Chapter 177: The Way of Business
Exterminating the White Shark Pirate Regiment is a primary prestige task that Lu Shuang received, when Lu Shuang went to the government to receive the prestige task, he was told by the small official that the county order gave him small shoes, and chose the most difficult prestige task for him.
With the strength of the White Shark Pirate Regiment, the imperial court is indeed very jealous of them, and the leader of the White Shark Pirate Regiment is also a shrewd person, knowing that if several county governments jointly send troops to encircle and suppress, no matter how strong he is, he will not be able to return to the sky, so he sent a lot of spies to sneak into the city to monitor the movement of the military port. But the leader of the pirate group never expected that in the end, it would be destroyed by a navy of Inhuman forces, and their heads were also sent to the Guangling County Government to ask for merit.
Lu Shuang remembered that this primary prestige task was divided into two stages, and judging from the current situation, he had perfectly completed the requirements of the second stage of the mission, that is, a force that wiped out the White Shark Pirate Regiment, and could be appreciated by the county guard and reported to the assassin history, obtained all the loot, and gained the favor of all non-hostile forces in the Chamber of Commerce. Because the game was updated during this time, Lu Shuang failed to receive the reward, and now after the important things at hand are completed, he will take a few soldiers to Xuzhou Xiapi to find Xuzhou Assassin Shi Ba Yi for reward.
At this time, the history of Xuzhou was not Tao Qian, but the little-known Ba You. Regarding Ba Yi, it is recorded in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty that during his tenure in Yangzhou, he was very economical, and he was honest and honest when he was in office, and he did not take his wife and children to live with him when he was in office, and his daily expenses were also strictly controlled within the scope of Yulu. The black bandana was destroyed, and it was not replaced, but was repaired with water mixed with vinyl and continued to be used. When someone comes to visit at night, they would rather sit in the dark with the guests than use public candles.
Although the annual salary of the Thorn History in the Eastern Han Dynasty was 600 stones, which was much less than the 2,000 stone of the county guard, the power of the Thorn History was very large, and no matter how poor. And Ba Yi has saved to this point, he should be a good Qing official, anyway, Lu Shuang had high expectations for him before he met.
Lu Shuang has never been to Xiapi, and he has heard some of them in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" before, and the overall impression is not as deep as some famous cities, but since this is the seat of Xuzhou, and Xuzhou is a large economic province in the Central Plains, the place of governance will not be much worse.
Coming to Xiapi, the prosperity inside is really not low, Lu Shuang on the way from the city square to the official mansion, there is an endless stream of vendors and pedestrians, all kinds of strange or common items can be purchased here. Lu Shuang is not in a hurry to get down to business, but takes his subordinates around, he has to develop a habit of understanding the situation everywhere he goes, he doesn't have the time and energy, and he has to do it for his subordinates.
"Real World" is still a game after all, and it won't really do the same as in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, so when you encounter some very strange things or players, NPCs will also be surprised, as if all this is natural.
Lu Shuang first came to the grain shop in Xiapi, which is a local grain shop with a relatively large business scale, with almost all kinds of grain, including ordinary rice and expensive polished rice, which are generally reluctant to be eaten by medium-sized people. As a larger grain shop in Xiapi, ordinary people will not come here to buy rice, generally the rich family only send people here to buy ordinary rice eaten by servants and polished rice eaten by the master's family, but the price of ordinary rice and other grain shops is almost the same, and it is also the market price. Lu Shuang definitely didn't come here to buy polished rice, he has 1.4 million farmers, even if the probability of a B-qualified NPC being promoted to a king-level farmer is very small, but it can't stand the large number of people, plus every profession has an S qualified NPC, so Lu Shuang has a lot of special-grade farmers and some king-level farmers, and it is not a problem to produce polished rice.
"This guest officer, do you want to see something?" As soon as Lu Shuang and the king-level swordsman Wang Nie entered the door, someone greeted him.
"What is the price of your rice and polished rice here?" Lu Shuang is a general, although they don't know, but at least the prestige is enough.
"This guest officer, according to the quality of the rice, we have divided the following prices: the lowest is ordinary rice, the price generally fluctuates between 10 copper coins and 12 copper coins, sometimes the harvest is not good, the price will rise a lot, but our store is a century-old store, this price is still very fair. Then there is a little better rice, which is generally taken care of by those who are medium-sized or have little money, and the price is a little more expensive, 50 to 70 copper coins a catty (unit), which can only be cultivated by high-level farmers, and the price is a penny. As for polished rice, it is no longer something that ordinary wealthy families can afford, and the people who come to buy it are all high-ranking officials and dignitaries with a lot of wealth, and it is still priceless, and sometimes it cannot be bought with money. The clerk patiently introduced that from the moment Lu Shuang entered the door, it was detected that this was a gold owner.
"Isn't it just rice, and there is no price in the market, so I don't believe that these polished rice can be sold for more than gold." Wang Nie shouted on the side.
"This strong man doesn't know that polished rice can only be grown by a special farmer, whether it is from the selection of seeds or cultivation, it is carefully cared for, and the yield is still very small, the lowest starting price is 50 silver a catty, so it is not an old customer or a famous person, and the store will not sell it." The clerk was not angry, and explained with a smile that real polished rice still needs to be processed and the nutritional value is not high, and the polished rice here refers to the high-quality rice produced by intensive cultivation.
"Special Farmer? That's too harsh, isn't it? Lu Shuang's brows furrowed slightly, generally those with slightly higher qualifications will not engage in planting, most of them are engaged in agricultural activities for NPCs with lower qualifications, and special-grade farmers are really rare in other places. Immediately, it was relieved, and Lu Shuang even felt a little like laughing, because no matter how low the probability of being promoted to a special farmer with B qualification is, it is also one in a thousand to one hundredth, which means that there are at least 1,400 to 14,000 special farmers in the territory, and it is basically impossible to be below B qualification.
"Since there aren't many premium farmers, how do you usually buy this milled rice? Is it a standard milled rice will be purchased? If someone is willing to sell, will you buy it? Lu Shuang asked three times.
"It's pretty much the same, because even if it's a little bit of polished rice, it's a big deal, the price can be a little lower. If someone is willing to sell, as long as the conditions are met, we would like to have more people sell, and now there are only a few special farmers, how can there be enough for so many rich people to share it. The clerk patiently asked.
"I see, but a super-grade farmer can produce polished rice that the rich are eager to see, so do you have any rice produced by a king-level farmer in your grain store?" Lu Shuang continued to ask.
The clerk didn't answer immediately, but glanced at Lu Shuang, as if he wanted to give him a roll of his eyes, but he couldn't, so he had to explain patiently: "There was rice produced by king-level farmers in our store before, but those were all for princes and nobles, even the rich are not qualified to enjoy it, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a priceless treasure." ”
After Lu Shuang stayed in the grain shop for a while, he went to several other relatively large grain shops and found that the basic situation was almost the same. The reason why Lu Shuang asked these questions was because he wanted to sell the products of the territory to the outside world through the Chamber of Commerce.
In the territory, there are no rich people, and now everyone is accumulating raw capital, and it will take at least a few years before a group of rich people will be born, and there are no princes and nobles, dignitaries, dignitaries, so the rice produced by these farmers above the special level in the territory is actually not very high, although it will be sold out, but there will not be a phenomenon of price and no market. When Lu Shuang came to Xiapi, she wanted to see the situation here and prepare to sell them high-quality rice.
Unlike the previous sale of standard weapons in the ultimate market, the player's money can only be earned through small profits and quick sales after all, and after the cancellation of the remote trading function in the market, this practice is even more difficult to do, Lu Shuang wants to reach out to the rich people among these aborigines, exchange quality for quantity, and make money from the rich. If nothing goes wrong, with the production efficiency of the farmers in Flying Sky City, the milled rice with a unit price of less than 100 copper coins in the territory can be sold for 500 copper coins here, and the benefits during this period can simply trample on all the laws, although Lu Shuang earned it through formal channels.
When Huang Shi calculated the agricultural tax income of Feitian City, it was calculated at a unit price of 6 copper coins, and the price of grain was lowered in order to reduce the cost of living for residents, but Lu Shuang could sell a part of the grain to other forces, and sell it to 10 copper coins at a unit price of 6 copper coins, excluding the cost of freight and other costs, he could also earn 3 copper coins, but do you know how much the territory can produce in each quarter?
Of course, Lu Shuang will not sell the grain at will in order to make money, after all, this is still a strategic material, and if it is sold to the enemy in the future, it will outweigh the losses. Lu Shuang's idea was to buy a part of the grain from the peasants at a high price, which could be regarded as compensation to the peasants after the grain price was lowered, and a part of the grain tax would be sold to make a profit.
There are also a lot of high-level farmers in the territory, close to 200,000 people, so the remote trading function of the market has been canceled, which does not affect Lu Shuang's way of making a fortune, and those who know how to seize their advantages will not have bad luck, and this will not be oversupplied and the price will fall in a short period of time, and there are still many rich landlords or officials.
After visiting the grain store, Lu Shuang saw that it was still early in the morning, so he went to other stores, and almost all the industries linked to his territory were patronized by Lu Shuang. Since the talent training plan before the update came out, each industry occupation with role and potential has received different degrees of support, so the proportion of high-qualified NPCs in the new population becoming life occupations has increased, even if it is a relatively unpopular profession, there may be at least one S qualified NPC, and when they are promoted to king-level professions in the future, they are not afraid to compete with NPC power businessmen. 2k reading web