The village chief knew that Tian An's family had good crops, and he had been planning to find time to discuss with her about exchanging some for the villagers. Unexpectedly, before he found the opportunity to visit her, Tian An took the initiative to bring it up.
"Is Tian An really willing to exchange the grain seeds with the villagers? You are not kidding me." The village chief pulled Chen Qiang to confirm again.
Chen Qiang nodded. "It's absolutely true! How could I possibly joke about something so important? I came to inform you as soon as I got back. There are only three days left, and there will be no more waiting. Village chief, please remember to remind everyone to hurry up!"
After hearing Chen Qiang's confirmation, the village chief finally believed it: "Thank you for your hard work. I will go and inform everyone. Please say thank you to your girl for me."
After seeing Chen Qiang off, the village chief hurriedly called a meeting of the villagers. Seeing that most of the villagers had arrived, the village chief briefly explained the matter of exchanging grain seeds.
"Village chief, you are not kidding us! Tian An is really willing to exchange such good grain seeds for us."
They all saw the crops in Tian An's fields, which were unmatched in the surrounding villages. If Tian An was really willing to exchange his grain for seeds, they would have a good harvest next year.
Hearing this, the village chief frowned: "Do you think I'm idle? Tian An is a man who has done great things, has seen the world, and has a broad mind! Do you think everyone is like you? You are so narrow-minded that you can't stand others being as good as you."
The middle-aged man's face turned red after being confronted by the village chief, and he lowered his head and kept silent.
Seeing that they had no more questions, the village chief continued, "Remember, it's only three days! No more waiting. If anyone refuses to listen and causes trouble later, don't blame me for turning my back on you.
Okay, now that you've heard everything, hurry back and figure out how much you need to exchange for food and sort out the food."
He looked at the crowd again and found that several families had not come, so he asked his neighbors or people he knew to help notify them.
After seeing everyone off, the village chief and his sons and daughters-in-law hurriedly sorted out their own food and calculated how much grain seeds they would need to exchange for it.
When Mr. Han learned that every family in the village was busy exchanging seeds for crops, he gave the students a day off to help their families.
The next morning, there was a long line in front of the Jiayuan warehouse.
Tian An saw that time was almost up and ordered the granary to be opened. The sight of the granary opening immediately blinded everyone. The neatly stacked bags of grain were simply astonishing.
Oh my god! They had never seen so much food in their lives! Before, they would check on the crops in Tian An's field every day when they came back from the fields. They only knew that she must have a lot of food, but they didn't expect there would be so much.
However, they felt happy when they thought that they would be able to get the high-yield grain seeds soon.
They no longer envied the grain in the warehouse, but instead wished for more grain so they could exchange more and share some with their relatives to plant.
Tian An had bought two large scales to weigh the watermelons and grapes. Now, the villagers lined up in two teams, with one person responsible for weighing the grapes. After the weighing was complete, they were asked what crops they wanted to exchange.
After confirmation, another person will weigh the high-yield grain seeds to them in proportion.
Everyone figures out what they want to exchange and how much they want to exchange at home, and they can tell the scale as soon as they are asked, which saves a lot of time.
After everyone changed, they hurriedly carried their own food and walked out of the team without delaying the people behind them.
Because everyone cooperated well, the line was long but kept moving.
When it was time for lunch, seeing that the villagers were still queuing, Tian An asked the people who were weighing the scales to take turns eating while he continued to change the scales for everyone.
On the first day, there were a lot of people coming, and we were busy until the evening, and the line was still very long.
Seeing that it was getting dark and it was almost impossible to see anything, Tian An asked everyone to go back and come back the next day. Everyone looked at the warehouse and saw that there was still plenty of food before leaving with peace of mind.
After another busy day the next day, the replacement was almost complete.
By the third day, only one or two families had arrived.
Seeing that no one was coming, Chen Qiang hurriedly arranged for people to organize the grain, reserved the grain seeds for his own use, reported to Tian An, and went to the county government to inform them to come and take the grain.
They no longer had to bring grain to the village; they would have to take it to the grain store to sell anyway, so there was no need to shuffle it back and forth. They could just remember the quantity and go directly to the county government office to get it when they needed it, saving a lot of trouble.
In three days, Chen Qiang had someone clean up a shop with a warehouse. The grain shop didn't need any renovation, just clean it up.
As soon as Chen Qiang reported to Tian An that the grain shop had been tidied up, Tian An, who was in urgent need of money, immediately asked him to arrange for people to transport grain to the grain shop and prepare to open it the next day.
County Magistrate Gu had specifically discussed the price of grain with Tian An. No matter what kind of grain it was, it had to be sold two to three cents cheaper than at other grain shops, forcing other grain merchants to follow suit and lower their prices. The goal was to bring down the skyrocketing grain prices.
Although this year's grain has been harvested, the grain merchants have united after collecting the grain from farmers and continue to hoard the grain, refusing to lower the price. People have nothing to eat and can only buy it at high prices, so the price of grain is still very expensive.
Although this move offended all the grain merchants in the county, Tian An was still able to enjoy the shade with the county government as his back.
The new store opened in a hurry, and many people didn't know about it. Tian An asked Chen Qiang to find some beggars, treat them to a good meal, and then let them help promote the store.
Sure enough, after the store was deserted all morning, people gradually came in the afternoon.
These people also heard from the little beggars that there was a newly opened grain shop here, which sold grain cheaper than other shops. They originally thought that it might be some bad old rice, but in order to save a few cents, they still came with the mentality of giving it a try.
Unexpectedly, what the little beggar said was true, and these grains were all new grains that had just been harvested this year.
This was like finding a treasure. Those who bought the food at a low price immediately notified their acquaintances and asked them to buy it as soon as possible.
Many people wanted to take advantage of the low price and buy more to store, but Tian Anding set a requirement that each person could only buy a maximum of five kilograms per day, and he would not sell more than that.
The limit was to prevent grain merchants from sending people pretending to be grain buyers to buy up all their grain. When they ran out of grain to sell, the people would have no choice but to buy the high-priced grain, and their efforts would be wasted.
Peng Zhang had suggested this idea to her, and it actually worked. On the third day, Chen Qiang caught two people pretending to be buying grain.
Tian An asked Peng Zhang curiously, "How did you know they would resort to such a shady trick?"
Peng Zhang said proudly, "This trick is something my grandfather used to play."
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