During the voyage of one day and one night, Yang Yuanzhao spent it in peace, before the crossing, he was just a team engineer, but in this era, he almost controlled the only little bit of industry in China, any development in Baotou will have a far-reaching impact on the future of China, the Ruhr in the East, is Yang Yuanzhao's wish, and he has been working tirelessly for more than a year, and now it seems that with the gradual commissioning of Baiyun Obo Iron and Steel Plant, from 4 million tons, to 7 million tons, In a year at most, China will be able to shake off the hat of poor steel.

The whistle blew for a long time, and the sound came from the radio, and Shanghai had finally arrived. Yang Yuanzhao stood on the freeboard, behind him were a few attachés, after more than a year, once again came to Shanghai, Yang Yuanzhao's mentality was completely different from the last time, the last time was in anticipation, containing some kind of hope, and this time, it is simply a high profile above Shanghai, Baotou is no longer the previous border town, but a group of hundreds of thousands of people, more than 100,000 or 200,000 workers, even if it is just ordinary workers, they can create zào value, has exceeded the average value of Shanghai.

At this time, Shanghai, in addition to the city is a little bigger, a little more people, in terms of vitality, and even the total economy, it is no longer as good as Baotou located in the northwest border, when the Baiyun Obo Iron and Steel Plant is completely put into operation, the whole Baotou will usher in a climax of construction and production, one by one, will continue to build, and the output value of Baotou, will be on the basis of the original, there is a larger climb, not only completely occupy the position of China's first industrial city, in terms of population and prosperity. In terms of urban planning, it has begun to gradually catch up with super cities such as Tianjin and Shanghai.

This is the power of industrialization, China missed the first industrial **, can not miss the second industrial **, with electricity and steel as the theme of the second industry**, will bring what vitality, Baotou is a city without concessions, no history of the city, just a blank piece of paper, Yang Yuanzhao is like a superb painter, splashing ink on the painting, drawing a magnificent blueprint, and a solid industrial foundation, under the foundation of heavy industry, the development of Baotou will be faster and faster, Entering a rapid upward channel, Shanghai and Tianjin, which were bustling with the help of concessions and a large number of imports and exports, were far behind.

Shanghai Port Wharf had already been notified by Yang Yuanzhao, and Harpy came to greet him early, but he did not show up, but let a new employee be very unfamiliar, but with the code that had already been determined, this new employee still found Yang Yuanzhao, and after receiving Yang Yuanzhao in a four-wheeled carriage, he quickly left the dock, very cautious.

Yang Yuanzhao didn't ask, and Harpy didn't say that it was not safe in the carriage, and the carriage gradually left the bustling area of Shanghai and came to the bank of the Huangpu River, on the outside of a village house, which was one of the secret places arranged by Yang Yuanzhao and Harpy, which looked lonely, but at least ten buildings around it were bought by Harpy or Yang Yuanzhao, and the professionally trained personnel were on guard in this village house, and within 10 miles around, any wind and grass could not hide from their eyes.

"There's no tracking in the back!" Upon entering the house, an officer in charge of the guard reported to Harpy.

"Go ahead, keep on guard!" After saying that, Harpy let the carriage directly into the large courtyard, and even into a room where the carriage could pass.

The previous emergency message meant that the situation was very urgent this time, and the next action made Yang Yuanzhao very clear that this matter was not trivial, and he did not dare to slack off, until he entered the big house, the core area, and after being surrounded by guards, Harpy still carefully cleared the surrounding personnel, and carefully checked it, and then sat opposite Yang Yuanzhao.

"Harpy, now you can sue me what the hell is going on!" Yang Yuanzhao didn't ask much, and it wasn't until this time that he asked cautiously.

"I got the news, it is not comprehensive and very vague, it seems that Britain and France are taking the lead, a big move against China!"

Hearing Harpy's words, Yang Yuanzhao, who had always been more worried about Baotou being discovered by Britain and France and other powers, breathed a sigh of relief, he carefully recalled the history, it seems that from 1909, until Xinhai, the whole of China is very calm, there is no big move, suddenly, his eyes lit up, and asked: "Is it rubber!" ”

Harpy shook his head and said, "It's not rubber!" ”

Beginning in 1908, Harpy traveled around the world, obtained a large number of machinery from the United States and Germany, from another direction, promoted the development of Baotou, played a huge role, to the second half of 1908, Yang Yuanzhao was a direct order to Harpy, in the Nanyang layout, with the help of the unique tropical environment of Nanyang, a large number of plantations, to now, the cumulative investment of more than 50 million US dollars, the area of the plantations, very vast, from the original Lanfang country, gradually expanded to various places in IndonesiaMore than 300,000 immigrants are working hard to change themselves and the population ratio and composition of the entire South Seas.

The rubber that Yang Yuanzhao can think of is also a big crisis that swept the whole world at the beginning of the 20th century, just like the tulips of the year, which were constantly speculated, and for more than two years, it has been running at a high level, and in the end, the whole bubble was punctured, and the whole world has caused huge losses, especially the entire Qing Dynasty, countless ticket numbers, and money villages, have been introduced into this crisis, and the Qing government, which is already overstretched, has invested millions to save the market, and finally it is a drop in the bucket. Not only did it have no effect, but it dragged down the finances of the Qing government, and even directly triggered the Sichuan Road Protection Movement, which buried the movement of the Qing government, the nationalization of the railway and the embezzlement of a large amount of funds by the railway company to copy rubber, and finally lost all the money.

From last year to this year, a whole year's time, Harpy direct control and control of the rubber market, gradually expanded, in Shanghai, has occupied a very important position, in the United Kingdom, has become second only to the Brazilian rubber market, almost every year, there is a large plantation company put into production, and then become a hot spot in the market, the investment of 50 million US dollars and financial investment of 100 million US dollars, has multiplied several times, huge wealth and control, so that Harpy is very familiar with rubber, so, If the other party makes a move on rubber, he can't hide it from him at all.

Yang Yuanzhao also recognized Harpy's professionalism, thought about it for a while, and then said: "Now in the international futures market, what is there to do?" ”

With Yang Yuanzhao's understanding of this period of history, it seems that there has been no large-scale war, Britain and Germany are facing each other in Europe, and the arms race has reached a point in full swing, whether it is Britain and France, or Germany, it is impossible to transfer military strength on a large scale in these years, to Asia, as for other powers, the United States is unlikely, just stretched out its hand, in Hawaii and the Philippines, but it has stopped at a shallow level, and now the United States is not yet able to resist the powers led by Britain and France, as for Japan, Japan in this era, Maybe the army and navy have a certain strength, but they can't affect the overall situation of China, besides, the northwest is not in the coastal area, the unique environment has caused the great powers of this era, and the only thing that can threaten the northwest is probably the neighbor in the north, and other countries can't do it, the battleship that Britain is proud of, in the northwest is more than a thousand kilometers away from all the seashores, it is just an ornament, as for the British army, Yang Yuanzhao has never taken him to heart in his heart, Not to mention the British Army's appearance during World War I, let's not say that in the previous Anglo-Boer War, Britain fought very poorly, that is, the British government was rotten, a little capable, and the humiliation since 1840 will no longer exist.

If Britain and France have any big moves, the only choice is the economic field, and as a barometer of the economic field, the spot trading of futures will make some big moves have nothing to hide.

Yang Yuanzhao's attention to futures, coupled with the plan of the rubber plantation, the global layout, and the investment of more than 150 million US dollars, made Harpy also pay attention to it, and in the global scope, he has found a large number of traders to operate the stock and futures markets, among which some intelligence analysts are also indispensable.

In the next few days, it was a matter of patient waiting, and with the help of a telegram with a code, the Harpy sent the order to the various markets very vaguely, and then a steady stream of messages was summarized in Shanghai.

In this era, the transmission of information is more difficult, can not reach real-time and on-the-spot, but a limited number of information, brought into Yang Yuanzhao specially drawn a few tables, has been enough for Yang Yuanzhao to judge, the world's dozens of important raw materials of spot trading information and futures information is also changing, in November cotton spot futures trading volume soared, the number is also slightly increasing, at least 12 funds closely related to the British and French governments, in the crazy purchase of these spot cotton, The price of spot cotton in November next year has also been shorted in large quantities, and the price has been suppressed to a certain extent, and various negative news have emerged one after another.

Obviously, there is a force, and it can never be called a small force, wreaking havoc in the cotton spot market, although he does not know how to calculate, but conservative estimates are at least more than half a billion dollars.

In 1909, at the beginning of the 20th century, 500 million US dollars was not a small amount, you know, 20 US dollars can be exchanged for an ounce of gold, in terms of the cost of the more famous Queen Elizabeth during the First World War in Britain, 2.4 million pounds, but only about 12 million US dollars, 24 million pounds, more than 500 million US dollars of funds raging in the futures market, only the power of the state. R1152