A decision of a big shot often causes huge waves in society and changes the life trajectory of countless people.

In 1566, Jetchi, Japan's most prosperous commercial port. Whale House set up a sign at the door, "The 10th anniversary of the Whale House, special price of japonica rice is one stone and five stakes of sweet potatoes is one stone and three stakes of sweet potatoes are one stone." In order to facilitate the public, the two servants took turns reading the words on the sign to passers-by. The news was also printed in big words on the second page of the newspaper that day.

Looking at the endless stream of people in the Whale House and the deserted house, the anger of other rice merchants in the rice market can be imagined.

‘Things that don’t know how many days you can do!’

‘What should I do? I haven’t sold the rice for a long time. The shopkeeper will kill me.’

‘There is nothing to do about this. It’s lower than our purchase price, so I can only discuss it with the big boss.’

'I borrowed usury to speculate on rice. How could this happen? How could this happen? Three points of profit. Cannibalism.'

That night, the mizuki in Jetcho hurriedly held a meeting on the third floor of Xiaoxiang Pavilion in Kabukicho Street. Except for the whale house, all the people who stomped their feet on the ground and swayed on the ground. However, the only one who gathered today was the shopkeeper of a mizuki shop in Jetcho. In a huge room, dozens of men were kneeling, and no one was called.

Mi Shangjia, 'I don't know what Whale House thinks. It's spring now, and it's the season of spring famine. The price of grain should increase. If you want to reduce the price, it will be at least after autumn. In the year of a disaster, the food is about being reluctant to sell. The less food, the more expensive it is. Is this the reason?'

‘Yes, yes.’ Zhongmi Shang echoed.

Mi Shangjia continued, 'Now, we have two ways in front of us. The first way is that we can also reduce the price, and we must reduce it more than the whale house. Using this trick, we are afraid that the whale house will also reduce the price or take the opportunity to eat our goods. So we can only sell it in a small amount.'

Mi Shangyi frowned. He was also a part of the rice speculation. With the interest on usury, the cost of rice prices is not low. Moreover, the Whale House is so popular that using rice to pay usury will probably be calculated based on the price of one stone and five jin or less. ‘How can that be done? When we collected rice last year, the price was more than five jin? This is a loss of money.’

‘Yes, my rice is collected from five guan. With the distribution of shipping fees and other things, it’s not profitable if I don’t sell it for eight guan.’

Seeing everyone shook their heads and objected, Rice Merchant Jia sighed in his heart. These people were too greedy for the small profits in front of them. In fact, as long as the troubled whale house was squeezed out of the market, the rice price was not decided by these rice merchants here in the future. The price of rice was high last year, but whoever here had not saved thousands of tens of thousands of stones of inventory before when the rice price rose, and the average amount could not be paid. But in front of him, the second method is, we will join hands to eat all the inventory of the whale house, so that the rice price will be decided by us. According to my observation, the rice warehouse in Whale House can only accommodate up to 50,000 stones of rice at most, and the sweet potatoes are in the cellar. I don’t know the specific quantity, even if he is 100,000 stones. As long as you raise 650,000 coins and eat all the inventory of the whale house, the rice price is still in our hands.’

‘Sixty-five thousand guan!!!’ Although Jiecheng is known as a neighbor of wealthy merchants, this number still makes all rice merchants take a breath. The rice merchants here do not lack the owner of millions of wealth, but that refers to fixed assets. It is amazing to have tens of thousands of guan of working capital on hand. Moreover, last year, they collected large tickets of grain from natural disasters and were reluctant to sell them, and there were many debt operators.

Mi Shangyi stood up and said angrily, "I'll agree first, I have no money. At worst, I can hire ninjas to burn the whale house with food. See how they can give it a shit."

‘Don’t want it.’ A Mi Shang immediately covered Mi Shang Yi’s mouth, ‘What is the background of the Whale House? It’s also something you and I can afford! The Oda family’s royal merchant! The boss behind the scenes of the Dekuto! The Oda family’s tens of thousands of troops are now in Ishiyama. When you burn the whale house on the front, someone will come to burn the Jet Town. Don’t look at the past or two years of Taizheng’s deeds and accumulate virtues, you are paying off your debts. When the Hiei Mountain was burned, those who killed people were killed by thousands or thousands. If a tiger doesn’t show its power, you really dare to think that he is a sick cat.’

Thinking of the fire burning Hiei Mountain, Mi Shangyi immediately woke up. It has not been a few years since this incident. There are still corpses on Hiei Mountain that have not been buried yet. ‘Brothers got angry for a moment, and they were anxious. I said the wrong thing. Everyone forgive me and cause trouble for everyone.’ Mi Shangyi, who woke up, gave everyone a few 90-degree bows.

Mi Shangjia and everyone calmed down and continued, saying, 'Sixty-five thousand guan is just the maximum expected. Actually, I think it can be settled as long as there are 400,000 guan. Wasn't the rice we collected high last year? This is a good opportunity to calm the price of rice in our hands. As long as we sell more before autumn, we will have everything. We will not have a levy. Everyone can buy more money in their hands, and buy less money in their hands. It depends entirely on their own. But if they have not bought the inventory of the whale house, it will be better to lose it.

As for sweet potatoes, I remember that when they were first launched two years ago, they were only three guan and one stone. I think the taste was pretty good. They were much better than white rice every day. There were some in the market. When you buy them and sell them at a price, the sweet potatoes would be worth five guan and one stone. Everyone here is a famous luxury merchant in Jiecheng, with 400,000 guan and 500,000 guan. It is not much less, but it is not much more. I, Tsuda Soji, is willing to spend all my money and take out 100,000 guan to eat the whale house. If it is not enough at that time, I will use my property as a 100,000 guan to borrow money houses.’

‘The boss of Tsuda is so bold, it is indeed a young man who is promising.’ The rice merchants were just worried about the scale of 650,000 guan, but now they are thinking about how to find a way to get more money and not let Tsuda Soji eat alone.

After the rice merchants in Jiecho reached a strategic alliance, the rice merchants and rice shopkeepers dispersed and raised their own money. One of the rice shop owners went down to the second floor and pulled the door into a small room with a chrysanthemum paper door. In the room, a young man was crawling on the tatami and enjoying a full-scale massage of the geisha. The smoke guns on the table and the remaining cigarettes were still not exhausted, and it was obviously just put down.

‘Young Master.’ The shopkeeper of the rice shop shouted, lowered his head and stood in a corner of the house.

The Master Smoking Ghost waved his hand and sent the geisha, "Furong, let's go out first."

‘Yes.’ Geisha Hibiscus put on a red and green kimono and twisted the water snake's waist out of the door.

‘What’s the matter?’ After the geisha went out, the eldest young master yawned and picked up the bang. The shopkeeper of the rice shop quickly took off the lampshade of the oil lamp and lit the fire for the young master. Then he completely repeated the content of the meeting on the third floor.

‘Young Master, now my family has 37,000 guan in cash. If you want to make up for it, it will not be a problem for me to take out 50,000 guan to eat.’
Chapter completed!