A group of large and small grain merchants in Jingnan County discussed for a while in the Yaban room of Jingnan County, and under the leadership and encouragement of the three largest grain merchants, they reached a consensus and swore an oath with tea instead of wine: the grain merchants of the county firmly hold together, unanimously with the outside world, and do not reduce prices! Which private price drop is the public enemy of the county's grain merchants! Never die!

The Thai shopkeeper and the Lu shopkeeper are no exception, and the two of them also swear an oath with everyone. First, they are also 10,000 unwilling to reduce the price in their hearts, they were afraid of being the first sheep, the monkey chicken, and now the county's grain merchants swore an oath and reached a consensus, they think that they are just small grain merchants, to make the head sheep, monkey chickens also have their own big grain merchants to be qualified, they are safe; Second, now the grain merchants in the county swear that if they don't participate, they will become the enemies of the grain merchants in the county, and these grain merchants can tear them apart without the county respect.

I don't know if it was deliberate, but after they reached a consensus and swore an oath, Zhu Ping'an was late.

"I've seen Lord County."

"I've seen the county magistrate."

Seeing Zhu Ping'an pushing the door in, a group of grain merchants stepped forward to salute and greet Zhu Ping'an.

Zhu Ping'an glanced at everyone with a smile, waved his hand at them, and said softly: "No courtesy, no courtesy." This official is busy with official business, and he doesn't notice the time for a while, and he is tired of waiting for a long time. ”

"How dare you dare, the county has tormented us, the county has asked for the people's life, every day is in charge, and the county is responsible for 100,000 people up and down the county, we should wait any longer."

A group of grain merchants said one after another, when they noticed Zhu Ping'an scanning them, many grain merchants were thieves and did not dare to look at Zhu Ping'an, after all, they had just finished their oath.

"Please be seated. I think you have invited you this time, and I think you all know what you are doing. This official is not going around in circles, and this time I invited you to come for the sake of food prices. ”

Zhu Ping'an sat on the main seat, did not go around in circles, and said straight to the point to the grain merchants.

Sure enough, it's for the price of food!

The grain merchants looked at each other, and there was no surprise at this, they were clear in their hearts.

Zhu Ping'an glanced at the grain merchants one by one, and then said: "The so-called people take food as the sky, and now that the floods in the south of the Yangtze River are flooding, food is the first priority of Fangjin, and the price of grain is the first of them. If the grain price is unstable, Jingnan will be unstable, so this official intends to define the grain price in Jingnan. However, the issue of defining grain prices has a bearing on the overall situation of Jingnan County's livelihood and stability, and it affects the whole body, and the officials do not dare to make decisions lightly without authorization. You are all grain merchants in Jingnan, and you know a lot about food, so I want to hear your thoughts? You don't need to scruple about what you think, tell the official truthfully, and the official promises not to be guilty of his words. ”

"What?! Define the price of grain in Jingnan?! ”

When a group of grain merchants heard this, they were shocked, and their faces could not hide their shocked expressions, and many grain merchants exclaimed uncontrollably.

Define the price of grain in Jingnan!

This is a big deal for them grain merchants, and what it means to define the price of grain is to fix the price of grain! Once the price of food is defined, they are not allowed to raise it again!

At present, the grain prices in all parts of the Jiangnan region are rising three times a day, and if the county respects the grain prices in Jingnan, then the grain prices in Jingnan will not be able to rise any longer, and their losses will be immeasurable!

They originally thought that Zhu Ping'an wanted them to drop on the basis of the market price of grain that rose three times a day, for example, the market price of grain in the morning was 1,350 wen for one stone, and the price of grain in Jingnan was 1,340 wen; The market price at noon is 1,355 Wen, and the grain price in Jingnan is 1,345 Wen; The market price in the evening is 1,360 Wen, and the grain price in Jingnan is 1,350 Wen. Even so, they can't accept such a price reduction, let alone define the price of grain in Jingnan, and they are not allowed to raise the price again!

Vicious!

The county is really ruthless!

The grain merchants never expected Zhu Ping'an to be so ruthless! He even tried to define the price of grain in Jingnan!

Yang Zhen, the shopkeeper of Yang Ji Grain Bank, held his identity and gave a look to a small shopkeeper next to him.

After receiving Yang Zhen's hint, he stood up and hugged his fist to Zhu Ping'an and said: "County Zun, it's not that we don't want to, but now most of the Jiangnan has been flooded, and the former land of fish and rice, the granary of the world has become a grain shortage, and we and other grain merchants can't receive grain in Jiangnan, so they can only go to Bashu in the west and Shandong in the north to collect grain. The local grain was 410 Wen a stone before, and the last time our shop manager went to Shandong to collect grain, he bid 500 Wen a stone, and the locals ignored it. Not to mention the people eating horses and munching on the way, hiring nurses, etc., this food is becoming more and more difficult to harvest, and our cost is getting bigger and bigger. Please also ask the county to think twice and give us a way to live. ”

After someone started, all the grain merchants also spit bitter water at Zhu Ping'an.

"It's a matter of county. Even if we receive grain from Bashu and Shandong, it will not be easy to transport it to Jingnan. Not to mention the bandits and bandits along the way, but now that there are countless refugees and victims in the flood in the south of the Yangtze River, they see food like hungry wolves see meat. As soon as our grain trucks entered the border south of the Yangtze River, they were always in danger of refugees and disaster victims gathering to loot......"

"County Zun, everyone is a fellow villager, we also want to sell food to everyone at a low price, but our cost is there, we are also old and young, a large family is waiting for us to feed, we can't lose money and sell grain, if we lose money, our whole family can only drink the northwest wind, then we can only close the door."

"County Zun, we get up early to smear the black, we work hard, and we are just supporting our families, and I ask the county to understand. Besides, we didn't set the price of this grain, and we all went with the market...... Please think twice about the county. ”

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For a while, the class room seemed to have become a grievance meeting for grain merchants, complaining and complaining.

Yes, exactly. The law does not blame the public, as long as we form a group, we are not afraid of him Zhu Ping'an.

The shopkeeper Yang of Yang Ji Grain Store was very satisfied with everyone's performance, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but hook up, and he glanced at Zhu Ping'an with his afterglow, and couldn't help but be stunned when he glanced at the shopkeeper Yang.

He was surprised to see Zhu Ping'an's very patient audience complaining, listening a little bit, without any unhappiness on his face, he had been listening patiently all the time, and did not interrupt anyone in the middle.

No...... It shouldn't be, we're like this, shouldn't the county be angry?!

Terrible!

It's horrible! The county is young, and the kung fu of nourishing qi is too deep! Such people are terrible.

Shopkeeper Yang, who couldn't figure it out, had to attribute all this to Zhu Ping'an's deep qi cultivation and kung fu and the depth of the city government.

Suddenly, Shopkeeper Yang couldn't help but be afraid of Zhu Ping'an. If it weren't for his huge interests, Shopkeeper Yang really didn't want to grudge with such a person who was deep in qi cultivation and deep in the city.