Chapter 313: Prices Soar
The number of people in the dry continent has increased. The consumption of materials has also increased
The importance of De'an Port was immediately reflected, no matter how rare the commodity, whatever can be bought in the capital, there is nothing that cannot be bought in De'an. No matter how large the transaction, anyone who can afford to pay for it can receive the goods. Many of the major trading houses that control the sales of goods in Daxia have focused their transactions on De'an. Some commercial banks with shallow qualifications and chasing high profits are even more greedy for Dean's zero-tariff policy and have migrated.
In contrast, Jingcheng and Huang Jin's reactions were as slow as an old lady who had broken her foot, not only moving slowly, turning slowly, but even her ability to observe was declining. The ministers of Great Xia discussed every day how to contain Cheng Jinzhou, but few people put their ideas on revitalizing the port and excluding De'an.
Perhaps in their eyes, such a task would be thankless, although they could not think of any other idea.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Shi Yan led three commercial houses to purchase a wide range of cotton, linen, bamboo and wood, and the Star Alliance seemed to be quite interested in natural products rich in cellulose. The price is satisfactory. It's also important to be able to supply and trade in bulk. If it was more than half a year ago, Dr. Cheng's purchase method might have been revealed. But now, De'an has made more than one-sixth of the summer turnover with a small freshwater wharf, and the daily business contacts have reached a point where ordinary people can hardly distinguish with the naked eye.
A ship comes, a ship goes; A convoy of cars comes, a convoy of cars goes; A mountain rises, a mountain. These are ordinary scenes that can be seen every day, Cheng Jinzhou is mixed in, pretending to be a change of hand transaction, except for Shi Mo and Shi Yan who know a little, no one knows that countless materials have been sent to the Star Alliance.
Those grain merchants, cotton merchants, hemp merchants, bamboo merchants, sugar merchants, and timber merchants only thought that De'an's business was easy to do, and they poured in one after another. Not to mention normal trading behavior, even during the war, good businessmen also have to do business.
At least the sales of the old Wan Xing Yuan per day. It is not too much money to exchange for silver, and it is easy to maintain the allowance of low-cost grain.
After about two weeks, the supply on the market suddenly began to gradually decrease.
Shi Yan began to feel normal, but quickly. The reaction of the merchants made him wonder. While he was still purchasing, the supply of some materials was reduced for no reason, and at the same time as the price of things such as timber increased, they would be out of stock, and commodities such as grain, which should be easy to maintain their value, began to fall wildly. These strange problems are all the materials listed on the list by Cheng Jinzhou, relatively speaking, the prices of other materials are either unchanged or slightly increased.
He wasn't a man who had been in business for more than a year, after a short observation. Shi Yan hurriedly sorted out the prices and fluctuations of various materials and went to report to Cheng Jinzhou.
Cheng Jinzhou, who had just won the title of three-star warlock, was full of ambition and confidence. So, he decided to have a good time and live the life of an aristocracy.
He placed a chaise longue at the top of the Starmancer's Tower, a small table next to it with a variety of snacks, juices, and low-alcohol wines, and a shy green frost crush on the chaise longue at the other end of the small table.
Green mountains and green waters, thousands of sails far away, beautiful girls, there is nothing more to cultivate sentiment than this.
In a peaceful atmosphere, Cheng Jinzhou still persuaded: "Like me, it is very comfortable to wear less, apply olive oil, and bask in the sun." De'an is not far from the sea, how good it is to sunbathe. β
Olive oil comes from the Far West and is a luxury for the astrosorcers.
"It's not like you." Although Liu Qingshuang said this, she exposed her calves and forearms, and reclined on the chair to record the nuts.
Cheng Jinzhou happily munched nuts and dried meat, drank juices with different flavors, and chatted with Liu Qingshuang nonsense. The nuts of the century are valuable, but the nuts of Daxia are as many as you want, and they are pure natural and pollution-free. Pine nuts, walnuts, and hairy nuts are easily achieved after dozens of chefs' research. There are more types of dried meat and juices, and after professional chefs carefully prepare and blend them, they are far more delicious than the quantity of products.
Liu Qingshuang also enjoyed the conversation with Cheng Jinzhou, didn't have to think too much about things, and got to know each other.
She doesn't understand what modern love is, but she will feel the same way.
Both of them like this kind of afternoon leisure very much, and when the waiter at the door knocked on the door, Cheng Jinzhou was extremely unhappy and shouted: Don't bother me with small things. β
Shi Mo whispered to Shi Yan, "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't dare." β
After speaking, Shi Mo raised his voice again: "Third brother, Shi Yan said something about buying and selling. β
Cheng Jinzhou is now self-reliant. But according to the rules of the aristocratic family, if he is not married, he is still a brother.
"Come in." Liu Qingshuang put down her trouser legs and sleeves and whispered.
Cheng Jinzhou sucked the juice depressedly, the straw is made of a kind of soft bamboo, choose the bamboo that has just grown to the age of the year, hollow out the middle and soak it in odorless herbs, and repeatedly knead it until the fibers are soft, so that it can be bent at will, compared with the plastic straw, the contact between the bamboo straw and the lips is more comfortable. Of course, it's best not to consider the price, just the price of feeding a dozen craftsmen is not something that ordinary people can afford, and the cost of making zuΓ² is the same.
Shi Yan carefully pushed the door open, smiled like a flower, and apologized: "Third brother, it's really not normal to buy and sell in the current port, so I came to report." β
"Sit down and talk." Liu Qingshuang said a word and left the heavenly nose in a curling manner.
Cheng Jinzhou watched the girl leave, sighed and said, "If there is only one problem, there is no need to talk about it." β
His trading behavior with the Star Alliance can be called dumping, which must be problematic.
"It's the whole market that's not normal." Shi Yan looked left and right, sat on the small horse on the ground, took out the Wen JiΓ n he was carrying, and said: "Third brother, I usually buy the things in the list you handed me when I see that there is a suitable one, and sometimes I will deliberately dry them for a few days, but recently, the prices of many of my goods have risen. β
"Hasn't it been up for a year?" Cheng Jinzhou didn't care. The things he bought will not enter the market circulation, and the final result will definitely be a situation where demand exceeds demand, and the price of linen once doubled, and now it has risen more than a year ago.
"There are some things that I haven't bought, and they have all risen, such as bamboo and medicinal herbs, which I haven't bought for two or three months."
"Isn't it the supplier's malicious price increase?"
Shi Yan said with a bitter face: "In the last half month; Many suppliers are no longer coming to Dean. Except for Qin Yu Commercial Bank, several other commercial houses have negotiated the price with me, saying that they will send things over only after the price is negotiated, and I have not yet agreed, but if it is just to raise the price, they will not dare. β
Cheng Jinzhou's face turned cold and said, "What is the reason? β
"I'm looking for someone to ask, but the firms are hiding it."
"You can't." Cheng Jinzhou said categorically: "You go to my father now." Forget it, let him come forward to gather people from various business houses to talk
Considering Cheng Yunan's temperament, Cheng Jinzhou felt that Cheng Yunxiang might be more suitable to come forward. And he is the identity of Jinfeng in Golden State. It is equivalent to the vice governor of Jinzhou Province, coupled with the identity of the Cheng family, no commercial house dares not to give face. As for Shi Yan, the firms at most regard him as a descendant of a wealthy family, and will not casually confide in trade secrets.
In fact, if it weren't for the fact that commodity trading was so important to Cheng Jinzhou, he wouldn't have set foot lightly.
He wrote a short two-line letter, and Shi Yan took the order and left. Cheng Jinzhou lay back in his chair, but he no longer had the previous leisure.
He knew in his heart that even if the production level of Daxia was low and the process of commodity exchange was low, materials such as grain, which could be bought and sold for tens of thousands of tons, would not cause a nationwide price increase unless someone deliberately did so.
Expand to dozens of goods. If it weren't for inflation, war disasters and other factors, it would not have been possible to skyrocket prices.
"Someone is driving up prices? Or is it worse to abandon it? "Cheng Jinzhou is a little smaller. Make a rhythmic grunt.
At dinner time, the five fourth-level star warlocks ate with Cheng Jinzhou, Lu Xu, and Liu Qingshuang, and happily shared real rice. With Li Xianfeng's cunzΓ i, several high-level high-level star warlocks quickly recognized the value of real rice.
In the Star Alliance, although there are also foods that can increase the body's essence, the price makes it impossible for ordinary astral warlocks to eat it every day, and the effect is even less than real rice.
Taewoo hugged the bowl with emotion. Said: "When I was still an apprentice of the Star Warlock, I ate high-grade rice with my teacher once, and I remember that time it was an article, and the influence was enough for 6 points, and now I recall it. It's like a world away. β
"In a hundred years, it is five generations." Jiang Huang feels the same way. If it weren't for Cheng Jinzhou's cotton fruit, he would have accumulated enough original contribution points, and in another thirty or fifty years, his life would have come to an end.
The age of the fourth-level star warlock is generally there, and they are over the age of Tian, touching the scene and talking to each other about the past years. Li Xianfeng quietly picked up the rice, still not eating any dishes. In the time between the chats of several astral warlocks, she had eaten three bowls perfectly.
The two maids stood in front of the rice pot and scooped the rice attentively, that is, they would be able to keep up with her and Lu Xu.
Among several people, Hui Minren cared most about aristocratic etiquette, chewing slowly and paying attention to the expressions of others.
Seeing Cheng Jinzhou's eyebrows, he did not show up. He joked rarely: "Mr. Cheng is worried that we will eat all your real rice?" β
When he told jokes, his face was straight, as if he was asking strictly.
"Where." Cheng Jinzhou sighed as he spoke, and said, "My purchase of goods is a little unsmooth, which may affect the progress of the research. β
The only thing he is currently working on is chemical purification, which is enough for casual cover-up.
"Can't buy it, or is the price too high?"
"It's the price boom lately. And I didn't buy it, it's weird. Cheng Jinzhou put the chopsticks on the bowl and patted his head.
Li Xianfeng continued to eat violently, and took the time to say quickly: "If you didn't buy it, it doesn't mean that others didn't buy it." β
"But what I want to buy, the price is rising without waiting for the move, and what I want to sell, the price is falling without waiting for the move." Cheng Jinzhou's first feeling when he saw the number of jΓΉ was this.
Hui Minren said casually: "Maybe someone is doing the same thing as you?" I had one time back then."
Cheng Jinzhou's face changed greatly, and he didn't have time to eat, so he turned around and left the table, leaving a circle of people looking at each other.
Birdword: I was hoping to show the structure in the book, but I'd like to explain it.
Real rice. This bird is not a problem.,Everyone seems to be worried about the popularity of real rice.,Causing the protagonist's advantage not to be there.γ Popularity is inevitable, but the protagonist's strengths are not diminished by this. For Cheng Jinzhou, the question is when it will become popular, just like undergraduates are worried that migrant workers will steal their jobs, and doctoral students don't have to care. Professors will want to have a lot of good graduate students under their staff, not elementary school students. Since the invasion has been caused, the world will not remain in dust. This is especially true from the Covenant's point of view. In addition, there will be more advanced grains, and the current real rice has no effect on the metamorphosis like Lu Xu and Kant, who are above four star points.
2. What is the use of mathematics and physics? In fact, mathematics and physics only need to have a basic role, explaining its own value, as for the higher applications, in this book, in fact, the Shen Xing warlocks discriminate against the application of mathematics, profit is the disadvantage of modern society, literati and writers waste decades of youth, thousands of hours, what is the use of writing a good word? Most literati are not yet among the literati who sell words. Poetry and songs, high and low, in this world, nobility is the most important, tired like a dog, working for an hour every day, no matter how much money is to create value for the society, work two hours a month, do what you want to do. That's what it means to enjoy life. Is it better for the astrologers to study mathematics and physics, to live a life of grace and pleasure, and to be respected and envied by countless people, and to pursue a longer life, rather than to be dirty politicians? Although this does not mean that they are pure people at heart, it at least shows that they do not live by eating garbage. One final note. A lot of scientific research is meaningless in itself. If I have to say that it makes sense, it is also for the future. Stephen Hawking went to study black holes, except for writing "A Brief History of Time" to make money, but there was no practical role? The more basic the research, the more so. Just as Plutarch said about Archimedes quoted earlier in this book, the astral sorcerers should also be dedicated to the pursuit of the wonderful, unadulterated by the needs of the world.
3. Newcomers to the Star Alliance. What should come will always come, the loser who has been laying the groundwork for a long time.
4. The relationship between the Astral Warlock and the government. Many people think that if the star warlock is so powerful, he will have to control the government, or there will always be an star warlock who will control the government, such a thing is born in the extreme west, but it does not mean that it will also be born in Great Xia. There are many small countries in Europe, and they are not destined to be devoured by big countries. And. Whether the astral sorcerers need it, whether they want to take control of the government, is another matter, as previously said, the astral sorcerers are in pursuit of a long life. Respectable, and there are more than enough supplies. If the government of ordinary people is in power, the astral sorcerers can get it, why go shirtless and do thankless work? This is like the storage of Chinese state-owned enterprises, the proportion of possession is less, it does not mean that the country will suffer, and the astromagicians will eat.
Of course, occasionally the sorcerers will be interested in interfering with the government, just like state-owned enterprises will occasionally eat up the fat private enterprises.
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