After Mitsui left the venue, the originally oppressive atmosphere in the venue suddenly disappeared without a trace. At this time, although Harrison and others felt that Mitsui & Co. was designed by Yan Shao, because of the influence and anger of the previous incident, even Mitsubishi and other Japanese foreign companies did not sympathize with Mitsui & Co., who had already left, and even many people gloated.

In their opinion, even if Mitsui was designed, it was because they used immoral means first—————— although it was purely a psychology of not being able to eat grapes and saying that grapes were sour.

In any case, after Mitsui & Co.'s position was taken, the bidding finally entered the normal process.

Among the more than a dozen foreign firms, the most powerful ones are undoubtedly veteran foreign firms such as Jardine Matheson and Lihe, so after Mitsui and Mitsui were out, Harrison glanced in the direction of Lihe and the foreign company and found that the senior of Lihe and the foreign company were also looking at him.

With a tacit smile, the two of them each withdrew their gazes.

Before Mitsui was out, the two belonged to the same front, but now Mitsui is no longer there, and the two have resumed their competitive relationship.

In the stands, after signaling Elano and Caterina to go down first, Yan Shao took out the bids of their respective foreign firms, and then opened the bids one by one.

After more than an hour of bidding, Yan Shao finally selected Harrison's Jardine Matheson to win the bid, because Jardine Matheson's bid was the most reasonable of all foreign firms.

"Congratulations..."Walking up to Harrison, the senior of Lihe & Co. stretched out his right hand and congratulated him very gracefully.

"Where, where," Harrison said humbly, quickly getting up from his seat.

At this time, several other senior students of foreign companies also came over to congratulate Harrison.

If it were in the past, this would have been difficult to see, after all, the competition between several foreign banks was very fierce, especially in recent years, when the entire Old Continent was almost divided in half by the Central and Entente powers.

However, after experiencing the Mitsui Yoko incident, not only these Taipan, but also the people below were much more open-minded about the result of this time—————— perhaps because they hoped that they would win the bid from the beginning, or maybe it was because the friendship formed when they joined forces to prepare to deal with the Japanese played a certain role.

On the other side, looking at the tender documents belonging to Jardine Matheson, Yan Shao also showed a satisfied smile.

Compared with the way he originally planned to directly find a foreign bank to trade, the result obtained after this kind of bidding is indeed much more beneficial.

And being able to pit the Japanese also made Yan Shao's mood much happier.

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According to the agreement, Yan Shao will use 1.5 million silver dollars to purchase 80,000 spindles and 2,000 looms from Jardine Matheson, as well as supporting ginning, clearing, engine, machine repair and other equipment, which will be shipped to Wuhu in three batches, and Jardine Matheson will also send another 20,000 silver dollars worth of ash factory equipment.

80,000 spindles, you must know that when Zhang Jian's Dasheng Yarn Factory was first established, there were only more than 20,000 spindles, and it was not until 1903 that it increased to more than 40,000. Even if you count the second Dasheng factory, which was only opened in 1907, the number of spindles in the entire Dasheng Yarn Factory is only more than 60,000. Other yarn mills in the same period only had a level of 10,000 or 20,000...

For example, Changshu Yutai Yarn Factory (10,192) founded in 1905, Taicang Jitai Yarn Factory (12,700) and Ningbo Hefeng Yarn Factory (21,600) in 1906, Wuxi Zhenxing Yarn Factory (10,192) Dasheng Yarn Factory No. 2 (26,000) in 1907, Shanghai Zhenhua Yarn Factory (11,648), Shanghai Jiucheng Yarn Factory (9,424), Shanghai Tongchang Yarn Factory (11,592) in 1908, Jiangyin Limin Yarn Factory (15,040), Anyang Guangyi Yarn Factory in 1909 (22,344 pieces) and Shanghai Gongyi Yarn Factory (25,676 pieces) in 1910.

In other words, if all the 80,000 new spindles can be put into production, the soon-to-be-born Wuhu textile factory will become the largest textile mill among Chinese businessmen, and probably even the largest in China.

In addition, Jardine Matheson also needs to send engineers to Wuhu to undertake plant construction, equipment installation and staff training. Of course, these are time-bound, and there will be no deliberate delays.

Yan Shao will pit Yamamoto ruthlessly, which is also related to this.

In Mitsui's bid, the conditions were indeed favorable in all aspects, but there was no time set for equipment installation and staff training. If Yan Shao had only one person, he might have been confused by Yamamoto's tricks, but with the guidance of Elaline and Katarina, he quickly saw the strangeness.

"I'm sorry, Yan..."In the office of Jardine Matheson, Harrison looked at Yan Shao apologetically. At the beginning, I thought you were..."Originally, because of the 'collusion of bidding', I thought that Yan Shao was a person with bad character, who thought that people just wanted to pit the Japanese, although it was also very unauthentic to do so, but Harrison still felt a little ashamed.

"It's nothing..."Yan Shao smiled slightly. Because I deliberately wanted you to think so..."

Hearing Yan Shao say this, Harrison was also happy.

Now everyone in Shanghai knows that Mitsui was severely cheated by Yan Shao.

Not only because of the bidding in Shanghai, but also because the reputation of the foreign company has also fallen a lot, now when it comes to Yan Shao, almost every employee of Mitsui foreign company is hateful.

"Okay, let's talk about business..."After smiling, Yan Shao rubbed his somewhat sore waist. How long will it take for the first batch of equipment to be shipped? ”

When it came to business, Harrison's expression became serious. "Now there are almost 20,000 spindles and more than 300 looms in the warehouse of the foreign bank, counting the loading time, you can leave in two days, and I have also arranged the engineers required for installation and training for you, not only have outstanding ability, but also are proficient in Chinese, so there is no need to worry about communication problems..."

"Then thank you..."Hearing Harrison say this, Yan Shao was also overjoyed.

Earlier, Yan Shao was most worried about the problem of language barrier, although the language barrier can be solved by translation, but every engineer needs a translator wherever he goes, after all, it is still too troublesome, on the contrary, if the engineer himself understands Chinese, then the matter is much simpler...

After negotiating business matters, Yan Shao returned to his residence from the foreign bank.

Now that everything has been negotiated, Yan Shao and the others naturally don't need to continue to delay here. It was at this time that a telegram came from Anhui.

The telegram was sent by Li Liang, and the content was very simple...

"The warehouse has been built..."

Two days later, Yan Shao and his entourage returned to Wuhu on a freighter loaded with spindles and looms. On the dock, in addition to Lu Yuanding and Harrison and others who saw them off, there were several people who were looking at the ships that were gradually moving away with hateful eyes...

"Wait," said Jotaro Yamamoto with his nails sunk deep in his palms in an unknown corner. I'm going to make you pay..."

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