Chapter 393 Cutting Meat Together
After Tao Xun came out of the Yuzhou Grain Merchants Association, he went straight to the Luoyang Ji's Chamber of Commerce branch. As a businessman, once a decision is made, the speed of buying and selling must not be slow, just because some opportunities are fleeting.
When Young Master Ji heard his purpose, he was quite surprised, "Manager Tao, this is a big deal, I need to ask for instructions. Have a cup of tea first, wait a moment, I will leave first, and give you an answer later."
Tao Xun nodded.
Young Master Ji told the servants to serve well, and then hurried to the backyard.
Young Master Ji found his father, "Dad, Tao Xun came to me secretly and asked us if we would accept the grain."
Ji Wuyin: "Then we must accept it. Wait, he came at this time?"
"Yes,"
"What did Che Jiuming say? He ran so fast?"
They all knew that Che Jiuming had invited the members of the Yuzhou Grain Merchants Association and foreign grain merchants together today to discuss ways to deal with them. In fact, what is there to discuss? At this point, it is a competition of funds (money and grain).
Young Master Ji smiled and said, "Maybe Che Jiu Ming didn't perform well? He was the first person to come to us and planned to sell us grain."
"There will be more coming later." Ji Wuyin said firmly, "For those who come, we can eat all their grain at 120 wen per dou."
Young Master Ji nodded repeatedly.
According to statistics from Linshan, the grain merchants from all over the country transported an estimated one million dan of grain to Nanyang.
Now is the time they leave for those foreign grain merchants to escape.
Next, they will carry out the second harvest, and the grain price will be lowered again.
As for those who didn't run away later, they will definitely lose more. Who made them stupid and greedy? Even if they are not dealt with this time, they will be killed by themselves.
This can also be regarded as a screening.
"We have to mark merchants like Tao Xun." Ji Wuyin taught his son hand in hand.
This kind of people either have sharp judgment or good luck, and have absolute courage. No matter which one, they are all worth associating with.
Young Master Ji returned to the reception room.
"Shopkeeper Tao, are you sincere about selling grain?"
"Yes."
"How about we, the Ji family, buy all the grain in your hands at a price of 120 wen per dou?" This time, Tao Xun brought a total of 50,000 shi of grain, which is considered to be above average among the grain merchants from all over the country who transported grain to Nanyang.
Tao Xun was a little surprised that the Ji family did not lower the price and was willing to buy his grain at a price of 120 wen? For a moment, he felt a little uncomfortable.
"Shopkeeper Tao, do you withdraw the silver directly in cash?" Young Master Ji asked.
Tao Xun was puzzled, "What else?"
Young Master Ji smiled and said, "It's like this, doesn't our Ji's Chamber of Commerce have a branch in Qingzhou? Shopkeeper Tao can take the voucher given by our Ji's Chamber of Commerce and go to our Qingzhou branch to withdraw the silver after returning to Qingzhou. In this way, Shopkeeper Tao can avoid a lot of trouble on his return trip."
Tao Xun's eyes widened. It was indeed the Ji's Chamber of Commerce, and it was flexible in doing things.
"Of course, if Shopkeeper Tao wants the silver now, that's fine."
Tao Xun waved his hand, "No, just do as you said. You Ji's Chamber of Commerce will give me a voucher, and I will go to your Qingzhou branch to withdraw the silver after I return." Sixty thousand taels, he was really not afraid that Ji's Chamber of Commerce would not give it.
And this way, he saved the trouble of transporting silver.
In this way, after the two sides delivered the grain, Tao Xun felt relieved.
Young Master Ji asked, "Is Shopkeeper Tao going back to Qingzhou?"
"Why?"
"If there is nothing important, Shopkeeper Tao might as well stay in Nanyang for a while. The scenery in various places in Nanyang is still good."
Hmm? Tao Xun looked at Young Master Ji, what does this mean?
Young Master Ji smiled but said nothing.
Tao Xun's heart moved, "Okay, I'll listen to you this time, let's stay for a while and take a good look around Nanyang."
He also wanted to see which side would win the final victory in this dispute in Nanyang.
After Tao Xun sold the grain, he felt relaxed. His state was noticed by the grain merchants in Qingzhou, so they all tried to get close to him.
Tao Xun's heart moved, and then he became a middleman. Anyway, he was idle anyway, and it would be too lonely for him to cut meat alone, so he might as well persuade everyone to cut together, so that there would be no worries after cutting.
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As the saying goes, cutting off someone's wealth is like killing his parents.
For most of the grain merchants from other places, although they also hated Che Jiu Ming, the culprit.
This guy raised the grain price to 280 Wen, and after luring them here, he couldn't maintain this price, and cheated them severely.
But they hated Ji's family even more. Ji's practice of directly cutting the grain price by more than half and selling it at a low price made them lose so much money at once, which made them feel so uncomfortable.
Blaming others is always easier than reflecting on oneself.
Therefore, almost all grain merchants from other places have been scolding Che Jiu Ming and Ji Wu Yin these days.
Xie Zhan has been paying attention to the development of the whole situation, and naturally noticed the emotions of grain merchants from other places.
He asked people to leak the news that Liaodong Chamber of Commerce was the mastermind behind the low grain price to these grain merchants from other places.
Xie Zhan already knew that Wu Ren led the team to leave Liaodong County and went to other places to open stores in various places. He didn't mean anything else, just wanted to stop the rapid development of Liaodong County.
Grain merchants from all over the country: Liaodong Chamber of Commerce, right? I'll remember you.
The matter of selling affordable grain has always been led by the Ji family business, with the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce hiding behind it.
Now that he has been dug out and hated by grain merchants from all over the country, Wu Ren simply went all out and directly disclosed his identity!
There are pros and cons to a thing. They can't bear the disadvantages but not get the advantages, right? They have to bear the bad feelings of grain merchants from all over the country, and they must take the good feelings of the people of Nanyang.
The Luoyang branch of Ji's business sold affordable grain for four or five days in a row, and the amount sold was very large.
The people who lined up to buy grain often saw this scene. As soon as the rice warehouse in front of the grain was empty, the people of Ji's family would come forward with grain to replenish it.
On this day, there were as many people queuing to buy grain as before.
After an old lady named Zeng instructed her old man to line up, she called the little sisters from the same village to come to the side of Ji Dashao.
Ji Dashao's main job recently is to maintain order at the grain selling site. When nothing happens, he is quite idle.
The aunties and grandmas who came to buy grain tried to talk to him and found that he was quite approachable. After that, every time they bought grain, they would talk to him from time to time.
Somehow, the topic turned to grain prices today.
Aunt Zeng asked Mr. Ji with concern, "Can you make money by selling grain at this price?"
"Well--" Mr. Ji was considering what to say.
"Hey, you don't have to say it, it's definitely not profitable." Then, Aunt Zeng listed the reasons why the Ji family didn't make money, "This year's grain has never been cheap. If you sell last year's grain, it will be shipped from thousands of miles away from other places, and the cost will be higher."
Aunt Zeng's sisters also echoed, "Your Ji Chamber of Commerce is doing good deeds."
"I don't know how long your affordable grain can be sold?" The people didn't seem optimistic about this.
Zeng Da Niang said with a sigh, "Why don't you raise the price a little? We can accept a little increase. At least there will be some profit, and we can survive without losing money."
Such a good merchant, I'm afraid it will go bankrupt if it doesn't make money.
Ji Da Shao: ... There's no need to worry so much.
They sold high and bought low before, and sold 400,000 shi of grain to the Yuzhou Grain Merchants Association at 230 wen per dou, and secretly bought more than 300,000 shi back at a price of about 160 wen. In the past four or five days, the amount of low-priced grain sold was 350,000 shi.
The conclusion is that at present, they are not losing money, and even have profits.