Chapter 73: Alliance
“Sibao, have you prepared the money you were supposed to prepare?” Gu Yansheng picked up the phone and called Wu Sibao.
“How much money should I prepare?” Wu Sibao had no idea in his heart either.
“Start with forty thousand Silver Dollars, exchange them for US Dollars.”
“So much?” Wu Sibao exclaimed: “What money-making path requires preparing so much principal? Tell me so I have some idea.”
“Get the money ready today, tomorrow I’ll make you money, don’t ask too much, you’ll know tomorrow. If you don’t have the money, then you won’t know but will itch with envy.”
Pa, Gu Yansheng directly hung up the phone.
With someone like Wu Sibao, no need to explain too much. Whether he believes someone or not has only one standard: whether they can really make him money. If they can, whatever you say is right.
Ever since he paid the two thousand US Dollar entry fee, Wu Sibao couldn’t run away.
At least the first business is like this.
Wu Sibao on the other end of the phone wanted to curse after being hung up on, but thought cursing the God of Wealth would be unlucky.
“Forty thousand Silver Dollars, is it that easy?”
He wasn’t short of money, he was cautious. What if he lost? Forty thousand was too much.
Wu Sibao thought about it, and decided he needed to pull someone else in to do this together.
He turned the corner and went out, walked into the Finance Department, and smiled: “Sister-in-law, busy?”
Li Shiqun’s wife, Ye Jiqing.
“Sibao, what’s up?”
“It’s like this.” Wu Sibao told her about joining Gu Yansheng to get rich. “We each put up half, do a ticket?”
Ye Jiqing thought about it and frowned: “Reliable? He didn’t say what financial path, just asked you to hand over money?”
“Of course it’s reliable.” Wu Sibao stuck his head out, very certain.
He might suspect whether Gu Yansheng could make money, but in front of others he had to speak well of Gu Yansheng.
“Sister-in-law, let me tell you, this Gu Yansheng is capable. Don’t even mention his consulate relationship, just the Judicial Department—he’s practically the Division Chief. If he wants to make money, how could that path have problems?
Besides, this time he’s preparing to raid a warehouse and called me in. Couldn’t he just eat it all alone? How much money would that be?
Didn’t he still give me a share?
He speaks one spit one nail, no beating around the bush, right?”
Ye Jiqing looked at Wu Sibao amusedly. “That’s him pulling you in to share the risk. Don’t you think about who his opponent is now? Fu Xiao’an.”
“So what?” Wu Sibao slouched onto the stool carelessly, sneered: “We’re Agent Headquarters, only under Gendarmerie Headquarters jurisdiction. Even Fu Xiao’an can’t touch us.
Now there’s a money-making opportunity, open and aboveboard. Why wouldn’t I take it?
Hoarding and Price Gouging—even if the Japanese find out, they won’t like him.
At most, I’ll give him face and not raid his warehouse. Other people’s warehouses, raid them and so what? Can he bite me?”
“That’s true.” Ye Jiqing crossed her arms and thought for a bit, not long, her eyes flashed: “Fine, I’ll put up the money. No need for half each—twenty thousand is too little for me. I’ll put up forty thousand, you decide how much you put up.”
“Sister-in-law, generous.” Wu Sibao slapped the table: “I told you, on money matters you’re more decisive than my brother. Then I’ll also put up forty thousand, just see if he can handle it.
But sister-in-law, he said he wants it today to make money tomorrow. You need to withdraw the money for me now.”
“I have it, but I don’t have enough US Dollars here. Make up the rest with Japanese Yen, should be the same.”
Ye Jiqing turned and went into the inner room, directly lifted US Dollars and Japanese Yen worth forty thousand Silver Dollars from the Finance Department’s safe.
Damn, borrow a chicken to lay an egg. Wu Sibao, who had shelled out real gold and silver, felt he was still too young.
He smiled: “Sister-in-law is brilliant. I’ll send it over to him later.”
One hour later, Gu Yansheng’s office.
Wu Sibao was shaking his leg on the sofa. On the table was an opened suitcase of banknotes, US Dollars and Japanese Yen worth eighty thousand Silver Dollars exposed to the air, highlighting two words: grandeur.
Gu Yansheng was stunned. He had called for at least forty thousand, estimating with Wu Sibao’s personality he’d barely put up forty thousand, not even an extra thousand, who knew he’d double it.
Was this greed, or trust?
“Sibao, a man can’t be judged by his looks after three days. I have to look at you anew.” Gu Yansheng praised.
With this, he surprisingly didn’t have enough contracts to sell.
Wu Sibao saw Gu Yansheng’s amazed expression at him, a rare sight, and felt quite pleased, shaking his leg even more frequently.
“How about it? Brother trusts you, right? That’s real gold and silver trusting you. I just have one word: make more or less depends on fate, just don’t let me take a big loss.”
“Don’t worry about that, you won’t even take a small loss.”
Gu Yansheng paused, picked up the phone and called Wen Yan: “Come over.”
Hung up the phone, asked Wu Sibao: “Have you prepared the staff you were told to prepare?”
“Ready long ago, can move out anytime.”
“Good, action tomorrow. You command on your side. Send a few extra people to me, three or four. I have other uses for them.”
“Fine.”
Knock knock knock, Wen Yan knocked and came in.
“Division Chief.”
Glanced at Wu Sibao, nodded in greeting.
“Wen Yan, this is Wu Sibao, Wu is now Captain, right?” Gu Yansheng teased: “Upgraded to Agent Headquarters, your position must have changed too?”
“Heh heh.” Wu Sibao smiled: “Not bad. This Captain is Division Chief level by rank, but there are people above me. Unlike you, you call the shots at the Judicial Department, right? You’re much more comfortable.”
Gu Yansheng smiled and continued introducing: “Captain Wu you know too. Captain Wu got addresses of several warehouses from interrogating Military Statistics Bureau agents. There’s action tomorrow. Don’t come to the Judicial Department tomorrow, take people straight to Agent Headquarters and learn well.
The action doesn’t concern you. Go mainly to bring back all the account books. Our Judicial Department is different from Agent Headquarters, facing citizens. We do things with evidence, can’t leave room for others to gossip.”
Wen Yan stood at attention. “Understood!”
“Alright, that’s it.”
Gu Yansheng continued to Wu Sibao: “Wait for my signal tomorrow.”
Wu Sibao stood up. “Fine, I’ll head out first.”
Patted the suitcase, winked and smiled: “Waiting for your good news.”
Gu Yansheng raised his head and smiled: “Don’t worry.”
The Bund, hotel.
Still the same private room, same people.
Now at a key crossroads, Fu Xiao’an had to gather these people again to confirm.
“The method was yours. I didn’t agree to hoarding and price gouging from the start, but since it’s done, don’t play tricks in front of me. Think I don’t know?”
“Mayor Fu, what’s the matter, what tricks?”
The group was scolded into confusion. Sha Shun directly asked.
“Hmph, today before the information came out, someone entered nearly two hundred short positions—two hundred!”
“What?”
“Such a thing?”
The people in the room were hearing this for the first time too, immediately shocked, looking at each other, hard to say without mutual suspicion.
“Who? Found out? Any clues?”
“Don’t know, new face. Does paying attention to this matter make sense? For such sneaky things, would they go themselves?
No need for nonsense. It’s done, talking about this is meaningless.”
Fu Xiao’an didn’t want to demoralize, so he said bluntly: “Should we continue this or cut losses? Give a decision. If we stop here, pay the city government, I have no objection.”
With that, he sat down with a sullen face.
Sha Shun immediately said: “Of course continue. Stopping now, we lose on both ends. Main thing is can you confirm this information is one hundred percent false news.”
Just the cotton yarn contracts were pulled from 70 to over 170 by them, who knows how much money spent in between, but they haven’t shipped out yet. Now price dropped to 111. Don’t look at it still higher than the starting 70, but pulling up to take goods itself costs, they haven’t made much on the books.
And if they stop now, they have to dump the excess positions.
But once the people in this room start dumping, who can take such big orders? That would absolutely be a stampede.
Shipping out requires sideways oscillation at high levels.
Now retail investors fled, while they the bankers are trapped.
“You still suspect this now?” Fu Xiao’an gave him a sideways look. “I asked the Nanjing and Shanghai headquarters, absolutely no such thing.”
“Then continue pulling up.”
Kaiseke the British from the Public Works Bureau slapped the sofa armrest. “Exit now, we all lose money. Only continue pulling, can we make profit. And if abandon now, goods prices fall fast, previous efforts wasted. The Japanese cargo ship’s twenty percent, that must be paid.
Earlier Mayor Fu said someone did short positions. I think it’s not someone from our room. Merely 200 short positions, calculate the profit, not much actually.
And the opponent’s short list is only cotton yarn, nothing else.
I think more likely outside short-term trading funds taking advantage, spreading false news to screw us.
I’ve investigated this. Police Station people said, in the bag besides that document, no other identity information. He deliberately released at that time point, exploiting retail investors’ stupid emotions.
Those poor ghosts, whoever picks up the bag wouldn’t quietly check if there’s money inside then hide it? But this guy shouts publicly for the owner to claim it. Too abnormal. This is a pure false news.”
Several people nodded, this explanation made sense.
Sha Shun said, “Mayor Fu, no more mutual suspicion. Since doing it, do it to the end. Tomorrow you clarify this, use the positive news to pull up fast. Isn’t someone short selling? Let’s just blow him up!”
