Datang Zhili Grain Company was soon established. Its headquarters was naturally located in Jinling, but it was not in the city, but in the suburbs. To be more precise, it was a newly developed business district on the outskirts of the city.
It is the headquarters of the company and is also the headquarters of a large number of enterprises under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises with the word "Datang" on them.
In addition to enterprises under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, there are also many powerful private companies that have chosen to set up their headquarters here.
After the Tang Dynasty made Jinling City its capital, a large number of office yamen and the headquarters of enterprises affiliated to the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises were also moved to Jinling City. However, because there were so many yamen and there were many enterprises under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, it was difficult to arrange them at one time.
Therefore, the Tang Dynasty at that time wanted to establish a central business district and open up a separate urban area to house enterprises from various places and also accommodate some private enterprises. However, they found that it was too troublesome to build it in the urban area.
Why, because the urban area is too small!
Although Jinling City is already one of the largest cities in this era, the area of the city is still quite small. At the same time, when the Ministry of Industry was designing the palace repair project and the royal courtyard expansion project, it occupied a large area of the city.
Then we have to arrange office space for many yamen, so the urban area seems a bit tense.
Later, they simply chose to set up a new commercial area outside the east city wall, near the docks on the Yangtze River. The overall design style is somewhat similar to the business areas of major trading ports. They were planned in advance. After the basic construction was completed, the state-owned enterprises
All the major companies in the department just moved their headquarters there.
However, at the beginning there was only some infrastructure, and the headquarters buildings of major companies were low-rise bungalows. Later, major companies gradually built their own headquarters.
So after a few years, in this Xindongcheng District, you can see urban design that is different from most contemporary cities, because Li Xuan directly transferred some urban planning from later generations.
Even the buildings are different. They are not the traditional house design, with no three entrances, gardens, etc., but seemingly monotonous, but extremely tall lime brick and tile houses, and they are generally two or three floors above.
building.
Yanjiang Road, which is close to the Yangtze River, is even more spacious. On one side of Yanjiang Road, there are the headquarters of major enterprises.
The headquarters of many large state-owned enterprises such as Jiangnan Arms Company, Jiangnan Iron and Steel Company, Royal Bank, Datang Industrial Bank, Jiangnan Textile Company, Datang Yangtze River Shipping Company, etc. are all located here.
In addition to companies owned by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, many powerful private companies also choose to set up their headquarters here. Why?
It's very simple, there is style here!
The headquarters of Zhili Textile Bank, which is strong and second only to Royal Bank in Jiangnan area, is here!
A short road along the river gathers the headquarters of more than fifty companies, and the assets of these companies start with at least 500,000 taels of silver, and as many as one million taels or even millions.
However, generally speaking, the companies along Yanjiang Road are mainly companies affiliated to the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises or the Royal Assets Department. There are relatively few private companies. I heard that companies from private companies prefer to be located in major industrial zones or commercial trade areas.
district.
Especially in the business areas in major trading ports, private enterprises are flocking to enter!
For example, in Shanghai's business district, there are not many factories in a small business district, but there are at least thousands of listed companies of various types, and their strength is not weak.
Because land is more expensive in the commercial area of the treaty port, and small companies operating here will have much higher costs.
When the Zhili Grain Company was established on Yanjiang Road, Xindongcheng District, Jinling, it was very low-key and hardly attracted much attention from the outside world. At most, it attracted the attention of some grain merchants.
But I only paid a little attention to it, because the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises of the Tang Dynasty has opened many enterprises, and now there are hundreds of them with the name of Datang, and those with the names of various localities and funded by local finance
For state-owned enterprises, there are even more.
Except for the fact that the investor is the imperial court, these companies are no different from ordinary commercial companies, and they do not use official background identities for daily operations.
Therefore, gradually, those private enterprises will no longer regard these enterprises under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises as government agencies and fear them.
But they don't know that Zhili Grain Company is different from other enterprises under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises. Although this enterprise is a normal commercial organization in name, what it actually does is not what ordinary commercial organizations do, but is more similar to
Administration.
And these businessmen quickly knew the difference of this company!
After the Zhili Textile Company was established, they launched their first business: purchasing grain!
This company has taken over several grain companies from the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, so there is no shortage of channels. It basically has branches in Zhili Fourth Road, so the purchase of grain is also carried out within the entire Zhili Fourth Road.
Purchasing grain is normal. All grain merchants will purchase grain, but the price at which they purchase grain is abnormal.
Because the price of grain purchased by Zhili Grain Company is different in the four districts of Zhili, but it is all based on the local market purchase price, which is increased by a few percentage points. Some only increase it by 100%, and some only increase it by 10%.
Two, and some have increased it to more than five percent.
Don't underestimate these few percentage points. You must know that grain is a bulk commodity. This purchase is several tons, tens of tons, or even hundreds of tons.
After seeing what the Zhili Grain Company did, many grain traders couldn't sit still. Isn't this a clear sign that they want to increase their acquisition costs?
Not to mention, the Zhili Grain Company just wants to raise local grain prices!
Because the current grain prices in the Jiangnan area are a bit low in the opinion of the Zhili Grain Company, many grain merchants are taking advantage of the autumn grain harvest, and farmers are selling large quantities of grain in exchange for cash to buy other daily products, taking the opportunity to lower prices.
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This resulted in a very common phenomenon in the feudal era, that is, during the harvest season, the price of food was extremely low, but after a while, in the period before the harvest, the price of food was extremely high. This further
Yes, sometimes the price difference can reach double or even several times.
In the view of the Zhili Grain Company, which regards stabilizing grain prices as its core mission, this situation is abnormal and detrimental to the long-term stability of the empire.
The price of food in this season needs to be increased appropriately to prevent farmers from becoming poorer with a bumper harvest, and to stimulate local farmers to plant more food instead of cotton. At the same time, the price is slightly higher, which can attract Huguang farmers.
Grain dealers in the region trafficked grain, thereby stimulating grain production in the Huguang area.
At the beginning, other grain merchants still sat still and asked me to watch you harvest. The grain output in Jiangnan is so large, it depends on how much you can harvest!
When your acquisition funds run out, we will continue to buy at lower prices.
As the saying goes, you take what is yours and I take what is mine, it has nothing to do with each other!
But what they don't know is that the funds of Zhili Grain Company are much stronger than theirs. Two policy banks, Royal Bank and Industrial Bank, will provide the company with low-interest unsecured loans, totaling a total of 100,000 yuan.
Ten million taels of silver!
That’s right, it’s 10 million!
Of all the enterprises in the Tang Dynasty, no one could obtain such high, low-interest and unsecured loans as Zhili Grain Company.
Of course, these loans also have usage restrictions and can only be used to purchase grain and stabilize grain prices. Moreover, the ten million is only the promised amount, and it is not a one-time direct payment of ten million.
In addition, when the tax department collects taxes, it also collects the goods directly. At present, the grain collected from agricultural taxes in the Zhili area is basically directly entrusted to the Zhili Grain Company for processing.
To put it bluntly, if you have money and food in your hands, you are very awesome!
At the same time, their Zhili Grain Company sells grain through more channels than ordinary grain merchants, and in most places they sell grain directly.
Moreover, the army and navy have officially determined that the Zhili Grain Company will provide most of their military rations.
At the same time, official offices in several other disaster-stricken areas have officially asked them for help and want to obtain a large amount of food!
The food hasn't been purchased yet, but the payment has already been recovered a lot in advance!
Through this buying and selling, not only did the funds not be used up, but a lot of profits were made. However, the overall profit rate was relatively low, but it didn't matter, because the volume was large, and it was not based on this to make money.
Therefore, those grain merchants can see very desperate things. The Zhili Grain Company keeps buying grain, then transports it to places where grain is scarce, and sells it at normal prices.
When harvesting grain, it seems like a bottomless pit, as much as you need.
When selling food, it will never run out, you can get as much as you want!
And this price has not changed since the first day. If you say it is this price, it will be the same price to death. When you buy it, it is slightly higher than the grain merchants, and when you sell it, it is slightly lower than other grain merchants.
This makes the local farmers very happy. Some of this grain must be sold later, otherwise how to buy other farm tools, daily necessities, etc. During the grain selling season every year, grain merchants will lower the price.
situation, and this year, a Zhili Grain Company purchased it at a higher price than the market price. Although the price is not much higher, every grain of grain was grown by them with hard work. If they can sell it for an extra penny, it is a good thing.
In order to buy so many pennies more, some farmers would rather carry their grains along long mountain roads and sell them to the Zhili Grain Company's purchasing station, rather than selling them to grain dealers who buy them at low prices.
People in food-deficient areas have also benefited a lot. Finally, they no longer need to buy high-priced grain from those grain merchants, because the Zhili Grain Company sells low-priced grain.