83_83916 Xiao Zhenlei didn't make a sound when he heard this, he walked to the window with a cigarette case, took out a cigarette, lit a few puffs, exhaled a large amount of gray smoke, looked at the scenery outside the window and said: "Uncle Cheng, your method is good, but I can't do it, if I drastically lower the price, it will be a large number of cotton farmers who will suffer, and what will public opinion say about me?" They are very likely to say that I fell into the well, pit a large number of cotton farmers, and sell it to foreigners at a high price and get benefits, but what is it to sell it to me at a low price? Others are not so stupid, after I pull down the price, the cotton farmers and cotton merchants have no choice but to sell it to me at a low price, but they will definitely hate me to death in their hearts, I am actually no different from those greedy foreigners! ”

Cheng Yusheng didn't expect this, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his forehead when he heard it, and he asked, "President, what are we going to do?" ”

Xiao Zhenlei took a puff of cigarette, exhaled the smoke and said, "What is the purpose of our launching this business war?" It's about taking back pricing power! The price of cotton is now on the way, which is the result of our efforts! I can't pit those peasants, they face the loess with their backs to the sky, and it's not easy to earn a few bucks! If I want to pit foreigners, I will pit foreigners! Convey my instructions to all places, continue to buy at this price tomorrow, not higher than the price of foreigners, and do not reduce the price, and at the same time quietly transport out the cotton we have hoarded in various places, find fresh faces to come forward to sell batches of cotton to the foreigners' purchase sites, and inform me to Chen Huizu that he should prepare 20 million taels of cash, and I will return the money I borrowed from those foreign banks to them, and I will also have to deposit another amount of money into it! ”

Cheng Yusheng was a little confused, "President, I don't understand this." You borrowed that money in less than half a month and then repaid it, this."

Xiao Zhenlei said with a smile: "The foreigners' funds are about to bottom out, if they don't exchange the money for the bank, where will they borrow money to continue to buy cotton at a high price, and how can we sell the collected cotton to the foreigners at a high price?" ”

Cheng Yusheng's eyes lit up when he heard this: "President." In this way, cotton farmers and cotton merchants have made much more money than in previous years, and we have made more money, which is paid for by foreigners. It's wonderful, it's wonderful, but the foreigners have been kept in the dark, and by the time they find out, all the cotton we have hoarded in our hands has been sold to them. They are still secretly snickering at the idea that our cotton will rot in the warehouse! Actually they were fooled, hahaha! ”

On the morning of December 15, in the French Concession, the residential area of the rich villas.

Xavier and the others sat around on the couch, each with a sad face, and yesterday had been a torment for them, and every one of them had been called by name by the newspapers, saying that they were evil businessmen who were more greedy than vampires. There is such a shortage of cotton in Europe, will they die if they buy cotton here to raise the purchase price a little bit and let the Chinese people earn more? Not only do they not raise the purchase price. And also to keep the price down, it's just a dime, and Grande is nothing compared to them.

"Damn, those newspapers are crazy, the people of China are crazy, and the newspapers actually scolded each and every one of us to the death. It was crazy that the teachers and students were marching in the streets with banners to protest against our actions. We were just doing business, and we didn't go to their house to rob them. Do they need to do this to us? Kenji Matsushita scolded with a glass of red wine.

Xavier and the others couldn't help but roll their eyes when they heard this, in fact, everyone here knew that they had just started buying cotton at a low price here was actually no different from robbing houses, but it was only later that Xiao Zhenlei joined in that their behavior of robbing houses had to be stopped.

The Englishman Ralph waved his hand and said: "It's okay to be scolded, we don't lose anything, let them scold, if this can reduce our losses, I don't mind letting them scold more fiercely, now we are worried that our funds at various acquisition points are about to bottom out, after my calculations, according to the current purchase price, my company's funds at each acquisition point can only support three days at most, and it will dry up after three days, I estimate that your company should be about the same, what should we do then?" We can't do anything without money, and it will take at least a month for the money from the domestic headquarters to be remitted, and the daylilies will be cold at that time! ”

The German Kane smoked a cigar and said: "We can't be so passive all the time, according to the momentum of public opinion attacking us outside, I don't think it will weaken in the next week, we can't do anything about those newspapers, but we can't let Xiao Zhenlei keep going against us like this, we must carry out a strong counterattack, and at the same time find a way to make money, we can't do anything without money!" ”

The Italian was very frustrated and said: "Kane, I have to admire your fighting spirit, at this time, you are still muttering to make Xiao Zhenlei look good, what do you think we can do now?" ”

Kane got up and said loudly: "Of course we can make a difference, where did Xiao Zhenlei get so much money?" I believe that his own liquidity itself is not much, most of his funds should be borrowed from the bank, damn it, yesterday I sent someone to the bank to inquire, but the people at the bank said that it was their trade secret, no comment! The banks have never been like this to us! There must be a problem here, now our only way is to find the consulate of their own country, I believe that the consulate will never want to see us lose in this business war, we go to ask them to come out to put pressure on the bank, let the bank find Xiao Zhenlei to collect money, as long as the bank looks for Xiao Zhenlei to collect money, his funds will dry up, without funds, how can he fight with us? ”

Everyone listened to it, and after thinking about it carefully, this was a good way, and it was the only way to deal with Xiao Zhenlei that could be thought of now, but Ralph said: "Then how do we go about making money?" Even if the bank asks Xiao Zhenlei to collect the loan, it will take a certain amount of time to recover the loan, and the funds in our hands will dry up during this time, and once the funds in our hands are exhausted, we may completely fail! ”

After hearing this, Kane immediately said: "We can actually go to those Chinese money banks and ticket numbers to find a way, I believe they must still have money in their hands, although it is not much, but it can definitely support us for two days." And if the bank recovers Xiao Zhenlei's loan, we can borrow from the bank! ”

"Okay, that's it!" The foreigners applauded and cheered, as if they had seen victory.

Deutsch-Hua Bank.

Manager Feige was a little surprised by Xiao Zhenlei's arrival, he was not a guest house here. Xiao Zhenlei has only been here for about half a month, why did he come here again, did he have a problem with his funds and want to take out a loan again? Feige received Xiao Zhenlei with such doubts.

After handing over a cup of coffee, Feige spoke first: "Xiao, if you come to me for a loan again this time." Please forgive me for not being able to help you, don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't want to lend you, but I don't have any extra money right now! Two days ago, that guy Kane asked me for a loan, and I didn't have the money to lend him money. I hope you understand my difficulty, my bank can't leave some liquidity, if there is a run on depositors, it will be miserable, so I can't give you the last liquidity of my bank, please understand! ”

"Oh, no, no, no, you're wrong, I'm not looking for you for a loan this time!" Xiao Zhenlei said, picked up a cigar from the humidor on the table, smiled and waved his hand.

Feige was a little surprised. Puzzled: "You're not here for a loan, so what are you doing here?" ”

"Can't I come to you if I'm fine, oh. Feige, you make me so sad! ”

Fei Ge was a little helpless, and hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, I said the wrong thing, Xiao, sue me." I'm sure you won't come to me for a cup of coffee! ”

Xiao Zhenlei slowly lit his cigar and took a few puffs before saying, "I'm here to pay back!" ”

"Pay it back? This Xiao. Are you sure you're here to pay it back? You must know that you have only been on a loan for half a month! Fei Ge was full of incomprehension about Xiao Zhenlei's actions.

Xiao Zhenlei nodded in affirmation: "Yes, repay the loan." But I can't pay you back all now, I can only repay 2.5 million yuan, and the remaining 1 million will be repaid to you according to the term stipulated in the loan contract, this should be no problem, right? ”

Fig immediately said that there was no problem, what could be the problem, the customer's repayment means that his bank has another income, and this money can be lent to other people who need it, and the funds will not be stuck in the bank and rust in this situation, but will be lent out to generate profits.

"No problem, no problem!"

"But!" Xiao Zhenlei paused and looked at Feige, "If someone asks why your bank suddenly has money to lend again, I hope you don't say that this money is a loan from me, please keep it secret for me!" ”

What is the matter with Feige, it turned out to be this matter, he smiled and said: "Xiao, you are always so mysterious, okay, I promised you!" It just so happened that Kane asked me for a loan yesterday, and if he hasn't got the loan yet, I can lend him the money you repaid."

"It's your money, you can lend it to whomever you want!" After Xiao Zhenlei finished speaking, he immediately went through the repayment procedures with Feige, and a large amount of cash was escorted from Zhenhua Commercial Bank this afternoon.

After leaving the bank of Deutsch-Hua Bank, Xiao Zhenlei seized the time again, and ran through the other eight foreign banks in Shanghai that he had borrowed money from in one morning, repaying more than half of the money he had borrowed from these banks, and still owed a small half of the loans to each bank.

China Merchants Steamship.

The entourage knocked on the door and walked into Sheng Xuanhuai's office to report: "Master, find out, Xiao Zhenlei has borrowed a lot of money from various money houses and ticket numbers in Shanghai before, according to what I found, there are 10 million taels, he is using this money to buy cotton with foreign businessmen, the two sides are holding each other, and the current situation is that neither side has taken advantage of it, but Xiao Zhenlei has obviously purchased much more cotton than foreigners, according to my estimate, his money should be used almost enough, and foreign businessmen are not much better!" ”

Sheng Xuanhuai laughed when he heard this, "Okay, Xiao Zhenlei, this kid is really not simple, his courage is commendable, he dares to sit in the village in a high-profile manner and call out foreign businessmen, a person with this kind of courage, I have only seen one in my life, he is the second, the second has been destroyed by the old man more than 20 years ago, now this??".

The office is quiet, Sheng Xuanhuai can only stay here for a short time, the last time he came here was to hold a shareholders' meeting of Hanyeping Company, now the shareholders' meeting has ended, and the matter of recruiting commercial shares is also in progress, and he is on the right track, I am afraid that he will have to go north to the capital in a few days, he is the minister of the Ministry of Posts and Communications, and he cannot be away for a long time.

After a few minutes, Sheng Xuanhuai's voice sounded in the office again, but the tone of this voice was very different from before, this tone became cold, cold and piercing, "Hmph, this kid has no one in his eyes, he dares to say in front of the old man that he wants to buy the shares of Han Yeping Company in the hands of the old man, he doesn't know how thick the sky is, this kid makes the old man feel uncomfortable, this time the old man will make him feel bad, just like Hu Xueyan was killed back then, this time the old man also killed him!" You go and call Yan Yibin, Li Jingchu and Li Yiqing to me, and let them come immediately."

"Yes, sir!" The attendant said yes and turned to leave.

Yan Yibin and Li Jingchu are the big bosses of Yuanfengrun Ticket and Yishanyuan respectively, Li Yiqing is the big boss of Zhengyuan Qianzhuang, and Yuanfengrun Ticket Number, Yishanyuan Ticket Number, and Zhengyuan Qianzhuang are the leading bosses of Shanghai Tang's Qianzhuang industry and ticket number industry, who is the biggest backstage boss of these three? It's Sheng Xuanhuai! Of course, he could ask Yan Yibin, Li Jingchu and Li Yiqing to call him over.

In less than half an hour, Yan Yibin, Li Jingchu, and Li Yiqing rushed to Sheng Xuanhuai's office of the steamship China Merchants Bureau out of breath.

"Meet your lord!" The three of them bowed respectfully together.

Sheng Xuanhuai got up with a smile and walked out from behind the desk, stretched out his hand to support him, and said with a smile: "It's all my own family, you don't have to make this big gift, get up!" ”

"Yes, sir!" The three got up from the ground and stepped aside.

Sheng Xuanhuai asked, "The old man heard that Xiao Zhenlei borrowed a sum of money from each of your families?" ”

The three of them didn't know that Xiao Zhenlei had also borrowed money from the other two, and they didn't know until now when they heard Sheng Xuanhuai talk about it, their eyes showed a look of surprise, and the three of them bent down at the same time: "Yes, my lord!" ”

Sheng Xuanhuai thought for a while and asked, "What if the old man asks you to go to Xiao Zhenlei immediately to recover the loan?" ”

"This" The three of them didn't expect Sheng Xuanhuai to come to them for this matter, Li Yiqing hesitated: "My lord, the term of his loan is half a year, and now it's only half a month, let's go to recover the money now, I'm afraid."

Sheng Xuanhuai's face changed when he heard this, and he said coldly: "What, you don't want to?" ”

"Ah, no, no, no," Li Yiqing hurriedly denied.

At this time, Sheng Xuanhuai's entourage interjected beside him: "Some time ago, Xiao Zhenlei came to the master, and he actually wanted to buy the master's shares in Hanyeping Company in front of the master, which is simply a slap in the face of the master!" ”

Yan Yibin and the other three immediately understood the reason why Sheng Xuanhuai asked them to find Xiao Zhenlei to collect the money, Li Jingchu and the others immediately said indignantly: "How can this be reasonable, how can this be reasonable, Xiao Zhenlei's kid is too arrogant, my lord, let's go back to him to collect the money, if he doesn't pay it back, we will immediately sue him to the yamen and let him go bankrupt!" ”

"Yes, don't let him get better!" The other two immediately chimed in. (To be continued)