Chapter 1288: Price Hikes

Through the efforts of the company's publicity department, Beijing has now gradually restored order. All kinds of shops www.biquge.info Pen, Qu and Ge have resumed business, but the prices of various commodities have risen to varying degrees, especially the prices of grain, and the prices of various non-staple foods have increased the most.

After all, the Far Eastern Army has just occupied the Central Plains, and the people in various places are not too relieved about whether the future situation can remain calm, so the phenomenon of hoarding daily necessities has appeared among the people everywhere.

Of course, there are also a lot of human factors. A large number of businessmen took advantage of the people's unclear psychology about the future situation, wantonly spread rumors, incited, and hired a large number of low-level people to rush to buy goods.

This also makes the already tense situation even more chaotic, and the rise in the price of daily necessities, regardless of the era, often brings great pressure to people.

Especially when you find that everyone around you is grabbing shopping materials, even the calmest person will blindly participate in it, which also makes the atmosphere in various places extremely tense, and there is a kind of intensifying momentum.

Not only in Beijing, but also in other regions, food prices have risen again. With the rise in grain prices, grain stores in various places, including grain merchants in Beijing, saw that grain prices continued to rise, and they all closed their grain stores one after another and stopped selling grain, in the hope of continuing to push up grain prices.

The continuous rise in grain prices has also affected other commodities, and all kinds of non-staple foods, small commodities, daily necessities, and so on have begun to skyrocket, which has also caused a certain amount of confusion in various places.

In the face of rising prices, people everywhere began to panic, and every household began to queue up to buy various goods. The sudden change in the situation also made the company face the first crisis since entering the Central Plains.

Fortunately, the company has made a lot of plans before entering Zhongyuan, especially in the face of various emergency response measures. Among them, the panic caused by the sharp rise in prices is a simple solution, which is to provide large quantities of grain and other commodities to various localities in a short period of time to stabilize prices.

During the Central Plains Campaign, the Far Eastern Company controlled a large number of grain in official and military warehouses. The property and land of the vassal kings and their clans in various parts of the Ming Dynasty were also confiscated. And at the first time, they took control of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and seized a large amount of grain.

The Yangtze River Fleet of the Southern Corps also launched a plan to plunder the south of the Yangtze River, and the plan was very successful, greatly exceeding expectations, and it can be said that it made a lot of money.

Now all this grain has been transported to the major official warehouses and military warehouses in various places, because the quantity of grain is so huge, and even many areas are stored in temporary field warehouses, which can be used at any time.

In addition, the company also carried out mobilization, before the launch of the Central Plains Campaign, the company hoarded all kinds of materials in the southern Liaoning region and Jeju Island, and then sailed to the coast of Daming.

In the past two years, Vladivostok Industrial Zone has been working overtime to produce a variety of production and living materials, and the company's overseas control areas, including India and other regions, have a large number of sea ships loaded with a large number of grain, cloth and other materials to arrive in the coastal areas of Daming every day.

In recent years, the Far East has been preparing for the Central Plains, after more than ten years of development, as well as through the crazy plundering in the overseas control areas, it has also accumulated a huge family foundation, in addition to the food is still relatively tight, all kinds of production and living materials are included in the company's strategic reserve system, but also to prepare for the Central Plains.

Moreover, after more than ten years of development, the Far East Commercial Bank in various regions has already established a complete business network in Daming, and Yanran has become a business monster. Before the company entered the Central Plains, Far Eastern Group Commercial Bank hoarded a large number of materials in warehouses and stores in various places.

To put it bluntly, the Far Eastern Company has always been very rich and tyrant, and if it were not for the frenzied acceptance of immigrants over the years, the Far Eastern Company would have been even richer. Daring to fight a trade war with the Far East is basically an act of seeking death.

The Far Eastern Company was very angry at the behavior of a large number of businessmen in various parts of the Central Plains who collectively stirred up speculation and incited rumors. So the board of directors decided to teach them a hard lesson.

The method adopted by the Far East is extremely barbaric and effective, that is, the master has silver, some grain, some cloth, and some production and living materials, and the master uses a huge amount of silver and materials to stone you to death.

As soon as the company's mobilization order was issued, the main forces of the Far Eastern Army, the armed police force, and a large number of musket militia units in various parts of the Central Plains, as well as a large number of grassroots cadres who entered the Central Plains, all laid down their work and concentrated all their forces to deal with the crisis.

The phenomenon of looting supplies in various parts of the Central Plains lasted only a few days before it was declared to be over by the strong intervention of the Far Eastern Company.

As the political center of the Far East in the Central Plains in the future, the company acted most quickly in Beijing, because Tongzhou and the suburbs of Beijing hoarded a large amount of grain, so the company mobilized a large number of wagons to pull grain and other materials into Beijing.

After two days of frantic looting, the people of Beijing are very panicked, although the materials can be bought at a high price, but all the grain stores still do not sell grain, and you don't sell it for any money.

Moreover, the price of grain is one price a day, and it has been speculated to a sky-high price, so there is still no market. This also caused great chaos in the city, and if it were not for the large number of Far Eastern Army and armed police patrolling the streets with guns, the common people would have been able to go and grab food.

Early this morning, the common people of Beijing got up one after another, and they were distracted by rising prices in the past two days, and they had to go to the streets every day to grab shopping materials, for fear that the large scale would be robbed by others.

But as soon as they walked out of the house, they found countless horse-drawn carts full of grain driving into the city of Beijing. The company has set up dozens of grain sales points in several major neighborhoods in the city to sell grain at low prices.

And the prices are outrageously low, a fraction of the price of the many grain stores in the city. This also instantly detonated the entire city of Beijing, and the people of the whole city rushed to tell each other, one after another, with whatever household goods that could be filled with grain at home, and lined up in a long line at dozens of sales points in the city to buy grain.

At noon, a large number of horse-drawn carriages entered the city, this time pulling all kinds of non-staple foods and daily necessities, including snow-white refined salt, bags of sugar, all kinds of edible oil, spices, dried fish, dried meat, clothing, shoes and hats, cloth and satin, needles and threads, and so on.

This time, the Far Eastern Company went even further, mobilizing a large number of people and setting up stalls in front of the shops in the city, selling all kinds of goods in a big way.

(To be continued.) )