Two Hundred and Fortieth Four: Grain Store Dispute (5)

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"Not counting the three grain stores in Liu's Mansion, there are still twenty-eight grain stores in Hejian, big and small. After a price cut yesterday, all of them have taken a stance of hope today. It can be seen that they have doubted the grain storage in our grain depot. In that case, why not To coax them to come and buy food?"

For a grain shop, a few thousand shi of grain is a lot, but if twenty-eight shops practice their hands, it is nothing at all.

Jiang Pengji has carefully made a budget, leaving a part for the purchase restriction, and the other part is sold at a high price to these bullies.

Xu Ke: "..."

Suddenly, he felt the loneliness of a hero being useless.

My husband is too capable, so melancholy to be my right-hand man!

"But... will they really do this?"

After all, Xu Ke didn't know much about business, so he felt a little uneasy.

In fact, Jiang Pengji doesn't know much. After all, she was born as a genetic warrior, and fighting is the mainstream of her life. Most of the skills and knowledge she learns are close to practical fighting, but she lives in an era where information is extremely developed, and she can always see it.

She is not an expert, but it is still possible to follow the example, not to mention the suppression of business in ancient times, she can naturally handle it.

"Naturally. Even if we don't release rumors that the reserves are not enough, they have already secretly tested it."

Jiang Pengji is a layman when it comes to business, but she is the ancestor of this business when it comes to defrauding people and seeking to maximize profits!

Regardless of whether it was the ancient times or the times before her, a general was never a reckless person.

On the contrary, most of these people are very wise and foolish, seemingly crude, with a lot of thoughts in their hearts.

For Jiang Pengji to be favored by her old boss, stand out from the crowd of candidates, become the head of the army, and lead an army, which is naturally impressive.

"Let the shopkeepers of the grain shops pay attention, write down the faces and descriptions of every person who buys grain, and the grain they bought." Jiang Pengji said, "If the predictions are correct, these grain shops should send people to steal from our grain shops Buy food, test the truth."

She continued, "All you have to do is to let the prop who prepared early in the morning spread rumors, and at the same time let the shopkeeper and the staff of the grain shop secretly play tricks."

put on a show?

What play?

Naturally, they secretly talked about the lack of enough food in the grain storage, and asked the shopkeeper to ask the master what to do next.

As long as the people who came to buy grain "accidentally" heard this and brought it back, Jiang Pengji's goal would be achieved.

Xu Ke sighed inwardly, and said, "Here, Ke will go down and do it now."

"Well, let's go."

Regardless of Xu Ke's young age, he was thoughtful and steady in doing things, and Jiang Pengji was always at ease when he entrusted the matter to him.

Jiang Pengji was very predictable. After noon, there were indeed several people who bought a large amount of food, and one of them even bought a whole stone!

One stone, at other times, people with a little money in the family can afford it.

But in today's time when food prices are soaring, a stone is a big deal.

Until sunset, the clerk of the Liufu grain store hurried into the grain store from the side door, too anxious to wipe off his sweat, and looked at the shopkeeper with flustered eyes, as if he had something important to report, but he was in the way of others. The common people are present, so it is not easy to speak directly.

Seeing this, the shopkeeper put down the guests he was receiving, and chatted with the waiter in a corner. He could vaguely hear words such as "one thousand nine hundred shi" and "not enough". Conversations are hard to hear unless they have a heart.

However, among the people who bought grain, many of the "grain buyers" were the eyeliners of other grain shops.

"Is what you said true?"

The eyeliner replied, "It's true. I really heard them say that the grain storage is less than 1900 yuan. If you continue to sell like this, you won't be able to last for a few days."

After listening to the former, he pondered for a while and made a decision in his heart.

Except for the three grain shops in the Liu Mansion, the other twenty-eight grain shops all hoped to make a fortune this time. Seeing that the people who bought grain all went to the rival shops,

They watched in their hearts and were anxious, and even two of them had already decided to drop the price the next day.

When they first heard the news, they were as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

One thousand nine hundred shi, not much to distribute among twenty-eight grain shops.

If they eat the batch of food from the Liu Mansion, they can continue to raise the price logically, and they will still be profitable.

Now the news of civil unrest in Cangzhou is intensifying. The displaced people have not only spread to Zisang County, but have even spread to Hejian. This is a good time to make a fortune. After this village, there will be no such shop. Don’t miss this opportunity. How could he be messed up by Liu's mansion?

In a word, buy buy buy!

So, on the third day, the three grain stores under the name of the Liu Mansion ushered in a large wave of "common people" who bought grain, and also drove the real grain buyers, making those who still want to continue to look forward to make up their minds to buy... They all heard There are rumors that the cheap food in Liu Mansion is almost gone!

If you don’t buy it now, you will have to buy food at a high price in the future. If you can’t afford it, you can only starve to death.

On the third day, the business of the grain shop reached its peak.

Until the grain shop closed, there were still many people who hadn’t bought any grain wandering around the door. The shopkeeper and the shopkeeper could only persuade them to leave in soft voices, “Today’s grain is sold out, if you want to buy it, come back tomorrow. The grain store is closing."

The people looked at each other in blank dismay, thinking that the shopkeeper's words were just perfunctory for them, and they were extremely disappointed.

On the fourth day, the business of the grain store was still good, but it was closed before noon, which further confirmed the rumors that the grain store was short of food.

"Hmph, Governor Liu has meritorious service in governance, but he doesn't know anything about business. It would be foolish to give up watermelon and sesame seeds."

Many people secretly laughed in their hearts, Liu Mansion has indeed made a lot of money, but that's all.

If you can hold your breath, you can earn five or six times, or even more money!

On the fifth day, the grain shops in Hejian County seemed to have negotiated, and one after another adjusted the prices of their own grain shops upwards.

The price is here, buy it or not, or wait for the family to starve to death if you don’t buy it.

However, the expected customer did not come. After careful inquiry, the shopkeepers of several grain shops almost had a heart attack.

Originally thought that the grain store in Liu's mansion would not be open today, but the people found that they opened the store earlier than usual.

"Hey, what is this?"

The common people looked at the sign hanging outside the grain store and couldn't understand it.

"This is a purchase limit."

At this time, a man in a blue Confucian shirt was holding a feather fan in his hand, standing in the crowd, who else could it be if it wasn't Qi Guanrang?

"What is the purchase limit?"

One hundred ordinary people, ninety-nine illiterates, how do they know what purchase restrictions are.

For scholars, the common people all respected them, they all gave way to Qi Guan so that he could easily see the sign.

He stepped forward calmly, read the content on the sign clearly, and then explained it in a way that ordinary people could understand.

"The grain shop is still open, but each commoner can only buy a maximum of food for a family of four to chew for two days a day, and will not sell if there is too much."

Purchase limit?

This kind of sales method is unheard of and unseen, and many people feel that they can't get used to it.

If this is the case, doesn't it mean that they have to go to the grain store every two or three days?

Why not sell it all at once?

What are you doing so much trouble for?