Under the witness of Song Yunsheng, Yang Hao issued an order to buy out all the export orders of major foreign banks. The goods of China's five major ports, how many other tuns!

In 1895, without Yang Hao's tossing, the Qing exported goods up to 143.29 million taels of silver, and imported up to 171.7 million taels. Because of the stimulus of the Shimonoseki Treaty, this number will surge year after year, and ten years later it will reach the quota of 228 million taels for exports and 447.1 million taels for imports.

It can be said that the time point when the great powers officially launched the plundering of China's resources and wealth began to break in 1895.

The growth of social wealth brought about by the birth and development of China's national industry will be stripped down and swallowed by the Western powers layer by layer, and there will be no scum left. This also led to the fact that after Xinhai in 1911, China's economy continued to deteriorate to the point that it was impossible to get any money, and Yuan Shikai had to engage in large-scale borrowing of 25 million pounds and repayment of 67 million pounds of usury.

The methods of the great powers were very simple and straightforward: to loot a single piece of industrial raw materials produced in China, and then to dump the industrial products made in China on a large scale to hit the national industry, which was also in its infancy. Because under the control of the Western tax department group headed by Hurd, China only has a tariff standard of 5%, which is equivalent to completely opening the door of the country and allowing Western goods to rush into the domestic market with a flood of mountains!

After decades of such frenzied plunder, China's losses amounted to hundreds of billions of yuan, the people's livelihood withered, financial difficulties, and industrial strength could not even catch up with the pre-First Sino-Japanese War, and ordinary landlords and gentry began to go bankrupt. In this way, they all had to stand up and participate in the revolution, but the landlord's family had no surplus food, and they would not be able to survive without revolution!

In summary. This two-pronged plundering madness dù. It gradually increased with the decline of the Qing government's control and prestige. In the years after the first day. Although there was an indemnity of 200 million taels to Japan, because of the unprecedented unity between the people and the imperial court, they rose up and were determined to reform and change the law to become stronger. In the past three years, it has been like a chicken blood, bringing a short period of excitement.

However, with the failure of the reform, the rise of the Boxers and other rebellious people, the Qing court deliberately used Manchu ministers to seize the real power of the Han Chen, and the originally harmonious bureaucratic system began to split. The ministers began to plan for their own back roads, and military leaders like Yuan Shikai began to prepare for self-respect. As a result, when the Gengzi country changed in 1900, there was a drama of "southeast mutual insurance". The rule of the Manchus in China entered the stage of de facto disintegration, and a nimble man like Sheng Xuanhuai also began to openly devour state-owned assets, and together with the compradors, he formed a powerful lackey force to assist the foreign devils in carving up China's wealth.

And in this time and space where Yang Hao appeared, the curtain of the same great powers was opened, the same change became a farce, and the same Qing court ministers had their own ghosts, but the only difference was that. There is a hero like him who can turn the tide.

In the last quarter of 1895, the great powers combined to accumulate three months' worth of goods, totaling nearly 40 million taels. Blocked at a Chinese port! What's more, a large number of orders were also abandoned until the following year, so the total backlog of goods may even reach 100 million taels of silver!

With such a number, even the Qing government will be stunned, and the local governor is even more dizzy and helpless when he sees it! It is not an accident that even a series of civil riots have been triggered by this.

The heavy burden is like a boulder rolling down the steep slope of a high mountain, it is not an impact that can be resisted by strength, and those who rush up to block it with their own strong body will inevitably be smashed into meat sauce!

At the critical moment, Yang Hao openly announced that all the goods will be received according to the order!

The world was shocked, the great powers rejoiced, the merchants changed color, and the people thundered!

The Qing court was initially shocked and panicked. Even the Empress Dowager Cixi couldn't hold back, and sent telegrams to Sheng Xuanhuai, Li Hongzhang and some officials several times in a row: "The kid surnamed Yang really has so much money?" Can he eat so much cargo? Don't be another scam, it's not easy to clean up the civil unrest! ”

Emperor Guangxu also let the trusted ministers know in many ways, and the news collected made him and the Empress Dowager Cixi very relieved. Although the Yang family is rich, after all, the industry is too much and too scattered, and no matter how much silver money is consumed, it will definitely not be able to take out tens of millions of cash.

The foreign banks with the money bank ticket number that co-owned with Yang Hao were originally colluded with officials at all levels of the Qing court, and if they knew about it separately, they could roughly know that the Yanhua Chamber of Commerce could not spare funds at all. At present, their work of supporting the country's industry and commerce is in full swing, and there are not many positions left in the Yanhua Commercial Bank, and large sums of money are flowing in and out, and there is no possibility of allocating them.

The ticket numbers of the major money banks have also decided in private not to be involved in Yang's own Yanhua Foreign Bank acquisition action. Except for a few groups such as the Pingyao Merchant Gang and the Shandong Merchant Gang, all the rest waited and waited for changes.

When the Qing court ascended up and down, Emperor Guangxu had been gloomy for a long time, and there was a lot of rare excitement, and his gray face like a big smoke ghost actually turned red, and he ate a few more bowls of rice.

The Empress Dowager Cixi sighed reassuringly: "Ancestor bless, the insolence of the surname Yang is too much, this is about to be retributed, it should be." However, I also have to tell those officials below to think of a way to be sympathetic to the people of Limin, but I can't teach them to suffer a big loss, and they have no way to make trouble. ”

The governors of all parties responded one after another, patting their chests to ensure that there would be no civil uprising. In private, they are all stepping up their efforts to mobilize their positions, waiting for Yang Hao's all-encompassing business to collapse, and then take the opportunity to buy the bottom and make a windfall!

The foreign devils who stayed in Tianjin and watched Yang Hao's movements were determined that Yanhua Foreign Bank, which was in the major ports in the south, began to collect orders on a large scale, accepting more than 10 million taels of goods in one day, and immediately relieved.

They held cocktail parties in their respective embassies and consulates to celebrate, and the British, who led the whole project, were triumphant. Minister Bockle unceremoniously took the credit for himself, and proudly shouted: "I think that perhaps without using the Royal Navy at all, we can easily take out this most dangerous enemy in the Far East by financial and political means!" Gentlemen, rejoice in the unprecedented wealth that is on the horizon and celebrate the wonderful start of our business in the Far East! ”

There was cheering in the legation.

Paulkler's style is completely different from those who came before him. Having just concluded the partition of Africa, they despised the overly cautious and moderate diplomacy of their predecessors, preferring to use brutal, direct, and hard-line methods.

Facing a backward country with a large territory, a large population, abundant resources and huge financial potential. Bulkle thinks it's a strengthened version of India. Do not quickly divide it up and occupy it. What are you waiting for to be fully integrated into the territory of the British Empire?

Facts have proved that they can't even defeat Japan, and they can't find a single army capable of fighting a war with a population of 430 million, so it is ridiculous to let a returnee who has no foundation at all rebel!

Such a weak ruling force, not taking the opportunity to control them, but also going on the pole to help them change the law and innovate and become stronger. Isn't this full of food!

Divide, plunder, rob, rob, occupy!

It would be nice if all the means that European powers used in the Americas, South America, Africa and Southeast Asia were all used by China!

Now, as soon as he got his hands on it, he won a big jackpot and gained fame and fortune, can he not go crazy with excitement?

Among the great powers, the Americans are the only ones who have always maintained a cautious and optimistic attitude. They were not keen to participate in the encirclement and suppression of Yang Hao, nor did they care how much they benefited from the loan to the Manchus. Minister Tian Bei even privately told his subordinates: "Don't underestimate our friends. His abilities cannot be defined by conventional thinking. The United States does not have to rush to the front line until the battle is completely won. ”

Chinese businessmen reacted differently.

Most of the bosses who have business dealings and cooperation with Yang Hao are uncertain. He habitually adopted a conservative wait-and-see attitude, neither participating in the struggle between the Yang clan and the foreign powers and the Qing court, nor immediately withdrawing his shares.

The practice of these people is a thousand-year-old practice of not putting all their eggs in one basket. Those big families between the Han and Tang dynasties have always liked to disperse their elites into several forces, so that no matter who wins in the end, their families can continue. This can be regarded as an experience drawn from the disputes of the pre-Qin Dynasty for thousands of years.

In addition, they also paid attention to the changes in Yang Hao's military strength at any time. Most of the businessmen could see that a troubled era of a few decades or a few hundred years was coming, and whoever had the most force at this time might win the final victory. There is no doubt that the current Yang Group has the qualifications to compete in the Central Plains, and it would be stupid to give up. It is too risky to put all the treasure on and make the enemy of the whole world.

There are only a very few people who are not determined, and when they see that the momentum is not good, they decisively withdraw from the Yang cooperation, even if they violate the contract and pay a certain price, they will not hesitate.

Yang Hao issued an order to all offices, no matter who wanted to leave, let them go, and never stay. However, their credit ratings were immediately lowered, and those who were too excessive were directly brought closer to the blacklist.

Some people relied on industrial and commercial support programs, and when they saw that the wind was not right, the selfishness that existed from the beginning began to overflow. Most of them are dissatisfied with the management system, trade union system, salary and employee benefits stipulated by Yang Hao, which is equivalent to cutting out more than half of the money they may earn! If there is no Yang family as the backstage, these landlords, gentry, celebrities, and strongmen can play any tricks and be able to clean up those mud-legged workers obediently.

In the words of a couple of factory owners: "What do you do with those cheap bones to eat rice and white noodles?" And give them a day off every seven days? I only do eight hours of work a day, and there has been no such good thing in the world since ancient times! There is work to do and food to eat, even if there is green smoke on their ancestral grave, it is such a way to enjoy, where are we going to be the masters? ”

Thinking that Yang Hao had been embattled by the two-sided attack and had no time to take care of them, many local leaders began to make small moves. Let their cronies create friction among workers, pick quarrels and provoke trouble, withhold payment for goods to make false accounts, delay loan repayment, and even find the government to come out and stir up lawsuits.

In all these factories and enterprises, there are key members of the "Huaxing Association" who take up positions such as the head of the workers and the chairman of the trade union, and the financial accounting and regional financial supervision companies are also Yang Hao's people. The small tricks played by those bosses can't be concealed at all, and all kinds of black records are continuously gathered at the Tianjin headquarters, forming a crisis of dark clouds!

Suddenly found that so many people tried to turn their faces, and the core members scolded angrily: "Do these people still have a little bottom line of being a human being?" Without our support, where would they have the opportunity to engage in industrial industry, revitalize their dead money, and keep up with the general trend of social development? Don't they know. The truth of fishing with all your might? ”

The murderous Ding Weifen and Xu Yanzhuo and others. Even built yì Yang Hao: "Immediately take sanctions." Eradicate these tumors mercilessly! ”

Several of them have been staying in southwest Lu to carry out land reform, and they have witnessed with their own eyes how stubborn and conservative the landlords and gentry are, and it is almost impossible to push them forward. On the contrary, he used the violent method of "fighting local tyrants and dividing up the land" to simply mobilize the masses to rise up and fight against these local tyrants and inferior gentry, but on the contrary, it was very effective and could win the support and love of the broad masses of the people.

Yang Hao held down their irritability and patiently analyzed: "China is so big. Circumstances vary from place to place, so a one-size-fits-all approach cannot be taken. At present, our main task is to develop national industry and commerce as much as possible, and this requires us to educate and transform the vast number of old-style landlords and gentry as much as possible, and to select those who can be converted among them first and put them on the right path. The rest of those who die unrepentant, it is not too late to kill the killers. We can't engage in that kind of thing that is not taught and punished, so as not to leave future troubles. ”

"What then? Just stare at them and watch them do whatever they want? ”

Yang Hao said senranly: "Keep the account first." It's been almost a year since we started our ideological enlightenment, and we'll see how many people are genuinely supportive. This was to test not only the landlords and gentry who were the bosses, but also the working masses. Let's see how many of them are truly enlightened, and how many of them are able to persevere in the belief of struggle. ”

Ding Weifen and others came to their senses. The case was exclaimed: "Bring all these conscious workers and enlightened bosses into our organization?" As the backbone of the influence of the lower classes? ”

Yang Hao smiled and bowed, that's what it meant.

China is so big, and neither he nor the existing backbone of the "Huaxing Society" can personally inspect and select new members. Like in the history of this world, as long as people take the initiative, they will be brought in regardless of whether they are good or bad, and as a result, there are many internal factions, and there are many internal factions, confusion and infighting.

In order to ensure the purity and unity of the organization, it had to be purged again and again, during which it was inevitable that there would be accidental injuries and expansion, leading to many unjust, false and wrongful cases. The price to pay is too great.

Now that he has enough time and resources, he doesn't have to be so anxious, he might as well use the unprecedented crisis to test the beneficiaries after a year of ideological baptism. Those who know how to be grateful, understand righteousness, and are willing to devote themselves to the cause of justice will be screened out, and one will be counted as one, and the influence of the organization will be expanded in an orderly manner.

However, this is also very risky, and if it is ignored for a period of time, some grassroots organizations will inevitably be destroyed and some people will be harmed. It is more likely that after the formation of a large-scale trend, people will spread false rumors, making them really think that Yang Hao is going to be finished, which may form a domino effect and bring all the originally determined people into the ditch.

In this regard, Yang Hao has also been prepared.

As long as the businessmen in the world are willing to come out, they can always find a channel to communicate with the top level around the corner. Now with the telegraph and the steamship express, even if he is at the ends of the earth, he can still receive news from Beijing and Tianjin in a few days.

Whether it is the factory owner who has joined the industrial and commercial support program, or the big boss who cooperates with Yang's, they are all paying attention to Yang's actions. And those who have representatives in Beijing and Tianjin simply squat at the door of their homes to keep an eye on them.

Yang Hao took orders aggressively, they were not too surprised, this is just the beginning, the dignified Yang Group has such a big capital, it is impossible to break the bones with 10 million taels. But they then found that the Pingyao Song family, the Ludong Cai family, the Zhoucun Meng family, the Zhang family and other big families actually took out hundreds of thousands or millions of silver to invest in the Yang family's action, and they couldn't sit still.

Many people thought that Yang Hao was going to become Hu Xueyan's second, but now it seems that something is wrong! Those silvers are considered to be the capital at the bottom of the box for everyone who pays the money, and once they lose it, they will go bankrupt and plummet.

Could it be that there is a big article here?

For a while, the representatives who went to these families to visit and listen to the news almost stepped on the threshold. Whether it is Song Yunsheng, the Meng family, the Zhang family, or the Cai family, they are all silent. Whatever you say, you will use Lu Shang's credit as an excuse to shirk it.

In this way, the wall-riding faction is sitting on wax, left is not right, and they can't make up their minds.

But the people who were received by the Yang family with the list of goods were happy! They all thought that they would lose all their money this time, and they couldn't pass the year, but Yang Hao suddenly made the next move, which was simply a relief in the snow!

They don't care if the Yang family is rebellious or not, as long as they can give them a way to live, this is a living bodhisattva!

For a time, there were several times more people who gave Yang Haoli a tablet, and the voices of folk praise and praise were boiling! No matter who mentions it, they have to give a thumbs up and say: "Boss Yang, benevolence and righteousness!" ”

The parties to the vertical and horizontal game are unmoved, the war has just begun, and the momentary table xiàn can't explain anything. All the means on the periphery have been used, and the net has been tightened little by little, look at how the surnamed Yang is still struggling!

Every day, countless news is spreading, and countless people's eyes are on the mysterious building of the American Concession.

At the end of November, a surprise news came to all sides, Yang Hao's Yanhua Foreign Bank actually began to deliver the first batch of goods!

"Delivered so quickly? There was no news beforehand, how did he get it?! ”

The first reaction of the foreign devils was, impossible! All ships bound for Chinese ports were arrested, all raw materials used to produce munitions and equipment were cut off by them, and in order to prevent Yang Hao from coping with inventory, they even modified the cargo sample.

Minister Bao Kele still expressed calmness and made a judgment with confidence: "It must have been hastily changed by him with the raw materials and parts that he had left before, to increase the confidence of his partners." In fact, he's just holding on. If you don't believe it, we can carefully inspect the goods and definitely find out the loopholes! ”

On December 5, 1895, the first batch of goods arrived in Tianjin. Under the supervision of personnel from all over the world, Yuan Shikai took the risk to come to the scene and inspect the goods in person! (To be continued......)