Jagged Warlord

Please remember the URL of this site:.At this time, Li Mohan waved his hand and interrupted Zhou Mingshun. He said to the audience: "Xiao Zhou's words are on point, but what he said is not thorough It is equivalent to protecting the country's industry and commerce. Protecting the country's industry and commerce is equivalent to protecting the country's economic lifeline. In 1840, the reason why the British fought with us was because Lin Zexu's Humen sales of cigarettes endangered the interests of British opium merchants. Of course, the Chinese have never There is no shortage of heroes. For example, Hu Xueyan in the Tongzhi and Guangxu years was a businessman hero, but the imperial court even joined forces with foreigners and compradors to kill such a national businessman. In my opinion, there are two people who killed Hu Xueyan, a national hero in the business world. The first culprit is the fatuous court."

Once popular, die is a crab philosophy and the reverse elimination law of Chinese business talents

Hu Xueyan, who eats black and white, has become the idol of Chinese businessmen, and later generations admire him. He has power and money, and there are many wives and concubines. The backyard does not catch fire, but who would have thought that he would be defeated by whom in the end? Hu Xueyan's nemesis seems to be another interest group. Sheng Xuanhuai and Hu Xueyan are on a par with Hu Xueyan on the list of red-top businessmen. The reason why they became "enemies" is not only because the industries involved in the business, from shipping to textiles to telegraphs, did not collide with Hu Xueyan.

In the eighth year of Guangxu, Sheng Xuanhuai used the three tactics of "wiretapping, mixing sand, and digging the wall" to launch a secret war against his opponent Hu Xueyan.

Eavesdropping: Sheng Xuanhuai obtained Hu Xueyan's business secrets through telegrams and knew that Hu Xueyan wanted to buy all domestic new silk at high prices and attempted to monopolize the silk industry.

Mixed with sand: Sheng Xuanhuai bought raw silk and sold it to Hu Xueyan's customers, while contacting merchants and compradors of foreign companies from all over the world, but he refused to buy Hu Xueyan's raw silk, which caused Hu Xueyan's raw silk inventory to increase day by day and funds to be tight day by day.

Digging the wall: breaking the capital chain and dragging Hu Xueyan to death Hu Xueyan’s 80 taels of loan just reached the repayment period. Find Shanghai Daotai Shao Youlian under the banner of Li Hongzhang to instruct Shanghai to delay the payment of the payment, and then let people spread the word that the collapse of Hu Xueyan Bank will soon cause a run on

Sheng Xuanhuai's "three axes" made Hu Xueyan hard to defend against. Hu Xueyan, who was surrounded by enemies, was at the end of the road. Even though he sold the real estate to clear the warehouse, he still did not survive the run.

This is the moment of Hu Xueyan's bankruptcy Judging from Hu Xueyan's "sudden death", Hu Xueyan's nemesis is definitely the opponent of another interest group, Sheng Xuanhuai, but is it really that simple? That person is the imperial court. Hu Xueyan's bankruptcy is the inevitable result of the crab philosophy pursued by the Qing court. If the imperial court protects him, he will say that Sheng Xuanhuai is a dignified Li Hongzhang. No matter how big a businessman is like a crab, he is like a pig. Hu Xueyan, who is also a businessman, is destined to be looted. This is mainly determined by the ruling philosophy of the feudal dynasty. The king of thieves is not good at creating but good at plundering; he wants to monopolize everything and will not allow businessmen to become bigger [

Li Mohan said: "The other one is the foreign comprador I often talk about."

When foreign firms first entered China to do business, they were not familiar with the language, the place of life, and the business environment and government relations. Their eyes were darkened. If they wanted to expand their business, they had to rely on local Chinese. This is what people know as foreign compradors. "Cooperation", they have to pay high "deposit" to foreigners to guarantee the loss of the business, and at the same time enjoy the income share of the business. They are doing their best to expand the business of the foreign firm for their own benefit. In addition to making friends with the government and mastering government resources, they also need to make friends with the business circle. Relationships extend their tentacles to every corner of society. They weave layers of networks of relationships and money to dredge various channels of wealth and interests. Their front is the shopping malls, the background is the foreign market, the stage is the officialdom, and it is through their foreign capital that penetrates into China's economy. Foreign goods flock to China’s big cities and small towns, and foreign spirits subvert China’s consciousness. Foreign interests bind China’s powerful elite. It can be said that without foreign compradors, foreign business will be difficult in China. Foreign power will achieve nothing in China.

Raw silk pricing is determined by the textile trading platforms in Marseilles, New York, and London. It has nothing to do with the raw silk production areas here or even in China as a whole. It has little to do with the production of raw silk. Foreign firms set the purchase price and entrust compradors to purchase raw silk. It is their business to buy silk cocoons from farmers at what price. As for whether farmers make money or lose money, it depends entirely on the pricing in the international market and the purchase price from the associated comprador silk reeling factory. In the 19s, foreign companies firmly controlled the pricing power of China's raw silk exports. Under the pressure of foreign companies, the price of raw silk went from bad to worse. In the past ten years, the silk farmers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were miserable. swallow

After Hu Xueyan started to intervene in the raw silk business, he felt deep pain in the high pressure of the foreign firms. Seeing that the silk farmers were beaten to the bone by the foreign firms and fell into bankruptcy, he secretly made up his mind to seize the pricing power of the raw silk trade and force the foreign firms to make concessions on prices. He began to carefully look for the price control system of the foreign firms. The flaws of foreign firms controlled raw silk trade financing, international exchange, export channels and shipping insurance, and with the backing of the gunboats of the British Empire, it seemed invincible. However, Hu Xueyan was keenly aware of the dead spots of foreign firms. It was difficult to control the source of raw silk production. In early spring, Hu Xueyan went deep into raw silk producing areas. Conducting careful investigation and communicating with local raw silk merchants, he found that the raw silk harvest of the year would decrease and there would be a serious shortage of supply. He immediately seized this rare opportunity and began to act quietly, purchasing Guangfa deposits to control the supply of goods in silkworm villages and towns in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

This trick really worked, and the Jardine Mathesons suddenly found that it was difficult to buy raw silk without a higher price. They tried to break through one by one, but Hu Xueyan's fence was tightly tied. Silk merchants of a small size were told to abide by the price agreed upon by everyone." The premium raw silk sold in London is only 16 shillings and 6 pence per bale, but the price of silk in Shanghai is equivalent to 17 shillings and 4 pence due to Hu Xueyan’s acquisition and manipulation. On the other hand, China's organized resistance is regarded as manipulation. This logic is still prevailing today. The United States' frantic printing of dollars is not regarded as currency manipulation, but China's countermeasures are judged to be currency manipulation.

When Hu Xueyan led the local financial and commercial forces and began to challenge the foreign firms, he not only directly threatened the commercial interests of the foreign firms, but also threatened the vital interests of the foreign comprador class. At this time, another traitorous comprador, Xi Zhengfu, appeared.

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It has also achieved outstanding results in issuing banknotes. HSBC’s banknote circulation is the most popular among foreign banks. The scope of circulation covers the Yangtze River and the Pearl River. The "Words of the Prosperity" pointed out: "If the banknotes (banknotes) used by foreign merchants today are not verified by Chinese and foreign officials, no matter how much they do, they can do whatever they want. It is said that the British HSBC Bank has more than one million banknotes in Austria. The bank has already made a profit of 1893 million. "The Spectrum" The Xi family has made great contributions to HSBC's possession of China's real wealth with IOUs

Li Mohan finally concluded: "So our next main task is to clean up those traitorous compradors and secondly, to recover the sovereignty lost by Han Yeping Company. In fact, they want to mess us up and disable us so that we can invade Manchuria and even the whole of China. They also use traitors like Sheng Xuan Huaina to control cotton yarn and control Hanyeping. They can obtain hundreds of thousands of tons of iron sand and concentrate every year. Hanyang Steel Factory also has tens of thousands of tons of steel every year They were all shipped back to Japan without Han Yeping's coal and iron Japan's army would not have enough artillery and the navy would always be a castle in the air, so defending Han Yeping is defending the country"

Now that Li Mohan has controlled Hubei, he immediately started to recover Hanyeping. The first step is to impose military control on Hanyang Iron Works, Huangshi Iron Mine and other joint mining enterprises, and block the wharf on the Yangtze River to prevent iron ore from being shipped out.

As expected, Tsunan Yamaguchi, the Japanese consul in Hankou, came to protest in less than 12 hours. He found Yin Changheng, the governor of Hubei, and threatened aggressively: "As the consul of the Empire of Japan in Hankou, I think it is necessary for me to warn Your Excellency that Han Yeping has serious interests with our country. Your army must immediately withdraw military control over the Hanyang Iron Works and Huangshi Iron Mine, and we reserve the right to resort to military measures.”