"You don't have to be polite." Seeing that the Crown Prince was not in a position to refuse, Xue Yao took the initiative to come forward to assist the woman, and said in a warm voice: "This musician little brother seems to have injured his ankle, let's hurry and find a medical center to take a look at his injuries."
"I'm fine!" The young man walked forward in slight embarrassment, holding his sister, and whispered something to her in a dialect that Xue Yao could not quite understand.
The songstress nodded, then took out her purse from her sleeve pocket, poured out some broken silver and a silver ticket, looked up to the crown prince, and said in the official language with a southern accent, "Your honor's kindness for saving your life, I'm not proud to repay you, this silver ticket is the reward given to us by a merchant last month, I hope that your honor won't be too shy to disdain it... ...... "
The Prince did not intend to accept the thanks of these artists, so he joked: "Do you know who my father is? For less than ten thousand taels of silver, don't pay out."
Xue Yao: "......"
You should stop talking about your father! His Royal Highness!
The Sixth Prince came forward to receive the silver ticket, folded it, stuffed it back into the girl's hand, and said with concern: "If you are careful about the gang of villains coming back to seek provocation, you can change the place where you sell your art in the future."
"All gentlemen great kindness ......" The girl saw these three gentlemen of extraordinary character, brocade clothes, and is the capital accent, must be not small, not a lack of silver, must not look at the dozens of taels of silver, a moment do not know how to thank the grace.
"It's just a matter of seeing the road, no need to worry about it, Miss." Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Xue Yao went up to say goodbye for the Prince: "Beware of that gang of thugs, we still have things to do, we have to say goodbye first, we will meet again."
Upon hearing this, the younger brother of the songstress again wanted to kneel down and kowtow goodbye, but was held back by the Sixth Prince, placating him with a few words and waving his hand in farewell.
The Prince just took two steps, suddenly smacked what the singer said, stopped again and turned back to ask: "Miss, is this silver ticket rewarded to you by a merchant last month? Which ticket company's seal is it stamped with? Can you lend it to me?"
The songstress hurriedly unfolded the silver ticket and respectfully handed it to the Crown Prince.
The Crown Prince nodded and took it, glancing at it, a pair of phoenix eyes steeply austere, seriously looking at the singer: "That guest merchant, is it the same capital accent as mine?"
This silver check is stamped with the capital city's Yu Hui money bank!
The songstress was so taken by this handsome gentleman's glance that her soul flew out of her mind, and her heart beat so hard that she couldn't even come back to her senses.
It was her younger brother who grabbed the side and replied, "Your Excellency is right, that merchant has the accent of the capital city! The owner of the restaurant asked us to sing for them in the elegant room, saying that he was a big merchant from the capital and asked us to serve him well!"
When these words came out, not only the Crown Prince, but Xue Yao and the Sixth Prince also realized that this songstress had seen the gang that speculated on high grain prices!
The Crown Prince handed the silver ticket back to the songstress, and after a slight pause, he opened his mouth with a serious expression and inquired, "Does the girl still remember the looks of that guest merchant?"
The songstress immediately recalled in detail for a while, and nodded her head in a hurry, "I remember, at least the lord at the head, I remember very well, Yung long face, darker complexion, early fifties, perhaps a bit older, but a sturdy physique, half a head taller than me, such a long moustache, and white hair ...... "
She Woods gesticulated.
Both the Crown Prince and the Sixth Prince were staring at her intently, sparks popping out of their eyes, itching to identify the bastard behind the malicious speculation of high grain prices directly from her description.
However, no matter how carefully the description was made, the real person could not be seen, but it was just the description of an ordinary old man, and it was impossible to judge the specific identity.
The Prince thought for a moment and spoke, "Miss, you have offended the son of the County Master's family, I'm afraid that it will be difficult to make a living in the local area in the future, why don't you come with me to the capital to fight for a living, I can provide you with shelter and simple food, just that I will need to trouble you to help me identify some people soon, and find out if there are any Beijing merchants that you have seen amongst these people."
That song girl immediately opened her eyes round, listening to this male son to follow her to the capital, but also provide food and accommodation, that meaning is not ...... the song girl reddened at once.
The singer's brother answered honestly: "Gong, the father of the villain is not the governor of Hangzhou, but the governor of Shunde, far away from Hangzhou, the oppression can not be on our head, we big deal to change the restaurant ......唔！"
He didn't finish his sentence before his sister squeezed him with her arm.
The songstress replied back with a red face, "If the benefactor needs help with identification, the slave will naturally die by all means."
So, the siblings split up with the other musicians and were temporarily placed in a side yard by the Prince.
The identification of the mastermind will not be accomplished in half a month.
Xue Yao thought that the siblings had met the gang of Beijing merchants, and went to the courtyard of the duo that night, inviting them to join the gang and finish the opera together.
Although they didn't understand the purpose of Xue Yao asking them to do this, the siblings agreed in one breath since it was a request from their benefactor.
Waited patiently for two more days.
On the surface of Hangzhou, medium grain has risen to seven hundred and thirty cents a stone.
That morning, the songstress brought her brother to the largest grain store, and following Xue Yao's orders, her brother said to the shopkeeper, "Here's a stone of grain, and help us get it on the ship."
The fellow froze and waved his hand with disdain: "Why did you come to our grain store to buy a stone of rice? Why don't you just go to a rice store outside? We sell ten stones here."
The younger brother of the songstress lifted his chin and said, "Our master knows your shopkeeper, and has 20,000 taels of deposit in your grain store, so you can also give us a stone at the price of 640 wen, and help us to send it to the ship, as we are in a hurry to go to the capital, so don't be delayed."
The fellow was stunned to hear the confidential price of "20,000 taels deposit" and "640 Wen", thought it was the Beijing merchants coming, and hurriedly asked to go to the backyard, looking for the shopkeeper.
"Are you two honored guests here to collect grain for Master Zhao?" When the shopkeeper heard the siblings' local accents, he was puzzled and said, "Have all the grain ships from the capital arrived? We're fully stocked and ready to transport the grain to the ship for you!"
"What grain ship?" The songbird's younger brother held his head high and said, "Master told my sister and I to go to the capital to find him as soon as possible, and let's buy some grain and rice to eat on the way, one stone will be enough!"
The shopkeeper was confused for a moment and smiled politely, "The two of you are going to the capital to look for Master Zhao?"
The singer's brother said, "That's right, last month, we sang for Master Zhao, the master was full of praise, originally agreed to come to pick us up at the end of this month to go to the capital, but now it can't come, Master Zhao wrote a letter to let us go to the capital to look for him by ourselves."
The shopkeeper's heart tightened, and he asked, as if casually, "Why didn't His Lordship come?"
"Ha!" The younger brother of the songstress was a bit nervous, his mind quickly recalled the words Xue Yao taught, swallowed, and blurted out, "Don't mention it! Master had planned to bring a large batch of grain to Shanxi to make a fortune, but I didn't realize that the imperial court suddenly said that they would open a warehouse to provide disaster relief, and now ......"
"Ahem ......" The songstress followed Xue Yao's instructions, catching two coughs and making a wink, deliberately shutting her brother up and whetting the shopkeeper's appetite.
The younger brother immediately scrunched his neck and lowered his head at the sight, not speaking.
Upon hearing that the court wants to release grain relief, the grain banker froze for a moment, and suddenly glared, his face went white!
I just learned two days ago that that group of Beijing merchants grabbed grain in order to lend it to the affected farmers in Shanxi.
Now that the court is going to provide disaster relief, won't the grain of that group of Beijing merchants be smashed in their hands?
Nope ......
Beijing merchants only paid a deposit, if the court disaster relief so that the loan thing yellow, Beijing business certainly want to break the contract, food smashed in the hands of the group of Zhejiang grain merchants can be them!
These two months, in order to give the Beijing business grain, grain bank pushed how much big business, but also at a sky-high price to Jiangsu grain bank raided all over the place, and now a few grain silos in Zhejiang are full, waiting for the Beijing businessmen to come back to the delivery, the results of the imperial court actually want to provide disaster relief!
Kyosho if it backfires ......
Thinking about this, the grain shopkeeper had a dizzy spell before his eyes and nearly fell to the ground, being held up by the shopkeeper.
"Are you alright pal?" The songstress asked with feigned concern.
"Ah ...... all right ...... all right, today business is ...... really too busy, my head is a little dizzy." The shopkeeper land still barely maintain a smile, to the siblings to probe: "Chao ...... court to release grain relief, this news is accurate? Then the people of Shanxi can really be blessed ......"
"What blessing is there! It's a bad thing for our master's fortune!" The singer's brother yelled, "Forget it, shopkeeper, get us some food and put it on the ship!"
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After the matter was done, the siblings went back to the courtyard to give Xue Yao a rundown of the situation, almost recreating what happened at the time.
After reading it, Xue Yao had seven points of certainty in his heart.
In the morning of the same day, according to the plan, Xue Yao let the eunuch to make silver to buy some magistrates of Hangzhou government offices, let the group of government officials to drink in the restaurant, deliberately spreading the false news of "the court is ready to release grain for disaster relief".
The guards sent out by the Prince came every day to report on the internal insights of the major grain houses.
Although the shopkeepers and proprietors were outwardly fine, the price of grain, which had continued to rise, fell steeply by ten Wen after two days!
Businessmen are a group of the keenest human beings, and practical action always arrives faster than accurate news.
The food bank stores continued to maintain their apparent aloofness, only gradually conceding on prices.
After two days, there were quite a few foreign merchants who got the medium grain of six hundred and sixty Wen a stone and went back to their hometowns joyfully.
The time has come.
Xue Yao immediately sought an audience with the Crown Prince and told him all about the rest of the plan.
The Prince was full of praise for this chain game he had set up.
At the beginning, Xue Yao deliberately spread the rumor that "grain merchants want to lend to the victims" in order not to speculate high grain prices, but to make Zhejiang grain merchants believe that lending to the victims is the reasonable reason for those Beijing merchants to frantically grab grain.
With this plausible reason, Xue Yao started the second step of the chain game - spreading the rumor that "the court is preparing for disaster relief" through the mouths of government officials.
A group of Zhejiang grain merchants waiting for the final delivery, really called a thunderbolt!
Thought the grain was all going to be smashed in my hands.
In fact, their food, indeed, was smashed in their hands.
But the Prince couldn't find that group of Beijing businessmen to confront them face to face, and there was no way to convince this group of Zhejiang businessmen that it was a bunch of crooks.
Xue Yao's sword went off the rails, fighting fire with fire, letting this group of Zhejiang businessmen know that they were being cheated.
Although the process was all a lie, the result of that group of fake Beijing merchants not coming back to collect the grain was true.
In this way, the Zhejiang merchants still had time to hoard the grain and sell it at a reduced price.
The Prince was also able to acquire sufficient quantities of grain at reasonable prices.
The only ones who ended up losing money were the people behind the huge deposit of 100,000 taels spent to victimize the Crown Prince.
"Thanks to you for coming up with such a solution!" The Crown Prince looked incredulously at this clear and young young companion and exclaimed in admiration.
"Your Highness, it's time for us to turn the tables." Xue Yao cupped his fists and nodded, "I'd like to trouble Your Highness to personally go out and negotiate with the third largest grain bank, requesting that 200,000 stones of grain be purchased in cash at a price of 620 wen, and then spread the word so that the other grain banks will compete to suppress the price. Let's wait patiently for five days before we can reap the benefits."
The Crown Prince was stunned at first, but his eyes soon lit up as he realized Xue Yao's intentions-
Although the plan was to collect one and a half million stones of grain, if he had said so much straight away, the eight major grain houses in Zhejiang would have been able to offload all of their stocks and sell them to him without any competitive pressure.
But it would be different to say that it is only 200,000 stones of grain.
The eight major grain houses that were hoarding grain would surely all want to sell their accumulated goods to him, and they would begin to compete internally to suppress prices.
The snipers will benefit the most by waiting for them to press a minimum price, and then privately buying 200,000 stone of grain from each of the eight major grain houses!
The Crown Prince's pair of phoenix eyes stared tightly at Xue Yao, and after a long time, he spoke softly, "All these years of following the Seventh Brother, really burying your talent, will you be willing to follow Lone in the future, and accomplish a great cause."
Xue Yao was shocked at his words, and almost without thinking, he knelt down with a lift of the hem of his coat, "Your Highness! The seventh prince is still young ......"
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The way the Crown Prince and the Sixth Prince both wanted to poach the Seven Pups.
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Fix the food and go back to receiving the seven pups' thunderous wrath!