Please ask me to be the emperor

The seventh year of Chongzhen, the year of Jiaxu, the zodiac sign was Dog. In the month of Bingzi, on the day of Guisi, which is the second day of the twelfth lunar month, there was a strong wind.

It is suitable for getting engaged, making an alliance, opening a business, accepting gifts, collecting money, meeting relatives and friends, and avoids burial.

Zhang Shun couldn't care less about the cold weather, so he set up an altar outside Luoyang City to prepare for the opening of the market.

Originally, Zhang Shun could wait a little longer, wait for the grain merchants to accumulate more, and take the opportunity to lower the grain price before opening the market.

It's just that as a big customer of grain merchants, if he doesn't open the market for one day, the price of grain will not be set, and the grain market won't be able to open for one day.

If we delay for a long time and there are many foreign grain merchants, conflicts will inevitably arise and cause trouble, which is not good.

What's more, officers and soldiers may arrive at any time. If this large amount of food could not be stored in time, it would be destroyed by the war. It would be a pity and it would miss Zhang Shun's plan.

Before the market opened, Zhang Shun sent people to beat gongs and drums and spread banners to let people know inside and outside the city. The rich and big households can come and support their own farm, the grain merchants who have grain can support their own farm, and those who have no money and food can also come and support their own farm and join in the fun.

For a time, there was a sea of ​​people below the stage, and it was as lively as a temple fair. Grain merchants, big and small, had arrived early, waiting eagerly for the final judgment of "King Shun".

We are all businessmen, and we all know how to gain and lose money. Originally, the big guys wanted to take this opportunity to make a lot of money, but now it seems that they are going to lose all their money.

Everyone shook their heads and sighed, not optimistic about the market opening this time. Some people have even made private bets on this opening price.

The odds are generally stable between eight and nine cents of silver. The only controversial thing is whether the price of food can fall below nine cents of silver per stone.

Some people looked at the grain merchants who were full of pits, and couldn't help but sigh: "Now it seems that the minimum price of these nine coins can't be kept. How could I be so greedy? After drinking the ecstasy soup, I actually wanted to pay for all my belongings. Come here to speculate!”

"Now other people can't even eat meat, let alone think about soup. I'm afraid we will have to drink thin soup at home for the rest of our lives!"

However, some people were still a little angry and couldn't help but cheer each other up: "Don't be afraid, King Shun will still bid low later. We big grain merchants have to unite to raise the price. After all, we can't let him have the final say!"

According to the rules, if a large customer offers a low price when the market opens, several major businessmen can join forces to raise the price and bargain with each other.

But now that food is everywhere, there is no doubt that King Shun will offer a low price. Can we still raise the price if everyone raises the price?

While everyone was having different thoughts, they suddenly heard three gongs on the stage, and someone shouted: "The time has come, the market is open~"

Zhang Shun faced the biting cold wind and walked to the center of the stage with great swagger. The commotion in the audience suddenly fell silent. He looked around and saw the people below with different expressions and anxious moods.

Zhang Shun didn't know what the people below were thinking. He stood on the high platform and shouted angrily: "You have come all the way, but I am not able to welcome you from afar. Please forgive me!"

"Originally, we had to wait a few days for the market to open, but now there are many grain merchants and the weather is extremely cold. In order to take care of everyone's health and to complete the transaction as soon as possible, I decided to open the market as soon as possible."

"The market opens today, which is different from usual. I decided to only deal with the fixed price, no need to bargain!"

When everyone heard this, they were in an uproar. Not only do you, King Shun, want to offer you a low price, but you also don't let us bargain. Is this really unreasonable?

"Silence, silence!" Zhang Shun shouted several times before suppressing the crowd's noise.

Wanting to promote before suppressing, this was originally Zhang Shun's intention to stir up everyone's anger, which would inevitably make people dissatisfied.

When everyone's anger reached its peak, Zhang Shun shouted loudly: "Selected white rice for shelling, selected wheat for shelling, one stone and one tael of silver!"

Food in the audience, who was originally like a volcano about to erupt, was stunned when he heard this and couldn't believe his ears.

Zhang Shun smiled slightly, and then continued to explain: "You are here to save my face because of me. We originally planned that our Henan Mansion would have food to eat, and everyone would earn money, so everyone would get what he deserves."

"But I never expected that so many people would come that food prices would plummet and many businessmen would be in danger of going bankrupt."

"I have already made calculations. The purchase price of autumn grain is about nine taels of silver, plus the fatigue of traveling and eating and drinking along the way. The cost for the nearby area should be about one tael of silver, and the cost for the farther ones is also one tael. It’s about one penny. Only when you are hundreds or even thousands of miles away, you can’t get away with even one or two penny.”

"I don't know how expensive firewood and rice are. Although I want to help everyone get rich together, I don't have much money. After thinking about it, I can only make a small profit by setting the price of this food at about one stone and one liang. As for some Those who can only protect their capital can only say sorry!"

After saying this, Zhang Shun couldn't help but bow to everyone and bowed in greeting. Immediately, the grain merchants in the audience couldn't help crying with joy, and praised one after another: "King Shun is indeed unparalleled in his benevolence and righteousness. Without him, we would have lost everything!"

Originally, they thought that they and others were lucky enough to lose less money. How could they have thought that there was still money to be made?

There are even some people with clear minds who can't help but secretly think: "This King Shun is indeed a man of integrity, and his intentions are not small. If he can climb this line, I am afraid the profit will be a hundred times more than that!"

After all, money and silk touch people's hearts. If you deceive them with empty words, you will only end up with grudges. If it is for profit, people will not be stingy with nice words.

Seeing that he had achieved the effect he wanted, Zhang Shun couldn't help shouting loudly: "Thank you for your support. If there is anyone who is willing to continue to cooperate, I will also be waiting for you to negotiate again!"

"If there is nothing else, I will appoint someone to take charge of this matter when the market opens today. Pay the money with one hand, inspect the goods with the other hand, and the payment will be settled in full!"

Immediately after the opening ceremony of the market was completed, Li Baihu, Song Xiance, Chen Jingzhi and others had already ordered the clerks to make trademarks respectively, and distributed them to the grain merchants in order, and ordered them to handle money and grain transactions according to the trademarks.

There are three or five groups of people who have been trained for a long time to check the pricing one by one. There were those who were holding knives and shovels to inspect the grain. They just pierced the shovels into several bags at random, grabbed a handful, looked at the quality, tasted the texture, and estimated the moisture content, and then shouted loudly: " Middle and upper shelled white rice, one or two cents a cent, ready to be put on the scale!”

Immediately, the clerk behind him hurriedly wrote down: A certain grain merchant sells shelled white rice, and the price is one tael, two cents per cent.

Seven or eight more big men quickly unloaded the rice from the cart and weighed it one by one using a long pole scale.

Every time a bag was weighed, the clerk was ordered to record it: a bag of middle-top shelled white rice weighs one hundred and three kilograms and six taels, the bag without the bag weighs one kilogram and five taels, and the combined grain weighs one hundred and two kilograms and one tael.

For a time, the entire city was busy inside and outside the city.

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