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Chapter 1133 Curtain Call
After more than a week of turmoil, the small businesses in Qianmen are as stable as a rock, and the price of grain has remained stable at around 28 jin per silver dollar.

The owner of Liuji Trading Company in Shisanhang came to the train station with a sad face.

The spy who was stationed here to find out the situation, saw Boss Liu coming and wanted to greet him with a fawning look on his face.

Without paying attention to his subordinates' flattery, Boss Liu frowned and asked, "How is the situation?"

"Ah~!" Liu Ji's spy sighed helplessly and said:
"During this week, there were only two trainloads of food delivered every four days. But starting from the day before yesterday, it seemed like they had an endless supply of food. Three to five trainloads arrived every day!"

"Look, there's another train coming!" With the sound of a train in the distance, a train pulled into the station.

Seeing a whole train loaded with grain arriving at the station again, Boss Liu was filled with despair!
Unexpectedly, even if these big merchants combined all their strength, they still could not compete with a national-level force.

This is completely contrary to their understanding. When it was still the Guo Party's power, they allowed them to control it. Is it the same for the Red Party?
"Forget it, why not just admit defeat! Perhaps I can stop the loss in time and try to recover the losses?" Boss Liu thought to himself.

"Forget it, let's go back!" Boss Liu shook his head and said with some disappointment.

"Boss, aren't we going to continue our investigation?" the spy said somewhat disappointedly.

"There's no need for that~, huh~?" At this time, Boss Liu suddenly stopped.

"Be careful, clean it up quickly, don't let anyone find out!" A suppressed voice said anxiously from under the train that was unloading.

It turned out that the loader was tripped by something on the ground while moving a bag of grain, and the bag of grain fell to the ground.

This in itself is not a problem, but the problem is that a hole was scratched in the bag, and sand spilled out of the bag that was supposed to contain grain.

"You guys, after they finish loading and unloading, go find the loader and ask him what's inside?"

"After that, Boss Liu instructed the spy: "Go in later and verify whether the things on the ground are food."

At this moment, Boss Liu's heart was pounding with excitement. He didn't expect the Red Party to be so cunning as to load sand into the train transporting grain.

Do they really think we are fools? It seems they have no extra food.

So, they are actually at the end of their strength, and they are bluffing to lure us into selling food?

That's right, only one carriage of this train contained food, and the rest was filled with dirt and sand.

It is winter now, the first month of the lunar year, not the harvest season, so it is very difficult to collect food in a short period of time.

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That night, several leading merchants from the Thirteen Hongs, including Liu Ji, Zhao Ji, Wang Ji and Li Ji, gathered together again.

Once everyone summarized the information they had collected, they immediately discovered the problem.

"Damn it, they really don't have much food left. My people found out that their grain store actually sent nearly one-third of the grain it sold back to the grain store, and then continued to sell it to us."

Not only that, but most of the food they brought over from the Northeast was filled with sand and dirt, which gave us a feeling of unlimited supply, but in fact they didn't have much food.

"That means the quantities sold by these small vendors are wrong..."

"So what should we do now?" asked Li Ji's boss eagerly.

"Hahaha, what else can we do? We must fight them to the end. Let's see how much 'unlimited sale' food they have!"

"But our funds are running out. What if we continue~?"

Not everyone wants to fight hard. After all, not everyone has as much wealth as the Liu, Wang, and Zhao families.

"I suggest that we mortgage some of our industries to the Development Bank for a loan. We will eat up all the food they have and use the massive amount of funds to blow them up!"

Lin Hao's Development Bank has a very good reputation. The loan and deposit interest rates are fair and reasonable. The key is that it can exchange money freely, which is what they value most.

"Okay, let's do it!" most people shouted excitedly.

"This~!" Someone hesitated for a moment, but seeing that everyone was excited, he gritted his teeth and agreed.

Afterwards, the Thirteenth Bank mortgaged its own property to Lin Hao's Development Bank and obtained a large amount of funds.

Then they tried their best to eat up the supplies sold every day, but the Red Party’s food supply was visibly shaky.

After five days of fierce competition, the price of grain in the capital city rose from 30 silver dollars per catty to 20 silver dollars, and the price of grain was about to collapse.

At this time, the new government issued a notice, planning to open five grain depots in the capital and use 25 million jin ( tons) of grain to stabilize prices.

Therefore, ordinary citizens can purchase grain without restriction at all designated grain stores in the capital with silver dollars or the equivalent in new RMB.

In history, grain was sold off to stabilize prices, but the grain company only sold 1700 million kilograms of grain to stabilize prices.

Of course, the original history was just to stabilize prices, but this time the goal is not just as simple as stabilizing prices.

Instead, they dug a huge sinkhole and trapped all the big merchants who hoarded goods.

The assets of these big merchants are not a small amount. If the materials are not prepared adequately, they may really be driven out of business by their high prices.

But now the new government has taken out 500 million kilograms of grain. When this news came out, it was like a thunderclap in spring, and it instantly brought down those big merchants who had hoarded goods.

Subsequently, the Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce promulgated decrees such as the "Interim Measures for the Prohibition of Illegal Commercial Practices" and the "Interim Rules for the Management of Grain Exchange Transactions" to severely crack down on the hoarding behavior of illegal elements.

At the same time, grain retail outlets are set up throughout the city to supply grain directly to citizens and stabilize prices.

Strengthen market supervision to crack down on the black market, adopt measures such as rectification, reporting, and confiscation to crack down on black market transactions and stabilize the financial market.

By issuing relevant laws and regulations, we can regulate market trading behaviors and prevent price gouging.

Subsequently, the old currency exchange was opened, and silver dollars, gold yuan coupons, old currencies and foreign currencies were exchanged for new RMB, and discounted savings could be processed in banks.

The Capital Savings Department used grain as the unit of savings, and set the prices of three fixed quantities of flour, cornmeal, and five-foot-long cloth as one standard physical unit, which were posted daily.

In other words, silver dollars, gold yuan coupons, and old coins were agreed to be converted into equivalent grain for savings. The advantage was that no matter whether the RMB appreciated or depreciated, it would not affect the value of the saved grain. This price-stabilizing savings method was instantly welcomed by the public, and prices quickly stabilized. As the credit of the new RMB increased, the public began to turn to monetary savings.

Through a series of measures, prices in the capital were effectively stabilized after its liberation, people's lives were guaranteed, and the public's trust and support for the new regime was enhanced.

Most of the grain, meat, oil, and cotton cloth here were shipped in from abroad by Lin Hao, filling up 10 large warehouses.

Those big merchants who mortgaged their properties to development banks were forced to sell their stockpiled grain at low prices.

The price was even lower than the official one, and the grain price in the capital was forced down to the point where one silver dollar was worth 55 kilograms of grain.

You have to know that in the past ten days, they consumed 25 tons of grain that Xu Zhongyi transported from the Northeast at the price of kilograms per silver dollar.

Now the cash and assets they have in their hands have been exchanged for food, and the price of food has more than halved, which is equivalent to their assets shrinking by more than half.

Not only that, the grain sold now has to be exchanged for new RMB, which is equivalent to exchanging the gold, silver dollars and foreign currencies in hand for new RMB.

As we all know, as the war in the South goes more and more smoothly, currency depreciation has become inevitable. They hold a large amount of currency, which will shrink significantly.

In fact, they are not the worst off. The worst off are those fools who fail to recognize the situation. They think they can secretly hide the food and hold it in their hands, ready to sell it when the next battle starts and the price of food rises.

But the subsequent crackdown on hoarding directly seized all the food they had stockpiled.

Instead, it allowed the Xinzheng government to harvest 200,000 tons of grain and other supplies, making prices in the capital more stable.

These big merchants with no color were fooled and lost both their money and property.

On the 15th day after Xu Zhongyi arrived in Beijing, Lao Luo invited Lin Hao and Xu Zhongyi to his home.

A large group of people were eating hotpot and chatting.

"Manager Xu is indeed worthy of his reputation. He played this trick really beautifully. I heard that many big merchants jumped into the river after this incident!" Lin Hao joked with a smile.

"This group of people has really done a lot of harm to others. I can only say that they deserve it!" Lao Luo still hates some of these people's actions.

Xu Zhongyi didn't care about Lin Hao's joke at all. Instead, he happily praised Lin Hao:
"To be honest, our operation this time was made possible thanks to Brother Lin Hao. I never expected that they were so wealthy that they could consume 100,000 tons of my food."

"If I'm the only one running this, even with the Northeastern granary behind me, I may not be able to hold on!"

There is no way. There is a lot of grain in Beida Granary, but first of all, it is not the harvest season now. Even if you go to collect the grain, it will not be that fast. There is heavy snow everywhere, blocking the mountains and roads, and it is difficult to transport it out.

Lin Hao raised his eyebrows, pointed at Xu Zhongyi, shook his head and laughed:

"Why do I feel like you are praising yourself? Don't think I don't know. Although you have only transported 100,000 tons of grain to Beijing, I heard that you have never stopped transporting grain to the south during this period!"

"To put it bluntly, even if I'm not here this time, at most you can temporarily transport the food here for emergency use, and you can still wipe out these illegal merchants!"

“Hahaha!” At this point, Xu Zhongyi smiled with some pride and said, “Thank you for the compliment, thank you for the compliment!”

"Although I can temporarily transfer them here, the war in the south cannot wait. If it delays the next battle, I will be blamed!"

"But with your help, things are different. This time, our operation not only pushed down the prices in the capital and earned a huge amount of cash, but we also earned back double the 100,000 tons of grain we transported!"

Xu Zhongyi was very clear-headed. In fact, the transportation of grain to the south was not something he could easily decide.

The key is that he knew that the 50 tons of grain that Lin Hao transported back from overseas was the real stabilizing force.

Lin Hao smiled and reminded: "Now is the perfect time to take advantage of the fact that the food they sell is cheap. Let's have people buy it all back, and then go to the south~!"

"Great minds think alike!" Xu Zhongyi also gave a thumbs up. He was just thinking of doing this, but he didn't expect Lin Hao to have the same idea.

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For the next period of time, Lin Hao was very busy. He had to deal with the mortgaged properties of those big merchants on the one hand, and assist in the capture of enemy spies on the other.

Due to the grain and oil war, incidents of poisoning, arson, assassination, and even explosions occurred frequently during this period.

At the invitation of Lao Luo, we helped to find those enemy spies. A week later, when the old currency exchange and discounted savings business were completed, these high-intensity activities finally stopped.

What follows is a long confrontation, but that is not Lin Hao’s job, it is the work of the administrative office.

He was just an ordinary citizen who opened a small bank and lived an easy and comfortable life.

It was not until the end of March that Tian Dan found Lin Hao and then took him to Tian Huaizhong.

"Xiao Lin, come and sit down!" Tian Huaizhong greeted him warmly, "I've been too busy recently, and now I can finally make some time!"

"Come to think of it, I haven't thanked you for saving my life yet, twice!"

"It's my duty. Uncle Tian, ​​you're so polite!" Lin Hao could feel that Tian Huaizhong must have something to talk to him about.

Tian Huaizhong gently pushed a teacup in front of Lin Hao and said:
"This is Wuyi Mountain Da Hong Pao. It tastes great and is good for the stomach in the winter!"

Lin Hao sat down and drank a sip of tea first. He was not prepared to compete with Tian Huaizhong in patience, so he simply asked directly:
"Uncle Tian, ​​you definitely didn't come to me for tea this time!"

Seeing that Tian Huaizhong didn't say anything, Lin Hao continued:
"In fact, given our relationship, you can just tell me if you have something to say. I will definitely not refuse if I can do it, but if I can't do it, please don't force me!"

Lin Hao took a sip of tea. The aroma of black tea is indeed different from that of green tea, but drinking black tea in winter is indeed comfortable.

"Hehe~!" Lin Hao's directness made Tian Huaizhong a little embarrassed, but he quickly adjusted his mood and said seriously:

"Indeed, I do have something to talk to you about this time, and it's something very important!"

"The transport captain recently ordered the Shanghai Zhongyang Bank to transport all the gold in the vault to the island on the other side!"

"According to reliable information, this batch of gold has been shipped there since 1948, and this time the quantity is the largest, with hundreds of tons!"

Tian Huaizhong slammed the table and said angrily:
"Shen Shichang leaked this information in order to save his life. Our underground workers in Shanghai also found out this information, but it's not as accurate as his!"

"I believe you also know the role of gold. We must not let them take the gold away, otherwise it will have a great impact on our financial system!"