Dominate the Country

"Boss..."

In Nagasaki, in front of the office building of Mitsubishi Bosho, seeing the figure of Sanye Pingbei appear in the office, the sales manager Kato Hirohiko hurriedly came up to greet him.

"Kato, what happened again?" The tone was so urgent.

"President, it's like this..." Kato Hirohiko hurriedly told the story.

In a word, the enemies of Mitsubishi Bosho have started a new round of strangling war against them. The short battle in the previous summer seemed to be still in front of us, and the Sumitomo family has regained its momentum.

Winter is coming, and thick cotton cloth and cotton clothes have begun to be listed. Kato Hirohiko is very puzzled, because he can't think of any opportunity for Mitsubishi to take advantage of, but he can know more clearly that the enemies of Mitsubishi Bosho are not easy to deal with. They suddenly started a war, which must be because they smelled a favorable opportunity.

Sanye Pingbei's face turned serious. He received a notice from Tang Feipeng three days ago. He, the Dutch actually mixed with the French. Isn't it too shocking? In this way, all the foreign cotton in Japan will be controlled by China.

Because most of the cotton that the Dutch resold to Japan during this period was bought by the Dutch from the British, and then the British shipped it from India. But now that the Dutch and the British are at odds, the British will naturally no longer sell cotton to the Dutch, and the British will even block the Dutch's route back to Europe.

And Japan is a closed country. Now, in addition to the Chinese, only the Dutch and the Koreans can trade with Japan. Without the Dutch's interference, the Koreans will of course listen to the Chinese. This is of course a huge business opportunity. All the cotton that is in short supply in Japan is in China's hands. If the Chinese say to raise the price, then the price must be raised. As long as the Sumitomo family can collect more low-quality cotton produced in Japan, they will definitely be able to force Mitsubishi Textile into a dead end.

But I'm afraid that only a few people in Japan know about this news.

Three days ago, Wang Beiping couldn't help but gasp when he heard this news. The Dutch and the French got together and abandoned the British. This is too ridiculous. Moreover, the Dutch still listened to China so much, insisting on the absolute blockade of this news to Japan...

The situation that Mitsubishi is facing now is the double stranglehold of raw materials and the market. In addition to the continuous increase in cotton prices, the price of cloth has also dropped sharply. If he is really a native of Japan, he will be cheated to death without knowing anything about the Dutch.

"This is the same again..." After listening to Kato Hirohiko's narration, Wang Beiping frowned as if he had just learned it.

In his heart, he was steadily calculating the upcoming harvest period.

"Sumitomo has the Chinese backing behind them, which means that this stranglehold was allowed by the Chinese..." After a moment of silence, Wang Pingbei said to the deputy general manager Sato Ryoichi who came after hearing the news. "You go to Shanghai in person and ask what happened."

Mitsubishi Textiles may be at odds with Chinese cloth merchants, but their biggest backers, in addition to the Mitsui family in Japan, are the Shanghai Commercial Bank.

"Hi." Sato Ryoichi bowed his head.

After Sato Ryoichi turned and left, Wang Pingbei said to Kato Hirohiko. "You should also go out and find out how big our enemy's actions are, and how many Japanese companies are involved..."

"Hi." Kato Hirohiko suddenly lowered his head.

Then Wang Pingbei gradually arranged some actions, and waited until everyone went out before smiling at Mito Kogoro. "It seems that this time we can make a lot of money..." First, the stock market kept falling, and the stock price plummeted. This would cause the Japanese to cry and shout and abandon the Mitsubishi stocks in their hands. Wang Pingbei would then be able to buy back a lot of Mitsubishi stocks at a bargain price. As long as he didn't do it so obviously, it would not be discovered by others.

Then he only needed to expose the full support of the Commercial Bank for Mitsubishi, and the stocks that fell to the bottom would be able to rush back to the peak. In this fall and rise, countless wealth has been pocketed by Tang Feipeng. Those Japanese yen don't even need to be transferred, they can be directly converted into loans from the Commercial Bank to Mitsubishi in Japan.

After doing such a play, Sanye Pingbei's reputation in Japan can continue to increase a lot.

Haha, now he and his company Mitsubishi are like a symbol of Japan's modern industry.

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Sato Ryoichi quickly rushed to Shanghai, but in this era, all this takes time. The market has already started.

Many Japanese people know that buying those cheap cloths is greatly disadvantageous to Mitsubishi Textile, the leader of Japan's modern industry. The Japanese people have once again erupted in the movement to support domestic products, but it is useless. Compared with domestic products and Chinese products, Japanese people are more concerned about the thicker and cheaper cloth there.

Mitsubishi Textile has also had some experience in this matter. The tactic of low-price dumping is very difficult to deal with. If political forces do not intervene, basically one side can only wait until one side can't hold on.

In the past, both sides have played this kind of movement more than once in Japan.

"We are a collection of more than ten foreign companies. We have the strong support of Mr. Tang behind us. We compete by selling at low prices. The amount of money that each company has to bear is not very large. Even if we can hold on for three to five months or a year or two, it is not a big problem for us..." Sitting in the meeting room of the Nagasaki branch of Sumitomo Corporation, Ando Aida said to the Japanese businessmen present with a smile on his face.

Hearing Yasuda's words, the others also nodded with a smile.

Just like Yasuda said, if there is only one foreign company or a few foreign companies, if you want to block the production and sales of raw materials and goods for a company like Mitsubishi Textile that has established a brand and a high reputation, the price you have to pay will undoubtedly be huge. of. But if more than a dozen foreign companies work together, and there is a behemoth like Tang Feipeng behind them, the price will not be so unbearable if the price is shared among each Japanese merchant.

Even Mitsubishi has the support of the Mitsui family and even the Tokugawa shogunate. But business is all about financial resources, and the emergence of Tang Feipeng eliminated the possibility of the Tokugawa shogunate using barbarism.

If this were not the case, it would be impossible for anyone to be willing to go crazy with the Sumitomo family.

And another reason why they will accompany the Sumitomo Chamber of Commerce to go crazy is the threat posed by Wang Pingbei.

Although the Japanese market is currently divided between Chinese products and local products, generally speaking, Chinese products still have an advantage. However, the proportion of homespun goods is always increasing. Theoretically, as long as Japan has sufficient sources of cotton, Japan's homespun cloth output will always increase. There is no limit to this. The sales of homespun cloth this summer show that Japanese homespun cloth has occupied nearly 40% of the market share.

Therefore, the domestic textile industry in Japan has developed two different viewpoints. One is the anti-China faction led by Mitsubishi Textile, whose viewpoint is to squeeze Chinese cloth out of the Japanese market and protect the Japanese textile industry's own local market; the other faction They are the pro-China faction led by Sumitomo. Their view is to integrate into the Chinese textile industry and open up the Japanese market in exchange for the opportunity for Japanese fabrics to go out of Japan. They believe that with the development of time, China's land area and sphere of influence will become larger and larger. During this period, only a little overseas market will be exposed between the fingers of the Chinese people, which will be enough to make the Japanese textile industry prosperous.

Therefore, the two factions are fighting against each other, and the anti-China faction is obviously at the bottom in terms of momentum. The only advantage is Mitsubishi Textile's huge size and reputation in Japan.

Sumitomo will not let Mitsubishi continue to develop at such a sustained and high speed, as it will squeeze their own living space too much. Mitsubishi Textiles can get large amounts of low-interest loans from Mitsui Banking Corporation and Commercial Bank, and Sanye Pingbei is even operating with debt, but as long as their capital chain is not broken, they can keep rolling like this. This model of operation is too risky for most business families, so the Sumitomo family's new textile industry is not expanding as fast as Mitsubishi. If this continues, sooner or later Mitsubishi will become a giant that Sumitomo cannot catch up with. This is something the Sumitomo family cannot tolerate.

Mitsubishi, which has been clamoring to drive away Huabu in Japan, is trapped by practical factors - Japan's cotton production is insufficient and the quality is not high. Much of the cotton they use is imported from the Netherlands, China and North Korea.

Many textile factories on the eastern coast of China get cotton directly from the British, but Japan has to go through an additional procedure called "Dutch". The difference in cost and price is doomed to the future of Japan's textile industry. Especially after China's high-quality cotton is localized, Japan's textile industry will be unable to compete with the Chinese textile industry in the Chinese market.

Therefore, it is impossible to counterattack the Chinese market, but it is possible to dominate the Japanese market. Whether Japanese or Chinese, their eyes are entirely focused on Japan's current cloth market. The Sumitomo family must stop Mitsubishi's expansion!

They have a natural ally in Tang Feipeng. For many Chinese textile foreign trade companies, Japan, a small but densely populated place, is like an unexplored treasure for the Chinese textile industry. There is no need to worry about making money or not. The problem is just making more or less.

Tang Feipeng and the Chinese businessmen he represents have great interests in this.

But at this time, Sanye Pingbei and his Mitsubishi Textile appeared.

This is really disgusting.

This is a real threat!

Wang Pingbei proved with his real performance that he is still very ambitious.

If Mitsubishi Textile had taken things step by step, it would have been impossible to develop and grow within ten or eight years. However, Mitsubishi's chairman somehow managed to get the insight of a foreign trade company and grant large loans and mortgages. It was an instant kill of Mitsui. Providing enough funds for Mitsubishi's development and growth - Chinese money defeated the Chinese. I don’t know how much controversy and confusion this fact caused in Japan.

Now the fourth phase of Mitsubishi Textile's project has been completed, and the fifth phase of the project has been put into planning. The expansion speed is too fast and too fierce. Why do a group of Japanese businessmen represented by the Sumitomo Chamber of Commerce compete with Mitsubishi again and again? They don't care at all about the reality that they are both Japanese, that's because of interests. Tang Feipeng's performance was also to pull out this threatening bud before Mitsubishi's fledgling, and also for the benefit of Hongguoguo.

But even if Mitsubishi threatens the interests of many people, if there is no powerful person to take the lead, I am afraid that no one may be willing to do so. After all, if you want to block and suppress Mitsubishi, it is not enough to rely on one or a few foreign companies. But Tang Feipeng has this influence, and the Sumitomo family has this influence even more. They have attracted more than a dozen high-end foreign companies...

Cheap Chinese textiles flooded into the Japanese market like a tide. Although the extremely low prices did not bring much profit to Japanese companies and even caused them to lose money, they also successfully caused Mitsubishi Textile Factory's products to become overstocked and unsalable.

It is certainly not comfortable for Japanese companies to sell at such a low price, but they are a consortium of more than ten foreign companies, and they can afford such a small price.

However, for the weak Mitsubishi, things are a bit troublesome. Mitsubishi's stock price is falling on the stock market.

"The Chinese have a good timing. It happened to be when we broke up with the British. Poor Japanese, poor Mitsubishi, they may not know that there will be no more cotton shipped to Nagasaki by the Dutch in the future. This is our sorrow. It is hard to imagine whether the company can survive this disaster. We are also very passive..."

In Promes' office, a deputy manager named Zot said to Promes after reading the news from Osaka, Edo, Kyoto and other places.

"Yes, the situation is very unfavorable to Mitsubishi, and it is also unfavorable to us. Fortunately, the Chinese took over our contract with Mitsubishi, and they will compensate the Japanese in full for us. It leaves a possibility for us to return to Japan in the future..."

"I hope this time will not be too long." The Dutch East India Company, which is in its twilight years, cannot withstand too much turmoil. Next year is destined to be a year of heavy losses for the company. If it continues to the year after next or the year after next, it will be a tragic tragedy.

"So now we are like a group of spectators, we can only watch the Japanese market from afar, and we have no power to intervene. According to the information we have obtained, Mitsubishi Textiles currently has about 1 million yen in funds. If we use it sparingly, it should last for two months." It doesn't cost much to pay workers. The most important thing is the payment for goods, the payment for cotton and yarn, and the money paid out when selling.

"Mitsubishi has no hope..." Zot said, shaking his head. "With the strength of the Japanese, it's no problem to support them for half a year, but..."

"If the Shanghai Commercial Bank is willing to continue to protect Mitsubishi, the situation in Japan will become even more exciting." The Dutch are not surprised by the current situation, as there are many such things in Europe.

There is an old saying: An arms dealer who does not sell arms to his enemies is not a good arms dealer. Similarly, a financial businessman who does not pay to buy war bonds of the enemy country is not a good financial businessman.

In the eyes of the Dutch, all that the Commercial Bank did was based on the most basic pursuit of a financial businessman - profit.