Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2551 New Quotes

"Two comrades, excuse me for a moment." Li Qiwei cupped his hands to the two.

"You are busy first, business is important." Li Shan said politely, and saw that Li Qiwei went forward to unfold the cloth, and did the same operation: shaking his head to pick a prick, and after some bargaining, he made an offer: "Two pieces of homemade cloth are three quarters and six quarters in total." arts."

"Dianjie cotton has fallen?" The retail investor asked in surprise after hearing the quotation, "Yesterday my neighbor came to sell it, and it sold for [-] cents a piece!"

"There is no plan, there are too many monkeys in Yiyue cloth." Shopkeeper Li said with a helpless expression, "Besides, you are made of local yarn, and the market is the worst! No one wants it in the market now..."

"Boss! Please do me a favor, can I raise another point? Five cents is fine!"

"Brother, what kind of business do you think I am! And the rent, and the buddy..." Li Qiwei had a bitter face of "I can't bear it anymore", "Just to make money for moving. To buy machine yarn, you must at least buy improved yarn for weaving cloth!"

"Machine yarn is expensive. We have cotton in our village. We spin and weave it ourselves. It's not worth buying yarn..." The machinist shook his head repeatedly.

The next few cloth sellers were slashed and killed by the shopkeeper Li with a dragon-slaying knife, and all of them returned home.As the saying goes, come with joy and return with disappointment.

"Look, does this mean that you overcharged by three or five buckets?" Zou Biao poked Li Shan.

"I'm afraid this will be the norm in the future." Li Shan whispered.He was secretly surprised. Didn't the price of cotton cloth rise a lot?From the looks of it, prices are falling.

After finishing the work at hand, Li Qiwei hurried over to accompany him.Tea was offered again, and cigarettes were taken out again. Li Shan took a look, and it was still a holy ship brand!This shopkeeper is really particular about people.

Li Shan had doubts about the price of cotton, so he asked: "The price of this cotton cloth has fallen? I saw it was still rising yesterday..."

"Yesterday it was indeed still rising. But today the market has changed." Li Qiwei saw that they had all declined cigarettes, and brought another plate of betel nuts—the two were even more respectful of this thing.

"What's the situation?" Li Shan asked.

"Originally, there was a large purchase of cotton cloth every day, and the quantity was not constant, but even if it was the smallest order, no one in the market could eat it alone, and several companies shared the food." Li Qiwei said, "But the big one the day before yesterday Buying orders did not come out, and a piece of cloth was not bought..."

Zou Biao frowned and said, "Whose purchase?"

"Nanyang Company." Li Qiwei said, "Since the market opened, it has been buying continuously, not only in large quantities, but also in cheap coarse cloth, which immediately raised the price. Everyone sees the market like this Well, we followed up..."

Both Li and Zou recalled a joint notice issued by the Government Administration Council and the Planning Institute last year. In order to promote the market economy and private manufacturing, in terms of material procurement, as long as they can be purchased in the market, try to purchase from the market instead of going internally. Allocation settlement channel.

"Then why don't you buy it?"

"I don't know, maybe I can't check all the purchases." Li Qiwei said, "The day before yesterday, Nanyang had no buying orders, only sporadic small buying orders. Everyone hoped that it would be bought the next day. After all, I heard that they have immigrants in Cochin and Nanyang, and I heard that they will immigrate [-] people. Just to make clothes and bedding for the immigrants, you have to buy [-] bolts of cloth..."

Zou Biao couldn't help asking: "Who did you hear that Nanyang Company wanted to emigrate [-]?"

"It's said in the market." Li Qiwei took a sip of tea and tasted it, "We don't know if it's true or not. However, Nanyang Company bought so many cloths, so it's not necessarily for hoarding, there must be a source..."

"There was no disk the day before yesterday, and probably there was none yesterday?"

"Exactly, so when the market opened today, the price of coarse cloth fell..."

"How much did it fall?"

"Like this kind of homemade cloth made of earthen yarn, I received two cents yesterday, but today it is seven cents and three cents a cent. It dropped directly to two cents and seven cents...

After a rough calculation, Li Shan was surprised that the drop had already exceeded 20.00%.This is too fierce!

In Guangzhou, two yuan is enough for a family of four to maintain the most basic livelihood.It is not a small sum to earn two cents and seven cents less for a piece of cloth.

"You can collect the cloth, can you ship it now?"

"Yes, homemade cloth is cheap and easy to ship." Li Qiwei said, "As long as the price is right, there will always be people who want it." He pointed to the cloth piled up in the warehouse behind, "Don't look at the homemade cloth as ugly and thick. Those who love to use it will still buy it." There are quite a few. The dealers who go to the countryside like to come to me to buy goods."

"Aside from the lack of big buying, what's the reason?"

"When there is more cloth on the market, it will naturally drop." Li Qiwei said, "It is now the end of June, and next month Portuguese merchant ships will come to Guangzhou, and then there will be a large amount of Indian cloth arriving in Hong Kong. Cloth prices will drop again. So this market will only continue to go down..."

The supply of goods is sufficient, the market is expected to be bearish, and the price will naturally drop. This is the simplest truth.

When Li Shan asked about "machine yarn", Li Qiwei boasted: "This is really the first-class good yarn! It is even, delicate and tough, and it hangs on the machine to weave smoothly, it is not easy to break, and the cloth produced is also fine! There are many workshops Both the machine worker and the machinist are willing to buy machine yarn to weave, although the price is more expensive, but the woven fabric is much better than earthen gauze!"

"Then why do people still use earth yarn?"

"The price is high!" Li Qiwei looked at him with a strange expression, "Everyone knows that machine yarn is easy to use, but the price is much higher than that of earthen yarn. Besides, most of the farmhouse cloth is self-spun and self-woven. How much yarn is woven, and cotton yarn is rarely purchased.”

It seems that the launch of machine yarn and improved yarn has not shaken the earth cloth market. Zou Shan knows that the output of machine yarn is limited now, and it is still in the state of "high quality and high price". , can still occupy the low-end market at a very low price.To defeat the local yarn, the machine yarn must rely on a larger scale and lower production costs...

"Is there a separate sale of local yarn?" He continued to ask
Generally speaking, most commodities under the feudal economy were self-produced, self-used, and self-sold from raw materials to products, and most of the commodities were also used for taxation, so it was actually relatively rare for semi-finished product trade.

"Of course there is. Before there is no machine yarn, the cotton yarn is spun by the farmers themselves, and they spin and weave themselves. Those who don't have a loom sell the yarn-you probably know that spinning yarn doesn't cost much, and the family has cotton That's it..."

The most primitive spinning method does not even need a hand spinning machine, and a single spindle can spin.The only inputs required are cotton and manpower.But weaving is different.A loom costs from a few taels of silver to dozens of taels, and ordinary farmers can hardly afford it.

So the local soil yarn has always been in circulation, but the scope of circulation is very small, the farthest is only the nearby market.Small cloth merchants like Li Qiwei initially went to various rural markets to buy cotton yarn, gave credit to small machine operators, and then repurchased their woven cloth.

"...Originally, my family collected both yarn and cloth, but now we only receive cloth. The yarn is sold on credit, and if we fail to collect the cloth, we will suffer a big loss. We are running a small business and cannot afford to lose money."

"Are there any local buyers who buy yarn in bulk?"

"Yes, there is a big cloth village. Their capital is strong, and they are backed by the government or big gentry families. I am not afraid that your weavers will not pay the cloth."

"Then, are there a large number of yarn sellers?"

"I've never seen this before. Speaking of which, Australians are the first to sell machine-made yarns in large numbers."

It seems that the launch of machine yarn and improved yarn has not shaken the earth cloth market. Zou Shan knows that the output of machine yarn is limited now, and it is still in the state of "high quality and high price". , can still occupy the low-end market at a very low price.To defeat the local yarn, the machine yarn must rely on a larger scale and lower production costs...

While talking, the guy brought a piece of paper, which turned out to be the "Market Update" printed every afternoon by the market.Li Qiwei looked at it and sighed: "It has fallen again! Even the cotton yarn market has fallen! It seems that the market will be even worse tomorrow."

The clerk said: "Shopkeeper! Do you want to stop receiving cloth..."

"Don't stop yet," Li Qiwei thought for a moment, "From now on, no matter what kind of cloth, each cloth will be adjusted for five points... no, five points!"

"So? It fell again?"

"That's right, it's all down this time!" Li Qiwei handed the business paper to Li Shan casually, "Not only cotton cloth fell, cotton yarn fell, even cotton began to fall... This is terrible..." He suddenly remembered something, He called a clerk and said, "Go back to the city immediately and tell Uncle to get rid of all the tissues in your hand immediately. No matter how much it is now, sell it immediately, and there will be no leftover!"

Li Shan looked at the market, and sure enough, the cotton market all fell, which was not particularly large in terms of the magnitude, but it was the first time that such an overall decline had occurred since the opening of the market, and the two immediately became nervous.Hearing the shopkeeper's order to sell paper cotton, Li Shan couldn't help asking:

"What? You also bought paper cotton?!"

"I didn't buy it, it was my uncle who bought it!" Li Qiwei's expression showed anxiety, "My wife probably also invested her private money in it..."

"I heard that paper cotton is rising every day. As long as your uncle bought this paper cotton a few days ago, he can still earn money by selling it now."

"The two comrades are right." Li Qiwei's anxiety eased a little, "I'm afraid he's greedy for small profits and won't sell it in time! After all, the paper cotton also fell a few days ago, and then it rose back."

"Then how do you know if it will go up this time?"

"It goes without saying. At present, the price of cotton cloth and cotton yarn is falling across the board. How can the cotton that can only be delivered in a few months and do not know where it is? When the Portuguese merchant ship arrives and the Indian cotton cloth is unloaded and enters the market, the price of this cotton cloth will fall faster and more. Too much, the paper cotton will be just a piece of waste paper by then!"

(End of this chapter)