As early as ten days ago, the chaos in Mincheng had appeared, and no one knew that it was a collective strike petition of miners, but everyone knew that the prices in Mincheng were chaotic, and all kinds of rumors were spreading. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Some say that the Qi people fought back, and even broke through the capital; It is said that the pirates are attacking and have already plundered the province; It is also said that the severe drought in the upper reaches of this year has caused prices to skyrocket......

Rumors cannot be groundless, and they are naturally instigated by well-intentioned people. The speculators didn't know what was going on at first, but their keen sense of smell told them that something must have happened.

Civilians are afraid of accidents, even wars or droughts in the mountains, but these disasters are the best stage for speculators.

On the one hand, they quickly inquired about the news, and on the other hand, they bought out some grain stores overnight, and quickly drove up prices.

The biggest fear in the cities is food fluctuations, and these speculators do not need to buy all the grain, but only need to spread rumors to cause panic and buy a batch of grain appropriately.

Naturally, such a small grain merchant will smell the problem and associate the rumor that even if there is food in the store, he will not sell it, but wait until the price continues to rise.

There are times when businessmen can do some good deeds, but they will not let go of this opportunity to stock up and raise prices.

Even if the big speculators are behind the scenes, these small traders also play a role in fueling the trouble.

In just two days, food prices have risen fourfold and look set to continue to rise. The speculators had gotten the news and were excited about the petition of the hired laborers.

According to their assumptions and past experience, this kind of thing will definitely kill people, and even if they don't die, they will be in chaos for a while. Moreover, when these people enter the city, robberies and thefts will occur frequently, and people will be afraid and uneasy, and they will definitely want to buy more food and dare not come out.

Moreover, the speculators imagined that it would be best if these people started a riot, so that they could make a bigger profit, and the riot would fail anyway, and the skyrocketing prices brought about by the riot would be a gift to them.

Even if the official figure comes forward, it can be regarded as owing these speculators a favor, and there are many officials in the dividends.

Under their control, food prices fluctuate day by day. The burghers have long been in the habit of storing large quantities of food, and it is unlikely that the real common people will have the money to store large quantities of food.

The officials were in a mess, they didn't know what was going on at the time, and in terms of their control and their own will, there was no way to level the price of food, but a large part of the population wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to make a profit.

In this situation, the speculators believe that their opportunity to make a fortune has come - even if the price of food rises, it is not their responsibility, but the laborers. When the time comes, it will be pushed all away, and the official will give money, and this reason itself can be used, and it will not cause you big trouble.

However, it is not only speculators who want to take advantage of the chaos to make money, but also those who are secretly watching these speculators like poisonous snakes and have long been prepared.

On the day when the price of grain rose extremely fast, four ships of grain arrived at the dock and were immediately bought out by speculators. Counting the speed of the spread of the news, the speculators felt that they had at least a month and a half to make a big profit—it took time for businessmen elsewhere to make money by transporting grain here on a large scale, and they were making such a time difference when they smelled business opportunities in advance.

The difference in the price of the grain earned by these four ships made up for the expenses of the party's property activities this time, and as for some of the dividends of the cadres, it was Chen Jian's private property, which was not counted.

Subsequently, the grain purchased by Chen Jian privately was also quietly transported to Mincheng from the safe harbor in the north by ships that were not his fleet.

The number is not much, and every time it arrives, it is bought short and hoarded, although the speculators want to make a time difference, they think that their sense of smell is sensitive, but they do not expect that this time difference has already been calculated.

They did not think of a more important question -- the questions and doubts about prices, prices, and so on, which still hung on the walls of the red brick building, which was the domain of bourgeois political economy, and it was not yet deep, but at least there were people in the Mexican Party who were really beginning to think about the two seemingly simple words of economy.

The ships that have been entering the port for several days have finally attracted the attention of speculators, but the matter has come to this point, and if it is stopped at this time, it will be in vain.

Even if you vaguely feel that something is wrong, you still have to hold on, otherwise you will lose completely.

In order to make the people in the city more panicked, and in order to sell more grain, the speculators sent people to secretly set fire to their warehouses where they hoarded grain with tung oil one day.

There was not much grain in it, but the fierce fire burned in the morning, burning half of the sky, and Mincheng knew that the grain merchant's warehouse was on fire, so he panicked even more.

Lighting a fire in the morning, that's also said. If you light a fire in the morning, it will appear that the fire is very strong and easy to attract people's attention. At night, the fire will be bigger, but there may be people who risk death to carry food outside, and it will not be able to take care of it when it is dark, and if it burns in the middle of the night, many people will not be able to see it.

It's just that the speculators didn't know that Chen Jian had prepared a lot of grain, and he had calculated the time difference early, and spread rumors about the price of grain in Mincheng in the upper reaches of the Min River and neighboring counties.

On the one hand, there were rumors, and on the other hand, the people sent by Chen Jian were buying grain on a large scale there, and even unloaded expensive goods such as glassware, steel ingots, and alkali on ships and stored them on the docks of neighboring counties or large river estuaries.

The merchants knew very well that if nothing happened, they would not make much money by transporting grain. Especially compared to things like glass, if you can get merchants to give up the business of glass and go to the grain transfer, it is obviously very profitable.

Moreover, Chen Jian's trading company is no longer limited to a small Min County, from FRP ingot cement to the later spread of photography, ginning machines, etc., it can be regarded as a big name in the big cities along the coast. Such trading companies have gone to transfer grain, and something must have happened in Mincheng, if you wait until the news comes, I'm afraid the daylily will be cold.

Speculation was inherently risky, and Chen Jian made a time difference, after which the speculators from the rest of the counties and counties that he had instigated followed him for about ten days and transported a large amount of grain to Mincheng -- once they arrived in Mincheng, they could only sell it, and it was not cost-effective to transport it back.

Chen Jian's own capital has too much to do, it is too scattered, and it has to set aside some to deal with emergencies. Therefore, in the matter of grain, he can only make a small profit, and at the same time maintain the stability of prices in Mincheng, and defeat the grain speculators in Mincheng, this kind of thing still has to rely on the capital of the rest of the merchants.

On December 20, Chen Jian had already made a fortune from grain speculation, and could have continued to earn it for a few more days, but he did not do so.

The previous low-level investigations, which relied on places such as grocery stores and soy sauce shops, have once again played a role, and the control of the Moxican Party over the grassroots has been vividly demonstrated.

When prices skyrocketed, many people at the bottom did not choose to ask the officials, but went to the places where the Mexican Party was active to ask for an answer, by the way, to ask these people's opinions, or to ask them to borrow some money to buy food......

It's a small thing, but behind this little thing is a big thing.

On the one hand, before the city-wide petition had already taken place, Chen Jian went door-to-door through the grassroots organization, telling them not to buy food until they had eaten up the food in their homes for five or six days. There will be food, and everything will turn around.

The trust accumulated before can last for three days, which is already a great level of trust at the grassroots level.

On the other hand, after the whole city learned about the cause of this incident on the 21st, all the grain that Chen Jian had purchased enough for the bottom of the city for five days entered the port, and a large amount of grain transported from the upper reaches of Mincheng also quickly entered Mincheng.

The Central Party Department of Mexico mobilized the wharf workers who controlled the basic market, and according to previous statistics, delivered grain from house to house, and ensured that there would be a steady flow of grain.

It is not sold, but rationed and distributed, and the money is given after the normal grain price is stable, and the grain price is guaranteed to stabilize within ten days.

The five-day amount is exactly the amount of food stored by the citizen class, which is a kind of psychological comfort.

The various grassroots organizations have unified their voices, dominated public opinion, denounced the actions of the speculators, and returned the sewage that the speculators had poured on them.

The people at the bottom know very well who they should believe: on the one hand, there are speculators who continue to raise prices, and on the other hand, there are members of the Mexican Party who lend them grain at population parity.

At the same time, two days ago, the Mexican party contacted the gang leader in Mincheng and told him that he wanted to fulfill his promise.

Without further ado, the gang leader also sensed the problem, but he didn't expect it to be done by these people from the Mexican Party, and then he realized that the energy of these people could be compared to himself. I couldn't bear to let Mincheng become like this.

understands the difference in strength, some things are impossible to talk nonsense, plus the people of the Mo Party have also given him enough face and lining, money and dividends, the previous kindness and the banquet of upper-level figures like Chen Jian, have all been done.

In this case, the hooligan leader stepped forward and strictly prohibited theft and robbery for ten days in the gray area, and used the 400 silver coins to distribute to his subordinates, and his prestige soared for a while.

As a result, before the hired workers came to Mincheng on the 24th, there was an extremely strange situation in Mincheng.

The city looked depressed and in chaos. But the usual activities of hooliganism, blackmail, robbery and the like almost did not happen, as if even those prostitutes were good, and no longer shamelessly solicited customers.

The price of grain in the city has risen again and again, but the bottom does not buy, the speculators harvest the middle, Chen Jian harvests the speculators, and then transfers the hatred to the speculators.

On the evening of the 24th, Mincheng was quiet but not chaotic, and grain ships from nearby counties had already arrived in Mincheng, and grain prices were falling rapidly; The pickets kept the law and order in the streets, and the petitioning hired workers slept quietly in their tents; The city fox rats converged and avoided the pickets, while complying with the requirements of the grayzone leaders; The petition stated that as long as the conditions were agreed, the coal would be transported into Mincheng within two days; The middle class denounced the speculators, but was sympathetic to the petitioners; After a meeting with the top brass of the Mexican Party, the representatives of the business expressed their willingness to act as mediators and support the miners' petitions......

The old county guard, who has always liked to be with the mud, said a word to the officials.

"In addition to collecting taxes, the Mexican Party has done everything we have to do."

Those who don't understand it feel that this is a no-brainer; Those who understood, sighed, or were ashamed or surprised.