Amidst all the commotion, the time came to noon, and many small and medium-sized newspapers began to publish additional lunch issues during this period. For a while, public opinion began to surge inside and outside the arena.
With such a big event happening, the Japanese naturally made arrangements in advance and wanted to guide public opinion and make it develop in a direction that is beneficial to them.
But it is a pity that those reports are too lacking in interest, or in other words, the content itself is not very topical. Among the pile of eye-catching reports, there is no sense of existence and no ripples are made.
For example, the report about the underworld and smoke rising from ancestral graves first exploded in public opinion because of its title. It was overshadowed by other reports for a while.
But it's a tabloid! The quality of the articles is relatively average, mainly joking. Apart from the title, there isn't much to watch, so the popularity quickly dropped.
Immediately afterwards, other articles and reports with some gimmicks gradually increased in popularity. One of the articles with the fastest rise was a "pro-Japanese" report.
At the beginning of the article, he expressed his worries about the robbery of the silver with worried words. Between the words, it can be said that he was heartbroken. At one time, he expressed his concern for those people, and at the other time, he expressed his concern for those who had robbed the silver.
At first glance, it makes people’s blood pressure soar. This is a leftist newspaper. If you only read this article, loyal readers may want to rush to the newspaper directly.
The left wing of the Republic of China has always been a gathering place for radical and progressive people, especially foreign enemies. Currently, their views mainly focus on the fight against Japan, which calls for and even requires proactive measures to be taken against Japan.
Within the government, there are still great differences and controversies. Although the right wing of the president is currently in power, and they are also implementing the tactics of fighting against foreigners and internal affairs, and suppressing the left wing more, the left wing has always existed. In other words, in this situation,
The leftists will only appear one after another and cannot be eliminated at all.
Therefore, although Chiang Kai-shek has been suppressing, these voices have always been there. Usually, as long as they do not threaten his rule too much or are too attractive to him, he can only turn a blind eye.
When talking about the film censorship of the Republic of China, all the films about fairy tales and martial arts were banned, but many left-wing films that criticize reality are still very popular, and the same is true in the media, or in all walks of life, leftists are widely present.
How can you not be offended by a leftist newspaper that turns out to be sarcastic to the Japanese? At first glance, many people wonder whether they bought it by mistake.
Fortunately, this newspaper usually talks about things like enlightening the people's wisdom, saving the country and the people, etc. Ordinary people may buy it a few times, but most loyal readers really have this heart.
Most loyal readers still trust the newspaper and read on with patience. Sure enough! It is indeed very pro-Japanese.
Later in the article, the author expressed concern, reminding the authorities who lost money that they must be wary of someone trying to force the banker to surrender, and be careful of someone taking those mortgage documents and asking them to cash them in immediately.
The amount of silver lost was too large, and in order to redeem it, silver had to be purchased from outside to fill the gap. This resulted in the Taijuns actually becoming the largest silver short sellers in Shanghai.
Once silver holders are reluctant to sell, the kings are in urgent need of silver to fill the shortfall. If there is more demand and less supply, the price of silver will rise, which will in turn increase the cost of redemption.
Reluctance to sell is a very high probability situation. Because the price of silver suddenly plummets, most investors lose money. If you sell silver now and leave the market, it means a complete loss. If you continue to hold it and wait for the price of silver to stop falling and rise again, there is still a glimmer of hope.
Most people will take advantage of this opportunity, and Taijun's purchase of silver will also stop the price of silver from falling. These people are more reluctant to sell and have a wait-and-see attitude. With this accumulation, once the price of silver stops falling and rises, the sentiment will reach a high point, and there will be no more for sale in the market.
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Then the market will form a short-squeezing trend for Taijun, and the price of silver will skyrocket. At that time, Taijun will have to pay an extremely high price to survive this crisis.
"...Hiss..." Anyone who has read this report in its entirety will take a deep breath. What kind of pro-Japanese report is this?
It is clearly a knife, a statement of war, and an instruction manual on how to deal with the Japanese, and of course it also comes with money.
Mud horse, so ruthless! Enough! This is the thought of every loyal reader. Those who are red-eyed when the silver price plummets, I am afraid that they will seize this as a life-saving straw. At that time... everyone will feel their scalps numb...
More printing! More printing! More printing! Even the newspaper office, which had already anticipated and even prepared, was still stunned by the continuous influx of demand.
This newspaper, that article, was a complete explosion, and other articles and reports were directly buried in the mud, and no one took a second look.
Countless people are reading this report word for word; countless people are blushing as they read and listen to it; countless people have magnificent fireworks in their eyes, which is the fire of desire!
This article, due to its low initial sales, took a long time to gestate, but like a spark thrown into gasoline, as soon as it spread, the flames shot straight into the sky.
"...Boom..." Amidst the deafening noise, the price of silver stopped. Although it did not completely stop falling, it was many times better than the previous plummet.
And with the spread of this report, the number of sellers has plummeted visibly, and even the number of buyers, who were few before, is gradually increasing.
Some wretched and exhausted people, with incomprehensible smiles on their faces, looking crazy or crazy, quickly took a rickshaw after leaving the market and headed straight for Lanweimai.
Around Lanweimai, contract transaction prices have been rising rapidly, and even several large restaurants and teahouses on Lanweimai Road have quickly evolved into centralized trading locations.
"Awesome! They actually tied this matter directly to the trend of silver prices, which immediately put a lot of pressure on the Japanese."
The brown-haired man who had been paying attention to the situation soon received the newspaper. After reading it, he guessed the purpose of this handwriting.
The blond man took it, looked at it, raised his head, and asked, "How far has the domestic silver price fallen now?"
"...Hiss..." The brown-haired man was startled, then took a breath of cold air and said, "If you don't tell me, I really didn't notice it. It seems that it has fallen below seventy cents before. I'm afraid it's almost the bottom.
The timing was perfect, tens of millions of ounces! It was impossible for them to get it themselves, and it was even less possible for the government to provide them with hard currency like silver to fill the hole.
This shortfall is enough to become an opportunity and support point for the price of silver to rise. Now they will face not only the pressure from all parties here in Shanghai, but also the pressure from the world silver market and the investors behind it. With the help of their strength,
What a good means... What a good means..."
The brown-haired man sighed. If he had some doubts before, he is really confident now. No matter how unwilling the other party is to bow his head, there are many people who will force him to bow his head now!
Although it has not been long since the price of silver turned downward, the decline in the financial market is much easier than the rise, let alone this kind of market-breaking decline.
This may not be easy to understand. For example, if ten cents rise by 10%, there are only one cent, but if one dollar falls by 10%, then there will be ten cents.
Before falling, there is a large base number, but before rising, it is a small base number. Therefore, even if the proportion is the same, the decline will be too severe. Although there is not a huge decline every day, under control, the decline is not low at all. In this short period of time
Within a few days, it lost several months of gains.
However, this has basically reached the end of the plunge, and there will only be more negative declines in the future, because it is time for the big short-selling funds to close their positions. You can't wait until the bottom falls before leveling out. It will not be so easy at that time.
It is said that the Japanese have become big shorts because they also need to buy silver from the market. If there are buying orders to receive the goods, the price will naturally be stabilized. When there are more buying orders than selling orders, the price will turn from falling to rising.
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"It's better not to invest too much energy here, our business is more important!"
The blond man reminded the brown-haired man that this was not the purpose of their gathering here.
"...Yes, yes..." The brown-haired man slapped his forehead and realized that he had put all his energy into this early this morning.
Fujiwara has been paying attention to all aspects of the situation. As soon as this report became popular, he immediately found a newspaper and sent it to the chairman.
The director, who was already angry after negotiating with all parties, was furious when he saw the tone used in the report.
Even though he was still not satisfied with his anger, he took out his decorated samurai sword and tried to chop the paper into pieces. Unfortunately, the knife with its teeth and five claws couldn't split it at all. Instead, it smashed the newspaper and flew everywhere.
He got even more angry when he couldn't chop it open, so he started hacking and slashing everywhere in the room. After a while, the whole room was a mess.
"...I lost my composure..." After having a fit of diarrhea and calming down, the director nodded slightly to Fujiwara and apologized, and Fujiwara immediately responded with a deep bow.
"After this report came out, what is the situation outside? To be honest, I don't want to hear false words that report good news but not bad news."
"...Hai..." Fujiwara elaborated on the situation of Shimoyin City and Lan Weihao, and finally said: "The impact of the report was extremely serious, and a huge momentum quickly gathered.
The plummeting price of silver has caused a large number of people to be unable to withdraw from the silver market and lose money. However, it has not been long, and many people still hold on to the idea that the price of silver can rise back.
After this guidance, these people immediately changed from those who were panicking and suppressing the price of silver to staunch bulls. Unless we can now put a large amount of silver into the market and control the price of silver to continue to plummet.
Otherwise, the situation is likely to accumulate gradually as mentioned in that article, and then the price of silver stops falling and then rises, attracting more people to enter the market, causing the price of silver to skyrocket..."
"According to this, our situation is not optimistic here, and we don't even have a good way to stop it?"
"...Yes..." Fujiwara nodded, with an unusually solemn expression, and said: "The situation is not unoptimistic, but extremely bad and extremely difficult.
After a period of sharp decline, the silver price in Shanghai has almost dropped to about 55 cents, which is very close to the minimum silver purchase price set by the U.S. government.
The purchase price of silver is a barrier, which is very difficult to break through. It can be said that the Shanghai silver price itself has almost bottomed out, the external situation is not good, and the international silver price has almost passed the plummeting range..."
Fujiwara did not continue speaking, because the face of the director had darkened to the point of dripping water.