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 after signing, they were all smiling. Even if they were deep, their joyful expressions could not be completely restrained.

This situation made the local grain merchants and some spies sent by large grain merchants from other places very suspicious: Such a big deal? You know, the price of rice is already 300 cents per dou!

The next day, grain merchants continued to enter one after another, and bags of grain were put into the warehouse. The merchants were still very proud when they came out.

Not only that, but seeing that the warehouse of "Bao Qing Sheng" was half full, their clerks were discussing with the wood shop to expand the warehouse and discuss the issue of rain and moisture protection.

Do you want to continue harvesting? The grain they are harvesting now has a tendency to catch up with the reserve of a warehouse in the government office. If they continue to harvest, I am afraid that grain merchants from the six prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River will also come over.

In fact, among those waiting and watching, there were grain merchants from six provinces in the south of the Yangtze River.

Baijiaxing spread the news all the way along the canal, and everything that needed to be known was known.

Baijiaxing hung up the "Inventory" sign, indicating that that was the end of the day and please come early tomorrow, and the crowd watching the excitement outside slowly dispersed.

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

Bai Jiaxing said: "Boss, most of Bao Xingsheng's food has been tossed here. It is estimated that it will be all available in one day tomorrow. Do we really not want to leave some in our warehouse?"

At this time, Chu Qing told him completely what happened during Baijiaxing's absence, and finally said: "It doesn't matter, just toss this one, and then transport it back a lot, maybe it can be replaced."

Got some good food!"

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

Because the grain sold to the Voss Kingdom last year was restricted by Chu Qing, most of it was stored in the warehouse. Some of the grain had been stored for nearly three years. Plus the autumn grain purchased last year, it was really a lot.

Originally, Chu Qing had planned to release the grain to support Jizhou and divide the Voss Kingdom once the disaster became severe this year, but now her plan needs to be slightly adjusted.

Chu Qing said: "The price of grain in Yibin Prefecture has risen extremely abnormally. The lowest price of rice is 28 cents per pound. There is only one grain shop selling it like this, and the rest of the grain shops have increased to 32 cents;

I don’t believe that rice is so expensive all over the world, at least not in Xinlunzhou and Jizhou!”

Bai Jiaxing said: "Currently, the price of rice in Kyoto is the cheapest. Before we came back, it was seventeen cents per catty."

Chu Qing nodded: "Every year after the Spring Festival and before the summer harvest, it is normal for rice prices to rise, but it is not normal for the price to rise to this level in Yibin Mansion;

It seems that the Yibin government is taking advantage of the disaster to create panic and increase people's worries about food in order to make huge profits, so I want to impact food prices."

Zhuo Yao disagreed: "Boss, now we are using our own grain to perform without spending any money, but will Yibin Mansion sell their grain to you at a high price? How much money will you use to buy it?"

Chu Qing said: "I am also betting, but there is still a chance of winning. You will perform at a slower pace tomorrow and postpone the remaining food of our family until the day after tomorrow before selling it out;

Our family has been buying grain for four consecutive days, so that people watching can see that someone can sell the grain at a higher price every day, and they will bring all the grain over;

When the time comes, we delay it for a few more days in the name of taking inventory and expanding the warehouse, and a large amount of food will be gathered here, and then..."

Zheng Xiaorou poured tea for everyone with a smile, and then said: "When there is more food, they will lower the price to each other! When the price is about the same, let's collect some good food!"

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

Zhuo Yao still disagreed: "Wouldn't it still cost us money?

Also, if you use this method to trap Yibin Prefecture's granary so that their grain cannot be sold, the Ko Prefecture will probably kill you;

Boss, the locust plague you predicted has already happened, and you have done enough in advance. How do the people scold you?

You are not a saint, you cannot take care of the affairs of the world, and you cannot save the people of the world, so why bother doing such a thankless thing!"

Chu Qing could understand Zhuo Yao's fight for her, she said: "I don't mean well, but if I don't do what I can do, I still can't live with it;

Let the people scold them as much as they want. After all, they have been deceived by others. They are angry and angry. We can just make up for it later.

We harvest grain every year. This year is a disaster year and the price of grain is high. It is normal to spend more money;

As for Kozhi Prefecture, I offended him even before I divided the cotton fields for him. He made dozens of counties in the prefecture think that I ordered the raising of fifty chickens and ducks. Wasn’t that just a stumbling block for me?

He has already been beaten, so he is not afraid of getting worse. For this kind of person, if he is offended, he is offended. It has nothing to do with the severity. No matter how minor the offense is, he will kill him as if he deserves it, and he cannot avoid it.

What's more, I guarantee you that the money we spend will definitely be earned back in an intensified manner."

Sure enough, as Chu Qing had imagined, on the third day after the official grain collection, some small grain traders came over to sell grain. Baijiaxing checked and found that it was also two years old grain, so he collected it.

It is not easy to store food in this era. For example, rice has a shelf life of only two to three years. Basically, rice that is older than two years has a very poor taste, and rice that is older than three years is inedible. Wheat is better and can be preserved.

Three or four years.

This is the shelf life only if moisture and fire protection are done well.

The past few years have been relatively smooth, there has been no external war, and granaries everywhere are basically full. This seems to be a good thing, but it also has a downside.

For example, last year's floods in the south caused a large amount of water to enter many granaries, and the grain could not be stored for a long time after being soaked in water, causing serious aging of the grain and not conducive to grain storage.

The Kochi Prefecture has been sitting back and watching the local grain prices skyrocket without taking any measures. Chu Qing judged that he wanted to use this method to sell the soaked old grains at a high price, because it would be difficult for this batch of grains to last until the end of this year.

All grain stores raised their prices, but only one "affordable" grain store released a limited supply. Chu Qing concluded that this batch of affordable grains should be "soaked grains" from Fucang.

This conclusion is not without evidence, because Chu Qing interacts with households that graze chickens and ducks every day, and some of them bought "cheap rice" and said that the rice had a musty smell.

However, the Kochi Prefecture has become a little greedy. The "affordable price" has increased along with the "market price". Although it is still lower than the "market price", it still leads to the fact that people now cannot even buy "affordable" grains and cannot afford it.

Playing a long game, fishing for big fish, and wanting to sell this batch of "soaked food" until after autumn, the prefecture is a bit greedy.

Zhuo Yao is also worried about this part of the "soaked grain", which cannot be sold. There is a "Bao Qingsheng" warehouse here that collects grain at a high price. It can just make money from Chu Qing. Why doesn't Gao Zhifu do it?

Not only did Chu Qing make money, but he also relieved his anger, so why not do it?


Chapter completed!