Opening game, American Tycoon

Chapter 898 Do you know the role of a banker (second update, please subscribe)
The relationship between countries is essentially to use each other, even if they are so-called allies.

Once one party has no use value, then for the benefit of the country, the best choice is of course to abandon the other party.

On this point, British Prime Minister Benjamin said in a speech to Parliament in 1848 that "there are no eternal friends, nor eternal enemies, but only eternal interests." It fully demonstrates the nature of the relationship between countries.

Any country that tries to sing words such as "friendship forever" will pay the price for its actions. After all, in the exchanges between countries, betrayal is the eternal theme.

At the same time when Brazil's bonds plummeted, London's banking industry immediately stopped lending to Brazil. Although there is no evidence to prove that London abandoned Brazil, financial bankers all over the world have seen a fact.

"Brazil is over!"

As the president of the Imperial Bank, Hu Xueyan, after learning that Brazil's bonds had been sold and fell by a full 80%, he just said the same sentence lightly.

"They're done!"

"what?"

Standing in front of the president, Chen Dewen said a little surprised.

"Brazil is finished! From the moment they can't sell their bonds, this country ceases to exist!"

After finishing speaking, Hu Xueyan walked to the window, and he stared at the city outside the window.

"Without money, it is impossible for them to continue this war. Now it is just bombing. If there is no accident, the army should have already started marching towards Brazil. They will kill him while he is sick, Brazil..."

It has ceased to exist since then!
As a banker, Hu Xueyan often analyzes problems from the economic point of view. War itself is money. There is no country in the world that has prepared hundreds of millions of dollars in funding before the war broke out like Ming Dynasty. Wars are waged on borrowed money.

"This air strike not only destroyed the market's confidence in Brazil, but also destroyed Brazil's confidence in whether it can continue to fight. More importantly, it allowed the staff to see through the weak nature of Brazil. The usual practice of those generals, they will never miss any opportunity to annex Brazil and destroy the country!"

At this time, Hu Xueyan seemed to have transformed into a staff officer, not just a banker, but he was still a banker after all.

"So, now is our chance!"

"What? What does the president mean?"

Chen Wen thought for a while and said.

"Is the Reichsbank entering Brazil?"

"Yes, expansion has never been a simple expansion in the military sense. The army conquers, but in the end it is not just the army that conquers that land, but business. Why can we turn Chile and Argentina into the mainland of the empire? In essence, at the same time as the military conquest, the financial industry and commerce are also conquering that piece of land at the same time. Through appropriate financial policies, we allow our immigrants to occupy a huge advantage in a short period of time, usurp the local wealth, and control the local wealth , forming an overwhelming economic advantage over the locals, this is the real conquest!"

What is conquest?
In essence, conquest is plundering, not just plundering land, but everything. Land is just a surface of wealth, but what is behind it?There are other kinds of plundering of wealth, even reproductive rights are also within the scope of plundering. Why are there fewer and fewer Indians in South American countries, while mixed races have become the mainstream of the local population?Could it be that an Indian man married a white woman?What spring and autumn dream?

It is clear that the white Europeans occupying the upper class of wealth married Indian women, but what about Indian men?Because of poverty, because of low status, she couldn't marry a wife, and she was poor for three generations... she went extinct.

Ever since, South America has become Latin America, and the mixed Europeans have become the masters of this continent!
This is conquest!
As for others, including colonies, it is not conquest at all, but occupation.

After a pause, Hu Xueyan said.

"Manager Chen, prepare yourself. If there is no accident, the army will march to Brazil in the next few days. From now on, no matter which city the army conquers, the Imperial Bank will follow up at the same time, not just the Imperial Bank , as well as other Daming Banks and commercial organizations, have to enter at the same time, forcing local banks to close and let us control the financial power. Only in this way can we achieve real conquest.”

"And what about foreign banks?"

Looking at the president, Chen Wen asked.

"Oh, you mean the Bank of England? Just a policy squeeze, like we did in Buenos Aires, you remember the saying, there is no country without financial autonomy The autonomy and financial power must be firmly in our hands."

Picking up the teacup and skimming the tea with the lid, Hu Xueyan asked:
"This is also the original intention of the establishment of the Imperial Central Bank! It is also the reason why I let you go to Brazil!"

Chen Wen can be regarded as half of Hu Xueyan's classmate. When Hu Xueyan went to England to investigate the bank, Chen Wen was his translator, his classmate, and even his English teacher. After he returned from studying abroad, Hu Xueyan invited him to join the bank.From that day on, they were partners, and now, Hu Xueyan chose him to go to Brazil just to give him a higher level.

"Brazil is the biggest target of Ming Dynasty's occupation in recent years. Brazil's economy is very backward. It is nothing more than slave plantations and slaves picking rubber. What do you want to do there? To put it simply, it is to use financial power to disrupt the local economy. To improve the economic status of immigrants from Ming Dynasty is to destroy the economy of the local people and bankrupt the plantations of the local people. When they go bankrupt and the plantations disintegrate, the land can belong to us in a reasonable way. Of course, at that time, the government will definitely introduce some policies to implement, in a word, you will definitely have a lot to do when you get there, and with this level, you will be able to return to the head office in the future."

"In a word, I just went to Brazil as a robber, right! It's not like we did it."

Chen Wen said jokingly.

"A banker is a robber in essence, otherwise how would he get rich?"

Hu Xueyan grinned and laughed.

"Usually, if you want to be a qualified banker, you must have the character of a robber. Only in this way can you be successful. However, what we plunder is never our own people, but outsiders, such as Brazil... We occupied it, but did not go to Can looting them be worthy of the blood of the soldiers?"

For bankers, everything is so naked, they can discuss plundering without any scruples, and even use beautiful words to make their actions sound good, but in essence it is just plundering!

"The British are very powerful there. I don't think it's enough just to squeeze the exclusiveness, and the British are also very powerful there!"

Chen Wen said worriedly.After all, Britain has been operating in Brazil for more than half a century.

"So what? After completing the military conquest, we are the most powerful. In short, the soldiers bleed and conquer with guns, and we use money to conquer and occupy!"

The driving force of expansion from ancient times to the present is profit-seeking in a word.It's just that in the process of chasing profit, some are chasing land, some are chasing wealth, and their degrees of violence are also different.

But what is certain is that the commercial conquest that accompanies military attacks like a shadow looks more civilized, but in essence, its cruelty is not even inferior to military conquest, and even the deaths he caused are far greater than military conquest , but it is more hidden, and it is even more unnoticed by people...

Airships kill people with bombs, and blood can be seen.However, money kills, often invisible.

(End of this chapter)