At this time, Zunhua was shocked by a breaking news.
The owner of Xinghe Iron Works actually opened three grain stores. There are barriers to the grain industry. Without a large amount of land, it is impossible to open grain stores.
Everyone in the industry is laughing at his joke.
What a joke. If you are an iron smelter, just smelt your iron well and come here to resell food. You will make as much money as you want.
Yes, food prices are expected to rise, and everyone has seen it, but you can’t make money just because food prices rise, because you don’t have the pricing power to purchase goods.
The big landowners in Zunhua were all told that the Grain Merchant Guild did not want the industry to continue to increase. The market was already saturated. As for the newly opened grain stores, they should be left to their own devices.
The big landowners know very well that this means not to sell grain to them. These new shops of theirs cannot be opened without food.
Under the monopoly of the industry guilds, no new grain stores have opened for ten years. The monopoly has brought huge profits, and the price of food has been higher every year. It just hurts the common people.
They can only buy food to eat while working, so they have no choice but to endure it.
Food is unlike anything else. If one hundred people only have ninety-nine portions of food, if one portion is missing, the price can soar into the sky like a rocket.
The reason is very simple. No one wants to be the one who starves to death, so they will try their best to buy at high prices.
Gong Zusan is the president of the Grain Merchant Guild.
I am very unhappy about the fact that Xinghe and his gang opened a grain store without permission without even coming to ask him for instructions, and the consequences will be serious.
The consequence is that there will be no local large landowners to sell grain to him.
Zunhua, a smelting base with a highly developed industry, has hundreds of thousands of miners and ironworks workers, plus their families, no less than 500,000 people, plus people in the service industry, transportation industry, and businessmen, the total population will reach seven Although 800,000 people are scattered within a hundred miles around, there are also hundreds of thousands of people in the county.
Everyone knows that humans have to eat. These people are all pure grain consumers. There are many people who are optimistic about the Zunhua grain market. If anyone can come and open a grain store, that would be great.
That kid surnamed Yang, I don’t know where he came from. He opened a small iron factory and he didn’t know how high the sky is. He actually dared to reach out to the grain industry. Haha, I won’t close his grain store this time. Just write your name backwards.
On the first day that the three grain stores opened, a breaking news spread throughout the city. The store not only sold grain, but also accepted millet in exchange for rice.
One pound for one pound.
Everyone is stupid. These people are not hysterical.
There is no rice produced in the north, and rice is shipped from the south of the Yangtze River. A load of millet costs one cent and five silver, a load of white rice costs five cents, and even old grain white rice costs three cents.
One pound for one pound, the boss is not crazy, right?
When Gong Zusan heard the news, he was also a little confused. This was a strange move. What on earth were they going to do. But he soon made a decision. Since they wanted to die themselves, we will comply with their wishes.
"Ask the top berths in the guild to bring millet to exchange. We want to exchange as much as they can. We also want the old grain, as long as it is not moldy. The middle berths and small shops should not participate first."
Gong Zusan gave the order, and hundreds of carts of millet were delivered to Xinghe Grain Store that day.
When working in major grain stores, people blocked the doors and shouted, asking the boss to come out and exchange money quickly. There were many people around watching the excitement.
There are already many small and retail households who exchange millet at home for rice. Zhao Fu analyzed that the master wanted to attract a group of customers, which was what Miss Yaoguang meant by advertising. This made him famous all of a sudden and left a deep impression on the general public.
As long as everyone knows about our store, it will be easy to run. Isn't it true that the new store is afraid that no one will come to the door? Besides, after changing the rice, maybe I can buy something else from the store.
This activity is probably the promotion that the master mentioned. This loss is still well worth it.
But when the Grain Chamber of Commerce was mixed in, the nature changed.
Zhao Fu hurriedly came to find Miss Yaoguang.
After Yang Fan left, Yaoguang was obviously Yang Fan's agent, and everyone came to her for advice.
"Girl, people from the Zunhua Grain Chamber of Commerce sent hundreds of carts of millet at once. Can we exchange it for them?"
"Hmph, this is bullying. We are a new store and have not yet established a stable footing. Change, take as much as you can." Yao Guang wrinkled her nose and snorted coldly.
Gong Zusan picked up the rice he had just exchanged with his hands, put it under his nose, smelled it, and sneered: "It is indeed old rice, or three-year old rice."
Chen Jin was the second largest grain merchant in the guild. He put the grains of rice into his mouth, chewed it carefully, tasted it, and said strangely: "I can't tell where the rice came from. This rice is so bad, it tastes like chewing rice." , there is no aroma of white rice at all.”
He, a veteran who has been doing this for generations, was unable to identify it, which surprised everyone.
Wang Huai asked: "Could it be Cochin rice or Siamese rice from overseas?"
Chen Liucai retorted: "Although I have never seen this rice, the rice grains are short, thick and round, and it is obviously japonica rice. This is the characteristic of northern rice. Siamese rice, Jiaozhi rice, and even Luzon rice are all indica rice, and the rice grains are slender. This is It can't be confused. It can't be from overseas."
Wang Huai asked again: "Is it Korean rice or Japanese rice?"
Several old shopkeepers shook their heads, absolutely not.
Who are they? If they say it’s not, then it’s definitely not.
"Cook it now and taste it when it's done." Gong Zusan said.
After a while, the rice was ready, and several people took some in small tea bowls and tasted it slowly.
Everyone shook their heads, it didn't taste good.
There is no rice aroma at all.
It feels like chewing wax when chewing.
No wonder the boy named Yang was willing to exchange it for millet.
If Yang Fan were here, of course he would laugh at them.
This is modern double-cropping hybrid rice, which is produced by chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The yield has increased, but the taste is good, so don’t have high hopes.
People who were born in the 1970s or earlier will definitely still have memories of their childhood, when food was very sweet.
One family in the village steams white rice, and everyone in the village can smell the aroma. But today's rice has lost too much texture and flavor.
There is a saying in traditional Chinese medicine that the most nutritious thing for Han people is grains, and other meats are not nutritious.
However, grains must be grains with the ability to reproduce, that is, grains that can be used as seeds, so that they can have the energy and spirit to nourish the body.
Modern genetic breeding can only grow eunuch rice for one season, which has no effect of nourishing the internal organs. It will only make you obese.
Hundreds of cars and thirty tons of millet were exchanged.
But the shopkeepers don’t feel that they are taking advantage. Three-year-old rice is still so unpalatable, so switching to millet is really not an advantage.
There are still many people lining up to redeem. It is estimated that they are not willing to come back to redeem after eating once. This kind of white rice is not as sweet and delicious as millet.
After proofing in the evening, Yaoguang was calculating. Today, he collected a total of about 100 tons of millet, which should be enough for Hyundai to sell for a while.
Yaoguang teleported Xiaomi that night.
Then he sent a message to Sun Xing from Xinghe Collection.
Sun Xing knew that Yang Yaoguang was the boss's secretary, but she had never had the chance to meet him. She has the same last name as the boss, so I don’t know if they are related.
"Xiao Sun, a batch of special millet has arrived at the warehouse. Go and collect it, pack it into bags of ten kilograms, and list it for sale on Xinghe Collection Online."
"Hello, Secretary Yang, this grain is not suitable for sale in Xinghe Collection. We have never sold this before. I'm afraid it will be lost in my hands." Sun Xing has made a prosperous business in ancient coins recently, and she is afraid that she will be compensated for this. Yes, it affects the semi-annual report.
"Don't be afraid. This is the boss's wish. Just do as you are told. It's still the same as the antiques. I'll give it to you at half price. Don't be afraid of losing money. The goods will be sent to you first and we'll sell them on behalf of you. By the way, the company will provide benefits. You and Monkey and Erluzi , scammers and others, each employee is given a bag for free. This is high-quality rice, which cannot be easily bought."
"Okay." Sun Xing had nothing to say. If he didn't accept it, Monkey and the others would definitely accept it. They were all farmers and had no objection to selling rice.
"What's the market price?"
"Currently, the price will be sold at 51 jins, and the price will be increased to 110 jins later depending on the situation."
"What! It's so expensive, how could anyone buy it?" Sun Xing was dumbfounded.
"Expensive, huh, there will be more expensive ones in the future. Register a company as soon as possible. Let's call it Xinghe Agricultural Products and make it a wholly-owned subsidiary of Xinghe Collection."
Sun Xing was dumbfounded. The best Shanxi millet only weighed 21 pounds at the top. Generally, it costs ten yuan a pound and is very good. This one actually sold for fifty-one pounds.
