Merchants are only interested in profit. Whether they want to buy something or not, they will come to take a look, get to know their peers, and find out about current business secrets, what to do to make money, and what good things sell well.
Unlike today’s Internet age, you can check online and chat with your peers to see at a glance what has the most traffic and what is being sold.
Take a certain platform for example, if a piece of clothing sells well, countless sellers will follow suit and sell it, commonly known as a hot item.
Half an hour later.
"Your Highness the Fourth Prince, here you are."
After Eunuch Hai shouted, the hall became quiet.
"Common people, I greet His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince."
The merchants bowed deeply together.
"No need to be polite."
Situ Xiu waved his hand and walked directly to the first chair and sat down. He glanced at the businessmen below. There were more women than men, about 30 women in total.
"Thank you, Your Highness the Fourth Prince."
The merchants stood up and sat down again, carefully looking at the Fourth Prince. Although he was a prince, being born in the royal family meant he was destined to be stronger than ordinary people.
"Everyone..."
Situ Xiu was interrupted before he could finish his words.
"Your Highness the Fourth Prince, I am late. I pay my respects to His Highness."
A man ran in in a panic.
Seeing that the man was heading towards Xiuhe Manor, Eunuch Hai asked in a deep voice, "Where are you going?"
"I am guilty. I ate too much unclean food this morning and got diarrhea." The man said with his head lowered.
"Get up!" Situ Xiu said.
"Thank you, Your Highness the Fourth Prince." The man breathed a sigh of relief.
Situ Xiu nodded slightly and asked, "Is there anyone else who hasn't arrived yet?"
In the hall, the businessmen looked at each other and no one spoke.
"You are all businessmen, so I won't go into too much small talk. You have all eaten cucumbers before, so if you have any questions, please feel free to ask."
Situ Xiu smiled faintly, picked up the tea on the table and took a sip.
"Your Highness, the Fourth Prince, how long can cucumbers be kept?"
"At this time of year, it will take about three days at room temperature, and it can be extended by several days if placed in water."
“Is there any way to extend it longer?”
"Put the pickled cucumbers in jars and make them into pickles. The airtight effect allows them to be preserved for a long time, up to several months."
"How long can pickled cucumbers be kept?"
"Two to three days, no more than that."
In the hall, many people frowned. These people were engaged in long-distance transportation, and if the cucumbers could not be preserved well, they could not be transported to distant places.
"Everyone, pickled cucumbers are also good. Although they taste pickled, they go well with rice."
Pickled cucumbers are different from sauced cucumbers. One can be eaten after one day of storage, while the other needs to be stored for half a month to a month. Sometimes these two methods can easily be mistaken for pickled cucumbers.
The pickled cucumbers made by Situ Xiu took a long time to eat, so these people had never tasted them.
"Excuse me, Your Highness, how much are cucumbers?" someone asked.
The others didn't say anything and looked at the Fourth Prince. If one pound cost one or two taels of silver, then it would be hard to earn that money. It would cost money to transport it somewhere else. Ordinary people couldn't afford it, and rich people wouldn't eat it every day.
"The same price as for meat, ten coins per pound."
Situ Xiu pondered and said, one tael of silver can be exchanged for one hundred coins. In this world, an ordinary person can live for a month with one tael of silver, and ten coins can buy a lot of things.
Almost all the people who spent one tael of silver to buy it that day were from big restaurants. They didn't care about the cost at all. They made it and sold it to rich people to taste, so the price was even higher.
He had considered the ten cents for a long time and thought that this price was acceptable for large-scale sales. If it were sold at retail price, it might be higher, but he didn't have that much time to sell 200 acres of land, so it was better to let the merchants make some money.
Ten cents per pound.
Most people are tempted by the price and may not be able to afford it elsewhere, but in Kyoto, the general consumption is higher than in other towns, and a cucumber for ten cents is not expensive.
"Your Highness the Fourth Prince, how much cilantro do you want?" someone else asked.
"Eight cents a pound."
Another dish that costs about the same as meat, but it’s still okay in the eyes of merchants.
"Your Highness, the Fourth Prince, these dishes are only available here, right?"
"Um."
Situ Xiu nodded. Scarcity makes things valuable. These people must understand this truth.
Next, he handed the matter over to Eunuch Hai, who took the merchants to check the fields.
It is definitely impossible to sell all of it in one day. One mu of land can produce 15,000 kilograms, and it will take at least ten days or half a month to sell all of 200 mu of land.
There is also coriander, which has a yield of 3,000 kilograms per acre. Even with 200 acres, it still takes a lot of time to harvest.
afternoon.
Eunuch Hai came back with the good news that 150 acres of cucumbers had been reserved and 50 acres of coriander had been reserved, and deposits had been paid for both.
"Your Highness, this is the deposit, fifty thousand taels of silver."
"Keep it for yourself. You need money to manage the farm."
Situ Xiu didn't care about money at all. Fifty thousand taels was nothing. If he was a little more ruthless, he could sell these 200 acres of cucumbers for 3 million taels of silver.
It will surely cause a sensation in the Great Saint Kingdom.
The fourth prince was not planting land, but gold.
"Your Highness, they have also inquired about other crops and would like to place an order, but they don't know the price."
"These are all trivial matters. Prepare some cucumbers and coriander and send them to the palace for the Empress."
"Yes, I'll do it right away."
The whole of Kyoto knew about the cucumber. If he didn't present it to the empress at this time, his throne would be reduced by one.
If the empress is happy, she might reward him with some gold, silver and jewelry, and add one to his imperial throne. If she is too happy, she might pass the throne to him.
"Hey, the emperor's position!!"
Situ Xiu smiled happily.
With his current status as the group leader, he doesn't care about the emperor at all, but what he has gained through strength can be summed up in one word.
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