Chapter 24: The new super fast growing farm (23)
"What Mr. Zhang said makes sense, we were just panicked by her sudden behavior.
I'm afraid she's just waiting for us to make a mistake in a panic.
With such a huge loss, not to mention our families, even those thousand-year-old families, and even the royal family itself, may not be able to sustain it for long, so we really don’t need to worry too much. The only two things we need to do now are
, one is to purchase more grain, and the other is to find ways to prevent Na Ding Yun from raising prices.
Whenever she raises the price, we criticize her.
Even if the family has a lot of money, she will lose it all!"
After Mr. Zhang said this, everyone present immediately calmed down. At the same time, they all felt that there was nothing wrong with what he said. Maybe they were overly worried.
Since no matter how they calculate it, they are still losing money.
Then it is absolutely impossible for the other party to make money.
No matter how rich your family is, you can't keep losing money.
Therefore, it is completely natural to estimate that the other party cannot survive and will definitely go bankrupt after a while.
"That's true, but how long do we have to wait? What if she can survive three to five months?"
“And it’s such a big deal to lose an order from the Ministry of War.
There’s no way we can explain it when we go back!”
"I guess I will have to be strangled to death by the head of the family before she goes bankrupt. Is there no other way to break the situation?"
After listening to these explanations, some grain merchants felt better, but they were not in a good mood. They still had thoughts and worries in their hearts.
Many of them are not family heads.
It's not like he always sticks to his word in the family.
Now that the deal with the Ministry of War has gone so wrong in their hands, no matter whether it is directly related to them or not, they will definitely not be able to get away with it, and they may even have to take the blame and be removed from their posts.
Therefore, even if they guessed that the other party would not be able to hold on for long, it would be hard to be happy, because no matter how long they could not hold on, the punishment they would suffer would probably not be less.
There may be some people in the clan who are adding insult to injury.
Want to seize power.
Just thinking about it gives me a headache.
"That's enough, shut up!
By doing this, the other party is basically playing a desperate game with us. She has the courage to fight against us, but we don't. Who has a big family and a big business, since we don't dare to fight against the cheap grain store head-on!
Then don't expect to fight through other small means.
Just listen to Mr. Zhang and wait quietly.
It is also a way to cope with all changes by remaining unchanged.”
Li Hong had a rough taste of it at this time, and he might even feel that he had guessed Ding Yun's thoughts. Although he was helpless, he could only make this decision.
So it was finalized very quickly.
The next response plan was decided.
There were other small-minded grain merchants, although they were unwilling to give in, but they also knew that they could not directly fight Ding Yun, so they could only comfort themselves by saying that Ding Yun would never last long. Then, some went back directly, and some went back.
I wrote a letter back to inform them of the situation, and I was waiting here in the capital, waiting for Ding Yunwan to go bankrupt so that they could directly take over the order from the Ministry of War.
But they really underestimated Ding Yun, and they also underestimated the production speed of Ding Yun's farm. Her farm has now reached level eight, with eight pieces of land that can grow wheat and rice. The daily output of one piece of land is one thousand taels.
Calculated at 1.6 million catties, the daily output of the eight plots of land is a little over 100 million catties.
Now the total population of the whole country
Probably less than 60 million.
Most of them are ordinary farmers who are self-sufficient, and only a few of them need to buy food all the time. Therefore, even if their daily output can supply the whole country, there is absolutely no problem, so there is no need to go bankrupt.
This is their wait.
This directly gave Ding Yun a great opportunity.
It gave her the opportunity to expand rapidly, but in less than half a year, Ding Yun had opened affordable food stores in less than one-tenth of the cities across the country.
It was quickly rolled out to all cities across the country.
And with the help of this dense supply of grain stores, she successfully acquired many small and medium-sized escort agencies to build her own logistics system. In addition, she also made another bold decision, which was to take advantage of the grain stores.
Sell official salt, sell absolutely pure official salt without adulteration.
Transporting grain to borders was an important means for many grain merchants in the past to exchange for salt.
Now that this matter has been completely taken over by Ding Yun, the Yanyin that originally needed to be delivered has naturally come into her hands. After all, this kind of benefit should not be wasted.
Ding Yun had no reason to refuse at all.
With so much salt in hand, not selling salt would not only be her own loss, but it might also cause the official salt market to shrink and be further invaded by private salt. Therefore, after completing the preliminary layout, Ding Yun quickly sold all the salt.
All of them were replaced with salt, and then they put the salt, which was unadulterated and basically did not increase in price, in their own grain stores and sold it outside under the name of official salt.
As a result, her sales exploded again.
It was so popular that she had to buy it in limited quantities.
Because of what she did, she was like a breath of fresh air among the shops selling official salt. Those selling official salt definitely paid a lot in the process of obtaining salt. As the saying goes, the wool comes from the sheep.
Since they paid a lot for Yan Yin, they naturally had to find a way to earn back their efforts from the people.
In addition, people's desires are like a bottomless pit.
Therefore, it has become a common practice in the industry to adulterate official salt with sand and raise the price quite high. This is also the main reason why illegal salt has always been rampant and difficult to eradicate.
If only the official salt was of high quality and low price.
Who is willing to take the risk to buy private salt?
Isn’t it just because official salt cannot be afforded, the price is too high and the quality is poor, that people flock to buy private salt.
But even so, official salt is still very easy to sell.
Because those who do business, if there is no record of buying official salt for a month or two, everyone knows that they must have bought private salt, so even if it is to cover up their behavior of buying private salt, those who do business.
Especially those in the food business.
They all had to buy some official salt for show.
In addition, the amount of official salt is not large in the first place, so those shops that specialize in selling official salt will only think about how to adulterate more fake salt and make more money.
How can I consider user experience or anything like that?
Moreover, they sell private salt in private. No one buys official salt, which makes it easier for them to sell more private salt and make more money. Therefore, the official salt is of poor quality and expensive, and it has long been a problem.
Industry practice.
What Ding Yun did.
There is no doubt that industry rules have been broken once again.
But she was not worried at all, because what she did had already received the tacit approval of the current emperor.
The emperor is not stupid. The world's population is becoming more and more. As a result, the salt tax is getting less and less. And it is impossible for people to live without salt. Is there any need to say what the specific situation is? It is nothing more than private salt.
Too rampant.
Regarding this aspect, it is not that he has never thought about containing it from the official level, or even solving it.
As for the result!
Four salt inspectors died in five years.
Now that I'm in charge of this job, I'm probably going to die soon.
Obviously the effect was there. After all, if it hadn't been for the pain the salt merchants suffered, they wouldn't have been so ruthless. However, the effect was limited. The assets and power behind those salt merchants were really huge.
It was so huge that even the emperor would find it difficult to eradicate it.
Because of this, when he learned about what Ding Yun had done and wanted to monopolize the entire Ministry of War orders, he summoned her on a whim and made a lot of promises verbally, hoping to use her to disrupt the situation.
This will make it easier for him to fish in troubled waters.
Prepare for the next rectification of the entire salt industry.
Success has the best effect. Even if it fails, it doesn't matter. After all, this is just his attempt. Success will definitely be good for him, and failure will not do him any harm. Why not do it? He is just a businessman.
He has paid several tributes to Yan Yushi.
Chapter completed!