inspire-indiana Chapter 767: The Food War Was Won
Chapter 767: The Food War Was Won
Zhou Guo disagreed, "How can it be left in vain? We still have so much food at home, salted duck eggs, preserved eggs, pine mushrooms, and various beans. There are many things we can sell."
The mother and daughter spoke alternately.
The other people working were very envious, they didn't know that parents and children could get along like this.
After winter comes, all shops start selling Matsutake mushrooms.
The goods in the prefectures are all the best, while the goods in the counties below are the inferior goods sold at ten cents per pound.
There are two levels, one hundred and ninety-nine and ninety-nine.
She originally wanted to set a lower price, but when she thought about the shops in her city that were all priced at eight hundred and ninety-nine or nine hundred and ninety-nine, she felt that it would not be good if the price was too low.
What if they all run downstairs to buy these mushrooms that cost dozens of coins per pound, then no one will buy her mushrooms that cost one tael of silver per pound?
There are no fresh vegetables at this time. The fresh vegetables that are available are those stored in the home cellar. They have been eaten since late autumn, and people are tired of them now, not to mention that they will have to eat them throughout the long winter.
As soon as the fresh pine mushrooms arrived, the shop's business immediately picked up.
As a result, the sales of sheep mushrooms and flower mushrooms also increased significantly.
Although she harvested more this year, she still did the same as last year, except that the harvest increased from 80 kilograms per day to 100 kilograms, and once they were sold, they were gone.
Business in several shops was very good for a while.
Those big grain shops were almost angry to death.
Originally, seeing that the business of Zhou's mountain product shop was gradually dying out, the family was secretly happy. Then, the weather gradually became cooler and winter came. Suddenly, for some unknown reason, customers began to return to the shop.
As soon as the shop puts new goods in stock, people flock to it, and even some wealthy families come to buy.
In this way, the efforts of the past few months seem like a joke. So much profit was given away in vain, and the other side only lost a few hairs.
It is true that if you hurt the enemy by 10,000, you will lose 30,000 of your own.
As business got better and better, these big grain shops could no longer hold on and had to adjust the grain prices. Although they could not adjust it to the same price as before, it was still possible to adjust it to the same price as Zhou Guo.
As their prices went up, the small and medium-sized grain stores nearby gradually reopened and raised their prices to the same level as Zhoujiashan Goods Store.
This way the price of food will be the same throughout the city.
The happiest people were the common people, as they had originally thought that the low prices in these grain shops would not last long.
As a result, it’s not going to happen soon, but the increase doesn’t seem to be that much. It’s much lower than in previous years. How can I not be happy?
However, even though the prices were the same, not many people bought the food in the mountain product store. It was considered good if there were one or two orders a day.
When the letter came back, Li was worried, "How could this happen? It's all the same grain, why can't the grain in our shop sell?"
Zhou Guo said, "Mom, don't you think about it? Several big shops have been lowering their prices for so long, and now they set their prices lower than ours. The people around here must have bought a lot of food. No one is short of food for a while, so if they are not short of food, they naturally can't sell the food."
Li suddenly realized, "You're right, I didn't even think of this. So it seems that we have won this battle?"
Zhou Guo smiled, "I won."
In the past, a pound of white flour cost 13 wen, but now it costs 9 wen, a decrease of 4 wen, directly dropping to the price of a few years ago.
Black noodles only cost five cents per pound.
In the mountain product shop, everything except mountain products and grains is sold very cheaply.
A pound of Matsutake mushrooms costs more than 800 wen, and sheep mushrooms and flower mushrooms are not cheap either. When I asked about the prices of the grains, I felt that they were really cheap.
If it weren't for the fact that the neighboring shops were doing well, Zhou Guo really wanted to buy over the shops next door and connect them together, selling grain and mountain products at the same time, which would definitely lead to better business.
The mountain product shops in the city are doing better business.
Not all the mountain product shops in the county town below are good. She shouldn't have set up a shop in a poor county like Song County. Even in the best time of winter, she couldn't make much money.
At the end of the day, it's usually not even as much as a fraction of what you'd earn elsewhere.
But the shops were still there and it was difficult to withdraw. Since mountain products were not selling well, she added grain as well.
Once the grain prices became so low, the business in the shop gradually improved.
Compared with mountain products that cost hundreds of coins per pound, cheap food is obviously more popular.
When other grain shops found out, they just shook their heads and sighed. After all, the man has a powerful background—he is the general’s son.
But this general's son is too weird. How could he compete with common people like them for profit? He doesn't act like a general's son at all!
Zhou Guo had no idea about any of this, let alone that she had inadvertently become the general's son.
In order not to make too many enemies, she only opened grain shops in a few prefectures and Song County, thinking of opening them in other places slowly in the future.
In the dead of winter, news came from Zhou Dacang that he would soon follow the army south, and it was unknown how many years he would be away, so he would come back home before leaving.
When the family heard the news, they were panicked. There was no mercy on the battlefield, and the south was so far away from them. What if something happened?
Li was even more anxious. Her brother-in-law had not yet gotten married. How could she be worthy of her ancestors? How would she face people in the future when she went to the underworld?
Zhou Guo was also panicked for a moment, and said, "Mom, my uncle has decided to go to the south. No matter how anxious we are, we can't change the result. We might as well prepare more self-defense items for him. This is more practical than anything else."
"For self-defense?" Li was stunned, then continued: "How can I do that? You think too highly of me."
She was a typical peasant woman who had never seen a battlefield. How could she know how to defend herself?
Zhou Guo had never seen it before, "Let's think about it and sew a few iron sheets on some important parts to block it."
The old man said, "I didn't see you guys being so nervous when we were fighting the Hu people outside the Great Wall. How can those rabble compare to the Hu people?"
Zhou Guo said: "Master, you don't understand. I am taking precautions to prevent someone from attacking us. We have many such people here."
The old man stopped talking.
Li and Zhou Guo hurriedly made a set of clothes overnight.
Sure enough, one evening eight days later, Zhou Dacang returned to the village covered in snow and wind.
The Zhou family had been waiting for a long time, and a large table of hot food was prepared.
Zhou Dacang originally wanted to come back to take a look and then leave, but seeing such a large table of food and the eager eyes of his family, he sat down and had the meal together.
After dinner, Zhou Guo took out the hastily made clothes and gave them to him, "Uncle, this is what my mother and I made for you these days. You must wear it. Wear it inside out. You can't take it off, understand?"
Zhou Dacang didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "I already have enough clothes. I haven't worn many of the ones I made last time. Why are you making more?"