West Lake, next to Xilin Bridge.

Haiyun Hall, which once belonged to Pu Shougeng, has now returned to its original owner. On the first day Pu Shougeng returned to Haiyun Hall, this world's number one rich businessman who has always been high-profile began to spend a lot of money.

It was just buying grain, but antiques and jade, famous calligraphy and paintings, beautiful concubines and beautiful concubines and girls, as if they didn't have any money to buy them in Haiyun Hall. At the same time, Pu Shougeng also held a big banquet in Haiyun Hall for several days. He had not invited a good chef at home for the time being, so he booked the Fengle Building and asked the chefs in Fengle Building to prepare wine and dishes to entertain guests from all over the world.

What surprised Pu Shougeng's former business partners and official friends was not his luxurious and high-profile reliance on a maritime force in his hand. Pu Shougeng's behavior has always been high-profile and he is particularly brave. Otherwise, the Pu family would not have developed to the peak in his hands, nor would it be almost destroyed because of his risky actions. But who would have thought that Pu Shougeng, who was almost destroyed at the beginning, even his family was confiscated, and he was wanted, has not only made a comeback, but also has a better momentum in the past.

Because Pu Shougeng has joined two more reliable backers than Mount Tai, Emperor Kublai Khan and the Song Dynasty Pingzhangjun National Master, and the Grand Tutor Jia Sidao!

The former appointed him as the military ration and equipment supervisor of the Ministry of War of the Yuan Dynasty, Baochao Supervisor and Jiangnan visiting and purchasing envoy. This time, he was ordered by Kublai Khan and the Privy Council of the Yuan Dynasty to go south together with Liu Xiaoyuan.

The latter opposed the opposition and returned the "all the property" confiscated by Pu Shougeng. Although everyone knew that it was impossible to "all" return the property confiscated by the Song Dynasty court, this "all the property" was actually an attitude, indicating the support of the Song Dynasty court and Jia Sidao for the Pu family.

And all old businesses that have really been in the market know that when doing business, the backend is always more important than capital. Especially when doing big business, you can have no capital, but you will never buy it without a backend.

If you have no capital but a backend, you can borrow capital and you can go to credit. Others don’t have to worry about not paying it back. If you have capital but a backend, it’s best to dig a hole in your backyard to bury the money. Don’t do any business, let alone show your wealth, so as not to let powerful officials and bullies worry about it...

Pu Shougeng's current situation is obviously a backstage. He has capital, but the Song Dynasty court does not pay back a penny, and no one believes that Pu Shougeng will have no money. Moreover, he is also a military ration and equipment supervisor in the Yuan Dynasty. Baochao Supervisor and Jiangnan visits and purchases three major fats. This time, he came to Jiangnan for nothing else, but to buy grain and military equipment for the Yuan Dynasty.

How could such a person have no money? And judging from his style of spending money these days, he also knows how rich the Pu family’s foundation is.

"Haiyun, do you really have so much money to spend?"

Liu Xiaoyuan has been accompanying Pu Shougeng for social events these days. Last night, he booked a banquet at Fengle Tower and drank all night. It was not until the next morning that the two of them returned home together in a carriage. As soon as the car entered Xilin Bridge, Liu Xiaoyuan couldn't help asking questions.

Pu Shougeng said: "In fact, there is not much, and the annual savings have been lost. More than half of the 5 million yuan of guan returned by the Ministry of Revenue of the State of Song, and more than half of the 5 million yuan of guan borrowed by Jia Sidao...

"What? Then how do you plan to cook high grain?" Liu Xiaoyuan looked shocked. "You have used up all your capital. How can you achieve this mission of Khan?"

"Hehehehe..."

Pu Shougeng smiled so hard that he cried back and forth. "Brother Mingjing wouldn't think that using 10 million guan a piece of money... at most, it's equivalent to 2 million guan of copper coins to buy rice, so that the price of grain can be increased, right?"

"Isn't that the case?" Although Liu Xiaoyuan is well-read and has a lot of tricks, he is still a badass for business matters.

Liu Xiaoyuan said: "If you take 2 million guan of copper to Jianghuai, you can buy 2 million s of brown rice. How much can you raise the price of grain?"

Pu Shougen waved his hand: "It's useless."

Pu Da’s tyrant thought for a moment, "I have asked my friend who specializes in grain trading... Since the Lin'an Incident, Jinghu, Sichuan and Jianghuai Vaticans of the Song Dynasty have been working hard to recruit people to settle down. Last year, the military farms in various towns have been effective, so the harvest has been achieved in various places."

This harvest was first of all, the peace dividend after the end of the Mongolian-Song War, and secondly, it was forced out. It turned out that when the commanders of the Southern Song Dynasty were military generals, they did not take care of the territory. They just asked Lin'an for money. But now, although the territory belongs to them, Lin'an is not willing to pay any money. So they can only do their best to manage their territory. Those territory was originally a land of fish and rice, and the conditions for developing agriculture were better. As long as they worked hard and invested to keep up, there was no reason for the harvest?

"... Although Jinghu, Sichuan, and Jianghuai are very mature, the people in Jiangnan will not eat an extra meal because of this. My friends who do grain trading estimate that the supply of rice and grain in the Song Dynasty is always rich in 20 to 30 million stones, and in autumn it will inevitably lead to another bumper harvest. This winter, Jinghu, Sichuan and Jianghuai have both auspicious snowfall. So in autumn, the grain prices will most likely fall a little."

"Twenty or thirty million stones!" Liu Xiaoyuan took a deep breath. He had learned the prosperity of the Southern Song Dynasty. "Wouldn't the whole northern region be enough to eat?"

Pu Shougeng smiled and said, "It's indeed enough. There are not many people in the north now... all of them were called to kill them. Even in the Southern Dynasty, the population has decreased by at least 20 million since the chaos in the late Jin Dynasty. Now there is more food, not because of how high the output is, but because there are fewer people eating."

This Seminar man sighed and said, "Not only are there fewer people eating, but there are too many poor people in the Jiangnan area, and they have all become servants of wealthy families and have to save money. The consumption of grain and rice has been reduced by at least 40% compared to before the end of the Jin Dynasty."

This situation is of course also an indirect consequence of the Mongolian and Song War. A large number of farmers who were exiled from the front line became tenants of wealthy families in Jiangnan and lost their personal freedom. The food they consumed by themselves was naturally reduced to a minimum.

On the one hand, due to the end of the war and the efforts of border towns, grain output increased a lot; on the other hand, the Jiangnan market was very sluggish. This is the fundamentals of the Song Dynasty’s grain market!

Liu Xiaoyuan frowned deeply, "Brother Haiyun, what should I do? If the mission entrusted to you by Dahan cannot be fulfilled, the consequences will be unbearable..."

"Brother Mingjing, don't worry. With a certain family in charge, there is always a way to increase the price of JAC rice several times!"

Pu Shougeng smiled and said, "This matter is actually very easy to deal with. We don't need to keep the price of grain rising. We just need to fry until this autumn. First, the time when Beiming's food is most short of food should be this summer. Second, Beiming has to deal with the shortage of grain, at least two million stones of brown rice, which is not a small amount... At least one thousand sea boats are transported by two thousand stones. And sea transportation is about the wind direction. The coast of Han area has more southeast winds in summer and northwest winds in autumn and winter. If you want to transport grain north, you have to take advantage of the southeast wind in summer. If the northwest wind blows in autumn and winter, how should these thousand grain boats go north to Tanggu?"

"It will cost a lot of money to trade until autumn?" Liu Xiaoyuan shook his head. "Brother Haiyun, how much money do you have in your hands? I'm afraid that it won't be 1 million guan in a copper coin?"

Pu Shougeng's smile remained unchanged, but his expression became solemn. "To be honest, Brother Mingjing, Pu still has 2.4 million guan, of which 1.5 million guan was in his hands. In addition, Pu also negotiated with his friends and robbed Pu's two houses and industries that were housed in other people's names, and could borrow 2.6 million guan."

"That's only five million coins..." Liu Xiaoyuan frowned.

Pu Shougeng slapped a slap and shook it, "It's not five million, but fifty million!"

"Fifty million!" Liu Xiaoyuan widened his eyes.

"A deposit of five million stagnates can be set at least 50 million stagnates of grain!"

"Download?" Liu Xiaoyuan's eyes widened even wider.

"In autumn, the delivery location is Zhenjiang Mi City. Each Shi Guan (the Southern Song Dynasty was 800 cents), and the deposit of 80 cents was paid first."

Zhenjiang is the intersection of the Yangtze River and the canal, and is in the south of the Yangtze River, which is relatively safe. Therefore, it is the location of the largest rice market in the Song Dynasty. The futures trading of grain was very popular as early as the Tang Dynasty, and the Southern Song Dynasty, where the commodity economy was very developed. Often, the rice and grain had been sold before the green seedlings were released.

In Zhenjiang Rice City, futures trading of grain is also very popular. The model is that the buyer and seller enter into a "late agreement" (in later years, it is a forward delivery contract), the buyer pays a deposit, and the seller makes a "late agreement". If the "late agreement" is established with a well-known large grain trader, it can also be transferred.

If you buy the five million guan that Pu Shougeng had collected, you can buy up to five million stones of brown rice. If you buy the futures for autumn delivery, you can set up 50 million stones. This is not a decimal!

Liu Xiaoyuan touched his chin, "But the 50 million stone of brown rice is delivered in autumn, so that's after the autumn harvest, right?"

"good."

Pu Shougeng said: "But if the price of rice and grain delivered soars in autumn, some people will hoard grains and deliver them until after the autumn. Moreover... Although Pu is a little down and out now, he was once the world's number one businessman. In the business circles of Quanzhou, Lin'an, Mingzhou, especially among the foreign merchants, you are welcome to say that Pu can respond to it. If you can see that selling grain is profitable, there is another reasonable reason, such as the three kingdoms in the north want to buy a large amount, and the Sichuan-Chu vassal states want to store grain and prepare for war, there will definitely be someone who follows the trend to buy it!
Chapter completed!