Dr. Caleb also sat down at the table with a plate, and the four people at the table were of different nationalities and languages, so they all spoke in English.

Even in English, each with its own accent, Zuo Youyou listened to it like a fight.

Fortunately, breakfast ended quickly, and the group went to the venue for a meeting.

Zuo Youyou sat down and carefully studied the four documents he had obtained from Jiang Shiqin.

Among these four documents, two were letters sent by merchants from Gwangbang to the Incheon branch in 1894 and 1902; Two of them were letters sent by the Incheon branch in 1903 to the domestic Guangbang.

In 1894, two commodities in Incheon rose and fell from time to time because of the Shantung Gang: silk and gold sand.

For Zuo Youyou, the letter was not of much value. Because in the previous historical materials, Zuo Youyou had figured out the main business line of overseas Chinese merchants in North Korea, which was the silk and gold sand mentioned in this letter in 1894.

Overseas Chinese merchants purchased silk from China, shipped it to North Korea for sale, and used the money from the sale of silk to buy gold sand in North Korea and ship it back to China for sale. In this way, the freighter can travel back and forth between China and North Korea to ensure profits.

Zuo Youyou began to read the letter from 1902.

Jinsha since the power after the intention of the city, but Shandong people from 160 to 165 to 37 to 37 to be able to bear the call, 36.2 is not in line, so do not dare to force the hand, the Shanghai price fell 7.8 hang, unknown

The sentence reads as follows:

After the gold sand was connected to the electricity, it was intended to be done according to the city, but the Shandong people grabbed from 160 to 165 hangs, and they had to hit to 37 to be able to bear the capital, and the call to 36.2 was not in place, so they did not dare to force it. In the past two days, Shandong people have temporarily stopped their hands, and the Shanghai price has fallen by 7.8 hangs.

The letter is true that the Shandong Gang unusually bought a large amount of gold sand in North Korea and dumped it in Shanghai, causing the gold sand in Shanghai to be saturated, and the price began to fall, even by as much as 7 or 8 hangs.

"Shanghai?" Zuo Youyou saw the problem again, "Why did the Shandong Gang suppress the price of gold sand in Shanghai?" ”

Shanghai is the base camp of Wantaihe!

In 1902, the Shandong Gang and the Bai family joined forces to force the Hubei Gang back in the lottery field. Shandong Gang is doing tricks on the price of gold sand in Shanghai at this time?

Zuo Youyou's back is cold.

This is a premeditated encirclement and suppression by the Shandong Gang against Wantaihe!

In 1903, the letter of the Incheon branch said:

Pay the goods in detail to Han, because there are many people and goods in Shandong for several days, and the manpower is not enough to load them, so they cannot be loaded

Combined with the main commodity of the Shandong Gang in Korea at that time - silk, the meaning of this letter is that when the silk was sent from Incheon Port to Seoul, the Shandong Gang robbed the trade route from Incheon Port to Seoul and dumped a large amount of silk, and the Incheon branch was understaffed and failed to send out its own silk.

Some time later, the second letter of 1903 contained only a few hurried words:

There are many East Gang horses, and it is rare to get back to good things

Based on the situation at the time, it was inferred that the letter was a warning: the silk of the Shandong Gang had been marketed in large quantities in Seoul, and the Incheon branch had a premonition that the sales of silk would be affected, and decided to sell the bottom goods quickly and cheaply.

It's a pity that the two documents in 1903 never left Incheon at all, but were intercepted by the Shandong Gang. This means that by the time the letter was sent, the logistics network from Incheon Port to Seoul had been completely controlled by the Shandong Gang.

This illustrates a terrible truth:

As for the arrangement of the Shandong Gang in Incheon Port, other places did not know anything about it.

The domestic Guangbang businessmen don't know.

Shanghai's Wantai doesn't know.

Seoul's Mantaehe, Patrick Jason, naturally didn't know anything about it. Even, his relationship with the Shandong Gang is still an ally.

This letter was sandwiched in the documents and archives of the Shandong Gang, and after a hundred years, it was finally extracted from the historical materials of the Shandong Gang, put back the historical materials of the Guangbang, and transferred to the ancient literature room of the Seoul National University Library.

120 years later, when Zuo Youyou saw this letter, he couldn't help but say two words:

"Run!"

Unfortunately, these two words will never reach the ambitious Pak Jason in Seoul, North Korea, through 120 years.

Zuo Youyou finally knew what happened to the Wantaihe in 1903.

"In 1903, at the age of 32, Patrick Jerson was full of ambition. He teamed up with the Shandong Gang to defeat the Hubei Gang and carve up the Hubei lottery market. Unexpectedly, the Shandong Gang joined forces with the Wantaihe in Seoul, but carried out a series of secret actions in Incheon, snatching the trade route from Incheon Port to Seoul and seizing the silk market, which directly led to the inability of Patrick Jerson's silk to be sold and the backlog was in hand. To add insult to injury,Shandong Gang smashed the price of gold sand in Shanghai in 1902,Resulting in Parkerson's return to the ship without profitability,Silk backlog and gold sand loss,Affected Parkerson's cash flow,Eventually forced to withdraw from the lottery market。 ”

Zuo Youyou made a loud noise, and his voice echoed in the pantry.

She just couldn't hold back her excitement, and called Bai Xinshu and told him her inference.

Bai Xinshu's voice was calm: "Do you remember the newspaper we found in Fuyang?" ”

Zuo Youyou began to flip through the photo album of his phone.

"Four editions. Ad. Mantae Ho, rent, five-room shop and eighteen tiled houses, located in the 6th household of Hanwon Palace, Hyeongheungbang, Seoul Central Office, 1904. She read.

"That's all right." Zuo Youyou said, "In 1904, Wantaihe reduced the scale of operation and used some shops to collect rent. ”

Bai Xinshu thought for a while: "No, it's not good. ”

"What's wrong?"

"There's no need to downsize." Bai Xinshu said, "Because Wantaihe is a semicolon of Shanghai Wantai, in essence, the cash flow should be broken by Wantai." However, Wantaihe reduced the scale of his business, indicating that Wantai did not give him a back-up. ”

"Huh?" Only then did Zuo Youyou realize, "Yes, it's a semicolon!" ”

"There are two speculations." Bai Xinshu speculated, "First, Shanghai Wantai refused to help Wantaihe; Second, Wantai and Wantaihe reached some kind of agreement, and Wantaihe became independent and incurred losses. ”

"Or a combination of two." Zuo Youyou said, "Shanghai Wantai is unable to support the bottom, so the two reached an agreement, and Wantai and Wantai are independent." ”

"Speculation continues: what agreement was reached?"

"In business." Zuo Youyou thought for a while, "Nature is compensation." ”

Bai Xinshu did not express his opinion, but encouraged Zuo Youyou to continue.

Isn't this the end of the mission?

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"The Shandong Gang cracked down on the price of gold sand in Shanghai, and Shanghai Wantai must be affected. Perhaps, at that time, the financial situation of Shanghai Wantai was also not good, so it did not have the ability to help Wantaihe, nor did it have the ability to digest the backlog of silk, let alone give full compensation. Zuo Youyou tried to straighten out the logic, "Therefore, Chen Pingyuan and Bai Jiesheng broke up peacefully, and Chen Pingyuan gave Bai Jiesheng part of the compensation, which is inevitably beneficial to Chen Pingyuan; And Bai Jiesheng and Chen Pingyuan split the accounts and have been responsible for their own profits and losses since then. ”