space farmer girl busy farming

Chapter 635 Encouraging Farming ([-])
"Go, go, go."

"Yes, yes, it's a good way."

"In this way, as long as everything goes well for us, we can really be self-sufficient."

"Yes, you can support yourself, and you are not afraid of being manipulated by others."

"Is someone picking on Bai Jiajun? What gossip did you hear?" Qi Ke just took a bite of the food, and put down his chopsticks when he heard what they said.

"It's a grain merchant from another place, my brother said it." Fu Xiaoli snorted displeasedly, "My brother Fu Xiaosheng is a scribe under the grain and grass officer."

"Yes, I remember him. He came here several times last winter to sell vegetables. He works very quickly and has a good brain. He is much better than your brother."

"Hey, hey, hey~" Fu Xiaoli suddenly received a critical blow of ten thousand points.

"Ha~" The friends slapped the table and laughed heartlessly.

"Okay, let's not talk about the jokes, let's talk about the gossip first? Which county's grain merchants are so arrogant?"

"It's the number one grain merchant in our neighboring county, Siping County. I heard that he is a local gentry. His surname is Cao or something." I raised my mouth, but I didn't listen carefully to who it was."

"I don't care about the last name, let me tell you what your brother said at that time."

"Food prices are going up, what else can I say."

"Food prices have risen? Has there been any disaster this year?"

"It's the aftermath of the great flood in the south last year. The farmland was flooded, and there were fewer people farming. The land that can be planted is bound to reduce production. This year's summer grain price will still not be cheap. It is expected, but the grain merchant, listen to my brother. The tone is too loud."

"If the price increases too much, I won't buy from them. I'm just a small grain merchant."

"Hey, hey, he's a local gentry, not a small grain merchant."

"The local gentry, so what if they are the top grain merchants in their locality, don't look too high on them, how many people are there in the Bai family army? There must be tens of thousands of soldiers from soldiers to military households, right? Otherwise, they can't support a whole army With so many people here, the grain merchants who really have food in their hands will only hold the grain and grass officials and give all kinds of benefits to bribe them just to buy their own grain. He’s just a fool, as long as he doesn’t become a grain tyrant who monopolizes the country for a day, he doesn’t need to be cared for. Without Butcher Hu, he really can only eat hairy pigs? If you don’t believe in this evil, raise prices to drive away customers, and don’t sell them down.”

"That's what I said, but their status is very good, and they can do it overnight. When they increase the price, the prices of other grain merchants are also similar, and the prices of the lower ones are not much lower." Fu Xiaoli still looked worried.

"There is no way. Before the food can be truly self-sufficient, it is inevitable that they will be exploited by the grain merchants. The Bai family army can't afford the money and wants food. They talk about it. Beware of saving money but giving up other benefits. Kill The first business can be done, but the loss-making business cannot be done.”

"Our entire garrison is located along the coast, the land is barren, and food self-sufficiency is not easy." When it comes to practical issues, it is not just the rich and small profits who worry about it.

"Stretch out your hand to the imperial court. If you don't give enough military expenses, at least you should give enough other things, such as seeds, capable people who cultivate the land, craftsmen, as long as you need anything, ask for it, either money or goods, nothing. Here, huh, the hidden danger is huge."

"It's not easy to ask for things from the imperial court..." Thinking about it, I think it is a fantasy.

(End of this chapter)