In the evening, after the settlement and statistics of Majia Bank, Lisa reported today's settlement situation to Ma Xiaoquan.
After listening to Lisa's report, Ma Xiaoquan frowned and asked: "It took so little time to collect these 100 salts. It seems that our temptation of 10% more profit is indeed useful. Well, we are losing money today."
How much did it cost?”
Lisa took a brochure, glanced at it and said, "We lost a total of fifty-eight taels."
"Fifty-eight taels, well, it's not too much."
"Isn't that much?" Lisa said a little unhappily, "Unless something good happens to our bank, otherwise we won't be able to make that much even in ten days, and you still think it's not much?"
"Haha, what I mean is that these fifty-eight taels are not enough to pry the thieves of those guys from the Zhi Alliance."
Lisa blinked her beautiful eyes, shook her head and said, "Lisa doesn't understand what you mean."
"Well, it doesn't hurt to tell you. Let me ask you, can you see Yue'er in the past two days?"
Lisa shook her head.
"Because Yue'er has been sent out by me and the price of salt is too high, hehe..."
"Ah" Lisa covered her mouth and looked at Ma Xiaoquan in surprise. After a moment, she said, "No wonder I didn't see Sister Lisa. You are such a smart person that you came up with this idea."
"Well, this is also a helpless move. It depends on...how the guys from the Zhi Alliance take the move."
...
In the hall where the Zhi Alliance gathered, a group of bosses were intensely discussing the incident caused by the high price of salt collected by Majia Bank during the day.
Because Majia Bank's acquisition price was higher than the cost of production, the original plan of Zhi Alliance was disrupted. After weighing the pros and cons of discussions for nearly two hours, most people believed that the opportunity to monopolize salt should not be missed, that is, Zhi Alliance sold out
The purchase price offered was 10% higher than the price paid by Majia Bank for Yanyin.
The Ma family controls a salt farm and naturally knows all the processes of salt production from collection to production, and most of these bosses are just speculators who want to hold salt for a short period of time and take the opportunity to resell it.
Although there are many experts in the Wisdom Alliance, because they have too many members, everyone's opinions cannot be well unified. Everyone has selfish motives, and no one wants to be used as a spearman by others, so these two hours
During the negotiations, most of them were just quarrels among the bosses over how much of each other's interests should be distributed.
Some people also saw the weakness of the Zhi Alliance. They planned to withdraw, but then they thought that once they quit, they still had support to rely on, and they would no longer receive asylum after they chose to quit.
If Ma Xiaoquan leads the Righteous Alliance and seizes the opportunity to force him to be imprisoned, his business may collapse in an instant. At that time, not only sleeping on the street, but also being embarrassed will be a big deal.
The next day, Zhi Alliance took the lead in publicly purchasing Yanyin before Majia Bank. In terms of price, they were 10% higher than Majia Bank.
Although the merchants and officials who came and went with salt coins didn't understand what was going on, everyone would do the business of converting one tael of silver into one tael of more than one tael of silver.
Not long after the news was announced, people gathered in front of the bank owned by Zhi Alliance.
Compared with Zhi Alliance's radical approach, Ma Xiaoquan steadily purchased Yanyin according to the plan, but the price was lower than yesterday.
People who exchanged salt at Majia Bank yesterday expressed their dissatisfaction. They thought they could make more money today, but to their surprise, Majia Bank lowered the price. The price was lower than yesterday. Humph, let’s not exchange it. Go
Exchange it with other Jiazhi Alliance.
In the short time of burning incense, the Majia Bank, which was originally crowded with people, was now deserted.
Ma Xiaoquan called Lisa and told her to take out all the salt in the bank and sent two of his best confidants to go to the Zhi Alliance's bank in disguise to exchange money.
Lisa didn't quite understand Ma Xiaoquan's intention and asked: "Sir, what is your purpose?"
Ma Xiaoquan did not answer Lisa, but asked her: "How much money can you get in exchange for the salt quotations we collected a few days ago, plus the 100 pieces collected yesterday?"
Lisa was stunned and answered skillfully: "About seventy thousand taels."
"Seventy thousand, well, it's already a lot. So if we add more according to the Zhi Alliance's offer, how much can we exchange for?"
Lisa thought for a moment and said: "Counting the previous ones and the 100 I received yesterday, I should be able to exchange them for almost 76,000 taels."
Ma Xiaoquan asked again: "So what is our cost?"
Lisa replied without thinking: "If you calculate the miscellaneous expenses, it's almost 71,200 taels."
"Okay, Lisa, let me ask you now, if we exchange these salts, will we lose money or not?"
Lisa smiled and shook her head: "Your Excellency, you are really clever. Not only did we not lose money, we also made a lot of money."
"Hmm, remember, when you pay back the money, all of it must be exchanged for cash. If it's gold, that's fine. You don't need a banknote. Do you understand?"
"Lisa remembers it!"
"Well, go ahead!" Ma Xiaoquan waved his hand, and Lisa stepped back respectfully.
...
At night, Hua Yue, who had been out on business, finally returned. Ma Xiaoquan personally greeted her in the main hall. After seeing Hua Yue, he gave her a big hug.
Hua Yue was a little embarrassed by Ma Xiaoquan's actions. She pushed him away quickly and said with a blushing face: "I just helped you raise the price of salt, but it had no effect. It's you instead. I just met Li
Sha, she said that you sold all the salt in the bank to the Zhi Alliance, is that true?"
Ma Xiaoquan nodded: "Well, it's true."
"Aren't you worried that if you sell today, the price will rise tomorrow? If so, why don't you wait a few more days until the price rise is almost the same, then it's not too late to sell again?"
Ma Xiaoquan smiled and said: "How can those people from the Zhi Alliance be as simple as you think? Speaking of which, in just a few days, we have transferred nearly five thousand taels to Yanyin. This person makes money, but he can't
Too greedy. Besides, you can't eat salty food in large gulps, and... hum, the price of salty food is likely to rise, and when the time comes, the price of salty rolls will also rise.
It goes down again and again, hum."
"One drop and then another?" Hua Yue shook his head and said in confusion, "Isn't there an outline on the salt guide and how much it can be exchanged for? Isn't it written on it? How can it be possible to have one drop and then another?"
Ma Xiaoquan sneered and said: "Of course I know that there are outlines for Yanyin, but in the past two years, due to the frequent wars in Ningyuan, Liaodong, the court could not get much food and salary at all, so most of the Yanyin allocated to officials was spent.
I didn’t write a specific outline, I just wrote a monetary price.”
