Chapter 532: The disaster caused by tulips

"Why is that?" Jiang Lu asked curiously.

Qin An explained: "The main purpose of SOEs is to have ownership or control over their capital, and the will and interests of the government determine the behavior of SOEs.

For example, if the imperial court sets up a state-owned enterprise that sells grain, then the price of grain can be controlled in the future, regardless of whether it is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster.

In addition, we can also target those black-hearted grain merchants and use the price war to keep the price of grain very low, so that they have no profit, and finally have to sell grain at a low price.

At this time, state-owned enterprises can take advantage of this low price to buy these grains, buy all their grain, and then restore grain prices.

This is just a low-level business war, directly crushing the opponent with price, and only people with absolute strength can do it.

So I personally suggest that state-owned enterprises do not need to control all walks of life, as long as they master important industries, such as the steel industry, the grain industry, the military industry, and so on. ”

Jiang Lu nodded as if he didn't understand, and said, "Brother-in-law, you just said that using low prices to deal with others is a low-level means, so how is it a high-end means?" ”

Qin An thought for a while and said: "High-end means are to use one thing to cause the economic collapse of the entire country, resulting in the people not living well, and the country not becoming a country." ”

"Is there really such a powerful method?" Jiang Lu said with some uncertainty.

Qin An nodded vigorously and said, "Yes." This happened abroad, in the Netherlands in the 17th century.

This is also a classic story, a businessman used a flower called a tulip to cause the economy of a previously economically developed country to regress by decades in an instant. ”

"How did he do it?" Jiang Lu asked.

"The method is simple, it's hype." Qin An said, "Tulips are very difficult to grow in a large area, so the price is already expensive, and a meal of tulips is equivalent to a gold coin."

So the merchants took a fancy to the business opportunity, so they began to speculate, and the tulips that were originally one gold coin were hyped into one hundred gold coins. ”

"Oh my God? Are those people who buy tulips stupid? So expensive tulips still people buy? Meng Xifan said.

"They are not fools, but smart people." Qin An said, "And the people who buy these tulips are all businessmen. 33

Originally, the tulips were collected by the merchant from the farmers and he wanted to sell them, so he would tell the others that the tulips were worn by kings and nobles.

To prove this, the merchants gave tulips to some of the nobles, who wore pins made of tulips at banquets.

After only a few times, all the nobles would inquire about the tulips, so some merchants saw the opportunity to sell the tulips that originally asked for one gold coin for two gold coins to other merchants.

Other merchants were selling higher, and then there was some bad news that the tulips had died a lot and so on. Increase the price of tulips tenfold at once.

Because the news is fake, this price will not go any further.

At the same time, in order to make more money, businessmen will also find officials to work together to raise the price of tulips even higher. ”

"Even so, tulips can only be bought by the aristocracy, and no one else will buy them. Even if they were to suffer, would they not let the people suffer? Jiang Lu said.

Qin An smiled and said, "That's because you are too naïve and look at human nature too simply.

There are businessmen who make money, do you think the people will not want to make this money? Although tulips are difficult to grow, it doesn't mean that they can't be planted, and now a tulip sells for twenty gold coins.

So if I only need to cultivate one, won't I have twenty gold coins? Excuse me, under such a big temptation. Do you breed tulips? ”

"Yes, let alone a hundred gold coins, I will also cultivate one gold coin." Jiang Lu said.

"Isn't that it?" Qin An said with a smile, "There are actually a lot of tulips in the market, but the merchants have taken advantage of the fake news to inform everyone that the production of tulips is very low and the quantity is very small, so they can increase the price of tulips." ”

"It's all right, are you stupid to be a nobleman? How could they not know whether there are more or fewer tulips. Ganro said.

Qin An smiled and said, "Even if they know, so what? Will they tell the truth? ”

"Why not?" Ganro said again.

Jiang Lu said: "No, the nobles will not say, because the nobles already have a large number of tulips in their hands, and once the truth is told, then the price of tulips will fall."

Once it falls, their property shrinks, and it shrinks severely. ”

Qin An said: "Yes, that's it. At this time, both the aristocracy and the speculative merchants were already tied to the tulip.

Even ordinary people are tied to tulips. ”

"What does this have to do with the people?" Ganro asked.

Qin An smiled slightly, looked at Jiang Lu and said, "Third uncle, can you figure it out?" ”

Jiang Lu shook his head and said, "I know that the people will definitely be affected, but I really don't know how. ”

"Qin An, don't sell it, just say it." Ying Zheng said.

Qin An nodded and continued: "Actually, it's very simple, because the price of tulips is very high, and if merchants and nobles want to maintain the price at this price, they need to buy the tulips in the hands of the people. ”

"Isn't that the people having money in their hands?" Ganro said.

"That's right, but all this money is owed, and it is not given to the people, and even if it is given to the people, the people will use the money to buy tulip seeds in order to make another profit.

All this money ends up in the hands of the people behind the scenes.

And I said that tulips are very difficult to cultivate, and if they fail, they will lose everything.

If I were the one behind the scenes, mixing boiled seeds with these seeds would prevent the tulips from germinating and blooming.

Because there are many people who buy, some succeed and some fail, no one will doubt the people behind the scenes.

And in doing so, he can also control the number of tulips, and thus the price, and gather more wool.

In this way, once a large number of flowers entered the market, the aristocracy and speculative merchants would buy all the tulips.

If the money is not enough. The government's money, which is the treasury, will be used.

In addition, some people in the market have begun to use tulips as money and use tulips to buy goods. ”

"Ridiculous. How can I use it for money? Ying Zheng said in a deep voice.

"The people are willing, and the government can't control it." Qin An said, "And this step is also the most deadly, after the government realizes the danger, it is already too late." ”

Some people died, but not completely......