Great Entrepreneur of the Universe

Chapter 247: Having fun alone is not as good as having fun with everyone

Some time later, somewhere in the rippling waters of Aiguni Island, the battleship Saikai escorted wooden man-carrying ships or steel merchant ships heading towards Taizhou.

Wang Shouliang grabbed a Colt M1873 revolver. In front of a group of people kneeling on the deck in front of him, he stuffed two bullets into the six-bullet hole in the revolver, then closed the revolver. It whirled and spun.

Turn the wheel, turn it!

Tens of seconds later, Wang Shouliang arrived in front of a kneeling Chinese young man, "Have you ever heard of Big Bear Roulette? Come on, shoot yourself in the head."

"Empty gun, you will live."

"If you are shot, I will send you to the sea!"

Behind this group of kneeling figures, there is a group of more than a dozen agents from the Four Seas Escort Agency. The escorts each hold a Mauser C96, turn on the safety, and shoot if anything goes wrong.

The Chinese young man who was stared at by Wang Shouliang cried and knelt down and begged for mercy. His head banged, but Wang Shouliang was unmoved and put the Colt M1873 into the opponent's hand, "You choose the road. "

"The ghosts are making huge profits by selling our compatriots, and they don't treat us as human beings. You are different. This is the ghosts' identification. You are one of the most active swindlers."

"You know that you are sending your compatriots to work as slaves in the mines of South Africa, and the average annual mortality rate is more than 30%, but you still tricked so many compatriots into dying?"

"I'll give you a minute."

Even so, it is far from enough. In order to support the Ghost-Bear War, the Japs have borrowed heavily from Yanlun and North America. For example, Han Yeping borrowed money from foreign countries and transferred the equity through borrowing. If the Japs lose...

In fact, this watch was modified from a pocket watch. It was just a strap for the pocket watch. He could open a watch factory in Zhujiang, but it was not included in the development scope yet.

A maritime assault that received news in advance, the Xihai finally successfully integrated a group of slave ships selling Chinese workers and rescued about 2000 Chinese compatriots.

"I can help you build a bridge so that your factories and companies, including the Sihai Fleet, can use the cheapest anthracite."

After saying this, Wang Shouliang started to retreat, and raised the watch on his wrist to start timing.

The person kneeling in front of him at this moment is basically the mastermind and main force of the people-selling fleet.

Including a certain North American ghost guy, Lao Hu, was also kneeling.

"If your group wants to develop, it still needs a supply of coal, right? Whether it's a power plant that wants to generate more electricity, a blast furnace in a steel plant that wants to burn more vigorously, or a steam press that wants to produce more cane sugar. .”

Originally, before World War I, the Chinese markets in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China were full of supermarkets that were swept away by the impact of all kinds of foreign goods, and huge amounts of wealth were taken away by European, American and island products.

bang~

When a handful of white and red ones splashed into the face of Old Hu beside him, Old Hu also choked. While doing so, he begged for mercy to Shopkeeper Wang, "Wang, wait, I have something to say."

In order to raise military expenses and fund the frontline soldiers in the Ghost Bear War, the Japanese had no choice but to dump them in Southeast Asia on a large scale.

That huge debt will cause them to lose part of their port tariff revenue, open treaty ports, etc.

Under Wang Shouliang's calm gaze, a certain young man turned back to look at the multiple Mauser C96s aimed at him, then howled loudly, grabbed the Colt M1873, pointed it at his temple, and pulled the trigger.

But they were lucky enough to meet Wang Shouliang... Naturally, the goods were gone, the money was gone, and the ship was gone! !

Dealing with Japanese merchant ships is a trivial matter. It's just a matter of getting up and down the Xihai and making another fortune.

This kind of trade volume can be described as a drop in the bucket, which is a bit underestimated by the Japanese. Three large ships carry so much goods. In fact, if sold, it is not a small sum of money.

Dealing with the team of Chinese traffickers in front of us is a big deal.

"4.5 taels of silver per ton of anthracite, you can have as much as you want! How about it? I am valuable!!"

"This is my fault. I only thought about getting rich and ignored the humanitarian spirit."

Therefore, large-scale dumping of various light industrial goods produced within the island country is a small supplement to prevent things from sliding into the abyss.

At this stage, with the rise of Pearl River Commercial Bank, a lighter includes adult clothing, white sugar, etc., destroying too many business opportunities in the island country.

He is the biggest mastermind!

As for the three steel merchant ships owned by the Japanese Japanese, it was really unexpected... They were merchant ships loaded with matches, cloth, socks, cigarettes and other commodities.

"Even if you want to operate each of your big ships, they all need to burn coal!"

"A ton of anthracite coal costs 4.5 taels of silver, and tons only requires taels of silver."

Wang Shouliang burst into laughter, "Then how many thousands of tons of anthracite do you plan to redeem yourself for?"

Old Hu was stunned, how many thousands of tons of anthracite would he need to redeem himself? this……

When he was stunned, he saw that Wang Shouliang was not too dirty, so he picked up the Colt M1873 again, stuffed a bullet into it, and handed the revolver to a ghost captain to let him continue to choose.

Lao Hu suddenly woke up and said, "I'll pay 50,000 tons! I'll pay 50,000 tons!"

Fifty thousand tons is only 22.5 taels of silver, which Lao Hu Dendou can still afford after all these years.

Wang Shouliang ignored him and continued to control the time on his watch. When a certain ghost captain couldn't bear the pressure, he grabbed the big bear roulette game and hit his temple.

There was another bang and flesh and blood flew away.

Wang Shouliang picked up the revolver in disgust and said with a surprised look, "These two guys are so lucky? There are only two bullets in the six magazines, and they were all hit?!"

Lao Hu choked again and spoke quickly, "I will pay for one hundred thousand tons of anthracite coal and guarantee that it will be transported from the Kaiping coal mine to the Shanghai port as quickly as possible."

Wang Shouliang still didn't look at him and continued to play the game of Big Bear Roulette.

Until Lao Hu offered a high price of 30 tons of anthracite coal, Wang Shouliang smiled, picked up the runner from a new corpse, and said with a smile, "This M1873 runner is indeed your most popular peacemaker in North America!" "

"Look, there's nothing to discuss."

"Since you have paid 30 tons of anthracite coal to redeem yourself, how many tons of anthracite coal will you pay to compensate the more than 2000 Chinese brothers who were kidnapped by you??"

Lao Hu was confused and confused again, and finally said weakly, "Shall I pay another 30 tons??"

60 tons of anthracite coal, at the price of 4.5 taels of silver per ton, is 270 million taels of silver, which is approximately equivalent to 375 million black Mexican eagles, and almost 75 US dollars.

This is almost all the ill-gotten gains that he, Lao Hu, made by invading China with the help of the Eight-Power Allied Forces.

Lao Hu, who was born into a poor boy, became rich after the Gengzi period. It was he who took advantage of China's Gengzi national crisis to defraud the largest industrial blood transfusion machine built in Beiyang during the Westernization Movement.

Coal is the core driving force for the rise of the modern chemical industry. As Old Hu said, whether it is a power plant, a steel plant, a sugar factory, or a large ship such as the Sihai, Nanhai, Bohai, etc., if you want to move ,start running.

The most indispensable thing is coal!

Since the rise of Kaiping Coal Mine, the largest source of imported coal in China has been island countries!

The average price of island coal arriving at the Shanghai port is 6 taels of silver per ton. Although the island country is relatively short of various non-ferrous metal resources, its coal output is really not low. In the past, when buying iron ore, iron sand, etc. from Daye Iron Mine, they also used coal in exchange.

The original trajectory was in 1919. The island country’s annual coal output was 3100 million tons!

The coal resources of island countries are mainly concentrated in Hokkaido, Kyushu, and some offshore areas. At this stage, island countries have begun to build various seabed mining platforms on Hashima on the sea outside Nagasaki to mine seabed coal mines.

Now Wang Shouliang's Zhujiang Power Plant, Zhujiang Steel Plant, Ordnance Factory, Bicycle Factory, including the Sihai Fleet, all rely on burning coal for various power sources.

At the earliest, the Pearl River series was just started in Yau Ma Tei, and the coal basically purchased was the coal provided by Yan Lun to Hong Kong and Kowloon.

When Foshan and Shaoguan were connected, Shaoguan not only had iron mines, but also coal mines. In 1928, a businessman named Tan opened the Fuguo Coal Mine in Shaoguan. He built a ten-kilometer-wide rail track to facilitate the transportation of coal from the mine to the river.

After arranging transportation and coordinating economic accounts, it was possible to produce 1930 tons of coal per year by 13, and 1940 tons of coal per year by 20.

The land of China is full of coal resources, and the only thing that restricts the coal trade is transportation!

For example, in the late Qing Dynasty, there was a large coal field in Mentougou in the western suburbs of the capital, but the coal mines were located among the undulating hills. At first, in the late Qing Dynasty, only oxen and horses were used for transportation. Mentougou is less than 50 kilometers from the city gate, but 1000 kilograms of coal can be purchased near the mine. 2 taels of silver, when transported to the capital, increased to 6 taels per kilogram...

In the Kaiping Coal Mine during the Westernization Movement, both Li Daobo and Tang Dynasty realized that the success or failure of coal mines depended on transportation. Only by combining railway and waterway shipping could the dumping price difference of foreign coal be defeated.

They built the Kaiping Coal Mine, opened mountains and built roads and set up special docks, and they were able to beat the price of coal from the island country.

Until 1898, the Kaiping Coal Mine produced 73 tons of coal annually, most of which was high-quality coal, and could generate sales of more than 360 million taels of silver.

The Kaiping Coal Mine reached its peak in 1898 and 1899, and in 1900...the Eight-Power Allied Forces came.

He was deceived by Lao Hu and the Yalun Capital Molin Group.

Now, Wang Shouliang's various enterprises in eastern Guangdong rely on the Shaoguan coal mine and purchase foreign coal for production and development. It is not that Shaoguan has less mining, but that his series of power plants, steel plants, cement plants, etc. have expanded too much. Too fast.

As a result, Shaoguan Coal Mine cannot keep up.

The development of various enterprises here in Shanghai mainly relies on the coal supply from Pingxiang Coal Mine.

But regardless of whether Shaoguan or Pingxiang, the supply is still insufficient at this stage, and Wang Shouliang still has to buy coal from outside.

The old Hu kneeling in front of him begging to redeem himself was the spokesperson of Molin Group in Kaiping.

When Wang Shouliang helped Lao Hu up and ordered a guard to make coffee, he smiled and waved his hand, "Look, we don't know each other even if we don't fight. I want both the boat and the people."

"When we arrive at Taizhou Terminal, we will send you north. As you said, 60 tons of anthracite should be sent to Shanghai as soon as possible."

Lao Hu nodded hurriedly and did not dare to say more.

Under these words, there was another series of bangs and bangs. The figures who were kneeling with him before but did not take their turn in the Big Bear Roulette game were all pulled to the edge of the deck. After eating a batch of peanuts, they collectively fell into love and fell into the sea! !

This little background music is also awesome!

The shocked Lao Hu was startled again, and all the hairs on his body stood up.

Wang Shouliang took a cup of instant coffee from the guard and said with a smile, "Actually, I generally don't care about a small business worth two to three million taels, nor do I care."

"Anyone who knows me well knows that I am not short of money."

"Old Hu, you have made a lot of money through deception, but why do you still not understand the humanitarian spirit? I have to teach you a lesson today."

"You can't just focus on the trouble caused by us Chinese, you go and cause the devils."

"The big gold mine owners in South Africa don't care what kind of workers you send."

Lao Hu was also holding the coffee brought by the guard, shivering and smiling bitterly.

This time he was in a bit of a bind. Why did he forget that the tyrant in the Southeast China Sea named Wang? ! Although he was the spokesperson supported by Yalun Capital Molin Company, he was in charge of various coal mining businesses in East and Southeast Asia and made a fortune.

However, when he, as a dirt-legged country boy from North America, helped South Africa... the Boers in South Africa had just fought the Boer War, and they were all Boers who refused to accept the defeat and were very painful.

In this capacity, he helped the Boer gold mine owners transport diggers.

Even if Wang Shouliang catches him and rips him off, it seems like he has no choice but to admit defeat!

60 tons of high-quality anthracite, damn, this was the output during the peak period of Kaiping, but since the Eight-Nation Allied Forces broke out, how can it still be at its peak? How many workers fled.

If he doesn't get it done as soon as possible, Yalun Ghost Guy won't protect him.

In the current Far East, regardless of what kind of hegemon Wang Shouliang is in the Southeast China Sea, he is also very powerful on land.

Although the Ghost Bear War is currently breaking out, the forces mobilized and about to be invested by both sides are hundreds of thousands, far beyond what the Sihai Escort Bureau's Lu Division, which only has tens of thousands, can compare with.

But this power is staring at him, Old Hu, and he has no way to go to heaven and no way to go to earth! !

The next moment, after taking a sip of scalding coffee, Old Hu said with a smile, "Wang, I will do my best to mobilize the anthracite coal and transport it to Shanghai as soon as possible."

"However, I heard that the Black Dragon Society is very active recently. They are collecting all the news and various maps about the Northeast on a large scale and sending them to the front line so that they can understand the Northeast."

"These places where the Black Dragon Society is active are not only the northern lands such as Jinmen and Beijing, but also Shanghai."

It's not that he has any resentment against the Japanese or the Black Dragon Society, it's just a simple principle: I am the only one who is unlucky, it is better for everyone to be unlucky together.

Alone Better Together!

Wang Shouliang's large fleet went to Lushun and took away tens of thousands of refugees during the Ghost Bear War. It was not a rare thing, and we knew too much about it.

In view of the ferocious power of the Kumejima Naval Battle and the Xiaoliuqiu Naval Battle, both the warring parties, whether it was the Japanese who were the first to attack or the Mao Xiong side, turned a blind eye to the rescue operations of the Sihai Escort Agency, and even took the initiative to help silently.

No one wants to push the Sihai Escort Agency, the dominant force in the Southeast China Sea, to oppose them.

At this stage, Mao Xiong, who is known as the best commander in the navy, has not died yet. It is impossible for the best commander to not have a little strategic vision.

Before his unreasonable death, the one who faced the enemy's surprise attack was very orderly, methodical, and very steady in his conduct. It was only after his death that his successor began to act recklessly.

Wang Shouliang burst into laughter, the Black Dragon Society of the island country? After he patted Lao Hu on the shoulder, he left.

This is the originator of dynamic social groups in modern island countries.

(End of this chapter)