Chapter 199 Exchange Rate Depreciation

"So, Kadannikov, what exactly are we going to do or how many Volga cars can you supply for our company, as well as spare parts"

Fang Chen added an accent when he said the five words of our company.

Kadannikov smiled and stretched out a palm, "Five thousand Zhigul cars and a full two hundred containers of spare parts." ”

Fang Chen's eyes narrowed slightly, Kadannikov's appetite was even greater than he imagined, "Then the price"

"The ex-factory price of a Zhiguli car is 1,000 rubles, and there are spare parts for 10 cars in a container, 10,000 rubles. ”

"I also want to do more than 400 rubles a car, but as you know, sometimes I have to compromise. Kadannikov said apologetically.

"Don't blame yourself, this price is already very profitable. Fang Chen said disapprerovingly.

Naturally, he would not have thought that Kadannikov would really be able to get him a car for just over four hundred rubles, which was the allocated price, the planned price.

Of course, the price of this thousand rubles is also the planned price, but, as Kadannikov said, this is a factory price after compromises on all sides.

As for these 200 boxes of spare parts, although the price is the same, it is actually more profitable than the 5,000 Zhiguli cars, after all, everyone knows that in car repair, there is a thing called zero integer ratio.

In the current situation of material shortage, Fang Chen is confident that he will sell these parts to one to five, or even one to six or seven.

"Is this the price of all the cars that all cooperatives get?" Fang Chen asked.

Cooperatives are a form of business peculiar to the Soviets today, and since Gotu came to power in 85, he has vigorously promoted this model, allowing private individuals to combine with large enterprises, and at the same time help large enterprises, private individuals can also obtain certain benefits.

But in fact, it is synonymous with digging the foot of the wall, and the resources of countless large enterprises continue to flow into the pockets of private individuals through cooperatives.

The price of a car of a thousand rubles is probably not enough even for the cost.

It's just that the Volga Automobile Plant can also get all kinds of materials at the planned price, such as a ton of steel for 100 rubles, a ton of rubber for 200 rubles, and so on.

In such a planned economy, when they can be self-sufficient, there is no problem, and everyone can get cheap goods through their own efforts and contributions.

But once there is a shortage, then the true price of the item will be reflected, or even higher.

Kadannikov shook his head, "That's not the case, according to the level of the individual's position, the ex-factory price that can be approved by each person is not certain, and a thousand rubles is the lowest price!"

After speaking, Kadannikov looked at Fang Chen proudly.

Fang Chen smiled a little playfully, well, not according to economic benefits, but the level of position, this is very socialist.

But in fact, it doesn't matter how high or low the cost is, just like he is now a fallen master, what restricts his speed of making money is that there are not so many goods, not the cost of goods.

Even if it is 2,000 rubles for a car, once it is sold, it will earn at least more than 2,000 rubles, which is a huge profit.

"If you do the math, it would take seven million rubles to take it all, right? Fang Chen said with a headache.

He really has a kind of happy trouble now, there are too many goods, but he can't eat it, he has less than four million yuan in his hand now, and it is still Huaxia coins.

The two million rubles earned by the previous wagons were all sent to the country, which was regarded as the payment of the balance of the ten wagons.

He would not have any money until the ten wagons arrived in Moscow five days later.

In other words, the current Fang Chen is actually a donkey dung egg, and the surface is light.

Kadannikov smiled and waved his finger, "Fang, you only need to provide half of these goods now, and you can take them all." ”

Fang Chen's eyes lit up, "When will the final payment be paid?"

"Half a year, a year later, even two years! Kadannikov said with a smile.

"That's great!" Fang Chen couldn't close his mouth with a smile.

Fang Chen suddenly remembered one thing, the ruble was about to usher in a large-scale depreciation, and in November 1991, the exchange rate of the ruble against the US dollar fell from 0.6 rubles to 1 US dollar to 1.8 rubles to 1 US dollar.

Then, under the effect of Yeltsin's shock therapy, as well as the malicious manipulation of European and American countries, the exchange rate of the ruble fell almost at the speed of an avalanche.

At the end of the year, the ruble was 170:1 against the dollar.

And three years later, it fell even more exaggeratedly to 3,000 rubles: 1 dollar.

This downward trend did not change until the year before Fang Chen's rebirth.

Someone calculated that in twenty years since the collapse of the Soviets, the ruble has depreciated 50,000 times.

"How is it so good," Kadannikov asked.

"I think that in the future there will be a large-scale depreciation of the ruble, and this depreciation ratio will not be less than one to ten, that is, what is worth 1,000 rubles now, it will take 10,000 rubles to buy it later. Fang Chen said.

Kadannikov was a little stunned, while Berezovsky, who was on the side, nodded.

Berezovsky said with some sadness: "This is also my speculation. ”

As a mathematician who has long been interested in the field of economics, Berezovsky has long discovered that the value of the ruble is grossly inflated and does not match real purchasing power.

In fact, this situation occurs in every planned economic system, and it is the same in China.

Before the reform and opening up, the exchange rate of the Chinese currency against the US dollar was stable for a long time at about 1.5 Chinese dollars to 1 US dollar, but after the reform and opening up, the exchange rate has been falling, and it was not until 1993 that the downward trend of the exchange rate slowed down after it depreciated directly from 5.7 to 8.6.

The exchange rate of about 8:1 was maintained for nearly 15 years or so, until 008, when the economy was in crisis, it was considered to have risen.

That is to say, from the reform and opening up to 008, during this whole period, the Chinese people paid a huge price in the exchange rate in order to promote economic development.

It's just better than the Russians, whose exchange rate has fallen 50,000 times before and after.

"What does this mean" Kadannikov's head turned a little.

In the Soviet Union, he was one of the few economic management talents, but when it came to exchange rates, his head was somewhat insufficient.

"That is, if we owe the Volga Automobile Plant a million rubles now, then when the exchange rate depreciates, we will actually have to pay back only 100,000 rubles. Fang Chen explained.

In fact, it is even more cruel, if it can really be delayed for two years before payment, Fang Chen is expected to depreciate by at least two thousand times.