It was precisely because of Yang Yuanzhao's vision that his waiting finally gained benefits. A few days later, a piece of information was sent to him. According to the report of the gangster, at the Japanese Cotton Textile Co., Ltd., it seemed that there was a big move at Shanghai Japan Cotton Textile Co., Ltd., not only did he say that the lights were decorated, but he also purchased a large number of high-end foods. Through the servants inside, he knew that a big man had arrived recently. ~~~~

This is ordinary news. After being summarized at the headquarters, it was taken seriously by the staff. The Japanese were the focus of their surveillance, and then reported to Yang Yuanzhao. Of course, Yang Yuanzhao knew that this was probably an important message. We continued to increase our efforts to monitor, and at the same time, we asked through various servants and channels to find out what was going on.

The omnipresent investigation finally got the news. Hiroshi Mitsui, the second young master of Mitsui Property, will arrive in Shanghai in one day. The purpose is not clear. Cotton Textile Co., Ltd. prepared it to welcome him.

Hiroshi Mitsui, this name is very strange, but Yang Yuanzhao did not pay attention to the name, but focused on his background. Mitsui Property, the 21st century was a century of advanced consulting, and also completely exposed many hidden things in the eyes of most people. Mitsui Zaibao is a big chaebol that is as famous as Sumitomo, Mitsui, and Yasuda. These four chaebols formed the pillars of Japan in later generations. Since its establishment, it has always influenced Japan's political economy, with strong financial resources, and the glory of the second largest economy in the future has a lot to do with them.

In this era, the chaebols had not yet been truly formed. The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and the Russo-Japanese War were just birthed. The foundation was not laid until the First World War. And it influenced Japan for more than a hundred years, Mitsui was one of the best. The chaebols that achieved the greatest development in the First World War.

In this era, Mitsui did not have such great influence, but was also on the way to rise. I think this Mitsui Property has a certain relationship with Shanghai Cotton Textile Co., Ltd., and even the largest Japanese textile industry consortium in Shanghai is under the name of Mitsui Property.

After knowing this, Yang Yuanzhao also understood that this was a key figure. He not only ordered the gang, but also sent out the power exclusively to Germany and the United States. He asked Hiroshi Mitsui from two aspects, the Germans and the secret stalking aspects, and tried to obtain his purpose and role in coming to Shanghai.

On October 21, 1910, a fleet of five Japanese sea ships arrived in Shanghai. A young man in his thirties, about thirty years old walked down from one of the small passenger ships. He took a large group of bodyguards and subordinates to disembark and went straight to the Japanese concession. Their arrival was originally the extremely neat Shanghai Cotton Textile Co., Ltd., and was decorated with lights and welcomed the young man's arrival.

His identity was almost out of reach, and the result of catching up came. Hiro Mitsui arrived with five ships, one of which was the small passenger ship he was riding on. The rest were large merchant ships. According to reports from the dock, they found porters and were unloading the goods. The ones loaded with grey cloth were estimated to be at least 250,000, and four ships may be 1 million.

At 1 million pieces, Yang Yuanzhao showed a smile on his face. Finally, he knew about this era, and of course he knew what the other party could do if he wanted to occupy the market. He wanted to occupy a market. First of all, he used the strategy of land price dumping to defeat all his competitors. Only after he had all his opponents and monopolized them, he could occupy the pricing power. At that time, the market and profits would still be theirs, and they would even get more.

This is indispensable to the fuel of Britain, France and Russia. According to his information, Japan does not store the most cotton cloth. In the British and French concessions, there are at least 50 million grey cloths stored, most of which are purchased from various newly established cotton textile companies, and a small number are transported from abroad, but they have never moved. The purpose is not obvious. I am afraid that they are really planning the mantis and cicadas.

Hiroshi Mitsui was very high-profile. He had entered Shanghai and held a grand dance for friendship. He invited consulates, business representatives, and even many celebrities from all over the world. When the cocktail party came back, Schroeder came to report that Hiroshi Mitsui was indeed young and energetic. During the closed-door talks with several major overseas banks, he clearly mentioned that he would occupy the Shanghai market and defeat these small cotton textile mills in China.

Yang Yuanzhao can imagine that scene. A rich young man was responsible for a major task for the first time. The current price of a million pieces of grey cloth will be close to tens of millions of yen. You know, this is not the yen of later generations. The yen of this era is quite strong, almost one to one ratio with silver dollars. I heard that this is still the first batch, and other countries are also very welcome. Britain, France and Russia are directly supported, which will allow Japan to control the entire Shanghai grey cloth market. Germany's cotton textile industry is not very strong and is not their main business. I guess I have seen some of it from the actions of Britain, France and Russia. Now it is tensely purchasing cotton in Europe and South America. It is neither support nor oppose Japan's actions.

From two aspects, there is not much information to obtain, but it is enough for Yang Yuanzhao to make a judgment. At the instigation of Britain, France and Russia, the other party's action is getting closer and closer. Sure enough, on the third day of Mitsui Hiroshi's arrival, before Japan could make any moves, the price of the international cotton futures market rose in response. In just one day, the increase was as high as 12%. The bulls had a huge advantage and the shorts were defeated. When cotton was about to be harvested, the rise in cotton prices immediately made the world cotton market tense.

The international market price does not seem to affect Shanghai, and the price of cotton cloth has not increased much. However, in fact, the cotton cloth that belongs to the association members of the Cotton Textile Association has been withdrawn long ago and is basically in warehouses. In Suzhou only a hundred miles away from Shanghai, in large manors in the suburbs, 50 million cotton cloths are neatly piled up here. These are emergency transportation from Baotou for half a month. In Wuhan, the largest commercial center in the south, these are enough to support the sales of cloth throughout the south.

In this period of world trade is still in its development and the so-called World Trade Organization has not yet been truly established, dumping is always the best way to occupy the market. Yang Yuanzhao knew this, the Japanese, the British, etc.

On this day, the Japanese took action. Many Japanese merchants began to take action in various cloth shops and ordered large quantities of cotton. With the sharp rise in cotton, the major cotton exporters in the world began to sell them. Of course, spot cotton and scattered cotton were almost the same as Britain, France, Habi, Germany and Russia. There were only a few left.

Schroeder praised Yang Yuanzhao's command at the headquarters of the German and American Foreign Company. It can be said that he had perfectly foresaw the situation in the past few days. He responded correctly. The Japanese acquired goods that did not join the Cotton Spinning Association. They belonged to the association and did not lose at all.

However, he still couldn't figure it out and even asked Yang Yuanzhao: "Boss, cotton has risen sharply, and even Germany can't buy cotton. You said that Japan is too busy to take care of itself, so why would it come to China to make trouble!"

"This is probably because Britain and France made some promises or some support to the Japanese!"

Sure enough, soon, Germany and the United States sent a report back from the British company. Because of the British-Japanese alliance, the UK supported Japan's 200,000 tons of cotton, and the price was 80% at the current market price.

Schroeder was convinced and was about to praise Yang Yuanzhao's foresight, but he heard Yang Yuanzhao say: "Pigs, you always have to be fattened before killing them. The piglets are meaningless!"

Schroeder understood the literal meaning, but did not understand Yang Yuanzhao's intention. Yang Yuanzhao did not explain too much. 200,000 tons, which is almost 400 million pounds, and can produce more than 30 million pieces of cloth. For Japan's production capacity, it is enough for them to produce for a while. But this number seems to be a lot. It is only when Britain and France are shipping. The price of cotton has increased by almost twice since last year. Now it has suddenly increased, especially in the past few days, the price has increased by 70%, more than 3 times, and the selling price of 80% is equivalent to making a lot of money. But for Japan, they can't see that the rise of cotton is inevitable. They never thought that behind this, there is a lot of financial promotion. They only saw that they would make money after getting this batch of goods, but they didn't know that this was a sweet bait.

The international market price finally affected Shanghai. First of all, the inventory of cloth stores began to decrease. If you wanted to find a source of goods, you found that there was no such thing as the textile industry alliance cloth. It was basically not sold as required. But when you came to Japan, you found that the price of grey cloth suddenly rose to 18 yuan, and the price per day will even reach 21 yuan tomorrow.

Thinking of the shipment price of 7 yuan a few days ago, I bought it now, which has increased by 3 times. How can these cloth stores accept sporadic inventory and sell it? With the strong purchasing power, the whole Shanghai is actually short of cloth. Hundreds of stores are under the banner of being out of stock. The only one with sufficient supply is Japan's shops. The price of cotton cloth has reached a high of 25 yuan.

At the same time, the price of fine cloth began to rise wildly, with the highest British double-flower cloth even rising 7 times, from the original 30 yuan, breaking through the 200 yuan mark in one fell swoop. Not to mention ordinary people, landlords and wealthy people couldn't bear it.

This day, which was later called cloth chaos, is remembered in the minds of many old Shanghai people. The sales of cloth, which reached 15,000 horses per day, was reduced to less than 200 horses on this day, almost to the extreme. However, in a few days, the price of cloth did not decrease, which caused some riots to the public while waiting and watching. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better and faster!

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