Jia Xu's method was extremely effective. The prefects and county magistrates from various places took the people under their control to see the granary that looked like a giant forest. One grain stack was 3,000 stones, and each granary had hundreds of grains. Such a stack of grain!
County magistrate Zhao Gui said loudly: "This is the smallest granary in our country. It already contains more than 300,000 shi of grain. There are such granaries in every state and county in our country. There are nearly 500 of them. They store grain. More than 50,000 stones!
With so much food here, you don’t have to worry about the devaluation of banknotes! This food alone can be sold for 10 million yuan, and with the little money in your hands, you still have to worry about corruption in power!”
The local people looked at the granary and thought that prices in Daqian had not changed much in the past ten years. This time, they were the ones dragging down the government. If they hadn't been buying all kinds of goods, prices would not have skyrocketed like this. For a while, everyone was confused. I feel a little ashamed.
Zhao Gui took advantage of the victory and pursued: "It's okay for you to buy food. Even if it's thousands or hundreds of shi, you can finish it in a few years. But if you buy a jar of sauce and hundreds of shi of salt, do you want to eat it for the rest of your life? !I just asked you to buy an extra set of clothes and you are reluctant to part with it. Now you can’t even finish the salt. Let me see what you do!”
After being scolded by Zhao Gui, many people finally came to their senses.
"It's over, it's all over, all my savings in the past 10 years have been spent!" One person said with a sad face.
"The loser is that you and the old people don't even believe in the ruling. Our houses, land, cattle and sheep have not been given to us by the ruling these years. Even the land has been given to us. The ruling will be greedy for our little money!"
After hearing this, everyone finally came to their senses. If everything we had was not given to us by the government, how could we be greedy for our own money?
"Fortunately, all I bought was grain and cloth. At worst, I should have stocked up on grain in advance. If I eat it for a few more years, I will run out! Just use the cloth to make a few more new clothes!"
And those people who have bought salt, sauces, and even steel for hundreds of years have a sad look on their faces. Although these things are also daily necessities, they are not used much, especially steel. What use can a common person have? Let's build another blast furnace for making iron.
Youzhou, Quan County, Yantian Factory!
Factory director Xi Zhong led a group of people to a mountain of salt piled up more than ten feet high and said loudly: "I heard that many of you are even grabbing salt. You are so ignorant that the government allows you to read it." After studying for several years and knowing a few words, why are you still so stupid now? People casually say that our money in Hebei is worthless, but you just believe it and just buy food. There are actually people grabbing salt near the salt fields. .”
"Many of your family members also work in the salt factory. Don't you know that the salt in our salt factory is currently unsalable? I am trying to find ways to sell the salt to distant places every day. Now you are doing me a favor by moving the inventory Most of it has been consumed. Now if anyone wants to stand up and speak, I will give you as much as you want!"
The hill-like pile of salt dazzled everyone. These people had been eating high-priced salt for most of their lives. In their outlook, table salt was, to a certain extent, not much different from gold and silver.
In the eyes of many people, this salt mountain is a mountain of gold and silver. Such a huge wealth is of course dazzling in front of them. But now that the drama fans have revealed it, everyone remembers that the price of salt has never seemed to be higher in the past few years.
It's more than 3 yuan, and it's because they speculated it when it increased to 6 yuan.
A commoner whispered: "This does not mean that banknotes will turn into white paper. We are also afraid that half our life savings will turn into white paper. Of course, we have to grab what we have. We have the most salt, so we have no choice but to grab salt!"
Xi Zhong noticed that someone was still refuting, so he walked up to this person and said angrily: "You have never thought about how you and your family will live in the future if this thing is false? Can you eat all the hundreds of kilo of salt in your family? In the future,
What to do with money?
You think salt is still as valuable as before. Now as long as the sun is shining, the salt from the salt factory will continue to come out. The salt produced by our salt factory alone is enough for the entire world. Even if there will be a shortage of food in the future
, there’s no shortage of salt! Now your house is full of salt, I’ll see how you guys can eat it all!”
Such a clear salt mountain in front of them, coupled with the endless snow-white salt fields not far away, finally destroyed their outlook on life, making them realize that half of their life's wealth had been locked up in this salt.
"It's over, our family's money is gone! This is the savings I accumulated over 10 years of frugality!"
"Director, my boy works in the salt factory. You can't ignore me. I want to return all the salt!"
Xi Zhong said angrily: "Do you think you are a child? Because you are in turmoil in Hebei, and it even affects the government's attack on the Central Plains! It's too late to return the goods now, think about why you wanted to grab the salt in the first place!"
"Have we lost our minds and believed in the rumors, thinking that our banknotes in Hebei will really turn into white paper like Yuzhou!" The people present were almost crying. They woke up now and realized that
I bought a lot of unnecessary things at home, even grain and cloth, these necessary things are enough to last for several years or even ten years.
"Director of the theater, please help us at all, we don't want our family property to end like this!"
Many people were frightened for a while. Although they followed the trend and bought other things, at least they did not invest all their property in it, otherwise they would be the ones crying in front of them.
Xi Zhong said helplessly: "Returns are not allowed. I have a friend in Lelang County. He is the director of a whaling factory. A Kunpeng there weighs millions of kilograms and requires tens of thousands of kilograms of salt to pickle it. I will
I will lead you to transport your own salt to Lelang County. There is a huge island not far from Lelang. There are several savage countries on it. They don’t know how to dry salt at all. The price of salt is high. We transport the salt.
Go to the islands of those savage countries and exchange their furs, spices and other goods, so that you can reduce some losses!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Everyone had no choice but to listen to the drama. The people in the county took out all the salt in their hands and used the salt as assets to form a county-wide joint organization.
The company specializes in transporting their salt to Lelang County and the islands.
Going to Lelang County to buy salt is basically a loss-making stage. After all, there are salt fields in Liaodong. However, the output is not as good as that of Youzhou, so the whaling factory needs to transfer salt from outside, but the price is definitely not high. However, the price of salt in Xi Zhong is generally high.
Turn it over, so the business will be sold at a greater profit, which can only reduce some losses.
But the harvest from the giant overseas islands exceeded the imagination of the opera fans. They thought that the salt could be exchanged for some furs or special products on the islands, which could reduce some losses.
But they never expected that the specialty of this island was gold and silver. When the local savage tribes and countries saw their snowflake salt, they immediately offered a large amount of gold and silver for trade. They shipped ten ships of salt and actually brought back
Five ships of gold and silver were purchased, and the profit from this trip alone was more than a hundred times. Not only did the people of Quan County not suffer losses due to this panic buying, but they unexpectedly made hundreds of times their money, and they also opened up a trade route.
And because their company is county-wide, it can be said that the people of Quan County are now getting a huge fortune from a blessing in disguise!
The news about the overseas gold mountains caused a sensation throughout Youzhou. The gold and silver were actually loaded on ships, and five ships were loaded in a row. How much gold and silver must there be in this overseas island?
For a time, it overshadowed the panic buying in Hebei. The whole trend of buying supplies in Hebei quickly subsided with the emergence of Treasure Island.
Everyone held on to the money in their hands and ran to Youzhou one by one to inquire about the situation on Treasure Island so that they could make a fortune from this wave.