Sun Yannan visited the wax figure making shop in the county capital and confirmed that it was Rong Li who sent the gift.
The wax museum was afraid of taking responsibility, so Rong Li wrote the name and swear words himself, and the wax museum was responsible for printing them.
Shi Yue knew from the familiar handwriting that this matter was closely related to Rong Li. Rong Li, time and again, consumed his former good impression of her.
Shi Yue asked Rong Li to meet at Hefenglou and ordered many dishes.
Rong Li had obviously dressed up carefully and was full of anticipation when she came.
But he didn't see Shi Yue, he just left a letter. Rong Li opened it and found only one sentence on it: Those who hurt others will eventually suffer the consequences.
The only guest had arrived, and Hefenglou began serving dishes: squirrel mandarin fish, mapo tofu, scrambled eggs with whitebait, crystal pork elbow...
When Rong Li saw these dishes, his face changed and turned pale.
She couldn't believe it. The more she tried to hold onto the little sand in her hands, the faster it flowed away. Because she had given Sun Yannan a wax figure, Shi Yue treated her like this.
Shi Yue was also very disappointed. He thought that the kind-hearted girl...had such thoughts...that she must have specially sent someone to Kyoto.
After finding out it was Rong Li, Xiao Yue asked her daughter, "Young Madam, when are we going to deal with her?"
Sun Yannan said, "She must have had her mother's help in harming me by making the stinky fish and sour tofu last time. Her grandmother and eldest brother also indulged her. Now it seems that not only has no one in the Rong family apologized, but no one has also tried to reprimand her.
Grandma is right, I was too soft-hearted."
Although the Rong family still owns some rice shops, they are now empty. They did not buy new rice from the Shi family, and the old rice they bought has been taken over by the Shi family. Therefore, there is no rice to sell in the Rong family's shops now, or there will be no rice to sell soon.
The shop owners and clerks of some stores basically have nothing to do, waiting for the boss to make arrangements as soon as possible.
The Rong family now had money on hand, so they were thinking of looking for retail merchants to buy rice and grain. For those that had already been sold, they would set up agreements for next year. Since the big merchants basically already had fixed partner stores, they had no choice but to start with the retail merchants.
This workload is obviously not small, and how many meters can a retail investor have?
Their land is scattered everywhere, and even if they visit many households, they can only harvest a small amount of rice. However, the cost of hiring people to harvest the rice has to be included in the price of rice.
Few retail traders would hire horse teams to deliver grain to the county town. For them, it was not worth taking the risk of making a trip when the price of rice had not been agreed upon and they had not received a penny.
Sometimes, when we encounter a group of small farmers, such as a village, we go to buy from them, only to discover that many of these villages have already negotiated with nearby large-scale rice farmers to cooperate with rice merchants, who will buy their rice when they come. However, this kind of cooperation is not fixed, and if the price is better, it is possible to pry them over.
The Rong family, who had always thought that they were more important in the cooperation, seemed to have just realized that without the Shi family, their "rice merchants" were like castles in the air.
Compared to the Rong family, those scattered retail traders were not in a hurry. Every year, when the rice merchants came to collect the rice from the big farmers nearby, these small retail traders who were paying attention to the news would transport their own rice and wait quietly for the rice merchants to collect the rice from the big farmers first, and then take their own rice away.
But because there is no contract, this kind of transaction is purely temporary, and small retail investors can naturally sell rice to others.
Although the cost of purchasing grain is higher, the Rong family can only do this one household at a time. After sorting it out, perhaps it will be fine.
But Sun Yannan took action, and the Rong family soon discovered that although it was difficult before, they could still visit each individual household to negotiate and sign contracts, and even if they couldn't do it this year, they could still build their own "army of retail grain farmers" as suppliers next year.
After Sun Yanan took action, the Rong family's path was almost cut off.
After this batch of old rice is sold, the Shi family’s rice shop also needs a new supplier.
Most of the rice produced by the Shi family will be stored in the warehouse, becoming part of the cornerstone of the country's right to set rice prices.
The remaining rice was then brought to the family's store. After Sun Yannan had consulted with the old lady, he instructed all the village heads and landowners in the Shi family to contact the local smallholders nearby to sign pre-order contracts for the grain. Don't be afraid of oversupply, and don't miss out. If the smallholders still had unsold rice from this year, they were to buy it.
The people who signed the small deeds every year in the past were very experienced. The boss had passed on the news that someone would be sent to collect and inspect the deeds every three days, so they acted quickly and there was almost no one left in the Rong family to sign.
Sun Yannan originally had other plans for the rice shop's supplier. She had planned to visit Prince Guanghuai's fiefdom and buy some of the new rice there every year.
Prince Guanghuai's fiefdom was relatively closed, with limited trade. They would always have something they wanted. If they brought goods with them and exchanged them for grain, they would have a good chance of buying the surplus new rice within their fiefdom. As long as they didn't bring goods prohibited by the court, the court would probably encourage them.
Now she had changed her mind. She would put aside the considerations within her fiefdom. Why risk leaving others a way out? Why not take the easy option?
After the Rong family's rice shop had been empty for more than half a year, people had lost interest in it and the shopkeepers and accountants who resigned were no longer sporadic but came in large numbers.
It's not that the Rong family hasn't thought about doing other things, but it's not easy to start from scratch in a different industry. Moreover, there are different opinions among the several branches within the Rong family. As for changing to other industries, some want to open a restaurant, some want to do horse-drawn business, some want to run a bank, and some want to stick to being rice merchants with some of the retail investors who signed up at the beginning.
Amidst the hesitation and endless arguments, although the shopkeeper and the accounting clerk's salaries were paid even though they were losing money, some of them started to resign after three months.
The Rong family's rice shops began to close one by one. With each closure, the Shi family would open a new one in a similar location, giving the Shi family one more outlet to stock their large quantities of aged rice.
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