Chapter 172: Food Prices Storm Again
The shopkeeper of He's grain shop is now having a headache, because a Rong Ji grain shop suddenly opened opposite. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info And the owner of this shop is completely hysterical. They can sell at the same price as themselves, or at a lower price than themselves.
But what about the result?
Now the price of food on the other side is only a little bit higher than one-third of its own price today. Even if you think about it with your toes, you will go to the other party's side to buy food.
Everyone's grain comes from Quzhou, a large producing state. Therefore, the shopkeeper of the He family also knows that even if the other party sells grain at this price, it will also make money.
But so what? It's a big deal, send someone over and buy all the food. Now the people of Linjiang have accepted the expensive grain price, and they are not worried that the grain price will not rise.
So, on the first day, he sent the little guy in the store to the other party to buy the grain.
As a result, people don't sell it at all! You have to go to the county government to get a grain stamp to buy it, and you can only buy 30 catties of grain with a grain stamp.
When I went to the county government, I learned that Mr. Tang was solely responsible for this food stamp, and he must have a household registration to apply for food, and a person's household registration can only apply for one food stamp a month, by the way, the food stamp is free!
At this time, if you don't know that this Rong Ji is of the same mind as the county government, then the shopkeeper is a fool.
The shopkeeper who felt a deep crisis immediately went home to discuss with his old man. The answer I got was just two words, reduce the price! Think about it, what's the use of not reducing the price?
Food stamps are free of charge, with the aim that everyone has the opportunity to receive them. Moreover, each food stamp has a fixed number, which corresponds to the name of that person.
It's not even possible to collect it on your behalf.
In the first few days, the Rong Ji grain shop was fiercely popular. It turned out that the old shopkeeper who was not optimistic about this town had to admit that this Linjiang County looked broken, but it was actually really rich.
Just look at the appearance of these customers who are not bad for money.
In Quzhou for so many years, the old shopkeeper has never seen a grain shop like himself, and the people queuing up to buy grain have lined up at the gate of the town.
put away the so-called food stamps handed over by the other party, and beckoned his servants to give this person thirty catties of grain, and the shopkeeper's heart was dripping blood.
I don't know who came up with the bad idea, but it must have been someone from some school who came up with it. This is obviously following the county government to suppress food prices!
Such a thing that harms others and is not beneficial to oneself, and the person who does these things is really a businessman? Wen Niangzi has collapsed most of the grain shops in her county town in two days, and she has never seen such gentleness?
Linjiang County is not big, and there are not many people. Plus one or two hundred people died from the plague before. Today, there are less than a thousand people in the town.
There are less than 1,000 people, and they can only buy 30,000 catties of grain a month. When the first wave of grain was about the same as the second wave of grain, the third wave of grain arrived.
This wave of grain came back by water.
After the drought ended, the waterways in Linjiang County were restored. Before, Rong Bai ran in Quzhou while fighting bandits, so he naturally traveled a lot by land. Today, those grains, 30,000 catties of grain a month, if dragged by horse-drawn carts, are dozens of carriages at a time. Horsepower and manpower are not a small expense.
After Rong Bai saw it a few times, he felt that it was better to take the waterway.
It happened that the boat of a water village was salvaged by Rong Bai before, and the old boat was found to repair it, and the boat of the water bandits became a ship for transporting supplies.
Contrary to the Changping River outside the county, about a few thousand miles away, is another granary of Dayong. The weather in this place is smooth, and the price of grain is lower than that of Quzhou.
Rong Bai's people spent twenty days swimming against the current, spending five days shopping for food, and after more than a month, they came back. I was stunned and brought 20,000 or 30,000 catties of grain, which was enough for the people of Linjiang County to eat until the spring of the second year.
This time to purchase food, the people who took the white belt were still their own 100 or so men, and they were gentle.
Along the way, when you encounter a wave of water bandits, you will grab a wave, and water bandits are more difficult than bandits, and naturally there is more money. By the time Rong Bai arrived at the place, Rong Zi was already the existence of the water bandits in the Changping River Basin.
That's totally unprovoked!
Therefore, when it came time for Dayong's other granary, Rong Bai's headache changed from whether the money was enough to buy food to what to do if the money was not spent.
Fortunately, Wen Wan gave a solution.
Wen Wan took a few people in her hands and stayed in the granary for an extra month. The purpose is to turn this granary into the granary of Linjiang County.
When it comes to the ability to fight in business, the people of this era have been gentle for centuries.
Since ancient times, all the people want is to be fed and clothed. Under Wen Wan's idea of restricting purchases, the grain prices of the entire Linjiang County completely collapsed.
No one will worry about not having enough food to eat, because everyone can buy enough cheap food to eat with food stamps. Before the grain was finished, several large ships came from the upper reaches of the Changping River, and the grain in them frightened the people.
It turned out that Rong Ji, who had never heard of it, was so powerful, and there must have been tens of thousands of catties of grain that floated down.
At this time, He Ji's shopkeeper could really only hug his old lady's thigh and cry. How can this fight with others? Other people's stock can abuse and cry in minutes.
Old Man He has been paying attention to Rong Ji since the problem of grain prices in a month. After sending someone out to investigate, they didn't do anything.
Don't say that Rong Bai is someone that Old Man He knows, even if Rong Bai is not someone that Old Man He knows, Old Man He also knows that now is not the time to confront Rong Bai.
That family, this time it's not business at all!
"I don't blame you this time, and you don't think much about it. If you can't sell the grain, you can stay there for a while. When the grain comes out next season, the other party will not act like this. ”
Is this really the case? The shopkeeper is not a fool, and the other party must have brought so much grain from the granary of the world! Can the price of grain over there be the same as that of this side?
Old Man He suddenly came to his senses, so it is also, this round, Rong Bai and those people have tasted the sweetness, if they continue to do this in the future, what will happen to their He family!
Thinking of this, Old Man He directly asked people to invite He Xuzhi.
You have to go to the other side of the river and ask Rong Bai what they are going to do!
After Rong Bai unloaded the grain, he asked the bandits who came to help transport the grain to return to the village with boats and commissions before taking the men home. As a result, before he entered the door, he saw the He family's carriage.
The two groups of people met at the door of Rong Bai's house.
He Xuzhi: ......
"He Xuzhi, are you here to find Hengqing?" asked Rong Bai loudly.
The four talents who fought the plague together at the beginning, two of them have now joined the school founded by Rong Bai. The remaining two people, after the Baili Sheng plague ended, left Rong Bai with something called a token, telling her that if she got sick in the future, she could go directly to the Medicine King Valley to find him without charging money.
The other is He Xuzhi, who has the least contact.