In fact, merchants, no matter in any period, can be summed up in four words: buying and selling, obtaining goods from suppliers, and then selling them to earn the price difference.
However, in the end of the world, the most important resource of food crops is not just for everyone.
Thinking about it differently, anyone who can open a food store must have at least a big force behind him, otherwise he will be People eat so much that not even the dregs are left.
It is precisely because of this that Huang Yi must be careful when he has grain in his hands, otherwise he will cause trouble or even disaster.
Grain is a piece of oily fat that everyone wants to take a bite of.
"Don't talk for a while," Huang Yi warned Yue Yuan, lest he say the wrong thing and cause trouble for the two of them.
"Don't worry, I can still tell which is more important."
Although Yue Yuan answered like this, Huang Yi was still a little worried.
After several years of contact, he knew that this guy was often unreliable.
The Shengshi Grain Store is the first target that Huang Yi and the others need to understand.
It is a five-story building built on the street.
It is very lively with people coming and going.
There are at least twenty powerful men around the building holding broadswords.
Standing there, his cold eyes patrolled everyone entering and leaving the grain store.
There is no way, the food is too precious, and it must be protected for fear of being robbed by hungry people.
It is worth mentioning that the sunlight all over the world is now obscured by dust clouds and plunged into darkness, but the entire Carp City is a scene of brilliant lights.
There are street lights everywhere, especially the merchants, who make their shops bright. , there are almost no black shops and the like.
The same goes for the Shengshi Grain Store, with dozens of lights on.
The place was illuminated to every detail, and it was very lively with people coming and going.
Those who went in were empty-handed, while most of those who came out had food.
But most of them didn't have any smiles on their faces.
It was obvious that they were being slaughtered every time they went in, and their hard-earned money was exchanged for the food in their hands.
When Huang and Yi stepped into the door of Shengshi Grain Store, they were not intercepted.
They were just looked at warily by the guards.
After all, they were strangers.
The two entered the lobby of the Shengshi Grain Shop.
It was a space with thousands of square meters, but it was divided.
There were finger-thick steel bars on the steel shelves welded into air strikes of about ten centimeters.
There is also a barbed wire barrier, forming two independent spaces.
Inside the barbed wire fence, there is a shelf with all kinds of edible things on it.
People outside can see the things inside through the barbed wire fence and make selections.
Inside the barbed wire fence, in addition to people running back and forth to pick up goods, there are also Knife-wielding personnel guard.
I have no choice but to worry about being robbed of food.
"It's like a bank before the end of the world.
No one is allowed to touch the food inside.
Who knows if it's bad."
Yue Yuan curled his lips and said.
Huang Yi didn't say anything, he just took a quick look and it was almost enough to see the situation here.
There were twenty big men guarding outside the grain store.
Judging from the breath, he was at least at the same level as Qin Zhan.
Inside the building, there are more than a dozen people of Hengyong's level from Black Mountain Fort guarding it.
And Huang Yi also felt that there were stronger people upstairs.
In this way, I have to sigh in my heart, food is really a huge profit industry in the apocalypse, and even the guards are so tight.
It is like before the apocalypse, it is sold in a small shop, and there are piles of food in the supermarket for you to take at will.
The food in the grain shop can be roughly divided into two categories, finished products and semi-finished products.
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The so-called finished products are things similar to instant noodles that can be eaten directly after buying them.
In this prosperous grain shop, the one with the most finished food is It's dark, I don't know what kind of powder it is and it's soft and about the size of a fist.
The dumplings cost one copper coin each and are the best-selling food.
There are also some flour cakes and the like on them, which are more expensive.
The same black one actually costs five copper coins.
There are also some canned meat jerky and the like.
It was more expensive.
You had to use silver coins to buy anything.
Most people couldn't afford it.
Of course, the quantity was also very small.
Then there are the semi-finished products, which are easy to understand.
They are some raw meat, flour, rice, beans and the like.
There are quite a lot of them, and I don’t know where they come from.
There are even fruits, which makes people widen their eyes.
In the apocalypse where nothing can grow, how did these things come about?
Huang Yi is mainly concerned about the price of semi-finished grains.
Whether it is rice or flour, ordinary people cannot afford it.
They are considered luxuries and are expensive.
What makes Huang Yi grin is the price of these grains.
They are simply robbing people.
Corn costs three silver coins per pound. , wheat, four and a half silver coins per pound, soybeans, three Five silver coins per catty, and flour, which is actually nine silver coins per catty.
It is just processing wheat into flour, and the price will be twice as expensive.
The same goes for other cornmeal, which costs six silver coins per catty, and rice, which costs five silver coins per catty.
It’s a pound, but the rice after shelling is actually ten silver coins a pound.
This is robbing people.
Take a waiter in a bar or other place in the city as an example.
Not including food and accommodation, his daily harvest is about thirty copper coins.
Then he needs to work for ten days to afford a pound of soybeans.
Satisfy your craving "It's too violent and too wasteful.
We in Black Mountain Fort used to eat meat every meal, but now we have rice every meal.
This is not eating.
This is simply eating money."
Yue Yuan saw the price of food. , his eyes almost popped out.
Huang Yi shook his head and said nothing.
He took out a copper plate from his body and came to the person on the opposite side of the window and said, "Give me something to eat."
He really didn't know what the black food with each copper coin was.
"You mean mixed nutrition cake?"
The person inside took the silver coin from Huang Yi's hand, glanced in the direction he pointed, asked subconsciously, then walked over and picked up one and handed it to Huang Yi.
After getting this black lump, Huang Yi clearly saw that the guy selling the stuff gave him a look of disdain, as if to say, this is what a person dressed like five or six should eat.
"Why did you buy this?"
Yue Yuan asked curiously.
Huang Yi shook his head and said nothing.
He took the so-called mixed nutritional cake and weighed it in his hand.
Not to mention, it was quite heavy, almost as hard as a stone.
Then he broke it open, put it to his nose and smelled it.
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Oh my god, he I almost vomited, the smell was so unpleasant.
But I still have a keen nose and can roughly smell what is contained in it.
There is a part of wheat bran, wheat husks and bran powder rice husks, which only takes up a small part.
There is also the smell of some sawdust, and then there is bone meal.
The taste, I don’t know what kind of messy things are softened together.
"No wonder it's said that this thing can't kill people even if it's not full.
It turns out that's what it is," Huang Yi said speechlessly.
Yue Yuan casually took a look around, only to find that just such a thing was what most people bought.
Some bought a lot of them, and the people inside the barbed wire fence were so busy replenishing the goods that they couldn't even touch the ground.
In particular, people who are shopping often drool when looking at the various meats and rice, but cannot afford them.
Huang Yi looked at the price of rice again.
It was five silver coins per catty.
By comparison, he felt that the rice produced in Heishanbao, even if it was only for supply and not retail, could be purchased for fifteen silver coins per catty.
It was one catty, one person per catty. meal size The reason for this is because Huang Yi saw that the grains of the rice bought in this grain store were three times smaller than the rice in Heishanbao.
Many of them were shriveled.
It would be good to have half a catty of rice for one catty of rice. .
"Let's go, let's go to the next one and make a decision."
Huang Yi shook his head and led Yue Yuan out of the door of Shengshi Grain Store.
The two came to the grain store and just bought a mixed nutritional cake.
After walking out of the Shengshi Grain Store, Huang Yi casually threw the mixed nutritional cake into two hundred pieces to a man who was collapsed on the roadside and was about to die, without looking back.
's departure.
The next store, Dahe Grain Store, has a similar layout, the goods inside are similar, and the prices are roughly the same as Shengshi Grain Store.
There is nothing new.
The difference is that perhaps the boss of this store is more afraid of death, and the guards are more afraid of death than the Shengshi Grain Store.
There are a few more.
Next, there is Xinglong Grain Store, which is about the same and has no freshness.
However, I noticed that there is an extra kind of canned carp and some carp-related food products here, which the other two stores do not have.
Comparing the three grain stores in his mind, it seemed that only the area and goods of the Dahe Grain Store were much different, and the prices were slightly higher.
Yue Yuan did not notice this, but Huang Yi did.
Then, the next one was, well, it was Xinglong Grain Store again, and the next one was Xinglong Grain Store, and the next one was Xinglong Grain Store, and then Shengshi Grain Store.
"I discovered that there are only three owners among the ten grain stores in Carp City.
Xinglong Grain Store has five branches, Shengshi has three stores, and Yamato has two.
They occupy the entire Carp City's food supply."
Yue Yuan also said I was speechless after discovering this strange phenomenon.
Huang Yi smiled, knowing in his heart that food is a huge profit, and no one wants others to interfere.
I am afraid that if a new food company is launched, it will be immediately suppressed by these three companies or even directly occupied.
"Let's go directly to Xinglong Liangpu.
Xinglong Liangpu has the most branches in Carp City and is the most powerful.
In order to reduce trouble, it is probably most appropriate to cooperate with them," Huang Yi said with a wry smile.
Yue Yuan thought about it and understood the reason.
I am afraid that once their high-quality rice cooperates with the other two companies, Xinglong Grain Shop will kill them immediately.
Walking into a Xinglong grain store at random, Huang Yi went directly to the window and said to the people inside: "Can you introduce the person in charge here?"
Standing inside was a young and average-looking girl.
She blinked at Huang Yi and asked subconsciously, "Aren't you going to buy something to eat?"
Huang Yi was speechless after hearing this, and said again: "Can you introduce me to the person in charge here?
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I have a business, and I hope to reach a cooperation with you.
I guess you can't make the decision
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