It is said that when the grain is obviously sufficient, why are there still so many people who hoard and fry grain, still go their own way, and do not listen to advice at all, just to hoard grain and fry grain, that is, to make this ill-gotten gain?

And the more it came to the end of the dynasty.

The more chaotic the world, the more serious this hoarding phenomenon becomes, and the main target is food.

Why is this happening?

What can be done to solve this problem? Can the use of force and mass murder be prevented?

In fact, the most fundamental reason is that there are too many rich people in the people, and the idle funds are too huge, and capital is born with the desire to multiply, and food is a necessary thing for everyone, and the risk of speculating on food is very low, but the profits are very good.

The principle is the same as that in modern society, people are keen on speculating in real estate and stocks, just because they have more spare money and want to multiply and make profits, as a result, they will speculate on what the price of things rises, and they will speculate on what there is a shortage, or take the initiative to create heat and actively speculate on the price of certain things, so as to achieve the purpose of arbitrage.

That is, the speculative behavior of 'speculation' has existed since ancient times.

The reason why there are so many merchants, nobles, gentry, vassal kings, etc., in the Ming society, are tired of this, and they fry grain and hoard grain year after year, the most fundamental reason is that they have too much free gold and silver on hand, rather than hiding in the cellar to get moldy, it is better to take it to hoard grain at a low price, sell grain at a high price, and make at least three or five percent of the profit every year, which is simply very happy, so that the family wealth snowballs and grows.

This simple and crude model is very effective, and the more you reach the end of the dynasty, the more profitable it is, as if you have entered the final harvest period, like a game of wealth is about to decide the winner, theoretically, as long as the poor do not rebel, their end is to be cleanly harvested, to be completely eliminated.

This is not determined by the level of human morality, but by the nature of the money game.

Xu Yuan has read the data obtained by some experts through research, and has given some research conclusions that he feels are very contrary to common sense.

For example, during the most affluent period of the Song Dynasty, the per capita consumption level was about 30,000 yuan in modern society.

The private gold reserves of the Ming Dynasty may have exceeded 8,000 tons, accounting for eighty percent of the world.

Before the Opium War in 1840, China's GDP did account for 40% of the world's GDP, and it grew negatively at an annual rate of -1.5% for nearly a hundred years, and it was not until around 2020 that China finally caught up with the wealth level of 1840 - not the standard of living, only the value of property.

This can be shown that the ancient dynasty of China, at its peak, was extremely developed and wealthy, which may be much beyond the imagination of modern people, and most ordinary people do not necessarily live in poverty and misery, and the history of thousands of years is extremely dark, etc., this conclusion is not necessarily correct.

But in any case, at least until 1840, the land of China was a land of countless wealth.

Because the price was equal to the price of the same weight of gold silk was sold for thousands of years.

Expensive tea, which is only available in the East, has also been sold for hundreds of years.

There are also fine ceramics and other products, which are luxury goods that are not available anywhere else in the world and can be sold at sky-high prices.

For example, many Chinese people in modern society are sought after Western brand-name bags, clothing, luxury cars and other products, contributing trillions of sales every year, these people who like Western luxury goods will not realize that their ancestors are experts in selling luxury goods to Westerners, and they are sold for hundreds of thousands of years, I don't know how much gold and silver have been earned from the West, but later generations are not angry, most of these wealth has been lost, not to mention, countless treasures and cultural relics have been robbed, and they have turned around to buy Western luxury goods. Looking down on their own domestic things, the ancestors are afraid that they will be angry to death if they know about these things.

Of course, for Xu Yuan, the Ming Empire in Chongzhen's eight years is undoubtedly still a place where the people have accumulated countless wealth, and this accumulation is not only the accumulation of more than 200 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, but the accumulation of the past thousand years!

Even though Xu Yuan has earned more than 200 tons of gold and 1 billion silver dollars in profits through the sale of glass mirrors, mechanical watches, soaps, bicycles and other products over the years, is there only so much wealth for the people of the Ming Dynasty?

According to conservative estimates, at least a thousand tons of gold, and more than three billion silver dollars, have not fallen into Xu Yuan's hands.

And one-tenth of this wealth is enough to buy 300 million stone of grain.

This is why those who hoard grain and fry grain, all of them are full of confidence, and this time they are going to make a lot of money, and the vast number of middle and lower class people in the Ming Dynasty want to avoid starvation, I am afraid that there is only one way to buy sky-high grain with bankruptcy.

As for Xujiazhuang, they are completely ignored by them, and they do not think that Xujiazhuang can hinder their plans to make a fortune, even if Xujiazhuang puts low-cost grain on the market, but they will eat as much as they put in, and they will never allow grain prices to be lowered anyway.

……

So from August 20th.

Take the price of hulled wheat in Beijing as a reference.

Millions of people in the capital found that on the 20th, the price of wheat was the lowest, only 35 yuan a catty.

On the 21st, the price rose to 40 wen per catty.

On the 22nd, it skyrocketed to 50 wen per catty.

Then I saw the rise, but it was difficult to see the fall, which caused hundreds of people to complain.

At this time, in the appeal of many people, like a savior, Xujiazhuang announced that grain would be released to curb grain prices, and stated in the "Oriental Times" that grain prices would not be allowed to continue to rise.

Therefore, on the 23rd, Xujiazhuang released 45,000 stone of wheat, priced at 35 wen per catty, and was immediately snapped up.

On the 24th, 30,000 stone of wheat was released, with a price of 40 wen per catty, which was still sold out in a short period of time.

Then, at a rate of releasing 30,000 stones per day, the price was kept at about 40 wen per catty, but even if measures such as limited purchases were taken, they were quickly snatched up.

And that's just the capital.

Xujiazhuang also set up cheap grain sales points in more than 40 cities such as Tianjin, Nanjing, Yangzhou, and Harbour City, throwing an average of 1.5 million stones of grain every day, but they were all snapped up by various forces, and even if the grain price was temporarily suppressed, it would rebound in the afternoon, and it would be difficult to suppress it for a long time.

In cities and areas that are not covered by cheap grain sales points, the price of grain has soared to 70 wen, 80 wen or even 100 wen per catty, resulting in the purchasing power of one silver dollar being reduced from the original 350 catties of rice and noodles to only 10 catties.

It also led to the rise of basic civilian resources such as miscellaneous grains, sugar, cotton cloth, and coal, and caused hundreds of people to be anxious and angry, scolding profiteers for being unscrupulous every day, while Xujiazhuang, which insisted on not rising sharply in price for most of the people's livelihood commodities, won countless reputations and praises.

It's just that the foundation of Xujiazhuang is in Yangzhou, and its influence radiates to Nanzhili at most, and the prices in this area can only be stabilized, and it is difficult to manage it when it comes out of Nanzhili.

It's September.

Xujiazhuang has intensified its efforts to throw grain.

In early September, an average of 3 million stone of grain was thrown per day.

In mid-September, grain arrived in the south, and an average of 5 million stone of grain was thrown every day, and finally the high grain price was reduced to about 20 wen per catty.

However, this momentum did not last long, and by the end of September, the intensity of grain dumping had dropped to 3 million stone per day, and grain prices had rebounded significantly.

This time.

Xujiazhuang's surplus grain reserves have been reduced to less than 200 million stones, and according to the current intensity of grain dumping, it is estimated that it will not be able to hold out for 70 days, and at most it will last until the end of the year.

This made Xu Jiazhuang have to reduce the intensity of grain throwing to about 2 million stones per day, and published a number of articles in the "Oriental Times", calling on people to reduce food consumption, and issued initiatives such as these -

[It is enough for each person to eat four taels of food a day, and the rest can eat more meat, eat more fish and drink more milk to ensure the diversification of food sources]

[Vegetables should be eaten about six taels a day, and then add one tael of oil, which can also save food consumption]

[Did you eat candy today?] Sugar is a high-energy food, and then eat some peanuts, melon seeds, dried dates, preserved fruits and other snacks, and the feeling of fullness is equivalent to eating]

[Call!] Consumers who enter restaurants in Harbour City should eat more food and drink more alcohol, eat as little as possible, and save food for the people in food-deficient areas.

After the above news reports came out.

Nanjing, the residence of the Duke of Wei.

The nobles gathered together laughed heartily at this moment.

"Hahaha, I only eat four taels of food a day, and the rest eat fish, eat meat and drink milk, Xu Jiazhuang can even make such a 'why not eat minced meat' words!"

"It seems that Xu Jiazhuang has nothing to do, so he can only use this method to deduct some food from between his teeth, but does it work, and how much food can he save?"

"Xujiazhuang, this is a poor donkey skill."

"If we hold on for another 100 days at most, there will be no extra food in Xujiazhuang's hands, and we can only watch us get rich, even if we grit our teeth with hatred, we can only cry out in vain, unless they are hungry and don't eat, they will also squeeze out food to fight against us."

"Hehe, how much grain can Xujiazhuang squeeze out? If we release 100 million stones, we will eat 100 million stones, and if we release 300 million stones, we will eat 300 million stones! Unless Xujiazhuang can come up with more grain and have the ability to support all the people who are short of food, and persist until next summer's harvest, the question is that Xujiazhuang has so much grain, can it last so long? ”

"To oppose the merchants, gentry, and nobles of the whole world, and to want to win against us in terms of grain, is a fool's dream!"

"Yes, Xujiazhuang doesn't know how strong we are, we have never lost, Xujiazhuang's cheap grain is impossible to send to the mouths of most of the people, only we can, but we must increase the price several times, we control most of the grain sales channels, don't buy our grain, they can only starve to death!"

……

Henan, Luoyang City, Fuwang Mansion.

"Lord, the cheap grain sales point in Xujiazhuang has put grain again today, the quantity has been reduced to 10,000 stones, and the price is 30 Wen / catty, how much is more appropriate for us to send someone from Fuwangfu to buy?" The housekeeper stood in front of the obese Fu King Zhu Changxun and asked.

"30 Wen a pound? Eat as much as you can! Try not to get caught by the mud legs. Sitting on a recliner, Zhu Changxun, who was so fat that it was difficult to sit up, said.

"Yes, lord."

"By the way, how much surplus grain does Xujiazhuang have in reserve, and how long can it be stored?"

"It's less than 200 million stones, at most about three months, Lord Wang, or we should collect less grain, and there are less than one million taels of silver left in the house." The butler suggested.

"Keep receiving, until you run out of money!" Silver can't be eaten, grain can be eaten, and it can be sold at a higher price, and it doesn't matter if you put it in the granary for a year or two. "Extremely business-minded Fu Wang Dao.

"It's the prince!" The butler nodded.

A similar scene also occurred in the palaces of the kings of Zhou in Kaifeng, the palace of King De in Jinan, and the palace of King Jin in Taiyuan.

Including the vast number of gentry landlords, businessmen behind the officials, etc., they learned that the surplus grain of Xujiazhuang could not last long, and they all bought a large number of them, even if the price was 3~5 silver dollars / stone, they were crazy to buy, only waiting for Xujiazhuang to run out of ammunition and could not support the low grain price, and then from the heads of the vast number of Ming people, at least double the harvest back!

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