Will the Japanese Navy suddenly turn around and raid Shanghai?

The conclusion is a 55-5 number, and Zhang Meng is not sure.

However, there is one thing that Zhang Meng can be sure of, that is, the Japanese devils will definitely choose to go to war with the National Government in Shanghai in order to divert their international attention.

According to the report of the Tang army submarine, the main force of the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet is continuing to march south along the Pacific route east of the Northern Mariana Islands, and there is no sign of turning around and turning back to Shanghai yet.

However, Zhang Meng still asked Zhang Cheng to inform the National Government of Japan's intention to provoke a war in Shanghai to divert international attention. As for how the National Government responds, that is their business.

It has been a day or two for the Japanese to provoke trouble in Shanghai, but the National Government still believes in the League of Nations and continues to pursue a non-resistance policy towards Japan and waits for the League of Nations mediation. Regarding the warning Zhang Meng gave them, they just ordered the 19th Route Army to strengthen their defense and still ask them to endure the Japanese army's provocation.

No matter how the National Government responded to the crisis in the Songhu area, Zhang Meng was temporarily out of reach. In addition to focusing on the battle group of the Royal Navy, the main force of the Japanese Joint Fleet, his mind was both excited and nervous.

Zhang Meng was excited because he was going to use the billion pounds and all the funds of Datang Bank to make another crazy money grab operation. What was nervous was that the British had put in the billion pound loans. Zhang Meng could not get this huge sum directly from the Bank of England, so he needed to use the power of a third party to convert the huge sum. There were certain risks in this.

Madoff and Snooker were highly valued by Zhang Meng. In the new round of money grabbing campaign formulated by Zhang Meng, the two of them once again became Zhang Meng's right-hand man and played an irreplaceable important role.

Since the Wall Street money-making operation ended, Madoff directed Shadow Bank to leave claw marks everywhere in the world's richest cities. Snooker has always played the role of international investors in the Boliheng Steel M&A and the San Francisco United Steel Shipyard M&A.

The two of them combined their swords and successively acquired more than a dozen large companies around the world in two years, including the French-grade jewelry company Cartia.

Zhang Meng's family used to operate gold jewelry in Shanghai. Although the Zhang Family Jewelry Store is not as famous as other Chinese time-honored jewelry stores, it is also a large jewelry store in Shanghai and has a broad supply of goods and sales channels.

Although Zhang Xinhai became emperor in the Tang Empire, he was always worried about Zhang Ji Jewelry Store in Shanghai.

After Zhang Meng made up all US dollars on Wall Street, he exchanged it for huge amounts of gold and transported it back to the Tang Empire.

Since the Tang Yuan, the currency of the Tang Empire, does not have international payment methods for the time being, the foreign exchange reserves of various countries do not include Tang Yuan, generally pound, US dollar, franc and mark. This is related to factors such as the low international influence of the Tang Empire and the low total national economy. It is still difficult for the international community to recognize that the Tang Yuan of the Tang Empire has international payment capabilities in a short period of time.

The huge gold reserves of the Tang Empire could be printed and issued 30 billion Tang Yuan, but the Tang Empire implemented a quasi-military planned economic system and the people implemented a rationing system. The Tang Yuan in circulation only needs 300 million to be enough. Zhang Meng did not want to reserve international currencies such as pounds, US dollars and francs. Because he knew that these currencies would depreciate significantly in not long. With the huge gold reserves of the Tang Empire, once converted into these international currencies, the depreciation losses they faced would be huge.

Zhang Meng likes to make money, so he hopes that the gold in the treasury will not be idle, and that he will spare no effort to make a penny for the Tang Empire.

In addition to being a national currency reserve, gold can also be made into gold jewelry for sale. Ordinary gold jewelry has meager profits, so Zhang Meng either does not dabble in the gold jewelry industry. Since you want to do it, do the biggest one.

In Zhang Meng's era, this sentence was popular.

"Don't do the best. Only do the most expensive."

This sentence seems contradictory and violates market laws and values, but if it is targeted at specific consumer groups, this sentence is the truth.

From ancient times to the present, people from all over the world have been divided into different levels, which is a class division that can never be changed. Among the great local tyrants in various countries, they cannot lack the pride of spending money. In order to compete with others, they always only sell the most expensive things.

Of course, they can't just find a street stall to spend 1 million pounds to buy a diamond ring, because people in the rich circle don't know which street stall they are. They are a specific group of people and can only have a specific consumer circle.

Zhang Meng knew that the gold jewelry industry was targeted at the big rich circle and was a profitable industry. Zhang Ji Jewelry is very famous, but it is limited to Shanghai. Shanghai Beach is only a wealthy area in China, but it is far worse than wealthy areas such as Long Island District in New York, New York, France, Nayi in Paris, France, Sismael in London, England, and Frankfurt in Germany.

The wealthy people in these countries have huge consumption in gold jewelry. For a piece of jewelry, they are even willing to exchange their own territory.

Zhang Meng is a person who takes action immediately whenever he wants to do. When he decided to reincarnate Zhang Ji Jewelry Store, Zhang Ji Jewelry Store was destined to become the top jewelry store in the world.

In the early 20th century, the most famous top jewelry stores in the world belonged to the three major companies, Category, Tiff in the United States and Bulgari in Italy. Their products divided up 90% of the consumption share of the nobles and wealthy businessmen in Europe and the United States.

In particular, France's Cardia is the most popular in the royal and aristocratic circles in all European countries. It is ahead of the other two jewelry stores, and its profit in jewelry sales alone is as high as 10 million pounds per year.

Katiya was then targeted by Zhang Meng, and her fate was destined to come to an end from now on. She would either destroy or surrender, and Zhang Meng would not give her a third choice.

In 1909, Cardia established a branch in New York and was gradually attracted by the prosperity of the United States and changed it to its headquarters.

The US economic crisis had a huge impact on Cartia, mainly because many wealthy people suddenly became tight. Their large number of orders cancelled, which once put the sales of Cartia's jewelry in a dilemma.

Zhang Meng thought that he could acquire Cardia as long as he spent more money, so he sent Snooker as his representative to acquire Cardia for $50 million.

However, the board of directors of Cardia's three brothers rejected Zhang Meng's intention to acquire peacefully.

Zhang Meng is bound to win the Cardia company, because Zhang Meng knows very well that a world-class jewelry company means dealing with people from the aristocratic circles and wealthy circles in various countries, and has a considerable influence on a country's political, economic and military fields.

The Tang Empire has just been established not long ago and is still a small character on the world stage. Many surrounding powers do not care about the development of the Tang Empire on the surface, and they are actually eyeing it in secret.

Although the Homeland Security Bureau in Zhang Meng's hands has installed intelligence structures around the world, due to its short establishment time, it can only be bought and placed among the middle and low-level people in various countries. The infiltration and influence of the senior class of the powerful and wealthy countries in various countries is limited, and the intelligence it has also been mastered is also limited.

If the Kadiya company can be controlled, it will undoubtedly be like establishing direct contact with the powerful and powerful classes in various countries. In this way, the agents of the Homeland Security Bureau will have more opportunities to get close to the core classes of various countries, master their every move and preferences, and then obtain various information that is valuable to the Tang Empire.

Of course, Zhang Meng's insistence on seizing Cardia has another deep meaning.

In Zhang Meng's heart, in order to realize the Tang Empire becoming a prosperous and powerful country, he has always had a huge plan. This huge plan has begun to be implemented. From his Blue Fox Special Forces robbed Japanese banks to obtain funds from the start, to the large-scale money-making operation on Wall Street, Zhang Meng raised enough capital for the first phase of the development and growth of the Tang Empire.

Originally, Zhang Meng thought that the nearly 10 billion US dollars he received was enough for the Tang Dynasty to develop in the next ten years, and even after the Pacific War was fought. But soon he found that it was not enough, especially since the establishment of the First Aircraft Carrier Battle Group of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire, daily consumption and maintenance alone would be a huge expense, which would increase the military expenditure of the Tang Empire. If more aircraft, warships, and even during the war will continue to be expanded, the military expenditure will be astronomical.

Therefore, Zhang Meng had to do everything possible to make money for the future development of the Tang Dynasty.

The infrastructure and industries of the Tang Empire were improved, but they were not internationally competitive and were currently operating at the expense of money. If you want to rely on the local industry of the Tang Dynasty to make money for the country, you will have to develop at least five or six years. When the talent team, management team and technical workers of the Tang Dynasty mature, it is estimated that the industry of the Tang Empire can truly generate income for the country.

But it is obvious that Zhang Meng couldn't wait that long. The current international environment of the Tang Empire was obviously not optimistic. After the war with the Japanese, I don't know when this war will be fought. Therefore, Zhang Meng had to make more plans and reserve more funds for emergencies.

For Zhang Meng, he either didn't make money, and he had to make a lot of money. Because he found that the entire Tang Empire needed him to make decisions in all aspects of the operation. After all, his energy was limited. Except for particularly important things, it was impossible to do everything personally.

Zhang Meng has learned through intelligence that Americans have suffered heavy losses due to Wall Street and the economic crisis has caused the country to be turbulent. The Hoover administration in the United States would obviously hate those who took advantage of the situation during the US crisis. In the past two years, Zhang Meng's forced demolition of tens of thousands of companies and factories in the United States, especially the means used to demolish Boliheng, the second largest steel company in the United States, has caused strong dissatisfaction from the US government. If Zhang Meng had not been holding the legal formalities issued by the US government, the Tang Empire was a member of the Commonwealth, and the US government would have long attacked Zhang Meng and the Tang Empire. Although Zhang Meng could not do anything, the US government had already listed Zhang Meng as the most unpopular person.

In this way, Zhang Meng's money grabbing action in the United States is no longer so easy. Americans are guarding against him everywhere, making it difficult for him to take action.

So, Zhang Meng had to shift his target to two old capitalist powers, Britain and France. Although they were not as rich as the Americans, compared with other countries, Britain and France were still rich, and it was worth Zhang Meng's slaughtering them a few times.
Chapter completed!