Chapter 408: Talking Business (Part 3)
The three of them discussed for a long time but couldn't come up with a good solution. Manbao had no choice but to angrily eat all the meat on the table, while asking Keke in his heart, "Keke, do you have any good ideas?"
After searching the encyclopedia for a series of case studies on marketing, Keke said, "Since the host wants to establish a monopoly, why doesn't he buy up all the wheat in the village?"
Manbao widened his eyes slightly and asked, "Where can I get so much money?"
Koko said: "This is the limitation of the host's own resources. I have anticipated this and there is nothing I can do about it."
Manbao felt that Keke had become bad, so he fiercely took another handful of food with his chopsticks and ate it before looking at Bai Shanbao, "How much money do you have?"
Bai Shanbao asked cautiously, "What?"
"What if we buy all the food in the village?"
Bai Shanbao glared, "How much will that cost?"
Bai Erlang said, "Didn't you say that everyone was waiting for the wheat to be eaten and wouldn't sell it out easily?"
Manbao thought thoughtfully, "What if we buy some wheat and exchange it with them?"
Bai Shanbao added, "Give me some more money. How much is appropriate? One dou and five wen?"
"It's too little," Manbao looked down on him, "You are so stingy."
"It's not that I'm stingy. If I gave them too much, they would get suspicious. Last year, when they exchanged wheat seeds with you, they paid you pound for pound."
"That's different. They change wheat seeds to plant them, but we change wheat seeds to make a lot of money."
"It's the same for them," Bai Shanbao said. "If we don't switch, these wheat seeds will eventually become food and be eaten by them. And have you ever thought that if we can't sell it, the wheat will end up in our hands, and we may have to sell it at a lower price than before. That means we won't just lose five cents per bushel, but possibly even more."
Bai Shanbao said, "So actually I don't want to give a penny more. I want to exchange one pound for one pound."
"Oh, right," Manbao thought of the risks and realized belatedly, "What if Uncle Bai doesn't buy wheat seeds?"
"We can just sell it as wheat, what else can we do?" Bai Shanbao spread his hands.
Bai Erlang's mind was a little confused. He didn't understand a lot of what Bai Shanbao said just now, so he asked directly, "So are we making money or losing money?"
The two treasures said in unison: "Look at your dad!"
Manbao said, "If your father buys it, then we will make money."
Bai Shanbao said, "If your father doesn't buy it, then we will lose money."
"Did you lose a lot?"
Bai Shanbao thought for a moment and said, "Not only will we lose this harvest, but we'll also lose the rest of the summer and autumn harvests."
After all, there are more than 60 households in the village, and more than 50 of them exchanged seeds from Lao Zhou's family. With so many families planting wheat, even if each family plants five or six acres, it is not a small amount.
Bai Erlang was unhappy when he heard this. "Then why should we do it? We might as well just sell the wheat to my father at a lower price. If 120 wen doesn't work, then 100 wen is better."
Bai Shanbao said he had "no ambition!"
Manbao also said: "It's just a loss of one or two years' harvest. It's Shanbao's money, and he doesn't want interest. If you take the risk, you might make a lot of money. Why not do it?"
Bai Shanbao asked, "Who said I don't want interest?"
"You're borrowing money from your own family and charging interest. How stingy!"
Bai Erlang also spitted, "Stingy!"
Bai Shanbao: "If you keep doing this, I won't play with you anymore!"
For the sake of money, Manbao expressed his willingness to bow his head, and then he immediately picked up some food for him in a flattering manner.
Bai Erlang was very stubborn. He snorted and turned his head away, saying, "I have money too."
Manbao: "How come you have money too?"
"My mother has been holding my New Year's money, and there is quite a lot of it."
"Then can you get New Year's money from your mother?" Manbao expressed doubt. "My sister-in-law and others took the New Year's money from my nephews and nieces and never gave it back. Even if they rolled around, it would be useless."
"Did your sister-in-law and the others embezzle money?"
Manbao sighed, "My sister-in-law said, 'You eat for free, wear clothes for free, and get sick for free? All the money is spent on you.'"
The two little boys stared at Manbao standing on the low couch with his hands on his waist, and then they burst into laughter.
Bai Erlang said not to worry, "I know where my mother hides her private money. If she doesn't give it to me, I will go and take it secretly."
Bai Shanbao and Manbao hesitated, "Isn't stealing bad?"
"That's my own New Year's money. How can it be considered stealing if I take my own money?"
"What should we say to Uncle Bai when he comes?" Manbao asked.
Bai Erlang said, "Just say it directly."
"No!" The two treasures refused in unison. Bai Shanbao said, "If my cousin knew about this, he would definitely send someone with money to buy wheat from the villagers right away."
Manbao nodded, "We have to drag it out to buy enough time."
Bai Shanbao said, "We still have to buy food. Alas, I don't know how long it will take. The clerk at the grain store said that no one wants to sell food. Where can I ask Bai Zhuangtou to buy it?"
Manbao also sighed, "If only I could buy directly from Uncle Bai. They planted so much winter wheat, they definitely can't eat it all. They have to sell it, right?"
"Yes, my family must sell food."
Manbao and Bai Shanbao exchanged a glance, then looked at Bai Erlang. Bai Erlang's eyes sparkled as he asked excitedly, "Are you going to buy grain from my family, then exchange it for wheat seeds and sell them back to my family?"
"No!" Bai Shanbao patted his head and said, "Why are you so stupid? If we really do this, our uncle will definitely be angry."
Manbao said: "This is a profiteer, but we are not profiteers."
"Then why are you looking at me?"
Bai Shanbao snorted.
Manbao said, "You are so stupid! Among the three people here, besides your family, who else has a lot of land and can grow a lot of winter wheat?"
"Your home."
Manbao puffed up her cheeks, somewhat reluctant to acknowledge this junior brother. She pointed at Bai Shanbao and said, "It's his family!"
Bai Erlang looked at Bai Shanbao and said, "His family only has a few acres of land, which was given to them by my family."
"You are so stupid. My family doesn't have land here, but I have land somewhere else."
"Then it won't take time to transport it here?"
"Yes, so we must delay. You can't let anything slip." Manbao thought for a moment and said, "No, you're too stupid. Otherwise, tell your father that you have decided to study hard and live with Shanbao for the next two days."
Bai Shanbao was disgusted and said, "I don't want to live with him."
Manbao: "For our money, you have to live with him."
(End of this chapter)
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