For the next period of time. This side of modern society. The Wonder Group continues to increase its sales efforts, frantically selling a variety of high-tech products.

There are even a variety of new products launched. For example, ultra-high-performance computers, smartphones, and game consoles.

There are also some drugs that work well and treat a wide variety of diseases with immediate results and are not expensive.

In addition, a small nuclear fusion power station has been installed in the underground space of the Magical City, which brings a steady stream of electricity to the factories, office buildings, and residential areas of the Magical City, and the price is complete.

A large indoor vertical farming factory has also been built to produce a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables to meet their own food needs.

There are other aspects of operation and so on. In short, on the one hand, it makes a lot of money from the market and accumulates a lot of cash income.

On the other hand, it is to achieve self-sufficiency as much as possible, so that more than 95% of the goods and daily necessities can be produced in-house, and even the electricity is generated by itself, supplied and used, and in this regard alone, it can save billions of electricity a year.

Combine both. The ultimate goal, in fact, is very simple, that is, in order to get rid of external dependence and reduce cash expenditures, only to pay employees salaries, need to use about 200 billion yuan of cash per year, and there are very few places to spend money in other aspects.

So what is the real purpose of the magic group to do this, while making money and saving money, while reducing all kinds of spending, so that the cash accumulated in hand will soon exceed 10 billion, 100 billion, trillions, and the owner has extremely large capital reserves, so that other companies and institutions are envious and drooling.

In fact, the magic group is doing this, or wants to accumulate more cash, so that when it encounters a similar crisis in the future, it can use the huge cash flow of the reserve to support more events, instead of being quickly consumed cash reserves, and in a hurry, it is only two or three years, it gives people a feeling that they are about to go bankrupt, which is absolutely not good.

The minimum cash guarantee must be able to maintain for more than 10 years when the group does not have much cash income.

It is best to be able to persist for 20 or 30 years, the longer the better, only in this way can everyone be more down-to-earth and not easily fall into panic.

Even hundreds of thousands of employees of the group have expressed their support, and even want to deposit the cash on hand into the company's account, which can be used to jointly resist risks at critical moments.

"In 30 years, I hope to have a cash reserve that can pay more than 30 years' salary, preferably 5 trillion or 10 trillion yuan, which can allow me to work until I retire at the age of 65."

"Stability, such stability, is what I like and need, the crisis some time ago really scared me, I worry about my wife's divorce every day, and my son can't change to a good school."

"Hey, I feel that I have no good choice, I can only work with the group until I die in this life, I am not competitive elsewhere, and the work efficiency is not high, although I have a little ability, but my temper and character are also easy to offend people, and I will be fired after a long time, hey, my life has been bound to the group, and it has long been a community of destiny."

"I'm the same, I suddenly feel that I am very vulnerable personally, even if I have millions of deposits and cash in hand, but if the group fails, how long can I sit on this money, and can I ensure that my children can have an easier life? These are not guaranteed, but as long as the group has been working, I will donate all my savings to the group to tide over the difficulties, and I can live well, but the group can't do anything. "Therefore, the magic group that has entered the accumulation mode, and it is estimated that a large amount of money will be saved every year for a long time, or put the money into some long-term treasury bonds and long-term deposit projects, and eat a little bit of interest.

In addition, the Magic Group also stores a lot of resources other than funds. For example, gold. For example, silver.

There is also a focus on the storage of brass. and a lot of rare earth metal resources. There are also some high-performance chips, drugs with a long shelf life, and some products such as batteries, which are also stored a lot.

Speaking of storing these things, is there any need and meaning, just save more cash?

Of course not. Cash is just a kind of credit certificate, if this credit disappears one day, its value will be unstable or non-existent, and its value is mainly determined by pricing valuable goods, and it has no value in itself.

Therefore, the valuable resources of the entity still need to find a way to save more. For example, gold, the value of this metal has fallen again and again in recent years, the average price is only more than 50 yuan a gram, many people who speculated on gold in the past have lost blood, Xu Yuan actually let people save more gold, what if it will continue to depreciate, isn't it very cost-effective?

But Xu Yuan believes that the usefulness of gold is still very large, especially in the industrial field, gold is a metal with very good electrical conductivity, good thermal conductivity, and ductility is easy to process, so it is often used in chips and motherboards, so no matter how the price of gold is reduced, as long as these uses are saved, the price is impossible to continue to fall, 50 pieces per gram is also close to the cost price of producing gold, below this selling price, the mining cost is not enough, and the mine will go bankrupt, resulting in a sharp decline in production. There is a change in supply and demand, and then there will definitely be a rebound in the price.

Finally, gold is still a very good hard currency, can be used directly as a high-value currency, some economic problems, paper money may not be easy to use, but there is gold in hand, it can be used anywhere in the world, even if it is the end of the world, it is estimated that gold is also the most popular currency, this is thousands of years of history accumulated super credit, it is impossible to be broken, and in the entire universe, only in the collision of neutron stars, can a large amount of gold be generated, the content of the universe, only 0.1% The appearance itself is quite rare, even if the amount mined is very large, but its own rarity, so that among all the elements it actively has, it will still be the kind with high value, and it is impossible to be cabbage.

Because of this. In the underground of the magical city, the reserves of gold are also as much as possible, 10,000 tons, 20,000 tons, and even more than 30,000 tons, it is okay, after all, the density of gold is very high, and it does not occupy much space, which is also its very important advantage.

…… Time goes by. Blink of an eye. This side of the Ming world. It's been twenty-three years since Chongzhen.

It is also the third year of the era of global unification. And recently, the world of Daming has also undergone some changes.

There are mainly three aspects of change. A, economically, today's Ming world, still maintains a very high rate of growth, the average annual growth rate of more than 15%, the process of industrialization, is still vigorously in progress, especially in the Ming Dynasty, the number of factories from more than 100,000, increased to millions, Ming everywhere can see factories, efficient production of a variety of industrial products, the output value of the industrial field, has long exceeded agriculture, and even has a tendency to develop towards an industrial sub-center.

In particular, the mileage of the railway is more than 50,000 kilometers, and when it leads to all parts of Daming, it is like an aorta, which brings great convenience to Daming's logistics and commercial exchanges, and the transportation cost has dropped significantly, even more convenient than water transportation, and the cost is lower.

The main reason is that the goods transported by the railway are managed by the railway investment department, not by the management of various places in the Ming Dynasty, so unlike common transportation, no matter where the caravan goes, it will be extorted by officials around the country, the goods originally worth 10,000 silver dollars, go to this place, be siphoned off a hundred silver dollars, go to that place, and be siphoned off a hundred silver dollars, unless there is a very strong relationship behind it, otherwise directly detain your goods, if you don't want to pay money, you have to pay, dare to resist, you will be arrested and beaten half to death, This makes many businessmen who do small business without backing feel miserable and very easy to go bankrupt, but they can do nothing, after all, they are small households, how to confront the government, and how to be the opponent of those big businessmen behind the government.

Therefore, in many states and counties of the Ming Dynasty, all the business channels are often only in the hands of a few to a dozen big businessmen, with a monopoly position in the industry, and the government has become their interest lackey, helping to fight opponents, eliminating small and medium-sized businessmen, and then eating all the commercial interests of a county, becoming a behind-the-scenes oligarch, and then exploiting ordinary people, and all kinds of relationships on the top, establishing a network of contacts, and wanting to make the business bigger, so for the middle and lower class businessmen, their survival situation is very bad.

And the imperial court will not care about these things, but acquiesce in the occurrence of these behaviors, because for the imperial court, the only goal pursued is to find a way to raise taxes and complete the task, and the emperor in the palace will not care about the livelihood and life of those small merchants, and he will not bring benefits to the emperor, why care.

Only Xu Jiazhuang looks at the problem and knows that according to this trend, there will be more and more monopoly type oligarchic businessmen in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and they will compete with each other, marry and merge, and finally the scale will become larger and larger, and gradually develop into a more and more huge oligarchic businessman, with huge influence and energy, and even able to affect the fate of a country.

The secret of their success is not fair competition, but the use of the advantages of connections, the use of violent means in the open and in the dark, and the use of collusion with the government, so as to control the commercial interests of a place, and then firmly control, over the decades, it will be stable to the point that no one can help them, and they will also feel that they are diligent and thrifty, and they rely on hard work to achieve success, and then do a little bit of good things. At the moral level, they are all invincible, under normal circumstances, as long as Daming can survive, they can also save as long as they can.

This is also the normal portrait of most ancient merchants, and it is also the reason why they are not very well received, and even very hateful and deserving.

Xujiazhuang also saw them as a threat, so he vigorously planned a lot of railways to connect every prefecture and county with a population of more than 100,000 in the Ming Dynasty, and in these prefectures and counties, a train and a large cargo wholesale center were set up.

Finally, the use of convenient and fast train traffic, the goods from all over the world, at a relatively low price, transported to all corners of the Ming Dynasty, and then by Xujiazhuang and some cooperative businessmen in the large wholesale market, a large number of wholesale out of these goods, anyone can come to buy goods, buy more and have discounts, and then there are a number of small traders, engaged in wholesale business, each state and county, there are at least hundreds of small traders, participate in this low-price wholesale purchase, and then bring to various villages and towns, sell at a higher price.

Generally speaking, where competition is not fierce, the profit margin of these small traders can be more than 50%.

In some places where competition is fierce, the profit margin of these small traders can also be about 20%.

And then it's over. For the big local businessmen in the states and counties who do monopoly business, the sky is about to fall.

Compared with the price of goods, they have no price advantage. Compared with the quality of the products, the excellent goods produced by the Xujiazhuang factory are produced by their small workshops.

In addition, in the case of competition, small traders often adopt the strategy of small profits but quick turnover, focusing on a high quality and low price, and over time, the interests of the local monopoly merchants have been seriously affected, and the business has declined sharply, even to the extent that they can no longer continue to do so, and if this continues, their fate is likely to be closed down.

It's just that they will not be willing to sit still, but to make a fierce struggle, they want to continue to use their traditional arts, to engage in unfair competition, directly send a large number of thugs, see those small traders, just see one by one, break their hands and feet, so that their business does not want to do, some of them are brutal, and even directly send people to kill a lot of small traders, the cruelty of the means, after the "Oriental Times", people feel creepy.

Then Xujiazhuang acted. Actions were taken to support the small traders, and a large number of black powder handcuffs were sold to the small traders at a price close to the cost, increasing their ability to defend themselves and protect themselves.

Boom Boom! The peddlers also opened fire decisively. The local monopoly merchants have found out that they have rebelled, and these mud-legged people have turned against the sky, and they want to challenge their unbreakable traditional order that has lasted for thousands of years, and this will never be tolerated!