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But before her butt left the bed, Wei Changtian's words floated over before her.
"Oh, now that I'm back, you can sleep."
"I am leaving."
"Squeak~"
From coming in to going out, Wei Changtian stood in the room for less than ten breaths in total.
Lu Jingyao stared at the closed door with wide-eyed eyes. After a long while, she suddenly grabbed the embroidered pillow beside her, and then waved her small fist as if she wanted to use the pillow to vent her anger.
But just when the punch was about to hit the pillow, she suddenly withdrew her strength, and finally it turned into a light slap.
"Snapped!"
"asshole!"
Biting her lip, Lu Jingyao patted the pillow up and down.
"Hate!"
"annoying!"
"..."
......
"I am back!"
Just when Lu Jingyao treated the pillow as someone and vented her grievances gently and angrily, Wei Changtian had already appeared in front of Xu Qingwan.
"It's so late and you still don't sleep, what are you doing?"
He leaned over with great interest, and then saw a thick pile of ledgers.
"Are you... trying to settle accounts?"
"Yes."
Xu Qingwan smiled and pushed the account book to this side: "I don't know when you will come back, so I just want to reconcile the account."
"When did you learn this?"
Wei Changtian was greatly surprised, flipped through the account book, and found that it should be the account of his "small family".
"It's what you learned in the days when you went to Fengyuan."
On the other side, Comrade Xiao Xu replied with some pride: "I specially found a Mr. accountant to teach."
"So now you are in charge of the money at home?"
Wei Changtian asked with a smile, "Then how much money do we have now?"
"Counting what sister Lu brought from the capital, there are a total of more than 5 taels."
Xu Qingwan pointed to a string of capital letters on the account book and explained: "Here, look, it's all recorded here."
"..."
Five thousand four thousand six hundred and seventy-seven taels of money.
Wei Changtian glanced at it, thinking that he remembered it so accurately.
More than 5 taels is not too much for a family like his, and it actually has something to do with him.
He didn't want Xuanjing's Shuzhou sub-helming industry, and he didn't want any of the money earned by the Freemasonry.
To put it bluntly, Wei Changtian usually only spends money, not making money.
Even the income on this ledger is basically the dividends from some businesses that Xu Qingwan and Lu Jingyao participated in before.
"Hahaha, so it turns out that you are raising me."
After laughing twice, Wei Changtian made a joke casually.
Xu Qingwan also smiled, and after hitting him lightly, she closed the ledger and ran to the cabinet to lock it up.
The two have been getting along for a long time, and she has long been used to this kind of inconspicuous jokes, and she will never discuss with Wei Changtian seriously the issue of "who will raise whom".
"Crack~Crack~"
The sound of copper locks twisting sounded one after another, and Comrade Xiao Xu locked three locks in a cabinet.
And Wei Changtian watched her behave like a little hamster from behind, suddenly smiled and said:
"By the way, let me ask you something."
"Well, you can ask." Xu Qingwan was still rustling the ledger.
"If we only have ten taels of silver now..."
Wei Changtian asked curiously, "How are you going to spend it?"
"Twelve?"
Comrade Xiao Xu turned around with a puzzled expression on his face, and he really thought about it carefully, and then he seriously replied: "Of course it is used to buy grain rice. You can buy more brown rice, the price is cheap, and the rice husk You can also feed the horses..."
"Wait a minute."
Wei Changtian interrupted with a look of surprise: "We only have ten taels of silver and we still need to raise horses?"
"To raise."
Xu Qingwan nodded solemnly: "Even if you don't take a carriage when you go out, you still have to ride a horse anyway."
"..."
Poor people can only eat brown rice and feed me a horse? ?
Wei Changtian didn't know what to say for a while, so he asked another question.
"What if there are 100 taels?"
"Then we can do a little business!"
"Ten taels?"
"Well... for 1000 taels, then you can take a carriage!"
"Don't just think about me, what else?"
"In addition to this, you can also open a grain store."
"Why open a grain shop?"
"Because the grain store doesn't make a lot of money, but it will never lose money, especially in troubled times. The price of grain has risen sharply recently."
"..."
Good guy, I never thought Xu Qingwan had the potential to be a profiteer.
Wei Changtian smacked his lips, and was just about to continue asking "How do you want to spend the 1 taels".
But at this moment, a flash of thought suddenly crossed his mind.
"You just said...the price of food is going up recently?"
"Yes."
Xu Qingwan nodded: "Shuzhou is actually not bad. I heard that other states have increased more. Some places are [-]% more expensive than this time last year."
"Is it?"
Wei Changtian frowned, lowered his head and stopped talking.
Comrade Xiao Xu waited for a while, and finally couldn't help asking: "Chang Tian, what are you thinking about?"
"I'm thinking......"
"1000 million taels, can open several grain shops."
Chapter 391 "Heartless" Comrade Xu
A celebrity in a previous life once said that there are three ways to win a war.
One, destroy the opponent's army.
Second, destroy the other party's economy.
Third, destroy the other party's culture.
For Wei Changtian today, it is undoubtedly too difficult to lead troops all the way to the capital, and subverting Daning's ideology is even more whimsical.
But with a lot of money in hand, maybe you can try to make a fuss from the "economic" level.
Of course, there are obviously no financial derivatives such as stocks and bonds these days, so Wei Changtian's entry point can only be price.
The "food price" is undoubtedly one of the most important indicators.
If you can increase food prices in places other than Shuzhou, more people will be willing to live in Shuzhou.
On the other hand, Ning Yongnian also had to take action to "rescue the market", using the small treasury reserves to buy a large amount of grain and put it on the market, so as to achieve the purpose of lowering grain prices and avoiding riots.
In the end, under the ebb and flow, I can rely on the food in my hand to "surrender the enemy without fighting."
Um......
The idea is good, but Wei Changtian also understands that it is very difficult to realize it.
Because this "ancient" method of economic warfare does not take effect quickly, and the effect is not as devastating as in the previous life.
But anyway, there's no harm in giving it a try.
"Wan'er, I have an idea, how about you listen..."
After making up his mind, Wei Changtian conceived some words, and told Xu Qingwan his thoughts as simply as possible.
And the latter quickly grasped the point.
"I understand......"
"With large stockpiles of grain in the states, the price of grain must rise."
"At that time, Ning Yongnian had to compete with us for the food on the market."
"This will drag down the war between Shuzhou and Dafeng..."
"Changtian, but our foundation in other state capitals is still shallow."
Comrade Xiao Xu suddenly thought of a loophole: "What if Ning Yongnian directly sends troops to steal our food?"
"grab?"
Wei Changtian squinted his eyes: "If he wants to grab it, we'll set it on fire earlier, it's not for making money anyway."
"what?"
Xu Qingwan was taken aback when she heard the words, but immediately figured it out.
Wei Changtian's motives are different from those of those grain merchants who hoard grain in troubled times.
The latter is to make "national wealth", while the former is to "disrupt the market".
So if Ning Yongnian is really going to use violent means to intervene forcefully, then Wei Changtian can actually achieve his goal by directly burning the stored food.
Of course, this is obviously an act of injuring the enemy one thousand and self-defeating eight hundred.
But for Wei Changtian, who now has a wealth comparable to that of Daning's national treasury, he doesn't care how much money he will lose because of it.
Only...
"Chang Tian, but this will also affect the people of the world..."
After hesitating for a while, Xu Qingwan looked at Wei Changtian and said softly, "The price of food is already very high. If it rises again... then many people will starve to death."
"will not."
Patting the back of Comrade Xiao Xu's hand, Wei Changtian's expression was calm, which showed that he had already thought about this issue.
"I have my own way, and you will know later."
"Is it?"
Hearing what Wei Changtian said, Xu Qingwan breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good..."
"Ah."