Chapter 19: The Prefectural City Trip Begins Stockpiling
Adding the more than 1,000 taels earned in Baisong Town, it comes to just over 6,000 taels, which is roughly equivalent to 6 million star coins. Earning 6 million in a day is incredibly wealthy! It truly is incredibly wealthy!
Some viewers asked him why he didn't sell the older ginseng along with it, saying that he might, no, he definitely could have sold it for a higher price.
Judging from the fact that the owner of Baiyaotang didn't seem to mind paying at all, he was clearly quite wealthy.
As Lu Xuan followed the shopkeeper out, he said, "A five-hundred-year-old ginseng is quite rare in the deep mountains. Let's keep it as a collection for now."
If you don't have enough money when you go back to make purchases, then consider whether you should sell the remaining stock to get cash.
Upon returning to the front hall, a young man from a wealthy family, dressed in fine clothes, rushed in and loudly asked the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, do you have any aged ginseng here? My grandfather has been unwell recently and needs it. If you have any, I'll buy it at a high price!"
The shopkeeper, who had originally planned to display the 300-year-old ginseng as the shop's prized possession, perked up the moment he saw the visitor and blurted out, "I just acquired a fine one, Young Master Bai, you've come at the perfect time!"
After saying that, she remembered that Lu Xuan hadn't left yet, and subconsciously glanced at him, a hint of worry flashing in her eyes.
Lu Xuan raised an eyebrow, easily guessing the shopkeeper's thoughts.
If he hadn't received the silver notes yet, he might have considered finding another buyer to make more money, but now that the money and goods were settled, there was no reason for him to go back on his word.
He waved to the shopkeeper, nodded to Bai Xuefeng who was looking at him curiously, and then left Baiyaotang.
The shopkeeper breathed a sigh of relief and quickly greeted Bai Xuefeng warmly.
After leaving Baiyaotang, Lu Xuan first went to the carriage shop to rent a cart. Then he found an empty alley, took out a large amount of simply processed meat from his spatial storage, piled it on the cart, and pushed the cart full of meat to the grand restaurant.
The grand restaurants in the prefectural city, just as wealthy as Baiyaotang, generously bought up the entire cartload of meat after discovering that he had tiger and bear meat, rare items that hunters could provide.
The cart wasn't big enough to hold all the meat. There was a lot of wild boar and wolf meat left over, so Lu Xuan went to several other restaurants and taverns to sell it in batches until he finally sold all the meat he was going to sell.
Lu Xuan did not sell venison.
As a herbivore, venison tastes much better than other carnivores and is equally nutritious, so naturally it should be kept for family consumption.
The rest of the meat brought him a profit of one hundred taels.
After that, he would find a secluded place, load a truck with all kinds of leather, and sell the leather at a leather shop.
Of all the pelts, tiger pelts are undoubtedly the most valuable, followed by bear pelts and wolf pelts. Of the wolf pelts, only eight are intact; the rest have been damaged by vampire vines, greatly reducing their value. However, due to their large quantity, the dozens of pelts still fetched a high price of 120 taels of silver.
After all that traveling, it was getting dark, so Lu Xuan casually found an inn to stay at.
Because we booked a superior room, the inn's service was excellent, including a sumptuous dinner and free hot water.
After dinner and a relaxing hot bath, Lu Xuan felt completely at ease.
Today's live stream wasn't very exciting. The only interesting part was when the audience reacted enthusiastically when I was selling things. But overall, the total revenue from gifts didn't increase much. After converting it into points, it came to just over five thousand.
Lu Xuan glanced at the daily discounted items.
Similar to yesterday, the only things I can afford are nutrient solutions, energy stones, and a furniture set, none of which are necessities.
This time, Lu Xuan didn't spend any more points to refresh the page; he simply turned off the screen after reading it.
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The next morning, Lu Xuan ordered a large table of dishes at the inn, making the audience drool again. He then asked the innkeeper for the location of the brokerage firm, went there, and only then did he begin his shopping for the day.
The first and most important grain shop we visited was the one we went to.
To ensure that the grain store had sufficient stock, Lu Xuan went directly to the largest grain store in the city.
Upon arrival, as expected, the shop was bustling with customers. Lu Xuan paid no attention to the other customers, but instead carefully examined the types of grains displayed in the shop.
Although Yunlu Village and the city are located in the north, grain shops naturally need to stock as many goods as possible, so they have almost all the staple foods that you can name.
Brown rice, millet, yellow millet, polished rice (white rice), flour, peanuts, and various beans such as soybeans, black beans, red beans, and mung beans.
After walking around the shop, Lu Xuan found the shopkeeper.
"I want to buy various grains in bulk. What kind of discount can your shop offer?"
The shopkeeper looked at Lu Xuan with surprise and asked, "How much would you like to buy, sir?"
Lu Xuan said, "Tens of thousands of catties, I suppose."
Shopkeeper: "!!!"
Tens of thousands of kilograms! This is a huge deal!
Lu Xuan asked again, "So, is there a discount?"
The shopkeeper immediately replied, "Yes! I guarantee I can give you the best possible discount!"
Lu Xuan: "I need the goods in stock. They need to be delivered today, or at the latest tomorrow. Can you supply them?"
The shopkeeper said confidently, "Don't worry, our store has plenty of stock. Even if the main store is short of stock, we can temporarily transfer goods from the other two branches in the city."
Lu Xuan nodded in satisfaction, "That would be perfect."
Next, the shopkeeper took out the ledger and carefully asked Lu Xuan what specific grains he needed and how much of each type of grain he needed.
Lu Xuan had already considered this when he first started making the procurement plan.
There are four people in the Lu family, but he has a big appetite, eating as much as three or five people, so we prepared enough food for ten people.
If one person eats one jin of rice a day, ten people would eat ten jin, and three thousand six hundred and fifty jin a year.
The weather app shows up to five years in the past five years. The total weight over those five years is more than 18,000 jin, which makes a round number of 20,000 jin.
Prices in the prefectural city are a bit higher than in Baisong Town. Rice in Baisong Town costs 30 coins per catty, but here it costs 35 coins. However, the shopkeeper gave me the lowest discount, and it only cost 28 coins per catty.
The price of fine noodles was even higher than that of rice, costing 32 coins even after the discount. Lu Xuan bought 20,000 jin and 10,000 jin respectively.
Brown rice and coarse flour taste quite different, but these two grains are cheap enough that he could stock up on a batch, so he ordered 1,000 jin of each.
In addition, there were 1,800 catties each of various beans, glutinous rice, sorghum, and oats, and 100 catties of various improved varieties.
The grain shops in the prefectural city also sold oil, and Lu Xuan bought two thousand catties of four kinds of vegetable oil.
The grain and cooking oil together cost a total of 1,090 taels.
After the shopkeeper finished calculating the bill, his eyes were practically shining. He looked at Lu Xuan as if he were a walking gold ingot, and his attitude was incredibly enthusiastic.
Lu Xuan paid two hundred taels as a deposit, instructing the innkeeper to deliver all the grain to a small courtyard not far from the inn by the next day at the latest.
The courtyard was rented from the brokerage firm for 500 cash for three days, which was just enough to receive the large amount of goods he had purchased in the past few days.
The shopkeeper patted his chest and assured him, "Don't worry! I guarantee that all the goods will be delivered to your destination by noon tomorrow at the latest, and I will absolutely not shortchange you."
Lu Xuan nodded, took the receipt, and left the grain shop to continue to his next purchase location, the seed shop.
The seed shop has a small storefront, but it sells a wide variety of seeds.
The variety of vegetables is also abundant due to the developed overseas trade, including scallions, ginger, garlic, chives, spinach, rapeseed, bok choy, celery, cabbage, lettuce, cucumbers, radishes, peppers, winter melon, pumpkin, zucchini, eggplant...
It wasn't to say it had everything, but it was far more complete than Lu Xuan had expected.
Some things are missing, such as sweet potatoes and corn, which are not available in the store.
It's not that these two crops didn't exist in this dynasty, but the former depletes soil fertility, has a mediocre taste, and eating too much of it can cause heartburn and excessive flatulence, which is quite unsightly. It also has a short shelf life; once it sprouts, it becomes inedible.
Therefore, apart from some poor families planting some in their own vegetable gardens, or occasionally digging some up when they find wild vegetables in the mountains to take home as relief food, basically no one would grow them on a large scale. Naturally, seed shops did not keep them in stock.
For similar reasons, potatoes, which were introduced long ago, have also failed to receive enough attention.
As for corn, it was only recently introduced to this dynasty, and its quantity is still very small. Only a few wealthy families collect it as an ornamental item, and it has not been widely cultivated.
Potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn are all essential life-saving foods during famine years. The key is that they are all delicious and can be prepared in many ways. However, none of them were available, which greatly disappointed Lu Xuan.
But he had no choice but to buy the things he couldn't buy, no matter how upset he was. In the end, he bought five pounds of each of the twenty kinds of vegetable seeds and half a pound of each of the common fruit seeds.
Not far from the seed shop was a small, ordinary-sized pharmacy. Lu Xuan only realized he had forgotten to buy Chinese herbal medicine seeds after leaving Baiyaotang yesterday, so he went in and bought a batch of common Chinese herbal medicine seeds.
After leaving the pharmacy, Lu Xuan was about to purchase the next type of supplies when he noticed that someone seemed to be following him.
He appeared nonchalant, as if he hadn't noticed anything, but then turned and walked from the bustling main street into a nearby alley.
Some viewers in the live stream immediately noticed something was wrong.
[Wasn't the streamer supposed to be going to the workshop they just asked the shopkeeper about? The workshop isn't in this direction, is it?]
[Did the host just laugh? Something's wrong!]
[Look at those people in the corner behind the camera, are they stalking the streamer?]
[It's true! I have a feeling this is going to be interesting!]
As the audience realized something was wrong and eagerly awaited what would happen, the group of people behind him indeed followed Lu Xuan into the alley and quickly blocked his path, surrounding him completely.
The burly man at the head of the group said with a malicious grin, "Kid! Did you sell some ginseng at the Hundred Medicine Hall yesterday? You must have made quite a bit of money, right? How about sharing some with us?"
Live stream viewers: Oh my god! It was a robbery!
[...I feel like I can already see how these people will end up.]
[Ugh, why target a streamer of all people? Does the streamer have "easy to bully" written on their face?]
[Waiting for the streamer to prove them wrong.]
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