Whether it is a bill transaction or a futures transaction, consideration is required.

Without appropriate consideration, the transaction cannot be completed.

Kang Jin stared at the densely packed bid signs on the wall with red eyes, but found that no one, no one at all, responded to the bid. At the same time as the price soared, there was no price to take over the plate. To the exchange, this was an empty order.

Specious.

It can also be said that there is a price but no market.

"How much is this?"

Kang Jin felt the pain of bleeding in his heart. How big a deal would this be? According to preliminary estimates, it would be at least 100,000 yuan! If a commission was charged, how much money would it be?

In the blink of an eye, he watched at least fifty coins go down the drain.

"Quick, go to the dock and ask who has camellia oil shipped to Yingzhou?"

The clerk ran away, but Kang Jin couldn't sit still. He stared at the bidding signs in the exchange with a sullen face, hoping that someone would take down all the signs in one go.

No.

Not a single sign has been taken down.

This made him miserable, and what made him even more heartbroken was that the bid price continued to rise, almost approaching the sky-high price of fifty guan per stone. In previous years, the price of camellia oil remained at around 16 or 7 guan per stone. Mainly for the high-end and even luxury brands.

Rich merchants all favored camellia oil as cooking oil and abandoned sesame oil.

As a result, camellia oil, which has a small output, has a broad market.

The price of sesame oil is generally around one hundred Wen per pound. For the poor, lighting a lamp at night is considered a luxury because the price of oil remains high. The price of camellia oil is more expensive than sesame oil. No one will remove the camellia oil.

It is used to light lamps and is used for cooking. Of course, cooking uses more paste and fat. The paste is lard and the fat is mutton fat.

However, some foods cannot be made with animal fat and can only be replaced with camellia oil. For example, the vegetarian dishes used in temples to receive distinguished guests. Just the Daxiangguo Temple in Bianliang uses an astronomical number in one year.

From the taste point of view, the taste of camellia oil is different, but who makes camellia oil more recognized in the market?

Yingzhou has a direct waterway to Bianjing and is connected to the Huaihe River. Large ships heading north from Yangzhou will avoid the heavily silted canal channel and choose the Caihe River, which is easy to pass. Since the opening of the exchange, the trade volume of camellia oil has increased.

As the market grew bigger and bigger, even businessmen in the capital began to pay attention to the trading price of camellia oil in Yingzhou.

There are many camellia oil merchants from the two lakes on the dock, and they have become the main suppliers to Bianjing and even the surrounding two capitals.

Soon, the waiter, sweating heavily, trotted back and told Kang Jin the news: "Shopkeeper, I have asked, the camellia oil picking period has passed, and a lot of the extracted oil has been shipped. Shopkeeper Qi

The cargo was the largest batch in this batch. When the fleet was passing through the Jingxia waterway, due to the strong currents during the flood season, it hit a reef."

"It's not like the entire fleet has sunk, right?"

In response to Kang Jin's question, the waiter calmly gave a reason: "Shopkeeper, I guess Xuan. If one or two ships sink, Shopkeeper Qi won't faint."

The skyrocketing price of camellia oil is a foregone conclusion.

Kang Jin didn't care about the skyrocketing price of individual goods. What he cared about was that there were no goods to trade on the Tangtang Exchange. Didn't this make him, a small boss, just stare?

May.

Grain prices remain stable and have even declined slightly.

Su Shi's official reputation was thoroughly praised in Yingzhou. The moment almost everyone saw Su Shi, they were respectful and grateful. Of course, except for big households and grain merchants.

During this year's most important 'peak season' for selling grain, they were ruthlessly suppressed by the government.

Since the price of food stabilized, Su Shi has rarely participated in so-called cultural gatherings. Instead, he often likes to travel by car to various places under his rule.

"I've met Mr. Zhizhou!"

"The great master loves the people as his own sons, and the people like us all depend on the great master to survive in the difficult world!"

"Thank you sir for saving the people from the fire and water!"

Listening to the sincere and simple thanks from a group of people, Su Shi grinned and laughed three times, and his mind suddenly broadened. In the past, he liked to participate in cultural gatherings, because he could get concessions in almost all cultural gatherings.

Praising words that inflate people. Great writers also need to be admired and praised.

You can’t just sit in a thatched hut every day and experience the warmth of people, right?

Nowadays, Su Shi is keen on going among the masses and chatting with the people at the lowest level. When driving through the fields, he got out of the car and walked into a group of farmers who were resting in the fields. He found a place to sit down and shared with the people.

The pastries he brought: "Everyone, try my magnolia cake."

Su Shi took out the magnolia cakes from the food box, each one not much bigger than a child's hand.

The pleasant-looking pastry exudes an alluring fragrance, not of flowers, but of butter. Just this box of magnolia cakes is time-consuming and expensive to make. After all, butter has never been cheap.

"Master Bachelor, how can this be done?"

The old man in the field was obviously the elder of this group of farmers. They shared the lunch meal with Su Shi out of hospitality to the guests and out of respect for Su Shi.

But the food is not exquisite, instead it is whole grain and wild vegetable dumplings.

It tasted quite astringent and could barely be eaten. But the cakes Su Shi brought out looked exquisite and expensive. Ordinary people had never heard of them, let alone eaten them.

Su Shi opened his hands and parted them happily: "Both elders and children have their share, but the strong men are not enough, but it doesn't matter, I will come again tomorrow, tomorrow!"

"Drinking magnolias in the morning with falling dew, dining with autumn chrysanthemums in the evening."

While serving them, they were shaking their heads while reciting verses from "Li Sao". Eating flowers was a favorite among literati. Qu Yuan was not exempt from the vulgarity. Of course Su Shi was a fan of this dish, but for a long time, Su Shi's flower dishes have often been associated with him.

I can't even swallow it. The most famous one is the peony flower, which is noble and gorgeous, but not delicious.

Magnolia flowers appear in early spring. They have an elegant taste and not a strong floral fragrance. They are served with white sugar as a filling, and then wrapped in a dough made of butter. After baking, the aroma of oil is overflowing. When you take a bite, the filling is slightly filled with elegant flavor.

The flowers and plants are fragrant, full of the smell of spring.

Unfortunately, there was no like-minded person at home who liked eating flowers, which made Su Shi very angry.

Seeing Li Kui hand the magnolia cake in his hand to the old man next to him, Su Shi glared back angrily. Before, he wouldn't have dared to be so extravagant, but now, he doesn't care about the official salary of more than 100 yuan, and

What could make him happier than being a Masato?

There were delicious food and elegant objects, but no one to share them with, which made Su Shi very depressed.

It's a pity that the people didn't know about Mulanhua's elegant and indifferent attitude, so they wolfed down the pancakes, making them even hungrier after having just eaten some food.

But at this time, Su Shi had no choice. He was not here to deliver cakes, but to understand the public sentiment. Although the meeting with Wang Anshi was a few years ago, Wang Anshi was dismissed from his official position at that time and was retiring in his hometown. And Su Shi also

The incident of being imprisoned back then gradually faded away. That was the only time they met.

Wang Anshi introduced to Su Shi the reasons, purpose, and means of his reform.

Su Shi was deeply inspired. What touched Su Shi most was that Wang Anshi repeatedly warned that the affairs of the people at the bottom are the most important affairs of the country, and the people's stomachs are the guarantee for the continuation of the Song Dynasty's foundation.

Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it. This is also true.

From then on, Su Shi began to go deep into the people and often understood and adopted people's demands.

"How many fields have you planted in several years? Are they rented or your own fields?"

The first old man said: "Master Bachelor, half of the official land is rented and farmed. I also have several acres of thin farmland at home. In addition, I have to rent and farm some fields to make a living."

"Has it always been like this before?"

"My family used to have more than ten acres of farmland, but after the repeal of the Young Crops Law in recent years, every time we plowed in the spring, we had to pay for some famine. In addition, the grain could not be sold at a high price, and the farmland output has been reduced by half." He said this.

The young man had a bad temper and was obviously dissatisfied with the government. However, he was stopped by the old man and scolded him with a few patois. The old man then said: "Master Bachelor is not talking about you, but the people... It's hard! Fortunately, Bachelor

Now that we are here, the government will arrange the grain planting for spring plowing, so our burden will be much lighter."

Su Shi was convinced that this was the routine used by large households in Yingzhou to embezzle people's fields, but he had one thing that he didn't understand: "Don't you pay back the borrowed grain for spring sowing?"

"Despite this, when sowing in March, the price of grain is calculated at fifty cents, and when harvested in June, the price is calculated at fifteen cents. If you borrow a dou, you will have to pay back at least four dou in the end. The people are miserable."

"What if it's not enough?"

"If you mortgage your property, you can't run away even if you want to, and you can't go up the mountain either!"

…

The old man jumped up suddenly, slapped the young man, and said angrily: "What the hell are you talking about!"

It is natural for me to beat my son.

But he said it well, but suddenly the old man got angry and whipped his son. Obviously, what his son just said would cause disaster to the family. The atmosphere became solemn and embarrassing.

Su Shi was quite helpless when he saw that the conversation, which started smoothly, ended in nothing.

After getting on the bus, he asked Li Kui: "Do you know what going up the mountain means?"

Up the mountain?

What else do you think about going up the mountain? Of course, becoming the king of the mountain!

But can Li Kui say that? Tell Su Shi, the people under your rule have great ambitions to become kings. If you are lucky, you can still catch up. I am afraid that Su Shi, who has done a lot for the people, will be upset when he hears this.

Angered to death.

He could only start from his own line of work and told Su Shi: "Maybe we all want to go up the mountain to be hunters?" Although it was nonsense, Li Kui found a good reason: "Master, you see, people farming the land have to bear heavy servitude.

At the same time, taxes are also very high. It is difficult for ordinary people to have enough to eat in a year. But it is different for hunters. Last time I went out of the city and wandered around outside the city, I caught a wild boar and sold it for ten dollars.

A few times. Both Li Yun and Gao Qiu know about this."

Gao Qiu also echoed: "That's right, bachelor. Being a hunter is good and the income is high, but it's a bit dangerous. I'm afraid that young man's parents were worried about the young man getting hurt, so they beat him."
To be continued...