Chapter 1129: The tortuous process of buying grain
Changsun Chong shouted arrogantly: "A mere untouchable dares to stop me. He really doesn't know how to live or die. Beat him to death!"
The henchmen came out with fists and kicks.
"Be bold!"
"The Trade Center is not a place where you can run wild!"
Wow.
A voice rang out, and immediately, more than a dozen Huxian Guancheng officers holding mace and big sticks rushed out from the side and surrounded Changsun Chong and others.
Before Changsun Chong could react, Guan Chengmen raised his mace-toothed club and knocked all his thugs to the ground, each and every one of them miserable.
Changsun Chong was furious: "You have rebelled against me and dared to hit me. Do you know who I am?"
A dark-faced man came over and said, "I have met Mr. Changsun!"
This man is very calm.
Changsun Chong couldn't help being stunned.
"You know me, and you dare to hit me. Do you know who my father is?"
Changsun Chong was the young minister of Dali Temple. In the Chang'an area, this official position was too small and he was not well-known.
But his father was different. He was Sikong, an absolute genius.
Unexpectedly, the man said calmly: "His Royal Highness said that the Trade Center is the face of Hu County and the face of the Tang Dynasty. Anyone who comes here must abide by the rules of this place, even if the eldest grandson Sikong comes."
"Your Highness? Did King Shu ask you to do this?"
The man nodded.
Changsun Chong gritted his teeth and thought to himself, the King of Shu is a tough guy, if I don't tolerate it, I'm afraid I will suffer a loss.
So he said: "Okay, I will sell you face today. However, this untouchable dares to stop me. How should I deal with it?"
The man said: "Mr. Changsun, this father-in-law is not wrong. The rules of the trade center are as follows: first come, first served, queue up to buy food."
With that said, the man waved his hand and asked the old man to leave.
Changsun Chong could only stare.
He stamped his feet: "Okay, I have remembered you, what is your name?"
"Guancheng Brigade, Vice Captain, Li Ergou."
With that said, Li Ergou said harshly: "You guys, keep an eye on them. Do you dare to disobey the rules? Do things according to the rules."
With that said, he turned around and left with the rest of the people.
Walking into an alley, a person next to me asked anxiously: "Vice Captain, that's Chang Sun Chong. If we offend him, what will we do if he takes revenge?"
Li Ergou gritted his teeth: "We have offended him, and he will only retaliate against us in the future, but... Wang Laowu, that arrogant person, said that Duke Hu Guo personally told us about this matter. If we can't handle it well, we will all interrupt."
Send your legs to Lam Tin to dig coal."
"How can you dig coal if your legs are broken?"
"You know nothing. I heard that those who had their legs broken and were sent to dig coal were thrown into a hole and could not come out for the rest of their lives. They ate, drank, and defecated in there, and solved everything with their hands."
A gust of cold wind blew, and everyone felt a chill on their backs.
so afraid!
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At the entrance of Huxian Grain Distribution Center.
Several shopkeepers looked at each other and looked at Changsun Chong in confusion.
"Sir, what should we do now? Break in by force?" a shopkeeper asked tentatively.
Snapped.
Changsun Chong was so angry that he slapped the guy directly: "I forced my way into your mother. This is the territory of the King of Shu. The King of Shu has a bad temper and beats people when he disagrees. Do you want me to die?"
Changsun was furious, shook his sleeves and said, "Just follow their rules and line up."
A dozen shopkeepers quickly went to line up obediently.
Not long after, more than a dozen people came back one after another.
A shopkeeper held a palm-sized piece of paper and said, "Sir... let's go back."
Um?
Changsun Chong suddenly became furious: "It's too much to bully others. Du He is too much to bully others. Why are we all waiting in line obediently and why aren't we allowed to buy food as soon as possible?"
The shopkeeper shook his head: "Sir, it's not that we won't be allowed to buy it, it's that the number we received is No. 835, and we can't buy it until the day after tomorrow."
With that said, he showed the number plate to Changsun Chong.
Others also received number plates one after another, and some even received more than 900 numbers.
Changsun Chong asked dumbfounded: "What if we can't buy food by then?"
The shopkeeper replied: "Sir, Wang Laowu said that as long as you get the number plate, you can buy food. Otherwise, it is a breach of contract."
Changsun Chong glanced ahead at the endless line of people queuing up to buy food, and cursed: "These untouchables, huh, let's go and come back the next day. If we can't buy food by then, I will destroy this food distribution center."
Well, anyway, it was Du He who breached the contract first."
With that said, he led a group of people back to Chang'an.
…
"Thank you, shopkeeper, our number is for tomorrow, so today's visit is in vain," said a waiter.
The shopkeeper's face turned green: "You're a loser, you can't even handle this."
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"Shopkeeper, we won't be able to buy food until three days later. What should we do?"
"You fool, wouldn't you spend a few pennies to buy a number plate from those untouchables?"
"Shopkeeper, no, this number plate has been marked. I bought several number plates, and as soon as I handed them in, I was discovered. The people in charge said that I had been blacklisted for the rest of my life.
You can’t come here to buy food again.”
"..."
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Similar things happen in many places.
On this day, the Huxian Grain Distribution Center can only be described as hot.
Wang Laowu was so happy that in the evening, he hurriedly ran to the Prince Consort's house to report to Du He.
Standing opposite Du He, Wang Laowu said happily: "...Godfather, you don't know. Mr. Liu and others were shocked. Originally, everyone thought they would lose money if they lowered the price, but they didn't know that they sold it today.
The amount of food is equivalent to half a month's supply in the past. After calculation, it is more than what we made before. Moreover, in the past, we had to transport food to various places in Chang'an and rent shops. After all, it was a huge expense.
, but it’s different now. We only need to go to the Hu County Grain Distribution Center, and people will come to buy grain. Moreover, I asked many people, and they all said that they had never seen this grain distribution center, and they had never heard anyone talk about it.
This is simply the first initiative in history."
Wang Laowu's admiration for Du He is beyond words.
Du He was very calm.
Because everything is under his control.
In fact, the so-called grain distribution center in later generations was a super wholesale market, which was a cargo distribution center. The goods were not at high prices but in high volume.
Wang Laowu said again: "It's just, godfather, there's something I don't understand."
"What's the matter?"
"Why do we deliberately give them the last number plate when big households come to buy grain?"
Wang Laowu has thought about this problem for a long time, but he has never figured it out.
Du He smiled and said, "Do you still remember the concerns of Mr. Liu and others before?"
"Dad, what you are saying is that Mr. Liu and others are worried that the grain merchants in Chang'an City will buy up all our grain, then hoard it and not sell it to the outside world. When there is no grain to sell on the market, they will sell it at a high price.