At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the locust plague was raging, Liu Jing, a farmer from the suburbs of Luoyang, went to Beijing to survive with only a few bags of brown rice left. In a desperate situation, the strange phenomenon of the ancestral jade pendant emerged, giving him the power of "grain and gas perception" - the ability to understand the quality of grain, predict market fluctuations, and optimize warehousing technology. He started as a small vendor in Dongcheng. With his "realism" and accurate judgment, he repeatedly sold grain at a fair price amid fluctuations in grain prices, winning a reputation among the people.
However, money and silk moved people's hearts, and Luoyang's big grain merchants jointly drove up grain prices, hoping to nip Liu Jing in the bud. Liu Jing relied on his special abilities to see through the treacherous plot, and united with small and medium-sized grain stores to collectively lower prices to fight back, repaying evil with kindness and winning people's hearts. He built large granaries, innovated moisture-proof technology, and used the "warehousing + sales + disaster relief" model to provide relief to victims at affordable prices during disaster years, which was recognized by the court.
His daughter Liu Yue inherited her father's ambition and upgraded the grain shop to "Liu's Grain Store", expanded grain processing and nationwide chain stores, and eventually became the largest grain supplier in the Han Dynasty. The total granary in Luoyang was worth a million stones. The family was awarded the title of "Grain King of the World", sheltering all people and lasting forever. This is not only a business legend of the Liu family, but also an epic story of how to secure the world with food and benefit the people through business in troubled times!
