Chapter 106: Grain Merchant Selection
As one of the Eight Leaders of the Righteous Path, the Medicine King unabashedly released Wei Ya at this moment, which was extremely terrifying.
Even if Gu Beichuan had internal strength, he couldn't bear it.
So he couldn't help but look at Li Dongbi, and after thinking about it, he said, "Brother Dongbi taught me." β
Li Dongbi: ......
"Master, this matter is purely for a reason, and the disciple is definitely not divulging his own learning."
"What happened? Why? β
"He... It was the monk who wanted to protect him, and it was also the monk who entrusted me to teach him the two internal skills. β
"The monk once said that he had informed you."
"Monk? Who is this? Sun Xing looked confused, as if he was really thinking about which famous man in the rivers and lakes was called a monk.
"That's it, the Zen one."
Rumble!
Hearing this, Sun Xingcai suddenly reacted, and said angrily: "When is that called a monk?" β
"Gu Beichuan called it like that, so I called it too."
"He did inform me about it, so you don't overstep this matter."
When Gu Beichuan heard this, he was overjoyed, and said in his heart that this monk was sacred, and even the contemporary medicine king had to sell his face.
"However, the "Pure Yang Sutra" and the "Medicine King Canon" are unique studies after all, and they will not be passed on." For a while, the medicine king also showed a tangled look.
When Gu Beichuan saw this, he panicked, and said in his heart, monk, your face, it doesn't seem to be very effective.
"In my opinion, either you will simply worship under the door of my Medicine King's Palace, but it will be more justified and more convenient to cooperate."
"I don't know what Boss Gu thinks?" Sun Xing smiled, like an old fox.
Gu Beichuan is also a traverser anyway, and everyone has said about this, where can he not understand.
Sun Xing didn't want to embarrass him at all, and it was true that he wanted to accept him as an apprentice.
But... Since you can find a well-known backer for yourself, why not?
Anyway, your Medicine King Palace may make a small profit, but my Feihong will never lose.
"If the medicine king doesn't give up, Beichuan naturally has no objection."
"Good! That's it. "The king of medicine is also pleased, don't look at him for decades, but he really doesn't know anything about business.
So no matter how sincere Gu Beichuan is, there is still a little distrust in his heart.
But what if Gu Beichuan himself is a disciple of the Medicine King Palace? So what's the concern?
Your own family will not deceive your own family.
Subsequently, Gu Beichuan performed the apprenticeship and officially became a disciple of the Medicine King Palace.
Of course, there was something special about him as a disciple.
There is no need to compile medical books, and there is no need to cure diseases and save people.
It's like... Similar to spending money to buy a degree in later generations.
But the resources of the Medicine King Palace were all unfolded to him, including the Medicine King Pond, which is said to contain the essence of the sun and the moon, the essence of heaven and earth, and can cleanse the muscles and bones!
You must know that this is the treatment only available to the core children of the Medicine King Palace.
It can be seen that the medicine king attaches great importance to Gu Beichuan.
After the Medicine King and Gu Beichuan discussed some specific details, they returned to the Medicine King Palace, where there were still many matters waiting for him to deal with, and it was not appropriate to leave for too long.
The specific plan for the establishment of the medical center was implemented by Gu Beichuan and Li Dongbi.
Therefore, Gu Beichuan, who had just returned from Huainan, was afraid that he would have to go back to Huainan immediately.
But before leaving, there was good news in the workshop.
Hybrid rice has come to fruition!
After many crossbreeding, the Ministry of Agriculture, led by Li Laoer, finally produced rice seeds with many excellent qualities such as lodging resistance, high yield, cold resistance, acid and alkali resistance!
Gu Beichuan checked it and found that the effect was indeed good.
He decided that he could go to Zhou Huai's mansion this time and give him the seeds.
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Taicang ordered Wu Yunxuan to come again, but this time it was Huainan who came, and he chose a grain merchant.
After all, the two counties of Jianghuai are both rich counties located in the south, and the palms and backs of their hands are full of meat, and they cannot favor one over the other.
But there is also a King Jing in Huainan, although he is not favored, but he is also a one-word king, with a noble status and a prominent status.
Naturally, he couldn't do whatever he wanted like in Jiangnan County, and do things like delivering news to Shen Gui in advance.
Therefore, this selection of grain merchants should be fair and just.
And the grain merchants in the two counties of Jianghuai have already received the news and have begun to prepare intensively.
Grain selectors and cloth selectors are very different.
The cloth merchant pays attention to the production process, whether it can make good cloth to conform to the royal face.
But grain merchants, in addition to grain quality, output is also a major factor, even a decisive factor.
Because this grain is said to be the emperor's food, but if you really think that it can enter the royal stomach, it is inevitable that you will be a little naΓ―ve.
The royal family eats imperial food every day, delicacies from the mountains and seas, and rice made from grains like this, but eats less.
Therefore, most of the imperial food is actually used as military food.
What's more, the current cadres are at the critical juncture of preparing for war, and the soldiers are training day and night, so they have to fill up the military rations.
And there are many soldiers, so this grain production is naturally crucial.
This time, the strong contenders for the selection of grain merchants were Jiangnan An's and Huainantian's.
As for Zhou Huai... was originally the largest grain merchant in Huainan, and this selection was even more certain, and most of it was him.
It's a pity that during the autumn harvest a few days ago, the fields were inexplicably hit by locusts, resulting in a great reduction in grain production.
But what is surprising is that this Huainan has not seen locusts elsewhere.
How did the Zhou family's field suffer from locusts?
Of course, Zhou Huai, as the largest local grain merchant in Huainan, naturally has some energy.
If the yield in your own field is not good, then it is not a big deal to harvest grain.
Can... When it was time to harvest the grain, Zhou Huai was completely dumbfounded.
Because of the grain price in Huainan, for some reason, it has been inexplicably more than doubled!
Only then did Zhou Huai realize that there was someone behind him who was making trouble!
But just when he negotiated with several landlords and made up his mind to collect grain at a high price, those landlords changed their minds again.
One by one, they either claimed to have sold to other families, or claimed that they had run out of food.
At this juncture, Zhou Huai didn't know where he was, this was someone who had set up a game in advance, specifically targeting him.
If he guessed correctly, as soon as the selection of imperial merchants is over, the price of this grain will fall off a cliff.
But even if you know, what can you do?
It's late!
The selection of grain merchants is based on the existing grain stocks in their hands and the annual output.
The existing grain stock is the amount that the imperial court can call on immediately, and the annual output is the guarantee, both of which are very important.
In terms of output, Zhou Huai is confident that he will not lose to others.
But the problem now is that he doesn't have enough food in his hands.
Unless it surpasses other homes a lot in terms of output, otherwise, it is of little significance.
In other words, from the very beginning, Zhou Huai fell into the trap.
Up to now, the people after the fact have already tried to see that they want to take advantage of this imperial merchant selection to pull the Zhou family down from the throne of the first grain merchant in Huainan.
Who, then, is this person?