Chapter 103 Yuan Shao: The man is alive, but the money is gone!

Even at this time, Yuan Tan thought that it was only Pang Qi who was causing trouble, and he was not alert.

Because the status of merchants in ancient times was too low, even if he had the appearance of a noble family, a bastard's son was still a businessman. Yuan Tan didn't believe that he would dare to play any tricks.

I also don't believe that a mere businessman can play any tricks.

But we forget why businessmen have a low status?
Why is it ranked last among the “scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans”?

It's not that merchants are really incompetent, but that "Tian Dai Qi Jiang" used money to benefit the country, and Lu Buwei "took advantage of rare goods" to hoard the crown prince, which scared those in power, so they tried their best to suppress them, which led to the decline of the status of merchants in the Han Dynasty!
As a businessman, how can it not be important to control money?
"Oh no, Prince, that Pang Qi is missing!"

Yuan Tan was stunned by the news from his subordinates, and subconsciously asked, "Isn't he in the wine shop?"

He thought that it had not been found yet.

Unexpectedly, the subordinate continued, "No, I couldn't find Pang Qi, so I led people to break into the winery and arrested the manager. As a result, after asking, I found out that Pang Qi had been missing for more than a month, and now the winery is managed by the people below."

At this point, even if his reaction was slow, Yuan Tan had already realized that something was wrong.

He hurriedly asked, "Where's the money?"

He didn't care whether Pang Qi lived or died. What he wanted was money, the principal invested and the dividends, not a single cent less.

"This..." The subordinate hesitated.

After thinking for a long time, he still didn't say anything, but pushed Punch's butler out.

At this moment, the butler looked as pale as death.

When he came in front of Yuan Tan, he had completely given up. He didn't even kneel, but sat on the ground and said weakly: "The money is gone, everything is gone. He did it on purpose. He wants to kill me!"

Yuan Tan: “???”

He hurriedly asked the reason.

Soon, it was known that although Pang Qi was born in the Pang family, no one cared about him because he was born out of wedlock. The housekeeper in front of him was assigned by the head of the Pang family to manage the wine shop on his behalf.

Basically, although you are born out of wedlock, you have property.

The Pang family does not provide you with any benefits, but your property belongs to the family, and the family has to send someone to manage it.

So, twenty years ago, the butler who was born as a servant went to Punch and became an "emperor", almost taking control of everything Punch had.

It was not until ten years ago that Pang Qi went out for fun and met Ji Hao, who was then a "tomb-grabbing lieutenant", in the West Garden.

After returning, he brought back a wine-making recipe.

He opened his own line and started his own business. Later he generously reconciled with his housekeeper. The two worked together for ten years and opened the current "Pang Family Winery".

Everything was fine.

But just a month ago, Punch suddenly disappeared, neither alive nor dead.

The housekeeper checked carefully.

My goodness, there is not a penny left in the warehouse, and the book loss is trillions of money, all of which is the capital invested by major families - what does trillions of money mean?
Emperor Lingdi sold official positions, and Cao Cao's father bought a position as a high official for only 100 million coins.

That’s equivalent to tens of thousands of Sangongs!
Before following Pang Qi to do business, the butler had never seen so much money - in fact, there was not that much money on the winery's books. The major families invested not only money, but more importantly, food and manpower.

But now there is no food, no money, nothing.

Just a big hole.

In the housekeeper's view, this was Pang Qi's revenge, revenge for what he had done in the past and revenge for the Pang family taking away his property.

But Yuan Tan didn't think so after hearing this.

To take revenge on a person, a noble family, is it necessary to make such a big hole?

Trillions!

"Investigate, investigate thoroughly, where did the money go!"

After receiving the news, Yuan Shao was furious and roared.

Twenty percent of the trillion yuan was invested by the Yuan family. In their hearts, the Yuan family even regarded the winery as their own industry and a cash cow.

Unexpectedly, the bomb exploded suddenly. The person was alive, but the money was gone.

It turned out that the dividends of the first batch of investors were paid with the principal of the second batch of investors, and the second batch of dividends were paid with the principal of the third batch of investors, and their money was also used to pay the wages of the people.

Some people also donated grain, and the grain was used to make wine.

The wine was given to everyone free of charge.

Whether it is investors or "distributors", drinking is free, and they drink and take things at the same time, which really makes all the money go to waste.

In the end, there was no money and no food left.

All the principal was spent.

As for sales, there are no sales at all. They spend hundreds of millions of dollars to create sales. It looks good on the books, but in reality it is a loss. It is similar to someone selling pigs.

Finally, to sum up, all the money of the major families has been confiscated.

Millions of ordinary people became wealthy, but all the major families lost out.

Because they trusted him too much, they all invested too much. Yuan Shao even invested military funds. At first, he was very happy to get dividends and buy food, but now, he just wants to know what to do next.

The money is gone.

But millions of troops were already on the march, anxiously awaiting food and pay.

Luoyang could not be captured.

Still in a stalemate!

"My lord, there is no rush to conquer the world. For now, we should withdraw our troops quickly to prevent mutiny!" Tian Feng suggested to Yuan Shao.

However, Yuan Shao simply refused to listen.

The major families could not accept the fact that they were losing money.

In the end, Xu You proposed to collect grain and money from the "agents" who made money from the winery, 100,000 coins per person - tens of millions of agents, added together, just made up the trillion-yuan hole.

Yuan Shao's eyes lit up and he exclaimed that it was brilliant.

Tian Feng was so shocked that he was stunned.

"My lord, you are destroying your own Great Wall!"

"Be brave, take it down for me!"

……

On the other hand, after receiving the news that Tian Feng was executed by Yuan Shao in anger, Ji Hao knew that this wave was a sure thing.

After the "Cornucopia" was completed, Yuan Shao was in a dead end. If he withdrew his troops, Ji Hao would attack Youzhou and Jizhou, and Lu Bu would also wait for an opportunity to attack Sizhou.

As one side gains, the other loses, and the situation is hopeless.

But if the troops are not withdrawn, military pay will always be a problem. The only way to quench thirst with poison is to impose additional taxes.

However, Yuan Shao adopted Xu You's suggestion and chose to "recover" the "stolen money" from the only distributor who benefited from the Cornucopia incident.

"Yuan Shao thought that there were only tens of millions of people, and his own territory had a population of nearly 30 million. One-third was better than collecting taxes from all the people. He also believed that the money would not disappear out of thin air and must still be in their hands." Guo Jia said.

Ji Hao smiled at this.

He said, "What he doesn't know is that in order to make more money and pay less 'agency fees', most of the dealers sell as a family, with one person acting as the name, which is actually almost all the people. Although they made a lot of money, they also spent a lot in the past year, mostly buying land and houses, and then returned to Yuan Shao and was invested again. In fact, there is not much money left, let alone 100,000 yuan, most people can't even take out 10,000!"

As for where the money went?
The major families and nobles, especially those in Chang'an, are actually very extravagant. Many of them keep their capital to collect dividends, and then spend all the money every month.

During this period, the black market along the Yellow River has seen its revenue increase by several percent.

That’s the final destination!

"The people have no money, and Yuan Shao is still trying to collect it. This will inevitably lead to a civil uprising. In addition, the army has no food and wages. The Yuan family is completely finished!" Ji Hao looked at Lu Bu and said, "Let's do it! You attack Sizhou and Liangzhou, and I will attack Youzhou and Jizhou. We must take all of Yuan Shao's territory before Liu Bei can react!"

(End of this chapter)