In Ping'an County, in an inconspicuous small bungalow in the south of the city, most of the members of the Ping'an County Grain Chamber of Commerce have gathered at the round table of the meeting to hold a chamber of commerce discussion. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Mr. Shi, how are you doing over there?" The speaker is a small grain merchant in Ping'an County, who started by setting up a stall and doing a small business, and after several years of hard work, he now has his own small shop. After the Communist Party entered the city, he saw a business opportunity, and originally wanted to take advantage of the Communist Party's unstable foothold in Ping'an County, and wanted to make a fortune, but he did not expect their counterattack to be so fierce. He went to apply for a business license several times, and the staff was very enthusiastic, but every time he went, he didn't handle it because of various problems. When it came to the deadline of the new county government's announcement, his business license was still not processed, but it was impossible for him to close the store, so he instructed the shop to continue to open for business, but he didn't expect his small shop to open the next day, and the so-called chengguan found the door as soon as possible, and informed him that because of the lack of a business license, his small shop was going to be closed for rectification. Seeing that the chengguan team members all had guns in their hands, he had to ask the guy to close the door of the store, wanting to wait for the chengguan to go away before opening the door. Unexpectedly, the chengguan actually left two people at his door. Now, his shop has been closed for two days now.

The middle-aged businessman named Mr. Shi looked embarrassed: "I haven't got a business license over there, and even my ancestral winery hasn't got that business license now." Ay~! My family's ancestral winery of 100 years is closed! Vice President Chu, how is your family's business license now? ”

Vice President Chu, formerly known as Chu Sheng, is a standard profiteer. Because of his active life, he has a certain relationship with the national government and the Japanese, so he controls nearly 30% of the food sources in Ping'an County. But because the grain in his grain store is mixed with sand, the shortage of catties and two, and shoddy are all the norm, the people in Ping'an County have more or less suffered his losses, and the people secretly call him a beast. Despite this, his business is booming because he has a fairly shrewd brain. In the past few years, he has made a lot of money by making a fortune in the country, and this time he hoarded food, which was the first day when the independent regiment entered Ping'an County, and the contact person began to hoard food. Because of this, he is the focus of Zhao Gang's attention now, and all his stores have not applied for business licenses, and they are now closed. It's just that he is still drinking tea with a calm face: "I haven't gone to apply for their so-called business license!" They are clearly targeting us with these policies! Unless you open a warehouse to release grain, it will be impossible for us to apply for their so-called business licenses. But I will make it clear to everyone now that we are now competing with them to be patient and see who can not bear it first! I have inquired, as far as the remaining grain in Ping'an County is concerned, it is estimated that it can last for 3 weeks, and if everyone is stepping up the purchase, Ping'an County will be short of food in 2 weeks. And now the roads around Ping'an County have been blocked by the Japanese, and the only way to get grain in is to cross the Yellow River and take the Tuba Road, so I believe you also know that it is impossible to get new grain without a month, plus the preliminary preparations, it will take at least one and a half months for the new grain to arrive in Ping'an County! Now it's winter, there is nothing to eat around, most of the grain harvested in the autumn has been sent away by the Japanese, as long as those untouchables have nothing to eat, they will make trouble with the county government, and then those dirt roads will beg us to open a shop to sell grain, and then everyone can make a ruthless payment! Just hold on! At least 3 weeks, up to a month, we can make a big profit! ”

"However, Vice President Chu, you are strong and can persevere, but we can't hold on, my store has been closed for two days, and the daily loss is not a decimal, so if it goes on in less than a week, our little family will have to be exhausted!" It was a small businessman who spoke.

The words of this small merchant caused a nod from the people around them, although they were closed, but in order to keep the skilled men in the store, their wages had to be paid, and they had to count some losses after the store was closed, especially those with restaurants, some of their ingredients would be broken after a long time. And their losses are more than that, now that they are closed, their regular customers have gone to other stores, and these losses cannot be calculated.

Chu Sheng put his hand on his chin and thought about it, the life or death of these small businessmen was not within his care. Although one of them does not occupy too much food reserves, they can't help but have a lot of them! They almost occupy 2 layers of the grain reserves in Ping'an County, if they can't hold on to opening the warehouse and release grain, they can't get the grain in Ping'an County to hold on until the new grain faints in, and then he will have to die.

In order for these people not to affect his plan, Chu Sheng could only consider whether these people were dead or alive. After thinking for a while, Chu Sheng slapped the table and said, "You hold on, I'll go to President Hu first, as long as he agrees to store grain, then Ping'an County may be short of grain within a week!" ”

President Hu in Chu Sheng's mouth, the president of the Grain Chamber of Commerce, formerly known as Hu Changming, the largest grain merchant in Ping'an County, he alone accounts for nearly 4% of the grain market, he is different from Chu Sheng. If Chu Sheng is a standard profiteer, he is a standard businessman with a keen sense of smell and a smart brain. In the eyes of the people of Ping'an County, he is an honest businessman, and his things are never short of catties and quality problems; In the eyes of his peers, he is an unpredictable shrewd businessman, he will not do anything loss-making, nor will he give up any opportunity to make money, and at the same time he does not seem to have any position, when the Japanese occupied the county town of Ping'an, he did not refuse to sell grain to the Japanese like those patriotic businessmen, nor did he report the Eighth Route Army and the Kuomintang who bought grain from him like the pro-Japanese businessmen; In the eyes of the local government, he is a law-abiding businessman, the Kuomintang at the time, in the face of the national government's harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, he never has a penny, the Japanese came, in the face of the heavy taxes of the Japanese, he also paid on time, and now the Communist Party is coming, he is the first to apply for a business license.

Because of Hu Changming's attitude, he has a certain prestige among the people of Ping'an County, that is, he has a good relationship with the Japanese, the Kuomintang, and even the Communist Party. But his behavior has always been unpredictable, when most of the grain merchants in Ping'an County were stocking grain, he did not store grain, but when the grain was getting less and less, his grain price was increasing step by step, which constantly drove the grain price in Ping'an County to rise! But Zhao Gang can't say anything about his behavior, just like Chu Sheng said, if Hu Changming also starts to stock up on grain, then the grain stored in Ping'an County is only enough for a week! Therefore, Zhao Gang explained very early that the staff should not embarrass him when applying for a business license. Now Hu Changming's attitude has become the key.