The grain number of the 44th week was opened in this hustle and bustle. Due to the hurry, a large part of the granary and house in the backyard of the store were not repaired, so they had to buy and sell while repairing. Fortunately, in hindsight, people don't mind if their shop is finished, clean and tidy, and what really matters to them is the price.

The current price of millet in the city is between 210 and 220 wen per bucket, and the Hesheng grain store on the wharf is 190 wen per bucket, a difference of 20 or 30 wen per bucket, and a difference of 230 wen per bucket. What's the extra mile walk? It attracted many people from the city to pick up food.

The reason why Zhoudao's free drama has to be staged for three days in a row is to form a sensational effect, not only to let the people in the city know, but also to take the opportunity of the villagers around the ten miles and eight towns to invite to watch the play, knowing that there is such a thing, to buy rice He Zhoudao's rice is cheap, to sell rice He Zhoudao collects rice at a fair price! To this end, he specially arranged for the shopkeeper to preach the policies and benefits of their Hesheng Grain Store in the middle of the venue between the performances of the troupe. For example, they don't play with scales. Will not use the big bucket to enter the small bucket out, hang the official rice bucket at the door of the store, for the people who buy and sell grain to print at will, and set up a "less than one penalty ten" black background red letter big wooden sign, indicating that two catties less than half of the penny, will be fined ten! You must know that at present, there are almost no grain shops and intermediaries who do not cheat when buying and selling grain. Zhou Dao is to use this to establish a name and a letter!

If you want to stand on your feet, the key depends on the cost. In addition to the fact that the Hesheng grain store invited more people than the general grain number, the other costs are not higher than or even significantly lower than other grain merchants in the county. First of all, the rent of the shop, although he offered a higher price than the other shops on the dock, but this is the dock outside the city, although the place is much lower than the city. Considering the size of his site, the overall rent of the store is not much different. However, in the process of collecting grain, he guarded the dock, and he acted as a tooth man to collect grain directly, which was a violation of the rules and a taboo, but Zhou Dao couldn't manage so much, he just had to reduce the cost as a result.

For example, the price of grain he received at the wharf is about 170 wen per bucket, and the grain number in the city is divided through the Yaren, and the price of the grain collected is at least 180 wen, which is not counting the cost of transshipment from the wharf to more than three miles in the city. Can a few grain numbers in the city also throw off their teeth and collect grain directly? If you make up your mind, you can do this, but you have to solve three problems. First, there must be a shop directly on the dock as a vendor, if there is no shop guarding it to be directly visible, just thinking about letting the two of them wait on the dock to fight with the people for food, then only the share of being beaten. It is also inconvenient to transport, and it is impossible not to be harassed. Second, we must be able to fight, and we must be prepared to fight a protracted war, there must be someone standing behind us, and we must be able to deal with the aftermath if we can fight. Third, the mode of operation and the concept must be changed. Wholesale and wholesale are the mainstay, strict control of cost detail management, small profits and quick turnover to speed up turnover. This is easy to say, but hard to do.

Zhou Dao and Xu argued that they had carefully calculated, even if the other party had done these things, Zhou Dao still had some unique advantages that they did not have. First of all, Zhou Dao's own family is to open a mill house, he has so much water mill and others don't, this is not as long as the money wants to build, this is the advantage of natural resources that cannot be replicated. The price of the rice and white flour he sold was definitely lower than that of other families, and most of the grain in the city was purchased or processed and milled from him, except for the raw grain and wheat. Finished grain has a price advantage last week, and this is only the first. Second, there is more than this one wharf, he occupies two wharves, which occupy two waterways on the Tuojiang River and the Zhuxi River, one large and one large, and the other in the south, and can collect grain. Moreover, the geographical location on the side of the Zhuxi River is a little more remote, and the price of grain is cheaper, and the current price is about 160 Wen per bucket. As long as Zhou Dao can bear it and gain a foothold on this dock, his advantage will be stronger and stronger. The key is that he can bear it?

In people's opinion, the newly opened Hesheng grain store is full of strangeness, no, every day before noon, the guys in the store come to the door of the store and stand in two rows, led by a person to practice boxing on the dock, after practicing boxing, it is to play sticks, rest for a while and then make knives. This group of people, sometimes nine and sometimes ten, all black and dancing with big knives, looked terrifying.

In addition to the shopkeeper and the account room, Halcyon invited a total of nine guys, who took turns to take one day off every ten days, and guaranteed at least eight guys in the store on weekdays. Zhou Dao recruited a total of six people from the tooth and porters at this wharf, all of them were strong and strong, and their daily wages were 70 wen for two meals, which was 10 wen more than the millers in Zhuxi Town. Four of the six new recruits here went to Zhuxi, and anyway, there was a shortage of manpower in the chicken coop. The remaining two strongest ones stayed in the grain store, and seven were transferred from Zhuxi to be able to fight, and when they arrived at the grain store as a partner, the two brothers Wu Disaster and Wu Neng were among them.

Wu Neng is a kid that Feng Yi takes a fancy to, although he just came, it is not a problem to fight two or three by himself. Wu Neng has never learned from anyone, but he has rich experience in fighting since he was a child, and his body is strong and has no tricks and no power to take the wild road, so he likes this if he can't help it, and he is born to fight. For Feng Yi, the master, he admires it, he practices every move and style very hard, and there is no need to urge supervision at all, let alone practice once and there is a ten-wen entry, "How can there be such a good thing in the world, who the hell is going to reason with!" Every time he thought about this, Wu Neng was so excited that he got goosebumps all over his body. This time, Wu Neng followed him to Hesheng to be Zhou Dao's personal general, and considering that Wu Disaster and he were brothers, he also brought them together. "This kid is a natural thug." This is Feng Yi's evaluation of Wu Neng. Now Zhou Dao took Zhang Hanwa and Feng Yi's family to move into Hesheng's backyard. A few days ago he heard a piece of news, good news: the eighteen arhats were fighting among themselves.