The canopy boat swayed, taking advantage of the night, slowly approaching Shanghai, Shanghai in the night, like a huge monster, here, waiting for anyone is an unknown fate, I don't know how many people come to Shanghai, but the paradise of oriental adventurers, never everyone has changed, there are joys and sorrows, there are also clutches, but more, it is the white bones under the Huangpu River, I don't know how many people, are buried in it.

In the silence, no one knew that a financial and commercial showdown was about to begin, and this time, the one who died did not know who came.

Late at night at the Shanghai wharf, a series of lights were quietly lit up, guiding the canopy boat to dock quietly, and the porters who had already prepared here began to unload, these don't know why, the porters who were invited from home got the easiest in this life, and it was also the fastest to give money to move, 10 bags of things and a big ocean.

Each package is not too heavy, some stronger porters, and even three packs at a time, that is to say, the overnight handling, the average porter, can earn a few yuan to a dozen yuan from the middle, depending on the individual's ability.

Good treatment, so that the whole unloading is carried out very smoothly, the porter skillfully and quickly from the canopy boat, unloaded bags of items, in their feelings, this is something similar to cloth and silk, sealed packages, so that they can not judge, the mother-in-law of the family has been talking about the rise in cotton prices recently, the better ones are more expensive than silk, but the clothes of the melon babies should be bought, it is the New Year's Festival soon, and they can't patch the New Year's Day.

None of the porters spoke, everyone breathed heavily, put bags of cloth, loaded into one by one vehicles, soon these vehicles, went to various places in Shanghai, the number of porters was very large, at most it took an hour, all the goods were unloaded, they looked at the foreman expectantly, this time, the blood-sucking foreman did not deduct their money, 10 bags of one yuan, a total of more than 13,000 bags of these canopy boats, came 100 porters to do about it, the average each, More than 100 bags were moved, which means that each porter can get more than 10 silver dollars tonight.

Zheng Liang brand new silver dollar, put into everyone's hands, the porter can not care about tiredness, a thousand thanks, this is probably a month, the biggest harvest, even more than half a month's salary, the porters go back happily, and even some of the favorite drinkers, will get drunk in the small restaurant, even if it is late at night, Shanghai can also find a place to eat, especially near the wharf, sometimes, no one knows, when the ship will arrive.

No one knows what these carriages that go deep into the night will bring to the already sleeping Shanghai, and tomorrow these things will be all over the streets and alleys of Shanghai, and then set off waves in waves.

Shanghai Cotton Textile Co., Ltd., in the reception room of Mitsui Hiroshi, several foreign businessmen sat with Mitsui Hiroshi, one of them was suddenly the Taipan of Lihe Foreign Company, and the others were also compradors of major foreign companies, and they got together and talked about cotton cloth.

In Yang Yuanzhao's eyeliner all over Shanghai, the shipments of Britain, France and Russia are nowhere to be hidden, and they even account for most of the entire Shanghai shipments, but in the eyes of Mitsui Hiroshi, Lihe and foreign companies have discussed with him that they will ship in a small range of specific stores, in fact, this is the case, but those stores and hidden channels are three times larger than Japan's shipments.

Now, Lihe Foreign Bank has taken the initiative to come to the door and discuss some flower cloth agency matters with Mitsui Property. William of Lihe Foreign Company asked directly to the point: "Mr. Mitsui, are your numbers in place?" ”

"In place, we have prepared a total of 2.5 million horses of ordinary cotton cloth." Mitsui Hiroshi reported the current position in Japan without disapproval, and then paused and said: "I don't know if the flower cloth of Reihe and foreign companies has arrived!" ”

"When we arrived, we prepared 200,000 pieces of flower cloth!"

British flower cloth, a certain amount of dù, is a high value-added industrial product, this is the British through guò high count cotton thread weaving cloth, each batch is more than 50 pieces, in this era, it is definitely called a high-end product, take 200,000 horses, China for sales, has been counted as more amazing, you know, before, every year, China's British flower cloth sales, but is only about 1 million horses, although in the total number of hundreds of millions, it is nothing at all, but the profit is extremely high.

"How's the price?"

"According to our previous agreement, it will be sold to Mitsui Group according to the price of flower cloth in Shanghai 2 months ago!"

2 months ago, Shanghai's flower cloth, Mitsui Hiroshi's eyes lit up, the rise of the entire cotton market, although it began last year, but the early increase has not been large, these two months, it is cotton and cotton cloth surging wildly, 2 months ago, the price of flower cloth is only 80 yuan, although compared to less than 16 yuan before, up 5 times, but now the flower cloth, is definitely priceless, 200 yuan a horse, have not been bought.

Seeing that Mitsui Hongyi moved, William did not continue to persuade, good things, of course, to be held, 80 yuan, although it is far from the current sales price, but he is well-informed, very clear, this is a very virtual price, such a price, don't want to sell how many things at all, really want to sell a large number of things, must reduce the price of cotton, but for the very low cost of the UK, as long as it rises by 20 or 30 compared with last year, there is a big profit, of course, like Mitsui Hong, More and more, better.

Soon, Mitsui Hiroshi seemed to think of something, and said with some hesitation: "But, Mr. William, I don't have any cash in my hand!" ”

In just one month, although Mitsui Hiroshi has made great progress, he has consumed a lot of funds, especially in the case of increasing reserves, and now most of the liquidity has been spent.

William's face changed suddenly, and he said angrily: "It seems that Mr. Mitsui doesn't want it very much, that's very easy to do, and our goods won't be sold!" ”

"No, no, no!" Mitsui Hiroshi saw that William wanted to leave, so he hurriedly came up to stop him and said, "Mr. William, that's not what you mean, please sit down a little, we can think of other ways to solve it!" ”

Although there will be about 200 sales per day, even the current price is only about 6,000 yuan per day, which is already a lot, but for 200,000 pieces of cloth, it is a drop in the bucket, and according to the current price, it also needs 16 million, which is beyond the remaining funds at present.

After several discussions, Mitsui Hiroshi put forward a variety of conditions, including a mortgage, he even put 3 million pieces of cotton cloth as collateral, for this, William almost did not hesitate to refuse, knowing that the next move, he knew very well that the price of cotton cloth would be cut in half, and using cotton cloth to mortgage flower cloth was equivalent to halving the price.

Of course, his refusal was very methodical, and did not reveal the purpose of the rite and foreign firms, and in the end, Mitsui used the current Shanghai Cotton Textile Co., Ltd. as a mortgage to buy 16 million flower cloth, and William left with a fox-like smile after completing this qiē, and of course, he also signed an agreement, that is, in addition to the Shanghai concession, the other markets were handed over to Japan.

At present, there are a lot of Japanese cotton textile enterprises in Shanghai, whether it is the total amount of cotton ingots, or the performance of the machine qì is OK, plus Mitsui Hiroshi did not overestimate the price, according to the traditional credit method, this counts the funds, and also calculates the interest, this William does not have the slightest objection, real estate must be dù above, or hard currency, a big stroke of the pen will be signed, in the eyes of people like William who have been in the mall for a long time, any promise and the so-called market is fake, if there is a profit, who will not do it, if not, Besides, there is no benefit to you going, besides, you have been operating the market in Shanghai and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China for many years, and some of them are secret channels, in this sense, the market is not the market, it is just a sentence.

After a night's rest, Yang Yuanzhao got up refreshed, and he was going to launch today, but for him, it was not a rarity, in a war, it may be necessary to test the command ability and the ability to adapt to changes on both sides, but in the business war, what you see is strength, naked strength, without strength, you may be able to make a surprise move to redeem a certain defeat, but in the case of too far away, any trick has no effect, after all, you have to sell something, If you don't occupy one end, how can you sell things.

The first batch of 50,000 horses is distributed among more than 300 shops in Shanghai, and each store is less than 200 horses, which is nothing for the previous Shanghai store pù, but for these cloth shop owners who have no goods for a long time and can only pay rent for nothing, almost all of them are nectar, and Yang Yuanzhao also gave a price, which is 10 lower than the foreign cloth of Japanese and foreign merchants

In the case of the price of this cloth more than 30 yuan, the price reduction of 10 is equivalent to two or three yuan less, such a large decline, for the citizens of Shanghai, is a great temptation, not to mention the Baotou cloth, has already proved that in terms of quality, even better than foreign cloth, the foreign cloth here mainly refers to the British cloth and the United States cloth, the quality of Japanese cloth, relative to these two, or greatly inferior.

This is expected that these cotton cloths will sell very well, for the rare good business, but also in order to open the market, almost at the same time, a large number of signboards were erected, every cloth shop raised a big banner, cotton cloth seems to from this moment, fanfare into everyone's field of vision. R1152