Since the reorganization of the Royal Consortium into a state-owned consortium, the capital expansion has not stopped there, but has become more rapid.

The development of Northeast China, the development of the South Seas, and the development of Australia are all dominated by state-owned capital. Among them, the development of the Northeast and the South Seas, private capital is greatly involved. On the issue of developing Australia, the entry threshold for private capital is relatively high, and there will be relatively little private capital entering Australia.

The reason why the development of the Northeast and Nanyang regions allows private capital to enter is mainly to speed up the development speed, so as to establish a commercial grain base, and at the same time enable Daming to have a tropical agricultural product resource production area.

In terms of Australia's development, it is very similar to Taiwan's development method, which is a model in which state-owned enterprises are absolutely dominant, and then supplemented by consortium businessmen, and it is difficult for ordinary private capital to enter the main field.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the scale of development in Taiwan has become larger, and the cultivated land has grown to tens of millions of mu, of which 7 million mu have been planted with rice.

These lands are newly developed and contain high nutrients, so the rice yield is basically more than 2 stones, and these rice fields have no problem with two crops of rice a year, and some can be planted for three crops.

After the summer, Taiwan also ushered in the harvest season, and a large number of rice entered the harvest period. At this time, it was a drought in Fujian, and the government organized a large number of disaster victims to work in Taiwan, which just solved the problem of lack of labor during the busy agricultural season. A large amount of rice has been successfully harvested, and the yield of this rice season alone has exceeded 14 million koku, which can be processed into rice of about 10 million koku. At this time, Taiwan's population had just exceeded 4 million, and a population's annual grain consumption of 1.5 stone was basically enough, and the fishery developed rapidly. In addition, under the development of chicken and pig farming. Cereal consumption continues to decline.

After two crops of rice mature. Taiwan was able to export 14 million stone of rice to the mainland last year, and many of these rice began to be imported to the southern provinces last year in an attempt to stabilize grain prices in the south, but in the end they all failed, and the impact on grain prices in the south was very small.

Jimin Grain Bank is the first state-owned joint venture to enter the southern market, and as soon as it entered the southern market, it was rejected by grain merchants from all over the country.

There are many local grain tyrants who manipulate grain prices, and they use huge amounts of money and those official forces to collude with officials and businessmen. As a result of this operation, grain prices have been maintained at a relatively high level.

The entry of the Jimin Grain Bank into the southern market quickly had a calming effect on the market grain prices, and it was naturally rejected by those grain tyrants. It's just that these grain tyrants soon found that they basically had nothing to do with the people's grain.

Jimin Grain Bank is a state-owned joint venture of the emperor, and it is basically impossible to use the power of officialdom to suppress it. Even if any governor comes out to do something, the Jimin Grain Store is not afraid at all, let alone the local sesame petty officials, as long as they dare to find the Jimin Grain Store is not comfortable, the Jimin Grain Store will make them uncomfortable. At this time, the emperor did not rectify the southern officialdom, which does not mean that the emperor has nothing to do with them. It's just that I don't want to touch them for the sake of the overall situation.

Jinyiwei and Dongchang are the two generals who escort Jimin Grain Bank. No matter how big an official is, he will take it when he says it.

As a result, many grain tyrants decided to use commercial means to squeeze out the Jimin Grain Company, and some grain merchants began to eat a large amount of the cheap grain of the Jimin Grain Company, and then hoarded grain to raise the grain price, and in order to make up for the losses, these grain merchants almost formed a united front, and jointly raised the grain price to a very outrageous level, which made the people complain for a while.

Last year, Taiwan's rice had just been imported to various provinces, and the Jimin Grain Bank had just imported the rice into the market for sale, and it was not long before it was maliciously snapped up by those grain merchants.

Cao Jinyu, who runs the Jimin Grain Bank, is not a fool, since last year, the Jimin Grain Bank has encountered this problem when it entered the southern market.

The horror of the capital of the southern merchants is simply unfathomable, after all, it is the wealth accumulated for decades and hundreds of years, and any rich family is a wealth of hundreds of thousands of taels.

It's just that the power of these southern businessmen is relatively scattered, capital is not concentrated in normal times, and the vacancy rate is also very high. Many merchants hid their silver and did not use it all for business.

Last year, the Jimin Grain Bank did not have any effect on the stabilization of grain prices in the south, and Cao Jinyu chose to hide it and not release it, and this year secretly transferred 8 million stone of rice from Taiwan in batches and sent it to Nanzhili to hoard it, and then sold it to the market again in the form of grain at a low price.

The most serious problem of grain hegemony is in the Nanzhili region, especially in the Nanzhili region, where the collusion between officials and businessmen is the most serious, the gate valve is also the largest, and the capital operation is tens of millions or tens of millions. Although the salt merchants were raided by the imperial court and cracked down on some gate valves, there were still a large number of scholar gate valves.

Taiwan's rice is coming, and the affordable grain of Jimin Grain Bank is on sale again. The grain merchant alliance in Nanzhili took action again and began to rush to buy a large amount of cheap grain.

As if they hadn't found out, Jimin Grain Store didn't make any purchase restrictions at all.

Cao Jinyu sat in a restaurant in Nanjing, looking at the hot sales scene of the Jimin Grain Store opposite, and the personnel sent by the grain store bought cheap rice one after another, which was simply a rhythm of how many wants. The grain store is constantly putting rice on the shelves, and the scene is hot and busy.

"Huh! Let you snap it up, and soon there will be a time for you to cry. Cao Jinyu laughed a little sinisterly, and asked the general manager of the Nanzhili region on the side: "How much rice has been sold?" ”

"A total of 8 million stone of rice has been transferred from Beizhili, and now 4.5 million stone has been snapped up." The general manager of the grain bank in Nanzhili replied.

"Let's stop for a few days and announce the sale to the public. Let them be proud for a few days. Cao Jinyu said, "We will supply it at a low price in a few days." ”

On the same day, the Jimin Grain Bank announced that the parity grain would be sold, and the grain merchants in Nanzhili immediately rejoiced and celebrated, thinking that they had successfully bought up the parity grain of the Jimin Grain Bank again, and they could manipulate the grain price on a large scale.

As a result, only a few days later, Jimin Grain Bank once again released affordable grain. These grain merchants suddenly roared and gathered the funds together again and began to rush to buy cheap grain.

If a large amount of this affordable grain is allowed to flow into the hands of the people, then what will they do in business?

I've already acquired so much, and I don't care about acquiring more. So the grain merchants of Nanzhili took action again and bought out the parity grain of Jimin Grain Bank, and the parity grain was released again a few days later.

These Nanzhili businessmen have no idea how much of this affordable grain is, because they don't know the rice production data in Taiwan. There is no private investment involved in Taiwan's agricultural production, and most of them are operated by state-owned enterprises, which is equivalent to saying how much rice Taiwan has produced this year, which is information that grain merchants in Nanzhili cannot obtain.

The greatest advantage of monopoly capital lies in the monopoly of information, and this information is monopolized by state-owned capital at this time. At the same time, what the grain merchants of Nanzhili did not know was that Jimin Grain Bank mobilized 8 million stone of rice, all of which were transported to the Nanzhili area.

When the Jimin Grain Bank intermittently released the 8 million stone of rice, these Nanzhili grain merchants rushed to buy more than 6 million stones, and they began to sit on wax, and they had already had a large amount of money trapped in it. The price of grain in the Nanzhili area itself is relatively high, because the degree of commercialization is the highest here, and the parity grain is sold for 2 yuan per stone. These grain merchants have been trapped in more than 12 million yuan.

Many grain merchants began to have poor capital turnover, and successively withdrew from the ranks of rushing to buy parity grain, and the parity grain of Jimin Grain Bank finally began to be sold to the people, and it didn't take long for the few remaining parity grains to be sold out.

At this time, the grain merchants of Nanzhili breathed a sigh of relief, and the cheap grain was finally sold out, and the next time was to manipulate the market. According to the amount of capital contributed, these grain merchants divided the market share of grain sales, forming a 'cartel monopoly model', that is, a commercial alliance model that agreed on the price and market share, so as to monopolize the market and obtain huge profits.

The disadvantage of this monopoly model is that it is easy to break the contract, but in the social environment of the Ming Dynasty, every businessman is supported by official forces, which is equivalent to saying that whose market share is large depends on the capital and the background. But absolutely no one dared to flip the table and directly destroy this monopoly.

At this time, the Jimin Grain Store was going to come out and turn the table, which was naturally their common enemy.

Since it is politically impossible to get the people's grain bank, it is necessary to start from capital and the market, and it seems that the effect is still good.

It's just that these grain merchants haven't been happy for long, and something has happened again.

First of all, the "Daming Daily" reported on the manipulation of grain prices by grain merchants in Nanzhili and the wanton rush to buy grain at parity prices, and soon the matter of grain merchants manipulating grain prices in Nanzhili spread all over the north and south of the river, and quickly caused an uproar in Nanzhili, and the people of Nanzhili were angry and strongly condemned these unscrupulous profiteers.

In the past, it didn't matter how these ordinary people condemned it, they just pretended not to know or heard it, and the grain could be sold at as high a price as it should be.

But the real driving force behind it is the emperor.

The people's anger has been mobilized, and the next step is not simple, directly coercing the public opinion to raid unscrupulous profiteers.

On the day that the "Daming Daily" reported that the grain merchants in Nanzhili were manipulating grain prices and snapping up low-priced grain for the benefit of the people in the imperial court, Zhu Youxiao ordered the court to raid the grain merchants in Nanzhili who participated in the manipulation of grain prices.

Dongchang and Jinyiwei drove directly into all parts of Nanzhili with their troops, and began to arrest grain merchants everywhere who participated in the rush to buy cheap grain, and raided all the warehouses where those grain merchants stored grain. If silver can be hidden everywhere, a large amount of grain cannot be hidden.

With the seizure, the cheap grain that was snapped up returned to the hands of the Jimin Grain Bank, and the more than 12 million yuan of silver that had been cashed out before was handed over to the state treasury.

Moreover, it was not only the cheap grain that was snapped up by these grain merchants that was seized, but also a large amount of commercial grain transported from Huguang, and more than 7 million stones.

In order to avoid riots, Zhu Youxiao sent three infantry divisions, plus marines to Nanzhili to sit in the town. (To be continued.) )