"Okay, okay."

"Yes, yes, yes, it's a good idea."

"In this way, as long as everything goes well, we can really be self-sufficient."

"That's right, you can support yourself and not be afraid of being pinched by others."

"Someone is holding the Bai family's army? What gossip have you heard? Qi Ke had just taken a bite of food, and when he heard their words, he put down his chopsticks.

"Grain merchants from other places, my brother said." Fu Xiaoli snorted unhappily, "My brother Fu Xiaosheng, a scribe under the grain and grass official." ”

"Yes, I remember him, he came here a few times last winter to sell vegetables, and he was very quick at work, and his brain was good, much better than your younger brother."

"Hey, hey, hey~" Fu Xiaoli was coldly hit by 10,000 critical hits.

"Ha~" The friends slapped the table and laughed without conscience.

"Okay, let's not talk about jokes, let's talk about this gossip first? Which county's grain merchants are so arrogant? ”

"It's our neighboring county, the number one grain merchant in Siping County, I heard that it's still their local gentry, and the surname is Cao or what." Fu Xiaoli thought about it carefully and shook his head in annoyance, "That's how my brother mentioned it to me, and I didn't listen carefully to whose family it was." ”

"I don't care what the surname is, let's talk about what your brother said at that time."

"What else can I say if the price of food is rising."

"Rising food prices? Has there been another disaster this year? ”

"It was the aftermath of the great floods in the south last year, the farmland was flooded, there were fewer people who farmed, and the yield of the land that could still be planted was bound to be reduced.

"If the price increase is too hard, I won't buy them, it's just a small grain merchant."

"Hey, hey, hey, people are local gentry, not small grain merchants."

"The local gentry, even if they are the number one local grain merchant, don't look too highly at them, how many people is the Bai family's army? From soldiers to military households, there are always hundreds of thousands, right? Otherwise, it will not be able to support a reorganized army. With such a large population here, the grain merchants who really have grain in their hands will only hold the grain and grass officials, give all kinds of benefits and bribes to buy their own grain, and dare not have the words and deeds of driving away customers. This grain merchant in Siping County is a stupid fork, as long as he doesn't monopolize the country's grain tyrant for a day, he doesn't need to be rare, without Hu Butcher, he can really only eat hairy pigs? Don't believe in this evil, raise prices to drive customers, don't sell and pull down. ”

"That's what I said, but their identity is so good, it's just overnight, their price increase, the price of other grain merchants is also about the same, and the price is not much lower." Fu Xiaoli still looked sad.

"There is no way, before the grain can be truly self-sufficient, it is inevitable to be exploited by the grain merchants, the Bai family army is poor and can't afford to pay and wants food, talk left and right, beware of saving money but giving up profits in other aspects. The business of killing heads can be done, but the business of losing money cannot be done. ”

"Our entire garrison is along the coast, the land is barren, and it is not easy to be self-sufficient in food." When it comes to practical problems, it's not just the rich and small profits that are worried.

"Reach out to the court, don't give enough military expenses, at least you have to give enough other things, seeds, capable people who farm the land, craftsmen, as long as you need it, you can ask for it, either give money or things, don't give anything, hehe, the hidden danger is very big."

"Where is it easy to ask for things from the imperial court......" thinks it's a fantasy.