Chastity Layman

The government of Yiguo pays two thousand shi for land tax and grain, one thousand shi for righteous warehouse grain, and one thousand shi for community warehouse grain. The Qin family also donated a total of 5,000 shi to the township warehouses where Zhuangzi was located!

These numbers are recorded in the seal on the emperor's imperial case.

The grain donated was more than the tax paid, and Qin Lang donated nine thousand shi.

A stone stirs up a thousand waves.

Under the emperor's instruction, the news is now flying all over the sky, and the whole Gyeonggi is full of uproar. Li Shimin even asked the residence newspaper to copy the world, so that the officials in all states and counties know about it.

Li Shimin turned up another memorandum, but it was given by Dai Zhou, the current Tong Zhongshu's subordinate Pingzhang Guoji, household minister and transit envoy. Dai Zhou said that Yiguo's mansion sold 50,000 shi of grain to Changping warehouse. When Chang Pingcang collected grain at a price of 110 qian per dou, he only sold it at 100 qian per dou, voluntarily reduced the price, and sold so much grain to Guancang at once, so he asked the emperor to reward Qin Lang.

After the summer harvest, Changping Warehouse has already begun to collect grain vigorously.

It’s just that after the famine, not many people are willing to sell grain, and everyone would rather save grain to prepare for the famine. Moreover, the price of grain fell rapidly because of the bumper harvest, which made the landlords unwilling to sell grain.

At such a time, Qin Lang took the lead in selling grain, which undoubtedly became more prominent.

After taking the 50,000 guan grain order in the Changping warehouse in Chang'an, the price of grain in Gyeonggi also dropped. It was originally 110 doumi, but immediately dropped to 100 doumi.

Duke Qi's mansion received a letter from the Patriarch in Lingzhou asking them to sell grain as well.

Qin Qiong also still has tens of thousands of acres of land, and the Duke of Qi sold 20,000 shi of grain to Changping Cang at one time.

The purchase price of grain in Gyeonggi fell to ninety-five cents a bucket.

Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Cheng Yaojin, Yu Chigong, these big nobles are also big landlords, and they also followed the trend and started selling grain to Changping warehouse.

As a result, the price of grain fell again and again, and it fell to 80 yuan per bucket of rice in a few days. This caused panic among many landlords. After all, they had a lot of land and grain, and it was impossible to keep all the grain for themselves. At the beginning, the sale of grain was only part of the sale, but it was immediately discovered by the Zhenfu Department and secretly publicized it vigorously.

More landlords panicked, and the grain market fell again.

After several consecutive declines, the final grain price even fluctuated around the price of 50 yuan per bucket of rice.

Although there has been no major drop since then, it has still fallen by nearly half from the previous Dou Mi 110 to Dou Mi 50. If you compare it with the 300 or even 400 renminbi when the grain price was the highest last year, it will be several times lower.

Although it is still about three times that of the Taiping period, this price is already the lowest since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

What no one knows is that in this roller coaster of grain prices, it is not only the imperial court that has benefited the most.

In Xianyang, in the Qin family resort on the north bank of the Weihe River, Qin Lang was settling accounts with Cheng Qian there.

"We made so much money?"

Cheng Qian stared at the number after he pulled out the abacus for a long time, and couldn't believe it.

"That's right."

Qin Lang turned his head and glanced, then smiled.

"In just a few days, he has earned so much." Cheng Qian sighed.

"So this is called buying and selling, buy low and sell high."

Qin Lang gave Chengqian a vivid economics lesson. These days, he shorted the grain market and asked the prince to borrow Changping grain from Guanzhong Changping warehouse. He agreed to return it in one month and gave Changping two thousand guan cost of.

At that time, it was when Qin Lang had just sold grain to Chang Ping Cang.

Chengqian used the 200,000 guan money that the emperor gave him to buy it at the price of 100 qian per bucket of rice at that time. He bought 200,000 stone grains, and agreed to pay back the grain one month later, with an additional fee of 2,000 guan.

After all, Chengqian was the crown prince. Although his peculiar way of buying grain was a bit out of order, but because he had the emperor's permission and an order to the Transshipment Department, they borrowed grain. Anyway, for them, the grain in this warehouse is only borrowed for a month, and there is a profit of 2,000 guan.

After Chengqian got the food, he was under Qin Lang's personal control.

Through all kinds of coquettish operations, all kinds of hype and publicity, and from time to time, he deliberately lowered the price of grain to the market, which caused panic in the grain market, and he knocked down the price of grain time and time again.

In less than a month, the original one-hundred-dollar dou-mi was reduced to fifty-dollar dou-mi. Chengqian's 200,000 guan borrowed 200,000 grains from the Changping warehouse, sold them in batches, and lowered the price of grains. When the one-month repayment period approached, he began to buy grain from the market again. Quietly buy food in batches.

Through this coquettish operation, one month later, Chengqian returned 200,000 stone grains to Changping Cang in full.

At this time, the purchase price of 200,000 stone grains was only 120,000 guan.

Chengqian earned 78,000 guan after deducting the extra fee of 2,000 guan for Chang Pingsi. Even after deducting the operating expenses for this month, he actually got more than 70,000 guan.

Others are buying low and selling high to make a profit, but Qin Lang led Cheng Qian to do the opposite.

By means of shorting, first borrow grain at high prices in regular positions, and then sell it in the market, and when the market price drops, buy low-priced grains to make up for regular positions, thus making a fortune.

This method is actually very common in later generations.

The key point is that most people don't have this kind of meaning, and the more important thing is whether they can borrow grain from the Changping warehouse. The key to Qin Lang's ability to borrow food from Cheng Qian was that he and Cheng Qian went to the emperor.

Qin Lang expressed to the emperor that if he could beat the price of grain and make it much lower, the imperial court could earn more grain at a lower price, and the most important thing was to break the current situation where the landlords and grain merchants were reluctant to sell, so as to ensure the imperial court's peace. The warehouse can store grain.

Li Shimin was skeptical, but Qin Lang said that as long as he was handed over to operate the Jingji Changping Warehouse, the effect would be guaranteed.

With this guarantee, Li Shimin finally believed it.

As a result, Qin Lang temporarily gained control of Changping warehouse in Guanzhong Road, and he directly lent 200,000 stone grain to Chengqian, and then operated together.

Chengqian earned more than 80,000 guan in this month, and the Changping warehouse of the imperial court actually earned more, not just Chengqian's 2,000 guan fee.

When Cheng Qian was selling high and selling low, in fact Qin Lang was also manipulating the Chang Ping warehouse.

Through public opinion building momentum, various gossips spread, and timely grain release, the grain market was extremely volatile.

On this side, Qin Lang, Qin Qiong's eldest grandson Wuji and other great nobles and landlords sold large quantities of grain to the court Changping warehouse at high positions, while over there, Qin Lang manipulated the Changping warehouse to change hands and quietly lowered the purchased grain. Priced to sell.

No one would have imagined that there would be such a coquettish operation in the Changping warehouse, which would actually buy high and sell low.

Who would have thought of it?

As a result, in the end, those upstart big landlords paid high positions, and Changpingcang quietly manipulated the price of the grain market, knocking down the price of grain.

When grain prices finally collapsed and small and medium-sized landlords sold grain in a panic, Qin Lang asked Chang Pingcang and the prince to buy at a lower price to cover their positions.

The Changping Warehouse made a fortune, and all the grain came back, benefiting from the huge price difference caused by the collapse of the grain market. With the money earned, they bought a large amount of grain and stored it in the Changping Warehouse.

In fact, it is equivalent to, from three hundred and two hundred dollars for a bucket of rice before the summer harvest, to one hundred and two hundred and one dollars at the beginning of the summer harvest, and now to fifty yuan a bucket of rice, all the grain stored in Changping warehouse is five. Eleven buckets were collected.

The most critical issue is that not all of the capital of the fifty-one buckets belonged to Changping Division, but a large part of it was already made from the money earned by Changping Division from reselling.

Of course, Li Shimin was secretly happy about this result.

Cheng Qian thought that Qin Lang was really just trying to make money for him, but this time, Qin Lang intentionally shorted the Chang'an grain market and lowered the Chang'an grain price.

Because of the fast action and the short time, the grain from Kanto did not have time to enter Guanzhong, and it did not affect the price of grain in Guanzhong at all, and the matter was settled.

In essence, the original intention of setting up a regular position is to buy low and sell high to stabilize the market price. When the market price is too low, buy, and the price is too high, sell.

It's just that this round of Qin Lang's operation was a bit too miraculous. Through leverage, Qin Lang successfully took the lead in prying over the grain and actively harvesting leeks, instead of passively waiting until the market price changed dramatically.

So Li Shimin laughed in the Taiji Palace, Chengqian counted the small money, and was extremely grateful to Qin Lang, unaware that Qin Lang was just playing with him along the way, so that he could experience the complexity of business.

With a capital of 200,000 yuan, in one month, the net profit is 77,000 yuan. This profit is indeed faster than stealing money.

"Teacher, why don't we go to Luoyang as soon as possible and borrow grain from Changping warehouses in Henan, Hedong, Hebei, and Huainan?" Cheng Qian said with red eyes.

Qin Lang picked up the knife and cut open a watermelon.

The watermelon is extremely sweet and refreshingly cold.

"Some things can never be done again. The most important thing is not to be greedy!"

"Can't you?"

"There are many smart people in the world, and they will come back to it."

Guanzhong has always been relatively closed, especially the food sector, which is highly isolated from the market outside the Guanzhong. Another one, the Gyeonggi area, has a great policy influence. In addition, Qin Lang was the first to operate like this, so it's normal to be caught off guard. Of course, another key point is that the big landlords in Guanzhong are actually mainly the dignitaries in the court and the central government. When they also got into Qin Lang's car and threw high positions, the herd effect caused was huge.

But now if you go to Luoyang to operate, you won't have these favorable conditions.

Another one is that the Central Plains extend in all directions, and the volume is bigger, so it is difficult to leverage. If Chang Pingsi's grain is thrown in, it will cause blisters, and the price of grain will not change much at all. Then it will be me who will be ugly .

Moreover, this kind of money, after all, is reselling, it’s good to make a lot of money in a muffled voice. If you really focus on making a lot of money, the impact is not good. After all, Cheng Qian is the prince, the heir of a country, how can he fall into the eyes of money? Woolen cloth?

Just like Li Shimin, he made a fortune silently, and he would not disclose it when he made it.

"Then what do we do with so much money?"

Cheng Qian looked at the two hundred and seventy-seven thousand coins stored in Kaiyuan Bank's account, and felt a little uneasy.