Reincarnated Bamboo Rat Starts Extreme Survival

Chapter 101 Early Winter Agricultural Products Fair

"A lot of people..."

Standing on Edu's shoulder, Bell couldn't help but sigh with emotion as he watched the crowds who were busy before dawn.

It's early winter now, and the agricultural products fair held by the Agricultural Association is set in a large open space a few hundred meters outside Cangxing City, which is specially for large-scale gatherings.

Pushing carts, carrying baskets, leading mules and horses... All kinds of life-related professionals walked in this open space full of stalls.

But even with so many people, it doesn't look chaotic at all, instead there is a magical sense of harmony.

The city guards of Cangxing City maintained order in the market, but they seemed relaxed and did not interfere with management.

This kind of order is not imposed by external forces, but a convention, formed and maintained by people spontaneously, just like a regular rural fair.

(The author himself has always been amazed by the organizational power of the rural bazaars. The older generation is familiar with the bazaars that appear in different places at different times, and clearly divides them into small and large markets. When to go Where, how many vegetables to bring to sell, how to deal with stalls and shouting, what are the market prices of various fruits and vegetables on the spot, these things are also a matter of knowledge, and the author is obviously not good at learning in this way .)
"There are still two months before the new year. Although the scale of the early winter agricultural product fair is not as grand as that of the autumn harvest, for ordinary people, this is the most important exhibition of the year."

Walking past the booths, Edu introduced various things about the fair to Bell.

After the early winter fair, most of the agricultural products will stop being produced. Compared with the following New Year, now is the cheapest time for agricultural products. Many people will choose to stock up on storable agricultural products at this time and use them until after the New Year.

The agricultural associations and farmers will not engage in any strange goods to live in at this time, hoarding goods and waiting for price increases.

They will sell out the agricultural products in their hands as quickly as possible, and use the money they earn to buy fertilizer and seeds for the coming year, as well as buy things for their families for the New Year.

Farmers, people who have been bound in the soil all their lives, cannot be idle no matter what.

The festivals in this world are not as rich as the earth, and there will be no strange festivals such as Singles' Day and Goddess' Day.

People here only have two festivals:
One is the Day of Consolation, an annual festival to commemorate the dead relatives, hosted by the church, and almost everyone in the world, regardless of race, will participate.

The second is the New Year, when the whole family is reunited, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.

"During the New Year, parents will prepare gifts for their children, and they will also meet some 'excessive' demands of children, such as drinking, such as staying out at night..."

Edu came to a newly erected stall. It was not yet full daylight, but the dusty old man in front of him had already arranged the produce from his field.

What he sells are tomatoes, lettuce and other seasonal vegetables of the last season. The quantity is not too much, only a few hundred catties, but the price is high.

It is early winter now, and after this batch is sold out, if you want to eat these seasonal vegetables, you will have to wait for the next year.

Edu took a dozen tomatoes from the stall and spent a copper coin, and the price of seasonal vegetables is always slightly more expensive.

"Well, it's soft, waxy, sour and sweet. It's much more delicious than those tomatoes that sacrifice their taste for long-distance transportation and storage."

And Bell, who was holding a tomato and gnawing his face covered in juice, gave a very good evaluation.

He remembered that in the world before reincarnation, when he was a child, tomatoes still tasted great. When he left the village to go to school, he would always pay attention to the tomatoes grown by other people on the side of the road. Did they grow an inch bigger today? a bit.

I went to see it every day, and watched it every day, until a certain morning when I was going to school, I stretched out my hand to squeeze it without any trace, without even wiping off the dew, I opened my mouth and gnawed.

On the side of the road in the village, all kinds of crops from every household will be picked up by children.

However, with the development of the times, this kind of day has gradually become distant and blurred.

The base that sells seeds will provide farmers with better tomato seeds. Those seeds have extremely high yields after multiple generations of improvement and are durable to storage.

The newly planted tomatoes can bear many more fruits on one vine than the old tomatoes. Those fruits are big and round, rarely deformed, and they turn red very quickly.

But the fruits of these new varieties are hard to hold, and they are sour when eaten directly. At least they cannot be eaten as fruits. This is undoubtedly a great pity.

"Speaking of which, I haven't seen many pumpkins for sale."

After gnawing a whole tomato, Bell wiped the tomato juice on his face with his hands. Although it wasn't very clean, it was better than nothing.

"Pumpkins are considered a commodity that can last for storage. Except for a few farmers who want higher prices, everyone else sells directly to the agricultural association."

The bulk agricultural products grown by these retail investors, such as pumpkins, corn, and barley, will be purchased by the Agricultural Association in a unified manner. The purchase price is not high, but as long as they are sold, the Agricultural Association will accept all the orders to ensure the basic income of farmers.

These things are not worrying about selling, and after a little treatment, they can be stored for a long time, and the pressure of the agricultural association to purchase and hoard is not great.

As for agricultural products such as seasonal vegetables, the Agricultural Association will not accept all orders, and the profit and loss are all up to itself, but if nothing else, the income is relatively stable.

After wandering around the early winter agricultural products fair, Bell found that the agricultural guilds in this world are surprisingly popular, and many measures are taken to protect the interests of farmers.

They have even struck out many times to crack down on the malicious manipulation of the agricultural market by businessmen, especially shoddy behaviors, which are strictly prohibited.

There used to be a few fruit farmers, in order to earn more money, under the leadership of a certain chamber of commerce executive, they picked a large number of immature apples in advance, preparing to sell the first batch of apples at a high price.

After the goods flowed to the market, the Agricultural Guild found out about it, and urgently dispatched additional staff to recover all the apples that had not been sold in large quantities, and traced the source, and brought all the important people involved in the whole incident, including the boss of the Chamber of Commerce, to Cangxing City before the court.

They were sued by the Agricultural Association for disrupting market order, and condemned by a large number of farmers and citizens.

In the end, several farmers deeply self-examined themselves, and their professional qualifications as farmers were revoked, and they needed to re-learn the professional ethics of the farmer profession before taking the certification assessment.

As for the punishment for the merchant, it is much simpler and more brutal. A fine of one hundred gold coins made the boss of the chamber of commerce turn green with anger.

He was lying on the gun, and in a state of confusion, he paid for the new executive under him.

But as the most money-sensitive businessman, after losing money, he will definitely not make it easy for the executive under him.

(End of this chapter)