Chapter 646 The Price of Donkeys Has Fallen

After Ding Jun left, Zhao Song told Cai Qin a few words before he left slowly.

This trip, two or three hundred thousand taels, is worth his appearance.

Then, Cai Qin also went out and went to see his father in the other village.

Cai Guang couldn't help sighing when he learned that Ding Jun had left.

"Dad, don't sigh, we have to sell these 100,000 donkeys that are about to be sold."

Cai Qin didn't regret this decision at all. It was a rare opportunity to make money. It would be a pity for the Cai family not to take advantage of it.

He dared to do this because the Cai family had other big buyers and big customers, and most importantly, they could sell the donkeys directly to Pingzhou!

Cai Guang sighed, it's really a son who can't be controlled by his father.

He was sick recently, and this feeling was even worse.

If it was before, when he was still strong and healthy, he would definitely stop this, but unfortunately he was unable to do it.

The son was very happy to resolve the contract with Ding Jun, but Cai Guang was not so optimistic.

This matter was too easy to solve.

Forget it, let's wait and see, at most it's just a lesson.

Next, Ding Jun went to find several donkey owners who had signed contracts, and almost all of them breached the contract.

These donkey owners, without exception, all had connections with Zhao Song. They only needed to pay a sum of money to use his name to reject Ding Jun. How could they not do such a profitable deal?

Although Zhao Song took nearly 25% of the profit in the contract, there was still 75% left, right?

It can be said that in this round, Zhao Song picked up a small half of Ding Jun's fruit!

Among these donkey owners, only one was willing to fulfill the contract, but this family was not as good as the Cai family, and only signed a contract with Ding Jun for 20,000 donkeys.

Ding Jun was not ostentatious when he arrived in Zhuozhou, and he was even more silent when he left.

This matter was not glorious for a family like the Cai family. Zhao Song made a fortune quietly and did not make a fuss.

The only thing they were worried about was Ding Jun. If he was going to go out and publicize it, they would be embarrassed for a while.

However, they waited and waited, but they didn't know why Ding Jun didn't publicize it? Did he admit it? And then decided to take this loss?

Jiang Boya vaguely sensed that something was wrong. After a careful investigation, he couldn't help but shook his head. Zhao Song's actions were not concealed, and he dared to do this. Zhao Minglou must know, but he just turned a blind eye.

Grand Commander, Zhao Minglou is a person with a poor overall view, too selfish, and not persistent enough in his actions. He is really not qualified for the position of Zhuozhou County Governor.

Zhao Minglou is indeed not completely ignorant of what Zhao Song did.

He acquiesced to his uncle's actions because his uncle was right. His brother-in-law was gone, and he had no ability to break the situation set by Pingzhou against Zhuozhou.

When the song ended and the people dispersed, he probably wouldn't end up well. It would be better to take advantage of this time to cash in on his power, even if it was for the Zhao family. Take advantage of this opportunity and make as much as you can.

Zhao Song told Zhao Minglou that in three or four months at most, the Cai family will be able to sell all the donkeys, and then he can return to Chang'an with a large sum of silver.

Conservatively estimated, this wave, their Zhao family can make at least two or three million taels.

The price of donkeys in Zhuozhou has skyrocketed, almost driving all the relevant people crazy.

Anhe Pharmacy is also waiting, and Zhou Yi will deliver the goods in more than a month.

With the current donkey price, the other party must want to exercise the right to cancel the transaction and pay the previous 60,000 taels deposit. But, this is not that easy. But they never expected that this day would change so quickly.

After Cai Guang got better, he immediately brought his son Cai Qin to Juyang, which is the closest place to Zhuozhou in Pingzhou.

Pingzhou set up a place in Juyang specifically for the donkeys bought from Zhuozhou.

As soon as the plan was implemented, Lu Songli appointed Jiang Shaoyan, Ning Jiran and Liao Ying to go to Juyang with the silver.

Jiang Shaoyan was a newly promoted official in Pingzhou. He graduated from Liaodong Academy and later became General of Duzhi for his meritorious service.

Ning Jiran was the money bag of Liaodong Chamber of Commerce.

Liao Ying was the quartermaster of Sun's army.

The three were responsible for this stall.

At this time, they had received the latest order from the governor and knew what happened to Ding Jun, Cai's family and several other donkey owners. One by one, they began to rub their hands. Humph, how could they take advantage of Pingzhou so easily?

After Cai Guang and his son arrived in Juyang, they waited for a long time before someone came to invite them. Unlike before, as long as they came to sell donkeys, they were treated well.

Cai Guang now vaguely felt that something was wrong.

After meeting Jiang Shaoyan and greeting him, Cai Guang asked, "Master Jiang, we in the Cai family will soon have 100,000 donkeys to be sold. Do you think we should send them all here?"

"How much is one?" Jiang Shaoyan asked casually.

Cai Guang and Cai Qin were both confused. Before, when they sent donkeys, the price was based on the market price. Pingzhou never bargained at all. Why did they ask about the price this time?

After Cai Guang came to his senses, he smiled and said, "Master Jiang, the current market price of donkeys is 17 taels per head."

Jiang Shaoyan: "It's too expensive. I don't want it."

Cai Guang suddenly felt bad. When did Pingzhou bargain? "If Master Jiang thinks the price is expensive, we can negotiate. How about 16 taels per head?"

"It's still too expensive."

Cai Guang gritted his teeth, "Then 13 taels per head!"

After the quotation, he quickly cried, "Mr. Jiang, our family is also doing small business. This is really the greatest sincerity of our Cai family."

Cai Qin was dissatisfied when he heard his father quoted such a low price, but now he also noticed something was wrong.

So he also said, "Yes, yes, Mr. Jiang, we are not making much money selling it at this price now. If the price goes down further, we will suffer a big loss."

Jiang Shaoyan snorted softly, "Since you are losing money, then don't sell it. If you don't sell it, you won't lose money."

Cai and his son choked.

"Master Jiang, can you tell me how much money a donkey costs, and you, Pingzhou, will buy it?"

"No amount of money will be charged, please take it back!"

After Cai Guang and his son were invited out, Cai Qin couldn't help complaining, "Dad, what's going on in Pingzhou? This donkey won't be taken in even if it's not accepted?"

Cai Guang had a solemn look on his face. He didn't know whether Pingzhou was targeting the Cai family, or whether he was not accepting the donkeys at all. If it's the former, it's okay, but if it's the latter, something big will happen!

"Let's go to your Uncle He!"

Cai Guang has already found He Shizhong and asked him to ask Ding Jun if he still needs donkeys. The Cai family is willing to sell 100,000 donkeys to him for 10 taels each, and is willing to pay 60,000 taels in compensation, as an apology for what happened before.

He Shizhong looked at Cai Guang and his son and shook his head, "You guys, if you had known about this, why did you do it in the first place?"

Cai Guang also regretted for indulging his son.

Later, He Shizhong heard Ding Jun's tone, and the other party only replied with four words - no need.

Cai Guang quickly asked He Shizhong to tell the other party that they could make the 100,000 donkeys cheaper.

When He Shizhong received Ding Jun's reply again, Ding Jun was only willing to pay five taels of silver per head.

"Five taels!" Cai Guang said without even mentioning it.

"Impossible!" Cai Qin shouted.

Selling for five taels of silver, they would really lose money to grandma's family.

In previous years, five taels of silver per donkey would barely break even, but this year the cost of raising donkeys is particularly high because they are fed with good fodder.

After Cai Guang and his son returned, several other big donkey owners heard the news and all rushed to Juyang, but they were all rejected.

Those people looked at each other, something big was going to happen!

Ship, ship quickly! We can only run away!

But their speed is not as fast as Pingzhou.

As they were preparing to exert their efforts, Pingzhou officials had already issued a statement.

The announcement states as follows: "Letter to the People of Zhuozhou"

In the late spring of the fourth year of Tianhe, there was a large demand for donkey meat in Pingzhou. In order to stabilize supply and demand, the government not only purchased large quantities of donkey meat, but also specially appointed individuals to go to Zhuozhou to order donkeys for the coming year at a price of ten taels per donkey. For this reason, the deposit alone cost hundreds of thousands of silver.

The agreed time is approaching and we are ready to fulfill the contract.

However, Zhuozhou County Governor Zhao Minglou, together with Cai Guang, Lu Xiujie and other major Zhuozhou donkey farmers, raised the price and broke the contract first. Now the Pingzhou official unilaterally announced that it will remove the donkey meat from the military supply list and will no longer order donkey meat from Zhuozhou. If you buy a donkey from Zhuozhou, you will no longer have any cooperation with Zhuozhou!

As soon as this announcement came out, there was an uproar in Zhuozhou, and the price of donkeys in Zhuozhou fell in response.