Chapter 136: The Orson Family Under the Economic Impact (2)
Orson helped his father pack up his belongings and chose to leave Delhi, and their home was in a small town not far from the city, which was a transit point for merchants from the south and other borders, and it can also be popularly understood as a wholesale market for later generations.
For this reason, the town is particularly rich, with a large number of merchants gathering here, which has also led to the development of all walks of life, and in the past, almost everyone here was able to maintain a friendly smile on their faces, but now...
When the Orson father and son pushed the cart back to the town, the streets had long since lost the festive atmosphere of the past, most of the people had nothing to do with a sad face, and the goods that came in were almost sold out every day, which made them pile up a large number of goods in their hands, so naturally there was no plan to continue to buy, and the warehouse of this transfer station had not been updated for a long time.
"Old Orson, how is it today? Are you sold out? ”
A businessman with the same sad face saw the father and son who had returned, and asked curiously, but under the bitter smile and shaking his head, he saw the truck behind him that was still bulging.
"By the way, tonight in the old place, the Chamber of Commerce has to discuss what to do."
The merchant didn't say much, and chose to leave after reminding Orson and his son, Orson's home was on the edge of the center of the town, and as a small businessman, it was actually very good to have such a residence, the house was a narrow two-story building, and at the door of the first floor, his sister was playing, and his mother was busy preparing dinner in the open door, although Orson had eaten a bento outside, but when he got home, his mother would always cook them a good dinner or supper.
"Father and brother are back!"
My sister shouted happily when she saw Aosen, and then ran towards Aosen, although Aosen was not too interested because of the dismal business at home in the past few days, but he still showed a kind smile on his face, no matter how sad the days are, he always has to go home, right?
"Little one, what are you going to eat tonight?"
Orson picked up his sister and laughed and teased, while the sister giggled:
"Mom made fried potatoes and eggplant tonight, and they tasted delicious!"
Hearing tonight's food, Orson frowned again, and he glanced at his father, who had already begun to reduce meat in order to save money.
The southern border is different from the garrison, the economy of the garrison is based on a strong agricultural foundation, and the economy of the southern border is based on developed commerce, to be honest, in terms of living standards, the southern border is far inferior to the garrison, in the garrison, an ordinary peasant class can have four dishes and one soup at a meal, including at least one meat dish or two meat dishes, this kind of combination in the heaven-given land, not even the entire Middle Earth is and luxury living standards, what kind of concept is this? This meant that in the garrison, every peasant lived the life of a wealthy little nobleman.
This is a terrible thing, and it is precisely this that really makes the farmers in the garrison area especially support Lu Luxiu, to be honest, tomato eggs in the garrison area, they all have to be regarded as vegetarian dishes!
Orson handed his sister to his father and went to the back to prepare to pack up his things, put the goods on the truck into his own warehouse and lock them, after being busy with these, Orson returned to his house, at this time in the living room, the food has been put on the table, four people, two large bowls of vegetables, next to the wooden barrel for rice, inside is steaming white rice, as the garrison receives the most crops, the garrison exports this new type of food at a very low price, people outside may not everyone like to eat, but the low price, but it has become the best choice for many families.
"Alright, let's eat!"
After Lao Orson announced the start of the meal as the head of the family, the family finally began to use chopsticks, two dishes: baked potatoes and roasted eggplant.
The baked potatoes are just right, the taste is very spicy, a small amount of chili peppers wrapped on it, eat it in one bite, slightly spicy and burn the taste, the crisp taste makes people chewy, at this time, if you drink a sip of cold beer, the blend of ice and fire dances wantonly in the mouth, how can people refuse this deliciousness?
If at this time, the spicy eggplant that burns is stirred into a puree and wrapped in the sea bowl of rice, the bite is planed down, almost every moment the rice grains are wrapped in spicy braised eggplant, although there is no meat grain, but with chewy oil residue instead, it is also a unique flavor, although Aosen has eaten a big bowl of tomato and egg rice outside, but at this time I still can't help but eat two big bowls, fortunately, my own family is only recently financially tight, and then do not eat meat, this vegetarian dish is still full.
After the meal, the mother began to clean up the table again, while the elder Orson walked with his son towards the chamber of commerce, the recent business was so bleak that if it went on like this, they local merchants in Delhi might really not be able to hold on.
At this time, almost every pillar of every family went out at the same time, and each of them had a sad face on their faces, and at the same time kept a trace of expectation in their eyes, hoping that tonight's meeting could come up with a way to make everyone feel predicament!
The chamber of commerce's council house is in a warehouse in the middle of the town, where the dense goods that were originally piled up have long been emptied at this time, there is no money to be made, and the caravans from the outside world have no incentive to continue to deliver goods to Delhi.
And when the whole flow stops, under this pool of stagnant water, can they, the fish, still live?
Many merchants came to the interior of the warehouse, and they sat in their seats, talking to each other, and learning about the recent situation, but everyone shook their heads and sighed, and almost none of them could maintain their old days under the impact of the garrison.
"Alright, quiet, all quiet, let's start the meeting!"
Maybe because of the economic downturn, this time the Chamber of Commerce hardly had any opening remarks, and it went straight to the point, but Orson keenly found that the few seats that should have been sat on were empty at this time, and it seemed that they were not ready to come, for these empty seats, the businessmen naturally found out, but they had no other ideas except for the impatience in their eyes, the representatives of these people were the old Jerry who teased in front of the Orson father and son this afternoon, those who betrayed Derry who gave birth to him and raised him, Immigrants took refuge with merchants in the garrison.
At first, the merchants did not disappear quickly, but as the first group of people made huge profits, almost every day there were merchants who chose to follow the returning garrison caravan and go to the garrison, maybe in a month or two, they would become a glorious garrison merchant, enjoying the various commercial welfare policies signed by their nobles, returning to Delhi, relying on policy tilt and excellent goods, sweeping away a lot of wealth.
At this time, several old merchants sat on it, and one of them stood up and said:
"The current situation is clear to everyone, and before the solution currently conceived by the Chamber of Commerce, what ideas everyone has can also be put forward!"
The old merchant sat back after saying this, and while the merchants looked at each other, one of them stood up:
"What else can we do? The merchants in their garrison were exempt from paying taxes, while we had to bear expensive taxes, and we could not afford to overweight each other's costs. ”