The rise of the poor

Chapter 1243 Defining Food Prices
A group of large and small grain merchants in Jingnan County discussed for a long time in the Jingnan County Yaban room. Under the leadership and instigation of the three largest grain merchants, they reached a consensus and made an oath with tea instead of wine: the whole county's grain merchants are firmly united and unanimously open to the outside world. Firmly do not cut prices!Whoever lowers the price privately is the public enemy of the county's grain merchants!Never die!
Shopkeeper Tai and Shopkeeper Lu were no exception, and they also made an oath with everyone.First of all, there are 1 of them in their hearts who are unwilling to lower the price. At first, they were only afraid of being the first sheep to scare monkeys. They are also qualified to be big grain merchants who are the top sheep and warning monkey chickens, and they are safe; secondly, the entire county grain merchant alliance has vowed that if they do not participate, they will become the enemies of the entire county grain merchants. If the county magistrate makes a move, these grain merchants can tear them apart.

I don't know if it was intentional, but Zhu Ping'an came late after all the grain merchants reached a consensus and made an oath.

"I have seen the county lord."

"Meet the magistrate."

Seeing Zhu Pingan push the door in, a group of grain merchants came forward to salute Zhu Pingan one after another.

Zhu Pingan glanced at the crowd with a smile, waved his hands at them, and said warmly: "Excuse me, excuse me. I am busy with official duties, so I didn't check the time for a while. You have been waiting for a long time."

"Don't dare, dare, the county lord has broken us. The county lord is pleading for the people, taking care of all kinds of opportunities every day. He is responsible for hundreds of thousands of people in the whole county. We should wait even if we wait."

A group of grain merchants said that when they noticed that Zhu Pingan was looking at them, many grain merchants were guilty and dared not look at Zhu Pingan, after all, they had just finished their vows.

"Everyone, please sit down. I invite you here this time, and I think you all know what is going on in your heart. I will not go around in circles. This time I invite you here for the price of food."

Zhu Pingan sat on the main seat, and without going around in circles, he said straight to the point to the group of grain merchants.

Sure enough, it was for food prices!
A group of grain merchants looked at each other, there was no surprise about this, they were clear in their hearts.

Zhu Pingan glanced at all the grain merchants one by one, and then said: "The so-called food is the most important thing for the people. Now that the floods in the south of the Yangtze River, food is the top priority, and the price of food is the first. If the price of food is unstable, Jingnan will not Stable, so this official intends to define the price of grain in Jingnan. However, the determination of grain price is related to the people's livelihood and the overall stability of Jingnan County, and it affects the whole body. The grain merchants here know a lot about grain, and I want to hear your thoughts? You don’t have to worry about it. If you have any ideas, tell me the truth, and I guarantee that you won’t be punished for your words.”

"What?! Define Jingnan food price?!"

All the grain merchants were shocked when they heard the words, their faces were full of shocked expressions, and many grain merchants exclaimed out of control.

Define Jingnan food price!

For their grain merchants, this is a big deal. What does it mean to define the price of grain, that is to fix the price of grain!Once the food price is fixed, they are not allowed to raise the price again!

Now the food prices in all parts of the south of the Yangtze River are rising three times a day. If the county officials define the food prices in Jingnan, then the food prices in Jingnan will not be able to rise any further, and their losses will be immeasurable!

They originally thought that Zhu Ping'an wanted them to lower the grain market price based on the three daily increases. For example, the market price of grain in the morning was 1350 renminbi, while that in Jingnan was 1340 renminbi; at noon, the market price was 1355 renminbi, and the price in Jingnan was 1345 renminbi Wen; the market price in the evening is 1360 Wen, and the grain price in Jingnan is 1350 Wen.Even so, they couldn't accept such a price cut, let alone set the price of grain in Jingnan, and they were not allowed to raise the price again!
ruthless!
The magistrate is really ruthless!

The grain merchants never expected Zhu Pingan to be so ruthless!They even tried to limit the grain price in Jingnan!
The shopkeeper Yang Zhen of Yangji Food Co., Ltd. kept his identity and winked at a small shopkeeper beside him.

The shopkeeper's business relies mostly on Yang Ji's grain company. After receiving Yang Zhen's hint, he stood up bravely and said to Zhu Ping'an: "Master, it's not that we don't want to wait, but most of the people in the south of the Yangtze River now After the flood, the former land of fish and rice and the world’s granary became a land of grain shortage. We and other grain merchants in the south of the Yangtze River could not receive grain, so we had to go to Bashu in the west and Shandong in the north to collect grain. The journey is far away. , The grain in Bashu and Shandong areas is also rising. The local grain used to be 410 mana a stone. Last time our shop manager went to Shandong to collect grain, and the bid was 500 mana. Hiring nursing homes, etc., the food is getting harder and harder to collect, and our costs are getting bigger and bigger. Please think twice and give us a way to survive."

After someone started, all the grain merchants also spit out their bitterness to Zhu Ping'an.

"It's a matter, Mr. County. Even if we collect grain from Bashu and Shandong, it will not be easy to transport it to Jingnan. Not to mention the bandits and bandits along the way, but now that there are floods in the south of the Yangtze River, there are countless refugees and victims. When they see the grain, they immediately It’s like a hungry wolf seeing meat. As soon as our grain trucks enter the border of the south of the Yangtze River, we are always in danger of being looted by refugees and disaster victims..."

"Xianzun, everyone is from the village. We also want to sell food to everyone at a low price, but where is our cost? It’s impossible to sell food at a loss, if we lose money, our whole family can only drink the northwest wind, and then we can only close our doors and go out of business.”

"Xianzun, we got up early to slander, we worked so hard, and it was just to support our family, please be considerate of the county. Besides, the price of food is not set by us, we are all at the market as we go... Please think again, the county lord .”

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For a while, the class room seemed to be a meeting for grain merchants to complain, and there were constant complaints.

Right, that is it.The law does not blame the crowd, as long as we hold together, we will not be afraid of him, Zhu Ping'an.

Shopkeeper Yang of Yangji Food Co., Ltd. was very satisfied with everyone's performance, and the corner of his mouth couldn't help curling up. He glanced at Zhu Pingan out of the corner of his eye, and couldn't help being startled when he glanced at Shopkeeper Yang.

He was surprised to see that Zhu Pingan listened patiently and complained. He nodded while listening, without any discomfort on his face. He listened patiently all the time without interrupting anyone.

No...it shouldn't be, we are like this, shouldn't the county lord be angry? !
terrible!
terrible!Xianzun is young, and his skill in nourishing Qi is too deep!Such a person is terrible.

Shopkeeper Yang couldn't figure it out, so he had to attribute all this to Zhu Pingan's deep energy-raising skills and deep city palace.

Immediately, shopkeeper Yang couldn't help but feel jealous of Zhu Ping'an.If it wasn't for his own huge interests, shopkeeper Yang really didn't want to have a grudge with such a person who has a lot of skill in nourishing energy and a deep city.

(End of this chapter)