Chapter 20: Showing your talents ()

"Wait, let's do it, I'll learn this, please help me read the account book." Li Yutian snatched the small wooden board and pushed Wang Jin to the position of the shopkeeper.

Wang Jin was so happy that he pretended to be embarrassed on his face: "It's inappropriate."

"This calculation makes me suffer from a headache." Li Yutian casually curled his lips, turned to the position where Wang Jin wrote, and waved his hand without looking back.

Wang Jin shook his head, pretending to be 13 and putting together the account books in the store for the past few days. It is not troublesome to write the account books, but the numbers in the account are all capitalized "1, 2, 3, 4...", instead of the Arabic numbers "1, 2, 3, 4...". As for the borrowing, credit relationship, addition, and subtraction in the middle of this, it is too simple. From the afternoon when he took over the account books, to the middle of the night, he sorted out these accounts, and when he returned to the "employee dormitory" and fell asleep, he was dreaming, and clearly heard the clanging sound of silver dollars flowing. The sound was so nice!

Early the next morning, the rice shop entrance was already crowded with citizens buying rice. The crowd was crowded with people, and it was very lively. Soon, they started shouting and scolding, "Wonderful words" were endless.

Wang Jin didn't dare to open the door, so he asked Ergen to hold onto the door panel. He carefully stared at the consumer group with a long queue through the crack of the door, thinking that this was the so-called rush to buy.

As early as yesterday afternoon, a well-informed person had already spread the news that Lijia rice shop had lowered the price of selling rice in the city. This news was like a long drought that happened. Although the people who bought grain were confused, just in case, a long queue was lined up outside the rice shop just now at dawn.

This person will naturally get mixed up when he has too much. A well-informed person appears again and says that the big grain merchant Li Fugui has contacted a super grain merchant in Jiangsu, and a large amount of grain will be transported in a few days. Some even said that they have seen Li Fugui and Governor xx have had a warm and cordial discussion on the issue of high grain prices in Anhui Province.

Wang Jin, hiding behind the door panel, never expected that his random muttering could spread so widely in a short period of time and become such a unique taste. He felt very interesting and was so interesting. At the same time, he also had a clear understanding of the power of rumors.

Anqing was originally a small place, so grain merchants were all aware of it. They were disdainful of the rumored Li Fugui selling grain. In their opinion, Li Fugui had been in business for decades, but his determination was still a little less. He sold his stored grain only for eight taels of silver, and even sold it at a lower price. No wonder their Li family was not developed.

After so many days of experience as a rice shop assistant, Wang Jin could see that there was a trick. The words of no businessman are right but not completely right. There is a suspicion of killing a group of people without any discrimination. Are merchants? It is their nature to pursue profits, and this is understandable. Otherwise, the court will have the final say, regardless of whether they lose or make a profit. If there is no greater intention, they will not call merchants, but call them official masters.

The current situation is turbulent, and the quality of the merchants is also mixed. If you want to distinguish the good things they do, you can understand just by looking at how great their ambitions are. If you can stop when you make enough profits, your conscience is not yet completely dark. Just like Li Fugui, you feel very uneasy when the food price exceeds the psychological bottom line. No matter what the uneasiness comes from, at least he still has a sense of awe in his heart.

On the contrary, they are greedy and lustful people, just like those big grain merchants who are extremely disdainful of Li Fugui's actions, they are the culprits of disrupting the order of grain and oil. As for why those small grain merchants who follow the trend are not counted, there is also a reason for fear of breaking industry rules and being retaliated against. Otherwise, with the strength of these small grain merchants, can they fight against the Yali in the governor's yamen? Don't joke... The people in the city don't care about these, they buy cheap grains, and they can wait for rice to be put into the pot at home. Who would care about what the big grain merchants think? These people should be killed!

Erdan took on the task of maintaining order on the scene. His strong body stuck in the only passage, and only put one person in at a time, one out of one. The reason why he was so careful was that Wang Jin was also worried about the occurrence of the looting incident. If he suffered losses, his bonus would be ruined. This was not the result he wanted.

Li Yutian, who was standing behind the counter, had never seen such a hot rice buying scene. He was sweating profusely and didn't even bother going to the toilet. There were too many people coming to buy grain. In the afternoon, due to the price of rice dropped again, more people came to buy grain. Wang Jin occasionally promised: "Please don't squeeze, don't squeeze, this store has sufficient supply, please buy grain in turn."

However, even if he shouts at the moment, people will not believe that the price of grain is like a changing weather, which drops today and rises tomorrow. Who can figure out the truth that having food at home is the most realistic one.

Those grain merchants had a long time to go through the business world and knew that the Li family sold all the rice. With Li Fugui's style of managing the family, they might not be able to eat the rice from that year. So in their opinion, it was not a price reduction and was simply dealing with bad assets. They couldn't help but admire Li Fugui's methods, but unfortunately they couldn't learn it.

People don’t care much about whether they buy Chenmi or Xinmi. The rice is almost overwhelmed, so why should they be cleared? However, industry insiders know that Chenmi and Xinmi are completely different in terms of taste and price.

"It's not a loss to be a model among the unscrupulous businessmen. The old turtle among the human spirits makes money and reputation." The onlookers were sighing in their hearts.

Some small and medium-sized grain merchants were envious and fearful, and secretly blamed themselves for not expecting this move that made the old guy Li Fugui seize the opportunity, and he earned the biggest sweetness. However, it is not too late to intervene now, so they began to imitate the price of Lijia rice shop to deal with Chen Mi with the quality. Of course, their behavior did not affect the situation where Anqing's grain prices continued to be inflated. This is also the main reason why those big grain merchants did not come forward to rectify, otherwise how could these small shrimps go?

That night, Wang Jin happily took a day's sales and weighed the small treasury. Li Yutian was surprised to find that Wang Jin calculated faster than he used an abacus. In addition, he was surprised to find that Wang Jin used Arabic numerals when recording.

"Wang Jin, have you ever attended a foreign school before?"
Chapter completed!