It was precisely because of Yang Yuanzhao's vision that his waiting was finally rewarded, and a few days later, a piece of information was sent to him, according to the report of the gangster brother, there seemed to be a big move in Shanghai Japan Cotton Textile Co., Ltd., not to mention, but also purchased a large number of high-end food, and the servants inside the company knew that there was a big man arriving recently.

This is an ordinary news, after it was summarized to the headquarters, it was taken seriously by the staff officers, the Japanese, was the focus of their monitoring, and then reported to Yang Yuanzhao, Yang Yuanzhao of course knew that this was probably an important message, and continued to let them increase their efforts to monitor, and at the same time through various subordinates and channels to inquire clearly, what is going on.

After the all-pervasive investigation, the information was finally obtained, Mitsui Hiroshi, the second young master of Mitsui Properties, would arrive in Shanghai in a day, the purpose was not clear, and Cotton Textile Co., Ltd. was prepared to meet him.

Mitsui Hong, this name is very unfamiliar, but Yang Yuanzhao did not pay attention to this name, is to pay attention to his background, Mitsui Property, the 21st century is a century of developed consulting, but also put a lot of hidden things, completely bright in the field of vision of most of the people, Mitsui chaebol, is with Sumitomo, Mitsubishi, Yasuda as famous chaebol, these four chaebols, constitute the pillar of later Japan, from the beginning of its establishment, has been influencing Japan's political economy, with strong financial resources in hand, the scenery of the second largest economy in the future, which has a lot to do with them.

In this era, the chaebol had not yet really formed, and the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War were only spawned, and they lasted until the First World War. Mitsui was one of the best in the world and was the chaebol who achieved the greatest development in World War I.

In this era, Mitsui did not have that much influence. But on the way to rise, I think that this Mitsui Property has a certain relationship with Shanghai's Cotton Textile Co., Ltd., and even the largest Japanese textile industry consortium in Shanghai belongs to Mitsui Property.

Knowing this, Yang Yuanzhao didn't understand. This is a key figure, not only commanding the gangsters, but also sending out forces exclusive to Germany and the United States, from two sides, the German side and the secret stalking. Inquire about this Mitsui Hiroshi doublely, and strive to obtain the purpose and role of his coming to Shanghai.

On October 21, 1910, a fleet of five Japanese ships arrived in Shanghai, and on one of the small passenger ships, a proud young man of about 30 years old walked down, with a large group of bodyguards and men, and went directly to the Japanese concession. Their arrival is already a neat and tidy Shanghai Cotton Textile Co., Ltd., and it is even more colorful. Welcome to this young man.

His identity can almost be called, and the result of the stalking came, Mitsui Hiroshi arrived with a total of five ships, one was a small passenger ship he was on, and the rest were large merchant ships. As reported by the people at the dock, they found the porters. Unloading is being carried out with grey fabric. According to estimates, one ship is at least 250,000 horses, and four ships may be 1 million horses.

1 million horses, Yang Yuanzhao's face showed a smile, finally came, for this era to understand, of course, know that the other party wants to occupy the market, what can be done, nothing more than to hurt people, to occupy a market, first of all, on the strategy of dumping at land prices, all competitors are beaten down, only the opponents are knocked out, monopolized, can occupy the pricing power, when the time comes, the market and profits, or them, even more.

According to his information, Japan is not the largest storage of cotton cloth, in the British and French concessions, at least 50 million horses of grey cloth are stored, most of which are purchased from the newly established cotton textile enterprises, and a small part is shipped from abroad, but they have not moved, the purpose is not obvious, I am afraid it is really to calculate the praying mantis and cicadas.

Mitsui Hiroshi is very high-profile, has entered Shanghai, held a grand ball for friendship, invited consuls, business representatives, and even many celebrities from various countries, when the cocktail party returned, Schroeder came to report, this Mitsui Hiroshi is really young and vigorous, in the closed-door talks with several major foreign companies, clearly mentioned to occupy the Shanghai market, to destroy these small cotton textile factories in China.

Yang Yuanzhao can imagine that picture, a rich boy, the first time in charge of a heavy task, millions of pieces of grey cloth, the current price, will be close to 10 million yen, you know, this is not the yen of later generations, the yen of this era, is still quite strong, and the silver dollar is almost a one-to-one ratio, I heard that this is still the first batch, other countries are also quite welcome, Britain, France and Russia are directly supported, will let Japan control the entire Shanghai grey cloth market, Germany's cotton textile industry is not very strong, It is not their main business, and it is estimated that they have seen some of it from the actions of Britain, France and Russia, and now they are buying cotton intensively in Europe and South America, and they neither support nor oppose Japan's actions.

From two aspects, not much information is obtained, but it is enough for Yang Yuanzhao to judge, under the instigation of Britain, France and Russia, the other party is getting closer and closer, sure enough, on the third day of Mitsui Hong's arrival, before waiting for the Japanese side to make a move, the price of the international cotton futures market rose in response, just one day, the increase was as high as 12%, the bulls have a huge advantage, the short is not an army, when the cotton is about to be harvested, the rise in cotton prices, immediately make the world cotton market, become nervous.

The price of the international market does not seem to affect Shanghai, and the price of cotton cloth has not increased much, but in fact, at present, among the cotton textile associations, the cotton cloth belonging to the members of the association has already been withdrawn, basically in the warehouse, and only 100 miles away from Shanghai Suzhou, in the suburbs of the large estate, temporarily cleaned out of the warehouse, 50 million cotton cloth, neatly stacked here, these are half a month, from Baotou emergency transportation, and in the largest commercial town in the south of Wuhan, There were at least 150 million pieces of cotton cloth, and these were enough to support the sale of cloth throughout the South.

In the context that world trade is still in the stage of development and the so-called World Trade Organization has not yet been truly established, dumping is always the best way to occupy the market.

On this day, the Japanese had a move, a lot of Japanese businessmen, began to act in various cloth villages, ordered a large number of cotton cloth, and with the sharp rise in cotton cloth, the entire world, the major cotton exporting countries, have begun to sell, of course, spot cotton and scattered cotton, by Britain and France, Harpy, as well as Germany, Russia to buy almost the same, can be left, only a little.

At the headquarters of the German and American foreign firms, Schroeder somewhat admired Yang Yuanzhao's command, and it can be said that he had perfectly foreseen the form of the past few days, and the response was correct, the acquisition of the Japanese was the goods that had not been added to the Cotton Spinning Association, and they belonged to the association, and there was no loss at all.

However, he still couldn't figure it out, and even asked Yang Yuanzhao: "Boss, cotton has risen sharply, and even Germany can't buy cotton, you say that Japan is too busy to take care of itself, how can it come to China to make waves!" ”

"Well, I'm afraid that Britain and France made some kind of commitment to the Japanese, or some kind of support!"

Sure enough, soon, the German-American company in the UK sent back a report that because of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, Britain supported Japan with 200,000 tons of cotton, and the price was 8% of the current market price.

Schroeder was convinced, and was about to praise Yang Yuanzhao's foresight, but heard Yang Yuanzhao say: "Pigs, always have to be fattened and killed, little piglets, there is no point in killing!" ”

Schroeder understood the literal meaning, but did not understand Yang Yuanzhao's intentions, Yang Yuanzhao did not explain too much, 200,000 tons, almost 400 million pounds, can produce more than 30 million pieces of cloth, for Japan's production capacity, enough for them to produce for a period of time, but this number seems to be a lot, but Britain and France are shipping, the price of cotton has risen nearly twice since last year, and now it is growing suddenly, especially in the past few days, it has risen by 7 percent, 3 times the price, and 8 percent of the selling price, which is equivalent to making a lot of money. But for Japan, they can't see that far at all, they only think that the rise in cotton is an inevitability, and they don't think that behind this, there is a lot of financial promotion, they only see that they get this batch of goods, they will inevitably make money, but they don't know that this is a sweet bait.

The price of the international market, finally affected Shanghai, first of all, the inventory of the cloth shop began to decrease, want to look for the source of goods, but found that there is no at all, belongs to the textile industry alliance cloth, basically in accordance with the requirements of the temporary sale, and to find Japan, but found that the price of grey cloth, from the wholesale price of about 6.5 yuan in the past, suddenly rose to 18 yuan, and a price a day, tomorrow will even reach 21 yuan.

Thinking of the shipping price of 7 yuan a few days ago, now I bought it back, it has risen 3 times, so how can these cloth stores accept sporadic inventory sales out, under the strong purchasing power, the whole Shanghai is actually short of cloth, hundreds of stores pù have played the banner of out of stock, the only one with sufficient supply is the Japanese store pù, the price of cotton cloth has reached a high level of 25 yuan.

At the same time, the price of muslin cloth also began to rise wildly, the highest British double-flower cloth, even rose 7 times, from the original 30 yuan or so, in one fell swoop to break through the 200 yuan mark, this price, not to mention ordinary people, landlords and old wealth can not bear it.

This day, which was called the cloth chaos by later generations, was remembered in the minds of many old Shanghainese, and the sales of up to 15,000 pieces of cloth per day were reduced to less than 200 horses on this day, almost to the extreme, but in a few days, the price of cloth was not reduced, which made the citizens wait and see at the same time, but also produced a little riot. (To be continued) R655