1855 United States Tycoon

Chapter 519, President William McKinley’s Question (2)

Hearing the news, Scrooge frowned. Indeed, a great contribution has been made in the process of establishing the Federal Reserve. However, he also got a lot of rewards. He was successfully re-elected as president, and once he retired, he would be invited by many foundations to become their senior advisors. In addition, various organizations will continue to invite him to give speeches and write memoirs. In short, it is to give him money and also make him an important link between the consortium and the Republican Party. And his nephews and nephews also have the opportunity to join those big consortia as executives.

This set of tricks originally took several decades to fully mature, but because of the emergence of Scrooge, it matured ahead of schedule. This set of mechanism does give politicians who are willing to transfer their power a legal opportunity to sell political power for a good price, but, in a sense, it also limits the upper limit that politicians can achieve economically. . That is to say, those politicians, at best, can only be senior white-collar workers, who can get very high wages, but they will not get the power to truly control a consortium. Now, President William McKinley seems to be dissatisfied with the status of this “working emperor”. He seems to want to go further in addition to being president.

“Has Morgan reacted?” Scrooge asked.

“Not yet, maybe they want to see our reaction.” Dorothea said.

“This matter, they should be more anxious than us. So let’s not panic, let’s see how Morgan and the others do it.” Scrooge said.

Scrooge makes sense in saying this, because compared to the McDonald Consortium, the Morgan Consortium’s business scope is more concentrated in the financial sector. Therefore, compared to the McDonald Consortium, they should have a lower tolerance for such changes. . So if there is any action, Morgan should also have the action first.

Therefore, this matter was temporarily shelved following Scrooge’s words.

There was indeed a reaction from the Morgan Consortium, but their reaction did not seem to be as intense as Scrooge expected, and there was no story of two “boom” shots that solved the problem. Morgan adopted a more civilized approach. Through inter-bank commercial operations, they quickly raised the stock price of the target that the bank invested by the president wanted to acquire, which made the acquirer’s funds appear insufficient and had to give up temporarily. This plan.

“Morgan must be planning something, otherwise, he wouldn’t be so gentle and passive. I just don’t know what he is planning.” After learning the result of this matter, Scrooge commented.

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In order to figure out what Morgan and the others were planning, Scrooge of course asked his own people to keep an eye on Morgan. Soon, Scrooge got a possible answer, that is, Morgan has now turned more attention outside of United States.

“Morgan is eyeing Man Qing’s compensation business? This is indeed a big deal. And in order to succeed, many places do need the president’s support. No wonder he did it so tenderly this time, even though he repelled us, Mr. President. ’S acquisition plan, but it didn’t make him suffer too much.”

Recently, Scrooge and the entire Macdonald family’s main forces have been put on the Boer War. This also made them correspondingly ignore a big event that happened on the other side of the earth-China’s Boxer Movement.

Just like initiating colonial activities in any other region, in China, European colonial activities are also inseparable from religion. In fact, the history of Christianity’s global expansion almost coincided with the great voyage and colonization. Naturally, China is no exception. So with the blast of the Opium War in 1840, with the support of strong ships and guns, Christianity gained rapid development in China.

But the conflict between the teachings of Christianity itself and the traditional culture of China is very big. For example, if you really believe this, you must believe that your father, your grandfather, (if they are not Christians) will all die in The Underworld. Oh, no, this statement is not correct. It should be stated that they should go to The Underworld when they die. Who makes them all pagans who should go to The Underworld? What? You said they have been kind and never done bad things all their lives? Not believing in Jesus Christ is the worst evil thing, far more evil than murder, arson or even genocide! Besides, did they worship Bodhisattva? Have you worshipped Dragon King, worshipped the city god, and worshipped the old man, right? That is a felony of worshipping idols and worshipping the devil! Yes, strictly according to the doctrine of Christianity, all gods except Christianity are evil spirits, and those who believe in them are all evil spirits. Even today, this doctrine has never been compromised. It’s just that because of social environmental considerations, I don’t take the initiative to mention it. However, if a pastor is honest enough, he will tell you: “Avalokitesvara is one of the most An evil spirit of licentiousness.” (4V said by a certain Christian pastor.)

Therefore, when this religion was first introduced to China, it was not very popular. In the Ming Dynasty and my early Qing Dynasty, they even needed to wrap it up with the natural sciences they were most opposed to before they could barely spread it on a small scale. After 1840, they received violent support, so naturally they had better means of communication. That is to let those foolish Chinese people see the real benefits of believing in Christ.

The real benefit of this practice is often that there is a free “holy communion” to eat at the beginning, and soon it has developed to the fact that as long as you believe in religion and become a “member”, you can get the shelter of the church. Because foreigners are victorious in all battles against “I Daqing”, from top to bottom, from top to bottom, from top to bottom, from the top to the bottom, from the Queen Mother Cixi, to the bureaucrats at all levels, basically there are no foreigners who are not afraid of foreigners. Therefore, once the Chinese and foreigners have disputes, most of the time, they will always favor and indulge foreigners. Therefore, the asylum of the “foreign church” was definitely very useful in China at that time. With this asylum, there are many benefits.

Generally speaking, for those who are willing to admit their own father and grandfather, and all their ancestors should go to The Underworld for these benefits, their character is naturally not much better. With the support of foreigners, these people naturally do whatever they want, and they are absolutely unscrupulous in doing bad things. Anyway, something really happened, supported by foreigners. The government is afraid of foreigners. For the church, the benefits of adopting such a strategy are clearly visible, that is, people who hope to receive such benefits continue to join in, and the number of believers is rapidly expanding. Of course, this also caused a sharp increase in contradictions between the “church” and ordinary people, gentry, and local grass-roots governments. In the end, the Boxer Movement against Christianity broke out.

At the same time, the Empress Dowager Cixi, the supreme ruler of the Qing Dynasty, has seen foreigners upset for many years. Since the Wuxu coup d’état, after putting Guangxu under house arrest, those damn foreigners have jumped out from time to time to ask Empress Dowager Cixi to release Guangxu, ask Empress Dowager Cixi to return to power, and ask Empress Dowager Cixi…what is it about those foreigners? Ah! Moreover, it is said that some imperial party members in exile also constantly flirted with foreigners and made many promises to them (anyway, the Qing Dynasty is not theirs now, so they don’t care). Some damn foreigners were moved by them, ready to join forces to help the Qing Dynasty restore order. So Empress Dowager Cixi united with the boxers who were said to have descended to the earth and were invulnerable, and declared war on almost the whole world in a mighty and domineering manner. And began to besiege the embassies of various countries.It’s just that my Daqing’s combat power is really bad enough. Even with those invulnerable big brothers, the value probably didn’t exceed 5. The embassy, ​​which was besieged by only a few hundred people, couldn’t be defeated. In the end, I faced a temporary organization. The Eight-Power Allied Forces that rose up, I was defeated sharply, and then naturally it was the old way of cede land and pay compensation.

According to the treaty, we need to compensate the countries 450 million taels of silver. This number is really not a big number for European and American industrialized countries. During the Franco-Prussian War, the French paid the Germans 5 billion francs in one go, which was up to 1,450 tons in gold. At that time, it was equivalent to more than 800 million taels of flat silver. If calculated according to the price around 1900 (at this time, the price of silver relative to gold fell a lot.), it was equivalent to 1.36 billion taels of flat silver. The French gritted their teeth and paid off in three years. However, although I am rich in the world and rich in land and resources, Qing Dynasty is a backward and poor agricultural country after all. Such a sum of money cannot be taken out casually. The only way is to borrow money from foreign banks, borrow new debts, and repay old debts. So I continued to pay it back in such a profitable way, until I was finished, I didn’t pay it back. It also hurts our honesty and trustworthiness in the Republic of China.

Since borrowing money is involved, of course, financial matters are inevitable. The loan involved in Boxer’s indemnity is a big deal, so it is normal for Morgan to focus on this.

“Our Mr. President is lucky. It would be better if he knew a little bit of convergence in the future.” After learning the specific situation, Scrooge said.

“That’s hard to say,” Dorothea continued. “Maybe people will inflate themselves and treat this blockade as a provocation. Besides, Scrooge, you still remember what you told us. That joke?”

“Which joke?” Scrooge asked, raising his eyebrows.

“It’s the one who took other people’s gold publicly in the public, and then was caught, and then said to the judge:’After I see the gold in my eyes, I can’t see the people around me’.” Rosia moved her body on the sofa to make herself more comfortable. “In fact, most people, after seeing the gold, will forget that someone is staring next to you…”