My Sisters Excel in Both Literary and Martial Arts - Chapter 1222

[Chapter 1184 Chaos before the war]

. The shopkeeper of Mipu, whose surname is Wang, is quite economical.

He had relatives in Jinxi and knew the news of King Jin’s rebellion in advance, so he made a bold decision to buy rice from all the rice shops in Ruzhou City, but those bosses were not as smart as Shopkeeper Wang, so Seeing that he wanted to buy rice, I sold it to him all at once.

Of course, the money needed to buy all the rice in Ruzhou City was not a small amount, so shopkeeper Wang not only borrowed a lot of money from the bank, but also wrote a lot of IOUs.

However, he is not worried, because he knows that as soon as the news of King Jin’s rebellion comes, the people will definitely be interested!

Sure enough, within a few days, the news of King Jin’s rebellion from Jinxi spread throughout Ruzhou. Although there was no news from Jingzhou, the people spontaneously gathered food.

Perhaps this is the purest common people’s mentality. Suddenly, food in Ruzhou is expensive. Compared with before, the price of food has gone up again and again. Shopkeeper Wang’s face is almost smiling.

The warehouse of Wangjia Mipu and shopkeeper Wang’s house are full of grain. Shopkeeper Wang just sits on the ground and raises the price. He is not afraid of the people’s opinions. After all, he has grain in his hand. Are you not satisfied?

get out!

Sure enough, after shopkeeper Wang finished speaking, the people fell silent.

Later, the people who were making a lot of noise just now lowered their heads and walked out, while many people were discussing when to get up tomorrow and when to queue up.

When Shopkeeper Wang saw this, his face glowed red.

“A bunch of unruly people!”

Shopkeeper Wang looked at the leaving crowd and sneered: “How dare you negotiate terms with me? Bah, you deserve it!”

After saying that, Shopkeeper Wang turned around, hummed a tune, and prepared to go back Let’s study how much more food prices will rise tomorrow.

“Wait a minute.”

Shopkeeper Wang immediately turned around and saw a handsome-looking young man standing outside the door. Shopkeeper Wang thought he looked familiar, but he had no idea who he was.

However, looking at the young man’s clothes and temperament, shopkeeper Wang could guess that he was rich or noble, so he said in a gentle tone: “Master, I’m really sorry, today’s grain has been sold out. If you want to buy it, come back tomorrow.” That’s right.”

Jing Zhe shook his head and said, “I’m not here to buy food, but I have some advice for Shopkeeper Wang.”

“Oh?”

Shopkeeper Wang frowned, looking puzzled.

“This time King Jin rebelled, shopkeeper Wang should have a lot of grain stored in his warehouse, right? If it’s all sold out, it won’t work in less than ten days and a half. But what if the rebellion subsided in three days? Shopkeeper Wang’s grain will not be So, Shopkeeper Wang, why don’t you spread the grain with other grains quickly and lower the price, otherwise you will lose everything in the future?”

After hearing what Jing Zhe said, Shopkeeper Wang’s face suddenly changed.

After pulling it off, he collected all the rice in the city, and deliberately controlled it to sell only a small part of the grain every day. The longer it took to sell, the more beneficial it was to him. How could he be willing to distribute the grain evenly again? And also reduced the price?

“Who are you?”

“It doesn’t matter who I am. What’s important is that Shopkeeper Wang had better listen to my advice.”

“Bah!”

Shopkeeper Wang still hasn’t remembered who Jing Zhe is, but in Ruzhou City There are many wealthy families, and he has not seen all the young masters and young masters of those wealthy families, so it is normal for him not to recognize them.

Perhaps this was the young owner of a certain grain store, jealous of the money he was making, and deliberately came to disgust him!

“I have the final say whether to lower the price and how long it will be sold. Why do you need to meddle in your own business? Hurry up!”

With that, shopkeeper Wang pushed Jing Zhe and drove him out.

Jing Zhe was not angry, because he had no reason, so he still happily retreated.

This is why they fought against monopoly in that era. Let alone monopoly, even if there are only two or three companies engaged in a certain job on the market, they can still achieve the purpose of monopoly.

When the time comes, they can sell whatever they want and raise the price if they want. The common people have no way to deal with them. However, there is no anti-monopoly law in this world, so Jing Zhe can’t do anything to Shopkeeper Wang.

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Subsequently, Jing Zhe went to Wenxiangju and Da’an Newspaper Office.

Because the rebellion of King Jin made the people panic, and everyone went to grab food. How could they still have time to eat?

Therefore, the business of both Wenxiangju and Zhangjia Winery was very bleak. Jing Zhe asked and found out that there was a lot of food stored here.

When the Zhangjia Distillery was in Jingzhou, they directly purchased the turbid liquor for processing. However, after coming to Ruzhou, because of the sufficient space and food, the distillery started from scratch, using grain to make the turbid liquor, and then processed the spirits. There is a lot of grain for brewing in the backyard warehouse of Zhangjia Winery.

Wenxiang Juli also has a lot of food.

Jing Zhe was still satisfied with this result. As there were no guests now, Jing Zhe directly gave them a day off, and then he came to Yu’s house.

The people in the Yu family knew Jing Zhe and hurriedly let him in. After a while, Yu Li trotted over.

“Why did President Jing arrive so soon?”

To be honest, it had only been a few days since Yu Li received the news of King Jin’s rebellion. According to his inference, Jing Zhe should be in Jiangling at this time.

Jing Zhe smiled and did not answer, but asked: “Governor Yu, where are the rebels of King Jin?”

Upon hearing this, Yu Li said seriously: “Back to President Jing, I sent someone to inquire yesterday. For some reason, the King of Jin and the coalition rebels from Xijiang were walking slowly. Although they had been out of Jinxi for three days, they were still less than halfway through the journey. If they were going at their speed, it would probably take another three days. It takes four days to reach Ruzhou!”

“It’s been so long…”

Jing Zhe nodded, and then said, “You know about the rise in food prices in the city, right?”

Yu Li grimaced, then nodded and said, “President Jing, I do know, but you can’t There is no way! “

According to Da’an law, agricultural and sideline products will only be reported to the government if the price increase exceeds double in one day, so Wangjia Rice Shop only sells a certain amount of rice every day, and then the price increase does not exceed double every day. The government has nothing to do with them.

Jing Zhe patted Yu Li on the shoulder to express his understanding.

“That shopkeeper Wang is indeed very cunning, but we can’t let him increase the price all the way. Otherwise, before King Jin rebels, the people will be in chaos first.”

“Yes, yes…”

Yu Li quickly agreed, and at the same time he Asked: “I wonder if President Jing has any good way to appease the people?”

In fact, Yu Li himself also knew that there was only one way, and that was to lower the price. However, the Wang family has now tasted the sweetness, how easy is it for them to take the initiative to lower the price? ?

Could they use their status to force him to lower the price of food?

According to Yuli, this is the only way.

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(End of this chapter)