Chapter 278 Heart to Heart_1
As for fodder, easy to procure, when the time comes, even if the nation doesn’t take care of it, she could still have someone fetch it as long as she had money on hand.
But grain isn’t so easy to come by, sometimes even with money, it might not be possible to buy food, since here people rely on the heavens for sustenance, and years of famine are particularly frequent.
It was precisely for this reason that An Jing thought of storing grain, to be prepared for emergencies.
But how to store it?
If she bought a lot of grain all at once to keep in storage and a war never broke out, what would she do if the grain went moldy and spoiled by the time a conflict arose?
Yet if she bought a little each year and stored it, it would be of little use if a war suddenly broke out.
Therefore, the best strategy was to have plenty of grain on hand but also to keep refreshing the stock with new grain every year, selling off the old. This wouldn’t just prevent the problem of grain molding from long storage, but it would also ensure she always had a considerable amount of grain at her disposal.
To achieve such an effect, the solution was to open rice shops, many, many rice shops, selling the old grain and stocking the new, a cycle that would repeat year after year until war finally came.