Two days passed by. In the evening, Li Ling took Li Moyun to Ruyi Building west of the county town on time. Together with many people who were also invited, he entered the Golden Cave, which looked like a brothel, but was of special use at this time.

Although Yang Zhen and others could not enter the building, they hid nearby earlier and stared at the front and back doors of Ruyi Building. Their purpose here was to ensure the safety of their own adults, and on the other hand, to follow them. After those guys involved in this grain transaction came out, some people would naturally follow and find out their origins and identities.

As a brothel, the guards of Ruyi Building today are quite strict. Only those who can come out with special wooden signs can enter the door, while other guests are politely blocked outside. Of course, there are really not many people who have the spare money to come here to have fun now.

After Li Ling showed off the wooden sign, he successfully entered the building. When he saw it, he saw a bright light, which was in sharp contrast to the lifeless inside and outside the county town, and most of the people were in poverty. In the lobby on the first floor, there were more than ten banquets, with delicious wine and delicacies all over the table, and there were even more beautiful girls waiting for him. It was a big deal to put them in such a small county town.

Seeing Li Ling and the others come in, a middle-aged man with a rich appearance and a smile on his face immediately came up and said, "Do you dare to ask the boss's surname?"

"Don't be the surname Ling." Li Ling replied casually, and then lit up the wooden sign. The man smiled even more happily when he saw this: "It turned out to be Boss Ling. Please ask for this table. This table is specially arranged for you." While laughing apologized, he led them to one of the tables. There were several men in equally luxurious clothes sitting there, talking to each other in a low voice. When they saw Li Ling coming, they nodded slightly to him.

Li Ling glanced at the table in front of him and gained a general understanding of the situation of the guests at this time. There were about twenty people present. Although they were dressed differently, many of them looked quite familiar. It was obvious that they had friendship on weekdays. Perhaps it was the first-class gentry, wealthy businessmen in Guang'an County, but this number was more than that of ordinary wealthy people in small counties.

Although the few people at this table were chatting, they had room for each other. They should have just met each other and had a conversation just for politeness. In this way, the Guang'an government's business is really big, and in addition to myself, it can attract other foreign merchants.

Next, several guests from the same table came up to communicate with him, which also confirmed Li Ling's inference. Some of them came from Jiangnan and some from Jinzhou, all of them were grain and rice merchants, and they were also coming for the bulk of grain mentioned by others.

"Boss Ling, the disaster in Huguang this time has a very big impact on our business. If the goods are to be cut off, my more than ten shops in Lin'an will have to close..."

"Who said no, so even if they raised the price this time, we can only continue. Who told us that Huaibei doesn't produce much grain and needs to buy it from other places." Li Ling also sighed in his words, "By the way, isn't Jiangnan a land of fish and rice? Although it can't compare to Huguang's sufficient grain production, Boss Xu, you shouldn't come here..."

"You don't know this. A large part of the grain and rice in Jiangnan was controlled by several major players, so small merchants like me would buy grain from Huguang and sell it back. Then, since the disaster in Huguang last year, they even saw the time and immediately monopolized the grain on the market. Then several companies stocked up, which was to drive away small grain merchants like me. So... even though I knew that the price of grain here was also high, I could only come here to try my luck."

As the saying goes, one moves the whole body. As the granary of the world, Huguang, as the granary of the world, will affect the food price of the entire Dayue world. This understanding made Li Ling's heart even more sank, and made him more determined to bring these worms to justice and restore the food price of Huguang.

While chatting, several more guests came one after another. When the hour of You were approaching, accompanied by a few applause, the singing and dancing girl who was originally playing music and retreated and gave out the most conspicuous platform. Li Ling glanced at her eyes and found that the door there was also closed, and there was a strong man wearing a sword on the left and right, looking solemn.

Then I saw a slender man with an ordinary figure and a very ordinary appearance strode up to the stage, and first saluted to the guests present at several tables, then smiled and said, "I am the boss of Ruyi Building, whose surname is Jiang. Today I was entrusted by someone to invite all the shopping mall owners to come to meet. It is really a blessing for my Ruyi Building.

"Since you can come here with a wooden sign today, I must have already had an idea, so I won't say much more about the extra words, just mention two points - if you want food, you can, as long as you can afford money, you can sell as much food as you want, but you have to follow one principle, that is, those with the highest price will get it.

"I wonder if you have heard that a few years ago, in Yangzhou Prefecture, Jiangnan, a Lord Li thought of an auction method. After the goods are revealed, everyone present can freely bid for the price, and finally get it from the highest bid. The same is true for us today. Whoever bids the highest bid can get the amount of food they want at this price, and give as much as they want until the food we have finished delivering.

"But don't worry, we still have enough food. Generally speaking, a boss can't eat all the food. So the next person will report the amount of food he needs, and so on..."

Li Ling's expression changed slightly. He didn't expect that he could still hear what happened here. It was just ironic that he took out the auction trick to help the people of Yangzhou get out of the disaster, but the people here were using this trick to make money.

Seeing that everyone did not ask questions, Boss Jiang smiled with satisfaction and continued: "The second point is that we can ensure that you can safely send the food back to all places after purchasing grain. If our local bosses in Huguang, we will not charge any fees. If the bosses outside Huguang are converted at market prices, the freight will be converted at the market price, but it will also ensure that you can safely deliver the food back to your hometown."

The seven guests at Li Ling's table all showed satisfaction after hearing this explanation. The businessman who had just spoken to him nodded and said, "This government is quite reliable in doing business. Maybe we can do more in the future."

Li Ling's heart moved. Could it be that these guys have such a big appetite and really plan to start a long-term business? But where did the government get the confidence to get so much food?

While thinking, Boss Jiang had already spoken again: "Okay, let's talk less, let's get to the point now. This time, the minimum price of grain we can sell with you is twenty-five yuan per bucket. Everyone, you can bid."

As soon as these words were said, let alone those grain merchants, even Li Ling, a person who had never done grain trading, changed his face and said intimately that he was so greedy.

Because as far as he knows, the grain prices in Dayue over the years have generally fluctuated around twenty cents per bucket. If it is a good year, it can still fall to fifteen cents. You should know that this is the retail price of ordinary county towns, but now it is the wholesale price that you directly receive, which is actually ten cents more expensive.

Don’t underestimate that only ten cents are just a price difference of one bucket. Any businessman like who is present is not calculated by thousands of stones of grain. If he calculates this way, it will be a difference of tens of thousands of taels of silver. Even a businessman with a wealthy family cannot withstand such a gap.

Sure enough, the faces of the merchants at his table were dim, and they exchanged glances with each other while pondering, and they all saw the dilemma in their eyes.

"I used to come here to buy grain at the cheapest time and I could get tens of thousands of stones for tens of cents per bucket. I didn't expect that this time it would double more than once. This was difficult." One person was half talking to himself and half a breath with others.

The other people also nodded slightly, and Li Ling took the opportunity to say, "It's better not to bid, see who they can sell to? At worst, go to other places to buy grain, and maybe the food in Suizhou Prefecture will be cheaper."

As if I heard Li Ling's words, Boss Jiang said slowly: "By the way, what we have on hand now is the grain in the entire Suizhou Prefecture City, so the quantity is absolutely sufficient. In addition, as far as I know, in the entire Huguang territory, regardless of the price or quantity of grain, other prefectures cannot compare with our Suizhou, so if you want to get food that suits your wishes, today is the best opportunity."

Not the grain of a county, but the grain of a state?

In other words, the officials of the entire state and prefecture colluded together and swallowed the food that should have been used to make the people live and sold for money?

Even though Li Ling was already in a deep state, he usually didn't show his emotions. At this time, his face turned dark and murderous intent flashed through his eyes. Fortunately, he moved quickly enough and immediately covered his face so that he would not notice his strangeness. Of course, the other looks were not very good at this time, and they each had their own thoughts, but no one really came to take a closer look.

Perhaps influenced by this explanation, after a period of silence, one person finally raised his hand and shouted: "I'll pay twenty-five quotations!" But it was the offer of the guests at the table on the far left.

His offer was like opening the gate and opening the water, which immediately prompted the reaction of others. On their table, two more quotes were quoted one after another: "Twenty-six pennys are a bucket!"

"Twenty-seven pieces of money!"

As soon as they finished speaking, the guest on the table opposite him shouted decisively: "Thirty-two-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-

As soon as the price was released, everyone present was shocked. Li Ling even squinted and found that it was a rat-bearded man shook his head proudly and said, "I have the money. As long as I grab the food here, I will be considered the number one person not only in Guang'an, but also in Suizhou Prefecture."
Chapter completed!