bookrebus Chapter 756 Hiding Food
Chapter 756 Hiding Food
After paying the grain, the group of people returned home happily and joyfully. The remaining grain at home was now all theirs, and with the extra food they had to eat porridge every day, at least they wouldn't go hungry.
After this first wave, there are more to come. The caravan is still collecting, and many farmers come to return grain every day.
Zhou Guo built two large granaries on the farm. Later, the two granaries were gradually filled up. She looked at the two full granaries and the increasing amount of grain in the house, and called Wu Jiang over.
"Go and hire some temporary workers now to replace some of our own people. We can't leave all the food here. We have to transport it away overnight."
Wu Jiang's cheerful expression suddenly disappeared, "Master, what happened?"
Zhou Guo said: "Nothing happened, but now is a chaotic time and we don't have enough manpower here. Putting so much food here is like a shining gold mountain. It's easy to get into trouble. We have to transport the food away overnight."
They had already found several places that were ideal for storing food, including caves in deep mountains and forests.
After some renovations, it is absolutely moisture-proof, insect-proof and animal-proof. It is a place that ordinary people will never go to.
Wu Jiang went down to make arrangements.
In troubled times, having too much grain is indeed a dangerous thing. Zhou Guo had mentioned this to them repeatedly when they first started selling fertilizer, but he did not expect that this day would come so soon.
The fifth night.
The moonlight is just right.
Feizhuang, which should have been quiet, was bustling at this time. People were coming in and out of Feizhuang, and bags of grain were being carried out of the warehouse and tied to ox carts.
Half an hour later, the convoy set off towards the mountains.
There were so many people, but apart from the sound of their footsteps, no one was talking.
At the same time, Zhou Gu from Cangshan Village and his group were also moving grain.
By the time all the grain from these counties was collected, most of the grain from the two villages had been transferred away.
On the last night, the convoy made four trips back and forth from the village.
Bags of food were neatly stacked into the cave.
The cave was waterproofed all around, the ground was laid with blue bricks, sprinkled with quicklime, and covered with wooden boards and thick oilcloth.
The food in a cave was wrapped in cowhide cloth and sealed tightly with thick oilcloth, and powder to kill snakes, insects, rats and ants was sprinkled around. If the cost was not too high, she really wanted to get a few pieces of iron sheets and put the food inside.
Wu Jiang said, "Master, it's fine now. We've spent half a year waterproofing this hole, making sure not a drop of water can leak in. We've also sprinkled a thick layer of powder around it. We'll sprinkle it every year in the future, so there shouldn't be any problems."
Zhou Guo nodded, took one last look at the cave, waved his hand, and everyone retreated.
When she walked out of the cave, Wu Jiang and others had already left.
I looked around and saw no one was around, so I turned around.
He made a "Puh" sound, spat some saliva into his hands, walked to a big rock, took a horse stance, and concentrated his energy into his dantian.
Stretch out your hands, use all your strength, and shout "hi".
I saw this big stone being lifted up!!!
She walked over, leaving deep footprints with each step, carrying the big stone.
Then, block the entrance of the cave with this stone, tightly.
This stone must be thousands of pounds heavy. Most people wouldn't even think of trying to move it, let alone move it.
She clapped her hands, looked left and right and up and down, and nodded with satisfaction. "Very good, it fits perfectly. This big stone door was made with great effort, and it is rare to be able to make it like this."
Wu Jiang brought his men back and arranged the entrance of the cave.
With such an arrangement, weeds and thorns are everywhere. Most people are discouraged from going there, but extraordinary people will not be so idle as to pull away these thorns to see what is growing under the stone.
Even if it turned over to the back, it was similar to the big rocks next to it and ordinary people couldn't even push it. Who would have thought that there would be such a world behind it.
A cave full of food.
Wu Jiang smiled and said, "Master, most people rarely come to places like this, and even if they come, they won't notice it."
Zhou Guo nodded and said, "Send one of our own people in to take a look every six months to prevent any accidents."
Wu Jiangying thought that they couldn't pry open the rock alone, but ten or twenty people could definitely pry it open.
As a result of all this, 90% of the grain harvested in Song County was transported away.
Zhou Guo went back to Cangshan Village. After receiving her news, the old man and Zhou Gu took away 99% of the grain from the ten counties in Cangshan Village.
Today, there are less than 10,000 shi of grain left in the two counties.
Zhou Guo transported most of the grain in Song County back to Cangshan Village, leaving only more than 2,000 stones in Song County. After all, the village in Song County was still under construction, and there was a lot of grain to pay for the long-term and short-term workers.
She divided half of it and shipped it in batches to shops in various provincial capitals.
In addition to mountain products, the mountain product shop now also sells grains and beans.
Although the variety is limited, the price is cheap. Once the grain is sold, the surrounding grain shops will have little business the next day.
How could the other grain shops bear this? Originally, all their prices were the same, but suddenly a shop selling mountain products appeared and even sold grain as well? Just sell your products, why are you cheaper than theirs?
If this isn't just looking for trouble, what is?
Someone came to my door that day and started shouting, before I had time to say anything.
Suddenly, more than a dozen strong men appeared from behind, glaring at people and rolling up their sleeves, as if they were ready to break people's necks at any time.
The visitor held back his words and forced a smile, "No, I don't know who your boss is? Should I look for your boss?"
"Looking for our boss? Who are you?"
"Oh, I'm the owner of Fulai Grain Shop..."
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted. The young men waved their hands and said, "The shopkeeper can only talk to our shopkeeper. If you want to see our boss, you have to ask your boss to come. Not everyone can see our boss. Our boss is very busy. Come, I'm the shopkeeper of the mountain goods store. Tell me what you want to say."
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Zhou Guo looked at the several letters in his hand, all of which were from several mountain product shops. They all said the same thing, that their own mountain product shops were being targeted, and all the grain shops in the city had joined forces and set prices lower than theirs.
She smiled and went back to her room to write a letter.
Tell them that this is the best way. We will not change our own price and they can set any price they want. It will also be good if the people can benefit from it.
Originally, this year's grain harvest was considered a bumper one, but the grain prices in the city are actually showing a slight upward trend.
Who can tolerate this? The grain merchants go to the countryside to collect grain at the lowest possible prices, and then raise the prices when they return to the city, making profits on both ends.
In the end, it is the common people who suffer. Her original idea was to take out some of the grain and put it on the market.
Even if there is no food, she still has mountain products to sell.
As a result, the people in the city were happy and they swarmed into the major grain stores, buying as much as they could with their money. Such prices were unavailable even ten years ago.