Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 813 A War Without Gunpowder Part Three
Seeing that Qian Xiaobao had been covering his forehead and gnashing his teeth without noticing them, Taro Hemoto said, "President, Mr. Zhang is here!"

Qian Xiaobao turned his head and saw Zhang Lixing.

He was surprised to see Zhang Lixing here.

"Why are you here?" Qian Xiaobao asked.

"Comrade Zhang Fawu asked me to come here to find you." Zhang Lixing replied.

"Taro, you go back first." Qian Xiaobao turned his head and ordered.Since Zhang Lixing was sent by Zhang Fawu, there must be something for Qian Xiaobao to do. Although Taro Hemoto is very loyal, it is better not to let him hear it.

And Zhang Lixing, a dumb guy, doesn't pay attention to the occasion when he speaks.

When Qian Xiaobao saw that Taro Hemoto had left, he asked, "Zhang Fawu is in Shanghai now?"

"Yes, according to his suggestion, I have been working in the government for a while." Zhang Lixing replied.

"Why did Zhang Fawu send you to look for me?" Qian Xiaobao asked.

"Shanghai is now liberated, but the economy is still very difficult. Dozens of cotton mills cannot start work without cotton, and cannot generate electricity without coal. Very, no matter how many materials are put into the market, they will buy them at a high price immediately, and then hoard them in the warehouse." Zhang Lixing said.

"Do these speculators have that much money?" Qian Xiaobao asked.

"There is no money to borrow from the bank, and so many banks in Shanghai are also secretly involved in hoarding. Anyway, the price is soaring, so you can make a profit without losing money." Zhang Lixing replied.

Now the prices of food, cotton and coal are rising every day. Apart from speculators, the common people are also snapping up the goods.

There are also some unscrupulous newspapers clamoring that the prices of these materials cannot fall. In the minds of 600 million ordinary people, expectations of rising prices have been formed, so the prices of materials are getting higher and higher, which cannot be suppressed at all.

Now many well-to-do families don't save money at all, what they save is coal, gauze and grain.If there is a coal pile in the house, it is a rich man!

Those who suffer the most are the bottom and the largest group of people. They have no spare money to participate in speculation, and worry about the rising prices of grain and briquettes every day.

Of course, this situation is also what those bastard speculators hope, in this way, they will earn more.

"The purpose of Zhang Fawu sending you here is to buy supplies through me?" Qian Xiaobao said quickly.

"Yes! Comrade Zhang Fawu said that it is best to buy coal. If not, you can buy the other two materials, namely grain and cotton. The more the better!" Zhang Zhangxing replied.

"The more the better?" Qian Xiaobao said to himself.

It has been several years since Qian Xiaobao turned himself into a businessman, and he immediately roughly guessed how Zhang Fawu and the others will deal with it, that is, one day in the future, they will quickly throw out a huge amount of supplies to support those speculators!
But before that, a lot of preparation needs to be done.

It is impossible for those speculators who have not thought of this method, but they are too confident in themselves.This trick was played from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, and no one could do anything to them for decades.

It can be summed up in four words: rich and powerful!

You have supplies, I have money.I'll eat as much as you toss!
It is now June, and it is not a good time to use this method, because the cotton and grain are not mature yet.In a few months, the government will have large quantities of grain and cotton in its hands.

Perhaps the most difficult thing to raise is coal, and expanding production will not happen overnight.

June is a time when the weather is very hot, and the demand for coal is still relatively small at this time.The demand for coal will increase greatly when the weather gets colder after autumn.Therefore, the sale of coal should be prepared earlier, and more preparations should be made.

"Now HK has a shipping company that buys coal from India and ships it to Japan. I can rent a ship to buy coal from India. It is obviously shipped to Japan, but it is actually unloaded at a Chinese port." Qian Xiaobao said.

"Comrade Zhang Fawu has also imagined this method, so let's do it!" Zhang Lixing said.

"I also wanted to set up a shipping company. Now that there is no war, the shipping company will definitely make money. But my opinion was overruled by those Japanese. Of course, it takes too long to build a ship. Anyway, this time coal transportation is very difficult. No need." Qian Xiaobao said with some regret.

"Why would you listen to those Japanese?" Zhang Lixing said in disgust.

"I don't listen to the Japanese, but I listen to whoever is right. Originally, I could have funded and established a shipping company and bought a ship. But after thinking about it, I think their opinion is correct. The Japanese on the board of directors It is advocated that Takashima Textiles should concentrate on its main business and not expand everywhere. I think what they say is reasonable, do what you want to make money, and it is not good to change a place with a shot. Now Takashima Textiles is changing from cotton textiles to chemical textiles. In the future I will develop the upstream industry of chemical textiles—to expand to basic chemical raw materials such as ethylene!" Qian Xiaobao said with confidence.

Zhang Lixing looked at Qian Xiaobao and was speechless for a long time.He knew that Qian Xiaobao also had a Japanese name named Takashima Ken.This is also the origin of the name Takashima Textile.

Zhang Lixing felt very uncomfortable when he heard Qian Xiaobao talk about Takashima Textile.

A Chinese went to Japan to develop!
As if seeing Zhang Lixing's thoughts, Qian Xiaobao sighed and said: "If I stay in the country until now, I may be nothing! In the Republic of China, only people like Master Kong Da can get rich!"

"I see that you are becoming more and more like a Japanese devil. Do you think Japan is better than China?" Zhang Lixing asked.

"Compared with China today, there are indeed advantages compared to Japan. For example, the vinylon I am producing now is the processing method invented by Professor Ichiro Sakurada. There is no such person in China. There are a large number of such people in my textile research institute. Japan has indeed developed better in science and technology." Qian Xiaobao said.

"But I don't like Japan when I look at those workers who toil ten hours a day in Osaka! Those workers are almost all descendants of farmers, and they will never be able to enter the upper class of Japan. Those war criminals have now turned into chaebols And politicians, their ancestors are either fan masters or daimyo, at least samurai. In Japan, people at the bottom will never have hope." Qian Xiaobao said.

"Aren't you?" Zhang Lixing said.

"Of course I rely on my own efforts, but there are also many people who are secretly pushing behind. Without Earl Komatsu and Akio Doi, it would be impossible to have today's Takashima Spinning. They also want to introduce women from upper-class Japanese families to me, and then Completely assimilate me, that's why I hide here." Qian Xiaobao replied.

(End of this chapter)