Chapter 42: The Madness of Food Stamps (Plus Update)

Gu Shun didn't expect his potatoes to be so popular.

In just two days, the stock of potatoes was snapped up.

The production of four greenhouses was quickly insufficient.

Gu Shun bought many abandoned mines outside the city to expand the scale of potato cultivation.

The trees on these hills have long been cut down by the residents of the lower city for cooking, and the land is so desertified that it is almost entirely weathered gravel and gravel.

Wheat cannot be grown in this kind of land.

However, growing potatoes in sand is a good way to improve the quality of potatoes.

Potatoes grown in sandy areas have a unique flavor, and the only thing that needs to be paid attention to is to ensure nutrition and moisture, prevent soil erosion, and damage to young potato seedlings due to long-term exposure to the sun.

To this end, Gu Shun deliberately repaired several large agricultural drones and transformed them into special equipment for fertilizing and sprinkling.

Just set up the program, and the drone can spread the mixed fertilizer water onto the mountains to irrigate the potatoes.

The mine is deserted and rarely visited, so you shouldn't have to worry about being discovered.

However, for the sake of insurance, Gu Shun still pulled up barbed wire around the mine, set up monitoring and police posts, and raised a few vicious dogs to patrol regularly.

In this way, Gu Shun quickly solved the problem of insufficient potato production.

After three months of waiting, the first mountain potatoes hit the market and were enthusiastically sought after.

The potatoes were just as Gu Shun expected, and they became real golden beans.

Within a few months, he helped Gu Shun earn millions of copper ge.

In this way, Gu Shun's mushroom and potato businesses both ushered in an explosion.

He also became the true king of mushrooms and potatoes in the lower city.

In particular, potatoes, which are cheap and delicious, have become the main source of food for many poor people.

Gu Shun single-handedly changed the pattern of food supply and resource distribution in the entire lower city.

The popularity of potatoes naturally attracted many red-eyed pretenders, including gangs of the Extreme Dao, bounty hunters, uptown threads, scheming thieves and governors of the lower city.

Everyone is salivating over the benefits behind this resource.

Gu Shun naturally knew this, and he was very scheming and paid two protection fees at the same time.

A stroke was given to the Lower City Archon, who symbolized the bright side.

The other was given to the Black Tiger Gang, the largest extreme gang in the lower city, which symbolizes the dark side.

At this moment, both parties are suspicious of each other's ownership of potatoes, and both believe that this thing is the work of the other party.

It is through this kind of game and suspicion that Gu Shun continues to expand his business and wander between light and darkness.

As the business gets bigger and bigger, Gu Shun understands that if he keeps playing this kind of strategic ambiguity, he will eventually collapse one day.

When either of them makes a temptation, he will be at his mercy like a soft persimmon.

Therefore, he urgently needs a new profit model and a more secure and hidden way to sell goods.

The most important thing is to form your own armed forces as soon as possible, and truth and business can only be convincing in the face of guns.

……

"Happy birthday Shun Shun."

"Happy birthday Boss."

Unconsciously, Gu Shun's 5th birthday arrived.

Grandma and other children adopted from the orphanage got together to help Gu Shun celebrate his birthday.

Gu Shun's genius mind and the speed of making money comparable to that of a money printing machine made all the children worship him to the extreme and convinced.

And as a family, as they became more and more deeply involved in Gu Shun's business, they also became the most core members of the entire business chain.

Gu Shun is also like the style of the head of a family, and he is quite leadership and majesty at a young age.

It is much more difficult to do business in this environment than in the world of the previous life.

He has to meet left and right, walking a tightrope and trying to operate every layer of the relationship, the big fish eat the small fish, and live to the end to be the winner.

Looking at the huge cream cake in front of him, Gu Shun made a wish, and then blew out the candle.

Immediately afterwards, Gu Shun, as the birthday star, divided the cake while arranging the next stage of tasks for each member who came to receive the cake.

Many children eat cake for the first time, and this kind of top luxury food in the eyes of the people in the lower city is the first time in their lives for many children.

Eating this sweet and greasy taste, many children shed tears of happiness.

If it weren't for Gu Shun, they wouldn't know which coal kiln they would be working in now.

Children in orphanages who have not been adopted before they reach adulthood will leave the orphanage when they reach adulthood.

They had no education and no skills, so there was no better way out than to be sent to various coal kilns or garbage factories to work as coolies.

And Gu Shun's appearance is like a god who takes them out of the sea of suffering, and gives them such good living conditions and respect.

They have long regarded Gu Shun as a part of their lives, and they are even willing to go to the soup for him, from birth to death, and their liver and brain are ruined.

Gu Shun took out a few paper coupons with potatoes and sausages painted on them at the birthday party.

This was the first step in his transformation after thinking about it for a long time.

The children under Gu Shun's hands looked at the things in his hands curiously, and asked strangely, "Boss, what is this?" ”

Gu Shun cleared his throat, put these coupons on the table, and said, "You can scratch them open and take a look." ”

The children found a silver seal at the bottom of the ticket, and when they scratched it, they revealed the handwriting inside - the first prize.

"It's fun."

"Isn't this a lottery?"

A well-informed child.

Gu Shun nodded approvingly, "That's right, this is a kind of lottery, but unlike ordinary lotteries, we don't reward money, we reward the most needed thing in the lower city, food." ”

"That's why I call it a food stamp, you only need 2 copper ges to buy one, the food coupon that is not scratched can be used as currency to buy potatoes, and the scratched one is rewarded with different prizes according to the prize won."

"In the early stage, in order to make the food stamps more popular, I decided to give out a first prize every day, and the first prize can be awarded 3 free baked potatoes per day or 1,000 baked potatoes at one time for one consecutive year."

Hearing the reward, all the children swallowed in shock.

1,000 baked potatoes, a full 5,000 copper, although it is much lower than many lottery tickets sold in the lower city, but this is real food, think of so many potatoes piled up in front of you, what a temptation.

Soon, Gu Shun's business machine was up and running.

In front of the stalls selling baked potatoes in the streets and alleys, boxes are set up to sell food stamps.

You only need two copper ges to buy a food coupon, and there will be various rewards when you scratch it off, and the first prize is potatoes that you can eat as much as you want within a year.

In order to make it more attractive, Gu Shun gathered all the winners at the end of each day's sale.

A stage was erected in the largest market in the lower town, and awards were given to them in public.

Seeing that the potatoes piled up on the stage were taken away by the lucky winner who won the first prize, everyone's eyes were red with envy.

And the lucky man was even more overjoyed, he didn't expect it to be true. So many potatoes are all for themselves, it's like a dream.

The next day, the sales of food stamps skyrocketed, and in less than two hours, Gu Shun had worked hard to print food stamps for several days before they were sold out.

This speed made Gu Shun unexpected, the food coupon was so popular, many people used all the money to buy potatoes to buy this coupon, and everyone wanted to be the lucky one who won the first prize.

Gu Shun increased the number of food stamps printed, and for this reason he even bought a printing house and worked overtime to print them.

Every day, on the stage set up in the market, countless people from all over the city flock to see which lucky winner won the first prize today.

This has even evolved into a new habit for many people in the lower city.

Many people will move a small Mazha to the market on time every day to see, rubbing the joy of the winners, and praying that they will be the ones who win the lottery tomorrow.

Because the food stamps were selling too well, the scratch prints were too slow, and the odds of winning were too limited.

Whenever a sales point opens the first prize, the next day, the sales point will be surrounded by water, and you can't buy it if you want to.

To this end, Gu Shun changed the winning method on the food coupon, from the form of directly indicating the prize to the form of a fixed number, which is exactly the same as the nature of the lottery in the previous life.

Each food voucher is printed with a string of numbers, and before sunset, the winning numbers of the day will be announced on this stage.

It's only been a month since the food stamps were introduced, and all the residents of the lower city have gone completely crazy with the stamps.