bookpower Chapter 390
Chapter 390
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: 0.046s Scan: 0.764sWhen merchants began to hire unemployed workers in society to help them buy food, the government also increased the supply of food.
As a result, the price in the market began to stabilize, and the people recovered from the previous panic. The number of ordinary people who came to buy food decreased, and they all began to wait and see.
In this way, the merchants successfully bought a large amount of food.
At the beginning, the merchants were very excited, because they were sure that the government did not have much food, so as long as they ate a lot of food in the market, the food would be monopolized by them. Once the government’s food was exhausted, the pricing power of the entire Hans’s food would be in their hands!
At that time, they would have a lot of food in their hands, and they would be able to drive the price up to the sky, and they would be able to make a lot of money!
Therefore, the merchants planned to buy all the grain at a lower cost while the price of grain in the market was not very high, and try to buy out the grain from the government as soon as possible. As long as the government was gone, they would have the final say in the entire market!
The idea was good, but they soon discovered that something was wrong!
After a whole week, when the merchants had eaten more than 8 million tons of grain, because they had purchased a large amount of grain, many merchants had run out of money, and the warehouses used to store grain were all full. In this case, they could hardly continue to purchase!
“Everyone, work harder. Several government grain stores were closed yesterday, and the price of grain has risen by another 50%. What does this mean?
It means that the grain they have is almost exhausted, and our victory is in sight!”
Seeing that more and more businessmen began to waver, Smith had to encourage the businessmen again, trying to get them to take out all their assets for the final decisive battle!
What Smith said was not a lie. Several of the grain stores that had been open before were indeed closed in the past few days.
It seems that it is really like what Smith said, that the government’s grain reserves are almost exhausted, so they have to close these grain stores. As long as they hold on a little longer, it is very likely that the government’s grain reserves will be completely exhausted! So
, under Smith’s encouragement, the businessmen plucked up the courage and invested all their remaining funds into They bought another 500 tons of grain in one go!
In total, they bought 13 million tons of grain from the government, a figure far exceeding their previous estimates. After buying all the grain, the merchants had completely run out of money. Some more radical merchants even sold their land, real estate, and even factories at a low price, intending to make a fortune with this batch of grain!
For them, as long as they win this bet, the benefits they get from this action will be higher than their lifetime benefits!
However, after all the money in their hands was used up, the fate of the merchants was no longer in their own hands!
“How is it, is there any more grain being shipped from the government?”
The merchants were all staring nervously at the man who had just returned from the train station to gather intelligence, as if the hope of their entire village was pinned on this man!
The merchant who returned from the train station was sweating profusely. He gulped down a large glass of beer, burped, and then said,”No, no, we didn’t see a single train transporting grain today!”
“Great! Now, the government has completely sold out all the grain!”The merchants were relieved to hear the news, and many of them began to cheer!
These days, when they were frantically buying grain, the government used trains to transport large amounts of grain from the treasury every day to fight against them, causing them to hoard nearly 20 million tons of grain, but they have been unable to arbitrage these grains.
And now, in the tug-of-war with the government, they finally won the final victory, which made everyone excited!
Since they have defeated the government in the end, doesn’t it mean that it’s time for them to start making profits?
“What about the government grain stores in the city? They are still in operation.”
Smith was also very excited, realizing that the time had come for him to make achievements!
Now he only needed to complete the last step, to completely turn Hans upside down and make Hans fall into turmoil and chaos, and then he could make an immortal contribution to the British Empire!
“No, they are all closed, not a single store is open for business!”
After hearing this news, all the merchants began to celebrate!
This news completely dispelled the last bit of worry in their hearts. They finally won!
“Well, if that’s the case, then let’s start now and start driving up the price of food!”
Smith gave an order, and the merchants were like hungry wolves, preparing to launch a counterattack immediately!
After returning to their respective shops, these merchants immediately began to raise the price of food, intending to sell the food they had hoarded for a long time at a high price!
“Listen, don’t sell too much for now. Sell a little and then raise the price. Today’s task is to increase the price of grain tenfold!”
After the merchants agreed, they all started to raise the price according to the same plan. In their opinion, they were the only ones in the whole Hans who had grain, and if the people wanted to buy grain, they could only buy it from them, so they naturally had the right to set the price! However, the price could not be raised all at once. They had to create a situation where supply was in short supply.���
The merchants had a good plan, and under their operation, the price of food did rise a lot at the beginning! But soon, the merchants found that something was wrong!
“Why are there fewer and fewer people coming to buy food from us?”
A businessman was very excited and personally sat in his shop, intending to experience the joy of the harvest.
However, the situation was very different from his expectations. At the beginning, some people came to him to buy food, but soon, fewer and fewer people came to buy food.
Some people even came to ask about the price, shook their heads and left, which made him feel very puzzled.
Don’t these people eat?
Don’t they buy food for food?
You know, they are the only ones who have food for sale in the market now?
Then why are these people not panicking at all?
“Boss, how much do you sell the grain for?”
Just as the merchant was puzzled, a middle-aged woman in her forties came over with a snakeskin bag, looking like she was going to buy grain!
“2 grams per kilogram!
“”What? So expensive? Why don’t you just go and grab it?”
The middle-aged woman was so frightened after hearing what the salesperson said that she trembled all over, and her eyes turned terrified when she looked at the two people. It seemed that she had just discovered something incredible!
“There is no way. There is not much food. The price of food on the market is this. If you don’t buy it now, the price will be even higher later!”
The salesperson used words that he had planned long ago to deceive the middle-aged woman, trying to make her surrender!
But the middle-aged woman was not fooled at all:”You bunch of black-hearted businessmen, you can just cheat the devil. The price of the government’s state-owned grain store is only one tenth of yours!”
“Haha, that was in the past. If you go and have a look now, the government grain store has been closed and they have no grain either!”
The boss laughed and said smugly.
The middle-aged woman glanced at him, as if she was looking at a fool.
“So where did they buy their food from?”
The middle-aged woman pointed to a group of people who had just bought New Year’s food and were about to go home, and said to the boss.
The boss was stunned for a moment. His was the only grain store on this street. Apart from his, there was only the government-run grain store that was closed. It was obvious that the grain in these people’s hands was not bought from him. Could it be that…?
Thinking of this, the businessman immediately panicked!
He didn’t care about arguing with the middle-aged woman, and hurriedly left the store. He ran to the street and stopped to take a look. Suddenly, he felt a black screen in front of his eyes!
The door of the government grain store was open, and a large amount of grain was placed inside. People were queuing up in an orderly manner to buy it!
“Sorry, I was a little delayed today and kept you waiting for a long time, but there is good news today. President Mainz personally came forward and imported 10 million tons of grain from the Russian bear, so we are selling grain at a low price today, one mark can buy 10 kilograms!”
When this news came out, the people who were a little dissatisfied because of the delay immediately cheered!
“Long live President Mainz!”