: Fight to the death

As long as they leave the East Three Mansions, the banknotes will lose their true circulation value. Although many merchants, including Liaodong merchants, admit that the currency value of the banknotes in the East Three Mansions, when they leave Longkou and Dengzhou, they still have to find Beihai Money House and various Money Houses to exchange the banknotes into silver and transport them away. Unless they are madmen and geniuses, they will take the banknotes, silver and money houses home.

Therefore, Dengzhou's foreign trade cannot be separated from silver. In fact, the banknotes only play an auxiliary role. After the outbreak of this natural disaster, the local production level in Dengzhou was hit hard, at most it was only 20% or 30% before the disaster. All imports and exports plummeted to a level that cannot be seen directly, and only grain imports surged to an almost astonishing level.

Although Liu Peng successfully received the grain stocks of Liaodong merchants, while the prices of grain in Dengzhou soared, prices also soared. Therefore, some merchants felt it was profitable and rushed to Denglai to participate in this big speculation that was synchronized with the disaster, which made Longkou show a not-so-normal prosperity, but all of this requires a lot of silver support.

Now Beihai Money House uses its own deposits to support the foreign trade of the entire East Three Prefectures. When merchants from all sides return with a full load, they will exchange the banknotes in their hands for silver. However, if the deposits are exhausted and the banknotes cannot be exchanged for silver, the credit of the banknotes will be fatal.

The fatal blow to the credit of banknotes was a complete run. When Liu Peng thought of the number of banknotes circulating outside, he took a breath, which meant that the Longkou financial system with Beihai Money House as the core collapsed. Even if Beihai Money House held countless household businesses in his hands, it would be useless.

Thinking of this, Liu Peng became more and more calm. He asked Zhu Henghui: "Didn't Jin Baiwan's property just searched two days ago? I remember I searched several thousand taels of silver?"

Zhu Henghui's expression seemed very painful: "All the gold and silver that were found from the million-dollar gold have been included. The deposit of silver is still less than 10,000 taels. Although there are more copper coins and gold, it will not last long even if it is taken out to exchange. My sister did not expect that the bank would be exchanged so quickly. Now the deposit of silver is in full swing. My sister asked me to ask my brother-in-law to make an idea early, otherwise things would be troublesome..."

In the late Ming society, gold was just a precious metal for collection rather than a circulating currency. Although copper coins were the main currency and had an irreplaceable role in small-scale trade, due to the small-scale face value, the first choice for bulk trade is silver.

According to modern terms, the problem of Longkou is "seriously insufficient foreign exchange reserves", and Liu Peng also smiled bitterly: "I forgot that it is almost the end of the year..."

Since the Chinese have a tradition of going home for the New Year, they naturally have a tradition of checking out before the New Year. At the end of each year, the time when the money is tight, Liu Peng has been busy dealing with the Heng Palace and has forgotten this problem. However, Liu Peng asked again: "Is anyone deliberately making trouble with us?"

"It shouldn't be!" Zhu Henghui replied to Liu Peng: "I was intern at Beihai Money House during this period. I felt that except for the faster cash silver exchange, there should be no major problems!"

Liu Peng nodded and told Zhu Henghui: "Henghui, do you dare to go to Lijin?"

Longkou has a piece of land in Lijin, and Lijin is the entrance to the Daqing River, so Longkou has been exporting large amounts of grain to both sides of the Daqing River through Liu Kangjie and Lijin. There is still at least ten thousand taels of silver in the final payment, so Liu Peng is preparing to ask Zhu Henghui to recover the final payment, which can not only add at least a few thousand taels of cash to the Beihai Money House, but also add a lot of money to Zhu Henghui's resume.

"No problem!" Zhu Henghui immediately said: "Mr. Liu, I can follow your arrangements and go to Lijin at any time, but I still want to go to Laizhou Prefecture with my brother-in-law."

Liu Peng nodded: "I understand, you can rest, I will make specific arrangements when I look back."

The situation in Qingzhou Prefecture is getting worse and worse now, so the gentry of Qingzhou Prefecture, including Ding Yaodou, did not leave. There were a few gentry in the lobby, and even Zhong Yu, Zhong, and the old Jinshi came.

When Liu Peng came back, everyone's faces became a little relaxed. Zhuang Qian told Liu Peng: "Old Zhong went over to talk to Ma Daotai just now, and Ma Daotai finally let go again!"

Liu Peng became curious: "What did Ma Daotai let go?"

Zhuang Qian replied: "Mr. Zhong argued with reason. Ma Daotai really couldn't say that Mr. Zhong, so he could only agree that the 20,000 stake was limited to only a year ago. What happened after the year can be discussed later!"

For Longkou, Madugong can be said to have made a big concession, but Liu Peng's face became serious: "Can you talk about the things after the New Year?"

"Yes!" Zhong Yuzheng replied: "Let's talk about the things after the New Year. Anyway, Longkou could export a total of 20,000 stones to Qinglai's two mansions before the New Year."

"Twenty thousand stones of grain?"

The rice price in Longkou and Dengzhou has always been one stone of rice and three taels of silver, and this price has been stable for several months.

When the Rice Industry Association initially offered this price, County Magistrate Cao was scolded so much that he could hardly take care of his life. Even Liu Peng was slandered. Everyone thought that the rice price was too high and that everyone could not live.

However, as time goes by, everyone thinks that one stone of rice is three taels of silver and is priced on banknotes. This price is very reasonable. Later, everyone even thinks it is a conscientious price. Although the rice price in Dengzhou cannot be considered the lowest in the province, it is also a conscientious price in the conscientious price. In particular, the loan service provided by Beihai Money House has made many people who cannot afford to eat rice and cannot survive.

What is the current price of rice in Qingzhou Prefecture? One stone of rice and ten taels of silver, and this price is still the current price of silver. If Longkou can sell 20,000 stones of grain to Qingzhou Prefecture, it will immediately create huge profits.

More importantly, the current bank income is now less than 10,000 taels of silver deposited by the Beihai Money House.

Although the local branch of Beihai Money House, as well as Longjiang Money House, Donglai Money House and Fukang Money House, Liu Peng knew clearly that most of the deposits of the entire Longkou system, or to use another time and space, "most of the foreign exchange reserves" exist in the Beihai Money House general number. Whether local branch or other semicolons in the Longkou system have cash and resources, they are only a fraction of the Longkou general number.

This is also the reason why Master Tao clearly wanted to attack Beihai Money House but still couldn't do it in the end. He found that even if he checked the Penglai semicolon of Beihai Money House, it would be useless. Penglai semicolon was not the case, not to mention the cash bank or the banknotes, the inventory of the money tickets was extremely limited.

Now that the Beihai Money House account has less than 10,000 taels of deposit, although it can be dealt with by lending and other means in the short term, there will definitely be big problems if it continues for a long time.

If you go to Qingzhou Prefecture to export 20,000 shi of grain during the Chinese New Year, even if it is a price of one stone of rice and three taels of silver, and then recover half of the payment before the New Year, there will be 30,000 shi of cash available.

As long as you spend 30,000 taels of silver, there will be no major problems in Beihai Money House. With the strength of Beihai Money House and the financial system carefully built by Longkou, even if there is a problem before the New Year, there will be no major problems. At most, some merchants are treated differently and cannot exchange banknotes for cash in time before the New Year.

What's more, the rice price in Qingzhou Prefecture is now ten taels of silver per stone. With the style of Hengwang Mansion, he could not allow Longkou to reduce the rice price to one stone of rice and three taels of silver. At most, Longkou is allowed to sell one stone of rice for eight taels of silver or seven taels of silver. But no matter what, as long as the price sold at Longkou is lower than that of Hengwang Mansion, he can still quickly get a large amount of cash from Qingzhou Prefecture and cope with the runs before the New Year.

Ding Yaodou, who was standing beside him, said happily: "If I could transport 20,000 stones of grain to Qingzhou Prefecture before the New Year, then Qingzhou Prefecture would have a good New Year!"

The quota of 20,000 shi of grain before the New Year is completely different from the quota of 20,000 shi of grain in total. Especially the New Year is coming soon. No matter how difficult life is, everyone always wants to eat something good and drink. If this batch of grain in Longkou is transported to Qingzhou Prefecture, there will definitely be no need to worry about sales.

In fact, there is no need to sell at all. Liu Peng only gave a little profit to the Qingzhou Prefecture gentry present to share the 20,000 stones of grain. The village over there had already said first: "Mr. Liu, our Juzhou has the most disasters and the most swearing people. You have to take care of our Juzhou more!"

However, Liu Peng suddenly bowed to Zhong Yuzheng: "Thank you Mr. Zhong for your trouble. It's really a embarrassing Mr. Zhong!"

Zhong Yuzheng replied: "Don't make things difficult, we are all for the millions of people in Qingzhou Prefecture!"

Liu Peng's face showed a painful look, but his fists clenched tightly and his expression became more and more determined. He told Zhong Yu and the gentry of Qingzhou Prefecture who were present had made the final decision: "Thank you Mr. Zhong, thank you for your good intentions, but I have made up my mind!"

"I'm going to keep guests tonight. Since I'm a fight between Longkou and Heng Prince's Mansion, instead of her mother-in-law and mother talking, letting her play the Heng Prince's Mansion play these methods that are not on the table, it's better to lead my troops to Laizhou Mansion to fight to the death with Heng Prince's Mansion. This is the joy of being a hero!"

Speaking of this, Liu Peng's momentum became energetic: "I am going to lead a patrol team to kill Weihe and send hundreds of thousands of beans to Qingzhou Prefecture to save millions of people in Qingzhou Prefecture, so I can only keep guests tonight. Please forgive me for any inconvenience, brother."

Yang Zhaoguang next to him couldn't help but exclaim: "Mr. Liu, now Ma Daotai is guarding Zhaoyuan. If you leave Zhaoyuan, he will dare to waive your official position from a bunch of questions from the Beijing and the province. I'm afraid that the county magistrate you have worked hard to get will not be able to save it!"

"It's just a small county magistrate!" Liu Peng laughed: "Compared with the millions of people in Qingzhou Prefecture, it's not worth mentioning at all. Compared with millions of people in Qingzhou Prefecture, it's better if this county magistrate wants it. Qin Ming, pass on my order and mobilize the whole army..."
Chapter completed!