Chapter 74 Soldiers and Emperors

"Wow!"

The sound of broken glass echoed in the luxuriously decorated room, and the broken glass on the floor was scattered in a pool of red wine.

Perhaps it was because of extreme anger. When Charlie was scolding, the fat on his face was not twitching, but trembling with his heavy breathing. He looked up at Max standing in front of him, and his anger became stronger.

"You useless waste, I asked you to inquire about the lame man. What's the news you came back!"

Catherine actually fell into the arms of the damn Chinese cle that night. How could this not make him angry, but make him more angry? The news was that the news spread all over the public concession and the French concession overnight, and did not fall into his ears until today. He could imagine that after today, others would see it. The sympathy and laughter in my eyes when I saw him.

Mai Li, who was scolded as a waste, just stood there with his head down. As an assistant in the big class, he was just a dog-like existence in many cases. He never dared to express his opinion in front of Sassoon, and he was always submissive and obedient.

"That damn slyp, I'm going to kill him!"

Thinking of everyone's laughter, Charlie's anger seemed to ignite the whole beach.

Max was shocked by the anger of the big class. Originally, he was just the same as in the past, allowing the big class to scold him. Anyway, he would not lose a piece, but when he heard this, he was a little bad. He knew that if he didn't say anything, if Charlie did something, he would lose everything at that time.

So he was in a hurry to say all the words he had read in his stomach again and again yesterday after hearing the news yesterday. However, he is not good at words, and he is also a little timid in front of the big class. He spoke very lightly and slowly, and he didn't know what to say. In panic, he asked first.

"Mr. Daban, please tell me why you killed him?"

"You idiot!"

Charlie almost hated why he raised this fool. He felt that he was ignorant and stupid, and he couldn't help but get a little angry.

"Don't you know that now Charlie has become a joke for the whole concession? Don't you know that everyone in the concession knows that the woman I like Charlie actually jumped on a damn Chinese lame with braids ** and didn't pay attention to me? The whole concession is watching my jokes now!"

Charlie's almost scolding rhetorical question made Max cringe even more. He was afraid that he would suffer unexpected misfortune if he said something wrong, but now that he has reached this point, he can't help but answer, and even his voice can't remain stable.

"Mr. Daban."

Max bowed humbly as usual, and then summoned up his courage to put forward his opinion.

"I... I think you have to consider that he... he is not an ordinary person!"

In the last two sentences, Max said more effortly, but he was afraid that he couldn't say it clearly. The other party couldn't understand and sweated on his forehead. As he spoke, he peeped at Charlie's reaction.

"In... in Shanghai, it's easy to kill a Chinese. It only costs a few hundred yuan, but... But the squeal, although he is a Chinese, ... he is a rich man, I... If I look like killing him, it is likely to arouse the suspicion of others. At that time, if it is used by others, the big class..."

This idiot! Although he is a fool, Charlie has always believed that the biggest advantage of his associate is that he is diligent and submissive, just a brainless puppet. Unexpectedly, the little people who rarely talk could stammer and say the truth that they were ignored by themselves.

Shanghai Beach has never been a holy place. Some of the foreigners who come to Shanghai and get rich here are not ruthless. Maybe it doesn't matter if they ask someone to kill a Chinese, but if they are used by other competitors, Charlie seems to see those people like hungry wolves. Yes, seize the scene of this incident coming to him.

"And... Moreover, Mr. Daban, this... This matter is a little strange, for... Why didn't you know about it for such a long time, but yesterday it spread throughout the concession! I suspect that someone wants to provoke a conflict between us and that squeal!"

Although he is still submissive, Max speaks with a somewhat organized surname, which is completely different from the past.

But as Miss Lang in Class 2, he used to despise "Charlie's dog". Today, he brought this news. However, seeing that Charlie didn't say anything, he couldn't figure out Daban's thoughts for a moment. He couldn't talk too much. He just raised his glasses on his nose and sneered.

"Do you think that Mr. Daban should be so patient! Let Daban become a joke in the whole Shanghai civilized society!"

When Mishlang was speaking, he deliberately aggravated the words civilized society and jokes. The meaning of the words was very clear. He was reminding Daban that he had now become a joke in a civilized society.

Messrand thought that this question could make it difficult for Max, so that he couldn't answer it. At the same time, it will also remind Charlie what he should pay attention to. Yesterday, he stayed with Mr. Victor and got some promises from Victor that he had to do something.

Although there was Michron's opposition, Max's words were much smoother than just now.

"Mr. Class Two may think that Mr. Charlie's face is very important, but we are Jews, not Chinese. Chinese people can fight for face and do anything. The Jews never do this. The wisdom of the Jews does not care about the battle of anger, but in his mind! Mr. Daban!"

The more I heard it, the more Charlie felt that Max was reasonable. However, the arrogant master must not listen to his subordinates in front of everyone. Now that he realized that there might be a conspiracy, he thought about it calmly.

"Math, did that sly man build a building in his garden?"

"Yes! Mr. Daban. And he also bought a piece of land in Pudong!"

Because of mastering enough materials, Max, who has always been submissive, will appear confident.

"In the past month, industrial companies have been buying land in Pudong. They bought less than 300 mu of land for the first time, but now they have bought more than 6, 800 mu of land!"

As soon as this number came out, Charlie and Mi Shilang were shocked. Although the land price in Pudong is far less than that in the Puxi Concession, 100 mu also needs more than one hundred taels, 6,8 hundred mu of land. The squealent's handwriting is a little too big.

"While buying a large amount of land, they also signed agreements with more than a dozen foreign banks, such as Lihe, Hebulou, Yihe, Renji, Taigu, Taihe, Huidefeng, Qichang Yangxing, etc., from printing machinery, construction machinery to metal machine tools. The total amount is as high as a million pounds!"

Max's words made Charlie and Mishlang take a breath at the same time. Obviously, they didn't expect that the industrial company had bought so many machines while buying land.

"Daban, if they didn't buy these machines, I might not get any news, but you may not know that they only pay a 10% deposit, and the amount of deposit is far from the general practice of foreign banks. If it weren't for the huge order, maybe those foreign banks would not accept it at all!"

At this time, Max seems to know the inside story. Seeing the admirative smile sent to him, he summoned up the courage to continue. He knew that maybe he could make a beautiful turnaround this time.

"And in the past few days, they have quietly caged the land facing the river in the concession. They have purchased the No. 3 warehouse of Qichang Linjiang from Qichang Yanghang, with a total area of 28.6 mu."

"Are you talking about Warehouse 3?"

Charlie suddenly asked rhetorically, and then took out a simple map from the drawer as if he remembered something.

"Where is the land that the squeaper bought?"

Max stepped forward. Although he looked humble, his expression was completely different from the past. He pointed to the picture.

"Lu Jiazui!"

Looking at the map carefully, in just more than ten seconds, Charlie relied on his many years of experience in the upper ocean world, and after careful thinking, he came to a reliable conclusion. He carefully checked the location of both sides of the Huangpu River on the map and couldn't help smiling proudly. Almost in an instant, he was clear. After the reason why the squeak was in Pudong, he also found a way to give the squeal blow to the squeak.

"That slyp wants to turn Pudong into the Bund!"

After thinking about this, Charlie looked at Max and Missrand proudly. Then he thought that he had done something extremely smart and in line with God's will, so he walked around the writing room with his hands behind his back. "The lame person seems to want to develop real estate in Pudong. If I'm not expected, he should be ready to build a bridge between Lujiazui and the Bund. If the bridge is built. If so, the land price of Putong will increase from the current one or two hundred taels to at least one thousand taels. The squeal man also has a construction company. At the time of the boundary, it is only Pudong's real estate, which may bring him a return of tens of millions of taels, or even hundreds of millions of taels of silver!"

Charlie did not hide his inner greed when he spoke, but he sneered more.

As early as more than a decade ago, there was more than one foreign bank in the concession that wanted to develop Pudong, but there was no foreign bank. It was willing to invest in the costly bridge. No matter who built the bridge, it was a wedding dress for others. Someone once proposed to be built by a collective joint venture of the foreign bank, but they could not argue about the land distribution. In the end, it was over. .

But Charlie, who participated in the plan to open up a new concession in Pudong, knew the root cause of the failure of the consensus among foreign banks. From the opening of Shanghai, Bund Road is the location of foreign banks and established foreign banks. Bund Road is the most prosperous and most expensive place in the whole Shanghai Concession, such as the construction between Pudong and Bund Road. By connecting a bridge, the impact on Bund Road may even shake the root of those old foreign banks. This is the reason why the concession would rather develop in the north and south directions of Puxi than the other side. Now the squeline is arrogant enough to develop real estate in Pudong.

"Are their industrial companies still buying land now?"

"Yes, Mr. Daban, they are still buying land, but there are warehouses of Yanghang in the area along the river in the east of Pudong, so their purchase of land was hindered. Two days ago, they bought the warehouse along the river of Yuchang Yanghang for 323,000 taels. The price was about 300 taels per mu, even if it is owned by Yuchang warehouse. The price of docks, cranes and other equipment is still higher than the market price.

When answering the question of the big class, Max hesitated for a while before continuing.

"Boss, I don't think we can sell our warehouse in Pudong. If the industrial company really wants to develop Pudong Real Estate, once the bridge is built, the land price will increase by at least ten times, or even higher!"

"stupid!"

Charlie spit out two words coldly, and then turned his head to look at Mishilang.

"Class 2, if the industrial company contacts you to negotiate the purchase of land, sell the warehouse to them, 350 taels per mu, and one taels less! Do you understand?"

"But...Mr. Daban, this..."

Mishlang squeaked and wanted to say something. Max may be a fool, but what he said was the truth. As soon as the bridge was built, the land price in Pudong would fly straight to the sky like a wing. Why did he sell it?

"They can't build a bridge, and they will never build it!"

Charlie squeezed the fat on his face and smiled, but his eyes were full of coldness.

"The king of Shanghai is a concession, but the kingdoms in the concessions are all foreign banks. It is they who determine the rise, fall and fate of the city. If they don't allow the bridge to be built, no one can repair it. The warehouse land in Pudongyang is as much as 10,000 mu, occupying almost the whole area along the river in Pudong. If he wants to develop Pudong We must buy these warehouses. We can't stop him, but also help them get these warehouses, so that the damn slamper can put all his money into the purchase of land. When he buys all the land, the Ministry of Industry Bureau may issue some regulations. All the rules in the concession are made by us. It's settled."

At this time, Charlie is walking towards the window. Although there is still a distance from Bund Road, you can still faintly see the Huangpu River, and even a little white sails in the river. This is a river flowing with gold and silver, but the gold and silver here never belong to their real owners.

This river is the Huangpu River in China, but it is the foreigners who control the river. The Ministry of Industry and Bureau can make any rules on both sides of the river according to their own needs, and the Chinese people can only obediently listen to these rules.

"When the lame man finished buying the land, he went bankrupt!"

He laughed so much that his face was trembling. He seemed to see the day when the damn lame man went bankrupt, and the investment of millions of taels came to naught.

"Boss, I... I don't think that industrial companies will go bankrupt after buying land!"

Max, who was regarded as a fool by the big class and the second class, said something blindly, which only made Charlie angry when he was just excited. He looked back at Max coldly, as if waiting for his explanation.

"Mr. Daban, he can help Catherine tide over the difficulties, so how can he go bankrupt because of the failure of millions of taels of investment?"

Mace's words are equivalent to splashing cold water on Charlie, but what he said is true. Even if he lost millions of taels, it was at most a pain.

The slyling man made a huge loan from Catherine. After losing millions of taels in Pudong, he only hurt his muscles and bones at most, far from going bankrupt. He looked at Max. In the past, he really didn't notice that this fool had a bright moment.

The eyes of Daban gave Max unprecedented courage. He even dared to look directly at Daban at this time. He was silent for a while, and with this effort, he straightened out his thoughts in his mind.

"Mr. Daban, whether it is the capital or scale of the industrial company, it is difficult for them to develop Pudong. Pudong's real estate development requires a lot of funds, but this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is the bridge. Without the bridge, Pudong's development will come to nothing. A bridge across the Huangpu River needs a few. Million taels, more than tens of millions of taels. Even if Chen Moran owns a gold mine, it is difficult to bear the expenses of building the bridge!"

The eyes of the big class and the second class made Max realize that his opportunity was right now. He knew that maybe after today, he was no longer the dog-like associate, but a real foreign associate.

"Pudong's real estate and cross-river bridges will force industrial companies to raise funds from the outside world. The way to raise funds is nothing more than issuing corporate bonds, but industrial companies are not very famous. Even if they issue bonds, their subscriptions are also limited, so there is only one way, which is to start a bank and use banks to collect funds. Jin, and then the bank will come forward to buy corporate bonds.

Max took a deep breath and continued.

"In the short term, it is difficult for banks to raise enough funds, but whether it is real estate or the construction of bridges, it takes time. During this period, industrial companies have enough time to expand the influence of banks to attract more deposits. If you just want Chen Moran to go bankrupt, I think the best way is not only in Let them buy land as they wish, and even we should give him some help. Until the cross-river bridge of Pudong's real estate covers its personal and bank funds, we only need the Ministry of Industry to pass some new plans, then the whole Pudong will become a ruin, and at that time, Mr. Daban! If you can do it properly."

Max suddenly bowed, and then looked up at the big class in front of him.

"Maybe after that, Shanghai will have the honor to witness a new real estate tycoon!"

Although Max didn't finish, Charlie knew his intention. His idea was far more vicious than his own, which was enough to make Chen Moran jump into the Huangpu River!

"That's right, Max!"

While nodding and praising in affirmation, Charlie silently recited a passage from the Jewish Code in his heart: "Soldiers go to war, and emperors are called heroes." Thinking that he was a hero and emperor now, he couldn't help but feel very uncomfortable when he looked back at Mi Shilang and Max beside him, especially when he saw that Max had no previous submissive look, which made him feel very uncomfortable. Although Charlie was very pleased with his idea, his eyes changed a little when he looked at Max.

"Mr. Max, you can go out. I have something to discuss with Class Two!"

(to be continued)