Inside Juyan City, Dong Yue and Liu Jing's caravan displayed their goods opposite Guo Si's caravan, while the more than two thousand people on the battlefield stared at each other in disbelief.
This scene attracted many onlookers within Juyan City.
"Come, come, come! A woman has traded forty catties of grain! Anyone who wants to trade, come and take a look!"
Zhao Si also shouted at the top of his lungs to the Juyan people around him.
"Is it really forty pounds?"
An old man from Juyan walked over, trembling.
"Of course...! If you still have women at home, hurry up and bring them over to replace us! Once we've replaced enough, this kind of good thing won't be available anymore!"
"Oh, okay, okay, I'll go get my granddaughter right away!"
The old man nodded, then turned and shakily left.
Previously, Juyan King Tuoqi and a group of Juyan officials and nobles had carried out a large-scale arrest of women in the city. Although most of them were arrested, many were still hiding.
Upon hearing this, the others did not hesitate any longer and returned to their homes to bring out the woman they had been hiding for so long.
Now that he heard it could be exchanged for forty catties of grain, he stopped hiding it. If he kept hiding it, he figured he would starve to death without anyone catching him.
"Hmph~, what a Guo Aduo, actually inflating prices....!"
Upon hearing that Guo Si had raised the price of women to forty jin, Liu Jing couldn't help but snort coldly.
"If they raise their prices, then we'll raise ours too. Otherwise, if we come all this way and fail to get any women, we won't be able to explain ourselves to the two governors when we get back!"
Dong Yue, standing to the side, looked quite displeased as he saw that Guo Si and his group were starting to have guests.
"Yes! That's right, the two governors take this matter very seriously, we can't afford to mess it up..."
Liu Jing nodded, then looked at his subordinate beside him, "Give the order to raise the price to forty-five yuan per catty!"
"promise!!"
On the other side, Guo Si looked at the Juyan people who had brought hundreds of women to exchange for grain, smiled with satisfaction, and then raised his head to give Liu Jing and Dong Yue a provocative look.
"Here, this is forty catties of grain, take it...!"
Zhao Si chuckled and pulled the old man's granddaughter from his arms, then handed him a bag of grain.
"Thanks....!"
Looking at the grain in his hand, the old man was delighted and kept bowing to Zhao Si and the others to express his gratitude.
"Oh, don't be so polite. It's a win-win situation. If you have any more at home, bring them over. We have plenty of grain here!"
The old man quickly nodded, "Oh, okay!"
"Alright, let's go back, next one...!"
"Should we exchange salt or grain...?"
Zhao Si waved to the old man, then beckoned the next person over.
"Come, come, come! A woman here has exchanged forty-five catties of grain! Anyone else wanting to exchange, come and take a look!"
While Zhao Si and the others were busy with their work, Liu Jing and Dong Yue on the other side raised the price by five jin.
"It weighs 45 pounds over there, I need to go change over there...!"
Upon hearing the shouts from the other side, a middle-aged man grabbed his daughter from Zhao Si's arms and headed towards Liu Jing and Dong Yue's caravan. The others also turned around.
"Damn it...!"
Looking at the forty jin of grain in his hand that he hadn't had time to exchange, Zhao Si couldn't help but mutter a curse under his breath.
When the old man heard that the price had risen to 45 jin, he looked down at the grain bag in his hand and suddenly it didn't taste so good anymore.
"General, they're not following the rules...!"
Seeing the other side start to get busy, Zhao Si looked at Guo Si angrily.
"Hmph~, are these two bastards deliberately trying to cause trouble...?"
Guo Si, standing to the side, also had a sullen face and looked at Liu Jing and Dong Yue, who were already beaming with joy, with unfriendly eyes.
"Raise the price! Raise it to fifty kilograms! I refuse to believe it!"
"promise!"
Upon hearing that the amount had reached fifty jin, those villagers who hadn't yet had time to exchange their goods quickly turned back.
"Price increase! Up to 55 jin!"
Dong Yue also raised prices without hesitation, causing the Juyan residents who were halfway there to quickly turn back.
"Price increase, 60 jin!"
Guo Si stood there with his hands on his hips, glaring fiercely at Liu Jing and Dong Yue.
"rise.....!"
As the two sides competed fiercely, the price quickly soared to seventy catties, with Guo Si's side having a slight advantage. However, both sides tacitly agreed to only raise the price of grain, while no one dared to touch the price of salt.
The people of Juyan were also driven to walk back and forth with their women by them.
"Price increase... Seventy-five...!"
"Sigh, prices can't go any higher!"
Just as Dong Yue was about to raise the price, Liu Jing quickly stopped him.
"What's wrong...?"
Dong Yue glared at Guo Si opposite him with some resentment, then turned to look at Liu Jing who was blocking his way.
Liu Jing said, "Our price is already double what it was at the beginning. If it keeps going up like this, even if we finish exchanging the grain, we won't be able to explain ourselves when we get back!"
"Then what do we do...? If we can't find a woman, we still won't be able to complete our mission, right?"
Thinking of the highest price set for him by the two prefects before his departure, Dong Yue did not raise the price, but still looked at Guo Si with some resentment.
"There's no other way. I'll go talk to Guo Si. If we keep fighting like this, they'll get all the benefits!"
Liu Jing glanced at the Juyan people standing in the middle, waiting for prices to rise further, and couldn't help but sneer inwardly.
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