The incident occurred to Li Mengxi. Li Mengxi believed that jade was difficult to identify and difficult to price. Second, jade was expensive. If you bought military rations sincerely, you would suffer serious losses.

, but it’s too bullying.

Third, Li Mengxi believed that the price of jade was artificially high, that is, as a hard currency, jade was not hard enough and was not as easy to sell as gold and silver.

Even if you can purchase a thousand pieces of jade, even a thousand pieces of high-end jade, once you have it in your hands, where can you exchange it for money and food?

In prosperous times, things like jade could be worth a thousand pieces of gold, but now in troubled times, jade is not as strong as gold.

Jade was expensive and difficult to sell. Because of the two circumstances, Li Mengxi simply stopped accepting jade.

This is definitely not bullying people. If you want to bully people, just accept the jade but at the same time keep the price of the jade at an extremely low price.

He is just kind-hearted. Li Mengxi has watched many TV dramas. In TV dramas, parents often die, and the only memorial left to the children is jade pendants and jade bracelets. Most of the jades are relics of relatives or inherited from family ancestors.

Meaning, it is unbearable to pay the same price as dirt to buy the relics left by other people's parents.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Mr. Li has a knack for making money and has the ability to turn stone into gold. It's not that he can't make money from petty gains, but he doesn't want to make it.

In addition to jade, gold, silver and copper are not included in this list. In the Han Dynasty, it was often said that the reward was five thousand. These five thousand gold were probably five thousand taels of pure copper.

Pure copper ingots are more precious than copper coins and much more common than gold and silver.

The grain sales were going on, and at one of the grain sales teams, it was the turn of a scarred face. The scarred face did not speak, and his expression was very cold and gloomy. The scarred face stretched out his hand and handed a piece of golden stuff to the vendor.

The vendor looked at him in surprise, "Ah! Gold?!"

"Hmm." Scarface hummed.

The hawker picked up the golden lump out of curiosity and it was heavy in his hand. The hawker couldn't put it down and played with it for a while, then reluctantly returned it to Scarface.

"Brother, please stand aside for now. I don't know the price of gold. I'll ask you later."

Scarface was holding a golden nugget in his hand, but he couldn't buy food, which made Scarface somewhat depressed.

Liu Xuande did not expect that the common people would have gold and silver hidden in their hands, so he was still not prepared enough.

Vendors have no way to determine the price of gold and silver. In fact, Li Mengxi has long been aware of this problem.

As early as the establishment of the Ranger Caravan, when the Ranger Caravan went out to purchase supplies, Li Mengxi realized that there was a lack of people in the army who were familiar with commodity prices.

It would be good for ordinary small businessmen and hawkers to know roughly the prices of grains and livestock. However, purchasing matters may involve medicinal materials, weapons, ironware, cloth, war horses, chariots, etc. Ordinary hawkers cannot be familiar with the prices of all commodities.

Therefore, it is very difficult to go shopping.

At that time, Li Mengxi realized that the military should set up a special purchasing team. As long as it involves commercial activities, it will inevitably involve prices, and people who understand various prices will inevitably be needed.

Li Mengxi had long wanted to form a price advisory group, but he had been busy with business and had no time to form one. Today, the shortcoming of the Zhuozhou Army's lack of a pricing team has been exposed again.

Among the hundreds of thousands of civilians, many have gold and silver treasures in their hands. However, these gold and silver treasures are difficult to value quickly, and it is difficult to eat the money when it comes to their mouths. The efficiency is extremely low.

When the soldiers were sent back to the city, they reported that someone was buying grain with gold and silver, but the person selling the grain didn't know the price and couldn't make a decision.

Li Mengxi and Liu Bei, who were watching at the top of the city, looked at each other when they heard the messenger's report.

Liu Bei said, "Xi'er, these traders still have to form a team of their own."

What Liu Bei is talking about is that the Ranger Caravan has been established as a formal establishment in the army.

Li Mengxi frowned, "Prices are really troublesome." Li Mengxi was thinking of prices, not just the prices of gold and silver, but also the prices of all goods, including the prices of cross-regional goods, which are constantly changing due to the influence of various factors.

prices.

To master all this price information, it is far from enough to simply gather some small traders to form a traveling caravan.

You need to have strong business talents.

But where can you find someone who knows all the price information in the world, such a powerful person?

It's always a hassle.

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The process of selling grain lasted the whole afternoon, and many grain carts were sold out. In exchange, when it was getting dark, in just one afternoon, 70% of the money hidden in the hands of hundreds of thousands of people was collected and taken away.

, Liu Bei got as much as two hundred and ten chariots of money, the amount was uncountable, it was astonishing.

If it is a forced robbery, the peasants will hide the money in their hands, even eat it, or even throw it away without giving it to the person who refuses to rob.

Even if you rob and kill everyone, even if you rob for ten days and eight months, you will only get 60% of the money, and it will be time-consuming and labor-intensive.

However, it only took three days to build momentum and three days to run out of food. When the time comes, all you have to do is take the food away and sell it at ten times the sky-high price. No knife or threats are needed. In just one afternoon, the people willingly handed over the money.

I'm willing to hand over all my money.

Hiding it? No. Eating the money and burying it in the soil? No. Would rather throw the money away than give it away? No.
Chapter completed!