Why do those bags of beans turn into pots of bean sprouts after entering the workshop?

Tao Chun saw water! Yes, it was water. Every time the beans were put in, many Lin family members would bring water in. Does this mean that the key to bean sprouts is related to water?

Besides water, he never saw anything other than containers enter the workshop.

Water! Yes, it must be water!

Water is the most important thing for bean sprouts.

According to this calculation, first of all, the cost of bean sprouts will be very low, only five cents for a pound of beans, and water is free, you can take as much water as you want from the Huangmo River.

Tao Chun was bold and careful, so he immediately bought a lot of beans to do experiments. He also borrowed some money from his brothers, but his brothers did not urge him to pay it back. Instead, they looked at him curiously.

"Brother, what are you buying these beans for?"

Tao Chun pouted in the direction of Lin Rui and the others and said, "If they can grow bean sprouts, I don't believe I can't."

The brothers couldn't help but look at him: "Brother, can you do it?"

Tao Chun gritted his teeth and said, "Whether it works or not, we have to give it a try."

Before Tao Chun could confirm that bean sprouts would sprout, he traveled a long way to an unfamiliar village to buy beans. The Lin family's business was even bigger than he had imagined. All the beans from the nearby villages had been reserved. He bought two or three kilograms of beans, but no one even looked at him.

After buying the beans, he followed the example of Lin Rui and others and built a half-person-high earthen workshop. His family's manpower was limited, and not every commoner could make a fortune by doing bean sprout business like the Lin family and then buy the cultivated land.

The two acres of land reclaimed by the Tao family were sold to the Lin family by the steward, who gave them some compensation. This also made Tao Chun feel a sense of urgency, because the Lin family had money, and if they bought early, they could choose the best wasteland.

If they fall behind, it is not certain whether they can buy it or not. The only problem is that by the time they want to buy, the wasteland will have been sold out.

In order to find a way to grow bean sprouts, he divided the three pounds of bean sprouts he bought into more than a dozen portions for experiments. He soaked them in water, sprinkled water on them, kept them away from light, and changed the water every day. Finally, he successfully made the first batch of bean sprouts after half a month.

Tao Chun and his younger brother Tao Dong were so happy that they cried. They made bean sprouts!

Although the amount is not enough, once they master this technology, they will be able to grow bean sprouts and sell them to make money like the Lin family.

As Lin Rui held Qingqing in his arms and stood in his shack, gazing at the clearing scenery outside, Lin Zijun stumbled over and said, "Chief, this is bad, this is bad!"

Lin Rui looked back at him, his forehead covered in sweat and his face filled with panic. "What's wrong? Are you so scared?"

Lin Zijun quickly said, "Chief, the Tao family next door to us have somehow also grown bean sprouts, and now they're trying to imitate us and sell them!"

"How much is it per pound?" he asked.

Lin Zijun wiped the sweat from his face, his face full of anxiety: "It's also two cents per pound."

Lin Rui couldn't help but laugh. "Why rush? They're not disrupting the market. It's fair competition! There's no reason why we can do this business and others can't. Besides, it's not like they stole our secret bean sprout recipe or used inappropriate methods. Honestly, do you think growing bean sprouts is easy?"

This point is indeed irrefutable. It is almost a fool-proof method of growing bean sprouts. I guess even a fool will learn it after watching it twice.

"The Tao family is the first, but they won't be the last. The bean sprout method will probably be discovered by more people soon. We'll keep this business going as long as we can. Also, in the future, except for big customers who pay deposits in advance, we won't need to distribute so many bean sprouts for retail sales. More and more people will compete with us for the market, and the price of bean sprouts will get lower and lower. Then we'll stop this business and let others earn some hard-earned money."

Lin Zijun felt very sorry: "Are we not going to do the bean sprout business anymore?"

Lin Rui: "Right now, bean sprouts are two cents per jin (approximately 100g). The price will get lower and lower as time goes by. Once others discover the business opportunity and profit potential of bean sprouts, they might try to grab market share by setting the price at two cents per jin (approximately 100g), ... or two cents per jin (approximately 100g). Even then, they'll still be able to make a small profit. It's all hard-earned money."

Lin Zijun felt that the clan leader's words were a bit alarmist. At least before their clan leader came up with this fresh vegetable called bean sprouts, their grandparents and ancestors hadn't discovered the business opportunity. Now that the Tao family has figured it out, it's impossible for other families to be so quick, right?

But reality completely slapped them in the face. After Tao's bean sprouts were put on the market, within three or five days, bean sprout shops popped up like mushrooms after rain. After bean sprouts were no longer exclusive, and people had more choices, vendors began to engage in price wars.

Just as Lin Rui said, the bean sprouts could be sold at the prices of two cents for two catties, two cents for three catties, and one cent for two catties. After being informed of this situation by Lin Zijun, Lin Rui told Brother Wang in the military camp that he would stop the bean sprout business in the future. He also told Brother Wang the method of growing bean sprouts directly, and told him that in the future he only needed to spare some time to grow bean sprouts in the military camp, which would be simpler and easier than buying them outside. The difference of one or two cents per catty might not seem significant, but what if it reached a thousand catties?

In the evening, Zhao Qing and Sanliang came back with unexpected expressions. Following them, Lin Zicheng and Lin Zijun also had dark faces, as if a storm was about to come.

Lin Rui staggered over, holding Qingqing in his arms. He looked at the faces of the people and asked curiously, "What happened?"

San Liang couldn't keep his words to himself, and since Lin Rui was his master, he was bound to tell him everything he knew. "Master, you don't know how unreasonable these people are. They begged us to buy beans before, and today when we went to buy beans again as agreed, they actually raised the price. They said that the price of soybeans that used to be four cents a pound would be raised to eight cents a pound. They also said that their soybeans are easy to sell and that if we don't buy, there will be others who will. They only value us because we are the first boss to cooperate with them, otherwise they would have sold it to others long ago!"

These few words opened the conversation of Zhao Qing, Lin Zijun and the others: "It's the same on my side. It's just like what we agreed on. They're forcing us to surrender, otherwise they won't sell it to us!"

Lin Zicheng said, "The village I went to was even more outrageous. The village chief had just signed a document with me yesterday, and today when I went to collect the beans, not only did he not sell them to me at the price of four coins per pound, he even snatched the document away when I wasn't paying attention and stuffed it into his mouth and ate it. Now we have no evidence to hold him accountable."

The beans from Huangmoguan became a hot commodity overnight, and all prices went up. Small vendors in the market are now in short supply, giving them the confidence to raise prices.

Lin Rui asked Sanliang, "What about Uncle Guan's village? Did it go up too?"

Sanliang pointed at the not-so-high pile of beans on the oxcart and said, "Uncle Guan's village didn't raise the price and even gave us the quantity we asked for. But other villages, especially the military families' villages, not only have they raised the price, but they're also trying to ask us for the beans we had before."