Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1326

The commercial society improves the cooperation between people and various industries, refines the division of labor, and improves the production capacity of the society to a certain extent.

In terms of the ability to create wealth, it is an innovation and an improvement compared to the traditional agricultural society. However, in terms of social stability and resistance to shocks, the primary form of commodity society has no technological mutations. Compared with the agricultural society, the production capacity has not been crushed, so once he is hit hard, the stability is not as good as the traditional agricultural society.

The textile industry in the Kingdom of Jin includes cotton planting, procurement, and weaving upstream, and dyeing, printing, embroidery, transportation, and sales downstream.

As far as dyeing is concerned, the raw materials for dyes include cinnabar, lead powder, sericite, carbon black, and various plants are grown to obtain dyes.

For example, bluegrass is used to dye blue, madder and safflower are used to dye red, and barberry is used to dye yellow. From the planting and cultivation of plants, to the extraction of pigments, to weaving and dyeing, this is a huge industrial chain.

This network and industry are not just located in Chang’an. For example, safflower mainly comes from Qinghai and the Western Regions controlled by the Kingdom of Jin, and Huangbo comes from southern Shaanxi and Hanzhong. Some raw materials are even purchased at high prices from the Ming Dynasty. This is already a huge one. The business network, it spreads all over the entire Kingdom of Jin.

Now that something goes wrong, the upstream and downstream of the entire industrial chain will be hit hard, and the people he affects are comparable to a large-scale natural disaster in an agricultural society.

The primary commodity economy society not only faces commercial risks brought about by weak systems and supervision, but also bears the natural disasters of traditional agricultural society, which increases social instability. This kind of instability is used to the sense of security that fixes people on the ground.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty suddenly rejected the cloth from the Kingdom of Jin, and the textile industry, which had been growing wildly and expanding in scale, was hit hard at once. The raw materials and goods for cloth were piled up like mountains, and most people were heavily in debt.

The cotton planted by the people this year and the dyes extracted from the plants will no longer be purchased, the hired workers will lose their jobs, and the merchants will go bankrupt. They will all lose their source of income.

At this time, what they are most afraid of is another increase in food prices, but this year's food production in Jin Kingdom has decreased.

These people who have no source of income are afraid that the price of food will rise, and the little money left in their hands will not be able to buy food, and they will not be able to last the next year. In addition, there are rumors spread by the Ming Dynasty, fueling the flames, and panic suddenly formed in Chang'an City. Sexual panic buying.

The price of grain in the city had risen to three taels per shi, but it didn't take long for it to rise to six taels per shi, already exceeding the grain price of three taels per shi in the north during the reign of Chongzhen.

That's it, after a while, all the food stores along the street also hung up signs saying they were sold out.

Right now, the price of cotton cloth is set back, and the price of grain is soaring. People who haven’t bought grain are running around in a hurry, asking for information, wondering where they can sell their cloth and where they can buy grain.

The merchants who couldn't buy grain in the market and couldn't sell the goods on the mule cart were full of despair.

Almost all of their belongings are used to purchase raw materials. Originally, a carload of goods was worth more than ten taels, but now no one wants a tael of silver, but the price of rice has risen to six taels. How can they not despair.

"The five taels of cotton rose to 15 taels, and I knew it would definitely fall, but no one expected that it would fall so early, and it would fall below five taels." A peddler driving a two-quantity car covered his hands Face, squatting on the ground regretfully.It can be seen that he collected a lot of cotton, and now it's all in his hands.

"This time we were all fooled by the Ming people. What did they say about the millions of orders? The population of Tianzhu and Tianfang is over tens of millions. As long as the cloth is woven, there is no fear of no market. They fried up the price of our cotton here, what did they say? It has to continue to rise next year, who knows it’s all a lie, they withdraw the order, but it will make us miserable!"

"I bought this cart of dye from the Ming Dynasty at a high price, and I plan to make a difference. Now, hey!"

"What should we do with our goods now, can we still sell them?"

"I heard Mingguo will accept it, but the price is very low..."

"Zhiniang's thieves' Zhu family, shameless bastards, they have harmed our Sanqin before, and this time they have harmed Laozi again. Laozi and them are irreconcilable."

If you want to raise the price of certain items, you must first be able to tell a good story, the story must be convincing, and people must see a good prospect.

The story of the Ming Dynasty was well told this time, half-truth and half-false, Jin Guo believed it, so he was naturally cheated.

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Luoyang City, the head office of Wude Bank in Henan, because it is close to the Kingdom of Jin, has become the command center for speculation on cotton prices in the Kingdom of Jin.

Wudehao grew together with the Ming Dynasty, and now its power has been stabilized, and it covers a wider range of businesses, including all walks of life. Act on face.

At the beginning of last year, under the instruction of Wudehao, some merchants in the Ming Dynasty began to tell stories in the Kingdom of Jin and participated in the hype of cotton prices in the Kingdom of Jin. Several big shopkeepers went directly from Nanjing to Luoyang to preside over the operation.

Half a month ago, Chen Yonghua, the president of Wudehao, also came to Luoyang from Nanjing, announcing that the hype that had been going on for more than a year was finally coming to an end.

At this time, in a lobby of the Henan headquarter of Wude Bank, in the middle is a large rectangular table filled with various accounts. There are more than ten shopkeepers sitting on both sides, and Chen Yonghua is sitting in the middle, listening to the following People report.

"President, at the beginning of last year, before placing an order with Jin Guo to hype, we purchased 100 tans of Jin Guo cotton through our company in Jin Guo, and then secretly transported 50 tans of cotton from our country to Jin Guo, spending a total of 15 million yuan Silver dollars." A big shopkeeper stood up and said loudly: "After placing the order, we bought 370 tans of cotton from Jinguo at a high price of ten taels per tan in order to raise the cotton price, and spent [-] silver dollars. Recently, these Cotton has been successively sold to the Jin Guo Company at a price of [-] taels per load, for a total of [-] million silver."

Chen Yonghua calculated silently in his mind, and said casually, "The cost of cotton is 150 million taels, and after deducting labor and transportation costs, it should make a net profit of 220 million taels."

The method of the Ming Dynasty was to first buy a batch of cotton and put it in the Jin Kingdom, then tell a good story, and at the same time spend a sum of money to raise the price of cotton. Seeing that the price of cotton is indeed skyrocketing, they will enter the market to take orders.

If there are few people who take orders, Ming Dynasty will spend some more money to continue to push the price of cotton another round until the people of Jin Kingdom can't resist the temptation, and I believe it will rise again until more people enter the market.After enough people entered the market, the Ming Dynasty quietly sold the cotton that had been collected in advance and purchased later, and let the merchants from the Kingdom of Jin who entered the market take over the orders, and completely quit the hype.

After the big shopkeeper in charge of cotton hype finished speaking, one of his shopkeepers stood up immediately, "President, the operation method of dyes is similar to that of cotton, but because of the price of cotton and cotton cloth, our hype is relatively simple. No matter what kind of money is used to speculate, the price of dyes will triple, and this time a total profit of 150 million taels of Jin Guo’s silver will be made.”

For cotton and dye alone, the Ming Dynasty's profit was close to 400 million. The shopkeeper who came to Luoyang with Chen Yonghua, and the officials of the Bank and Money Supervisor, all had expressions of shock and joy on their faces, and discussed among themselves.

Chen Yonghua was very calm about this. He knocked on the table with his hand, and the surroundings immediately became quiet. He then said, "This is the end of the hype on cotton cloth in the early stage, and we will start the finishing work. This time Jin Guo eats If you suffer a big loss, you will definitely take measures to thoroughly investigate whether the money from the three companies Shunyu, Xinglong, and Ruiyongchang has been transferred?"

These three companies appear to be Jin Guo companies, but they are actually the capital of the Ming Dynasty. Just like when the Manchu Qing subsidized Fu Younian to set up a company in Nanjing to find out information about the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty also had many companies in the Kingdom of Jin. Buy some people from the Kingdom of Jin.

Shopkeeper Wang hurriedly stood up, cupped his hands and said, "The money from these three companies was secretly transported to Luoyang within half a month, and there is only an empty shell left in Guanzhong. Even if Jin Guo finds out, we will have nothing to lose." loss."

Chen Yonghua nodded, then looked at another person, "Shopkeeper Zhao, how is the grain business in Guanzhong?"

"As expected, it has increased several times, and now it has reached six taels and one stone."

Chen Yonghua smiled, "How much food do we have?"

"The Kingdom of Jin is very strict on the monitoring of grain sales. Although we have started buying grains long ago, the grain we have collected is not much, only 30 shi."

The attack on the Kingdom of Jin this time is from many aspects. The increase in food prices can be predicted. The Ming Dynasty will naturally not let go of this opportunity. However, the Kingdom of Jin has strict supervision over materials such as grain, salt, and iron, and they are not allowed to leave the customs. Therefore, although the Wude had already predicted that the price of food in the Kingdom of Jin would rise, it did not collect much food.

Chen Yonghua pondered, this time the Wude brand hyped the cotton price of Jin Guo, and the cotton and dyes in the early stage alone made a net profit of more than 370 million taels of Jin Guo silver.During the entire hype process, apart from Ming Dynasty making money, some people in Jin Guo who first entered the market may also make a fortune, and the losers are the vast majority of people who remained on the plate when the bubble burst.

The loss of these people will not be just the 370 million taels that the Ming Dynasty took in. The total loss should be more than [-] million taels.

With such a huge loss of wealth, it is impossible for the court of the Kingdom of Jin not to come out to maintain stability and even save the market.

Chen Yonghua pondered for a while, and suddenly said: "Tell those grain companies that it doesn't matter if they earn less. Don't fight against the Jin Guo government, let them sell at the market price, and try not to expose yourself."

The price of food in the Kingdom of Jin was more expensive than that in the Ming Dynasty. At first it was around one tael of silver per stone, but now it has risen to six taels of silver.

Chen Yonghua reckoned that the Kingdom of Jin might take coercive measures, so it was the best policy to let the food industry go with the government of the Kingdom of Jin, and it would be safe to do so.

"Yes, I will send the president's instructions to Guan Zhong later."

Chen Yonghua nodded, and asked again: "How far have cotton and cotton cloth fallen?"

"Cotton has fallen to a tael per load, and ordinary cotton cloth has fallen to a penny per head."

Under normal circumstances, the price of cotton in the Kingdom of Jin should be five taels per load, and cotton cloth is five cents per piece, but now they have plummeted below the normal level, with a gap of five times.

Chen Yonghua smiled, "This price can be bought. Let people spread the news, as long as the goods leave Tongguan, we will buy them at this price."

All the people in the lobby laughed, the front was just an appetizer, this is the main course.

The Ming Dynasty collected these cotton and cotton cloth at a low price, and then directly shipped them to the south of the Yangtze River.Before and after this, the profit of Wude will be close to tens of millions.

The people of the Kingdom of Jin do business with cotton cloth produced by themselves. Not only did they give the goods to the Ming Dynasty at a lower cost, but they also paid a large sum of money to the Ming Dynasty to help the Ming Dynasty produce goods and grow cotton. Want goods, shameless to the extreme.

In Chang'an City, in the imperial palace, Hauge, who hurried back from Weinan County, was sitting on the throne holding a memorial with trembling hands, his whole face turned purple from anger.

Suddenly Hauge threw away all the memorials on the imperial case, panting violently, and cursed: "Shameless! Villain! Bastard! Old turtle, you are too bullying!"

After all, Hauge is a man who is good at fighting and killing, but he doesn't know much about business, and he doesn't know how to use commercial means to attack opponents.How did he know so many tricks, how did he know that other than directly robbing with a knife, he could do it like this. He read the minister's book, Jin Guo's ten-year accumulation, nearly half of it was taken away by the Ming Dynasty, and his lungs were about to explode.

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