Farming in space: the struggle of peasant girls

Chapter 143 143 Grain Merchants from the South
In another three days, Yuanshan Town arrived.

The person he picked up hadn't woken up yet, so Master Wu simply bandaged the wound, saying that this person was fatal, so if he didn't die, he probably couldn't die, but he couldn't wake up for a while.

Mu Yu casually pointed out someone to take care of him, and then she didn't care about that person anymore. When she got to the town, she had a lot of things to think about.

This time, fourteen of them drove two ox carts and brought more than 300 catties of grain.

Mu Yu asked one car to wait outside the town first, and took the other car to the town to see the situation.

Her caution was not in vain, the town is indeed not suitable for them to appear rashly.

This thing started two days ago.

Two days ago, the southern businessman who had been supplying food to Yuanshan Town, who had not been seen for a long time, appeared in the town again with food.

Yuanshan Town is originally a small place in the remote mountains, even when there is no drought, life is tight and self-sufficient.

After the drought has lasted for so long, the survival hope of Yuanshan Town has been held in the hands of grain merchants. This is too passive, but there is no better way.

Food prices were high in drought years, and many people knew they couldn't afford it, so they fled from the famine at the beginning. Such people accounted for the majority.

No one thought that the drought would last for so long, and no one thought that the price of food would rise so ridiculously. The people left behind died of starvation and disease, and the number of people in the town became less and less, and the money became less and less.

Because of this, the business of grain merchants is not as good as before, and even if the price rises, the profit is not as much as before. In addition to the external crises such as peer competition and wars, many merchants temporarily hibernate.

It doesn't matter if the grain merchants don't make money for a while, but the common people may starve to death if they can't buy food for a while.

In Yuanshan Town before, the caravan from the Yuan family from the south came once a month, bringing several thousand catties of grain, which was equivalent to the consumption of a town’s people for a month. Of course, it was the kind of frugality.

When Mu Yu came to the town for the first time, the caravan of the Yuan family had been late for half a month, and Yuanshan Town was in the double crisis of hunger and panic, otherwise the old mayor would not have been so easy Accept the food from this group of people of unknown origin, and have been lenient with them ever since.

Yuanshan Town needed food too much, and needed such a stable source of food too much.

It can be said that a large part of the reason why they were able to do business and sell grain in the town so smoothly before was that these southern grain merchants had never appeared.

Now that the grain merchants have come, the situation is naturally different.

The situation is indeed different.

The caravans of the grain merchants were the first to feel the difference. They thought, they hadn't come here to sell grain for several months, and the people here didn't know how hungry they were. Now that they came, wouldn't the grain be robbed immediately?The scene will definitely be extremely hot.

But this situation did not happen. On the contrary, the scene was quite deserted. Not only did no looting occur, but even few people came to inquire about the price.

This is a very unbelievable thing in a disaster year, and grain merchants have never encountered such a situation.

At first they thought that the townspeople didn't know they were coming, so they made a big publicity, but no one came after the publicity.

They were so shocked that they finally put down their heads to inquire about it, and learned that during the period when they were not here, other people came here to sell food, and the price was cheaper than them. Of course, they came here There are fewer people.

This is a big event. They collected grain at a high price and braved the flames of war and risked their lives to come to this place thousands of miles away to sell grain. Why? It’s not for the high profit. Could it be that they want to do good deeds?
But now, other merchants come here to sell grain, so the grain they have worked so hard to sell cannot be sold, which is quite bad.

Cutting people's wealth is like killing their parents. I'm afraid it will be very difficult to do well.

But because Mu Yu and the others were not in the town, the grain merchant first approached the old mayor.

The grain brought cannot be brought back, because everywhere is not peaceful, and the cost of transporting the grain is high, and it will only lose more.

The grain merchant thought that it was impossible to sell this batch of grain at a higher price this time, so he could only hope that the price concession would be exchanged for the support of the old mayor.

This idea is correct, the premise is that the price concessions are in place.

Needless to say, smart people know this.

Let's put it this way, according to the previous grain prices in the town, if the mold is not serious, it costs [-] Wen a catty;

The town trades with Muyu are all good grains, the price is around 450 renminbi, lower when the old mayor comes out, and a little higher in private transactions, but it will not be higher than the good grains of the grain merchants, even if the grain merchants The quality of good grain there is far worse than this.

But not everyone can afford this kind of good food. There are some families who have to carefully count every bite of moldy food.

The old mayor thought, as long as the price of average-quality grain was reduced to 260 yuan a catty, he would also be willing to help the grain merchant of the Yuan family a little bit.

Some people would buy moldy grain even if the price was not lowered. Yuanjia’s good grain was much worse than Muyu’s in quality, and the price had to drop a lot before someone would be willing to buy some. Ordinary grain was the most consumed and most important.

In fact, if the price listed by the grain merchant this time is still the previous standard, even if there is Muyu, it will not be so empty and deserted.

The key reason is that the grain merchants feel that Yuanshan Town has been short of grain for a long time, and they can sell it even if the price is raised, so the price marked this time is generally much higher than before.

If the mold is not serious, it costs 450 Wen a catty; for an average-looking one, it costs [-] Wen a catty; for a good-looking one, it costs [-] Wen a catty.

This unbelievably high price is prohibitive, and this blatant attitude of treating people like fools is also disgusting.

At such a price, some people can't afford it directly, and some people can afford it but feel that it is better to buy Muyu for the same price. The taste is good, and people don't take them for fools.

The requirements in the old town can be said to be very low, but the grain merchants don't think so.

The grain merchant originally came here with the intention of making a lot of money, but it was enough to be annoyed when he found out that it didn't work. He felt that he was losing money if he changed the price back to the original price.

His sincerity is that all grains will be returned to the previous price, and the price of good grains will be reduced by an additional 450 yuan, which will also become [-] yuan a catty, and another [-] catties of grain will be given to the old mayor.

This sincerity is basically the same as nothing.

But it's not worth falling out with the grain merchants. It's not good for the townspeople or Mu Yu.

So the old mayor chuckled and asked the grain merchant, "This is sincerity, what about your request?"

"What do I ask for? I just hope that the food the mayor needs will be bought from me."

(End of this chapter)