Chapter 51 Vanguard To expect the Yuan officers and soldiers not to seize food is to expect wolves not to eat sheep.
Expecting local officials to dare to uphold justice for the people under their jurisdiction is tantamount to expecting all the evil spirits in hell to become Buddhas and arhats.
Having lived in the Yuan Dynasty for a long time, ordinary people have long known that they should not have any hope in the imperial court and local officials.
So I was angry, and after sighing, I took out the last few Tongbao in my pocket and turned them into brown rice, grains and sorghum.
You can save other money, but you can’t skip food.
If we can buy more before food prices soar, the whole family will have more hope of surviving this war in the future.
In a short time, more than half of the seven or eight cabinets at the front desk of the grain store were empty.
When Shopkeeper Sun saw it, he quickly sent his workers to the warehouse in the backyard to carry new goods.
At the same time, he began to use the corner of his eye to look at the people queuing up.
As soon as this wave of grain-buying customers were gone, he immediately changed the water sign in front of the door and continued to push up the price of grains.
At this juncture, there is no room for mercy.
If one's own grain is sold at a lower price than other counterparts in the city, not only will it offend others, but it will also attract all the poor people in the city.
By the time the food in stock was sold out, the price of food in the city had increased several times.
After the owner calculated the possible losses, it was time for him, the shopkeeper, to pack up and leave.
Just as I was burning with anxiety, the voice of the bold customer from before suddenly came to my ears, "Shopkeeper, please give me fifty shi of fine white rice, fifty shi of fine noodles, and fifty shi of millet at this price."
I'll ask the man to pull the carriage later.
This is Huaiyang's silver dollar, which is considered as a deposit.
If it's not enough, I'll make up for it with the man when he gets the food."
As he spoke, he dropped a silk bag filled with Chinese silver coins on the counter with a clang.
"Boom!"
Shopkeeper Sun felt a thunderbolt rolling through his head, which made his feet weak and stars in his eyes.
He was really afraid that something would come to him.
He was afraid that the price of food in his store would be too low and others would snap it up and hoard it.
It just so happened that a friend from the same industry came along.
One hundred and fifty shi of grain is equivalent to 20,000 kilograms.
Even if fifty strong men eat it with their belly open, it will be enough for more than half a year.
The other party wanted to buy 20,000 kilograms of grain when he came up, and even left the Huaiyang silver dollar, the most sought-after currency on the market, as an order.
He clearly wanted to force him to death without giving him a chance to regret it.
Fortunately, there is no shortage of "understanding" people in this world.
Before Shopkeeper Sun could decide whether to grit his teeth and hold on to the end, or immediately submit to the other party and beg for mercy, pay a sum of compensation and ask to be let go.
In front of the counter, someone was already protesting at the top of their lungs.
"Hey, I said, Shopkeeper Chang, you can just get over it now.
Although your Hanyuan Trading Company is not short of money, you can't buy all the rice and noodles at once and let us all go drink the northwest wind."
"Isn't that right, Brother Chang?
What are you doing?
You bought all the grain in one fell swoop.
Don't you sincerely want us all to starve?"
"Shopkeeper Chang, you have a lot of money, please go elsewhere.
We, a small family, really can't stand you."
Other neighbors in the queue who had not yet bought food also spoke up.
He accused Chang of taking advantage of the situation and deliberately letting everyone starve to death.
Shopkeeper Sun finally calmed down after hearing this.
He raised his head and began to carefully look at who was deliberately trying to get in trouble with him.
What caught his eye was a southern man with a fair face and broad shoulders.
His eyebrows were thick and his mouth was always smiling, as if he didn't even realize that he had offended the public.
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"Who do I think is so bold?
It turns out to be a stupid young man from a foreign country."
Upon seeing this, shopkeeper Sun became more and more at ease.
As a veteran in the shopping mall, he knew the other party's identity to some extent before.
He is the shopkeeper of a branch of a southern business company in Lingzhou City.
He is mainly engaged in the leather goods and cured meat business.
He is very bold in his dealings, and he is also diligent in getting around with the government and local prominent families.
But he is definitely not a colleague in the grain business, so he bought more rice this time, and he probably didn’t come here intentionally to cause trouble.
Thinking of this, he smiled and cupped his hands at the other party, "Oh, I'm sorry for my poor eyesight, but I didn't recognize Shopkeeper Chang before.
If I had known it was you, Shopkeeper Chang, I must have asked the waiter to bring you into the west wing to serve you tea.
How dare you I'm sorry for asking you to line up here.
I'm sorry.
I'll apologize first."
Neither said to buy nor refused immediately.
First use words to trap the other person and remind him not to queue up to buy with ordinary people.
Then find a way to communicate privately in the wing to see what the other person's intention is, and then decide how to deal with it.
He is an old fox who has become a spirit.
Chang Fugui of Hanyuan Semicolon is obviously not a green melon.
Gently turning his body half a foot to the side, Shopkeeper Sun's long bow was in the air.
Then he returned the bow with the same long bow to the ground, and at the same time said loudly: "Zhesha, Zhesha, you are so old and have such great prestige.
How dare I accept your courtesy?
I just looked at it."
You're too busy and don't want to cause trouble to me, so I queued up with everyone else.
Anyway, your business is so big, even if the juniors are at the end, you won't be able to raise your prices, right?"
These words, but there is a needle hidden in the cotton.
Shopkeeper Sun's mind, which had just relaxed a little, immediately became as tight as a bow string.
Just two minutes ago, he did have the idea to wait for the flow of people to stop, then immediately change the water sign and raise the price.
And the order of 20,000 kilograms is placed on the counter.
Even if he changes it now, how much loss can he save?
If there are a few more scattered customers, can he still buy more than 20,000 kilograms?
"Dear fellow villagers, Chang was a little anxious just now.
He didn't consider that you are still waiting for the rice to be put into the pot.
Chang wants to apologize."
Shopkeeper Sun's crooked thoughts were exposed with a needle.
Chang Fugui continued to hand over to the surrounding guests.
"In this way, Chang will be at the end of the queue.
When everyone has finished buying, Chang will buy again.
Anyway, shopkeeper Sun has enough stock here, so Chang will not be short-changed just because he sold to you."
As soon as the words fell, the neighbors who were angry before suddenly turned red in the face.
Doing business is a matter of mutual consent.
The shopkeeper often has money, but shopkeeper Sun has the goods.
It is no one's business in the first place.
Everyone was worried that the rice grains in the shop had been sold out and they were short of their own share, so they spoke arrogantly.
Shopkeeper Chang not only did not compete with everyone, but also took the initiative to give up his seat in the front row.
What reason did everyone have to continue to struggle?
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Immediately, someone took the lead and said: "It's okay, it's okay.
We are also short-sighted.
It was the first time we saw such a big gesture, so we were shocked.
You go first, you first, we just wait."
"Yes, Shopkeeper Chang, everything has a first-come, first-served basis.
You go ahead and buy it, and we'll continue to wait.
If we really let you wrap up this place, we'll go to the next one.
Anyway, it's only two streets away."
"You're welcome, you're welcome.
Shopkeeper Chang, please go first
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Everyone was being humble here, but this made Shopkeeper Sun anxious.
If you close your business immediately, you will definitely destroy your own brand.
And if we ship more than 20,000 kilograms at the current price on the water label, we have no way to explain it to our boss.
After thinking about it for a long time, he gritted his teeth and said with a smile: "It's available, it's available.
People who open grain stores are not afraid of big-bellied people.
As long as your neighbors don't buy it and resell it, I will sell it today."
He suddenly stopped smiling, quickly turned his gaze to Chang Fugui, stared into his eyes and asked: "The little old man just doesn't understand, shopkeeper Chang, you are not from the south, why are you worried about running out of food?
It stands to reason.
Son, when the war breaks out, you can just take your men and leave, why do you have to squat here and wait to die with everyone?"
"Alas, you don't know something."
Chang Fugui sighed very frankly, even though he could hear the knife hidden in the other party's words, "The guys and I came here to open a semicolon on the orders of our boss, and none of us are naked.
Don't talk about fighting.
Even if there is a knife from the sky, we must stay here.
Otherwise, we will take the employer's wages and run away.
Even if the employer does not let us refund the compensation later, at least in Chang's life, no one will dare to use it again. " "Alas" someone responded with a low sigh.
These days, in the business world, the word "faith" is particularly important.
A shopkeeper usually stays with a boss for a lifetime.
Even if they part ways midway, it's usually easy to get together and part ways, and neither party can ruin the other's reputation.
And once the shopkeeper betrays the trust of his employer, he will lose more than just money.
If word spreads, no industry will dare to hire this person again, and he will have no chance of being in the business world for the rest of his life.
"And one more thing, we outsiders are not as good as everyone."
With a few words, Shopkeeper Sun's instigation failed.
Chang Fugui cupped his hands and continued to add, "When the day of fighting really comes, how can everyone still lead us?"
As the saying goes, if you can get wild vegetables from the fields and catch rabbits from the mountains, you won't starve to death.
Death.
Where can we hide?
The old people in the countryside don’t have enough to eat, so why should we take in us outsiders?
So, when I heard that there was going to be a war, I was more anxious than a dozen of you.
The guys brought from the south and the twenty or so locals who were just recruited are all ready to eat.
Can I, the shopkeeper, eat dry rice myself and feed them gruel?"
"That's true."
Everyone heard this and continued to nod frequently.
But he secretly decided in his heart that once the price of rice in the city became unbearable, he would quickly take his wife and children to the countryside to seek refuge with relatives and friends.
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Although the faces of relatives and friends will definitely not look good, but for the sake of blood being thicker than water, eating weeds and catching frogs together will not starve the whole family to death.
"Also" Chang Fugui quickly looked around and added with a mysterious face, "We can't run because we can't let down our boss.
But you guys don't have this problem.
Our boss is far away in Yangzhou, and I can't afford it here.
He doesn't feel hungry at all.
And all of your bosses are in the city.
When the food shortage comes, he will definitely close his shop and run away.
We have enough dry food for ten days and go all the way south.”
Looking outside again, he lowered his voice: "That's the good thing about Butcher Zhu.
He has food to eat, so he won't watch the people starve.
When Zhang Mingjian burned Yangzhou, he took out the army rations Help the people.
When he was dehydrated and drowned, he once again took out the army rations.
Therefore, as long as everyone runs to the Huai'an Army's territory, no matter where it is, I guarantee that no one in the Huai'an Army will dare to watch everyone starve to death
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