I am the king of the dead

Ji Duo was as steady as ever, and said full of emotion: "Yes, we are also happy, to run a business trip and get a meal for nothing."

"Isn't it too much for us to just sit here and inquire about the news so grandiosely?" Yue Qian tore up a duck leg, feasted on it, picked up the wine cup and clinked a glass with Yuan Bin and Ji Duo.

Ji Duo nodded, and said suspiciously: "It's a little bit, but haven't all those who have seen us died? No, Li Xian has also seen us."

Yuan Bin didn't finish a mouthful of foie gras, looked at Ji Duo dully, and said helplessly: "Li Xian don't need to stare at it, your majesty can take a bite of Li Aiqing's, it should be fine."

"You should stare, you still have to stare." Yue Qian and Ji Duo said at the same time.

Yuan Bin said helplessly: "That's fine, you eat, I will send the news I found to the palace, so that His Majesty will know that this group of insects has gathered together again."

"Leave after the feast." Yue Qian shook his head, but he was not in a hurry, the snow still had to fall for two days, and His Majesty had to prepare for a heavy blow.

Don't be in a hurry to eat this time.

When it was midnight, the three of them ate so much that their mouths were full of oil, and they drank a few cups of wine to warm up their bodies. They didn't drink at first, but everyone around them was drinking, so they couldn't get in without drinking.

The three got on their horses and went straight to Chaoyang Gate.

The Chaoyang Gate is open, and coal is continuously piling up towards the back mountain.

But when they got to the Chaoyang Gate, they couldn't see His Majesty, and the Xi'an Gate was still locked.

The Imperial City is the Imperial City, and the Forbidden City is the Forbidden City.

Yuan Bin went to Jinyiwei's yamen and wrote the memorial, put it in a basket under the city, and sent it to the palace.

Zhu Qiyu stretched his waist just after completing the examination of the final method.

Most of the errands are officials and sergeants brought by Zhu Qiyu from the north, and they are extremely efficient.

After all, after Jingcha and Daji, and two pumpings, the surviving fish are all the best.

Zhu Qiyu picked up Yuan Bin's memorial and looked at it for a long time before saying to Xing'an: "How many imperial silver coins do we still have?"

"More than 300 million." Xing'an said hastily.

These silver coins were originally planned to go to Nanjing, exchange them for gold flowers and silver, and then send them back to Beiya to stabilize the people's livelihood in Nanya.

As a result, few pieces were exchanged.

"Well, not many."

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "You go to Wei Guogong's mansion tomorrow to see if he has a bank to put money in. If you put money in pledge, the profit will be set at one point."

"Didn't Hu Shangshu say that? If the profit is [-]%, the green and the yellow can be divided."

"We can't break the rules we set ourselves, so let's release the rice money, with one hundred silver coins as the base point, just let it go."

"The land deeds, real estate, workshops, and merchant ships can all be used to repay the debt, and it will be calculated at [-]%. Anyway, they can't afford it."

Zhu Qiyu couldn't let go of the imperial silver coins, so he simply changed the method and asked Xu Chengzong to release the money. With 300 million silver coins, he could buy a lot of them at a low price.

Don't you want to hoard?Don't you want to make a fortune?

Xing'an bowed his head and said worriedly: "What if they run away? What I mean is to go overseas."

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "The sea outside the Yangtze River is frozen, where are they going?"

"Besides, looking at the world, they can run away for a while, but they can't run away forever. They only want to trade in the sea, and they have to come to Daming."

Xing'an thought for a second that this was indeed the case, and bowed his head to accept orders.

Zhu Qiyu went to the bathroom to wash up, and then came to Yeting.

His Majesty the Emperor, who was looking forward to it day and night, finally finished his business and thought that there was someone else in the palace.

Before Zhu Qiyu could reach the bed curtain, after confirming that it was His Majesty, Chen Wanniang stepped on the ground barefoot and jumped onto Zhu Qiyu's body.

"Miss me? I'm not afraid of the cold." Zhu Qiyu asked with a smile while holding Chen Wanniang.

Chen Wanniang buried her head deeply, and said as if crying, "Think."

"Thinking about what?"

"Your Majesty has teased the servants again."

"What are you thinking?"

……

The hibiscus tent is warm.

Chen Wanniang was finally defeated and begged for mercy one after another.

Zhu Qiyu looked at the top of the bed curtain, and asked with a smile: "Does Wanniang have any family members? I'm not talking about a matchmaker."

Chen Wanniang was silent for a long time, and finally stopped her troublesome hands, and said with a sigh: "It's gone, my parents sold the slave's house, but they froze to death within a few days, and the slave's family has a younger brother who can't be sold, so they freeze together." died."

Zhu Qiyu was stunned for a moment, then sighed and said: "So that's the case, don't be sad."

Who would sell their sons and daughters if they had no other choice? Among the four members of their family, only Chen Wanniang survived.

"My family is not sad. After a long time, I will take it lightly." Chen Wanniang didn't care much.

Zhu Qiyu looked at Chen Wanniang's face, but stopped talking and fell into a drowsy sleep.

In the early morning of the next day, the snow was still falling, and although a large amount of coal from Nanya entered the city of Nanjing due to the siphon phenomenon, it was temporarily stabilized, but the price still reached 25 yuan a catty.

Zhu Qiyu began to ask a company to release coal, and the coal was released in batches, at least 15 scales at a time, more than 2000 catties, and the price was [-] taels of gold flower silver or two thousand imperial silver coins.

There is a company that releases coal, and tens of thousands say it is like a stone falling into the sea without a trace.

Chapter 366 Seeing him rise from Meishan Mountain

The coal released by Zhu Qiyuwan is the official release, and at the entrance of the coal market, there is enough control.

This is also a similar operation that the imperial court has every time it releases coal.

In the eyes of the imperial court, these merchants can effectively cooperate with the imperial court to release coal.

In the winter of the fifth year of Dazhong Xiangfu, the city of Kaifeng was "lack of charcoal among the people, and its price was very expensive". Seeing that the people couldn't bear it, the imperial court paid 40 yuan of charcoal, and took out part of the wood coal it controlled, and put it on the market at half price. The people flocked to buy it, and as a result, a tragic incident occurred in which "someone who trampled the dead" trampled to death.

During the four-year winter of Song Renzong Jiayou, it was cold, rainy and snowy, and the price of firewood and food doubled. Many people died in the cold, and 80 catties of coal were put in, but they were quickly sold out.

From the Hongwu period to the Yongle period, hundreds of thousands of catties of coal were released.

This is because Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di only have so much coal in their hands.

The two released all 56 catties of red bamboo tribute charcoal, 36 catties of black charcoal, 36 catties of black coal, and [-] catties of firewood from Xixinsi.

But the people are still struggling.

Too little, a drop in the bucket.

Whether it is the siphon phenomenon in Nanya, or the home of millions of cold food near Beiya, it cannot be solved by a million catties of coal.

There are several conditions for Zhu Qiyu's official release.

First, only accepting imperial silver coins, Zhu Qiyu still wants to promote his own imperial silver coins as the currency in circulation in Nanya, and second, buying in bulk, ten thousand at a time.

Your Majesty is benevolent and will not cheat the poor.

At dusk on the first day, Zhu Qiyu released 80 weights, about 600 million catties.

Meishikou received silver coins, and Baoyuan Bureau released silver coins. Zhu Qiyu released them on the first day, nearly 20 imperial silver coins.

Until this time, Zhu Qiyu still didn't show his fangs.

If these merchants realize that something is wrong at this time, and release coal with His Majesty, the price of coal will reach eight or nine cents a catty. Although they will lose money, they will definitely not go bankrupt.

All merchants, merchants, and common people are waiting for coal.

Because everyone knows.

The snow stopped, and when it started to melt, people were about to start freezing to death.

Wait a few more days, and the price of coal will skyrocket!

In addition to the coal market in Nanjing, the coal market in Luzhou, Anqing, Taiping, Chizhou, Ningguo, Huizhou, Hangzhou, and Ningbo also began to release coal.

"If they are willing to stop at this time, they will not go bankrupt if they start distributing coal with the court now." Zhu Qiyu and Yu Qian were playing chess, this time it was the Civil War.

In the Civil War of Ming Dynasty, Yu Qian was holding the Nanya, and Zhu Qiyu was holding the Beiya. The two people were inseparable.

Zhu Qiyu lost Xuzhou, and then was besieged by the Nanya rebels, Jinan Prefecture, and finally took advantage of the victory to go north and besieged Beijing.

Then he was pushed back by the training of the Volunteer Regiment in Beizhili, and together with Zhu Qiyu's army in Jinan, he pushed straight to Nanya, destroying everything.

Yu Qian was defeated.

"The strength gap between the Southern Yamen and the Northern Yamen is still too great." Yu Qian surrendered. There is a voluntary regiment in Beizhili that can be recruited, and the Nanya can only recruit strong men. No matter how talented they are in military affairs, there is no possibility of victory.

Zhu Qiyu put away his soldiers and pushed the chessboard.

Zhu Qiyu can win without Xing'an.

"Your Majesty has already started to release coal. If so much is released today, will the price of coal drop tomorrow?" Yu Qian asked suspiciously.

Yu Qian really can't understand the price of coal in Nanya now.

His Majesty put coal in Nanya, and they actually bought it all. The price only stabilized, and there was no possibility of any drop.

The heavy snow has become smaller, and Yu Qian also hopes that the price of coal can drop a little.

Zhu Qiyu shook his head and said: "Yu Shaobao, you underestimate the profit-seeking temperament of these people. They are already red-eyed now."

"When I put coal, Zhang's imperial list clearly told them that I have [-] million catties of coal, and I will put the coal in more than ten days."

"But they either don't believe that I have [-] million catties of coal to release, or they don't believe that I have [-] million catties of coal that will have bad consequences."

"During the time of curfew, they held the silver coins they had exchanged from Baoyuan Bureau and gathered at the entrance of the coal market to demand coal release."

Zhu Qiyu shook his head helplessly, and said with a sigh: "They are chasing the price."

Yu Qian sighed and said, "Oh, Lie Ziyun: When you take gold, you don't see people, you only see gold."

"In the Spring and Autumn Period of Qi State, there was a man who was eager to get gold. He came to the market early in the morning dressed up, went into a shop selling gold, grabbed a piece of gold and ran away. The officials caught him and asked: "So many people are there. Why do you still steal other people's gold?"

"He replied: When I took the gold, I didn't see anyone, but the gold."

"These wealthy businessmen now probably think that this coal is gold scattered on the streets, and it is gold that is left unattended."

"Your Majesty putting coal, in their view, is almost equivalent to giving them money."

Zhu Qiyu finished listening to the story.

Yu Qian is a well-educated Jinshi. He may not understand so many twists and turns in financial affairs, but Yu Qian knows history very well. Liezi's words really fully describe the psychological activities of this group of people chasing gains at this time.

Zhu Qiyu nodded and said: "That's probably the idea. They thought it was gold that was left unattended, but they never thought that such a thing can't be done."

As long as, as long as the coal price is lowered or not long after it is lowered, you can make a lot of money.

"Will your Majesty still put coal tomorrow?" Yu Qian said with a smile.

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "The curfew has been lifted at Meishikou today, and coal is released day and night, and a few more Fukou have been added. Today, at least 150 million will be released."

"Don't they want to eat? Stretch them to death!"

"Tomorrow I plan to release 200 million titles!"

"The coal market is still expanding. As long as they can eat it, I will release 400 million scales in the future. I will keep releasing it until they can't eat it!"

Zhu Qiyu's expression became fierce. This is 750 million weights, and every 15 weights is [-] catties.

250 million jin of coal.

Yu Qian said with a smile: "I hope they can repent in time."

Zhu Qiyu waved his hands and said, "No no no."

"According to the saying of fishing, they have already bit the bait at this time and have entered the stage where I am fighting with them fish. If it is said that I am weak, they can drag my fishing rod into the water, or even drag me into the water. into the water."

"But if they don't put in all their strength to pull the fishing line at this time, they will be caught by me."

"Repentance is before the bait is bitten, and they have no way out now."

Yu Qian stopped his hands in arranging troops and smiled all over his face.

Your Majesty's analogy is very interesting.

In fact, it illustrates the current situation of Lianghuai salt merchants, Huguang Tian merchants, and Liangzhe sea merchants.

That is, they must maintain the price of coal at this time, not lower than the price they bought, otherwise they will lose money.

This wrestling had already started when Zhu Qiyu started to put coal.