Everyone hurriedly asked, "What can you do, hurry up and talk about it!" ”

Matsumoto Yunqing said: "Our problem is a lack of money, so we should ask for help from other big banks in Shanghai, foreign banks in Shanghai, the larger ones are Crédit Agricole CIB in France, Deutsche Bank in Germany, we borrow funds from them, first stabilize the depositors, I wonder if it is okay?" ”

The bank president said helplessly: "I thought you had some clever method, it turned out to be this, this is a symptom but not a cure, and now the fundamental reason for the run on depositors is their lack of trust in us, if we can't regain their trust, it is useless to transfer any amount of funds!" ”

At this moment, a clerk suddenly walked in and said to the president: "There are a few more big merchants who want to withdraw cash!" ”

The governor said to the crowd, "See? Big merchants want to withdraw cash, this time we are really doomed, what should we do? ”

Meritz said firmly: "We must not let them take the cash away under any circumstances, we will ship it back to England!" ”

Matsumoto Yunqing frowned, and said thoughtfully: "You must not do this, what you should do is to hand over the money that the depositors want in the fastest time!" ”

As soon as Matsumoto Yunqing's words came out, everyone suddenly muttered in their hearts: "Matsumoto Yunqing, who is your kid, how can you help Lin Yuan speak!" ”

Charlton said, "Mr. Matsumoto Yunqing, why do you want us to give the silver to the depositors?" ”

Matsumoto Yunqing said with a smile: "Lin Yuan has expressed his position many times, he will not watch the Chinese's silver being taken away by foreigners, and the location of your warehouse has been found by him, if you do not agree to withdraw cash, it will give Lin Yuan an excuse to attack the bank warehouse, as far as I know, the silver in the warehouse is not only from Chinese firms, but also a large part of your foreign foreign banks." ”

"If Lin Yuan captures the warehouse, he will definitely not let go of a piece of silver, and then you will have nothing, so say: If you let a Chinese merchant withdraw cash, what you will lose is the silver of the Chinese firm, but if the merchant is not allowed to withdraw cash, you will not even have the silver of your own foreign bank left!"

Charlton Ha Lu Ha Da smiled and said: "Mr. Matsumoto Yunqing is too worried, our bank's warehouse is located within the concession, Lin Yuan definitely does not have the courage to attack our warehouse, and our warehouse is very strong, Lin Yuan can't get in at all!" ”

Facing everyone's doubts, Matsumoto Yunqing smiled faintly and said: "We have built many strong fortresses, and we all thought that Lin Yuan would not be able to fight in, but after the last, he still led the troops to come in!" ”

Klein said disdainfully: "Mr. Matsumoto Yunqing, please don't compare our British Empire with your Japan!" ”

Charlton and Meritz felt that Klein's words were really rude, and they couldn't help coughing, but Matsumoto Yunqing didn't care, and said: "Let's continue to talk about the method I proposed to ask for help from banks in various countries, will it work?" ”

The governor of the bank said: "What is the use of asking for help from the banks of various countries! Without the trust of depositors, it is still impossible for us to turn the situation around, not only will we fall, but other banks will also fall! Ask them for help, and what do we get? ”

Matsumoto Yun said as steadily as Mount Tai: "Time, we can get time!" ”

Klein asked, "Time?" What is the use of our time? ”

Matsumoto Yunqing smiled, "Don't you remember? The Bank of England's expert group has arrived in Beijing, and with our help, they are holding secret talks with the Qing court, preparing to establish the Daqing Bank. Don't you remember what I said? The faster Lin Yuan's banknotes circulate, the faster he will die! ”

Matsumoto Yunqing continued: "Now our mission in Beijing is still fighting for the two key figures, Weng Tongyi and Yuan Shikai, so we have to win them down, and we can let them help and ban Lin Yuan's bank in the imperial court!" As soon as Lin Yuan's bank collapsed, wouldn't the crisis in Shanghai be solved naturally? ”

Charlton's eyes lit up and said, "Is this what the Chinese often say, 'encircling Wei to save Zhao'?" ”

Matsumoto Yunqing smiled and nodded, and Meritz said: "In that case, I will go to the consuls of several other countries to negotiate and get through this difficulty first!" ”

As soon as the meeting dispersed, Meritz quietly invited people except Matsumoto Yunqing together and said to them: "Matsumoto Yunqing is a foreigner, he will not have the same heart with us, and the silver of our British Empire must not be handed over to stupid Chinese!" ”

Everyone nodded in agreement, and Meritz continued: "Klein, you go to the foreign bank at once, find their director, borrow their merchant ship, and transport all the silver in the warehouse to Hong Kong!" ”

Klein said: "There are hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in the warehouse, and we can't transport them out in an instant!" Isn't it suspicious to move slowly? ”

"Aren't the big merchants in China going to withdraw cash? It just so happened that we used the delivery of silver as an excuse to transport the silver out of the warehouse, but the destination was not the bank, but the wharf, but if you directly transported the silver to the wharf, Lin Yuan would definitely be suspicious, so you first transport the silver to the bank, and then use other names to transport the silver to the wharf! ”

Klein said in admiration: "It's still the consul who is clever!" ”

Meritz then said to the governor of the bank: "During this time, you go to the big merchants who want to withdraw the cash, first of all, to dissuade them, to restore their confidence in us, and they may not listen, and then you agree to their request to withdraw the cash, but you have to tell them that the cash is in the warehouse, and they cannot be withdrawn for a while, and ask them to be patient!" In short, we must buy time for the transshipment of cash! ”

Of course, Lin Yuan knew about the big merchants asking for the withdrawal of cash, and he was secretly happy, but suddenly got the news that the British were transferring the cash out of the warehouse, Lin Yuan suddenly thought: "Do the British want to transfer the cash out of the country?" ”

So he asked the scout: "Where did the transports of the British go?" ”

The scout said: "Go to the bank!" ”

Lin Yuan nodded silently, thinking, "It seems that the British are going to use the cash in the warehouse to pay for the withdrawal requirements of the big merchants." At the same time, Lin Yuan received another situation: HSBC was transporting the things in the bank to the port.

Lin Yuan immediately asked, "What is it?" Did you hear about it? ”

The investigator said: "They said that the things in the car were all personal belongings and were going to be transported to Hong Kong, but we observed that the car pulling things was very heavy, absolutely not personal belongings, and the car was covered with a thick tarpaulin, so outsiders couldn't see it at all!" ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "Could it be that the British are playing stealing with me?" I want to secretly transfer the cash from the warehouse out of the warehouse! No, I can't just watch them transfer the silver and remain indifferent, no matter what he is doing with the silver, I can just take the warehouse safely. ”

Thinking of this, Lin Yuan immediately called Chen Fei and said to him, "Let the soldiers get ready to attack the bank warehouse!" ”