Chapter 652 It's going to be harvested! (Please order, please vote)

Thursday, December 29, 1858.

Shanghai Beach.

A dull sound of "expanding".

On the top floor of the Vienna Bank building, Van Deville, the chief office of the Dutch East India Bank in China, smashed the coffee cup into the carpet.

The brown liquid splashed all over the floor.

"Five hundred thousand stones! A total of 500 thousand stones of rice!" The red-nosed Amsterdam merchant pulled open his silk bow tie and his neck veins swelled up. "The Japanese untouchables in Nagasaki stole the food that could support the 100,000 troops. Those Japanese dwarfs wrapped in diapers must be compensated with gold!"

British Consul Winchester's silver cane made the teak floor sound: "Jahwa Foreign Company's twelve Yonekura in the Nagasaki Concession were burned to white ground...:::.I will ask the British Empire's Far East Fleet to shell Nagasaki!"

The Swiss pocket watch inlaid with diamonds was heavily patted on the conference table, and Nathaniel Rothschild, who was holding the express letter from Nagasaki, was also furious: "The losses caused to us by these Japanese mobs are far more than the hundreds of thousands of stones of rice...::.\n. In the past two years, we have invested hundreds of thousands of pounds in Nagasaki, Osaka, and Yokohama in Japan to build ports and commercial ports.

We also developed a profit model of using copper coins to exchange for gold...:::. Now our business in Japan will definitely suffer a heavy blow!"

"If you want to recover the losses, you must suppress the so-called Nagasaki Republic as soon as possible...:::" Van Deville tore the express message in his hands, "We need to form an international interference army! If the warships of Britain, the Netherlands, Spain and North Korea appear in Nagasaki Bay at the same time, they must let the revolutionary thieves know what the anger of a civilized world is!"

When he mentioned the international interference army, he deliberately ignored the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Now the Netherlands is in a state of "undeclared war" with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. If the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is asked to send troops to Japan, then the Netherlands' losses in Japan will not be able to recover.

"Gentlemen," Charles, who had no investment in Japan, suddenly reminded loudly, "For us,

The real battlefield is not in Japan, but in Shanghai...::.\n. on the Shanghai exchange! Will the riots that occurred in Japan affect Shanghai...?

Before Charles could finish his words, his footsteps rang out. A white-skinned trader from a Vienna bank pushed the door panting and rushed in: "Raw silk soared 30%! The stock of Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau rose by 20%, Xuzhou Steel's stock rose by 13%, the price of rice and flour fell by 10%, and the price of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's government bonds was also rising, which had risen by 5%...

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"How is this possible?" Xiaodian's silver cane fell to the ground, his mouth wide open, and he couldn't speak for a while.

"Someone is taking advantage of the problem!" Nathaniel Rothschild immediately reacted, "It's most of the U.S. outbreakers... we must fight back immediately, otherwise we will add margin after the closing today... This will push up the silver price and suppress the gold price!"

The Shanghai Stock Exchange now allows short selling and short selling to increase leverage, and there are also futures such as raw silk, grain, gold, silver, etc....\n. It's still very interesting.

Rothschild, Xiaotiandi, Chaton, Van Deville and other big house searches are of course playing futures and leveraging... ::.\n. However, they will not hedge risks, but make heavy bets in one direction.

For example, this time they hold a large number of short orders for raw silk, and short stocks and bonds (by borrowing stocks and bonds), and at the same time hold a large number of long orders for gold and grain. This series of investments seems to be free and large, as if they can form a hedge, but in fact they are a "serial ship", all tied together to form a linkage, one by one, the things in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom "some" fall, and the things in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom "lack" rise...:::. In fact, they want to harvest the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

But the risk of such a gameplay is self-evident. Once the opponent forms a breakthrough in a certain direction, it may form a chain reaction and cause a collapse of the entire line. For example, if the stocks, bonds, and raw silk they short rise, they have to add margin to avoid forced closing of positions. But if they want to chase the margin, they have to take out gold and pounds (now the pound is the gold standard, equal to gold) to exchange for silver. This will push up the silver price, and they are shorting silver...::

If they don’t have enough cash on hand to fill the holes, they have to settle their long positions in their hands, pick up margin and profits, and the grain prices will fall due to long positions closing, which may all their floating profits fall.

So...::.. Rothschild immediately grabbed the mink and rushed out of the door, and then did not call the carriage to make a move, but ran all the way to the Shanghai Stock Exchange...

The ground floor lobby of the Shanghai Stock Exchange is now closed at noon.

J.P. Morgan, who had a split American style, held a Havana cigar in his mouth and stepped on the mahogany trading table with his left foot. The Citigroup manager waved the newly published "Datong News" and shouted to the red vest traders all over the venue: "Do you know why Japan's raw silk production plummeted?"

He deliberately paused for a moment, waiting for all his eyes to come: "Because the comrades of the Nagasaki Republic burned all silkworm seeds from Kyushu Island! Now the pricing power of raw silk in the Far East is in our hands!"

The price of "raw silk" on the blackboard has soared to 100 Taiping Silver Dollars in the transaction this morning!

"Let's talk about the robbed food!" The third brother of the Lehman family raised a glass of champagne and said with a smile, "The Revolutionary Army is not a fool! They can't give all the food to others. They snatched 800,000 stones of rice, and half of it will be sold to Shanghai! Moreover, in order to raise military expenses, the Tokugawa shogunate and the Kyushu family must also sell rice...\n."

The rice and flour contracts on the exchange also plummeted this morning!

"Finally it's the arms business!" Morgan grabbed the copper bell and shook it, covering the noise of the scene. "Whether it's the Revolutionary Army or the Shogunate Army, the vassal army had to buy foreign guns and cannons to fight. The largest arsenal in East Asia is the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau in Shanghai, and the Xuzhou Steel Plant that provides steel for the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau.........

The stocks of Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and Xuzhou Steel have fallen by 50% from their highs before today, and are just a knife in the middle!

And this morning, these two stocks rebounded by 20% and 15%..::.. For the house searches that borrowed stocks to sell shorts, the losses were quite large!

When Rothschild rushed into the trading hall, the silver-clad wolf poked into the teak floor. Although the Jewish banker came all the way, he deliberately gasped outside for two minutes before entering the Shanghai Stock Exchange and looked in the mirror for a while. He couldn't let the people inside see how nervous he was now.

"Gentlemen!" he said with a smile, "Someone wants to buy stocks from Xuzhou Steel and Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, right? I have a lot here, as much as I want! Someone wants to sell grain and flour? Very good...::. I will do as much as I have! As for raw silk...:::. He strode to the blackboard of futures trading and wrote the Arabic numeral of '80' on it, and I will give as much as I want!"

"Sir..." The senior team from the Bank of Vienna came to Rothschild's ears, "We no longer have the silver dollars...

"Use pounds! Sell 100,000 pounds!" Rothschild said calmly, "There are still 5 million pounds in the bank's vault in the Vienna!"

"Dangdangdang...

When the bell of the opening market finally rang, Rothschild, Dingdi, Chaton, Deville and others put on red vests and sat in the trading hall. Boxes of white pound banknotes were transported out of the Vienna Bank's vault and replaced them with short or long contracts on the counter of the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

However, the real big players in the Shanghai Stock Exchange know the factors that can determine the outcome of this financial war.

Not in Shanghai at all...\n. But on the distant southern sea!

Outside the sea of ​​Guangdong, the sunset is like blood, dyeing the surging sea surface into golden red.

Six scarred "Shanghai-class" iron-armored cruisers lined up in wedge-shaped arrays, breaking the waves. On the deck of the flagship "Tianjing", Navy Admiral Wang Yan held a gold-plated telescope and looked at the fleet that stretched for miles behind him, one by one forty-eight American merchant ships flying the East India Company flag were loaded with 60,000 tons of American flour, spreading their sails, and walking with the wind.

"Report to the Admiral!" Ding Xianda, who was covered in ashes, walked up the deck with a whirring sound, and the bandage on his left arm was still bleeding. "The statistical report has been written. This time, we have sunk a total of 2,000-ton steam cruisers from the Dutch, 4
Chapter completed!