The Skynet Army's informants lurking in Chengdu are quite capable, and the information they give is often very effective, which made Xu Tong guess the identities of these informants many times.
However, the Skynet Army kept strict confidentiality not only externally, but also internally. Their identities were very vague. No one except their immediate superiors knew who they were. As Xu Tong, he should not be curious about this.
So Xu Tong was smart enough not to do any research.
He disclosed the information sent by the Skynet Army's spies at the internal meeting.
"According to reports from our informants lurking within the Chengdu imperial court, the Chengdu imperial court has decided to attack Jiaozi due to extreme lack of money. They plan to print Jiaozi in exchange for iron money from private treasury and exchange shops. Fill the treasury.”
Some members responsible for economic work in the association were very surprised.
Zhou Qiang was the most surprised.
"Once Jiaozi collapses, the entire Sichuan and Shu economy will be in danger. Jiaozi in the hands of countless people will be turned into waste paper. It is possible to lose all their savings overnight, which will inevitably cause huge chaos. Is it possible for Zhao Buxi? Are you really risking everything?"
Xu Tong shook his head.
"We don't know what Zhao Buxi is thinking, but what is certain is that the Chengdu court is at the end of its rope, and we have to survive even if we drink poison to quench our thirst. More importantly, Jiaozi is about to collapse, and we also need to make some preparations. ah."
Through the land reform in the Chungju area, the revolutionary army gained the wealth of many landlords and profiteers, including a relatively large number of Jiaozi. If Jiaozi collapsed, they would also suffer a loss.
Xu Tong never does anything to suffer a loss.
In this regard, his experienced old partner Zhou Qiang came up with a bold plan.
"If Zhao Buxi manipulated Jiaozi and tried to use Jiaozi to plunder wealth, why can't we join in the fun and fight with him? We cleaned up the landlord's old wealth and got a lot of Jiaozi. If we watch Jiaozi If the paper becomes useless, we will also suffer, which is not good."
Zhou Qiang smiled and said: "Although the chairman gave us a lot of start-up capital, and we are not short of money for the time being, the team will expand sooner or later. If we can be self-reliant, we must be self-reliant. If we can make money, we must make money ourselves. Isn't this good? Yes? I applied to use this batch of Jiaozi to do something."
Xu Tong expressed support for Zhou Qiang's idea.
"You were good at making money before. I'm not as good as you in this regard. Since some people want to turn Jiaozi into a waste paper, we can't just watch the Jiaozi in our hands become a waste paper. So, so be it. I support Zhou The deputy director’s opinion.”
After Xu Tong expressed his support, many members at the meeting also expressed support, so the proposal was passed.
The Sichuan-Shu branch authorized deputy director Zhou Qiang, allowing Zhou Qiang to use all the Jiaozi reserves of the Sichuan-Shu branch to do something to ensure that the revolutionary army would not suffer as a result.
Of course Zhou Qiang would not let her own people suffer.
Since there is such good internal information support, Zhou Qiang is very bold.
After some intelligence gathering, he personally led the team to Luzhou, the prosperous Jiaozi area closest to Chungju at that time, to conduct operations.
When Zhou Qiang and others arrived in Luzhou disguised as businessmen, it happened to be the time when Jiaozi fever in Luzhou was very prosperous.
At that time, not only urban financial practitioners, but also rural landlords began to spend large amounts of money to buy Jiaozi in an attempt to make a fortune. The streets were full of people looking for people to buy Jiaozi or to sell Jiaozi.
If you have Jiaozi, they will ask you if you want to sell it; if you have iron money, they will ask you if you want to buy it.
Zhou Qiang caught up with the good times.
After some market research, he found the highest bidders from a group of landlords from Naxi Village, and he took all the Jiaozi off his hands in one go.
Afterwards, statistics showed that the brothers earned more than 30,000 yuan in iron money from this wave of attacks.
Not to mention this, Zhou Qiang judged that Jiaozi had not yet collapsed based on the transaction price at that time, so she defied all opinions and continued to purchase a large number of Jiaozi with the iron money in her hand. She had more Jiaozi than when she arrived. More than doubled.
At this time, Jiaozi fever was at its peak in Luzhou, and it was also when Jiaozi's value was relatively highest. Zhou Qiang collected some information, and after doing some analysis, she believed that Jiaozi fever had reached a dead end, and now was the end. timing.
He decided to sell all the Jiaozi in one move, and then he would not buy Jiaozi after this time, but would cash out and leave.
After learning that Zhou Qiang had a large amount of jiaozi in his hands, many belated landlords came to him with red eyes and asked him to buy jiaozi.
For a time, he was in an absolute seller's market, and he could do whatever he wanted. Only he complained that the price offered was not high enough, and no one complained that he had too much money.
Because iron money was difficult to transport, had low value, and was heavy in weight, this time Zhou Qiang simply did not ask for money from the landlords and wealthy buyers, but chose to pay in kind, which could be regarded as the most direct help to the revolutionary army.
Grain, salt, cloth, agricultural production tools, and livestock can all be exchanged for Jiaozi, and the same value can be exchanged for Jiaozi.
The grain and salt can be eaten. The cloth for clothes is not only easy to transport, but will also be used to make military uniforms for the revolutionary army. Agricultural production tools and livestock can be brought back to Chungju to help local farmers' associations develop agricultural production.
There are many benefits.
The landlords' eyes were red, their heads were stiff, and they didn't care about anything. As long as there was Jiaozi, they wanted it. They would give whatever the seller wanted, and they were just waiting to exchange a large amount of Jiaozi in Zhou Qiang's hands. Make a fortune.
They didn't get the news in time enough. Watching others make money but they couldn't make it was even more uncomfortable than killing them.
It's really uncomfortable.
So they would give Zhou Qiang whatever he wanted. If the grain, salt, etc. were not enough to exchange, then they still had a lot of Sichuan brocade, porcelain, etc. that they could not get rid of for the time being, so they asked Zhou Qiang if he wanted it.
Yes, why not?
These things were also discounted by Zhou Qiang at low prices, and they were bought in large quantities.
Others don't know when the price of Shu brocade porcelain will return to normal, but Zhou Qiang still knows that if it is not useful in the short term, it will definitely be a huge fortune in the long run.
Zhou Qiang spent a month running around Luzhou, getting a lot of urgently needed materials for the revolutionary army.
He swept goods in the base areas of the wealthy landlords, sold all the money, and collected everything from their storage warehouses. By the way, he got a lot of benefits for the farmers in Zhongzhou and strengthened Zhongzhou's agriculture. Productivity, farmers rejoice.
After a wave of frenetic operations, in early June, Zhou Qiang returned from Luzhou to Zhongzhou with a full load, and was warmly welcomed by Xu Tong.
After coming back, Zhou Qiang said at the meeting that the Jiaozi craze was about to end, that Sichuan and Shu society was about to undergo strong turmoil, that Jiaozi was about to collapse, that many property-rich people in Sichuan and Shu would face bankruptcy, and that the death knell of the Chengdu court had sounded.
At that time Xu Tong asked him if he wanted to do something.
Zhou Qiang shook her head and said there was no need to do anything, just wait and see what happens.
"The rulers actually want to defraud the landlord class of money. It can only be said that they have no better way. They are already short of money and are desperate to survive. They have reached the point where they have to eat their own hands and feet to survive.
The Chengdu court will not last long, and it will definitely be destroyed in the near future. Once this wave of socializing frenzy ends, some people who would not have been friends of the rebels will become friends of the rebels. The Chengdu court will cut off its arms and commit suicide. Digging graves, I think the struggle situation in the entire Sichuan and Shu society will also change. "
