Just when Li Zhigao was still thinking about how to improve his external image, he suddenly saw Liu Jinshui trotting over, and then gave a formal salute and shouted: "Report, the old mansion of the boutique house is calling!" ”

The so-called boutique house is a common name, that is, the boutique department store old house that was originally in Taiping Mansion. After that place was robbed, it was once deserted, but after Li Zhigao extinguished the patrol camp and reopened the boutique department store, it flourished again, which can be regarded as Li Zhigao's foothold in the Taiping Mansion.

However, although the boutique department store in Taiping Mansion has reopened, Li Zhigao usually does not live there, but lives in Chenjiazhuang at the foot of Ma'anshan, because Chenjiazhuang is safer and more suitable for him to pour supplies back and forth, that is to say, the boutique department store is the place where Taiping Mansion faces outsiders, and Li Zhigao's real nest is actually Chenjiazhuang.

"Boutique old house? It's Sun Shun. Li Zhigao nodded, because the head of the boutique house left behind was Sun Shun, and only he had the right to use the radio station left in the old mansion of the boutique, "What did you say?" ”

"This ......" Liu Jinshui glanced at Yin Ruizhi next to him, frowned and didn't speak.

Seeing this situation, Li Zhigao didn't say anything, Yin Ruizhi walked away consciously first, and didn't seem to want to listen to these secrets.

"Okay, everyone walks away, let's go." Li Zhigao smiled.

"Yes." Liu Jinshui nodded slightly, then walked a few steps closer, and whispered, "Sir, there was a call in the car just now, you are busy, the phone keeps ringing, I will answer it first." ”

"It's okay, you're my secretary, isn't it normal to answer the phone." Li Zhigao smiled, "What did you say?" ”

"It's true that Sun Shun called." Liu Jinshui said, "He said that a wave of people had just come to the villa, and the leaders were Wang Erbiao and Zhou Zhengbin, and Platoon Leader Wang said that the matter was done, and he specially rushed over to hand over to you." In addition, there is a female foreigner among these people, Sun Shun also knows, she is Li Huade's daughter Li Li, although she didn't say why she came over, but she could see that she was looking for Mr. Something to do. After seeing this situation, Sun Shun didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly called to ask what you meant. ”

"Wang Erbiao? Zhou Zhengbin? Lily? Well, I know about it. Li Zhigao nodded.

The people Sun Shun said are very familiar to Li Zhigao.

Wang Erbiao didn't mention it, but this Zhou Zhengbin was a patrol chief who was originally stationed in Taiping Mansion, and after the original patrol battalion was destroyed, he decisively defected to himself, and he was the first to explain things clearly.

Because he was familiar with the inside of the Taiping Mansion, and he had no bad deeds before, and he was very good at getting things done, he took the initiative to cooperate with himself, saying that the old patrol battalion was indeed mixed with many revolutionary party annihilations and the like, in short, because he was obedient, so he kept him.

After all, the patrol battalion out of the city has been wiped out, and it is easy to say, they will all go to mining, and there will be nothing for the time being, but the people who stay in the city cannot all be annihilated to mine, and some people have to be left to help get familiar with the situation in the city, and they must also unify the voice and make an appearance to the outside world, so there are many people left, but they are all old and young in the family, very obedient and have no major bad deeds, and Zhou Zhengbin is one of those people.

This time, because Li Zhigao was going to send someone to Shanghai to do things, it happened that Zhou Zhengbin had relatives in Shanghai and was very familiar with the situation there, so he asked him to act with Wang Erbiao, and now that he is back, the matter has been completed.

As for this female foreigner named Li Li, Li Zhigao is also familiar with her, she is the eldest daughter of Li Huade, and Li Huade is an Englishman, he is in Shanghai at this time, he is doing things as Li Zhigao's agent, and he has just made a lot of money in the rubber foam trend.

In short, Wang Erbiao, Zhou Zhengbin and Li Li are all working for Li Zhigao in Shanghai, and as for what to do, they have to start from the beginning.

In fact, as early as more than a month ago, that is, when Liu Runsheng took the goods to participate in the Nanyang Industry Fair, Li Zhigao planned to take the opportunity to do a big thing, that is, to make a big profit in the upcoming rubber crisis.

Those who are familiar with the Xinhai Revolution know that the deep reason for the demise of the Qing Dynasty was because the Qing Dynasty ran out of money, and the root cause of the Qing Dynasty's lack of money was the rubber stock crisis in 1910. In that crisis, the Qing Dynasty lost more than 45 million taels of silver before and after, which not only dealt a strong blow to the Qing Dynasty's financial system, caused the local money banks to collapse one after another, and made the industry and commerce that the Westernization Movement had developed with great difficulty sluggish, but also caused the Qing Dynasty to lose heavy funds, in order to repay the loans with the foreign powers, which led to the occurrence of the Baolu Movement, and then broke out the Xinhai Revolution.

In other words, if there was no rubber stock crisis, even if the revolution broke out, with the power of the Qing Dynasty, it could be suppressed quickly, at least for a few years, but it was because the imperial court had no money that the situation got out of control and accelerated the demise of the Qing Dynasty in advance.

In other words, most of the reason why the revolution can succeed is because the political axe is poor, and if the political axe has money and there is no financial problem, it is difficult for an ordinary revolution to succeed.

In later generations, there was too much research on the rubber crisis, and Li Zhigao studied the whole thing after a little checking.

In his opinion, it is impossible to stop this crisis, because at this time, the business community in Shanghai, China, has gone crazy about rubber stocks, which is the real people's desire, just like seeing a long-legged brainless fan in a puppet bar, there is no room for any opposition at all, and it is useless to say anything, so Li Zhigao has neither the strength nor the heart to stop this.

Since it can't be stopped, then it can only save the country with a curve, Li Zhigao simply wants to take the opportunity to make a big profit, that is, to share a piece of the pie of those profiteering speculators, and it is good to get back some losses.

According to estimates by the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce at the time, before the outbreak of the rubber stock market crash, Chinese people bought about 80 percent of the shares of rubber companies listed in Shanghai, and foreigners in Shanghai snapped up 20 percent. Later, many Chinese were not satisfied with rushing to buy in Shanghai, and also mobilized funds to go to London and enter the London stock market to rush to buy.

According to statistics, Chinese businessmen invested about 26 million to 30 million taels in Shanghai and about 14 million taels in London. Because of such a frenzied investment in stocks, Shanghai, the largest financial center in the Far East, had no capital to finance at that time, and almost all the liquidity in the market, especially the liquidity of the bank, was absorbed by rubber stocks, which was stronger than Li Zhigao's ability to absorb gold from those modern goods at the Nanyang Industry Conference.

Although the Qing Dynasty at this time did not actually open a government-run stock exchange, it does not mean that there is no stock exchange in Shanghai, on the contrary, Shanghai not only has an exchange at this time, but also a lot, not to mention that there are many like cow hair, that is also everywhere.

In fact, as early as 1869, there were already foreign firms in Shanghai that bought and sold the shares of foreign companies, and at that time it was called the "Brokers Association", which was an agency that bought and sold the shares of foreign companies and foreign companies.

By 1882, Shanghai had initially formed a relatively prosperous stock and securities market, with more than a dozen securities trading houses, in addition to the foreign brokers' association, Chinese businessmen also had their own stock companies in Shanghai, such as the most famous "Pingzhun Stock Company", which was the earliest institution specializing in stock trading in China.

In 1891, foreign businessmen established the Shanghai Stock Office in Shanghai, in 1905, the office was named "Shanghai Zhongye Office", which was operated by foreign businessmen, and it was also the largest and most formal stock exchange in the Qing Dynasty, it is said that there is a real-time telegraph network with the London stock market, and it can be said that it is integrated into the world's financial system, and it is the largest securities exchange in Asia, and there is no one.

At that time, the Shanghai exchange, just like the casino, was to live by the commission, the number of commissions is a lot, it can be said that there is no loss, so more and more people do this, to 1910, in addition to the "more formal" large exchanges, in fact, there are many informal small exchanges, there are hundreds of bright and dark, some foreigners run, there are also Chinese themselves, in short, the management is very chaotic, many Shanghai locals also see these places as casinos.

Generally speaking, when it comes to the rubber stock crisis, it always says how much the Qing Dynasty's money lost, how the Qing Dynasty was mediocre, missed the opportunity to reduce risks, etc., but few people know where the lost money went.

As mentioned earlier, stock speculation in Shanghai at this time is actually non-standard gambling, a zero-sum game, since one party loses, there must be another party to make money, so who makes money? Are they the rubber companies that issue shares? Not exactly, because those regular rubber companies are actually victims, and the real ones who make money are international bank speculators and scammer speculators, such as Mai Bian, the owner of Langezhi, who is one of the most famous speculative fraudsters.

According to some records, although the rubber scandal of 1910 was mainly affected by the London stock market and the Shanghai stock market in China, in the final analysis, it was the Wall Street giants in the United States who were responsible.

In fact, the reason why the price of rubber can suddenly skyrocket is completely man-made.

After entering the twentieth century, due to the development and demand of new technologies such as internal combustion engines, all countries, especially the United States, are carrying out industrial upgrading and vigorously developing internal combustion engine vehicles and other means of transportation, so the demand for rubber is very strong.

Before 1910, even Ford in the United States could only produce a few cars a day, while France, the world's second largest automobile producer, produced only 40,000 cars a year. Therefore, in the rubber market at the beginning of the 20th century, there was no real demand-led industrial buying, and the sudden rise in rubber prices was actually driven by "international speculators" behind the scenes.

However, it is worth noting that since the world's financial center was still Britain at this time, these international speculators were mainly Jewish-American bankers, and their initial goal was mainly to target the London stock market and make a big profit in the London rubber market.

By April and May 1910, rubber had risen to the point where it was almost equal to silver, and when the time was ripe, these bankers began to plot and began to sell off little by little, which was a test of the waters.

At the end of June, the bankers who tested the water found that the bubble had reached the top, and the international speculators took decisive action, first persuading the United States to make the United States, the largest consumer of rubber, suddenly issue a rubber austerity policy at the end of June, that is, to restrict the import and consumption of rubber.

After this rubber tightening policy, these bankers sold stocks in the market, and at the same time made a large number of short futures into the London stock market, and continued to spread rumors, so many prongs, into July, finally caused panic, the London rubber exchange market is a bear howl. The collapse of the London rubber market caused a comprehensive collapse of the Shanghai stock market, which was dominated by the rubber sector and bound to the London market, which allowed the Chinese to enjoy financial internationalization in advance.

In this case, 9 "correspondent money banks" such as Zhengyuan, Zhaokang, Qianyu, and Senyuan went bankrupt. In just one month, a total of 91 Chinese private "banks" in Shanghai collapsed by 10% at once, which was the "July Turmoil" in the rubber bubble of 1910.

In other words, the Shanghai stock market was not the main target of international speculators, but just followed by bad luck, but after all, London was the financial center at that time, more standardized than the Shanghai stock market, the plate is larger, and the ability to resist risks is stronger, plus the London stock market is not only a large unit product of rubber, the British Empire was still strong at that time, and the rescue was timely, so although the rubber buyers of the British stock market lost a lot, but it was not to break the bones. In other words, from the national level, the loss of the British political axe is not large, but it has caused many British retail investors to suffer heavy losses.

On the contrary, the Qing Dynasty by the way, because of blind speculation, the court officials were short-sighted and incompetent, which led to the failure to save the market, missed the opportunity to reduce losses again and again, and gave outsiders an opportunity to take advantage of in stupidity, and finally suffered heavy losses, losing nearly 50 million taels of silver, losing more than six years of economic development, and since then it has been in a slump, which has triggered a series of evil reactions and buried the entire regime.

In any case, this is a disaster that cannot be avoided, and no one can stop it, but such a disaster is an opportunity for people like Li Zhigao who know the information in advance to make a fortune.

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