Chapter 678: There is no free lunch in the world

"This whole boatload was full of cloth, cotton yarn and cotton. When you arrive in Japan, you will unload the goods and get money. It's the last minute of the fight over there, and Mitsubishi will definitely not be able to escape this time......"

Lao Lu led his team to interview on the docks, including merchants, foremen, crews, laborers, and customs inspectors, everyone in any position.

"Don't underestimate Japan. Since last month, boatloads of cloth and cotton have been shipped in, and they can be taken down as soon as they arrive. ”

"The people there are crazy about the price war. Do you know the price of cloth over there? For less than two dollars, you can buy a horse for almost one and a half dollars. If it weren't for the fact that the Japanese didn't allow cloth to go abroad, I would have wanted to buy cloth from Japan and sell it back home. ”

"Do you know how expensive cotton is over there? Five times, five times as much as in China......"

Therefore, many Chinese cotton merchants shipped all the remaining cotton in their hands to Japan, which forced the Japanese to bleed.

The whole of Japan does not know how many merchants are hoarding goods in large quantities, taking advantage of the current plunge in the cloth to hoard cloth, and wait until the price of cloth returns to normal levels in the future, and then make a lot of money.

"Collect the Internet café, hurry up and close the net. Take advantage of the year to get Japan done. "Clearing all the obstacles for the entry of trade banks into Japan.

In the palace, Chen Ming, who was wearing a single coat, threw away the second fold given by Bao Zhidao and said to Chen Cong.

"Obey." Chen Cong said with a smile on his face while clenching his fists, his eyes were on the right hand side of Chen Minglong's case, and the one on it was the second internal recital table that the North Koreans came up, "You take advantage of this recital to take it back." ”

Chen Ming followed Chen Cong's gaze to his left hand side, the smile on the corner of his mouth was even better, this second piece of music was more numb than the first one, Chen Ming didn't know what kind of flattery the North Korean stick would be when the next piece of music was handed over.

"Obey."

Chen Cong stepped forward to take the internal recital of North Korea, which should be kept in the cabinet archives for record. And what makes him even happier is that at this rate, the beginning of spring next year will be the time when the third pass of North Korea will be presented, and he Chen Cong has just sat on the throne of the first assistant of the second cabinet, and he will have a big lottery at the beginning.

"Your Majesty, the time is approaching the lunar month, and the list of the next cabinet ......"

Chen Cong chatted with Chen Ming for a while, and then asked a key point. This is the top priority that countless people in China are concerned about today. What kind of cabinet system does the emperor want to play, the cabinet ministers serve for five years, and if there is no accident or gross negligence, the emperor promises that he will not change the cabinet casually like Emperor Chongzhen. So the question is, who will be in the next cabinet?

In addition to Chen Cong, Liu Dezhao and a few other 'old men' who are already well-known to everyone, which people are going to come out and which people are going to go in?

Emperor, you can't become a school teacher, you have to hold a parent-teacher meeting during the Chinese New Year, and the 'exam report card' will be announced, right?

That's sad for most people. After all, in this officialdom, the higher you go, the fewer positions you have, and the prouder you are always in the minority.

"Huh? I already have a rough idea in my mind. It will be announced in a few days. ”

Chen Ming has done an 'extra' review of this list for a whole year. Now he really knows the ability of many ministers under him. It is almost possible to count the family resumes of the ministers of the imperial court with their eyes closed. Although his brain didn't seem to be kissed by the Great God of Passage, if anyone could read a piece of information to the point of vomiting, it would definitely reach Chen Ming's current level.

However, even with the eyes of the whole country on the cabinet, the revamped Ta Kung Pao has opened a glorious avenue of its own with Japanese news.

Even the emperor personally issued instructions to be vigilant against unfair commercial competition, to advocate a fair and reasonable social and economic order, to strictly abide by the law, and to take this scene in Japan as a sign.

The "Central Plains Daily" immediately made a long and systematic analysis and report on this, saying that the irreconcilable contradictions between the interests of the local and central governments, from Japan's political economy to the social power structure, are the biggest obstacle to the orderly development of Japan's economy, and are also the biggest reason why many laws regulating the order of the market economy cannot be used in Japan. And then there's a series of extensions......

For a time, Japan's overall image in China has gone down to a new level.

Although the DPRK's military strength is rotten and fragile, and it has been beaten in several wars, the stable people's livelihood politics in the DPRK are undoubtedly more appetizing to Chinese society. Compared with Japan's shogunate, local daimyos, and bushido, and Honganji Temple in those years - that a monk can also be a warlord, it is obviously very unpalatable to the Chinese.

In the previous Chinese public opinion, because of Japan's high military value, it was a high look. But now that we see how 'chaotic' Japanese society is, and then think about the strictness of China's laws and regulations, a feeling of civilized people looking at barbarians arises spontaneously. Of course, there is definitely a role for national security here, but in any case, the barbarism of Japan's business competition has become the barbarism of the entire image of Japan. Compared with North Korea, a weak civilized person, the barbarian's force value is lower even if it is high.

And when the time entered the last month of the fifth year of Chengtian, countless aristocratic and rich people repeated the kind of drunken life as always, and the number of the lowest working people was still struggling for survival.

A sensational news suddenly reached Japan, and Mitsubishi Boshoku's biggest crisis - the source of cotton - was solved.

Ryoichi Sato, who had been absent from Japan for several months, signed a contract in Shanghai with a Chinese cotton tycoon, who would supply Mitsubishi's raw materials all year round at the Chinese market price plus the appropriate freight, even if it was the normal price.

It was like a bolt from the blue that caused a sensation throughout Japan. Countless people are asking: is this true or false?

In order to keep Mitsubishi's last life, the Tokugawa shogunate wanted to go shirtless, but their strong pressure was firmly caught by the Chinese envoys in Japan.

It's been December since the fighting broke out in August and September, and it's been three months. Mitsubishi's situation is getting worse every day, and people no longer pin their hopes on Mitsubishi, after all, life still has to go on. Mino Heibei, a man of the hour in Japan, is destined to fall in the New Year's bell.

But just when everyone was desperate, on the other side of the sea, Japan's western neighbor, suddenly extended a warm helping hand to Mino Heibei.

Mitsubishi Boshoku's resurrection is no longer a dream.

That's a big change.

This is simply unimaginable for countless Japanese, because since the beginning of October, there have been Japanese newspapers that have been swiping the news of the imminent collapse of Mitsubishi Textile again and again, and in these newspapers, Mino Pingbei, the boss of Mitsubishi Textile, has not been smeared, and Japan's national culture guarantees this - the real opponent is to be respected, Mino Pingbei is obviously such a figure, and the pro-China faction will not smear his image for no reason. Instead, these newspapers portrayed Mino Heibei as a tragic hero, a man like Sanada Nobushige. Although it is a typical example of self-determination, it is also synonymous with courage and perseverance, just like Don Quixote in the image of Western literature rushing towards the big windmill.

Why is it that all of a sudden, this strange heroic model is about to turn defeat into victory again?

"This news is probably fake......

After getting the news, many people were so hesitant. In fact, in the hearts of many Japanese, Mino Heibei, who fought until the last moment and fell, as long as he committed suicide when Mitsubishi completely fell, he would become a perfect Japanese-style tragic hero and become a typical 'god' in Japanese culture.

At this moment, you can imagine how many people are unwilling to believe this truth. Even many rightists, including those on the right, were mentally prepared to lose their big financiers and living idols in October and November, and instead made up their minds to shape Mino Heibei into an eternal spiritual monument. This can also be the spiritual pillar of the right! But this sudden message disrupted everything!

Rumors alone did not seem to be enough to win the truth, and Mitsubishi Boshoku announced that the fifth phase of the project was completed, and that additional investment was expected to increase from 1 million yen to 1.5 million yen.

At the same time, Mino Heihoku also plans to invest 200,000 yen to build the largest cotton planting base in Japan in Ise, Iga, and Shima [Mie Prefecture] to ensure the source of raw materials for textile mills and avoid the situation of raw material bidding in the future.

This statement could not be more credible. No matter how unwilling I am to believe it, I can't tell nonsense in the face of the facts. The Mitsui family quickly lifted the trading restrictions on Mitsubishi shares, and the stock price rushed to five yen on the first day of relisting.

Then, a series of follow-up news also came out - Shanghai's Commerce and Trade Bank gave Mitsubishi great support, otherwise how could Mino Pingbei give Shanghai Commerce Bank 25% of Mitsubishi shares at one time?

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

The banks of the Chinese are unreliable, and at critical moments they will only fall into the well and take advantage of the fire to rob.

Of course, the Japanese don't know the kind of trick that the trade bank really plays, but the Japanese are not stupid, and of course they know how Mitsubishi, a quarter of Mitsubishi's shares, was given away. This is really a classic case of robbery while the fire is burning, and the Trade Bank is so bold that it sent Mitsubishi to the guillotine, and the guillotine was about to fall, so it came to the rescue.

How much money does the trade bank give to Mitsubishi? Is it 1 million yen, 2 million yen, or more?

No one knows, although the whole of Japan is extremely curious. Although on the fifth day of the news, the Sumitomo family announced the end of a strangulation battle they had recently received. Because Tang Feipeng, who was behind the Sumitomo family, suddenly stopped everything, and ran back to China like a burning ass.

The whole of Japanese society was silent, and everyone was moved by the power of the trade bank. Tang Feipeng, the god of the Japanese shopping mall, can't withstand the huge pressure of the trade bank.

At this moment, Chen Ming in the Nanjing Palace was looking at the third excerpt related to Japan sent by Bao Zhidao: "This will really make a lot of money......