It's a big trouble, it's a big deal! Foreigners know that if they can't get a loan from the bank, how will the next acquisition war continue? Although they can have their own domestic contacts, let the domestic headquarters transfer a sum of money to Shanghai Tang, but this takes time, at this time the banking system is not as developed as later generations, electronic transfer is said to be transferred, a matter of a few seconds, the current bank does not have an electronic transfer function, want to transfer money from the other side of the ocean to Shanghai Tang, you must bring a bill of exchange, take a boat and say that it will take a month.

When he knew that all the other banks in Shanghai could not provide loans, Xavier and the others' faces turned white, and at this time, only Ralph was still calm-headed, and he stood up and said: "Don't worry, everyone, our funds are insufficient, and his Xiao Zhenlei's funds may not be sufficient, he raised the price without authorization, and consumed much more funds than us!" ”

Other foreigners listened to it and thought about it, he Xiao Zhenlei may not be able to borrow a lot from the bank, his Zhenhua company is only worth so much money, and the value of 10 million mortgage can not be loaned out from the bank for 20 million, right? The vampires at the banks aren't that stupid.

"Yes, yes, Xiao Zhenlei's funds may not be sufficient, we can't scare ourselves!" Kane, a German, nodded and said, "In addition, we can't sit still, we must also find a way to raise money, since we can't borrow money from these big banks, we can find a way to find other small banks, if other small banks can't borrow money, we can go to those local money banks and ticket numbers, are we still afraid that we can't borrow money?" ”

Poor these people still don't know that Xiao Zhenlei has emptied these banks, money banks and ticket numbers in Shanghai, and they can't get loans in a short period of time.

These people were worried, and they stayed up until dawn in a self-comforting way, they hurriedly finished breakfast and immediately left Xavier's villa, now everyone has to find a way to make money, if there is no money, there is no continue to fight with Xiao Zhenlei now.

Early in the morning, many newspapers such as Common People's Japan, Ta Kung Pao, Declaration, News, Xinbao, and Evening News reported at the same time that foreign businessmen had purchased cotton at a lower price than in previous years, and that cotton production in various parts of the West had been greatly reduced this year, while foreigners were still looking to buy a large amount of cotton at extremely low prices, seeking greater violence, and the national capitalist Xiao Zhenlei was indignant about this, and immediately raised a large amount of funds to buy cotton with foreign businessmen. In order to fight for the interests of the cotton peasants, but the foreign businessmen competed but came up with a conspiracy to let the local government put up notices for the cotton farmers and cotton merchants to sell cotton to the foreigners, this is a typical betrayal of the interests of the people of their own country, this is an ugly act of acting for the tiger, and the newspapers have called on the broad masses of society to unite to resist the economic aggression of the foreign businessmen, oppose imperialism and feudalism, and call on the cotton farmers and cotton merchants in various localities not to sell cotton to foreigners and not to let the foreigners' conspiracy succeed.

As soon as these newspapers were published, they immediately caused a huge sensation, and the people and citizens everywhere were filled with righteous indignation, and the people of Shanghai Tang were the first to launch an action against imperialist economic aggression, and the students and teachers of various schools immediately organized students to walk out of the school gate and take to the streets to hold demonstrations against imperialism, against foreigners, and against selling cotton to foreigners.

It has not happened for many years since such an exciting thing happened, but it was four years ago when there was such an exciting moment when the patriotic enthusiasm of the citizens of Shanghai Tang began to be ignited, and the national consciousness began to be gradually awakened.

After the incident was completely reported in the Shumin Daily, there were several articles at the back of the report article, which were the views and comments of people from all walks of life on this matter, and the special commentator of the Shumin Ribao published an article saying that it was really a great misfortune for the country and a disgrace to the imperial court that the local government actually helped foreign businessmen to harm the people, and that such officials were no longer worthy of being Chinese, and they were traitors who were bought by foreign businessmen, and their actions were traitors.

Minghu Daily published an article saying that the ugly behavior of the local officials of the Qing court to flatter foreigners was actually a precursor to the demise of the Qing court, and the local officials below were so afraid of foreigners and grovelled to foreigners, so the people in the court were not much better than they were afraid, and what future did this court have, and it was time for this foreign court to let it come to the throne and call on all the people to stand up against such a corrupt court.

The new newspaper said that the cotton purchase war initiated by Xiao Zhenlei and foreigners was the second Sino-foreign business war, and the first Sino-foreign business war was a shopping mall war between Hu Xueyan and foreign businessmen more than 20 years ago, and that time ended with Hu Xueyan losing 20 million taels of silver, so will this business war between Xiao Zhenlei and foreign businessmen be as disastrous as the one in more than 20 years? Does Xiao Zhenlei, an upstart in Shanghai, have enough financial resources to compete with foreigners?

The concession authorities did not want to anger the Qing court, so they immediately initiated measures to ban the Minghu Daily, which had only been allowed to publish periodicals for 48 days, and Yu Youren, the owner of the Minghu Daily, was also declared persona non grata by the concession authorities, and he had to leave Shanghai in a hurry to take refuge.

Although the Minghu Daily was closed down by the concession authorities on this day, other newspapers were not affected, and the matter spread to the land of China at a very fast speed, and the news media in various places immediately reprinted and followed up on it.

After the news broke, people from the cultural circles and progressives in various places published articles in newspapers calling on local cotton merchants not to sell cotton to foreigners, and not to let foreigners succeed.

After the foreigners saw the report in the newspaper, they changed color one after another, they knew that the matter was big, and now they not only had problems with funds, but also received a strong attack in public opinion, and the shape was extremely unfavorable to them, they urgently met and decided to ignore the public opinion of the outside world after a short discussion, as long as they continued to buy cotton, but after the newspaper reported the cotton price war between them and Xiao Zhenlei, the cotton merchants and cotton farmers no longer sold cotton to them. This makes them very worried, in order to continue to buy cotton, they have to continue to increase the purchase price, after they increase the purchase price, there are many shrewd cotton merchants to see that the price of cotton is likely to be the highest price, if this time is not sold, wait for a day after the price may drop sharply, these cotton merchants have sold the cotton in their hands to foreigners, they do not care about the strong public opinion, when someone knows that they still sell cotton to foreigners in this case, Newspapers in various localities have come forward to accuse these black-hearted cotton merchants of disregarding the general interests of the country and the nation and the conspiracy of becoming foreigners for their own selfish interests, but these greedy cotton merchants have ignored this and ignored it at all.

Although the major newspapers stabbed this incident out on this day, causing great social repercussions and public opinion, on the other hand, it promoted some cotton merchants to sell cotton to foreigners for huge profits, Xiao Zhenlei still underestimated the greed of the businessmen, in front of any greedy businessman, as long as there are enough interests, they have no nation and country in their hearts, and even sell the country and the nation for the sake of profit.

When Xiao Zhenlei learned that the foreigners did not hesitate to use the last funds to increase the purchase price in order to buy more cotton, it was too late, he did not expect that the foreigners were still raising the price at this time, so he was not prepared at all, which made the foreigners use the last funds to buy a lot of cotton at a high price in today's time, although the amount of cotton they needed was far from enough, but this was already the limit of what they could do.

Xiao Zhenlei was extremely annoyed that his subordinates did not report the actions of the foreigners in time, and he was furious with Cheng Yusheng: "Why didn't you report the foreigners' price increase in time today?" ”

Cheng Yusheng was also very aggrieved, he said: "Because of the newspaper report on this matter, many cotton merchants and cotton farmers around the country have sold cotton to us, and we are too busy to buy at the purchase points in various places, so we really can't distinguish people to monitor the purchase points of foreigners. They don't collect as much as we do, but they do have a lot, but I'm sure the foreigners' funds are definitely about to bottom out."

Xiao Zhenlei thought for a while, waved his hand and said, "Forget it, I can't blame you at this time, these foreigners are too cunning!" I was a little grumpy just now, and I hope you don't have the same knowledge as a young man like me."

Cheng Yusheng hurriedly said: "Don't, president, I am still responsible for this matter!" What do we do now? ”

Xiao Zhenlei walked around the study with his hands behind his back, and only after two minutes did he stop and turn his head and ask, "What do you think we should do now?" ”

Cheng Yusheng touched the sparse hair on the top of his head and thought about it and said: "It stands to reason that now that the foreigners' funds are exhausted, they can't collect cotton even if they want to, who will sell them cotton if they don't have money?" Therefore, we can now immediately lower the purchase price, firstly, to reduce the loss, and secondly, those cotton farmers and cotton merchants will definitely flock to sell us cotton when they see the price plummeting, lest the price fall to the bottom later! ”R1152