Raising the Demon

Chapter 104 A Plan to Sell Jade
But it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice, no matter how good the craftsmanship is, it won't work without food.

After discussing and discussing, one person said: "I went to Mengcheng yesterday and saw jade merchants from Mengcheng coming. Why don't we sell jade?"

Hearing the word jade merchant, Zi Baifeng's ears perked up.

Now Zi Baifeng knows that jade is like oil in this world, it is a strategic resource, no amount of it is too much.

Comparing it with oil, Zi Baifeng suddenly remembered those Arab tycoons in his previous life, who sold oil one by one until they became very rich.

But after careful calculation, these Arab tycoons have nothing but money. The oil belongs to them, but they may not have the final say on whether to sell it, and all the big forces are eyeing it.And after all, there will be a day when the oil will be emptied. At that time, what should these people do?Besides, sell oil to others, let others develop, and then beat yourself?

The current Zi Baifeng feels that his Xiayan Village is one of those countries in the Middle East. Although there are jade stones, selling the jade stones is just making trouble for himself and making enemies.

Especially sold to those big sects, let them build a large spirit gathering array to absorb their own spiritual energy?How stupid is this?
But it would be more wasteful to put the jade stone under the buttocks of your own bluestone?
Zi Baifeng is tangled up here, and the villagers over there have already discussed it enthusiastically.

In fact, when Xiayan Village produced a lot of jade, jade merchants came to collect jade every year. At that time, Xiayan Village was so rich that everyone lived in a well-to-do life.But in recent years, jade has become less and less. Jade merchants have gradually changed from coming once every two, three, five, or ten years to Xiayan Village. Heaven's Jade, if you take all the sevens and eights, you will leave directly and go to the next place.

Most of the villagers had experience in selling jade, so they didn't have any entanglements like Zi Baifeng. After discussing for a while, they decided on a regulation. They would take the jade from the village and sell it in Mengcheng tomorrow.

Zi Baifeng also figured it out, these jades are harvested by the villagers anyway, after careful calculation, there should be 80 yuan now, which is more than the annual harvest in previous years, these jades will not be a big deal if they are taken out. For those sects, more of them is not much, less of them is not much.For Xiayan Village, the harvest of selling jade is crucial.Seeing Yan Lao Wu asking for his opinion with his eyes, he nodded his head to express his support for this approach.

Yan Lao Wu began to count the people who planned to sell jade, and the number of jade they wanted to sell. Xiao Tuozi took a notebook and recorded it with a pencil beside it-don't look at this little guy who hasn't been in school for long, but this group of little guys One of the most knowledgeable among them.

It is not a problem to write and do calculations on weekdays, but now Xiaotuozi's name is rarely called by people, and he is beginning to be called Xiaoxiucai, and some people jokingly call him Xiaocunzheng.

The pencil and notebook he took were rewarded to him by Zi Baifeng, and he was reluctant to use them on weekdays, and only took them out when it was important, such as this time.

Seeing his little boy come out, the old boy was even more excited, and as soon as he raised his hand, he reported three pieces of jade.

"This shit!" Someone immediately began to scold. This guy has never told others how many pieces of jade he has got before. Some people guess that it is about three yuan. He knows best how to keep his family’s wealth, and he pays attention to not revealing his wealth. The old Tuozi dared to take out three pieces of jade to sell, and at least two or three pieces were left in his hand. Now it is five or six pieces of jade. Looking at the embarrassing life of the old Tuozi in the past, how can we not make people jealous?
However, the so-called jealousy is just a few words of cursing, expressing my envy, jealousy and hatred, and secretly wondering how much I would sell it for?Taking it out is less embarrassing, but more distressing.

In fact, jade is the best way to preserve value. The price has always risen and never dropped.They sell jade because they are worried about the future, and jade merchants don't come every year, so they don't feel panic when they sell some jade for some money.

But if there is no shortage of money, it is better to keep the jade in your hands, which is the insurance.

Xiayan Village has a good harvest this year and can earn extra money, but it is still far from a well-off society. Life is still tight, and seeing the grain price increase all day long, I feel uncertain and uneasy.

At the end of the counting, there were more than 50 pieces of jade to be sold. This kind of harvest, even in the most glorious time of Xiayan Village in previous years, was considered a good harvest, and this is just a few months. to half a year's harvest.

Because of this, the villagers have a feeling of unreliability, for fear that they have searched too much, that they will search all the aura of the mountain, and that future generations will have no jade.In the past, it was looking for one to raise two, but now people in the village have discussed and started looking for one to raise three.

On this point, Zi Baifeng admired it very much. These villagers may not have much knowledge, but they remember very clearly the rules written by these ancestors in the "Jade Book".

The Jade Classic is the wisdom summed up by the ancestors. One of them is that no matter how the jade harvest is, it will never be mentioned in front of outsiders.As the saying goes, wealth is not revealed. It is said that the ancestors were almost wiped out because of jade, and this is why this ancestral precept came into being.

Bai Feng was actually quite touched by this idea. When Zi's father and son first came to Xiayan Village, they often saw the men of Xiayan Village gathered together to discuss something, and when they passed by, they disappeared quietly.Two or three years later, the village accepted them, which made it better, but when it came to the matter of finding jade, it was still secretive.And the "Jade Classic" has been handed down from generation to generation in the village. Even children who don't study hard in school will memorize the jade classics under the stick of their own fathers, and it was not until Zi Baifeng was admitted to the academy. Saw it once.

After ten years of suffering, Zi Baifeng and Zijian finally got the treatment of the villagers, and Zijian was able to follow him to find jade.Afterwards, Zi Baifeng's prestige increased greatly, but Erhei was not rejected, and was easily accepted by everyone.

In fact, there are also rumors in the village that the jade in the mountains is actually bestowed by the Daqingshi God, and it is the good luck brought by Zi Baifeng. There are actually quite a lot of supporters for this. If this is not the case, why are there no jade in other villages?Let alone jade, there is not even a harvest.

Although the villagers didn't say anything, they all had similar thoughts in their hearts.

Because of this, the villagers kept their mouths shut and never told the harvest of jade hunting in the village, not even the other eight villages.

But it is probably impossible to hide this kind of thing forever, especially now that there are more people coming and going from other villages near Xiayan Village, the old man is even more worried about what they hear.

"Don't worry, as long as the villagers don't spread it intentionally, it's fine for them to hear something." Zi Baifeng replied to the old man.

"Then what if they sneak into the mountains to search for jade?" The old man is still worried. Everything within the boundaries of Xiayan Village belongs to them. The rules left by the ancestors, hunting and jade hunting , are all in their own territory and cannot cross the boundary.

"Don't worry, safekeeping allows them to enter the mountain, and they won't be able to find jade." Zi Baifeng took it all in.

Anyway, Zi Baifeng has now confirmed that whoever can find the jade and who can't find the jade, it is up to the big bluestone to decide, Zhuzi and Zi Baifeng are close, so the harvest should be the first.Lao Tuozi's family trusted Zi Baifeng very much, so the harvest was second.Before Erhei went up the mountain, he sincerely prayed to the God of Daqingshi, saying that the harvest at home was not good, and his mother had no food to eat. He was also generous, and gave him three yuan at once, making people scream shit luck.

The villager who used to be disrespectful to Zi Baifeng back then has had no harvest for more than a month. Two days ago, the blind mother-in-law came to the door and told him that if he wanted to change his luck, he had to go to the Daqingshi God to kowtow and offer incense and donate money to atone for his sins. I don't know if he's going or not.Anyway, Zi Baifeng told Da Qingshi that if he sincerely admits his mistake, he will give him some jade.

After everyone discussed it, the next day, the old man gathered the villagers, and each family appointed a steward, took the jade, brought hunting knives, bows and arrows, and set off for Mengcheng.

Early in the morning, drums and gongs were played, and salutes were fired to celebrate, because selling jade was a major event in Xiayan Village.After the celebration, they all set off happily, but when it was still dark in the afternoon, a group of people came back angrily.

"These jade merchants are too deceitful!" Yan Laowu slammed the table when he came back, Zi Baifeng asked what was wrong, Yan Laowu was so angry that he almost jumped on the table: "Damn it, these jade merchants are actually lowering the price!" !"

In the past few decades, at first a piece of jade could sell for five taels of silver, and later it rose to ten taels. Later, jade became more and more rare, and it rose to 20 taels. Two or eight taels, if you can sell it for 30 taels of silver, you can live in Mengcheng for half a year.If you sell five or six pieces of jade at a time, you can start a family business in Mengcheng.

"Guess what, they only paid five taels of silver!" Yan Lao Wu was so angry that his beard was shaking, "What is five taels of silver worth now? A stone of grain has now risen to almost two taels of silver, and a piece of jade is only given to me!" Five taels of silver, this... this... these bastards who took advantage of the fire!"

When Zi Baifeng heard it, the fire also came up.

This is really tolerable or unbearable, not to mention anything else, his Jiuyan Township accounts for at least two-thirds of the more than ten villages related to seeking jade in the entire Mengcheng Mansion, and the price of jade is low, which hurts His people are shaken by his interests.

Grandma, his son Baifeng is trembling when he stomps his feet in Mengcheng, and even the Fujun wants to give him three points. These jade merchants, who have eaten the bear's heart and leopard, dare to be so arrogant!
　heatstroke...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)