"We can stop raising prices, but those grain merchants still want to raise prices and talk to them. It's up to them."
Chen Zhou saw Cao Cao coming and understood their purpose, and said: "Then we will wait for the grain merchants to do their own thing. Lord, please cooperate and buy some grain, but not a lot. Let them be excited for a while. How excited are you now?" , how desperate it will be then.”
Cao Cao took note of everything and asked: "When can we lower the price?"
Chen Zhou thought for a moment and said: "You should pay attention to the situation of grain merchants in other places. As long as you find that they have negative emotions and feel impatient, you can reduce the price."
"I understand!"
Xun You said: "They feel anxious because they understand that the price of food has been raised too high, and they start to worry that they will not be able to sell it. In the end, they have to transport the food back. As long as one person is willing to lower the price, the others will follow."
"This is called a price war."
Chen Zhou said: "Anything that rises to a certain level will fall. This is the truth that things must reverse when they reach their extreme."
"Thank you for the advice!"
Cao Cao knew what to do. After saying goodbye to Chen Zhou, he went back to arrange the food price issue.
From now on, Cao Cao will stop raising food prices.
But those grain merchants were afraid that the price was not high enough, so they excitedly raised the price. The higher the better.
They have no idea what economic laws are.
I also thought that the higher the price, the better it would be for me.
A few more days passed. At this time, Cao Cao no longer cooperated with the grain merchants in raising prices and no longer bought grain.
Panic began to appear among those foreign grain merchants.
They began to worry that the food would not be sold.
I finally understand that the higher the price of food, the better. Sometimes it is so high that even if Cao Cao starves to death, he cannot afford to buy their food. Even if he is willing to buy it, there are not many that can be purchased. This means that many food merchants How you came, you have to go back.
It doesn’t matter if you can’t make any money, the most important thing is that you even lose money on shipping costs.
Food must be lost during transportation, and now even the loss cannot be earned back.
This trip to Puyang was a loss of blood.
Chen Zhou said he was impatient and had negative emotions, and this is how he appeared.
Cao Cao has been keeping an eye on those foreign grain merchants, thinking that they are eligible for price reduction at this time, and said: "Grain merchants are anxious and anxious, so they can reduce prices. How are your arrangements there, Boning?"
Man Chong Boning said: "Everything is ready and the price can be reduced at any time."
"Pass my order to keep food prices down from now on."
Under Cao Cao, there were also several grain merchants who began to take action to lower the price of grain.
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"The price has been reduced. A grain dealer has reduced the price."
At this time, a piece of news quickly spread among grain merchants.
The current price of grain has risen to more than 5,000 yuan per hu, but one of the grain merchants has lowered the price to about 4,500 yuan.
This grain merchant was arranged by Cao Cao. Not long after he lowered the price, Cao Cao took action and bought all the grain from this grain merchant. This approach immediately gave other grain merchants hope.
If the price of food is too high, if you cannot sell it, you will lose money.
However, the price of food fell, and Cao Cao immediately made a purchase, so just lowering the price would be enough. As long as he didn't have to lose money to go back, everything could still be discussed.
As a result, other grain merchants began to follow suit and cut prices.
First, someone dropped it to 4,400 yuan, and soon someone else dropped it to 4,300 yuan.
Just like price reduction, it also forms a kind of comparison.
Afraid that I would not surrender quickly enough and someone else would be one step ahead, Cao Cao bought someone else's grain.
The trend of price cuts swept across Puyang.
In less than three days, the price of food dropped to more than 2,000 yuan a dendrobium. Compared with the previous price of more than 5,000 yuan, the price was cut in half.
But Cao Cao did not take action again. After all, the current price is still very expensive. He just revived the trend of price reduction.
At this time, Cao Cao invited Chen Zhou to his house.
Cao Ang sat aside and listened to the study.
"To what extent does Watanabe think the price will drop before we can buy a large amount of grain?"
Cao Cao asked.
Chen Zhou said: "Between four hundred and seven hundred yuan, I think five or six hundred yuan is the most appropriate. It can allow the grain merchants to make some money without losing too much, and it will not make them too disgusted."
Cao Ang asked in confusion: "Isn't it better to keep the price of food as low as possible?"
Chen Zhou explained: "Of course not! If it is too low, they would rather lose money than sell to us. Some extreme cases even use it to fill the moat. They may not be willing to sell it at a too low price. After all, it is too low. It’s easy for them to get disgusted with the lord, so it’s best to suppress them within a reasonable range so that everyone can benefit from each other.”
Grain merchants will not go home with a loss, and they do not have to spend too much money to buy grain.
A reasonable price is necessary.
"I understand!"
Cao Cao nodded and said: "The current price of grain does not need to be suppressed by me personally. Those grain merchants are rushing to lower the price themselves."
Chen Zhou said: "They are all afraid that they will lose money and not be able to sell their grain. We should continue to wait and see. There is no need to be anxious, my lord. What about the situation around the emperor?"
"When the emperor arrived in the east of Hedong, he almost ran out of food. The harem lived on jujubes. If Zhang Yang hadn't come to welcome him from the wild king, they might have eaten people like Zhongde."
Cao Cao kept watching the situation around the emperor and said: "Dong Cheng and Zhang Yang resolutely escorted the emperor to Luoyang, but Yang Feng and Li Le suddenly regretted it. People around the emperor were suspicious of each other, and Zhang Yang was forced to return to the Wild King. Han Siam led his troops to attack Dong Cheng, and Dong Cheng had to go and seek refuge with Yang Feng. The situation became more and more chaotic and the conflicts became more and more acute."
After hearing the emperor's current situation, Chen Zhou smiled and said: "After a while, Yang Feng and Dong Cheng will fight back to the emperor. At that time, the emperor can only reconcile the relationship between Han Xian and Dong Cheng. At this time, Dong Cheng began to make secret requests The princes work hard for the king and invite the lord to rescue the emperor."
What we are waiting for now is the initiative from Dong Cheng and others.
Whoever takes the initiative will fall into passivity.
Cao Cao took the initiative at the end of last year, so Cao Hong didn't even have a chance to speak when he was with the emperor.
"My Lord, we can maintain contact with Dong Zhao. When the time comes, let Dong Zhao help us convince Yang Feng of Liang County. Our army will be able to smoothly greet the Emperor and take him back to Xu County."
Chen Zhou said again.
"That's right!"
Cao Cao thought for a long time and agreed: "If Yang Feng in Liang County wants to intercept us, he can definitely do it. In addition, Yang Feng, Han Xian and others have disagreements with each other. Maybe Yang Feng can be used to contain them."
Chen Zhou said: "We still need to wait. There is no benefit in being impatient."
"I understand, I also believe in Watanabe!"
Cao Cao said solemnly.
Based on Chen Zhou's control and judgment of the situation around the emperor, they were sure of victory, as if the emperor was already in their pocket.
The emperor cannot escape.
