Chapter 422 Crazy Shell (Part 1)
June 16th, just after Yinshi (three o'clock in the morning).
In a flower hall in the inner courtyard of Prince Beijing's Mansion, Shui Rong was lying alone on the couch, which was rare. Although her eyes were closed, she tossed and turned in a restless sleep.
Suddenly, a series of tiny footsteps reached Shui Rong's ears. Without thinking, he immediately sat up straight and asked loudly: "Why, have you figured it out?!"
The visitor was originally very cautious, fearing to disturb him. However, upon hearing Shui Rong's question, he quickly ran over and said joyfully, "Congratulations, Your Majesty. Of the more than 20,000 gold berries that Manager Liu intercepted yesterday, 17% were mid-grade, and there were even more than a dozen top-grade ones!"
Shui Rong was overjoyed when he heard this. He didn't care about his disheveled clothes. He got out of bed, bowed to the person who came and said, "This is all thanks to my brother-in-law's advice. Otherwise, I would not known that there are such means of making money in the world!"
It turned out that the person opposite was none other than Wei Rushong, whose two back teeth were broken by Sun Shaozu.
Seeing the prince's brother-in-law being so polite, Wei Rusong hurriedly stepped aside, waved his hand and said modestly: "I dare not take credit for this. If it weren't for the steward Liu of the palace who thought of going outside the city to intercept the merchants trafficking in Tao Zhu Jin Bei, how could we get a share of the pie from the Zhongshun prince?"
It turned out that when Wei Rushong learned about the Tao Zhu Jin Bei incident from his younger brother Wei Ruolan, he wanted to make a fortune from it. However, when he sent people to do market research, he unexpectedly discovered that Zhongshun Palace was the mastermind behind the incident as Sun Shaozong speculated.
At that time, Wei Rushong was in a dilemma.
It is not easy to take advantage of King Zhongshun. If it is just a small matter, it would be fine. But if you accidentally cross the line and offend King Zhongshun, wouldn't it be a disaster?
But since it was King Zhongshun who was behind this, doesn't it prove that Tao Zhu Jin Bei is profitable?
This is such a God-given opportunity, are we just going to miss it?
After much hesitation, Wei Rushong finally found his brother-in-law, Prince Beijing Shui Rong - others were afraid of offending Prince Zhongshun, but Shui Rong, who had the Grand Princess as his backer, was not afraid!
As expected.
Because I accidentally damaged the vitality of the water banyan tree while following the trend of garden renovation last year, I heard that there was an opportunity to make up for the loss, and I accepted it without hesitation.
However, all the golden shells on the market had long been swept up by Prince Zhongshun's palace. The thousands of golden shells scattered outside as bait were just a drop in the bucket. If one did not have the "capital", how could one get a share from Prince Zhongshun?
The two were very upset about this for several days.
Fortunately, a manager named Liu in the palace quickly came up with a solution.
Although the more than 100,000 Taozhu gold shells that were initially transported were all bought up by King Zhongshun at a very low price, the place was far away and news was hard to come by, so there must be some merchants who arrived late and were on their way back to the capital.
As long as we set up a checkpoint on the official road outside the city and buy the gold and shells that will be shipped in advance, wouldn't we be able to make a fortune following King Zhongshun?
In this way, the Palace of Prince Beijing gradually collected more than 60,000 gold shells. Together with the more than 20,000 just obtained yesterday, the total has quietly approached the 90,000 mark. And because it was half bought and half robbed, the average price of purchasing these gold shells was only five cents of silver per shell.
Now, after the two royal palaces worked together to hype up the market, the price of a mid-grade Taozhu gold shell had risen to fourteen taels and six cents of silver per piece, and the price of a lower-grade one was around one tael and three cents.
In other words, in just one month, the palace only spent tens of thousands of taels of silver as capital [nearly half of which was used for speculation], and according to the market price, it had already earned more than 200,000 taels of silver!
What's more, this is only the current situation. With the current trend of Taozhu Jinbei rising by the day, by the end of the month, it is possible that the price has risen to twenty-five taels, or even higher!
Thinking of the bright future, Shui Rong paced back and forth in joy. But after a moment, he couldn't help but feel anxious and said hesitantly: "Brother, the gold shells we have saved, plus those collected by my uncle, are almost 200,000 pieces. Although they are in high demand but not worth the money in the city right now, once our two families start selling them, will it be..."
Wei Rusong laughed and said nonchalantly, "Your Highness is probably worrying too much. Almost everyone in the city values this item. With hundreds of thousands of people competing to buy it, two hundred thousand gold shells may not be enough."
"Besides, Prince Zhongshun has a lot more gold shells than we do. With his money-loving nature, how can he watch the price of gold shells plummet? We just need to keep a close eye on Prince Zhongshun's mansion and move forward and backward with him. This deal is a sure win!"
After hearing this reasonable consolation, Shui Rong felt relieved immediately, and immediately ordered impatiently: "Then send people outside to spread the news, and strive to raise the price of a medium-grade gold shell to thirty taels of silver by the end of the month, and the low-grade ones to more than two taels of silver!"
"Yes, sir!"
Wei Rusong responded in a serious tone, and then said, "In fact, I have already sent someone to bribe a beggar in the evening. I will have him go to Xiankelai to brag about it tomorrow."
"It will probably not be long before the news spreads throughout the city that the beggar who picked up the Tao Zhu Jin Bei became rich overnight and not only bought a mansion and a woman, but even bought the position of a village chief. By then, the Tao Zhu Jin Bei will naturally increase greatly!"
As he spoke, he sneered again: "Come to think of it, this beggar was actually the memorial archway erected by Sun Lao Er. I want to see how his beggar baojia system can continue to be implemented after this news spreads!"
"this……"
Shui Rong nodded repeatedly at first, but after hearing the latter part, he couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "Brother, Ruolan has taken action several times before, but she always suffered at the hands of Sun Shaozong. I think this man is really a powerful character. Our situation is very good now, why bother to provoke him? What if something unexpected happens..."
"Your Majesty, you worry too much."
Wei Rusong shook his head and said disdainfully: "Sun Lao Er usually pretends to be a strong leader, but in fact he is just a dog raised by King Zhongshun. Even if he dares to mess with us, how can he dare to go against King Zhongshun's wishes?"
When Shui Rong heard this, he also felt that this made sense.
After all, some time ago, Sun Shaozong was still sending people to investigate the affairs of Tao Zhu and Jin Bei, but later he suddenly stopped. According to common sense, he was obviously afraid of the power of the two royal palaces.
Therefore, he did not take it seriously, stretched his waist, yawned and said, "Since everything is in the hands of my brother-in-law, I will go and take a rest and get some sleep."
Wei Rusong bowed slightly and said confidently: "Your Majesty, please go to the backyard and rest. I estimate that when you wake up from your dream, the middle-grade gold shell will have crossed the threshold of fifteen taels!"
