Daming: Brother, there is no future for monks, let's rebel

With mountains of gold and silver in sight, Liu Pingan couldn't help being a little too excited.

Obviously Daming suffered a disaster, as one of the people of Daming, they should be extremely sad.

As a result, you, Liu Pingan, are so excited, your attitude is very problematic.

With a swipe, everyone's eyes were focused on Liu Ping'an.

Especially Yingwang Zhu Han, whose calm eyes seemed to carry endless killing intent.

Liu Pingan, who was so excited at first, suddenly felt as if someone had poured cold water on his head.

A drop of cold sweat trickled down from Liu Pingan's head.

He understood that if he couldn't give a reasonable explanation, he might be in danger this time.

After all, he is an old fox who has been in the shopping mall for many years. After the initial panic, Liu Pingan's expression of excitement immediately turned into a look of pain.

Forcibly squeezed out tears from both places, and wailed loudly: "My lord, the villain is suffering!"

As he spoke, he took out a handkerchief and wiped away his tears: "The villain was born in Datong. At this time, his hometown was hit by a disaster, and the villain is heartbroken."

While crying, he was still exerting all his strength, hammering his chest with his hands, as if it was really in such pain.

But the actual truth is, if you don't do this, Liu Ping'an will almost lose his temper and laugh.

If you laugh at this time, it's not a joke.

Liu Pingan reckoned that His Highness the King of England could really make people push him out and chop him up.

There are so many high officials who they could only look up to before, His Royal Highness the King of England cut them off without saying a word.

He is just a businessman, and in the eyes of His Royal Highness, he is probably not as good as a slave, right?

Killing him is not easy.

In order to prove that he was indeed "distressed," Liu Pingan secretly gritted his teeth.

"In order to help the people of Datong, the villain is willing to donate money and silver..." Liu Pingan first cautiously stretched out three fingers.

However, you may feel that this amount of money seems a bit unsafe.

After hesitating for a moment, he stretched out two fingers: "500 taels of silver, to help the people of Datong overcome difficulties together."

500 taels of silver is definitely not a small amount in this era.

After all, the silver that an ordinary person can earn in a year is only more than 20 taels.

But for a big grain merchant like Liu Pingan, this is not even a drop in the bucket.

Zhou Ziliang and Feng Xueyi looked at each other, and they both understood what the other meant.

Therefore, the two stood up immediately, pretending to be upright and awe-inspiring.

"My lord, Liu Ping'an's words are justified. The so-called rise and fall of the world is everyone's responsibility, and the disaster of Ming Dynasty is also the time for me to wait for businessmen to serve the country. I, Zhou Ziliang, are willing to donate 1000 taels of silver."

"I, Feng Xueyi, would like to donate 800 taels of Wenyin."

Other businessmen also echoed.

According to the size of their respective chambers of commerce, this one donated 700 taels, and that one donated 500 taels.

Obviously, these people were thinking of using the money to gag Zhu Han.

These people are all "bleeding", your Royal Highness, are you embarrassed to buy food at a low price?

Regarding the donations from these people, Zhu Han didn't mean too little.

He just smiled and asked the guards to write down the amount of silver they donated.

"This king has recorded all of you's desire to serve the country with full power. In the future, this king will definitely go up to his majesty and reward you for your righteous deeds."

Zhu Han's words made all the old merchants blush.

As expected of His Majesty the King of England, this nima is murderous.

The donations from these merchants add up to only ten thousand eight taels of silver.

This little money also needs to be rewarded by the current emperor himself.

What kind of reward is this? It's clearly slapping them in the face.

But Zhou Ziliang and the others didn't care too much.

If you want face, if you really want face, what kind of businessman are you?
Silver is the real thing.

Faces and everything are just floating clouds to them.

If His Royal Highness thinks that this kind of thing can handle them, it is a big mistake.

In order to make money, these people are usually scolded by others, but now they are just scolded by more people, so what is it?
Everyone's face was calm, and there was a feeling of resignation.

Originally, they thought that His Royal Highness would be angry and scold.

But to their surprise, His Royal Highness seemed very calm, and he didn't seem to be moved by their performance at all.

"But everyone, everyone should understand the current situation."

"There is a severe drought in Datong. What is most lacking at this time is not money, but food."

After hearing this, the grain merchants present couldn't help cursing inwardly: "Shameless!"

They always felt that they were shameless people.

But they didn't expect that the king of England, Zhu Han, was even more shameless than them.

Since you also said that what is lacking in the disaster area is food, not silver.

When they donated silver taels before, why didn't you say a word.

As long as there is one more word, they can completely exchange the donated silver for equivalent grain.

Of course, this equivalent must be calculated as the highest price in the current market.

No matter how daring they were, they wouldn't be so crazy that they dared to openly raise the price in front of His Royal Highness Zhu Han.

But after this...

It's hard for them to say what the price of food is.

It's just that since he didn't mention it just now, Zhu Han specifically pointed it out now.

The grain merchants didn't dare to pretend that they didn't understand.

Zhou Ziliang was the first to set an example: "It turns out that since the people in the disaster-stricken area lack food, we are naturally duty-bound to wait for the grain merchants. I, Zhou Ziliang, first pledged to donate [-] shi of grain."

Feng Xueyi followed closely behind: "We also pledged to donate two hundred shi of grain."

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When it was Liu Ping'an's turn, this guy raised his hand cautiously: "Our Ping'an company will donate one hundred shi."

There is a tacit understanding among these grain merchants. The amount they donated actually leaves room for bargaining.

If Zhu Han is not satisfied, they will naturally pretend to donate a little more reluctantly.

Sure enough, Zhu Han frowned and said, "I know that you are all well-known businessmen in Yanjing City."

"The food is not small, but compared to the tens of millions of people affected by the disaster in Datong, it is really a drop in the bucket."

"I don't know if I can...increase some."

The grain merchants were all a little surprised. Why do you feel that His Royal Highness seems a little thin-skinned?
However, this is also a good thing for them.

Even if these things donated today, it is nothing to them at all.

However, it is a little bit to save a little.

Isn't it important to increase revenue and reduce expenditure when doing business?

Save a little here, save a little there.Save and save, you can save tens of thousands of wealth.

At the moment, Zhou Ziliang and the others all looked sad.

"My lord, it's not that I don't want to donate more, it's that I don't have much food in hand."

Feng Xueyi looked extremely solemn: "My lord, although we are Yanjing grain merchants, we seem to have deep roots."

"However, Yanjing consumes more food than other places."

"If we can't keep enough food reserves, once there is a food shortage in Yanjing, it may cause chaos."

Liu Pingan also echoed with everyone: "That's right, that's right, we don't have much food on hand, and what we can donate is actually squeezed out."

Just when everyone was complaining, a young voice spoke abruptly.

What he said was the complete opposite of everyone else.

"If the prince doesn't dislike it, the villain can ask the family ancestor for help. The family ancestor is a gentry in Datong. He has always taught me that everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world. I must be willing to lend a helping hand to the court."

As soon as these words came out, everyone's voices froze.

Whose prodigal son is talking nonsense at this time?
Doesn't this little bastard understand that food is more valuable than gold at this moment.

Send out your own food casually?Believe it or not, the elders in his family knew the news and could break his legs alive?

The ideas of these grain merchants are correct, Liu Pingan really wants to break his nephew's legs now.

That's right, it was his nephew Liu Ye who spoke just now.

The most fundamental purpose of Liu Ye's visit to Yanjing this time is to take over from his class.

In the past few years, Liu Ping'an has grown older, and his body is gradually unable to support himself, so he wants to find a successor in the family.

It is said that it is a succession, but of course it is not so fast.

At least it will take five to ten years for Liu Ye to gradually become familiar with his own business.

Unexpectedly, it was only a few months before Liu Ye made such a big mess.

This kind of business is almost a business related to the future of the entire family.

As long as this sum can be earned, a family can take off directly.

Now, Liu Ye, a prodigal son, actually wants to donate all his family's food?

Liu Ping'an wondered if his old man would die of anger if he knew the news.

More importantly, the murderous eyes of the surrounding grain merchants.

If they can't be fooled this time, their Ping An firm may not even think about gaining a foothold in Yanjing.

"My lord, my nephew Nian..."

Just as Liu Pingan wanted to explain, Zhu Han directly blocked his words: "Oh, how much food can you donate to the court?"

Sensing the unfriendly gazes around him, Liu Ye also realized that he seemed to have said something wrong.

But for a down-to-earth person like him, he really doesn't have so many twists and turns in his heart.

I don't really understand where I said it wrong.

Anyway, since I have already spoken, I don't think so much anymore.

After hearing Zhu Han's question, Liu Ye's young face flushed slightly, and he said in embarrassment: "My lord, although my family ancestor dotes on me very much, but the matter of food is very important, so maybe I can't give much."

"However, I think there are still four or five hundred stones. The villain hopes that these grains can help more people in the disaster-stricken areas."

The grain merchants heaved a long sigh of relief after hearing this.

Xin said, this kid is not stupid enough to know that he can't bring out too much food.

Although five hundred shi is a lot, it is still a drop in the bucket for the situation in the Datong disaster area, and the impact on them is not particularly great
Liu Pang'an also patted his chest lightly, this kid Liu Ye finally didn't really go crazy.

Although five hundred stones are painful, it is not unacceptable.

Quickly pretended to cough twice, reminding his nephew not to talk nonsense.

Although Liu Ye was depressed, he could only keep his mouth shut obediently.

He is just an honest boy, before coming to Yanjing, his parents specially instructed him to do so.

No matter what happened in Yanjing, he had to listen to his uncle.

An honest boy like him, he listens to everything.

Zhu Han continued to look at the grain merchants, with a look of expectation on his face: "Everyone, can't we produce more grain?"

The grain merchants shook their heads and waved their hands.

"My lord, we really don't have any food on hand."

"If there is food, we also want to do something for the affected people in Datong."

"Okay!" Zhu Han sighed helplessly: "Since that's the case, then I won't force it."

The grain merchants couldn't believe their ears.

what's the situation?
Is this His Royal Highness such a talkative person?

Not quite like it.

Before the king of England killed corrupt officials, he was not lenient at all.

But this time, why are you so easy to talk about?

They just made up two at random, which seems to be a passable reason.

As a result, His Royal Highness believed it so easily?

No persecution, no threat, just let them go so easily.

This process was so easy that these businessmen had the illusion that they were in a dream.

However, this is also a good thing for them.

With only such a little money and food, His Royal Highness was sent away.

At the same time, let them know that Datong was hit by a drought.

The prince of the imperial court who could force him to ask them to borrow food and donate money in person.

This shows that the disaster in Datong is definitely not small.

They want to allocate food immediately and transport it to Datong.

At a time like this, food is money.

As a result, before their calculations were finished, Zhu Han's voice sounded again.

"Everyone, now that Datong is affected by the disaster, the price of food in Yanjing will definitely be affected..."

Zhou Ziliang and Feng Xueyi's hearts tightened at the same time.

The heart said that it still came.

However, they have already discussed the way before, so they are naturally not afraid at this time.

"Please rest assured, my lord." Zhou Ziliang said seriously: "Although we are a lowly businessman, we also know the reason why a queen should have a family."

"We must control the food price well, and we will definitely not let the two rise too much."

These words have the taste of Tai Chi.

What Zhou Ziliang said was not that the price would not increase, but that it would not increase too much.

These three words are quite particular.

What is too much.When there is a lot of food, [-]% to [-]% of the price is not too much.

When there is no food, the increase can be doubled or tripled, which is not too much.

However, Zhu Han didn't seem to understand the subtext in Zhou Ziliang's words.

Instead, he nodded and said, "Since that's the case, then the king can rest assured."

The merchants breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

This His Royal Highness seems to be much easier to talk than he looks.

As a result, at this moment, Zhu Han leisurely said: "Now Datong is short of food, the imperial court wants to encourage all merchants to send and sell food to Datong."

"This king has decided that from now on, the price of grain in Datong shall not be lower than four taels of silver per stone. I don't know what you think?"

With a buzzing sound, the eyes of all the grain merchants turned red.

Four taels of silver! ?
One stone! ?