This is the first time in his life that the backbone of several wealthy families has been worried about money, and it is actually for small copper coins rather than silver. You must know that in the past, they would not even look at the inconspicuous copper coins.

Not only Fan Changyue, the two Cai brothers, but also Hu Guanjue, they all sent a message to their families to help raise copper coins. As a result, several families joined forces and sent enough to buy more than 100,000 stones of grain, and then there was no further information. In order to avoid them blaming them, several servants even complained: "Masters, the young men have really tried their best. We almost used all the available connections and took out all the copper coins in our stores. Now the copper coins in each store will not exceed the same period of time. That is for daily change."

"I'll ask you guys to forgive me. We really have no choice..."

Seeing these confidant subordinates looking helpless and aggrieved, Fan Changyue and the others were not angry and could not get angry, so they could only wave their hands and let them go out first.

"What do you think?" Hu Guanjue had already noticed that things were not simple, and asked after pondering for a while.

Cai Zhili sneered: "We still underestimated Shu Wenqing and the others. They obviously realized that we could not take out so many copper coins before we dared to take the initiative. Judging from the current results, this is true. We can no longer raise more money."

"Yes, even if the other people have agreed to bring the grain to us, and the grain we bought today and what they sold before, the Shen family still has at least 300,000 stones of grain, enough for them to last for a few months. Once the time goes on, when the court actually sends people to arrive, our overall plan may fail..." Hu Guanjue said with deep consent.

"No, we don't have so much time. Once we see the opportunity, do you think that with the nature of the merchants in Guang'an will continue to help us? Maybe in a few days, they will change their minds again. And not only them, but also other merchants in Suizhou, and even the Liang family will change with the situation. After all, this is not our territory, and the Shen family is a real local snake!" Cai Zhiyi added, which immediately made the other people's faces even more ugly.

Fan Changyue was so angry that she slapped the case: "You can't do this. We have worked hard. If we really go back so badly, why should we win at home?"

This made everyone feel worried. Among the wealthy families, they seem to be rich and powerful, and they don’t have to worry about survival. But only they themselves know how fierce the competition within the family is. Especially the Mesozoic generations who are as tall as their identities but have not yet truly settled in the position of successors, have a heavier burden on them and need to do great things and make contributions to the family to compete for the highest position of head of the family.

This is exactly the purpose of their unremitting efforts to come to Suizhou from Xiangfan, Wuchang and other places, and it is also the reason why the four of them will join forces. But now it seems that even if the three families and four people join forces, the situation is not optimistic.

Cai Zhili frowned: "Can we put pressure on them through the government to change the rules and buy grain with money?"

Fan Changyue became interested as soon as she heard this: "It's better to give it a try..." Before he finished speaking, Cai Zhiyi immediately rejected it: "No! It's their limit to contacting the government office before, making them not help each other. After all, the Shen family is also a local wealthy family, and their reputation is there. Once the true scriptures and officials move the house, they will be passive."

"Then you think, what else can we do?" Cai Zhili said angrily.

"There is always a solution. I don't believe that such a large Huguang can't raise even such a little copper coins!" Cai Zhiyi stood up, paced in the hall for a while, and said to himself, "After the self-government listed silver as a formal currency, it can be used for various transactions and taxes, the silver circulated very much everywhere, but copper coins still occupy an absolute large part of the small transactions among the people. In this way, there should be a lot of copper coins in the bank bank bank account. This is also the reason why our several companies can quickly raise more than a thousand chunks of money. However, these shops and money shops cannot bring up all the money, otherwise they will ruin their own business. Then, after all, where are there a large amount of copper coins stored?"

When he muttered, he paused and thought of two places: "The government's warehouse, and... there are more small coins coming in and out of the gambling house!" His voice returned to normal and naturally fell into the ears of others, which changed Fan Changyue and the others' expressions: "The government and the gambling house?" There was so strange in his tone.

Indeed, the contrast between the two is too clear. The government is white, and even if the gambling house is not black, it is still gray. It is a target that ordinary businessmen do not want to provoke. Now, because I just mentioned that I am afraid I can no longer ask for help from the government, it seems that I only start from the gambling house.

"What you said is true?" Hu Guanjue asked again without any doubt.

"It should be no mistake. You think, who are the people who go to the gambling house? Although there are many rich people who spend a lot of money to gamble from time to time, but more of them are those who actually don't have much money, but they want to make a fortune by luck, but end up losing a clean ordinary person.

"And they cannot take out any money to gamble, they can only use copper coins as chips. Although they don't have too much money, when such people become hundreds or thousands, the amount of copper coins they flow into the gambling house is extremely considerable, far exceeding the copper coins we have in our hands.

"What's even better is that they will use copper coins to money shops for silver on weekdays. Brother Hu, your family also has money shops. Haven't they deal with people in such gambling houses?"

"This...is there." Hu Guanjue naturally would not say that he had never taken care of the money house and did not know the details inside, so he could only respond vaguely.

"That's it! So the copper coins we want are all in the gambling houses. But now it's too late to send people to Xiangfan and Wuchang and other places to negotiate with local gambling houses, so it's better to find a gambling house in Suizhou, and even if you spend more money, you have to exchange the money!"

Cai Zhiyi's remarks immediately won unanimous approval from everyone. To them, spending more money is nothing. As long as this time is done, are you still worried that you can't make the money you lost dozens of times?

At the moment, after a certain idea, they decisively asked the Liang family to come forward and contact the local gambling house, and then negotiated with them this big deal of silver for money.

...

"You want to negotiate a deal with me?" The scar-faced tiger grandson with a sharp face with a visible scar on his left cheek looked at the people in front of him and said strangely, "I run a gambling shop, you are in a serious business, and you, Mr. Shen, is also a famous charity in Suizhou. Why did you think of taking care of me?"

"Brother Sun, you are too humble. We call each other working together and getting what we need. You are also from Suizhou. You don't want our money and land to fall into the hands of foreigners. Our fellow villagers will become vassals of foreigners in the future?" Chen Tian said with a smile, pointing out the different identities of each party.

Sun Rang's eyes flashed, and he did not rush to express his opinion, but looked at Li Ling: "Boss Ling, are you also a foreigner, right? And you are not from Huguang."

"That's right, but I just want to make money from those people, but I have never made any idea of ​​locals. You have heard that, in fact, the reason why the food price can be stabilized these days is because Shen Jiajia Grain Store is spending a lot of grain, but the food is raised by us."

"Although my Sun Rang is a rough man, you can tell whether it is good or bad. You are really helping everyone. But the question is, what kind of business are you talking about with me? What can I do if I run a gambling house, what can you like?"

"Of course it's the money you have. Not only us, but also those merchants from Xiangfan and other places, are afraid that they will also put their ideas on you at this time. That's why we hope you can help us and the fellow villagers in Suizhou." Li Ling said seriously, and Chen Tian next to him also nodded, staring at the other party deeply, waiting for his response.

After Li Ling revealed the interests and key points, even though he looked down on business like a casino, Chen Tian still agreed to his request and brought someone to see Sun Rang in person just to convince the man to stand on his side.

Sun Rang lowered his head and pondered for a while, then said, "I am from Suizhou, so I naturally have to stand on the side of my hometown. How can you help me if you ask me?"

"Okay! I'll be relieved if Brother Sun said this!" Li Ling was overjoyed and immediately stood up and bowed to thank him, "I thanked all the people in the city." It is said that there are many dog-slaughtering people, and there are real heroes in the market. This time I have truly experienced it.

Chen Tian also showed excitement on his face and stood up to thank him, which made Sun Rang feel a little embarrassed and quickly waved his hand to say modestly. Half a man like him valued the most is face. Now that Li Ling and the other two gave him enough respect and face, he naturally made him very happy. Without any hesitation, he responded to everything.

After listening to Li Ling's next plan, Sun Rang's face showed a strange look. After looking at him carefully, he looked at him with some fear in his eyes: "Ling...Boss Ling, your plan is really cruel. Once they really come to me and fall into it, they may not only not defeat you, but also pay a lot of money..."

"This is also what they asked for. If they hadn't been greedy and wanted to take advantage of the situation, they would not have ended up in such a land. And in this way, not only can we make money, but the people of Suizhou don't have to worry about food anymore, but you can also make a profit, Boss Sun. Isn't it the result of everyone winning?"
Chapter completed!