Chapter 4121: Mainly humanistic care

"There is no need to solve this kind of thing. It's enough for the people who buy grain in the city to buy it. Besides, I don't believe that the merchants in Qingxu didn't find this business opportunity. I won't stop it for 80 wen." Chen Xi said indifferently, he just strangled Cai Mao's group of rogue grain merchants in Southeast Asia, but not the normal grain merchants.

The price of 70 to 80 cents a stone is acceptable in Chen Xi's opinion, and it is a relatively reasonable price. Combined with the 150 cents a stone collected by Chen Xi's own treasury, the average price of the common people is about 115 to 120 cents. This The price is right.

This is also the reason why Chen Xi must strangle Cai Mao's group of rogue grain merchants in Southeast Asia. If these **** also enter the grain market, the real grain price is likely to be washed down to 30 cents a stone.

If it really wants to be reduced to this level, it will be fatal. This means that many of the things that Chen Xi produces for rural and agricultural needs cannot be purchased by the agricultural population. Once this happens, it means that the current health is still relatively healthy. The circulation system was blasted.

On the contrary, the current market and national comprehensive food prices between 115 yuan and 120 yuan are very suitable in Chen Xi's opinion, because the decline in food prices is certain, his spiritual talent, the good seeds of cookies, the science at the Agricultural College. Planting, Kuaiji Wang's lightning strike fertilizer, these are the basis for ensuring high yields, and grain prices will inevitably fall.

It's just that after strangling Cai Mao's group of hooligans, the price of food on the market should not go down if it drops to 70 cents. This price is considered not only the rural population's acquisition of living materials from the land, but also the urban population, and The problem of other non-agricultural population eating.

In fact, at this level, it is really after the government subsidy. Even if the pure grain output does not reach the level of part-time workers, it is enough to eat and leave a small amount of expenses. .

If the output of land alone is higher than that of part-time jobs, how could Chen Xi cut the gap and engage in industrialization? There must be some gaps in order to absorb the agricultural population into the industrial system.

Of course, if the official subsidy of 150 cents a stone is removed, the market is fully opened, and market competition is allowed to directly pull the grain price to the level of 30 to 40 cents, so that the agricultural people quickly realize that they cannot lead a better life by farming. , Coupled with industrialization, a dazzling array of new materials have appeared in front of the people, and the output of land is completely unable to supply this consumption desire...

There is no way, a good life is in front of you, but it is impossible for you to achieve farming, which will inevitably force the agricultural population to turn to work, the industry will further expand, and then the prices of output materials will be further reduced, and finally achieve a dynamic balance.

In theory, this is also a plan, but Chen Xi really can't do it to this extent. As a first-mover country, and as a country that cares about human relationships, there is really no need to do so.

You must know that when the incident of low-cost grains and hurting farmers really occurred for the first time in history, Datang, as a feudal dynasty, did not choose to continue to open the market and let the price of grain fall, but chose the national tray, and the government collected money, Forcibly raise food prices by 30%.

That's right, in the feudal dynasties, where it is theoretically impossible for real grains to hurt farmers, it actually happened.

In the 25th year of Tang Kaiyuan, the price of grain in Qilu area fell to three cents a bucket, and Tang Xuanzong officially lowered the price of grain to a level of three cents a bucket. The fact that the people who farmed only had food and had no money to buy other things moved. Discuss in the courtroom.

In fact, it’s not really just to eat and have no money to buy other things. To be precise, according to historical records, “the price of rice buckets is thirteen in the country’s wealth and wealth. Qing and Qi’s buckets are only three dollars. One piece of silk costs two hundred dollars. There are shops on the road, and food and wine are available for pedestrians. There are post and donkeys in the shops, and there are no foot soldiers to travel thousands of miles."

Although the price of 200 yuan per piece of silk is indeed low to the historical bottom line, the most expensive price for a dou of rice and 13 yuan a dou is the price of Luoyang, the eastern capital. You can compare the price of grain and the price of other materials. What do farmers think.

As for the road restaurants, there is food and wine for pedestrians, and a bucket of rice is 3 cents. In the Tang Dynasty, a bucket of rice is about 12.5 pounds today. If you just manage the rice, it is a waste if you can't finish it anyway, and it is not worth selling. Occupy space, it will be bad, just make friends.

It is precisely because of this discovery that Tang Xuanzong lowered the price of food to such an extent that the food problem for the common people was solved, and the idea of ​​pursuing something else was moved to the court, and the solution was very simple and rude, which is the way Chen Xi is currently using , the official direct harvest.

Don't ask me if I can finish the food I harvested. Anyway, the price of food has dropped like this. People can't be allowed to eat only food. They have to get something else. Give it to the father, and then talk about it.

What is arrogance, this is arrogance.

Chen Xi's thinking logic is also the same - I will not be as good as the official history of the Tang Dynasty in the future?

Xuanzong, who has no brains, can forcibly raise the price of food, so that the people have spare money, can't I do it? To avoid such a situation in the future, I directly checked the approximate level of food prices from the very beginning, so that the agricultural people and their families could work hard and leave almost ten thousand dollars in the absence of diseases.

"That is to say, there is no problem." Liu Bei looked at Chen Xi and asked.

"No, this means that the processing of agricultural and sideline products in Yanzhou can be promoted in Qingxu, because the people have surplus grain and money on hand, so they can create added value for the grain." Chen Xi said seriously, this is what he was waiting for.

This year, no no no, not only this year, but even in future generations, the scale of the food industry is very few of the mega-caps that can reach more than 10 trillion yuan.

The main reason is that the entry threshold for this thing is relatively low, the demand is large, and the universality is high. As for the profit or not, it is not important.

"I don't understand, I don't even know whether the current price is good or bad. It is completely beyond the scope of understanding. I want to reduce the price of food to a level where people living in cities can buy cheaper and more convenient, and I want to increase the price of food so that the Rural people make more money." Liu Bei was already in a state of confusion at this time, because he really didn't understand this.

What's more important is that there is no one-size-fits-all solution for this thing. Your food price is high, and the people who are engaged in industry in the urban area will have a problem to eat. But if your food price is low, the consumption of local agricultural people has become a new problem. problem.

"Huh? It's hard to tell." Chen Xi was silent for a while.

The least moving things in this world are food prices. Even if it goes up or down a penny, there will be many problems, and the related effects will even bring about turmoil in the overall economy. Therefore, for food prices, Chen Xi is from the turbulent era. , after a one-size-fits-all approach, treat yourself as blind.

Because this thing is one of the few things that Chen Xi needs to go through a lot of calculation and research to move, it is better to let it go and keep it in a fairly healthy self-flow. As for completely healthy, to be honest, Chen Xi even has a historical reference. nothing.

What is a completely healthy historical grain price, and what kind of social system and humanistic care are the detailed regulations used in it, these all need to be considered. Therefore, from the beginning, Chen Xi's grain price was the result of a one-size-fits-all approach at the end of the turbulent era. .

Anyway, at that time, the times were already very bad, and I, Chen Zichuan, pinched my finger to come up with a result. Even if it was far from the result obtained by the best food price calculation formula in this era, it was definitely better than the strange food price that I didn’t know how to appear before. .

This is also why grain is a semi-official and semi-market model, because Chen Xi doesn't know what price he sets is in line with this era. If it is too high, it will not work. If it is too low, then the real hammer is exploitation, although exploitation is the inevitable of the times. , but at least some humanistic care must be preserved.

So that the grain price policy used by Chen Xi is close to that of Sang Hongyang, the former Han Dynasty. relatively healthy level.

Of course, the difference between Chen Xi and Sang Hongyang is that as long as his own reputation can keep up, food prices are generally healthy, but this refers to a normal situation.

The abnormal situation refers to the fact that the official food price preset by Chen Xi is already dead, because the food circulating in the market and the food purchased by the people from other channels are basically lower than those preset by Chen Xi. the price of food.

Even if Sang Hongyang faces this situation where I receive grain for 150 cents a stone, and the market buys it for 70 cents, there is no good way to do it, unless it is an official unlimited grain intake, but this is actually unrealistic, Chen Xi is not collecting grain for the purpose of hoarding It is to resist risks and create more profits.

The real grain price in the market has been so low that the state still collects it like this. It can only be said that this is an agricultural subsidy. The grain harvest is too large to be converted into profit, and the official subsidy cannot be maintained. The stuff of people's livelihood is something that must be maintained.

Just like pensions in later generations, everyone thinks that pensions must collapse, but the government's target for this thing is that when the market is operating, it cannot lose money no matter what.

This is completely inconsistent with the market economic system. Yes, not only is it completely inconsistent with the laws of the market economic system, but more importantly, this thing really has no losses.

Even when the Chinese government controls 80% of the trillion-dollar pension, this thing can still grow year after year in the normal operation of the market economy.

In 2020, I produced 15.84% of its own income, and even since entering the market, it has maintained an average annual growth rate of 8.51% every year...

Do you think this is an economic problem? Wrong, fundamentally speaking, this is not an economic issue, but a real social, political and social stability issue.

Similarly, in terms of food prices, Chen Xi did not consider the issue of price increases and price cuts from the beginning.

It is your own business to sell at a low price in the market, but as long as the market price of food is not higher than 150 yuan, the government will always pay half of the land output for 150 yuan. As for whether this policy is perfectly in line with the current best food The price, Chen Xi can only say, it's none of your business!

What Chen Xi wants is stability and moving food prices. Unless Chen Xi can come up with a more reasonable and correct price, he will never move.

"Is it difficult to explain clearly?" Liu Bei nodded, and then made a gesture of listening to his ears. Chen Xi sighed when he saw this. It was rare that Liu Bei would be interested in the affairs of Chen Xi's administration. Generally, if he understood the previous sentence, Liu Bei would ignore it. Let Chen Xi handle it.

"Okay, okay, let me explain, Lord Xuande, you say what you think first." Chen Xi sighed and said, he knew that his food price was not the best solution at present, but the most important The optimal solution is too difficult, and Chen Xi just gave a suitable solution.

"Why don't you fully open up the warehouse storage?" Liu Bei directly asked the core point of the question, which is also what Zhuge Liang thought Chen Xi would do.

Chen Xi thought for a while and wondered whether to explain the industrial structure that Liu Bei did not understand, or to briefly explain the impact of food prices to Liu Bei. Liu Bei could understand the latter, so Chen Xi decided to choose the latter, because the latter did not waste his mind much. .

"Because the government warehouse is fully opened for storage, there will be no grain of 70 cents in the market. The agricultural people will sell all the grain that is not for their own use to the government for 150 cents. At present, the low-priced grains circulating in the market are all gone." Chen Xi After a very simple explanation, Liu Bei nodded.

"In other words, this kind of behavior will hurt the people who don't grow food. The people who don't grow crops should only account for 6%. You gave me this data." Liu Bei thought about it and expressed his understanding, but then he thought of it. another thing.

"Does Xuande generally think that the 6% of the unemployed should spend more money?" Chen Xi said with a smile, don't look at the small number of people, but the 6% of the population also affects millions of people.

"No, I mean why don't you just collect the grain for 150 wen and sell it for 70 wen to the people who need to sell it?" Liu Bei directly asked a deafening question, "Zichuan should not care about such a small amount of money. Bar."

"Let's stop for a while." Chen Xi suddenly raised his hand and asked Liu Bei.

"What's wrong?" Liu Bei looked at Chen Xi suspiciously and asked.

"I'm a little puzzled about this." Chen Xi looked at Liu Bei calmly.

"What question actually makes you feel puzzled?" Liu Bei asked with a smile.

"What do I look like in your eyes?" Chen Xi looked at Liu Bei suspiciously.

"Cough, cough." Liu Bei laughed dryly, but when he saw Chen Xi staring at him, he stopped laughing, and explained, "It's probably an internal affairs issue. Everything can be solved, it's up to you whether you want it or not."

"Do you know how much you need to lose every year by only providing these 6% of people with these low-priced food?" Chen Xi asked calmly.

Liu Bei shook his head, and Chen Xi said, "I roughly calculated that it would cost about 3 billion. Of course, the 3 billion is not a problem. The problem is that the people will sell unlimited grains. A price inversion would be fatal."

"In fact, not to mention 3 billion, even 30 billion is no problem. Duke Xuande, the actual cultivated area of ​​our Han family is 800 million mu, including the problems of rotation cultivation and the quality of the field, after all, not all places are produced. For grain land, the annual yield per mu is calculated at 3 stone, and I spend about 150 billion dollars every year on grain harvesting." Chen Xi looked calmly into the distance.

As for Liu Bei, he was stunned at this time. It cost 150 billion to collect grain, and it was still every year. How could this be possible? However, after a little math, Liu Bei knew that Chen Xi was not joking, but a real one. cost so much.

"I haven't heard you mention this money before, this?" Liu Bei felt that he was blown up. He had never even heard of such a large sum of money.

"Because this money can only be used to collect grain, just like Jun Wu An spends money in Manxianglou every day, this money can only be used for grain collection, and it can't be used for other purposes at all." Chen Xi looked He said quietly.

Grain primary processing, grain finishing, animal husbandry, grain and oil processing, grain starch, various non-staple foods, etc. Like grain, these consumptions are the bulk, but these links require human resources, can place workers, and more importantly, can produce profit.

Chen Xi's annual investment of nearly 150 billion depends entirely on the output of these gadgets. After all, it is 150 billion grain, of which 30 billion is used as a storage warehouse in various places, and the grain worth 100 billion is used to produce various agricultural and sideline products.

After completing the upstream and downstream linkages, it can produce about 160 billion worth of goods, of which 140 billion will be used for food purchases in the coming year, and the remaining 20 billion will be used for wages, welfare, and all kinds of messy things. , will suffice.

This is also the reason why Yanzhou's agricultural grains can be plucked out of billions of dollars, and Chen Xi can't find it, because this plate is too big, and how to say the profit of the food processing industry, whether it is high or not, it is low. Not low, but can't stand the super invincible size of the plate.

This is one of the very few super stocks that can withstand more than 10 trillion yuan, and Chen Xi's plate is only 150 billion. According to Chen Xi's estimate, the current level of the Han Dynasty can be said to be able to withstand such a plate of 400 billion to 600 billion. Of course, Chen Xi does not expect too much. So high, half of Chen Xi are very satisfied with it.

Therefore, there is still a lot of room for development in the food processing industry. This is why Chen Xi dares to blow 50 billion plates to the major families in the second five years. It can be done to local towns and towns, and the major families can divide 50 billion of goods. Chen Xi You can get 100 billion...

This is also the reason why Chen Xi dares to receive grain at this price, because the food processing industry can convert 77 to 88 of the grain consumption it receives into other just-needed products.

"That is to say, to let go of everything, at least 300 billion?" Liu Bei said twitchingly, "And every year?"

"Yes." Chen Xi nodded, then continued to speak while Liu Bei was dizzy, "It's the lowest number, because this kind of behavior is already the official grain price inversion in essence, which will lead to new problems. , and worse, the new problems that arise are morally corrupt.”