Inside Kodama's office, Zhang Tianhao and other businessmen were all sitting there, watching Kodama summon them to a meeting.
It's just that all the merchants looked confused. After all, they didn't know what happened to Kodama who summoned them here.
But I have a bad feeling. After all, most of these meetings cost money.
They have money, but it is not easy to give it to them. What's more, it is quite difficult for them to give money to them.
After a while, Kodama came to the conference room and sat there, looking at the people below. Her heart felt hot for a while, but she suppressed it immediately.
"Cough cough cough!"
As several coughs were heard, he sat at the front, looked at the various empire merchants below, and said with a serious face: "I invite you all to come this time. In fact, everyone knows that what happened this time is because of the empire's losses.
There are a large number of soldiers and property, but for the development of the empire, I hope you can actively donate. After all, it is only because of the empire that we can achieve our current development."
"I know that the purpose of inviting everyone here this time is for money, but the higher-ups ask me to do this, and there is nothing I can do about it."
"Please also donate actively. The empire will remember you and your contributions to the empire."
"Mr. Kodama, this time, we may not be able to get the money out for a while. As you know, this is just after the New Year, and we need a lot of cash for acquisitions. Otherwise, our business will not be able to continue, and we will have to return home as soon as possible.
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"President, I'm sorry. I am here too. A large amount of funds have been handed over to the next party. Now I am ordering a batch of grain from the United States. It is being shipped here. I want the money, but I really can't get it!"
"It's the same here. As you can see, it's actually quite difficult here. Last time, in order to raise money, I sold off several of my properties. Now it's really hard to come up with money.
I directly borrowed a lot of money and prepared to order 5 million tons of grain from the United States."
"It's even more similar here. A batch of hot money was lent directly to the Navy a year ago, and they don't know when it will be returned to me. If I don't lend it, they will hold a gun against me. I have no choice but to do it now.
I also want money, so I can only borrow it from the Imperial Bank."
Zhang Tianhao also stood up and expressed his opinion. Indeed, nearly half of his properties were sold. After all, those properties did not make much money. If he sold them earlier, he could recover some of the funds.
And he even imported a large amount of grain from the United States, reaching 5 million tons, to alleviate Shanghai's food crisis.
Kodama listened to what the merchants said to each other, and his face was as dark as the bottom of a pot. After all, this time, he also discovered that it is really difficult for the entire chamber of commerce to get money now.
After all, the empire borrowed too much money. He borrowed at least one million from each person, and even several major chambers of commerce borrowed more than two million.
Of course, several major chambers of commerce have been borrowed more than two million yuan, which is a drop in the bucket, but the same cannot be said for other small chambers of commerce. Everyone knows their own situation.
"Hey, everyone, I also know everyone's difficulties, but the empire really needs such a sum of money. I also ask everyone to donate generously and unite sincerely to make a contribution to the empire."
The leader of the Miyamoto family club raised his hand and said loudly: "Our Miyamoto clan borrows 500,000 yen!"
Seeing that the performance had already been performed, Zhang Tianhao also looked helpless. After all, the previous big clubs had paid for this money. Aren't these small clubs still at the mercy of Kodama?
In the end, Zhang Tianhao still borrowed 100,000 yen, which was almost the minimum loan.
Looking at this moment, it has reached more than 6 million yen. This money seems to be a bit too easy to earn, and they seem to have become their cash machine.
Watching the presidents of each club leaving here, their expressions were quite ugly.
"Mihara-kun, how about we go have a drink?"
"OK!"
Zhang Tianhao looked at Uemura and several other Japanese businessmen with whom he had a fairly good relationship, and immediately agreed.
After all, he really has no choice now. He drinks with a few of them just to vent his anger.
"By the way, Uemura-kun, after lending money this time, the economy will soon run into trouble. What about you? Now, I also feel a headache."
"We are the same, one hundred thousand, what the heck, this damn Kodama, here we go again, all the big clubs have money, how can we compare with others? They are much stronger than me even if they pluck out a hair.
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"Yeah, damn, here we go again. They don't necessarily come up with the money. We spend all the money. This is the first time. Since last year, we have been borrowing money constantly. Our
Money doesn’t come with strong winds.”
"Okay, don't complain. After all, now is not the time for you to complain. Let's go have a drink. Here, it's better to talk less. If we talk more, once those guys complain, we will be the first to suffer."
One of them also snorted quite dissatisfied and took the lead directly to walk outside.
Faced with the complaints from these people, Zhang Tianhao could only laugh a few times, then started to walk outside, got directly into the car, and followed these people towards the tavern not far away.
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In the Liu family, Mr. Liu looked at his two sons and his youngest daughter Liu Mei in front of him, and directly held a family meeting, because now the family has reached a critical moment of life and death, and if he is not careful, he may go bankrupt.
"Xiao Mei, you are not young anymore. You are graduating today and you have to prepare for work. You can no longer be as willful as before, and you can no longer spend money lavishly."
"Dad, isn't our family a banker? Don't we have any money yet?"
Liu Mei also looked at Mr. Liu with some confusion, a look of surprise on her face.
"Open a bank, Xiaomei. Our family is no longer what it used to be. It's a miracle that our bank has not collapsed. Now we can barely make ends meet by relying on the rents from several concessions in our family. Our villa has to be sold. You also have to sell it."
It’s not that I don’t know.”
Liu Hu beside him looked at his younger sister Liu Mei with doting look, and sighed helplessly.
"I also want you to live a happier life, but there is really no money at home. Haven't you noticed that some of the valuable things at home are gone? They were all pawned. That was Dad's favorite thing. Now
It’s all settled!”
When Mr. Liu heard this, he immediately stopped him, coughed a few times, and then said calmly: "Don't let Xiaomei worry about family matters. We men are not dead yet. Let Xiaomei live a happy life.
That’s the most important thing, don’t think about it too much.”
"Dad, I know, I'm just trying to persuade Xiaomei. After all, Xiaomei is not young anymore. She is already an adult. When we were this old, she had already gone to work in a bank!"
Mr. Liu glared and snorted with some dissatisfaction.
When Liu Mei saw the old man's attitude, she couldn't help but be stunned. She had no money to take from home, but she never thought that such a big thing would happen at home, and that the difficulty would reach this level.
"Dad, brother, why didn't you tell me earlier? I'm at least a part of the family. I still have some jewelry there. Let's pawn it to help support the family."
"Okay, you study hard and you don't have to worry about anything else, you know?"
"I……"
Liu Mei felt bad, after all, her family still treated her as a child, and even now they didn't tell her about such a big thing happening at home.
Although she knew this was a good thing, but...
She opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but still no words came out. After all, what she said was useless.
"Dad, Mom, I know, I will never do anything wrong again!"
She let out a long sigh. After all, at this point, no matter how much she thought about it, it was useless.
At this time, she also realized that she was still a little reckless in doing things and did not consider the feelings of her family at all, which led to this meeting.
The fifth day of the Lunar New Year! Today is the fifth day of the Lunar New Year!