The First Warlord of the Republic of China

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Soon, the news of Jiang Yu's loan application was learned by a British newspaper, which exposed this crazy loan plan.

In Jiang Yu's loan application, most of his assets were mortgaged.

Electric power companies, telegraph offices, water companies, department stores, Wuhu Iron and Steel Works, Hangzhou Shipyard, Huaiyin Arsenal, and oil refineries, as well as various mines, factories, and even oil fields are all mortgaged.

Even the Land Reclamation Company, which owns more than 9000 million mu of land under its umbrella, has mortgaged it.After all these assets are mortgaged, the loan amount applied for is one billion pounds.

It is equivalent to the cost of Japan's war against Russia. [

As soon as this loan amount was exposed, there was an uproar in China, and someone immediately jumped out to accuse Jiang Yu of betraying the country. However, most of these assets belong to the Huadong Group, and commercial loans are none of your business~!

Yuan Shikai trembled!

When Japan heard the news, it was the first to jump out and oppose Britain's provision of loans to the East China Group.

However, the British were stunned after carefully reading the financial reports of various assets provided by the Huadong Group, because the assets mortgaged by the Huadong Group are all benign, and most of them are high-profit assets, and many of them have strategic significance. Assets such as oil, steel.

In fact, the British have already noticed the enormous pressure that East China has brought to British business in the Far East.

For example, the development of coal mining, metallurgy, and textiles in the East China Group caused a sharp drop in the sales of British coal, steel, and cotton cloth in China.

The coal mining industry has not fallen too much, and the East China Group will still import some.

However, the market share of steel and cotton cloth has plummeted. The Huadong Group’s Wuhu Iron and Steel Plant has an annual steel output of 15 tons. In addition to the large amount of steel used by the Huadong Group in shipbuilding and railways, Most of the other steels are sold on the market.

In terms of steel, not only British steel was almost squeezed out of the Chinese market, but some were also exported.

In terms of cotton cloth, the cotton cloth of Huadong Group's textile company quickly occupied the Chinese market and began to sell overseas as soon as the situation stabilized after the Revolution of [-].

The cotton cloth production cost of Huadong Group is too low.

And many factories of East China Group have their own advanced technology, such as the engine manufacturing plant that applied for loan mortgage, which can produce the most advanced internal combustion engine in the world.

The British had seen a rising industrial and commercial group at this time, and according to intelligence, the East China Group had a close relationship with Germany.

If Germany is really allowed to support a powerful force in the Far East, it will inevitably cause great trouble to Britain's global strategy.

During the Russo-Japanese War, in order to curb Russia's interest in the Far East, the British strongly supported Japan, lent 46 billion pounds to Japan, and provided Japan with warships.

The Japanese beat the Russians to the Northeast, and finally made Russia focus on expanding to the European continent. As a result, the relationship between Russia and Germany deteriorated rapidly, and Russia was successfully drawn into the camp of the Allied Powers. The siege of Germany was formed, which gave Britain a renewed sense of control.

However, the appearance of Jiangyu's Lianghuai Administration and the Revival Army made the British feel a huge change.

Once the East China Group completely falls to Germany, it will inevitably cause huge damage to Britain's interests in the Far East, and even completely lose the colonial interests in the Far East.

Obviously, the Germans will be very happy if they don't lend money to Huadong Group. [

These loans are not political loans, but commercial loans. From the perspective of commercial loans themselves, although the loans are huge, they are very cost-effective for the lending banks.

Therefore, if Germany wants to lend to Huadong Group, it does not need the government to pay at all, and the German Bank is willing to give this money.

For the UK, although the amount of this loan is relatively large, it does not require the government to pay, and the British bank can raise this loan.

After accepting Jiang Yu's bribe, Zhu Erdian naturally tried his best to speak up for Jiang Yu, but at the same time he also took into account the interests of Britain.

He suggested to the British cabinet: "The Huadong Group applied for a 6-year commercial loan, and required to settle the interest after three years, and it was a high annual interest rate of 20%, which means that the British Empire can at least recover it after 6 years. 22 billion pounds of funds or assets, considering the current world economic situation, it is impossible for Huadong Group to turn 6 billion pounds into 10 billion pounds within 22 years. In the end, it can only declare bankruptcy and use assets to pay off debts. The only The biggest concern is whether the Lianghuai Administration will use force to renege on its debts, but if the British Empire pulls in the United States, France, Russia, and Japan to make loans from the banks of the five countries, then once the Lianghuai Administration reneges on its debts, the British Empire will be punished. , France, the United States, Japan, and Russia. I believe they do not have such guts. Once the Huadong Group goes bankrupt, the empire will seize a large number of benign assets under the Huadong Group, which will not only restore the decline of the empire’s market in the Far East, but also directly Destroy this commercial rival that competes with the British Empire for markets."

"At the same time, the empire should set up a supervisory team to strictly supervise the use of funds to prevent these funds from flowing into military construction. As long as these funds do not flow into military construction, the military strength of the Renaissance Army is still very limited. If Germany is allowed to participate in this loan, It will inevitably cause huge sums of money to be invested in military construction, and it will be a huge trouble for the British Empire at that time..."

Zhu Erdian's suggestion caught the eyes of the British cabinet. Given that the current global industry is heading towards an environment of overcapacity, if Huadong Group really invests this money in industrial construction, it will inevitably cause the working capital to not be able to repay the loan at that time.

And as long as the British Empire obstructs it, the business operations of the Huadong Group will be in trouble. At that time, the Huadong Group will not be able to pay back the money, so it can only declare bankruptcy and use assets to pay off debts.

Of course, the British Empire seldom personally took action in global disputes. Even during the Napoleonic Wars, it supported a large number of younger brothers as thugs. farther away.

If Russia, Japan, France, and the United States are all included, then this concern will be resolved.

If the Huadong Group still wants to renege on its debts at that time, it will be completely crazy. With the power of various countries, it can completely carve up the whole of China.

Although the Chinese are not as easy to be enslaved as the Indians, and their rebellious character makes the laws of various countries occupy them for a long time, but it is no problem to evacuate China's industries.

Of course, Japan may have the intention of occupying China for a long time, but the United Kingdom does not allow such a situation, even if Japan is the younger brother of the United Kingdom.

Because once Japan occupies China, its national power will become larger, because China is too large, and in the eyes of the British, the Japanese already have the taste of an industrialized country.

However, for the Chinese, the British are very relieved. The last fig leaf of this country has been torn off during the invasion of China by the Eight-Power Allied Forces.

This is a mud-footed empire, nothing to worry about.

Even if they got a large loan, but they lacked an industrial foundation, and Chinese officials were always greedy and corrupt, the British did not believe that the Chinese could use this money to manage anything.

Being able to achieve the current level may be the limit of the Far East monkeys.

I had a relapse yesterday and was locked up by the hospital for a day, shit!So it's discontinued, sorry!There will be another update in a while.