8mi Chapter 647: A Classic Case Of The Country Stabilizing Prices [Please Subscribe, Please Subscribe]
Chapter 647: A Classic Case Of The Country Stabilizing Prices [Please Subscribe, Please Subscribe]
Although the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes have become accustomed to the daily "subjugation" of the Ming Dynasty.
But taking things for granted and taking them for granted, seeing that the Ming Dynasty was in danger of "subjugating the country" again, they still had to work hard to find a way to "save the Ming Dynasty"!!!
Thinking of this, Prince Zhu Biao stood up, bowed respectfully towards Yan Changqing and said:
"I dare to ask, sir, since the non-state-owned economy now occupies a dominant position in the national economy, it affects or even threatens the existence of the state-owned economy."
"Then, will the Ming Dynasty be able to avoid the 'catastrophe of national subjugation' as mentioned before as long as the state-owned economy regains its dominant position in the national economy?!!"
Yan Changqing nodded and said firmly:
"It's natural."
"It's still the issue of affordable food for disaster relief that I mentioned before. Why can't ordinary people buy affordable food for disaster relief?!!"
"Because those cheap grains for disaster relief were purchased by those merchants, gentry, and landlords, as well as the noble marquis and civil and military officials behind those merchants, gentry, and landlords!!!"
"Why are those merchants, gentry, and landlords, as well as the noble marquises, civil and military officials behind those merchants, gentry, and landlords, able to purchase those cheap grains for disaster relief?!!"
"There are three reasons: First, their family is rich and they have enough money to purchase affordable disaster relief grains.
"Second, the dominant party in the grain industry is not the imperial court."
"Third, the imperial court did not reserve enough grain to cope with such a low-price purchase." 17 "But if the imperial court is the dominant party in the grain industry, and reserves a large amount of grain through its dominant position in the grain industry, even Yu can further mobilize excess food across the country.”
"So when another disaster strikes, will those merchants, gentry, and landlords, as well as the noble marquis, civil and military officials behind those merchants, gentry, and landlords, be able to continue to purchase all the food for disaster relief?!!"
"As long as they dare to accept it, the imperial court will dare to sell it. It is normal to sell it until they can no longer accept it!!!"
"I don't believe that their financial resources can match the huge amount of food accumulated by a country."
"And as long as their financial resources are not enough to eat the huge amount of food accumulated by the entire country, then no matter how much they purchase, they will spit out twice as much in the end!!!"
"After all, as long as the imperial court's food supply continues to be stable, then the food they purchased will not be sold at high prices."
"And as long as the time comes, the news will be released that they will purchase grain casually in an attempt to make money from human blood and grain."
"Then even if they sell grain at the same price as the court, it is impossible for ordinary people to buy their grain.
“In the end, they either sold it at a loss of half, or even one-third, one-fifth, or one-tenth of the court’s normal grain price.
"Either they live with food that they can't finish in ten lifetimes, but if that time comes, they will probably only have food left."
"And once they choose the former, the imperial court can buy back their grain at extremely low prices."
"Thus, we can make a lot of money from those unscrupulous merchants, gentry, and landlords, as well as the noble marquis, civil and military officials behind those merchants, gentry, and landlords, and teach them a painful lesson that they will remember for the rest of their lives!!!"
"And once they choose the latter, haha, although the shelf life of food is long, it is not long enough to last a lifetime.
"It can take as short as one or two years, or as long as three or five years, and it will gradually deteriorate and expire. After ten years at most, they won't even have edible food."
At the end of the sentence, Yan Changqing had a hint of sarcasm on his lips.
In his previous life, at the beginning of the founding of his motherland, he had encountered similar things.
That year, floods spread throughout the country and grain harvests failed in various places, leading to the largest food crisis since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
And some unscrupulous speculators in a certain place also saw the opportunity and immediately hoarded food on a large scale across the country.
At the same time, winter was about to begin, and the country was in urgent need of cotton yarn to make bedding and clothes, and a large amount of coal for heating. Those black-hearted speculators also stocked up a large amount of cotton yarn and coal a quarter in advance.
Even in order to make a fortune from the coming natural disaster, those black-hearted speculators did not hesitate to borrow loan sharks from private gangs to raise money to buy goods.
At that time, grain, cotton yarn, and coal were called "two white and one black" and were the necessities of ordinary people's lives.
And because the textile industry at that time was largely concentrated in the Jiangsu and Shanghai areas, the cotton yarn hoarded by those black-hearted speculators was almost a monopoly.
Without cotton yarn as raw material, a new round of winter clothing cannot be put on the market, and people will have to spend sky-high prices to buy a set of winter clothing to survive.
It can be said that without external intervention, those black-hearted businessmen would have been full of oil that winter just by eating human blood, food, cotton yarn, and coal.
Faced with the upcoming price crisis, the country also specially sent an economic boss to solve it.
After a month of field research, the boss reported to the country:
"To solve the price problem, we need to mobilize the whole country to fight against those black-hearted speculators, so that the people can have food to eat and clothes to wear!!!"
"The best way to deal with the monopolistic hoarding of goods by black-hearted speculators is to use national supplies to counterattack the local market and devalue the domestic products of black-hearted speculators!!!"
After reading the big boss's report, the country began to raise supplies without any hesitation.
In just two or three months, the country raised nearly 5 billion kilograms of grain, and its cotton yarn reserves reached half of the country's total.
Now that we have the capital for the war, the country has informed the big boss that he can have a decisive battle with those black-hearted speculators at any time. The supplies are large and sufficient!!!
But the big boss didn't act rashly, because the market at that time was still a carnival period for acquisitions.
If we take action now, even if prices are maintained, it will teach those black-hearted speculators a painful lesson that they will remember for the rest of their lives.
So we waited until the end of November, when the local market for grain and cotton yarn was close to saturation and cotton and grain prices stabilized.
Wait until those black-hearted speculators are complacent, thinking that in a few days, the prices of grain and cotton yarn will rise rapidly, and the day of making a fortune will soon come.
The big boss sent by the state gave an order, and five billion kilograms of grain and half of the country's cotton yarn suddenly poured into the local market.
At first, those black-hearted speculators didn't care. They thought that the country's inventory was not large. As long as they ate them all, the prices of grain and cotton yarn would soon return to high prices.
However, after several rounds of acquisitions, those black-hearted speculators discovered that something was wrong, because no matter how they purchased grain or cotton yarn, the market prices were still flat.
Only then did the black-hearted speculators come to their senses. This was the country's effort to maintain price stability across the country.
But they are already riding a tiger. If they cannot raise prices, they will suffer serious losses from the large amount of materials they have hoarded at a premium.
In order not to lose money and return to the previous monopoly position.
They had to further mortgage their properties for financing and borrow higher-interest loan sharks, hoping to swallow as much of the food and cotton released by the country as possible.
However, no matter how rich they are, they cannot swallow up the country's food and cotton.
By December, some unscrupulous speculators began to be unable to withstand such investment and had to sell grain and cotton yarn at the original price of 873 yuan.
However, the price has not returned to the original cost price. Their opening of floodgates will only make the prices of cotton yarn and grain lower and lower.
What's even more interesting is that once a black-hearted speculator starts to clear his position, other black-hearted speculators will also have to follow suit.
At this point, they have to pay 40% or even 30% below the cost price to replenish their blood.
And this kind of price, compared to the price they paid for it at the beginning, is undoubtedly higher than Datong!!!
The terrible thing is that their assets were mortgaged to foreign banks for financing, and the banks couldn't collect the money, so they naturally took over their assets.
This suddenly caused the assets they had accumulated over half a century to disappear in an instant.
What's even worse is that they had previously borrowed loan sharks from private gangs to raise money to buy goods.
Now the capital they have recovered is less than 30% to 40% of the initial capital.
Not to mention repaying the loan sharks borrowed by private gangs, even the interest on the loan sharks is not enough.
If the money is not paid, those foreign banks will only seize their property, then those private gangs will most likely kill them.
In the end, those black-hearted speculators who tried to drive up prices either lost everything, or "voluntarily" hung up on street lamps, or "voluntarily" sank into the sea.
It can be said that this is a very classic case of national price stability war.
When Yan Changqing was taking an elective macroeconomics course in his previous life, the old professor who taught the class at that time gave an example of this, so Yan Changqing was particularly impressed.
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