Chapter 385 This time and that time

It has been a month since the epidemic spread to Junji Town. Some people in Junji Town have bought medicine, but the amount of medicine purchased by individuals cannot compare to the amount used by the Baijiabao caravan.

Moreover, the Baijiabao caravan responded promptly and Junji Town was well protected. In fact, many people only heard about the epidemic after the Baijiabao caravan had been guarding the town for two or three days.

Knowing about the epidemic, the common people were terrified, but with the Baijiabao caravan guarding the front, people did not get infected with the disease. Of course, they only bought one or two doses of medicine to prevent it at home.

In addition, knowing that the medicines used by the Baijiabao caravan at the resettlement site were effective, the people also sought to buy them from the Baijiabao caravan.

The resettlement site did not reject the people's requests to buy medicine. In order to facilitate the purchase of medicine by the people in the city, two stalls were set up at the city gate to sell boiled medicine soup.

As a result, the drug dealers' business was not as good as they expected.

Originally, the drug dealers were waiting for a large order from the Baijiabao caravan, but they waited and waited and still received nothing.

The drug dealers were puzzled.

"strangeness!"

"How many medicinal materials does the Baijiabao caravan store?"

Drug dealers who specialize in medicinal materials always have a certain amount of medicinal materials on hand, but the main business direction of the Baijiabao caravan is not medicinal materials. It doesn't make sense that they are still not short of medicine after a month.

"Could it be that someone secretly sold the medicine to the Baijiabao caravan?"

"Could it be that some bastard shamelessly betrayed us all?!"

It’s no wonder some people think this way. After doing business for so many years, we have seen many cases where a bad apple spoils the whole barrel.

However, after asking around, everyone was holding their breath and cursing, thinking that if they found the person, they would make the bad guy pay.

But it soon became clear that no one was doing this.

The main reason is that the purchase price offered by the Baijiabao caravan is low, and the drug dealers all want to take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune, so they naturally won't agree.

If the Baijiabao caravan had not set up checkpoints to protect the town and spent resources to treat those infected with the epidemic, everyone would have believed in conspiracy theories that all of this was caused by the Baijiabao caravan.

The reason why people did not doubt the Baijiabao caravan was that rescuing the infected people was a spontaneous act of the Baijiabao caravan.

Secondly, the Baijiabao caravan has always been doing good business, and the losses would be incalculable if so many of its shops suddenly closed down.

Therefore, no matter who people suspect, they will not suspect the Baijiabao caravan.

A drug dealer had a flash of inspiration and felt that he had thought of the key to the matter.

"Perhaps the Baijiabao Caravan had long intended to enter the medicinal materials business, but they didn't expect to encounter an epidemic, and the medicinal materials they had stockpiled were just right for use..."

The more I think about it, the more I feel that this possibility is extremely high. Otherwise, how can I explain the fact that the Baijiabao caravan has no shortage of medicine?

Thinking that the Baijiabao caravan might enter the medicinal materials industry, many medicine merchants panicked. No way?!

And this left the drug dealers dumbfounded.

No, we waited for a month and even paid a high price to hire people to collect herbs, and now you tell us that you don’t need herbs???
Although the Baijiabao caravan never said anything about it from beginning to end, the drug dealers had never thought of this before.

Now that they had realized what was happening, they began to panic as they looked at the medicinal materials in their warehouse.

Doing business has costs, including transportation costs, warehousing costs, labor costs, etc. The faster the shipment and the less the loss, the more money you make.

Once the goods pile up in your hands, it may be okay for a short period of time, but after a certain period of time, you will still lose money even if you sell them later.

If you want to avoid losses, you have to raise the price. But there is not only one company selling things in the market. When other companies have low costs and sell at low prices, customers who are not stupid will know which one to choose.

The drug dealers panicked, and the previous alliance naturally began to crumble. They began to contact the Baijiabao caravan secretly.

"A 20% price reduction?"

"No, just the previous price."

"Reduce by 50%? Ha, you first raised the price and then reduced it by 50%. Do you think we are being taken advantage of? No!"

"70% reduction? What was the price you quoted?"

"40% off? Your price is still ridiculously high even with a 40% discount!"

Bai Dashan and two other people received drug dealers in groups, and they were so angry that they laughed several times at their quotations.

Although these drug dealers wanted to sell the medicinal materials in their hands to the Baijiabao caravan, they were unwilling to miss out on such a profitable opportunity. Although the prices seemed to have dropped, they were still expensive.

Bai Dashan: "I'm going to make this clear today. If the price is higher than what we agreed on before, even if it's only one cent higher, you don't have to ask for change."

Really, when he is free, waves of people come to him.

After this was said, the drug dealers were furious and annoyed: "The people from the Baijiabao caravan are too overbearing."

"They don't want to make money themselves, so why do they drag us into it?"

It's an epidemic. If ten people are infected, at least eight or nine will die. Isn't it normal that life-saving herbs are sold at high prices?

They were actually forced not to raise the price. Although they didn't say it directly, it was no different from saying it openly to buy the medicinal materials from the drug dealers at a low price.

Only some grain and oil merchants could understand the anger of the drug dealers. The ordinary people in the city did not know about it, and even if they did, they would not stand on their side.

At this time, ordinary people could still buy food at about the same price as usual. If they needed medicine, they could go to the city gate to buy it. The price was also extremely low, almost just the money for charcoal.

One can imagine the people's gratitude towards the Baijiabao caravan. Whenever it is mentioned, no one fails to praise it.

The drug dealers were dissatisfied, but they could not do anything to the Baijiabao caravan. Firstly, they could not defeat the Baiyu Army physically, and secondly, they could not defeat the Baijiabao caravan with money.

If they compete with people's hearts, they will have even less chance of winning.

As a result, some drug dealers were unwilling but had to compromise and sell most of the herbs in their hands to the Baijiabao caravan.

Reducing your holdings is also one of the ways to avoid losing money.

What's more, if the epidemic had not suddenly broken out, the previous selling price would have actually been profitable.

At first, only one or two drug dealers compromised, but after a few days, more and more drug dealers came to us.

Bai Dashan: "No, we have already collected a lot of medicinal herbs in the past two or three days. You came late, so we can't buy them at the price we paid half a month ago."

"We actually have quite a lot of medicinal materials in our hands, enough to last for a while." Bai Dashan said, as if he was thinking about the drug dealers: "Otherwise, you can keep them for now."

What he said meant two pieces of news to the drug dealers: the Baijiabao caravan had stockpiled a large amount of medicinal materials, and if they did not sell the medicinal materials in their hands as soon as possible, they would suffer greater losses.

As a result, the drug dealers panicked, and many of them gritted their teeth and took the initiative to lower prices again and again.

It took only forty days from raising the price in the beginning to lowering the price again and again, just to sell the goods as quickly as possible and reduce losses.

See you tomorrow, my little cuties~