Chapter 351 Test

Shanghai, within the British Concession.

At the door of a three-story foreign-style house, there are two signs hanging at the same time, one of which is China Merchants Bank and the other is Huasheng Textile Factory.

The reason for this situation is that these two well-known companies headquartered in Shanghai belong to one person, Sheng Xuanhuai.

If any city in mainland China was the most economically active area at the end of the late Qing Dynasty, then it is Shanghai. This city, which has been located at the mouth of the Yangtze River for only a hundred years, has become busy because the shipping of the Yangtze River waterway is becoming more and more important. Since it ushered in the first outer [***] ship, it has been as fast as chicken blood. The only way to rise is comparable to Hong Kong, which is controlled by the United Kingdom.

This is the first generation of China's first-generation open city. There are too many major concessions here, and there are also a large number of buildings with European and American styles. Foreigners shuttle back and forth in the streets and alleys. Even if Haimen across the river has been controlled by Xinhua, it has not curbed the vigorous vitality here, but because it is used as a northern capital. The bridgehead entered seems to be more and more prosperous.

In addition to those foreigners who pursue profits, there are also some Chinese businessmen working here. Among them, the most famous one is undoubtedly Sheng Xuanhuai, who defeated Hu Xueyan and is known as Li Hongzhang's small treasury.

But today, the representative of the Chinese businessman seems to be a little absent-minded.

Especially the depositors who saw a long queue at the door of the bank to run, they were even more worried.

He is not worried about the current situation in the south. In fact, he is very satisfied, because the new emperor has appointed him as the Minister of Commerce and is responsible for contacting countries' business activities in China, which gives him more room for development. Moreover, Xinhua on the other side of the river is obviously busy with Mongolia in the northwest and the north, as long as they can be there. If it is dragged on for a few years, the unified regime in the south will grow rapidly, and there may not be a possibility of recovering the rivers and mountains in Union foreigners!

But just when the officialdom was proud, his business suffered great ups and turns. The raw silk business robbed from Hu Xueyan encountered the embarrassment that upstream farmers were unwilling to sell, and the bank and mining business at the beginning encountered an unprecedented dilemma, and almost all the other shareholders of the mine boycotted him. What's more troublesome is that in terms of banks, I don't know who has revealed the information of depositors. At present, a large number of people have begun to absorb deposits directly from depositors at high interest rates, and then those certificates of deposit come to Shanghai to concentrate on the run!

This is a big problem! Depositors are the root of the bank. Now others do it directly on the root. The sudden run wave makes him have to withdraw funds from various places to plug this loophole, but the more so, the more depositors do not believe in the bank, forming a disgusting cycle.

Who is the black hand behind this crisis? Sheng Xuanhuai thought about this problem over and over again, and he also had some foundation in his heart, but the other party's strength was obviously too unexpected. It was like a stream to fight against the sea. He had no power to fight back at all, so he could only foolishly watch the funds being taken away!

Today is the last moment of this half of the competition. If we can't stop the bankers in Shanghai from running, then the commercial bank, which has only been established for three years, will have to declare bankruptcy!

So can you plug this loophole?

Sheng Xuanhuai took a breath, and the long dragon downstairs aroused his determination to win. He did not believe that anyone could cover the sky with one hand, so he transferred millions of silver from Hunan and Guizhou. These silvers will arrive today under strict protection, as long as the money is huge. When the funds arrive, then you are still the winner!

Just as he regained his confidence in the mall for decades, a panicked footsteps suddenly came from the outside.

"Your Excellency, it's not good. When escorting the silver dart bureau from Hunan and Guizhou into Shanghai, it was intercepted!"

"What!" Sheng Xuanhuai's face suddenly lost its color. He thought that there might be other means behind him, and he might continue to dig his corner from business, but he didn't expect that those people would directly use force to play commercial games with him at all!

It seems that the bad news is not over yet. There are several bad news downstairs almost at the same time. The last point of silver reserved in Shanghai has been run-outed, and the depositors began to panic. The workers of Huasheng Textile Factory suddenly announced their resignation, and all the workers were raised by a newly opened larger textile. The salary is dug up!

Goo Dong.

Sheng Xuanhuai just fell to the ground, and the depositors began to shout excitedly downstairs. The crowd poured into the bank like a tide, and even a few specially invited foreign bodyguards could not stop it--

"Your Excellency the Ambassador, an emergency telegram has been sent from Shanghai."

Ogner quickly glanced at the telegram, and his face suddenly became extremely stiff.

There was a run on the famous Tongshang Bank in Shanghai. After a large number of mobbles entered the concession and attacked the banks without the money they deserved, they finally ignited the headquarters of the Tongshang Bank building, and a fire burned it clean.

After the fire broke out, after the businessman surnamed Sheng escaped from the building, he was suddenly arrested by several big men. Fortunately, the patrol room also rushed there and arrested the people and Sheng Xuanhuai to the concession police.

After reading the telegram, Ogner felt as if a muffled thunder was stuffed into the bottom of his heart. Tang Shaoyi on the opposite side narrowed her eyes, and the sharp light was like a needle, which made him even more restless, because the arrested people turned out to be from the Xinhua Police Department!

Li Mo, an asshole, actually sent someone to the British concession to arrest people! Ogner's face suddenly turned blue. What is a concession? What is privilege?

The concession is the best example. If the plunder of resources is only the interests of countries outside China, even some losses can be accepted, then the concession is the last bottom line of each country in China!

If even the interests and power in the concession cannot be guaranteed, it is better to honestly return to Europe and leave this place to Li Mo. Anyway, he treats businessmen well. As long as he does not violate local laws, he will not trouble businessmen from all over the world for no reason.

But at this moment, Li Mo and Xinhua are undoubtedly challenging this bottom line!

Because he believes that with Li Mo's strength at this moment, if he wants to kill or arrest a person, he can use many unknown methods, and even if he sends people into the concession to kill people in light, as long as he is not from his own country, then all countries will turn a blind eye.

And now he came face to face and asked to enter the concession to arrest people!

Although Sheng Xuanhuai is the Chinese who promoted mutual protection in the South and gave countries the opportunity to intervene in the Far East, he is not so important that he can't sacrifice!

You need to know that even the bullshit emperor Yanjing can sacrifice in exchange for the south to continue to return to the original status quo, not to mention a Chinese businessman? And he believes that Li Mo also knows this!

At this moment, he deliberately proposed to enter the concession to arrest people. It was basically that Xiang Zhuang's sword was intended to Pei Gong, not the Chinese businessman, but to test the bottom line of various countries!

This cunning spoiler, these minions in front of the house, are testing the bottom line of various countries again and again in various ways!

He must not have this opportunity!

"Lord Tang, that's the leased land of the British Empire! Unless the lease contract expires, China has the right to read the judiciary in the concession according to the agreement!"

Ogner's eyes swept coldly: "Please forgive me for the practice of returning police entering the concession to arrest people. They must be tried!"

"Trial?!"

Tang Shaoyi pretended to panic, but in fact, she had already scolded flowers in the bottom of her heart. Sheng Xuanhuai is nothing? A businessman actually united the whole southeast provinces. If it goes on like this, doesn't everyone think he is Lv Buwei?

No matter what his purpose is, it is unforgivable, because he has essentially contributed to the division of the country!

A businessman is a businessman, doing business honestly and doing politics!

Humph!

As early as he learned that Sheng Xuanhuai had promoted Southeast Mutual Insurance and tried to split the country, the Ministry of Intelligence made a series of secret actions against him. He not only strung off the upstream source of raw silk, but also used high interest to pull all his depositors to forcibly run, and returned all his tricks to deal with Hu Xueyan to him.

In addition, the property under his name is constantly acquired and embezzled. In fact, he is not as good as before. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as a hair-haired phoenix. Is it worth sending someone to the concession?

In fact, this action was always instructed by the general participants to test the attitude of countries towards the concession! Now Ogner insists on sending the sent people to trial, which shows that the bottom line of these powers is still not loosened at all.

Tang Shaoyi is very clear about Li Mo's thoughts. The reason why she put on the posture to take advantage of the northwest war and Russia to fight is actually to deter the south. In addition, she sent herself to attach this condition to tell Britain, France and other countries that the Far East has entered a new era, so that they can reconsider the interests here.

Now Ogner said that he would send his people to the trial. Obviously, he still had the idea that the concession was unwilling to give up, which was extremely unfavorable to speed up the southern solution.

However, it is indeed not the time to launch a disaster. The last three divisions were all thrown into the north. The emperor's determination to accelerate the north has been determined to accelerate the north. Judging from the Russians' intervention in Xinjiang, although the Xinhua era has begun and the navy has been in an active offensive posture, the army is because of its huge territory and territory. In the process of recovering the lost land, it has also been in an active defensive posture against Russia. When it can be reversed from a defensive position to an active offensive posture is crucial to the whole Xinhua!

Few people understand that when it is difficult to mobilize roads and materials, it is difficult for a country's army to devote itself to national construction. Long border lines need defense, military stations need to be built, and railway roads need to put military needs first, which will devour a large amount of national resources. Only when the defensive situation changes into an offensive, push the defense line to the enemy's territory, and draw a special military void zone, so that space can be exchanged for time. Once a war breaks out, the enemy will take the lead in entering its own territory.

"A strong army does not depend on how many new weapons you are equipped with, but two hard-name indicators, one is the ability to control the war situation, and the second is to master the right to choose the battlefield!"

This is what the young master said to officers at all levels on the Army Day last year, so at the beginning of national construction, he was only to accelerate the war between the north and the northwest. In fact, few people know that the Prime Minister's Office does not approve of such a large-scale military mobilization, although this is to recover the land, in the case of limited funds, the same Taking care of national construction and military consumption is a great test.

However, Li Mo insisted that accelerating the calm in the north and northwest, stationing a large number of troops to ensure local safety, and deterring those who still did not give up in the local area. At the same time, he should push the land threat as far as possible beyond the border.

Britain, France and other countries in the south are just jumping clowns. Although their navy is strong, there is always one of the biggest weaknesses, that is, the army in the Far East is seriously insufficient. The total strength of Britain, France and Germany in the Far East is no more than 40,000, but the largest garrison in Germany is far away because of Japan at the beginning. Away from the mainland, and the navy is the weakest of the countries, it can't really threaten the Far East.

And most of France's troops are in Vietnam. There may be some ways to deal with Yungui, but they are a little unable to go north. More importantly, the two army forces, which are claimed to be the first and second in the world, are seriously incoparable and can't work together at all!

In this way, there is only Britain left, but Britain has always given priority to the navy. The total size of his naval fleet has always been the top three in the world, with an annual investment of no less than 50 million pounds. In addition, the area of the British Isles is small, which makes it impossible for him to free up a large amount of funds for army construction, otherwise it will be a cloth. The war was not fought for three years, and troops were also transferred from Australia, India and other colonies.

Even if the three families are temporarily reconciled together, they can't work together. In addition, people in the south are changing now, and there are calls for national unity in all places. Although it is still a little weak, it is difficult to stop this trend, especially the rapid changes in the north, and the Prime Minister's Office is single-minded to maintain most of the A series of governance measures, such as distinguishing the interests of ordinary people, ensuring excessive stability of the country, and actively developing the economy, have finally made many insightful people in the south begin to reflect on whether the Southeast Mutual Insurance should continue to be maintained.

Although there is mutual insurance in the south, as long as there is no unified regime, it will not pose a big threat. At most, it is economically destroyed by various countries, but the Prime Minister's Office has already secretly promoted the economic stability of the South, and is considering extending the northern railway network to the south in the name of railway investment companies. Strive to unify transportation as soon as possible, so that we can also use railways and transportation networks to accelerate the reform in the south.

So the south is not a big problem at all. As long as there is a few years of infiltration, the change is certain. When the north and the northwest are truly stabilized, even if Britain, France and other countries really work together, it is impossible to stop the pace of national reunification.

After a bargain, Tang Shaoyi and Ogner reached an agreement and agreed to deal with the several people sent to arrest in accordance with the British law of the concession, but not to hurt their bodies, and reached the idea of extradite Sheng Xuanhuai.

Ten days later, the Shanghai British Concession Court officially opened a trial to hear the case of Xinhua public servants entering the concession without authorization, and announced in court that several people would be sentenced to three months' imprisonment.

This case caused a sensation in Shanghai and the south. Many people thought it was a signal for foreigners to fight back against Li Mo and be determined to protect the southeast, but no one expected that only three days later, Xinhua issued an announcement in Shanghai listing Aixinjue Luo Pulun as the number one wanted criminal! And a reward of 10,000 blue coins will be offered for arrest.

This news was unexpected to everyone. Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong and others were shocked. They were not worried about the wanted criminals, but that the announcement was actually issued in the Shanghai French Concession!

At the same time, Britain, France, Germany and other countries also said that they could not accept the result of having a new emperor in the southeast, and asked Pu Lun to immediately go down and restore the status quo of the southeast coast.

This news was like a thunderbolt that hit Li Hongzhang and other foreignists. At this time, they really understood that the foreigners were only concerned about the interests of the southeast coast, not the Qing Dynasty, which had disappeared for several years!

Two announcements issued almost at the same time completely lifted the chaos in the southeast provinces. After Sichuan was controlled by the Xinhua Army, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces took the lead in launching Southeast Mutual Insurance, and Hunan became the source of chaos. A large number of students took to the streets demanding an end to the division of the southeast and maintain national unity.

Even the coast of Guangdong, which is farther away, has been scalded by this chaos, and Britain, France and other countries have increased their blackmail to the southeast provinces.

In order not to let the turmoil continue, Li Hongzhang had to drag his sick body to Shanghai in person to negotiate with representatives of various countries and try to make a final effort.

Just as the southeast coast suddenly fell into chaos, Li Mo quietly came to Jiangsu after arranging the construction of Sichuan roads and administrative frameworks, and began to prepare for his first global visit...

(to be continued)