A week later, in front of the Willis building on Yanjiang Road, a group of tall, short, fat and thin people lined up, and Cai Asi and Zhang Agou, who were watching from the side, chatted together.

"Brother Dog, I'm looking for a good person."

"This guy is not bad." Zhang Agou carefully looked at these people found by Cai Asi and replied.

"I, Cai Ah Si, have always been reliable, and they have all been specially selected. Don't look like a dish, don't look like a sick old ghost, and don't look surprised. It may not be possible for these people to pretend to be rich people, but ordinary people have no problem at all. ”

Cai Asi praised the manpower he brought, and Zhang Agou nodded in agreement when he heard Cai Asi's words.

After seeing the gradual pull-in relationship, Cai Asi asked tentatively. "Brother Dog, you said that Mr. Sterry, can I meet him?"

Hearing Cai Asi's words made Zhang Agou more vigilant. He has the current scenery all by helping Sterry, and now Cai Asi obviously wants to pry his own job, which makes Zhang Agou feel uncomfortable.

"Fourth brother, you know, Mr. Sterry has too many things in a day now, and I can't even see them, so I can only wait for time to come down and tell him."

Hearing Zhang Agou's shirking, Cai Asi knew that he was anxious. He can't be blamed, now this Sterry is famous in Shanghai, and the newspapers are saying that the rubber market is good these days. In the newspapers, he specifically mentioned this lord, saying that he wanted to build the world's largest rubber production park in Nanyang. It also attracted a lot of discussion in the newspapers, and the most famous supporter now is Mr. Mai Bian of the Langley Company.

This Mr. Mai Bian is not an ordinary person, he came to Shanghai in 1903, sold all kinds of goods, and his business has not improved. It wasn't until he saw the price of rubber gradually rising, that Mai Bian saw it as an opportunity. In Shanghai, the benefits of rubber are trumpeted and want to make their own money in it. However, due to his lack of funds, the market reaction was not strong enough, which made him very troubled. Now that he has a lot of money, he is willing to help Sterry boast about the prospect of rubber.

Now he is sitting in his office listening to the news from his subordinates. "Boss, I heard that Willis shares are still not sold much, and most people are still waiting and seeing, and they plan to take a look."

After reporting the news of his inquiry to Mai Bian, the subordinate asked his boss about his plans.

"Boss, Willis Company has made a lot of noise, and even the ambassadors know that there is now a new rubber merchant in Shanghai, who intends to establish the largest rubber company. We just look at them like that? ”

"You do your own thing, you don't need to worry about the rest."

For the words of his subordinates, Mai Bian didn't want to explain to him, in his heart, he was not jealous and resentful, his strength was not as good as others, he could only drink some soup behind others, and there was no way to do it.

Within the Willis company they were talking about, Sterry was also talking about the current situation with Felix and Stockel.

"The situation is good now, at least there is no one in Shanghai who does not know our Willis company." As the leader, Sterry expressed satisfaction with the current situation.

"We've already spent £150,000, and we have £600,000." Stokel, who is mainly responsible for the management of funds, is a little sad about the current expenses. You must know that each group only has a fund of 600,000 yuan, and the remaining 270,000 yuan is used as a reserve fund, and it will not be used unless it is an emergency. It's only been a little over a month and it took a quarter, so why can't it make him feel anxious.

"Okay Stokel, this is a necessary expense in the early stage, and I have calculated that after the first dividend, we should be very different." Streey gave his estimate.

"I hope so." Stockel said with a little anxiety in his heart.

"Hey, don't just think about work, and relax once in a while, it's good for work." Seeing that the two of them were talking about the topic so dullly, Felix planned to liven up the atmosphere.

"Okay Felix, now with such a large sum of money, I can't relax at all." Stokel was a lot louder, clearly uninterested in Felix's words.

Stokel's words made Felix feel a little embarrassed.

"I'm going to relax with you, are you going to drink or dance." Seeing Stokel's words make Felix a little uncomfortable, and Sterry remediates him.

"Okay, let's go have a drink first, and then let's see the charm of the Paris of the East." Felix visibly forgot the unhappiness in his heart and said to Stelle.

"Stockel, aren't you really going to go?"

"Forget it, I'm going to look at the financial statements, and someone will guard our property." In the face of Sterry's easing inquiry, Stockel made a rare joke.

After inquiring about Stockel, the two went all the way to a nearby bar called the old sailor, sat down in a remote corner, and after asking the bartender for two glasses of brandy, the two chatted about Shanghai.

"Do you know Stry, I once wanted to meet the small-footed woman of Qingguo, so I asked Zhang to take me to see it, do you know where he took me?" Felix tells Sturry funny things.

"Where did he take you?" Sterry was also a little curious about what happened later.

"After he took me to a brothel, he went to a brothel called Lichun Lou and found me a prostitute who was only that tall," Felix continued, gesturing under his chest. "I was frightened by the thick white powder on my face and the black on my lips, and I later learned that she was still a thirteen-year-old girl. However, her feet are really small, only ten centimeters in size, I really don't know how they grow. ”

"And then?"

Faced with Sterry's questioning, Felix spoke of the results that followed. "I scolded Zhang and gave the little girl a little money, and I swore I would never go to that kind of place again."

"Ha~ha~ha, Felix is so funny."

"Okay, Stellar, I thought I was curious to see, where did I know it would be like this."

"I heard that there is a pretty good club on Warren Road, and there are many ladies and ladies in it every day, so we can go and see it." While still at the bar, Felix made arrangements for where to go next.

"Okay, let's finish this drink, and let's go meet these ladies and ladies."

Three months later, Willis issued a dividend of five taels or four cents per share to the people who bought the shares. This made the name of Willis Rubber Company thunderous in Shanghai, and Willis's stock was sold out in the world, and the fact that rubber was so profitable also made many people participate in this speculation.

Due to the entry of a large amount of money into the rubber market, its price also rose to a high price of 329 cents per pound in September, a gap of eight cents compared with three months ago, which made many people fanatical, and rubber, which many people had never heard of before, now entered the eyes of the public. Now the Willis Company, which claims to build the largest rubber plantation, is their main target, and the Willis stock in the market has also risen to a high price of 80 taels.

The rubber boom, now fueled by Eder, came early.

(It is estimated that some readers are not very comfortable describing too much about the scenes of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, and some people have raised this question about steamed buns.) Mantou has always cared about your thoughts, this time let Mantou be willful once, and fulfill the dream of Mantou to write that painful history. Everyone knows that the website is very dead to the card during that time, and the steamed buns can only be addicted to this rubber crisis once. After writing this paragraph, I will turn back to Europe, thank you for your tolerance of the willfulness of steamed buns, thank you. ）