Three hundred famous poems shook the nations, but I just want to be a rich merchant!

Summary

The story describes a strategic intervention in Yang Zhou's grain market by Jiang Han. By allowing grain merchants to initially raise prices and then introducing court-supplied grains, he created a panic among merchants. This caused them to rapidly lower prices from 75 taels to as low as 1.5 taels per stone. The Zhou, Wu, and Yang families, who initially profited from high prices, were forced to sell their grain stocks at significant losses. Ultimately, Jiang Han's clever scheme resolved the city's famine by making grains affordable for the population, shocking local merchants who realized they had been manipulated.

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