Will the Japanese Navy suddenly turn around and raid Shanghai?

The conclusion is five or five, and Zhang Meng is not sure.

However, Zhang Meng is certain of one thing, that is, the Japanese devils will definitely choose to go to war with the Nationalist Government in Shanghai in order to divert international attention.

According to the report of the Don submarine, the main forces of the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy are continuing to move south along the Pacific route east of the Northern Mariana Islands, and for the time being there are no signs of turning around and turning back to the direction of Shanghai.

However, Zhang Meng still asked Zhang Cheng to inform the Nationalist Government of Japan's intention to provoke a war in Shanghai to divert international attention, and as for how the Nationalist Government responded, that was their business.

It was no longer a matter of a day or two for the Japanese to stir up trouble in Shanghai, but the Nationalist Government still believed in the League of Nations and continued to pursue a policy of non-resistance against Japan and waited for the League of Nations to mediate. In response to Zhang Meng's warning to them, they only ordered the 19th Route Army to strengthen their defenses, and still asked them to endure the provocations of the Japanese army.

No matter how the Nationalist government responded to the crisis in the Songhu area, Zhang Meng was temporarily out of reach. In addition to his mind on the first aircraft carrier battle group of the Tang Royal Navy, which was about to face the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Zhang Meng was also excited and nervous about the billion-pound loan he had just obtained from the Bank of England.

Zhang Meng was excited because he was ready to use the billion pounds and all the capital reserves of Datang Bank to carry out another crazy money grabbing operation, but the nervous thing was that the British made relevant restrictions on the billion-pound loans, and Zhang Meng could not get this huge amount of money directly from the Bank of England, so he needed to use a third party Liliang to convert this huge amount of money. There are certain risks involved.

Madoff and Snooker are deeply valued by Zhang Meng, and in the new round of money grabbing actions formulated by Zhang Meng, the two of them once again became Zhang Meng's right-hand men. It plays an irreplaceable and important role.

Since the end of Wall Street's money trapping operation, Madoff has directed shadow banking to leave paw prints everywhere in the richest city in Shijie. Snooker has been an international investor in the M&A of Polyheng Steel and the San Francisco Union Steel Shipyard.

The two of them have joined forces and have successively annexed more than a dozen large companies in Shijie in the past two years. Among them is the French classified jewelry company Cartier.

Zhang Meng's family used to deal in gold jewelry in Shanghai, and although Zhang's jewelry store is not as well-known as other time-honored Chinese jewelry stores, it is also a large jewelry store in Shanghai, with a wide supply of goods and sales channels.

Although Zhang Xinhai became the emperor of the Tang Empire, he has always been at ease at Zhang Ji Jewelry Store in Shanghai.

Zhang Meng after making enough dollars on Wall Street. It was exchanged for a huge amount of gold and shipped back to the Tang Empire.

Since the Tang Yuan, the currency of the Tang Empire, did not have the means of international payment for the time being, the foreign exchange reserves of various countries did not include the Tang Yuan, which were generally pounds, US dollars, francs and marks. This is still very low with the international influence of the Tang Empire. The total national economy is not high and other factors, and it is still very difficult for the international community to recognize that Tang Yuan of the Tang Empire has the ability to pay internationally in a short period of time.

The huge gold reserves of the Tang Empire could print and issue 30 billion Tang Yuan, but the Tang Dynasty implemented a quasi-military Jihua economic system, and the people practiced a rationing system. Tang Yuan in circulation only needs 300 million to be enough. And Zhang Meng did not want to reserve international currencies such as the pound, dollar and franc. Because he knew that it would not be long before these currencies would depreciate significantly, and with the huge gold reserves of the Tang Empire, once they were converted into these international currencies, the depreciation losses they faced would be huge.

Zhang Meng likes money to make money, so he hopes that the gold in the treasury will not be idle, and he will spare no effort to make more money for the Tang Empire.

In addition to being used as a national currency reserve, gold can also be made into gold jewellery and sold. Ordinary gold jewelry has a small profit, so Zhang Meng either does not get involved in the gold jewelry industry. If you want to do it, you will do it the biggest.

In Zhang Meng's era, there was such a popular saying.

"I don't do the most haode. Do only the most expensive. ”

This sentence seems contradictory and contrary to the laws and values of the market, but if it is aimed at a specific group of consumers, this sentence is true.

From ancient times to the present, people everywhere in Shijie have been divided into three, six, nine and so on, which is a class division that can never be changed. Among the big tyrants in various countries, there is no shortage of pride in spending money, and they will always only sell the most expensive things in order to show off their wealth with others.

Of course, they can't just find a stall and spend £1 million to buy a diamond ring, because people in the rich circle don't know that stall, they are a specific group of people, and they can only have a specific consumer circle.

Zhang Meng knows that the gold jewelry industry is precisely aimed at the circle of big tyrants, and it is a profitable industry. Cheung Kee Jewellery is famous, but only in Shanghai. Shanghai Tang is only a wealthy area in China, but it is far from the rich areas such as Long Island in New York in the United States, Nay in Paris, London, and Frankfurt in Germany.

And the rich people in these countries, their spending on gold jewelry is huge. For a piece of jewelry, they are even willing to trade their own territory.

Zhang Meng is a person who immediately puts into action whatever he wants. When he decided to reinvent Zhang Ji Jewelry Company, it was destined that Zhang Ji Jewelry Company would become the top jewelry store in the whole Shijie.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the most famous jewelry house belonged to the three major companies of Cartier in France, Tiff in the United States and Bulgari in Italy, and their products shared 90% of the consumption of the aristocracy and wealthy merchants in Europe and the United States.

In particular, French Cartier is the most popular among the royal and aristocratic circles of the entire European countries, and Shake is ahead of the other two jewelry houses, with an annual profit of up to 10 million pounds from jewelry sales alone.

Cartier was then targeted by Zhang Meng, and her fate was destined to come to an end, either destroy or surrender, Zhang Meng would not give her a third choice.

In 1909, Cartier established a branch in New York, and gradually became its headquarters in the United States.

The U.S. economic crisis has had a huge impact on Cartier, mainly because many wealthy people have suddenly become struggling. Their large number of cancellations caused Cartier's jewelry sales to fall into trouble for a while.

Zhang Meng thought that as long as he spent more money, he could acquire Cartier, so he sent snooker as a representative. Wholly owned acquisition of Cartier Corporation for $50 million.

However, the board of directors of the three brothers of Cartier rejected Mr. Zhang's offer of a peaceful takeover.

For Cartier Company, Zhang Meng is bound to win, because Zhang Meng knows very well that a top Shijie jewelry company means dealing with people in the aristocratic and wealthy circles of various countries, and has considerable influence on a country's political, economic and military fields.

Not long after the establishment of the Tang Empire, it was still a small role on the shijie stage. Many surrounding powers did not care about the development of the Tang Empire on the surface, but secretly they were actually eyeing each other.

Although the Homeland Security Agency in Zhang Meng's hands has installed intelligence structures throughout Shijie. However, due to the relatively short period of establishment, it can only be bought and placed among the middle and low-level people in various countries. The infiltration and influence of the elites and high-level elites of various countries is limited, and the information they have is also limited.

If you can control Cartier. Then it is undoubtedly equivalent to directly establishing contact with the elite of various countries, so that the agents of the Department of Homeland Security have more opportunities to get close to the core figures of each country, grasp their every move and preferences, and then obtain all kinds of information valuable to the Tang Empire.

Of course. Zhang Meng's insistence on seizing Cartier has another layer of deep meaning.

In Zhang Meng's heart. In order to realize the transformation of the Tang Empire into a rich and powerful country, he has always had a huge jihua. This huge jihua has already begun to be implemented, from his Blue Fox special service team robbing the Bank of Japan to obtain the funds that started out, to Wall Street's large-scale money collection operation, Zhang Meng raised enough capital for the first phase of the development and growth of the Tang Empire.

Originally, Zhang Meng thought that the nearly 10 billion US dollars he obtained was enough for the development of Datang in the next ten years, and even after the Pacific War. But he soon found that that was not enough, especially since the establishment of the first aircraft carrier battle group of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire, daily consumption and maintenance alone was a huge expense. The military spending of the Tang Empire skyrocketed. If you continue to expand more aircraft, warships, and even during the war. Military spending will be even more astronomical.

As a result, Zhang Meng had to do everything possible to make money for the future development of Datang.

The infrastructure and industry of the Tang Empire have been improved, but they are not yet internationally competitive, and they are currently operating at a loss. If you want to count on the local industry of Datang to make money for the country, it will take at least five or six years to develop, and when the talent team, management team and Jishu worker team of Datang are mature, it is estimated that the industry of the Datang Empire will be able to truly generate income for the country.

But it is obvious that Zhang Meng can't wait that long, the current international environment of the Tang Empire is obviously not optimistic, after the war with the Japanese, this war does not know when it will be fought, so Zhang Meng has to make more plans and reserve more funds in case of emergency.

For Zhang Meng, he either doesn't want to make money, or if he wants to make money, he must make a lot of money. Because he found that he needed to make decisions in all aspects of the operation of the entire Tang Empire, his energy was limited after all, and it was impossible to do everything except for particularly important things.

Zhang Meng has learned through the intelligence department that the Americans have suffered heavy losses because of Wall Street, and the economic crisis has caused turmoil in the country, and the Hoover administration in the United States will obviously hate those who take advantage of the fire to loot during the American crisis. In the past two years, Zhang Meng's actions in the United States to forcibly demolish tens of thousands of companies' factories, especially the methods used in the forced demolition of Bo Liheng, the second largest steel company in the United States, have aroused strong dissatisfaction with the US government. Although Zhang Meng cannot be said of any way, the U.S. government has listed Zhang Meng as the least persona non grata.

In this way, Zhang Meng's money-grabbing operation in the United States is no longer so easy, and the Americans are wary of him everywhere, making it difficult for him to start.

As a result, Zhang Meng had no choice but to shift his focus to Britain and France, two old capitalist powers. Although they are not as rich as the Americans, compared to other countries, Britain and France are still very rich, and it is worth Zhang Meng to shave a few times on them.

Another purpose of seizing Cartier was for Zhang Meng's next large-scale money grabbing in Britain and France. (To be continued......)