Chapter 42 The Madness of Food Stamps
Gu Shun didn't expect that his potatoes would be so popular.
In just two days, the potatoes in stock were sold out.
The output of the four greenhouses soon became insufficient.
Gu Shun bought many abandoned mines outside the city to expand the scale of potato planting.
The trees on these mountains have long been cut down by the residents of the Lower City to burn fire and cook. The land is severely desertified and almost all of them are weathered gravel and gravel.
This kind of land will definitely not be able to grow wheat.
However, growing potatoes in the sand is a good way to improve the quality of potatoes.
The potatoes grown from the sand have a unique flavor. The only thing to pay attention to is to ensure nutrition and moisture, prevent and control soil erosion, and long-term exposure to the sun to damage young potato seedlings.
For this purpose, Gu Shun specially repaired several large-scale drones for agriculture and transformed them into equipment specially used for fertilization and sprinkling.
Just set up the program and the drone can sprinkle the mixed fertilizer water onto the mountains to irrigate the potatoes.
Because the mine is deserted and rarely visited, there should be no need to worry about being discovered.
However, to be on the safe side, Gu Shun still pulled barbed wire around the mine, set up surveillance and police whistles, and raised several evil dogs to patrol regularly.
In this way, Gu Shun quickly solved the problem of insufficient potato yield.
After waiting for three months, the first batch of mountain potatoes were launched and gained enthusiastic pursuit.
Potatoes became real gold beans, just as Gu Shun had expected.
Within a few months, he helped Gu Shun earn millions of copper spears.
In this way, Gu Shun's mushroom and potato business both ushered in an explosion.
He also became the real king of mushrooms and potatoes in the downtown product.
Especially potatoes, which are cheap and delicious, have become the main source of food for many poor people to fill their stomachs.
Gu Shun changed the grain supply and resource allocation pattern of the entire Xiacheng with his own strength.
The best-selling potatoes naturally attracted many jealous pretenders, including the gangs, bounty hunters, the threads of the upper city, some thieves with ulterior motives and the commanders of the lower city.
Everyone is drooling at the interests behind the resource like potatoes.
Gu Shun naturally knew this. He was very scheming and paid two protection fees at the same time.
A note was given to the consul of the downtown who symbolized the obvious.
Another deal gave the Black Tiger Gang, the largest extreme gang in the Lower City, which symbolizes the dark side.
Now both sides became suspicious of the belongings of potatoes, and both believed that this thing was done by each other.
It was precisely through this game and suspicion that Gu Shun continued to expand his business and wandered between light and darkness.
As the business grows bigger and bigger, Gu Shun understands that a big tree attracts wind. If you keep playing with this kind of strategy, you will eventually lose your life.
When either of them takes a test, he will let him take it like a soft persimmon.
Therefore, he urgently needs a new profit model and a safer and more concealed sales channel.
The most important thing is to form your own armed forces as soon as possible. Truth and business can only be convinced in front of guns and cannons.
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"Happy birthday Shunshun."
"Happy birthday, boss."
Before I knew it, Gu Shun's 5th birthday came.
Grandma and other children adopted by the orphanage gathered together to help Gu Shun celebrate her birthday.
Gu Shun's genius mind and money-making speed comparable to that of a money printing machine made all children admire him extremely and convinced him.
Moreover, as a family, as they become increasingly involved in Gu Shun's business, they have become the most core members of the entire business chain.
Gu Shun also has the style of a family leader, and he is quite leadership and majestic at a young age.
Doing business in this environment is even more difficult than doing a world in the previous life.
He must be flattered and strive to operate every relationship like a tightrope. Big fish eat small fish, and only the winner will be the last one.
Looking at the huge butter cake in front of him, Gu Shun made a wish and then blew out the candle.
Immediately afterwards, Gu Shun, as a birthday star, divided the cake and arranged the next stage of the task to each member who came to receive the cake.
Many children eat cake for the first time. This is the first time that many children have seen this top luxury food in the eyes of downtown people.
Eating this sweet smell, many children shed tears of happiness.
If it weren't for Gu Shun, they might be working in a coal mine in which coal mine they are now working as a coolie.
If children in orphanages are not adopted before adulthood, they will leave the orphanage after adulthood.
They have never been to school and have no skills, so they have no better way out except being sent to various coal mines or garbage plants to work hard.
For these children, Gu Shun's appearance was like a god who took them out of the sea of suffering, and gave them such good living conditions and respect.
They have long regarded Gu Shun as a part of their life, and are even willing to go through fire and water for him, through life and death, and be heartbroken.
Gu Shun took out a few paper vouchers with potatoes and sausages on them at the birthday party.
This was the first step he had been thinking for a long time and preparing to transform.
The children under Gu Shun looked at the things in his hand curiously and asked strangely: "Boss, what is this?"
Gu Shun cleared his throat, put the coupons on the table, and kept it in a silence and said, "You can scratch it open and take a look."
The children found a silver seal at the bottom of the coupon. With a slight scratch, the handwriting inside was revealed - the first prize.
“It’s so fun.”
“Isn’t this a lottery?”
A knowledgeable child said.
Gu Shun nodded in praise, "Yes, this is a kind of lottery, but unlike ordinary lottery, we don't reward money, we reward the things we need most, food."
"So I call it a food coupon. You only need 2 copper spears to buy one. Food coupons that are not scratched can be used as currency to buy potatoes. If scratched, different prizes will be rewarded according to the prize you win."
"In the early stage, in order to make food coupons more popular, I decided to award a first prize every day. The first prize can be awarded for one year in a row, and you can receive 3 baked potatoes for free every day or 1,000 baked potatoes at one time."
Hearing the reward, all the children swallowed in shock.
1,000 roasted potatoes and 5,000 copper spoons. Although the prize money for many lottery tickets sold in the city is much lower, it is real food. Think about how tempting it is to pile up so many potatoes in front of you.
Soon, Gu Shun's commercial machine started running.
In front of the stalls selling roasted potatoes on the streets and alleys, boxes specializing in selling food coupons were placed.
You only need two copper spears to buy a food coupon. There will be various rewards when scratching it. The first prize is potatoes that you can eat within a year.
In order to be more attractive, Gu Shun let all the winners gather together after the sale every day.
A stage was set up in the largest market in the Lower Town, and the rewards were awarded to them in public.
Seeing the potatoes piled on the stage being taken away by the lucky one who won the first prize, everyone's eyes turned red with envy.
And the lucky one was even more overjoyed. He didn't expect that this was real. So many potatoes belonged to him, it was like a dream.
The next day, the sales of food coupons skyrocketed, and in less than two hours, Gu Shun had worked hard to print food coupons for several days and was sold out.
This speed made Gu Shun unexpectedly. Food coupons were so popular that many people used all the money they bought potatoes to buy them. Everyone wanted to be the lucky one who won the first prize.
Gu Shun increased the number of food stamps printed, and for this reason he even bought a printing factory and worked overtime to print.
Every day, on the stage set up by the market, countless people rushed from all directions from the Lower City to see which lucky one won the first prize today.
This even evolved into a new habit for many people in the downtown area.
Many people will move a small stool to the market on time every day to take a look, catching up with the joy of the winner, begging them to win tomorrow.
Because the sales of food coupons are too good, the printing and scraping of prizes is too slow, and the winning rate is too restricted.
Whenever a sales point draws a first prize, the next day, the sales point will be surrounded by crowds and cannot be bought even if you want to.
To this end, Gu Shun changed the winning method on food coupons, from directly indicating the prize to a fixed number, which is exactly the same as the nature of the lottery in previous life.
Each food stamp has a string of numbers printed on it. Before sunset, the winning numbers of the day will be announced on this stage.
It was only one month before the food coupon was launched, and all residents in the downtown were completely crazy by this paper coupon.
Chapter completed!