Mythical Version of the Three Kingdoms

"It doesn't need to be solved at all. It's enough for those who buy food in the city to buy it elsewhere. Besides, I don't believe that the merchants in Qingxu didn't find this business opportunity. My price for the supply and marketing cooperative is 150, and I won't change it even if I die. But other merchants I won't stop you from selling it for eighty pieces." Chen Xi said indifferently, he just strangled Cai Mao's group of Southeast Asian rogue grain merchants, not normal grain merchants.

In Chen Xi's opinion, the price of 70 to 80 Wen per stone is acceptable, and it is a relatively reasonable price. Coupled with the 150 Wen per stone that Chen Xi collects from his own treasury, the average price of the common people is almost 115 to 120 Wen. The price is right.

This is also the reason why Chen Xi must strangle Cai Mao's gang of Southeast Asian rogue grain merchants to death. If these bastards also enter the grain market, the real price of grain may be washed down to 30 cents a stone.

If it is really reduced to this level, it will be fatal. This means that many of the rural and agricultural needs produced by Chen Xi cannot be purchased by the agricultural population. Once this happens, it means that the current is still healthy. The circulation system was blown up.

On the contrary, the price between 115 renminbi and 120 renminbi for the comprehensive food price of the market and the country is very suitable in Chen Xi's view, because the price of food will definitely fall, and his spiritual talent, the good seeds of cookies, and the science of the agricultural college Planting, Kuaiji Wang's lightning strike fertilizer, these are the basis to ensure high yield, and the price of grain will inevitably fall.

It’s just that after killing Cai Hao’s group of hooligans, the price of food on the market should not go down when it drops to 70 yuan. This price takes into account not only the rural population’s acquisition of living materials from the land, but also the urban population, as well as The problem of feeding other non-agricultural populations.

In fact, this level is really the situation after government subsidies. Even if the pure grain output does not reach the level of part-time workers, it is still enough to eat, and a small amount of expenses can be left.

If the output of land alone is higher than that of part-time jobs, how can Chen Xi be inferior to scissors? In industrialization, there must be some gaps in order to absorb agricultural population into the industrial system.

Of course, if the official subsidy of 150 renminbi is cancelled, the market is fully opened, and the market is allowed to compete, the price of food will be directly pulled to the level of 30 to 40 renminbi, so that the agricultural people will quickly realize that farming cannot lead to a better life. , Coupled with industrialization, a variety of new materials have appeared in front of the people, and the land output is completely unable to supply this kind of consumption**...

There is no way, a better life is in front of you, but it is impossible to achieve it when you farm. It will inevitably force the agricultural population to turn to working, the industry will further expand, and then the price of the output materials will be further reduced, and finally a dynamic balance is reached...

In theory, this is also a solution, but Chen Xi really can't achieve this level. As a first-mover country, and as a country that emphasizes human care, there is really no need to achieve this level.

We must know that when the incident of low grain prices hurting farmers occurred for the first time in history, the Tang Dynasty, 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. Forced to raise food prices by 30%.

That's right, in the feudal dynasty, where it was theoretically impossible for real incidents of low grain prices to hurt farmers, it actually happened.

In the twenty-fifth year of Tang Kaiyuan, the price of grain in the Qilu area fell to a bucket of three renminbi. Tang Xuanzong officially lowered the price of grain to the level of a bucket of three renminbi. Arrived at the court for discussion.

In fact, it’s not really just food, and no money to buy other things. To be precise, according to historical records, “the country is rich and powerful, and the price of a rice bucket is thirteen. There are shops on the road, with wine and food for passers-by. There are post donkeys in the shop, and they don’t carry soldiers when they travel thousands of miles." The farmers are not so miserable...

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

As for roadside shops, there are wine and food for pedestrians, a bucket of rice is 3 Wen, and a bucket of rice in the Tang Dynasty is equivalent to about 12.5 catties today. It takes up space, and it will be bad, so just treat it as making friends.

It was precisely because of this discovery that Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty dropped the price of grain to such an extent that the common people’s food problem was solved, and the idea of ​​pursuing something else was moved to the court. The solution is very simple and rude, which is the method currently used by Chen Xi , The official directly collects grain.

Don't ask me whether the food I collect can be eaten up. Anyway, the price of food has fallen like this. People can't let people only eat food, they have to buy something else, and the official price increases to collect food, first according to the tens of millions level Give it to the Lord, and let's talk about it.

What is arrogance, this is arrogance.

Chen Xi's thinking logic is also like this. I'm not as good as the official history of Tang Dynasty in the future?

The brainless Xuanzong can forcefully raise the price of grain so that the people have spare money, but I can't do it? To avoid this kind of situation in the future, I directly checked the approximate level of food prices from the beginning, so that the peasants and their families could work hard, and leave almost ten thousand yuan without any diseases.

"In other words, there is actually no problem." Liu Bei looked at Chen Xi and asked.

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

These days, no, no, not only this year, even in later generations, the scale of the food industry is very small and can reach more than 10 trillion yuan.

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

"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 lower the price of food to a level that makes it cheaper and more convenient for people living in cities and towns, but also want to increase the price of food. Rural people earn more money." Liu Bei was already in a state of bewilderment at this time, because he really didn't understand this.

The more important thing is that there is no one-size-fits-all for this thing. If your food price is high, those in the urban area who are engaged in industry will have a problem eating, but if your food price is low, the consumption of local agricultural people will become a new problem. question.

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

Some of the most volatile things in this world are food prices. Even if a penny rises or falls, there will be many problems, and the related effect will even bring about turmoil in the overall economy. Therefore, for food prices, Chen Xi started from the era of turmoil. , After one size fits all, 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, it is better to let it go and keep it in a fairly healthy self-flow. As for being 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 placed in the detailed regulations used? These all need to be considered. Therefore, from the very beginning, Chen Xi’s grain price was the result of a one-size-fits-all at the end of the turbulent era. .

Anyway, at that time, the era was already very bad. I, Chen Zichuan, pinched out a result with my fingers. Even if it was far from the result of the best grain price calculation formula in this era, it was definitely better than the strange grain price that appeared for no reason. .

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 definitely not work. If it is too low, it will be exploited, although exploitation is an inevitable trend of the times. , but at least some humanistic care should be retained.

So much so that the grain price policy used by Chen Xi is close to the leveling warehouse of Sang Hongyang in the early Han Dynasty. The advantage of this policy is that as long as the country's money can keep up, it can absorb grain in good years and release grain in famine years, and the grain price can be maintained at relatively healthy level.

Of course, the difference between Chen Xi and Sang Hongyang is that as long as one's own reputation can keep up, the overall food price is still healthy, but this refers to a normal situation.

The abnormal situation refers to the fact that the official grain price preset by Chen Xi is already considered dead, because the grain circulating in the market and the grain purchased by the people from other channels are basically lower than Chen Xi’s preset price from all places. food prices.

Even Sang Hongyang has no good way to deal with the situation where I collect grain at 150 renminbi and the market buys it at 70 renminbi, unless there is an official unlimited food limit, but this is actually unrealistic. Chen Xi’s grain collection is not for the purpose of hoarding Standing up is to resist risks and create more profits.

The real grain price in the market has been so low, and the state still collects it like this, it can only be said that it is an agricultural subsidy. Too large-scale grain collection cannot be converted into profits, and the official subsidy cannot be maintained. The stuff of people's livelihood must be maintained.

Just like the pensions of later generations, everyone thinks that pensions must collapse, but the government's target for this thing is that when the market is operating, it can't 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 does not lose money.

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

During the year of 2020, I have produced 15.84% of the income, and even since entering the market, I have maintained an average annual growth rate of 8.51% every year...

Do you think it's an economic issue? Wrong, fundamentally speaking, this is not an economic issue, but a real issue of social politics and social stability.

Similarly, in terms of food prices, Chen Xi did not consider price increases or price reductions from the very beginning.

It is your own business to sell at a low price in the market, but as long as the market price of grain is not higher than 150 Wen, the official will always be 150 Wen to receive half of the land output. As for whether this policy is perfectly in line with the current best grain Price, Chen Xi can only say, none of your business!

What Chen Xi wants is stability, to move the food price, unless Chen Xi can come up with a more reasonable and correct price, otherwise, he will definitely not move.

"Is it hard to say clearly?" Liu Bei nodded, and then acted to listen respectfully. Chen Xi sighed when he saw this. It is rare for Liu Bei to be interested in the affairs of Chen Xi's administration. Generally speaking, Liu Bei doesn't care if he understands the last sentence. Let Chen Xi handle it.

"Okay, okay, it's my fault, and I'll explain it, Mr. Xuande, tell me what you think first." Chen Xi said with a sigh. He knew that his grain price was not the current optimal solution, but in the end The optimal solution was too difficult, Chen Xi just gave a suitable solution.

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

Chen Xi thought for a while, wondering if he should explain the industrial structure that Liu Bei could not understand, or 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 is not a waste of brains. .

"Because of the full opening of government warehouses for storage, there will be no grain worth 70 ren in the market, and farmers will sell all the grain not for their own use to the government for 150 ren, and all the low-priced grain circulating in the market will disappear." Chen Xi Explained very simply, Liu Bei nodded.

"That is to say, this kind of behavior will hurt the people who don't grow food. Wait, the people who don't farm should only account for 6%. You gave me this data." Liu Bei thought for a while to express his understanding, but then he thought Another thing happened.

"Does Xuande generally think that these 6% people who are out of work should spend more money?" Chen Xi smiled and said, regardless of the small number of people, this 6% of the population also affects several million people.

"No, what I mean is why don't you just collect grain for 150 cash and sell it for 70 cash to those who need to sell it?" Liu Bei directly asked a deafening question, "Zi Chuan shouldn't care about such a small amount of money. Bar."

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

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

"I'm a little puzzled about this matter." 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, cough." Liu Bei laughed dryly for a couple of times, but stopped laughing when he saw Chen Xi staring at him, and explained, "It probably belongs to internal affairs, and everything can be solved, it depends on whether you want it or not."

"Do you know how much you will lose every year if you only provide these 6% 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 take about 3 billion yuan. Of course, the 3 billion yuan is not a problem. The problem is that the people will sell food indefinitely. The official food is 70 renminbi, and the grain is 150 renminbi. This kind of price inversion would be fatal."

"Actually let alone 3 billion, even if it is 30 billion, there is no problem. Mr. Xuande, the actual arable land area of ​​our Han family is 800 million mu. Counting issues such as crop rotation 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 shi, and I spend about 150 billion yuan on harvesting grain every year." Chen Xi looked into the distance with a calm expression.

As for Liu Bei, he was stunned at this time. It costs 150 billion yuan to harvest grain, and it is still every year. How is this possible? However, Liu Bei did some math calculations and knew that Chen Xi was not joking, but a real It cost so much.

"I haven't heard you mention this money at all before, this?" Liu Bei felt like 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 Lord Wu An throwing money at Manxianglou every day. This money can only be used for grain collection, and it can't be used for other purposes." Chen Xi said with a look on his face. Said quietly.

Grain primary processing, grain fine processing, animal husbandry, grain and oil processing, grain starch, various non-staple foods, etc., are the same as grain, these consume a lot, but these links require human resources, can accommodate workers, and more importantly, can produce profit.

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

After completing the upstream and downstream linkage, it can produce about 160 billion worth of goods, of which 140 billion will be used for the purchase of grain in the coming year, and the remaining 20 billion will be used for wages, benefits, and all kinds of messy things , will be sufficient.

This is also the reason why Yanzhou Agro-Food can dig out billions of dollars, but Chen Xi can't find it, because the plate is too big, and the profit of the food processing industry is high or low. It's not low, but it can't stand the super invincible big plate.

This is one of the very few super disks that can bear more than 10 trillion yuan, and Chen Xi's disk is only 150 billion yuan. According to Chen Xi's estimate, the current level of the Han Dynasty is supposed to be able to withstand such a disk of 400 billion to 600 billion yuan. Of course, Chen Xi does not have extravagant expectations It's so high, half of Chen Xi is very satisfied with it.

Therefore, there is still a lot of room for development in the food processing industry. This is why Chen Xi dared to give 50 billion dishes to the big families in the second five years. You can get 100 billion...

This is also the reason why Chen Xi dares to collect grain at this price, because the food processing industry can convert 77.88% of the received grain into other just-needed products.

"That is to say, to release all of them, at least 300 billion?" Liu Bei said with a twitching mouth, "And it's still every year?"

"Yes." Chen Xi nodded, and then continued to speak while Liu Bei was dizzy, "It is the lowest number, because this kind of behavior is already an inversion of the official grain price in essence, which will lead to new problems. , and to make matters worse, emerging problems create moral decay.”