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Chapter 199 Shorting Tickets

After dinner, Qiancai called Zhu Youjian to the study room, and there were two people following him. These two were Zhu Youjian's guards, Gao Han and Hu Bao.

The door of the study room was closed tightly, but several lamps were lit inside. Even if the door was closed, you could still see that it was as bright as daytime.

Qian Cai gently pushed open the door and asked Zhu Youjian to enter. At this time, the study room was already full of people. Zhu Youjian glanced at it and there were about a dozen people. When they saw the two of them coming in, everyone in the study stood up.

When both of them entered the room, Qian Cai turned around and closed the door of the study tightly, and the slag was dropped. Gao Han and Hu Bao were guarding outside the door to prevent anyone from approaching.

After Qiancai and Zhu Youjian sat down in the main seat, they signaled that the others in the study room waited for their seats. The incense table beside them had already filled with tea. At this time, the water temperature was right. Qiancai picked up the tea boat and used the bowl to lift the tea leaves, sipped the tea, then put down the tea bowl, and said, "Tell me what you want."

At this time, the head of Zhu Youjian and his two left, stood up and said, "Master, the business I went to today is Rishenglong. I met Zhang Jie, the second shopkeeper in Rishenglong. At first, Zhang Manager Zhang was not willing to lend tickets, but he was willing to lend money to me to buy tickets by myself. Yinzi money was not high, but the purpose of my trip was not here. Just when I was about to think of another way, a Chaofeng from Rishenglong, Chaofeng, didn't know what he said to Zhang Manager Zhang. The shopkeeper Zhang readily agreed to lend the tickets, and the price was slightly lower than the market price, and Yinzi money was collected by 10% less than usual."

Qian Cai nodded with a smile and introduced to Zhu Youjian: "This is Storekeeper Chen."

Zhu Youjian nodded to Manager Chen and said, "I think what news did that Manager Zhang hear? We collected coupons at such a high price, so he naturally knew that the price of the coupons would soar in a few days. If he sells you one tael of silver today, you will get back one tael of silver in a few days. Not only will you make profits, but you will also pass on the risk of low-priced exchange. Why don't he do it? If I guess correctly, the period for Manager Zhang to lend you should be within half a month, right?"

"Young Master said it right. The period for Rishenglong loan is ten days. However, the owner said at that time that he only needed to borrow seven days. For the sake of security, he was afraid that the shopkeeper Zhang would have an intention, so he borrowed three more days. However, the shopkeeper Zhang was willing to lend a ticket of 300,000 taels, and he refused to do so. Moreover, the rice coupon was sold by Zhang, who was very high. One stone rice coupon, a day of the stamp money costs 30 cents, so I gave up the rice coupon and only borrowed several other types of tickets."

Zhu Youjian nodded uncontrollably and said, "This matter is just what I like. Manager Chen is also a serious and stern move. Unexpectedly, Manager Zhang made a mistake and helped us. If all of them borrowed rice coupons, they would not be able to continue playing. Have you found out which kind of coupons Rishenglong has in hand?"

Manager Chen shook his head helplessly, "I tried it a few times, thinking that I could only lend a ticket of 300,000 taels alone. I thought I could find the bottom in Rishenglong's hand. But I had been dealing with the shopkeeper for a long time. In addition to rice coupons, cloth coupons, tea coupons, salt coupons, sugar coupons, meat coupons, skin coupons, medicinal coupons, and even the smallest cake coupons, he could lend a ticket of 300,000 taels without any vagueness. In the end, I could only borrow some of each of the rice coupons and cloth coupons, and I had enough of 300,000 taels to buy raw silk coupons with Rishenglong. But I really couldn't find the bottom of Rishenglong, so I could only continue to look at it in the next two days. I think that a single ticket of 300,000 taels is not a large number for Rishenglong."

Qian Cai said: "Rishenglong is in a victorious momentum at this time. Their family has a great career. It is basically impossible to find out the bottom of Rishenglong with 300,000 taels. Is there any other news?"

Storekeeper Chen shook his head again, then sat back, and the person sitting at his head stood up and said, "After four things, I have seen the young master's house. Hehe, by chance, I went to the same house with Manager Chen, but half an hour later, the storekeeper Zhang Er was very happy to lend a ticket of 400,000 taels. Similarly, there were no rice coupons and cloth coupons. What's more coincidental, I went out of Rishenglong's door and saw hundreds of people collecting coupons everywhere, and the price of their coupons was 10% higher than that of Rishenglong's loan. Hehe, so I sold half of the coupons of 400,000 taels to them."

Qian Cai was furious when he heard this. He slapped the table and cursed: "You are a slave who is jealous of money. If you sell the coupons at a price of 10% higher, is it because I asked you to borrow the coupons to make money?"

"The headmaster calms down, the headmaster calms down, I haven't finished speaking yet. I am thinking about collecting the coupons in front of the mansion today. Even if the coupon is sold, will it still come back to us tomorrow? And although I sold the coupons of 200,000 taels, I returned to Rishenglong but bought 220,000 taels of raw silk coupons, and this time I went back to the round and round and had 20,000 taels of raw silk coupons."

Zhu Youjian did not care about the fact that this person sold coupons and bought raw silk, but said in surprise: "Did these people think of collecting coupons so quickly to sell?"

As soon as Zhu Youjian finished speaking, more than a dozen shopkeepers sitting underground responded: "That's right, we have also met people who have increased the price and collected coupons, and the number is quite considerable. But we did not dare to sell the coupons as the boss's instructions."

At this time, the shopkeeper Wen was a little embarrassed. The status of these shopkeepers was not lower than that of him, but he was the only one who sold the tickets to make some difference. After thinking about it, he felt a little more panic.

Zhu Youjian didn't have the time to listen to their reports one by one, so he asked, "Have anyone found out which of the eight joint stores controls which tickets?"

The group of shopkeepers sitting below looked at me and I looked at you. When the shopkeeper Wen saw that everyone had a look, he stood up again and said to everyone: "Our experience is similar to shopkeeper Chen. The loan of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver cannot test the foundation of the eight joint companies."

Just as Manager Wen finished speaking, he sat back on the chair, a shopkeeper sitting opposite him stood up and said, "The salt coupons in Suzhou Prefecture should be mainly controlled by Fuda Business. Except for Fuda, the salt coupons in the other seven joint merchants account for at least 10%, while the salt coupons in Fuda Business account for at least 40%, because they are the largest salt merchants in Suzhou Prefecture and are the monopoly dominant ones."

Manager Wen glared at the shopkeeper opposite with dissatisfaction. If he had said it a moment ago, he would not have been embarrassed. His words representing others would have been putting his face on the other side and beating them.

"Salt coupons, salt coupons, salt coupons..." Zhu Youjian kept muttering that everything else was fine, but this salt coupon was a problem. Unless Fuda was successfully squeezed to bankruptcy and took the salt in their hands together, even if they knew their bottom, they would have no choice. The one-year official salt trade between Nanzhili and Zhejiang and Fujian provinces reached 30 million taels of silver. As long as they did not have salt in their hands, there was no other way out except to eat these salts.

Zhu Youjian shook his head, put the salt coupon aside, and then asked the Zhongren: "Have the amount of the coupons borrowed today been counted?"

"It has been counted." After saying that, Zhangguan Chen stood up and walked towards Zhu Youjian, Qiancai and the others. Then he handed over another account book taken out of his arms and placed it on the incense table between them.

Zhu Youjian was still a little self-aware. He couldn't understand the account book very well, and he didn't reach for it. Instead, Qiancai picked up the account book from the incense table and started to look at it.

Zhu Youjian said: "Several shopkeepers will go back and rest today. Tomorrow you will change the business you have been to and then go to borrow. The price will gradually rise. After the afternoon tomorrow, the borrowing price can be borrowed according to the coupon price outside the mansion today, and the printing money can be doubled."

After hearing Zhu Youjian's words, the dozen shopkeepers sitting in the study couldn't help but look at Qiancai. Seeing that Qiancai had no words, these people responded one after another, then stood up and said goodbye.

After these people left, Zhu Youjian said to Qiancai: "Starting tomorrow afternoon, all the loaned and acquired tickets will be sold gradually at the market price. Previously, 30% of the tickets on the books can be sold at the market price. The remaining half will be enough for a run. The eight joint companies are mainly used. As long as any of the stores are out of stock, the remaining half will be sold at a low price in the market."

Qian Cai sighed and said, "It seems that Suzhou Prefecture is going to be in chaos for a while."

Early the next morning, before the gate of Fengxing Villa was opened, the outside of the door was already full of people. Even the streets outside the Villa were blocked, and the cars and horses were almost unable to move forward.

When Chen was approaching, the red lacquer gate of Fengxing Villa opened with a creaking sound. The person who was originally lying on the door and listening to the movement inside couldn't help but squeeze forward."

The doorman who opened the door looked at the crowds outside and was so shocked that he quickly closed the door, but there were so many people outside that he could not stop him. Even though he tried his best, the door slowly opened. The several accountants who followed the doorman thought they had recruited bandits when they saw this situation, so they hurriedly stepped forward to help with the two doors, and shouted to the yard, "There are thieves who have broken through the door, so they go and call the yard guards."

Because he was too busy to collect the coupons in the second half of yesterday, today Xu Yun specially called three more accountants to help. He didn't know what was going on outside, but he knew very well that he only heard him shouting outside, "If you squeeze in and you will not collect the coupons today."

As soon as the words came, several accountants and concierge felt that the people outside the door seemed to have lost their strength. The few people just used light force and the door "boomed" tightly~ closed.

Xu Yun looked at the shocked gatekeeper and accountant and said, "You don't have to be nervous, you are just people who are eager to sell coupons, not thieves." After saying that, he ordered the gatekeeper and said, "Let's open the door again."

The concierge said hesitantly: "Shopkeeper Xu, do you really want to open the door?"

"How to collect coupons if you don't open the door? You can call a few more accounts. Judging from this situation, these people are not enough now."

"But what if..."

"There is nothing, but if you don't open the door and delay the big affairs of the boss and the young master?"

After hearing Xu Yun's words, the concierge had to slowly open the door again as he said, but fortunately, no one squeezed inside again.

When the door opened, Xu Yundang stepped out of the mansion first: "With me as the boundary, anyone who exceeds me will be disqualified from selling coupons. If more than three people exceed me, the coupon collection will be cancelled today."

The people who had been waiting outside the door had retreated after hearing this, fearing that they would be disqualified from the person in front of them.

But these people took a step back, and Xu Yun took a step forward. The people retreated for more than ten steps in a row. Xu Yun finally stopped. At this time, a large area was finally empty in front of the gate of Fengxing Villa.

Seeing the people retreat, several accounting offices in the door walked out in pairs of hands, and today they added three more tables, six five-foot long tables lined up, blocking the front door of the mansion.
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