8:11 am
The sun's rays are a bit dazzling. At this time, in the southern area near District 9, outside the 9th Section Headquarters with five connected dome houses, in the hall of the giant No. 0 Dome House in the middle, businessmen are constantly entering, and there are
A large number of people from many families found the convex crystal on the floor, moved out chairs and sat down. Thousands of people were already sitting in the venue.
Merchants at the door were inspected by Section 9 officers one by one. They showed their identity certificates and certificates of raw material suppliers, and entered the venue after passing through the inspection mechanical door.
Since last year, January 1st every year has been the pricing day for raw material prices in the city. Early this morning, raw material merchants of all sizes in the city came over, from all walks of life. Raw materials are related to the price fluctuations of all walks of life.
The basic items are very strict in terms of pricing.
The 9th Business Division will regulate the price of raw materials based on the market economy scale last year. According to the provisions of the Commodity Law, raw material merchants can only increase prices by up to 101% to 200% on the basis of pricing.
interval.
However, the annual price increase range depends on the raw materials of various industries. Take eggs as an example. Last year, the price of eggs wholesaled from agricultural bases was 2.6 cents per piece, but the price increase range fluctuated between 101% and 117%.
The supply is based on the supply area of ​​the upper, middle and lower floors, with a maximum of 3.042 gross. Once exceeded, punitive fines will be imposed.
Last year, the wholesale price of milk was RMB 6 for 100 ml, and the price increase range was from 101% to 121%.
Every year, every raw material that is not subject to control and circulates freely to local markets has its own pricing and wholesale price floating range. This range is also the same in the hands of suppliers and will later go to the hands of manufacturers, who will
Based on the comprehensive data of the materials required to make the item, you can set a market price yourself. This price needs to be approved by Section 9 before it can be put on the market. When it finally reaches the market, it will change according to the local monthly price index. In principle, it cannot exceed
150%.
However, there will also be real-time local regulation. The prices of items sold in most stores will change to a certain extent every month, and the final regulation will be based on regional supply and demand.
All these extremely complex and in-depth regulations were thought up over a long period of time by people from 12 departments. They indeed effectively stabilized the market, even during the Great Depression caused by urban construction for more than a year.
time, and finally because of such strict control, the economy was stabilized at a certain level.
There was no widespread inflation, which was a blessing among misfortunes. After the city's industry recovered, there was no problem of supply chaos caused by the huge demand for goods.
Most of the businessmen who come to Section 9 want to get the regulated pricing price as soon as possible, and then they will start to plan the supply for the new year, where is the most profitable place to supply, and how to supply can make more money.
, who you should do business with can make more money.
Businessmen need to get first-hand information, and many businessmen have discussed it. Since last year, everyone has been discussing various countermeasures and how to avoid and deal with all this.
The market pricing power has been in the hands of the gods since the city was founded. Many people feel that this is only temporary, because once the city develops, there is no way for the gods to control the expanding economic volume.
Everything is as the original merchants wished. Although the pricing power is not opened to merchants, some pricing ranges will increase many times in certain seasons. In those years, Congress's approach to relaxing the market economy has greatly affected the city's economy.
With considerable development, cities in the true sense have been established, instead of the dilapidated wooden towns of thirty or forty years ago.
The establishment of the city's 120 districts, and the eventual formation of today's megacity, was completed due to continuous economic growth, and merchants were the connecting points and contributed indispensably.
However, now the city's supervision has reached a very strict level, and many of the methods used by merchants in the past have failed. Some large and medium-sized merchants have begun to transform after experiencing pain, but most small merchants have now
On the verge of death.
No one wanted to die, and many people looked a little nervous, especially those who had hoarded goods and planned to make a lot of money before the city factories started operating last year, including earlier. Many of them were about to have a heart attack.
If the current market pricing is lower than their previous market pricing, many people will lose money, and uneasiness begins to permeate the entire venue.
At this time, the venue began to gradually become quiet, and light and shadow screens appeared all around. Brandon, the chief of Section 9, and He Lei, the secretary, and more than a dozen directors were also present, and they all walked to the stage one after another.
Pricing power is what determines the fate of most merchants. At this time, the merchants looked at the big screen near the venue, and the pricing of some products had already appeared.
In an instant, a businessman jumped up with great excitement, raised his fists and stood on the chair as if no one else was watching and cheered. There are more and more people like this. This is like gambling. In business, there are also many people who dare to take risks.
businessmen, but unfortunately, only a few of them get their bets right.
Some people were crying uncontrollably, while others looked blankly at the pricing and floating range of the goods in their hands, and giggled for a while, and their smiles gradually became stiff.
Some people are happy and some are sad. This feeling was not obvious last year, but it is particularly strong this year. What has been built with hard work has to be started all over again overnight. This kind of pricing model every year for most small businessmen,
It is a competition for the final few winners.
There were more and more dissatisfaction and doubts, and then Brandon spoke.
"If you are dissatisfied, please feel free to check the pricing and price fluctuation range of a product, which will be marked in detail."
At this time, many people took out their mobile phones. Everyone in the venue obtained congressional permissions and quickly logged into the congressional system and started checking directly.
A businessman looked at the pricing of Condensate No. 67 with a solemn expression. It had detailed economic market records for the entire last year, as well as a graph of the rate of economic change. This Condensate No. 67 has effects in many fields.
Last year, the price of this gelatin 67 substance was 3.8 yuan per kilogram, with a floating price range between 101% and 120%. But this year is different. It was priced at 3 yuan per kilogram, a direct drop of 8 cents, and the price floating range was 101%.
to 130%. Although the highest point of the price floating range has increased by 10%, even if it is sold to the area with the greatest demand, you can only earn 90 cents per kilogram.
At first glance, it seems to be more profitable than last year. Last year, the maximum profit per kilogram was 7.6 cents, but this is only the pricing of raw material production results. One kilogram includes tax, labor cost, production cost and primary material cost, which is about 2 yuan.
Around 2.5 cents per kilogram based on last year’s pricing.
But this year’s pricing and the price range allowed to float, excluding the cost of 2 yuan, plus 130% of the highest point of the price range allowed to float, actually only earned 1.9 yuan at most.
Last year, this businessman had upgraded his raw material processing plant, purchased equipment, and increased the number of workers, in an attempt to maintain the company's steady development through volume. Even if the price dropped, it shouldn't be that outrageous.
Now this businessman is desperate, because the following areas have shown the supply and demand for polyester No. 67 last year, as well as the companies engaged in selling this raw material. The numbers are very large, which has also led to this kind of situation.
The main reason for the decline in raw materials.
According to the estimated value given by Section 2, this year's demand may be 107% higher than last year. The entire demand for polyester 67 has only increased by 7%. This is bad news for this businessman. Last year, he accumulated a large amount of polyester.
Ester 67, I thought that the market might be better this year, but in the end I could only smile bitterly. Being able to avoid losses is already very profitable.
At the bottom, the analysis given by Section 2 is that labor costs may rise further this year, as well as tax issues. If the economy is larger, the tax rate will fluctuate.
More and more things appeared in this businessman's mind. At this moment, his mind was in a mess and his consciousness began to blur.
At this time, accompanied by a burst of female exclamations, a businessman covered his heart and fell to the ground. In an instant, He Lei led people to rush over and carried the emotional businessman, who had a heart attack, aside.
Medical equipment was quickly brought.
A simple heart surgery was completed quickly on the side of the venue, and the businessman saved his life.
"Please don't get excited! These pricings are in line with the supply and demand of the entire market structure of Bright City. They all have detailed and complete data. As long as the merchants registered in Bright City can check these data at any time, there are profits and losses in doing business.
, it is impossible to make money for a long time, at least not in Bright City!"
As Brand said, many merchants were already feeling cold, and some merchants started trading directly on the spot, wanting to get rid of some of the backlog of raw materials, because one day late would require an extra day of raw material management fees.
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Although many businessmen looked bitter, they still started to discuss it in a friendly manner. If businessmen are dissatisfied with the pricing power and price fluctuation range, they can file a complaint and find other companies on their own within 3 months after the pricing is announced.
Data research companies can change the pricing of products if they conduct data that is more accurate than the data provided by Xingke and find points that can refute Xingke, including predicting the direction of the market more accurately than Xingke.
But this is almost impossible. A large number of businessmen have tried it last year. They cannot refute the analytical data given by the business department. Even some professional economic analysis experts have difficulty in refuting it because there is no point of refutation.
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It's just that there is one person who has successfully grasped what the business department has not thought about and successfully changed the pricing and price fluctuation ranges of some products. This person is Hu Youran. However, this point is still open to question because it was caused by criminal issues.
caused by the chain effect.
This year there is also discussion within the business department that if the raw material market is unstable due to crime, certain pricing changes can be made, but this issue can only be discussed at the end of the year.
Brandon breathed a sigh of relief. Throughout last year, people in Section 9 worked almost non-stop, analyzing as much as possible the industrial structure of the city, supply and demand of goods, combined with the field investigation and analysis of Section 2, and finally gave
Once all raw materials are priced, it will be much easier to set prices for industries above raw materials.
Section 2 will use an economic template that has been researched and calculated in AI13 Economic Engineering for many years to conduct preliminary economic analysis. As long as we have the materials obtained through big data analysis, Section 9 can quickly obtain the results based on the efforts of Section 9 throughout the last year.
The crystallization is used to plan the subsequent pricing and price floating range.
At this time, many small doors were opened around the venue. Inside, there are rooms on the 5th floor outside the dome. Businessmen can directly complete many transactions here. The transaction will be under the supervision of Section 9 to ensure effective compliance.
specification.
"Okay, everyone can move to the private conference room. If you need to have a long conversation today, please make an appointment in advance. Free water and food will be delivered to the room where everyone is discussing."
A large number of Section 9 staff members are already in place, waiting at the door of each independent small room, waiting for the merchants to enter. If you have any questions about business transactions, you can consult with the Section 9 staff members next to them until the businessmen enter.
Until you leave.
In the past, merchants were relatively free to trade goods, but there was a problem. The dual problems of black market trading and black gold laundering. Since the middle of last year, the Transaction Law has been promulgated. This is to prevent the dual problems from affecting the urban economy.
harm.
This method was thought up by Brandon, and after discussions with Section 8 and the Lawyers Association, such a law was finally introduced.
Transactions must be conducted in an open and transparent manner. Even if it is a private transaction, the money and goods involved in the transaction need to be retained, because Section 9 will conduct irregular reviews. Once the transaction amount and goods are found to be inconsistent, Section 7 will
They will go directly to conduct a financial review. If there is a problem, Section 5 will directly arrest you and conduct an economic crime investigation.
To be continued...