Jingnan County, a group of large and small grain merchants in Jingnan County Office class room discussed for a while, in the three largest grain merchants to lead and encourage, reached a consensus and tea instead of wine oath: the county grain merchants firmly embrace the group, unanimous, firm not to reduce prices! Which private price reduction is the public enemy of the county grain merchants! No matter what, we will not rest until we die!
Boss Tai and Boss Lu were no exception, and both of them swore along with the crowd. For one thing, their hearts are 10,000 unwilling to lower prices, the initial fear is only afraid to be the first sheep, an example of the chicken only, now the county grain merchants oath, reached a consensus, they think that their family is only a small grain merchants only, to make the first sheep, an example of the chicken also has its own large grain merchants are qualified, they are safe; Secondly, the whole county grain merchants oath, they do not participate in the words, that would be the county grain merchants enemies, without the county honours!to make a move, these grain merchants would be able to tear them apart alive.
I don’t know if it was intentional, but only after the grain merchants reached a consensus and swore an oath did Zhu Pingan arrive late.
“Greetings, Your Excellency.”
“Greetings, Great Master of the Prefecture.”
Seeing Zhu Pingan push through the door, the crowd of grain merchants came forward to salute and pay their respects to Zhu Pingan.
Zhu Pingan smiled and swept a glance at the crowd, waved his hand at them and said in a warm voice, “No need to salute, no need to salute. This official was busy with his official duties and was not aware of the time for a while, I have tired you all to wait for a long time.”
“How dare you, how dare you, the county honourable father has tortured us, the county honourable father asks for the people’s orders, and has a lot of work to do, and is responsible for the entire county’s 100,000 people, so it is only right for us to wait any longer.”
A group of grain merchants said one after another, when they noticed Zhu Pingan scanning them, many grain merchants were too weak to look at Zhu Pingan, after all, they had just finished the oath.
“All of you, please take a seat. This official invited you all here this time, and I’m sure you all know exactly what you’re here for in your hearts. This official will not beat around the bush, this time I invited you all here for the price of grain.”
Zhu Pingan sat on the main seat, and did not bother to beat around the bush, opening the door to a group of grain merchants and said.
Sure enough, it is about grain prices!
A group of grain merchants looked at each other, there was no surprise about it, they knew it in their hearts.
Zhu Pingan scanned the grain merchants, and then opened his mouth and said: “The so-called people to food for heaven, now Jiangnan flood, food is now the first priority, and the price of food is the first of them. Food price is not stable, then Jingnan is not stable, so this official intends to define the food price in Jingnan. However, the definition of food prices is related to the livelihood of Jingnan County and stability of the overall situation, involving a slight change in the whole body, I do not dare to take the liberty to make a decision easily. All of you are my Jingnan famous grain merchants, know a lot about grain, I want to hear your ideas? All of you do not need to be concerned, what ideas, truthfully to this official to say, this official to ensure that not to words to be offended.”
“What? Define the price of grain in Jingnan?!”
A crowd of grain merchants heard, shocked very, face are hard to hide shocked expression, many grain merchants out of control exclaimed.
Defining the price of grain in Jingnan!
For their grain merchants this is a big thing, what does it mean to define the grain price, that is to fix the grain price! Once the price of grain is defined, then they are not allowed to raise the price again!
Right now, grain prices all over Jiangnan are rising three times a day, and if the county government defines the price of grain in Jingnan, then the price of grain in Jingnan will not be able to rise any more, and they will lose an immeasurable amount of money!
They thought that Zhu Pingan wanted them to go down a little bit on the basis of the market price of grain that goes up three times a day, for example, the market price of a stone of grain in the morning is 1,350 wen, and the price of grain in Jingnan is 1,340 wen; the market price of 1,355 wen at noon is 1,345 wen, and the market price of 1,360 wen in the evening is 1,350 wen, and the price of grain in Jingnan is 1,350 wen. Even so this kind of price reduction, they can not accept, let alone is to define the Jingnan grain prices, from now on they are not allowed to increase the price of it!
Ruthless!
The county governor can be really ruthless ah!
A group of grain merchants never thought that Zhu Pingan would be so ruthless! He even tried to define the price of grain in Jingnan!
Yang Zhen, the manager of Yang Ji Grain Store, held his position and gave a wink to a small manager beside him.
This small shopkeeper’s business relies on Yang Ji Grain Company, after receiving Yang Zhen’s hint, he stood up and cupped his fists to Zhu Ping An and said: “County Honour, it’s not that we don’t want to, it’s just that nowadays, half of Jiangnan has been hit by the flood, the former fish and rice land and the world’s breadbasket has been transformed into a land of grain shortage, we grain merchants can’t even collect grains in Jiangnan, and can only go to the west of Sichuan and the north of Shandong to collect grains by a long way.A boundary to collect grain, not to mention the long distance, Ba Shu and Shandong grain is also rising. Local grain before is 410 wen a stone, the last time we shop steward to go to shandong to collect grain, offer 500 wen a stone, the local people do not care. Not to mention the people along the way to eat horse chewing, hiring guards and so on, this grain is more and more difficult to collect, our costs are also getting bigger and bigger. Please think twice and give us a way out.”
After someone started, a group of grain merchants all spoke up and spat out their bitterness to Zhu Pingan.
“Matter ah county honourable. Even if we collect grain from Ba Shu and Shandong, it’s not easy to transport it to Jingnan. Not to mention the mountain thieves and bandits along the way, but let’s say that now that Jiangnan is flooded, there are countless refugees and victims, and when they see grain, it’s like a hungry wolf seeing meat. As soon as our grain carriers enter the Jiangnan territory, we are constantly facing the danger of refugees and disaster victims gathering to loot ……”
“Prefect, we are all from the countryside, we also want to sell the grain to everyone at a low price, but our costs are there, we also have an old man and a young man, a large family is waiting for us to feed, we can’t possibly lose money to sell the grain ah, if we lose money, our whole family will have to drink the north-west wind, then we can only close down our business.”
“County Honour, we get up early in the morning and work very hard, but we are only supporting our family, please be considerate. Moreover, this grain price is not set by us ah, we are also with the market …… also please county honourable think twice ah.”
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For a while, the classroom was like a grievance assembly for grain merchants, with complaints and grievances.
Right, that’s it. The law is not responsible for the masses, as long as we hold together as a group, we are not afraid of him Zhu Pingan.
Yang Ji Grain Store’s Yang Boss was satisfied with the crowd’s performance, the corner of his mouth couldn’t help but hook up and glanced at Zhu Ping An with his afterglow, once he glanced at Yang Boss he couldn’t help but be stunned for a moment.
He was surprised to see that Zhu Pingan was patiently listening to the crowd complaining, nodding his head while listening without any displeasure on his face, and had been listening patiently without interrupting anyone in between.
No …… it shouldn t be ah, we are so, shouldn t the county dignitary be angry?
Terrible!
It is too terrible! The county honourable father is young, and the kung fu of cultivating anger is too deep! Such a person is too scary.
Shopkeeper Yang, who could not understand, could only attribute this to the fact that Zhu Pingan’s qi cultivation was deep and his city was deep.
At once, Shopkeeper Yang could not help but be jealous of Zhu Pingan. If it was not for the huge interests involved, Shopkeeper Yang was really unwilling to bear grudges with such a deep qi cultivator and a deep city.
