"Is there any source material?" Bai Xinshu asked.

Zuo Youyou sent the file to the work group.

Lao Shi clicked on the file, almost put his eyes on the mobile phone screen, and looked at it with a serious face for a long time:

"No one has ever mentioned this in previous studies."

Dr. Xia nodded: "Yes, the incident of the Japanese claiming the mountains and rivers of Korea is very famous in the modern history of South Korea, but no one has ever mentioned this historical fact that the Japanese also asked for the exclusive monopoly of sugar. ”

Bai Xinshu asked, "Has this record been verified?" ”

"I found a contract between a Japanese and a Korean. ”

She sent a picture.

The two signatories wrote in the contract "Min Bing-seok, Minister of the Imperial Palace of Korea" and "Yoshiro Morito, Patriarch of the Tokyo Prefecture of the Imperial Japanese Empire", and the first clause of the contract reads as follows:

"The Minister of the Imperial Household, Min Byung-sang, delegated to Nagamori Toyoshiro himself or his agents the right to manufacture, import, monopolize, and ban soju, tobacco, white ginseng, salt, petroleum, sugar, iron, and other commodities within the territory of the Korean Empire. For this reason, the DPRK government strictly prohibits the manufacture, import, and monopoly sale of these commodities by ordinary people, and stipulates that a monopoly hall be set up independently. Toyoshiro Nagamori handed over a certain amount of money to the palace, of which the price of arranging the import and sale of sugar was an additional 30,000 yuan per year after deducting 20,000 yuan of expenses, and the contract period was ten years and could be renewed. ”

Zuo Youyou speculated: "So, the Japanese relied on subsidies and marketing subsidies from the Japanese government to gradually occupy a price competitive advantage, and Japanese sugar overwhelmed Hong Kong sugar of Wan Tae Wo in the Korean market——"

"Wait, Pak Jason is from Shanghai, and the supply of Wantaihe is mainly from the Wantai of his brother-in-law Chen Pingyuan. Therefore, Wan Tai Ho should be sold as Shanghai sugar - why do you say that it is sold as Hong Kong sugar? Bai Xinshu wrote the words "Hong Kong Sugar" on the whiteboard.

Dr. Xia said, "Shanghai is the largest sugar import port in modern China, and it is also the largest sugar consumption market. In 1867, 93% of Shanghai's total sugar sales were produced in China. Patrick Jason is a native of Shanghai, how could he go far and choose to use Hong Kong sugar instead of Shanghai sugar? ”

"It's not Shanghai Sugar." Zuo Youyou retorted, "Wantaihe's account book is written as 'car sugar', I have checked the information, and 'car sugar' refers to Hong Kong sugar." ”

"Isn't 'Che Sugar' a misspelling of Shanghai's 'Tu Sugar', or an accounting body?"

"It's not."

"Why?"

"Because the earliest mechanical sugar factory in Hong Kong is called 'China Railway Sugar Bureau', it is completely possible to refer to it as 'car sugar'."

Hearing this, several people nodded slowly.

Bai Xinshu wrote the word "car sugar" on the whiteboard.

"I recognise that 'Che Tang' refers to Hong Kong sugar and not 'earth sugar'. However, I have reservations when you say that Man Tai Wo mainly sells Hong Kong sugar. Dr. Xia flipped through the ledger and said sharply, "Since 1907, your so-called Hong Kong car candy has disappeared from the catalogue of imports of the Wan Tai He. ”

"Because Wan Tai He chose the Swire refined sugar produced by the British capital Hong Kong Taikoo Sugar Factory, and gave up the 'car sugar'."

"Evidence?"

"I see that in the history of Wantaihe, the word 'Taigu' often appears." Zuo Youyou said, "The Tongshun Thai mainly relies on the ships of the Taikoo Steamship Company to carry the cargo. Moreover, Patrick Jerson's brother-in-law, Zheng Yizhi, the younger brother of Zheng Guanying, a close friend of Chen Pingyuan, the manager of the Shanghai Wantai, was the comprador of the famous Swire & Co. in Tianjin, operating Swire Steamship and Swire Sugar. ”

Zuo Youyou, when he saw the historical facts, he was drowsy, and his eyebrows danced when he heard the gossip of the wealthy.

After she quickly flipped through the full set of Wantaihe account books, she didn't remember a few of the data on the opposite side, but she was impressed by the characters' love and hatred.

Jian Xingzhou couldn't help but complain: "Oh my God, Zuo Youyou, are you collecting historical materials, or are you watching the gossip of a wealthy family?!" ”

Zuo Youyou smiled.

Lao Shi said: "Black cats and white cats, if you can catch a mouse, you are a good cat." Gossip also has the value of gossip. ”

Zuo Youyou said: "That's it, this is called the relationship between the characters, what kind of wealthy gossip." ”

Jian Xingzhou rolled his eyes.

Zuo Youyou ignored him.

She walked over to the whiteboard and took the marker from Bai Xinshu's hand.

Bai Xinshu was caught off guard and snatched the pen, and Zuo Youyou's fingers brushed shallowly across his tiger's mouth.

Zuo Youyou turned around mercilessly.

Bai Xinshu subconsciously took two steps back, and the familiar tingling sensation on his face came up again. He tried to focus on Zuo Youyou's movements, ignoring the strange reactions on his body.

Zuo Youyou was completely unaware of Bai Xinshu's mental activity. She vigorously pulled out the cap of the marker, made a circle on "Hong Kong Sugar", and wrote down four words:

The Ahtay

"Following Hong Kong Sugar, I found a Hong Kong businessman who has been closely related in recent years from the account book of the Wantai of the Chen family in Shanghai-Anhetai."

"I found that in the past few years, the Chen family's Wantai has a close relationship with Hong Kong's Anhetai, and they regularly ship and receive goods. It can be inferred from this that it is entirely feasible for the Ahwatai to purchase Swire sugar cheaply in Hong Kong and ship it to the North Korean Wantai through the Wantai in Shanghai. ”

So, in just a few years, Japanese sugar drove out Hong Kong sugar, and Japanese merchants led to a sharp decline in the sugar income of the Wantaihe. In particular, it is not enough for Japanese businessmen to expel Hong Kong sugar, but also try to monopolize the sugar market in North Korea. ”

Zuo Youyou made a loud noise.

Dr. Xia thought for a long time before raising his head: "Boss, come over here." ”

Bai Xinshu didn't react, standing by the whiteboard, not knowing what to think.

"Boss?" Dr. Xia raised his voice.

"Huh??" Bai Xinshu suddenly came back to his senses, and then walked to Dr. Xia's side with an unnatural expression, "What? ”

Dr. Xia raised Jiang Shiqin's manuscript in his hand.

"I just flipped through Jiang Shiqin's treatise." She said to Bai Xinshu, "Jiang Shiqin's opinion on sugar seems to be a little different from our Zuo Youyou's view. ”

"Huh?" Zuo Youyou hadn't read Jiang Shiqin's treatise carefully, and he was a little nervous when he heard it, "What did he say?" ”

Jiang Shiqin said...... His writing sucks! Dr. Xia frowned and looked at it, "He deliberately mentioned sugar in his treatise because he believed that the sugar business was a legitimate business between the Wantaihe and the Japanese. ”

"Legitimate business? It's all gone, they all want to monopolize it, and it's still legitimate? Zuo Youyou complained, "Wan Taihe is not a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, if I were Bai Jiesheng, I would like to blow their dog heads up." ”

Zuo Youyou turned his head to Bai Xinshu for confirmation: "Boss, are you dissatisfied with Jiang Shiqin's point of view, so you let me go to the library to check the materials?"