Chapter 296 The Universe in the Sleeves
The government of Yiguo pays two thousand shi of land tax for the summer tax, one thousand shi for the righteous warehouse grain, and one thousand shi for the social warehouse grain. The Qin family also donated a total of 5,000 shi to the township warehouses where Zhuangzi was located!
These numbers are recorded in the seal on the emperor's case.
The grain donated was more than the tax paid, and Qin Lang donated nine thousand shi.
One stone stirs up a thousand waves.
Under the emperor's behest, now the news is flying all over the sky, and the whole Gyeonggi is full of uproar. Li Shimin even asked the mansion newspaper to copy the whole world, so that the officials in all states and counties know about it.
Li Shimin turned up another memorandum, but it was given by Dai Zhou, the current Tong Zhongshu's subordinate Pingzhang Guoji, household minister and transit envoy. Dai Zhou said that Yiguo's mansion sold 50,000 shi of grain to Changping warehouse. When the Changping warehouse collected grain at a price of 110 yuan a bucket, he only sold it for 100 yuan a bucket, took the initiative to lower the price, and sold so much grain to the official warehouse at one time, so he asked the emperor to reward Qin Lang.
After the summer harvest, Changping Warehouse has already begun to collect grain vigorously.
It’s just that after the famine, not many people are willing to sell grain. Everyone would rather save grain to prepare for the famine. Moreover, after the grain price fell rapidly due to the bumper harvest, the landlords were even more reluctant to sell grain.
At this time, Qin Lang took the lead in selling grain, which undoubtedly became more prominent.
After taking the 50,000 guan grain order in Changping warehouse in Chang'an, the price of grain in Gyeonggi also dropped. It was originally 110 doumi, but immediately dropped to 100 doumi.
The Duke of Qi’s mansion received a letter from the Patriarch in Lingzhou asking them to sell grain as well.
Qin Qiong still has tens of thousands of acres of land, and the government of Qi State sold 20,000 shi of grain to Changping Cang at one time.
The purchase price of grain in Gyeonggi fell to ninety-five cents a bucket.
Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Cheng Yaojin, Yu Chigong, these big nobles are also big landlords, and they followed the trend closely and began to sell grain to Changping warehouse.
As a result, the price of grain fell again and again, and it fell to 80 yuan per bucket of rice in a few days. This caused panic among many landlords. At the beginning, the sale of grain was only part of the sale, but it was immediately discovered by the Zhenfu Department and secretly publicized it vigorously.
More landowners panicked, and the grain market fell again.
After several consecutive declines, the final food price even fluctuated around the price of 50 yuan per bucket of rice.
Although there has been no major drop since then, it has still fallen by nearly half from the previous Dou Mi 110 to Dou Mi 50. If you compare it with the 300 or even 400 renminbi when the grain price was the highest last year, it will be several times lower.
Although it is still about three times compared to the Taiping period, this price is already the lowest since the founding of the country.
What no one knows is that in this round of grain price roller coaster, it is not only the imperial court that has benefited the most.
In Xianyang, in the Qin family resort on the north bank of the Weihe River, Qin Lang was settling accounts with Cheng Qian there.
"We made so much money?"
Chengqian stared at the number after he pulled out the abacus for a long time, and couldn't believe it.
"Exactly."
Qin Lang turned his head and glanced, then smiled.
"In just a few days, I actually made so much money." Cheng Qian sighed.
"So this is called buying and selling, buy low and sell high."
Qin Lang gave Chengqian a vivid economics lesson. These days, he shorted the grain market and asked the prince to borrow Changping grain from Guanzhong Changping warehouse. He agreed to return it in one month and gave Changping two thousand guan cost of.
At that time, it was the time when Qin Lang had just sold grain to Chang Ping Cang.
Chengqian used the 200,000 guan money given to him by the emperor to buy it at the price of 100 qian per bucket of rice at that time.
Chengqian is the crown prince after all. Although his peculiar way of buying grain is a bit out of order, but because of the emperor's permission and an order to the Transshipment Department, they borrowed grain. Anyway, for them, the grain in this warehouse is only borrowed for a month, and there is a profit of 2,000 guan.
After Chengqian got the grain, he was under Qin Lang's personal control.
Through all kinds of coquettish operations, all kinds of hype and publicity, and from time to time deliberately lowering the price of grain to the market, this caused panic in the grain market, and the price of grain was knocked down again and again by him.
In less than a month, the original 100 Doumi was reduced to 50 Doumi. Chengqian's 200,000 guan borrowed 200,000 grains from the Changping warehouse, sold them in batches, and lowered the price of grains. When the one-month repayment period approached, he began to buy grain from the market again. Quietly buy food in batches.
Through this coquettish operation, one month later, Chengqian returned 200,000 stone grains to Changping Cang in full.
At this time, the purchase price of 200,000 stone grains was only 120,000 guan.
Chengqian earned 78,000 guan after deducting the 2,000 guan additional fees paid to Chang Pingsi. Even after deducting the operating expenses for this month, he actually got more than 70,000 guan.
Through the means of shorting, first borrow the grain in the regular position at a high price, and then sell it in the market, and when the market price drops, buy the grain at a lower price to make up for the regular position, thus making a fortune.
This method is actually very common in later generations.
The key point is that most people don't have this kind of meaning. What's more important is whether they can borrow food from Changping warehouse. The key to Qin Lang's ability to borrow food from Cheng Qian was that he and Cheng Qian went to the emperor.
Qin Lang expressed to the emperor that if he could beat the price of grain and make it much lower, the imperial court could earn more grain at a lower price, and the most important thing was to break the current situation where the landlords and grain merchants were reluctant to sell, so as to ensure the imperial court's peace. The warehouse can store grain.
Li Shimin was skeptical, but Qin Lang said that as long as the Gyeonggi Changping Warehouse is handed over to him to operate, the effect can be guaranteed.
With this guarantee, Li Shimin finally believed it.
As a result, Qin Lang temporarily gained control of Changping warehouse in Guanzhong Road, and he directly lent 200,000 stone grain to Chengqian, and then operated together.
Chengqian earned more than 80,000 guan in this month, and the Changping warehouse of the imperial court actually earned more, not just the 2,000 guan fee for Chengqian.
When Chengqian was selling high and selling low, in fact, Qin Lang was also manipulating the Changping warehouse to operate.
Through public opinion to build momentum, various gossips spread, and timely grain release made the grain market extremely volatile.
On this side, Qin Lang, Qin Qiong's eldest grandson Wuji and other great nobles and landlords sold large quantities of grain to the court Changping warehouse at high positions, while over there, Qin Lang manipulated the Changping warehouse to change hands and quietly lowered the purchased grain. Priced to sell.
No one would have imagined that there would be such a showy operation in Changping warehouse, buying high and selling low.
Who would have thought of it?
So, in the end, those upstart big landlords paid high positions for grain, and Changpingcang quietly manipulated the price of grain market, knocking down the price of grain.
When grain prices finally collapsed and small and medium-sized landlords also sold grain in a panic, Qin Lang asked Chang Pingcang and the prince to buy at a lower price to cover their positions.
Changping warehouse made a lot of money, all the grain came back, and benefited from the huge price difference of the grain market crash, and used the money earned to buy a large amount of grain and store it in Changping warehouse.
In fact, it is equivalent to, from three hundred and two hundred dollars for a bucket of rice before the summer harvest, to one hundred and two hundred and one dollars at the beginning of the summer harvest, and now to fifty yuan a bucket of rice, all the grain stored in Changping warehouse is five. Eleven buckets were collected.
The most critical issue is that the capital of the fifty-one buckets is not all Changping Division's, but a large part of it is the principal made from the money earned by Changping Division.
Li Shimin was of course secretly happy with this result.
Chengqian thought that Qin Lang was really just trying to make money for him, but this time, Qin Lang intentionally shorted the Chang'an grain market to drive down the Chang'an grain price.
Because of the fast action and the short time, the food from Kanto did not have time to enter Guanzhong, and the food price in Guanzhong was not affected at all, and the matter was settled.
Essentially speaking, the original intention of setting up a regular position is to buy low and sell high to stabilize the market price. When the market price is too low, buy, and the price is too high, sell.
It’s just that Qin Lang’s operation this time is a bit too miraculous. Through leverage, Qin Lang successfully took the lead in prying over the grain and actively harvesting leeks, instead of passively waiting until the market price changes dramatically.
So Li Shimin laughed heartily in the Taiji Palace, while Cheng Qian was counting the small money, and was extremely grateful to Qin Lang, unaware that Qin Lang was just playing with him along the way, to let him experience the complexity of business.
With a capital of 200,000, a net profit of 77,000 in one month, this profit is indeed faster than stealing money.
"Teacher, why don't we go to Luoyang quickly and borrow grain from Changping warehouses in Henan, Hedong, Hebei, and Huainan?" Cheng Qian said with red eyes.
Qin Lang picked up the knife and cut open a watermelon.
Watermelon is extremely sweet and refreshing.
"Some things can never be done again. The most important thing is not to be greedy!"
"Can't you?"
"There are many smart people in the world, and they will come back to it."
Guanzhong has always been relatively closed, especially the food sector, which is highly isolated from the market outside the customs. Another one, the Gyeonggi area, has a great policy influence. In addition, Qin Lang was the first to operate like this, so it's normal to be caught off guard. Of course, another key point is that the big landlords in Guanzhong are actually mainly the dignitaries in the court and the central government. When they also got into Qin Lang's car and threw high positions, the herd effect caused was huge.
But now if you go to Luoyang to operate, you won't have these favorable conditions.
Another one is that the Central Plains extend in all directions, and the volume is bigger, so it is difficult to leverage. If Chang Pingsi's grain is thrown in, it will cause blisters, and the price of grain will not change much at all. Then it will be me who will be ugly .
Moreover, this kind of money, after all, is reselling, it’s good to make a lot of money in a muffled voice. If you really focus on making a lot of money, the impact is not good. After all, Cheng Qian is the prince, the heir of a country, how can he fall into the eyes of money? Woolen cloth?
Just like Li Shimin, he makes a fortune silently, and won't make it public when he makes it.
"Then what do we do with so much money?"
Chengqian looked at the 277,000 coins stored in the account of Kaiyuan Bank, and felt a little uneasy.
(end of this chapter)