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Shaobing Song Chapter 51 Pioneer (Part 2)

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    Previous chapter: Chapter 50 Pioneer (Part 2) To expect the Yuan officers and soldiers not to grab food is like expecting wolves not to eat sheep.  {We don¡¯t write novels, we are just online word porters.  -<Íø>hua.  For more latest chapters visit: www.  To expect local officials to dare to uphold justice for the people under their jurisdiction is tantamount to expecting all the evil spirits in hell to become Buddhas and arhats.  Having lived in the Yuan Dynasty for a long time, ordinary people have long known that they should not have any hope in the imperial court and local officials.  So I was angry, and after sighing, I took out the last few Tongbao in my pocket and turned them into brown rice, grains and sorghum.  You can save other money, but you can¡¯t skip food.  If we can buy more before food prices soar, the whole family will have more hope of surviving this war in the future.  In a short time, more than half of the seven or eight cabinets at the front desk of the grain store were empty.  When Shopkeeper Sun saw it, he quickly sent his workers to the warehouse in the backyard to carry new goods. At the same time, he began to use the corner of his eye to look at the people queuing up.  As soon as this wave of grain-buying customers were gone, they immediately changed the water signs in front of the door, pushing up the prices of grains and grains.  At this juncture, there is no room for mercy.  If one's own grain is sold at a lower price than other counterparts in the city, not only will it offend others, but it will also attract all the poor people in the city.  By the time the food in stock was sold out, the price of food in the city had increased several times.  After the owner calculated the possible losses, it was time for him, the shopkeeper, to pack up and leave.  Just as I was burning with anxiety, the voice of the bold customer from before suddenly came to my ears, "Shopkeeper, please give me fifty shi of fine white rice, fifty shi of refined noodles, and fifty shi at this price."  Shi Xiaomi, I¡¯ll ask the man to pull the carriage later. This is Huaiyang¡¯s silver dollar. Count it as a deposit. If it¡¯s not enough, I¡¯ll make up for it together with the man when he gets the food!¡±  As he spoke, there was a "clang!" and a silk bag filled with Chinese silver coins was thrown on the counter.  "Boom!" Shopkeeper Sun felt a thunderbolt rolling through his head, which made his feet weak and stars in his eyes.  He was really afraid that something would come to him. He was afraid that the price of food in his store would be low and others would snap it up and hoard it.  It just so happened that a friend from the same industry came along.  One hundred and fifty shi of grain is equivalent to 20,000 kilograms.  Even if fifty strong blacksmiths eat it with their bellies open, it will be enough to feed them for more than half a year.  The other party wanted to buy 20,000 kilograms of grain when he came up, and even left the most sought-after Huaiyang silver coins on the market as an order. Didn't he clearly intend to 'force' him to death and not give him a chance to regret it?  Fortunately, there is no shortage of "understanding" people in this world. Before Shopkeeper Sun could decide whether to grit his teeth and hold on to the end, or immediately submit to the other party and beg for mercy, pay a sum of compensation and ask to be let go.  In front of the counter, someone was already protesting at the top of their lungs.  "Hey, I said, Shopkeeper Chang, you can just get over it! Although your Hanyuan Trading Company is not short of money, you can't buy all the rice and noodles at once and let us all go drink the northwest wind?" "That's not true.  "Brother Chang, what are you doing? You bought all the grain at once, don't you really want us all to be hungry?" "Shopkeeper Chang, you have a lot of money, go elsewhere!"  Household, I really can¡¯t stand you!¡± ¡­ Other neighbors who were behind in the queue and had not yet bought food also spoke up.  He accused Chang of taking advantage of the situation and deliberately letting everyone starve to death.  When Shopkeeper Sun heard this, his originally panicked mind finally calmed down a bit.  He raised his head and began to carefully look at who was deliberately trying to get in trouble with him.  What caught his eye was a southern man with a fair face and broad shoulders.  His eyebrows were thick and his mouth was always smiling, as if he didn't even realize that he had offended the public.  "Who do I think is so bold? It turns out he is a stupid young man from a foreign country!" Upon seeing this, shopkeeper Sun became more and more at ease.  As a veteran in the shopping mall, he knew the other party's identity to some extent before.  He is the shopkeeper of a branch of a southern business company in Lingzhou City. He is mainly engaged in the leather goods and pickled meat business. He is very bold in his dealings, and he is also diligent in getting around with the government and local prominent families.  But he is definitely not a colleague in the grain business, so he bought more rice this time, and he probably didn't come here intentionally to cause trouble.  Thinking of this, he smiled and cupped his hands at the other party, "Oh! I'm sorry for my poor eyesight, but I didn't recognize Shopkeeper Chang before! If I had known earlier that it was you, Shopkeeper Chang, I would have asked the waiter to bring you into the west wing to serve you tea.  I don¡¯t dare to let you line up here! I¡¯m sorry, I¡¯m sorry.¡± I didn¡¯t say buy it, and I didn¡¯t reject it right away.  First use words to trap the other person and remind him not to queue up with ordinary people to buy.  Then find a way to communicate in private in the wing to see what the other party's intention is, and then decide how to deal with it.  He is an old fox whose head has become a ¡®spirit¡¯, a regular figure of Hanyuan Semicolon.It's expensive, and obviously it's not cheap.  Gently turning his body half a foot to the side, Shopkeeper Sun's long bow was in the air.  Then he returned the bow with the same long bow to the ground, and at the same time said loudly: "Zhesha, Zhesha, you are so old and have such great prestige. How dare I accept your courtesy?! It was really just now  Seeing that you are busy, I don't want to cause trouble to you, so I queue up with everyone. Anyway, your business is so big, even if the juniors are at the end, your price will not be raised.  No?" There is a hidden meaning in this statement.  Shopkeeper Sun's mind, which had just relaxed a little, immediately became as tight as a bow string.  Just two minutes ago, he did have the idea of ??waiting for the wave of people to stop, and then immediately change the water sign and raise the price.  And an order of 20,000 kilograms was placed on the counter. Even if he changed it now, how much loss could he recover?  !  If scattered customers come in a few more waves, can they still buy more than 20,000?  "Dear fellow villagers, Chang was a little anxious just now. He didn't consider that you are still waiting for the rice to be put into the pot. Chang wants to apologize!" Shopkeeper Sun's crooked thoughts were exposed with a needle, and Chang Fugui continued to hand over to the guests around him.  , "In this way, Chang will be at the end of the queue, and when everyone has finished buying, Chang will buy again. Anyway, shopkeeper Sun has enough stock here, so Chang won't be short-changed just because he sold it to you!"  The neighbors, who were still angry, immediately turned red in the face.  Doing business is a matter of mutual consent. The shopkeeper often has money, but shopkeeper Sun has the goods. It is no one's business in the first place.  Everyone was worried that the rice grain in the shop had been sold out and they were short of their own share, so they spoke arrogantly.  Shopkeeper Chang not only did not compete with everyone, but also took the initiative to give up his seat in the front row. What reason did everyone have to continue to entangle?  Immediately, someone took the lead and said: "It's okay, it's okay. We are also short-sighted. It was the first time we saw such a big gesture, so we were shocked. You go first, you first, we just wait and see!"  "Yes, Shopkeeper Chang, everything is on a first-come, first-served basis. Just buy it and we'll wait. If you really want to take care of this place, we'll go to the next one!"  "You're welcome, you're welcome. Shopkeeper Chang, please go first!" "" Everyone here is being humble, but it makes Shopkeeper Sun anxious.  If you close your doors and stop business immediately, you will definitely ruin your own brand.  And according to the current price on the water plate, more than 20,000 kilograms are shipped, and there is no way to 'account' with the boss above you.  After thinking about it for a long time, he gritted his teeth and said with a smile: "There is stock, there is stock. People who open grain stores are not afraid of big-bellied people. As long as your neighbors don't buy it and resell it, I will sell it today! But"  He suddenly stopped smiling, quickly turned his gaze to Chang Fugui, stared into his eyes and asked: "Young man, you just don't understand? Shopkeeper Chang, aren't you from the south? Why are you still worried about running out of food?  It stands to reason that when the war breaks out, you can take your men and leave. Why do you have to squat here and wait for death with everyone?" "Oh, you always know something!"  There was a knife hidden in his words, but Chang Fugui sighed very frankly, "My guys and I came to open the semicolon on the orders of our boss, and we all couldn't help ourselves! Let alone fighting, even if a knife fell from the sky,  We must stick here. Otherwise, we will take the employer's wages and run away. Even if the employer does not let us refund the compensation, at least in Chang's life, no one will dare to use it again!" "Alas!" Someone said in a low voice!  A sigh responded.  These days, in the business world, the word "faith" is particularly important.  A shopkeeper usually stays with a boss for a lifetime.  Even if they part ways midway, it's usually easy to get together and part ways, and neither party can ruin the other's reputation.  And once the shopkeeper betrays the trust of his employer, he will lose more than just money.  If the word spreads, no industry will dare to hire this person again, and he will be completely out of business for the rest of his life!  "And one more thing, we outsiders are not as good as everyone!" With a few words, Shopkeeper Sun's attempt to sow discord fell through. Chang Fugui cupped his hands and continued to add, "When the day comes that the fight really comes, how can everyone still do it?"  Taking my wife and children to live with my relatives in the countryside. As the saying goes, if we can dig wild vegetables in the fields and catch rabbits in the mountains, we, the outsiders, will not starve to death.  Where to hide? The elders in the countryside don't have enough to eat. So, when I heard that there was going to be a war, I was more anxious than you.  There are more than twenty locals who have just been recruited, and none of them are ready to eat. Can I, as a shopkeeper, eat dry food and give them porridge? " "That's right!" Everyone heard this and kept talking.  nod.  But he secretly decided in his heart that once the price of rice in the city became unbearable, he would quickly take his wife and children to the countryside to seek refuge with relatives and friends.  Although dearHer face will definitely not look good, but for the sake of blood being thicker than water, eating weeds and catching frogs together will not starve the whole family to death.  "And!" Chang Fugui quickly looked around and added with a mysterious face, "We can't run because we can't let down our boss. But you guys don't have this problem. Our boss is far away in Yangzhou, and I'm here.  If he wasn't hungry, he wouldn't feel it at all. And all of your bosses are in the city. When the food shortage comes, he will definitely close his shop and run away.  Bring ten days' worth of dry food and head south" Looking outside again, he lowered his voice and said, "That's the only good thing about Butcher Zhu. If you have something to eat, you won't look at the people.  Starving. When Zhang Mingjian burned Yangzhou, he took out military rations to help the people. When the dehydration flooded Sui Xu, he took out military rations again. So, as long as everyone goes to the Huai'an army's territory, I guarantee it.  , No one in the Huai'an army dares to watch everyone starve to death!"?
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