In the Chu King's Mansion, Li Kuan, Cheng Jingwen and Wu Meiniang were still tasting black tea in the pavilion.

Speaking of which, the Longjing fragrant tea in the King of Chu Mansion is green tea, but Li Kuan likes to drink Lin’s black tea, which makes Cheng Jingwen and Wu Meiniang adapt to Li Kuan’s taste.

"Prince, is there really no problem with the Tang Dynasty Trading Center? Qing'er and Uncle Lai Fu have not come back yet. I think this matter is not over yet."

Wu Meiniang asked with some concern.

What happened in the steel contract trading shop soon spread among the nobles and wealthy businessmen in Chang'an City.

Although ordinary people may not realize what this matter represents, the nobles are different.

"As long as there is enough goods in our warehouse, we will not be afraid! Even if the price of steel is reduced by half, we will not lose money. At worst, we will make the iron smelting workshop a little harder and produce more steel."

Cheng Jingwen is not involved in the business affairs of the Chu Prince's Mansion so deeply, so she is relatively optimistic.

Of course, the most important thing is that he is very confident in Li Kuan.

"Since I said that the steel price in Chang'an City should be reduced by half within three days, there is naturally a way to do it. Today, I asked Qing'er to send the steel contract to you specifically for reissue, so naturally there is no need to worry about Changsun rushing to run."

Although Li Kuan was calm on his face, he actually felt a little emotion in his heart.

This time, I was still careless.

What kind of industrial war is that it is even more enjoyable to directly ask the people from the Intelligence Investigation Bureau of the King of Chu to deal with the children of the Changsun family?

Fortunately, at the critical moment, the ineffective "all-round system" helped and exchanged a batch of steel from it.

Through this time, Li Kuan also discovered a feature, that is, the system exchanged materials. If it was materials that were not available in the Tang Dynasty, such as the steel used to make hand crossbows, the points required to be consumed would be very scary, and it would be impossible to exchange them in large quantities.

However, for example, the steel that is already mass-produced by the Iron Smelting Workshop of the King of Chu Mansion requires much less points.

So although Li Kuan exchanged 2 million kilograms of fine steel in one breath, he actually didn't spend all his points.

Two million kilograms, it looks like a lot, but in fact it is only one thousand tons.

In later generations, this is nothing at all!

On the road, you can often see steel coils transported on trailers, at least seven or eight tons, and at most thirty or forty tons.

In other words, this thousand tons of steel weighs less than one hundred steel coils.

"If Changsun Chong and others replaced all the steel contracts in their hands with physical objects, then tomorrow we will continue to reduce the price of the steel contract, and probably few people will dare to raise the price again. If someone thinks it is low in 30 ci, we will continue to sell them at twenty-five ci, or even twenty-five ci, to tell everyone that the price of steel in Chang'an City will be at this level in the future!"

After hearing Li Kuan's words, Wu Meiniang felt a little relieved, and immediately began to plan tomorrow's arrangements.

After all, even if Changsun Chong and others completed the collection of goods tonight, this matter was not over.

Only by allowing everyone to buy the steel contract at a lower price and use this contract to extract the physical objects can the price of steel be considered to have been truly reduced.

"Well, let Changsun and others understand what it means to "the stock market is risky, so be cautious when entering the market"!"

...

In late spring, it is still cold.

Changsun Chong stood outside the warehouse, his smile on his face became increasingly faint.

“How many steel contracts do we have yet to be redeemed?”

"Mr. Langjun, there is only the last 80,000 kilograms left. This is still the number of our families combined."

Changsun Kuan also felt something was wrong.

At this time, shouldn’t Wang Fugui kneel down and beg for mercy and let go?

Why was he still standing next to Lai Fu so calmly, staring at him without saying a word?

"We have already taken at least one million kilograms of steel, right?"

"One.55 million kilograms, these are the data for all shipments today!"

Although Changsun Kuan was very tired, he was not sleepy at all.

The current situation has exceeded his imagination.

"It's impossible. The Chu Prince's Mansion cannot have so much inventory. Unless the buildings in their workshop city cut corners and did not use steel bars as previously reported, so there is so much inventory left. It must be like this. I want to find someone to impeach Nanshan Construction. They cut corners like this are just kidding the lives of the people and officials."

Changsun Chong felt that he had finally found a reasonable reason.

Apart from this reason, he could no longer imagine how to make this matter reasonable.

"Brother Changsun, no matter whether Nanshan Construction has cut corners in the workshop city or not, it is no longer important now. What is important is that the price of steel will really drop!"

Zheng Hai's face was no longer happy, but instead he looked like Aye had just died.

Although judging from today's trading, my own losses are not too great. After all, these are steel contracts bought at a low price. If you resell the physical goods, it should not drop much.

Unless the people in the Chu Prince's Mansion go crazy, they will continue to lower the price.

However, the trouble is that I had previously hoarded a batch of high-priced steel contracts with Changsun Chong and others, which was very fatal.

Even if a family like Zheng in Xingyang loses tens of thousands of yuan, it will be heartbroken.

"Changsun Kuan, how about it? The third update has passed. So many people gather here, maybe they think something has happened. Do you still need to continue picking up the goods?"

Lai Fu stood there motionlessly like a green pine tree.

Although he is not strong at the age of age, he feels a sense of pressure from Changsun Kuan.

Why did you lose?

Seeing those guys being busy, even if they continued to carry away the remaining tens of thousands of kilograms of goods, their warehouse still had goods.

"Take it! Why not mention it? Change every contract into physical objects!"

Although Changsun Chong realized that he had no chance of winning, he refused to give up his final struggle.

What if the warehouse of the King of Chu Mansion can't get the last tens of thousands of kilograms of steel ingots?

It is one of the nature of many people that they don’t cry until they see the coffin.

"Shopkeeper Wang, come, take everyone into the warehouse and let them not be lucky!"

At this time, Lai Fu suddenly made an unexpected suggestion.

Before, he disagreed with others entering the warehouse, just because he didn't want people to know how much goods there were in the warehouse.

Now that all the steel contracts are about to be written off, Lai Fu feels that it can be seen by someone.

Anyway, the steel ingots left behind are the things that were stored in the warehouse at the beginning.

Jin Tai's evaluation is quite objective.

The ancestors of the Changsun family also became more prosperous by relying on the military achievements made by fighting against the Hu people. If their descendants make peace with the Hu people, the Changsun family would not be able to afford this person.

"That's true, but the disciple always felt a little strange about this matter. The Changsun family and the Chu Prince's Mansion have been fighting for many years, and they have never had a broken face before. However, looking at the current style of the Chu Prince's Mansion, it seems that it has completely changed. Is it because Empress Changsun has passed away that the Chu Prince's Mansion will support the imperial concubine in the Daming Palace to take office?"

During this period, the rumors that the imperial concubines in the palace secretly competed for the position of the lord of the harem also became the topic of conversation for the people of Chang'an City after dinner.

The Tang Dynasty managed speech relatively loosely. As long as they didn't want to discuss the Xuanwu Gate Incident, Li Shimin was still very generous.

"This kind of thing is not something you should worry about! There must be a reason for the change in the Chu Palace, but it cannot be because of the reason you mentioned. As for the real reason, if His Highness the King of Chu doesn't say it, no one will know it."

Jin Tai wanted to be a purer businessman, so he tried not to get involved in the fight between the nobles in Chang'an City.

However, people are in the world and cannot help themselves.

His body was firmly labeled as Chu Dang.

...

"The first batch of iron ore transported to Dengzhou in South Goguryeo was successfully transported to Dawendeng Pier!"

"The iron ore transport ship designed and produced by the Dengzhou Shipbuilding Workshop in Donghai Fisheries was successfully launched!"

"The first phase of the Dengzhou Iron Smelting Workshop project of the King of Chu Prefecture is under construction in an orderly manner as planned!"

"His Highness of the King of Chu said that the output of Tang steel will double in the 18th year of Zhenguan!"

On the third day when Changsun’s family and the Chu King’s Mansion began to wrestle with the steel contract trading shop in the Datang Trading Center, the Datang Daily began to report on steel-related news.

Whether it is the newly developed Fu Iron Mine in Nangoguryeo, the iron smelting workshop that is being expanded on Hedong Road, or the iron smelting workshop planned to be built in Huainan Road, various news has always dominated the front page of the Datang Daily, and some other newspapers have also followed the trend to report this popular news.

Of course, the reporting style of the Chang'an Evening News is definitely different from that of the Datang Daily. Changsun Chong personally arranged someone to write a few articles, focusing on the strong demand for steel in the Tang Dynasty.

However, the decline in the price of the steel contract can fully illustrate who the winner is.

"Aye, today's price of fine steel has dropped to 19 cents per pound! This is already a few percent lower than the cost of our iron smelting workshop. If the price of steel has been maintained at this level, then every pound of steel produced by our iron smelting workshop will lose one pound of money."

In Changsun’s mansion, Changsun Chong stood in front of Changsun Wuji with anxiety on his face.

These days, he has been living like a year.

From the original victory to the complete defeat, this change made it difficult for Changsun Chong to accept it.

"The cost of fine steel in the Chu King's Mansion is lower than that of us, which is something we have known for a long time. But if it is sold at a price of nineteen chan, it should not make money, or it has made very little money. I am not worried that you have lost tens of thousands of dan in the past few days, nor do I worry about whether you will continue to lose money in the next few months, but I am worried that Li Kuan has the purpose behind this."

Changsun Wuji, who had always been afraid of Li Kuan, had obviously different perspectives on thinking about problems than Changsun Chong.

"What purpose can it be? It's just that he wants to monopolize the steel trade in the Tang Dynasty and wants other iron smelting workshops to go bankrupt. At that time, their family will dominate and sell as much as they want. In this world, what business can make more money than a single business? Even if it's a simple thing, as long as it's a single business, it will be a very profitable business!"

Changsun Chong obviously also watched the "Finance" weekly published by Shishan Academy Business School, and has a certain understanding of some basic economic theories.

However, this did not allow him to gain face in front of his Aye.
To be continued...