Ze County.

Jia-style mansion.

Old man Jia frowned, paced back and forth with his hands behind his back.

A pair of old cold legs are flying fast.

A few days ago, Tubalu suddenly increased the amount of grain to the market, and sent troops to severely block the outflow of grain, vowing to bring down grain prices at all costs.

Once the price of grain falls, the 2,000 tons of grain that he has worked so hard to hoard at a high price will depreciate greatly.

That's all he has.

2,000 tons of grain, even at the price of the Eighth Route Army, a pound of New Hebei Southern Coins is worth 4 million Southern Hebei Dollars.

If according to the market price of the base area, three New Hebei dollars per catty, that is 12 million New Hebei dollars, and if according to the price of the Japanese, six New Hebei South coins a catty, that is 24 million New Hebei South dollars.

As soon as he thought of this, Old Man Jia breathed heavily.

NQ24 million.

Two million silver dollars.

I can buy 40,000 acres of good water to irrigate the land.

Food prices must not be allowed to fall!

For every dime of food prices dropped, he lost nearly a million.

"Sir."

On the side, the housekeeper suddenly said:

"Or, while the price of grain in the market hasn't dropped too much, let's sell a batch of grain first, right?"

"It's better to make less than to lose."

The price of grain in the base area is one price a day.

Yesterday it was three yuan and two cents, and today it is only three.

If the Eighth Route Army continues to tighten restrictions on grain buying and selling and steadily put grain into the market, then grain prices will inevitably continue to fall.

In order to hoard 2,000 tons of grain, their Jia family's loan of 5,000 mu of watered land, as well as all the silver dollars of their belongings, were basically spent.

"Nope."

Old man Jia said with madness:

"Can't be sold."

"Don't sell a penny less."

Not to mention a dime less, even if it is a penny less, he will lose 300,000.

300,000!

It's equal to 30,000 oceans!

"Yes!"

The butler was very obedient and stopped persuading.

"We have to think of a way to keep food prices from falling."

Old man Jia's pupils released a crazy light.

"Don't let food prices fall?"

The housekeeper was shocked.

It is the purpose of the Eighth Route Army to reduce the price of grain, and this is to prevent the decline of grain, isn't it against the Eighth Route Army?

Don't want to die?!

"You send someone..."

"No, you go and contact the Liu family in person, the Wang family..."

Old man Jia named more than a dozen large landlords in Zexian County and the surrounding areas, located in the base area, and they were also accomplices in jointly opening up the grain transportation channel to the area controlled by the devils.

"Master, will you force the Eighth Route Army..."

The housekeeper was worried.

He knew his master's idea, and united with several surrounding landlords to continue to buy grain at a high price.

But the Eighth Route Army has guns!

The rules were also set by the Eighth Route Army.

"Don't worry."

Old man Jia regained some of his complexion, his crazy expression was slightly restrained, and his tone was confident:

"Tubalu has recently been stabilizing grain prices through conventional means and stabilizing the currency of the New Hebei Southern Currency."

"As long as we don't break the rules, they won't do it."

The housekeeper thought about it and felt that it made sense.

In the past three months, in order to stabilize the new southern Hebei currency, the Eighth Route Army has invested more than 15 million silver dollars in cash into the market in southern Hebei.

You must know that most of this cash silver flowed out of the southern Hebei region controlled by the Eighth Route Army, flowed to the territory of the Japanese, and even some of it was transported abroad by the Japanese.

It's equal to playing in the water.

And the Eighth Route Army still has a minimum of 150,000 silver dollars per day, and the thunder cannot be moved.

Violence and other means have not been used to restrict the circulation of silver dollars, just to stabilize the value of the New Hebei currency.

And grain.

In the past three months, the Eighth Route Army has put more than 30,000 tons of imported grain on the market at the price of one dollar per catty, and it is precisely because of this that he was able to purchase more than 2,000 tons in the market under the arrangement of his master.

Other landlords are similar.

Even so, the Eighth Route Army did not take action, but still did things according to the rules they set.

It is enough to prove that as long as they do not completely turn their faces, such as transporting grain to the devils on a large scale, and do not leave evidence, the Eighth Route Army cannot directly attack them.

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"Old man Jia, the largest landlord in our county, has probably hoarded 2,000 tons of grain."

"Several other landlords, the Liu family, and the Wang family, although they are similar, they are not as good as Old Man Jia."

Ze County.

Base in the conference room.

An officer said the information in his hand.

After cultivating the southern Hebei region for so long, especially the recent surge in strength and sufficient funds, the southern Hebei base area naturally easily grasped the whereabouts of a group of landlords in the base area.

If it weren't for the follow-up, a few landlords would have been arrested a long time ago.

Together with the Japanese, the evidence of grain reselling has long been mastered.

"Combined, this group has hoarded about fifteen thousand tons of food."

The officer concluded.

"Fifteen thousand tons!"

The person in charge of the economic war was silent for a long time.

This figure is somewhat unexpected.

About three months after the start of the economic defense war in southern Hebei, about 35,000 tons of grain were put into the market in the base areas.

More than a third of them were hoarded by a group of profiteers and landlords.

Counting the more than 10,000 tons of grain that flowed out to the areas controlled by the devils.

In fact, less than 5,000 tons of grain actually flowed into the hands of the people in the market.

It is strange that food prices can be controlled.

"According to intelligence, Old Man Jia has recently joined forces with some large and small landlords in the surrounding area to purchase grain on a large scale and control the price of grain in the market."

The officer continued to report information

"Hmph."

The person in charge of economic warfare first snorted coldly, then looked at the officer and asked:

"What is the current volume of shipments?"

"After the bridge was reinforced, the size of the transport fleet has now been expanded again, reaching the scale of 50 vehicles at a time."

The officer replied:

"With the mule and horse transport team, the daily transportation capacity is 1,800 tons, but in the near future, we will open a transportation channel to Wutai Mountain and the Shaanxi-Gansu border area, so we only have 1,300 tons per day."

"Thirteen hundred tons."

The person in charge of economic warfare touched his chin.

This amount has already exceeded the daily grain demand in southern Hebei.

Based on the population of 3.5 million in southern Hebei, plus the base areas are cashing in for work, a large number of workers are recruited to build roads, bridges, and water conservancy facilities, and organize land reclamation.

Under the condition of strictly controlling the circulation of grain to the areas controlled by the devils, 700 tons of grain per day will be able to meet the market demand.

At present, the reason why grain prices are still high is that there are still many businessmen and even individuals who secretly transport grain to the areas controlled by the devils, and these landlords headed by Old Man Jia are desperately hoarding grain.

But as lockdowns intensify, it's only a matter of time before prices come back.

"At present, how much grain in southern Hebei is still controlled by those landlords?"

He continued.

One of the main objectives of the grain war was to recover the land from the landlords by commercial means.

"150,000 acres."

The officer replied.

"At present, there are still 150,000 acres controlled by those landlords."

"150,000 acres."

The person in charge frowned slightly.

Apparently not happy with this figure.

In the base area of southern Hebei, there are 1.5 million mu of land that can be planted.

Although only one-tenth of the land controlled by these landlords is currently controlled, they are all good irrigated land, even paddy fields, with good locations and high yields.

Food production is estimated to account for about 30 per cent.

The plan is to recover all the land in the base areas in southern Hebei by commercial means, and then give it to the common people to organize and popularize the advanced planting technology brought by Li Yunlong and make every effort to develop agriculture.

With the current situation in the base areas, only by mobilizing the broad masses of the people can we promote the economic development of the base areas in southern Hebei, invigorate the internal circulation of the economy, and strengthen the strength of the base areas in southern Hebei.

Relying on foreign materials alone cannot last long.

"Continue to increase grain input to the market."

"Appropriately reduce purchase limits."

Thinking for a moment, the head of economic warfare ordered.

"Is the 769th Regiment ready?"

The person in charge asked suddenly.

150,000 acres of land.

And all of them are watered with good water.

Even if we exclude a handful of landlords who will not be fooled, and even fewer landlords who really stand with the people, there are at least 100,000 acres of land.

Based on 60 to 80 silver dollars per mu of irrigated land, take the average, that is, 7 million silver dollars, 70 million new Hebei dollars.

I want to revitalize such a huge amount of money.

The landlords had to be given some confidence.

For example, a transport team was ambushed by devils and suffered heavy food losses?

Not to mention those landlords, even devils, it is estimated that the southern Hebei base area can now transport more than 1,600 tons of grain every day by relying on a fleet of trucks every two days.

"Ready."

An operational staff officer answered this question.

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Day and night.

Old lady Su walked into the Su family's compound with a deep frown on her brows.

The eldest son and third son of the Su family followed behind.

In Ze County.

Su family.

Compared with the old man Jia's Jia family, he is just a small landlord, holding more than 1,000 acres of land in his hands, and half of it is still dry land, and the harvest is far inferior to watering the land.

But more than 1,000 acres of land is actually not small, and renting it every year is a lot of income.

"Daddy."

Old lady Su walked into the wing, and the eldest son Su An immediately said:

"I'm afraid it's not easy to get involved."

What Old Man Jia meant was that everyone should unite to purchase grain and control the price of grain in the market.

But Su An knew in his heart,

In fact, the Eighth Route Army had known for a long time that their group was buying grain.

The reason why he didn't do it directly was just to establish an image of abiding by his own rules and stabilize the economic prosperity of the southern Hebei region.

Also, they transported grain to the Japanese, and they did it very secretly.

Once they go too far and touch the bottom line, people can directly pull out their guns.

In these years,

Neither the Eighth Route Army nor the Japanese were easy to get along with.

"Let's see the situation first."

Old Lady Su narrowed her eyes and took a sip of the cigarette pouch in her hand.

As a landlord with more than 1,000 acres of land in his hands and more than 100 tons of grain in his warehouse, he is willing to drop the price of grain for a hundred times.

But Tubalu has a gun in his hand.

In order to purchase grain, it is necessary to mortgage more than 1,000 acres of land.

Mortgage the land, Old Lady Su was instinctively unwilling.

Besides, the Eighth Route Army is still importing foreign grain from Taiyue and Taihang through that highway.

Unless the Japanese can cut off this grain, it will be difficult to control the price of grain in southern Hebei by relying on their group of people to purchase grain and sporadically transport grain to the areas controlled by the devils.

(End of chapter)