Chapter 373: Sorrowful Japan
Wenshan Shuhai, a certain Cheng dù, Yang Yuanzhao is a little nostalgic for the information age of later generations, asking Google for foreign affairs, and asking Baidu for internal affairs, which has indeed saved countless netizens a lot of things, and many things that are very out of the way can be found under Baidu and Google, and now, they can only look at them one by one.
Of course, there are many texts, after a series of sorting out by the assistants, a lot of texts, Yang Yuanzhao just needs to go through it a little bit, you can see the end, and there are even some methods that will be used in later generations, and basically have begun to sort out some contexts, and the signs of big money operating in them are obvious.
First of all, the international financial market, according to various figures, the other party used a relatively large amount of money, established a position in a stable location, and kept carrying out this transaction, and the target point, officially in November 1910, from the beginning of the cotton harvest season in most parts of the world, the other party will exert its strength, from the financial and spot fields, to launch an attack on cotton.
The specific table lies in the fact that the textile industry, led by the United Kingdom, has greatly reduced the shipment of cotton cloth, and the rigid demand for cotton cloth and clothes during this period is basically solved by a large number of imports, which is completely different from the previous British practice.
As the world's leading producer of cotton cloth and cotton yarn, although the first industrial revolution was triggered by steam, the core is still the light industry of cotton yarn and cotton cloth. It's just underestimating the world.
Yang Yuanzhao can be seen at a glance, does not mean that others can also see it, at least Japan and China at present, do not see that many small Chinese cotton textile enterprises. Because of the change of British strategy, they coincidentally obtained a certain amount of foreign trade orders, which is very unusual in Yang Yuanzhao's view, but these factory owners feel that there is no problem at all, and they have made a suitable investment. Cotton cloth is even exported to England and the United States, which represents the improvement and upgrading of the industry.
As everyone knows, this is a consumption strategy, in the case of knowing that a commodity has an increase in value. Replace with other people's products, and their own products are piled up in stock, waiting for a sharp rise in the future, it is certain that as long as Britain and France start to do things in the futures and other financial markets, the British textile industry, hoarding products for almost a year, will come out in a row. At that time, their prices will not be the current price, but will be based on the rise in cotton. The resulting price of resultant force will, at the very least, double that of what it is now, and the profit will increase to an unimaginable level.
Quite simply, grasp the relationship between supply and demand, and even some kind of international pricing power. Even the steps Yang Yuanzhao has taken are just passive resistance. Minimize China's losses as much as possible, but fail to intervene in the rolling tide. Yang Yuanzhao sighed. In terms of materials, the crisis of cotton and cotton cloth is close at hand, the powers have raised the butcher's knife, many producers in China, but also caught in the madness of the hot business, I don't know that now every batch of cotton cloth exported, will provide an ammunition to Britain and France and other powers, in just a few months, all kinds of cotton cloth and cotton yarn exports, even more than the total amount of the past 10 years, fortunately, in terms of cotton, was stuck in Baotou, some of the cotton harvested in advance and the past inventory, were eaten by Baotou, Otherwise, the problem will be even greater.
Yang Yuanzhao thought about it for a while, but decided to gather the relatively large-scale cotton textile merchants in China through the channel of Guò Demei Foreign Bank, they are the parties and the direct participants in this crisis, once they suffer losses, or even lose confidence, it will be even more unfavorable for the whole campaign.
In the face of Britain, the world's first power, a powerful country dominated by warships, and colonies even opened in various parts of the world, Yang Yuanzhao did not dare to have the slightest carelessness, any little bit of strength needed to be used, this is the best way to deal with Britain.
Convening personnel in the field of cotton textiles, Yang Yuanzhao's first thought is the champion Zhang Jian, who gave up his official position and devoted himself to the cotton textile industry, as if he had become the leader of the industry, with the help of the developed cotton planting industry in Nantong, he made the cotton textile factory very good, especially after getting the support of Baotou, at a price of 3 percent, obtained a large number of cheap machines, although there is pressure to repay, but the excellence of Songjiang cotton, or let him become the most dazzling cotton textile enterprise in the past year, of course, Export things he does the most.
Nantong here, close to Shanghai, and even Nantong itself, is also a seaport, the scale is not as huge as Shanghai, but it is enough for their exports, the British foreign company headed by Lihe foreign company, in order to buy the veil and cotton cloth of Dasheng, even sent a commissioner, specially waiting in Nantong, only from April to October 6 months, Dasheng exported 120,000 cotton cloth, obtained nearly one million funds, these money are cash, the past arrears did not appear at all, almost after the goods were loaded, the foreign bank gave money.
Although Lihe and other foreign firms are arrogant, they are not so strong as to be so arrogant, millions of funds, plus the export volume of other personnel, it is equivalent to saying that Lihe has paid at least 10 million silver dollars in the past 6 months, which is almost 1 million pounds, and the price of half a battleship can definitely be called a huge amount of money.
Coincidentally, other enterprises are similar, they are facing good conditions in Baotou, in the case of repayment pressure is not so heavy, further expand the scale of production, in this case, China's cotton crisis, not only not weakened, but strengthened, at least 20% more cotton ingots than expected, the number of cotton cloth is also extremely large.
Instead, it is Britain and France and other countries, hoarding cotton cloth for half a year, this huge amount of cotton cloth, will definitely look for a market, what is more suitable than China's huge market, a more suitable market, here is also the dumping ground of traditional cotton cloth, from 1900, there are historical records, every year Britain will dump hundreds of millions of cotton cloth in Chinese mainland, from China to roll away a huge amount of money, this time, under the high profits, they swept away more money.
In addition to China, Japan is also a one, in a sense, Japan is still a relatively large one, after winning the Qing government and Russia, Japan is regarded as with the help of war reparations and the support of the United Kingdom, etc., to gain a firm foothold in the whole world, after the initial completion of industrialization, although the people are still poor, but the huge population and relatively high economic aggregate, or make him Asia, second only to China a market.
Light industry, is what Japan values, to say that before, Britain and France and other powers, only in the high-end products, slightly involved in it, but now, since such a huge amount of money has been used, under the grass and rabbits, Japan should not let go, with Yang Yuanzhao as seen, in the past six months, Japan's light industry exports have also increased significantly, and Japan's only remaining little bit of cotton has also been searched.
Japan has never been a major producer of cotton, most of their cotton depends on imports, and Japan, which has just entered the field of industry and the world economy, has not taken into account at all in a certain way, and there are such things as sheep shearing and financial aspects affecting the real economy, and this time, I am afraid that the fall will be worse than that of China.
Since the rise of Japan, Japan is one of the chess pieces of the great powers, in the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan was a pawn of Britain to weaken China, if it were not for Britain standing behind, the First Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese government's finances have already gone bankrupt, the Russo-Japanese War, not to mention, Japan has become the vanguard of Britain to weaken Russia's interests in the Far East, the naval war between Russia and Japan, the reason for the defeat, the Russian Tsar's brain-dead 10,000-mile trek is a key point, but Britain does not open the seaport, does not open supplies, It is to make Russia worse on the balance of defeat.
Judging from the information obtained so far, this time the sheep shearing, Britain did not notify Japan at all, in the past six months, Japan did not have any hoarding of cotton, they even increased production, at a low cost, in the light industry dividends, but I do not know, they were fattened, in the future, back more.
Of course, Yang Yuanzhao will not remind Japan, not to mention the contradictions between China and Japan in the future, but to say that now, the Far East and Asia can only rise as a great power, and on the road of competition, China and Japan will inevitably have a war.
Rubbing his somewhat stiff head, Yang Yuanzhao continued to work, although the above steps have been summarized, but there are still some small problems, although this battle has been prepared for a long time, but Yang Yuanzhao is still a little trembling, after all, this is on another level, with the world's first power, Britain, there are even forces like the United States and France mixed in, any preparation must fall to the most basic place, and no problems can be tolerated.
The approximate list, in Baotou in Shanghai personnel and German and American foreign firms jointly formulated, a total of hundreds of places, most of them, in the past year, the purchase of Baotou machine products, the construction of light industry factory owners, most of them are cotton textile factory owners, after all, foreign fire, cement, not to mention the investment, the profitability is not so immediate, but unfortunately it is this kind of piling up, so that China has increased too many cotton ingots at once, and the efficiency of Baotou machine is also extremely high. It is almost five or six times the appearance of the world's mainstream cotton ingots, so it has created such a gap, and Britain and France and other powers seized the opportunity to concoct such a cotton crisis. (To be continued) R655