- >> Two days later at noon, representatives of several grain merchants in Shanghai were finally allowed by the Special Higher Education Department to visit the twelve arrested people in the cell. After a brief exchange of half an hour, they ran out holding their noses.
, two of them even vomited, is this a place for people to stay?
Then the three people came to Mara Villa to look for Chen Mingxiang. The dollars and gold bars they sent this time were several times more than last time. They had already heard the warning from the Extra High School Course. If they delayed any longer, they would still have to go to prison to eat them.
Wowotou drinks cold water.
"Director Chen, you are also a businessman. No matter what the request is, we can all sit down and talk slowly. I hope you can do a favor first and release your colleagues in prison first. The environment is too bad. These
My stomach is so upset that it’s difficult to even walk!" said the grain merchant surnamed Liu with a wry smile.
Speaking of which, Chen Mingxiang is also one of the grain merchants. He also does grain business and has his own rice store in Shanghai. However, Fenghua Company’s main suppliers are the Military Police Headquarters and the Marine Corps Headquarters.
He rarely interacts with ordinary people.
"I can find a way to get people out of the Special High School, but I only have one night. Let them go home first, take a shower and change clothes, and then come to my house for dinner. To tell you the truth, if we can't reach an agreement tonight
, they still have to go back to the cell, and I guess you three will also go in tomorrow."
"I believe you have received the news. Starting from June, the power of food rationing in Shanghai will be transferred to the Food Department of the Jinling Government. Procurement and rationing still require your efforts. If it weren't for this reason, we would have been facing this problem long ago.
You have taken action."
"Since we are all in business, I understand how you feel now. I would not be willing to earn less than 10,000 yuan per ton. But when the source of food is scarce, you big households can only feel aggrieved.
Yes, this is a last resort."
"You and I both know that the price of grain in Shanghai is definitely going up. In the rice-producing areas of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui, more than half of the output is used as military grain for the Japanese, and there are very few who can support the Shanghai market. So,
Sooner or later, the losses will be recouped, and admission qualifications are the most important.”
"The impact of this general strike is so bad. Most of the Japanese businessmen's industries in Shanghai have almost stopped working. The production of military supplies for the Japanese army has been seriously hindered. It has touched the nerves of the Japanese. It is an exception that no one has killed anyone and ransacked their homes.
Already."
"Under such circumstances, neither your backends in the Jinling government nor I can help you, no matter how much money I send. In cooperation with easing the food shortage problem for a period of time and allowing the order of the Shanghai stock market to stabilize, it will be
Your biggest way out." Chen Mingxiang said.
At this time when the Shanghai stock market is facing an existential crisis, these speculators are still hoarding money and colluding with corrupt officials to drive up food prices. They are simply eating the flesh of the common people and drinking the blood of the common people. Chen Mingxiang wishes he could kill all these people.
However, in the face of huge interests, another group of people may not be much better than this group of people. Without strong government constraints, substantive problems will never be solved.
Besides, in the Kuomintang-controlled areas governed by the Shancheng government, speculators like this are not uncommon. The famous Minister Kong and his family are all masters of speculation. What can he do?
"Director Chen, we dare not hide it from you. More than 20 businessmen were able to scrape together the 30,000 tons of rice requested by the Japanese Navy, but we really can't get the 36,000 tons of rice given to the city government.
, this is measured in 10,000 tons." said the grain merchant surnamed Han.
Grain merchants are definitely not willing to lose so much profit when asking for high prices and pay back the money. They cannot do business at a loss. Even if they face jail time, they have to grit their teeth and try to recover some losses.
The navy cannot discount the food they want, because they are Japanese and they are deadly Japanese, but there is room for bargaining for the food of the common people!
"We are all in business, why are you so stupid? If you don't have enough rice, just use whole grains to supplement it. As long as it is grain, I don't care whether it is rice or corn noodles. People will starve to death. Is whole grains and fine grains important?"
"Twenty thousand tons of coarse grain rice and sixteen thousand tons of broken rice. Even if this matter is over, we all know if we can make it together. If you don't believe it, we will dig it out to dry. If I don't make up for it myself,
Do you dare?" Chen Mingxiang said lightly.
The grain currently in the hands of these speculators must exceed their needs, because speculation in this industry is based on quantity. However, Chen Mingxiang estimates that no matter how much, it will not be much more. Just the cost of hoarding these grains, then
It's an astronomical number.
It’s not that he is soft-hearted. Dogs will jump over walls when they are anxious, and rabbits will bite people when they are anxious. Chen Mingxiang does not want to make the grain merchants anxious and draw hatred to this point. That is the failure of the strategic agent. What he wants to do
He is a good person, but the bottom line is that the amount of food cannot be reduced.
Probably because he was born and lived in the north for a period of time, Chen Mingxiang is not averse to whole grains. Is it a big deal if he eats steamed buns or steamed buns with stick noodles mixed with bean noodles? People are going to starve to death, so why bother with whole grains?
Those with fine grains, even such coarse grains, probably won't last long.
And as an agent of the Military Command Bureau, he always keeps one thing in mind, as long as he can survive, there is hope for everything. Survival is the most important thing, and this is the general environment.
"Director Chen, the food shortage problem in the Shanghai stock market is not simply caused by our speculation. Who is the reason behind it? I'm afraid you know better than anyone else. Now that we are forced to pay such a high price, we must be given something."
How about some corresponding reward?" asked the grain merchant surnamed Liu.
With their arms unable to hold their thighs, the speculators faced a dangerous situation and had to agree to this transaction, but they were not willing to do so. They hoped to use this resource in exchange for some reward. Everyone knew that the two sides were interdependent. Who could
They won't kill them all.
Speculators never think that their actions are wrong. Their theory is that if the grain channels in the Shanghai stock market remain open, it will be difficult to hoard. If there is not enough local rice, foreign rice can be purchased from other countries.
Why hasn't this happened before?
The main factor is the war. It is the war that created the soil for speculators to survive. The food shortage problem is the result of changes in the general environment. Their speculation can only be the second factor.
"Of course, for your outstanding contributions to Shanghai, the municipal government and Japan will receive special treatment. Shanghai's food source comes from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui provinces. When the matter is over, you can take care of the gendarmerie and police station.
Make up for the amount of food this time."
"By that time, new grains from the three provinces will be on the market, and the prices will definitely be much higher than now. In fact, you won't have much loss." Faced with this shameless statement, Chen Mingxiang didn't bother to talk to them. He had
