Chapter 328: Development
It is not easy to get the people to accept new things, but it will be easier to distribute vouchers through labor. One is that there are interests in front of him, and the other is that Yan Sui really has no money to pay wages, and the workers can only accept it if they don't accept it.
But Zhu Youning believes that when the workers and their families go to a shop with vouchers to buy genuine food and other supplies, they will not be suspicious.
As Zhu Youning expected, before dawn the next morning, the front of "a shop" was already crowded with people queuing up.
Because Zhu Youning had made preparations in advance, the moment the store opened, the guys in the store had a clear division of labor and performed their duties, and she also specially arranged for people to organize discipline outside to avoid conflicts and stampedes.
As Zhu Youning expected, as soon as the families of these laborers saw that the vouchers were really useful, they decisively exchanged the capital for food.
For a time, the front and back doors of a shop were constantly coming and going with grain trucks.
A woman with yellow muscles and a thin face in a patched gown with a face full of excitement put her hands in a bucket of brown rice, picked up a large handful of brown rice and let it slide between her fingers, her eyes already moist.
"It's real grain, not mixed with sand, not mixed with anything else, it's really brown rice!" The woman excitedly said to the people around her, "Well, this grain is three times cheaper than the one we bought elsewhere!" Renyi Bo is really a good person! ”
"Really? Is it really not adulterated? There were women in line next to him.
"Really! Hurry up and don't miss out! I think they have other things in them, and they sell them much cheaper! ”
"That's great!"
The people gathered together to discuss, and the news spread to many people.
As a result, a street with a large number of people queuing up for shopping can't fit in, and there are even some people with lively brains who don't give up and queue up at a shop in Shangshui County, but go to the branch of Linxian County.
In any case, the price of the same commodity is the same everywhere.
A shop can really be described as a blockbuster now.
Before, he refused to open the door to do business, but now it is full of guests and crowds.
The local big families led by the He family, the Ling family and the Zhou family all looked a little confused, what did a shop want to do?
Several members made an appointment with the local gentry and gathered together again.
"Tell me, what does this shop mean? If they don't sell goods at a high price, they want to sell them cheaply, are they doing good deeds? ”
"I think a shop is here to mix, and now there is a shop, and those laborers' families go to a shop if they want to buy anything, and our family's rice shop is about to form cobwebs!"
"So do we. A shop is no ordinary spoiler this time. ”
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Everyone was talking about it, and everyone's opinions were unified.
To sum it up, it can be summed up in one sentence: not to mention that a shop has snatched away customers, but also established an image in the hearts of the people, comparing them to black-hearted ghosts, and they don't know what to do in the future!
He Yuanwai said: "You don't have to panic, the families of 100,000 people come to buy food and goods, and I really don't believe that a shop can support it." Even if it lasts for this month, what about next month? Where did they get so much grain to sell? When they don't have enough food to get out, and the people have too high hopes, a shop will become the target of public criticism. ”
"What he said is reasonable." Ling Yuanwai nodded, thinking of the grand scene in front of a shop, his heart became more and more irritable, "This shop is too arrogant, and it is not too much to have a future that eats its own consequences." We, the top two local households, haven't done anything, and a person from other places wants to be the king here? Don't say that a small shop is Renyibo, this is still his fiefdom, isn't it still going to be suppressed? ”
Everyone was nodding.
Zhou Yuanwai lowered his voice and said: "I heard people I know say that last year, Renren and Yibo received a tax of five taels of silver when they were cleaned up. ”
Several people couldn't help but laugh when they heard this.
"A yellow-mouthed child, but he was born as a businessman, so he was lucky to be a marquis. I have full pigtails and go out to swagger, isn't this waiting to be an arrow target? Those court officials are all very noble, can they still look down on the uncle who was born as a businessman? He's going to get deflated, and that's to be expected. ”
"But I don't know what the relationship between this shop and Uncle Yan is. It was unexpectedly able to be so righteous and take out so many vouchers to pay the workers for work. ”
Someone laughed very obscenely: "Haven't you seen the appearance of Uncle Yan?" Perhaps, the owner of a shop is a lonely widow, as long as Ren Yibo can laugh and accompany him to eat and drink, and have a few more patience to accompany him, he will come to these in exchange. ”
As soon as such vulgar words came out, everyone laughed, "I can't get used to seeing that kid's shyness." Now I'm waiting to see him eat the deflated play, and I'm impatient to wait. “
"What are you afraid of, as long as we should operate, we will operate actively. Afraid that there will be no good show in the future? ”
When everyone heard this, they laughed happily again.
Yan Sui and Zhu Youning are not surprised by how people think.
Ever since Zhu Youning proposed to use vouchers to pay the wages of laborers, his mood has been in a state of lightness and happiness. Especially every time I went to the backyard of a shop and saw Zhu Youning listening attentively to the reply of the shopkeeper below, and the single-minded appearance when he was in charge of the shop to deal with any emergency, Yan Sui felt an indescribable sweetness from the bottom of his heart, as if the air was sweet when he breathed.
With the wages, the workers worked harder, and the project went very smoothly.
The spring floods, as predicted last year, are ferocious.
However, because the construction of the embankment was solid and fast, although there were some loosening in a few places, because of the time of repair, there was no trouble.
Yan Sui supervised the construction of the embankment all day long, and sometimes when the flood peaked, he even went up with his arms and sleeves in person, and used his body to support the embankment with those laborers.
The laborers are well paid, and recently the mother-in-law and mother-in-law have gone to a shop to buy food, and the family has stocked up on enough food, and they have a bottom in their hearts, and they can even pull some rulers to make a new dress.
Everyone is very grateful to their parents, and now Yan Sui is so approachable, eating with them, the same work, people's hearts are flesh and blood, many people used to have hatred and alienation for Yan Sui and other aristocratic classes, but now this feeling is also light.
After a month like this, when the wages were paid again the next month, the vouchers were still issued, but the laborers no longer felt that Yan Sui was coping with the matter, but they felt very happy in their hearts, and even had a sense of superiority in the face of other people and local residents in the city.
Because the treatment of these laborers is really good.
They can use the voucher to buy grain, all kinds of supplies they need, farm tools for spring ploughing, and everything they want to buy in a shop. But the rest of the people in the county couldn't.
Because they don't have vouchers.
There are even many people who have begun to try their best to sharpen their heads and want to go to the construction site to work as laborers to earn vouchers.
Yan Sui has been busy for a month, tanned a lot, and the person looks a lot stronger, and the whole person has completely changed from the original image of a fairy who is as gentle as jade to a tough guy with sharp edges and handsomes.
It was rare to be idle, Yan Sui took Steward Yan and Yan Fei to the backyard of a shop to ask Zhu Youning for a cup of tea.
Zhu Youning was wearing a light blue men's dress, and his hair was neatly tied at the top of his hair.
She dressed up like this, not to pretend to be a man, but entirely because she wore men's clothes lightly, and she didn't have to worry too much, she learned the rules from Gu Enshi, as soon as she put on women's clothes, the demeanor rooted in the bone marrow would be brought out, she couldn't control it herself, and when she got along with the guys and shopkeepers in these stores, she would inevitably feel some obstacles.
It's more convenient than it is now.
Zhu Youning held the teapot and poured tea for Yan Sui.
"The way you look now is a different person from when I first met you. If your family sees you, they won't recognize you. ”
Yan Sui took a sip of tea, touched the slightly grown stubble on her face, combed her somewhat messy hair, and arched her hand: "Miss Zhu, do you think I'm sloppy?" I can't help it, I even feel like there's sand in my hair. ”
Zhu Youning laughed when he heard it, "What can be done due to the environment." ”
Yan Sui saw her smile heartily and happily, and she was in a good mood, "Yes, by the way, I have something to ask you today." ”
"You say?" Zhu Youning sat in place, looking at him with raised eyebrows.
Yan Sui said: "Do you have enough grain inventory here?" I've just paid the laborers, and I guess they'll continue to come and buy food. ”
Zhu Youning smiled and nodded, "Indeed, food can bring people a sense of security. To be honest, I don't have much food in stock. I can't afford to buy it with 100,000 laborers. ”
Such a straightforward sentence of truth was said, causing Yan Sui to frown slightly, and Steward Yan and Yan Fei behind Yan Sui both changed their faces in an instant.
Steward Yan said eagerly: "How is this good? ”
They all remember the grand occasion when these laborers and their families came to purchase last month, not to mention anything else, just say that the guys in the shop, they are busy and almost faint, and sometimes they can't take care of eating, Zhu Youning has raised everyone's wages.
In that kind of crowded scene, how many people are gathered in a shop?
If a shop can't get the money, their shop is going to be trampled down!
What Steward Yan was thinking in his heart was exactly what Yan Sui was worried about.
He asked worriedly, "Is there a solution?" Why don't I think I'm going to carry the grain. ”
Zhu Youning raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Transporting grain? Where are you going to go? How much does it cost to get here from out of town, the cost of transportation, and how much does it cost for people to eat and chew? How much wear and tear does it take on the road? In addition, there are people who sit on the ground and raise the price, and if you ship the grain back this time, we will lose money in trading. ”
Why doesn't Yan Sui understand this truth?
"But the transaction is at a loss, and it's better than the people really stepping on our store. In the event of an uprising, the consequences are unimaginable. ”
Zhu Youning's cat-like eyes smiled and completed the two crescents, "Although this delivery of food is not very reliable, I think that this time they should not continue to buy food." ”
Yan Sui asked strangely, "Why?" ”
Zhu Youning said: "Last month, they were paid two consecutive months' wages, and the wages you gave them were deliberately raised, and the grain sold was at a low price, which led to all the palace people being able to buy more food with less silver when buying grain."
"As a result, every household has too much food to hold. This weather is very humid, are those grains going to be damp? ”
"That's right, but what does this have to do with our business?" Yan Sui didn't understand for a while.
Zhu Youning said with a smile, "Do you think, the families of the workers who have vouchers have surplus food at home, and they can't eat it by themselves, what will they do?" You must know that there are still many ordinary people in the local area who can't buy food if they want to. ”
Zhu Youning said this, Yan Sui immediately reacted, he nodded, and said with a smile: "Miss Nine is so smart, it's true, a shop doesn't do business with ordinary people, and ordinary people have to buy grain according to the rules of 'consistent money plus rewards'." So they buy it at a very high price.
"These people have long been envious of those who can use vouchers, and envy the lower prices than when they bought food. Therefore, the food that cannot be eaten by those family members will inevitably be put back and sold to ordinary people.
"As long as it is slightly more expensive than what one of our shops sells, there will be people rushing to buy it, because even if these family members open their mouths, the price will definitely be much cheaper than when they used to live."
"Exactly." Zhu Youning said with a smile, "I guess that once the families of workers come out to buy endless food, then many people will definitely follow suit." This will lead to lower prices for all grain merchants in the region.
"Merchants, the most fearful thing is that no one will buy their goods, and if they want to be competitive, they must reduce the price to the same price as what their husband's family sells, or the same price as our shop. At that time, the prices of the entire market will be completely balanced. ”
Yan Sui couldn't help but stroke his palms and said, "That's right." Moreover, once the families of those laborers are worried that they will get damp if they can't eat enough food, this month's wages should not continue to be obsessed with buying food, but will go to buy some other things that the family needs. ”
"That's right," Zhu Youning smiled like a cunning little animal with a successful plan, "I think that when you give them the monthly money again next month, the price in the market will be balanced." There will be no more markups with the lion's mouth. ”
When Yan Sui looked at Zhu Youning, his eyes were full of appreciation and admiration: "Everyone says that when playing chess, taking one step and seeing ten moves is already a rare master, but when you come here, you can see the overall situation clearly by taking one step." Did you already think about the current situation when you made the first step of planning? ”
Zhu Youning smiled generously: "It's almost, the reality is always a little different from the concept, but it's not too much." ”
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