Jinzhuang Town is just a small town in Gaoyang County under Yingzhou. The entire town is not big, with only a hundred families. Apart from the government office, the rest are some merchants.

Although the town is small, it is still very lively, especially when it is just dawn every day, the entire street is bustling with hawking crowds.

Farmers brought their homes to the town as soon as possible to sell them. Here, all kinds of vendors will collect their goods.

Fresh sparse vegetables, eggs, chickens and ducks, harvested mountain delicacies, fish and shrimps, as long as you bring things here, no matter how rare it is, there are always dealers who collect them. These dealers are small in size, and after purchasing these things from farmers, they will be shipped to large places to hawk, or sell them to larger merchants.

Every morning when the market opens, a tax collector will place a table at the entrance of the street. Anyone who comes to sell things will pay a penny to the tax collector, and then take a note with a big red seal from the tax collector, and then go in and sell his own things.

Such a lively scene will last about an hour, starting from the sun when the sky is bright and when the sun pops out from the horizon, it will generally end. Farmers will rush home as quickly as possible to start a day of work. Trafficks will carry loads, push wheelbarrows, and catch a donkey cart and mule cart with a bold rush to a larger city to sell their income.

Then, the town became calm and it was rare to see someone in a while. Many business owners and friends would move a rattan chair or bench, lie on it and bask in the sun comfortably, chatting with each other. It is not okay to be rich and prosperous here, but supporting a family is not a problem. So everyone is very happy, happy, and satisfied.

This is the daily life of the people of Jinshan Town.

But starting today, there will be a good time and it will be very lively here because the winter wheat is harvested.

When harvesting, it is not only a good day for farmers, but also a good day for merchants like them. There are only a few peak seasons a year! The merchants in the town have prepared goods early to welcome the farmers after harvesting.

They are all local residents here, and they are all clear about what farmers need and want.

This is the time when farmers have the most abundant and generous hands.

The grain of farmers in various places under Wuyi can be roughly divided into three parts. Part of them is the public grain that needs to be paid. This part of the grain is purchased at a unified price, and it is also what farmers must pay. Generally speaking, a mu of land is about 100 kilograms of grain. The wheat yield is about 300 kilograms per acre. That is to say, when the people sell this one-third of the grain, at most, they will be guaranteed, and may even lose money. But this is a matter of no way, and it must be paid and cannot be discounted.

The second part is the food rations left by oneself, which is related to whether the family will go hungry, and of course they must keep enough.

The third part is for sale. Of course, the price of grain sold in this part is much higher than that of public grain, and farmers mainly make money through this.

However, because grain has always been purchased and sold by the imperial court, the people have no other choice but to sell grain, so they can only sell it to supply and marketing cooperatives.

Supply and marketing cooperatives have always been a high-incidence area where corrupt officials appear under the rule of Wuyi. Every year, many people will fall apart, but they cannot completely eliminate the emergence of such people. The variety of corruption methods are enough to make the supervisory officials confused. Monopoly management will naturally breed privileges, and it has been impossible to do so throughout the ages.

There are naturally supply and marketing cooperatives in Jinzhuang Town that do these things, so they cannot avoid the habit of being vulgar. Last year, an official who was responsible for purchasing grain here fell down because of this. I heard that the fate was very miserable. The family property was confiscated and the whole family was sent to the Western Regions. But the people around were very happy because this guy was very embarrassed for them. The wheat was obviously very dry, so he insisted that he didn't do it. Either you find a place to dry it, or he had to determine the loss. The people were still unable to speak after suffering losses.

Don’t think about stuffing money to help him eliminate disasters! He really doesn’t like the little money given to him by the farmer. He only needs to raise the loss a little more. How much does it cost? If you dare to stuff money to him, you will be labeled as an attempt to bribe the official and then take you into the government office, so that you can suffer another time, and he will gain a good reputation.

However, when the official in a small town who was responsible for purchasing grain was finally searched, tens of thousands of yuan was found in the family, which surprised the censors of the Supervision Bureau. As a result, the supervision of all the officials of the Supply and Marketing Cooperatives increased several steps, which made Wang Mingyi go to Li Ze to cry several times.

But Li Ze ignored this.

If you are strong, why are you afraid of strict supervision?

Gaoyang's county magistrate Zhao Daxiong decided to come and watch it in person. He didn't want to suffer the unpredictable disaster last year. Last year, the guy fell, and he had never received the benefit of that guy's penny, but he was also in trouble. In the end, the performance evaluation of the Ministry of Personnel fell from the top, and suddenly fell to the middle, falling several levels in a row. For a grassroots official, this means that he has to search for several years. Is there anything more unlucky than this?

Just as he was about to set off, he didn't want to know that Bao Hui of Zhou actually came to Gaoyang in person. This made Zhao Daxiong feel a little crying. Didn't a corrupt official appear last year? He also punished him. As for the magistrate who came in person? How worried is this to the point of being worried about himself? It seems that his path to promotion is really tortuous.

After the aggrieved Magistrate Zhao Daxiong and County, Zhao, who was full of grievance, realized that this was not the case. It was because the court's policies had undergone great changes.

"You mean the food will be released?" Zhao Daxiong said in surprise. "This is not a trivial matter."

"Of course it's not a trivial matter. So we chose a state as a pilot, and our Yingzhou was selected for gloriousness." Bao Hui said gloriously, but there was no glorious appearance on her face. "I can't judge how big the impact of this matter is, so I chose Gao Yang as a pilot again."

Zhao Daxiong wanted to cry but was still the one that happened last year.

It is used as a pilot site for policies. If it succeeds, it will naturally benefit from the local area. But if it fails, I'm sorry, you have to take the blame.

"There is no other place to move for the time being, this new site is located in Jinzhuang Town!" Bao Hui said: "I have contacted a powerful merchant in the state, and they will set up a site in Jinzhuang Town to purchase excess grain from the people."

"What about the supply and marketing cooperative?"

"Don't care about them." Bao Hui said: "They either keep up or stop taking it. Anyway, they still have to collect public grain."

"Who is so brave? I dare to compete with the supply and marketing cooperative. Are you not afraid of the supply and marketing cooperatives for him in the future?" Zhao Daxiong said a little astonished. This is a fight for food with the supply and marketing cooperative.

"There's no way!" Bao Hui said: "Someone will always do it. At that time, we will sit in Jinzhuang Town and watch the progress of the matter."

Under such a background, a new merchant suddenly appeared in Jinzhuang Town, and this new merchant was actually a grain merchant. This is a strange thing for the people of Jinzhuang, because before that, only one person in Jinzhuang Town collected grain and sold grain, that is, the supply and marketing cooperative. Now, a new competitor has actually emerged.

Ordinary farmers may not understand the profound meaning here, but everyone in business is very clear in their hearts and stare at this scene with wide eyes.

At the beginning of the first day, the water sign that Liangjiliang shop bought winter wheat outside was 10% higher than that of the supply and marketing cooperatives.

Of course, farmers do not care about the major policies involved here. They only want their own grain to be sold at a better price and just make a few more money.

There is no way for public grain, so we have to sell it to the supply and marketing cooperative, but in addition to bringing our own food, the remaining extra grain was sold to Liangji Grain Shop without hesitation.

After the first day, the incident began to ferment, and the news spread farther and farther away. Almost all the local people in Jinzhuang Town rushed over. In the past, the food sales that lasted for ten days and half a month were all crowded in one day. No one knows how long this thing will last.

On the third day, people from other places in Gaoyang learned about the news, so the roads that came to Jinzhuang Town were filled with mules, donkeys, ox, carts, horses and carts, and the carts were full of food.

On the fourth day, people near each county began to move.

The boss of Liangji Grain Store was probably not enough and did not prepare enough money in advance. In desperation, he urgently borrowed money from the Zhengzhuang and barely managed to deal with it.

Bao Hui and Zhao Daxiong, who were in Jinzhuang Town, spread out all the people they could use, just to maintain order in Jinzhuang Town.

No one expected that a stone was thrown into a silent pond, which caused such a big storm. For more than ten days, Bao Hui and Zhao Daxiong were exhausted, but fortunately, this wave finally ended.

"Will this Boss Liang lose money? He is so proud of his high price. Who should he sell it to?" Zhao Daxiong asked at Bao Hui.
Chapter completed!