A sulfa buyout agreement was signed with Shimazaki Yokado, placing all large quantities of imported sulfa drugs in Shanghai in the hands of Fujiwara Corporation.

Although other people in Shanghai were jealous, the brand of the Japanese aristocratic "Fujiwara Family" was too famous, and most people really didn't dare to set their sights on the "Fujiwara Corporation".

The concept of superiority and inferiority is also deeply rooted in Japan. Apart from the Japanese royal family, the Japanese aristocracy has the highest social status.

What's more, the Fujiwara family is one of the most powerful families among the Japanese nobles. They are related to the emperor by blood and can be received by the emperor from time to time.

Not to mention the Japanese businessmen in Shanghai, even high-ranking Japanese military officers in Shanghai had to give Fujiwara no Masako some leeway.

Relying on this privilege, Shen Yutang disguised himself as Fujiwara no Asahi and began to expand the scope of his business in Shanghai in a planned manner.

Shen Yutang first set his sights on the cotton yarn business in Shanghai.

It is already October, the autumn month, and there are only two or three months left until the coldest time of winter.

Once winter comes, the shortage of clothes for our comrades back home becomes serious.

A heavy snowfall would likely cause frostbite, frostbite disease, or even death to many soldiers.

In order to prevent this situation from happening to the greatest extent possible, it is very appropriate for Shen Yutang to expand the business of "Fujiwara Corporation" to the cotton yarn business at this time.

In addition, the cotton picking months are mostly concentrated around October. In the south, it may be picked earlier in September or October, while in the north it may be picked a little later but not later than November.

However, cotton was a strategic material, and the Japanese army had very strict management over cotton and the cotton yarn made from it.

Take Shanghai for example. There are now large quantities of cotton and cotton yarn merchants, and most of them are Japanese merchants.

If Shanghai's textile mills wanted to get cotton yarn, a warm and durable raw material for weaving fabrics, they had to buy it from Japanese merchants at high prices.

This also resulted in the high prices of finished fabrics and clothes, and it was a luxury for ordinary people to buy new clothes.

In the Shanghai cotton and cotton yarn markets, a large number of Japanese merchants are hoarding cotton and cotton yarn. It is generally expected that the price of cotton will rise sharply!

Shen Yutang began to use the name of "Fujiwara Corporation" to buy 50 pieces of cotton yarn at a low price from several medium-sized Japanese merchants.

A piece of cotton yarn weighs about 181 kilograms, and Chen Yutang bought it for about 3,500 yen.

Ten pieces of cotton yarn cost more than 100,000 yen, but this amount of cotton yarn was not enough to fill the gaps in Fujiwara Corporation's supply.

However, Japanese merchants in Shanghai were hoarding cotton yarn and generally believed that the price of cotton yarn would rise. Even if they sold it to Fujiwara Corporation at a low price now, they would definitely lose a lot of money in the end.

When faced with the powerful Fujiwara Corporation, the small-scale Japanese businessmen with no background could only take the initiative to admit defeat and give up the profits from the rising cotton yarn prices.

But even so, these Japanese businessmen are complaining.

Although they didn't dare to complain to the Fujiwara no Asahi in front of Chen Yutang, they spread all the unpleasant words behind her back.

They said that the Fujiwara Corporation was too greedy and was stealing the supply of goods from small Japanese businessmen like them.

In order to fight against the plundering and domineering behavior of the Fujiwara Corporation, several major Japanese merchants in Shanghai who had stockpiled cotton yarn united together.