Bang! There was a loud bang and sparks flew! The workers wielding hammers stood on the tall steel structure arch bridge, majestic!
Smashing rivets is a technical job. Most of these workers are seconded from the Ryukyu Shipyard. At this time, the warships and steel merchant ships of the world's navies rely on rivets to connect the deck keel!
In this era, riveting workers are definitely high-level skilled workers at the forefront!
As long as electric welding technology does not appear, their status will be unbreakable and they will never have to worry about having a job!
Relying purely on the strength of your wrists and arms, as well as the strength and angle of the hammer, you can smash the red-hot rivets into a qualified semicircle. This is really not something ordinary people can do. It is impossible without several years of internship. .
Standing on the bridge at this moment is the most experienced master seconded from Ryukyu Shipbuilding. The tall steel structure bridge makes ordinary people feel dizzy when climbing on it, but compared with the warships built by the Chinese themselves, it is still much lower. .
Bang! Another sound, and sparks flying!
Bang! After the third hammer hit, the worker proudly said, "It's done! The last rivet! Perfect..."
"Okay!" The officials below breathed a sigh of relief. The railway was finally repaired. Officials from various ministries rushed to the telegraph machine in a hurry, hoping to spread the news as soon as possible.
But little did they know that before the rivet-smashing worker climbed onto the shelf, someone had already sent a telegram to the capital with the news of the successful closing!
On July 2nd, the capital was very peaceful. The bannermen who were visiting teahouses and brothels did not care at all about the trivial matter of smashing rivets on an iron bridge on the distant canal!
In their eyes, there are no big things in the world. Except for the inside of Sijiu City, all the outside things are just the excitement of the country people and are not worth bothering about!
The weather in July is so hot. Drink some iced sour plum soup, have a bowl of boiled noodles with soy sauce, and prepare a lot of dishes. The mung bean sprouts have to be pulled out one by one to make them delicious!
You have to be more particular about your life. Who cares about stinky workers smashing rivets?
In the hot weather, the crowds at the Jingshi Exchange were also bleak. After a period of trading, the novelty had worn off. The exchange had cultivated a group of addicted gamblers and investors, and also caused many people to abandon him.
This thing comes and goes. Although it is said to be profitable, the risk is too great. I can’t bear to worry about this every day. It is the most delicious and easiest to take bribes and eat hard-core crops!
Some people can enjoy the blessing, but Master Qin definitely cannot. He wants to keep an eye on the situation for the prince, and at the same time, he also needs to know what will happen on July 2nd.
Nothing happened all morning. The market was calm. It was very hot today and not many people came to trade. More than 200 shares were traded in the morning. There were no orders for buying and selling, and there were only more than 3,000 shares hanging. That’s all!
The telegrams sent from the south of the Yangtze River were equally boring. It was also a sweltering summer in the south, and people were reluctant to move. Even stock trading became indifferent.
The Beijing-Tianjin Railway stock is still fluctuating between 1.2 to 1.3!
One dollar and twenty-seven cents, eating sixty thousand taels, this is Master Qin's cost! But this morning the price dropped to one dollar and twenty-four cents. Mr. Qin's palms were sweating and he felt very nervous.
But no matter how nervous he was, he had to endure it. Yang Zhi said that today was very important, and he had to see with his own eyes just how important it was!
At noon, Mr. Qin ate half a bowl of cold noodles with water, but he couldn't eat anything anymore. He drank pot after pot of herbal tea. After the market opened in the afternoon, the stock price not only did not rise, but fell again based on the morning price. Yes, it fell to one dollar or two cents!
Master Qin almost fainted from the heat. He felt like the sweat was spraying out as if a valve had been opened, and the scenery in front of him had double images!
At 1:50, just before the stock price telegram from Jiangnan was sent, some people suddenly appeared at the exchange. They gathered at the door furtively, not knowing what they were waiting for!
At 2:05, the telegram from Jiangnan finally arrived, but when the writer was climbing the ladder to modify the numbers on the blackboard, this group of people suddenly poured into the buying area!
They didn't yell loudly, and whispered one by one, "Excuse me, we have bought all the sell orders you have, no matter what the price... In addition, if you add 10,000 shares to buy, the price will be written as one dollar and seven!" "
The shopkeeper on the high platform pushed up his glasses and said, "One dollar for seven! Hmm... Such a big gesture. Forget it, I don't bother to remind you. Just be careful!"
"Open an order..."
There were not many people on the street at this time, and there were not many stockholders guarding the entrance of the exchange. The strange movements of this group of people did not attract anyone's attention. Even Mr. Qin was dizzy due to the heat and did not notice any strange movements!
All the selling orders in the exchange were swept away, and this group of people began to place buying orders. The first one they sold was $1.7, then $8.00, $1.90...all piled up in round numbers!
Each price range is crowded with tens of thousands of purchases, which is a scary number!
It was at this time that Jiangnan's stock price was finally updated on the blackboard. At two o'clock in the afternoon on July 2, Beijing-Tianjin Railway's stock suddenly exploded in major stock markets in Jiangnan!
"One dollar and eighty-five cents in Suzhou? Ouch... One dollar and eighty-seven cents in Shanghai..."
"Look at Jiang Ning! One dollar and ninety-six cents...Is this going to cost two yuan? How is it possible..."
The staff in the exchange went crazy first. They could not imagine that Jiangnan would have such a price, which was seriously inverted with the capital!
There is no trading volume here in Beijing, but the stocks in Jiangnan have been crazy, the turnover rate is extremely high, and the trading volume is extremely surging!
But at this moment, the price on Jingshi’s exchange is still the same as when the order was scanned, one dollar and three! This can form a huge price difference. Now anyone who transports Jingshi's stocks to Jiangnan and sells them will make a lot of money!
It's a pity that no one in the capital knows the news at this moment, and they are all sleeping at home!
"Master Qin! Master Qin, don't sleep... Master Qin, can you see if the stock price has gone up?" The boy in the teahouse pushed Master Qin and shook him awake. He rubbed his eyes and walked to the door of the exchange. You will be dumbfounded at first sight!
"Ah! What's going on?"
It was written clearly on the blackboard that Jiangning's stock price had soared to one yuan and ninety-six cents, but the latest transaction price in Jingshi was actually one yuan and three cents!
This, this, this... what should we do? Jiangnan was the first to skyrocket!
An ordinary person would be blinded on the spot, but I didn’t expect that Mr. Qin is so smart. He actually knows the rules of the stock game!
He looked through the prices in the buying area like crazy, "What's the highest price? How much is it...one dollar and ninety? Okay, I'll sell him a hundred shares, and the deal is done for one dollar and ninety!"
Sure enough, it is a new market. If there is no trading volume, strange things will happen. The transaction of one hundred shares can change the price!
Mr. Qin took out a hundred shares and sold them, which met the highest price in the buying area. If there was a buy or sell, it was a transaction. There was no other transaction at this price, and that was the stock price at the moment!
"One dollar nine! The Beijing-Tianjin Railway stock price on the Jingshi Exchange suddenly shot up to one dollar nine!"
It was just 2:40 in the afternoon, and there were still twenty minutes before the closing price. If there were no sellers at this time, this price would be the closing price!
There may not have been any smashing, but within a few minutes the streets and alleys were in chaos, people came running over in a hurry, and the news flew all over the capital as if it had wings!
All the bannermen had the same thought: "It's crazy! We're making crazy money! It's only 1.9 yuan... Sell it quickly! It's doubled!"
Even Prince Li Shiduo, who was taking a lunch break in the afternoon, was shocked, "What? Jiangnan for one dollar and ninety-six cents? Capital City for one dollar and ninety cents... I bought it and sold all the 100,000 shares in my hand!"
"Hahaha... I calculated with my fingers, I will make a fortune this year! I made 90,000 taels!"
