69novels Chapter 389
Chapter 389
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: 9.782s Scan: 1.200sIn a house in the suburbs of Berlin, the merchants who had conspired to hoard food had almost bought out all the food on the market after three days of crazy purchases. At this time, in order to prevent someone from rushing to sell because of the rising food prices and thus ruining everyone’s plan, Smith called everyone together and held an internal meeting to discuss what to do next!
“”Everyone, the price of grain has just risen by 50%, and it is still rising. When I came here just now, I saw a long queue of hundreds of meters outside the grain store on the street. Obviously, many people have not bought grain, and we have almost purchased almost all the grain on the market. I guess everyone has hoarded a lot of grain in their hands, right?”
Smith said to everyone with a smile, and everyone laughed when they heard his words!
The price of grain is now gradually rising. The more grain they hoard, the higher the profit they can get in the future. So when they heard Smith’s words, they smiled and looked very happy!
“But, everyone, it is not time for us to relax yet. Those people are still queuing up, which proves that there is still food for sale in the market, and it is not completely unavailable. So we cannot stop now, but should continue to buy and buy up all the food in the market!”
Smith’s words were very firm. His purpose was not just to make money, but to use this opportunity to completely disrupt Hans.
The more grain they hoarded in the market, the more panic the people of Hans would have, and the more successful his work would be!
As for the commercial benefits, whether continuing to purchase now can achieve the greatest benefit is not what he cares about most!
Because in the previous plans and actions, Smith has always been the planner and leader, so the businessmen still trust his words very much.
After they go back, they will continue to buy up the few grains on the market according to Smith’s plan!
Anyway, there are not many places selling grain in the market at this time.
Some private grain stores are out of stock and closed.
Even if they have grain in their hands, these businessmen realize that this is a huge business opportunity, so they refuse to sell, trying to hold on to the grain in their hands, and wait until the price of grain is a little higher before selling it, so that they can also get a share of this feast!
However
, as a state-owned enterprise, Hans’ state-owned grain stores in various places are still open!
So, the businessmen’s eyes are on the grain in the state-owned grain stores!
“Don’t panic, don’t be anxious, come one by one, there must be food!”
Outside the state-owned grain store, after hearing that the food here was still on sale, a large number of people inquired and swarmed in, surrounding the place. People who wanted to buy food lined up in long queues on the streets. The length of the queue was even several kilometers. Because there were too many people waiting in line, the traffic in the city was greatly affected!
Such a long queue not only failed to dispel the panic in the hearts of the people, but even aggravated this emotion.
Therefore, some anxious people tried to cut in line in an attempt to buy food as soon as possible.
And their attempt to cut in line was naturally opposed by others. The situation on the scene was suddenly in chaos. The salespersons in charge of selling food in the grain store had to stop selling and come out to maintain order!
And they stopped The people in the queue at the back were waiting anxiously. The people in the queue who didn’t know the situation in front saw that the queue had been quiet for a long time, and they all thought that the grain store had sold out. So, they didn’t care about queuing up, and they left the queue one by one and surrounded the grain store.
In the chaos, no one knew who took the lead and directly grabbed the grain!
Someone took the lead, and the people began to follow suit in panic. For a time, the grain store was quickly robbed of all its food. What’s more serious is that in the process of buying, a large number of people crowded together, resulting in a very serious stampede. Nineteen people died in the stampede and twenty were injured!
When this news reached Mainz, he was furious!
“It must be that gang’s doing!”
The mustache man was filled with righteous indignation and said to Mainz angrily.
Mainz nodded.
He was no less angry than the mustache man.
It was obvious that the group of businessmen instigated the people to make trouble, and then took advantage of the chaos to start looting food, which caused greater chaos, resulting in this accident!
The loss to the government from robbing a grain store was not that big, but the serious stampede caused by the people buying food had a much greater impact than the loss of such a small amount of food!
Moreover, at this time, countless eyes around the world were watching Hans’ every move. The fact that people in their country were trampled to death because of the rush to buy food would definitely be widely reported by these countries with ulterior motives!
This was a huge damage to Hans’ national image, and after the people learned about this, their panic about the famine would increase rapidly!
The situation was likely to get out of control!
“Let the garrisons from all places send troops into the city to strengthen the protection near the grain stores, let the army maintain order. In addition, increase the investment in grain and let all places increase the sales volume. Don’t they want to eat up the grain in our hands? Then satisfy them!”
Mainz gave an order, and soon, troops from all over the country entered the city and began to take over the city’s defense tasks. They focused on protecting the order near the grain stores to prevent the tragedy that happened before.
And there were people at the grain stores to help them maintain order, and their pressure was suddenly reduced a lot, so they mobilized all their manpower and added several sales windows, which reduced the waiting time for the people in line a lot! The situation began to stabilize!
And this kind of thing is almost unacceptable to those merchants who tried to hoard grain, so they gathered again to discuss countermeasures to the government’s stabilization of grain prices!
“The government must have a batch of grain, but the quantity is definitely not large, otherwise they would not need to adopt methods such as purchase restrictions to restrict people’s purchases!”
“That’s right, so it’s not time to give up yet, we have to continue purchasing, as long as we can eat up all the grain in the government’s hands, then we will definitely win!”
The government has put a lot of grain into the market, slowing down the pace of soaring grain prices, which is a bit beyond the expectations of the merchants. After all, who would have thought that the government would have so much grain?
However, they estimated that the government has released a lot of grain in the past few days, so as long as they continue to hold on to the grain in their hands and don’t rush to sell it, then they will definitely be the ones who laugh last!
“However, the government’s purchase restriction strategy is very targeted at us. We can’t buy out all the government’s grain at once!”
Although this is what we said, how to buy the government’s grain is a problem.
In order to prevent the government’s grain from being bought by these illegal merchants, the government has imposed purchase restrictions. Each person can only buy 10 kilograms of grain at a time, and no more will be sold!
Although the merchants are rich, they can’t spend it no matter how much money they have. They can only buy 10 kilograms at a time, which is not even enough to fill the gaps between their teeth!
“Why should we be afraid of this? Aren’t there many people unemployed now? Can’t we just spend some money and ask them to help us queue up to buy the goods?”
But soon someone proposed a solution, which is to pay others to help and queue up for them!
“However, if this happens, our costs will continue to rise. Now the price of grain we purchase from the government has already exceeded 50% of the market price, which is much more expensive than the grain we bought before!”
“What is 50%? You can buy it at a 50% premium now. In a blink of an eye, the price has increased more than ten times. Even if you buy it at 150%, you can still make several times the money. What is this cost now?”
Smith saw that everyone seemed to be retreating, so he quickly stood up to stabilize the morale of the army!
His words temporarily stabilized the crowd and dispelled their doubts!
This opportunity was really too tempting, and they were reluctant to give it up, so under the temptation of high profits, they could only go all the way!
And the actions of the businessmen were soon passed to Heydrich through the insiders hidden in the businessmen!
The frequent gatherings of businessmen in the past few days made it very easy for Heydrich to grasp a lot of information about these people. If he was given a few more days, he would be able to find out all the details of these people!
However, in order to dig out the big fish hidden behind and to cooperate with President Mainz’s plan, Heydrich did not rush to close the net, but waited patiently!