Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Wolves Engage in Ghosts

In addition to the "Northern People's Daily", there are more than a dozen newspapers such as "Young People", "North China Business Daily", "Yuxi" and so on have reported the news that Huaxing Group, the largest enterprise in the north, is about to go bankrupt, and at this time the merchants who have business relations with Huaxing Group heard the news and came to verify it one after another.

Wang Maoru opened the factory door and warmly welcomed everyone, including reporters, and the two parties sat at the negotiating table, Wang Maoru was full of confidence, and took out a cigar and lit it easily. The reporters were also affected by Wang Maoru's confident mentality, and they couldn't help but stop talking and watch the development of the situation.

The Chinese translator next to Dale Carlson stood up and bowed, and said, "General Shangwu, please be safe, the villain is Huang Bingren, the procurement and translator of Citibank." Although he usually looks like he is condescending to the Chinese people, it is obvious that there is not a common man on the other side at this time, this is a brigade commander, a senior official of the Beiyang government, and the boss of the largest enterprise in North China.

Wang Maoru nodded, looked at the old man Suzuki Masataka, who is also a yellow race, and Huang Bingren said: "Mr. Suzuki also entrusted me to be the plenipotentiary representative this time. ”

"That's good." Wang Maoru said, saying that he took out the cigar box, which is suitable for everyone to smoke, Dale Carlson was not polite, and directly took out a cigarette and said "ng" with a smile, Suzuki Zhenglong smiled and waved his hand, Huang Bingren naturally did not dare to take the cigar cigarette, and just about to speak, Wang Maoru said: "You don't need to say it, I know everything." He nodded to Zhao Jiacheng, who took out a box from the cabinet and opened it, revealing two checks in the box. Wang Maoru said: "This is a cash check from the Morgan Bank of the United States, one is 280,000 US dollars, which is used to repay the principal and interest of Citibank, and the other is 140,000 US dollars, which is used to repay the principal and interest of Taizheng Bank. ”

Carlsen and Masataka Suzuki almost dropped their jaws in surprise, what is the situation, doesn't it mean that he is going bankrupt? How can there be so much money? Reporters took pictures, but at the same time, they were puzzled.

Wang Maoru smiled and explained: "I mortgaged the Huaxing Group to the Morgan Bank of the United States, and formally negotiated with the American EAT Company and DuPont Company, and borrowed 500,000 US dollars with the mortgage of 5% of the shares of DuPont Company in my hand. ”

Immediately, everyone was in an uproar, 500,000 US dollars, 500,000 US dollars, this is not a small amount of money, how much did Yuan Shikai borrow from the Five Nations Bank? This Major General of Beiyang was able to borrow 500,000 yuan, which is really amazing, and he really underestimated him before. The startled bankers and reporters were sent away, but the War Department was ushered in. The person who came was Yao Buying, an adjutant to Xu Shuzheng, vice minister of the Ministry of the Army, who said that Wang Maoru had returned to Beijing without reason, violating military regulations, and demanded that he immediately return to the Huairou station.

Wang Maoru smiled and said that Yao Buying was invited to a banquet, but Yao Buying said coldly: "Brigade Commander Wang, I was ordered to pass the order, and since the order has been delivered, I will return to the War Department in the next place." By the way, Niu Delu, the adjutant of the Secretariat of the War Department, is your friend, he has been dismissed from his post and is being imprisoned in the gendarmerie headquarters for taking bribes. ”

Yao Buying left, and the angry Wang Maoru gritted his teeth and said: "Bastard bastard bastard bastard I really want to kill this bastard, fox fake tiger might, dog"

Everyone saw Wang Maoru's anger, and they were silent and did not speak, and after a while, a man wearing a melon skin hat ran in, whispered in Pu Ji's ear for a while, and retreated. Wang Maoru looked at Pu Ji, Pu Ji walked into Wang Maoru and whispered: "He's the best, finally let me find out who is doing the ghost." ”

"Who?"

"It's the Japanese, the Japanese and foreign companies have a relationship with the War Department, and they directly replaced our weapons with Japanese rifles, and the liquidated damages of 200,000 oceans are also paid by the Japanese. The price of the Japanese is half cheaper than ours, 2.4 million yuan is ordered by us for three divisions of arms, and the Japanese actually give them seven divisions of arms, and they also put in 200,000, the Japanese are going crazy. ”

Everyone was taken aback, the Japanese are crazy? Losing money to make a deal?

Wang Maoru turned around and asked Zhao Jiacheng: "How much is a Japanese Type 38 rifle?" How much is a big formal? ”

Zhao Jiacheng replied: "The Japanese 38 rifle is 65 yuan a piece, the big formal rifle is 55 yuan a piece, and our fire bead is 120 yuan, and it is true that the price is far less than the 38 type." ”

Wang Maoru thought for a moment and said, "Even if it is converted like this, the Japanese will also lose." ”

Uragi interjected: "It is said that the Japanese also sent Japanese-style Krupp artillery this time, but it doesn't seem to be new. ”

"Could it be that the Japanese changed their clothes and sold all the old arms to the War Department?" Ma Xiaoshui asked.

"You can see at a glance the old munitions, and the people in the War Department are not stupid." Cui Zhou interjected.

Wang Maoru suddenly said: "Not necessarily, the Japanese army has particularly strict regulations on the maintenance of weapons, and the guns look exactly the same as new guns after refurbishment. Pu Ji, you ask again, whether the rifles of these seven divisions are Golden Hook rifles. Japan's Type 38 rifle is 7.6 caliber, and the Golden Hook Rifle is 7.9 caliber. ”

"Okay, you wait, I'll send someone to investigate." Puji said.

In the afternoon, Suzuki Masataka, the manager of Taisho Bank, came to visit the head office of Huaxing with a smile and asked Wang Maoru if Huaxing needed funds. Wang Maoru laughed and said: "Mr. Suzuki has worked hard, speaking of which, we really have a need for funds, and it would be better if we could borrow from the Bank of Japan, the interest rate of the Bank of America is too high." ”

Suzuki Masataka's Beijing official dialect was extremely smooth, it turned out that yesterday he deliberately pretended not to speak, Wang Maoru did not mention yesterday, and the two talked about Sino-Japanese friendship. Both of these people have their own hearts and minds, and they both know that China and Japan are mortal enemies, but they say that the friendship between China and Japan is a strip of water. Seeing him smoking a cigar, Masataka Suzuki persuaded him: "Young man, although the cigar is good, it has no intention of harming the body. ”

Wang Maoru said: "Smoking cigars is at least much stronger than smoking opium in China, and opium, like cigars, is a game for the rich." When Masataka Suzuki left, he said that he hoped that the two companies would maintain a good relationship and continue to work together, and that there would be more cooperation in more fields. Wang Maoru smiled and said, "Thank you for your kindness, I will definitely find your Taizheng Bank if I have difficulties." Suzuki Masataka saw that Wang Maoru's expression was determined, and he left very satisfied.

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