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The Lantern Festival has become a thing of the past in a blink of an eye, the Mitsui foreign cloth shop on the Shanghai port has been sparsely populated recently, and the door is full of birds, during this time the price of foreign cloth has fallen to the lowest point in history 8 taels per horse, and every time a piece of cloth is sold, the foreign bank is facing a 30% loss, which makes the Mitsui Pingzhi, who presided over the price war of foreign cloth, almost go berserk.

In the small hall in the backyard of the foreign company, four or five Japanese were sitting around on the tatami mats, looking at the two men in kimonos in the room with a stern expression, arguing loudly, and the man arguing was none other than the young helmsman of the Mitsui family, Mitsui Hei, and the shopkeeper of the foreign company, Mitsui Kazu.

"This pointless price war must be stopped immediately!" Mitsui and loudly asked Mitsui Ping, who was in charge of this cotton price war.

"Impossible, Mitsui, it's up to me here, I'd rather break the jade than lose the huge market of the Qing Kingdom!" Mitsui straightened up and responded loudly.

"You stupid fellow, don't you still understand the enormous scale of the production of foreign cloth that has taken shape? We have dumped 150,000 pieces of cotton cloth in Shanghai, but we have not been able to shake the foundation of the Shina people in the slightest, and last month I have secretly delivered a letter to the chief treasurer, Minomura Rizaemon, reporting the situation at the port of Shanghai! Speaking of this, Mitsui took out a letter sealed with fire paint from his bosom.

"It's ......"

"Minomura Toshijun's reply, take a look!" Mitsuihe's tone was very blunt, the future of the future successor of the Mitsui family, who came to Shanghai in high spirits, was already gloomy, and such an incompetent person did not need to continue to be polite to him.

Mitsui was stunned, but he still took the letter and opened it to look at it carefully, stood up suddenly, and said loudly: "Minomura Toshijun must not understand the situation in Shanghai, we have been struggling for three months, and the enemy is bound to be in dire straits, how can there be any reason to give up, I want to write a letter in person, asking for a change of mind......"

"Alright! Enough! Mitsui slapped the table and let out a loud yell, interrupting Mitsui's straight hysterical shouting, he picked up the open letter, looked at it, and then read the key words out loud......

"Because of Mitsui's strict judgment of the error, the domestic textile industry has suffered a heavy blow, and a large backlog of cotton cloth and cotton yarn output for three months has caused irreparable huge losses, and now it is time to reduce losses! The dumping of cotton cloth in the Great Qing Kingdom was immediately stopped, and the surplus cotton cloth was transferred to the nearest port of Goryeo by Mitsubishi Ship Tongguò and sold in Seoul and other places. ”

"No way!" Mitsui jumped straight up and snatched the letter, he naturally understood that he had failed to host the cotton price war this time, and his position in the family was unsafe, "This letter can't explain the problem, and the people of China can't support it for a few days, we have to fight the price war to the end, and the final victory will only belong to Japan!" The Emperor will definitely support us! ”

"We only have less than 20,000 pieces of cotton cloth in stock, what do you use to compete with the Zhina!" Mitsui unceremoniously refuted Mitsui's straight thoughts.

The shopkeeper of several other Japanese foreign companies sitting by the door was stunned and looked at the farce inside, and was naturally very uneasy, the letter obviously did not look like a forgery, the situation of the domestic textile industry has been eroded, and there is no domestic back-up, which means that their cotton business will soon collapse.

Whether to clear the position and withdraw the funds to find another way, or sit here and wait for death, this is actually a very good choice! It's just that...... This struggle lasted for more than three months, but they never saw the dawn of victory, which made them so depressed that they wanted to hit the wall, could it be that the cotton cloth merchants of the Qing Kingdom really had such great strength? These people stared wide-eyed, waiting for the dispute between the two Mitsui families inside to end, and their losses were not an order of magnitude compared to the Mitsui chaebol.

The argument continued, and at this time, there was a messy script sound outside the door, showing the anxious mood of the visitor, and the hanging blue curtain was lifted by someone, and it was Consul Yugo Kato of the consulate who strode in, and his gloomy face was as black as ink.

"Kato-kun, what's the news?" ,

"Kato-kun, has you shipped new cotton cloth from the country?"

Kato Yugo looked at the shopkeepers sitting on the ground here, these were all domestic businessmen who had made a lot of achievements in the Shanghai port, but they didn't expect to face extinction so soon.

He nodded, walked into the house, and saw that the two Mitsui families were still arguing about whether to continue selling foreign cloth, and they didn't even notice the arrival of him, the consul.

"Two Mitsui-kun, stop arguing for the time being, I have brought the worst news!" Kato yelled loudly.

Everyone, including Mitsui Pingnao, immediately looked at Kato with a panicked expression, obviously they had this ominous premonition in their hearts, this cotton price war came too suddenly, too violently, they were full of confidence in anti-dumping, but did not see the other party's backing reaction, but they fell deeper and deeper into this quagmire, until the catastrophe was overwhelming......

Kato looked at the dull eyes of these people around him, and secretly said in his heart, what a waste, the emperor and the Secretary of the Interior, Lord Ito, gave them so much attention and gave a lot of support, and they lost to the Qing textile merchants who started nearly ten years late, but now is not the time to hold this accountable.

"Gentlemen, today the British consul George has received accurate news, Chinese has obtained the ability to make printing and dyeing cloth, and in the past few months, a large number of printing and dyeing cloth have entered the market through various channels, but they have not launched a price war for printing and dyeing cloth, they should ...... Gained a lot of money from this cotton trade war, we have ...... Totally lost! ”

Kato gritted his teeth and said this passage, and there was a dead silence in the house, full of confidence at the beginning of the price war, and now it is down, after this vigorous dumping of cotton cloth worth millions of dollars, this ending is still two words - failure.

"Impossible...... It's impossible to ......" Mitsui, who had been calm for a while, suddenly jumped up, and in the surprised eyes of everyone, he rushed out of the door in a frenzy, and even hit the wooden door that was not very strong when he went out, and fell down, but he got up quickly, and the wound on his face hit the pillar was still bleeding, and he ran out laughing wildly...... He seems to be crazy!

Kato was also very surprised by this, this young man he knew, the new generation of the Mitsui family's powerful faction, the nerves are so fragile, or the Chinese are right, the wind knows the grass, such useless waste, the Great Japan does not need it at all, he turned his head to look at Mitsui He, bowed down, and said: "Everything here, please Mitsui-kun!" ”

Out of the foreign bank, Kato Yugo turned around and looked at a stout man with a grim face behind him, "Takeda-kun, has the bottom of the China Textile Association made progress in the past two days?" ”

This Takeda's full name is Takeda Fanyuki, originally a ronin in Japan, the Japanese Civil War has long ended, these samurai who were originally attached to various feudal families have lost their original status, so they have been involved in the spy agencies under the name of the military, and have been assigned to enter Korea and China in various names to spy on intelligence, Takeda Fanyuki is one who has climbed rapidly with fierce means, and now he has served as an important intelligence work in the Japanese embassy.

"Kato-kun, the kidnapping operation last time obtained important clues, but the manpower we sent to Guangzhou is still a little troublesome over there, the family involved has a lot of power in the local area, and the other party has obviously dealt with the source of the goods, and the specific source cannot be found at all, and the current news of spying must also involve local Qing officials!"

"Qing officials? This dynasty, which has been decayed to the extreme, still has officials with such insight? Be sure to spy on specific information, even if it is a kidnapping operation, you can consider it, you must focus on the target, don't make too much movement, and avoid the diplomatic passivity of the empire! Kato's face tensed, and he said viciously.

"Got it! Then I will personally go to Guangzhou to carry out this assassination mission! ”

"Takeda, it's important to get the technology of the Qing Kingdom, and if you can get the details of this printing and dyeing technology, it would be the best, understand! The empire's industries are in unprecedented danger, and now is the time to serve the Emperor! ”

"Hayi"!

HSBC can be said to be the vanguard of the British plundering the financial interests of the Qing Dynasty, and as the chief comprador of the bank, Xi Zhengfu is undoubtedly the leading boss of the financial industry in Shanghai that has just been enlightened in this era. Just after the New Year in the sixth year of Guangxu, Xi Zhengfu received an important guest in his personal reception room in HSBC. ,

After the Fujian governor Ding Richang played the merger of the provincial foreigner telegraph bureau, Sheng Huaixuan was ordered by Li Zhongtang to complete the assembly of the Daqing telegraph office, and after this matter was completed, he received Li Zhongtang's secret order to go to Shanghai to learn about the recent collapse in cotton prices.

Xi Zhengfu's first sentence was, "This time the shopkeeper Hu fought a big battle!" The Japanese people were defeated very badly! ”

And in this cotton war, Fukang Silver is undoubtedly the most popular. And just two years ago, when Li Zhongtang and Zuo Dashuai collided fiercely in order to strengthen the "coastal defense" or "plug defense", it happened that it was also this Hu Xueyan who borrowed 18 million taels of silver from the British and successfully fed the Hunan army that had been expeditioning to Xinjiang for several years.

One of the topics of the two of them today is the rapidly expanding Fukang Yinhao, Jiangnan Machinery Qì Weaving Bureau uses the British textile machine, but the weaving efficiency is low, and the raw material procurement, shipping channels are common practice, this cost remains high all year round, if it is the price of cotton cloth in the past, it is still very profitable. Unexpectedly, in a storm before the cold winter this year, the price of cotton cloth was directly cut in half, which made Sheng Huaixuan, the little god of wealth of Lord Li, quite annoyed.

The two discussed for a while and settled on a set of tactics for advancing and retreating, although the comprador Xi had established a huge force of Dongting Mountain people in Shanghai's financial circles, but it was still very proud of the attraction of Lord Li, who was in charge of the world's power. Of course, Sheng Huaixuan soon heard the news about printing and dyeing cloth from Xi Zhengfu......

What does this printing and dyeing technology mean, Sheng Huaixuan, who is proficient in business, naturally understands, but he still doesn't know the origin of this printing and dyeing technology, and he asks with some doubts: "Brother Xi, isn't this printing and dyeing book the technology sold by the British?" Why don't you sell this technology to our Jiangnan Machinery Manufacturing Bureau? ”

Xi Zhengfu's face was a little embarrassed, "Brother Xingsun, you are wrong, this technology is definitely not sold by the Taixi countries, even the hundreds of looms in the Fukang Silk Factory are sold by the China Textile Association in Guangzhou. ”

Sheng Huaixuan was also stunned, this textile association is also a powerful character, but he immediately thought of the key point, "Brother Xi, someone has to install and repair this machine, our Jiangnan Weaving Bureau can squat more than 20 British technicians, the manpower in their factory, with Brother Xi's means, must have understood!" ”

Xi Zhengfu smiled, "Everyone says that you are the little God of Wealth in Beiyang, and you can't hide anything from Sheng Supervisor!" I did understand, these people are very tight-mouthed, and they have been staying in the factory, but in the end, I still found out some news, they are all from Fuzhou Prefecture, and there is a big man in that place who has this ability......"

"Ding ......" Sheng Huaixuan immediately shut up, lowered his head and thought for a moment, and suddenly smiled, "Brother Xi, I really found the right place here, then I won't bother you, when, when I come to Tianjin Wei, brother, I will invite you again!" I'm going to ask you for help when I discuss the matter before, Luo! ”

In Mawei Port, Fuzhou, a British passenger ship slowly sailed into the wharf, the various colored flags fluttering on the cable-stayed line on the ship and the big rice-shaped flag on the mast showed his glory, and a young man of twenty-six or seventeen years old stood by the railing of the bow of the ship and quietly looked at all kinds of ships moored nearby.

As the best haven in the South China Sea, the merchant ships and warships of these countries are moored in Mawei Port, as well as the old-fashioned sailing ships of the Fujian Navy Division, but there are also many good style steam engine ships parked in the military port on the other side, but compared with those Western warships, it is dwarfed, in the distance, rows of factories and towering chimneys, indicating that it is an industrial base.

This is the horsetail shipwright mentioned by Brother Zhonghu! There was a glint of confidence in the young man's eyes......

Qin Kai stared at a large iron plate placed in the hall early in the morning, searching for specific plans in the light brain from time to time, and the holograms on the retina changed various plans from time to time, and they were denied by Qin Kai one by one, he held a pencil and recorded some useful information from time to time. ,

This is a question brought back yesterday in the steelmaking plant and Qian Qingdai during the discussion of an armored research group, although Qin Kai knows the development history of several armors in this era, and the steelmaking plant has been able to produce a very perfect steel composite armor with the hard work of several technical research teams, the hardness and toughness of this armor are significantly higher than the previous wrought iron armor, and the defense capability of the 100mm steel composite armor has been tested and comparable to the 125mm wrought iron armor.

After improving the process of the steelmaking plant, the secondary reduction was carried out in the waste slag of steelmaking, and the crude nickel material was extracted, but although with the success of the industrial production process of electrolytic metal in which Chen Tongpu personally participated, the iron ore plant can now refine nickel metal through the electrolytic production method.

Qin Kai naturally understands the importance of nickel steel alloy, which is the high-strength stainless steel industry in later generations, and the emergence of nickel-iron alloy has directly led to a revolution in the steel armor used by warships, only need to increase the nickel content by 2%, and the steel armor can obtain more than 5% increase in defense power.

Qin Kai was not a steel expert in his previous life, but fortunately, the light brain had a detailed process, he found at least a dozen kinds of nickel steel production schemes, some of which could not be implemented because of the lack of modern equipment, after careful screening, he recorded three alloy forging schemes that should be feasible, but the process on this paper and the process of actual operation are quite different, but these, he is not ready to test by himself, Qian Qing, Wang Fei which guys are far better than him in this regard.

At this time, Zhou Ruidong walked in quickly from outside, holding a famous thorn in his hand, saying that a young man came to visit outside. Qin Kai smiled slightly, he didn't expect that he was starting to have a bit of a king's anger now, someone actually came to visit, and after taking a look at the famous thorn, he realized that it was not the case at all, but the person who came was the person he had been thinking about for a long time.

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