Chapter Seventy-Six: The Feverish Market
?? It's finally the harvest season! Because the stock of sea cucumbers in his hand is too large, this time Hong Yanwu is no longer the sole leader, but a five-way move!
The first way was that he walked in the guest house with his "little hundred sons".
On the second way, he asked Chen Liquan and the "general" to protect the "three soldiers" and "shrimp crawlers" and go to the small market for bulk goods together.
On the third way, he found another trip to "Lao Fei", and asked him to introduce his relatives and acquaintances in Bincheng to sell goods to the outside world at the standard of five yuan per catty.
On the fourth road, he also used the same conditions to mobilize Han Ying, Xiang Hong and Fan Gang to find buyers through their local connections in Bincheng.
In addition, this Xiang Hong is not only Han Ying's friend, she has hooked up with "Shrimp Crawler" since the wedding, and now she is also a quasi-family member of "Sea Toucher". Dual identity, naturally more assured.
As for the last way, that is, Hong Yanwu also told Manager Xie that he was willing to exchange four catties for a box at a fixed ratio and get some Moutai wine through his door.
In this way, Hong Yanwu mobilized all the connections he had in Bincheng that he could use!
What he wants is nothing else, it is to make a profit in the safest way, it is a "fast" word!
On the other hand, the market is just as described by several "sea bumpers", and the frenzied temperature can literally boil the water.
Because as the saying goes, "the people are the ocean". Once it was found to be profitable, tens of thousands of citizens quickly jumped on board in a short period of time. A wide range of private funds are like a steady stream of streams and rivers, spontaneously and consciously converging into the "vast ocean" of the sea cucumber market.
At the same time, one after another exaggerated stories about the wealth brought by sea cucumbers began to appear among the public.
For example, there was an old man who took the money from his son's daughter-in-law and bought ten catties at the price of sixty yuan a catty, and only one day later he made sixty yuan as soon as he sold it. But he regretted it afterwards, because the price was going to go to seventy soon!
Some people also said that there was a "sea bumper" who owed a lot of debts, and this year he finally saved 50 catties of sea cucumbers in his hand, just to pay off the debt.
He always wanted to wait for the high price to be sold, but he didn't expect that the sea cucumber would become a white price before the "National Day", and people would be sick and rushed to the hospital for rescue.
But what he didn't expect was that when he went home to recuperate for a month, the sea cucumber actually rose to a sky-high price. Now as soon as he makes a move, he is completely haired. Not only did the old debt pay off, but also lost 3,000 yuan in vain, and there was no need to "touch the sea" again in this life.
Stories like this with strong psychological implications are being created and fermented every day, and the first people to invest in them are all leading by example, using the empirical evidence of their own profits, and constantly luring more people into getting involved.
As a result, people's greed was fanned like a fire, and under the social psychology of getting rich overnight, the "herd effect" was formed, and the price of sea cucumbers also produced a fission effect like that of an atomic bomb.
Not to mention 70 yuan, 80 yuan, 90 yuan, and even sea cucumbers crossed the sky-high price mark of 100 yuan without much or more, and marched towards the boundless universe market!
But the more this happens, the more people participate in the reselling of sea cucumbers, and the price of sea cucumbers becomes more and more deformed.
To tell the truth, Hong Yanwu's move of hoarding three and a half tons of light-dried sea cucumbers in advance from the fragile market has played a catalytic role in it, even he himself can't accurately estimate.
Anyway, in the case of the accumulation of various factors, he did rewrite the history of Bincheng, allowing Bincheng people to replace Changchun people, and became the first time after the founding of the People's Republic of China to appreciate what it means to be "crazy for money" mass group.
In fact, although Hong Yanwu and his team put the sea cucumber on the market without reservation at this time, the price of sea cucumber showed no sign of stopping. And no matter how much goods they release, they don't have to worry about selling them.
Because whether it is a business traveler in a guest house or an ordinary citizen in a small market, almost all of them are rushing to buy sea cucumbers one after another.
The most typical portrayal is the entrance to the seven major markets in Ben Thanh.
It is crowded and bustling every day, and there are many times more people outside the market who are speculating and selling sea cucumbers than people who are buying other agricultural products inside. And the main force here has also rapidly changed from retired elderly and housewives to young and strong working people.
Many people are out of work, either absent from work or taking time off, and they are here every day.
Just think about it, a person in Bincheng generally only earns a salary of dozens of yuan a month, and a few catties of sea cucumbers can earn a year's salary after a few turnovers, which is not much better than going to work!
And this is by no means a fantasy, it is not a moon in the water, a flower in the mirror, it can be seen and touched, too many people have become role models in this regard!
No one bothered to think deeply about why the low-priced dried sea cucumbers that could be seen everywhere before the "National Day" had become a rare and sought-after "silver ingot" in such a short period of time.
No one cares about how much sea cucumbers have risen, and no one thinks about whether the current price is reasonable, everyone only cares about one thing: where to find more sea cucumbers to resell for profit!
This fanatical pursuit of sea cucumbers has even spread to officialdom.
Many people say that it is useless to give any gifts when doing things now, as long as you send sea cucumbers, sea cucumbers are money! And they are big money, money that preserves their value! It is gold, and it is hard currency!
Driven by this speculation expectation, the whole Ben Thanh fell into an extraordinary fantasy and madness. The folk even began to spread a saying, "Although there are countless treasures in the sea, only sea cucumbers are heirlooms."
November 1977 has become an indelible stroke in the memory of Bincheng people.
A boil, a frenzy!
Ben Cheng is crazy, and so is the sea cucumber!
Of course, under the effect of such a huge wealth, after the formation of extraordinary excitement and fanaticism, some of the various criminal cases caused by this also appeared in large numbers.
It is said that an old man spent all his money to buy ten catties of sea cucumbers and hid them at home to hoard them for profit, but he was stolen one night, and he was so angry that he immediately lost his breath.
I also heard that the accountant of a unit used tens of thousands of public funds to participate in the speculation and sale of sea cucumbers, and after several successful transactions, he earned thousands of yuan, but unfortunately he was targeted by people after a market transaction, and was robbed by gangsters with knives on the way back, and the person was stabbed to death, and the money was gone.
These are all real tragedies caused by this feast of money, and they are all real cases that happened in the lives of the people of Ben Thanh.
But this is like silver being a companion mine of copper, which occurs every time there is a violent upheaval of social wealth, and there is no way to eradicate it. Even Hong Yanwu, who had anticipated this for a long time, could not completely avoid this.
For example, the house of "Old Knife Fish" entered the snitch one night. After this kid climbed over the wall and entered the courtyard, he searched and searched in the two warehouses where the "old saury" originally stored sea cucumbers.
To say that this kid is also unlucky, although he used the medicine bun to stun the "old knifefish" guard dog. But after the "National Day", Shao Juan, the daughter of the "old swordfish" who went to the countryside to cut the queue, went home to visit relatives and is living at home these days.
It so happened that the girl had a nervous breakdown, slept very lightly, and was more alert than a dog, and got up to look at it as soon as she heard a sound in the courtyard. And just when the thief found nothing and was about to leave, he just touched the courtyard wall, and showed his tracks.
Shao Juan was timid, and as soon as she saw a black figure, she trembled in her throat, but the "old knifefish" couple also woke up.
Don't look at the age of the "old knifefish", but the "steel-bone fork" he was born with, while letting his wife take care of his daughter, he picked up the harpoon and went to chase the black shadow.
The thief was not stupid, of course, he fled in a hurry, but because he was in too much of a hurry, he squatted when he jumped off the courtyard wall, and he fell into the mud. He didn't run a mile before he was caught by the "old knifefish".
One is injured with his bare hands and feet, and the other is angry with a harpoon, so it goes without saying who wins and who loses.
"Old Knife Fish" started with a fork, and with a flick of his arm, he knocked his opponent down. followed by a kick, but I didn't expect that when I was about to fork this kid's thigh, I found that this person turned out to be a "flying crab......
The end result of this incident was that the daughter of "Old Knife Fish" was scared sick and admitted to the hospital. However, the "old saury" let the "flying crab" go before the alarmed villagers of the fishing village arrived.
Hong Yanwu learned about this when the "old swordfish" came to the city to ask him for money for his daughter's medical treatment.
"Old Knife Fish" explained to him at the time that letting go of "Flying Crab" was not because he was soft-hearted at that time. It's because the "flying crab" is extremely shameless, and at that time he threatened himself with the hoarding of sea cucumbers.
I was also afraid that this kid would be blocked by the people in the fishing village, sent to the police station, and told everything to ruin everyone's affairs, so I had to let this kid go.
Hong Yanwu deeply thought about this and felt that the way the "old knife fish" was handled was very correct.
And in order to eliminate future troubles, nothing will go wrong. On the one hand, he told the "general" about the incident, and asked the "ba", "sea dog" and "dead corpse" to go separately to find the whereabouts of the "flying crab". On the other hand, the process of selling sea cucumbers has been tightened.
It's just that he didn't expect that all his calculations and precautions against "Flying Crab" were in vain. The boy has not been seen since, not even back to the fishing village.
Soon after, there was a rumor in the fishing village that the "flying crab" was eager to make money after the sky cleared, and ventured to the port to fish for sea cucumbers, but was shot by the Hong Kong police and died of injuries in the sea.
For this, the mother of the "flying crab" cried for a whole year.
The "generals" and these "sea bumpers" were also gloomy by this, and they sent money and goods to visit them several times, but each time they were turned away by the "flying crab" mother.
This old lady resented them, blaming them for leading the "Flying Crab" to this path in the first place, and even more blaming them for driving the "Flying Crab" away again, and letting him go unchecked.
Alas, things in the world are sometimes indistinguishable......