Zhu Youjian and the other four returned to Fengxing Villa in a carriage. When they got off the carriage, they saw three people stretching their heads at the door of the villa with their heads looking inside. The three of them were Liu Youtian, Fan Mancang and Yu Deshui, who had previously sold tickets to Zhu You outside the noodle shop.

The three of them went home to collect the hidden tickets and rushed over, fearing that they would be able to get the benefits of being late and others would take them away.

Zhu Youjian came behind the three of them, reached out and patted Liu Youtian who was still looking in. Liu Youtian opened Zhu Youjian's hand without looking back, and muttered dissatisfiedly, "Don't make trouble."

Zhu Youjian also followed Liu Youtian's appearance and put his head next to him, "What are you watching? Is there any fun?"

Liu Youtian heard the sound in his ears a little familiar, but it was not like Fan Mancang and Yu Deshui. He turned around and saw that it was Zhu Youjian. He immediately tripped by the threshold of the other courtyard and fell out of the door.

"Didn't you say that? Mr. Zhu is not in the mansion, so why are you here again when you are waiting outside the door?"

As soon as Liu Youtian entered the aisle at the mansion, he heard the doorman’s dissatisfaction sound from the aisle room, and then he saw the doorman walking out sleepily.

When Zhu Youjian saw the doorman's appearance, he muttered in his heart. The doorman seemed to be sleeping just now. Why did Liu Youtian know as soon as he entered? Could it be that this is the skill that he has practiced in the doorman for many years?

As soon as the doorman left his guard house, he saw Zhu Youjian and others standing at the door. He ignored Liu Youtian who entered the door and went straight to Zhu Youjian, "Young Master, are you back? Come in and rest for a while and eat a few pieces of watermelon."

Zhu Youjian smiled at the doorman, "No need, I have something to do. Go and tell Qiancai and ask him to come to my room to find me." After that, Zhu Youjian walked towards the mansion.

After only two steps, the doorman spoke again: "Young Master, these three people said you asked them to come here, what should I do?"

Zhu Youjian almost forgot about this. When he heard the doorman's words, he turned to Liu Youtian and the other two and said, "You are waiting here for a while now. The silver I brought with me has been spent. I will let the accountant come over to settle with you later."

Liu Youtian smiled and said, "Although the sun is a bit big today, since the young master ordered us to wait outside the door." Although he said this, he thought to himself that he would let us go inside and sit and eat a watermelon.

However, Zhu Youjian really just nodded and walked inside.

When Zhang Zhiji walked past the three of them, Zhang terrified at them and said, "Do you really think he has no money on him? As a person who lacks money in his identity? My fifth brother is nicknamed the Five King of Hell. Why don't you run away quickly? He will come out and eat it carefully and you won't even have bones left." After that, Zhang Zhiji left without looking back.

But Liu Youtian and the other two were a little worried when he said this. The young man was generous and did not look like a shortage of money, but this man didn't look like a villain. How could he call them to the mansion for no reason to cause trouble for them? However, the young man had been in a bad mood later. Then the name of the Five Kings of Hell must have been fabricated by that man.

The three of them weighed the pros and consequently found various reasons to convince themselves that the young master called him to come to buy coupons. In the end, the white money gained the upper hand, and the three of them were still waiting outside the door with the sun.

In Zhu Youjian's room, Jinxiu, Zhang Zhiji and the shopkeeper Wan Yutai who accompanied the three of them shopping were all there. Jinxiu poured tea for the three of them. Before Manager Xu could take a sip, Zhu Youjian said to him: "I have to bother Manager Xu for a hard time and go to Wan Yutai to invite a few accounts. We will start today to collect coupons outside the mansion." Xu Yun said: "Young Master is just looking for far away. If you talk about the account, is there any better account than my shopkeeper Wan Yutai? Leave this to me."

Zhu Youjian said: "I am afraid of small matters such as collecting coupons, so it is a bit of useless to let Manager Xu do it. Since Manager Xu is not wronged, then I will leave this matter to Manager Xu. It's just about collecting coupons. Although there are not many people at this time, I think that the road outside Fengxing Villa will be crowded soon. However, Manager Xu is afraid that he can't handle it alone, so he still has to find a few more people."

"As long as it is the young master's business, it is not a trivial matter, but there is no need to go to Wanyutai to find an account. The most important thing in Fengxing Villa is the account. I will go and find someone to help collect coupons." After saying that, Xu Yun didn't even drink tea and left. As soon as he arrived at the door, he encountered the money he had found by the doorman.

Zhu Youjian said to Xu Yun's back: "Let me find someone to build a few sheds outside, write a few cloth banners, and place a few more tables to make the momentum bigger."

Xu Yun turned around and smiled, "Don't worry, young master." After saying that, he greeted Qiancai who came in and left.

"Young Master, are you looking for me?"

Zhu Youjian nodded, then got up and walked to the inner room to take out the two books that Zhang Zhiji had seen, and then said to Qiancai: "When I see these dense numbers, I want to sleep. Tell me directly, how many tickets have been saved now?"

When Zhang Zhiji heard Zhu Youjian's words, he jumped up and shouted: "Oh! It turns out that you are the guy who is filling your pockets."

Zhu Youjian looked at Zhang Zhiji like that and quickly comforted him: "Tiyu, don't interrupt, we are talking about the serious matter."

"Two idiots!"

"Be good, don't make a fuss, go to the side to play, Xiu'er, bring Ziyu a quick mud to him and make him play with it."

"You are the kid who plays with mud."

Zhu Youjian was just a joke, and Jinxiu would not take it seriously. Zhu Youjian and Qiancai ignored Zhang Zhiji and began to talk about the account book.

"After I came to Suzhou, I have been buying various tickets according to the wishes of the young master. It is unlikely that I will not move the rice coupon at all while secretly purchasing various tickets. We can only do not interfere with the rice price. In a few months, we bought nearly 80,000 rice coupons, with an average price of about three taels of silver."

Although Zhang Zhiji was teased by Zhu Youjian for a few words, he seemed to be sitting there drinking tea with his eyes, and actually listened to the two of them talking. At this time, he heard that money said he had bought 80,000 rice coupons, and only the average price of three taels of silver, he jumped up again, "You are talking nonsense, can't bully the fifth brother understand the account book? I have read that account book. Many rice coupons are sold for four taels, three taels, nine coins, and five taels, four taels, eight coins, and you dare to talk nonsense."

Zhu Youjian covered his eyes and said, "I can't understand the account book, so I'm not allowed to mention it again in the future."

Qiancai also said: "My husband, there are many ways to do business. Even if I say that I will definitely not understand it when I hear it from you, so I'd better not say it."

"Why don't you say it? You say it, you say it, if you have the ability, you can try hard to tell me if I can understand?"

Qiancai would not get entangled with Zhang Zhiji, but Zhu Youjian acquired Zhang Zhiji in shock at this time. He asked Zhang Zhiji: "Tiyu, do you know what floating profits and floating loss mean?"

"This...is this considered a business matter? This tea tastes good... Well, you can go in and sell it next time."

Qiancai praised: "What a floating profit and floating loss. The summary of the floating profit and floating loss of the young master is really wonderful. Even those who have been immersed in the business world for decades may not be able to understand the true meaning of these four words from the tickets. The young master is really a genius of the business world."

"No need to say anything about flattery. I am not Ziyu. I will forget it if I am praised for a few words. Let's talk about it again." In fact, Zhu Youjian was very happy to be praised, but these four words were not summarized by him, so he was guilty of being photographed.

"Yes, yes, when it comes to ticket coupons, the 80,000 rice coupons mentioned earlier are really a drop in the bucket compared to the tickets issued in Suzhou. The rice coupons of one stone in the 80,000 stones are at least 50,000. The remaining ones are five stones, ten stones, and hundreds of stones, but the sum is no more than 250,000 stones. The rice coupons issued by Suzhou are all in Nanzhili and Zhejiang. Except for the people who have nearly 30% of the hands of the rest, the rest are all in the hands of several large money houses and Yinzi Bureau."

Zhu Youjian thought about it and said that when he was in Beijing, Qiancai mentioned that the rice coupons on the market currently have at least 300 million stones. In this way, if the rice coupon of 250,000 stones is indeed not even a splash, fortunately, he did not plan to enter the rice coupon at the beginning.

"Let's talk about other ticket situations."

"In addition to rice coupons, meat coupons, cloth coupons, vegetable coupons, cake coupons, wheat coupons, noodles coupons, tea coupons, etc., there were about eight million pieces together, which cost three million taels of silver. Because the circulation of these things is not as exaggerated as rice coupons, the number of issuances is not so exaggerated. The seal bureaus of those big money houses are not so tight. The coupons in our hands account for at least 30% of the total. The previous owner of Wan Yutai caught the loophole because of the seals of meat coupons. He used some means to finally sell them. Wan Yutai had only daily flow of nearly 10,000 taels, but the one who was run was unable to even get one thousand taels of cash. We only used 30,000 taels of silver to sell Wan Yutai."

Zhu Youjian asked: "Now, in addition to stocking up rice coupons and manipulating rice prices, are there any of the big Suzhou companies who stock up on a large number of other coupons in their hands?"

"At present, we have 30% of the other tickets in Suzhou Prefecture, 20% of the issued traders, while the eight joint traders have nearly 30% of the tickets, and the remaining 20% ​​are in the hands of the people."

Zhu Youjian said in confusion: "Eight joint ventures? What species is this?"

"The saying of the species of Gongzi is really... fresh." Qiancai held it in a long time and finally found another word to describe Zhu Youjian, and then continued: "The so-called eight joint businesses are Rishenglong, Fuda, Siming, Huizhong Sijia Bank, Tonglian, Jinxilai, Dashenghai Three Yinzi Bureau and Kangwang Grain and Oil Company. None of these eight businesses can control the rice prices in Nanzhili and Zhejiang alone, but these eight businesses have this ability when they joined forces, and no one in the market can shake them at all. Once someone tampers with rice prices and rice coupons, these eight businesses will join forces to suppress them. As for other types of tickets other than rice coupons, I don't know how these businesses are allocating them. Maybe a certain business is operating alone, or maybe a few companies operated the eight companies to provide the bottom line."

Zhu Youjian asked in confusion: "I have heard of Rishenglong's name. Isn't that a business in Shanxi? Why is it manipulating the market with Suzhou?"

"It's not just Rishenglong, Fuda is a Fujian business, Siming is a Zhejiang business, Dashenghai is a northern business, and Jinxilai is a two-hu Lake business. If it weren't for collecting half of the Ming Dynasty's resources, how could they dare to control the rice market? It's just that Suzhou produces 80 million stones of grain annually. Even if there are fewer two lakes, it's not much different. If the rice prices in Suzhou soar and the rest of the merchants transport grain from Zhejiang and the two lakes, then what they do will become a joke. So as long as the rice prices in Suzhou change, the rice prices across the country will change accordingly."

Zhu Youjian nodded and said, "Then let's try the depth of this muddy water in Suzhou Prefecture from today, go out and take a look."
Chapter completed!