Chapter 373: Sadness of Japan
Wenshan and books. To a certain extent, Yang Yuanzhao missed the information era in later generations. He asked Google about foreign affairs and Baidu about internal affairs. This has indeed saved countless netizens a lot of trouble. Many very biased things can be found under Baidu and Google. Now, they can only read them one by one.
Of course, many documents have been sorted out by the assistants and many documents. Yang Yuanzhao only needs to go through them a little to see what they are, and there are even some methods that will be used in later generations. Through this, some context has been basically sorted out, and there are obvious signs of large funds operating in them.
First of all, the international financial market. According to various data, the other party used relatively large funds to establish positions in a stable location, and kept conducting this transaction. The target point was officially in November 1910, starting from the cotton harvesting season in most parts of the world, the other party would make efforts to launch an attack on cotton from the two fields of finance and spot.
Specifically, the textile industry led by the UK has greatly reduced the shipment of cotton cloth. During this period, the basic needs of cotton cloth and clothes were basically imported to solve the problem, which is completely different from the previous UK practices.
As the world's most important producer of cotton and cotton yarn, although the first industrial revolution was triggered by steam as the driving force, the core of the industry is light industries such as cotton yarn and cotton. The greatest support of the British finance every year is on cotton yarn and cotton. Now, it only enters and does not leave, and instead seeks to buy it. Doing this without any concealment is simply underestimating the world.
Yang Yuanzhao can see it at a glance. It does not mean that others can see it too. At least Japan and China are not visible. Many small Chinese cotton textile companies have obtained a certain amount of foreign trade orders due to changes in the UK strategy. This situation seems unusual to Yang Yuanzhao, but in these factory owners, there is no problem at all. They have made a suitable investment, and even exported cotton cloth to England and America. This represents the improvement and upgrading of the industry.
Little do we know that this is a consumption strategy. When we know that a commodity has overdue value, we will use other people's products to replace it, and our own products will accumulate in stock, waiting for a significant increase in the future. It is certain that as long as Britain and France start to take action in futures and other financial markets, the British textile industry will hoard products that have been stored for almost a year, and at that time, their prices are not the current prices, but the combined price generated after the rise in cotton. At least, it will double the current one. The profit will increase to an unimaginable level.
It is very simple, mastering the supply and demand relationship. Even the international pricing power to a certain extent, and even the steps Yang Yuanzhao has done are just passively resisting, minimizing China's losses as much as possible, but unable to intervene in the general trend. Yang Yuanzhao sighed. On the materials, the crisis of cotton and cotton cloth is very close. The great powers have raised their butcher knives. Many Chinese producers are still in the crazy of booming business. I don't know that every batch of cotton cloth exported now will provide ammunition to Britain and France and other powers. In just a few months, the export of various cotton cloth and cotton yarn even exceeded the total amount in the past 10 years. Fortunately, in terms of cotton, it was stuck in Baotou, and some cotton harvested in advance and past inventory were eaten by Baotou, otherwise the problem would be even greater.
He was only prepared to take action by himself, but he didn't expect that there would be such a serious situation. After thinking about it, Yang Yuanzhao decided to gather the current large-scale cotton textile merchants in China through the German and American foreign companies. They were parties and were direct participants in this crisis. Once they suffered losses or even lost confidence, it would be even more unfavorable to the entire battle.
Facing Britain, the world's largest power, a powerful country dominated by warships, and its colonies were even opened in various parts of the world, Yang Yuanzhao did not dare to be careless at all. Any little power needed to be used, and this is the best way to deal with Britain.
When summoning personnel in the cotton textile field, Yang Yuanzhao's first thought was Zhang Jian, the top scholar who gave up his official position and devoted himself to the cotton textile industry, and became the leader of the industry. With the help of the developed cotton planting industry in Nantong, he did a good job in the cotton textile factory, especially after receiving the support of Baotou, he obtained a large number of cheap machines at a price of 30%. Although there was pressure to repay, Songjiang Cotton's outstanding performance still made him the most dazzling cotton textile enterprise in the past year. Of course, he did the most exports.
Nantong is close to Shanghai, and even Nantong itself is also a harbor. It is not as large as Shanghai, but it is enough for them to export their things. British foreign companies, headed by etiquette and foreign acts, even sent specialists to wait in Nantong in order to acquire Dasheng's veil and cotton cloth. In the six months from April to October, Dasheng exported 120,000 pieces of cotton cloth and obtained nearly one million yuan in funds. This money was cash. Previous arrears did not appear at all. Almost after the goods were loaded, the foreign companies paid the money.
Although Lihe and other foreign companies are powerful, they are not as powerful as this level. The amount of funds of millions and the export volume of other personnel is equivalent to that of Lihe in the past six months, which is almost 1 million pounds. The price of half a battleship can definitely be called a huge sum.
Coincidentally, other companies are similar. Facing the good conditions of Baotou, they further expanded the scale of production when the repayment pressure is not so heavy. Under this circumstance, China's cotton cloth crisis has not only not weakened, but has instead strengthened, with at least 20% of cotton ingots more than expected, and the number of cotton cloth is also extremely large.
Instead, countries such as Britain and France stockpiled cotton cloth for half a year. This huge amount of cotton cloth will definitely look for a market. What is more suitable for China's huge market? This is also the dumping place for traditional cotton cloth. Since 1900, historical records have recorded that every year, the UK will dump hundreds of millions of cotton cloth in mainland China, sweeping away a large amount of funds from China. This time, under the high profits, they swept away more money.
In addition to China, Japan is also one. In a sense, Japan is still a relatively large one. After defeating the Qing government and Russia, Japan has gained a foothold in the whole world with the help of war reparations and support from Britain and other countries. After initially completing industrialization, although the people are still barren, the huge population and relatively high economic output still make it a market in Asia, second only to China.
Light industry is something Japan values. Before, Britain and France had just entered the high-end products slightly. But now, since such a huge amount of funds have been used, they should not let Japan go. According to what Yang Yuanzhao saw, in the past six months, Japan's light industry exports have also increased significantly, and the only little cotton left in Japan has been searched for.
Japan has never been a major cotton producing area. Most of their cotton relies on imports. Japan, which has just entered the industrial field and the world economy, has not considered that there are also things such as shearing and financial aspects that affect the real economy. This time, it may fall even worse than China.
Since the rise of Japan, Japan has been one of the pawns of a great power. During the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Japan was the pawns of Britain to weaken China. If Britain had not stood behind it, the Japanese government's finances had already gone bankrupt during the Sino-Japanese War. Not to mention the Russo-Japanese War, Japan became the vanguard of Britain's weakening Russia's interests in the Far East. The reason why Russia's naval battle with Japan was defeated was the focus of the Russian Tsar's brain-dead trekking, but the UK's failure to open seaports and supplies was to make Russia worse on the scale of failure.
Judging from the information we have obtained at present, the UK has not notified Japan of this time of shearing wool. In the past six months, Japan has not had any action to hoard cotton. They even increased their production and obtained dividends from light industry at a low cost. However, they did not know that they were fattened and would go back more in the future.
Of course, Yang Yuanzhao would not remind Japan that not to mention the contradiction between China and Japan in later generations, but to say that now, the Far East and Asia can only rise to a strong country. On the road of competition, China and Japan will inevitably have a war. To a certain extent, it is a good choice to use this opportunity to weaken it.
After rubbing his head, Yang Yuanzhao continued his work. Although the general steps have been summarized, there are still some minor problems. Although he has been preparing for this battle for a long time, Yang Yuanzhao is still a little nervous. After all, this is the force of the world's largest country on another level, with Britain, the world's largest power, and even forces like the United States and France. Any preparation must be put to the most basic level and no problems can be allowed.
Chapter completed!