Yunli left with a smile because he had achieved his goal. The goods he bought at a high price were sold at a higher price. More importantly, he had to complete his task.
Next, we have to wait for the next opportunity to appear.
Just after November, on the first day of the twelfth lunar month, the herdsmen who came early with their cattle, sheep and horses to exchange for winter supplies were shocked to find that the prices of all supplies had increased!
Originally, three sheep could be exchanged for a week's worth of winter supplies, but now it actually costs thirty!
According to the conversion ratio here on the grassland, three sheep are equal to one cow, and six sheep are equal to one horse.
In other words, if they want to exchange for winter supplies that are enough for their family to survive for the next week, what they need to pay has changed from one cow to ten, and even horses will cost five!
Who can afford to replace this!
For most herdsmen, even if they replace all their cattle, sheep and horses, it will not be enough for them to survive after this winter. Even if they survive, they will fall into a situation of having nothing, and they will die a little later. That’s all.
Immediately, all the herdsmen who came started to make noises. Prairie dialects from various tribes with different accents and half-baked Mandarin were heard at the scene. The herdsmen immediately surrounded all the Li family stores in the city!
The situation seems to be a bit out of control.
At this time, the shopkeepers of each store stood up. They first explained how difficult it was to get goods this year. They also used the reputation of the Li family in previous years to ensure that they were not trying to embarrass everyone. They just didn't sell so much that they wouldn't even be able to keep their profits next year. It is even more difficult to provide supplies to everyone.
Then, as if on their own initiative, they lowered the selling price by 20%, and said with a bloodthirsty expression that they wouldn't be able to earn an extra copper this year.
The herdsmen are simple and ignorant.
Someone once said that if you think a room is too dark and you open a window, people will definitely not allow it.
But if you advocated demolishing the roof from the beginning, and then reluctantly lowered your request to opening a window when they dissuaded you.
Then at this time, they will agree.
The Li family took advantage of this human psychology to get the simple herdsmen to accept these winter supplies that were eight times the usual price.
The herdsmen who came here with smiles on their faces eventually returned home gloomy or sad.
Although they accepted this price, it did not mean that they were willing to purchase these materials at this price. It was just that they had no choice but to do this in order to survive.
After three days like this, the herdsmen gradually accepted the facts. Li Xuanji was relieved to see that things had stabilized.
And began to think about it, this year seems to have passed this level, but the price increase is important. If I still do this next year, these herdsmen are not the common people in the pass, they will definitely go back to their previous roots. Okay, just grab it.
Therefore, I must find a way to avoid Feiyun Trading Company's methods next year, and I can no longer be held hostage by them.
While Li Xuanji was thinking about how to find a more stable supply channel that would not be instigated by Feiyun Trading Company, he did not know that several shops had quietly opened in the four directions of east, west, north and south in Yunzhou City.
Gerile is an ordinary herdsman from the Kor tribe. His family raises a hundred sheep, several yaks, and three horses.
According to their wealth, this winter should have been easy.
But three days ago, the Li Family Trading Company increased the price of winter supplies, which cast a layer of gloom over this ordinary herdsman family.
Gerile only found out this morning. He had already done it once before when supplies were still at par. At that time, he exchanged three sheep for enough supplies for a family to survive the winter for a week. But today he took three sheep with him again. When the sheep came to Yunzhou City, he realized that his three sheep were no longer enough.
The supplies in Li's shop have increased to the point where two pairs of hands plus eight fingers of sheep can be exchanged for a week's worth of survival supplies!
So he could only lead his five or six-year-old daughter Hu very back home. He wanted to go back and get more sheep in exchange for his family's survival supplies for the next week.
"Abu (Father), why do we have to go home as a Rite (home) before we can get a lot of wood?"
The young Sanji didn't understand why Abu didn't exchange sheep for a lot of wood when he came to the big city this time, so he bit his finger and asked his Abu.
“Little Sanji, be good, we didn’t bring enough sheep, Abu needs to go home and bring more sheep, so that Abu’s little Sanji won’t feel the cold in the next seven sunrises and sunsets. "
Gerile sighed, hugged his beloved Xiao Hu, and said comfortingly.
Although little Sangji didn't quite understand why three sheep couldn't exchange for so much firewood, he knew that he could just follow Abu, but there might be a lot less sheep in the family in the future. Much, much less!
Now three sheep are not enough, and I don’t know how many cute lambs will be sent to the big city this year.
The father and daughter led three sheep and walked on the road. Although they were in Yunzhou City, the snow that had fallen for a long time had covered the ground of Yunzhou City with enough snow to submerge their calves. .
Even if there is a dedicated person to clean it up on time, it will not fall as fast as the snow on the sky that day.
Just when Gerile was thinking about how many sheep his family would have left after surviving the winter at the current price, little Sanji, who was being held in his arms, suddenly pointed to a shop not far away and shouted loudly. road:
"Abu! Abu! Look! There is a cloth in front of a shop with flame patterns painted on it. Is it a place selling firewood?"
When Gerile thought that his Xiao Hu had seen the Li family's shop here and turned around to see the shop, he was stunned on the spot.
It was a shop I had never seen before. The flag outside the shop had a pattern of three flames painted on it. Although the inside of the shop could not be seen clearly, it should be extremely warm judging from the signs of melting of the snow around the shop. , but this shouldn’t be Li’s shop, right?
The Li family has been rooted in Yunzhou County for decades, and the herders in Yunzhou County are all familiar with the Li family's shop. This shop definitely cannot be the Li family's shop.
Suddenly, an idea came to my mind, I want to go and have a look!
If this really wasn't the Li family's shop and it also sold winter supplies, maybe I wouldn't have to spend more sheep to go to the Li family's shop in exchange for enough winter supplies!
As soon as he thought of it, Gerile immediately tightened the moustache in his arms, and then led the three sheep towards the front of the shop with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
From a distance, when he was about to arrive in front of the shop, Gerile could hear the shop clerk shouting loudly in his Song Dynasty Mandarin, which he did not speak fluently but could understand: "Walk by." Don’t miss it when passing by! The best briquettes and briquette stoves, as well as the most warm and popular cotton-padded clothes, cotton trousers and large cotton-padded jackets! As a special offer for the new store opening, a set of three cotton-padded clothes, cotton trousers and cotton-padded jackets only costs one sheep!
A briquette stove only requires two sheep, and exchanging one sheep for two hundred briquettes is enough for a family to survive seven sunrises and sunsets without feeling cold!
If you are passing by, come and take a look! "
Gerile was shocked when he heard this. Although he didn't understand what the briquette stove and briquettes were, he thought the guy meant it was something similar to firewood.
After putting it down, Gerile's steps were a little faster again, and he soon arrived in front of the shop and saw the big characters painted on the shop!
[Feiyun Trading Company]!
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