According to the plan of the Prophet, a ship was to hold 100 tons of ballast, and each gloomy wooden box had 100 pounds of ballast, and 2,000 boxes were to be loaded. Coupled with the weight of the wooden box itself, it is a lot heavier than a hundred tons.

And twelve ships, a total of twenty-four thousand boxes.

The nine sisters and ten sisters worked tirelessly for several days, which can be called a model model in the logistics industry, and finally packed all the ballast into a gloomy wooden box with a uniform form, and locked and marked one by one.

"You're doing a good job. Ji Shengdian said with satisfaction, "Now, let's carry all these ballast items on the ship." ”

Ji Lingxing was so frightened that his feet were paralyzed, "Third sister, this will be dead!"

It's so tiring to pack in the warehouse, and then move tens of thousands of boxes from the warehouse onto the big ship, what kind of work is this?

"Yes, each box here is heavier than the ninth sister. Ji Aojian nodded and said, "She's not an ant, this weight ratio is too much for her." ”

"Die, you're an ant!" said the little girl annoyedly, "since I can't carry it, you'll have to carry all the boxes." ”

Ji Aojian thought for a while and said, "Third sister, can't you hire some dock workers to carry it, let's not miss this money, right?"

Ji Shengdian smiled, "Of course it's no problem to hire people, but those porters are very experienced, and from the size and weight of the boxes, they can basically tell what these ballast are." ”

"Can this be judged?" Ji Lingxing said nervously, "These valuable reserves need to be kept secret." ”

"yes, for the sake of secrecy, we'd better move ourselves. ”

"Then I'll do it. Ji Aojian sighed. "I take more than ten boxes at a time, and it won't be too slow to load them all onto the ship. ”

So Ji Lingxing watched his younger brother stack a dozen boxes together. I walked out with vigorous steps, and said in surprise after a while. "Xiaojian can afford to carry all these boxes up?"

"It's okay, it's okay. Ji Shengdian said neatly, "Ten sisters have practiced martial arts diligently for many years, practicing Sanjiu in summer and Sanfu in winter, and finally have the strength of a thousand catties, if you don't use it to move boxes, it's a pity." ”

"Oh. Ji Lingxing thought about it sideways. "However, third sister, you can easily carry the cannon, dance lighter than a feather, and have the reputation of Sister Cannon, wouldn't it be a pity not to move the box with such divine power?"

"Dead girl, you were a berserker. Ji Shengdian smiled, "If you feel sorry for him, go and help Xiaojian move it together." ”

"No, I don't have any problem at all. Ji Lingxing hurriedly shook his hand. "The tenth sister is a boy, this moving boxes and cabinets, upstairs and downstairs, who does he use if he doesn't need it?"

"So you know that. Ji Shengdian said leisurely. "Then let's sit down at the bow of the boat and have a snack and a cup of tea. Slowly appreciate the graceful posture of the tenth sister moving the box, what do you think?"

"Haha. Such an elegant and leisurely aristocratic enjoyment is, of course, excellent. ”

The two girls chose a state-of-the-art battleship. On the deck, benches, deck chairs, melon seeds, peanuts and other onlookers were put out, and finally a sun umbrella was propped up.

Ji Lingxing watched someone carry ballast back and forth again, and suddenly thought about it, and said, "Third sister, I have a question I want to ask you." ”

"What's the problem?"

"We brought back so many gold reserves to practice the gold standard, does it mean that it is better to implement the gold standard than to issue paper money?"

Ji Shengdian was surprised and said, "You actually know how to ask about economic problems?"

"Third sister, don't despise me so much!" Ji Lingxing said sullenly, "Tell me, isn't the gold standard better?"

"If you want to say whether the gold standard is good or bad-" Ji Shengdian paused, "Let me first ask you, is it better to go long or short when trading stocks? Is it better to appreciate or depreciate the exchange rate when trading foreign trades? Is it better to be inflationary or deflationary when the economy is running?"

"There is no fixed answer to these questions, right?" Ji Lingxing said with a frown, "It depends on the specific internal and external environment and operation methods. ”

"Since you know that there is no fixed answer, then why do you still ask whether the gold standard is good or not?" Ji Shengdian smiled, "There is nothing in this world that is simply good or bad, and if you ask this kind of question, it means that your realm is not enough." ”

"But I think the benefits of the gold standard are obvious. ”

"How obvious?"

Ji Lingxing said, "When this dynasty issued the Ming treasure banknotes, prices soared, the people were struggling to make a living, and social wealth was plundered in large quantities. If only gold and silver are recognized in the market, then prices will naturally be stable, and the imperial court will have no way to start if it wants to take advantage of the people's property. ”

"So the gold and silver standard will stabilize prices?" Ji Shengdian smiled, "That's what you think?"

"That's right, the value of gold and silver itself has been very stable throughout history, and it can naturally stabilize prices. ”

"Are you sure?"

"Absolutely. Ji Lingxing snorted, "People have looked up a lot of materials in the library." ”

"So Xiao Ling, do you think about how your eighth sister used to hoard raw silk at a low price?"

Ji Lingxing said in a daze, "Isn't she hoarding raw silk just by lowering the price?"

"Well, why did she succeed in lowering the price if she wanted to?"

"She's fierce......"

Ji Shengdian sneered, "There is no father and son in the business field, Xiaojing is a commercial acquisition, not a robber, is she using a knife to force people to accept low prices?"

The little girl pondered for a long time and couldn't figure it out, "How did the eighth sister manage to stock up on silk at a low price?"

"There's a word for tightening the monetary roots. Ji Shengdian said slowly, "Xiaojing controls the main money village in Jiangnan, whenever the time for raw silk to go on the market, she will increase the turnover coupon of the money bank, and there will be a shortage of money in the market, and the silk farmers and silk merchants can't sell at the right price, so they have to sell at a low price." ”

Ji Lingxing said puzzledly, "If you can't sell it at a good price, then you won't sell it well, and you can hoard it in your own hands." ”

"Kid, you've got a pattern. Ji Shengdian shook his head and sighed, "Silk farmers want to support their families, how can they hold a year's worth of keeping it in their hands? The large amount of working capital needed by small and medium-sized silk merchants to collect silk is borrowed from the bank, and there is a high cost of use, even if the profit is meagre when reselling, they dare not sell it." ”

"Uh-" Ji Lingxing suddenly said, "So those silk farmers and silk merchants had to be exploited by the eighth sister layer by layer?"

"This is just an example of a silk take-up. Ji Shengdian said lightly, "If she wants to hoard all kinds of other bulk items, she can do so." Enlarge to the world, financial capital on a global scale, is also hoarded in this way, if through the futures market, the leverage of buying low and selling high can be magnified many times. ”

"Uh-"

"Xiaoling, are prices stable?"

Ji Lingxing said in disappointment, "It turns out that no matter whether you use the gold standard or not, you can manipulate prices." ”

"Whether it is the gold and silver standard, or the issuance of paper money, it is only a monetary instrument. Ji Shengdian said with a smile, "The key is who has the right to issue currency." As long as you can control the issuance of money, you will be able to release and tighten liquidity according to your needs. Between this loosening and tightening, you can shear wool from any industry and plunder a huge amount of social wealth. ”

"Third sister, listening to you say this, isn't financial capital too terrible?"

"The financial industry is originally the top of the industrial chain, do you know now that financial capital is terrible?" Ji Shengdian snapped his fingers, "Think about it, whether the capitalists who open factories in entities can only deprive workers of a higher proportion of the overall labor value created by workers, whether they extend their working hours and deprive them of more absolute surplus value, or improve production technology to deprive them of more relative surplus value, and the degree of exploitation cannot reach 100 percent anyway, right?"

Ji Lingxing nodded.

"But if financial capital can successfully speculate and plunder in an infinite cycle, it can even buy the entire industry of a country, embezzle all the assets of the real economy, rob all the savings of the working people, and finally make the country and the people inexplicably owe debts many times the original assets. This is not only a 100 percent exploitation rate, but also a few hundred percent, and it is not uncommon to have a few thousand percent. ”

The blonde girl grinned and said, "Moreover, this method of plundering the wealth of society belongs neither to the primary nor to the secondary industry, and it does not seem to be the exploitation of the surplus value of industry and agriculture, so you cannot use the theory of class struggle to regard them as the object of revolution." ”

"Why is this happening?" Ji Lingxing's head was in a cold sweat, "Could it be that I have always mistaken the real enemy of the revolution?"

"That's right. Ji Shengdian said lazily, "When you return to China, you will first give your seventh sister and eighth sister to the revolution." ”

"Ahem. Ji Lingxing hurriedly smiled, "In fact, the seventh sister and the eighth sister are just accumulating industrial capital for the rise of the national industry, which is a move to benefit the country and the people." ”

Ji Shengdian said in surprise, "Since they have started industry, they will directly exploit the surplus labor value, if this does not revolutionize them, is there still heavenly reason?"

“...... Third sister, let's wait for the country to become rich and strong, and then let's investigate the issue of historical responsibility. ”

(To be continued.) )