prisoner in the door

Mo Zhenzhen has a good eloquence. She is not only eloquent but also good at capturing people's emotions. She is well-versed in people's affairs and can easily seize and create opportunities.

So when she took the dozen or so grain merchants to see the pigs, told them the price, and bargained with them, the dozen or so grain merchants all said they would go back and think about it again.

Mo Zhenzhen didn't think that the matter could be settled the first time, but she also knew that the so-called "think about it after going back" was just that they wanted to get together and negotiate a unified price with her.

This is a very common way of doing business, Mo Zhenzhen has a clear family.

She didn't want to sell them cheaply. This was the first batch of pigs and she couldn't sell them cheaply.

So she sent these grain merchants away with a smile. When the clan leader and the old village chief came to inquire, Mo Zhenzhen told the truth, saying that these merchants should go back and think about it again, and they believed it.

Although I was worried, I was also excited. I naively thought that these people would really just think about it.

Those businessmen couldn't reach an agreement in a short period of time, so Mo Zhenzhen spent a whole day on the road to a distant big city, where she spent some money and inquired about the situation of the nearby garrison.

Each government (village, county, prefecture, state) has a garrison. These garrisons generally number about a thousand people, and they are also large consumers of food on a daily basis.

Originally, the food supply for the defenders in such places was provided by the imperial court. The usual method of supply was to directly pay them, or the yamen directly allocated food to them.

Of course, usually, both situations exist.

Mo Zhenzhen first inquired about the garrison here, specifically who was the garrison's garrison, what their character was like, whether the garrison had been replaced in recent times, and whether the garrison had any behavior of forcibly expropriating food and pay.

This kind of thing is easy to inquire about, because the garrison is just outside the city. Every time it is buying food or collecting grain, it is nearby. You can know the attitude of the garrison by asking the nearby people.

Mo Zhenzhen's luck is pretty good. The reputation of the garrison outside the city is pretty good. There have been no forced conscriptions in at least the past ten years. Moreover, there is no news that the guard general will be changed recently, and I heard that the current guard general's surname is Cui. They were soldiers from Zhennan Prince's Mansion. Because their legs were injured on the battlefield and became lame, they came to this inhospitable place to serve as a garrison.

When it comes to Zhennan Palace, the people can say that they praise each other. Everyone is saying good things about Zhennan Wang, how good the generals of Zhennan Wang's line are, and how invincible the army of Zhennan Palace is.

Mo Zhenzhen listened carefully for a while, and then found a broker in the city.

This broker is the gangster leader in the city, and he has a good reputation in the city. He makes money by building relationships with merchants in the city and foreign merchants.

Normally, a one-person business like Mo Zhenzhen wouldn't do it, but Mo Zhenzhen couldn't resist being generous.

Normally, he could get 20 taels to 50 taels for a business deal, but when Mo Zhenzhen made the sale, it was 100 taels. When Mo Zhenzhen said what she wanted to sell, how much, and what After collecting the items, the hand holding the bank note shook.

"Xiao Niangpi, are you serious? Do you really have more than 400 pigs on your hands?" In addition to selling pigs, Mo Zhenzhen also asked him to collect chaff and beans. Obviously he didn't listen to these.

There were more than 400 pigs, and each pig was sold for three and a half taels, which was more than 400 taels of silver. With such a large batch of goods, the broker felt that Mo Zhenzhen was playing tricks on him.

The way to confirm whether it is true or not is very simple. You only need the other party to go with Mo Zhenzhen and take a look.

Mo Zhenzhen has found a suitable buyer for her batch of pigs (the garrison), and the other party also thinks that this matter is a bit big. After all, when dealing with the military camp, he needs to ensure that nothing goes wrong.Therefore, after much thought, the broker actually followed Mo Zhenzhen.

It took another day to return to the village. When the broker saw the pigs that were so fat that they were almost deformed, the broker laughed three times and agreed with Mo Zhenzhen that he would do this business. It will definitely be negotiated!

Even though Mo Zhenzhen's pigs look like they are not easy to sell (there are too many, and the city cannot eat so much pork), there are actually more people who want to eat meat, and these people who want to eat meat will also be affected by lack of space. Worried about buying so much meat.

The broker couldn't wait any longer, so he turned around and left. He wanted to conclude the deal as soon as possible. You must know that if the deal could be concluded, the benefits he would get would be more than just money!
The broker was very active in helping Mo Zhenzhen find a seller. However, the clan chief, village chief and clan elders who came over after hearing the news were a little confused and didn't understand why Mo Zhenzhen found a broker again.

But the answer given by Mo Zhenzhen was also very meaningful.

"In business terms, if the defenders want it, we can save a lot of trouble."

I wanted to sell it to grain merchants because they have mature transportation channels to make fresh meat into bacon or dried meat and transport it to other places for sale.

When Mo Zhenzhen had such an idea, she was ready to give in, but it was not a financial concession, but a preparation to kill pigs and make bacon and air-dried meat.

In other words, their village provides labor to help the grain merchants process it into finished products.

Labor is not valuable in this era, but Mo Zhenzhen is not from this era. She once thought about making concessions in this aspect, but it does not mean that she really feels that it is not a loss.

This concession was a trade-off she made after thinking about it, but if she could avoid making such a trade-off, she still didn't want to make such a trade-off.

It's just that grain merchants are a safe way, garrisoning is not.

The army of this era is not the army of later generations. There is really no difference between soldiers and bandits at this time. If they really encounter a garrison general who wants to forcibly expropriate the pigs from their village, Mo Zhenzhen has nothing to do at this time.

So she first found the grain merchants, and after finding out that these grain merchants wanted more profits, she went to inquire about the situation of the garrison.

Mo Zhenzhen's luck has always been good. Although this time she started at the bottom, the reputation of the garrisoned garrison was good, and it sounded like a good one.

Of course, Mo Zhenzhen didn't really put her eggs in one basket.

While she was waiting for the defenders to arrive, she had already begun to ask her parents in the nearby cities how they were doing.

If the defenders planned to forcefully recruit the pigs or lower the price, she would not mind bringing the plan forward and reporting the fact that she had mastered the method to get the pigs out of the market quickly.

If this kind of thing is reported, Mo Zhenzhen will definitely be rewarded, and the pigs in their village will be used as samples to be purchased by the court. This is a way that will definitely not lower the price. The only trouble is that for Mo Zhenzhen , the time is not yet ripe, so reporting it at this time is actually a bit of a loss for her.

Fortunately, the people in the military camp brought by the broker the next day were not unreasonable people. Although that group of people were quite arrogant and expressed doubts about the more than 400 pigs, when they really saw those big pigs After fattening the pig, they still readily gave the money. (End of chapter)