Chapter 244: Last Resort

A week is enough for Xiao Zhenlei, in these seven days, he arranged for personnel to ship up to millions of stones every day, basically while harvesting, and at the same time, when the seven days were over, even the cotton that had been hoarded in various places was sold to foreigners at a high price.

The foreigners are ecstatic that there are more than one million stones purchased every day, in their opinion, Xiao Zhenlei is going to be unlucky this time, their cotton has been purchased almost completely, there is no need for the cotton in Xiao Zhenlei's hands, who will sell the cotton in Xiao Zhenlei's hands? can only rot in the warehouse, Xiao Zhenlei will lose all his money.

In fact, they don't know that they have fallen for Xiao Zhenlei's plan, and all the cotton in Xiao Zhenlei's hands has been secretly sold to the purchase points of foreigners, but what worries Xiao Zhenlei is that there are still many cotton farmers in the people who have not had time to sell the cotton, not because they don't want to, but because the work efficiency of the purchase point is first, and the daily purchase volume is also limited.

After all, this year is a cotton harvest year, according to the estimate that the output should be about 30% more than in previous years, if it was before, with the current purchase volume, the private cotton has long been purchased out, but because of this year's cotton harvest, the output is larger than in previous years, so until now there is still a large part of the cotton has not been harvested.

This situation made Xiao Zhenlei worried, it is estimated that in another day or so, the foreign businessmen will be able to purchase the cotton they need, and once the purchase volume reaches their expected quantity, they will stop purchasing, these cotton farmers and cotton merchants who have not had time to sell the cotton will not lose money? It is impossible for the price of cotton next year to be so high, you must know that this price was forcibly raised by Xiao Zhenlei and the foreigners. And it is also because of the shortage of cotton in Europe that there will be the current price, if there is no shortage of cotton in Europe next year. Is there still such a high price now? No way!

French Concession, a residential area for wealthy villas.

Foreigner cotton merchants are celebrating in their villas in Xavier, where they are almost done buying cotton. It only takes a day.

In the villa, Xavier and others invited friends from the business field, and invited many celebrities on the beach to accompany them, the gramophone placed in the corner of the villa hall played melodious Western-style dance music, the male foreigners all danced with beautiful women in their arms, and the waiters shuttled back and forth with various wines to bring wine to the chatting gentlemen and ladies.

The tired foreigners gathered together in the rooms on the second floor of Xavier, each holding a glass of wine and sweating profusely on the sofa panting.

Xavier looked at the crowd and said, "Guys, judging by the daily purchase volume for this week. It only takes one day tomorrow for me to complete the purchase, and when the quantity is up, I will immediately arrange for the last few batches of cotton to be shipped, what about you? ”

The Englishman Ralph said: "It's about the same on my side, after tomorrow, my purchase volume will also reach the number of purchases, and my men are already preparing the last shipment!" ”

Other foreign businessmen also said that the situation on their side was similar, which made these foreign businessmen very happy, and they were happy that their side had completed the acquisition task. On the other hand, they are ready to ridicule, insult, and gloat at Xiao Zhenlei, in their opinion, Xiao Zhenlei is dead this time and has borrowed so many loans from the bank. No one wants to take over the cotton purchased, and this time it will definitely lose all its money, and the banks will come to collect the debt. Zhenhua Company may not be able to keep it.

After taking a sip of red wine, the German Kane sighed: "It's a pity that Zhenhua Company has such good benefits." Just because of Xiao Zhenlei's fiasco this time, it is likely to go out of business! ”

The Russian nodded, "Yes." He has no money to return to the bank, and the bank will definitely apply to the court to freeze his other assets, including the seizure of Zhenhua Company! ”

Ralph waved his hand and said: "Forget it, what are you doing with this, today is our happy day, as long as Xiao Zhenlei is unlucky, we should be happy!" ”

"Yes, yes, Mr. Ralph is absolutely right! Then it's decided, I'll notify the people over there later, and when the purchase volume is completed tomorrow, we will stop the acquisition and withdraw all the people from all over the world! ”

"Then it's decided, and I'll also inform them later that they will withdraw their personnel after completing the purchase tomorrow!"

"Good!"

None of them knew that at this moment there was a foreigner standing outside the door, and this foreigner turned and left softly after hearing these words. Soon, the foreigner left the villa and found a phone booth on the street and dialed a number, and after the phone was connected, he said: "They have decided to withdraw the acquisition personnel from all over the country after completing the purchase volume tomorrow!" ”

A voice came from the phone: "Got it!" ”

These news soon reached Xiao Zhenlei, he was very anxious at this time, because there were many cotton farmers and cotton merchants who had not had time to sell their cotton, if the foreigners stopped buying, the cotton in the hands of those cotton farmers and cotton merchants would be backlogged in their hands and could not be sold, even if someone was willing to ask for it, after the foreigners stopped buying, the price would definitely fall back to the lowest point.

Xiao Zhenlei stood alone in front of the window and thought, it was late at night, but he was not tired, he was thinking about what to do now, he couldn't swallow such a large batch of cotton at a high price, he had to come up with a way to stop the foreigners from buying, but the foreigners couldn't buy endlessly, and it was basically impossible to maintain this high price!

Cheng Yusheng stood behind Xiao Zhenlei and stopped talking, he was worried that Xiao Zhenlei was young, and his brain was hot and impulsive to continue to buy cotton regardless of it, and the foreigners were about to stop buying, if they continued to buy, then the purchased cotton would be hoarded in their hands and they would never be able to do it again, which was a backlog of funds!

He couldn't help but say: "President, I think it's better to order the acquisition points to stop the acquisition immediately, if we collect it again, we won't be able to do it!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei exhaled a puff of smoke and said calmly: "Since we have done this, we should finish it and do it thoroughly, so that all the cotton farmers and ordinary people can make money!" Pass on my instructions to let the acquisition points continue to buy, but the price can't be so high. We must make those cotton farmers not hesitate, because it is too late. The effect of lowering the price can also urge them to do their best, and set the price at 12 taels per load after the foreign businessmen's purchase points stop buying! ”

Cheng Yusheng didn't expect Xiao Zhenlei to really be so much. His face changed drastically: "President, no, if this happens, we will lose a lot!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei raised his palm and said: "Don't worry, I have my own solution, I'm not so stupid, I know that there is a pit in front of me and jump into the pit, you can do it!" ”

"Hey!" Cheng Yusheng sighed helplessly and turned to leave.

After Cheng Yusheng left. Xiao Zhenlei smoked a few cigarettes in a row, and when the clock rang at zero o'clock, he was awakened from his thoughts, and he made up his mind, walked to the desk and picked up the phone and dialed a number.

"Brother Jiuguang, are you free? I'm looking for you for something, I'm waiting for you on the No. 1 Steel Bridge! ”

After putting down the phone, Xiao Zhenlei put on a fur coat and a fox fur hat and called Opiyin to go out. Cars drove down the street, and the street was already silent, except for the dim lights illuminating the road ahead, at the mouth of some houses and alleys. Occasionally, you can see a supper stall still setting up a stall.

Xiao Zhenlei smelled the smell of roasted stinky tofu, and the liquid suddenly came out of his mouth, and after swallowing a mouthful of saliva, he beckoned Opiyin to stop at the street entrance. He got out of the car and walked to the stall to ask the boss to bake stinky tofu for 30 yuan, and a few minutes later he returned to the car with a bag of stinky tofu wrapped in oiled paper. The car started and continued to drive forward.

When we arrived at the No. 1 steel bridge, the car stopped in the middle of the bridge. Xiao Zhenlei got out of the car with an oiled paper bag and came to the edge of the steel bridge guardrail, the cold wind in the middle of the night in winter blew on his face like a knife, but this could make his mind more sober, he ate stinky tofu with chopsticks, while looking at the lights in the night on both sides of the river.

Soon, a car drove over and stopped behind Xiao Zhenlei's car, Wang Yaqiao was wearing a thick cotton jacket and cotton pants, the cotton jacket was covered with an old robe, and a cotton hat similar to Lei Feng's hat was worn on his head, he got out of the car and saw Xiao Zhenlei standing by the guardrail, so he crossed his hands in his sleeves and walked over and stopped beside Xiao Zhenlei and said: "The weather is good tonight, and this is also a good place to talk!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei smiled and handed over the oiled paper bag and chopsticks in his hand: "Come on?" ”

"What's that?"

"Stinky tofu!"

"Oh, I like to eat it, so let's eat some!" Wang Yaqiao took the paper bag and ate it, and was full of praise while eating.

When Wang Yaqiao was eating stinky tofu, Xiao Zhenlei said: "The intelligence team has sent news that the foreigners have decided that they will stop purchasing after tomorrow when the number of purchases reaches the predetermined quantity, and then withdraw all the personnel, but according to our estimates, there are still many cotton farmers and cotton merchants who have not had time to sell the cotton in their hands, and all the cotton in our hands has been secretly sold to foreigners, but these cotton farmers and cotton merchants who have not had time to sell cotton have about 20% of the cotton in their hands. With such a large backlog in hand, it is definitely a huge loss for the people! ”

Wang Yaqiao, who was eating stinky tofu, stopped when he heard this, frowned, and said, "This is indeed a troublesome matter!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei continued: "Before coming, I have asked Cheng Yusheng to inform our acquisition points in various places, and we will continue to purchase tomorrow, and after the foreigners withdraw the acquisition personnel, we will also continue to buy, but the price will be reduced to twelve taels per stone!" ”

"This ?????? Brother Huanyu, you have to think clearly, if the foreigners don't accept it, we won't be able to use it so much, we can only hoard it until next year, which is a huge backlog of funds! ”

Xiao Zhenlei shook his head and said: "I won't let this batch of cotton accumulate in my hands, but someone will have to pay for it!" We can't let those foreigners just leave! ”

When Wang Yaqiao heard this, he didn't eat it anymore, and hurriedly asked, "Then what are you going to do?" ”

Xiao Zhenlei took out a cigarette case, lit a cigarette and smoked a few puffs, and made up his mind: "As far as I know, the cotton purchased by foreigners must be transported here from all over the country, and then loaded on the ship at the Sixteen Lipu Wharf and shipped back to China, I will try my best to collect most of the cotton from cotton farmers around the country before they will load those cotton, and what you need to do is to find a way to let those foreigners' ships set sail on the same day, and those ships will be concentrated at the Shiliulipu Wharf, which should not be difficult for you. After all, the 16-mile wharf is now the largest wharf in Shanghai, and you can find a way to get other irrelevant ships on the wharf to other small wharves, if you come, those ocean-going ships loaded with cotton can be gathered at the 16-mile pharf! ”

Wang Yaqiao didn't understand Xiao Zhenlei's intention for a while, he wondered: "Why do you let those big cargo ships loaded with cotton gather at the Sixteen Lipu Wharf?" Still setting sail on the same day? ”

Xiao Zhenlei looked at the dark river in front of him and sighed: "If we don't want to find a way to let those big cargo ships loaded with cotton gather at the Sixteen Lipu Wharf and prevent them from setting sail on the same day, how can we find a way to set a fire and burn all the cotton on board?" If that cotton is not burned, to whom will we sell the cotton we have? I didn't want to beg those foreigners, so I had to let those foreigners come and beg me! In this way, the price of cotton is naturally up to me, and I don't want to lose money! ”

Wang Yaqiao was stunned when she heard this, and it took a long time to come back to her senses and sigh: "Those foreigners have provoked you, it's really eight lifetimes of blood mold!" ”

December 27th, just after Christmas in the West, the foreigners' cotton purchase has stopped for three days, in these few days, Xiao Zhenlei let people buy cotton in various places to continue to buy, and hang up signs outside the purchase points, only three days, three days later, no longer buy, those cotton farmers who did not shoot can only let the cotton rot at home, this news makes the cotton farmers and cotton merchants anxious, everyone no longer dares to continue to wait and see, people are crazy to use the cart to pull the cotton to Xiao Zhenlei's purchase point to sell, with this methodXiao Zhenlei harvested most of the cotton in the people within three days, and the ones that have not been harvested are basically used by the people themselves.

And on the side of Shanghai Beach, Wang Yaqiao did exert his huge energy as an intelligence leader, he tried to get rid of the small boats moored at the Shiliupu Wharf, those foreign cotton merchants parked the ships at the Shiliulipu Wharf, and all the large freighters were moored here, and the cotton was loaded here, and some of them were loaded first, but in order to let these ships set sail on the same day, Wang Yaqiao came up with a trick to make these ships have a little trouble before starting, so after two days of delay, all the ships were loaded with cotton, The entire river is lined with boats loaded with cotton. (To be continued......) R1292