"Cotton!" Yang Yuanzhao blurted out a little stunned, he thought that maybe it was saltpeter, steel, copper and other strategic resources, but in the end, it was actually an important cash crop cotton, Britain and France's action was very clear, that is, short selling spot cotton in November next year, in order to absorb chips on a large scale, and the spot futures in November were popular, obviously, Britain and France were hoarding cotton in large quantities, and there were many digits.

At the beginning of the 20th century, with the research of various agricultural technologies, all kinds of excellent seeds, as well as the use of chemical fertilizers and guano, the price of cotton was relatively stable for a long time, and even gradually declined.

If Britain and France are in order to prepare for the war afterward, this is also said in the past, but it is too nonsense, spending hundreds of millions of funds, almost how many battleships can be manufactured, just to buy a batch of cotton, cotton is a strategic resource, but the role on the battlefield, I am afraid that only a small part of the role of military uniforms, sanitary napkins, bandages and so on, hoarding hundreds of millions of dollars of cotton, enough to fight a war for decades, whether it is Britain and France, or later Germany, for the preparation of the First World War, far less in-depth.

Yang Yuanzhao, who came from later generations, although he is not very proficient in the stock market and futures market, does not mean that he does not know that in the century of the information explosion in the 21st century, what hedge funds, quantum funds, the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States, the Southeast Asian financial crisis, these familiar crises, plus newspapers and magazines, for the comments on these crises, even ordinary people can know some routines.

In the 21st century, it is a century of advanced information and extremely strong financial circulation, if you want to make a big plan, you need to prepare for a few years or even ten years in advance, and the work that needs to be done is even more meticulous to the extreme, only in this way can you suddenly attack, this point Soros's quantum fund is definitely a leader.

At the beginning of the 20th century, because of the gap of a century, the tentacles of the financial field were far from penetrating into the kind of big funds such as Cheng Dù, Britain and France, and it was already good to be able to establish a few more accounts and make a surface of selling dog meat on the head of a sheep, so that most people in this era could be concealed, including some countries, these may be able to hide this era, but they can't hide Yang Yuanzhao, who has the vision of later generations.

A huge amount of capital action, several fluctuations in turnover, itself is a bright bulb, not to mention that the other party is still doing so unobstructed, more and more jù, has been analyzed, the result has been clear, Britain and France led by the big countries, is going all out to buy cotton, the total amount has reached 300 million pounds.

I thought it was about 500 million, which is not a small amount of money, 300 million pounds, 1.5 billion US dollars, in this era, it is equivalent to the entire cost of many capital ships, and even the entire cost of a large-scale war.

"Young Master Yang, are you sure they are buying cotton, this is incredible, the output of cotton has been rising in the past 10 years, and the sales of cotton cloth are also rising, but overall, it should be a downward channel, aren't they afraid of a large loss of these investments?" Harpy didn't know what was wrong, as far as his heart was concerned, he believed in Yang Yuanzhao's judgment, but he really couldn't figure it out.

Yang Yuanzhao thought carefully, looking at the various numbers gathered from all over the world on the table, suddenly his eyes lit up, and he said deeply: "I know why they are?" ”

Yang Yuanzhao was able to analyze the purpose of Britain and France and other powers from the limited information, which had already made Harpy breathtaking, he racked his brains and couldn't understand it, but from these analyses, he couldn't get it, the purpose of Britain and France and other powers, this can definitely be regarded as strong, Harpy immediately listened attentively, for fear of missing a word.

"Harpy, in fact, thank you very much, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid I wouldn't have thought of it!" Yang Yuanzhao spoke slowly, and said with a calm expression.

"Because of me? What didn't I do? Harpy asked, surprised, with a blank look on his face.

"You heard the news that Britain and France are going to be unfavorable to China, although it is not detailed, but it is enough for me to figure out the key to it, they are coming for cotton!"

"It's for cotton, why!"

Yang Yuanzhao sighed and said: "Unexpectedly, I still underestimated the vigilance of the great powers against China, the reason why they want to do something to cotton, the key is actually us!" ”

"We?" Harpy was startled, stood up and said, "Could it be that our Baotou has been noticed?" ”

"No, they didn't notice Baotou, otherwise, it wouldn't be cotton, but something else!" Yang Yuanzhao finally regained his composure and said, "Do you still remember the number you were given before, and how many textile machinery we sold before!" ”

"I didn't see this clearly, but I've heard a lot!"

"This time at the Wuhan Industry Conference, we signed a contract of more than 30 million, of which more than two-thirds are textile machinery, taking 20 million as an example, of which the spinning machine is a total of 15 million, according to the price of our Baotou, it is 3 million spindles!"

3 million spindles, this number is a lot, in Harpy's heart, it is nothing, the cotton textile mill in the northwest has completed 1.2 million spindles, and it will expand to about 2.8 million spindles in the future.

Seeing that Harpy was not worried at all, Yang Yuanzhao shook his head and continued: "If I didn't miscalculate, when the demonstration effect of these people is produced, some wait-and-see people will devote themselves here, plus the expansion of Baotou, it is expected that by June next year, the total capacity of cotton textile ingots in the country will exceed 15 million spindles!" At the speed of our Baotou cotton ingots, two packs a year is 30 million bales of cotton yarn! ”

"30 million packs, God, so many?" The huge number shocked Harpy's heart, cotton is also a resource he has always paid attention to, 30 million bales, he never thought that there would be so many, a bale of 400 pounds, that is not to produce 12 billion pounds of cotton yarn, even if it is changed to a metric unit, it will be close to 60 million tons, his face finally changed.

Cotton is the world's more important cash crops, the annual output is very huge, China, has never been the main cotton producing area, the country's cotton output combined, not necessarily a few tenths of this output, which means that if a large number of textile machines are launched, China will usher in a huge gap in cotton, and a large number of imported cotton is needed.

"It's so vicious!" Harpy took a breath of cold air and said, Britain and France's approach, can be said to be a rainy day, can also be said to be the bottom of the kettle, China needs 60 million tons of cotton, this in the world's cotton production, is already a lot, the most important thing is that this is part of the additional growth, if Britain and France with a huge amount of money, hoarding cotton, the future, from next summer, until the cotton down, and even if the cotton spot futures in November next year, by Britain and France, cotton prices will turn up.

Perhaps, the hard work of these factory owners, for every piece of cloth produced, will suffer a few corners, or even a few yuan of losses, while Britain and France only invested a part of the funds, and they can get a huge harvest by adding fuel to the fire.

"What should I do?" Harpy asked a little anxiously, on the one hand, because his boss is Yang Yuanzhao, Yang Yuanzhao relies on the whole Baotou, cotton textile is one of the most important export and light industry products in Baotou, on the other hand, he is also a German, there are very few colonies outside Germany, and Britain and France can not be compared, and even with the United States are relatively different, trapped in raw materials, Germany has always been exploited by Britain and France, which have a vast colony, as well as the United States and Russia, although it is only an inconspicuous small item, but the fluctuation of cotton, It will still cause a series of problems, and at least German textile machinery and cotton cloth will be greatly affected.

The problem has been seen, what to do, in a sense, Britain and France are already invincible on cotton, after all, no matter what, how the price fluctuates, the raw materials or focus on the raw materials themselves, Britain and France have a vast colony, there are many traditional cotton planting areas, especially the United Kingdom, with India, the main cotton production area, can definitely be called an important pole affecting cotton, as long as he controls India, the United States, and Russia's cotton exports, Cotton will inevitably cause huge fluctuations, not to mention that they have also used a huge amount of money to squeeze the existing cotton inventory, when the time comes, make waves, their hoarding of cotton, will rise to an unimaginable Cheng dù, huge investment, will get huge benefits, and this growth, will hit the cost, passed on to all consumers.

Sighing, Yang Yuanzhao knew that the wings of the butterfly he had lifted had begun to flash, and the participation of the Wuhan Persuasion Association had made Britain and France come up with such a thing, if in the future, Baotou would be more involved in international affairs, what kind of trend would it set off, the wings of the butterfly were only slightly instigated here, and in other places, it might be a storm.

However, the storm has been set off, Yang Yuanzhao in this era, the biggest support, not all the vision of the future generations and a clear understanding of history, his greater reliance is still an all-in-one machine, which is also the key to his courage to show the northwest banner under the premise of not having a stable and strong environment, although it is said that it will be better to wait for a year, but Yang Yuanzhao can't wait, Xinhai still has two years, World War I still has five years, the history and international environment, will not give him so much time, rashly show it, although risky, But you can get the most benefit in the future. But I didn't expect that when I encountered such a thing, what should I do to solve this problem, Yang Yuanzhao's brows furrowed, and he used his brain, thinking about it constantly. R1152