Volume 1 The Age of Chaos Chapter 74 The Wind Rises in the Grain Fields
Boss Lin was a little melancholy today.
Boss Lin's name is Lin Chen, and he is a rice merchant in Linxue City, but he only does wholesale and not retail.
In the past few years, the best fertile land and the largest granary of the farms outside the city were monopolized by Miao Fu. Lin Chen could only get some marginal goods.
However, the goods he got are generally cheaper, and they are not only shipped to Linxue City, although the transportation cost is relatively high, but the small profits are quick turnover, and they are also doing well.
Unexpectedly, half a month ago, Miao Fu suddenly sent someone to find him and told him that he was allowed to get the best grain, and no matter how much he bought, Miao Fu would take it all.
It's just that the price given by Miao Fu is fixed, and as for what price Lin Chen can receive those goods, it can only be his own business.
Moreover, Miao Fu also promised him that as long as he can do this thing beautifully, this channel will divide him into 30% in the future.
However, the offer given by Boss Miao was too low.
Although these farmers' grain has been suppressed for a long time, and their goods cannot be sold because there has been low-priced grain coming in from the city, the price they can accept now will also be the price given by Miao Fu.
"Recently, the one who sells low-priced grain is not in sufficient supply. Take advantage of the blank market and hurry up to grab this piece of land back. The person sent by Miao Fu said.
But for Lin Chen, except for transportation costs, warehouse management costs, labor costs, etc., unless he sticks money to do business, it is impossible to reach a price agreement with these farmers that is satisfactory to both parties.
For this reason, he and his subordinates have been entangled with these farmers for a long time, seeing that they would rather sell their grain to some small and medium-sized tribes outside, hoping to accumulate more and empty the warehouse, rather than accept their own extremely low offer, Lin Chen was already about to scratch his head.
He really wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to break into the inner circle of the rice grain market in Linxue City and get the channel profit sharing given by Boss Miao. But if he chooses to compromise on the price this time, it means that he has worked for nothing for the past year.
Fighting, arguing, sorrow, and suffering, but there is no way to have both.
Therefore, he could only use some means to send people to keep an eye on those farmers, and once other rice merchants came to contact them, he used improper means to exclude and drive those people away, hoping that those farmers could not stand it anymore and could only cooperate with him.
Although Lin Chen doesn't have much ability, he has a few mercenary brothers, who are not too dark but not easy to mess with, and after paying a small price, these mercenaries will be willing to help him do such a thing.
Tonight, Lin Chen got a piece of news, it seems that now the merchant who sells low-priced grain in the city has bought a large number of goods, which makes him very melancholy.
If he doesn't take these farmers, the market will be squeezed again, and he Lin Chen will have no chance.
Therefore, he was cross-minded, and tonight he was going to take these mercenary brothers to a farm outside the city, do some black, burn him a small granary, and bring out a few unruly and difficult farmers to beat him up, and forcibly collect the grain.
Anyway, behind him is Miao Fu, the eldest brother of the local Martial God Temple bishop, and he does things for him by himself, as long as he doesn't go too far, he should be fine, right?
So, Lin Chen took a few mercenaries and a group of subordinates to the farm outside the city.
At night, the soldiers of the Martial God Temple will patrol the periphery of the city to prevent monsters from attacking, although Linxue City also has a curfew, but after all, it is located in the mine, there are not many monsters, the curfew is not so strict, make a good plan in advance, and it is okay to travel at night.
Lin Chen, as long as they don't collide with those patrolling soldiers and make some small moves, it won't matter.
"Go and explore the way. β
He shouted to his men with sticks and hoes.
The subordinates should go, Lin Chen turned his head and said to a few extraordinary mercenaries: "Brothers, I've worked hard for you for a while." β
The mercenaries took the benefits that Lin Chen gave more today, and they were in a good mood, they waved their hands, and said that this is what it should be, not hard, not hard.
"Then we'll just wait here. Lin Chen looked at the large fields in front of him and the dimly lit farmhouse courtyards in the distance, and began to wait for the return of the pathfinder.
However, they waited a long time, and they did not wait.
One of the mercenaries was the first to notice something was wrong and asked, "Is there something wrong?"
Another mercenary replied, "I haven't heard anything, but they've been there for too long." β
Lin Chen was a little annoyed, he frowned and said, "Let them go and explore the way, won't they run away to steal melons again...... Or did you run into a patrolling soldier?"
"I'll take a look. A third-order martial artist mercenary threw the crude cigarette roll in his hand to the ground and said, "Just in case." β
Lin Chen hurriedly thanked him, and the mercenary was extremely strong, and he sank into the night field step by step.
They didn't see that in the shadows of the night, there was a young man dressed in black, who swept over the farm like wind and lightning.
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Boss Yuan was a little melancholy today.
Boss Yuan's real name is Yuan Tiangao, and more than a month ago, at the request of Miao Fu, he transferred a large number of grain goods of poor quality and low price from outside, and sold them in the market with half a sticky money.
With Miao Fu's covert help, he did open up the market quickly, but trouble also followed.
He had collected the grain from a tribal group, which was close to a river and had a large paddy field and a decent yield. Moreover, most of the people in the tribe there actually eat fish and meat, and there is little demand for food, so they are willing to sell these grains to Yuan Tiangao cheaply.
However, the people in these tribes are really not very good at farming skills, and they have no way to grasp the time of sowing and harvesting, let alone work irrigation, seed selection, and insect control, and the quality of the things grown is uneven.
Among these grains, there are often molds, insects, and so on.
In the past, Yuan Tiangao sold these grains from this tribe group to other tribe groups, and everyone was a poor person who was bitter and didn't care. But Linxue City is full of rich people, and as soon as they eat this food, there are many people who come to the door to open stalls.
Fortunately, this month, Linxue City has been in full swing to hold the extraordinary and irregular ring competition, and there are two popular players, Bai Xiaoyao and Xu Xian, who have attracted everyone's attention there, otherwise Yuan Tiangao's trouble will only be greater.
There was no way, in order to be able to get the market share promised by Miao Fu in Linxue City in the future, he had to do what Boss Miao asked.
However, it should be able to survive soon, because Miao Fu told him that his previous month's low-price sales had ruined the original idea of farmers outside the city trying to raise prices. Next, as long as it lasts for about half a month, he can go to the farm outside the city to collect grain for Boss Miao, and then he can sell good rice in the city at a high price.
However, today his mood is not very beautiful.
Because he heard that a local grain wholesaler named Lin Chen in Linxue City was one step ahead of him and began to deal with those farmers. And this guy has a bit to do with it.,Engage in a few mercenaries with good skills squatting in the farm every day.,If you have a companion who comes to the door, you will encounter all kinds of hidden guns.,As soon as someone leaves.γThe horse pulling the cart is frightened and runs away with the car.,This kind of thing abounds.γ
Of course, Yuan Tiangao went to look for Miao Fu, but Miao Fu's attitude was very clear: If you can't even handle such a trivial matter, what else will I do with you? Isn't it good for me to collect grain and sell it myself? Isn't this just that I think this business is not big and I have a lot of energy, so I look for you? If you have trouble, you can solve it yourself.
Boss Yuan sighed for a whole day, and finally made up his mind.
Although he had not been able to sit down with the farmers outside the city to have a good talk, after a period of hard work, he had barely managed to get in touch with the more prestigious and appealing people in the farm. He decided to give up some of the profits and come up with a price that was attractive enough to stun the farmers directly!
I heard that it was precisely because of the price that Lin Chen had been in a tug of war with those farmers for more than half a month and had not yet negotiated.
But once he negotiated, then the money and reputation he spent during this period of time will all be wasted!
Therefore, Yuan Tiangao is going to take advantage of the night to go outside the city today and have a good talk with the old farmer he can find.
However, when he got dressed and put on his hat, and opened the door of his house, he found a woman standing in front of the door.
This woman was wearing an expensive white silk dress, a pair of slender sword eyebrows, and a handsome face, as soon as she saw Yuan Tiangao, she smiled slightly and said, "Hello Boss Yuan, my name is Bai Qiyu, I want to talk to you about something." β
Yuan Tiangao frowned, he had a good impression of the woman in front of him at first sight, and he could see that the other party was a well-educated and well-known person, but he had important affairs at the moment, so he naturally had no time to pay attention to her.
However, before he could refuse, Bai Qiyu said: "It's a matter of grain." β
Yuan Tiangao was stunned for a moment and asked, "Are you my business partner?"
Bai Qiyu shook his head and said, "Boss Yuan, you were deceived by Boss Miao. If I'm right, you're going to a farm outside the city to talk about business, right? I can tell you, if you go tonight, you're either going to go bankrupt or become a street rat that everybody shouts at. β
Yuan Tiangao was shocked at first when she told her about her destination, and when he heard the second half of the sentence, he felt a palpitation for no reason.
He thought for two seconds and decided to listen carefully to the woman's words.
"White girl, please come in. Yuan Tiangao took off his hat and made a gesture of please.
Bai Qiyu smiled slightly, nodded and walked into the house.
Yuan Tiangao made a cup of hot tea for her, but because of her anxiety, her movements were not meticulous, and she was slightly scalded by the hot water, smiled awkwardly, and asked, "What did the white girl mean by what she said just now?"
"You are just a chess piece that Boss Miao casually arranged in this incident. If you do what he tells you to do, you are likely to face a vicious circle of losing money to do business and throwing money into the market, maybe you can make money, but that is probably a long time later, if you can't do what Boss Miao ordered, you will be abandoned by him tomorrow. β
Yuan Tiangao frowned, wanting to ask the woman what evidence she had, but heard her say, "Lin Chen is also Boss Miao's person." β
"What!" Yuan Tiangao's heartbeat suddenly skipped half a beat, his hand holding the teacup trembled, trying to keep his composure, and asked: "I don't even know the origin of the white girl, you have no evidence, why should I believe what you say?"
"Of course, it is impossible for Boss Yuan to believe it like this. Bai Qiyu's black and white eyes flashed, and he said with a smile: "So, let's ask Boss Yuan to stay here for a while, later, my friend will bring Lin Chen here, you can talk to him face-to-face." β