Chapter 52 Price Hikes

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On the day of their trip to Hong Kong, the state decided to liberalize the market prices of 13 kinds of famous tobacco and liquor.

As soon as the news came out, there was a rush to buy famous cigarettes and liquor in the Special Economic Zone. Recently, within three hours of opening, the stock of tobacco and alcohol in several stores was snapped up, and a thrilling wave of price increases began.

Fenjiu rose from 8 to 40 yuan, Gujing Gongjiu rose from 12 to 70 yuan, and Chinese cigarettes rose from 1.8 yuan to more than 20 yuan per pack...... Li Xiaoshan, who originally planned to get rid of it at 280 yuan per bottle, pulled the wine to the alley next door to the Sugar, Tobacco and Liquor Company with Wu Xiaozhu and Wu Xiaojun, and a pound of Moutai wine has jumped from 20 yuan per bottle to 300 yuan.

Forty-three boxes of Moutai were sold out in a blink of an eye, and the profit was as high as an astonishing fifteen times!

Immediately afterwards, there was gossip that the prices of various commodities would increase across the board from next month. Sure enough, the Central People's Radio really broadcast the news of "breaking through the price barrier", and the sudden nationwide rush to buy, coupled with the inflationary tiger that came out of the cage, immediately plunged the entire social economic order into chaos.

For a time, department stores, supply and marketing cooperatives, sugar, tobacco and liquor companies, and friendship stores were full of people queuing up to buy things. Other goods that are not within the checkpoint have also begun to increase in price, causing a series of chain reactions.

Vegetables, stockings, milk powder, coal products, toilet paper, toothbrushes, toothpaste...... From food and clothing goods, to school fees, parking lot fees, and even repair and service fees at individual stalls, they have all risen.

It was the height of summer, and the people of the SAR actually snapped up sweaters and pants that they couldn't wear in winter!

Some people snapped up a dozen boxes of laundry detergent, and some people snapped up hundreds of boxes of matches. Salt is the most nervous, and the people in front of the queue are buying hundreds of kilograms and hundreds of kilograms. People are like crazy, they buy things when they see them, they don't care whether they need them or not, they don't care about the quality, they want the refrigerator to have air conditioning, and they want the TV to produce an image...... Even the usual unsalable goods are not missed.

The retail sales of commodities have surged tenfold or even hundredfold, and the salesmen of the commercial system and the supply and marketing system are so busy that they can't even win the transportation by cleaning up and putting them on the counter, and many store salesmen are working on the day shift for more than ten hours, and the drivers and pick-up clerks are working on the day shift at night.

At the same time as queuing up to buy goods, there were also long queues at the gates of various banks, vying to withdraw money. The only thought people have is that money is worthless, just exchange it for goods.

Many people don't dare to go to the street to buy vegetables, and they spend more than a dozen yuan, and they are dizzy when they look at it. Young people with a monthly salary of sixty or seventy yuan dare not fall in love, saying that they can't afford to talk about it because they have no money, and they don't dare to take them to the street if they have a girlfriend, for fear that it will be difficult to do it when they eat.

Ordinary workers cannot afford to support a child, and experienced middle school teachers have to go outside the school to teach part-time in order to support their families, engaging in "self-help". A large number of companies are complaining about the increase in the price of raw materials, and in turn they have begun to shout that the price of their products should increase. So much so that even the supposedly high-paid NB Electric employees dare not go to the street to eat, because ordering two dishes casually is half a month's salary.

"Lao Li, what does the charter say?"

Although she had been prepared, Hu Meiqi was still anxious in her eyes, and as soon as she finished appeasing the employees who had been locked up for four days, she rushed to ask if there was any news of the Hong Kong headquarters.

Li Xiaoshan sighed secretly, and said casually: "It's still the same sentence, so let's not be impatient." ”

Huang Li'an, who came together, was so anxious that she looked at the workshop below, and then looked at the crowd on the road to rush to buy, and said worriedly: "Mr. Li, it's not okay to go on like this, the workers are almost out of the mood to go to work." ”

"That's the ideological work is not in place."

Standing and talking without backache, Huang Li'an was made ridiculous, and couldn't help but say: "Although they have food and shelter, and even daily necessities, they also have a family." Mr. Li, I really can't do this ideological work, why don't you try it? ”

It is unrealistic to raise wages, and even if the prices are soaring now, even if they rise, they will not solve any problems. What's more, the current standard is already very high, and it is not so easy to go up and then down.

Anyway, the company has done its best to do this, and only by letting them suffer a small loss can they truly understand the company's good intentions.

Li Xiaoshan weighed it and said resolutely: "Since the ideological work can't be done, and they don't have the heart to go to work, then take half a day off and let them do what they want to do." But you have to tell everyone in the front, the price increase is only temporary, if you really buy a lot of useless things back, it will be too late to regret it. ”

"Okay, I know what to do."

With Li Xiaoshan's order, the factory gate was like opening the gate to release water, and employees poured out from their respective workshops one after another, scrambling to run outside.

Hu Meiqi was very worried, and asked in a low voice: "Lao Li, is it appropriate to do this?" ”

Li Xiaoshan raised his arm, pointed to the crowd of black people at the entrance of the store in the distance, and said with a wicked smile: "After holding them back for four days, the ones on the market that should be snapped up have already been snapped up, what else can they buy now?" I'm afraid I'll have to wait in line until tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. ”

"I knew you weren't so ruthless," Hu Meiqi suddenly realized, and after thinking about it, she asked: "The price is rising everywhere, and everyone is complaining, who earned the money?" ”

She directly excluded the charter, after all, compared to such a large market, those hundreds of cases of high-end wine that ordinary people would not buy at all could not set off any waves.

"You're still the vice president, you don't even know this."

In these years, if you choose a term that everyone hates, it is "down" and "official". For the same commodity, there are two kinds of prices, both inside and outside, and the high price difference has also given birth to this group of people. They use people or companies with government backings and resources to buy at a planned price and then sell at the market price, making a high difference in the spread. A considerable amount of government subsidies for state-owned enterprises and urban residents have fallen into the pockets of this generation, including the charter.

After dealing with the government departments for such a long time, Li Xiaoshan saw it clearly, and said with a wry smile helplessly: "Not to mention, how many companies in the Luohu District alone are established by the relevant bureaus, committees, offices, and departments of the province and city or directly subordinate to the relevant departments to deal in raw materials and industrial products in demand?" How many commercial wholesale enterprises are actually engaged in business in the name of 'consulting' and 'development'?

Nominally, those government-run companies are 'independent accounting', but in fact they are backed by leading departments, and they are engaged in overt decoupling and covert decoupling. Even the chairman and general manager are real power figures appointed by the leadership department, or influential second-line officials. There is no separation between government and enterprises, power is business, and the difference between the planned price and the market price is not small, plus the deduction on the price issued by the invoice, plus a few hands in the circulation link, the price will not rise exponentially. ”

"So in the final analysis, it's a matter of the state?" Hu Meiqi will be skeptical.

"Whether it's the country or the individual, it doesn't matter much to us anyway. Most of the raw materials are imported, and most of the products are exported, as long as the workers are appeased, everything is not a problem. ”

As he was talking, a jeep came speeding over, and after a closer look, it turned out to be Director Zhou of Xiang Development. The people in the bank can't be offended like the people in the government, so Li Xiaoshan hurriedly went downstairs to greet him.

"Director Zhou, why are you coming here to me at this time?"

"Mr. Li, I'm asking your company for help."

Director Zhou looked very anxious, and he didn't even bother to take the cigarette and said straight to the point: "Depositors are crowding to redeem, and major banks are in a hurry. It is said that a bank in a neighboring province had its counters overturned because it had no money to give to depositors. You know that we just formed last year, the financial strength is not so strong, and the People's Bank is tight, so I can't count on it for a while, so I can only ask you, the rich man, for help. ”

Li Xiaoshan was confused, and asked puzzledly: "Director Zhou, I promised not to run on the phone yesterday, can't you trust me, so you have to come to say hello in person?" ”

"Where can it, Mr. Li's reputation is well-known, if you weren't magnanimous, the second king of the province would have to jump off the building. I came here in person to ask if your company has any cash in finances? If so, can you deposit it in our bank first? ”

Afraid that Li Xiaoshan would refuse, Director Zhou added: "The interest is easy to say, and there are prizes!" If necessary, you can also increase the credit line for your company in the future, and you will never be as petty as ICBC and ABC. ”

The people from the bank came here to borrow money, Hu Meiqi was happy, and couldn't help but joke: "Director Zhou, in addition to letting the provincial second construction advance at the beginning stage, who does our NB Electric owe money?" Your line of credit isn't of much use to us, so let's be practical. ”

Director Zhou was ecstatic and asked eagerly: "So Mr. Hu, did you agree for Mr. Li?" ”

Hu Meiqi smiled: "It depends on whether you are sincere or not." ”

"How much cash can you squeeze out?"

"There should be one or two million, part of it in the Agricultural Bank of China, part in the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and a small part in postal savings."

Dead friends don't die in poor ways, and now their eyebrows are burned, who cares about the lives and deaths of others?

Director Zhou didn't care that if he had money, several other banks would be run, and said without hesitation: "The turnover is one and a half months, and the interest is calculated according to the five-year deposit." ”

"Where's the prize?"

"A color TV imported from Japan and a refrigerator imported from Japan, and a hundred boiling water bottles will be given to you."

In the end, it is the first joint-stock bank in the country, and it is more flexible than those state-owned banks. The more than 2 million yuan that had just been remitted from Nanbin was not run on in the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and the Agricultural Bank of China, and they were stunned that they did not issue a single cigarette or say a good word, let alone give prizes and interest increases.

There is a loan from HSBC at the Hong Kong headquarters, and there is no problem with the funds, and the more than two million yuan cashed out by Moutai will not be used for a while, Li Xiaoshan simply agreed: "One hundred boiling water bottles are not enough, at least one hundred and forty." As for cash...... Go back and let the finances of the electrical division and the electronics division be transferred to your Xiang development, but in the front, it can only be a month and a half, otherwise it will affect the normal operation of the company. ”

"It's still Mr. Li's refreshment, you can rest assured, at most a month and a half."

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PS: Lao Han, with a complicated feeling, reports to you a big news that I don't know if it's good news.

I just received a text message from the station, saying that this book has passed the preliminary review of Sanjiang, and it will be reviewed next. At this critical moment when Sanjiang recommended the "final judgment", changing the title of the book seemed a bit out of place, and after thinking about it, it was decided to suspend the implementation, and if Sanjiang could not be listed, the name change action would be initiated.