Chapter 97 Formation of the Chamber of Commerce
Vaccinia vaccination has been carried out in full swing in Gaochun County, which has effectively curbed the spread of smallpox plague. The neighboring county government saw the effect of Gaochun County, and also took active action, although the people's declaration gave a detailed introduction to the collection and vaccination process of cowpox vaccine, but for the sake of safety, all localities still sent special personnel to Gaochun County to learn the technique.
Of course, in the process of fighting natural disasters, the civil declaration also played a key role. The reporters of the people's declaration have gone deep into the plague-endemic areas to impart health knowledge and interview the voices of the people in the epidemic areas, which have won unanimous praise from all walks of life. Adhering to Han Fei's concept of "life is not expensive and there is no dead end in epidemic prevention", the reporter of the people's declaration promoted the pox technology to remote mountain villages, which played a key role in the comprehensive fight against smallpox plague.
For the first time in thousands of years, human society has curbed the smallpox plague, and this honor undoubtedly belongs to Han Fei, and it also belongs to the parents of Gaochun County, Leng Feng. After this battle, the future of the cold wind is self-evident. Therefore, after being effectively controlled the situation, he was doubly happy.
It's a pity that he didn't be happy for a few days, and he had new troubles.
The smallpox plague cut off the circulation of goods, and the prices in the county became higher day by day, approaching the limit of the people's patience. The reaction in the market is extremely bad, and in the long run, it is bound to provoke civil unrest.
If there is really a situation where the people are making trouble, everything that Leng Feng has done in front of him will be in vain.
"Doctor Han, now that prices in the city are soaring, the people are complaining, and if this continues, there will inevitably be chaos, do you have a good plan?"
Leng Feng's trust in Han Fei now, saying that it is "obedient to words" is not enough to describe, when encountering problems, the first thing he thinks of is Han Fei. Seeing that the situation was getting worse and worse this time, he personally rushed to Han Fei's mansion to ask for advice.
Han Fei has a wide range of information sources, and he naturally knows the market situation in the city well. He said in a deep voice: "My lord, the main reason for the soaring prices in the city is that the smallpox plague has caused the trade routes to be blocked, the source of goods is scarce, and a few bad merchants are hoarding and driving up prices. In order to solve the problem fundamentally, it is also necessary to open up trade routes. ”
"Doctor Han, this official doesn't know anything about things in the mall, how to open up this trade route?"
"My lord, the main reason for the impassability of trade routes is people's fear of the plague, as long as the psychological shadow of the merchants is removed, they will naturally have the willingness to go out and buy goods. In fact, this kind of fear is completely unnecessary, after vaccinia, there is no need to worry about being infected with the plague, what we have to do is to increase publicity efforts so that people can understand. However, even if the trade route is opened, it will take a process for goods to enter the city, and it will not be possible to suppress the prices in the county in a short time. ”
"Doctor Han, how should this be? The goods can't come in for a while, the prices continue to rise, and the people will make trouble! ”
"Don't worry, my lord, Xiao Ke has a plan. In order to calm the people's grievances, the key is to stabilize the prices of items closely related to people's livelihood, such as grain, oil, daily necessities, etc., and these goods, as far as Xiao Ke knows, the general merchants will have a large number of reserves, the reason for the price increase is completely because the merchants are reluctant to sell deliberately to cause tension and maliciously raise prices. What we need to do is to resolutely crack down on speculation, take out the goods hoarded by those merchants, sell them openly, and naturally lower prices. ”
"How is this going to be done?"
Han Fei pondered for a while and said: "My lord, let's act separately, Xiaoke can unite some merchants to form a federation to broaden the supply of goods as much as possible, sell goods at a low price, and block unscrupulous traders with market behavior." In accordance with the laws of Dahua, the adults used the power of the government to severely crack down on hoarders. Xiao Ke reused the influence of the people's declaration to widely publicize the significance of maintaining market order, and called on more traders to be conscientious businessmen. ”
Leng Feng frowned and said: "The location of the unscrupulous traders' goods must be extremely hidden, and the government's investigation and evidence collection cannot be completed in a short time, and it is difficult to achieve immediate results!" ”
"What's so hard about that?" Han Feilang said with a smile: "The routines of those bad traders, only they know best, adults may wish to issue a notice to encourage traders to report to each other, if the report is verified to be true, no matter how many goods are seized, half of them will go to the whistleblower!" This announcement is that driven by huge interests, someone will inevitably come forward. This also has the advantage that once someone reports it successfully, other vendors will quickly take out the goods and sell them at a reasonable price in order to avoid being reported. ”
"What a plan! Haha, this official is really worth the trip! ”
The establishment of a chamber of commerce is not a hot-headed idea of Han Fei, the scale of Han's industry in Gaochun County has reached the limit, and if you want to continue to develop and grow, you must broaden the development space. In fact, this is not a problem encountered by the Han family, and the main large households in Gaochun, such as the Wei family and the Zhang family in the south of the city, also have similar needs. However, going to other places for development is not as simple as sending someone to buy a store, and the interpersonal relationships, supply circulation, and competition with local businesses involved are very complex.
To solve this kind of problem, individual businesses acting alone are bound to greatly increase the cost of development. The best way is for several businesses to join forces, integrate everyone's advantages, and develop together.
Han Fei also privately exchanged ideas with Wei Xuan and other friendly businessmen, and received a positive response, but the time for the establishment of the federation was not yet ripe, so it was shelved. Nowadays, the chamber of commerce was established in the name of maintaining market order, which can show the role of the chamber of commerce at the beginning, and can be widely recognized by the government and the people, laying the foundation for future development.
On the night of sending away the cold wind in Zhixian County, Han Fei invited Wei Xuanhe, Zhang Yuanwai in the south of the city, and the representatives of the He family in Gaochun County, to urgently discuss secretly and reach an agreement.
The front page of the next day's civil declaration published two important news: one was issued by the magistrate of Gaochun County, which severely cracked down on unscrupulous traders who hoarded and raised prices in accordance with the law, and encouraged the reporting of unscrupulous traders. Another piece of news is that Hanfu, Weifu, Chengnan Zhangfu, Yipinxuan and other merchants have established a chamber of commerce, and solemnly promised in the name of the chamber of commerce to respond to the call of the government to actively maintain market order, and the merchants affiliated to the chamber of commerce will sell goods at a reasonable price.
One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the two news quickly became the focus of public opinion.
The announcement of the official government, as well as the subsequent actions of the county government, fully show that the cold wind of the county is real. Half of the seized materials, what a huge benefit, driving many people to move.
As for whether the Chamber of Commerce is a god, the people don't know for the time being, but as long as it is made by Han Fei, everyone enthusiastically supports it. The commitment issued by the Chamber of Commerce has put the people's enthusiasm into practice, and has received positive responses from many businesses.