When one person serves as a soldier, the whole family is honored.
Serving as a soldier under Zhou Yi not only includes three meals a day, but you can also buy a pound of refined grain white rice at a state-owned grain store for ten cents.
You must know that even in the peaceful and prosperous times, the price of ten cents could not buy a pound of refined grain white rice. It is not an exaggeration to say that this price is even a free gift.
Many families in Pingjiang County, including Ye, Wang, and Li, gathered together to discuss countermeasures.
Wang Defa, the head of the Wang family, was the first to say: "What should we do? Now this week, the county magistrate's food is sold cheaper than us, even if it is one tael of silver per catty!"
"What's more, he also provides preferential treatment to family members who join the army. Those people can buy refined grains and white rice for free with 10 cents!"
Ye Wuhua, the head of the Ye family, did not panic at all. He said calmly and calmly: "What's there to be afraid of? This state-owned grain store of his is probably just a gimmick to lure the people in the city to join the army. After a while, this will happen." Food prices will naturally go up!"
Other family heads felt that Ye Wuhua's analysis was very reasonable.
But seven days later, the price of grain at state-owned grain stores remained unchanged. The preferential price for family members of soldiers who joined the army was even reduced to five cents per catty, but the market price was still one tael of silver per catty.
Therefore, in the past few days, not even a pound of food from the Ye, Wang, and Li families in Pingjiang County was sold.
This time these families got together again, and Ye Wuhua came up with a crooked idea again.
"In this case, our major families can also send people to join the army. Firstly, we can secretly inquire about the situation of their army and find out their details. Secondly, we can also use our status as military family members to purchase a large amount of cheap food from them."
"I heard that a liter of grain in Pingyang City is now sold for 79 taels of silver. If we bring this cheap grain to Pingyang City and sell it, even if it is sold for 1 tael of silver per catty, we can make a lot of money! "
When the major families present heard this idea, they all felt that this idea was feasible, and at most it would only require the sacrifice of a few members of the clan.
After all, joining the army means you have to shed blood and die on the battlefield. Naturally, these families are reluctant to let their young talents join the army, so they send some unpopular young men in the family to join the army.
To put it bluntly, these people are abandoned children. As long as they can gain benefits for the clan, they will not hesitate to sacrifice themselves.
The plan went very smoothly. At first, the children of the Ye, Wang, and Li families in Pingjiang County would come back from time to time to report on the situation in the military camp. However, as time went by, these people would no longer report back even if they came back. Any case.
When the elders of the clan asked them, the young men just said that there was nothing particularly new in the military camp.
However, the leaders of the Ye, Wang, Li and other families did not care about this. Those children were thrown out as abandoned sons, and they used their quota to buy cheap refined grain white rice.
Zhou Yi naturally expected this situation.
Instead of stopping it, Zhou Yi allowed the Ye, Wang, and Li families in Pingjiang County to buy at will. The more they bought, the greater the discount.
Ye, Wang, Li and other major families bought more and more food, and the food in the clan's warehouses also piled up more and more.
"It's developed, it's developed. How much money will we make if we sell this grain in Pingyang City? I'm afraid a mountain of gold is not enough for us!"
All the big families in Pingjiang County were all smiling, immersed in the fantasy of making money and couldn't extricate themselves for a long time.
Just when the cash in the hands of Ye, Wang, Li and other major families was about to be exhausted, Zhou Yi sent people to suddenly increase the selling price of grain in state-owned grain stores.
The market price of refined grain rice has changed from one tael of silver to two taels of silver per catty, while the discounted price for military family members has increased from five cents per catty to 20 cents per catty.
Noticing this change, the head of the Ye family, Ye Wuhua, once again summoned all the major families to discuss.
"Everyone, a servant just came to report that the price of grain in the state-owned grain store has increased from 5 cents per catty to 20 cents per catty!"
The head of the Li family, Li Xiuliang, didn't pay much attention and said carelessly: "What's the point? The 20 yuan per pound of grain is still much cheaper than the price of our previous coarse grains!"
Ye Wuhua smiled evilly and said, "That's wrong!"
“Previously, the discounted price for military families at this state-owned grain store was 10 Wen per catty, but later it became 5 Wen per catty, which shows that they still had plenty of food at that time.”
Ye Wuhua grinned again and looked at the family heads: "But now their food has changed from 5 cents to 20 cents per catty. What does this mean?"
The wise head of the Li family, Li Xiuliang, reacted immediately to Ye Wuhua's reminder. His eyes lit up and he said excitedly: "This means they don't have enough food!"
Ye Wuhua nodded firmly: "Yes, this means that their food supply is almost at the bottom. So we should speed up the progress of collecting food."
"We have harvested all their food. By then they will have no food, and they will not even be able to supply the military camps. The soldiers in the army will not be able to eat and are hungry, and they will most likely mutiny and cause trouble!"
"If there is really a mutiny, how can Zhou Yi, a small county magistrate, shoulder such a heavy responsibility?"
"And we can also provide food to appease the soldiers and take over the military power by the way. So everything the county magistrate did this week was to make wedding clothes for us!"
When the head of the Wang family, Wang Defa, heard this, he clapped his hands excitedly and praised: "Wonderful, this is a wonderful plan!"
At this time, Wang Defa, the head of the Wang family, had another doubt.
"To be honest, our clan spent a lot of silver to buy these refined grain rice a few days ago, and now we really can't get much cash on hand! Ye family, I wonder if you would mind my Wang family?"
The head of the Ye family, Ye Wuhua, shook his head again and said: "It's not that my Ye family is stingy, it's really because our Ye family can't get much cash now!"
The head of the Li family, Li Xiuliang, sighed: "What can we do about it!"
"Then we can't buy the last grain stocks of state-owned grain stores at the bottom, so won't it mean that the clever plan just now can't be implemented?"
Ye Wuhua smiled evilly again and said confidently: "Don't worry, everyone. A few days ago, I met Boss Yang, a wealthy businessman from the capital in Jing'an City. This boss Yang wanted to buy some fields in our Pingjiang County. It's just that The price is a little bit low!”
The wise Li Xiuliang stood up and said: "What are we afraid of? Anyway, we have a lot of fields in our hands. And these fields are all defrauded from those mud-legged people. Wouldn't it be profitable to sell them and buy the refined grain rice at the bottom?" It’s much stronger than those fields we’re holding on to!”
Wang Defa, the head of the Wang family, also stood up and agreed at this moment: "Yes, that's right. When we make money from refined grain rice, won't we be able to buy back these lands again? It's just that the price is slightly higher. Overall, we still make a profit." Understand!"
The patriarchs and heads of other small families also agreed to exchange their extra fields for cash.
Ye Wuhua was very pleased to see so many families in Pingjiang County working together as one.
"Okay, if that's the case, then I will contact Boss Yang in Jing'an County. We will sell the extra land in our hands to him, and then we can buy it back when we make money!"
Everyone in the venue smiled happily when they saw that the decision had been made. Those who didn't know it thought they had picked up a golden mountain!
