"Cotton!" Yang Yuanzhao blurted out in a daze. He thought that it might be strategic resources such as saltpeter, steel, and copper, but in the end, it was an important economic crop cotton. The British and French actions were very clear, that is, shorting the spot cotton for November next year, in order to absorb chips on a large scale. The spot futures for November were soon popular. It is obvious that Britain and France are stocking up a large amount of cotton, and there are a lot of bits.

Starting from the 20th century, with the research of various agricultural science and technology, the use of various excellent seeds, fertilizers and bird droppings, the price of cotton has been relatively stable and has even dropped step by step.

If Britain and France were to prepare for the war afterwards, this was just a matter of nonsense. They spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build almost many battleships, just to acquire a batch of cotton. It is true that cotton is a strategic resource, but its role on the battlefield is probably only a small part of military uniforms, sanitary tampons, bandages, etc. Hoarding hundreds of millions of dollars of cotton is enough to fight decades of war. Whether it was Britain and France, or later Germany, the preparations for World War I were far less in-depth.

There are problems and tricks. Although Yang Yuanzhao, who came from later generations, is not very proficient in the stock market and futures markets, it does not mean that he does not know about the century of information explosion in the 21st century, hedge funds, quantum funds, the US subprime mortgage crisis, Southeast Asian financial crisis, these familiar crises, plus the comments on these crises in newspapers and magazines, even ordinary people can know some routines.

In the 21st century, it is a century with developed information and extremely powerful financial circulation. If you want to make a big plan, you need to prepare several years or even ten years in advance, and the work you need to do is extremely refined. Only in this way can you attack suddenly. Soros's quantum fund is definitely the best.

At the beginning of the 20th century, because one century apart, the tentacles of the financial field were far from that level. It was already good that large funds such as Britain and France could establish more accounts and make a surface for selling dog meat on the head of sheep. This could have been hidden from most people in this era. Including some countries, these may have been hidden from this era, but Yang Yuanzhao, who had the vision of later generations.

The huge amount of capital movements and several fluctuations in transaction volume are a bright big light bulb, not to mention that the other party is doing so without any restraint, and more and more data are analyzed. The results are clear. The major countries led by Britain and France are making every effort to acquire cotton. The total volume reaches 300 million pounds.

I thought it was about 500 million, but this was not a small amount of money, 300 million pounds and 1.5 billion US dollars. In this era, it was equivalent to the entire cost of many main battleships. Even the entire cost of a large war, millions of soldiers. Every day, they attacked wildly, poured out the torrent of steel. They were placed on cotton.

"Young Master Yang, you're sure they are buying cotton. This is incredible. The cotton production has been rising continuously in the past 10 years, and the sales of cotton cloth have also been rising. But overall, it should be a downward channel. Aren't they afraid of the huge losses of these investments?" Hubi was confused and didn't know what he was wrong. As for his own intention, he believed in Yang Yuanzhao's judgment, but he really couldn't figure it out.

Yang Yuanzhao thought carefully, looking at the various data gathered from the world on the table, suddenly his eyes lit up and he said deeply: "I know why they do?"

Yang Yuanzhao was able to analyze the purposes of the great powers such as Britain and France from the limited information, which made Habi amazed. He racked his brains and couldn't understand them. However, from these analysis, he could not get the purpose of the great powers such as Britain and France. This could definitely be considered powerful. Habi immediately listened, for fear of missing any word.

"Habi, I actually want to thank you. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have thought it would have been!" Yang Yuanzhao said slowly and said with a stern expression.

"Because of me? I didn't do anything?" Hubby asked in surprise, looking confused.

"You have found out that Britain, France and other things are going to be unfavorable to China. Although there is no detailed information, it is enough for me to figure out the key. They are here for cotton!"

"It's for cotton, why!"

Yang Yuanzhao sighed and said, "I didn't expect that I still underestimated the vigilance of the great powers towards China. The key to their attacks on cotton is actually us!"

"We?" Hubby was startled and stood up and said, "Has we been noticed in Baotou?"

"No, they didn't notice Baotou, otherwise, it wouldn't be cotton, but other things!" Yang Yuanzhao finally returned to his calmness and said, "Do you still remember the data given to you before, how many textile machinery we sold before!"

"I didn't see this clearly, I heard a lot!"

"This time at the Wuhan Quanye Conference, we signed a contract of more than 30 million yuan, of which more than two-thirds were textile machinery. Taking 20 million as an example, the spinning machine was 15 million yuan in total. According to the price of our Baotou, it is 3 million spindles!"

3 million ingots, this number is quite large. In Habi's mind, it is nothing. The cotton textile factory in the northwest has completed 1.2 million ingots, and will expand to about 2.8 million ingots in the future. If so many are sold, what's the point?

Seeing that Habi was not worried at all, Yang Yuanzhao shook his head and continued: "If I hadn't made any mistakes in the estimation, when the demonstration effect of these people was produced, some people who were waiting and watching would devote themselves to it. In addition to the expansion of Baotou, it is expected that by around June next year, the total capacity of cotton textile cotton spindles in the country will exceed 15 million spindles! At the speed of our Baotou cotton spindles, if there are two packs a year, it will be 30 million bags of cotton yarn!"

"30 million bags, what about the sky, so much?" The huge number shocked Hubi. Cotton was also a resource he had always paid attention to. 30 million bags, he never thought there would be so many. A pack of 400 pounds was not about producing 12 billion pounds of cotton yarn. Even if it was replaced with a metric unit, it would be close to 60 million tons. His face finally changed.

Cotton is a relatively important economic crop in the world, and its annual output is very large. China has never been a main cotton production area. The country's cotton output may not be one-tenth of the output. This means that if a large number of textile machines are launched, China will usher in a huge gap in cotton and need a large amount of imported cotton.

"It's so vicious!" Hubby took a breath and said. The British and French approach can be said to be a precaution, or it can be said to be a waste of firewood. China needs almost 60 million tons of cotton. This is already a lot of cotton production in the world. The most important thing is that this is part of the additional growth. If Britain and France use huge funds to hoard cotton, in the future, from next summer to cotton, even if the cotton spot futures in November next year are hyped up by Britain and France, the price of cotton will rise a little.

The Northwest took out the machine and paid in installments for the concession, but the raw materials rose and the result was lost. Perhaps, the hard work of these factory owners would suffer a few cents or even a few yuan in every piece of cloth produced. However, Britain and France only invested part of the funds to fuel the fire and gain huge gains.

"What should I do?" Habi asked anxiously. On the one hand, it was because his boss was Yang Yuanzhao. Yang Yuanzhao relied on Baotou. Cotton textiles are one of the most important machine exports and light industrial products in Baotou. On the other hand, he is also a German. There are few colonies outside Germany, which are incomparable to Britain and France, and even have a big difference with the United States. Due to the raw materials, Germany has always been exploited by Britain and France, which have a vast colony, and the United States and Russia, which have a wide range of land. Although it is just an inconspicuous small item, the fluctuations of cotton will still cause a series of problems. At least Germany's textile machinery and cotton cloth will be greatly affected.

The problem has been seen, how to do it? In a sense, Britain and France have become invincible above cotton. After all, no matter how the price fluctuates, the raw materials still focus on the raw materials themselves. Britain and France have vast colonies, and many of them are traditional cotton planting areas. Especially Britain and the UK, which owns India, the main cotton production area, can definitely be regarded as an important pole affecting cotton. As long as it controls the cotton exports from India, the United States, and Russia, the cotton will inevitably cause huge fluctuations, not to mention that they have used huge funds to squeeze the existing cotton inventory. At that time, the cotton they hoarded will rise to an unimaginable level. Huge investment will obtain huge benefits, and this increase will be hit by the cost and passed on to all consumers.

With a sigh, Yang Yuanzhao knew that the butterfly wings he raised had already begun to flash. The participation of the Wuhan Quanye Association made Britain and France come up with such a thing. If Baotou intervenes more in international affairs in the future, what kind of trend will it set off? The butterfly wings are just a slight storm here, and elsewhere, it may be a storm.

However, the storm has already started. Yang Yuanzhao's greatest support in this era is not entirely the vision of future generations and a clear understanding of history. His greater reliance is still an all-in-one opportunity. This is also the key to his daring to show the banner of the Northwest without a stable and strong environment. Although it would be better to wait for a year, Yang Yuanzhao couldn't wait. There were two years left in Xinhai and five years left in the first battle. Historical and international environment would not give him so much time to show it out rashly. Although he took risks, he could get the greatest benefits in the future. However, he did not expect that when he encountered such a thing, what should he do to solve this problem? Yang Yuanzhao frowned, started to use his brain, and kept thinking. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!