In the Qi family hall, Etuo paused, his gaze began to become dark, and continued:

"Once, we were ruthless, pulled a caravan of 30 people, a total of more than 100 grain trucks on the road, this time, I insisted on not selling grain along the way, vowed to go deep into the hinterland of Zhishou County, to the foot of Shanqing City, but the refugees are flocking, why do you say?"

Without waiting for Sheng Jiaojiao and others to answer, Etuo asked and answered,

"Because our food team is too large, it has attracted the attention of the refugees along the way, and we have gone deep into the hinterland of Shanqing City, and if we go further, they will not be able to buy food."

"What do you mean?"

Qi Huan didn't quite understand Etuo's words, and asked again,

"Why can't they afford to buy food after Shanqing City?"

Etuo changed his words and expressed his feelings again,

"When I sold grain for the first time, I saw the embarrassment of Zhishou County, and I thought to myself that I would make less money, or even not make any money, and I would solve some of the difficulties of Zhishou County."

Sheng Jiaojiao, who was on the main seat, shook her head and said disapprovingly:

"A drop in the bucket, your cart of grain, no matter how low the price is, how many difficulties can it solve?"

"Yes, the grain is bought by the rich, and those who have no money to buy grain can't actually take out a single child to buy food, and they are still just starving to death."

Etuo nodded, as if remembering the innocent self when he was young, a mocking smile appeared on his face, and then said:

"In the middle of winter, what the rich people think about is not to give up the grain and buy it for the poor, but to prepare more grain to store, just in case, so the second time, I transported more grain, but did I go farther? No, I have benevolence and righteousness, even if I transport hundreds of grain trucks into Zhishou County, I still can't go to Shanqing City. ”

Because the rich people have been hoarding grain, crazy hoarding, and how much grain they have transported has been hoarded by the rich people.

The last time, he decided not to sell grain to the rich along the way, so he was ruthless, and brought a hundred grain trucks to cross Shanqingcheng to the north of the county, and finally the convoy was too eye-catching, and was targeted by penniless and hungry refugees.

"That time, our entire convoy lost all its money, and more than 30 merchants were killed for protecting food."

Unconsciously, there was silence in the Qi family hall, and a silent needle could be heard falling on the ground.

The second lady stood on the gap outside the hall, listening quietly, her fists clenched slightly.

Etuo laughed desolately, with a thin layer of tears in his eyes, and looked at Sheng Jiaojiao,

"Jiao Niang, we are just a businessman, the high price of grain in the middle of winter ignores our conscience, but our conscience is not born without, from the beginning, it is not that we let the people of Zhishou County not afford to buy grain, so in this case, we will not do the business of the poor, it is better to make more money from the rich."

Anyway, those who should not be able to afford food, even if they empty their families, they will not be able to afford food, and they will not be able to buy food.

It would be better to make more money from the rich.

And who is to blame for all this? It's not to blame them on businessmen, all the merchants in the world do business, buy low and sell high, this is businessmen.

If you really have to talk about your conscience and don't sell high-priced grain, what will be the final result? It was the refugees who rushed up, and the merchants couldn't stop it, and used the cost of more than a dozen lives to interpret the consequences of the businessman's conscience.

Sheng Jiaojiao on the first seat lowered her eyes, put down the tea cup in her hand, picked it up again, put it down again, picked it up again, and so on several times, she lowered her head and put aside the tea leaves on the water, sighed, and said:

"It's also a different kind of killing the rich and helping the poor?"

After saying that, Etuo laughed, and she laughed herself.

Putting down the teacup for the last time, Sheng Jiaojiao raised her eyes to look at Etuo, and her words were serious,

"Heaven is unfair, you raised the price of midwinter grain in Zhishou County in previous years, although it is harmless to people's hearts, but it is indirectly harming people, this year I put you together, it is for the righteousness but also for profit, even if it is flat, even so, according to what you said, you let the profits and give out the grain, I will take it all."

Again:

"If you come again in the coming year, the grain truck exceeds the regulations, if you can't enter Zhishou County, send someone to inform me, and the county north Erlang will protect you all the way to the north, and your life is worry-free."

Her original purpose is the same, both sides make a little less money, stabilize the price of grain, no one comes to Qi's house to ask for food, there is no chaos in Zhishou County, and Brother and Halberd can fight with peace of mind.

This is a win-win situation, and Sheng Jiaojiao has worked hard to promote such a win-win situation.

It's just that she is also ready to fight with those merchants who come and go from south to north in Zhishou County, she put them together and lead them to the fire pit, thinking how much she will attract hatred.

Anyway, she doesn't like these unkind merchants, so she tears her face, exposes each other's ugliest faces, and hates each other to the end, she wants to see if her identity is here, what can these merchants do to her.

But I didn't expect that Etuo still had such a heartfelt feeling, and Sheng Jiaojiao was extremely embarrassed when she heard it.

It's just that, the merchant Tuli, she can't get angry and kill all the merchants who want to sell high-priced grain in Zhishou County, nor can she prevent them from coming to Zhishou County.

In fact, because of these merchants' wandering in Zhishou County, the people here can also obtain some materials for survival, and as long as these merchants are good in the future and do not mess up the prices of Zhishou County, Sheng Jiaojiao is quite happy that they are active in Zhishou County.

Etuo stood in front of Sheng Jiaojiao, wiped away the tears in his eyes, and arched his hand:

"Jiao Niang is a real woman, thank you Jiao Niang."

The matter has been discussed, Etuo is about to go out to go back to the rest of the merchants, he was about to say goodbye, and remembered one more thing, and replied with Sheng Jiaojiao:

"Jiao Niang, I heard that the leather goods in Chao Zong's hands are all from the military camp, if Jiao Niang is willing, in fact, we can cooperate and give the commission to Jiao Niang......

Before she finished speaking, Sheng Jiaojiao raised her hand and stopped Etuo from continuing to speak, she looked at Etuo with a smile,

"Thank you for this, but needless to say, I don't know about the leather goods you took from Mr. Chao, and I don't know about my Qi family and my future husband, Mr. E is a smart person, and if you want to do a long-term business, you will know that Mr. Chao is the one who will inevitably handle this business."

Daze forbade trade with his subjects in order to impoverish them.

Therefore, it is also strictly forbidden for large leather traders to buy leather goods from their subject countries and take them back to the hinterland of Daze to trade.

The merchant is only a small business, as long as it is profitable, he will buy everything and sell everything, so these merchants will often wander around the north of the county, and do some leather trading with the subjects who sneaked into the north of the county.

There are also people in Zhishou County, who will buy leather goods from the subject country and resell them to the merchants, earning the sporadic price difference.

Anyway, the amount of each transaction is only a few skins, at most a dozen skins, and the general soldiers of Zhishou County turn a blind eye and don't bother to check.

It's people who have to eat, Zhishou County is so poor, everyone is struggling in this land, buying and selling a few skins is enough for a family to live, why strictly prohibit this way of life and force people to a dead end?

Sheng Jiaojiao and Etuo are well versed in this, and the matter of a few pieces of leather goods, small fights, is not worth making trouble.

But this time, the volume of leather goods shipped was too large.

Except for the barracks, there is no small door and small household that can take out so many leather goods, where the leather goods come from, people with a discerning eye know it, but they don't say it.

Etuo is kind-hearted, he wants to take Sheng Jiaojiao's line, so he proposed to give the commission to Sheng Jiaojiao and give Sheng Jiaojiao a profit.

With such a large volume of leather goods, the commission alone is a lot of money.

However, the amount of leather goods in Chaozong's hands was too large, enough to violate Daze's laws, and the whole family was beheaded by the nine clans, and Sheng Jiaojiao refused to take risks for this commission.

There's no need, she's not mercenary yet.

Anyway, the law is promulgated by the people of the heavenly family, so let the people of the heavenly family take the risk.

Etuo bowed his hand to Sheng Jiaojiao again, and this time there was more admiration in his eyes.

When he turned around and left the Qi family, he talked about the price of grain with Sheng Jiaojiao and the merchant who was waiting outside, and a burst of cheers broke out outside the Qi family.

A merchant asked happily:

"At this price, is Jiao Niang planning to collect it all?"

"Harvest it all, not a grain of rice will be left."

Etuo smiled and nodded, and then bowed his hand towards the Qi family,

"Jiao Niang also said that in the future, when we transport grain into Zhishou County, we can notify her, and the children of the north of the county can escort us all the way to the north of the county."

"So, we can transport a lot of grain to Zhishou County in the future?"

"But there are a lot of grain trucks, so won't they be checked by the government of Zhishou County?"

The merchants were talking about it, the government is an administrative agency set up in the imperial capital, and they can listen directly to the top, and they are also very strict in checking the grain trucks, and the big grain merchants cannot enter Zhishou County, and the merchants who transport grain trucks to come in also need to be within a certain regulation.

One merchant, at most five grain wagons, can not be more, any more will exceed the regulations, and the excess grain wagons will be detained.

Therefore, if you want to enter Zhishou County in large quantities, the merchants need to form a team.

Etuo waved his hand and said:

"Since Jiao Niang has said so, it proves that she has the ability to let our grain in, and the government wants to check the grain truck, and it is not the soldiers of Zhishou County."

How many people are there in the government? An official master, a master, a few long-term followers, and a group of officials, this is the top of the sky, they want to check the grain truck, and it is not the only way to send troops to guard the grain truck.

After walking in Zhishou County for a long time, I know that it is not the government that speaks here, but the head of the soldiers.

The bigger the leader, the more effective his words are.

To put it mildly, what can be walked sideways in the north of the county now is not actually the abolished prince, but Tan Ji.

Tan Ji and Bai Tao are both wing lengths, but as this battle continues, Tan Ji's reputation is now much higher than that of Bai Tao who has been stationed in the set.

Therefore, Tan Ji walked sideways, didn't Sheng Jiaojiao also follow and walk sideways?

All the merchants felt that it made sense, and a group of people went to the collection and disperse, and listened to Etuo say:

"It's just that you also saw it this time, we want to make money for high-priced grain in the middle of winter this time, and we almost went bankrupt, and it will not be possible to do this in the future, Jiao Niang is kind, let us go, next time there may not be such a good character, this little lady is a powerful character, offending her, giving us no benefit."

Everyone said yes, and they turned around and counted the grain carts in their hands and handed them over to Lu Shou, who specialized in collecting grain for Sheng Jiaojiao.

Lu Shou was extremely happy, all of them verified that the grain truck was fine, so he handed over the grain with one hand and the money with the other, and there was no note left, the money and goods were cleared, no one owed anyone, and no one wanted to hold anyone's handle.

Looking at the empty grain cart, there were merchants with a lot of silver coins and silver tickets, and some of them couldn't believe it, some people came to the edge of the Etuo, and the two looked at the soldiers who came to help carry the grain bags...... Because Lu Shou couldn't move so much food alone, he found Qi Ming on the set.

Qi Ming also simply found the two squad leaders in the north and south camps, gave them some money, and asked the two teams to carry food for Lu Shou.

Anyway, the grain was also moved to the warehouses in the north and south camps for storage, so it was transported directly to the barracks one by one.

The merchant beside Etuo looked at the wind and snow outside the eaves and said:

"According to this grain price, if we transport more grain into Zhishou County, we will actually have to make money, and we can also make a lot of money."

"Small profits, quick turnover."

The etuo under the corridor expressed his understanding, he turned his head and looked at the merchant next to him with a smile, and asked jokingly:

"What? Are you going to take advantage of the fact that spring is not yet spring, and you want to go to Nanjun to transport grain again? ”

"Why not? This time I brought two hundred carts of grain, the ticket is big, anyway, it is a trip to the water, you also said that small profits are quick turnover, to the outside of Zhishou County, I went to find Jiao Niang, she promised to let our grain cart into the county, I also stopped by to see, this little lady said not to count. ”

Etuo couldn't help laughing,

"Okay, if you have two hundred cars, then I will have two hundred cars, together."

"Let's go?"

"Let's go."

Businessmen seek profits, once they get rid of the restrictions of rules and regulations, they can have as much courage as they want, no matter how much strength they have, and they can exploit any small loopholes.

The emperor did not allow the big grain merchants to enter Zhishou County, and the poor and vassal country died, in fact, Zhishou County was also restricted.

But now Sheng Jiaojiao has made it clear that she wants to be yin and yang, and the powerful merchant doesn't take advantage of this opportunity to transport more grain and make more money?

The snow has been falling, and the whole winter is coming to an end, and Sheng Jiaojiao is busy collecting grain.

And this year's Zhishou County, only the corpses of the soldiers and subjects of Zhishou County are left in the north of the county.

Jumping Horse Lake was surrounded by heavy troops, Lu Shou brought news to Sheng Jiaojiao, and Yin Ze was ready to leave for the imperial capital.

At this time, Sheng Jiaojiao was in the hall of the Qi family, fiddling with a new set of tea sets sent by Etuo.

The merchants wanted to transport grain into Zhishou County, so they entrusted Sheng Jiaojiao, and asked Sheng Jiaojiao to do things, so they naturally wanted to find something to honor her.

The valuable merchants can't afford to send it, and Sheng Jiaojiao won't accept it, so this is not thirty-five, there will be a merchant who comes to the door and sends some tea, bowls, dishes, chopsticks, cloth or something, the price is not expensive, the burden of the gift giver is not heavy, and there is no pressure on Sheng Jiaojiao to collect it.

She asked Qi Huan to cut a camphor wood for her, made a wooden table and put it in the hall, and asked in surprise while making tea for Lu Shou:

"How did you know this news?"

"It's not a secret, the emperor Lao'er summoned his imperial grandson back to the imperial capital, and the counties along the way all know, by the way, this time Yin Ze also entrusted Bai Yichang to escort him, and he will set off in a few days."

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