Allure of a Country Maiden

Shangguan Xuanyi and Xiaoer were strolling around the town casually. He took Xiaoer to eat the most famous flower cake in the town. It tasted good, and his mouth was filled with the fragrance of flowers.

There were many shops selling spices in the town, and Xiaoer decided to take a closer look.

After looking all the way, Xiaoer had a general understanding.

Most of the shops here sell flowers, as well as mint, fennel,..., thyme, etc. To put it bluntly, these shops sell raw materials for making spices.

Of course, there are some shops that sell synthetic spices, but the quality is not good, which is far worse than those from Nangong Kingdom and overseas.

"There are too few types of raw materials and the quality of spices is not good. In this case, they can only be sold to some people who have little spending power. The profit margins are not large and the customer base is not large." The quality is not good, Xiaoer said it politely , is it actually not good? It is too bad!

Xiaoer knew that spices were valuable items in history and could be said to be a luxury hobby of the aristocratic class. For this hobby, the aristocrats even sought spices and spices from all over the world, thus promoting the development of ocean navigation technology and promoting the New World. The discovery also made a great contribution to the history of human transportation.

To put it bluntly, spices are not necessities, they are considered luxuries. Since they are luxuries, their real market is in the aristocratic circle. The aristocrats will look down on poor quality spices, let alone use them, which will lower their status. .

And forget about the poor quality of spices in the town. There are not many types of raw materials and they are not complete! How can we create our own characteristics? Things without characteristics will not last long after all.

There are many plants suitable for spices in the world, not just flowers, such as mint, cinnamon, bay leaves, star anise,... litsea cubeba, lemongrass, etc. As long as the thing has a fragrant smell, no matter it is a root, stem or leaf Both flowers and fruits can be used as spices.

It’s not practical to find so many things that can be used to make spices in just one small town! If you can’t do it all, then do it perfectly! Be good at one thing and strive for excellence in the same product! Then why worry about not having business?

"So if we can't develop, we can barely maintain food and clothing." Shangguan Xuanyi nodded.

The two of them came to a shop selling the largest spices.

At this time, a merchant came out, followed by the shopkeeper who chased him out:

"Boss Du, the price you gave is really too low. There has been a lot of rain this year, so the flowers are indeed not as good as in previous years, but it is not too different. You lowered the price by half right now. Didn't I lose everything?" "

"The fragrance of your flowers is almost gone. The price I gave you is already very high! I'm even worried that I'll lose everything if I buy them back! This is the price, it can't be any higher. Do you want to sell it or not?"

"But the price I originally sold you for was already very low. If you lower the price like this, I will really only lose money but not make any profit, and I can't explain it to the flower farmers!"

"That's your business. If you don't sell it, I can find a second one, and our future cooperation will end here!" The man known as Boss Du shook off the spice boss's hand and said, Pretending to leave.

But his pace was slow, obviously waiting for someone to change his mind.

The spice boss looked at Boss Du walking away, his eyes full of struggle. Do you really want to sell him this season's roses at a loss? The biggest business in his store is with Boss Du. If he loses Boss Du as a big customer, it doesn't matter if he loses money, but with so many flower farmers planting nearly a hundred acres of flower fields, what will happen to those flowers?

They count on selling these flowers throughout the year to earn some money and buy some food to live on.

The climate and environment in Xiangzhen are very suitable for growing flowers. Many people here have been growing flowers for generations, and many people don’t even know how food is grown!

So if such a big customer is lost, it means that many people will lose their jobs.

The spice boss’s surname was Feng. Boss Feng’s brows were furrowed. Du Guicheng must have done this on purpose. There have been more flower growers in Nangong Country in recent years, and the supply of flowers is sufficient, so they come to Xiang Town to collect flowers, and the prices are kept high! In the past two years, the price of flowers has dropped again and again, and now I actually want to buy the flowers at half the price! It's so deceiving!

Sell ​​it, he couldn't swallow this breath in his heart!

But if you don’t sell them, the flowers have already been picked. If you don’t sell them quickly, they will rot in your own hands, and you will lose everything!

Boss Du just knew that Boss Feng wouldn't dare not sell it, so he lowered the price to such a low price, hum! If he doesn't sell to himself, where will he find a merchant as big as himself who can swallow so many of his flowers!

He walked slower and slower, waiting for Boss Feng to call him to stop.

Xiaoer could see that this fat little man with a short stature was deliberately bullying his fellow countrymen.

The clothes of people from Nangong Kingdom were different from the clothes of people from Minze Kingdom, so Xiaoer recognized that he was not from Minze Kingdom.

Boss Feng hesitated again and again, then gritted his teeth and decided to sell the flowers. It would be better to get some money back than lose everything, right?

Xiaoer was the first to say before Boss Feng spoke: "Boss, do you have any flowers for sale here? How many are there? I happen to be purchasing a large number of flowers. If the price is reasonable, I will take as many as you have!"

Boss Feng was dumbfounded when he heard this: "Young lady, are you serious?"

"What else? I'm not a child, would I joke about something like this?" Xiao'er said, taking out a gold ingot worth ten taels: "If the boss doesn't believe it, I can hand over part of the gold deposit first."

Boss Feng almost cried when he heard this. There is really no end to the problem!

"There are flowers, there are flowers. How many do you want, young lady? However, the roses this season were a little damaged due to heavy rain during the flowering period. I can give them to you cheaper! In the past, they were five cents per pound, but now they are three cents. How about half a pound?”

It's one and a half penny less at once, which is actually much lower, but it's still better than two penny per pound.

The yield of roses at this time was not high, with only more than 300 kilograms per acre of land at most.

Just because the land and water supply in this town is not sufficient, the soil and climate are relatively suitable for growing roses, so many people have planted roses. Of course, there are also other flowers, but they are not as large as roses.

In the past, when the grain yield per mu was low, it was better to plant roses than grain. But now the grain yield per mu is nearly a thousand kilograms. My family has two or three acres of land, and the grain harvested in a year is enough to feed a family of four or five people for a year. Still so full that you vomit!

"Okay, how many flowers does the boss have?" Xiaoer walked in and took a look at the sample and smelled the flowers. In fact, it was just a little damaged. The fragrance was still fragrant. The loss was not big. It was a penny and a half cheaper at once. The boss was also very easy to talk to. .

"Boss, these flowers are not very damaged. They are now one and a half cents cheaper. It is really a good deal. Even if these flowers cost four cents per catty, there are still many people trying to snatch them! Boss is a serious businessman. How many flowers do you have? I I want them all! It’s four cents per pound! And I hope the boss will give it to me first if he has any good money in the future.”

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There's not enough time for two chapters today, so I'll make up one chapter tomorrow.