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Zhang Hanqing is a veteran of financial warfare: in the Northeast, he personally directed two counterattacks against Japan's financial war and achieved great results; in later generations, he personally experienced the 1998 financial crisis and the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis. Crisis, I have also seen many stories about solving the economy and analyzes of the origins of the economic crisis.
Under the conditions of market economy, crises are particularly prone to occur, which is its drawback.
Despite these shortcomings, Zhang Hanqing is still determined to follow the path of market economy. However, now, China is still in the era of planned economy, and this process is still strengthening. Therefore, Zhang Hanqing is confident that the government can mobilize its efforts to deal with this crisis.
A very sudden economic crisis happened at this point. If we believe that there is no conspiracy behind it, Zhang Hanqing is no longer Zhang Hanqing. This is obviously an attempt to use the financial crisis to intimidate themselves and tighten negotiations! No wonder the British Consul General Barton warned deeply after the last negotiation broke down again: "I believe you will come to us again."
Economic crisis is a chronic disease of the capital world. The solution to it is simple to say: confidence and information, but it is not that difficult to implement.
In order to reverse this situation, the People's Government Zhang Hanqing sat in Shanghai and called on citizens to exchange gold and silver for foreign exchange in an attempt to gain confidence in the silver dollar.
However, because citizens had suffered enough from the depreciation of the silver dollar, they exchanged silver dollars for rice as soon as prices improved. Rice dealers took the opportunity to stir up trouble and drive up the price. As a result, 100 kilograms of rice was originally worth 9 silver dollars, but it rose to 14 yuan within a week.
Prices have soared, making it difficult for factories to operate, and a lot of industrial capital has been converted into speculative capital, which in turn has exacerbated inflation. In less than a month, the silver dollar will be driven out of Shanghai and the People's Party will lose its foothold.
One month after the May 30th Incident, Britain and Japan jointly implemented a maritime trade blockade against China. They used the power of their navy to control the gateway to the East China Sea through the Zhoushan Islands. As a result, the waterway for merchant ships from various countries to Shanghai was completely cut off.
The main source of imported diesel and gasoline was immediately cut off. Raw cotton from India and the United States, rubber from Southeast Asia, and many purchased industrial raw materials are stuck at ports in various countries and cannot be shipped in. The cotton stockpiles of private cotton mills are only enough for more than ten days of consumption. The number of suspended cotton mills has increased from 5 to more than 100. At home, big factories like Chint Rubber Factory also asked to close their operations.
Yangshupu Power Plant burns diesel. Once the oil source is cut off, most of Shanghai will lose power. On the other hand, export products are piled up on the docks and cannot be shipped out. If this continues, as Yu Qiaqing, leader of the Shanghai Industrial and Commercial Trade Union, said: "Factories will close, workers will lose their jobs, prices will rise, the market will be cold, taxes will decrease, and life will be difficult. What should we do?"
Japanese companies are also adding fuel to the fire. In order to maximize the public's fear of unstable situation, some Japanese trading companies also took the opportunity to rush to buy rice from the market. Rice that originally cost 9 cents per pound increased to 1.4 cents in less than a week, and reached 3.2 cents in the second week, almost tripling!
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Zhang Hanqing is just like this: Since the two-year construction of the country, especially in agriculture, due to the huge investment and the extensive use of chemical fertilizers, the yield per mu has increased significantly compared with before.
Taking Northeast China, known as the "Granary of China", as an example, by the end of 1924, the total grain output exceeded 20 million tons for four consecutive years, laying a solid psychological foundation for Zhang Hanqing to stabilize the situation in Shanghai. He was worried that the commercial grain controlled by the country would not be marketable. No, the opportunity came by itself!
In the Northeast, the price of good rice is only 4 cents per catty. Even if the freight is not included, what a huge profit it will be to bring it to Shanghai!
This is also a good opportunity to clear away dissent: Because China has been weak for a long time and faced with the arrogance of the great powers in China, some Chinese people will inevitably make weak mistakes. What's more, many will help the tyranny and directly become thugs and vanguards of foreign forces.
During this economic crisis, as far as Zhang Hanqing knew, some people took advantage of the country's financial difficulties and consciously followed suit under the guidance of the British and Japanese forces. Zhang Hanqing is determined to teach them an unforgettable lesson!
Zhang Hanqing, Pan Fu, the financial assistant who hurriedly came from Beijing, and Zhang Tingshu, director of the East China Bureau of the Armed Police, considered it over and over again and decided to "first be polite and then to attack."
Prior to this, the China National Cereals and Oils Corporation had transported a large amount of grain through special trains and stored it in the Sihang Warehouse. Grain ships transshipped from Tianjin through the Grand Canal were rushing here like a tide.
On June 30, the Shanghai Finance and Economics Commission and the Grain DepartmentThe government distributed relief rice and organized them to build seawalls "relief through work".
So a very exciting scene appeared on the beach in Shanghai: as soon as the government's cheap rice was put on the market, it was immediately eaten by traders in large quantities, and then shipped into ports controlled by foreign chambers of commerce and transshipped out.
Of course they can’t get affordable rice. As businessmen, they can’t enjoy government financial subsidies. The affordable rice they received was the “affordable” price of 1.2 cents per catty with the base price plus the financial subsidy given to residents by the state.
Then, when the price of rice had risen to 0.36 yuan per catty, the government suddenly opened the sale of rice to Shanghai citizens at a price of 9 cents per catty. It is conceivable that this generous move brought a lot of consequences to the people of Shanghai and unscrupulous businessmen. What a great shock!
Shanghai citizens can buy 1 kilogram of rice per person per day at a low price with their household registration. The migrant workers in the factory will be distributed according to the statistics of the police station and civil affairs office in the area where the factory is located. This move immediately reassured Shanghai citizens.
There is something in the stomach and there is no panic in the heart. Since the government has provided a safe backing, what's the problem if the price of rice fluctuates? So for a while, Shanghai citizens laughed and talked about the price of rice and the rise and fall of stock prices. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com