I, the prince in distress, send money

Chapter 180 Diaomin
When Xiaodao received the invitation to the party, the hidden waves of Ancandra began to emerge.

What business is the most profitable throughout history, both in China and abroad?
There is no doubt that monopoly business is the most profitable.

The various chambers of commerce and guilds, large and small, in Oncandra rely on monopoly to make money.

If you just take a quick look at the rules of the chamber of commerce/guild, you will find them to be very good. Based on internal self-management of the industry and restrictions on external competition, they seem to protect the interests of chamber of commerce/guild members very well and promote beneficial competition within the industry.

However, is this really the case?

No, the above content is correct if you look at it the other way around: protection equals exploitation.

The so-called strict membership system and entry threshold uniformly stipulate product prices, production quantities, specifications and quality standards, and implement a strict internal hierarchy. From apprentice to helper to master, each level of promotion is subject to strict regulations and review.

At the same time, various means were used to exclude external competition, including prohibiting foreign merchants from entering the local market or imposing high tolls on them.

An early guild might be a good organization, but it would only take a few years for the classes within the guild to be divided and for one or three giants to emerge.

A guild is a tool that eliminates the emergence of competitors at the source, exploits other members within the guild, and allows the top members of the guild to achieve a similar income as Shenzhen landlords who can earn millions or tens of millions of yuan a month by collecting rent.

Just like now, when the heads of the Chamber of Commerce and Guilds in Oncandra realized that the temporary mayor sent by Prince Chris was saving the starving people in the city at the expense of his own interests.

They started barking like dogs hit by a stone, trying to threaten the "provisional mayor" to recognize his mistake.

The Chamber of Commerce that specializes in grain business immediately sent people to the supply and marketing cooperative run by Xiaodao to buy grain, and at the same time spread rumors privately, saying that "Prince Chris has limited grain transported into the city, and if you don't buy it, it will be gone tomorrow."

Use similar words to stir up fear among the citizens and guide them to rush to buy food, striving to sell out the reserve food in the hands of the temporary mayor as soon as possible, or force the latter to raise the price of food in the supply and marketing cooperatives.

However, you know what, this approach of grain merchants is really effective.

First of all, the rumors of the Chamber of Commerce were really useful to the citizens of Oncandra. On the one hand, there were the "rumors" that the neighbors "swore" to be true, and on the other hand, they also saw with their own eyes the long queues deliberately formed in front of the supply and marketing cooperative by people hired by the Chamber of Commerce.

So, without thinking much, they joined the queue to grab food.

Secondly, the food in Xiaodao's hands is indeed limited.

Prince Chris's food is being transported from Bolas to Oncandra in a steady stream, but the transportation speed is actually limited. Xiaodao now has enough food to feed the entire city, but once someone deliberately causes panic and a food hoarding incident occurs, he will not have enough food to sell.

Even though Xiaodao quickly issued a "purchase restriction order," meaning that each person was only allowed to purchase a limited amount of food per day, such a regulation not only failed to play a positive role, but instead indirectly confirmed the authenticity of the rumors, causing many citizens who were originally just watching to join the rush to buy.

In addition, because there are not enough staff to conduct population census and issue identity documents to the residents in Onkandla, the so-called purchase restriction order is actually a "castle in the air."

If a person queues up and buys food, and then goes back to the end of the queue to queue up again to buy more food, the extremely busy supply and marketing cooperative staff have no time, no way, and no mood to figure out whether the person who is shouting has just been there.

The introduction of the purchase restriction order has actually had a side effect.

In just one day, half of Xiaodao's granary was empty. At this time, Xiaodao realized that something was wrong. At the same time, he could easily guess who was behind the scenes, and he was also a little angry.

Xiaodao was angry at both the grain merchants in Oncandra and the stupidity of the citizens of Oncandra.

There's not enough food. Isn't that normal? I've only been here for a short time, and the food delivery convoys have only come a few times!

The city is so big, there are so many hungry people, isn't it normal that there is not enough food?

As long as you don't rush to buy food and buy cheap food normally, you will definitely not starve.

If you are really hungry and have no money, then come and work in my engineering team.

By demolishing houses and sweeping up feces in the streets, and repairing roads and canals outside the city, one could earn enough food in a day to feed a family of five.

As a result, this group of citizens' rush to grab food made Xiaodao feel that his good intentions were in vain.

So, Xiaodao immediately issued the second order... All goods in the supply and marketing cooperative can only be sold in silver dollars, and local silver coins, gold coins, and other miscellaneous items will not be accepted.

Originally, in order to take care of the local people's lack of silver coins, Xiaodao allowed the supply and marketing cooperatives under his command to accept Bagnia silver coins, and in order to prevent poor citizens from starving, he also deliberately set the price of food very low.

This matter basically involves Xiaodao using his own personal pocket to subsidize the food rations of the citizens of Oncandra.

When a person goes to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy a pound of grain, Xiaodao basically loses a little money. At the same time, there will be fire consumption in the process of exchanging silver coins for silver dollars, and this fire consumption cost is also borne by Xiaodao himself.

Now, the angry Xiaodao made up his mind and figured it out... The unruly people who were still willing to spend money to steal food were definitely not really hungry. The real hungry people would definitely go to his engineering team to sign up for work.

Therefore, as soon as this administrative order was issued, it immediately curbed the behavior of local unruly people who were rushing to buy food, causing a lot of complaints and complaints, and the citizens began to speak ill of the mayor.

However, Xiaodao didn't care about such things at all.

The wailing of the common people was nothing but a disaster. Xiaodao was not even afraid of their rebellion, simply because he had already recruited local militia with food and silver dollars.

Including the surrendered garrison, the militia supported by Bolas, the players of the Tiger Legion, and the armed militia of the Legion, Xiaodao can now mobilize a force of as many as 5,000 people, which is more than enough to suppress the rebellion of Oncandra.

In the eyes of those who were behind the scenes, Xiaodao's reaction meant that he was giving in and was afraid, so they became even more excited.

As a result, the strikes originally planned by various trade guilds, such as merchants, tailors, blacksmiths, bakers, doctors, teachers, and archery guilds of citizens with certain armed forces, were temporarily stopped.

The leaders decided to give the mayor a favor and decide whether to continue with the original plan after the banquet.

Unexpectedly, almost the next day after the announcement of the "Silver Dollar Decree", that is, the day of the banquet, Xiaodao launched a counterattack.

(End of this chapter)