My client Li Yunlong

"The Wang family and the Jia family have already taken action."

"After mortgaging the grain loans in the warehouse, we continued to purchase grains from the market on a large scale. Today, the price of grains in the market has risen to three yuan per catty."

"But the Su family and others haven't taken action yet."

"···"

After hearing the officer's report, the person in charge of economic warfare in the southern Hebei base area couldn't help but shook his head.
For a moment, he didn't know what to say about this.

Mortgage the land to sell grain, then mortgage the grain to continue selling grain, and the cycle repeats.

Leverage has begun,

And it keeps getting bigger.

Once the price of grain drops and returns to the price in May, these landowners will be left with a lot of debt after losing everything.

Not to mention land and food, I'm afraid even the so-called ancestral home will be confiscated.

In the early stages of laying out this plan, the person in charge of economic warfare was actually very unsure. The trap was so direct, and the target was directed at the land that the landlords regarded as their lifeblood.

Will these cunning and treacherous landowners really be fooled?

But now that the plan has been implemented,

The reality told him,
As the great thinker said,

When profits reach a certain level, capital will lose its mind.

This group of cunning landlords were as cunning and treacherous as old foxes in their struggle with the army to reduce rents and interest rates. The landlords who repeatedly suffered heavy losses were so stupid that they hardly looked like people with brains.

He dug a pit, threw some silver coins, and jumped into the pit one by one.

Go forward one after another,

Sometimes, many landowners jumped in before he could even seduce them further.

such as,

Wang family, Jia family.

"That old man Su is really an old fox!"

The person in charge of economic warfare sneered.

"Has brains, but not much."

One of the staff officers sneered and said a famous saying from Commander Li.

If you had a brain, you wouldn't be hoarding food, and you wouldn't be fighting against the troops.

It’s such an obvious trap, but I jumped into it myself.

"let's start."

The person in charge of economic warfare ordered.

In order to make the remaining landowners, old and young, in the Jinan base area willing to hand over their land, they still need one last resort.

···
That night.

Liao County.

"Is this sorghum?"

Chen Quan couldn't help but blinked when he looked at the grain to be transported today.

Sorghum is also a grain.

Still a staple food.

However, sorghum tastes very astringent and may cause stomach discomfort if you eat too much. The nutrition is far inferior to that of rice and white flour, so sorghum is a whole grain.

Wasn’t it always white flour and rice?
Why did it become coarse food?
"Sixty trucks?"

"Every car is full."

Seeing the number of trucks, Shen Quan couldn't help but blinked again, very surprised.

The troops are about to open transportation channels to the Luliang Mountain base area and border areas.

Although the road cannot be built immediately, it is expected that 30 trucks, 50,000 militiamen, 15 main regiments, and 30,000 mules will be used to transport food and supplies to the border areas.

The target is to transport 50,000 tons per month.

After all, the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Region is the core of the army. The Anti-Japanese University is here, and it is also the key to cultivating talents.

The advanced knowledge, advanced military concepts, and management systems acquired by Li Yunlong have now been compiled into teaching materials by the Anti-Japanese University to train advanced technical personnel for the army.

To do this requires not only large amounts of capital, but also massive resources.

Silver dollars are easy to transport,
If the biplane transport plane flies a few more times, it can transport enough silver coins and prosper the economy of the Shaanxi-Gansu border region.

But food is not good,
Can only rely on land transportation.

Taking into account transportation losses, transporting to the Shaanxi-Gansu border area consumes approximately 100,000 tons of grain every month.

The grain allocated to the Jinan base area is only 1,000 tons per day.

But with sixty trucks at a time, even if we don't count the mule and horse transport team, it is nearly two thousand tons of grain every day.

Is it because of the sorghum?
Chen Quan thought.

Although his thoughts kept going, Shen Quan also kept moving. After arranging the loading, he immediately set off with the transportation team.

With the reinforcement of roads and bridges, it is no longer a problem to pass a convoy of 60 trucks.

···
"Sorghum is a coarse grain."

"It tastes bad and is not suitable for long-term use from a health perspective."

"So, one pound of fine grain can be exchanged for ten pounds of coarse grain."

Reciting the description of sorghum in the information, Li Yunlong sounded proud:
"We only need to separate out 20,000 tons of fine grains and replace them with sorghum to completely solve the problem of food shortage."

After applying to the system again to increase the grain quota and failing, Li Yunlong immediately changed his mind and replaced fine grains with coarse grains.

"Boss Lu is so awesome!"

Zhao Gang couldn't help but sigh.

Although sorghum is a coarse grain, it can be used as a staple food. Its nutritional value is slightly worse, but not much worse. It can be eaten well and satisfactorily.

Many poor families rely on sorghum as their staple food.

One for ten, this is obviously a loophole left deliberately left by the independent group to exploit when it cannot continue to improve after 200,000 tons of grain per month.

On the market, the price of sorghum is only half of that of fine grains, and it is imported fine grains with high-quality packaging.

“Sorghum is good!”

Then Zhao Gang praised sorghum.

Sorghum is a coarse grain with poor taste. The market demand for this grain is not high, and merchants are unwilling to transport sorghum to other places for sale.

In this way, sorghum can maintain a very stable price.

It allows people who really need food to obtain enough food at low prices.

···
the next day.
Jinan region, Ze County.

Early in the morning, Wang Yiwu went to the grain sales point in the base area to buy grain.

At this time, the food selling point was already crowded with people.

Due to purchase restrictions, each person can only buy five kilograms of imported fine grains per day. They must also hold identification documents from the base area to purchase grains, and most importantly, the price of grains has remained unchanged for one yuan per kilogram.

So the lines for buying food were very long.

In Wang Yiwu's view, if imported fine grains were not packaged in a minimum sealed package of five kilograms, purchase restrictions would have been even stricter.

Therefore, he could only squat at the grain selling point, buy those who bought the grain at a price higher than the market price, and then hoard it or sell it to other big businessmen.

Or, transport them in batches to Japanese-controlled areas for sale.

Although the Eighth Route Army strictly inspected the transportation of grain to Japanese-controlled areas, it also stipulated that residents in the base area did not violate the regulations if a single person carried fifteen kilograms or less of grain out of the base area.

This weird policy made Wang Yiwu's businessman's instinct feel that something was wrong.

Since the price of grain is strictly limited, why is it not illegal to allow a person to weigh 15 pounds?
Wouldn't it be better to ban the outflow directly?
It can also better control food prices.

Although one person only weighs fifteen pounds,
But when there are more people, the amount of food lost is not a small amount.

With such a relaxation, although large grain merchants could not make a profit by transporting grain to the Japanese, due to factors such as the transportation limit of fifteen kilograms per person, the high wages in the base area, and the long distance to the Japanese-controlled areas, which was difficult to manage.

It's not cost-effective to hire people to transport it to Japanese territory.

But ordinary people can make a profit by reselling grain, which has attracted a large number of people from the Japanese-controlled areas to settle down.

He even made bold statements that in the future, he would use market means to solve economic problems and create a stable economic development environment.

Wang Yiwu really felt the stable economic development environment. The administrative staff in the base area strictly followed the rules and regulations, making it very convenient for him to do business.

But it also gave many businessmen the opportunity to hoard food, especially those big landowners.
He knew everything. There was no reason why the Eighth Route Army didn't know.

Those big landowners,
Thinking of this, Wang Yiwu's eyes suddenly widened.

Is it intentional?

The Eighth Route Army did this on purpose.

But what's the purpose?
Could it be...
Wang Yiwu, who has been in business for generations and traveled extensively with his father, keenly sensed a hint of possibility behind it.

The Eighth Route Army is fishing?

as well as,

Is this really a team of ordinary people?

When his thoughts came to this point, Wang Yiwu saw that the writing on the blackboard that usually wrote the amount of food sold today changed.

Before the Eighth Route Army staff could read it, he immediately looked at it carefully.

“Forty thousand kilograms of high-quality bulk sorghum was sold today.”

"Thirty cents per catty! Purchase limit is five catties per person."

"Sorghum?"

Wang Yiwu was shocked.

Although sorghum is also a grain, it can be used as a staple food.

But the reason why the market has such a huge demand for the grain released by the Eighth Route Army is that the price has increased to three yuan and three Hebei Nan dollars per catty in the base areas, and the price has increased to six yuan and six Hebei Nan dollars per catty in the Japanese-controlled areas.

The fundamental reason is that the food released by the Eighth Route Army before was all rice, white flour, cornmeal and other fine grains, which were delicious and easy to digest. They also had excellent sealing and waterproof packaging, so they could be stored for a long time and were not easily damaged.

In fact, the market price of imported fine grains in bulk is more than one yuan higher than the market price of exquisitely packaged grains.

Now sorghum... is not so popular in the market.

When Wang Yiwu bought a few kilograms of bulk sorghum, he became more convinced.

The quality of sorghum is very good, and they are all top-grade. However, sorghum is a coarse grain and has a poor taste. In addition, it is packaged in bulk. The packaging is not airtight and waterproof and is not suitable for long-term storage. It is destined that it will not be very popular in the market.

But as food, it’s really good.

Wang Yiwu has also eaten sorghum.

Sorghum can provide enough food and give people the strength to work.

"Forty thousand pounds a day."

"There are now a total of fifty grain sales points in the Jinan base area. Each one is 40,000 kilograms, so that's two million kilograms, which is one thousand tons!"

"Is it really for the benefit of the people?"

Wang Yiwu was a little stunned.

Four million kilograms of coarse grains can already meet the food needs of people in southern Hebei.

As a result,
As a businessman, he has traveled all over the country and has seen all kinds of faces of those in power. Knaka has to get used to it, but this is the first time he has seen someone who is truly for the common people.

and,

The business environment here is also really good.

The new Jinan currency is as strong as the silver dollar and has not depreciated since its issuance. It is much better than the legal currency.

"Do you want to take root here?"

An idea suddenly came to his mind.

In this chaotic situation, including the Japanese forces, the Central Army of Fruit Preserved Army, the Shanxi-Sui Army, and bandits, it was too dangerous to be a traveling trader, so he had saved some capital now.

Starting a small business in the Jinan base area is much safer than being a traveling businessman. (End of chapter)