At the end of the year, the Li family in Qian'an was in the main hall of the ancestral home.

The current head of the family, Li Qing, has already read the account books submitted by each branch and the general shopkeepers in various places.

At this time, he was staring at Li Hongjing very dissatisfied:

"From the fifth family, your lineage is mainly in charge of the grain business. No matter what year or month, those who do this business are basically guaranteed to make a profit. Although it is not as good as the no-cost business of robbery, it is definitely not worse.

Where to go.

Is this ledger here to fool ghosts this year?

Those places where famines occurred not only made no money, but also suffered losses, so you have nothing to say?"

"Father, you really can't blame me for this.

Not only did our family suffer losses, but several other grain sellers in those famine-stricken areas also suffered losses. The grain could not be sold at all, and no one bought it even if the price was reduced later.

At that time, we all thought we could make a lot of money, so we spent huge sums of money to transport a large amount of grain there, but because the grain could not be sold, not only did we not make any money, we also lost money on the freight and part of the cost, which was a huge loss!"

Li Hongjing had already guessed what he would encounter today when he suffered a loss, so he responded calmly and with a helpless expression.

“It’s really strange.

There is a famine in the place, but the food cannot be sold. Seeing that you are like this, you must have encountered some force majeure. Tell me, I will give you a chance to defend yourself."

As soon as Li Qing heard what he said and looked at his expression, he immediately understood that he had come prepared.

This matter must not have much to do with him.

Otherwise, he should have knelt down and begged for mercy.

Li Hongjing obviously did not dare to deliberately whet his father's appetite, so he quickly straightened his body and explained:

"Father, this is all the fault of the newly opened grain merchant called Fair Price Grain Store. He opened the door specifically when grain prices in those disaster-stricken areas rose sharply. After opening the door, he did not sell grain at the same high price as us, but

Selling grain at low prices, even lower than in previous years when there were no disasters, who can be the opponent?

It is normal for those stupid people to be greedy for cheap. A small favor is enough to make them flock to it, not to mention that the quality of food from cheap food stores is not bad overall.

We were warned at the beginning.

But they didn't listen at all.

Later, we even wanted to join forces to buy up all the grain from his family, but his family first implemented a purchase limit, and then shipped countless grains from nowhere.

Whatever we want to buy.

It seems endless.

After we purchased tens of millions of kilograms, we didn’t dare to buy anymore.

Finally, we wanted to use official means, but we were warned by the local county magistrate. In the end, we had no choice but to lose a great opportunity to make money and had to sell at a low price.

And they use the grain that cannot be sold to make wine.

Only in this way can most of the capital be saved, so as not to lose too much. The several losses on the books are basically similar. The other party's food seems to be endless, and the price of selling the food makes it feel like it is just for doing good deeds. It's really

It’s really confusing.”

"Stupid, what's the use of asking the magistrate for this matter?

The little money you bribe can still achieve a local political performance and be useful to the local magistrates?

But this unexpected grain merchant.

Where did it come from?

Why are you so unruly? Go back and contact the other stores. You must find ways to suppress this so-called affordable grain store. The rules of grain merchants for so many years cannot be broken because of him. If grain cannot be sold during the famine years,

If the price is raised, how can we acquire the land of ordinary ignorant people?"

After rolling his eyes at his fifth boy, Li Qing began to give him advice and issued requests and orders:

"If serious methods don't work, then don't be polite. Those mountain bandits and horse bandits raised outside are not vegetarians. Let's rob them of several batches of food and see if they can continue to keep a steady stream of food regardless of losses.

, transporting grain to famine-stricken areas and selling it at low prices.

If you still dare to continue to fight against us.

Then burn down all their grain depots.

Also, if necessary, you can carefully investigate who is the owner of the so-called affordable food store.

If you are not a big shot.

It shouldn't be too difficult to kill him.

There is no need to be kind and soft-hearted. Do you understand, Lao Wu?

To deal with these beings who break the rules, we must kill them to serve as a warning to others, so as to serve as a warning to those who come after them.”

I have to say that gingers are still hotter when they are old, and people are more ruthless when they are older. It is an understatement, but the degree of ruthlessness is no less than that of all kinds of evil people.

"Yes, I just hope my father will cooperate when the time comes.

There are some manpower that I cannot mobilize."

Others may think that Li Qing is too vicious and cruel, but Li Hongjing has no such thoughts. He just nodded in agreement and described his difficulties, hoping to get help from his father.

"No problem, just let me know."

At this point, the discussion between father and son on this aspect was temporarily stopped, and then Li Qing continued to ask about the situation in other industries that his family was involved in.

Not two days later.

Several large-scale grain merchants, who were more or less involved in grain trading across the country, under the leadership of the Li family, formed a unified external camp with each other and officially began to attack all grain shops that advertised as affordable grain shops.

Because it was just the beginning, they did not directly set fire to looting or anything like that. They just strictly ordered small grain merchants everywhere not to sell half a grain of rice to cheap grain stores.

And try to inform them of the villages within their sphere of influence and those they have been in contact with in the past.

These are the villages where they used to harvest grain.

They are also strictly ordered not to sell grain to anyone other than themselves, otherwise they will not accept it in the future. They hope to use this to directly block the source of food from the cheap grain store, even if it cannot completely block it.

It should also prevent the expansion of affordable food stores.

Even the grain shops had no food to sell.

If the affordable grain store run by Ding Yun is operating normally, it will definitely be affected by this.

And it still has a huge impact.

Direct bankruptcy is possible.

However, the food suppliers of her grain store are not ordinary farmers, small and medium-sized grain merchants, small and medium-sized landowners, etc. She basically relies on her own farm to supply all the grains by herself.

Therefore, these operations of the other party had no impact on Ding Yun at all, and she did not even notice that someone was suppressing her.

That's no worry at all.

I didn't even take those things to heart.

Not long after celebrating the New Year, she focused all her energy on giving gifts and connecting with people. Fortunately, her hard work paid off. After struggling like this for a long time, Ding Yun finally spent tens of thousands more taels of silver. Since the beginning of the year, this time

I bought one of the more than 50 copies of the ultimatum released.

Then he successfully became a Taoist.
Chapter completed!