The commercial society has improved the cooperation between people and various industries, refined the division of labor, and improved the productive capacity of society to a certain extent.

In terms of the ability to create wealth, compared with the traditional agricultural society, it is an innovation and a progress, but in terms of the degree of social stability and the ability to resist attacks, the primary form of the commodity society, because there is no sudden change in technology, the production capacity has not increased compared with the agricultural society, so once he is hit hard, the stability is not as good as the traditional agricultural society.

The textile industry in Jinguo includes cotton planting, procurement, and textiles in the upstream, and dyeing, printing, embroidery, transportation, and sales in the downstream.

As far as dyeing is concerned, the raw materials for dyes alone are cinnabar, lead powder, sericite, carbon black, and various plants are planted to obtain dyes.

For example, blue grass to dye blue, madder grass and safflower to dye red, and yellow barberry to dye yellow, from the planting and cultivation of plants, to the extraction of pigments, to weaving and dyeing, this is a huge industrial chain.

This network and industry is not just in Chang'an, such as safflower mainly from Qinghai and the Western Regions controlled by the Jin State, and Huang Bai from southern Shaanxi and Hanzhong, and even some raw materials are purchased from the Ming Dynasty at high prices, which is already a huge commercial network, which is all over the Jin Kingdom.

Now if something goes wrong, the upstream and downstream of the entire industrial chain will be hit hard, and the people he affects are comparable to the large-scale natural disasters encountered in an agricultural society.

The primary commodity economy and society must not only face the commercial risks brought about by the weak system and supervision, but also bear the natural disasters of the traditional agricultural society, which increases the social instability.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty suddenly refused to accept the cloth of the Jin Kingdom, so that the textile industry, which had been frantically growing and expanding, was hit hard, and the raw materials and goods of the cloth were piled up, and most people were in debt.

The cotton planted by the people this year, the dyes extracted from the plants, will be unbought, the hired workers will be unemployed, the merchants will go bankrupt, and they will all lose their sources of income.

At this time, what they are most afraid of is that grain prices will rise again, but this year's grain production in Jinguo will be reduced.

These people who have no source of income, afraid of a rise in food prices, hold on to the little silver left in their hands, can't buy grain, can't last the next year, plus the Ming Dynasty has spread rumors, fueling the flames, Chang'an City suddenly formed a panic buying tide.

The grain in the city originally rose to three taels per stone, and it didn't take long for it to rise to six taels per stone, which has exceeded the grain price of three taels and six coins per stone in the north during the Chongzhen period.

That's it, and after a while, the grain stores along the street also hung up sold-out signs.

At present, on the one hand, the price of cotton cloth has been frustrated, and on the other hand, the price of grain has risen, and people who have not bought grain are in a hurry, looking around for news, wanting to know where they can sell the cloth in their hands and where they can buy grain.

The merchants, who had no food in the bazaar, and who could not sell the goods on the mule carts, were full of despair.

Almost all of their belongings are used to purchase raw materials, and a cart of goods was originally worth more than ten taels, but now no one wants a tael of silver, but the price of rice has risen to six taels, how can they not despair.

"When the cotton price of five taels and one load rose to fifteen taels, I knew that it would definitely fall, but no one expected it to fall so early, and it fell below five taels." A merchant driving two carts, covering his face with his hands, squatted on the ground regretfully. It can be seen that he has collected a lot of cotton, and now he has smashed it all in his hands.

"This time, we are all in the hands of the Ming people, what are the millions of orders, Tianzhu and Tianfang have a population of more than 10,000, as long as the cloth is woven, I am not afraid that there is no market. They speculated the price of cotton here for us, saying that they would continue to rise next year, who knew it was a lie, they withdrew the order, but we were miserable! ”

"My car of dyes is still collected from Mingguo at a high price, and I am ready to make a difference, now, hey!"

"What about our goods now, can we still sell them?"

"I heard that the country will collect it, but the price is very low······"

"The Zhu family of the straight lady thief, the shameless brute, has plagued our Sanqin before, and this time it has harmed Lao Tzu, and Lao Tzu and them are incompatible."

If you want to raise the price of something, you must first be able to tell a good story, a story that can be believed, and a good prospect can be seen.

This time the story of the Ming Dynasty is well told, half-truths and half-falsehoods, Jin Guoxin believed it, and naturally he was trapped.

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Luoyang City, the Henan headquarters of Wude Qianzhuang, because of its proximity to Jinguo, has become the command center for speculating on the price of Jinguo's cotton.

Wude and the Ming Dynasty grew together, and now the power has been stabilized, covering a wide range of businesses, covering all walks of life, huge influence, that is, the local government and many powerful businesses, all have to look at the face of the Wude to act.

At the beginning of last year, under the instruction of Wudehao, some merchants in the Ming Dynasty began to tell stories in Jinguo, participated in the speculation of Jinguo cotton prices, and several big shopkeepers went directly from Nanjing to Luoyang to preside over the operation.

Half a month ago, Chen Yonghua, the president of Wude, also rushed to Luoyang from Nanjing, announcing that this hype, which had been going on for more than a year, was finally coming to an end.

At this time, in a lobby of the Henan General Account of Wude Qianzhuang, in the middle is a large square table with a long line, which is full of various accounts, and there are more than ten shopkeepers sitting on both sides, and Chen Yonghua is sitting in the middle, listening to the reports of the people below.

"President, at the beginning of last year, before placing an order with Jinguo for speculation, we purchased 100,000 quintals of cotton from Jinguo through our business name in Jinguo, and secretly transported 100,000 quintals of cotton from our dynasty into Jinguo, spending a total of 1 million silver dollars." A big shopkeeper stood up and said loudly: "After placing the order, in order to raise the price of cotton, we purchased 50,000 quintals of cotton from Jinguo at a high price of ten taels per quintal, and spent 500,000 silver dollars. Recently, these cotton have been sold to the Jinguo firm at a price of 15 taels per quintal, and a total of 3.75 million silver has been obtained. ”

Chen Yonghua calculated silently in his heart, and said casually, "The cost of cotton alone is 1.5 million taels, and after subtracting the labor and transportation costs, it should make a net profit of 2.2 million taels." ”

The means of the Ming Dynasty was to buy a batch of cotton and put it in Jinguotun, and then tell a good story, and at the same time spend a sum of money to raise the price of cotton.

If there are few people to take over, the Ming Dynasty will spend some more money and continue to pull the price of cotton for another round, until the people of Jin Guo can't resist the temptation, and I believe that it will rise again, and more people will enter the market. After enough people entered the market, the Ming Dynasty quietly sold the cotton that had been collected in advance and purchased later, and let the merchants of the Jin Kingdom who entered the market take over, and they withdrew from the hype themselves.

After the big shopkeeper in charge of cotton speculation finished speaking, one of the shopkeepers he started immediately stood up, "President, the operation of dyes is similar to that of cotton, but because of the price of cotton and cotton cloth, our speculation is relatively simple, without any silver money speculation, the price of dyes has risen three times, and this time a total of 1.5 million taels of gold and silver have been earned." ”

Only cotton and dye, the Ming Dynasty made a profit of nearly four million, and the shopkeeper who came to Luoyang with Chen Yonghua, as well as the officials of the silver money supervisor on the side, showed shock and joy on their faces, and they talked about each other.

Chen Yonghua was very calm about this, he knocked on the table with his hand, and the surroundings immediately quieted down, and he said: "The hype of cotton cloth in the early stage is over, and the finishing touches will begin below." This time, Jin Guo suffered a big loss, and he will inevitably take measures to strictly investigate to the end, has the money of the three firms, Shunyu, Xinglong, and Ruiyongchang, been transferred? ”

These three firms are ostensibly Jin firms, but in fact they are the capital of the Ming Dynasty, just like when the Manchu Qing Dynasty funded Fu Younian to set up a firm in Nanjing to investigate the intelligence of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty also had many firms in the Jin Kingdom, and also bought some Jin people.

Shopkeeper Wang hurriedly stood up and arched his hand: "The silver money of these three firms was secretly transported to Luoyang in half a month, and there is only one empty shell left in Guanzhong at present, even if the Jin Kingdom finds out, we will not have any loss." ”

Chen Yonghua nodded, and looked at the other person again, "Shopkeeper Zhao, how is the situation in the grain store in Guanzhong?" ”

"As expected, it has risen several times, and now it has reached six taels and one stone."

Chen Yonghua smiled, "How much grain do we have?" ”

"Jin Guo has a very strict control over the sale of grain, although we have already started to buy it, but there is not much grain in the stockpile, only 300,000 stones."

The rise in grain prices can be predicted, and the Ming Dynasty will naturally not let go of this opportunity, but the Jin Kingdom is very strict in supervising grain, salt, and iron, and is not allowed to go out of the customs, so although Wude predicted that the price of grain in Jin would rise, it did not collect much grain.

Chen Yonghua pondered, this time the Wude speculated on the cotton price of Jinguo, and only the cotton and dyes in the early stage made a net profit of more than 3.7 million taels of gold and silver. And in the whole hype process, in addition to the Ming Dynasty making money, some of the people who entered the Jin Kingdom first may have also made a profit, and the loss was the vast majority of people who were still on the plate when the bubble burst.

The loss of these people will not be just more than 3.7 million taels in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and the total loss should be more than 10 million taels.

With such a large loss of wealth, it is impossible for the Jin Imperial Court not to come out to maintain stability and even save the market.

Chen Yonghua pondered for a while, and suddenly said: "Tell those grain stores that it doesn't matter if you make a little less, don't confront the Jin State Government, let them sell at the market price, and try not to expose themselves." ”

The price of grain in the Jin Kingdom is more expensive than that in the Ming Dynasty, initially each stone was about one or five taels of silver, and now it has risen to six taels, even if it is sold at this time, it can also earn more than one million taels of silver in the Golden Kingdom.

Chen Yonghua estimated that Jin Guo might take coercive measures, so it was the best policy to let the grain store follow the Jin State government and settle the bag for safety.

"Yes, I'll send the president's instructions to Guanzhong later."

Chen Yonghua nodded, and asked again: "How far has cotton and cotton fallen now?" ”

"Cotton has fallen to one tael per load, and ordinary cotton cloth has fallen to one penny per horse."

Under normal circumstances, the price of cotton in Jinguo should be five taels per quintal, and cotton cloth is five cents per horse, but now they have plummeted below the normal level, with a five-fold difference.

Chen Yonghua smiled, "You can eat it at this price." Let people spread the news that as long as the goods are out of Tongguan, we will buy them at this price. ”

Everyone in the lobby laughed, and the front was just an appetizer, which was the main course.

The Ming Dynasty received these cotton and cotton cloth at a low price, and then loaded them directly into the ship and pulled them to Jiangnan. Before and after, the profit of Wude will be close to 10 million.

The people of Jin Guo did business with their own cotton cloth, not only gave the goods below the cost to the Ming Dynasty, but also gave the Ming Dynasty a large sum of money to help the Ming Dynasty produce goods and plant cotton.

In Chang'an City, in the palace, Haoge, who hurried back from Weinan County, sat on the throne with trembling hands and watched with a fold, and his whole face turned purple with anger.

Suddenly, Haoge suddenly lifted all the folds on the imperial case, his body gasped violently, and he scolded: "Shameless! Villain! Bastard! Old turtle, deceive people too much! ”

After all, Hauge is a man, he is good at fighting and killing, but he doesn't know much about business, and he doesn't know how to use commercial means to hit opponents. Where did he know so many routines, where did he know that in addition to robbing directly with a knife, he could do this, he looked at the minister's excerpts, the accumulation of ten years of the Jin Kingdom, and nearly half of it was taken away by the Ming Dynasty, and his lungs were about to explode.

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