In order to quell the turmoil of price hikes in various places, the Far Eastern Company mobilized a large amount of grain and other materials in a very short period of time and transported them to various places through various means, quickly quelling the chaotic situation. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

A few days later, except for some relatively remote areas with relatively closed transportation, where materials have not yet been fully rolled out, the prices of various production and living materials, including grain, in other areas have fallen rapidly.

In particular, the effect is best in large cities such as Beijing, Tianjin, Xi'an, and Luoyang, where prices have risen wildly for only two or three days, and then the prices of various commodities have been smashed back by the overwhelming supplies in the Far East.

Faced with the large amount of grain and other materials brought into the city from the Far East, all the shops in the city were full of horror. They didn't expect the Far East's response to be so fast, let alone that the Far East's financial resources were so strong.

In fact, the people who really instigated this turmoil were a group of big businessmen from all over the country, and behind these people were the shadow of the gentry and bureaucracy. This time, as if they had discussed it in advance, they unanimously launched this chaos, and the timing was very good.

They colluded together to stir up wind and rain and maliciously raise prices. The essence of businessmen is to pursue profits, and some small and medium-sized businessmen also take the opportunity to make waves when they see that there are huge profits to be made. This also made the Central Plains quickly evolve into chaos in just a few days.

In fact, these big businessmen just saw that the Far Eastern Company had just entered the Central Plains and had a stable foothold, and they couldn't mobilize too many materials for a while, so they definitely had to rely on them to calm down the turmoil. If the Far East wants to put an end to this chaotic situation, it will inevitably have to rely on the support of businessmen everywhere.

However, if the Far East wants their support, it is bound to come forward to negotiate with them, and at that time, in order to win over these businessmen, the Far East will of course give these businessmen appropriate sweetness.

These big businessmen are rich and rival countries, and they don't care about these petty profits. Once the Far East finds them, these big businessmen will use the resources in their hands to quickly quell the turmoil.

The reason why these businessmen did this was mainly to show their strength to the Far East, or to help the Far East calm down this turmoil through them and establish a certain relationship with the top leaders of the Far East. Maybe there are also shadows of the gentry class behind them, which can be regarded as a temptation of the feudal forces in the Central Plains, or a declaration of existence.

After all, for thousands of years, China has never been the subject of capital, and power will always override capital, which is the opposite of Western society. So no matter how big the capital is, if you don't have the power to escort it, sooner or later you will have to be stripped alive by life, and in the end, there will not be even a little bone and scum left.

In order to calm down this turmoil, of course, we cannot take too tough countermeasures, after all, the vast majority of small and medium-sized businessmen are involved, and too tough will inevitably make the situation in various places worse.

And these big businessmen helped the Far East to calm down the turmoil, and then donated some grain and silver, fully unleashing their goodwill to the Far East, as the future ruling class of the Central Plains, the Far East will inevitably safeguard the interests of these big businessmen in the future.

As long as the two sides establish a foundation of mutual trust, these big businessmen and the gentry class behind them will slowly win over the high-level people in the Far East to escort their future business.

But this time, the wishful thinking of these big businessmen and the gentry class behind them was wrong, and the Far East did not bird them at all, but relied on its own resources to quickly quell the turmoil in a very short time.

Not only that, but the Far East has also mobilized a large number of supplies to carry out large-scale fire sales in various places regardless of the cost. As far as the grain is concerned, because of the severe drought for many years, the grain price in the north of the Ming Dynasty has been high, and it has even been speculated to a sky-high price.

Although food prices have fallen a lot in the past two years due to the gradual recovery of the annual situation in various places, it can still be said to be sky-high compared with Wanli years. Merchants everywhere hoarded large quantities of grain, and the price at which they collected it was not low.

But this time, the Far East didn't care about the cost at all, and sold grain at a crazy low price, and the price was even much cheaper than the purchase price of those grain merchants. In this way, the first to suffer are the grain merchants in various places, who buy a large amount of grain at a high price, and the hoarded grain is also piled up, but the Far East is like digging their ancestral graves.

Not only the grain merchants in various places, but also all the big families with some wealth, every household has hoarded a lot of grain. In fact, this is the case in all disaster years, and it is always more cost-effective to store food at home than to save silver. This can make them miserable, anyway, the food they hoard at home, just pointing to their own family to eat, has to eat for more than ten years.

What's even worse is the big grain merchants in various places, if all the grain they have stored is added together, it can definitely be described as an astronomical amount, more than the grain of the imperial court. No matter how much food those big families have saved, there will always be a day when they will run out, but the food they have saved is so much that it can only rot in the end.

First of all, some small grain merchants and small grain stores that can't bear it, they have opened their doors and started to sell grain at low prices, after all, they can't compare with those big grain merchants, and almost all of their net worth is pressed on it. Over the years, they have taken advantage of the sharp rise in grain prices to make a lot of money, and all the silver they can earn has continued to be fed, and all of them have been pressed on it.

Now if you throw all this grain out, although you will lose a lot of money, you can recover the silver. Anyway, all the black-hearted silver they have earned over the years has been poured back this time, and they have to pay a lot of money.

They thought it was good, but after a few days of opening the door, no one went to them to buy food. Even if they keep the price of grain lower than that of the Far East, except for a few people who like to take advantage of small advantages, most of the common people are still willing to go to the Far East to buy grain.

In recent years, there have been severe droughts in the Ming Dynasty, and the prices of grain and other goods have risen upward, making the business of grain stores also rise. Not only that, but whenever there is a big fluctuation in grain prices, these grain traders begin to stop selling grain and wait for grain prices to continue to rise wildly.

If the people of Daming hate anyone the most in recent years, there must be these grain merchants anyway. The common people hated them so much, and now seeing them in such a predicament, they almost set off firecrackers one by one.

For more than ten days in a row, the Far East was still frantically selling grain in various parts of the Central Plains, without the slightest intention of stopping, and it was still transporting grain to the city in a steady stream.

Now even those big grain merchants can't bear it, and if it goes on like this, when the people buy enough grain, the grain they have hoarded for many years can only rot in the end. (To be continued.) )