Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 818 A War Without Smoke Eight
There is only one way for Qiao Yuren now, which is to honestly sell the hoarded supplies immediately.

"You immediately go out and contact the buyer to sell the coal." Qiao Yuren said to the manager.

"Master, in fact, those people have been selling supplies since yesterday," the manager said.

"It's a loss if you sell it like this now. If you stick to it, it will rise after a while." Qiao Yuren said unwillingly.

These speculators in Shanghai are not brainless, they often exchange news and sit together to analyze the current situation.

Although most of China has been liberated now, wars are still going on in the southwest and Fujian and Guangdong, and the consumption of military supplies is huge.Even places that have been liberated are full of problems, with bandits and hidden spies everywhere.

Based on the principle of having more friends and fewer enemies, the Red Party will not take tough measures against speculators like them.

But if they simply use economic means, speculators feel that they are powerful and have no fear at all.

Now the common people in Shanghai still don’t fully trust RMB. They always exchange money into silver dollars as soon as they get their hands. The merchants headed by the four major department stores in Shanghai also directly use silver dollars to mark their prices. This is a proof of their strength.

So what Qiao Yuren thinks now is to persevere, he and other speculators simply don't believe that the Red Party has endless supplies.

The manager nodded and went out.

An hour later, Qiao Yuren received a call from the manager from outside.

"Boss, the price of cotton cloth and coal has dropped by [-]% compared to the morning! It looks like it may be cut in half by night!" said the manager.

Hearing the manager's words, Qiao Yuren almost passed out.

The price of materials fell like jumping off a building!
"Sell the coal first, and pay the workers' salaries and this month's tax." Qiao Yuren said into the microphone with a trembling voice.

After putting down the phone, Qiao Yuren hurried out of the spinning mill in a car.

He first turned around in several big banks that were taken over, but none of them were willing to lend him a loan.

Qiao Yuren went to the big money houses and private banks, but the doors of these money houses and banks were closed.

At this time, they have already stopped their business. Whoever takes out loans at this time will jump off the building with speculators like Qiao Yuren!
In the evening, the manager came back and reported to Qiao Yuren who was sitting in the office that the coal had been sold at a low price.Workers' salaries and this month's taxes are finally settled.

The manager also reported bad news to Qiao Yuren. The price of cotton cloth dropped by half in one day today!
Qiao Yuren's heart was bleeding. If the loans were included, especially the money borrowed from banks with high interest rates, he would have lost everything!
And if you delay it a day later, you will get a huge amount of interest for an extra day!

But now even if he sold the mill, it was not enough for him to fill the hole.

In fact he is now bankrupt.

Qiao Yuren pinned his hopes on the price of materials rising back, even if it increased a little to make him pay back.

But half a month has passed, and the price of materials has dropped a bit, and there is no sign of rising at all.

Qiao Yuren's usury loan with daily interest has reached skyrocketing levels.

Qiao Yuren vaguely heard that some speculators packed up gold and silver and took their families away secretly.

He also thought about it in his mind.But he invested too much in the early stage, except for the gold and silver treasures in the house, he realized the purchase of supplies.

It is impossible to sell the house now. Doing that is tantamount to telling others that he is going to run away.The house has not been sold yet, and people from the government and banks have already blocked his door.

Just fled to HK with your family empty-handed?

Qiao Yuren can't imagine living a poor life.Without a car, should he be allowed to walk on his legs in the future?What would he eat without delicacies from mountains and seas?What would he wear without silk and satin?
It's better to let him die than to eat rough tea and light food and wear coarse clothes!

At night, Qiao Yuren didn't go home, he came to the Waibaidu Bridge alone.

Taking out the cut Havana cigar in his pocket and lighting it, Qiao Yuren lay on the railing of the iron bridge and watched the flowing river, smoking a cigar.

He cherished the last few moments of being rich.

Cigars can be smoked for a long time, but after all, there is a time to finish smoking.

Qiao Yuren took the last puff and threw the cigarette butt into the river. He climbed over the railing and jumped into the river without hesitation.

After 10 minutes, two liberated area fighters who heard the call for help jumped into the river without thinking about their own lives. But now it is the dry season, the river is too shallow, and the two fighters stuck their legs into the mud.

Even so, the river did not completely cover their heads.

After the two of them pulled their legs out of the mud, their heads were already above the water.

Under the guidance of an old man on the iron bridge, two soldiers dragged Qiao Yuren, who had sunk to the bottom of the water, to the shore.

Qiao Yuren had already stopped breathing.

"Several people have jumped in the past two days, even if they stand up in the river, they won't die." The old man shook his head and sighed.

This war without gunpowder did not come to a complete end until December, and speculation completely eradicated the hoarding.This incident made those capitalists who think that they still have the final say on the economy start to be cautious and fearful, and dare not do anything wrong again.

The cargo ship rented by Qian Xiaobao arrived in Hong Kong from India in early December.

At this time, every newspaper in HK was full of news from Shanghai.Of course, there are also quite a few speculators who fled to HK.

"We leased it for half a year. This is the last coal shipment. Is it necessary to send it to China?" Taro Kawamoto asked.

"Send! Now is the time when coal is most needed in winter." Qian Xiaobao replied.

Every time the coal arrives at Rizhao or Beilun port, a payment will be remitted from a trading company in Macau called Huaguang to the account of Leon Company.

Qian Xiaobao made a slight profit in doing this and did not lose money.

When Guangzhou was liberated in mid-October, Qian Xiaobao originally thought that it would be more convenient to communicate with China in the future, but the passage between HK and Guangzhou was blocked, which cut off the communication between the province and Hong Kong, which were originally free to pass.

When the new year was about to be celebrated, Taro Hemoto came to find Qian Xiaobao in a hurry.

Kobayashi Kaoru told him that Qian Xiaobao had already gone to the racetrack, and Kawamoto Taro rushed to the racecourse again.

When Qian Xiaobao was sitting in the stands and staring nervously at the horse race, Kawamoto Taro came to him out of breath and said, "Japan, something happened to the Japanese factory!"

As he spoke, he stuffed a telegram into Qian Xiaobao's hand.

Qian Xiaobao hurriedly looked down at the telegram, there were only a few simple words on it: Chlorobenzene leaked, twelve workers were sent to the hospital.

Chlorobenzene is a by-product of the production of 666, which is hexachlorocyclohexane, and is highly toxic.Now there is a toxic leakage incident in Takashima Chemical's factory!
This is the first time for Qian Xiaobao, the president of Takashima, to encounter such a thing!

"Book me a plane ticket immediately, I want to go back to Japan!" Qian Xiaobao said.

(End of this chapter)