At the end of the 19th and early 20th century, with the rapid development of the automobile industry, the demand for rubber increased sharply. At the same time, rubber became an emerging material for many industrial products. Automobile, tricycle, and rickshaw all replaced rubber tires. Shanghai people used cloth shoes and leather shoes to coat a pair of rubber shoes, and called overshoes. Then when wearing rubber raincoats, they could go out as usual even during heavy rains. In addition to these, there were countless other rubber products, and rubber became a popular product.

Of course, the demise of the Qing Dynasty can also be said to have a certain relationship with rubber. In 1908, because there was no artificial rubber at that time, all the rubbers used were produced naturally. Considering the constraints of growth cycle, climate, soil and other factors, the production scale of rubber could not be expanded in the short term, which was destined to continue to rise for a period of time.

The rubber stocks that indirectly led to the early demise of the Qing Dynasty began in 1908. At this time, it can be said that the rubber price in the London market rose exponentially, which also led to more people starting to engage in the crazy speculation of rubber.

It was at this time that foreign rubber companies began to set up companies in the Nanyang area suitable for rubber production, and their headquarters were all Shanghai, a financial center in the Far East, so as to facilitate financing here. These companies published advertisements in Shanghai newspapers saying that "buying rubber is buying the future." This led to a large number of foreigners and local Chinese buying rubber stocks in Chinese, and some old companies raised their stock prices. It was normal for them to double the stock price at that time, and at the highest level it even reached a level of 27 or 8 times.

Of course, when the bonfire is burned out, only a piece of ashes will be left behind. When the London stock market plummeted, the Huangpu River was as short as the Ganges...

At this time, due to the stupidity of the Qing court, the Shanghai Road rescue operation failed, which also caused the rubber stock trend in the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, the entire China lost tens of millions of silver, which led to the Qing court having to nationalize the railway and then mortgage it, which also caused the road protection movement in Sichuan.

In order to suppress Sichuan's road protection movement, Hubei's new army was transferred to Sichuan to suppress it, resulting in the emptiness of Wuchang, which also caused the Wuchang Uprising and caused the entire Southern China to fall into a craze of uprising.

Stock trend - - Road protection movement - - Wuchang Uprising - - Xinhai Revolution

It can be said that if there was no stock trend, the Qing Dynasty could last for at least a few years. Here we have to thank the Minister of the branch, Comrade Chen Bangrui and his students, Comrade Cheng Dequan, who was the governor of Jiangsu at that time. If Chen Bangrui had not had a grudge with Cai Naihuang at the time, he would have jointly impeached Cai Naihuang with his student Cheng Dequan, which led to Cai Naihuang's success in the market rescue operation, and I am afraid that he would have to wait for a few more years before the news of the successful revolution.

Of course, those who jumped into the river and jumped to the building should be thanked even more for Chen Bangrui’s eighteen generations of ancestors…

Now, Yan Guang is going to London to increase his wealth by ten times or eight times. Then he returns to China with huge wealth, contributing to Comrade Chen Bangrui's great cause of anti-Qing and restoring the Ming Dynasty.

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"It's really worthy of being a fog..." Standing at the bow of the passenger ship, looking at the city filled with clouds in the distance, when the passenger ship was about to touch the fog, Yan Guang took out a mask from his arms and put it on his face, which surprised the passengers who were about to take a deep breath.

During this period, London was also the world's financial center. As the capital of the world's most powerful country, the smoke of London is quite famous. Many people who come to London for the first time even take a deep breath of the smoke.

But there will definitely be Yan Guang in it...

The name of London's "Mist City" is very famous even in the 21st century, especially the London smoke incident that killed more than 10,000 people at one time, which is even more impressive.

You should know that in the early 20th century, most people in London used coal as fuel, and the resulting smoke was like a tiger with the fog that spreads in London. Although the London smoke incident will not happen for decades, even so Yan Guang still dared not underestimate the toxic substances in the smoke. If it weren't for making a lot of money in London at this time, Yan Guang would never want to come to this place that would make people live a lifespan.

Of course, Yan Guang's approach to considering his own body is ignorant in the eyes of others, but how could they imagine how much toxic substances contained in the fog that was spreading in London at this time?

After walking off the passenger ship, Yan Guang soon found a hotel that looked pretty good not far from the port.

"Chinese? Japanese?" After seeing Yan Guang walk in, the hotel owner asked in surprise.

"Chinese." In the United States, Yan Guang had encountered such a situation many times on a passenger ship to London in the past few months, and even fought with the other party several times, so he was no longer surprised by the current situation.

The hotel owner nodded. "If you stay, you should have two shillings a day, not including three meals. If you include three meals, you will have to add five pennies a day." For him, as long as the guests who come have money in their wallets, he was not interested in caring about the others.

"No problem, by the way, do you have juice here?" Yan Guang asked after taking out the food and board fee for a week.

"No, but you can go to the shop next to you to buy it." After collecting the money, the hotel owner handed over the key to Yan Guang. "The seventh room in the corridor on the left, if there is anything else, you can come to me."

"Okay..." Yan Guang walked a few steps towards the corridor on the left, but soon turned back. "By the way, where is the London Stock Exchange?"

"Which company are you asking?"

Before 1973, the so-called London Exchange was not an exchange, but a collective name for dozens of exchanges. Yan Guang was surprised after receiving this news. He originally thought that as long as he went to the exchange to buy stocks, he could pat his butt back to the United States. Now it seems that he had to run all of these dozens of exchanges first.

More than 900,000 US dollars, equivalent to more than 100,000 pounds, can be considered a huge sum of money in this era. Although this money may not even be wasted in the international financial system, he does not think that when rubber stocks just emerge, there will be any securities exchange that can bear it.

But the next day, he held the stocks of this era in London's largest securities exchange, and Yan Guang admitted that he had miscalculated...
Chapter completed!