"The problem is, we don't have much money."

Marquis of Zhenyuan Gu Mingjiao said at this time.

"Lend! Go to the Ming Bank to borrow money. Didn't the imperial court set up the Ming Bank now and allow the scholars to borrow money? We also go to borrow money. Such a low-interest loan is free and not lending!"

Dou Ding, who was red in gambling, said unreasonably.

"I wonder if the court is willing to lend us a loan?"

Now that the investment has reached this point, Xu Hongji is not willing to accept it, so he did not reject Dou Ding's proposal, and only said that.

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"Give them a loan, they can lend as much as they can. Anyway, they don't lack collateral, mansions, land, shops, and slaves."

But after Zhu Youxiao learned about it, he directly agreed to the Ming Bank to borrow money from these people.

As a result, these Nanjing nobles, some wealthy families in Yingtian Prefecture, as well as the Ganges Grain Shop, all borrowed a large amount of silver from the Ming Bank to purchase grain.

It's just not long after.

The grain price was lowered again, directly lowered to one yuan and five cents of silver coins per stone.

"What should I do? One stone of rice is only worth one yuan and five cents silver coins!"

Zhu Guobi was really panicked this time.

Gu Mingjiao also panicked and said, "Or why don't we throw it away."

Dou Ding did not sleep all night, with a pair of red eyes, shook his head and said, "The more you can't give up, the more you can't give up. The court may be cheating us. The court shouldn't have much food, so it's definitely gone, so continue to lend!"

Then, within a few days, the rice price was lowered to one dollar silver coin, one stone.

A few days later, the rice price was directly lowered by one yuan, two cents, silver coins per stone.

Zhu Guobi and others found Dou Ding again.

Dou Ding still said: "Continue to lend!"

But a few days later, the grain shop controlled by the stores and governments directly lowered the rice price to one yuan per cent silver coins per stone.

Now, not only Zhu Guobi and others couldn't sit still, but Xu Hongji could not sit still, so he took the initiative to ask Dou Ding: "Mr. Dou, do you see?"

"Not it? We have spent more than 10 million taels of silver and have borrowed a lot. How come the court can still make the grain prices fall?"

Dou Ding couldn't understand, so he said, "It's impossible to really get food from overseas."

"Everyone, everyone, I just received reliable news that General Shen Yourong, the Denglai general, transported three million stones of grain back from North Korea, and now he has arrived at Liujiagang. I also heard that the court sent people to Japan to borrow grain, and the court really got food from overseas!"

At this time, Tang Xingzuo, the Marquis of Lingbi, hurriedly ran away and said.

Xu Hongji was shocked after hearing this: "The court really got food from overseas, and it was three million stones. Why is it so much? Coupled with the loss on the road, why is North Korea so generous?!"

Dou Ding fainted directly.

"what to do?"

Zhu Guobi asked at a loss, then looked at Gu Mingjiao, Xu Hongji and other Nanjing nobles.

At this time, Xu Hongji said, "Persevere persist."

"Well, if you persist, I'll ask someone to borrow another money."

Gu Mingjiao replied and left here.

Other nobles also left here one after another.

But when these nobles left and Dou Ding, who had fainted, was carried into the house, Xu Hongji immediately called Xu Wenjue: "Hurry and sell all the new grain in the mansion to the market, find major grain shops, and give them a low price, one yuan per stone rice. No, nine pounds, sell them to these grain shops as soon as possible, otherwise, it would be even more valuable to stay in the mansion!"

Most of the time when the small transactions of less than one yuan of silver coins in the Ming Dynasty still use copper coins.

And the nine-drilled coins are about the current nine-cent silver coins.

"I will sell it at the price of nine pounds. I will insist on it. When the food in Japan arrives, the food will be worse than gravel!"

When Zhu Guobi came back, he hurriedly ordered his butler.

Although he said in the Duke of Wei's mansion that he would persist, it was just a lie. After he came back, he couldn't wait to sell the food in his hands.

"Go and sell it quickly! Other nobles will definitely sell it. We have to hurry up and sell it directly at the price of eight hangs!"

Gu Mingjiao also ordered his housekeeper in this way.

For a time, almost all the Nanjing nobles and wealthy families were selling large quantities of grain. These large grain-bearing farmers began to invest their grains crazily, and even took the initiative to ask the grain shop to collect grain and voluntarily lower prices.

After learning about this, Zhu Youxiao ordered: "According to the scheduled deployment, continue to reduce prices after the time comes!"

So, after a while, the grain shop controlled by the stores and governments once again lowered the rice price to the level of seven pounds.

"The court has lowered the price again? Then we will also reduce it! Six hangs are worth one stone!"

After Xu Hongji learned that the court lowered the price of rice again, he was eager to cash out and took the initiative to reduce it to six dans and one stone, but his heart was bleeding because he remembered that the price of his food was not the same before.

"Accurate! Just hang five yuan and one stone!"

Then, Zhu Youxiao agreed to Li Zhizao and others to lower the price of rice by another five-drink tumbler per stone.

"Four pens and eight hundred texts!"

Xu Hongji gritted his teeth and said.

Gu Mingjiao decided to be more ruthless: "Four pens are 700 silences."

Zhu Youxiao was even more ruthless and said, "Three slaps, five hundred slaughter, one stone!"

"Crazy! That single husband is crazy! In order to kill us, he did not leave any grain to store us, but wanted to release it all and kill us completely!"

Xu Hongji was so angry that he started to curse.

"Your Majesty, you can't do this. How can you reduce it to three hangs and five hundred steaks per stone? How can we big farmers with food survive? Woo woo!"

Gu Mingjiao burst into tears.

"Three hundred and fifty coins per dou! This can be done! Bastard! Excessive! Is this cheaper than the rice price in the middle of Wanli?!"

Zhu Guobi directly swears in his room.

Zhu Youxiao sneezes and then continued to say to his ministers: "Yes, I just want to make the rice price cheaper than the price in the middle of the Wanli period. This is a prosperous era. Only when the grain price is low enough can there be a foundation for reviving industry and commerce, and the prosperity will continue! Otherwise, why did I ask the navy to borrow so much grain from outside? Is it to put it in the warehouse and then sit and eat the whole country? Of course not! Continue to lower the grain price so that the people can afford rice, which is much more affordable than a simple measure of light taxes and low taxes!"

"Abide by the order!"

Han Yu, Xiong Tingbi and others immediately replied.

So, the price of grain continued to fall, and it fell to the beginning of the price of stone, and it was directly suspended for three times and one stone.

"Subsequent again?"

Gu Mingjiao was completely speechless.

"Is it over?"

Zhu Guobi almost hit the wall.

"Can we take a breath! Can we stop dropping?"

Xu Hongji also complained in this way.

Two hangings cost one stone!

But as a result, grain prices fell again, and the grain shops controlled by stores and governments forced the retail rice prices to a level that was twice as cheaper than in the middle of Wanli.

It was the closest prosperous era to the Ming Dynasty.

Prices are super low.

Now, Zhu Youxiao has made the grain price cheaper in that era by borrowing from North Korea and Japan.

The scholars and people in Jiangnan are now used to it. No one cares about the price of rice anymore, and no one buys a lot of rice anymore. They only buy the amount they need in daily life. After all, the price of rice has been falling now, and no one is too stupid to stock up on rice.

Fundamentally, it was because of the soaring grain prices caused by the application of new textile technology, which was solved by Zhu Youxiao by "borrowing grain" from various countries.

"It's already two hangs and one stone! Let's go and beg your Majesty!"

"Yes, go and ask for it. If it falls like this, the food stored in my mansion will be so cheap that even the servants can't afford to raise it!"

"By taking advantage of the glory of the ancestors, I should ask His Majesty with a shameless face."

However, the Nanjing nobles such as Zhu Guobi, Gu Mingjiao did not become calm because of the decline in rice prices, but became more and more uneasy. Until now, they have begun to have to discuss begging for mercy and admit defeat to the court.

"Well!"
Chapter completed!