The Industrial Bank Building, one of the seven high-rise tower-style buildings in Pudong that borrows from the Tengwang Pavilion spire-style building, has been suspended by the government to stop the construction of the top of the building, but the main building and side buildings of the majestic Industrial Bank Building are still in use on the 16th day of the first lunar month after the Spring Festival.

The exterior walls are pasted with yellow Jiuhua Mountain granite, bright and generous, the entrance hall is designed magnificently, the central main building is towering, the two sides or the four corners of the supporting buildings are shorter, the top is a fine Gothic spire and borrows from the Tengwang Pavilion style to save the spire, although it is not finished, but "the industry without a hat", according to its unique architectural characteristics and the name of the tallest building in the Far East, it has become a symbol of Pudong.

Although this building is the Industrial Bank Building, it is also the location of the Industrial Company, in which more than a dozen subordinate institutions such as the Industrial Company Headquarters and the Industrial Bank are gathered, and the Industrial Company Headquarters is located on the third floor of the main building.

The main color of the decoration of the narrow meeting room of the industrial company is a light gray that makes the eyes feel comfortable, and the floor-to-ceiling long windows are equipped with thick curtains of the same color, which could have opened the curtains to overlook the magnificent scenery of the Huangpu River from the window, but today people close the curtains as soon as they enter the conference room, and turn on the wall lamps at the same time. The sconces are high in the wall, with brass ornaments hanging from the lampholders, and four oil paintings hanging on the wall below the sconce, which are the only decorations on the wall.

Among these four oil paintings, Chen Moran asked someone to buy back thousands of oil paintings, prints, and pencil drawings ranging from tens to thousands of francs from Europe, because there were so many collections that they could only be stored in the storeroom of Chen's garden, and this conference room seemed a little empty, so he brought a few oil paintings of Rousseau and Van Gogh and hung them in this conference room.

In the center of the room was a long, polished oak conference table, on which eleven people were seated, each with notepads, drinks, paper, pens, ashtrays, and agendas.

After Chen Moran stood at the head of the table, the rest of the people rushed into their seats, each with the name of the seater. After Chen Moran sat down, the others took their seats.

"The agenda of this meeting is very simple,"

As the chairman of the company, he said.

"It's just the problem that the company is facing now, and everyone knows where the problem comes from. Now, let's ask Yunda to report on the situation facing the bank. ”

Huang Huiyun, who was called the "Fortune Boy" in the newspaper, stood up, and he couldn't see the joy of the past on his face at all, and there was worry in his eyebrows.

"Hmmm! What to say? Perhaps I can only tell you with great anger! ”

As soon as he opened his mouth, Huang Huiyun revealed his emotions.

"Now no one believes that the industry can escape this catastrophe, and the newspapers all over China mention that not only the Governor of Liangjiang intends to be unfavorable to the industry, but even some people in Sijiu City also report this kind of thought, especially after the hope of seeking help from the Governor of Huguang and Zhili has been disappointed!" Huang Huiyun took a deep breath to calm the anger in his heart before turning over the report on the table.

"We in Jiangning, Anqing, Zhejiang, Wuchang, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Changsha and other places of the bank report unity, at present every day need to face an unreasonable degree of run, at the beginning of the year, the balance of the general ledger deposit of 73 branches of the Industrial Bank once reached more than 124.37 million yuan, and now the bank account is only more than 3,600 yuan."

When he reported, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"As of the beginning of the year, we have issued a total of up to 84.5 million yuan of industrial bonds, if there is a run, not only means that a large amount of cash is pumped away, but also means that we are likely to be unable to cope with the run, we only have ...... banknotes."

Huang Huiyun did not continue, because the banknotes issued by the Industrial Bank only had a reserve of 10 million yuan, and even if he had the ability to reach the sky, he would not be able to cope with a run of this scale.

"According to our estimates, although at the present time the sum of the sums deposited in the bank thanks to the chairman and the company is sufficient to meet our present needs. But as the people's sense of unrest grows, we may be able to ...... even if we manage to deal with the run at all costs."

But Chen Moran slapped the table.

"Yunda, that money can't be moved!"

His voice was rough and harsh, and the money was the military salary and military expenses prepared for the uprising.

Listening to the chairman's arrangement, Huang Huiyun, the "fortune boy", turned pale in an instant, he originally pointed to the huge amount of money to deal with the trend of the credit collapse of industrial bonds, but he didn't expect ......, "In this way, I will allocate you an additional 15 million to deal with a possible run, but the money is ......"

Chen Moran then cast his eyes on Hu Nianzu.

"The production of steel mills has been affected, especially the factories that follow the wave!"

"It could even be said that it has been completely discontinued!"

Shi Si only said one word, but with an unconcealable anger on his face, he was fed up with those bastards.

From beginning to end, Guan Mingtang did not say a word, he just looked at the report at hand, as if all this had nothing to do with him, one after another reported the company's losses, the company's daily losses are nearly one million yuan, what is this concept? This not only means that the company is losing money every day, but it even means that the company can no longer survive.

Finally, when Xie Xiaopei finished reporting the rare good news of the automobile company, seeing that the chairman set his eyes on himself, Guan Mingtang straightened his shirt and stood up, he smiled first, as if he wanted to tell everyone with a smile that there was nothing to worry about, but after the smile was put away, his expression became serious again.

"Really, I think."

A smile appeared on his face, and then Guan Mingtang closed the folder on the desktop with both hands.

"Now that we've tried all the ways and none of them worked as well as we should, shouldn't we give up some ideas and try something new?"

"New ideas?"

Chen Moran frowned at first, and then immediately understood what Guan Mingtang's new idea was!

But Guan Mingtang continued.

"Alright! If we continue like this, well, let me tell you what we are losing every day, on average, every day, the company's direct and indirect losses of more than 500,000 taels of silver, you can say unceremoniously, in the past two months, we have spent more than two million taels in order to open up the joints, and when these two million taels are in the water, the company has lost 30 million taels in the past two months, plus the money we have spent, we have lost nearly 50 million yuan in vain, what a big sum of money? I'm afraid you don't know better, apart from the steel mills, which company has invested more than that? ”

He took a deep breath, feeling sorry for the loss of 50 million yuan, and then he straightened his face again.

"If it is delayed for another month, it is estimated that the loss will increase by 20 million taels, what about two months? It can be said unceremoniously that the belongings we have worked so hard to accumulate are being exhausted little by little, and now it is the suspension of construction in Pudong, what about in the future? Maybe it's the shutdown of Ma'anshan and Huainan, and what will happen next? It's hard to wait until we run out of the last bit of money! ”

Guan Mingtang cast his eyes on Chen Moran's body, Chen Moran was there at this time with his eyebrows lowered and pondered, the expression on his face showed that he was still hesitant in his heart.

Do you have to wait? How long will it be?

Although he knew that the direct loss of 500,000 taels per day mentioned by Guan Mingtang was only 10%, as he said, the company could not support it at all, even if it was an indirect loss.

Now that this is the case, is it really possible to continue waiting for the opportunity?

He closed his eyes and thought for a while, still did he feel that the time was not the most opportune, when was the right time?

After getting off the ferry and sending away the bodyguards around him, Chen Moran walked alone on the street with dim street lights, listening carefully to the sound of the city at night, the concession shrouded in night seemed unusually quiet, it was almost midnight, except for the casino and the Red Mansion in the concession, I am afraid that everyone in the concession had fallen asleep, and occasionally I could hear the barking of dogs from some alleys.

Holding a cigar, he walked to the Huangpu River, holding the railing, sucking without a mouth, looking at the steamers and caravans parked in the port or river on the river, and looking at the black shadow of the "Huangpu Bridge" in the distance.

In the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the stock of Pudong Company has plummeted from 132 yuan at the beginning to less than 20 yuan now, and even the market believes that Pudong will not be able to escape the catastrophe. However, for Chen Moran, this reaction was an opportunity to make a fortune, and the tens of millions of shares that were sold were all recovered by Chen Moran at the reserve price.

The only accident is the Industrial Bank, in recent times, the Industrial Bank branches in various places, every day there will be people running to deposit silver, exchange industrial bonds, the world has no confidence in the industrial company, even if the industrial bank building has been put into use on the first floor of the business office underground vault, open to those people to show the inventory of silver, gold, it is difficult for them to rest assured.

"In the past two months, the banks in various places have run on millions of yuan every day, and the deposit of silver has been reduced, that is, no interest is paid, and some people have scrambled to withdraw deposits, and hundreds of thousands of yuan of silver dollar bills have flowed back into the bank every day, and if this continues, the industrial banks have been overwhelmed!"

"Pudong idle workers gathered, and they were dissatisfied with the government......"

Good and bad news one after another, and these news finally have to Chen Moran to make a decision, the bank can not wait any longer, and wait for the outflow of hundreds of millions of yuan...... There is no need to think about Chen Moran to know what he will face in the future, even if the industrial bank with a serious vitality is supported, it is difficult to play the role of the "recovery bank" that it should play.

"It's hard!"

With a sigh in his heart, Chen Moran took a deep breath of cigarette, exhaled the smoke, and frowned again, it is not a way to be held like this, if you don't want to be taken, there is only one way, but ...... The scene in the conference room of the industrial company a few hours ago came to mind again.

"Abandon all other illusions and start preparing for the uprising at once!"

The uprising itself is not much suspense, the only pressure is the intervention of various countries, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and other small countries can not be considered, the most likely to send troops to intervene is Britain, Russia and the Ben, the former is for economic interests, the latter two are for direct territorial interests.

There is no need to think too much about Britain now, Britain's economy has not recovered from the financial weight of the Boer War, which cost Britain 284 million pounds, and it costs another 30 million pounds to rebuild South Africa, the Boer War turned British creditors into debtor countries, and the current British financial community has no funds to support Britain to fight a war in the Far East.

The only threat is Ben and Russia, both of which are full of territory for China. Although Russia said that two months ago, the two countries had declared war on each other, but in the past two months, the land war took place on the Korean Peninsula, if there is an uprising now, will it lead to the peace of this war, after all, there is no large-scale war between the two countries at all, Russia has not lost face, and it is said that it has obtained the lowest limit it wants, in case the two countries reach a Manchurian-Korean exchange before the negotiations, and join forces to interfere in the recovery...... Chen Moran was reluctant to continue thinking about it, he clearly knew that if these two powers joined forces to intervene, in order to maintain their own interests in China, Britain, the United States, and Germany would all participate in it, and by intervening in the recovery in exchange for the existence of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he would prevent the expansion of Russian influence in China.

After the cigarette smoke flashed in front of his lips and his brow furrowed, Chen Mo stared at the Industrial Bank building on the other side, which showed a gorgeous appearance under the searchlight, the building without "wearing a hat".

"Son of a bitch!"

"It's him!"

Looking at the man standing in front of the flood control embankment under the dim street lamp and holding the barricade, Liu Jingxuan almost cried out in surprise.

is the man she wants to forget countless times, almost since the man kissed herself, there is no reason to live in her heart, forever haunting her dreams, never letting her go for a moment, forgiving her. Every time I think of this man, my heart aches, how did he get here?

Why not stay at home with his wife and daughter?

A series of questions were finally replaced by the vaguely visible worries on his face, thinking of the content of the newspaper, Liu Jingxuan's heart suddenly understood his hidden worries, the newspaper mentioned that the government wanted to be unfavorable to the industrial company, and also mentioned the occasional run on the industrial bank, the suspension of the construction of those buildings in Pudong, etc., in the first few years, he was too obedient, and after the Chinese New Year this year, all the problems were crowded into a pile.

"This time, Chen Cripple has the ability to reach the sky, I'm afraid it will be difficult to protect it!"

Some students in the school always said that Shanghai's industrial tycoon Chen was like a flash in the pan, just a moment of fame and wealth, and hearing that caused a foreign businessman to think about how to take over the industry company's industry.

felt as if someone was looking at him, and after turning his head casually, Chen Moran couldn't start, he saw a girl in a cyan girls' school uniform standing dozens of meters away from him, and the girl's appearance was a little familiar.

"It's her!"

Walking a few steps forward, Chen Moran smiled at Liu Jingxuan.

"Miss Liu, it's been a long time!"

It's Liu Jingxuan, she's ...... How did she get to Shanghai!

She hasn't seen her for nearly three years, she has long since seen the youth when she first met, is she nineteen or twenty? The white and translucent face looked unusually plump, and the two finely carved thin lips were ruddy and shiny, which was definitely delicate and red, and it was as attractive as in the past.

“…… Why don't you say a word when you come to Shanghai! It's also good to let Mo Ran ......"

Hearing this, she stood there as if she was aggrieved, wanting to leave Liu Jingxuan but couldn't lift up, she took a deep breath and looked at the man in front of her.

"I, I've been here for nearly half a year!"

After saying that, Liu Jingxuan suddenly gave Chen Moran a puffed up and said.

"Your Mr. Chen is a noble person, how dare I, a little girl from the countryside, disturb you, a nobleman!"

With a thorn in her words, Liu Jingxuan was using this thorn to protect herself, she knew that this man had already had a wife and daughter, but she still couldn't forget this man.

"Come to Shanghai to study!"

Seeing the school sign of the Zhengnu School through the street lamp, Chen Moran understood why she came to Shanghai.

"Escape!"

Liu Jingxuan answered angrily, this is the truth, she didn't come to Shanghai just to escape, to escape the catastrophe that I don't know when it will be born.

Chen Moran, who was originally in a somewhat unhappy mood, was amused by Liu Jingxuan's appearance, and couldn't help but laugh.

"I don't know what difficulties Miss Liu has fled, and I know if this Shanghai is also a wolf's mouth!"

His words made Liu Jingxuan's face blush, when she was in Nanjing in the past, she had heard Chen Moran say a joke about "pervert", so she gave him a blank look.

"You, who are all husbands and fathers, are still so improper."

It seemed to be a coquettish murmur between lovers, which only made Chen Moran confused, and heard Liu Jingxuan talking there again.

"Dad said last year that he was afraid that Jiangning would have another military disaster in the future, so he asked me to come to Shanghai......

"Disaster of war? What kind of military disaster? ”

Shocked, Chen Moran asked urgently, listening to his question, Liu Jingxuan hurriedly explained, and finally added a sentence.

"Don't laugh, Daddy is so worried!"

Liu Jingxuan just said that, but she saw some solemn expressions on Chen Moran's face, and she was a little surprised, what was wrong with him.

"Silently, you are ......"

"I didn't ...... It's nothing! ”

smiled dryly, but Chen Moran was shocked in his heart, on the one hand, he was shocked by the old fox's shrewdness, and on the other hand, he was shocked that this was almost known to the world to start a war, but he was ...... frowned, but Chen Moran's mind was thinking about Guan Mingtang's words in the conference room.

"Plans can never catch up with change!"

(To be continued)