Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 280 Sweet Hong Kong Situation - Upgrade

The first day of trepidation passed like this.In the evening, not only Wen Tong, but all the crossing people in the South China Sugar Factory were like ants on a hot pot-everyone realized that they had encountered a challenge here and were facing a crisis.For Wentong, there are two countermeasures. One is to mobilize cash from Guangzhou and Lingao. As long as there is enough money, the current crisis can be turned into a good thing immediately-South China Sugar Bank purchases sugar at the original price, not only In fact, huge profits can be obtained, and it can also greatly increase its reputation in Leizhou.But Immediately Arithmetic quickly reminded him: this is no way.Leizhou's more than 20 stone sugar, even if he only ate one-third of it in the end, he would have to pay nearly 20 taels of silver, which is simply astronomical.Not to mention that Lingao will definitely not be able to get it out, even Guo Yi from Guangzhou will have to go bankrupt in Guangzhou Station to be satisfied.

Xiao Gui said: "Let Lingao dispatch a batch of luxury goods, such as mirrors and glass..."

"It's useless for sugarcane farmers to ask for these things. Old Xiao!" Chen Tianxiong shook his head repeatedly, "Would you like to give you an Armani suit to replace you when you get paid?"

"That's true." Xiao Gui thinks that whether it's the ancients or the modern people, real gold and silver are better than goods.

"The second countermeasure," Wen Tong said, "is to buy at a reduced price tomorrow. As long as the price is reduced, the situation will change immediately, and we can continue to buy normally. Of course, we want to get rid of Haiyitang in one fell swoop. The possibility of monopolizing Leizhou is gone. This is a safer approach, and I am afraid it is the only way.”

"It would be great if Lao Chang could come back as soon as possible. He will definitely bring back rice. If we use rice to pay for the sugar, the sugarcane farmers will definitely accept it." Wen Tong sighed, knowing in his heart that this was impossible.

"It seems that this is the only way to go." Everyone was relatively speechless.That night, Wen Tong was in a restless mood, and even Ah Zhu, who was about to recommend himself as a pillow, was scolded by him and kicked out.

At dawn the next day, Wen Tong had a hasty wash, and brought people to the entrance of the sugar shop. The situation outside made him almost breathless. The dark sugarcane farmers stretched from the entrance to the main road. There must be several thousand, and it seems that they all came overnight-it seems that the price drop at Haiyitang has spread throughout Xuwen, and all the people who still have candy are flocking to South China, the last hope.

Chen Tianxiong and the others have also arrived, even Xiao Gui has come - why are they still thinking about training apprentices now.

Liao Daxing came over and asked in a low voice: "Master, should we change the price on the water card now?"

Wen Tong gritted his teeth, nodded and said, "Change it."

Liao Daxing is taking care of the buddy to write the water sign, ready to hang it out for opening.Liao Dahua had already entered, and when he saw that the price was going to be changed, he quickly grabbed his arm: "Don't hang up!" He turned his head and whispered to Wen Tong: "Master, you can't change it!" Into the closet room:

"The bodyguard sent out got some news."

"What news?" Wen Tong became nervous

"Hai'an Street and Xuwen County are saying that the South China Sugar Factory has a magic trick, which can make more sugar out of nothing, so now there are South China sugar everywhere in other places, the price has dropped very low, and all the sugar is sold. Do not move……"

"Nonsense!" Wen Tong gritted his teeth angrily. What kind of rumor is this?mean!How despicable! "The price of sugar in Guangzhou is obviously [-] yuan. Where has the price dropped?"

"This... sugarcane farmers have no experience, and Guangzhou is more than 1000 miles away from here, and no one can verify whether it is true."

Chen Tianxiong said: "It seems that someone is taking advantage of the lack of news."

"I don't need the analysis, make up your mind!" Wen Tong became irritable, "What should I do with the purchase price?! Do you want to change it?"

Before anyone else could speak, Liao Dahua jumped ahead and said, "I can't change it! Now there are rumors in the street that the incident was caused by the South China factory. If the South China factory doesn't buy it for two or five dollars, they will sue The official said that the South China factory is suspected of practicing demon law..."

"Fart, can the county listen to their nonsense?"

"Boss, we are naturally not afraid of them going to the county to sue—it was a matter of catching wind and shadow. But when the bodyguards came back, they said that there was something strange about this matter, and there were a lot of bad boys among the sugar sellers. People are in a state of panic, once the price in South China is changed, these people immediately start to clamor, inciting the crowd to rush in, this...isn't this all dead? Once the incident breaks out, even the people from the county may not be able to suppress it immediately!"

In the minds of everyone, they saw reports of mass incidents on the forums in the past. When they saw this kind of thing, everyone was a little bit dark when they saw it, and they felt a little bit angry for me and other people. When the farts were about to make a group incident, everyone still felt a lot of pressure.

"And..." Liao Dahua added: "There are also hundreds of sugar cookers from Tutangliao in Leizhou here—since the South China factory opened, the business of Tutangliao has plummeted. Unemployment wages are also kept very low, and they are full of resentment. I heard that a few days ago, someone went to the yamen to submit a pleading paper, asking the government to intervene, but was refuted by the county magistrate. It would be even worse if they took the opportunity to make trouble Terrible. Someone is still preparing to rush in and burn the machine."

"Damn it, isn't this a movement to destroy machines? The revolutionary consciousness of the masses is really high!" Merlin said.

"What's the use of talking nonsense?" Wen Tong waved his hand, "We are all capitalists, and we are careful to give the revolutionary masses outside a dictatorship, so we all come up with ideas!"

"Let's buy it at the original price." Xiao Gui said, "Even if no one wants to attack the sugar factory, it will not be easy for the sugarcane farmers. Anyway, we have enough money to make money. If there is a trouble, the loss of the machine will be huge."

"Of course, the best strategy is to continue to buy. But what about money?!" Wen Tong is worried about this.

"The money can last for a few days," Chen Tianxiong said, "It's good if it can last for a few days, at least there is a buffer, and we can think about countermeasures."

If the price is lowered now, according to the information obtained by Liao Dahua, the bomb prepared for them will immediately blow up the South China factory.If the purchase continues at the original price, although it may still happen after a few days of lingering, at least it will have a buffer time. If it can come up with a countermeasure in time, it may be a great opportunity to dominate the Leizhou Sugar Industry.

"Let's do it like this. Shopkeeper Liao, you go and inform, and continue to buy for two, two, five..."

Before the words finished, Wenxiu stumbled in and ran in: "No...it's not good..."

"What's the matter?" The faces of several people changed.Have the proletarian masses already begun to act?

"The sugarcane farmers outside, I don't know who to listen to. They are all talking about that South China will receive the goods at the price of one, two, five, and some people are making noise, saying that the matter is caused by South China. South China is beautiful..."

"Bastard!" Seeing the opponent's step-by-step pressure, Wen Tong knew that it was not too late, and hurriedly ordered Wenxiu: "You run out: tell Liao Daxing, quickly hang up the water card for me, and the price will not change!"

Wenxiu ran out, and the atmosphere in the room became more and more heavy. If what Liao Dahua said just now was only a possibility, the current situation has proved the accuracy of the information.Chen Tianxiong suddenly said: "There is something strange here!"

Everyone's eyes were drawn to the past, and Chen Tianxiong said: "We have to change the purchase price. The decision was made early this morning. How did people outside know so quickly?"

"There are spies!"

"That's right," Chen Tianxiong said, "It seems that the roots are in those few local guys. They were recruited only recently, and we don't know the details about this place."

Liao Dahua said: "It's easy, first replace the people and ask the bodyguards to put them all in custody."

"But in this way, there will be no local folks to communicate with the sugarcane farmers. Leizhou dialect is difficult to understand in Cantonese."

"Let's go to Xuwen County for the small ones, and ask familiar shops and warehouses, one or two for each family, plus the locals in the escort agency, it will be enough."

"Okay, let's go. The time to open the door is coming soon!"

Re-arrange the staff here, and call Zhou Shizhai over there to take care not only to mobilize the militia, but also to organize all the men and strong women in the sugar factory. Production is suspended, and everyone sends out a stick to prepare Guarding plants, protecting equipment and warehouses

"Tell everyone, if there is a trouble, just call me. If you kill someone, the owner will find someone to replace them! If you die, you will be paid 500 taels a pension, and the injury will be so bad that Huanan will support him for a lifetime! As long as the machine and warehouse are kept, everyone will be paid. Ten taels of silver!"

"I'll go and give orders here!" Zhou Shidi also knew that the matter was important now, so he hurried to make arrangements.Xiao Gui also hurried back to the boiler room, raised the air pressure, and in case someone rushed into the sugar factory, he would use the steam engine to drive the water hose to drive away the crowd.

While the arrangements were in full swing inside, the crowd outside had already started to commotion.Originally, they were disturbed by the news of the drop in sugar prices, but now they heard that the only hope, South China, was also planning to drop the price, and the door had been opened for a while, but the door was still closed. The commotion began to spread, and someone was taking the opportunity to shout:

"South China dare not open the door!"

"Whatever they provoke, they must clean up!"

"If you don't open the door, we'll rush in!"

"Burn down this demon factory in South China!"

"Everyone, go ahead."

The commotion among the crowd was getting bigger and bigger, and when it was about to get out of hand, the gate of South China opened.Liao Daxing walked out with his head held high. His old-fashioned manner made the sugarcane farmers who were already irritated and eager to try quiet for a moment.

"Why are you arguing?" Liao Daxing put on a confident and arrogant look, although his back was covered with sweat, "Come on, hang up the water card for me."

The guys came out and quickly hung up the water sign.

Everyone's eyes were focused on the water sign, which clearly said two taels and five dollars.

A sigh of relief blew through the crowd like a gust of wind.

"Fathers and folks!" Liao Daxing repeated what Wen Tong said to him just now, "Although our South China Factory and South China Sugar Company are here for the first time, they are all well-behaved businessmen. These few days In the past few months, I have been making sugar for everyone, and the quality of the sugar is obvious to all. Now that the price of sugar outside is high, South China was worried that the sugar would not be enough to sell. I am grateful and grateful to all of you for showing love to South China." Talking, Tuantuan arched his hands, "Our boss said: If you have sugar you want to sell, just come and sell it. There is a lot of silver rice in South China that you can buy. Let's open the scale!" went in.

This statement, coupled with the fact that the price did not fall, temporarily calmed down the impetuous crowd.But this is only a stopgap measure.What follows will depend on how the Executive Committee handles it.

The Executive Committee received urgent documents on the same day.The Ministry of Foreign Affairs held an emergency meeting, thinking that it involved the issue of appropriation of funds, so the matter became a joint meeting of the financial department and the foreign affairs department.

"Now Lingao's total inventory of silver is less than 4 taels." Cheng Dong lowered his voice when talking about the number of silver deposits. This is one of the top secrets of the Time Travel Group.

For 4 taels, only 10,000 stone sugar can be collected, which is a drop in the bucket for the [-]+ stone sugar that is ready to rush to the gate of South China.

"No money? We should have some to sell to Macau."

"Those Indian money orders cannot be cashed in Leizhou, at least they have to be exchanged in Macau. Besides, they are only [-] pesos."

"Let the Guangzhou Station mobilize."

"I have contacted Guangzhou Station." Cheng Dong said, "It was originally planned that Guangzhou Station would raise 10 taels of silver to Leizhou to purchase Leizhou sugar products, but it was too difficult to transport the cash and the safety was not guaranteed, so we decided to Adopted the idea of ​​Chang Shide from Leizhou Sugar Industry: exchange part of Leizhou sugar for Vietnamese rice, and then use Vietnamese rice to buy Leizhou sugar. With so many sources of goods at once, the money has not been allocated."

Wen Desi said: "This matter is very difficult, and the risk is great. Let's transfer the cash to Leizhou. It is estimated that the big whale will not come back for a while."

"There is no radio on the big whale, or else you can send a telegram to tell him to buy rice and come back."

"How about we send them rice from Lingao or Guangzhou? Chang Shide said in his report that the price of rice in Leizhou is very high."

"I'm afraid it won't work," Yan Ming said. He is the new president of "Delong Grain Bank". "We don't have so much grain in stock." data to be concerned about. "Moreover, the daily consumption of grain is quite large, and the transfer of thousands of shi will endanger the reserves."

"Transporting grain from Guangzhou is like silver," Wen Desi said. "The speed is too slow. The sailboat has to go back and forth for six to seven days. By the time it is transported to Leizhou, the daylily will be cold."

"I agree with Mr. Wen: we need to transport the money!" Ma Qianju frowned, "If we don't transport the money, the South China factory will be squeezed out. The great situation developed by Leizhou will be gone."

(End of this chapter)