In the office of the head of the Nagasaki Mitsui Bank, looking at the long list provided by Mino Heibei, Mitsui Shi smiled wryly.

It's this kind of encirclement and suppression again. Obviously, Mitsubishi is the pride of Japan, but every time the Sumitomo family engages in the anti-Mitsubishi alliance with the support of Tang Feipeng, so many Japanese foreign banks will participate together, and the support behind Japan's pride Mitsubishi Textile is in addition to the Mitsui family, and the other humerus is from the Trade Bank in Shanghai, China, which is really awkward.

"It's a headache, but we Japanese businessmen are always very united." Mino Pingbei's face was full of wry smiles, and Mitsui Stone looked at the few people in front of him, "You all tell me, what can you do about the current situation?" ”

Hearing Mitsuishi's question, several middle-level members of the Nagasaki branch looked at each other, all helpless.

The conflict between Mitsubishi and Sumitomo has been a long time, and the Sumitomo family has used its long-standing contacts and connections in the Japanese business community to make Mitsubishi bleed and hurt his vitality almost every time he deals with Mitsubishi, although Mitsubishi has relied on the support of Mitsui Bank, Trade Bank, and even the shogunate to tide over difficulties again and again, but everyone knows that Mitsubishi itself has suffered a lot in the collision of strength.

Look at how many new debts Sanye Pingbei has added in the past two years?

Every business war has to be pasted with countless money and benefits, and the blood does not stop.

And the Mitsui family has not reconciled the contradictions between Mitsubishi and Sumitomo, but the contradictions between the two sides are different in concept, and there is no way to reconcile.

In the past two years, Mitsubishi Textile has won the respect of many Japanese people by relying on their business philosophy, even if many samurai who are full of contempt for businessmen mention Mino Pingbei. Mitsubishi Textile, which has been difficult to turn around, has been embraced by some people on the altar of Mino Pingbei, and there is no turning back. Otherwise, he will face the hottest revenge of his supporters in the past.

But their enemies will not agree with Mitsubishi's views.

Sumitomo and Mitsubishi, pro-China and anti-Chinese, this is not simply a problem of commercial textiles, in the far run, it is a problem of the entire Japanese society.

Is it pro-China, or anti-China?

Since the Sino-Japanese conflict, this question has been a life choice for all Japanese people.

Judging from the current situation, the pro-China faction clearly has the upper hand. The Chinese continuously recruited a large number of samurai from Japan, and they exported a large number of low-cost cloth, iron tools, medicines, grain, etc. to Japan, and they used real money and food to give hope to countless poor lower Japanese samurai, and from the lower class to the middle class, and then the upper class, which is completely the entire Japanese society.

Mitsubishi's friends in the top echelons of Japanese politics could not find anyone else to be trusted, except for the devastated and impoverished Satsuma clan. Many of Japan's top brass have only purely economic interests in mind.

This is one of the reasons why the Sumitomo family has been so popular in the Japanese business community. A large number of Japanese foreign companies [companies] with ties to the pro-China faction were involved. This force is not at all likely to be affected by the Nagasaki branch, and Mitsui Bank is completely unstoppable.

"I'm afraid it's the same as the previous strangulations, only by waiting for the Sumitomo family to give up on their own......

Every strangulation battle is a big game. With the passage of time, both sides will never need to pay more than just money, but also political energy. Until one side retreats.

The previous losers can be said to be Sumitomo, as far as Mitsui Stone knows, in the first few encounters, the Tokugawa shogunate secretly pulled a bias. Of course, there is also the Shanghai Trade Bank, which has a strange support for Mitsubishi, although most of it comes from money, but it will also use its political energy to pull Mitsubishi when necessary.

In the past two years, the China Trade Bank has become famous in Japan because of its support for Mitsubishi, and when China and Japan open currency exchange business next year, that is, when the Trade Bank can enter the Japanese market, it will inevitably be a strong rival of Mitsui.

"Mino-kun, pluck up your spirits and win this battle, Mitsui will support you as always."

There is nothing more to say, and now Mitsubishi can only face this sudden outbreak of the big war head-on.

First, they have to go head-to-head with the Sumitomo allies, dumping goods at low prices on one side and selling goods at lower prices on the other. This is not a good way, past experience has confirmed this, the Mitsubishi alliance is far inferior to its enemies in terms of capital and production capacity, but to keep the Mitsubishi brand, keep the presence of Mitsubishi, and keep the Mitsubishi market, Mino Pingbei must also do this, this war is a huge war of attrition in the early stage.

Second, the factory reduced production, the twelve-hour work became a ten-hour work system, and then the eight-hour work system, and the decline in batches was not so conspicuous, but at least it could reduce the production cost a little - cotton cotton yarn.

Then there's the political wrangling. Mitsui assured Mino Heibei that the Mitsui family would go back and work hard, and that they would contact the Tokugawa shogunate as soon as possible.

Tanuma Yiji values Mitsubishi very much.

Whether it is from the perspective of national dignity or real interests, the Tokugawa shogunate will not give up Mitsubishi.

Bidding farewell to Mitsuishi, Wang Ping went north to a textile factory, and the first phase of Mitsubishi's project was originally based in Nagasaki. In the factory, Wang Pingbei saw that many workers had a sad look on their faces, and it was obvious that they had heard about the current predicament of the factory.

Looking at the worried expressions on the faces of those employees, although Wang Pingbei's heart flashed a taste that was difficult to say. Some of his benefits for Japanese textile workers are not in vain, and these workers have begun to think about the factory, and of course, this is also for their jobs.

But all of this is a game in itself.

……

With the order issued by Mino Pingbei, Mitsubishi Boshoku fully met the battle, and Mino's order was quickly implemented, and the 5,000 spindles and 300 looms of the fourth phase of the project that were being installed continued to be installed according to the original plan and put into production as soon as possible. Mitsubishi Boshoku's hawkish attitude gave their stock an immediate and small rally in the market.

The price of cotton cloth in the entire Japanese market has fallen again and again, and soon the price of yarn has also plunged sharply, while the price of cotton has continued to rise.

The alliance led by the Sumitomo family kept raising the price of cotton, which immediately drove up the production cost of the entire Japanese textile industry.

Cotton has grown rapidly from the original [about 70 catties] to 35 yen (Japan's one-sided official exchange rate to 3 Chinese dollars per day), to 50 yen, and then continues to climb to 60. [The price of cotton in the early Qing Dynasty, Huizhou in Kangxi 40 to 42 years was more than 52 to 87 Wen per catty. From the sixth year of Daoguang, Zhili Zunhua was 125 Wen per catty]

Seeing that doubling the price of cotton is not a strong force has made the entire Japanese textile industry Alexander. It's like a bottomless pit, where a lot of money is thrown into a water ticket by a bilateral company that promotes at a low price. It's just those cotton merchants who are cheap!

Therefore, if the Chinese businessmen completely control the source of cotton in Japan, then even if Tang Feipeng fights with Mitsubishi for ten years, he may not necessarily lose money. Because the money he lost on the cloth was made back from the cotton in a blink of an eye.

In just half a month, the entire Japanese economy has been in turmoil, and the stock market has changed.

Who made Japan so small, and Mitsui Bank, the pillar of the Japanese economy, joined in this war, so the decline of the textile industry caused the entire Japanese economy to be shaken.

Don't think that only the people involved are lost in the war, the gods fight, and the mortals suffer. Once this kind of industrial war starts, the unlucky ones are only those small fish and shrimp with small capital.

And if these unlucky little fish and shrimp want not to be swept into the deep ditch by this tide, all they can do is to stop production and business, and silently wait for the storm to subside. And only the more basic weavers suffer in this way, they are a group of plankton, at the bottom of the food chain.

Why did the Tokugawa shogunate help Mitsubishi again and again? In addition to proceeding from the consideration of national dignity, it is also necessary to calm down the turmoil and restore the economy as soon as possible. Otherwise, the outflow of unemployed textile workers will lead to a chain reaction.

Of course, the Sumitomo family, under the conspiracy of Tang Feipeng, was able to pull up the anti-Mitsubishi alliance again and again, and in a certain way, it was also because of the intervention of the Tokugawa shogunate, so that the forces of both sides were not exhausted. The influence exerted by the Tokugawa shogunate in the shadows was like a scoop of cold water added to a hot pot, treating the symptoms but not the root cause - the current Tokugawa shogunate could not suppress the Sumitomo alliance head-on. As long as the flame under this cauldron is burning, the contradictions between the two sides will intensify again and again.

So no one can say whether it was a big war that fought hard and fought for the last drop of blood - for Japan, or whether this kind of frequent outbreak - relatively speaking- strangulation wars caused more serious damage to Japan's economy and people's livelihood.

Seeing Mino Heibei coming out of the Tanuma Yiji Mansion, several people who came with him hurriedly surrounded him. "How's it going, President? Did Tanuma-sama agree? ”

Looking back at the gate of Tanuma Yiji's mansion, Mino Heibei's face was expressionless, "Don't dream." Let's go. "Those gifts that were brought into Tanuma Mansion were fed to the dogs. The shogunate's attitude remained the same.

Mino Heibei also knew this, but in order to show his eagerness, he rode a fast horse from Nagasaki to Osaka, and then arrived in Edo by boat to give it a try.

But after arriving at the Tanuma Mansion, although Tanuma Yiji did not close the door, his attitude was still based on mud. The rhetoric is vaguely supportive of the shogunate, but it is by no means willing to use executive orders to force a wave of Sumitomo alliances, such as promulgating laws to sanction unfair competition business practices, as China does, and punish such unfair business practices as strange goods and speculation. They simply won't.

was forced and forced by Sanye, it was all about him, and in the end, Tanuma Yiji simply came to serve tea to the guests.

The Tokugawa shogunate couldn't even straighten up in front of China now, and the previous intervention was all secretly exerting influence. The same is true now!

Perhaps if this kind of strangulation war is carried out three or two times, it will be 'taken for granted' by all walks of life in Japan, and it will even become a wave of repertoire for Japan's economic development.

"Still can't do it......" Noticing Mino Pingbei's face, the people also became depressed.

Some of them gritted their teeth and scolded: "A group of red deer is really unreliable." ”

In their view, if the Tokugawa shogunate had enacted a series of commercial regulations, as China had done, the Mitsubishi Boku crisis would have ceased to exist. But now Mitsubishi has to fight hard with the Sumitomo Alliance again and again, which greatly delays Mitsubishi's development progress.

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Tang Feipeng, whose whole body was soaked in the hot spring, comfortably enjoyed the massage of the two Japanese girls, he emptied his brain, didn't think about anything, the natural hot spring, the salty smell was mixed with the smell of sulfur, in it, the whole body was as delicate as a lover's fragrant kiss, close his eyes, and enjoy this comfort and kindness.

Enjoy the fun of bathing in warm soup and wash away the hustle and bustle of the world.

In the Japanese business world, Tang Feipeng has become a god-like figure, and now he doesn't need to worry about making money and losing money at all, he is no longer in a foreign country, fighting hard, but a leisurely enjoyment.

Tang Feipeng didn't know how long he had been in the hot spring, and the others fell asleep. Before she knew it, she was carefully lifted out of the water by the servant slave girl and placed on the bed that had been made.

Compared with Japanese customs, Tang Feipeng is still used to sleeping in bed.

Until a sound of footsteps woke him up, "Your Excellency, the Korean monarch Yi Hao died of illness, and Min Hong-ho and others jointly wrote to Nanjing to pray for attachment. ”

This is news that has just reached Edo, and it comes from the only newspaper in Japan that has foreign correspondents stationed in North Korea, Edo Shimbun.

Tang Feipeng's sleepiness disappeared all of a sudden, oh, the imperial court is going to eat North Korea now. It's a bit of a quick surprise. Not long ago, Kim Hongchang was brought down, and this is about to eat the whole of North Korea......

But think about the fact that the country is about to change its term. Shousuke-sama clearly likes to give his first term a good ending.

"Your Excellency, a large number of rightists are gathering outside the door." This is a phenomenon that has sprung up in many of Japan's major cities in the last two years, and the larger the city, the more and more they have, and there are even dedicated stations in several major Japanese cities, such as Edo, Eto, Osaka and Nagasaki.

The servants didn't know why, Tang Feipeng insisted on calling the anti-China faction a rightist and the pro-China faction a leftist. Anyway, the 'rules' were set from above, and they followed suit.

The news attached by the DPRK was transmitted to Japan, and it immediately touched the sensitive nerves of a certain group of neurotic rightists in Japan. After all, the cotton war is still going on, and the distance between North Korea and Japan is so close, and the sudden annexation of North Korea to China makes Japan too throbbing.

Saying and doing are really two completely different concepts.

The Japanese came to say that North Korea knelt down and would be swallowed by China sooner or later, but this is more of a lip service, a kind of emotional venting and national feelings to suppress the other party. In East Asia, Japan is too far away from China, and the only thing they can compare with is Bangbang; But now Bangbang is really kneeling, really crying and shouting that the Chinese dad and the Chinese dad are going to be attached, Japan has a deep sense of fear, and the lips and teeth are cold.

"These idiots with their brains in water. It is understandable for the imperial court to devour North Korea, but what good is it to eat Japan? Tang Feipeng scolded loudly. This little devil is completely self-inflicted! North Korea has a land area about the same size as Japan [Ezo land is not included], which is larger than the territory of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, with a total of less than 5 million people. And what about Japan? How many people are there in Japan?

Japan is only suitable for colonization!

Only when the imperial court's brain is in water will it swallow more than 20 million Japanese into its stomach.

"Tell them to get out of here!" A bunch of idiots.

"Pass me an order, all taverns and women's branches under the Chamber of Commerce will be half price from now on until the end of the month. Department stores are also on sale, so let them go and add it up themselves. All identifiable rightists refuse to enter, and Lao Tzu is going to be angry with this group of idiots! ”