Poor family mother and son

Chapter 430
On the first day of the official grain harvest, everyone saw that Baijiaxing had harvested a lot of grain, including rice, wheat, yellow rice, sorghum, and corn.

Moreover, when the grain merchants who sold the grain came out of the sign one by one, they were all smiling. Even if there was a deep expression, the joyful expression could not be completely restrained.

This situation made the local grain merchants and the spies sent by some big grain merchants from other places suspicious: such a big deal?You know, the price of rice is already three hundred coins a bucket!

The next day, there were still grain merchants entering one after another, and bags of grain were also put into storage. When the merchants came out, they were still full of ambition.

Not only that, seeing that the "Bao Qingsheng" warehouse was half piled up, their buddies were discussing with the lumber workshop, asking for the expansion of the warehouse, and discussing the issue of rain and moisture protection.

Do you want to continue to charge?The grain they are harvesting now has a trend of catching up with the reserves of a warehouse in the government office. If they continue to harvest, the grain merchants from the six southern provinces will rush over.

In fact, among the people watching, there were grain merchants from the six prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River.

Baijiaxing spread the news all the way along the canal, knowing everything that should be known.

Baijiaxing hung up the "Inventory" sign, indicating that today is over and tomorrow please go early, and the crowd watching the excitement outside slowly dispersed.

Bai Jiaxing entered the room, and Chu Qing was sitting inside.

Bai Jiaxing said: "Boss, most of Bao Xingsheng's food has been tossed here, and it will be all in one day tomorrow. Is there really no more left in our warehouse?"

Only then did Chu Qing fully tell him what happened during Bai Jiaxing's absence, and finally said: "It doesn't matter, just toss this one, and then transport it back after a catty or a lot, maybe you can exchange it." Here is some good food!"

The grain in Baoqingsheng's warehouse is all old grain. Of course, before this year's grain harvest, all the grain is old grain, but Baoqingsheng's grain has been stored for almost two years.

Because the grain sold to the country of Voss was clearly restricted last year, most of it was stored in the warehouse. Some of the grain had been stored for nearly three years. In addition to the autumn grain purchased last year, it was quite a lot.

Originally, Chu Qing planned to release the food to support Jizhou and divide the country of Voss once the disaster was serious this year, but now she has to adjust her plan slightly.

Chu Qing said: "The price of grain in Yibin Mansion has risen extremely abnormally, the lowest price of rice is 28 renminbi a catty, and there is only one grain shop that sells it like this, and the rest of the grain shops have all risen to 32 renminbi;
I don't believe that the price of rice is so expensive all over the world, at least not in Xinlunzhou and Jizhou! "

Bai Jiaxing said: "At present, the price of rice in Kyoto is the cheapest. Before we came back, it was [-] cents per catty of rice."

Chu Qing nodded: "It is normal for rice prices to rise every year after the Spring Festival and before the summer harvest, but it is not normal for the price to rise to the level of Yibin Mansion;
It seems that the Yibin Mansion should take advantage of the disaster to create panic and aggravate the people's worries about food in order to make huge profits, so I want to impact the price of food. "

Zhuo Yao disagreed: "Boss, now we use our own food to act in a play, and we didn't spend any money, but will Yibin Mansion sell their food to you at a high price? What money do you use to buy it?"

Chu Qing said: "This is also a gamble, but there is still some chance of winning. You will play at a slower pace tomorrow, and drag the rest of our family's food until the day after tomorrow to sell it;

Our family purchased grain for four consecutive days, so that people who are watching can see that there are people who can sell the price of grain at a higher price every day, and they will bring all the grain over;
At that time, we will delay for a few more days in the name of stocktaking and expanding the warehouse, and a large amount of food will be gathered here, and then..."

Zheng Xiaorou poured good tea for everyone with a smile, and then said: "When the time comes, there will be more food, and they will lower the price among themselves! When the price is almost the same, let's collect some good food!"

Chu Qing took a sip of tea: "That's what it means!"

Zhuo Yao still disagreed: "Won't that still cost us money?
Also, if you use this method to trap the granaries of Yibin Mansion, so that their grain cannot be sold, the Gaozhi Mansion may kill you;

Boss, the locust plague you predicted is already happening, and you have done enough in advance, how did the people scold you?
You are not a saint, you can't manage the world's affairs, you can't save the world's people, why bother to do such a thankless thing! "

Chu Qing could understand Zhuo Yao's grievances for her, she said: "I don't mean to be kind, but if I don't do the things that can be done, I still can't bear it;

Ordinary people can just scold them, after all, they are deceived by others, so it's okay to be angry, and we can make up for it later;

We collect food every year, this year is a disaster year, the price of food is high, it is normal to spend more money;
As for Gao Zhifu, I offended him by not dividing the cotton fields for him. He made dozens of counties in the whole prefecture think that I ordered fifty chickens and ducks to be raised. Isn't he just stumbling me?
The broken head wedge has already been hit, so don't worry about it being more serious. If you offend this kind of person, you are offended. It has nothing to do with the severity.

What's more, I assure you that the money we spend will definitely be earned back even more. "

Sure enough, as Chu Qing had imagined, on the third day of the official grain harvest, small grain merchants came to sell the grain. Bai Jiaxing had inspected it, and it was also two-year-old grain, so it was harvested.

The storage of grain in this era is not easy. Like rice, the shelf life is only two to three years. Basically, the taste of rice after two years is very bad, and it is inedible after three years.Wheat is better and can be preserved for three or four years.

This is the shelf life only available under the premise of moisture-proof and fire-proof.

In the past few years, the weather has been relatively smooth, and there has been no external war. The granaries in various places are basically full. This seems to be a good thing, but it also has a negative side.

For example, the floods in the south last year caused a large amount of water to flood many granaries, and the grains could not be preserved for a long time after being soaked in water, resulting in serious aging of grains, which is not conducive to grain storage.

Gao Zhifu has been sitting on the sidelines of the soaring price of local grain, but has not taken any action. It is clear that he wants to use this method to sell the old grain that has been soaked in water at a high price, because it is difficult for this batch of grain to last until the end of this year.

All the grain shops raised their prices, but only one "fair price" grain shop was released to limit the supply. Chu Qing concluded that this batch of cheap grain should be the "soaked grain" of Fucang.

This kind of conclusion is not undocumented, because Chu Qing contacts the households who graze chickens and ducks every day, and some of them bought "affordable rice" and said that the rice smelled musty.

However, Kochifu has become a little greedy, and the "parity price" has risen together with the "market price". Although it is still lower than the "market price", it still causes ordinary people to not even buy "parity" food and cannot afford it.

Putting a long line, catching big fish, and wanting to sell this batch of "soaked food" until after autumn, Kochifu is a bit too greedy.

What Zhuo Yao was worried about was also this part of the "soaked grain", which couldn't be sold. There was a "Bao Qing Sheng" warehouse here that collected grain at a high price, and it happened to be able to make money from Chu Qing. Why didn't Gao Zhifu do it?

Since he earned Chu Qing's money, he also relieved his anger, so why not do it?
(End of this chapter)