Dominate the Country

"Mitsubishi's stock price has fallen by more than 500%. It's time for us to enter the market..."

In the highest conference room of the Commercial Bank, Bao Zhidao said to several other bank executives with his hands crossed. All the people had a heartfelt smile on their faces, because the harvest from this business was too rich and abundant.

As the leader of Japan's steam industry, Mitsubishi has successfully preserved itself in the previous several business wars. Its strength is growing. It has long been a star enterprise sought after by the whole of Japan. Its stock price has hit new highs!

Whenever Sanye Pingbei suffered a wave of strangling wars, in order to make up for the losses after the storm subsided, he would release part of his equity to the trading market; and when the strangling war came, Mitsubishi's stock fell, he would invest in buying it back from the market, but Sanye Pingbei always sold more than he recovered. And in this process of going in and out, the issuance of Mitsubishi stocks on the stock market has unknowingly occupied 35% of Mitsubishi's total share capital, with a total amount of nearly 1.5 million yen.

In other words, the Japanese valued Mitsubishi at more than 4 million yen, which is really amazing in a small country like Japan.

In addition, not many people noticed that when the war broke out, the shares of Mitsubishi Textiles held by Sanye Pingbei had dropped to a dangerous level - 55%.

But now, the market value of Mitsubishi Textiles has plummeted. When the news that the Netherlands was going to break up with the UK reached Japan, the whole of Japan threw pessimism on Mitsubishi.

Then how many people found that the Mitsubishi stocks that had fallen from platinum to cabbage had unknowingly returned to Sanye Pingbei and some mysterious accounts.

The latter, of course, was Tang Feipeng and his gang.

As the main source of funds behind Tang Feipeng, the Commercial Bank was actually a play of the Commercial Bank's left hand fighting the right hand. It's just that no outsiders know about it!

This is one of the top secrets in the Chinese financial system, that is, a lot of state-owned groups are kept in the dark. Unlike the British, the main product of the UK now is textiles, but cloth is only one of China's many major exports. In addition, most of the new cloth production in recent years has filled the domestic market. The prices of various cloths have been falling, and the income of domestic people has been increasing. As one of the necessities of human life and survival, cloth has exploded under the oppression of the poor environment for many years. The sales power of countless lower classes in China is like an endless bottomless pit, sweeping away the rapidly guaranteed domestic textile products.

And China has so many additional markets. Now China's textile industry really does not lack a piece of Japan. But if you consider it from a long-term perspective, suppressing Japan's local textile industry is absolutely profitable and a rainy day. There are more than 20 million people living on the small islands of Dongying. This is a huge market, the second largest market in the entire East except China.

But this is just a starting point for the ultimate goal of the Commercial Bank, because the Commercial Bank is not only focused on the textile industry, they also have huge interests in other aspects of finance. Of course, this does not mean that the Commercial Bank will not pay attention to Mitsubishi. On the contrary, they pay great attention to Mitsubishi, because in this plan, Mitsubishi Textile is only the foundation of the Mitsubishi Group. Mitsubishi started with the textile industry, but when the time comes, Mitsubishi will move into other industries. Didn't you see that even when Sanno Pingbei was in power to manage Mitsubishi Textile, he did not completely abandon his foreign trade business.

Mitsubishi Textile is also the first base for the Commercial Bank to get involved in Japan!

Not only do they have to control Mitsubishi in secret, but in order to expand their influence, they must also show enough strength on the surface and invest in Mitsubishi. Even though they know that the ceiling of the Japanese textile industry is very low, in this era, the lifeblood of the development of the closed-door Japanese textile industry - raw materials are firmly in the hands of China, but when the Japanese textile industry has been growing rapidly in recent years, it is impossible for the Commercial Bank to be happy. This is a hidden danger!

In the southeastern coastal area of ​​China where the textile industry is developed, the Commercial Bank has huge interests in the textile industry. Therefore, the Commercial Bank's investment in Mitsubishi is also a heavy blow to the Japanese textile industry.

Your Majesty is wise, and Tang Feipeng was deployed early, which now allows the Commercial Bank to play well in Japan. The whole of Japan was kept in the dark, and the few Japanese who knew the truth also got the lovely red book.

...

Time passed day by day, and when Bao Zhidao handed a letter to Chen Ming, the Japanese affairs had entered the rhythm of closing the net.

"Less than 2% of Mitsubishi shares are scattered in the hands of outsiders in the Japanese stock market. After the stock trading was suspended by the stock exchange, the last order of unofficial Mitsubishi stock trading has fallen to 1.5 yen per share. It's time to close the net." If it's any later, Sanye Pingbei will really be unable to hold on.

The entire Japanese market has regarded Mitsubishi as a dead object, and there is no room for recovery.

It is also conceivable that when the news of Mitsubishi's sudden cooperation with China's major cotton merchants spread back to Japan, the shock of its sudden resurrection was brought back. Moreover, the Commercial Bank immediately followed with its capital injection and equity participation. Yes, this time the Commercial Bank was no longer a pure loan, but saw Mitsubishi's predicament and took advantage of it - they insisted on participating in Mitsubishi's equity, and took 25% of the shares at one time, with funds paid in the form of Japanese yen and a portion of cotton.

Sanye Pingbei had no choice but to accept it. Sato Ryoichi, the Mitsubishi representative in charge of the negotiations, thought more than once of the scene in which he was chopped into meat paste by a group of radical right-wing elements with samurai swords after returning to China...

After obtaining the 25% stake in Mitsubishi Textiles, the Commercial Bank could openly send people to the Mitsubishi headquarters in Nagasaki, which was a good start, and then seek more shares of Mitsubishi little by little, as long as Sanye Pingbei's controlling rights were guaranteed under the "peaceful" situation, that would be enough.

In this way, the Commercial Bank can deal with many Japanese local business groups openly and lay a good foundation for surveillance in Japan in the next step.

And this can greatly undermine the self-confidence of the Japanese rightists. After all, Mitsubishi in Japan at this time has been exhausted and desperate. Those rightists really launched a rescue operation, but their money is like a drizzle, a drop in the bucket.

The whole of Japan thinks that Mitsubishi is doomed. It is normal for Sanye Pingbei to sell 25% of his shares to the Commercial Bank, which has always supported him.

As for some people who think that the Commercial Bank does not need to intervene, as long as Mitsubishi signs an agreement with the cotton merchant, it can immediately come back to life after returning to Japan with the agreement. There is no need to pay attention to that. Those people are guys with water in their heads. Anyone with a little business sense should realize that the cotton merchant who appeared under the introduction of the Commercial Bank must have a close connection with the Commercial Bank.

The Commercial Bank definitely played an ignominious role in this transaction, but they got everything they wanted.

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Huangpu Wharf

Shanghai in the drizzle was not beautiful at all. Huang Dingyou put on a thick woolen coat when he left the newspaper office. The cold and damp air was still drilling into his bones.

"Old Lu, have you seen those ships at the dock? If you figure this out, it will be a big news." Huang Dingyou shuddered and continued, "I have already greeted the labor company at the dock. You lead the team and interview boldly. Be detailed and pragmatic and make a big news."

"The first theme report after our newspaper changed its name fell on your shoulders."

"A-choo!" Huang Dingyou sneezed loudly.

As the influence of the Far East Newspaper continued to expand, more and more readers complained about the name of the newspaper, thinking that the name "Far East" was not decent. This is the name of foreigners. It is the common name for the easternmost region of Asia when Western countries began to expand eastward. They are centered on Europe, calling Southeast Europe and Northeast Africa "Near East", the vicinity of West Asia "Middle East", and the farther East "Far East". The real center of the earth should be in China!

Readers are the boss of the newspaper, and no one will compete with their boss. The boss was quick to follow the advice and immediately decided to change the name. So what name should be changed? Li Kun was unwilling to change the signboard so quietly. He got the truth from his brother-in-law and started a vigorous operation - collecting newspaper names nationwide, requiring lofty ideals and not being limited to one place.

For example, Songhu, Yangtze River, etc., just forget about them.

The reward for the name is as high as 10,000 yuan, and the time limit is one month.

The person who finally got this "honor" was the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother believed that the newspaper should forget itself and be selfless, which can be called - Ta Kung Pao.

The newspaper's own jury praised the idea very much, and the new name of the newspaper was called "Ta Kung Pao". The naming fee of 10,000 yuan was actually sent to the Empress, who added another 40,000 yuan. With the support of other concubines in the harem, a total of 100,000 yuan was donated to the Shanghai Nursing Home and Anjifang.

As everyone knows, the Empress has always been committed to the empire's charity!

As the leader of the Yangtze River, Shanghai is a rapidly developing foreign trade city. It can be said that it is one of the most prosperous places in the Yangtze River Basin and the eastern coastal areas. Hundreds of large and small ships dock here every day. At one of the docks of Huangpu Port, nearly a hundred workers are delivering boxes of goods to a cargo ship.

Although the weather is very cold, the workers who brave the rain are still wearing very thin clothes. In addition to a rainproof oilcloth coat on the outside, they only wear a simple cloth coat inside, and even bare their chests.

By the end of the year, the Shanghai docks will be blocked by ships coming and going. Steam cranes never have time to idle, so many docks have a large number of workers carrying goods manually. Steam power and manpower work together.

"Boss, all the goods have been moved..." After lifting the last box of cotton cloth wrapped in oilcloth onto the ship, a foreman wiped the sweat from his face and said to the boss standing beside him. Some of these workers have changed jobs, but they know very well when there are too many goods on the dock to lift them, and now is a good time for them to make money. Although it is hard and tiring to transport goods every day, you can really make a lot of money.

The boss, who was wrapped in a bear fur coat, nodded slightly and took out the pre-packed money from his pocket. "Three hundred yuan, thank you for your hard work today!"

"No, no..." The foreman took the money handed over by the boss and smiled.

The editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Lao Lu, came over with his men at this time.

Where are these cotton cloths shipped to?