With Pinxixi in hand, I have a supermarket in the Changzheng!

In the camp, Quartermaster General Chen Gang was holding his account book and calculating the surplus of military supplies.

After Chen Gang finished his calculations, he sighed and said to the leaders around him.

"Well, I calculated our supplies and they can only last about three days at most."

Chief Liu patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry too much. I will ask the village chief how to get to the county town tomorrow. We still have silver dollars in our hands, so we should be able to buy a lot of supplies."

The next morning.

"Going to the county seat?"

The village chief had a worried look on his face. One bad thing about their village in the mountains was that it was too difficult to get into the county town.

"It's about 50 to 60 kilometers to the county town, and the roads are all difficult to walk on. Even if you're a fast walker, it'll take a whole day!"

Chief Liu felt a bit of a headache when he heard this. This time when he went to the county town, he had to buy a large amount of supplies and ship them back.

The journey is so long and difficult, and the large army cannot stay here for too long. This problem is really a tricky one.

The village chief saw that he looked worried and wanted to ask him what he was doing to see if he could help.

"Commander, what are you doing in the county town?"

"We want to go to the county seat to purchase a batch of supplies for the troops."

The village chief's eyes lit up and he clapped his hands, "What a coincidence! Today is the annual gathering in the mountains!"

"assembly?"

The village chief continued to explain to him, "Every year on this day, everyone gathers to sell the extra things in their homes, or to exchange them for other things."

In these mountains far away from the county town, there are many Miao villages, with some villages having a few hundred people and some having several thousand.

Everyone works hard in the mountains farming and hunting, and there is always a lot left over every year.

Therefore, a gathering is organized in the mountains every year, and everyone brings their own belongings to the market to sell for money, or exchange them with others to get what they need.

The news of the Miao village gathering quickly spread among the team.

Many soldiers, including Zhou Yue, wanted to go and broaden their horizons.

Fortunately, the restrictions on soldiers' travel are not strict these two days, so those who are interested can go to the market.

Li Dagang and Gou Wa, two sharpshooters in the team, went into the mountains with a large group of soldiers.

They heard that they could barter, so they planned to hunt more wild animals and exchange them for more food for the troops.

"Sister, can we go to the market?"

Younger brother Zhou Xing asked his sister hopefully, "As children, what we like most is going to the market."

"Of course~"

Zhou Yue touched her brother's head. Her brother had gained a lot of weight during this period, and his cheeks were no longer sunken.

With big double eyelids and bright black eyes, he looks like a righteous young boy. The more she looks at him, the more she likes him.

The brother and sister, along with Sister Xiuhua, walked towards the market at the foot of the mountain.

It only took more than ten minutes to go down the mountain. At the bottom of the mountain, there was a large and relatively flat land, and more and more villagers gathered here.

There are many people here and it is very lively. Everyone's backpacks, bamboo baskets and sacks are filled with things they brought from home.

There is home-grown rice, wheat flour, pickled bacon, pickled fish, home-pressed vegetable oil, winter bamboo shoots dug from the mountains, sun-dried mushrooms, dried vegetables, live chickens and ducks, chicken and duck eggs, bean sprouts, cabbage, wild vegetables from the mountains...

The variety of things everyone brings to the market is really dazzling.

Zhou Yue, who hadn't been to the big market for many years, was completely immersed in it at this moment. She was curious about everything she saw and found everything interesting.

However, after visiting the entire market, she suddenly discovered a problem.

The things everyone brought were of many kinds, but not in large quantities.

With so many people in the army, they must purchase large quantities of supplies.

In order to take into account the villagers' needs for barter, the Red Army certainly could not buy all these things.

After the villagers have exchanged what they need, there won’t be much left, so the troops won’t be able to raise much supplies.

what should we do?

Zhou Yue’s mind started working rapidly and she soon came up with a good strategy to deal with the situation.

Still use the old method, use NPC!

Zhou Yue placed an order for 50 NPCs at once from the system, and the settings entered were all the Miao village folks who were attending the rally.

The things everyone brought were the rice, flour, grain, oil, etc. that the troops needed most, and the quantities were quite large.

They were also given a unified way of speaking, so when they met someone who wanted to exchange items, they would say that the Red Army had worked hard along the way and that these things should be kept for the soldiers.

There is no need to worry about being exposed with this method, as the people coming to the market are from different villages.

There are a lot of people in each village. In some villages with a large population, people in the same village don’t even know each other, let alone people from different villages around.

The 50 NPCs cost a total of 15 points, but she didn't feel bad at all.

Because the items can be recycled after use by NPC, 80% of the points will be returned after recycling.

Except for people like Wang Jianguo who stay in the team for a long time, other NPCs will recycle them after use and will not spend too many points.

"It's time to trade meat! Wild boar meat for other things! Come quickly if you want it!"

Zhou Yue held sister Xiuhua's left hand and held her brother's right hand, and squeezed into a stall surrounded by a large group of people.

Lin Xiuhua smiled with her eyebrows curved, "I thought it was fellow villagers, it's Brother Dagang!"

Li Dagang and some soldiers, holding sharp knives and an old-fashioned scale with a weight in their hands, were preparing to barter.

There were a lot of prey they had just hunted lying on the ground. Of course, these were the result of Zhou Yue's secret operation.

For people in the mountains, pork is too tempting.

The meat stall was soon surrounded by people who wanted to barter.

An old lady handed over the contents of her cloth bag and said, "I have three pounds of dried bamboo shoots here. Can I exchange them for half a pound of meat?"

"Row!"

Li Dagang deftly cut a piece of fat and lean meat from the pig's belly, weighed it and handed it back.

Zhou Yue sighed in her heart, pork is indeed hard currency, one pound of dried bamboo shoots can yield three pounds after being soaked, it is really a good deal!

A little girl was carrying a basket full of dried vegetables.

"Brother, can I exchange these dried vegetables for meat?"

"Of course you can!"

Li Dagang smiled and cut a piece of wild boar meat and put it in her basket.

Although Zhou Yue didn't buy anything, she and her brother wandered around the market for a long time.

This market has a strong flavor of everyday life. You can spend half a day just watching Li Dagang selling meat there. It is completely different from modern supermarkets.

Minister Chen Gang took some soldiers to the market to shop, and this trip was also very fruitful.

What moved him was that many villagers did not barter with other villagers, but sold their goods to them at very low prices.

However, Chen Gang did not want to take advantage of his fellow villagers, so he purchased the goods at the normal market price.

Zhou Yue and the others stayed in the market until almost lunchtime, then they went up the mountain together.

As soon as she returned to the Miao village, she found that the atmosphere was not right. The Miao village, which was originally full of laughter and joy, was now a little depressing.

The village chief's face was filled with anger, and many Miao villagers were wiping their tears and crying!