why he deliberately issued an edict to collect sheepskins in Yan State, in order to continue to light up the price of sheepskins that have been rising.

Gongsun Xiu sneered: "I have a plan to make the herdsmen, Wei and Yan people hoarding goods go bankrupt one by one and lose all their money."

Deng Ai let out a "ah" and didn't know what the Yan King's wonderful thoughts were, he frowned and said, "What is the king's idea?"

"At present, people who buy sheepskin on the grassland are no longer trying to buy them back and wear them, but wait for the increase in money after buying them, which loses the true meaning of sheepskin."

He closed his eyes, patted the table with one hand, and suddenly opened his eyes and said lightly: "Think about it, since everyone will feel the price increase, we will also rush to buy everything, take the lead in raising prices, pushing the price of sheepskin up day by day, and wait until the price is extremely high - I will issue an edict again that Yan State will not collect sheepskin, and will take the lead in selling sheepskin at a low price, causing the price to fall continuously. Once panic arises, everyone will be in danger and want to sell it to everyone first, otherwise it will be even less valuable tomorrow. This is the same reason why everyone is holding on to their unwillingness to sell it now."

Deng Ai was surprised: "The king had this idea. If he succeeded in practicing it, he would be really comparable to Guan Zhong."

Gongsun Xiu smiled. The game of passing flowers by beating drums is also the model of capital hot money speculation in later generations. In the process of back and forth speculation and continuous rise, every investor who buys and sells can make money.

For example, if you buy it today, you will get 600 yuan tomorrow, you will buy it again the day after tomorrow, and you will sell it again the day after tomorrow. As long as you are in a constant upward trend, both buyers and sellers will fall into a crazy situation. From the doubts of worrying about the limited price increase, the increase to the peak, you will become greedy in the increasingly fierce price increase, and buy goods at high prices regardless of everything.

If you buy at the highest price, and it happens to be the day when the price is about to plummet - after all, not everyone can accurately buy at the bottom and escape the top, there will always be unlucky guys who will join the most expensive sheepskin and hope to sell it at a more expensive price. As a result, you find that the price you bought is already ten years or once in twenty years. If you want to sell it, the only way is to lose money.

On the third day, Gongsun Xiu adopted the requirement of changing four kilograms of tea cakes to one piece of sheepskin, and divided the tea cakes that had been split into fifteen caravans to collect the sheepskins in this proportion.

The four kilograms of tea cakes were exchanged for a piece of sheepskin, which soon attracted a large number of herders to exchange them. The endless stream of herders came to exchange for tea cakes, and took out all the sheepskins they had collected for many years and had accumulated.

At the end of the day, I received another nine thousand sheepskins, and the price was 36,000 kilograms of tea cakes.

On the fourth day, Lai Zhaoxin reported the news that Huang Junyuan, a wealthy businessman in Yan, raised the price of 200 yuan to collect sheepskin, and now a piece of sheepskin has risen to 2,400 yuan.

When Gongsun Xiu learned about this, he also increased the tea cakes for sheepskin exchange, and instantly exchanged them for six kilograms of tea cakes for one sheepskin.

On the fourth day, 30,000 sheepskins were collected.

On the fifth day, the price of sheepskin increased to 2,700 yuan per piece. Gongsun Xiu exchanged eight kilograms of tea cakes for one sheepskin and received another 20,000 yuan of sheepskin.

The following time became even more magical. The sheepskin rose at a speed comparable to the rockets' launch, from 2,700 yuan to 4,500 yuan in eight days.

What is the concept of 4,500 yuan?

It means that when the price is cheap, it will be sold when it is sold, and when it reaches 4,900 yuan, the money you earn is enough for a family of five years to spend.

The fifteen caravans from Yan State brought tea cakes almost sold out 600,000 kilograms of tea cakes and exchanged for 80,000 sheepskins. Fortunately, the sheepskin he exchanged in the early stage is cheap and the amount is large. On average, they exchanged 7 and a half kilograms of tea cakes for one sheepskin.

Deng Ai looked happy and said, "The current price trend is still rising. Everyone feels that sheepskin will rise to 5,000 yuan per piece. Most herders have no sheepskin on their hands. Some buy them for a lot of money, and some simply slaughter the live sheepskin and sell them on the sheepskin. It's really absurd. Mo He, who changed tea cakes with us for the first time, heard that he bought two hundred sheepskins for 4,000 yuan, and peeled all 120 lambs in the ranch, preparing to stock up on the price."

Gongsun Xiu couldn't help laughing when he heard this, knowing that the current sheepskin market has reached the extreme. Sheepskin is no longer a commodity with real uses, but a financial product with securities attributes. This is the same as "housing for living, not for speculation". He holds it and does not sell it, strives to raise prices desperately, draws big pie, and builds a blueprint for a beautiful and happy future.

Driven by more than ten times the profit, human nature is extremely easy to ignore the judgment of danger and does not know the storm is coming.

Only old stock investors understand that the sheepskin rose from the initial 250 yuan per piece to 4,500 yuan per piece, and the two rose by nearly 18 times, but few speculative merchants can really make an increase of 18 times.

After all, due to the greed and fear of human nature, someone doubled and took out the sheepskin on his hand. However, he watched the sheepskin rise four or five times and couldn't help but buy it again, hoping to sell it even higher next time.

There are many like Mo He. The sheepskin in the family was sold out as early as 2,000 yuan. If the two hundred sheepskins on hand were not sold in advance, they were kept until now and could be sold for nearly one million yuan at the market price.

"Take this opportunity to resell these 80,000 sheepskins at a high price. We can not only make a big profit when we sell them first, but I will order Jia Fan to draw up another order, claiming that Yan State no longer needs sheepskins, so we use rosy and ma as the winter clothes of the Yan army soldiers, which will cause a price plummeting. At that time, we can buy the sheepskins at a cheap price."

Gongsun Xiu stared at the sheepskin piled up in the camp, and his face showed a cruel look: "Selling this batch of sheepskin to the three people who are most popular in the price will make them bear the loss. It is not realistic to sell 80,000 sheepskins to one person for 4,500 yuan. It will cost 360 million yuan, not a small amount."

Deng Ai immediately received the order.

When Jiulong Ridge traded again, Deng Ai ordered fifteen caravans to carry sheepskins to exchange them, and he, Gongsun Xiu, Lai Zhaoxin and Yan Xu, each led a team. The goal of this exchange was also very clear, as long as coins.

Whether it is the Wuzhu coins of the Wei people, the Jimu Wuzhu of the Yan Kingdom, or the equivalent gold, silver and jewelry, in short, coins are hard currency, and no other materials can be exchanged.

Jiulong Ridge is crowded with people, with a grand occasion of 40,000 or 50,000 people. The price of sheepskin has risen rapidly, which has caused merchants from the Xianbei tribes and Yan and Wei countries to come here, hoping to make a fuck on the sheepskin.

Gongsun Xiu laughed in his heart, stood in front of the caravan he managed, and paced, piled up sheepskins on the carriage. Each carriage had seven or eight people standing with their knives to prevent someone from robbing.

At this time, a young man came over and said with a smile: "Little brother, what price should I buy this batch of sheepskin?"

"Four thousand three hundred coins per piece."

Gongsun Xiu raised his head and saw that the young man in front of him was about 35 years old. He was tall and thin with his cheeks. He was eight feet tall. But his only characteristic was that he was thin, weighing only 140 kilograms, which made him look tall and thin, just like a standing bamboo pole.

If he hadn't stood up and looked at this person in a right way, Gongsun Xiu would have even thought he was nine feet tall.

The young man was stunned, "The quality of your sheepskin will not be a problem, right?"

After all, the market price of sheepskin is difficult to buy at 4,500 yuan. Those with low prices are all broken quality.

Gongsun Xiuha said, "You can check that my sheepskin is smooth and delicate, and all of them are of excellent quality."

The young man picked and chose the sheepskin around the carriage, and he couldn't help but nodded. He could see that the sheepskin was of excellent quality and asked, "How many sheepskin do you have? I'll want them all."

"Young Master, how many pictures do you want?"

When Gongsun Xiu heard that he was very angry, he was secretly surprised. Not to mention that there were tens of thousands of sheepskins stored in the tent, just about these ten carts of sheepskins, there were five thousand sheepskins.

The young man yelled: "Even if you have 20,000 sheepskins, I'll take them together."

Gongsun Xiu was secretly frightened. Finally, a big fish came. He blew up, changed into a flattering smile, and said, "This young master is so generous. To be honest, I have five thousand sheepskins here, and another stock of five thousand sheepskins. A few friends below are selling them together to the young master, but they can get 20,000."

The young man was surprised: "That's not bad."

He paused and said, "But you have to give me a little cheaper price, otherwise I won't charge you."

Gongsun Xiudao: "Buy a lot of money and you should give it a discount. Otherwise, I will talk to you for my friends and sell it to you by 100 yuan less for each sheepskin. How about it? It costs 4,200 yuan."

The young man frowned and said disdainfully: "That's only 20,000 yuan less. From your accent, you are also from Yan, right?"

When Gongsun Xiu heard the five words "It's also from Yan", he was excited and pretended to be careful and asked, "That's right, don't you know the name of Gongzi Zun's surname?"

The young man said proudly: "You don't know me at Jiulong Ridge, you are short-sighted, I am Huang Junyuan."

He said in his heart that one of the three major forces in Jiulong Ridge, Murong Nan, Wuqiu Zong and Huang Junyuan, took away more than half of the sheepskin, which was the main force in the sheepskin market. He hurriedly said, "Oh, I don't know Mount Tai, it turns out that it is Mr. Huang."

Huang Junyuan waved his hand and said, "Don't make this fake one. Since you are from Yan, you are just going to transport the sheepskin back to Yan and sell it? Let me tell you, if you have such thoughts, you will lose all your money, and it would be better to sell it to me."

Gongsun Xiu was puzzled, thinking that this person was quite angry, and asked, "This is impossible. The King of Yan is issuing an imperial edict to collect the sheepskins from the people. If I transport them back to Yan State, even if I don't make a lot of money, I will not be able to lose all my money, right?"

Huang Junyuan patted his shoulder, with an attitude of a person who had experienced it, and sneered: "Little brother, you are still too naive. I don't know how you exchanged 20,000 sheepskins for your hand. This ability is outstanding among all merchants. But I want to tell you that if you transport it back to Yan State, the border officials will detain your goods, and even you will arrest you for false charges and be detained for ten days and half a month. When you are released, the sheepskins will basically be sold out, and you don't even have a place to reason. And these sheepskins will eventually be sold to me and I will sell them to the government."

Gongsun Xiu was furious when he heard this, and at the same time he felt a cold sweat on his back, thinking to himself: "I don't know that the border area is so serious about the collusion between officials and businessmen in Yan State. If there is no background or power, ordinary merchants, Guan Wanli, in order to make some money, will eventually become a wedding dress for others."

But at the same time, it was also expected that it was this kind of indulgent official who bullied border residents, merchants, and foreign races, which led to serious conflicts between the Han and Hu ethnic groups. The accumulation of hatred was not a matter of one or two days. He frowned and said, "According to your wishes, should I sell this sheepskin to you cheap?"

Huang Junyuan frowned and said, "Young people, don't say such kind words. We are all from Yan, so it's easy to talk. Let's do this. I will buy you for 4,000 yuan per piece. You can also tell the merchants from Yan that as long as I want, I will buy you for 4,000 yuan."

He didn't dare to force it too much. After all, the merchants in Yan State were likely to sell sheepskin to the Wei people, which would be more than worth the loss. It would be better to suppress the price with a good voice.

Gongsun Xiu thought that you were seeking death, and that was up to you. He immediately said, "Since that's the case, the villain thanked Mr. Huang for his great kindness and virtue. I'll sell it to you 20,000 sheepskins."

Huang Junyuan smiled and said, "You can teach me. A smart person is really refreshing in his work. Don't worry, as long as the goods are complete, you can give this 80 million yuan immediately."

After saying that, he turned around and left.

He ran quickly around the Jiulong Ridge and asked how the sheepskins of Deng Ai, Lai Zhaoxin and Yan Xu were sold. When he couldn't ask, most of them had already sold 80% of the goods. It took only half a day to see how crazy the entire Jiulong Ridge fell into.

Most of the coins exchanged were mostly Wuzhu of Wei, and a lot of chicken-me-wuzhu of Yan State were exchanged. If the coins were not enough, they would use gold, silver and copper to buy sheepskin.

Gongsun Xiu clapped and laughed: "You three have sold a lot of sheepskin, and I just ordered 20,000 sheepskins to that guy. In this way, our inventory will basically be sold out."

Deng Ai whispered: "Yes, as long as the king draws an imperial edict to send it back to the Yan Palace to announce the world, sheepskin is no longer needed. In an instant, the sheepskin on the entire Jiulong Ridge will be transformed from gold to copper and iron. Then we will use the money we exchanged for with the sheepskin on our hands and buy the sheepskin back at a low price."

The next evening, Gongsun Xiu led five hundred Yan troops to disguise, transported forty carts of sheepskin, and waited for him on the banks of the Qin River in Wuheng.

Not long after, the sound of wheels dragging sounded on the mountain road on the right. Three or four hundred people and the cart rushed forward quickly. The leader was Huang Junyuan.

He rode his horse forward, pointed at the long convoy with a horse whip, and smiled, "Is these 20,000 sheepskins enough?"

Gongsun Xiu smiled and said, "You can have someone count it."

Huang Junyuan nodded. After all, a piece of sheepskin is worth 4,000 yuan now, which is not a small amount.

The two sides immediately exchanged convoys, one side counting the sheepskins and the other side counting the coins.

Gongsun Xiu saw that most of the money he brought was gold and silver, and almost no coins. He thought he was buying sheepskin and spent all the money he could use. He smiled and said, "Young Master Huang is trying to buy sheepskin, it seems that he is here to buy it."

Huang Junyuan smiled and said, "Everyone, each other. Everyone is seeking wealth and danger, and earn some food for their livelihood. With the 20,000 sheepskins, I have 120,000 sheepskins on hand. I just waited to transport them back to Yan State, and I had to sell them at least 5,000 yuan each. Anyway, the King of Yan paid the money."

Gongsun Xiu laughed: "The villain wishes Mr. Huang a fortune first."

Soon, both sides had counted, and Gongsun Xiu's subordinates also claimed how much gold, silver and soft soft the other party carried was worth, which was almost the same. He rode on a horse and led the five hundred Yan troops to leave.

Huang Junyuan looked at his leaving figure and said in confusion: "How come this man, the porter he led, doesn't look like an ordinary porter, but more like a well-trained warrior?"

But this thought just came up and left it behind. All I thought about was how to transport the sheepskin back to Yan State and how to make a fortune.
Chapter completed!