Dominate the Country

In the office of the branch president of Mitsui Bank of Nagasaki, Mitsui Ishi smiled bitterly when he looked at the long list provided by Heibei Sanno.

It's this big siege again. Obviously Mitsubishi is the pride of Japan, but every time the Sumitomo family launches an anti-Mitsubishi alliance with the support of Tang Feipeng, so many Japanese foreign companies will participate together. And the support behind Mitsubishi Textiles, the pride of Japan, is not only the Mitsui family, but The other humerus comes from the Commercial Bank of China in Shanghai, which is really awkward.

"It's a headache. We Japanese businessmen are always very united." Mitsui Pingbei's face was full of wry smiles. Mitsui Ishi looked at the few people in front of him, "You all also tell me, what can you do in this situation? ?”

Hearing Mitsui Ishi's question, several middle-level managers at the Nagasaki branch looked at each other, all helpless.

The conflict between Mitsubishi and Sumitomo has been going on for a long time. The Sumitomo family used their long-standing contacts and relationships in the Japanese business community to make Mitsubishi bleed and suffer serious injuries almost every time they dealt with Mitsubishi. Although Mitsubishi had previously relied on Mitsui Banking Corporation and Commercial Bank of Japan , and even the support of the shogunate, they have overcome one difficulty after another, but everyone knows that Mitsubishi itself was also severely damaged by this collision of strengths.

Look how much new debt Sanye Pingbei has added in the past two years?

Countless money and interests are involved in every business war, and the bloodshed is endless.

It is not that the Mitsui family has not reconciled the conflicts between Mitsubishi and Sumitomo, but the conflicts between the two sides are due to differences in concepts and cannot be reconciled.

Mitsubishi Textiles has won the respect of many Japanese people by relying on their business philosophy in the past two years. Even many samurai who despise businessmen respect Mitsuno Taira. Mitsubishi Textiles, which has found it difficult to turn around, and Misano Pingkita, who has been hailed as a god by some, can no longer turn back. Otherwise, he will definitely face the most severe revenge from his past supporters.

But their enemies are even less likely to agree with Mitsubishi's point of view.

Sumitomo and Mitsubishi, pro-China and anti-China, this is not simply a problem of commercial textiles, but far-reaching, it is a problem of the entire Japanese society.

Is it pro-China or anti-China?

Since the Sino-Japanese conflict that year, this issue has been a life choice that all Japanese people have to choose.

Judging from the current situation, the pro-China faction clearly has the upper hand. The Chinese continuously recruited a large number of samurai from Japan. They exported a large amount of low-priced cloth, ironware, medicine, food, etc. to Japan. They used real money and food to give hope to countless poor lower-class Japanese samurai. And from the lower class to the middle class, and then to the upper class, this is completely the entire Japanese society.

Among Mitsubishi's friends among the top political leaders in Japan, apart from the severely weakened and poor Satsuma clan, they could not find anyone else who could be trusted. Many Japanese high-level officials only see pure economic interests.

This is one of the reasons why the Sumitomo family is so popular in the Japanese business community. A large number of Japanese companies associated with the pro-China faction participated. This force cannot be affected by the Nagasaki Branch at all, and Mitsui Bank cannot stop it at all.

"I'm afraid it will be the same as the previous strangulations. We can only wait until the Sumitomo family gives up..."

Every strangulation battle is a big game. As time goes by, what both parties need to pay is never just money, but also political energy. Until one side retreats.

It can be said that the previous losers were all Sumitomo. As far as Mitsuishi knew, the Tokugawa shogunate secretly took sides in the previous confrontations. Of course, there is also Shanghai Commercial Bank. Although the latter's support for Mitsubishi comes mostly from money, it will also use its political energy to support Mitsubishi when necessary.

In the past two years, the Commercial Bank of China has become famous in Japan because of its support for Mitsubishi. When China and Japan open currency exchange business next year, that is, when the Commercial Bank can enter the Japanese market, it will definitely be a strong enemy of Mitsubishi.

"Mishui-kun, cheer up and win this battle. Mitsui will support you as always."

There is nothing more to say. Now Mitsubishi can only face this sudden war head-on.

First, they want to go head-to-head with the Sumitomo Allied Forces, dumping goods at low prices on one side, and selling goods at even lower prices on the other. This is not a good approach, and past experience has proven this. The Mitsubishi Alliance is far inferior to its enemies in terms of funding and production capacity, but it must keep Mitsubishi's brand, Mitsubishi's sense of existence, and Mitsubishi's In the market, Sanye Pingbei must also do the same. The early stage of this war is a huge war of attrition.

Second, factories reduced production, and the twelve-hour work system became a ten-hour work system, and then the eight-hour work system, declining in batches. This is not so obvious, but it can at least reduce production costs a little bit - cotton yarn.

Then there's the political wrangling. Mitsui Ishi assured Sanno Pingbei that the Mitsui family would work hard when they returned, and they would also contact the Tokugawa shogunate as soon as possible.

Tanuma Yiji values ​​​​Mitsubishi very much.

Regardless of whether it is from the perspective of national dignity or real interests, the Tokugawa shogunate will not give up Mitsubishi.

After bidding farewell to Mitsui Ishi, Wang Ping went north to visit a textile factory. Mitsubishi's first phase project was originally based in Nagasaki. In the factory, Wang Pingbei saw many employees with sad expressions on their faces. Apparently they had heard about the factory's current predicament.

Looking at the worried expressions on the faces of the workers, Wang Pingbei felt a feeling that was hard to describe. His welfare benefits for Japanese textile workers were not in vain. These workers have begun to consider the factory, and of course, this is also for their jobs.

But all of this is a game in itself.

…

With the order issued by Sanye Pingbei, Mitsubishi Textiles went all out to fight. Sanye's order was quickly executed. The 5,000 spindles and 300 looms of the fourth phase of the project were being installed as planned and put into production as soon as possible. Mitsubishi Textiles' tough attitude immediately caused their stocks to rebound slightly in the market.

The price of cotton cloth in the entire Japanese market fell again and again, and soon the price of yarn also plunged sharply, while the price of cotton continued to rise.

The alliance headed by the Sumitomo family kept raising the price of cotton, which immediately caused the production cost of the entire Japanese textile industry to rise sharply.

The price of cotton increased rapidly from 35 yen per ton [about 70 jin] [Japan's one-sided official exchange rate is 3 Chinese yuan per ton] to 50 yen, and then continued to climb to 60. [The price of cotton in the early Qing Dynasty was 52 to 87 wen per jin in Huizhou from the 40th to 42nd year of Kangxi. From the sixth year of Daoguang, it was 125 wen per jin in Zunhua, Zhili]

The cotton price, which was about to double, made the entire Japanese textile industry feel overwhelmed. This is like a bottomless pit, allowing bilateral companies that promote sales at low prices to make a lot of money into water tickets. Only the cotton merchants are cheap!

So, if Chinese businessmen completely control the source of cotton in Japan, then even if Tang Feipeng fights Mitsubishi for ten years, he may not lose money. Because the money he lost on cloth was earned back from cotton in a blink of an eye.

In just half a month, the entire Japanese economy was in turmoil, and the stock market was changing.

Who made Japan so small? And this war also involved Mitsui Bank, the pillar of Japan's economy. Therefore, the decline of the textile industry increased, causing the entire Japanese economy to be shaken.

Don't think that the only losses in the war are those involved. When the gods fight, mortals suffer. Once this kind of industrial war starts, the unlucky ones are only those small fish and shrimps with small capital.

And if these unlucky small fish and shrimps want to avoid being swept into the deep ditch by this big tide, they can only stop production and business and wait silently for the storm to subside. In this way, only those more grassroots textile workers will suffer. They are a group of plankton, at the bottom of the entire food chain.

Why did the Tokugawa Shogunate help Mitsubishi again and again? In addition to considering national dignity, there is also the need to calm the storm as soon as possible and restore the economy. Otherwise, the outflow of those unemployed textile workers will lead to a series of chain reactions.

Of course, the Sumitomo family, under the conspiracy of Tang Feipeng, was able to form an anti-Mitsubishi alliance again and again. In a sense, it was also because of the intervention of the Tokugawa shogunate that the strength of both sides was not exhausted. The influence exerted by the Tokugawa shogunate in secret was like a bucket of cold water added to a hot pot, which only treated the symptoms but not the root cause. The current Tokugawa shogunate could not suppress the Sumitomo Alliance head-on. As long as the fire under this big pot is burning, the contradictions between the two sides will intensify again and again.

So whether it is a battle that fights with all strength and only the last drop of blood left will cause greater losses to Japan, or whether this kind of frequent outbreaks of strangulation wars will cause more serious damage to Japan's economy and people's livelihood, this is something no one can say for sure.

Seeing Sanno Pingbei coming out of Tanuma Oji's house, several people who came with him quickly surrounded him. "President, how is it? Did Lord Tanuma agree?"

Looking back at the gate of Tanuma Okitsugu's mansion, Sanno Heihaki had a blank expression on his face, "Don't dream. Let's go." Those gifts brought into the Tanuma mansion were like feeding the dogs. The attitude of the shogunate has not changed from before.

Sanno Heihaki also knew this, but in order to show his eagerness, he still rode a fast horse from Nagasaki to Osaka, and then took a boat to Edo to try it out.

But after arriving at the Tanuma mansion, although Tanuma Okitsugu did not close the door to see him, his attitude was still mainly conciliatory. The words vaguely revealed the shogunate's supportive attitude, but it was definitely not willing to use administrative orders to confront the Sumitomo Alliance directly - for example, like China, it would enact some relevant laws to sanction unfair competition in business practices, and sanction unfair business practices such as hoarding rare goods and speculation. They simply would not do that.

Being forced again and again by Sanno, he was always talking about other things, and finally Tanuma Okitsugu simply came to serve tea and send him off.

The Tokugawa shogunate can't even stand up straight in front of China now. The intervention before this was all to exert influence secretly. It's the same now!

Perhaps if such a stranglehold war is carried out three or two more times, it will be "accustomed to" by all walks of life in Japan, and even become a repertoire of Japan's economic development.

"It still doesn't work..." Noticing the expression of Sanno Pingbei, the few people also became frustrated.

Some of them gnashed their teeth and cursed: "A group of deer, really unreliable."

In their opinion, if the Tokugawa shogunate can issue a series of business regulations like China, the crisis of Mitsubishi Textile will no longer exist. But now Mitsubishi has to fight hard with the Sumitomo Alliance again and again, which has greatly delayed Mitsubishi's development progress.

...

Tang Feipeng, who was soaking his whole body in the hot spring, was enjoying the massage of the two He tribe girls comfortably. He emptied his mind and didn't think about anything. The natural hot spring had a salty taste mixed with the smell of sulfur. Being in it, his whole body felt... As delicate as a lover's kiss, close your eyes and enjoy this comfort and intimacy.

Enjoy the pleasure of bathing in warm water and wash away the troubles of the world.

In the Japanese business world, Tang Feipeng has become a god-like figure. Now he does not need to worry about making and losing money at all. Being in Japan is no longer a struggle in a foreign country, but a leisurely enjoyment.

Tang Feipeng didn't even know how long he had been in the hot spring. Others fell asleep. Unknowingly, the servant and slave girl carefully lifted her out of the water and placed her on the bed.

Compared with Japanese customs, Tang Feipeng is still used to sleeping in bed.

Until a sound of clattering footsteps woke him up, "Your Excellency, the North Korean monarch Li Yin died of illness, and the North Korean leader Min Honghao and others jointly submitted a letter to Nanjing, praying for it to be included."

This is the news that has just reached Edo. It comes from the Edo News, the only newspaper in Japan that has foreign correspondents stationed in North Korea.

Tang Feipeng's sleepiness disappeared all of a sudden, oh, the imperial court is going to eat North Korea now. This is surprisingly fast. We just overthrown Jin Hongchang not long ago, and now we are going to eat up the entire North Korea...

But think about it, the country is about to change its leadership. The chief minister obviously likes to have a good ending to his first term.

"Your Excellency, there are a large number of rightists gathering outside the door." This is a phenomenon that has emerged in many important cities in Japan in the past two years. The larger the city, the more there are. In Edo, Eto, Osaka and Nagasaki, There are even dedicated stations in Japan's big cities.

The servant didn't know why, but Tang Feipeng insisted on calling the anti-China faction the right wing and the pro-China faction the left wing. Anyway, the ‘rules’ were set down by the superiors, so they just followed them.

The news contained in North Korea was passed to Japan, and it immediately touched the sensitive nerves of a certain group of neurotic right-wingers in Japan. After all, the Cotton War is still going on, and North Korea and Japan are so close. North Korea's sudden inclusion of China is too alarming for Japan.

Saying that and doing that are really two completely different concepts.

The Japanese used to say that North Korea is on its knees and will be swallowed up by China sooner or later, but this is more of a show of words, a way of venting emotions and suppressing the other side's national sentiments. There are only these few forces in East Asia. Japan and China are too far apart. The only one they can compare with is Bangbang. But now Bangbang is really on his knees, really crying and shouting, "Chinese daddy, Chinese daddy wants to be guilty." Attached, Japan has a deep sense of fear, and it feels so cold.

"These idiots are crazy. The imperial court can be forgiven for swallowing North Korea, but what's the benefit of eating Japan?" Tang Feipeng cursed loudly. This little devil is completely selfish! North Korea has a land area about the same size as Japan [Ezo is not included], but is larger than the two provinces of Fujian and Zhejiang, with a total of less than five million people. And what about Japan? How many people are there in Japan?

Japan is only suitable for colonization!

Only when the imperial court is in over its head would it swallow more than 20 million Japanese people.

"Tell them to get out!" A group of idiots said.

"Give me an order. From now on, all pubs and women's branches under the Chamber of Commerce will have half-price prices until the end of the month. Department stores will also have a huge sale, and let them add it up themselves. All right-wing elements who can be identified refuse to enter. I’m going to piss these idiots off!”